Ambivalent Engagement

Author : Joseph Chinyong Liow
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780815729686

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Ambivalent Engagement by Joseph Chinyong Liow Pdf

The paradox of U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia The Obama administration's pivot-to-Asia policy establishes an important place for Southeast Asia in U.S. foreign policy. But Washington's attention to the region has fluctuated dramatically, from the intense intervention of the cold war era to near neglect in more recent years. As a consequence, countries in Southeast Asia worry that the United States once again will become distracted by other problems and disengage from the region. This book written by an astute observer of the region and U.S. policy casts light on the sources of these anxieties. A main consideration is that it still is not clear how Southeast Asia fits into U.S. strategy for Asia and the broader world. Is the region central to U.S. policymaking, or an afterthought? Ambivalent Engagement highlights a dilemma that is becoming increasingly conspicuous and problematic. Southeast Asia continues to rely on the United States to play an active role in the region even though it is an external power. But the countries of Southeast Asia have very different views about precisely what role the United States should play. The consequences of this ambivalence will grow in importance with the expanding role of yet another outside power, China.

Author : Ricardo Martinez Cañas,Maria Angeles Garcia Haro,Pablo Ruiz-Palomino,Louise Kelly
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782889710676

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Social and Psychological Determinants of Value Co-creation in the Digital Era by Ricardo Martinez Cañas,Maria Angeles Garcia Haro,Pablo Ruiz-Palomino,Louise Kelly Pdf

Author : Howard G. Lavine,Christopher D. Johnston,Marco R. Steenbergen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199772759

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The Ambivalent Partisan by Howard G. Lavine,Christopher D. Johnston,Marco R. Steenbergen Pdf

The authors of this book demonstrate that compared to other citizens, ambivalent partisans perceive the political world accurately, form their policy preferences in a principled manner, and communicate those preferences by making issues an important component of their electoral decisions.

Author : John David Pizer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783110725100

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Ambivalent Literary Farewells to the German Democratic Republic by John David Pizer Pdf

This study reverses the question implicit in title of Christa Wolf’s now-canonical 1990 novella Was bleibt (What remains), looking instead at what was lost during the process of German reunification. It argues that, in their work during and after the Wende, most literary authors from both East and West Germany responded ambivalently to the reunification. Many felt, on the one hand, a keen sense of loss as the GDR dissolved and an expanded Federal Republic summarily absorbed former Eastern Germany. They mourned the ideals of democratic socialism, tolerance, and internationalism that the GDR had held dear, as well as the country’s rich cultural life. On the other hand, however, they recognized that the GDR was a fundamentally corrupt surveillance state whose industry weighed heavily on the environment while failing to buoy the country’s economy. By looking at works by some of the most important authors from either side of the border, this study shows that those who unequivocally embraced the reunification were clearly in the minority.

Author : Whitney Phillips,Ryan M. Milner
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-30
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781509501304

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The Ambivalent Internet by Whitney Phillips,Ryan M. Milner Pdf

This book explores the weird and mean and in-between that characterize everyday expression online, from absurdist photoshops to antagonistic Twitter hashtags to deceptive identity play. Whitney Phillips and Ryan M. Milner focus especially on the ambivalence of this expression: the fact that it is too unwieldy, too variable across cases, to be essentialized as old or new, vernacular or institutional, generative or destructive. Online expression is, instead, all of the above. This ambivalence, the authors argue, hinges on available digital tools. That said, there is nothing unexpected or surprising about even the strangest online behavior. Ours is a brave new world, and there is nothing new under the sun – a point necessary to understanding not just that online spaces are rife with oddity, mischief, and antagonism, but why these behaviors matter. The Ambivalent Internet is essential reading for students and scholars of digital media and related fields across the humanities, as well as anyone interested in mediated culture and expression.

