Subversions of International Order
Title | Subversions of International Order PDF eBook |
Author | John Borneman |
Publisher | SUNY Press |
Pages | 354 |
Release | 1998-01-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780791435830 |
Uses ethnographic tools to analyze political disorder and its representation at the end of the Cold War.
Subversion as Foreign Policy
Title | Subversion as Foreign Policy PDF eBook |
Author | Audrey Kahin |
Publisher | University of Washington Press |
Pages | 338 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780295976181 |
Based on access to secret documents and interviews with many of the participants, Subversion as Foreign Policy is an extraordinary account of civil war in Indonesia provoked by President Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, and resulting in the killing of thousands of Indonesians and the destruction of much of the country's air force and navy. "This startling new book reveals a covert intervention by the United States in Indonesia in the late 1950s involving, among other things, the supply of thousands of weapons, the creation and deployment of a secret CIA air force and logistical support from the Seventh Fleet. The intervention occurred on such a massive scale that it is difficult to believe it has been kept almost totally secret from the American public for nearly 40 years. And this CIA operation proved to be even more disastrous than the Bay of Pigs". -- San Francisco Chronicle "An exemplary study of an ignominious chapter of the Cold War in Southeast Asia". -- Journal of Asian Studies "Subversion as Foreign Policy is a remarkable book.... The Kahins have provided a rare insight into the workings of U.S. policy towards Indonesia, both clandestine and official". -- London Times Literary Supplement
Crippling Leviathan
Title | Crippling Leviathan PDF eBook |
Author | Melissa M. Lee Desfor |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Pages | 330 |
Release | 2020-04-15 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1501748378 |
Policymakers worry that "ungoverned spaces" pose dangers to security and development. Why do such spaces exist beyond the authority of the state? Earlier scholarship—which addressed this question with a list of domestic failures—overlooked the crucial role that international politics play. In this shrewd book, Melissa M. Lee argues that foreign subversion undermines state authority and promotes ungoverned space. Enemy governments empower insurgents to destabilize the state and create ungoverned territory. This kind of foreign subversion is a powerful instrument of modern statecraft. But though subversion is less visible and less costly than conventional force, it has insidious effects on governance in the target state. To demonstrate the harmful consequences of foreign subversion for state authority, Crippling Leviathan marshals a wealth of evidence and presents in-depth studies of Russia's relations with the post-Soviet states, Malaysian subversion of the Philippines in the 1970s, and Thai subversion of Vietnamese-occupied Cambodia in the 1980s. The evidence presented by Lee is persuasive: foreign subversion weakens the state. She challenges the conventional wisdom on statebuilding, which has long held that conflict promotes the development of strong, territorially consolidated states. Lee argues instead that conflictual international politics prevents state development and degrades state authority. In addition, Crippling Leviathan illuminates the use of subversion as an underappreciated and important feature of modern statecraft. Rather than resort to war, states resort to subversion. Policymakers interested in ameliorating the consequences of ungoverned space must recognize the international roots that sustain weak statehood.
International Order Interpretation and Efficiency
Title | International Order Interpretation and Efficiency PDF eBook |
Author | Dr. Abdelatif Hamza |
Publisher | Lulu.com |
Pages | 122 |
Release | 2016-01-05 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1329808819 |
Global Leadership MasterCourse 6Discussing:How to understand the international order?How to understand the UN system?How to understand the European regional organization?How to understand the American regional organization?How to understand the Asian regional organization?How to understand the Arabic regional organization?How to understand the world Humanitarian system?How to understand the world finance system?How to work efficiently and work confidently in the international or regional organizations?How to understand and contribute positively regards the debates about the necessity of improving the UN System?Understanding how could the UN ends all wars?.. but why it still couldn't achieve this basic goal and it might will never could end any nuclear war?If you read this course thoroughly you will find all answers regarding improving the international order efficiency.
Chaosophy
Title | Chaosophy PDF eBook |
Author | Félix Guattari |
Publisher | Semiotext(e) |
Pages | 300 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Fiction |
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This collection of Felix Guattari's essays, lectures, and interviews traces the militant anti-psychiatrist and theorist's thought and activity throughout the 1980s ("the winter years"). Concepts such as "micropolitics," "schizoanalysis," and "becoming-woman" open up new horizons for political and creative resistance in the "postmedia era." Guattari's energetic analyses of art, cinema, youth culture, economics, and power formations introduce a radically inventive thought process engaged in liberating subjectivity from the standardizing and homogenizing processes of global capitalism.
Marginality and Subversion in Korea
Title | Marginality and Subversion in Korea PDF eBook |
Author | Sun Joo Kim |
Publisher | University of Washington Press |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 2013-11-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 029580338X |
In the history of Korea, the nineteenth century is often considered an age of popular rebellions. Scholarly approaches have typically pointed to these rebellions as evidence of the progressive direction of the period, often using the theory of class struggle as an analytical framework. In Marginality and Subversion in Korea, Sun Joo Kim argues that a close reading of the actors and circumstances involved in one of the century's major rebellions, the Hong Kyongnae Rebellion of 1812, leads instead to more complex conclusions. Drawing from primary sources in Korean, Japanese, and classical Chinese, this book is the most extensive study in the English language of any of the major nineteenth-century rebellions in Korea. Whereas previous research has focused on economic and landlord-tenant tensions, suggesting that class animosity was the dominant feature in the political behavior of peasants, Sun Joo Kim explores the role of embittered local elites in providing vital support in the early stages to spur social change that would benefit these elites as much as the peasant class. Later, however, many of these same elites would rally to the side of the state, providing military and material contributions to help put down the rebellion. Kim explains why these opportunistic elites became discontented with the state in the scramble for power, prestige, and scarce resources, and why many ultimately worked to rescue and reinforce the Choson dynasty and the Confucian ideology that would prevail for another one hundred years. This sophisticated, groundbreaking study will be essential reading for historians and scholars of Korean studies, as well as those interested in early modern East Asia, social transformation, rebellions, and revolutions.
Undoing the Revolution
Title | Undoing the Revolution PDF eBook |
Author | Vasabjit Banerjee |
Publisher | Temple University Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2019-06-11 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9781439916919 |
Undoing the Revolution looks at the way rural underclasses ally with out-of-power elites to overthrow their governments—only to be shut out of power when the new regime assumes control. Vasabjit Banerjee first examines why peasants need to ally with dissenting elites in order to rebel. He then shows how conflict resolution and subsequent bargains to form new state institutions re-empower allied elites and re-marginalize peasants. Banerjee evaluates three different agrarian societies during distinct time periods spanning the twentieth century: revolutionary Mexico from 1910 to 1930; late-colonial India from 1920 until 1947; and White-dominated Zimbabwe (Rhodesia) from the mid-1960s to 1980. This comparative approach also allows examination of both the underclass need for elite participation and the variety of causes that elites use to incentivize peasant classes to participate, extending from religious-ethnic identity and common political targets to the peasants’ and elites’ own economic grievances. Undoing the Revolution demonstrates that both international and domestic investors in cash crops, natural resources, and finance can ally with peasant rebels; and, after threatened or actual state collapse, they can bargain with each other to select new state institutions.