Blind Oracles
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Blind Oracles
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Author : Bruce Kuklick
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2007-08-05
Blind Oracles written by Bruce Kuklick and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-08-05 with History categories.
In this trenchant analysis, historian Bruce Kuklick examines the role of intellectuals in foreign policymaking. He recounts the history of the development of ideas about strategy and foreign policy during a critical period in American history: the era of the nuclear standoff between the United States and the Soviet Union. The book looks at how the country's foremost thinkers advanced their ideas during this time of United States expansionism, a period that culminated in the Vietnam War and détente with the Soviets. Beginning with George Kennan after World War II, and concluding with Henry Kissinger and the Vietnam War, Kuklick examines the role of both institutional policymakers such as those at The Rand Corporation and Harvard's Kennedy School, and individual thinkers including Paul Nitze, McGeorge Bundy, and Walt Rostow. Kuklick contends that the figures having the most influence on American strategy--Kissinger, for example--clearly understood the way politics and the exercise of power affects policymaking. Other brilliant thinkers, on the other hand, often played a minor role, providing, at best, a rationale for policies adopted for political reasons. At a time when the role of the neoconservatives' influence over American foreign policy is a subject of intense debate, this book offers important insight into the function of intellectuals in foreign policymaking.
Sight And Blindness In Luke Acts
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Author : Chad Hartsock
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2008-01-01
Sight And Blindness In Luke Acts written by Chad Hartsock and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-01-01 with Religion categories.
Reading Luke-Acts through the lens of Greco-Roman physiognomics, this is a study of the use of physical descriptions in characterization in the biblical texts. Specifically, this work studies blindness as characterization and, ultimately, as an interpretive guide to Luke-Acts.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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Author : Justin Vaïsse
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2018-03-26
Zbigniew Brzezinski written by Justin Vaïsse and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-26 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Zbigniew Brzezinski’s impact on America’s role in the world extends far beyond his years in the Carter White House. Justin Vaïsse offers the first biography of the Polish immigrant and grand strategist whose geopolitical vision, scholarly writings, and policy advice to many presidents brought lasting changes to America’s conduct of foreign policy.
Where Dragons Roar
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Author : Jhangir Kerawala
language : en
Publisher: Notion Press
Release Date : 2022-04-01
Where Dragons Roar written by Jhangir Kerawala and has been published by Notion Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-01 with Fiction categories.
Deep in the heart of the ancient and mystic land of Tibet, a Dragon runs through recklessly and fearlessly. It’s now been over seventy years of pain and humiliation, but no country on Earth has shown any grit or guts to bring justice to this pure land. Nyima, a carefree Tibetan refugee in India, sneaks back to the land of his ancestors as a fugitive wanted for murder, desperately seeking temporary shelter. His plans go awry as he reluctantly joins a band of rebels and accidentally discovers that which has been eluding him since birth; love for his land, and a Cause. Together, with his new and daring compatriots, he bares the underbelly of a dangerous and ever-hungry Dragon. It was the ‘soft-spot’ the world had forgotten. Religion – the ultimate uniqueness and strength of Tibet and its people! Now, it was up to Nyima and his group to show that all was not lost and bring back some hope and justice amongst his simple but proud people.
The Shackled Spy
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Author : K.A. Krantz
language : en
Publisher: K.A. Krantz
Release Date : 2021-01-26
The Shackled Spy written by K.A. Krantz and has been published by K.A. Krantz this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-26 with Fiction categories.
Sometimes the strongest chains are the ones we craft for ourselves. The Mid World defense system is finally ready to launch, but the millennia-old barrier of highly destructive ether must be removed first. Only one very special artifact can hold such a powerful force. To take down the old and make way for the new, Bix and her team race to locate and reassemble the pieces of the containment device scattered across the Mids. Alas, they’re not the only ones searching for the shards. In the wrong hands, the fragments are weapons of mass destruction. Fearful magical races and fearsome deities alike scramble to claim the pieces, but lurking in the ether are entities who will not go quietly…and who will stop at nothing to keep Bix from interfering in the burgeoning war. Darkness will fall and armies perish when manacles break from the shackled spy.
