1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910458005703321

Autore

Parsi Trita

Titolo

A single roll of the dice [[electronic resource] ] : Obama's diplomacy with Iran / / Trita Parsi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, : Yale University Press, 2012

ISBN

1-283-38220-2

9786613382207

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (303 p.)

Disciplina

327.73055

Soggetti

POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Diplomacy

Electronic books.

United States Foreign relations Iran

Iran Foreign relations United States

United States Foreign relations 2009-

Iran Foreign relations 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

A peace of necessity -- With friends like these -- "He is with us" -- The review -- Israel and Obama clash -- Fraud -- Sanctions versus diplomacy -- The confidence-building measure -- The second track -- The art of taking yes for an answer -- Trapped in a paradigm of enmity.

Sommario/riassunto

Have the diplomatic efforts of the Obama administration toward Iran failed? Was the Bush administration's emphasis on military intervention, refusal to negotiate, and pursuit of regime change a better approach? How can the United States best address the ongoing turmoil in Tehran? This book provides a definitive and comprehensive analysis of the Obama administration's early diplomatic outreach to Iran and discusses the best way to move toward more positive relations between the two discordant states.Trita Parsi, a Middle East foreign policy expert with extensive Capitol Hill and United Nations experience, interviewed 70 high-ranking officials from the U.S., Iran, Europe, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Brazil-including the top American and Iranian negotiators-for this book. Parsi uncovers the previously unknown story of American



and Iranian negotiations during Obama's early years as president, the calculations behind the two nations' dealings, and the real reasons for their current stalemate. Contrary to prevailing opinion, Parsi contends that diplomacy has not been fully tried. For various reasons, Obama's diplomacy ended up being a single roll of the dice. It had to work either immediately-or not at all. Persistence and perseverance are keys to any negotiation. Neither Iran nor the U.S. had them in 2009.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910462060703321

Titolo

Passing/out [[electronic resource] ] : sexual identity veiled and revealed / / edited by Dennis R. Cooley and Kelby Harrison

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Burlington, Vt., : Ashgate, c2012

ISBN

1-317-08352-0

1-280-67778-3

9786613654717

1-4094-3583-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (248 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

CooleyDennis R. <1965->

HarrisonKelby

Disciplina

306.76/8

306.768

Soggetti

Outing (Sexual orientation)

Passing (Identity)

Gays - Family relationships

Transsexuals - Family relationships

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; 1 The Ontological Foundations of Passing; 2 Complicating Reason(s) and Praxis for Coming Out; 4 Cross-Generational Risks of Ascribing and Employing "Queer," "Gay and Lesbian" or even "Straight"; 5 At the Intersection of Racial and Sexual Passing and African-American Celebrity; 6 Margins within the Marginal:



Bi-invisibility and Intersexual Passing; 7 Transgender Identity and Passing Authentically; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Shedding light on the meaning of 'passing' and 'outing' in relation to identity, Passing/Out constructs a dialogue between the work of scholars whose intellectual careers began prior to the advent of queer theory and those whose work has been more immediately and directly shaped by this approach, with a view to breaking new ground in the field of identity.