New Forces Old Forces And The Future Of World Politics

Author : Seyom Brown
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Political Science
ISBN : WISC:89071890404

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New Forces, Old Forces, and the Future of World Politics by Seyom Brown Pdf

This is an argument for reform of the traditional norms and structures of international relations. Brown's argument in this book, maintains that world politics is in a crisis of incongruence between the world's traditional structure of governance (the nation-state system) and the most important interactions of people. Symptoms of this systematic crisis include: the epidemic of violent inter-ethnic conflicts; secessionist and self-determination movements; waves of international terrorism; contraband in weapons and drugs and ecological threats to the health of living organisms. This text's analysis probes beneath the surface of these events to determine their underlying causes and to find new policies and institutions conducive to a more safe and just world order.

Author : Seyom Brown
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2004-05-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780815702870

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The Illusion of Control by Seyom Brown Pdf

This provocative book assesses the implications of a disturbing trend in U.S. security policy: an increased willingness to use military force as an instrument of diplomacy. In The Illusion of Control, Seyom Brown shows how U.S. officials are relying on force to counter a wide range of threats to America's global interests—eclipsing previous strategies that restricted the use of military force to situations in which the country's vital interests were at stake. Brown points out that a disposition to employ military power broadly as an instrument of diplomacy was on the rise well before September 11, 2001— and it shows every sign of persisting into the future. While resorting to force may seem to be a reliable way to establish control over a disorderly world, Brown cautions that expecting to gain and maintain control through military prowess could turn out to be a dangerous illusion. In fact, employing new military technologies in an effort to control international terrorist activities, wars, and civil conflicts is likely to pull the United States into excessive commitments and imprudent action. Brown analyzes the growing willingness of U.S. government officials to use force, then critically assesses the strategic, political, and moral implications for the United States. Adapting traditional "just war" concepts to contemporary strategic, political, and technological realities, he offers a set of guidelines to help ensure that use-of-force decisions are approached with the judicious care and gravity they warrant.

Author : Brian Hocking,Michael Smith
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1855672693

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Beyond Foreign Economic Policy by Brian Hocking,Michael Smith Pdf

Investigates the ways in which the US responded to the European Community's Single Market Program, launched in the 1980s, arguing that foreign economic policy is the product of interests and actions expressed by a wide range of groups and at many different levels. Analyzes changes faced by the US in the world political economy of the 1990s, and details the process by which Congress, state governments, and US executives and firms responded to the Single Market Program, looking especially at issues of public procurement, and standards, testing, and certification. Distributed by Books International. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Seyom Brown
Publisher : Washington : Brookings Institution
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Relaciones internacionales
ISBN : 0815711174

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New Forces in World Politics by Seyom Brown Pdf

Author : Seyom Brown
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429963711

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International Relations In A Changing Global System by Seyom Brown Pdf

This book expands and deepens the analysis of a new approach to the study of international relations in a changing global system, elaborating the essential characteristics of the anarchic structure of the world polity.

Author : Seyom Brown
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 861 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780231538213

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Faces of Power by Seyom Brown Pdf

Seyom Brown's authoritative account of U.S. foreign policy from the end of the Second World War to the present challenges common assumptions about American presidents and their struggle with power and purpose. Brown shows Truman to be more anguished than he publicly revealed about the use of the atomic bomb; Eisenhower and George W. Bush to be more immersed in the details of policy formulation and implementation than generally believed; Reagan to be more invested in changing his worldview while in office than any previous president; and Obama to have modeled his military exit from Iraq and Afghanistan more closely to Nixon and Kissinger's exit strategy from Vietnam than he would like to admit. Brown's analyses of Obama's policies for countering terrorist threats at home and abroad, dealing with unprecedented upheavals in the Middle East, preventing the proliferation of nuclear weapons, and containing new territorial expansion by China and Russia reinforce the book's "constancy and change" theme, which shows that serving the interests of the most powerful country in the world transforms the Oval Office's occupant more than its occupant can transform the world. Praise for previous editions: "Systematic and informative... [Brown] has a gift for clear analysis that makes his book a useful contribution to the Cold War literature."—The Journal of American History "Comprehensive and clear... thorough without ever becoming dull, providing detailed analysis of decisions while never neglecting the environment within which they are made."—International Affairs "An excellent reference for those interested in United States foreign policy.... Well-written and well-researched, it is appropriate for use in both undergraduate and graduate courses."—International Journal "An analysis with difference—an important difference. Seyom Brown discusses United States policy from the perspective of how decision makers in the United States viewed their adversaries and the alternatives as those decision makers saw them.... Well worth the effort of a careful reading."—American Political Science Review

Author : Seyom Brown
Publisher : Brookings Inst Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0815702639

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The Illusion of Control by Seyom Brown Pdf

Contrary to popular expectations, the end of the Cold War did not push aside the military components of U.S. foreign policy. In the last decade of the 20th century threats and applications of force often took center stage, ranging from the major war against Iraq to coercive bombing in the Balkans to peacekeeping operations for implementing diplomatic settlements to the delivery of humanitarian aid. Seyom Brown maintains that, despite popular reluctance , the use force as an instrument of foreign policy is likely to grow in the 21st Century, and that this prospect warrants concern and open debateThe increased willingness to consider force as a normal tool of diplomacy has been prompted by both a politically chaotic world in which the globally-dispersed interests of the United States are the targets of hostile threats, and by the so-called Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA), which promises to bring an unprecedented degree of controllability into the conduct of war.Brown argues that the promise of controllable, precisely calibrated war to serve the countrys foreign policy objectives is a dangerous illusion. He offers a set of guidelines designed to make sure that a heavy burden of justification is always borne by those urging the resort to military force.

