Securing Civilization

Author : Alexandra Gheciu
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2008-08-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191550935

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Securing Civilization? by Alexandra Gheciu Pdf

This book examines the practices enacted by three key institutions of the transatlantic security community-the EU, NATO and the OSCE—in the name of combating international terrorism, and analyzes the ways in which those practices have both been affected by and contributed to changes in the field of security. It argues that contemporary attempts to respond to the perceived threat of international terrorism reflect a particular ethos of risk-management and involve a combination of two different-an inclusive and an exclusionary—logics of security. The book examines the interplay between the two logics and analyzes their implications, including the ways in which practices that instantiate those logics have contributed to processes of redefinition of norms of governance and reconstitution of boundaries in the security community. In developing this analysis, the book also explores the normative and political dilemmas generated by patterns of inclusion/exclusion created in the name of fighting terrorism. On this basis, the book seeks to make a significant contribution to the study of security practices and international governance in the post-9/11 world. This book is a project of the Oxford Leverhulme Programme on the Changing Character of War.

Author : Niall Ferguson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101548028

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Civilization by Niall Ferguson Pdf

From the bestselling author of The Ascent of Money and The Square and the Tower “A dazzling history of Western ideas.” —The Economist “Mr. Ferguson tells his story with characteristic verve and an eye for the felicitous phrase.” —Wall Street Journal “[W]ritten with vitality and verve . . . a tour de force.” —Boston Globe Western civilization’s rise to global dominance is the single most important historical phenomenon of the past five centuries. How did the West overtake its Eastern rivals? And has the zenith of Western power now passed? Acclaimed historian Niall Ferguson argues that beginning in the fifteenth century, the West developed six powerful new concepts, or “killer applications”—competition, science, the rule of law, modern medicine, consumerism, and the work ethic—that the Rest lacked, allowing it to surge past all other competitors. Yet now, Ferguson shows how the Rest have downloaded the killer apps the West once monopolized, while the West has literally lost faith in itself. Chronicling the rise and fall of empires alongside clashes (and fusions) of civilizations, Civilization: The West and the Rest recasts world history with force and wit. Boldly argued and teeming with memorable characters, this is Ferguson at his very best.

Author : John Lewis Gaddis
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2005-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 0674018362

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Surprise, Security, and the American Experience by John Lewis Gaddis Pdf

In this provocative book, a distinguished Cold War historian argues that September 11, 2001, was not the first time a surprise attack shattered American assumptions about national security and reshaped American grand strategy.

Author : Sigmund Freud
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780486282534

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Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud Pdf

(Dover thrift editions).

Author : Daniel HoSang,Oneka LaBennett,Laura Pulido
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520273443

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Racial Formation in the Twenty-First Century by Daniel HoSang,Oneka LaBennett,Laura Pulido Pdf

"This collection of essays marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of Michael Omi and Howard Winant’s Racial Formation in the United States demonstrates the importance and influence of the concept of racial formation. The range of disciplines, discourses, ideas, and ideologies makes for fascinating reading, demonstrating the utility and applicability of racial formation theory to diverse contexts, while at the same time presenting persuasively original extensions and elaborations of it. This is an important book, one that sums up, analyzes, and builds on some of the most important work in racial studies during the past three decades."—George Lipsitz, author of How Racism Takes Place “Racial Formation in the Twenty-First Century is truly a state-of-the-field anthology, fully worthy of the classic volume it honors—timely, committed, sophisticated, accessible, engaging. The collection will be a boon to anyone wishing to understand the workings of race in the contemporary United States.” —Matthew Frye Jacobson, Professor of American Studies, Yale University “This stimulating and lively collection demonstrates the wide-ranging influence and generative power of Omi and Winant’s racial formation framework. The contributors are leading scholars in fields ranging from the humanities and social sciences to legal and policy studies. They extend the framework into new terrain, including non-U.S. settings, gender and sexual relations, and the contemporary warfare state. While acknowledging the pathbreaking nature of Omi and Winant’s intervention, the contributors do not hesitate to critique what they see as limitations and omissions. This is a must-read for anyone striving to make sense of tensions and contradictions in racial politics in the U.S. and transnationally.”—Evelyn Nakano Glenn, editor of Shades of Difference: Why Skin Color Matters

Author : Prof. Dr. Andrew Targowski
Publisher : Informing Science
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781681100067

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Informing and Civilization by Prof. Dr. Andrew Targowski Pdf

