While the Navy may carry some historical baggage as a practitioner of
gunboat diplomacy, the Africa Partnership Station projects a more benign image to potential allies, partners, and even adversaries.
The U.S. Navy: into Africa
Requisite "vaccinations" against Bush's patriotic replay of
gunboat diplomacy are readily at hand for those with the will to clear vision: in The Nation's publication of a 1920 N.A.A.C.P.
William Worthy and Deirdre Kapes Hiebert: journalist; visiting professor, Howard University and research colleague
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No megaphone gunboat diplomacy here
Yudhoyono had spoken out against "
gunboat diplomacy" in the South China Sea at the recent Asean summit.
Indonesian leader Yudhoyono proposes joint sea patrols
"Instead, Turkey has been pursuing '
gunboat diplomacy' with oft-repeated display of its military strength around Cyprus.
Turkish Cyprus to present new gas exploration plan to UN
"None of the countries involved can afford to have their economic fortunes sunk by
gunboat diplomacy," Baroudi said on the sidelines of the event.
Cyprus seeks amicable solution for maritime border zone
Lord Palmerston, 19th-century foreign secretary, is remembered for pioneering what we call "
gunboat diplomacy".
Where there's a Will... there must not be a way to war
"This logic of the absurd, this
gunboat diplomacy must end by Turkey if it wants to be a modern state which wants to join the EU," Christofias said.
"We will push on with gas exploration" says Cyprus president
Let me stress - we are not indulging in
gunboat diplomacy here, no one is issuing ultimatums.
Football: UNANIMOUS; HEARTS SKIPPER WRITES EXCLUSIVELY FOR YOU TYNECASTLE IN TURMOIL... We're not trying to hold a gun to Vladimir's head but everyone here wants this sorted out now
On his part, it's brinkmanship and
gunboat diplomacy both at the same time.
Martin Wells column
lThe Jockey Club's
gunboat diplomacy appears to have brought peace over OJOCS, the overnight jockeys' service.
All our yesterdays
While the pieties of the Weinberger speech should not give anyone a sense of security, as a whole it does express the military's traditional suspicion of
gunboat diplomacy and its contemporary equivalents.
Cap's doctrine
"They should not use
gunboat diplomacy," he said in a swipe at both Vietnam and China.
Asean waffles on China oil rig row
The brasshats and their Tory friends are still obsessed with the idea of
gunboat diplomacy. We rained bombs on Libya to oust the Gaddafi regime, and left behind a murderous chaos where westerners are not safe.
I'd give anything for a moment's peace
From the Barbary wars (fought against the Barbary States, which included parts of modern Libya) to
gunboat diplomacy in Asia to the many military interventions over the last few decades (Grenada, Lebanon, Somalia, the no-fly zone over Iraq, Bosnia, Kosovo), the United States has often tried to find ways to use its military and yet not engage in all-out war.
Barack Obama is being sucked into the Libyan quagmire