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The Present as History: Critical Perspectives on Global Power
by Nermeen ShaikhThe Present as History is a rare opportunity to hear world-renowned scholars speak on the new imperialism, feminism and human rights, secularism and Islam, post-colonialism, and the global economy. They treat the United States as an object to be historically and politically interrogated rather than as the norm from which all else is to be evaluated and assess the Third World through its history of colonialism and neocolonialism rather than focusing on issues of culture and morality. Amartya Sen discusses the shortcomings of the development agenda as it was conceived at the close of the Second World War, while Joseph Stiglitz explains economic globalization and the power of the International Monetary Fund in guiding its trajectory. Sanjay Reddy argues that global poverty estimates are flawed, and Helena Norberg-Hodge uses her experience in Tibet to lay bare the problems with development practice. Political scientists Partha Chatterjee, Mahmood Mamdani, and Anatol Lieven chart the growth of hegemonic power from the colonial to the postcolonial period. Chatterjee examines the enduring effects of colonial administrative and governing practices, while Mamdani, focusing on the present global dispensation, explains the growth of terrorist movements around the world in the context of the Cold War. Lieven looks at the different strains of American nationalism and the continuities and ruptures between nineteenth-century empires and the present one. Iranian human rights lawyer Shirin Ebadi elaborates the relationship between Islam, democracy, and human rights while anthropologists Lila Abu-Lughod and Saba Mahmood respectively trace the historical use of women as an excuse for imperial intervention and discuss the relationship between liberalism, Islam, and secularism. Literary theorist and cultural critic Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak looks at the legacy of colonialism in the domain of language and education, and isolates the problems associated with human rights discourse and practice.In conclusion, Talal Asad traces the genealogy of the term secularism, the special place of Islam within it, and its relationship to modernity. Gil Anidjar considers the distinction between religion and politics and elaborates the historical links between secularism and Christianity. Taken together, these interviews offer a valuable understanding of world history and a corrective to predominant conventional discourses on global power and justice.
Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department
by Dean AchesonIn these memoirs by the former Secretary of State, Dean Acheson sees himself as having been "present at the creation" of the American century. Acheson's policies were praised by many and damned by others, including Joseph McCarthy.<P><P> Pulitzer Prize Winner
Present at the Transition: An Inside Look at the Role of History, Politics, and Personalities in Post-Communist Countries
by Oleh HavrylyshynNearly thirty years after the fall of the Soviet Union, debates over paths to market liberalization have produced numerous studies across the social sciences. This groundbreaking work from Oleh Havrylyshyn offers a new perspective. Havrylyshyn, a former official in the post-independence Ukrainian government, provides a unique, primary source account of the people and problems at the heart of economic transitions. Grounded in three decades of data, along with experiential research gleaned from nearly thirty countries, this book contains the most up-to-date assessment of economic transitions in post-communist regions. It critically examines questions of gradual versus radical reforms, the relationship between democracy and market liberalization, and how history, individual personalities, and foreign influence determined political choices. Thorough research and accessible style make this work a valuable resource for students and specialists of economics, political science, and history as well as readers generally interested in international studies, government, and business.
Present Dangers
by Robert Kagan William KristolThis original collection of essays offers hope to those who believe that the cause of world peace requires a new American foreign policy and repairing our depleted military. The twelve contributors to this book show why America must take another look at our possible adversaries and real strategic partners. Present Dangers offers practical strategies for policymakers eager to disarm adversaries like North Korea and Iraq and head off the terrorist threat. Intellectuals, historians and policy-makers such as James Ceasar, Ross Munro, Peter Rodman, Richard Perle, Reuel Marc Gerecht, Nicholas Eberstadt, Jeffrey Gedmin, Aaron Friedberg, Elliott Abrams, Frederick Kagan, Willliam Schneider, William Bennett, Paul Wolfowitz, and Donald Kagan all challenge America to make sure that foreign affairs, a sleeping issue for the last eight years, gets a wake-up call in election year 2000. Table of contents, notes, bibliographic essay.
