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Author: Simon Serfaty Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers ISBN: 1442215895 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 189
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The end of the unipolar moment completes the passing of a Western era that was prolonged for half a century when the United States took over for a defeated and exhausted group of European states after World War II. Distinguished scholar Simon Serfaty vigorously argues that while it is possible, and even desirable, to acknowledge the passing of the Western era, it is exaggerated to present it as an irreversible decline of the West relative to an irresistible rise of the Rest. Rather, he shows that the unfolding post-Western moment will be messy. In addition to the United States and the states of Europe as a Union, the new cast of significant powers will involve a dozen or more countries: emerging powers like China and India, postimperial powers such as Japan and Russia, new influentials like Brazil and Turkey, pivot states like Egypt and Pakistan, nuisance states like Iran, failed or failing states like North Korea and Sudan, and others. Echoes of a Sarajevo moment played out this time in the greater Middle East, the new global Balkans for the twenty-first century. But Serfaty convincingly contends that even during a zero-polar moment of geopolitical transition, American power remains superior, and thus indispensable though no longer decisive; Western power stands on top and thus is inescapable though no longer exclusive; and even as the Rest gains broadly in stature and reach it is unlikely to achieve preponderance any time soon. This powerful and provocative book should be read by all who share a deep concern for the future of America—and a recast world.
Author: Simon Serfaty Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers ISBN: 1442215895 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 189
Book Description
The end of the unipolar moment completes the passing of a Western era that was prolonged for half a century when the United States took over for a defeated and exhausted group of European states after World War II. Distinguished scholar Simon Serfaty vigorously argues that while it is possible, and even desirable, to acknowledge the passing of the Western era, it is exaggerated to present it as an irreversible decline of the West relative to an irresistible rise of the Rest. Rather, he shows that the unfolding post-Western moment will be messy. In addition to the United States and the states of Europe as a Union, the new cast of significant powers will involve a dozen or more countries: emerging powers like China and India, postimperial powers such as Japan and Russia, new influentials like Brazil and Turkey, pivot states like Egypt and Pakistan, nuisance states like Iran, failed or failing states like North Korea and Sudan, and others. Echoes of a Sarajevo moment played out this time in the greater Middle East, the new global Balkans for the twenty-first century. But Serfaty convincingly contends that even during a zero-polar moment of geopolitical transition, American power remains superior, and thus indispensable though no longer decisive; Western power stands on top and thus is inescapable though no longer exclusive; and even as the Rest gains broadly in stature and reach it is unlikely to achieve preponderance any time soon. This powerful and provocative book should be read by all who share a deep concern for the future of America—and a recast world.
Author: Ilana Preuss Publisher: Island Press ISBN: 1642831921 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 194
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Community development expert Ilana Preuss explains how local leaders can revitalize their downtowns or neighborhood main streets by bringing in and supporting small-scale manufacturing. Small-scale manufacturing businesses help create thriving places, with local business ownership opportunities and well-paying jobs that other business types can't fulfill.
Author: Case Lane Publisher: Clane Media Books ISBN: 1735650722 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 125
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Recast: The Aspiring Entrepreneur's Practical Guide to Getting Started With An Online Business Start Your Online Business, Live With Purpose and Achieve Your Dreams! You can start an online business from where you are right now. You just need the right guide to take you along an actionable path. You can become an entrepreneur. You do not need a secret sauce, magic formula or sparkly dust...you only need your ability to implement these TOTALLY ACTIONABLE actions. For this incredibly insightful book, global writer, traveler and entrepreneur Case Lane has read, researched, studied, interacted and worked with aspiring entrepreneurs to unlock the REAL REASON they do not get started, and HOW they can get the momentum to move forward. Now this information is yours... In this unprecedented book, Case reveals the SIMPLE rarely discussed actions, and overlooked activities that have taken aspiring entrepreneurs from hesitation to action in their quest to take control of their own lives. You will learn: · Your Opportunity of a Lifetime: Use technology and access to the global marketplace to deliver value through a product or service, to a customer community that is waiting for what you have to offer! · The First 10 Actions to Take: You begin your entrepreneurial journey by seeing the road ahead · The Foundational Actions: Set-up your ultimate comfort and stocked zone for getting started and moving forward · Your Creative Actions: Where will your actual business come from? You'll get the inside secrets to know. · Create Your Dream Lifestyle: Your continuous motivation for creating your business is the vision of the life you really want, and the reality you can create through your own effort At the heart of Recast lies your quest for the life you really want. A life focused on achieving your definition of: professional satisfaction, financial security and lifestyle freedom...forever. This book is your real guide - practical, simple, possible. By the time you get through Action #10, you will know what to do, and how to do it...to reach the life of your dreams! #recastbook
Author: Jonathan White Publisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press ISBN: Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 276
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In "Recasting the World" Jonathan White brings togeather a distinguished group of contributors to examine aspects of postcolonial literatures in English from around the world.
