Helping students identify and discuss main issues in international security today, this book evaluates the contending schools of thought and their key assumptions. It explains why states use-- or chose not to use--force to promote their causes. Each philosophy is tested in terms of its capacity to explain the rise and demise of the Cold War and to address the security challenges confronting the peoples and states of the twenty-first century. The book also contains essay questions and guides to further reading.
Helping students identify and discuss main issues in international security today, this book evaluates the contending schools of thought and their key...
Helping students identify and discuss main issues in international security today, this book evaluates the contending schools of thought and their key assumptions. It explains why states use-- or chose not to use--force to promote their causes. Each philosophy is tested in terms of its capacity to explain the rise and demise of the Cold War and to address the security challenges confronting the peoples and states of the twenty-first century. The book also contains essay questions and guides to further reading.
Helping students identify and discuss main issues in international security today, this book evaluates the contending schools of thought and their key...
A Force Profonde The Power, Politics, and Promise of Human Rights Edited by Edward A. Kolodziej "An excellent contemporary evaluation of the relevant social and political dynamics impacting human rights in various corners of the globe at the onset of the twenty-first century."--Choice "This discussion of the human rights condition of the world is better than any other volume I have seen. The volume succeeds in showing the contending forces at work--the political and power context within which efforts to enhance human rights operate, and the cultural and structural conditions that shape...
A Force Profonde The Power, Politics, and Promise of Human Rights Edited by Edward A. Kolodziej "An excellent contemporary evaluation of the relevant ...
The essays in this volume argue that the Bush Doctrine, as outlined in the September 2002 National Security Strategy of the United States, squandered enormous military and economic resources, diminished American power, and undermined America s moral reputation as a defender of democratic values and human rights. The Bush Doctrine misguidedly assumed that the United States was a superpower, a unique unipolar power that could compel others to accede to its preferences for world order. In reality the United States is a formidable but besieged global power, one of a handful of nations that...
The essays in this volume argue that the Bush Doctrine, as outlined in the September 2002 National Security Strategy of the United States, squander...
France ranks as the world's third largest arms exporter and supplies arms and military technology to over a hundred countries. This book exposes the compelling aims and interests--national independence, security, economic welfare, foreign influence, grandeur--that explain the nation's successes in arms production and transfers.
Originally published in 1987.
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France ranks as the world's third largest arms exporter and supplies arms and military technology to over a hundred countries. This book exposes th...
The expanding interdependencies of the world's diverse and divided populations have created a world society. To rule these fractious peoples, the democracies advance solutions to three imperatives of governance--Order, Welfare, and Legitimacy (OWL). For Order, the democracies institutionalized the global state; for Welfare, a global market system; and for Legitimacy, popular rule, resting on the moral principles of the freedom and equality of all humans. The book develops globalization as the emergence of a global society; presents a theory of governance predicable of all human societies,...
The expanding interdependencies of the world's diverse and divided populations have created a world society. To rule these fractious peoples, the demo...
If the global society is to survive and thrive, the world's populations must determine how they will govern their accumulating interdependencies across all areas of human concern. This book advances a theory of governance for democratic societies, based on the competing power structures of Order, Welfare, and Legitimacy.
If the global society is to survive and thrive, the world's populations must determine how they will govern their accumulating interdependencies acros...