Present-Day Corporate Communication: A Practice-Oriented, State-of-the-Art Guide
by Rudolf BegerThis book serves as an easy-to-read, up-to-date practical guide on professional corporate communication. The key market for this book is the Asia-Pacific region, mainly because there is a gap in know-how in corporate communication among many industry sectors. In addition, at present, one cannot find a lot of educational literature about corporate communication in the market. Therefore, this guidebook closes that gap. In Asia, companies are starting to realize the importance of corporate communication in all areas (external and internal corporate communication, crisis communication (Example: TEPCO) and political communication / government relations / lobbying). This is triggered not only by the recent high profile and success of targeted (political) communication in the USA, but also by the notorious export-orientation of many Asian companies and their increasingly multi-national orientation (fostered by M&A and foreign investments). In addition, the increasing importance of online communication and digital/social media is an important reason why existing guidebooks on corporate communication have to be reassessed and modernized. This book focuses on all major aspects of modern corporate communication, including online / digital communication, and covers new developments, such as “fake news”, “post-truths”, “political correctness”, “the art of bridging” and other new phenomena in the world of (corporate) communication. Simple cartoon-style drawings supplement the text in order to facilitate reading and learning. Corporate communication professional, as well as students and professors in business/management programs, will be given tools to effectively and successfully plan and implement corporate communication strategies and tactics in all major areas.
A Present of Things Past: Selected Essays
by Theodore DraperTheodore Draper is one of America's most trenchant and informed critics. A Present of Things Past gathers together ten of his most recent and most powerful selected essays, in which Draper, with his customary acuity and wit, tackles a host of issues that define America's political culture. A Present of Things Past is concerned with a reexamination of the Second World War in both its military and its political aspects; the trajectory of American conservatism as it manifested itself during the Reagan years; the rise of Gorbachev and the history of "reform" in the Soviet Union; the revisionist debate over the origins and history of American communism; and the persistent mystery of a man named Max Eitingon, who was, depending on one's reading of the sources, either an important figure in the history of psychoanalysis or an agent of the Soviet secret police, or both. In "American Hubris," Draper illuminates the assumptions that have guided American foreign policy in the postwar period, and concludes that our costly misadventures--in Korea, Vietnam, Lebanon, and elsewhere--cannot be considered a string of aberrations. They were, he argues, a consequence of the Truman Doctrine. In "Reagan's Junta," Draper observes: "This is supposed to have been the era of the imperial presidency. It has turned out to be the era of presidencies that have tried to make themselves imperial-and failed." Throughout these compelling essays, Draper demonstrates the uses and abuses to which history has been put by ideologues of both the left and the right. He finds unacceptable, for example, the practice of many journalists of fictionalizing their sources. The New York Times has called Draper "one of the clearer-eyed observers of the issues that torment us." A Present of Things Past enhances that reputation.
The Present Politics of the Past: Indigenous Legal Activism and Resistance to (Neo)Liberal Governmentality (Indigenous Peoples and Politics)
by Seán Patrick EudailyThis work applies Jacques Derrida's framework of "spectropolitics" to (post)coloniality in order to investigate the emergence of indigenous peoples' movements, advances a poststructural approach to the analysis of liberal politics based upon the historical sociology of Michel Foucault, and critically engages the literatures on ethnic politics, critical legal studies, and multicultural democracy. In addition, two historical case dossiers (the Mabo v. Queensland decision and its aftermath in Australia; and the diverse legal strategies of First Nations activism in Canada following the Delgamuukw v. B.C. decision) focus on the "strategic space" in which new indigenous political identities are produced and performed.
The Present State of Russia Vol. 1 (Routledge Revivals)
by Friedrich Christian WeberOriginally published in 1722-23, this edition in 1968. "An account of the Government of that country, both civil and ecclesiastical; of the Czar's forces by sea and land, the regulation of his finances, the several methods he made use of to civilize his people and improve the country, his transactions with several Eastern Princes, and what happened most remarkable at his court, particularly in relation to the late Czarewitz, from the year 1714, to 1720. The whole being the journal of a foreign minister who resided in Russia at that time. With a description of Petersbourg and Cronslot, and several other pieces relating to the affairs of Russia."
The Present State of Russia Vol. 2 (Routledge Revivals)
by Friedrich Christian WeberPublished in 1968, this second volume embarks on the journeys of Laurence Lang, and Le Brun through Russia and other countries. Weber also delves into the criminal proceedings against the late czarewitz, the justification of the Swedish war against Russia and many more topics involving the politics and government of Russia as a country through European eyes.
