The Elusive Quest Continues

Author : Yale H. Ferguson,Richard W. Mansbach
Publisher : Pearson
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111794322

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The Elusive Quest Continues by Yale H. Ferguson,Richard W. Mansbach Pdf

Unique in perspective, this book summarizes the achievements, problems, and prospects for theory in the field of international politics--with a focus on the theoretical and epistemological issues that divide the major theorists. It summarizes major theoretical approaches starting in the Middle Ages, places them in theoretical traditions, and suggests how theory evolves over time. It ends on a cautious note--praising the growing interest in the subjective dimension of the field while criticizing the wholesale rejection of empiricism by postmodernists, public choice theorists, and others. Paradigms and Theoretical Growth in Global Politics. Values and Paradigm Change in Global Politics. Changing Norms and Theory: The Middle Ages to Machiavelli. The Vicissitudes of Norms and Theory: Realism and Idealism. The State as an Obstacle to Understanding Global Politics. The Uncertain Bounds of Bounded Rationality. Quo Vadis Foreign Policy? The Challenge of Anarchy and the Search for Order. The End of the Elusive Quest? The Quest Continues. For anyone interested in international politics.

Author : William Easterly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Developing countries
ISBN : OCLC:987393396

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The Elusive Quest for Growth by William Easterly Pdf

Author : Melvyn P. Leffler
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469610153

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The Elusive Quest by Melvyn P. Leffler Pdf

Leffler argues that American officials did not disregard European developments after World War I but, rather, they sought to settle the war debt and reparations controversies, to stabilize European currencies, and to revive European markets. Leffler bridges the gap between revisionist and traditionalist studies by integrating the diverse aspects of foreign policy and elucidates many new aspects of the foreign policymaking process in the postwar period. Originally published in 1979. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

Author : William Easterly
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780465080908

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The Tyranny of Experts by William Easterly Pdf

In this "bracingly iconoclastic” book (New York Times Book Review), a renowned economics scholar breaks down the fight to end global poverty and the rights that poor individuals have had taken away for generations. In The Tyranny of Experts, renowned economist William Easterly examines our failing efforts to fight global poverty, and argues that the "expert approved" top-down approach to development has not only made little lasting progress, but has proven a convenient rationale for decades of human rights violations perpetrated by colonialists, postcolonial dictators, and US and UK foreign policymakers seeking autocratic allies. Demonstrating how our traditional antipoverty tactics have both trampled the freedom of the world's poor and suppressed a vital debate about alternative approaches to solving poverty, Easterly presents a devastating critique of the blighted record of authoritarian development. In this masterful work, Easterly reveals the fundamental errors inherent in our traditional approach and offers new principles for Western agencies and developing countries alike: principles that, because they are predicated on respect for the rights of poor people, have the power to end global poverty once and for all.

Author : José F. Moreno
Publisher : Harvard Education Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781612500737

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The Elusive Quest for Equality by José F. Moreno Pdf

The Elusive Quest for Equality documents both the plight and the struggle of Chicano communities over the past 150 years, using the guiding themes of segregation, Americanization, and resistance in the history of education for Chicanos/Chicanas. The history of the Chicano community's quest for educational equality is long and rich. Since the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo formalized the conquest of half of Mexico's territory into what is now the U.S. Southwest, Chicanos have fought to claim what was promised them in the Treaty—the enjoyment of all the rights of U.S. citizens. In terms of education, they certainly have never had equal access, opportunity, or resources, despite legal victories. In this volume, some of the leading scholars analyze why the quest for equality in education has remained so elusive. They do so by documenting both the plight and the struggle of Chicano communities over the past 150 years, using the guiding themes of the role of language, segregation, Americanization, and resistance in the history of education for Chicanos/Chicanas. "In the cover painting of this book, Manuel Hernandez Trujillo captures...the dualistic nature of the U.S. conquest of Northern Mexico, reflecting both the losses and opportunities represented in his camino de espinas (road of thorns). This tension between cynicism and optimism pervades the essays in this volume...something I see over and over again in discussions that focus on the significance of race in a democratic society. To what extent does the past determine our future, and to what degree do our own expectations of the future influence our interpretations of the past? It seems to me that these two interdependent questions continue to shape both our experience as Chicanos/Chicanas and our understanding of what it means to be Chicano/Chicana in the United States at the end of the twentieth century." Manuel N. Gómez, Vice Chancellor, Student Services, University of California, Irvine, from the Foreword

