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A decade after the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China established their formidable alliance in 1950, escalating public disagreements between them broke the international communist movement apart. InThe Sino-Soviet Split, Lorenz Lüthi tells the story of this rupture, which became one of the defining events of the Cold War. Identifying the primary role of disputes over Marxist-Leninist ideology, Lüthi traces their devastating impact in sowing conflict between the two nations in the areas of economic development, party relations, and foreign policy. The source of this estrangement was Mao Zedong's ideological radicalization at a time when Soviet leaders, mainly Nikita Khrushchev, became committed to more pragmatic domestic and foreign policies. Using a wide array of archival and documentary sources from three continents, Lüthi presents a richly detailed account of Sino-Soviet political relations in the 1950s and 1960s. He explores how Sino-Soviet relations were linked to Chinese domestic politics and to Mao's struggles with internal political rivals. Furthermore, Lüthi argues, the Sino-Soviet split had far-reaching consequences for the socialist camp and its connections to the nonaligned movement, the global Cold War, and the Vietnam War. The Sino-Soviet Splitprovides a meticulous and cogent analysis of a major political fallout between two global powers, opening new areas of research for anyone interested in the history of international relations in the socialist world.

The signing of the contentious Anglo-Irish Treaty in 1921 was a traumatic experience for many Irish people. This is not only because of the ensuing Irish Civil War, but the psychological adjustments that the Irish people have to make in their partitioned land. Since the Irish Republican Army (IRA) emerged during the Anglo-Irish War (1919-21), it has been bent on terminating the British government’s control of Ireland and establishing a truly independent and unified Irish Republic through armed struggles. This traumatic history, which was embedded with the conflicts and compromises of such struggles, became a pivotal issue in many Irish writings. As a consequence, it helped shape subsequent Irish literature and culture when the dream of a free and unified Ireland was constantly recalled and reconfigured. These painful markings are reflected in complex ways in Edna O’Brien’s fiction House of Splendid Isolation (1994), in which an IRA fugitive named McGreevy holes up and finally bonds with Josie O’Meara, an aged widow, in a dilapidated house. Apart from the political turmoil, considerable anguishes caused by love and marriage converge to entangle the protagonists’ traumas. This paper focuses on how, by shifting between the multifarious narrative perspectives, O’Brien’s House of Splendid Isolation stitches the interwoven personal, interpersonal, and national suffering together. In addition, the role women play in facilitating sympathetic understanding and reconciliation amid the violence and traumas in contemporary Ireland is discussed. The findings imply that, despite the age-old traumatic experiences caused by political conflicts in Ireland in the past few centuries, a trauma-free tomorrow via love and reconciliation, mostly with the help of women, is possible in contemporary Ireland.

This study of Albert Ballin, a powerful member of the banking and commercial elite in Imperial Germany and manager of the Hamburg-American Line from 1899-1918, illuminates the political and social structure of the aristocracy and the upper middle class in the German Empire. Originally published in 1967. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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The first of Edna O'Brien's trilogy House of Splendid Isolation, was widely seen as marking a significant new departure for O'Brien. The novel explores the Northern conflict through the emotional bond that develops between two outsider figures, Josie O'Meara, the widowed chatelaine of a Big House in Munster, which is recast as a contemporary version of the ruined gothic castle, and McGreevy, a notorious Northern‐born republican, who commandeers her crumbling mansion as part of his plan to assassinate a visiting English judge. The narrator's rehearsal of dark instinctual passions and marmoreal enmities leaves no room for choice or agency. This is the mood music that prepares us for the arrival on the scene of the latest son of this strife‐torn soil to be taken “hostage” by history, McGreevy, a man with “war in his heart”.

This chapter considers the period from 1900 to 1905, focusing on the British government’s decision to abandon its historical policy of “splendid isolation” and pursue an alliance. It first considers British negotiations with Germany as an attempt to balance against the growing Franco-Russian threat to British naval and colonial interests and to prevent Russian expansion into Asia. The British ultimately rejected the alliance offer from Germany and signed an alliance with Japan instead. This decision was heavily influenced by Germany’s reputation as an unreliable ally. The Anglo-Japanese alliance was then soon tested during the Russo-Japanese War and later renewed on favorable terms as a result of Britain’s “benevolent neutrality.” England and France also signed an agreement during the Russo-Japanese War, largely because of France’s fear that British reliability could drag both states into a war because of their alliance commitments.

This chapter examines the impact of trade on democracy, the authority of the state, and the ability of governments to care for their citizens. It begins with an overview of democracy within the human rights and international trade frameworks, along with the interrelationships among trade, democracy, and human rights. It then considers how “failed states” deter human rights progress and goes on to discuss the “splendid isolation” of trade and human rights. More specifically, it explores splendid isolation in relation to the larger paradox, especially in the United States, of the West's commitment in the private sphere to enjoy the spoils of capitalism while the public sector tries to spread democracy and other human rights to every individual worldwide.