Author: Sandra Hiortdahl Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing ISBN: 1527584690 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 151
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This book brings John Gardner’s bestselling Grendel to life in the most comprehensive study of the novel to date. Using as a guide Gardner’s discussions on art, his extensive scholarship on Anglo-Saxon poetry, and his love of stories, this chapter-by-chapter analysis shows Grendel to be much more than an ironic twist on Beowulf. It reveals three distinct fights that mirror the poem, which solves mysteries that have stymied readers for decades. Anyone studying or teaching the novel will find useful analyses of Beowulf, a discussion of the novel within Gardner’s views on morality and art, and an assessment of Grendel as a modern tragic hero and anti-hero. The monster wants to be human with every ounce of his being, even at his death. This issue of identity, particularly for those who are outcast from society, culture, and community, finds resonance in nearly all of Gardner’s works. It does so in Grendel as well, and importantly so, as this work reveals.
Author: Simon Serfaty Publisher: CSIS ISBN: 9780892065189 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 244
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"With new leaders in place in Germany, France, and Britain and with elections in Russia, Spain, Italy, and the United States in 2008, the stage is set for change and a new transatlantic beginning in 2009. The contributors to this volume offer an agenda for action - not to reinvent either NATO or the European Union but, rather, to recast these two main institutional dimensions of the transatlantic partnership in ways that can make each better suited to the other and make both more effectively prepared to help their 32 members address the issues - security, economic, political, and societal - they face in common."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Xiaoyuan Liu Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA ISBN: 1441134891 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 278
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"Xiaoyuan Liu has provided a most compelling study of frontier in the shaping of modern China's territorial identity. Ethnopolitics, usually confined to the domestic sphere, must now be 'recast' and brought to the forefront of any attempt to understand China's international relations, and vice versa."-Uradyn E. Bulag, University of Cambridge, UK "In this collection of well-argued essays, Professor Xiaoyuan Liu offers an extremely valuable perspective on the evolution of China's 'geo-body' in the nineteenth and twentieth centuriesùthat is, its evolution from an empire to a 'modern' nation state. This complex process involved a constant effort to reconcile the unifying impulses of the central government with the vibrant ethnic particularism that existed within China's constantly shifting borders."-Richard J. Smith, George and Nancy Rupp Professor of Humanities and Professor of History, Rice University, USA "In this illuminating set of essays, Liu Xiaoyuan, the master of China's frontier history and ethnopolitics, ranges widely across the boundaries of space and time to examine how modern China came into being. By emphasizing the seemingly paradoxical centrality of the periphery in the consolidation and legitimation of Chinese political authority, Liu explains Beijing's concern about trouble on its Inner Asian frontiers and expands our understanding of China's modern history."-Steven I. Levine, Senior Research Associate, Maureen and Mike Mansfield Center, University of Montana, USA In applying the two interpretative themes of "frontier" and "ethnicity", Recast All Under Heaven examines the externalization from and internalization to China by a number of the tributary affiliates and outlying territories of the by-gone Qing Empire. This unique book blends analyses of "domestic" and "international" developments involved in China's modern reincarnation and provides an integral narrative that links historical themes pertinent to the eastern and western halves of China. This is the first study contending that "frontier China" has remained a fitting characterization of the rising Asian giant.
Author: Kamayani Publisher: Notion Press ISBN: 1946129909 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 262
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From the Cinderella who won the Prince to the Cinderella who rejects him, the fairy-tale heroine has journeyed long and hard through the rough and tumble of the cultural highway. From simple pliancy to subtle shades of desire and its complex expression, the fairy-tale heroine, and her co-habitant, the Witch, have found new panoramas of being. The postmodern plurality of voices finds an echo in the plurality of narrative possibility. Few works have so assiduously attempted to locate, situate and debate the fairy tale in the complex milieu of literary genres and cultural production. Sifting through the sands of time--from their classical, yet not apolitical origins-- to their fiercely political post-modern avatars, the book analyses some prominent fairy narratives against the most enduring themes of gender discourse—female identity, portrayal, sexuality, desire, heteronormativity, etc.
Author: Engin Fahri Isin Publisher: University of Toronto Press ISBN: 080209757X Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 345
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Engin F. Isin and the volume's contributors explore the social sites that have become objects of government, and considers how these subjects are sites of contestation, resistance, differentiation and identification.
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