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Book Strategy and Ethnic Conflict

Download or read book Strategy and Ethnic Conflict written by Laure Paquette and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2002-02-28 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethnic conflict now presents the thorniest problems for military and civilian strategists of all stripes. This book presents a new general theory of strategy, encompassing studies of the relationship between values, interest, and strategy as these relate to ethnic conflicts. It focuses on the relationship between values and strategy, building a theory on the hypothesis that national values influence national strategy. Paquette's research reveals that national values influence national strategy through three mechanisms: cognition, appreciation, and evaluation. Each mechanism, and indeed the whole value-focused approach to strategic thinking, is described using a network of interrelated statements. Paquette develops a methodology specific to the issues of international security and ethnic considerations. She tests this theory extensively for internal consistency before applying it to a single historical case: French decision-making on national strategy between 1955 and 1970; however, because of its generality, this same theory could easily be applied to other cases. As with any theory, it is possible to vary successively or simultaneously assumptions or conditions and to derive new predictions. This process of deriving variations has the potential to help in the training of strategists, both military and civilian.

Book Foreign Policy and Discourse Analysis

Download or read book Foreign Policy and Discourse Analysis written by Henrik Larsen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-11-30 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henrik Larsen presents discourse analysis as an alternative approach to foreign policy analysis. Through an extensive empirical study of British and French policies towards Europe in the 1980s, he demonstrates the importance of political discourse in shaping foreign policy. The author discusses key theoretical problems within traditional belief system approaches and proposes an alternative one: political discourse analysis. The theory is illustrated through detailed analyses of British and French discourses on Europe, nation/state security and the nature of international relations.

Book Documentation politique internationale

Download or read book Documentation politique internationale written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 1036 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Ethics of War and Peace Revisited

Download or read book The Ethics of War and Peace Revisited written by Daniel R. Brunstetter and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-10 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do we frame decisions to use or abstain from military force? Who should do the killing? Do we need new paradigms to guide the use of force? And what does “victory” mean in contemporary conflict? In many ways, these are timeless questions. But they should be revisited in light of changing circumstances in the twenty-first century. The post–Cold War, post-9/11 world is one of contested and fragmented sovereignty: contested because the norm of territorial integrity has shed some of its absolute nature, fragmented because some states do not control all of their territory and cannot defeat violent groups operating within their borders. Humanitarian intervention, preventive war, and just war are all framing mechanisms aimed at convincing domestic and international audiences to go to war—or not, as well as to decide who is justified in legally and ethically killing. The international group of scholars assembled in this book critically examine these frameworks to ask if they are flawed, and if so, how they can be improved. Finally, the volume contemplates what all the killing and dying is for if victory ultimately proves elusive.

Book The Evolution of Strategy

Download or read book The Evolution of Strategy written by Beatrice Heuser and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-14 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is there a 'Western way of war' which pursues battles of annihilation and single-minded military victory? Is warfare on a path to ever greater destructive force? This magisterial account answers these questions by tracing the history of Western thinking about strategy - the employment of military force as a political instrument - from antiquity to the present day. Assessing sources from Vegetius to contemporary America, and with a particular focus on strategy since the Napoleonic Wars, Beatrice Heuser explores the evolution of strategic thought, the social institutions, norms and patterns of behaviour within which it operates, the policies that guide it and the cultures that influence it. Ranging across technology and warfare, total warfare and small wars as well as land, sea, air and nuclear warfare, she demonstrates that warfare and strategic thinking have fluctuated wildly in their aims, intensity, limitations and excesses over the past two millennia.

Book The Academic World in the Era of the Great War

Download or read book The Academic World in the Era of the Great War written by Marie-Eve Chagnon and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the ways in which scholarly expertise was mobilized during the First World War, and the consequences of this for the inter-connected academic world that had developed in the late nineteenth century. Adopting a strong international approach, the contributors to this volume examine the impact of the War on individuals, institutions, and disciplines, cumulatively demonstrating the strong afterlife of conflict for scholarly practices and academic communities across Europe and North America, in the decades following the cessation of the Great War.

