Beyond Pain: The Role of Pleasure and Culture in the Making of Foreign Affairs

by Thomas A. Breslin

Breslin demonstrates that, for two millennia, states in East Asia, Europe, and America have successfully used pleasure to protect themselves and advance their interests, at a small fraction of the cost of militarized policies. Indeed, the Chinese demonstrated that pleasure-based policies primed a stream of highly profitable foreign trade and bolstered the state. Pleasure was feared because it was effective as both an offensive and defensive strategy...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275974308
• ISBN13: 9780275974305
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"