The Politics Of Survival

Author : Marc Abélès
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822390770

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The Politics of Survival by Marc Abélès Pdf

In this provocative analysis of global politics, the anthropologist Marc Abélès argues that the meaning and aims of political action have radically changed in the era of globalization. As dangers such as terrorism and global warming have moved to the fore of global consciousness, foreboding has replaced the belief that tomorrow will be better than today. Survival, outlasting the uncertainties and threats of a precarious future, has supplanted harmonious coexistence as the primary goal of politics. Abélès contends that this political reorientation has changed our priorities and modes of political action, and generated new debates and initiatives. The proliferation of supranational and transnational organizations—from the European Union to the World Trade Organization (WTO) to Oxfam—is the visible effect of this radical transformation in our relationship to the political realm. Areas of governance as diverse as the economy, the environment, and human rights have been partially taken over by such agencies. Non-governmental organizations in particular have become linked with the mindset of risk and uncertainty; they both reflect and help produce the politics of survival. Abélès examines the new global politics, which assumes many forms and is enacted by diverse figures with varied sympathies: the officials at meetings of the WTO and the demonstrators outside them, celebrity activists, and online contributors to international charities. He makes an impassioned case that our accounts of globalization need to reckon with the preoccupations and affiliations now driving global politics. The Politics of Survival was first published in France in 2006. This English-language edition has been revised and includes a new preface.

Author : Bruce Bueno De Mesquita,Alastair Smith,Randolph M. Siverson,James D. Morrow
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2005-01-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780262261777

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The Logic of Political Survival by Bruce Bueno De Mesquita,Alastair Smith,Randolph M. Siverson,James D. Morrow Pdf

The authors of this ambitious book address a fundamental political question: why are leaders who produce peace and prosperity turned out of office while those who preside over corruption, war, and misery endure? Considering this political puzzle, they also answer the related economic question of why some countries experience successful economic development and others do not. The authors construct a provocative theory on the selection of leaders and present specific formal models from which their central claims can be deduced. They show how political leaders allocate resources and how institutions for selecting leaders create incentives for leaders to pursue good and bad public policy. They also extend the model to explain the consequences of war on political survival. Throughout the book, they provide illustrations from history, ranging from ancient Sparta to Vichy France, and test the model against statistics gathered from cross-national data. The authors explain the political intuition underlying their theory in nontechnical language, reserving formal proofs for chapter appendixes. They conclude by presenting policy prescriptions based on what has been demonstrated theoretically and empirically.

Author : Russell E. Lucas
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2006-06-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0791464466

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Institutions and the Politics of Survival in Jordan by Russell E. Lucas Pdf

Explains how the Jordanian monarchy has survived economic crisis and regional political instability.

Author : Lara Trout
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780823232956

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The Politics of Survival by Lara Trout Pdf

'This is a brave book, balancing strong scholarship, clear organization, and a provocative-reading Peirce.-Roger Ward, Georgetown College --

Author : Young Whan Kihl,Hong Nack Kim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317463764

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North Korea: The Politics of Regime Survival by Young Whan Kihl,Hong Nack Kim Pdf

Featuring contributions by some of the leading experts in Korean studies, this book examines the political content of Kim Jong-Il's regime maintenance, including both the domestic strategy for regime survival and North Korea's foreign relations with South Korea, Russia, China, Japan, and the United States. It considers how and why the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) became a "hermit kingdom" in the name of Juche (self-reliance) ideology, and the potential for the barriers of isolationism to endure. This up-to-date analysis of the DPRK's domestic and external policy linkages also includes a discussion of the ongoing North Korean nuclear standoff in the region.

Author : Gerhard P. Bassler
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0802044131

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Alfred Valdmanis and the Politics of Survival by Gerhard P. Bassler Pdf

Valdmanis's wily political manoeuvring in Latvia, Germany, and Canada from 1938 to 1954 is more the stuff of fiction than history.

Author : J. L. Granatstein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1247628485

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The politics of survival by J. L. Granatstein Pdf

Author : Jane Jacobs
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780525432883

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Systems of Survival by Jane Jacobs Pdf

With intelligence and clarity of observation, the author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities addresses the moral values that underpin working life. In Systems of Survival, Jane Jacobs identifies two distinct moral syndromes—one governing commerce, the other, politics—and explores what happens when these two syndromes collide. She looks at business fraud and criminal enterprise, government’s overextended subsidies to agriculture, and transit police who abuse the system the are supposed to enforce, and asks us to consider instances in which snobbery is a virtue and industry a vice. In this work of profound insight and elegance, Jacobs gives us a new way of seeing all our public transactions and encourages us towards the best use of our natural inclinations.

Author : Nancy Krieger,Glen Margo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-27
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781351868648

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AIDS by Nancy Krieger,Glen Margo Pdf

In one short decade, the politics of AIDS has become the politics of survival. In a world whose social order is changing before our eyes, AIDS insistently brings new meaning to the age-old question of what it is we must do to survive-as individuals, as families, as communities, as nations, as members of an interdependent world. This book brings together a collection of articles that frankly discuss what it will take to stop the AIDS epidemic and deal with the devastation it has already wrought.

Author : Jesse Dillon Savage
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-12
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108494502

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Political Survival and Sovereignty in International Relations by Jesse Dillon Savage Pdf

Shows how domestic politics creates incentives for political actors to surrender sovereignty to outside powers.

