Table of Contents: “…Prior Initiative, the Falklands War and Anglo-Irish relations, 1982 --…”
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Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The 1970s : a decline in Anglo-American specialness and US-UK relations with Latin America -- The special relationship and the Falklands War -- Friend or foe? The US invades Grenada -- Vested interests : US involvement in the Anglo-Guatemalan dispute -- Nicaragua : the allies stand together -- Conclusion.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Explanations for limited and unlimited wars -- Research strategy and statistical tests -- War to the death in Paraguay -- World War II : German expansion and Allied response -- Commitment problem mini-cases : the Crimean, Pacific, and Iran-Iraq wars -- Short wars of optimism : Persian Gulf and Anglo-Iranian -- The limits on leaders : the Falklands War and the Franco-Turkish War -- Recapitulations, implications, and prognostications.…”
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Table of Contents: “…-- Ourselves alone : financial opposition to the Spanish-American War -- Meet the new boss : the rise of the military and the defeat of finance in interwar Japan -- Interwar France : your money or your life -- National security rests on the dollar : the early Cold War and Korea -- Taking one for the team? finance and the Falklands War -- Speculations : finance, power politics, and globalization.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Preface / Guillermo Mira and Fernando Pedrosa -- Introduction: State, national identity and power: a historical tour in search of the causes of the Falklands-Malvinas War / Guillermo Mira and Fernando Pedrosa -- Resisting bio-power: 'laughter', 'fraternity' and 'imagination' under dictatorship and the Malvinas-Falklands War / Mar̕a Još Brųa Bragado -- Exile, the Malvinas War and human rights / Silvina Jensen -- Attitudes towards the Falklands-Malvinas War: European and Latin American left perspectives / Fernando Pedrosa -- The Falklands-Malvinas War and transitions to democracy in Latin America: the turning point of 1979-82 / Guillermo Mira -- The Malvinas journey: harsh landscapes, rough writing, raw footage / Julieta Vitullo -- Malvinas miscellanea: notes on a diary written while shooting a film in these remote islands / Edgardo Dieleke -- Malvinas, civil society and populism: a cinematic perspective / Joanna Page -- Flying the flag: Malvinas and questions of patriotism / Catriona McAllister -- Leaving behind the trenches of nationalism: teaching the Malvinas in secondary schools in R̕o Gallegos, Santa Cruz province / Matthew C. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The rise of the Joint Intelligence Committee -- Origins of the Joint Intelligence Committee -- World War III and the role of intelligence in strategic planning -- A post-war intelligence machinery -- Origins of the Soviet threat -- Sigint targeting -- The Berlin blockade -- Chinese intervention in the Korean War -- Estimating Soviet capabilities -- Counterinsurgency -- The Suez crisis -- The Cuban missile crisis -- Vietnam -- The Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, 1968 -- The rise of international terrorism in the Middle East -- Northern Ireland: direct rule -- The Falkland War -- Changing requirement at the end of the Cold War -- War in Iraq : weapons of mass destruction -- War in Iraq : aftermath -- The Joint Intelligence Committee and the National Security Council -- The Syrian civil war -- Through the looking glass : illusions of openness and the study of British intelligence -- Appendix: Chairmen of the Joint Intelligence Committee -- Document sources.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Slaughter and Kerry Bystrom -- The African Slave Trade and the Construction of the Iberian Atlantic / Luiz Felipe de Alencastro -- A World Girded : Saint-Simonian Space and Race in the Nineteenth-Century Latin Transatlantic / Jaime Hanneken -- Scheherazade in Chains : Arab-Islamic Genealogies of African Diasporic Literature / Jason Frydman -- Southern by Degrees : Islands and Empires in the South Atlantic, the Indian Ocean, and the Subantarctic World / Isabel Hofmeyr -- Beyond the Color Curtain : The Metonymic Color Politics of the Tricontinental and the (New) Global South / Anne Garland Mahler -- South Africa, Chile, and the Cold War: Reading the South Atlantic in Mark Behr's The Smell of Apples / Kerry Bystrom -- Islands in Distress : Making Sense of the Malvinas/Falklands War / Oscar Hemer -- Orientalism and the Narration of Violence in the Mediterranean Atlantic : Gabriel García Márquez and Elias Khoury / Christina E. …”
