Nationalism Reframed or Essentials of International Relations

Nationalism Reframed: Nationhood and the National Question Reframed in the New Europe

Author: Rogers Brubaker

Nationalism Reframed is a theoretically and historically informed study of nationalism in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Rogers Brubaker develops an original account of the interlocking and opposed nationalisms of national minorities, the nationalizing states in which they live, and the external national homelands to which they are linked by external ties. He then analyzes contemporary nationalisms in historical and comparative perspective, tracing the parallels between the Eastern European nationalisms of today and those of the interwar period.

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Essentials of International Relations

Author: Karen A Mingst

Essentials of International Relations, available in a Third Edition, is widely recognized for its concise, lucid coverage of the fundamental topics of international political theory. Taking a balanced view of major theoretical approaches to international politics-including liberalism and realism, as well as Marxism, feminism, and constructivism-Professor Mingst provides the analytical tools students need to understand world political affairs at the individual, state, and international system levels. The Third Edition has been thoroughly updated and revised to reflect recent global developments, and its brief format affords instructors the flexibility of customizing their curriculum using supplementary readings from the Norton Series in World Politics or other books. Concise but comprehensive, sophisticated yet accessible, Essentials of International Relations remains the premier-and most affordable-brief text in this dynamic field.

Table of Contents:

	List of Maps	xi
	Preface	xiii
1	Approaches to International Relations
	International Relations in Daily Life	1
	Thinking Theoretically	3
	Developing the Answers	4
	Integrating the Answers	11
	In Sum: Making Sense of International Relations	13
	Where Do We Go from Here?	14
2	The Historical Context of Contemporary International Relations
	The Pre-Westphalian World	18
	The Emergence of the Westphalian System	25
	Europe in the Nineteenth Century	28
	The Interwar Years and World War II	35
	The Cold War	38
	The Post-Cold War Era	49
	In Sum: Learning from History	53
3	Contending Perspectives: How to Think about International Relations Theoretically
	Thinking Theoretically	55
	Theory and the Levels of Analysis	59
	Liberalism and Neoliberal Institutionalism	62
	Realism and Neorealism	65
	The Radical Perspective	71
	Constructivism	74
	Theory in Action: Analyzing the 1991 Gulf War and the 2003 Iraq War	76
	In Sum: Seeing the World through Theoretical Lenses	80
4	The International System
	The Notion of a System	83
	The International System according to Liberals	84
	The International System according to Realists	86
	The International System according to Radicals	95
	Advantages and Disadvantages of the International System as a Level of Analysis	96
	In Sum: From the International System to the State	99
5	The State
	The State and the Nation	101
	Contending Conceptualizations of the State	103
	The Nature of State Power	108
	Using State Power	112
	Models of Foreign-Policy Decisionmaking	121
	Challenges to the State	128
	In Sum: The State and Challenges Beyond	133
6	The Individual
	Foreign-Policy Elites: Individuals Who Matter	137
	Private Individuals	147
	Mass Publics	150
	In Sum: How Much Do Individuals Matter?	155
7	Intergovernmental Organizations, Nongovernmental Organizations, and International Law
	Intergovernmental Organizations	159
	Nongovernmental Organizations	180
	International Law	185
	Realist Views of International Organization and Law	191
	The Radical View of International Organization and Law	192
	In Sum: Do Intergovernmental Organizations, Nongovernmental Organizations, and International Law Make a Difference?	194
8	War and Strife
	The Causes of War	198
	The Changing Character of Warfare and Its Instruments	208
	The Just War Tradition	217
	Approaches to Managing Insecurity	218
	Other Threats to International Security	228
	In Sum: International Security, Old and New	229
9	International Political Economy
	Contending Theoretical Approaches	235
	Key Concepts in Liberal Economics	242
	Power, Competition, and Development in the International Political Economy	244
	The Role of Institutions in Managing Power, Competition, and Development	256
	In Sum: Economic Convergence and Divergence	269
10	Globalizing Issues
	Health and Disease--Protecting Life in the Commons	274
	The Environment--Protecting Space in the Global Commons	280
	Human Rights--Protecting Human Dignity	296
	The Impact of Globalizing Issues	307
	Do Globalizing Issues Lead to Global Governance?	311
	In Sum: Changing You	313
	Glossary	315
	Index	325

Handbook of Gerontology or The Wahhabi Mission and Saudi Arabia

Handbook of Gerontology: Evidence-Based Approaches to Theory, Practice, and Policy

Author: Catherine N Dulmus

A multidisciplinary resource that combines the latest research with the best practices for working with older adults

The Handbook of Gerontology: Evidence-Based Approaches to Theory, Practice, and Policy provides an essential source of important theoretical and applied information on gerontology for all mental health professionals interested in optimizing the health and well-being of older adults. Interdisciplinary and incorporating the most current evidence-based practices in its focus, this timely book considers the many factors that affect the way this growing population experiences the world-and provides a positive and proactive guide to administering care.

