Author: Richard Langston
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783847116646
Category :
Languages : de
Pages : 0

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Author: Klaus Eugen Knorr
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 9781412835213
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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Author: Paul Tyson
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1666733407
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 261

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Science can reveal or conceal the breathtaking wonders of creation. On one hand, knowledge of the natural world can open us up to greater love for the Creator, give us the means of more neighborly care, and fill us with ever-deepening astonishment. On the other hand, knowledge feeding an insatiable hunger for epistemic mastery can become a means of idolatry, hubris, and damage. Crucial to world-respecting science is the role of wonder: curiosity, perplexity, and astonishment. In this volume, philosopher William Desmond explores the relation of the different modes of wonder to modern science. Responding to his thought are twelve thinkers across the domains of science, theology, philosophy, law, poetry, medicine, sociology, and art restoration. Introduction —Paul Tyson The Dearth of Astonishment: On Curiosity, Scientism, and Thinking as Negativity —William Desmond Preparing to Paint the Virgin’s Robe —Spike Bucklow Cultivating Wonder —Steven Knepper The Astonishment of Philosophy: William Desmond and Isabelle Stengers —Simone Kotva 5. Astonishment and the Social Sciences —Paul Tyson Curiosity, Perplexity, and Astonishment in the Natural Sciences —Andrew Davison Scientism as the Dearth of the Nothing —Richard J. Colledge The Determinations of Medicine and the Too-Muchness of Being —Jeffrey Bishop Attending to Infinitude: Law as in-between the Overdeterminate and Practical Judgment —Jonathan Horton Life’s Wonder —Simon Oliver Being in Control —Michael Hanby Wondering about the Science/Scientism Distinction —D. C. Schindler Basil and Desmond on Wonder and the Astonishing Return of Christian Metaphysics —Isidoros C. Katsos The Children of Wonder: On Scientism and Its Changelings —William Desmond

Author: Emil Reich
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 376

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Author: J. Nathan
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137114622
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 302

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The Cuban Missile Crisis Revisited is a comprehensive overview of the great cornucopia of new materials recently released by the Soviet Union, United States, and Cuba. The authors, some of whom were participants in the crisis, have all had a major role in bringing to light either significant reevaluations of the crisis, or in some cases, truly startling revelations of the extant wisdom surrounding much of the crisis. The collection, edited by a long-time student of the crisis, is a coherent, original, and up-to-date work that bears on a moment when the world, for good cause, held its breath in fear that the morning might bring the apocalypse.

Author: Richard J. Helmstadter
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804716024
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 422

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A Stanford University Press classic.

Author: Floribert Baudet
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9462651833
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 242

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Many intelligence practitioners feel that the statutory footing on which intelligenceagencies have been placed forms an impediment to confronting unprecedented contemporarychallenges. On the basis of case studies spanning the period from the First WorldWar to the present, this book argues that while the intelligence community in the era ofglobalization has indeed come to face new and complex challenges that require adaptation,operating in demanding and changing environments is not new at all. This book questionsthe conventional wisdom of 9/11 or the end of the Cold War as caesurae. It also argues thatthe ability to adapt, innovate, question and learn from past experience is crucial for thesuccess of intelligence organizations, rather than ever-expanding funding. Agencies’ ability to reflect, adapt and learn from experience determines their subsequentcapability to deliver. One key development resulting from globalization is the markedincrease in cooperation between intelligence agencies of different countries on the onehand, and between investigative agencies and intelligence agencies on the other. This hasled to concerns over human rights and privacy and to increased calls for accountability andimproved oversight as the increase in cooperation between organizations operating globallyalso provides scope for the circumvention of domestic restrictions. This book proposes an instrument to assess the effectiveness of existing accountabilityarrangements and offers new insights into the role of (military) intelligence in anumber of crises, e.g., the 1962 Cold War confrontation over Western New Guinea, and thefunctioning of intelligence in peacekeeping operations ranging from Srebrenica to Mali. Thematically comprehensive, it offers a mixture of historical, legal, operational, and policyaspects, analyzed through the lens of institutional learning, bringing together academic andpractitioners’ perspectives. The focus lies not only on the familiar Anglo-Saxon experiencebut also on cases from India, the Netherlands, South East Asia, Bosnia, Lebanon, and Mali. The book is aimed at both scholars and practitioners studying and/or working in the fieldof civil and military intelligence, and those involved in international relations and internationalhumanitarian law/human rights law. It brings together contributions from authorswho spoke at the Conference to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Dutch MilitaryIntelligence and Security Service, organized by the Netherlands Intelligence Studies Association(NISA), and from a number of authors who were specifically invited to participate.

Author: Anjan Chakrabarti
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 131667388X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 444

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Taking the period following the advent of liberalization, this book explains the transition of the Indian economy against the backdrop of development. If the objective is to explore the new economic map of India, then the distinct contributions in the book could be seen as twofold. The first is the analytical frame whereby the authors deploy a unique Marxist approach consisting of the initial concepts of class process and the developing countries to address India's economic transition. The second contribution is substantive whereby the authors describe India's economic transition as epochal, materializing out of the new emergent triad of neo-liberal globalization, global capitalism and inclusive development. This is how the book theorizes the structural transformation of the Indian economy in the twenty-first century. Through this framework, it interrogates and critiques the given debates, ideas and policies about the economic development of a developing nation.

Author: Desmond King
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192511882
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 480

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Reconfiguring European States in Crisis offers a ground-breaking analysis by some of Europe's leading political scientists, examining how the European national state and the European Union state have dealt with two sorts of changes in the last two decades. Firstly, the volume analyses the growth of performance measurement in government, the rise of new sorts of policy delivery agencies, the devolution of power to regions and cities, and the spread of neoliberal ideas in economic policy. The volume demonstrates how the rise of non-state controlled organizations and norms combine with Europeanization to reconfigure European states. Secondly, the volume focuses on how the current crises in fiscal policy, Brexit, security and terrorism, and migration through a borderless European Union have had dramatic effects on European states and will continue to do so.

Author: Richard K. Betts
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135759650
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 236

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Part of a three part collection in honour of the teachings of Michael I. Handel, one of the foremost strategists of the late 20th century, this collection explores the paradoxes of intelligence analysis, surprise and deception from both historical and theoretical perspectives.