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Cohen, Warren I. was born on June 20, 1934 in Brooklyn. Son of Murray and Fay (Phillips) Cohen.
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This compelling book tells the inspirational stories of men and women who fought for peace, freedom, equality, and human rights throughout the twentieth century. These courageous individuals include leading figures such as Mahatma Gandhi, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, Václav Havel, and Mikhail Gorbachev, as well as Nobel Prize winners Aung San Suu Kyi, Andrei Sakharov, and Muhammad Yunus. Readers will be reminded why Pope John XXIII, long overshadowed by the charismatic John Paul II, was the greatest pope of contemporary times. A new generation will learn that Margaret Sanger was responsible for the single most important advance toward the liberation of women worldwide. They will also come to know some of the valiant women who fought at great personal risk for equal rights in Muslim communities. Cohen highlights the vital roles of Bram Fischer, Helen Suzman, and Donald Woods in fighting apartheid in South Africa and of Jack Greenberg in the struggle against Jim Crow in America. He traces Liu Binyan's efforts to win freedom of the press and to end the abuse of power by the Chinese Communist Party. Finally, he recounts the remarkable stories of some of the thousands of men and women of many nationalities and walks of life who rescued Jews during the Holocaust. Together, these biographies paint an unforgettable portrait of the famous and unsung people who stepped forward with the moral vision to intervene, often at great personal cost, to alleviate human misery.
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This is an elegant and concise history of American foreign relations during the Cold War era, based on the most recent American, Chinese, and Soviet literature, written from a post-Cold War perspective. All of the major foreign policy issues, including the origins of the Soviet-American conflict; the extension of the confrontation to Asia, the Middle East, and elsewhere on the periphery; wars in Korea and Vietnam; crises involving the Taiwan Straits, Berlin, and Cuba; the rise and fall of detente; imperial overreach; and the critical roles of Reagan and Gorbachev in the 1980s are carefully analyzed and clearly explained.
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This is an elegant and concise history of American foreign relations during the Cold War era, based on the most recent American, Chinese, and Soviet literature, written from a post-Cold War perspective.
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/I>The Great Powers of East Asia: 1953-1960 are written by some of the world's leading scholars. They contain new information, fresh insights, and useful analyses. The first series of essays focuses on the evolution of American policy. American historians examine the workings of the the Department of State and the Pentagon, and an American and a Chinese analyze the foreign economic policy of the Eisenhower administration in East Asia. The second series of essays is Japan-centered. Together these essays constitute an important contribution to the writing of international history. The contributors reveal the levels of understanding the major powers has of each other and of the smaller nations of the region, informed by different national experiences. The threads they weave together create a far richer tapestry than a national or binational approach could ever produce.
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This is an elegant and concise history of American foreign relations during the Cold War era, based on the most recent American, Chinese, and Soviet literature, written from a post-Cold War perspective. All of the major foreign policy issues, including the origins of the Soviet-American conflict; the extension of the confrontation to Asia, the Middle East, and elsewhere on the periphery; wars in Korea and Vietnam; crises involving the Taiwan Straits, Berlin, and Cuba; the rise and fall of detente; imperial overreach; and the critical roles of Reagan and Gorbachev in the 1980s are carefully analyzed and clearly explained.