Present Values: Essays on Economics and Aspects of Indian Society
by S. SubramanianThis volume is about economists, economics, and issues of concern to Indian society. Some essays are expository, and some satirical. Together, they offer a commentary on the state of the discipline of economics today and on aspects of contemporary India’s society and polity. The volume affords insights into, among other things, - the pervasive influence of economists such as Kenneth Arrow and Anthony Atkinson, and thinkers such as Tom Paine, Jonathan Swift, and Dadabhai Naoroji; - the place of markets and game theory (and even crime fiction!) in present-day economics; - the affectations and convoluted mathematisation of a good deal of ‘mainstream’ economics; and - India’s recent political climate, and the conduct of various arms of the legislature, the executive, and the judiciary in the country. Engaging and lucidly written, this volume should be of interest to scholars of economics, political science, development studies, South Asian studies, and, above all, the general reader.
Presente!: Latin@ Immigrant Voices in the Struggle for Racial Justice / Voces Inmigranted Latinas en la Lucha por la Justicia Racial
by Juan González Carlos Pérez de Alejo Arnulfo Manríquez Cristina TzintzúnRead the media coverage of the increasingly heated debate around immigration reform in the United States: two dominant narratives emerge. From Lou Dobbs to Sean Hannity, commentators on the right have crafted an image rooted in fear, demonizing undocumented immigrants as a threat to national security and raising the specter of a deliberate "browning of America." Left-leaning journalists, on the other hand, foreground victimization, emphasizing the plight of immigrants, stripping them of their agency. Neither captures the range of experiences within undocumented immigrant communities, and both fail to see immigrants as active participants in their own struggle for racial and economic justice.Presente! offers a rare perspective on the immigrant-rights movement, written by immigrant workers themselves. Including a range of essays exploring the intersection of race, class, and immigration in the United States, this anthology challenges its readers to move beyond a "legalization-only" framework and embrace a broader vision for social justice organizing embodied in the work of grassroots organizations across the country resisting state repression, cultivating solidarity, and building alternative models for progressive social change. Offered in a dual-language edition, with a foreword by Democracy Now! co-host Juan Gonzáles.Cristina Tzintzún is the executive director of Workers Defense Project, a Texas based workers' rights organization.Carlos Pérez de Alejo is the executive director of Cooperation Texas, an organization dedicated to the creation of sustainable jobs through the development, support, and promotion of worker-owned cooperatives.Arnulfo Manríquez is an organizer at Workers Defense Project, where he organizes immigrant construction workers to defend their labor and human rights.
Preservation and National Belonging in Eastern Germany
by Jason JamesDrawing on cultural anthropology and cultural studies, this book sheds new light on the everyday politics of heritage and memory by illuminating local, everyday engagements with Germanness through heritage fetishism, claims to hometown belonging, and the performative appropriation of cultural property.
Preservation and Reuse Design for Fragile Territories’ Settlements: The Anipemza Project (SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology)
by Francesco Augelli Matteo Rigamonti Paola Bertò Alessandro MarconeThis book reports on an architectural conservation and reuse project in Anipemza, an Armenian Soviet-era village on the Turkish border, just a few steps away from the important Yererouyk archaeological site. Based on current tourist trends, the book suggests the development of a social system and micro-economic reactivation model to endorse the territory’s numerous cultural resources and preserve the memory of the village that housed the genocide orphanages and the many other stories associated with the village. Further, the development of sustainable tourism will lead to an improved relationship between locals and visitors. Examining the development of a system of strategies able to cope with the existing social, economic and hygiene problems as well as the architectural preservation aims, the book provides valuable guidelines for the local community.
Preserve and Protect (Advise and Consent #4)
by Allen DruryDrury describes the chaos that overtakes America and the world with the suspicious death of the President just after his renomination. His death leaves the incumbent party without a candidate or a clear-cut way of selecting one. Against a backdrop of national and international chaos, Drury examines the motives and ambitions of a now-famous gallery of political characters. As the novel moves to its dramatic climax, the question of what candidate will be nominated by what groups keeps the future of America and the world hanging in the balance.
