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Austin Bay is a nationally syndicated opinion columnist for Creators Syndicate. This is a collection of the very best of Austin Bay from 2014.
Trying to thwart the drive to war against Iraq -- Assessing the Iraq debacle -- America's other war : Afghanistan -- The War on Terror -- Attempting to head off war against Iran -- Prospects for peace and democracy in the Middle East -- New approaches for the troubled Korean peninsula -- The dangerous Taiwan issue -- A delicate relationship with China -- NATO, the Balkans, and relations with Russia -- The disastrous war on drugs -- The connection between foreign policy and domestic liberty
From China's cyber war on America to Islamist victories across the Middle East to the lengthening shadow cast by Iran, the Washington establishment has failed to neutralize foreign threats that are becoming more dangerous. No one on the political left or right has articulated a realistic defense strategy to meet these new challenges of the twenty-first century. Smart Power -written by a prolific writer and TV commentator who saw firsthand the successes and failures of statecraft in the George W. Bush administration-offers new solutions to the threats America faces today, including radical refo.
In China's Public Diplomacy, author Ingrid d'Hooghe contributes to our understanding of what constitutes and shapes a country's public diplomacy, and what factors undermine or contribute to its success. China invests heavily in policies aimed at improving its image, guarding itself against international criticism and advancing its domestic and international agenda. This volume explores how the Chinese government seeks to develop a distinct Chinese approach to public diplomacy, one that suits the country's culture and authoritarian system. Based on in-depth case studies, it provides a thorough analysis of this approach, which is characterized by a long-term vision, a dominant role for the government, an inseparable and complementary domestic dimension, and a high level of interconnectedness with China's overall foreign policy and diplomacy.
In the pre-modern and modern eras, a government could easily subdue its enemy, win wars, and police its border unilaterally through hard military might. This is not the same in the current age of globalization. Globalization complicates national security. Hence, the power model suitable for national security in the age of globalization should address the enormous security challenges of globalization. This book argues that only smart power and diplomacy can address the security challenges of the globalized world.
At a time when diplomatic practices and the demands imposed on diplomats are changing quite radically, and many foreign ministries feel they are being left behind, there is a need to understand the various forces that are affecting the profession. Diplomacy remains a salient activity in today's world in which the basic authoritative actor is still the state. At the same time, in some respects the practice of diplomacy is undergoing significant, even radical, changes to the context, tools, actors and domain of the trade. These changes spring from the changing nature of the state, the changing nature of the world order, and the interplay between them. One way of describing this is to say that we are seeing increased interaction between two forms of diplomacy, 'club diplomacy' and 'network diplomacy'. The former is based on a small number of players, a highly hierarchical structure, based largely on written communication and on low transparency; the latter is based on a much larger number of players (particularly of civil society), a flatter structure, a more significant oral component, and greater transparency. The Oxford Handbook of Modern Diplomacy is an authoritative reference tool for those studying and practicing modern diplomacy. It provides an up-to-date compendium of the latest developments in the field. Written by practitioners and scholars, the Handbook describes the elements of constancy and continuity and the changes that are affecting diplomacy. The Handbook goes further and gives insight to where the profession is headed in the future. Co-edited by three distinguished academics and former practitioners, the Handbook provides comprehensive analysis and description of the state of diplomacy in the 21st Century and is an essential resource for diplomats, practitioners and academics.
The book intends to cover various problematic aspects of emerging smart computing and self-adapting technologies comprising of machine learning, artificial intelligence, deep learning, robotics, cloud computing, fog computing, data mining algorithms, including emerging intelligent and smart applications related to these research areas. Further coverage includes implementation of self-adaptation architecture for smart devices, self-adaptive models for smart cities and self-driven cars, decentralized self-adaptive computing at the edge networks, energy-aware AI-based systems, M2M networks, sensors, data analytics, algorithms and tools for engineering self-adaptive systems, and so forth. Acts as guide to Self-healing and Self-adaptation based fully automatic future technologies Discusses about Smart Computational abilities and self-adaptive systems Illustrates tools and techniques for data management and explains the need to apply, and data integration for improving efficiency of big data Exclusive chapter on the future of self-stabilizing and self-adaptive systems of systems Covers fields such as automation, robotics, medical sciences, biomedical and agricultural sciences, healthcare and so forth This book is aimed researchers and graduate students in machine learning, information technology, and artificial intelligence.
