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Newport Paper 39. The monograph is an empirical analysis of crisis
haracteristics, actors, U.S. involvement, and outcomes, exploring
the political use of naval forces during foreign-policy crises
short of full-scale warfare. Dr. Forster, of the University of
Zurich, uses a statistical model to analyze naval crisis data in
ways useful to policy makers and strategists-outlining the unique
characteristics, advantages, and disadvantages of naval forces and
summarizing theoretical literature on naval diplomacy and coercion,
as well as earlier quantitative research.
Metropolises often evoke images of flashy high-rise buildings,
permanent background noise, backed-up cars and people moving
quickly in all directions in their masses. New York, Tokyo, London,
Sao Paulo. But what about Cairo? Lagos? Nairobi, Kinshasa,
Johannesburg? More than half of the world's population lives in
cities. Countries of the South in particular are facing fast-paced
globalisation, with the highest rates of urbanisation taking place
in African cities. Beyond Western models of urban development,
African cities are creating their own urban structures, topography
and cultures. How do these structures work? How do the residents of
these cities organise their daily lives? What discussions are
taking place in Africa about the history and future of cities? And
how are artists thinking about and representing urban life in
Africa? Lavishly illustrated and meticulously researched, Afropolis
is the product of an exhibition developed by the
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum in Cologne, Germany. The book focuses on
the Big Five of African cities: Cairo, Lagos, Nairobi, Kinshasa and
Johannesburg, and brings together positions of artistic and
cultural studies, as well as detailed histories and the specific
dynamics of these African cities, in order to expand our
understanding of the concept of urbanity and the phenomenon of the
City from an African perspective. This is the first time the book
is available in English.
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