The Eccentric Realist
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Author : Mario Del Pero
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2011-03-15
The Eccentric Realist written by Mario Del Pero and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-15 with History categories.
During the 2008 election season, the Democratic and Republican presidential candidates both aspired to be understood as foreign policy "realists" in the mold of Henry Kissinger. Kissinger, who is distrusted on the neoconservative right for his skepticism about American exceptionalism and on the liberal left for his amoral, realpolitik approach, once again stood as the sage of foreign relations and the wise man who rises above partisan politics. In The Eccentric Realist, Mario Del Pero questions this depiction of Kissinger. Lauded as the foreign policy realist par excellence, Kissinger, as Del Pero shows, has been far more ideological and inconsistent in his policy formulations than is commonly realized.Del Pero considers the rise and fall of Kissinger's foreign policy doctrine over the course of the 1970s—beginning with his role as National Security Advisor to Nixon and ending with the collapse of détente with the Soviet Union after Kissinger left the scene as Ford's outgoing Secretary of State. Del Pero shows that realism then (not unlike realism now) was as much a response to domestic politics as it was a cold, hard assessment of the facts of international relations. In the early 1970s, Americans were weary of ideological forays abroad; Kissinger provided them with a doctrine that translated that political weariness into foreign policy. Del Pero argues that Kissinger was keenly aware that realism could win elections and generate consensus. Moreover, over the course of the 1970s it became clear that realism, as practiced by Kissinger, was as rigid as the neoconservativism that came to replace it.In the end, the failure of the détente forged by the realists was not the defeat of cool reason at the hands of ideologically motivated and politically savvy neoconservatives. Rather, the force of American exceptionalism, the touchstone of the neocons, overcame Kissinger's political skills and ideological commitments. The fate of realism in the 1970s raises interesting questions regarding its prospects in the early years of the twenty-first century.
Understanding Military Doctrine
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Author : Harald Hoiback
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-07-18
Understanding Military Doctrine written by Harald Hoiback and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-18 with History categories.
This book puts military doctrine into a wider perspective, drawing on military history, philosophy, and political science. Military doctrines are institutional beliefs about what works in war; given the trauma of 9/11 and the ensuing 'War on Terror', serious divergences over what the message of the 'new' military doctrine ought to be were expected around the world. However, such questions are often drowned in ferocious meta-doctrinal disagreements. What is a doctrine, after all? This book provides a theoretical understanding of such questions. Divided into three parts, the author investigates the historical roots of military doctrine and explores its growth and expansion until the present day, and goes on to analyse the main characteristics of a military doctrine. Using a multidisciplinary approach, the book concludes that doctrine can be utilized in three key ways: as a tool of command, as a tool of change, and as a tool of education. This book will be of much interest to students of military studies, civil-military relations, strategic studies, and war studies, as well as to students in professional military education.
Computational Intelligence And Security
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Author : Yue Hao
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2006-06-18
Computational Intelligence And Security written by Yue Hao and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-06-18 with Computers categories.
The two volume set LNAI 3801 and LNAI 3802 constitute the refereed proceedings of the annual International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Security, CIS 2005, held in Xi'an, China, in December 2005. The 338 revised papers presented - 254 regular and 84 extended papers - were carefully reviewed and selected from over 1800 submissions. The first volume is organized in topical sections on learning and fuzzy systems, evolutionary computation, intelligent agents and systems, intelligent information retrieval, support vector machines, swarm intelligence, data mining, pattern recognition, and applications. The second volume is subdivided in topical sections on cryptography and coding, cryptographic protocols, intrusion detection, security models and architecture, security management, watermarking and information hiding, web and network applications, image and signal processing, and applications.
Theory And Applications Of Models Of Computation
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Author : Jin-Yi Cai
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2007-05-09
Theory And Applications Of Models Of Computation written by Jin-Yi Cai and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-05-09 with Computers categories.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Theory and Applications of Models of Computation, TAMC 2007, held in Shanghai, China in May 2007. It addresses all major areas in computer science; mathematics, especially logic; and the physical sciences, particularly with regard to computation and computability theory. The papers particularly focus on algorithms, complexity and computability theory.