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Ask what you can do for your (new) country : how host states use diasporas / Nadejda K Marinova.
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Marinova, Nadejda K.
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Book
Language
English
Published/Created
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]
Description
xiii, 343 pages ; 25 cm
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Available Online
Oxford Scholarship - Oxford University Press: Political Science
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JF1061 .M37 2017
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Ethnic groups
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Political activity
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Immigrants
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Political activity
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Transnationalism
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International relations
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Summary note
Within recent years a new body of literature has emerged within international relations on transnationalism and foreign policy. This literature has thus far focused on the strategic relationship between home states and their ethnic lobbies abroad, often with regard to remittances to and politics in the home country. This book breaks new ground in that it develops a theory about when, how and for what reasons host states use diasporas and the ethnic lobbies they generate to advance foreign policy goals. Ask What You Can Do for Your (New) Country focuses on a previously unexamined phenomenon: how host governments utilize diasporas to advance their foreign policy agendas in mutually beneficial ways. As was demonstrated in the run-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, when Iraqi exiles testified that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction, ethnic lobbies have been utilized strategically by the United States (and other countries) for the promotion of political objectives. Host states have even promoted the creation of such ethnic lobbies for this purpose. As Nadejda K Marinova shows, those who participate in such lobbies are of a particular subset of émigrés who are politically active, express a sustained vision for homeland politics, and who often have existing ties to political institutions within the host state. These groups then act as a link between the public and officials in their home state, and other (generally less politically active) members of the diaspora via a coordinated effort by the host state. She develops a theoretical model for determining the conditions under which a host state will decide to promote and utilize an ethnic lobby, and she tests it against eight cases, including the Bush Administration's use of the American Lebanese Cultural Union and the World Council for the Cedars Revolution in developing policy towards Lebanon and Syria, the Iraqi National Congress in endorsing the US invasion of Iraq, the Cuban-American Committee's cooperation with the Carter administration in attempting to normalize relations with Cuba, and the International Diaspora Engagement Alliance (IdEA) launched by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 2011 to promote economic development in a number of countries. -- Amazon.com.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-328) and index.
Contents
Host States' Use of Diasporas: A Global Phenomenon
The Literature
A Definition, a Typology, and a Theoretical Model of Host-State Use of Diasporas
A Historical Overview of Lebanese-American Political Organizations (1990s and 2000s)
Lebanese-American Allies of the Bush Administration: The Syria Accountability and Lebanese Sovereignty Restoration Act and UNSC Resolution 1559
The Bush Administration and Lebanon After May 2005: World Council for the Cedars Revolution and the International Lebanese Committee for UNSCR 1559
Cuban-Americans: Carter and the Cuban American Committee (CAC); Reagan and the Cuban American National Foundation (CANF)
The Iraqi National Congress's Promotion of the 2003 War
The State Department's Multidiaspora IdEA Initiative: A Novel Approach to Host-State Engagement
Syro-Lebanese Diaspora Entrepreneurs in Brazil
Theocracies and Exiles: Tehran and the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq
Conclusions: A Theoretical Model for Host-State Use of Diasporas Globally.
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ISBN
9780190623418 (hardcover : alkaline paper)
0190623411 (hardcover : alkaline paper)
LCCN
2016051096
OCLC
975945046
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13586776
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