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Author |
: Bruce Kuklick |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 259 |
Release |
: 2007-08-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780691133874 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0691133875 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (74 Downloads) |
Synopsis Blind Oracles by : Bruce Kuklick
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.
Author |
: George Robert Stow Mead |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 112 |
Release |
: 1908 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105005654640 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (40 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Chaldæan Oracles by : George Robert Stow Mead
Author |
: Mario Del Pero |
Publisher |
: Cornell University Press |
Total Pages |
: 203 |
Release |
: 2011-03-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780801459481 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0801459486 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Eccentric Realist by : Mario Del Pero
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.
Author |
: Ann Bolinger-McQuade |
Publisher |
: TarcherPerigee |
Total Pages |
: 288 |
Release |
: 2013-07-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781585429301 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1585429309 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (01 Downloads) |
Synopsis Everyday Oracles by : Ann Bolinger-McQuade
It could be a cloud in the shape of a loved one's face or an extremely relevant song playing on the radio at the exact time of a friend's death--if we allow ourselves to stop, look, and listen, we can identify what spiritual teacher Ann Bolinger-McQuade calls personal oracles. And when we tune into these subtle messages from Spirit, we will discover guidance for navigating life's most trying situations. In addition to illuminating oracles through examples, McQuade discusses the history and science of oracles in general and of personal oracles specifically, offering the reader practical instructions for identifying and decoding the divine messages in their own lives.
Author |
: Matthew Dillon |
Publisher |
: Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages |
: 487 |
Release |
: 2017-07-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317148968 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317148967 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Synopsis Omens and Oracles by : Matthew Dillon
Addressing the role which divination played in ancient Greek society, this volume deals with various forms of prophecy and how each was utilised and for what purpose. Chapters bring together key types of divining, such as from birds, celestial phenomena, the entrails of sacrificed animals and dreams. Oracular centres delivered prophetic pronouncements to enquirers, but in addition, there were written collections of oracles in circulation. Many books were available on how to interpret dreams, the birds and entrails, and divination as a religious phenomenon attracted the attention of many writers. Expert diviners were at the heart of Greek prophecy, whether these were Apollo’s priestesses delivering prose or verse answers to questions put to them by consultants, diviners known as manteis, who interpreted entrails and omens, the chresmologoi, who sang the many oracles circulating orally or in writing, or dream interpreters. Divination was utilised not only to foretell the future but also to ensure that the individual or state employing divination acted in accordance with that divinely prescribed future; it was employed by all and had a crucial role to play in what courses of action both states and individuals undertook. Specific attention is paid in this volume not only to the ancient written evidence, but to that of inscriptions and papyri, with emphasis placed on the iconography of Greek divination.
Author |
: Chad Hartsock |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 232 |
Release |
: 2008-05-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789047432968 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9047432967 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sight and Blindness in Luke-Acts by : Chad Hartsock
The ancient world often thought in terms of physiognomics—the idea that character can be discerned by studying outward, physical features. That physical descriptions carry moral freight in characterization has been largely missed in modern biblical scholarship, and this study brings that to the forefront. Specifically, this is a study of one particular physical marker—blindness. When we look at Greco-Roman literature, a kind of literary topos begins to emerge, a set of assumptions that ancient audiences would typically make when encountering blind characters. Luke-Acts makes use of such a topos in a way that becomes programmatic, serving as a kind of interpretive key to Luke-Acts that is generally unnoticed in modern scholarship.
Author |
: Antonius van Dale |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 172 |
Release |
: 1699 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015048425725 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (25 Downloads) |
Synopsis The History of Oracles, and the Cheats of the Pagan Priests by : Antonius van Dale
Author |
: Salil P. Vadhan |
Publisher |
: Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages |
: 606 |
Release |
: 2007-02-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783540709350 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3540709355 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (50 Downloads) |
Synopsis Theory of Cryptography by : Salil P. Vadhan
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th Theory of Cryptography Conference, TCC 2007, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands in February 2007. The 31 revised full papers cover encryption, universally composable security, arguments and zero knowledge, notions of security, obfuscation, secret sharing and multiparty computation, signatures and watermarking, private approximation and black-box reductions, and key establishment.
Author |
: Jin-Yi Cai |
Publisher |
: Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages |
: 784 |
Release |
: 2007-05-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783540725039 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3540725032 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (39 Downloads) |
Synopsis Theory and Applications of Models of Computation by : Jin-Yi Cai
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.
Author |
: Martijn Stam |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 375 |
Release |
: 2013-12-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783642452390 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3642452396 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (90 Downloads) |
Synopsis Cryptography and Coding by : Martijn Stam
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 14th IMA International Conference on Cryptography and Coding, IMACC 2013, held at Oxford, UK, in December 2013. The 20 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in this book. They are organized in topical sections named: bits and booleans; homomorphic encryption; codes and applications; cryptanalysis; protecting against leakage; hash functions; key issues and public key primitives.