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From Hope to Horror

Diplomacy and the Making of the Rwanda Genocide

By: Joyce E. Leader,Pauline H. Baker

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From Hope to Horror

Diplomacy and the Making of the Rwanda Genocide

By: Joyce E. Leader,Pauline H. Baker

2020 Choice Outstanding Academic Title As deputy to the U.S. ambassador in Rwanda, Joyce E. Leader witnessed the tumultuous prelude to genocide--a period of political wrangling, human rights abuses, and many levels of ominous, ever-escalating violence. From Hope to Horror offers her insider's account of the nation's efforts to move toward democracy and peace and analyzes the challenges of conducting diplomacy in settings prone to--or engaged in--armed conflict. Leader traces the three-way struggle for control among Rwanda's ethnic and regional factions. Each sought to shape democratization and peacemaking to its own advantage. The United States, hoping to encourage a peaceful transition, midwifed negotiations toward an accord. The result: a revolutionary blueprint for political and military power-sharing among Rwanda's competing factions that met categorical rejection by the "losers" and a downward spiral into mass atrocities. Drawing on the Rwandan experience, Leader proposes ways diplomacy can more effectively avert the escalation of violence by identifying the unintended consequences of policies and emphasizing conflict prevention over crisis response. Compelling and expert, From Hope to Horror fills in the forgotten history of the diplomats who tried but failed to prevent a human rights catastrophe.

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U of Nebraska Press

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1640123237

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A Union of Iraqi States

From Failure to Sustainable Security

By: Pauline H. Baker

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A Union of Iraqi States

From Failure to Sustainable Security

By: Pauline H. Baker

Of all the analysts who have looked at Iraq since 2003, few have conducted assessments from the perspective of a failed state, not only to examine the mistakes of the past, but to explore feasible options in the future. While the term “failed state” is controversial, it is an accepted part of the international vernacular that is widely used by scholars and practitioners alike, and therefore will be used in this analysis. Most observers would agree that, while there have been temporary gains in some areas – notably in the United States’ military “surge” tactic – Iraq remains, overall, a state in turmoil that has not been able to attain sustainable security. Indeed, there remains a high level of danger. Iraq could collapse violently – with various parts opting out of the state and going to war with each other – and become the battleground for a proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Iran that could entangle the entire Middle East. This paper looks at Iraq from the failed state’s perspective with a view toward avoiding this worst-case scenario. It examines trends over the last five years and concludes by proposing a vision for the country’s future based on a framework that would allow the varying sects to live together in peace without genocidal revenge, sectarian domination, foreign occupation or a regional proxy war— all of which are possible if current trends continue. Instead of a centralized state, or a federal arrangement which is little more than a sum of its competing parts, the factions that make up Iraq could enter into a new political arrangement called a Union of Iraqi States, in which each major component would have political independence but be tied to a union of economic interdependence and co-prosperity. Imaginative thinking of this kind must be accepted by internal groups and come into being through engaging the region. Difficult and bold as it sounds, this could be a way forward.

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Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research

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9948140893

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Children's Stories and "child-time" in the Works of Joseph Cornell and the Transatlantic Avant-garde

By: Analisa Pauline Leppanen-Guerra

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Children's Stories and "child-time" in the Works of Joseph Cornell and the Transatlantic Avant-garde

By: Analisa Pauline Leppanen-Guerra

Focusing on his evocative and profound references to children and their stories, Children's Stories and 'Child-Time in the Works of Joseph Cornell and the Transatlantic Avant-Garde studies the relationship between the artist's work on childhood and his search for a transfigured concept of time. As it changes the focus from Cornell's boxes to his multimedia works, this study also situates Cornell and his art in the broader context of the transatlantic avant-garde of the 1930s and 40s.

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296

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409401561

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9781409401568

A Union of Iraqi States

From Failure to Sustainable Security

By: Pauline H. Baker

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From Failure to Sustainable Security

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From Hope to Horror

From Hope to Horror

A Union of Iraqi States

A Union of Iraqi States

Children's Stories and "child-time" in the Works of Joseph Cornell and the Transatlantic Avant-garde

Children's Stories and "child-time" in the Works of Joseph Cornell and the Transatlantic Avant-garde

A Union of Iraqi States

A Union of Iraqi States

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