Author : Mark H. Lee,Patricia Shaw,Kathy Hirsh-Pasek,Karen E. Adolph,Qiang Shen,Pierre-Yves Oudeyer,Jill Popp
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-09
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9782889660452

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Modeling Play in Early Infant Development by Mark H. Lee,Patricia Shaw,Kathy Hirsh-Pasek,Karen E. Adolph,Qiang Shen,Pierre-Yves Oudeyer,Jill Popp Pdf

This eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researchers, the latest key findings and historical advances in a hot research area! Find out more on how to host your own Frontiers Research Topic or contribute to one as an author by contacting the Frontiers Editorial Office: frontiersin.org/about/contact.

Author : Stewart Patrick,Shepard Forman
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1588260186

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Multilateralism and U.S. Foreign Policy by Stewart Patrick,Shepard Forman Pdf

Puzzled by the disjunction between global trends and US foreign policy since the end of the Cold War, mostly American scholars of political science, law, and economics explore the causes and consequences of US ambivalence to multilateral cooperation. They consider such dimensions as the growing influence of domestic factors, US grand strategy, the chemical weapons convention, and the International Criminal Court. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Bruce D. Jones,Shepard Forman,Richard Gowan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780521889476

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Cooperating for Peace and Security by Bruce D. Jones,Shepard Forman,Richard Gowan Pdf

Cooperating for Peace and Security attempts to understand - more than fifteen years after the end of the Cold War, seven years after 9/11, and in the aftermath of the failure of the United Nations (UN) reform initiative - the relationship between US security interests and the factors that drove the evolution of multilateral security arrangements from 1989 to the present. Chapters cover a range of topics - including the UN, US multilateral cooperation, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), nuclear nonproliferation, European and African security institutions, conflict mediation, counterterrorism initiatives, international justice and humanitarian cooperation - examining why certain changes have taken place and the factors that have driven them and evaluating whether they have led to a more effective international system and what this means for facing future challenges.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781134034970

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The European Union and International Organizations by Anonim Pdf

Author : Katarzyna Pisarska
Publisher : Springer
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137546791

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The Domestic Dimension of Public Diplomacy by Katarzyna Pisarska Pdf

This book explores new grounds that public diplomacy is entering today, as domestic publics come to the forefront of the policy – acting both as foreign policy constituencies and public diplomacy actors cooperating with their foreign counterparts. The author discusses the phenomena of public diplomacy’s domestic dimension described as government’s ability to engage its own society in foreign policy practices through information, cooperation and identity-defining. By analysing data from over 80 recorded interviews with Australian, Norwegian and American public diplomacy practitioners, this volume illustrates both successful and unsuccessful models of such cooperation. From Norwegian Peace Diplomacy, through Australia’s ambivalent engagement with Asia, to U.S. Government-sponsored exchange programs, the author argues that governments around the world are slowly accepting a paradigm shift in diplomatic practice from monological/dialogical to a more collaborative public diplomacy. This book is an essential resource for students, scholars, experts and diplomats interested in world’s best-practices of engaging domestic civil society actors in foreign policy statecraft.

Author : Jones Clara Jones
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-14
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781474401937

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Virginia Woolf by Jones Clara Jones Pdf

Rescues the particularities of Virginia Woolf's political and social participation, tracing her career as an activist across forty-five yearsClara Jones re-reads Woolf's fiction and non-fiction in light of her examination of the details of Woolf's involvement with Morley College, the People's Suffrage Federation, the Women's Co-operative Guild and the National Federation of Women's Institutes. Drawing on extensive archival research into these organisations, Jones also positions Woolf's activism with regard to the institutional contexts in which she worked. Virginia Woolf: Ambivalent Activist demonstrates the degree to which Woolf was sensitive to the internal politics and conflicts of the bodies she was associated with and the ways in which she interrogated her ambivalent attitudes towards her activism throughout her literary career.Focusing on texts that represent the range of Woolf's literary output, this book includes essays, unpublished sketches, Woolf's social realist 1919 novel Night and Day, and her final, visionary novel Between the Acts. This approach to Woolf's writing takes an integrated view, incorporating her juvenilia and foregrounding Woolf's critically neglected early novels. Rather than offering readings of Woolf's well-known 'political' works, Jones instead uncovers the unexpected ways in which Woolf's activism made its way into unlikely texts.Key FeaturesIncludes two new transcriptions of material by Woolf: the 'Report on Teaching at Morley College' ('Morley Sketch') and the 'Cook Sketch'Provides insights into the histories of neglected institutions through accounts of Woolf's activismExplores a range of texts, reading across genres with an alertness to class and gender politics in each case

