wyszukanych pozycji: 106
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Why Nations Fight: Past and Future Motives for War
ISBN: 9780521192835 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Four generic motives have historically led states to initiate war: fear, interest, standing and revenge. Using an original dataset, Richard Ned Lebow examines the distribution of wars across three and a half centuries and argues that, contrary to conventional wisdom, only a minority of these were motivated by security or material interest. Instead, the majority are the result of a quest for standing, and for revenge an attempt to get even with states who had previously made successful territorial grabs. Lebow maintains that today none of these motives are effectively served by war it is...
Four generic motives have historically led states to initiate war: fear, interest, standing and revenge. Using an original dataset, Richard Ned Lebow ...
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446,90 |
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Rough Waters and Other Stories: Facing Ethical Dilemmas
ISBN: 9781871891379 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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506,93 |
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Between Peace and War: The Nature of International Crisis
ISBN: 9780801832475 / Angielski / Miękka / 1984 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. When is war is the result of a nation's deliberate decision to advance its vital interests by force of arms? When is it brought about by miscalculation? What causes policy-makers to misjudge the consequences of their actions? This book takes up these and other questions in a comparative study of the origins, politics, and outcomes of international crisis based on data from 27 historical cases.
When is war is the result of a nation's deliberate decision to advance its vital interests by force of arms? When is it brought about by miscalculatio...
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140,62 |
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The Politics and Business of Self-Interest from Tocqueville to Trump
ISBN: 9783319685687 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 125 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Unfinished Utopia
ISBN: 9780801451249 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Unfinished Utopia is a social and cultural history of Nowa Huta, dubbed Poland's "first socialist city" by Communist propaganda of the 1950s. Work began on the new town, located on the banks of the Vistula River just a few miles from the historic city of Krakow, in 1949. By contrast to its older neighbor, Nowa Huta was intended to model a new kind of socialist modernity and to be peopled with "new men," themselves both the builders and the beneficiaries of this project of socialist construction. Nowa Huta was the largest and politically most significant of the socialist cities... Unfinished Utopia is a social and cultural history of Nowa Huta, dubbed Poland's "first socialist city" by Communist propaganda of the 195... |
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The Navy\'s Godfather: John Rodgers
ISBN: 9781300182153 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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179,00 |
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The Rise and Fall of Political Orders
ISBN: 9781108460682 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 444 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A new theory by one of the world's leading scholars of international politics, analysing the rise, evolution, decline, and collapse of political orders, and exploring the impact of late-modernity upon the survival of democratic and authoritarian regimes. For students and scholars of IR, political theory, history, sociology and social psychology.
A new theory by one of the world's leading scholars of international politics, analysing the rise, evolution, decline, and collapse of political order...
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Richard Ned Lebow: A Pioneer in International Relations Theory, History, Political Philosophy and Psychology
ISBN: 9783319341491 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych.
This is the first of four volumes to be published as part of this book series, on the life and work of Richard Ned Lebow. In a career spanning six decades, Richard Ned Lebow has made important contributions to the study of international relations, political and intellectual history, motivational and social psychology, philosophy of science, and classics. He has authored, coauthored or edited 30 books and almost 250 peer-reviewed articles. These four volumes are excerpts from this corpus. The first volume includes an intellectual autobiography, bibliography, and...
This is the first of four volumes to be published as part of this book series, on the life and work of Richard Ned Lebow. In ... |
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Why Nations Fight
ISBN: 9780521170451 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Four generic motives have historically led states to initiate war: fear, interest, standing and revenge. Using an original dataset, Richard Ned Lebow examines the distribution of wars across three and a half centuries and argues that, contrary to conventional wisdom, only a minority of these were motivated by security or material interest. Instead, the majority are the result of a quest for standing, and for revenge - an attempt to get even with states who had previously made successful territorial grabs. Lebow maintains that today none of these motives are effectively served by war - it is...
Four generic motives have historically led states to initiate war: fear, interest, standing and revenge. Using an original dataset, Richard Ned Lebow ...