Author : Seyom Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0835789691

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New Forces in World Politics by Seyom Brown Pdf

Author : Seyom Brown
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0367319314

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International Relations In A Changing Global System by Seyom Brown Pdf

The first edition of this successful text helped to define a new approach to the study of international relations, one suited to the realities of the post?cold war world. It broke the confines of the dominant ?realist? paradigm to offer an intelligible theoretical discourse on how the world works.In this thoroughly revised and updated edition, Prof

Author : Barry Holden
Publisher : Springer
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349245383

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The Ethical Dimensions of Global Change by Barry Holden Pdf

We are currently in a period of rapid global change that is of profound importance, but the nature of which is difficult to comprehend. A crucial element in any such comprehension must be an understanding of its ethical dimension since ethical ideas enter into the structure of international orders. Particular ethical questions are also, of course, of great intrinsic interest and importance. This book covers both aspects through an analysis of key concepts and issues.

Author : Nukhet Sandal,Jonathan Fox
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135045623

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Religion in International Relations Theory by Nukhet Sandal,Jonathan Fox Pdf

There is a growing realization among international relations scholars and practitioners that religion is a critical factor in global politics. The Iranian Revolution, the September 11 attacks, the ethno-religious conflicts such as the ones in the former Yugoslavia and Sri Lanka are among the many reasons for this increased focus on religion in international affairs. The rise of religious political parties across the world ranging from the Christian Democrats in Europe to Bharatiya Janata Party in India similarly illustrated religion's heightened international profile. Despite all this attention, it is challenging to situate religion within a discipline which has been dominantly secular from its inception. Only a few existent works have ventured to integrate religion into core international relations theories such as Classical Realism, Neorealism, Neoliberalism, Constructivism and the English school. This work is the first systematic attempt to comparatively assess the place of religion in the aforementioned theoretical strands of international relations with contemporary examples from around the world. Written in an accessible and systematic fashion, this book will be an important addition to the fields of both religion and international relations. Nukhet A. Sandal is Assistant Professor in the Political Science Department at Ohio University. Jonathan Fox is Professor in the Department of Political Studies at Bar Ilan University, Israel.

Author : Barry Holden
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2002-09-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0826450709

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Democracy and Global Warming by Barry Holden Pdf

How can democracy facilitate an effective response to the problem of global warming? Barry Holden discusses this question from two perspectives. First he looks at the suitability in principle of democratic decision-making for generating responses to the problem: to what extent is popular decision making a viable method of dealing with the complex matter of global warming? Second, he looks at the issue of whether, or to what extent, democracy can exist on a supranational scale, since according to received ideas, democracy occurs only within states and has not been thought applicable to the international realm. Emerging ideas and practices of transnational or global democracy have begun to challenge this perception. Holden looks at the role of global democracy in helping to overcome the crucial difficulty of generating, in a world of individual sovereign states, the collective global response that the global warming problem requires.Democracy and Global Warming will engage and challenge readers with interests in democratic political theory and those concerned with environmental issues and threats.

Author : Seyom Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Alliances
ISBN : UGA:32108040178181

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Multilateral Constraints on the Use of Force by Seyom Brown Pdf

The difficulty of achieving a multilateral consensus in the NATO Alliance can create more of a crisis than does the difficulty of generating an effective UN response to threats to international peace and security. NATO was supposed to be America's prime multilateral institution for obtaining legitimation and support of military action when the UN Security Council was paralyzed because of the veto. But as it has turned out Washington's ability to obtain a Brussels imprimatur for U.S-led multilateral military operations has become almost as hard as (and in some cases even harder than) obtaining UN endorsement. And whereas proposals to change the UN Security Council's voting rules have become a matter for open discourse among statespersons, such discourse with respect to the North Atlantic Council is shied away from as subversive of the ethos of the Alliance.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 51 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781428916203

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Multilateral Constraints on the Use of Force: A Reassessment by Anonim Pdf

Author : Neal Riemer,Douglas Simon,Douglas W. Simon
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0939693410

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The New World of Politics by Neal Riemer,Douglas Simon,Douglas W. Simon Pdf

In this fourth edition Neal Riemer and Douglas W. Simon again seek to introduce students to the challenging discipline of political science by highliting six cardinal features. The editors strongly believe that their unique and comprehensive approach, employing those six features, can best equip students of political science to stay abreast of the ever-changing, and ever-challenging, world of politics. First and most important Riemer and Simon affirm the importance of addressing the three main concerns of political science: political and philosophy and ethics, empirical/behavioral political science, and public policy. Second, the authors reaffirm their normative preference for politics as a civilizing enterprise, one that enables people in the political community live better, to grow robustly in mind and spirit, and to find creative fulfillment. The fourth cardinal feature requires to recognize realistically the ever-chaning nature of politics and the tasks of assessing and responding to changing values. The sixth cardinal feature of The New World of Politics is understanding the importance of keeping the future in mind--not only the immediate future, but the long-range future. This book seeks to introduce students to political science as a discipline intimately involved with ethics, emprical social scientific inquiry, and public policy. Neal Riemer and Douglas W. Simon are endeavoring to help students respond to those future problems with understanding and wisdom. A Collegiate Press book