The Budget Deficit and National Debt analyzes and attempts to better understand the problems associated with the debt and deficit. The theme of this book parallels the Miller Center's primary focus on governance and the presidency. The president is a key actor in submitting, approving, and administrating the budget. Therefore, the study of debt and deficit is in keeping with the Miller Center's focus on governance and the presidency. The book is divided into four sections. The first section discusses the debt and deficit from a variety of political perspectives and ideological approaches....
The Budget Deficit and National Debt analyzes and attempts to better understand the problems associated with the debt and deficit. The theme of this b...
This is a study of the most underlying principles and goals that shaped the actions of one of the most influential men of our time. The author traces the genesis and elaboration of Winston Churchill's views from his youth at the fringes of the British Empire through his rise as a politician. Thompson demonstrates the relevance of Churchill's views to the present world situation, and shows the current need for a steady, principled, pragmatic approach to maintaining world peace.
This is a study of the most underlying principles and goals that shaped the actions of one of the most influential men of our time. The author traces ...
Dante Germino's biography of the Italian communist and political theorist Antonio Gramsci offers a major reassessment of this important twentieth-century thinker. Geromino analyzes Gramsci's remarkable life as well as his extensive oeuvre, from the early Turin articles to the meditative Prison Notebooks.
Gramsci saw society as composed of a small but powerful political center and a large body of emarginati -- marginalized people at the periphery of society, who are denied access to traditional positions of power. That vision led Gramsci to concentrate on the significance of the "common man"...
Dante Germino's biography of the Italian communist and political theorist Antonio Gramsci offers a major reassessment of this important twentieth-cent...
In this examination of the Cold War, Kenneth W. Thompson offers a broad yet specific account of its history and its historians. Thompsons aim is to find the best framework for understanding how the Cold War originated, what forces and factors produced it, how Soviet and American policies intensified the conflict, and what alternatives were open to the rivals. He evenhandedly sets forth three competing theories of the Cold War--the orthodox, revisionist, and critical/interpretative views--and reveals how the ideological confines of certain interpretations have made for limited understanding...
In this examination of the Cold War, Kenneth W. Thompson offers a broad yet specific account of its history and its historians. Thompsons aim is to f...
In this informed and comprehensive assessment of current issues in international politics, Kenneth W. Thompson addresses the role that traditions and values play in shaping change and in helping us to understand its implications. He challenges the idea that the enormous changes in contemporary national and international life have rendered the consideration of traditions and values obsolete. Thompson's purpose is to illuminate the problems we face and to set forth general principles directed toward an informing theory on traditions and values as they affect politics and diplomacy, while at the...
In this informed and comprehensive assessment of current issues in international politics, Kenneth W. Thompson addresses the role that traditions and ...
In 'Fathers of International Thought, ' renowned foreign affairs scholar Kenneth W. Thompson returns to the writhings of sixteen thinkers in order better to understand the issues and problems that recurrently beset global politics. This book traces the ideas of earlier philosophers, theologians, and legal and political theorist who provided the foundations for the present century's master thinkers.
In 'Fathers of International Thought, ' renowned foreign affairs scholar Kenneth W. Thompson returns to the writhings of sixteen thinkers in order bet...
Recovering from its initial shock and resulting total absorption in the Watergate political scandal, the United States in the mid-1970s began to address itself to the moral implications of its politics, both national and international. The national concern with political values provided the 1976 presidential and congressional elections with perhaps the single most-discussed issue and continues to influence a generally more scrutinizing approach toward national policy. Are we using the best system of values to examine the nation's political problems? Must we forsake idealism for realism?...
Recovering from its initial shock and resulting total absorption in the Watergate political scandal, the United States in the mid-1970s began to ad...
Joel H. Rosenthal's survey of five noteworthy self-proclaimed political realists explores the realists' overarching commitment to transforming traditional power politics into a form of "responsible power" commensurate with American values.
Joel H. Rosenthal's survey of five noteworthy self-proclaimed political realists explores the realists' overarching commitment to transforming traditi...
Modernity: An Introduction to Modern Societies is a new sociology textbook which provides a comprehensive and stimulating introduction to the history, sociology and ideas of modern society. It has been written for students and readers who have no prior knowledge of sociology, and is designed to be used in a variety of social science courses in universities and colleges.
The book is divided into three parts, corresponding to the formation, consolidation and prospects of modernity. From the start, four major social processes are identified: the social, the cultural, the political,...
Modernity: An Introduction to Modern Societies is a new sociology textbook which provides a comprehensive and stimulating introduction to the history,...
