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The book examines Bernard Brodie's strategic and philosophical
response to the nuclear age, embedding his work within the
classical theories of Carl von Clausewitz. Bernard Brodie
(1910-1978) was a leading 20th century theorist and philosopher of
war. A key architect of American nuclear strategy, Brodie was one
of the first civilian defense intellectuals to cross over into the
military world. "State of Doom" explores Brodie's evolution as a
theorist and his response to the technological innovations that
transformed warfare from WWII to the Vietnam War. It situates his
theoretical development within the classical theories of Carl von
Clausewitz (1780-1831), as Brodie came to be known as "America's
Clausewitz." While his first influential works focused on naval
strategy, his most lasting impact came within the field of nuclear
strategic thinking. Brodie helped conceptualize America's strategy
of deterrence, later taking into account America's loss of nuclear
monopoly, thermonuclear weapons, and intercontinental missiles.
This in-depth exploration of Brodie's strategic and philosophical
response to the nuclear age and of his effort to reconcile
Clausewitz's theories to the new challenges of the nuclear era will
make this book a must read to anyone in strategic studies,
international relations, and philosophy of war.
The work examines the rise of the movements against
globalization, modernization, and Western dominance that followed
the collapse of the bipolar world and the end of the Cold War and
that culminated with today's global jihadist movements. It
describes how the U.S. had to adapt to this new, asymmetrical world
of conflict with its strategic, doctrinal and theoretical responses
to the threats of terrorism and insurgency that defined the Global
War on Terror (GWOT).
Unique in the breadth of its scope, the book connects movements
from the Zapatista uprising to Al Qaeda's global jihad within a
broader historical framework, connecting pre and post-9/11
conflicts under the unifying theme of a struggle against the forces
of modernization. Featuring the works of key theorists such as John
Arquilla, Thomas P.M. Barnett, Arthur K. Cebrowski, Jim Gant,
Samuel P. Huntington, Robert D. Kaplan, David J. Kilcullen, William
H. McRaven, and David Ronfeldt, this book bridges the fields of
counterinsurgency, homeland security, counterterrorism,
cyberwarfare, and technology of war, and will be a must-read for
academics, policymakers and strategists.
Land, Indigenous Peoples and Conflict presents an original
comparative study of indigenous land and property rights worldwide.
The book explores how the ongoing constitutional, legal and
political integration of indigenous peoples into contemporary
society has impacted on indigenous institutions and structures for
managing land and property. This book details some of the common
problems experienced by indigenous peoples throughout the world,
providing lessons and insights from conflict resolution that may
find application in other conflicts including inter-state and civil
and sectarian conflicts. An interdisciplinary group of contributors
present specific case material from indigenous land conflicts from
the South Pacific, Australasia, South East Asia, Africa, North and
South America, and northern Eurasia. These regional cases discuss
issues such as modernization, the evolution of systems and
institutions regulating land use, access and management, and the
resolution of indigenous land conflicts, drawing out common
problems and solutions. The lessons learnt from the book will be of
value to students, researchers, legal professionals and policy
makers with an interest in land and property rights worldwide.
On Thin Ice explores the relationship between the Inuit and the
modern state in the vast but lightly populated North American
Arctic. It chronicles the aspiration of the Inuit to participate in
the formation and implementation of diplomatic and national
security policies across the Arctic region and to contribute to the
reconceptualization of Arctic Security, including the redefinition
of the core values inherent in northern defense policy. With the
warming of the Earth's climate, the Arctic rim states have paid
increasing attention to the commercial opportunities, strategic
challenges, and environmental risks of climate change. As the long
isolation of the Arctic comes to an end, the Inuit who are
indigenous to the region are showing tremendous diplomatic and
political skills as they continue to work with the more populous
states that assert sovereign control over the Arctic in an effort
to mutually assert joint sovereignty across the region Published on
the 50th anniversary of Ken Waltz's classic Man, the State and War,
Zellen's On Thin Ice is at once a tribute to Waltz's elucidation of
the three levels of analysis as well as an enhancement of his
famous "Three Images," with the addition of a new "Fourth Image" to
describe a tribal level of analysis. This model remains salient in
not only the Arctic where modern state sovereignty remains limited,
but in many other conflict zones where tribal peoples retain many
attributes of their indigenous sovereignty.
An expert examination of the way climate change is transforming the
Arctic environmentally, economically, and geopolitically, and how
the challenges of that transformation should be met. A growing
number of scientists estimate that there will be no summer ice in
the Arctic by as soon as 2013. Are we approaching the "End of the
Arctic?" as journalist Ed Struzik asked in 1992, or fully entering
the "Age of the Arctic," as Arctic expert Oran Young predicted in
1986? Arctic Doom, Arctic Boom: The Geopolitics of Climate Change
in the Arctic looks at the uncertainty at the top of the world as
the shrinking of the polar ice cap opens up new sea lanes and the
vast hydrocarbon riches of the Arctic seafloor to commercial
development and creates environmental disasters for Arctic biota
and indigenous peoples. Arctic Doom, Arctic Boom explores the
geopolitics of the Arctic from a historical as well as a
contemporary perspective, showing how the warming of the Earth is
transforming our very conception of the Arctic. In addition to
addressing economic and environmental issues, the book also
considers the vital strategic role of the region in our nation's
defenses.
Land, Indigenous Peoples and Conflict presents an original
comparative study of indigenous land and property rights worldwide.
