Unusual political intensity marked the years between the inauguration of John F. Kennedy in 1961 and the resignation of Richard M. Nixon in 1974. As that period began, Americans of substance and stature expressed grave concern about the state of the nation at home and the prestige of the nation abroad. Their anxieties underlay the theme of Kennedy's 1960 campaign his promise to get the country …
In this book, Ross develops a broad theoretical explanation for cross-cultural conflict, claiming that both social-cultural interests and psychocultural dispositions must be taken into account to explain why some societies are especially prone to conflict and others are more peaceful.
This new series publishes theoretically challenging and empirically authoritative studies of the traditions, functions, paradigms and institutions of modern diplomacy. Taking a comparative approach, the New Diplomacy Studies series aims to advance research on international diplomacy, publishing innovative accounts of how 'old' and 'new' diplomats help steer international conduct between anarchy…
Dick DeVos, shows how the values that make America great -the values that shape who we are, how we live, and how we threat others- can be incorporated into our daily lives. DeVos drwas on his experiences as the lead of one of America's most succesful businesses to explore twenty-four basic values from honesty and compassion to initiative and leadership. A book that offers the guidance we need t…
William Gairdner's book will have a special impact on American readers who sometimes get the impression that political-economic treatises that blow down this way from up there are all written by godchildren of John Kenneth Galbraith. Gairdner sees bright and clear what Canada so greatly needs, and his mobilizing passion wonderfully animates an analytical precision that should be the reason for …
With a rallying cry for women to enter politics in greater numbers, Women in Power offers a groundbreaking look at how daughters become leaders. The insights here will inspire women to take power not only in politics but in every area of their personal and professional lives.
The book also explores the role of the ethnographer involved in anthropology and suggests how one can develop an ethnographic praxis to be expressed cooperatively with a community. This exploration and synthesis of both a changing community and the means of interpretation will be of interest to anthropologists, ethnographers, sociologists, and students of political science looking at the effect…
In the first book to investigate the far-reaching emotional impact of globalization, Dominique Moïsi shows how the geopolitics of today is characterized by a “clash of emotions.” The West, he argues, is dominated and divided by fear. For Muslims and Arabs, a culture of humiliation is quickly devolving into a culture of hatred. Asia, on the other hand, has been able to concentrate on buildi…
in the 1990s, the United States faces a rapidly unfolding security environment in the Asia-Pacific area. Its principal features are familiar : the economic dynamism of market economies ; the normalization of relations between China and the Soviet Union , symbolized by Gorbachev's visit to japan.
Structured in four parts, with detailed chapter summaries, Virtual States presents a compact and accessible theoretical and historical introduction to the Internet, its relationship to the developing world, the Internet in relation to the developed world, and the Internet and society. The book also covers issues such as war, censorship and the philosophical implications of hypertext, which is a…