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The European Union and Emerging Powers in the 21st Century
The emergence of new powers fundamentally questions the traditional views on international relations, multilateralism or security as a range of countries now competes for regional and global leadership - economically, politically, technologically and militarily. As the focus of international attention shifts from the Atlantic to the Pacific, the European states in particular are seen to lose influence relative to the emerging economic powerhouses of China, Russia, India and Brazil. European nations find themselves too small to engage meaningfully with these continent-sized powers and, in an increasingly multipolar world are concerned their influence can only continue to decline. This book analyses the shifts in the structure of global power and examines the threats and opportunities they bring to Europe. Leading European Contributors reflect on how the EU can utilise collective strength to engage and compete with rapidly developing nations. They examine perceptions of the EU among the emerging powers and the true meaning and nature of any strategic partnerships negotiated. Finally they explore the shape and structure of the international system in the 21st century and how the EU can contribute to and shape it.
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The Soviet Union and the strategy of non-alignment in the Third World
This study investigates the overall Soviet conception of non-alignment in the Third World and assesses Soviet policy in relation to this issue.
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European Bloc Imperialism
The US forced the EU to liberalize the Lomé Conventions, but the EU fired back with the EPAs, characterized by supposedly free market policies but which in reality yokes the ACP countries trade to the EU and excludes the US.
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Canada and the Third World : overlapping histories
\"Canada and the Third World provides a much needed and long overdue introduction to Canada's historical relationship with the Third World. The book critically explores this relationship by asking four central questions: how can we understand the historical roots of Canada's relations with the countries of the Third World? How have Canadians, individuals and institutions alike, practiced and imagined \"development\"? How can we integrate Canada into global histories of empire, decolonization, and development? And how should we understand the relationship between issues such as poverty, racism, gender equality, and community development in the First and Third World alike? The anthology begins with a general introduction followed by 9 essays. Each essay ends with discussions questions and suggestions for further reading.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Global Inequality and American Foreign Policy in the 1970s
In Global Inequality and American
Foreign Policy in the 1970s , Michael
Franczak demonstrates how Third World solidarity around the New
International Economic Order (NIEO) forced US presidents from
Richard Nixon to Ronald Reagan to consolidate American hegemony
over an international economic order under attack abroad and
lacking support at home. The goal of the nations that
supported NIEO was to negotiate a redistribution of money and power
from the global North to the global South. Their weapon was control
over the major commodities-in particular oil-that undergirded the
prosperity of the United States and Europe after World War II.
Using newly available archival sources, as well as interviews
with key administration officials, Franczak reveals how the NIEO
and \"North-South dialogue\" negotiations brought global inequality
to the forefront of US national security. The challenges posed by
NIEO became an inflection point for some of the greatest economic,
political, and moral crises of 1970s America, including the end of
golden age liberalism and the return of the market, the splintering
of the Democratic Party and the building of the Reagan coalition,
and the rise of human rights in US foreign policy in the wake of
the Vietnam War. The policy debates and decisions toward the NIEO
were pivotal moments in the histories of three ideological
trends-neoliberalism, neoconservatism, and human rights-that formed
the core of America's post-Cold War foreign policy.
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The EU, World Trade Law and the Right to Food
In recent years the European Union has developed a comprehensive strategy to conclude free trade agreements which includes not only prominent trade partners such as Canada, the United States and Japan but also numerous developing countries. This book looks at the existing WTO law and at the new EU free trade agreements with the Caribbean and sub-Saharan Africa through the lens of the human right to adequate food. It shows how the clauses on the import and export of food included in recent free trade agreements limit the capacity of these countries to implement food security policies and to respect their human rights obligations. This outcome appears to be at odds with international human rights law and dismissive of existing human rights references in EU-founding treaties as well as in treaties between the EU and developing states. Yet, the book argues against the conception in human rights literature that there is an inflexible agenda encoded in world trade law which is fundamentally conflictual with non-economic interests. The book puts forward the idea that the European Union is perfectly placed to develop a narrative of globalisation considering other areas of public international law when negotiating trade agreements, and argues that the EU does have the competences and influence to uphold a role of international leadership in designing a sustainable global trading system. Will the EU be ambitious enough? A timely contribution to the growing academic literature on the relation between world trade law and international human rights law, this book imagines a central role for the EU in reconciling these two areas of international law. Studies in International Trade and Investment Law: Volume 20
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Nuclear Apartheid
After World War II, an atomic hierarchy emerged in the noncommunist world.Washington was at the top, followed over time by its NATO allies and then Israel, with the postcolonial world completely shut out.An Indian diplomat called the system \"nuclear apartheid.\" Drawing on recently declassified sources from U.S.
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