Author : Martin Griffiths
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781350311688

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Rethinking International Relations Theory by Martin Griffiths Pdf

International Relations (IR) theory has seen a proliferation of competing, and increasingly trenchant, worldviews with no consensus on how to evaluate their relative strengths and weakness. This innovative new text provides an original interpretation of how best to navigate the clash of perspectives in contemporary IR theory. The book provides a systematic overview of the main worldviews – such as realism, liberalism, and constructivism – and their associated theoretical underpinnings. Placing liberal internationalism at the heart of the debate, it argues that the main division in IR theory is between liberal internationalism and its critics. Griffiths examines both the strengths and weaknesses of liberal internationalism as a worldview, and also explores the competing worldviews that have been generated by the perceived flaws of this perspective. Examination of crucial policy issues is incorporated throughout the text, restoring the relevance of theory for those who wish to understand those policy issues. Moreover, this book revitalises the raison d'être of contemporary IR theory and shows the role it can play in making sense of the twenty-first century.

Author : G. John Ikenberry,Zhu Feng,Wang Jisi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137508317

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America, China, and the Struggle for World Order by G. John Ikenberry,Zhu Feng,Wang Jisi Pdf

This book brings together twelve scholars six Americans and six Chinese to explore the ways America and China think about international order. The book shows how each country's traditions, historical experiences, and ideologies influence current global dialogues.

Author : Marcel Thomas
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192598257

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Local Lives, Parallel Histories by Marcel Thomas Pdf

The division of Germany separated a nation, divided communities, and inevitably shaped the life histories of those growing up in the socialist dictatorship of the East and the liberal democracy of the West. This peculiarly German experience of the Cold War is usually viewed through the lens of divided Berlin or other border communities. What has been much less explored, however, is what division meant to the millions of Germans in the East and West who lived far away from the Wall and the centres of political power. This volume is the first comparative study to examine how villagers in both Germanies dealt with the imposition of two very different systems in their everyday lives. Focusing on two villages, Neukirch (Lausitz) in Saxony and Ebersbach an der Fils in Baden-W?rttemberg, it explores how local residents experienced and navigated social change in their localities in the postwar era. Based on a wide range of archival sources as well as oral history interviews, the work argues that there are parallel histories of responses to social change among villagers in postwar Germany. Despite the different social, political, and economic developments, the residents of both localities desired rural modernisation, lamented the loss of 'community', and became politically active to control the transformation of their localities. The work thereby offers a bottom-up history of divided Germany which shows how individuals on both sides of the Wall gave local meaning to large-scale processes of change.

Author : Richard Le Heron,Hugh Campbell,Nick Lewis,Michael Carolan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-22
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781317551041

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Biological Economies by Richard Le Heron,Hugh Campbell,Nick Lewis,Michael Carolan Pdf

Recent agri-food studies, including commodity systems, the political economy of agriculture, regional development, and wider examinations of the rural dimension in economic geography and rural sociology have been confronted by three challenges. These can be summarized as: ‘more than human’ approaches to economic life; a ‘post-structural political economy’ of food and agriculture; and calls for more ‘enactive’, performative research approaches. This volume describes the genealogy of such approaches, drawing on the reflective insights of more than five years of international engagement and research. It demonstrates the kinds of new work being generated under these approaches and provides a means for exploring how they should be all understood as part of the same broader need to review theory and methods in the study of food, agriculture, rural development and economic geography. This radical collective approach is elaborated as the Biological Economies approach. The authors break out from traditional categories of analysis, reconceptualising materialities, and reframing economic assemblages as biological economies, based on the notion of all research being enactive or performative.