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Totalitarianism: The Basics is an easy to read introduction into
the main concepts, ideologies, and regimes associated with
totalitarianism. Starting with an overview of how scholars have
attempted to define totalitarianism, Phillip W. Gray begins with an
examination of the various types of terms used, helping the reader
think about how these terms do - and do not - apply to different
ideologies and governments. Easily accessible language and the use
of numerous examples aids readers in seeing the connections between
certain types of ideologies and some forms of
organization/movements in their relation to historically well-known
totalitarian regimes. Gray concludes with the tools necessary to
think through how to distinguish between an actual (or potential)
totalitarian system and regimes that, while oppressive or
authoritarian, would not be totalitarian in nature. A rich
bibliography containing additional readings bookend the text.
Totalitarianism: The Basics offers an essential introduction for
students from all backgrounds seeking to understand totalitarianism
and for general readers with an interest in political ideologies
and extremism. For those knowledgeable in this field, it adds
conceptual relevance and the varieties of ways of thinking about
the term.
Totalitarianism: The Basics is an easy to read introduction into
the main concepts, ideologies, and regimes associated with
totalitarianism. Starting with an overview of how scholars have
attempted to define totalitarianism, Phillip W. Gray begins with an
examination of the various types of terms used, helping the reader
think about how these terms do - and do not - apply to different
ideologies and governments. Easily accessible language and the use
of numerous examples aids readers in seeing the connections between
certain types of ideologies and some forms of
organization/movements in their relation to historically well-known
totalitarian regimes. Gray concludes with the tools necessary to
think through how to distinguish between an actual (or potential)
totalitarian system and regimes that, while oppressive or
authoritarian, would not be totalitarian in nature. A rich
bibliography containing additional readings bookend the text.
Totalitarianism: The Basics offers an essential introduction for
students from all backgrounds seeking to understand totalitarianism
and for general readers with an interest in political ideologies
and extremism. For those knowledgeable in this field, it adds
conceptual relevance and the varieties of ways of thinking about
the term.
Providing an innovative conceptualization to extremist political
movements founded upon "world-historic" populations and vanguard
party organizations, Vanguardism sets out a new path in
investigating the intellectual and historical influences that
created extremist politics, the totalitarian movements and regimes
of the twentieth century, and a framework for interpreting
extremism in the present. Expanding its view across the turbulent
intellectual currents of the nineteenth century, Philip W. Gray
illustrates how these ideas shaped the shared ideational and
organizational structures that would develop into Leninism,
Fascism, and Nazism in the early twentieth century. Moving beyond
the Second World War, the book explicates how vanguardism did not
vanish with the war's conclusion, but was modified throughout the
period of national liberation movements and Western extremist
groups over the ensuing decades. Concluding in the present with an
eye to the future, Gray presents a framework for comprehending the
extremist movement of today, and how organizational shifts can give
us clues to the forms of totalitarian politics of tomorrow.
Original and provocative, Vanguardism will become essential reading
for everyone looking to understand totalitarianism and extremist
politics of our time.
Providing an innovative conceptualization to extremist political
movements founded upon "world-historic" populations and vanguard
party organizations, Vanguardism sets out a new path in
investigating the intellectual and historical influences that
created extremist politics, the totalitarian movements and regimes
of the twentieth century, and a framework for interpreting
extremism in the present. Expanding its view across the turbulent
intellectual currents of the nineteenth century, Philip W. Gray
illustrates how these ideas shaped the shared ideational and
organizational structures that would develop into Leninism,
Fascism, and Nazism in the early twentieth century. Moving beyond
the Second World War, the book explicates how vanguardism did not
vanish with the war's conclusion, but was modified throughout the
period of national liberation movements and Western extremist
groups over the ensuing decades. Concluding in the present with an
eye to the future, Gray presents a framework for comprehending the
extremist movement of today, and how organizational shifts can give
us clues to the forms of totalitarian politics of tomorrow.
Original and provocative, Vanguardism will become essential reading
for everyone looking to understand totalitarianism and extremist
politics of our time.
Managing the challenges of governance is more than merely managing
people and resources; it is about managing the values that
intersecting cultures attach to people and resources. The Ethics of
Public Administration: The Challenges of Global Governance provides
an exploratory introduction to the history and trends of major
ethical cultures around the globe. Featuring chapters that explore
national and ideological forms of ethics--including those of India,
Russia, and Africa as well as Marxism, Leninism, Daoism, Buddhism,
Confucianism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam-- The Ethics of
Public Administration is an indispensable guide for all those
working in international affairs and government.