The book explores how the ongoing constitutional, legal and
political integration of indigenous peoples into contemporary
society has impacted on indigenous institutions and structures for
managing land and property. This book details some of the common
problems experienced by indigenous peoples throughout the world,
providing lessons and insights from conflict resolution that may
find application in other conflicts including inter-state and civil
and sectarian conflicts. An interdisciplinary group of contributors
present specific case material from indigenous land conflicts from
the South Pacific, Australasia, South East Asia, Africa, North and
South America, and northern Eurasia. These regional cases discuss
issues such as modernization, the evolution of systems and
institutions regulating land use, access and management, and the
resolution of indigenous land conflicts, drawing out common
problems and solutions. The lessons learnt from the book will be of
value to students, researchers, legal professionals and policy
makers with an interest in land and property rights worldwide.
The life and times of an enduring work of Jewish spirituality The
Babylonian Talmud, a postbiblical Jewish text that is part
scripture and part commentary, is an unlikely bestseller. Written
in a hybrid of Hebrew and Aramaic, it is often ambiguous to the
point of incomprehension, and its subject matter reflects a narrow
scholasticism that should hardly have broad appeal. Yet the Talmud
has remained in print for centuries and is more popular today than
ever. Barry Scott Wimpfheimer tells the remarkable story of this
ancient Jewish book, explaining why the Talmud is at once a
received source of traditional teachings, a touchstone of cultural
authority, and a powerful symbol of Jewishness for supporters and
critics alike.
The life and times of an enduring work of Jewish spirituality The
Babylonian Talmud, a postbiblical Jewish text that is part
scripture and part commentary, is an unlikely bestseller. Written
in a hybrid of Hebrew and Aramaic, it is often ambiguous to the
point of incomprehension, and its subject matter reflects a narrow
scholasticism that should hardly have broad appeal. Yet the Talmud
has remained in print for centuries and is more popular today than
ever. Barry Scott Wimpfheimer tells the remarkable story of this
ancient Jewish book and explains why it has endured for almost two
millennia. Providing a concise biography of this quintessential
work of rabbinic Judaism, Wimpfheimer takes readers from the
Talmud's prehistory in biblical and second-temple Judaism to its
present-day use as a source of religious ideology, a model of
different modes of rationality, and a totem of cultural identity.
He describes the book's origins and structure, its centrality to
Jewish law, its mixed reception history, and its golden renaissance
in modernity. He explains why reading the Talmud can feel like
being swept up in a river or lost in a maze, and why the Talmud has
come to be venerated--but also excoriated and maligned-in the
centuries since it first appeared. An incomparable introduction to
a work of literature that has lived a full and varied life, this
accessible book shows why the Talmud is at once a received source
of traditional teachings, a touchstone of cultural authority, and a
powerful symbol of Jewishness for both supporters and critics.
Narrating the Law A Poetics of Talmudic Legal Stories Barry Scott
Wimpfheimer "Well trained in the critical study of rabbinic
literature and informed by previous philological scholarship as
well as by critical theory, Wimpfheimer provides a model that has
the potential to narrow the gap that has divided the two major
vectors of rabbinic thinking, Halakhah and Aggadah, law and
folklore. His exacting analysis of the literary genre of legal
narrative puts this dichotomization into sharp relief."--Elliot R.
Wolfson, New York University In "Narrating the Law" Barry Scott
Wimpfheimer creates a new theoretical framework for considering the
relationship between law and narrative and models a new method for
studying talmudic law in particular. Works of law, including the
Talmud, are animated by a desire to create clear usable precedent.
This animating impulse toward clarity is generally absent in
narratives, the form of which is better able to capture the
subtleties of lived life. Wimpfheimer proposes to make these
different forms compatible by constructing a narrative-based law
that considers law as one of several "languages," along with
politics, ethics, psychology, and others that together compose
culture. A narrative-based law is capable of recognizing the
limitations of theoretical statutes and the degree to which other
cultural languages interact with legal discourse, complicating any
attempts to actualize a hypothetical set of rules. This way of
considering law strongly resists the divide in traditional Jewish
learning between legal literature (Halakhah) and nonlegal
literature (Aggadah) by suggesting the possibility of a discourse
broad enough to capture both. "Narrating the Law" activates this
mode of reading by looking at the Talmud's legal stories, a set of
texts that sits uncomfortably on the divide between Halakhah and
Aggadah. After noticing that such stories invite an expansive
definition of law that includes other cultural voices, "Narrating
the Law" also mines the stories for the rich descriptions of
rabbinic culture that they encapsulate. Barry Scott Wimpfheimer
teaches religion and law at Northwestern University. Divinations:
Rereading Late Ancient Religion Jan 2011 264 pages 6 x 9 ISBN
978-0-8122-4299-7 Cloth $59.95s 39.00 World Rights Religion, Law
Short copy: "Narrating the Law: A Poetics of Talmudic Legal
Stories" creates a new theoretical framework for considering the
relationship between law and narrative, models a new method of
studying Talmudic law, and fills out the picture of the cultural
life of the rabbis who contributed to the Talmud.
Betty Sterling is a common thug with a chip on his shoulder-not
surprising since his name is "Beatrice"-until he's hired to do the
kind of job he's never done before. When Betty is sent to help
fishermen who aren't catching any fish, he'll reel in a lot more
than he bargained for. Join Betty and his friends, Jewels and Sam,
as they go fishing for answers and learn more than they wanted to
know. Imagine a world where magic is as common as brushing your
teeth. Levitating " oaters" travel city streets and high-rise
buildings employ spell-casters to levitate people up on
specially-designed lifts. Wand-slingers and mind-readers abound and
humans rub shoulders with tiny elves and massive ogres. Watch your
back, guard your mind, and never forget to keep your wand in its
sheath. Find out more at www.worldofberrea.com
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