The aim of this book is to synthesize the role of information throughout the history of civilization’s development. This will be defined through the convergence of (a) the cumulative evolution and revolution of the intellect (cognition as data, information, concepts, knowledge, and wisdom), (b) labor, and (c) politics which seek to control the environment, society, and the world, applying culture and infrastructure as tools. Whereas researchers reveal the myriad of dimensions of the social order and its historiography, this book provides a synthesis of the relations, which is limited to information (and its informing systems) and civilization within the context of historiosophie (history with judgment). The method presented in this book—the architectural approach to the dynamics of civilizational development—is a new layer over the quantitative history based on statistical data. In an architectural synthesis of civilization, we seek a “big picture” of “civilization waves” in order to develop some criteria-oriented views of the world and its future predictability. To understand the crises and conflicts of civilization which are driven by technology in recent centuries, such a synthesis as well as optimism for human proactive adaptation, survival, and, development must be undertaken. This approach to civilizational development should allow humans to eventually “reinvent the future” in a continuous manner. We, in due course, should be able to predict the “rate of change” and provide “civilization bridging solutions” based on original thinking. It is important to remind ourselves that information is as old as our world (about 15 billion years) because plants and trees and, in general, non-human nature produces all sorts of information, for example, the changing colors of plants and trees, which is associated with the different seasons. When the first living organisms appeared on our planet, they had ability to inform as well by changing forms, colors, signals and, so one. The first signs of life on our planet came into being about 3.85 billion years ago. Therefore, organism-based life on the Earth actually came to be over a period of just 130 million years. Hominids diverged from apes some 10-6 million years ago (instinct-driven info-communication, i.e., behavior less controlled by cognition), and the first humans (bipeds with large brains who could use tools and sound-driven info-communication) took form around 6-2.5 million years ago in Southeast Africa. Homo symbolicus, who could skillfully use language, appeared about 60,000 years ago. The origin of civilization some 6,000 years ago marks the beginning of the first advanced info-communication systems applied by humans, who could even record information.

Author : Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg / IFSH
Publisher : Nomos Verlag
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783845290423

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OSCE Yearbook 2017 by Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg / IFSH Pdf

Die Aufgaben und Aktivitäten der Organisation für Sicherheit und Zusammenarbeit in Europa von der Konfliktverhütung und Krisenbewältigung über die Förderung von Demokratie und Menschenrechten bis zu regionaler Rüstungskontrolle – wissenschaftliche Analysen und Berichte aus der politischen und diplomatischen Praxis.

Author : Jiahua Pan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783662474297

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China's Environmental Governing and Ecological Civilization by Jiahua Pan Pdf

This book looks into the increasing conflict between the demand of economic growth and the already fragile ecological system condition in China. The prolonged urbanization process has escalated the erosion of natural environments and is increasing energy consumption. China’s role as a “world plant” is also demanding more and more resource supply as well as energy consumption. This book argues that to correctly respond to these emerging issues, apart from upgrading industry and improves environmental protection techniques, China needs to establish an “ecological civilization” that provides an ideological basis for the construction of a green low-carbon model of economic growth.

Author : Society of the Holy Childhood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1248 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1859
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590037110

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Annals of the Society of the Holy childhood by Society of the Holy Childhood Pdf

Author : Charles Hall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1849
Category : Civilization
ISBN : UCAL:$B258861

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The Effects of Civilization on the People in European States by Charles Hall Pdf

Author : Christian Wirth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351606363

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Danger, Development and Legitimacy in East Asian Maritime Politics by Christian Wirth Pdf

Grounded in extensive empirical research, Danger, Development and Legitimacy in East Asian Maritime Politics addresses the major issues of geopolitics in the region that have been and will continue to shape the international politics of the Asia-Pacific for years to come. Covering the nation-states of China, Japan and South Korea, it includes an examination of the key island disputes, as well as analysis of the North Korea–South Korea clashes in the Yellow Sea, controversies in Japan’s relations with both Koreas and the so-called ‘history disputes’, including recognition of World War II atrocities across the region. In doing so, this book explores a range of themes from the ecological environment to the globalized nature of shipping and therein links the East Asian maritime sphere directly to the dynamics and developments in the domestic politics of each country. Thus, it serves to demonstrate how several controversial debates in the international politics of the Asia-Pacific are ultimately and inextricably intertwined. A timely contribution that furthers our understanding of contemporary politics of the Asia-Pacific, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of Asian politics, international relations and the Asia-Pacific region in general.

Author : Azar Gat
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 839 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199236633

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War in Human Civilization by Azar Gat Pdf

In this truly global study, Azar Gat sets out to unravel the 'riddle of war' throughout human history, from the early hunter-gatherers right through to the unconventional terrorism of the twenty-first century.

Author : Beatrix Potter
Publisher : Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
Page : 21 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-29
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : PKEY:SMP2200000107169

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The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin by Beatrix Potter Pdf

"The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin" is a delightful children's book authored by Beatrix Potter. This enchanting tale follows the adventures of a mischievous squirrel named Nutkin and his companions as they navigate the idyllic world of the woodland. Nutkin, known for his spirited personality, constantly tests the patience of Old Brown, an owl who guards a special island and its nut store. Through rhymes, riddles, and playful banter, Nutkin and his fellow squirrels engage in a series of entertaining encounters with Old Brown, ultimately learning valuable lessons about respect, manners, and the consequences of impulsive behavior. Potter's captivating storytelling and charming illustrations make "The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin" a timeless classic that continues to captivate young readers and ignite their imagination.

Author : James S. E. Opolot
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0761831312

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Police Administration in Africa by James S. E. Opolot Pdf

In Police Administration in Africa, Ejakait S.E. Opolot lays the foundation for future developments and trends in police administration in the former British colonies in Africa. Opolot emphasizes the dynamism between theory and practice. As such, Police Administration in Africa establishes a model to be replicated in other parts of the Third World.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 734 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN : UOM:39015060405746

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Political Science Quarterly by Anonim Pdf

A review devoted to the historical statistical and comparative study of politics, economics and public law.