Book A Dominant Strategy of E   A Golden King

Download or read book A Dominant Strategy of E A Golden King written by Amanda Howell and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2023-11-02 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Flight of A King : The Strategy, The Skill, The War, The Kill, The Models, The Justice for One Brave Woman to try and take on the bias effigy of his estranged partner, the dog Marmaduke, Selma’s re engagement and the truth of vulnerability Written in Classical Stanza for Full Production, Witty, Cool and very very comprehensively written for awards in the future...the characters are introduced in the first book and developed forwards into the second very very cleverly written as Cantona plays himself, some of the characters and they are funny.... Written for the Royal Family in Sandringham and a favourite of Prince Harry not Prince George

Book Repertorio Mundial de Instituciones de Investigaci  n Y de Formaci  n Sobre la Paz

Download or read book Repertorio Mundial de Instituciones de Investigaci n Y de Formaci n Sobre la Paz written by and published by UNESCO. This book was released on 2000 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Basic information on more than 580 international institutions which, through education and research, play an essential role in building a culture of peace.

Book A Bio bibliography of the Kennedy Family

Download or read book A Bio bibliography of the Kennedy Family written by Martin Howard Sable and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Central African Republic

Download or read book Central African Republic written by International Monetary Fund. African Dept. and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper discusses Central African Republic’s Second Review Under the Extended Credit Facility (ECF) Arrangement. Program implementation as of end-2016 has been broadly satisfactory despite the challenging security situation. All quantitative performance criteria were met while two structural benchmarks were missed. The authorities have adopted strong measures to address customs revenue shortfalls that took place during the first quarter of 2017 and to enhance budget transparency. All three prior actions for the second review were met. The IMF staff supports completion of the second review under the ECF arrangement and the authorities’ request for augmentation of access.

Book Library of Congress Catalogs

Download or read book Library of Congress Catalogs written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Romain Rolland and the Politics of the Intellectual Engagement

Download or read book Romain Rolland and the Politics of the Intellectual Engagement written by David Fisher and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This intellectual portrait of Romain Rolland (1866-1944)--French novelist, musicologist, dramatist, and Nobel prizewinner in 1915--focuses on his experiments with political commitment against the backdrop of European history between the two world wars. Best known as a biographer of Beethoven and for his novel, Jean-Christophe, Rolland was one of those nonconforming writers who perceived a crisis of bourgeois society in Europe before the Great War, and who consciously worked to discredit and reshape that society in the interwar period. Analyzing Rolland's itinerary of engaged stands, David James Fisher clarifies aspects of European cultural history and helps decipher the ambiguities at the heart of all forms of intellectual engagement.Moving from text to context, Fisher organizes the book around a series of debates--Rolland's public and private collisions over specific committed stands--introducing the reader to the polemical style of French intellectual discourse and offering insight into what it means to be a responsible intellectual. Fisher presents Rolland's private ruminations, extensive research, and reexamination of the function and style of the French man of letters. He observes that Rolland experimented with five styles of commitment: oceanic mysticism linked to progressive, democratic politics; free thinking linked to antiwar dissent; pacifism and, ultimately, Gandhism; antifacism linked to anti-imperialism, antiracism, and all-out political resistance to fascism; and, most controversially, fellow traveling as a form of socialist humanism and the positive side of antifascism. Fisher views Rolland's engagement historically and critically, showing that engaged intellectuals of that time were neither naive propagandists nor dupes of political parties.David James Fisher makes a case for the committed writer and hopes to re-ignite the debate about commitment. For him, Romain Rolland sums up engagement in a striking, dialectical formula:

Book National Union Catalog

Download or read book National Union Catalog written by and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes entries for maps and atlases

Book World Encyclopedia of Peace

Download or read book World Encyclopedia of Peace written by Javier Pérez de Cuéllar and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Subject Catalog

Download or read book Subject Catalog written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 1020 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Quarterly Review of Military Literature

Download or read book Quarterly Review of Military Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Concise Encyclopedia of the United Nations

Download or read book A Concise Encyclopedia of the United Nations written by Helmut Volger and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-12-28 with total page 826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This English edition of the German "Lexikon der Vereinten Nationen" provides concise and comprehensive information not only about the structure of the UN system, its goals and functions, but about recent developments and reform efforts in the face of global opportunities and challenges. The contributing authors are academic scholars of international law, economics and political sciences; active and former diplomats and UN officials; journalists and members of non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and offer a variety of interesting perspectives. The entries are provided with Internet addresses for further information and are supplemented in the annex with a trilingual list (English-French-German) of the most important institutions and items of the official terminology and a list of information facilities concerning the UN. Readership: scholars and students of international law, international economics and political sciences, teachers, journalists, diplomats and politicians in the parliaments of the UN member states. "This new encyclopedia on the United Nations is a welcome addition to the works of academic research and political analysis covering the organization, its complex goals in the post-cold war era, and its ever broader role in the new millennium. While taking stock of more than half a century's achievements and setbacks, the encyclopedia also reflects the many ways in which the United Nations touches the lives of people everywhere." from the Preface by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan