Download or read book Global Political Fallout written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Global Political Fallout written by Gladys D. Ganley and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1987 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a wide variety of press reports and other sources, this volume describes the rapid global spread of VCRs and cassettes, often by illegal means, into even those countries where censorship is the rule and information control has been for hundreds of years the universal practice. This book describes the growing policial uses being made of the medium in both restrictive and more democratic countries. It examines the controls instituted on VCRs and programming by governments and has found even the most severe of these to be almost totally ineffective.
Download or read book Political Fallout written by Toshihiro Higuchi and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political Fallout is the story of one of the first human-driven, truly global environmental crises--radioactive fallout from nuclear weapons testing during the Cold War--and the international response. Beginning in 1945, the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union detonated hundreds of nuclear weapons in the atmosphere, scattering a massive amount of radioactivity across the globe. The scale of contamination was so vast, and radioactive decay so slow, that the cumulative effect on humans and the environment is still difficult to fully comprehend. The international debate over nuclear fallout turned global radioactive contamination into an environmental issue, eventually leading the nuclear superpowers to sign the landmark Partial Test Ban Treaty (PTBT) in 1963. Bringing together environmental history and Cold War history, Toshihiro Higuchi argues that the PTBT, originally proposed as an arms control measure, transformed into a dual-purpose initiative to check the nuclear arms race and radioactive pollution simultaneously. Higuchi draws on sources in English, Russian, and Japanese, considering both the epistemic differences that emerged in different scientific communities in the 1950s and the way that public consciousness around the risks of radioactive fallout influenced policy in turn. Political Fallout addresses the implications of science and policymaking in the Anthropocene--an era in which humans are confronting environmental changes of their own making.
Download or read book The Future of Fallout and Other Episodes in Radioactive World Making written by Joseph Masco and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-18 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Future of Fallout, and Other Episodes in Radioactive World-Making Joseph Masco examines the strange American intimacy with and commitment to existential danger. Tracking the simultaneous production of nuclear emergency and climate disruption since 1945, he focuses on the psychosocial accommodations as well as the technological revolutions that have produced these linked planetary-scale disasters. Masco assesses the memory practices, visual culture, concepts of danger, and toxic practices that, in combination, have generated a U.S. national security culture that promises ever more safety and comfort in everyday life but does so only by generating and deferring a vast range of violences into the collective future. Interrogating how this existential lag (i.e., the material and conceptual fallout of the twentieth century in the form of nuclear weapons and petrochemical capitalism) informs life in the twenty-first century, Masco identifies key moments when other futures were still possible and seeks to activate an alternative, postnational security political imaginary in support of collective life today.
Download or read book Global Politics Shitshow written by Eric Adler and published by . This book was released on 2024-08-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Step right up and welcome to the Circus! In this eye-opening book, the author dives headfirst into the chaotic world we. decisions of political mavericks, the fallout from. destruction of the planet, the erosion of privacy, growing economic inequality, media mayhem, and the challenges we face in the. through the shitshow of our time. So buckle up and prepare for a wild, informative, and thought-provoking journey!future. From historical context to potential solutions, this book is a rollercoaster rideinsane policies, messy international relations, thelive in, dissecting the mad
Download or read book Political Fallout written by Toshihiro Higuchi and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political Fallout is the story of one of the first human-driven, truly global environmental crises—radioactive fallout from nuclear weapons testing during the Cold War—and the international response. Beginning in 1945, the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union detonated hundreds of nuclear weapons in the atmosphere, scattering a massive amount of radioactivity across the globe. The scale of contamination was so vast, and radioactive decay so slow, that the cumulative effect on humans and the environment is still difficult to fully comprehend. The international debate over nuclear fallout turned global radioactive contamination into an environmental issue, eventually leading the nuclear superpowers to sign the landmark Partial Test Ban Treaty (PTBT) in 1963. Bringing together environmental history and Cold War history, Toshihiro Higuchi argues that the PTBT, originally proposed as an arms control measure, transformed into a dual-purpose initiative to check the nuclear arms race and radioactive pollution simultaneously. Higuchi draws on sources in English, Russian, and Japanese, considering both the epistemic differences that emerged in different scientific communities in the 1950s and the way that public consciousness around the risks of radioactive fallout influenced policy in turn. Political Fallout addresses the implications of science and policymaking in the Anthropocene—an era in which humans are confronting environmental changes of their own making.
Download or read book Fallout written by Grégoire Mallard and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-10-20 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do diplomats interpret treaty rules in the field of international security? In a situation of increasing global legal complexity, do past regimes survive the entry into force of new and contradictory regimes? Who decides how legal rules should be interpreted when contradictions exist between overlapping regimes? This book answers such questions by exploring how successive generations of American and European policymakers promoted various regimes to solve the problem of nuclear proliferation in Europe and in the rest of the world.--Résumé de l'éditeur.
Download or read book Fallout written by Lesley M.M. Blume and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2020 New York Times bestselling author Lesley M.M. Blume reveals how one courageous American reporter uncovered one of the deadliest cover-ups of the 20th century—the true effects of the atom bomb—potentially saving millions of lives. Just days after the United States decimated Hiroshima and Nagasaki with nuclear bombs, the Japanese surrendered unconditionally. But even before the surrender, the US government and military had begun a secret propaganda and information suppression campaign to hide the devastating nature of these experimental weapons. The cover-up intensified as Occupation forces closed the atomic cities to Allied reporters, preventing leaks about the horrific long-term effects of radiation which would kill thousands during the months after the blast. For nearly a year the cover-up worked—until New Yorker journalist John Hersey got into Hiroshima and managed to report the truth to the world. As Hersey and his editors prepared his article for publication, they kept the story secret—even from most of their New Yorker colleagues. When the magazine published “Hiroshima” in August 1946, it became an instant global sensation, and inspired pervasive horror about the hellish new threat that America had unleashed. Since 1945, no nuclear weapons have ever been deployed in war partly because Hersey alerted the world to their true, devastating impact. This knowledge has remained among the greatest deterrents to using them since the end of World War II. Released on the 75th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing, Fallout is an engrossing detective story, as well as an important piece of hidden history that shows how one heroic scoop saved—and can still save—the world.