Preserve and Protect (Advise and Consent)
by Allen DruryPart of the saga begun with the Pulitzer Prize–winning, #1 New York Times bestseller, &“one of the finest and most gripping political novels of our era&”(The New York Times). The United States is thrown into chaos as the President is killed in a plane crash shortly after securing his party&’s nomination in a hotly contested race for re-election. As suspicions are cast upon the circumstances of the plane crash, the incumbent party quickly convenes to nominate a candidate in a storm of domestic and international chaos. Against the backdrop of a rich cast of characters, the motivations and drives of each candidate and player help shape the future of the nation and the world. Praise for Advise and Consent: "Fifty years after its publication and astounding success . . . Allen Drury&’s novel remains the definitive Washington tale. —The Wall Street Journal
Preserving Memory: The Struggle to Create America's Holocaust Museum
by Edward T. LinenthalSince its first year in 1993, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has attracted more than 15 millino visitors, sometimes at the rate of 10,000 a day, each of whom has walked away with an indelible impression of awe in the face of the unimaginable. This lively, honest, behind-the-scenes account details the emotionally complex fifteen-year struggle surrounding the museum's birth.
Preserving Neighborhoods: How Urban Policy and Community Strategy Shape Baltimore and Brooklyn
by Aaron PassellHistoric preservation is typically regarded as an elitist practice. In this view, designating a neighborhood as historic is a project by and for affluent residents concerned with aesthetics, not affordability. It leads to gentrification and rising property values for wealthy homeowners, while displacement afflicts longer-term, lower-income residents of the neighborhood, often people of color.Through rich case studies of Baltimore and Brooklyn, Aaron Passell complicates this story, exploring how community activists and local governments use historic preservation to accelerate or slow down neighborhood change. He argues that this form of regulation is one of the few remaining urban policy interventions that enable communities to exercise some control over the changing built environments of their neighborhoods. In Baltimore, it is part of a primarily top-down strategy for channeling investment into historic neighborhoods, many of them plagued by vacancy and abandonment. In central Brooklyn, neighborhood groups have discovered the utility of landmark district designation as they seek to mitigate rapid change with whatever legal tools they can. The contrast between Baltimore and Brooklyn reveals that the relationship between historic preservation and neighborhood change varies not only from city to city, but even from neighborhood to neighborhood. In speaking with local activists, Passell finds that historic district designation and enforcement efforts can be a part of neighborhood community building and bottom-up revitalization.Featuring compelling narrative interviews alongside quantitative data, Preserving Neighborhoods is a nuanced mixed-methods study of an important local-level urban policy and its surprisingly varied consequences.
Preserving the Saudi Monarchy: Political Pragmatism in Saudi Arabia, c.1973-1979
by Samuel E. WillnerThis book provides a new perspective on the study of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and its monarchy – its political leadership and decisions. Moreover, it analyzes how that decision-making evolved before, during, and after the Arab–Israeli War of 1973, and the subsequent Arab oil embargo that followed; the run-up to and aftermath of the 1975 murder of King Faysal; discussions over the oil weapon; and Saudi responses to the Carter presidency in the United States. Through the prism of tribal decision-making, this book sheds new light on a number of important political events, which have shaped the political leadership in Saudi Arabia, and explores the behind-the-scenes workings of the Saudi royal family.
Preserving the Sixties
by Trevor Harris Monia O�brien CastroIt is often claimed that the Sixties in Britain were dominated mainly by 'youth' and 'protest'. True, the desire to escape outmoded social, moral and artistic conventions was illustrated in a rich, provocative cultural production, as well as through a number of radical social and political movements or reforms. However, as this collection argues, innovation was everywhere shadowed by conservatism. A decade fascinated by itself and, especially, by the future, was tormented by self-doubt and accompanied by a fear of losing the past. Ultimately the 'radicalism' of the Sixties in Britain is also visible in its conservatism, in the spectacular, novel ways in which the decade expressed and absorbed the new, yet preserved the old. Rather than pitting radical against conservative, the authors' interpretation of the Sixties may well gain by attempting to see how these two apparently antagonistic qualities in fact represent opposite sides of the same problem.
