Toward New Thinking About Our Changed And Changing World

Author : Niall Ferguson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 46,6 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 : Brad Roberts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1952565049

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Toward New Thinking about Our Changed and Changing World by Brad Roberts Pdf

The Center for Global Security Research (CGSR) was founded in 1994 to serve as a bridge between the technical and policy communities. Its core mission is to ensure that each community has some understanding of the perspectives and priorities of the other. In its first decade, the Center focused heavily on defining the realm of the necessary and possible for cooperative threat reduction with the post-Soviet states. In its second decade, the Center's interests expanded to include proliferation and nonproliferation. In 2015, it set out on a new course. In order to come to terms with a changed and changing security environment, it re-focused on the new issues of deterrence, assurance, and strategic stability. This change followed in part from the conviction of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory leadership that the Laboratory needed to do more to strengthen "the bridge" on these topics. In 2015 we framed a new analytical approach built around five thrust areas:1.Major Power Rivalry and Deterrence 2.Regional Challengers and Challenges 3.Toward Integrated Strategic Deterrence 4.The Future of Cooperative Measures to Reduce Nuclear/Strategic Dangers 5.The Future of Long-Term Competitive Strategies In each area, we then sketched out some high-level framing questions. Over the following five years, CGSR convened 45 two-day workshops and hosted 116 speakers. It issued 20 major publications and scores of research surveys and workshop summaries. It has built a student program and put more than 100 research associates to work. It has kept stakeholders involved in defining and executing its program of work. It also expanded its mission to put a new focus on encouraging the development of emerging communities of interest.This report summarizes key insights gained over this five-year period. It is comprehensive in approach. But it is not exhaustive. Instead, this report attempts to provide a coherent set of answers to the high-level framing question, as derived from that work. These should be thought of as initial hypotheses, subject to further inquiry and analysis. The report backs these up with a select discussion of aspects of our work bearing on those answers.

Author : Hans Rosling,Anna Rosling Rönnlund,Ola Rosling
Publisher : Flatiron Books
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781250123817

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Factfulness by Hans Rosling,Anna Rosling Rönnlund,Ola Rosling Pdf

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “One of the most important books I’ve ever read—an indispensable guide to thinking clearly about the world.” – Bill Gates “Hans Rosling tells the story of ‘the secret silent miracle of human progress’ as only he can. But Factfulness does much more than that. It also explains why progress is so often secret and silent and teaches readers how to see it clearly.” —Melinda Gates "Factfulness by Hans Rosling, an outstanding international public health expert, is a hopeful book about the potential for human progress when we work off facts rather than our inherent biases." - Former U.S. President Barack Obama Factfulness: The stress-reducing habit of only carrying opinions for which you have strong supporting facts. When asked simple questions about global trends—what percentage of the world’s population live in poverty; why the world’s population is increasing; how many girls finish school—we systematically get the answers wrong. So wrong that a chimpanzee choosing answers at random will consistently outguess teachers, journalists, Nobel laureates, and investment bankers. In Factfulness, Professor of International Health and global TED phenomenon Hans Rosling, together with his two long-time collaborators, Anna and Ola, offers a radical new explanation of why this happens. They reveal the ten instincts that distort our perspective—from our tendency to divide the world into two camps (usually some version of us and them) to the way we consume media (where fear rules) to how we perceive progress (believing that most things are getting worse). Our problem is that we don’t know what we don’t know, and even our guesses are informed by unconscious and predictable biases. It turns out that the world, for all its imperfections, is in a much better state than we might think. That doesn’t mean there aren’t real concerns. But when we worry about everything all the time instead of embracing a worldview based on facts, we can lose our ability to focus on the things that threaten us most. Inspiring and revelatory, filled with lively anecdotes and moving stories, Factfulness is an urgent and essential book that will change the way you see the world and empower you to respond to the crises and opportunities of the future. --- “This book is my last battle in my life-long mission to fight devastating ignorance...Previously I armed myself with huge data sets, eye-opening software, an energetic learning style and a Swedish bayonet for sword-swallowing. It wasn’t enough. But I hope this book will be.” Hans Rosling, February 2017.

Author : Andrei Bochkarev,Don L Mansfield
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000306828

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The United States And The Ussr In A Changing World by Andrei Bochkarev,Don L Mansfield Pdf

As the Cold War draws to a close, new issues inevitably have begun to surface in U.S.-Soviet relations. This reader brings together Soviet and U.S. perspectives on the broad range of challenges that both nations now face. Within the context of a "debate" format that presents parallel U.S. and Soviet views, these timely readings illustrate areas of cooperation and conflict and weigh policy similarities and differences. Topics covered include Soviet-U.S. relations after the Cold War, military and national security debates, and the changing international economic environment. The selections also consider the impact that the evolving Soviet-U.S. interaction is having on the "new" Europe and the developing world. The volume concludes by considering the direction the superpower relationship may take in the future. Students of Soviet and U.S. foreign policy will find this text invaluable in unraveling the complexities of U.S.-Soviet relations.

Author : Per Espen Stoknes
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781603585835

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What We Think About When We Try Not To Think About Global Warming by Per Espen Stoknes Pdf

"Today, about 98 percent of scientists affirm that climate change is human made, and about 2 percent still question it. Despite that overwhelming majority, though, about half the population of rich countries, like ours, choose to believe the 2 percent. And, paradoxically, this large camp of deniers grows even larger as more and more alarming proof of climate change has cropped up over the last decades. This disconnect has both climate scientists and activists scratching their heads, growing anxious, and responding, usually, by repeating more facts to 'win' the argument. But, the more climate facts pile up, the greater the resistance to them grows, and the harder it becomes to enact measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and prepare communities for the inevitable change ahead. Is humanity up to the task? It is a catch-22 that starts, says psychologist and climate expert Per Espen Stoknes, from an inadequate understanding of the way most humans think, act, and live in the world around them. With dozens of examples, he shows how to retell the story of climate change and apply communication strategies more fit for the task."--Publisher's description.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Defense
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 682 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Law
ISBN : UCAL:B5104518

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Department of Defense Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1995: Department of Defense, Department of the Air Force, Department of the Army, Department of the Navy, joint chiefs of staff, National Guard and Reserve, National Guard Bureau, Office of the Secretary of Defense by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Defense Pdf

Author : Gordon Brown
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781398503625

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Seven Ways to Change the World by Gordon Brown Pdf

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER 'His vision, ideas and passion shine through on every page' Ed Balls 'Compelling, challenging, inspiring and very timely' Piers Morgan 'Immensely powerful and persuasive...I found it exhilarating throughout' Joanna Lumley When the Covid-19 pandemic swept across the globe in 2020, it created an unprecedented impact, greater than the aftermath of 9/11 or the global financial crisis. But out of such disruption can come a new way of thinking, and in this superb new book former UK prime minister Gordon Brown offers his solutions to the challenges we face in 2021 and beyond. In the book, he states that there are seven major global problems we must address: global health; climate change and environmental damage; nuclear proliferation; global financial instability; the humanitarian crisis and global poverty; the barriers to education and opportunity; and global inequality and its biggest manifestation, global tax havens. Each one presents an immense challenge that requires an urgent global response and solution. All should be on the world’s agenda today. None can be solved by one nation acting on its own, but all can be addressed if we work together as a global community. However, Brown remains optimistic that, despite the many obstacles in our way, we will find a path to regeneration via a new era of global order. Yes, there is a crisis of globalisation, but we are beginning to see the means by which it might be resolved. Crises create opportunities and having two at once shouldn’t just focus the mind, it might even be seen as giving greater grounds for hope. In Seven Ways to Change the World, Brown provides an authoritative and inspirational pathway to a better future that is essential reading for policy makers and concerned citizens alike.

