Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 884 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IOWA:31858029050600
The New Statesman and Nation
Anonim
New Statesman And Nation
New Statesman And Nation Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of New Statesman And Nation book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
Climate Change and the Nation State
Anatol Lieven
Author : Anatol Lieven
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : POLITICAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 9780190090180
Climate Change and the Nation State by Anatol Lieven Pdf
The climate emergency is intensifying, while international responses continue to falter. In Climate Change and the Nation State, Anatol Lieven outlines a revolutionary approach grounded in realist thinking. This involves redefining climate change as an existential threat to nation states - which it is - and mobilizing both national security elites and mass nationalism. He condemns Western militaries for neglecting climate change and instead prioritizing traditional but less serious threats. Lieven reminds us that nationalism is the most important force in motivating people to care about the wellbeing of future generations. The support of nationalism is therefore vital to legitimizing the sacrifices necessary to limit climate change and surviving and the effects of it (some of which are now inevitable). This will require greatly strengthened social and national solidarity across lines of class and race. Throughout, Lieven draws on historical examples to show how nationalism has helped enable past movements to implement progressive social reform. Lieven strongly supports plans for a "Green New Deal" in the USA and Europe. In order to implement and maintain such changes, however, it will be necessary to create dominant national consensuses like those that enabled and sustained the original New Deal and welfare states in Europe. Lieven criticizes sections of the environmentalist left for hindering this by their hostility to national interests, their utopian political naivet , their advancement of divisive cultural agendas, and their commitment to open borders. Radical and timely, Climate Change and the Nation State is an essential contribution to the debate on how to deal with a climatic crisis that if unchecked will threaten the survival of Western democracies and every organized human society.
New Statesman and Nation
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 888 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1954-07
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : STANFORD:36105007796241
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Who Are We Now?: Stories of Modern England
Jason Cowley
Author : Jason Cowley
Publisher : Picador
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781761262487
Who Are We Now?: Stories of Modern England by Jason Cowley Pdf
'A beautiful piece of storytelling – the British eyed from unexpected places, from China to the middle of the middle of the middle. The question will never go away but these answers help us a lot.' Andrew Marr 'As someone who zips around England — and the wider UK every week — this book really resonates with me. Wonderfully written with colourful and incisive accounts of contemporary England.' Chris Mason, Presenter of BBC Radio 4's Any Questions? In this compelling and essential book, Jason Cowley, editor-in-chief of the New Statesman, examines contemporary England through a handful of the key news stories from recent times to reveal what they tell us about the state of the nation and to answer the question Who Are We Now? Spanning the years since the election of Tony Blair’s New Labour government to the aftermath of the Covid pandemic, the book investigates how England has changed and how those changes have affected us. Cowley weaves together the seemingly disparate stories of the Chinese cockle-pickers who drowned in Morecambe Bay, the East End Imam who was tested during a summer of terror, the pensioner who campaigned against the closure of her GP’s surgery and Gareth Southgate’s transformation of English football culture. And in doing so, Cowley shows the common threads that unite them, whether it is attitudes to class, nation, identity, belonging, immigration, or religion. He also examines the so-called Brexit murder in Harlow, the haunting repatriation of the fallen in the Iraq and Afghan wars through Wootton Bassett, the Lancashire woman who took on Gordon Brown, and the flight of the Bethnal Green girls to Islamic State, fleshing out the headlines with the very human stories behind them. Through these vivid and often moving stories, Cowley offers a clear and compassionate analysis of how and why England became so divided and the United Kingdom so fragmented, and how we got to this cultural and political crossroads. Most importantly, he also shows us the many ways in which there is genuine hope for the future.
The President as Statesman
Daniel D. Stid
Author : Daniel D. Stid
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780700631728
The President as Statesman by Daniel D. Stid Pdf
A political scientist who went on to become president, Woodrow Wilson envisioned a "responsible government" in which a strong leader and principled party would integrate the separate executive and legislative powers. His ideal, however, was constantly challenged by political reality. Daniel Stid explores the evolution of Wilson's views on this form of government and his endeavors as a statesman to establish it in the United States. The author looks over Professor and then President Wilson's shoulder as he grappled with the constitutional separation of powers, demonstrating the importance of this effort for American political thought and history. Although Wilson is generally viewed as an unstinting and effective opponent of the separation of powers, the author reveals an ambivalent statesman who accommodated the Founders' logic. This book challenges both the traditional and revisionist views of Woodrow Wilson by documenting the moderation of his statesmanship and the resilience of the separation of powers. In doing so, it sheds new light on American political development from Wilson's day to our own. Throughout the twentieth century, political scientists and public officials have called for constitutional changes and political reforms that were originally proposed by Wilson. By reexamining the dilemmas presented by Wilson's program, Stid invites a reconsideration of both the expectations we place on the presidency and the possibilities of leadership in the Founders' system. The President as Statesman contributes significantly to ongoing debates over Wilson's legacy and raises important questions about the nature of presidential leadership at a time when this issue is at the forefront of public consciousness.
Small Bodies of Water
Nina Mingya Powles
Author : Nina Mingya Powles
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-05
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781838852160
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'Remarkable' Robert Macfarlane 'Gorgeous' Amy Liptrot 'Urgent and nourishing' Jessica J. Lee Nina Mingya Powles first learned to swim in Borneo – where her mother was born and her grandfather studied freshwater fish. There, the local swimming pool became her first body of water. Through her life there have been others that have meant different things, but have still been, in their own way, home: from the wild coastline of New Zealand to a pond in northwest London. In lyrical, powerful prose, Small Bodies of Water weaves together memories, dreams and nature writing. Exploring everything from migration, food, family, earthquakes and the ancient lunisolar calendar, Nina reflects on a girlhood spent growing up between two cultures, and what it means to belong.
The Road to Somewhere
David Goodhart
Author : David Goodhart
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781787382688
The Road to Somewhere by David Goodhart Pdf
A robust and timely investigation into the political and moral fault-lines that divide Brexit Britain and Trump's America -- and how a new settlement may be achieved. Several decades of greater economic and cultural openness in the West have not benefited all our citizens. Among those who have been left behind, a populist politics of culture and identity has successfully challenged the traditional politics of Left and Right, creating a new division: between the mobile "achieved" identity of the people from Anywhere, and the marginalized, roots-based identity of the people from Somewhere. This schism accounts for the Brexit vote, the election of Donald Trump, the decline of the center-left, and the rise of populism across Europe. David Goodhart's compelling investigation of the new global politics reveals how the Somewhere backlash is a democratic response to the dominance of Anywhere interests, in everything from mass higher education to mass immigration.
The English Job
Jack Straw
Author : Jack Straw
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781785904899
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Amongst British diplomats, there's a poignant joke that 'Iran is the only country in the world which still regards the United Kingdom as a superpower'. For many Iranians, it's not a joke at all. The past two centuries are littered with examples of Britain reshaping Iran to suit its own ends, from dominating its oil, tobacco and banking industries to removing its democratically elected Prime Minister, Mohammad Mossadegh, in a 1953 US–UK coup. All this, and the bloody experience of the Iran–Iraq War of 1980–88, when the country stood alone against an act of unprovoked aggression by Saddam Hussein, has left many Iranians with an unwavering mistrust of the West generally and the UK in particular. Today, ordinary Iranians live with an economy undermined by sanctions and corruption, the media strictly controlled, and a hardline regime seeking to maintain its power by demonising outsiders. With tensions rising sharply between Tehran and the West, former Foreign Secretary Jack Straw unveils a richly detailed account of Britain's turbulent relationship with Iran, illuminating the culture, psychology and history of a much-misunderstood nation. Informed by Straw's wealth of experience negotiating Iran's labyrinthine internal politics, The English Job is a powerful, clear-sighted and compelling portrait of an extraordinary country.
Global Statesman
David M. Webber
Author : David M. Webber
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781474423588
Global Statesman by David M. Webber Pdf
New perspectives on the use and acquisition of a minority language
The Scottish Nation
T. M. Devine
Author : T. M. Devine
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 887 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780718196738
The Scottish Nation by T. M. Devine Pdf
The Scottish Nation examines the social, political, religious and economic factors that have shaped modern Scotland. Drawing on extensive research and exploring everything from the high politics of the devolved parliament to the everyday effects of huge and growing levels of social inequality, Devine places Scotland firmly within an international context and provides a key focus for the ongoing debate regarding Scotland's future.
