In The Future of Power, Joseph S. Nye, Jr., a longtime analyst of power and a hands-on practitioner in government, delivers a new power narrative that considers the shifts, innovations, bold technologies, and new relationships that will define the twenty-first century. He shows how power resources are adapting to the digital age and how smart power strategies must include more than a country's …
Longer pieces then started appearing, and more recently books. What almost all of this analysis and imagining revealed was a sense not only that one historical era had ended, but that some- thing of truly epic significance had occurred which would affect the human international political consciousness with the same impact as the dropping of the atomic bombs, the First World War or the Thirty Ye…
Future Search explores a highly successful new many for enabling diverse people with a stake in an organization or community to plan their own future. This event brings a "whole system" into the room to explore participants past, present, and desired future as a back-drop to action planning.
It is based on a large volume of collected data, relying equally on quantitative and qualitative research methodologies to establish approaches for measuring social capital and its impact. The book documents the pervasive role of social capital in accelerating poverty alleviation and rural development, facilitating the provision of goods and services, and easing political transition and recover…
To view his two towns in time, Pare in Indonesia and Sefrou in Morocco, Greetz adopts various perspectives on anthropological research and analysis during the postcolonial period, the Cold War, and the emergence of the new states of Asia and Africa.
It is a rare portrait of a nation-and a leader-in peril, in flux and in the raw.
This book begins by identifying a global problematique, a coin- cidence of four sustained factors: war, insecurity and militarisation; the persistence of poverty; the denial of human rights; environmental destruction. The conventional policy approaches to these problems are analysed through a rigorous critique of the three main United Nations reports of the 1980s, those of the Brandt, Palme and…
This book provides unexpected enlightenment on Ghadafi and Libyan society. Libya, going through total change, forms part of the debates in the world of today, particularly those in the Mediterranean world. With the abolition of the patriarchate, the move from tradition to modernity, the emergence of new social models, the conflicts of roles between the sexes, the society shaped by Ghadafi throu…
Pathologies of Power uses harrowing stories of life and death in extreme situations to interrogate our understanding of human rights. Paul Farmer, a physician and anthropologist with twenty years of experience working in Haiti, Peru, and Russia, argues that promoting the social and economic rights of the world's poor is the most important human rights struggle of our times. With passionate eyew…
Understanding Terror Networks combines Sageman's scrutiny of sources, personal acquaintance with Islamic fundamentalists, deep appreciation of history, and effective application of network theory, modeling, and forensic psychology. Sageman's unique research allows him to go beyond available academic studies, which are light on facts, and journalistic narratives, which are devoid of theory. The …