Integrating the latest research findings with important practice implications for working with an older client population, the Handbook of Gerontology draws on a multidisciplinary team of expert contributors who provide coverage and insight into a diverse range of topics, including:

• A global perspective on aging

• Elder abuse

• Family caregiving

• Parenting grandchildren

• Depression

• Substance abuse

• Alzheimer's disease

• Successful aging and personality

• Biological and cognitive aspects and theories of aging

An exceptional resource for practitioners, researchers, policymakers, and students, the Handbook of Gerontology is essential reading for anyone who works with older adults.

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The Wahhabi Mission and Saudi Arabia (Library of Modern Middle East Studies Series)

Author: David Commins

This is a definitive and authoritative account of the conservative interpretation of Islam that is the official creed of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Wahhabism. Muslim critics have dismissed it as a heretical innovation that manipulated a backward people to gain political control. David Commins dismisses the clichés, examines the nature of Wahhabism, and offers original findings as to how Wahhabism rose to dominance in Arabia and projected its influence in the Muslim world. He also assesses the challenges that it faces from radical militants within the Kingdom.

Table of Contents:

1	Islam began as a stranger and will return as a stranger	7
2	Holding fast against idolatry	40
3	Abd al-Aziz ibn Saud and the taming of Wahhabi zeal	71
4	Wahhabism in a modern state	104
5	The Wahhabi mission and Islamic revivalism	130
6	Challenges to Wahhabi hegemony	155
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Tigers Rice Silk and Silt or Environmental Pragmatism

Tigers, Rice, Silk, and Silt: Environment and Economy in Late Imperial South China

Author: Robert B Marks

Challenging the conventional wisdom of Western environmental historians, this book examines the correlations between economic and environmental changes in the southern imperial Chinese provinces of Guangdong and Guangxi (a region historically known as Lingnan, "South of the Mountains") from 1400 to
1850. Marks discusses the impact of population growth on land use patterns, the agro-ecology, and deforestation; the commercialization of agriculture and its implications; the impact of climatic change on agriculture; and the ways in which the human population responded to environmental challenges.

Table of Contents:

	List of Maps, Figures, and Tables
	Dynasties, Qing Dynasty Emperors' Reign Dates, and Weights and Measures
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
1	"Firs and Pines a Hundred Spans Round": The Natural Environment of Lingnan	16
2	"All Deeply Forested and Wild Places Are Not Malarious": Human Settlement and Ecological Change in Lingnan, 2-1400 CE	53
3	"Agriculture Is the Foundation": Economic Recovery and Development of Lingnan during the Ming Dynasty, 1368-1644	84
4	"All the People Have Fled": War and the Environment in the Mid-Seventeenth-Century Crisis, 1644-83	134
5	"Rich Households Compete to Build Ships": Overseas Trade and Economic Recovery	163
6	"It Never Used to Snow": Climatic Change and Agricultural Productivity	195
7	"There Is Only a Certain Amount of Grain Produced": Granaries and the Role of the State in the Food Supply System	226
8	"Trade in Rice Is Brisk": Market Integration and the Environment	249
9	"Population Increases Daily, but the Land Does Not": Land Clearance in the Eighteenth Century	277
10	"People Said that Extinction Was Not Possible": The Ecological Consequences of Land Clearance	309
	Conclusion	333
	Bibliography	346
	Index	371

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Environmental Pragmatism

Author: Andrew Light

Environmental pragmatism is a new strategy in environmental thought: it argues that theoretical debates are hindering the ability of the environmental movement to forge agreement on basic policy imperatives. This new direction in environmental philosophy moves beyond theory, advocating a serious inquiry into the practical merits of moral pluralism. Environmental pragmatism, as a coherent philosophical position, connects the methodology of classical American pragmatist thought to the explanation, solution and discussion of real issues.

Forensic Science Laboratory Manual And Workbook Revised Edition or Proactive Police Management

Forensic Science Laboratory Manual And Workbook, Revised Edition

Author: Thomas Kubic

A laboratory companion to the Forensic Science: An Introduction to Scientific and Investigative Techniques textbook, Forensic Science Laboratory Manual and Workbook, Revised Edition provides many basic, hands-on experiments that can be completed with inexpensive and accessible instrumentation, making this an ideal workbook for non-science majors.

The experiments cover all the typical trace evidence tests including body fluid, soil, glass, fiber, ink, and hair. This revised edition provides numerous new experiments in odontology, anthropology, archeology, chemistry, and trace evidence. It also includes several new chemistry experiments at a slightly higher level to appeal to classes emphasizing chemistry. Experiments involving impression evidence, such as fingerprints, bite marks, footwear, and firearms, as well as forensic archeology, forensic anthropology, the use of digital and traditional photography, and basic microscopy are also featured.