Some Times in America
Alexander Chancellor
Author : Alexander Chancellor
Publisher : Carroll & Graf Pub
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0786707100
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A memoir of one man's love affair with America follows the New Yorker editor from his obsession with Oklahoma at four living in wartime London, to his later career as journalist in New York City.
New State, Modern Statesman
Roger Boyes,Suzy Jagger
Author : Roger Boyes,Suzy Jagger
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781785903304
New State, Modern Statesman by Roger Boyes,Suzy Jagger Pdf
In a period when Western military engagement has unleashed violent sectarianism global terrorism, and become a catalyst for the biggest exodus of migrants since the Second World War, the 1999 Nato intervention in Kosovo remains a unique and shining example of a process that led to a peaceful transition from vicious ethnic war to modern democracy. Less than twenty years ago, a young ethnic Albanian student leader called Hashim Thaçi, led a revolution against Slobodan Milosevic, the Serbian tyrant with the biggest military force in Europe, and convinced the West to bomb Belgrade out of Kosovo. The aerial bombardment beckoned a period of unrivalled peace in the Balkans which Western leaders who sought to subsequently overturn other tyrannies in foreign lands would view with envy as a rare successful model. Nato intervention in Kosovo, led by Tony Blair and Bill Clinton, resulted in democracy and the rule of law. By contrast, however, attempts by George W. Bush to effect regime change in Iraq and Afghanistan, and by America, Britain and France to do the same in Libya, have left lethal power vacuums filled by Islamist insurgents, and brought about the downfall of Western leaders themselves. This book is the story of the rare success of Western military intervention and the first biography of the new President of Kosovo, the youngest country in Europe.
Enoch Powell and the Making of Postcolonial Britain
Camilla Schofield
Author : Camilla Schofield
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781107007949
Enoch Powell and the Making of Postcolonial Britain by Camilla Schofield Pdf
Enoch Powell's explosive rhetoric against black immigration and anti-discrimination law transformed the terrain of British race politics and cast a long shadow over British society. Using extensive archival research, Camilla Schofield offers a radical reappraisal of Powell's political career and insists that his historical significance is inseparable from the political generation he sought to represent. Enoch Powell and the Making of Postcolonial Britain follows Powell's trajectory from an officer in the British Raj to the centre of British politics and, finally, to his turn to Ulster Unionism. She argues that Powell and the mass movement against 'New Commonwealth' immigration that he inspired shed light on Britain's war generation, popular understandings of the welfare state and the significance of memories of war and empire in the making of postcolonial Britain. Through Powell, Schofield illuminates the complex relationship between British social democracy, racism and the politics of imperial decline in Britain.
Map of a Nation
Rachel Hewitt
Author : Rachel Hewitt
Publisher : Granta Publications
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781847084521
Map of a Nation by Rachel Hewitt Pdf
This “absorbing history of the Ordnance Survey”—the first complete map of the British Isles—"charts the many hurdles map-makers have had to overcome” (The Guardian, UK). Map of a Nation tells the story of the creation of the Ordnance Survey map, the first complete, accurate, affordable map of the British Isles. The Ordnance Survey is a much beloved British institution, and this is—amazingly—the first popular history to tell the story of the map and the men who dreamt and delivered it. The Ordnance Survey’s history is one of political revolutions, rebellions and regional unions that altered the shape and identity of the United Kingdom over the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It’s also a deliciously readable account of one of the great untold British adventure stories, featuring intrepid individuals lugging brass theodolites up mountains to make the country visible to itself for the first time.
New Britain
Tony Blair
Author : Tony Blair
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2004-04-09
Category : History
ISBN : 081334235X
New Britain by Tony Blair Pdf
New Britain presents Tony Blair on all the major debates of British public life: from nationalized health care to crime prevention, from the welfare state to monetary policy, from religion to family values, from individualism to isolationism, from taxation to trade unions, from NATO to Northern Ireland, from community rebirth to economic growth. After seventeen years of Conservative Party rule under Margaret Thatcher and John Major, a change in Great Britain's leadership appears imminent. In Blair's Stakeholder Nation, government works in partnership with private and voluntary sectors to harness the pawer of the market to serve the public interest. In New Britain, we read in Blair's own articulate words how to improve the standard of living of all Britain's families; how to base a new social order on merit, commitment, and inclusion; how to decentralize British institutions of political power; and how to expand Britain's leadership in foreign affairs.