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A common misconception holds that Marco Polo "opened up" a closed and recalcitrant "Orient" to the West. However, this sweeping history covering 4,000 years of international relations from the perspective of China, Japan, Korea, and Southeast Asia shows that the region's extensive involvement in world affairs began thousands of years ago. In a time when the writing of history is increasingly specialized, Warren I. Cohen has made a bold move against the grain. In broad but revealing brushstrokes, he paints a huge canvas of East Asia's place in world affairs throughout four millennia. Just as Cohen thinks broadly across time, so too, he defines the boundaries of East Asia liberally, looking beyond China, Japan, and Korea to include Southeast Asia. In addition, Cohen stretches the scope of international relations beyond its usual limitations to consider the vital role of cultural and economic exchanges. Within this vast framework, Cohen explores the system of Chinese domination in the ancient world, the exchanges between East Asia and the Islamic world from the thirteenth to the seventeenth centuries, and the emergence of a European-defined international system in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The book covers the new imperialism of the 1890s, the Manchurian crisis of the early 1930s, the ascendancy of Japan, the trials of World War II, the drama of the Cold War, and the fleeting "Asian Century" from the mid-1970s to the mid-1990s. East Asia at the Center is replete with often-overlooked or little-known facts, such as: • A record of persistent Chinese imperialism in the region • Tibet's status as a major power from the 7th to the 9th centuries C.E., when it frequently invaded China and decimated Chinese armies • Japan's profound dependence on Korea for its early cultural development • The enormous influence of Indian cuisine on that of China • Egyptian and Ottoman military aid to their Muslim brethren in India and Sumatra against European powers • Extensive Chinese sea voyages to Arabia and East Africa--long before such famous Westerners as Vasco da Gama and Christopher Columbus took to the seas East Asia at the Center's expansive historical view puts the trials and advances of the past four millennia into perspective, showing that East Asia has often been preeminent on the world stage--and conjecturing that it might be so again in the not-so-distant future.
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This is a discussion of the contribution and effects of East Asian art on American culture. Warren Cohen portrays the assembling of the great American collections of East Asian art and explains how this art became part of the cultural consciousness of the people of the USA, transforming their culture into something more complex than the Western civilization brought from Europe. Cohen tells of art collectors, dealers and historians, of museums and curators, of art and imperialism, art and politics, and art as an instrument of foreign policy.
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Cohen, Warren I. was born on June 20, 1934 in Brooklyn. Son of Murray and Fay (Phillips) Cohen.
Bachelor of Arts, Columbia University, 1955; A.M., Fletcher School Law and Diplomacy, Tufts U., 1956; Doctor of Philosophy, University Washington, 1962.
Lecturer, University of California-Riverside, 1962-1963;
assistant professor, University of California-Riverside, 1963-1967;
associate professor, University of California-Riverside, 1967-1971;
professor of history, Michigan State University, East Lansing, 1971-1993;
distinguished university professor, Michigan State University, East Lansing, 1990-1993;
director Asian Studies Center, Michigan State University, East Lansing, 1979-1989;
distinguished university professor, U. Maryland., Baltimore County, since 1992. Visiting professor National Taiwan U., Taipei, 1964-1966, Columbia University, New York City, 1971, Foreign Affairs College, Beijing, 1986. Member Committee on American-East Asian Rels., Baltimore, since 1973.
Member of advisory commission on history diplomatic documentation Department State, 1986-1990, chairman, 1988-1990. Scholar-in-residence Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training, 1994-1995. Acting director Asia program Wilson Center, 1995-1999.
(This is an elegant and concise history of American foreig...)
(This is an elegant and concise history of American foreig...)
(This is an elegant and concise history of American foreig...)
(This is an elegant and concise history of American foreig...)
( This compelling book tells the inspirational stories of...)
( A common misconception holds that Marco Polo "opened up...)
(/I>The Great Powers of East Asia: 1953-1960 are written b...)
(This is a discussion of the contribution and effects of E...)
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Board directors Michigan China Council, East Lansing, 1978-1992. Executive secretary Gov's Michigan and China Committee, Lansing, 1982-1984. Member Gov's Commission on China, 1984-1988.
Board directors Japan Council, 1979-1992. Served to lieutenant (junior grade) United States Naval Reserve, 1956-1959, PTO. Member American Civil Liberties Union, Council on Foreign Relations, Organization American Historians, Society for Historians of America Foreign Relations (vice president 1983, president 1984, Graebner prize 2004).
Married Janice Prichard, June 22, 1957 (divorced March 1986). Children: Geoffrey Scott, Anne Leslie. Married Nancy Bernkopf Tucker, June 12, 1988.