bargaining power. To exploit it is diplomacy--vicious diplomacy‚ but diplomacy. T.C. Schelling‚ academician‚ Nobel Prize winner Most governments lie to each other. That’s the real world we deal with. Robert Gates‚ ex-Secretary of Defense GOVT 342 –Spring 2015 COURSE SYLLABUS DIPLOMACY Instructor: Joseph F. Becelia: jbecelia@gmu.edu Office and Office Hours: Robinson A‚ 218A‚ after each class and by arrangement Required Texts Berridge‚ G.R. Diplomacy: Theory and Practice‚ fourth
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cultural‚ public diplomacy and "soft power" The study of cultural diplomacy and other related means or strategies is a new and large field‚ whose definition is still a controversial issue. There is hardly a single accepted one. It is also worth mentioning that except cultural diplomacy there are two other terms‚ which are overlapping in some spheres; nevertheless they differ as conceptions - public diplomacy and "soft power". The best explanation of cultural and public diplomacy is given in the
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Egypt” to “Communist Russia” I found myself captivated by the running of the world. Current affairs became my interest and I deviated from the cartoons in the newspapers to ground-breaking articles on the front page. As years passed‚ however‚ Diplomacy as a career seemed more interesting and engaging to me—mostly due to the many sensational events that took place (the Iraq War‚ the Chernobyl disaster‚ and the like). Gone were the dreams of building a sky-scraper or discovering a lost civilization;
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office: Mortimer House‚ 37-41 Mortimer Street‚ London W1T 3JH‚ UK Diplomacy & Statecraft Publication details‚ including instructions for authors and subscription information: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/fdps20 The Enforcement of the Treaty of Versailles‚ 1919–1923 Alan Sharp Published online: 07 Aug 2006. To cite this article: Alan Sharp (2005) The Enforcement of the Treaty of Versailles‚ 1919–1923‚ Diplomacy & Statecraft‚ 16:3‚ 423-438‚ DOI: 10.1080/09592290500207677 To link
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house price bubbles‚ the failure of risk management at sub-prime mortgage market and the dysfunctional ranking system and the causes are implicit in the relationship with a moral hazard. The definition of moral hazard is based on Leopold’s description (2009‚ p. 48): “More insurance could lead to lazier bicycle riders – a moral hazard – who enable more bicycle thefts. In finance the bicycle is risk. If I know I will be bailed out if I assume risk and fail‚ I’ll assume more and more risk and let you
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Chapter 1 Introduction International law may be defined as that body of law which is composed for its greater part of the principles and rules of conduct which states feel themselves bound to observe‚ and therefore‚ do commonly observe in their relations with each other‚ and which includes also: a) the rules of law relating to the functioning of international institutions or organizations‚ their relations with each other‚ and their relations with states and individuals; and b) Certain
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that Chapter 1 of “The Diplomatic History of Postwar Japan” is based on how in the 1940s‚ the Japanese government was able to use diplomacy to preserve its interests under occupation. This case will be structured in the following sections: 1) point‚ 2) reason‚ 3) evidence‚ and 4) conclusion. Point: The essence of this chapter is how the Japanese government used diplomacy to overcome challenging circumstances to fulfill its interests during the 1940s. To elaborate‚ the Japanese government signed the
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Introduction Culture as a notion is a quality of society (rather than an individual construct) within which individuals identify with and are apart of. Stanford‚ B. (1999) argue that culture is developed though the process of ‘acculturation” or through “socialization by individuals from their respective societies” hence‚ culture encompasses a complex set of attributes relating to the every day area of social life. Carnevale‚ P‚ & Choi‚ D (2000) illustrates that culture describes the behaviors
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Antigone: Moral Law vs Civil Law When it comes to morality‚ what is right and wrong based on a person’s personal beliefs‚ the story of Antigone is a great literary reference towards the internal struggles of an individual’s morality. Antigone chose to attribute herself with moral law instead of Creon’s rash and destructive civil law. Antigone felt that no one had the right to decide another’s fate‚ let alone the fate of someone else’s deceased body. Antigone believed that her brother deserved a
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Morals vs Ethics and How They Dominate Our Arguments One major topic that appears in arguments is the argument of morals versus ethics. By definition‚ morals apply to an individual’s opinion of right and wrong. Ethics‚ however‚ are based on what a society perceives as right or wrong. Due to these two closely related issues‚ arguments can be hard to resolve due to different standpoints. For example‚ if someone believes that being attracted to another person of the same gender is morally wrong‚ they
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