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128,16 |
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Ethics and International Relations: A Tragic Perspective
ISBN: 9781108825160 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Foreign policies consistent with generally accepted ethical norms are more likely to succeed, and those at odds with them to fail. Constructing original data sets and analysing multiple case studies, Lebow makes an empirical case for ethics in international relations.
Foreign policies consistent with generally accepted ethical norms are more likely to succeed, and those at odds with them to fail. Constructing origin...
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156,29 |
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Richard Ned Lebow: A Pioneer in International Relations Theory, History, Political Philosophy and Psychology
ISBN: 9783319816883 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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204,55 |
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Richard Ned Lebow: Major Texts on Methods and Philosophy of Science
ISBN: 9783319400266 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 133 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book about the philosophy of science is the second out of four volumes by Richard Ned Lebow in this book series. It not only provides a useful overview of this broad topic, but also provides deeper insight into specific topics like the philosophy of science causation, epistemology and methods, and especially on counter factual analysis.
This book about the philosophy of science is the second out of four volumes by Richard Ned Lebow in this book series. It not only provides a useful ov...
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204,55 |
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The Politics of Memory in Postwar Europe
ISBN: 9780822338178 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 382 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. For sixty years, different groups in Europe have put forth interpretations of World War II and their respective countries' roles in it consistent with their own political and psychological needs. The conflict over the past has played out in diverse arenas, including film, memoirs, court cases, and textbooks. It has had profound implications for democratization and relations between neighboring countries. This collection provides a comparative case study of how memories of World War II have been constructed and revised in seven European nations: France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Poland,...
For sixty years, different groups in Europe have put forth interpretations of World War II and their respective countries' roles in it consistent with...
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153,37 |
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First Person Jewish
ISBN: 9780816643547 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Documentaries have increasingly used the first person, with a number of prominent filmmakers finding critical and commercial success with this intimate approach. Jewish filmmakers have particularly thrived in this genre, using it to explore disparate definitions of the self in relation to the larger groups of family and community.
In First Person Jewish, Alisa S. Lebow examines more than a dozen films from Jewish artists to reveal how the postmodern impulse to turn the lens inward intersects provocatively (and at times unwittingly) with historical tropes and stereotypes... Documentaries have increasingly used the first person, with a number of prominent filmmakers finding critical and commercial success with this inti... |
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267,17 |
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The Quest for Knowledge in International Relations: How Do We Know?
ISBN: 9781009098922 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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A Democratic Foreign Policy: Regaining American Influence Abroad
ISBN: 9783030215187 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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A Cultural Theory of International Relations
ISBN: 9780521691888 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 776 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In this volume, Richard Ned Lebow introduces his own constructivist theory of political order and international relations based on theories of motives and identity formation drawn from the ancient Greeks. His theory stresses the human need for self-esteem, and shows how it influences political behavior at every level of social aggregation. Lebow develops ideal-type worlds associated with four motives: appetite, spirit, reason and fear, and demonstrates how each generates a different logic concerning cooperation, conflict and risk-taking. Expanding and documenting the utility of his theory in...
In this volume, Richard Ned Lebow introduces his own constructivist theory of political order and international relations based on theories of motives...
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203,16 |
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National Identities and International Relations
ISBN: 9781316617380 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Constructing Cause in International Relations
ISBN: 9781107672888 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A novel approach to cause that builds on human reasons for acting and the consequences of behaviour by multiple actors.
A novel approach to cause that builds on human reasons for acting and the consequences of behaviour by multiple actors.
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210,85 |
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Overcoming Disabilities Despair: 9 steps for talking away what's getting you down
ISBN: 9781596300637 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Disabilities Stink... Life gives everybody things they can't control. Sometimes, even the most capable and productive people hit against a personal limitation and get discouraged over things they can't do. With some of us, it can be something relatively small, like aches and pains that limit ability to play with our grandchildren, small disappointments. For others, the barriers and hurdles may be much more substantial. So what do you do when life hands you a major setback? Do you quit, sink into despair and wait for something good to happen to get you past the depression? This book offers...
Disabilities Stink... Life gives everybody things they can't control. Sometimes, even the most capable and productive people hit against a personal li...
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