American Confusion From Vietnam To Kosovo

Author : William R. Taylor
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9780595148097

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American Confusion from Vietnam to Kosovo by William R. Taylor Pdf

Dr. Taylor presents an original theory of the dynamics of confusion in governments and in the lives of ordinary citizens. His model postulates a vicious cycle in which the causes of confusion evoke coping tactics which often worsen those causes. One of the most destructive coping tactics, “Find-an-Enemy-and-Lose-Your-Confusion” spawns conflict and increases the lies and other information pathology already circulating. “Exports” from this vicious cycle include environmental depredation, political oppression, war and death. Using his model, he illuminates the binds entrapping Robert McNamara and Lyndon Johnson as they expanded the Vietnam War in 1965. He then extends the theory using fuzzy cognitive maps (FCMs), and submits the model to the ultimate test: forecasting in “real time” certain events in the 1999 NATO-Serbia War and its aftermath. He published these predictions on his web site during and after that war. This project represents the first use of FCMs to forecast political-military events in real time. The concluding chapters test whether a knowledge of confusion dynamics will increase empathy between opponents, and whether the model is useful for planning humanitarian efforts by betterment organizations.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Military art and science
ISBN : MSU:31293016628368

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Parameters by Anonim Pdf

Author : Rusko Matulić
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Yugoslavia
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114461598

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Bibliography of Sources on the Region of Former Yugoslavia by Rusko Matulić Pdf

In this second volume, Rusko Matulic continues to formulate a comprehensive bibliography of primarily published sources relating to the history, languages, literature, politics, government, religion, and social sciences of former Yugoslavia, including bibliographical materials on expatriates.

Author : Thomas M. Kane
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2006-09-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134164332

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Theoretical Roots of US Foreign Policy by Thomas M. Kane Pdf

This enlightening new book examines the roots of America's new unilateralism in terms of Machiavelli's theory of state politics.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Society of Friends
ISBN : UCSC:32106015683672

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Friends Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : Frederick Wasser
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780745658278

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Steven Spielberg's America by Frederick Wasser Pdf

Steven Spielberg is known as the most powerful man in New Hollywood and a pioneer of the contemporary blockbuster, America’s most successful export. His career began a new chapter in mass culture. At the same time, American post war liberalism was breaking down. This fascinating new book explains the complex relationship between film and politics through the prism of an iconic filmmaker. Spielberg’s early films were a triumphant emergence of the Sunbelt aesthetic that valued visceral kicks and basic emotions over the ambiguities of history. Such blockbusters have inspired much debate about their negative effect on politics and have been charged as being an expression of the corporatization of life. Here Frederick Wasser argues that the older Spielberg has not fully gone this way, suggesting that the filmmaker recycles the populist vision of older Hollywood because he sincerely believes in both big time moviemaking and liberal democracy. Nonetheless, his stories are burdened by his generation’s hostility to public life, and the book shows how he uses filmmaking tricks to keep his audience with him and to smooth over the ideological contradictions. His audiences have become more global, as his films engage history. This fresh and provocative take on Spielberg in the context of globalization, rampant market capitalism and the hardening socio-political landscape of the United States will be fascinating reading for students of film and for anyone interested in contemporary America and its culture.

Author : Maureen Duffy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781509904013

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Detention of Terrorism Suspects by Maureen Duffy Pdf

Controversial erosions of individual liberties in the name of anti-terrorism are ongoing in liberal democracies. The focus of this book is on the manner in which strategic discourse has been used to create accepted political narratives. It specifically links aspects of that discourse to problematic and evolving terrorism detention practices that happen outside of traditional criminal and wartime paradigms, with examples including the detentions at Guantanamo Bay and security certificates in Canada. This book suggests that biased political discourse has, in some respects, continued to fuel public misconceptions about terrorism, which have then led to problematic legal enactments, supported by those misconceptions. It introduces this idea by presenting current examples, such as some of the language used by US President Donald Trump regarding terrorism, and it argues that such language has supported questionable legal responses to terrorism. It then critiques political arguments that began after 9/11, many of which are still foundational as terrorism detention practices evolve. The focus is on language emanating from the US, and the book links this language to specific examples of changed detention practices from the US, Canada, and the UK. Terrorism is undoubtedly a real threat, but that does not mean that all perceptions of how to respond to terrorism are valid. As international terrorism continues to grow and to change, this book offers valuable insights into problems that have arisen from specific responses, with the objective of avoiding those problems going forward.

Author : David Farber
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781400827602

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What They Think of Us by David Farber Pdf

It has never been more important for Americans to understand why the world both hates and loves the United States. In What They Think of Us, a remarkable group of writers from the Middle East, Europe, Asia, and Latin America describes the world's profoundly ambivalent attitudes toward the United States--before and since 9/11. While many people around the world continue to see the United States as a model despite the Iraq war and the war on terror, the U.S. response to 9/11 has undoubtedly intensified global anti-Americanism. What They Think of Us reveals that substantial goodwill toward America still exists, but that this sympathy is in peril--and that there is an immense gap between how Americans view their country and how it is viewed abroad. Drawing on broad research and personal experience while avoiding anecdotalism and polemics, the writers gathered here combine political, cultural, and historical analysis to explain how people in different parts of the world see the United States. They show that not all anti-Americanism can be blamed on U.S. foreign policy. America is disliked not just for what it does but also for what it is, and perceptions of both are profoundly shaped--and sometimes warped--by the domestic realities of the countries where anti-Americanism thrives. In addition to analyzing America's battered global reputation, these writers propose ways the United States and other countries can build better relations through greater understanding and respect.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Military art and science
ISBN : UCBK:C088682091

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Military Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1012 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Military art and science
ISBN : IND:30000139846632

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Professional Journal of the United States Army by Anonim Pdf

Author : Miriam Krieger,Lynne Chandler Garcia,John Riley,Will Atkins
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-10
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 9781421441474

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American Defense Policy by Miriam Krieger,Lynne Chandler Garcia,John Riley,Will Atkins Pdf

"Organized into three parts, the ninth edition traces the impact that societal changes and emerging technologies are having as force enablers, game changers, or disrupters of American defense policy"--

Author : Thomas Elsaesser
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135884048

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The Mind-Game Film by Thomas Elsaesser Pdf

This book represents the culmination of Thomas Elsaesser’s intense and passionate thinking about the Hollywood mind-game film from the previous two decades. In order to answer what the mind-game film is, why they exist, and how they function, Elsaesser maps the industrial-institutional challenges and constraints facing Hollywood, and the broader philosophic horizon within which American cinema thrives today. He demonstrates how the ‘Persistence of Hollywood’ continues as it has adapted to include new twists and turns, as well as revisions of past concerns, as film moves through the 21st century. Through examples such as Minority Report, Mulholland Drive, Source Code, and Back to the Future, Elsaesser explores how mind-game films challenge us and play games with our perception of reality, creating skepticism and (self-) doubt. He also highlights the mind-game film's tendency to intervene in a complex fashion in the political moment by questioning the dominant power’s intent to program both body and mind alike. Prescient and compelling, The Mind-Game Film will appeal to students, scholars, and enthusiasts of media studies, film studies, philosophy, and politics.

Author : Thomas Kane
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317144823

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Emerging Conflicts of Principle by Thomas Kane Pdf

Debates over the ethics of war, economic redistribution, resource consumption and the rights and responsibilities associated with membership of a political community are just some of the major conflicts of principle identified by Thomas Kane which characterize world politics today. According to the author, debates such as these are being drawn towards increasingly polarized positions represented by strongly universalist and particularist moral and political ideologies, such as cosmopolitanism and republicanism. Kane analyzes each of these areas, identifying that the potential for ideologically-driven conflict will constitute the greatest challenge facing scholars and policy makers in the twenty-first century.

Author : Thomas M. Kane
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0754648370

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Emerging Conflicts of Principle by Thomas M. Kane Pdf

Debates over the ethics of war, economic redistribution, resource consumption and the rights and responsibilities associated with membership of a political community are just some of the major conflicts of principle identified and analyzed by Thomas Kane which characterize world politics today.

Author : William M. Connolly
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781477126424

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Character Assassins by William M. Connolly Pdf

CHARACTER ASSASSINS is a brief history of the consequences of bearing false witness. It tells how toxic talk has led to shunning, witch hunts, persecuti ons, false prosecuti ons, executi ons, pogroms, famines, wars and genocides. From small acorns great oaks grow, and from small lies come poisonous fruits: ruined reputati ons, divided neighborhoods, class hatreds, clan violence, ethnic cleansings and blood libels, preludes to the twenti eth centurys worst horrors. The book criti cally examines various contemporary events. It details intellectual rot and corrupti on in Massachusett s federal and state courts, prosecutors offi ces and law schools. It pinpoints deep seated biases, spin and false reporti ng in Bostons newspapers and radio talks shows. It proves Howie Carrs books are litt ered with falsehoods. It singles out Carr and Dershowitz as examples of chronic character assassins. Lies, ruin, disease, Into wounds like these, Let the truth sti ng! David Gray