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Este artículo presenta un análisis de las políticas sociales y diplomáticas que influyeron en la introducción de trabajadores chinos contratados. Los trabajadores viajaron en el vapor italiano Glensannox de Macao a Costa Rica en 1872-1873. Se examinan las implicaciones de las políticas vigentes a través de las actividades de los agentes de empleo y autoridades gubernamentales en Macao, Hawai y Costa Rica.

“The Geopolitics of Cyberspace: A Diplomatic Perspective” explores whether there is a geopolitics of cyberspace, how this might impact on the behaviour of state and non-state actors, and the implications for a diplomacy of cyberspace. In these supplementary materials author Shaun Riordan sets out the key points, in particular the application of geopolitics and critical geopolitics to cyberspace, how these analytical tools can help better understand the behaviour of key state and non-state actors and the implications for diplomacy and foreign policy.

This article discusses the lessons of previous peace processes between the government of Colombia and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (farc). It has two policy implications. In regard to Colombia it suggests that safeguarding the lives of demobilised farc members is necessary for the current peace process to succeed, hence it proposes a hybrid Specialised Protection Force (spf). In terms of peace building the article discusses the challenges for spfs to avoid becoming tools of foreign policy diplomacy that perpetuate conflicts. The article aims to contribute to both the critique of liberal peace and of the negotiating teams in the current Colombian peace process.

: The Presidents National Strategy for Combating Terrorism expands on Part III of the National Security Strategy by detailing the ends and of waging the global war on terrorism (WOT). The strategy uses the 4-D strategic concept as an expression of the President's strategic intent and as a strategic framework for prosecuting the WOT. The 4-D strategic concept consists of: defeating terrorist organizations of global reach denying them sponsorship/support/sanctuary diminishing the underlying conditions for terrorism and defending U.S. citizens and interests at home and abroad. Based on past headlines things are going quite well in prosecuting the hot war against terrorist organizations and their state sponsors. Similar progress is being made in denying terrorists support and in defending the homeland. What is lacking is comparable success in diminishing the underlying conditions for terrorism. Anti-Americanism is at an all-time high. This paper will look at how the U.S. needs to prosecute the war of ideas in order to diminish the underlying conditions for terrorism. It will describe the nature of the threat presented by Islamic extremists, summarize current political and public diplomacy policies to address the threat (ends, ways and means), and explore policy options and implications. Key questions to be answered include: How do we measure success? How do we know when we have won? What is the endstate of a war of ideas? Are we resourced and organized well enough to effectively prosecute it?

ABSTRACTHow has the United States used migration as part of its statecraft and foreign policy? This question is significant because migration is an important contemporary transnational policy area for the United States; and because a state’s foreign-immigration policy nexus remains an under-explored vantage point for examining diplomatic and international history. This review article answers the question and lays conceptual and empirical ground in the area by examining the historical record and extant research to show that American leaders from the country’s founding through the early twenty-first century have used migration as an instrument of statecraft by primarily attempting to reach three foreign policy objectives: pleasing, harming, and bargaining with states. For each of these categories, the analysis explicates relationships between statecraft and migration for the United States, identifies policy instruments used by American leaders to influence migration for diplomatic and foreign policy objectives, and presents historical cases of American migration policies designed for foreign policy goals. The conclusion provides the research and policy implications of its findings.