Power and Elements of National Power

Quite seriously, I thought about what might be most meaningful to you on this question of national power, and I came to the conclusion that a case study, or rather two case studies, com­paring the uses of the elements of national power by the United States might be most useful to you, because these case studies are, what you might say, the spice of life

Why nations go to war. Ninth edition

Southbank, Victoriaxvi, 370 p.: bibl., index; 21 c

Why nations go to war

xiv+228hlm.;23c

Good men in dark times : A story of moral heroism /

A brief memoir published in the late 1990s in an unknown (probably university) journal in English and Japanese. The family situation in Austria prior to 1938 is briefly explained. The departure from Prague and trip to Shanghai are more detailed. On this trip, they met a Japanese diplomat, named Ryoichi Manabe who happened to go to Shanghai as well. This meeting proved to be decisive for their future lives. He issued the family extensions of stay outside the Shanghai ghetto. After the war, it is shortly described how the family went to the USA, and that young John received a scholarship for university. The second part of the memoir is dedicated to John Stoessinger's search for his guardian. Through the help of Japanese journalists he managed to track him down and later visited him in Japan one year before he died. There are a few photographs embedded in the text.Dr. John Stoessinger was born on 10/14/1927 in Vienna, where he lived at Reisnerstrasse 35, 1030 Vienna, together with his parents Irene and Karl Hirschfeld. Mr. Stoessinger attended grammar school and the "Akademisches Gymnasium" in Vienna, Austria. His father went to Palestine, and his mother remarried. They moved together to Prague to his grandparents' home. Only on March 4, 1941, they fled to Shanghai, China, after having secured transit visas for Russia and Japan. He finally came to the USA in September 1947. John Stoessinger was an internationally recognized political analyst and a prize-winning author of ten books on world politics. He held a Ph.D. from Harvard and has taught at Harvard, M.I.T., Columbia and Princeton. From 1967 to 1974, he served as acting director of the political affairs division at the United Nations. He was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and lectured extensively throughout the world.Austrian Heritage Collectio