All of the experiments incorporate hands-on elements to facilitate the learning process. Students must apply the scientific method of reasoning, deduction, and problem solving in order to successfully complete the experiments covered and attain a solid understanding of fundamental forensic science.

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Proactive Police Management

Author: Edward A Thibault

Required reading for civil service promotional examinations. "Proactive Police Management" provides a review of the various approaches to police management using a contemporary and proactive approach. The seventh edition has been extensively revised, including new information on technology, operational and fiscal planning, management styles, training techniques, budgeting methods and national security concerns. It continues to balance planning and communication; theory and practice; and authoritative and participatory leadership approaches - emphasizing a consultative management style that enables all stakeholders to effectively anticipate, prevent and react to crime within their community. This book is used for training police supervisors and administrators and is required reading for civil service promotional examinations. The "Prentice Hall's Test Prep Guide to Accompany Proactive Police Management" (ISBN: 0-13-170126-6) is used in conjunction with this title to help law enforcement professionals prepare for their promotional exams. Shows how the combination of new proactive management techniques and the application of new technology are revolutionizing policing. Covers traditional scientific management, the behavioral/systems approach, and the human relations approach. Emphasizes community-policing, problem-oriented policing and intelligence-led policing. Used for training police supervisors and administrators and is required reading for civil service promotional examinations.

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Provides a review, analysis, and synthesis of the various approaches to police management, including traditional scientific management, the behavioral/systems approach, and the human relations approach. Covers police subculture, basic organizational concepts, operating principles, proactive police leadership, managing the police organization, and collective bargaining. Includes questions, class projects, and key terms for each chapter. This third edition includes updated material on information management and career criminals. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Going Home to the Fifties or Collectivism after Modernism

Going Home to the Fifties

Author: William Yenn

With the postwar economic boom, a vast middle class emerged. Suburbs exploded across the country, and the new industrial complex cranked out cars, appliances, and home furnishings in record numbers. In Going Home to the Fifties, Bill Yenne guides readers through an idealized neighborhood of the period, from the schools, roads, and commuter trains to the homes, kitchens, and backyards — all drawn from the fantasy worlds created by advertising. Color photos and illustrations are featured in this presentation of the ideal of 1950s suburban living.

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Collectivism after Modernism: The Art of Social Imagination after 1945

Author: Blake Stimson

“Don’t start an art collective until you read this book.” —Guerrilla Girls

“Ever since Web 2.0 with its wikis, blogs and social networks the art of collaboration is back on the agenda. Collectivism after Modernism convincingly proves that art collectives did not stop after the proclaimed death of the historical avant-gardes. Like never before technology reinvents the social and artists claim the steering wheel!” —Geert Lovink, Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam

“This examination of the succession of post-war avant-gardes and collectives is new, important, and engaged.” — Stephen F. Eisenman, author of The Abu Ghraib Effect

“Collectivism after Modernism crucially helps us understand what artists and others can do in mushy, stinky times like ours. What can the seemingly powerless do in the face of mighty forces that seem to have their act really together? Here, Stimson and Sholette put forth many good answers.” —Yes Men

Spanning the globe from Europe, Japan, and the United States to Africa, Cuba, and Mexico, Collectivism after Modernism explores the ways in which collectives function within cultural norms, social conventions, and corporate or state-sanctioned art. Together, these essays demonstrate that collectivism survives as an influential artistic practice despite the art world’s star system of individuality. Collectivism after Modernism provides the historical understanding necessary for thinking through postmodern collective practice, now and into the future.

Contributors: Irina Aristarkhova, JesseDrew, Okwui Enwezor, Rubén Gallo, Chris Gilbert, Brian Holmes, Alan Moore, Jelena Stojanovi´c, Reiko Tomii, Rachel Weiss.

Blake Stimson is associate professor of art history at the University of California Davis, the author of The Pivot of the World: Photography and Its Nation, and coeditor of Visual Worlds and Conceptual Art: A Critical Anthology. Gregory Sholette is an artist, writer, and cofounder of collectives Political Art Documentation/Distribution and REPOhistory. He is coeditor of The Interventionists: Users’ Manual for the Creative Disruption of Everyday Life.

“To understand the various forms of postwar collectivism as historically determined phenomena and to articulate the possibilities for contemporary collectivist art production is the aim of Collectivism after Modernism. The essays assembled in this anthology argue that to make truly collective art means to reconsider the relation between art and public; examples from the Situationist International and Group Material to Paper Tiger Television and the Congolese collective Le Groupe Amos make the point. To construct an art of shared experience means to go beyond projecting what Blake Stimson and Gregory Sholette call the “imagined community”: a collective has to be more than an ideal, and more than communal craft; it has to be a truly social enterprise. Not only does it use unconventional forms and media to communicate the issues and experiences usually excluded from artistic representation, but it gives voice to a multiplicity of perspectives. At its best it relies on the participation of the audience to actively contribute to the work, carrying forth the dialogue it inspires.” —BOMB