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42 produkter
Constructing National Interests
The United States and the Cuban Missile Crisis
Av Jutta Weldes
Häftad, 1999
287 kr
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Not simply an “event” or merely an “incident,” the 1962 standoff between the U. S. and the Soviet Union over missiles in Cuba was a crisis, which subsequently has achieved almost mythic significance in the annals of United States foreign policy. Jutta Weldes asks why this occurrence in particular …
Toward a Global Idea of Race
Häftad, 2007
316 kr
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In this far-ranging and penetrating work, Denise Ferreira da Silva asks why, after more than five hundred years of violence perpetrated by Europeans against people of color, is there no ethical outrage? Rejecting the prevailing view that social categories of difference such as race and culture …
Critical Geopolitics
The Politics of Writing Global Space
Häftad, 1996
287 kr
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In this text, the author uses concepts of mapping and space to challenge traditional geo-political assumptions. He delivers a deconstructive critique of various 20th-century attempts to impose grand geo-political visions on the spinning surface of global affairs.
Sovereigns, Quasi Sovereigns, and Africans
Race and Self-Determination in International Law
Häftad, 1996
558 kr
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Sovereigns, Quasi Sovereigns, and Africans was first published in 1996. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.In this trenchant critique, Siba …
Ethos of Pluralization
Häftad, 1995
316 kr
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A skeptical examination of the inclusiveness of pluralism.How plural, really, is pluralism today? In this book a prominent political theorist reworks the traditional pluralist imagination, rendering it more inclusive and responsive to new drives to pluralization. Traditional pluralism, William E. …
On the Way to Diplomacy
Häftad, 1996
287 kr
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A deconstruction of the idea of diplomacy that explores the links between its theory and practice.What does theory have to do with the concept-let alone the practice-of diplomacy? More than we might think, as Costas M. Constantinou amply demonstrates in this ambitious reconsideration of both the …
Imperial Encounters
The Politics of Representation in North-South Relations
Av Roxanne Doty
Häftad, 1996
273 kr
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Offers a fresh perspective on power relationships in global politics.“Developed/underdeveloped,” “first world/third world,” “modern/traditional”-although there is nothing inevitable, natural, or arguably even useful about such divisions, they are widely accepted as legitimate ways to categorize …
Oh, Say, Can You See
The Semiotics of the Military in Hawai'i
Häftad, 1998
302 kr
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Considers what the military presence in Hawai’i tells us about colonialism, gender, race, and class.Everywhere you look in Hawai’i, you might see the military. And yet, in daily life few residents see the military at all-it is hidden in plain sight. This paradox of invisibility and visibility, of …
Uses of the Other
"the East" in European Identity Formation
Häftad, 1998
311 kr
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Examines identity politics in the context of international relations.The field of international relations has recently witnessed a tremendous growth of interest in the theme of identity and its formation, construction, and deconstruction. In Uses of the Other, Iver B. Neumann demonstrates how …
States and Strangers
Refugees and Displacements of Statecraft
Av Nevzat Soguk
Häftad, 1999
264 kr
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Looks at the role of refugees in international relations.Refugees may flee their country, but can they escape the confining, defining logic of all the voices that speak for them? As refugees multiply in our troubled world, more and more scholars, studies, and pundits focus on their plight. Most of …
In the Space of Theory
Postfoundational Geographies of the Nation-State
Häftad, 2005
288 kr
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How is the meaning of the hyphen in "nation-state" changing in the context of globalization and proliferating political struggles? How can we investigate the transformation of the nation-state by marking the normally unmarked hyphen in "geo-graphy"? Debunking deterritorialization both as a …
Postcolonial Insecurities
India, Sri Lanka, and the Question of Nationhood
Häftad, 1999
302 kr
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An exploration of the connections between ethnicity and nation-building.This ambitious work explores the vexed connections among nation-building, ethnic identity, and regional conflict by focusing on a specific event: Indian political and military intervention in the ethnic conflict between the …
Managing Displacement
Refugees and the Politics of Humanitarianism
Häftad, 2000
287 kr
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An insider’s analysis of worldwide refugee operations.Media images of people whose lives are destroyed by international and civil conflicts have long engaged our imaginations and emotions. But what happens to these refugees after displacement, and who takes on the responsibility of reconstructing …
Whose Hunger?