Preserving the White Man's Republic: Jacksonian Democracy, Race, and the Transformation of American Conservatism (A Nation Divided)
by Joshua A. LynnIn Preserving the White Man’s Republic, Joshua Lynn reveals how the national Democratic Party rebranded majoritarian democracy and liberal individualism as conservative means for white men in the South and North to preserve their mastery on the eve of the Civil War.Responding to fears of African American and female political agency, Democrats in the late 1840s and 1850s reinvented themselves as "conservatives" and repurposed Jacksonian Democracy as a tool for local majorities of white men to police racial and gender boundaries by democratically withholding rights. With the policy of "popular sovereignty," Democrats left slavery’s expansion to white men’s democratic decision-making. They also promised white men local democracy and individual autonomy regarding temperance, religion, and nativism. Translating white men’s household mastery into political power over all women and Americans of color, Democrats united white men nationwide and made democracy a conservative assertion of white manhood.Democrats thereby turned traditional Jacksonian principles—grassroots democracy, liberal individualism, and anti-statism—into staples of conservatism. As Lynn’s book shows, this movement sent conservatism on a new, populist trajectory, one in which democracy can be called upon to legitimize inequality and hierarchy, a uniquely American conservatism that endures in our republic today.
Presidencia comprada
by Jesús Ramírez Cuevas"La elección presidencial de 2012 en México se definió por una diferencia de poco más de 3 millones 200 mil votos. En una democracia verdadera ese resultado sería contundente e inobjetable, pero en nuestro país se trata de una cifra engañosa. Si nos atenemos a los hechos y a los datos disponibles sobre el proceso electoral, podemos afirmar que estuvo marcado por la inequidad en los medios de comunicación, por una avasalladora campaña publicitaria, por el uso incuantificable de dinero público y privado -y se presume que también de origen ilícito- que favoreció al candidato del Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) Enrique Peña Nieto, quien resultó electo." En este trabajo se exponen, de manera sucinta, los hechos, pruebas y argumentos que han llevado a cuestionar esta elección. Con datos y testimonios, el autor expone temas como el papel de las encuestadoras y la inequidad en los medios de comunicación; el rebase de los topes de gastos de la avasalladora campaña publicitaria del PRI; la triangulación de fondos mediante empresas "fantasma" vía Banca Monex; la compra y coacción de votos en zonas pobres del campo y de la ciudad, a través de despensas y tarjetas de la tienda Soriana pagadas con dinero público; el papel de Televisa en apoyo al candidato ganador Enrique Peña Nieto y los beneficios económicos y políticos que ha obtenido. En ese contexto, el autor afirma que no es exagerado decir que en los pasados comicios la Presidencia de México fue comprada.
Los presidenciables: Los hombres y las mujeres que aspiran a liderar el país
by La Silla Vacía¿QUIÉNES SON LOS PERSONAJES QUE DEFINIRÁN EL PANORAMA POLÍTICO DE COLOMBIA EN LOS PRÓXIMOS AÑOS? ESTAS SON SUS HISTORIAS. David Barguil Íngrid Betancourt Sergio Fajardo Juan Manuel Galán Alejandro Gaviria Federico Gutiérrez Rodolfo Hernández Francia Márquez Enrique Peñalosa Gustavo Petro John Milton Rodríguez Óscar Iván Zuluaga
Los presidenciables
