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Ireland, country of western Europe occupying five-sixths of the westernmost major island of the British Isles. The magnificent scenery of Ireland’s Atlantic coastline faces a 2,000-mile- (3,200-km-) wide expanse of ocean, and its geographic isolation has helped it to develop a rich heritage of…
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Publications (4)
America's Search for Security The Triumph of Idealism and the Return of Realism (July 2014)
By Sean Kay
This book details the ways in which America’s ascendancy to global superpower status was the result of its dueling foreign policy philosophies and forces: an historically expansive idealism balanced with an equally constant realist restraint.
In America's Search for Security, Sean Kay surveys major historical trends in American foreign policy and provides a new context for thinking about America’s rise to power from the founding period through the end of the Cold War. It details the post-Cold...
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Global Security in the Twenty-first Century The Quest for Power and the Search for Peace (July 2011)
By Sean Kay
This thoroughly updated edition of Global Security in the Twenty-first Century offers a balanced introduction to contemporary security dilemmas in the world. Sean Kay assesses the impact of the global economic crisis on international security and considers how the range of thinking about power and peace has evolved in relation to major flashpoints including in the Middle East, Asia, and Eurasia. Kay focuses especially on the implications of the election of Barack Obama and the changing role of the...
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Celtic Revival? (May 2011)
By Kay, Sean
Celtic Revival? explores what happens when a society loses its wealth, its faith in government, and its trust in its Church. Sean Kay draws on a rich blend of research, interviews with a broad spectrum of Irish society, and his own decades of personal experience to tell the story of Ireland today—from the rise of the Celtic Tiger to the dramatic crash that shook the world. He guides the reader through the country's daunting economic challenges, political transformation, social change,...
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NATO and the Future of European Security (July 1998)
By Sean Kay
As NATO enlargement has become the highest U.S. foreign policy priority, fundamental issues have emerged about the role of this political-military institution and its impact on the future of European security. Tracing NATO's formative years, its Cold War development, and its post–Cold War evolution, this book provides students and scholars alike with a detailed understanding of the relationship between a formal international institution and national security. Drawing on his policy experience in Brussels...
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