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The closing of the diplomatic mind
No full textWhy does today’s diplomatic imagination appear so limited? When, how, and why did it begin to shrink? To understand the current state of diplomacy and how it may be renewed and reformed, one must go back at least 30 years to trace the evolution of the international system when diplomats sought after the demise of the Soviet Union to redefine what had been depicted simplistically as a bipolar world. For many optimists of that generation, today’s polarized and contentious international system may appear disappointing. Disappointment need not last. Diplomatic theory and practice have been renewed many times before in order to adapt to changes in technology, society, and politics, which today go by the name of globalization. Now may be the time for another “new diplomacy.” It could begin by reinvigorating the diplomatic imagination
Book Review: Boots and Suits: Historical Cases and Contemporary Lessons in Military Diplomacy
Full text linkAuthor: Philip S. Kosnett (editor)
Reviewed by Kenneth Weisbrode, assistant professor of history, Bilkent University
Historian and professor Kenneth Weisbrode reviews retired US ambassador Philip S. Kosnett’s anthology on “just how contested, and how significant,” military diplomacy is. After highlighting the value of General Kenneth F. McKenzie’s (US Marine Corps, retired) instructive foreword, which defines military diplomacy, Weisbrode outlines the book’s range of case studies across history (from the Confederacy to Afghanistan), author perspectives (“academics and government officials”), and subject matter (“strategy, operations, and tactics”). He distills some of the book’s essential policy lessons for readers and notes the book’s wide-ranging utility for “teachers, students, and aspiring (or even veteran) military diplomats.”https://press.armywarcollege.edu/parameters_bookshelf/1036/thumbnail.jp
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
The unnoticed apogee of Atlanticism?: US-Western European relations during the early Reagan era
No full textThis unique collection of essays lays the groundwork for the study of the intersection of European integration and transatlantic relations in the 1980s. With archives for this period only recently being opened, scholars are beginning to analyze and understand what some have called a peak moment in the European project and others have called the Second Cold War. How do these moments intersect and relate to one another? These essays, by prominent scholars from Europe and the United States, examine these and related questions while challenging the “1980s” itself as a useful demarcation for historical analysis
European integration and the Atlantic community in the 1980s
No full textThis book originated from a conference held at the European University Institute in May 2010. Participants at the conference included Graham Avery, Stefano Bartolini, Duccio Basosi, Frédéric Bozo, David Buchan, Edwina Campbell, Gabriele D’Ottavio, Ksenia Demidova, Aurélie Gfeller, Mark Gilbert, Friedrich Kratochwil, N. Piers Ludlow, Kiran Klaus Patel, Antonio Costa Pinto, Matthias Schulz, Giles Scott-Smith, Angela Romano, Federico Romero, Nuno Severiano Teixeira, Marten van Heuven, Kenneth Weisbrode, and Christian Wenkel.This unique collection of essays lays the groundwork for the study of the intersection of European integration and transatlantic relations in the 1980s. With archives for this period only recently opened, scholars are beginning to analyse and understand what some have called an apogee of the European project and others have called the Second Cold War. How do these moments intersect and relate to one another? These essays, by prominent scholars from Europe and the United States, examine this and related questions while challenging conventional chronologies.The editors are grateful to them and to the EUI’s Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, which sponsored the conference; to the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences of Maastricht University for its support.1. Introduction: old barriers, new openings, Kiran Klaus Patel and Kenneth Weisbrode
2. The unnoticed apogee of Atlanticism? US-Western European relations during the early Reagan era, N. Piers Ludlow
3. More cohesive, still divergent: western Europe, the United States, and the Madrid CSCE follow-up meeting, Angela Romano
4. The deal of the century: the Reagan administration and the Soviet pipeline, Ksenia Demidova
5. Poland's solidarity as a contested symbol of the cold war: transatlantic debates after the Polish crisis, Robert Brier
6. The European community and the paradoxes of American economic diplomacy: the revealing case of the IT and telecommunications sectors, Arthe van Laer
7. The European community and international Reaganomics, 1981–85, Duccio Basosi
8. Did transatlantic drift help European integration? The Euromissiles crisis, the strategic defense initiative, and the quest for political cooperation Philipp Gassert
9. A transatlantic security crisis? Transnational relations between the West German and the US peace movements, 1977–85, Holger Nehring
10. Reviving the transatlantic community? The successor generation concept in US foreign affairs, Giles Scott-Smith
11. The re-launching of Europe in the mid-1980s, Antonio Varsori
12. A shift in mood: the 1992 initiative and changing American perceptions of the European community, 1988–89, Mark Gilbert
13. France, the United States, and NATO: between Europeanization and re-Atlanticization, 1990–91, Frederic Bozo
14. Afterword, Kiran Klaus Patel and Kenneth Weisbrode
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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