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UNINA9910819770903321 |
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O'Rourke Lindsey A. |
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Covert regime change : America's secret Cold War / / Lindsey A. O'Rourke [[electronic resource]] |
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Ithaca : , : Cornell University Press, , 2018 |
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1-5017-6173-0 |
1-5017-3068-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (329 pages) |
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Cornell studies in security affairs |
Cornell scholarship online |
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Regime change - History - 20th century |
Cold War |
United States Foreign relations 1945-1989 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Also issued in print: 2018. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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The false promise of covert regime change -- Causes : why do states launch regime changes? -- Conduct : why do states intervene covertly versus overtly? -- Consequences : how effective are covert regime changes? -- Overview of U.S.-backed regime changes during the Cold War -- Fostering communist heresy in Eastern Europe -- Containment, coup d'etat and the covert war in Vietnam -- Dictators and democrats in the Dominican Republic -- Covert regime change after the Cold War. |
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States seldom resort to war to overthrow their adversaries. They are more likely to attempt to covertly change the opposing regime, by assassinating a foreign leader, sponsoring a coup d'tat, meddling in a democratic election, or secretly aiding foreign dissident groups.In 'Covert Regime Change', Lindsey A. O'Rourke shows us how states really act when trying to overthrow another state. She argues that conventional focus on overt cases misses the basic causes of regime change. O'Rourke provides substantive evidence of types of security interests that drive states to intervene. |
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UNINA9910154573903321 |
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Mount Athos and Byzantine monasticism : papers from the twenty-eighth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Birmingham, March 1994 / / edited by Anthony Bryer and Mary Cunningham |
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Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2016 |
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1-351-91660-2 |
1-315-24862-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (295 pages) |
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Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies Publications ; ; 4 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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BryerAnthony |
CunninghamMary |
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Orthodox Eastern monasticism and religious orders - Byzantine Empire |
Athos (Greece) Congresses |
Byzantine Empire Church history Congresses |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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First published 1996 by Ashgate Publishing. |
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section 1. From Stoudios to Athos -- section 2. Community and spirituality -- section 3. Economy and patronage -- section 4. Music and manuscripts -- section 5. Art and architecture -- section 6. Athos beyond Athos. |
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The papers in this volume derive from the 28th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, held for the Society for the promotion of Byzantine Studies at the Univesity of Birmingham in March 1994. Virtually from the time of their first foundation, the monastic communities of Mt Athos assumed a central position in the world of Orthodox Christianity. The spiritual, and political and economic influence of the Holy Mountain soon transcended the boundaries of the Byzantine empire within which it lay, to take on a supra-national importance and become one of the pillars of Orthodoxy after the fall of the empire. For the historian, the significance of Mt Athos is enhanced by the fact that its archives contain the most substanial body of Byzantine documentation to have survived the Middle Ages, and its libraries, treasuries and buildings have preserved much that has elsewhere been lost. These archives are now largely edited, and investigation of the art and |
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archaeology is yielding substantial evidence. The papers in this volume, by an international set of scholars, embody the fruits of this research. Starting from Athos itself, they embrace the whole phenomenon of Byzantine monasticism, dealing with questions of asceticism, authority, community, economy, enlightenment, fortification, hesychasm, liturgy, manuscripts, music, patronage, scandal, spirituality, and women (to take an alphabetical sample). Together these papers provide a coherent and immediate view of scholarship in the field. |
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