Author : United States. Navy Department
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Naval art and science
ISBN : OSU:32435062865936

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Annual Reports of the Navy Department for the Fiscal Year .. by United States. Navy Department Pdf

Author : United States. Department of the Navy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : United States
ISBN : UIUC:30112005415416

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Posture Statement by United States. Department of the Navy Pdf

Author : David W.P. Elliott
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199837977

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Changing Worlds by David W.P. Elliott Pdf

Throughout the entire Cold War era, Vietnam served as a grim symbol of the ideological polarity that permeated international politics. But when the Cold War ended in 1989, Vietnam faced the difficult task of adjusting to a new world without the benefactors it had come to rely on. In Changing Worlds, David W. P. Elliott, who has spent the past half century studying modern Vietnam, chronicles the evolution of the Vietnamese state from the end of the Cold War to the present. When the communist regimes of Eastern Europe collapsed, so did Vietnam's model for analyzing and engaging with the outside world. Fearing that committing fully to globalization would lead to the collapse of its own system, the Vietnamese political elite at first resisted extensive engagement with the larger international community. Over the next decade, though, China's rapid economic growth and the success of the Asian "tiger economies," along with a complex realignment of regional and global international relations reshaped Vietnamese leaders' views. In 1995 Vietnam joined the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), its former adversary, and completed the normalization of relations with the United States. By 2000, Vietnam had "taken the plunge" and opted for greater participation in the global economic system. Vietnam finally joined the World Trade Organization in 2006. Elliott contends that Vietnam's political elite ultimately concluded that if the conservatives who opposed opening up to the outside world had triumphed, Vietnam would have been condemned to a permanent state of underdevelopment. Partial reform starting in the mid-1980s produced some success, but eventually the reformers' argument that Vietnam's economic potential could not be fully exploited in a highly competitive world unless it opted for deep integration into the rapidly globalizing world economy prevailed. Remarkably, deep integration occurred without Vietnam losing its unique political identity. It remains an authoritarian state, but offers far more breathing space to its citizens than in the pre-reform era. Far from being absorbed into a Western-inspired development model, globalization has reinforced Vietnam's distinctive identity rather than eradicating it. The market economy led to a revival of localism and familism which has challenged the capacity of the state to impose its preferences and maintain the wartime narrative of monolithic unity. Although it would be premature to talk of a genuine civil society, today's Vietnam is an increasingly pluralistic community. Drawing from a vast body of Vietnamese language sources, Changing Worlds is the definitive account of how this highly vulnerable Communist state remade itself amidst the challenges of the post-Cold War era.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1034 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : United States
ISBN : PSU:000023038684

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Department of Defense Authorization for Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1995 and the Future Years Defense Program by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Dept. of Defense
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Government publications
ISBN : LOC:00185827471

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Department of Defense Appropriations for 1995 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Dept. of Defense Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1410 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : PSU:000023403253

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Hearings on National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1995--S. 2182 (H. R. 4301) and Oversight of Previously Authorized Programs Before the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, Second Session by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services Pdf

Author : John Lidstone,Michael Williams
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2006-07-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781402048074

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Geographical Education in a Changing World by John Lidstone,Michael Williams Pdf

This book results from the work of the Commission on Geographical Education of the International Geographical Union. Part 1 focuses on the distinctive traditions of school geography. Part 2 reviews the state of school geography on a broad continental basis, including national case studies by local experts. The final chapters extrapolate from the present and point to likely future developments in the subject, again with examples drawn from various countries.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of Defense
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UCBK:C050208691

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Department of Defense Appropriations for 1995: Secretary of Defense and Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff; Secretary and Chief of Staff of the Army; Secretary of the Navy, Chief of Naval Operations, and Commandant of the Marine Corps; Secretary and Chief of Staff of the Air Force by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of Defense Pdf