Sam, Cyndi, Norrin, Nanci, Wade, and Rachel are best friends. Despite differences in ethnicity, economic background, or even cultural diversity, all came together and cemented unbreakable bonds. These bondsa foundations were built on a common affection for one another, but these six did not come together simply by chance. Each was born with natural abilities, powers, or gifts above and beyond that of the average man or woman. These unusual characteristics united the six all the more. Utilizing their individual and unique abilities, they each strove to make their 1989 home city of Baltimore a safer place for athe good people.a Facing many obstacles in that determination, the group found themselves up against everything from a cunning, self-serving crime boss, to corrupt individuals in government and law enforcement, and even an entirely new race of beings, unlike anything theyad ever encountered before, that evoked fear and terror at a glance. They faced their struggles head on, but along the way learned that power can be veiled in various different vessels, and that, at times, lines between good and evil may not be simply blurred, but altogether out of focus. In the end the lessons learned are immeasurable in significance, but at what cost?
This book develops a unified theory of economic statecraft to clarify when and how sanctions and incentives can be used effectively to secure meaningful policy concessions. High-profile applications of economic statecraft have yielded varying degrees of success. The mixed record of economic incentives and economic sanctions in many cases raises important questions. Under what conditions can states modify the behaviour of other states by offering them tangible economic rewards or by threatening to disrupt existing economic relations? To what extent does the success of economic statecraft depend on the magnitude of economic penalties and rewards? In order to answer these questions, this book develops two analytic models: one weighs the threats economic statecraft poses to the Target’s Strategic Interests (TSI); while the other (stateness) assesses the degree to which the target state is insulated from domestic political pressures that senders attempt to generate or exploit. Through a series of carefully crafted case studies, including African apartheid and Japanese incentives to obtain the return of the Northern Territories, the authors demonstrate how their model can yield important policy insights in regards to contemporary economic sanctions and incentives cases, such as Iran and North Korea. This book will be of much interest to students of statecraft, sanctions, diplomacy, foreign policy, and international security in general.
Challenging this assumption, Peacemaking by Democracies breaks down the category of "democracy" to argue that differences in structural autonomy among democratic states have a lot to do with how foreign security policies are chosen and international negotiations are carried out. The more structural autonomy the foreign security policy executive possesses, the greater the policy independence from public and legislative opinion it is able to achieve."--Jacket.
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