Download or read book Global Politics written by Kevin Bloor and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2023-03-09 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Global Politics’ aims to ensure that students become more engaged with the dynamic character of international relations. In order to achieve this, ‘Global Politics’ explores several relevant and insightful concepts such as sovereignty, global governance and complex independence. The book also recognizes that most concepts are firmly embedded within a theoretical context. In terms of geographical scope; ‘Global Politics’ covers every region of the world from the Americas to Oceania. It also includes theoretical perspectives that move beyond the two dominant paradigms of realism and liberalism (e.g. constructivism, feminism and Marxism). There are also a range of prominent theorists included within ‘Global Politics’ to ensure the reader becomes more informed about the insights available. This essential guide should therefore provide a firm basis for your studies. Created by an experienced teacher, examiner and author; ‘Global Politics’ provides everything you need to comprehend this fascinating subject matter.
Download or read book Fall Out written by Tim Shipman and published by Collins. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The unmissable inside story of the most dramatic general election campaign in modern history and Theresa May's battle for a Brexit deal, the greatest challenge for a prime minister since the Second World War. By the bestselling author of All Out War, shortlisted for the Orwell Prize 2017.
Download or read book RADIOACTIVE FALLOUT THE POLITICS OF RISK AND THE MAKING OF A GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS 1954 1963 written by Toshihiro Higuchi and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 1006 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation examines the problem of radioactive fallout from nuclear weapons testing as a pioneering case of global environmental politics during the Cold War. It traces the fallout crisis from the radiological disaster of 1954 in the Pacific to the Partial Test Ban Treaty of 1963. Informed by sociological studies of risk, the dissertation explores why the mid-20th century world came to interpret the risk of global fallout as unacceptable. It argues that this shift was an outcome of politics, which developed around the paradox that one must blend scientific facts and social values to conceive of risk but also demarcate them to be recognized as authoritative. This tension, arising from the trans-scientific nature of risk, shaped the respective courses of public debates, scientific research, and expert reviews. The dissertation focuses on the United States but emphasizes its interactions with Japan, where the fallout crisis first broke out, and also with the other two fallout polluters of the time, Great Britain and the Soviet Union.
Download or read book The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order written by Samuel P. Huntington and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-05-31 with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic study of post-Cold War international relations, more relevant than ever in today’s geopolitical climate—with a foreword by Zbigniew Brzezinski. Since its initial publication in 1996, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order has become one of the most influential books ever written about foreign affairs. Samuel Huntington explains how clashes between civilizations pose the greatest threat to world peace, but also how an international order based on civilizations is the best safeguard against war. The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order explains how the population explosion in Muslim countries and the economic rise of East Asia have changed global politics. These developments challenge Western dominance, promote opposition to supposedly “universal” Western ideals, and intensify inter-civilization conflict over such issues as nuclear proliferation, immigration, human rights, and democracy. In his incisive analysis, Huntington offers a strategy for the West to preserve its unique culture and emphasizes the need for people everywhere to learn to coexist in a complex, multipolar, multi-civilizational world.
Download or read book The Silence of Fallout written by Michael Blouin and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-09-26 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection asks how we are to address the nuclear question in a post-Cold War world. Rather than a temporary fad, Nuclear Criticism perpetually re-surfaces in theoretical circles. Given the recent events at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan, the ripple of anti-nuclear sentiment the event created, as well as the discursive maneuvers that took place in the aftermath, we might pause to reflect upon Nuclear Criticism and its place in contemporary scholarship (and society at-large). Scholars who were active in earlier expressions of Nuclear Criticism converse with emergent scholars likewise striving to negotiate the field moving forward. This volume revolves around these dialogic moments of agreement and departure; refusing the silence of complacency, the authors renew this conversation while taking it in exciting new directions. As political paradigms shift and awareness of nuclear issues manifests in alternative forms, the collected essays establish groundwork for future generations caught in a perpetual struggle with legacies of the nuclear.
Download or read book Global Politics and Financial Governance written by Randall Germain and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-11-22 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The financial crisis prompted many to ask how financial systems from America and Iceland to Russia and Hungary could have been so misgoverned that their near collapse plunged the entire world into recession. Randall Germain assesses what needs to be done, and by whom, to avoid a repetition of what he calls the 'great freeze'.
Download or read book The Politics of Global Regulation written by Walter Mattli and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-05-17 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Regulation by public and private organizations can be hijacked by special interests or small groups of powerful firms, and nowhere is this easier than at the global level ... This is the first book to examine systematically how and why such hijacking or 'regulatory capture' happens, and how it can be averted."--P. [iv] of cover.
Download or read book Fallout written by Jim Ottaviani and published by G.T. Labs. This book was released on 2001 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by Jim Ottaviani, with art by various artists.
Download or read book The Global Political Economy of Israel written by Jonathan Nitzan and published by Pluto Press. This book was released on 2002-08-20 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The debate about globalisation and its discontents
