Diplomacy and Statecraft: Cases and Readings, 2nd edition provides an introduction to the theory and practice of diplomacy. Drawing on the diplomatic practices of the major powers with particular focus on Western diplomacy and foreign policy, this book also contains nine completely new case studies from a global perspective.The 21st century is now a decade old, and the environment in which international diplomacy takes place is dynamic and rapidly changing. First, the collapse of the socialist regimes in the early days of the 1990s scrambled the power map of the world, and set in motion American international ascendancy and a new phase of globalization and democratization. Then, the attacks on the US by terrorists in September 2001 added new and unexpected dimensions to international diplomatic activities, to security concerns, to trade negotiations, to alliance formation, and to the sharing of knowledge and innovation. We are now experiencing a new configuration of diplomatic and trade relations among and between industrialized democracies, emerging economies, developing countries and countries with capital, technology and knowledge. Today, the management of diplomatic activities by any state is complex owing to the multidimensional features of diplomacy. Diplomacy is essentially a political activity to ensure national interest and to enable states to secure foreign policy objectives.

Diplomacy and Statecraft: Cases and Readings

Business & Money

Siddiqui, Kamal

Alam, Quamrul

International

Tilde Publishing and Distribution

This is a longitudinal study seeking to explain poverty in rural Bangladesh during the two decades between 1977 and 1997. More explicitly, the objective has been to delineate the processes within rural society which caused, aggravated, maintained and reduced poverty in a typical Bangladesh village during the above period. On both occasions, long drawn and painstaking fieldwork was undertaken within a holistic framework of analysis. Development of the physical infrastructure by the government, the provision of microcredit by the NGOs and the supply and dissemination of modem agricultural inputs by the private sector are, by themselves quite inadequate to address the problems of rural poverty in Bangladesh. There is a strong need to reform the anti-poor economic processes relating to production and exchange, and at the same time, the poor and the women must occupy their rightful place in all organisations and institutions relevant to them. The critical missing link in this regard is the ideological intervention required to break the present impasse created by the emergence and stranglehold of the "cocktail ideology" discussed in the book. A strategy combining (a) a qualitative improvement of secular education, aiming at a higher level of knowledge and skills and humanist values; and (b) wide dissemination of an indigenous version of liberation theology, seems to be eminently suitable "entry points" to deal with this situation. All economic and social development programmes, even within a reformist perspective, need to be dovetailed to this basic strategy in order to have the desired effect of rapid poverty alleviation. Given its extraordinary methodological rigour and penetrating analysis of the causes of poverty, this book will be difficult to be ignored by both academics and practitioners in this field.

Jagatpur, 1977-97: Poverty and social change in rural Bangladesh

University Press

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