Author : William R. Easterly
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2002-08-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780262260657

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The Elusive Quest for Growth by William R. Easterly Pdf

Why economists' attempts to help poorer countries improve their economic well-being have failed. Since the end of World War II, economists have tried to figure out how poor countries in the tropics could attain standards of living approaching those of countries in Europe and North America. Attempted remedies have included providing foreign aid, investing in machines, fostering education, controlling population growth, and making aid loans as well as forgiving those loans on condition of reforms. None of these solutions has delivered as promised. The problem is not the failure of economics, William Easterly argues, but the failure to apply economic principles to practical policy work. In this book Easterly shows how these solutions all violate the basic principle of economics, that people—private individuals and businesses, government officials, even aid donors—respond to incentives. Easterly first discusses the importance of growth. He then analyzes the development solutions that have failed. Finally, he suggests alternative approaches to the problem. Written in an accessible, at times irreverent, style, Easterly's book combines modern growth theory with anecdotes from his fieldwork for the World Bank.

Author : Carolyn L. Wiener
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0202369625

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The Elusive Quest by Carolyn L. Wiener Pdf

Wiener (Research Sociologist, School of Nursing, U. of California) examines the large oversight apparatus that has been established to promote hospital accountability and the arena that has developed around it comprised of consultants, measurement experts, researchers, software developers, and numerous others.

Author : Nara B. Milanich
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674239999

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Paternity by Nara B. Milanich Pdf

For most of human history, paternity was uncertain. Blood types, fingerprinting, and, recently, DNA analysis promised to solve the riddle of paternity. But even genetic certainty did not end the quest for the father. Rather, as Nara Milanich reveals, it confirms the social, cultural, and political nature of the age-old question: Who’s your father?

Author : Derek Bell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2008-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780786722693

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And We Are Not Saved by Derek Bell Pdf

A distinguished legal scholar and civil rights activist employs a series of dramatic fables and dialogues to probe the foundations of America’s racial attitudes and raise disturbing questions about the nature of our society.

Author : Santiago Levy Algazi
Publisher : Inter-American Development Bank
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781597823050

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Under-Rewarded Efforts by Santiago Levy Algazi Pdf

Why has an economy that has done so many things right failed to grow fast? Under-Rewarded Efforts traces Mexico’s disappointing growth to flawed microeconomic policies that have suppressed productivity growth and nullified the expected benefits of the country’s reform efforts. Fast growth will not occur doing more of the same or focusing on issues that may be key bottlenecks to productivity growth elsewhere, but not in Mexico. It will only result from inclusive institutions that effectively protect workers against risks, redistribute towards those in need, and simultaneously align entrepreneurs’ and workers’ incentives to raise productivity.

Author : David Castells-Quintana
Publisher : Servei de Publicacions de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9788449098772

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Our elusive quest for prosperity by David Castells-Quintana Pdf

We all want to have a prosperous life. We want to be happy. The pursuit of prosperity has indeed been a long quest for the human race. But what does it mean to be prosperous? Is it having material possessions such as clothes, furniture and electrical appliances? Or jewellery, cars and property? We want a vast range of things. We also crave new experiences, whether it’s playing sport, going to the cinema or traveling to new places. And we usually want it all; the more the better. And often, all is not enough. In 'Our Elusive Quest for Prosperity', David Castells-Quintana brings together, in a brief and easy-to-read book, centuries of economic thought: from the ideas of past empires and civilizations, the economic thinking of medieval times, the lessons of classical economists, Marxism, neoclassical economics and Keynesianism, to the neoliberal revolution and the most important contributions of modern times. All to help us understand the meaning of true wealth, the way we collectively work to achieve it, and the challenges we face in our elusive quest for shared prosperity and individual welfare.

