Beyond Pain: The Role of Pleasure and Culture in the Making of Foreign Affairs

by Thomas A. Breslin

Overview

Demonstrates that pleasure has been more effective than pain in defending and advancing the long-term interests of states in foreign affairs.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313073656
Publisher:	Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated
Publication date:	10/30/2001
Series:	Praeger Studies on Ethnic and National Identities in Politics Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	336 KB

About the Author

THOMAS A. BRESLIN is Vice President for Research and Associate Professor of International Relations at Florida International University. Professor Breslin has published three earlier books and numerous articles in scholarly jourbanals.

Table of Contents

	Preface	ix
1.	The Five Baits	1
2.	Ten Thousand Persian Archers	21
3.	Roman Virgins and Vandals	35
4.	The Glittering Diplomacy of Byzantium	49
5.	The Byzantine Doge and the Parsimonious Prince	67
6.	Lording It over the Britons: England's Anglo-Norman Empire	85
7.	The British Empire: Doomed in the Fleshpots of Paris	107
8.	Whiskey versus Rum: The Roots of America's Bicultural Foreign Policy	133
9.	Sweet and Sour: China Deals with the Modern West	163
	Bibliography	179
	Index	193