Concepts of Famine, Practices of Aid
Av Jenny Edkins
Häftad, 2008
302 kr
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An analytical look at the ways we define and respond to famine.We see famine and look for the likely causes: poor food distribution, unstable regimes, caprices of weather. A technical problem, we tell ourselves, one that modern social and natural science will someday resolve. Jenny Edkins responds …
Identities, Borders, Orders
Rethinking International Relations Theory
Häftad, 2001
302 kr
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An interdisciplinary exploration of the role of sovereignty, national identity, and borders in international politics.Political ScienceAn interdisciplinary exploration of the role of sovereignty, national identity, and borders in international politics.Informed by current debates in social theory, …
Environmental Security
Av Simon Dalby
Häftad, 2002
302 kr
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A critical look at the relationship between environmental degradation and international relations.Since the end of the Cold War, environmental matters-especially the international implications of environmental degradation-have figured prominently in debates about rethinking security. But do the …
Contingent States
Greater China and Transnational Relations
Häftad, 2004
287 kr
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In the 1990s, Greater China became the subject of debate as the site of either the danger of the "China threat" or the promise of Confucian capitalism. William A. Callahan argues that Greater China presents challenges not only to economic and political order but also to international relations …
Virtue, Fortune, and Faith
A Genealogy of Finance
Häftad, 2005
323 kr
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Less than two centuries ago finance - today viewed as the center of economic necessity and epitome of scientific respectability - stood condemned as disreputable fraud. How this change in status came about, and what it reveals about the nature of finance, is the story told in Virtue, Fortune, and …
Divided Korea
Toward a Culture of Reconciliation
Häftad, 2008
282 kr
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In 2002, North Korea precipitated a major international crisis when it revealed the existence of a secret nuclear weapons program and announced its withdrawal from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. Earlier in the year, George W. Bush had declared North Korea part of the “axis of evil,” and soon …
Geopolitical Exotica
Tibet in Western Imagination
Häftad, 2008
302 kr
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Geopolitical Exotica examines exoticized Western representations of Tibet and Tibetans and the debate over that land’s status with regard to China. Concentrating on specific cultural images of the twentieth century-promulgated by novels, popular films, travelogues, and memoirs-Dibyesh Anand lays …
Subject of Coexistence
Otherness in International Relations
Häftad, 2007
288 kr
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In this pioneering book, Louiza Odysseos argues that debates about ethnic conflict, human rights, and the viability of multicultural communities all revolve around the question of coexistence. Yet, issues of coexistence have not been adequately addressed by international relations. Instead of being …
Borderscapes
Hidden Geographies and Politics at Territory's Edge
Av Prem Kumar Rajaram, Carl Grundy-Warr
Häftad, 2007
302 kr
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Connecting critical issues of state sovereignty with empirical concerns, Borderscapes interrogates the limits of political space. The essays in this volume analyze everyday procedures, such as the classifying of migrants and refugees, security in European and American detention centers, and the DNA …
Fluid Bodies and Bodily Fluids in Premodern Europe
Bodies, Blood, and Tears in Literature, Theology, and Art
Av Anne M. Scott, Michael David Barbezat
Inbunden, 2019
2091 kr
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For medieval and early modern thinkers, the apparent solidity of the body only came about through the dynamic interplay of a host of fluidities in constant flux. This interdisciplinary collection of essays, containing chapters from specialists in history, art history, medical history, and …
Writing Old Age and Impairments in Late Medieval England
Av Will Rogers
Inbunden, 2021
2178 kr
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The old speaker in Middle English literature often claims to be impaired because of age. This admission is often followed by narratives that directly contradict it, as speakers, such as the Reeve in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales or Amans in Gower's Confessio Amantis, proceed to perform even as they …
Volcanoes in Old Norse Mythology
Myth and Environment in Early Iceland
Inbunden, 2021
1950 kr
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Volcanoes in Old Norse Mythology details how Viking Age Icelanders, migrating from Scandinavia to a new and volcanically active environment, used Old Norse mythology to understand and negotiate the hazards of the island. These pre-Christian myths recorded in medieval Iceland expound an indigenous …
John Miles Foley's World of Oralities
Text, Tradition, and Contemporary Oral Theory
Inbunden, 2020
2305 kr
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This collection brings together newly commissioned and cutting-edge essays on oral text and tradition ranging from the ancient and medieval world to the present day by a leading group of European and North American oral theorists. Using a range of materials including the Bible, Greek epic, Beowulf, …
Milton’s Scriptural Theology
Confronting De Doctrina Christiana
Av John K. Hale
Inbunden, 2019
2178 kr
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Milton spoke of De Doctrina as “my best and most precious possession” (haec, quibus nihil melius aut pretiosius habeo). In this book, John K. Hale confronts De Doctrina as Milton’s “best”, and in many senses personal, contribution to theology. Its theology is distinctive in several unorthodoxies, …
Icelandic Folklore and the Cultural Memory of Religious Change
Inbunden, 2021
2178 kr
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Iceland’s uncommon proclivity towards storytelling, its robust tradition of medieval manuscripts, and the “re-oralization” of those narratives after the medieval period, create a body of folktales and legends that have encoded a hidden account of how orthodox and heterodox beliefs (sometimes pagan …
John Miles Foley's World of Oralities
Text, Tradition, and Contemporary Oral Theory
Häftad, 2021
532 kr
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This collection brings together newly commissioned and cutting-edge essays on oral text and tradition ranging from the ancient and medieval world to the present day by a leading group of European and North American oral theorists. Using a range of materials including the Bible, Greek epic, Beowulf, …
Icelandic Folklore and the Cultural Memory of Religious Change
Häftad, 2021
525 kr
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Iceland’s uncommon proclivity towards storytelling, its robust tradition of medieval manuscripts, and the “re-oralization” of those narratives after the medieval period, create a body of folktales and legends that have encoded a hidden account of how orthodox and heterodox beliefs (sometimes pagan …