Author : Timothy C. F. Stunt
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498209311

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The Elusive Quest of the Spiritual Malcontent by Timothy C. F. Stunt Pdf

Timothy C. F. Stunt has gathered a range of his essays, both published and unpublished in a collection of largely biographical studies. His subjects range from discontented Quakers hesitating over their identity, to respectable Anglicans who were fascinated with the charismatic phenomena of tongue speaking and healing. Some of the characters with whom he is concerned can be described as "mavericks" on account of their strikingly individualist inclinations. Occasionally their unpredictability takes on a quasi-comic identity, which could even qualify them to be described as "loose cannons." On the other hand, some of them like Edward Irving, Norris Groves, and John Darby played a crucial part in the development of nineteenth-century evangelicalism. In their quest for the ideal church of their dreams, they were often disappointed but one cannot but admire the single-mindedness of their quest.

Author : Donald J. Puchala
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136074585

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Theory and History in International Relations by Donald J. Puchala Pdf

Theory and History in International Relations is an eloquent plea to scholars of global politics to turn away from the "manufacture" of data and return to a systematic study of history as a basic for theory. While the modest use of empiricism will always be important, Puchala rejects the logical positivism of the so-called "scientific revolution" in the field in favor of a more complex, even intuitive, vision of global politics. He addresses the potential uses of history in studying some of the major debates of our time-the Cold War as a struggle between empires, the collision of civilizations, cultural encounters and colonies in the ancient world, and liberal approaches to the understanding of history and ethical contributions to the dialogue over theory.

Author : Yale H. Ferguson,Richard W. Mansbach
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136327025

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Globalization by Yale H. Ferguson,Richard W. Mansbach Pdf

Written by two leading scholars of global politics, Globalization: the return of borders to a borderless world? is a major new book for students of globalization. It describes and explains globalization and its origins, and examines its future in light of key recent political and global trends and events. The text: identifies the different political, economic, technological, and cultural meanings of globalization examines its historical origins from the ancient past through the Cold War and into the twenty-first century describes the multiple attributes and consequences of globalization including its effect on the sovereignty of the nation state discusses recent trends such as the increased use of social media and events like the Arab Spring assesses the normative implications of globalization analyzes the challenges to globalization posed by contemporary events such as the global financial crisis. This book will be essential reading for all students of globalization, and will be of great interest to students of global politics and global governance.

Author : Karen Houppert
Publisher : New Press, The
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010-08-10
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781595588920

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Chasing Gideon by Karen Houppert Pdf

The Washington Post reporter delivers a groundbreaking investigation into the nation’s crisis of indigent defense—“a hugely important book” (New York Law Journal). A Nieman Report’s Top Ten Investigative Journalism Books of 2013 First published to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Supreme Court decision Gideon v. Wainwright, which guaranteed all criminal defendants the right to legal counsel, Chasing Gideon offers a personal journey through our systemic failure to fulfill this basic constitutional right. Written in the tradition of Anthony Lewis’s landmark work Gideon’s Trumpet, it focuses on the stories of four defendants in four states—Washington, Florida, Louisiana, and Georgia—that are emblematic of nationwide problems. Revealing and disturbing, it is “a book of nightmares” because it shows that the “‘justice system’ that too often produces the exact opposite of what its name suggests, particularly for its most vulnerable constituents” (The Miami Herald). Following its publication, Chasing Gideon became an integral part of a growing national conversation about how to reform indigent defense in America and inspired an HBO documentary as well as the resource website GideonAt50.org. “Chasing Gideon is a wonderful book, its human stories gripping, its insight into how our law is made profound.” —Anthony Lewis, author of Gideon’s Trumpet