by Jorge RamosPrimer libro de entrevistas a los aspirantes a la presidencia de la República en 2012, escrito, por un comunicador mexicano, líder de opinión en la comunidad hispana de Estados Unidos, famoso por sus inteligentes e incisivas preguntas a nuestros políticos. No hay pregunta prohibida. A partir de esta premisa rebelde, Jorge Ramos, uno de los periodistas mexicanos de mayor credibilidad en todo el mundo, ha entrevistado a los principales aspirantes a la presidencia de México para las elecciones de 2012. Ellos sabían que la entrevista no sería fácil y que incluiría varias preguntas incómodas. Sin embargo, todos hablaron con él: Enrique Peña Nieto, Manlio Fabio Beltrones, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Marcelo Ebrard, Santiago Creel y Josefina Vázquez Mota. He aquí algunas de las preguntas que les hizo: ¿Por qué parecía no saber de qué murió su esposa? ¿Por qué The New York Times lo acusó de colaborar con narcotraficantes? ¿Le afectará para llegar a Los Pinos el hecho de que muchos mexicanos lo consideren un mal perdedor? ¿Se puede ser católico y aceptar el aborto? ¿Qué pasó con el cambio que nos prometió el PAN? ¿Por qué México no ha tenido una presidenta? Y a todos: ¿Se debe negociar con los narcos? ¿Cuánto dinero tiene?... y muchas otras interrogantes difíciles y hasta enojosas. Para contextualizar la realidad política donde se mueven los presidenciables y con ellos millones de votantes, Ramos también incluye entrevistas con los ex presidentes Ernesto Zedillo, Carlos Salinas de Gortari y Vicente Fox, en las cuales les hizo otras preguntas incómodas: ¿Si dice ser demócrata por qué aceptó dos dedazos? ¿Por qué permitió que Raúl se enriqueciera? ¿Toma Prozac? Y eso sólo para empezar. Por último, Jorge Ramos reproduce otra esclarecedora entrevista con Felipe Calderón antes de ser presidente; sus respuestas permiten contrastar lo que prometió como candidato frente a lo que ha hecho con el país. Éste es el libro que todo mexicano y todo candidato debe leer antes de las votaciones de julio de 2012. Mientras más conozcamos de los presidenciables más sabremos cómo gobernará el próximo presidente de México. Se trata de un ejercicio esencial para el país. Aquí confluyen el futuro, el pasado y el presente. Aquí conoceremos a quienes quieren gobernar a México, a los que ya lo hicieron y a quien todavía lo está haciendo.
Los presidenciables
by Jorge Ramos"El libro que todo mexicano debe leer antes de las votaciones de julio de 2012. No hay pregunta prohibida." A partir de esta premisa rebelde, Jorge Ramos, uno de los periodistas mexicanos de mayor credibilidad en todo elmundo, ha entrevistado a los principales aspirantes a la presidencia de México para las elecciones de 2012. Ellos sabían que la entrevista no sería fácil y que incluiría varias preguntas incómodas. Sin embargo, todos hablaron con él: Enrique Peña Nieto, Manlio Fabio Beltrones, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Marcelo Ebrard, Santiago Creel y Josefina Vázquez Mota. He aquí algunas de las preguntas que les hizo: ¿Por qué parecía no saber de qué murió su esposa? ¿Por qué The New Yok Times lo acusó de colaborar con narcotraficantes? ¿Le afectará para llegar a Los Pinos el hecho de que muchos mexicanos lo consideren un mal perdedor? ¿Se puede ser católico y aceptar el aborto? ¿Qué pasó con el cambio que nos prometió el PAN? ¿Por qué México no ha tenido una presidenta? Y a todos: ¿Se debe negociar con los narcos? ¿Cuánto dinero tiene?... y muchas otras interrogantes difíciles y hasta enojosas. Para contextualizar la realidad política donde se mueven los presidenciables y con ellos millones de votantes, Ramos también incluye entrevistas con los ex presidentes Ernesto Zedillo, Carlos Salinas de Gortari y Vicente Fox, en las cuales les hizo otras preguntas incómodas:¿Si dice ser demócrata por qué aceptó dos dedazos? ¿Por qué permitió que Raúl se enriqueciera? ¿Toma Prozac? Y eso sólo para empezar. Por último, Jorge Ramos reproduce otra esclarecedora entrevista con Felipe Calderón antes de ser presidente; sus respuestas permiten contrastar lo que prometió como candidato frente a lo que ha hecho con el país. Éste es el libro que todo mexicano y todo candidato debe leer antes de las votaciones de julio de 2012. Mientras más conozcamos de los presidenciables más sabremos cómo gobernará el próximo presidente de México. Se trata de un ejercicio esencial para el país. Aquí confluyen el futuro, el pasado y el presente. Aquí conoceremos a quienes quieren gobernar a México, a los que ya lo hicieron y a quien todavía lo está haciendo.
The Presidency: Into the Third Century
by Richard Bernstein Jerome AgelReview of the Presidency at the time of the Nation's Bicentennial.