Books by "Daniel C. Hallin"
3 books found
Since the late-1990s, diplomatic historians have emphasized the importance of international and transnational processes, flows, and events to the history of the United States in the world. Rethinking U.S. World Power provides an alternative to these scholarly frameworks by assembling a diverse group of historians to explore the impact of the United States and its domestic history on U.S. foreign relations and world affairs. In so doing, the collection underlines that, even in a global age, domestic politics and phenomena were crucial to the history of U.S. foreign policy and international relations more broadly.
Commencing with the Vietnam War, America has lost every war up to and including the Afghanistan War. These wars were provably not in the best interests of the American people, and all were based of lies foisted on the American people by the then President/Commander-In-Chief. These wars are 'Vanity Wars' - undertaken by Presidents who picture themselves as conquering heros equivalent to Julius Caesar leading his Roman Legions against the infidels of the world.
More Than Sport: Soft Power and Potemkinism in the 2018 Men's Football World Cup in Russia
by Sven Daniel Wolfe
2021 · LIT Verlag
This book explores the 2018 Men's Football World Cup in Russia through a comparison of the host cities of Ekaterinburg and Volgograd - two major but peripheral cities little discussed outside of Russia. It unpacks the World Cup at multiple scales of analysis, from global political economic processes, Russian national state spatial strategies, uneven municipal developments, the creation and distribution of soft power narratives to the domestic audience, and varieties of adoption or refusal of those narratives among host city residents. In so doing, the book offers a light and revisable framework for understanding mega-events regardless of national context. Sven Daniel Wolfe is junior lecturer at the University of Lausanne. He studies mega-events, urban development, and the cultures of protest and resistance.