Managing the challenges of governance is more than merely managing
people and resources; it is about managing the values that
intersecting cultures attach to people and resources. The Ethics of
Public Administration: The Challenges of Global Governance provides
an exploratory introduction to the history and trends of major
ethical cultures around the globe. Featuring chapters that explore
national and ideological forms of ethics--including those of India,
Russia, and Africa as well as Marxism, Leninism, Daoism, Buddhism,
Confucianism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam-- The Ethics of
Public Administration is an indispensable guide for all those
working in international affairs and government.
Co-Existing in a Globalized World: Key Themes in Inter-Professional
Ethics brings together, and engages with, the scholarly work
accomplished individually under the banner of professional ethics
in various fields. The overarching theme of the volume is that
globalization inevitably pairs professionals from distinct fields
as co-workers. This necessitates serious reflection on how diverse
fields can co-exist and achieve superior results through combining
best practices from each. The authors are leading scholars and
practitioners who have diverse national and distinguished
professional backgrounds. These authors particularly focus on
ethical concerns emerging from the inherent symbiotic relationship
between cultural boundaries, professions and globalization.
Furthermore, they put focused emphasis on ethical compliance with
regard to globalization of professional practices into various
cultural settings. The fields represented in the volume include
international law, comparative education, East-West relations,
engineering and bio-medical ethics, research ethics, and
international professionalism in a cross-cultural context.
When debating upon how to react to new styles of warfare in the
21st century, scholars and political leaders often invoke the
language of the just war doctrine. However, while terms such as
"last resort" and "legitimate authority" are frequently used, their
meaning is often vague or improperly used. In what ways can we make
the terminology of just war more concrete and meaningful? This
study examines the philosophical structure of the just war
tradition, in particular focusing on its origins. Through an
analysis of the ontological presuppositions of Augustine's
arguments on just war, this study explains some of the fundamental
assumptions necessary for the just war doctrine to remain coherent.
By investigating contemporary attempts to address morality in
warfare, this study also explains why major schools of thought
(realism, international law, liberalism) fail in this endevour.
This book will be of use to scholars of political theory,
international relations, and intellectual history. It will also
prove useful to researchers who focus political theology, ethics in
warfare, and conflict studies.
The success of individual nation states today is often measured in
terms of their ability to benefit from and contribute to a host of
global economic, political, socio-cultural, technological, and
educational networks. This increased multifaceted international
inter-dependence represents an intuitively contradictory and an
immensely complex situation. This scenario requires that national
governments, whose primary responsibility is towards their
citizenry, must relinquish a degree of control over state borders
to constantly developing trans and multinational regimes and
institutions. Once state borders become permeable all sorts of
issues related to rights earned or accrued due to membership of a
national community come into question. Given that neither
individuals nor states can eschew the influence of the growing
interdependence, this new milieu is often described in terms of
shrinking of the world into a global village. This reshaping of the
world requires us to broaden our horizons and re-evaluate the
manner in which we theorize human personhood within communal
boundaries. It also demands us to acknowledge that the relative
decline of Euro-American economic and political influence and the
rise of Asian and Latin American states at the global level have
created spaces in which a de-territorialized and a de-historicized
notion of citizenship and state can now be explored. The essays in
this volume represent diverse disciplinary, analytical, and
methodological approaches to understand what the implications are
of being a citizen of both a nation state and the world
simultaneously. In sum, Deconstructing Global Citizenship explores
the question of whether a synthesis of contradictory national and
global tendencies in the term "global citizenship" is even
possible, or if we are better served by fundamentally reconsidering
our ideas of "citizenship," "community," and "politics."
Co-Existing in a Globalized World: Key Themes in Inter-Professional
Ethics brings together, and engages with, the scholarly work
accomplished individually under the banner of professional ethics
in various fields. The overarching theme of the volume is that
globalization inevitably pairs professionals from distinct fields
as co-workers. This necessitates serious reflection on how diverse
fields can co-exist and achieve superior results through combining
best practices from each. The authors are leading scholars and
practitioners who have diverse national and distinguished
professional backgrounds. These authors particularly focus on
ethical concerns emerging from the inherent symbiotic relationship
between cultural boundaries, professions and globalization.
Furthermore, they put focused emphasis on ethical compliance with
regard to globalization of professional practices into various
cultural settings. The fields represented in the volume include
international law, comparative education, East-West relations,
engineering and bio-medical ethics, research ethics, and
international professionalism in a cross-cultural context.
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