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Table of Contents: “…The age of galleys, 1200 BCE-1550 CE -- Overview -- Early naval battles and the rise of the Greeks -- The Persian Wars -- The Peloponnesian War -- Roman navel warfare -- The first Punic War -- Rome achieves mastery of the Mediterranean -- Naval warfare in Asia -- China, Japan, and Korea -- Battles for the Mediterranean -- Byzantine-Arab Wars -- The rise of the Italian Maritime Republics -- The war for Sicily -- The rise of sail -- The Vikings -- Sea battles in Northern Europe -- The Ottomans -- Christian navies against the Turks -- Gun, sail, and empire, 1550-1830 -- Overview -- Japan and Korea -- Japanese invasion of Korea -- Oceanic empires -- Spanish Wars -- After the Armada -- The rise of Dutch sea power -- Rivalry across the North Sea -- First Anglo-Dutch War -- Second Anglo-Dutch War -- Third Anglo-Dutch War -- The Sun King's Navy -- The French Wars -- Baltic conflicts -- Sweden fights for domination -- The Great Northern War -- The Russo-Swedish War -- Maintaining British naval power -- Royal Navy battles -- Seven years war -- The American Revolutionary War -- The age of Nelson -- French Revolutionary Wars -- Napoleonic Wars -- Early 19th century battles -- The United States at War -- Wars of independence -- Later Ottoman battles -- Steam and steel, 1830-1918 -- Overview -- New navies of Europe -- European wars from sail to steam -- Gunboat imperialism -- The Americas at war -- The American Civil War -- Spanish and Latin-American conflicts -- Rise of the Imperial Japanese Navy -- Japanese naval might -- The Russo-Japanese War -- World War I -- Warship battles 1914-18 -- The U-boat War 1914-18 -- Carriers, submarines, and missiles, 1918-present -- Overview -- Europe between the wars -- World War II : The West -- Warship battles 1939-45 -- The U-boat War 1939-45 -- Evacuations and landings -- War in the Mediterranean -- World War II : The Pacific -- The Japanese offensive -- The battle for Guadalcanal - Drive to victory -- Postwar conflicts -- Cold War conflicts -- The Vietnam War -- The Falklands War -- Regional conflicts -- Middle East and terrorism.…”

Table of Contents: “…Dandan -- Saddam Hussein : Violence and Terror, Charlotte Scaddan / Marcin Szudek and Jean Krasno -- Fidel Castro : Philosopher-Despot / Sean LaPides -- Gamal Abdel Nasser : Legacy in the Arab World / Jean Krasno and Emad Baniyounes -- Hugo Chavez : A Quintessential Political Personality / James Suggett -- The Emperor Hirohito : the Decision to Attack Pearl Harbor / Shun Sakugawa -- Henry Stimson and His Influence on Harry Truman : A Victorian Conservative in the Atomic Court / Monika Adamczyk -- Margaret Thatcher : the 1982 Falklands War / Helen Baxendale -- Golda Meir : Prime Minister of Israel 1969-1974 / Robert Lattin -- Silvio Berlusconi : "I am the Jesus Christ of politics" /John Tumminia -- Eva Peron : Spiritual Leader of the Nation / Evette Rivera and Jean Krasno -- Angela Merkel : The Outsider Who Became Chancellor / Sean LaPides -- Benazir Bhutto : Personality, Beliefs, and the Empowerment of Women / Nicole DiMarco -- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf : Personal Experience and the Promotion of Women / Nicole DiMarco -- Mikhail Gorbachev : End of the Cold War / Natasha Zemtsova Miller -- William Jefferson Clinton : Promise, Persistence, and the Will to Be Adored / Jean Krasno -- Václav Havel : the Most Deserving Political Leader to have Never Won a Nobel Peace Prize / Jakub Walko -- Kofi Annan : From Ghana to the World Stage / Jean Krasno -- Nelson Mandela : a Leader with no Followers is Just Someone Taking a Walk / Chris Hammond -- Devils to Angels : Addressing the Cases Along a Continuum / Jean Krasno.…”

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