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The End of Engagement

America's China and Russia Experts and U.S. Strategy Since 1989

By: David M. McCourt

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The End of Engagement

America's China and Russia Experts and U.S. Strategy Since 1989

By: David M. McCourt

After the Cold War, America's leaders hoped Russia and China could be integrated into the rules-based international order and might even become more like the West. By the late 2010s, their optimism was dead. In The End of Engagement, David M. McCourt traces the intense personal, professional, and policy struggles over China and Russia in U.S. foreign policy since 1989. Drawing on 170 original interviews with America's China and Russia experts--from former policymakers and diplomats to prominent think tankers and academics--McCourt chronicles the rise and recent fall of "engagement" with Beijing and Moscow. While there are numerous explanations for why America moved away from engagement with China and Russia in the last decade, McCourt shows that none consider how important foreign policy knowledge communities have been in impacting policy. Adopting a unique, sociological perspective, this book offers an intimate look into the world of America's national security experts as they have struggled to make sense of changes in China and Russia and the remaining question of what comes next.

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019776522X

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American Power and International Theory at the Council on Foreign Relations, 1953-54

By: David M. McCourt

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American Power and International Theory at the Council on Foreign Relations, 1953-54

By: David M. McCourt

Between December 1953 and June 1954, the elite think-tank the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) joined prominent figures in International Relations, including Pennsylvania’s Robert Strausz-Hupé, Yale’s Arnold Wolfers, the Rockefeller Foundation’s William Thompson, government adviser Dorothy Fosdick, and nuclear strategist William Kaufmann. They spent seven meetings assessing approaches to world politics—from the “realist” theory of Hans Morgenthau to theories of imperialism of Karl Marx and V.I. Lenin—to discern basic elements of a theory of international relations. The study group’s materials are an indispensable window to the development of IR theory, illuminating the seeds of the theory-practice nexus in Cold War U.S. foreign policy. Historians of International Relations recently revised the standard narrative of the field’s origins, showing that IR witnessed a sharp turn to theoretical consideration of international politics beginning around 1950, and remained preoccupied with theory. Taking place in 1953–54, the CFR study group represents a vital snapshot of this shift. This book situates the CFR study group in its historical and historiographical contexts, and offers a biographical analysis of the participants. It includes seven preparatory papers on diverse theoretical approaches, penned by former Berkeley political scientist George A. Lipsky, followed by the digest of discussions from the study group meetings. American Power and International Theory at the Council on Foreign Relations, 1953–54 offers new insights into the early development of IR as well as the thinking of prominent elites in the early years of the Cold War.

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University of Michigan Press

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The New Constructivism in International Relations Theory

By: David M. McCourt

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By: David M. McCourt

Tracing constructivist work on culture, identity and norms within the historical, geographical and professional contexts of world politics, this book makes the case for new constructivist approaches to international relations scholarship.

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Policy Press

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1529217830

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Britain and World Power Since 1945

Constructing a Nation's Role in International Politics

By: David M. McCourt

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Constructing a Nation's Role in International Politics

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After the fall of its empire, Britain still holds sway

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Britain and World Power Since 1945

Constructing a Nation's Role in International Politics

By: David M. McCourt

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Constructing a Nation's Role in International Politics

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After the fall of its empire, Britain still holds sway

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The New Constructivism in International Relations Theory

By: David M. McCourt

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The End of Engagement

America's China and Russia Experts and U.S. Strategy Since 1989

By: David M. McCourt

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Medley

By: William Kirtley Durr,Vivian O. Windley,Anne A. McCourt

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By: William Kirtley Durr,Vivian O. Windley,Anne A. McCourt

A fourth-grade reader with stories, articles, plays, poems, and lessons in such skills as using a dictionary and distinguishing between fact and opinion.

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Delancey's Way

By: James McCourt

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Delancey's Way

By: James McCourt

An operatic, satirical romp through (high and low) Washington -- filled with politicos and pundits, divas and divine spirits -- by the greatly admired author of Time Remaining and the cult classic Mawrdew Czgowchwz ("Bravo, James McCourt, a literary countertenor, in the exacting tradition of Firbank and Nabokov" -- Susan Sontag). It opens with Delancey, a reporter for the "East Hampton Star, being sent to cover the environmental budget wars of the 104th Congress, his copy of Henry Adams's Democracy in hand, for background on the farrago called overnment. It introduces us to le tout de Washington: the socialite (and exiled eighties New York party girl) Anastasia Harrington (a.k.a. Bam-Bam) and her billionaire husband, Max; a senator obsessed with the fall of the republic and with his rogue companion, an ex-hustler and congressional phone-sex virtuoso; the semiretired transvestite ballerina Odette O'Doyle and the diva (operatic and otherwise) Vana Sprezza; and Delancey's new friend, Ornette, a living antidote to the racism of our times, who sympathizes with the sexually profligate President (lovingly referred to as POTUS). From Delancey's trip on the Metroliner where it all begins, to a drink-soaked escapade in Key West, to soirees at the Harringtons' and the Cosmos Club, to the grand finale (an uproarious Venetian bal masque at the Library of Congress), McCourt shows us the pyrotechnic power plays of the nineties, eerily parallel to (but far deadlier than) those portrayed in Adams's chronicle of earlier times. Here is Washington as it should be seen -- upside down, and inside right.

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0375403116

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Attitude

Tips to Help You Deal, Feel, and Be Real

By: Lisa McCourt,Aimee McCourt

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Attitude

Tips to Help You Deal, Feel, and Be Real

By: Lisa McCourt,Aimee McCourt

Get clued into what the very coolest girls know about: Your attitude is more than what you look like, how you spend your time, who you hang with, or what you wear. It tells people who you are more than any other thing about you.

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American Power and International Theory at the Council on Foreign Relations, 1953-54

By: David M. McCourt

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The End of Engagement

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American Power and International Theory at the Council on Foreign Relations, 1953-54

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