Author : Paige Sweet
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520976429

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The Politics of Surviving by Paige Sweet Pdf

For women who have experienced domestic violence, proving that you are a “good victim” is no longer enough. Victims must also show that they are recovering, as if domestic violence were a disease: they must transform from “victims” into “survivors.” Women’s access to life-saving resources may even hinge on “good” performances of survivorhood. Through archival and ethnographic research, Paige L. Sweet reveals how trauma discourses and coerced therapy play central roles in women’s lives as they navigate state programs for assistance. Sweet uses an intersectional lens to uncover how “resilience” and “survivorhood” can become coercive and exclusionary forces in women’s lives. With nuance and compassion, The Politics of Surviving wrestles with questions about the gendered nature of the welfare state, the unintended consequences of feminist mobilizations for anti-violence programs, and the women who are left behind by the limited forms of citizenship we offer them.

Author : Edgar Illas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Globalization
ISBN : 0367279436

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The Survival Regime by Edgar Illas Pdf

The Survival Regimeexplores the concept of survival to describe the effects on politics of the fusion of war and capital in globalization. Survival defines a sort of degree zero governmentality that has resulted from the crumbling of the political and spatial architecture of modernity, particularly the state. Survival does not simply name the new content of all politics or the economic law of the strongest of neoliberalism. Rather, it theorizes how systemic violence and permanent instability force political life to struggle for its own existence, thus generating a regime based on productive engagement and urgent intervention. Through a critical dialogue with various contemporary thinkers (Galli, Hardt and Negri, Esposito, Agamben, Derrida, and Schmitt, among others), Edgar Illas theorizes survival as a global logic that overcomes the links between life and power explained by the Foucauldian paradigm of biopolitics. He examines parallel notions such as singularity, aleatoriness, eclecticism and distinction to question previous theorizations of the political based on class struggle, inclusion, hegemony, or recognition of demands. Through the intersection of different lines of inquiry, including Marxism, war theory, biopolitics, and deconstruction, The Survival Regimecontributes to the rethinking of critical theory, political theory, and cultural studies in globalization. notions such as singularity, aleatoriness, eclecticism and distinction to question previous theorizations of the political based on class struggle, inclusion, hegemony, or recognition of demands. Through the intersection of different lines of inquiry, including Marxism, war theory, biopolitics, and deconstruction, The Survival Regimecontributes to the rethinking of critical theory, political theory, and cultural studies in globalization.

Author : Anas Malik
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136904196

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Political Survival in Pakistan by Anas Malik Pdf

Presenting a framework that incorporates macro-level forces into micro-level strategic calculations, this book explains key political choices by leaders and challengers in Pakistan through the political survival mechanism. It offers an explanation for continuing polity weakness in the country, and describes how political survival shapes the choices made by the leaders and challengers. Using a unique analysis that synthesizes theories of weak states, quasi-states and political survival, the book extends beyond rationalist accounts and the application of choice-theoretical approaches to developing countries. It challenges the focus on ideology and suggests that diverse, religiously and ethnically-defined affinity groups have interests that are represented in particular ways in weak state circumstances. Extensive interviews with decision-makers and polity-participants, combined with narrative accounts, allow the author to examine decision-making by leaders in a state bureaucratic machinery context as well as the complex mechanisms by which dissident affinity groups may support ‘quasi-state’ options. This study can be used for comparisons in Islamic contexts, and presents an interesting contribution to studies on South Asia as well as Political Development.

Author : Barry Ames
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0520069471

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Political Survival by Barry Ames Pdf

""Political Survival" is that rarest of books in comparative politics: a theoretically innovative work with an empirical, cross-national focus. Apart from its evident technical and conceptual polish, the book is a good read. "Political Survival" raises the ante in comparative studies of public policy by bringing sophisticated, systematic thinking to the analysis of decision-making in the Third World."--Peter McDonough, University of Michigan

Author : Rick Brandon,Marty Seldman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2004-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780743274296

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Survival of the Savvy by Rick Brandon,Marty Seldman Pdf

Two of the nation's most successful corporate leadership consultants now reveal their proven, systematic program for using the power of "high-integrity" politics to achieve career success, maximize team impact, and protect the company's reputation and bottom line. Each day in business, a corporate version of "survival of the fittest" is played out. Power plays, turf battles, deceptions, and sabotages block individuals' career progress and threaten companies' resources and results. In Survival of the Savvy, Rick Brandon and Marty Seldman provide ethical but street-smart strategies for navigating corporate politics to gain "impact with integrity," helping readers to: -Identify political styles at work through the Style Strengths Finder, and avoid being under or overly political -Discover the corporate "buzz" on you, and manage the corporate "airwaves" -Decipher unwritten company rules and protect yourself from sabotage and hidden agendas -Build key networks to promote yourself and your ideas with integrity -Learn to detect deception and filter misleading information -Increase your team's organizational savvy, influence, and impact -Gauge the political health of the company and forge a high-integrity political culture In addition, Survival of the Savvy helps individuals discover and overcome their own political blind spots and vulnerabilities. They learn step-by-step methods to avoid being underestimated or denied full recognition for their achievements. It shows them how to put forward their ideas and advance their careers in an ethical manner, with a high level of political awareness and skill. After reading this book, you will never have to say, "I didn't see it coming." Organizational savvy is a mission-critical competency for the complete leader. This timely and timeless book provides cutting-edge strategies and skills for surviving and thriving as you build individual and company success.