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As the world is changing, many scholars, analysts, and policy
makers agree that even as governments need to confront external
threats, creating sustainable domestic environments is imperative
as a policy priority. As events surrounding September 11, 2001
continue to remind us, marginalized sections of the population can
become breeding grounds for dissatisfaction, disenchantment, and
eventually, targets for terrorist groups. Throughout the cold war
period, South Asia served as a strategic region in the bilateral
rivalry between the United States and the former Soviet Union,
coupled with China's careful scrutiny. In the post cold war period,
several bilateral conflicts, the nuclear tests of 1998, the post
9/11 world in which South Asia has become a breeding ground for
terrorists, entwined with an embattled, albeit a shared history,
continue to make India and Pakistan a pivotal region to study. A
timely analysis which starts with traditional approaches and
combines them with new thinking within a human security policy
framework, this book will contribute to a deeper and more holistic
understanding of policy priorities of major players in a pivotal
region of the world. It begins by analyzing security policies of
India and Pakistan that have emerged in the context of
geo-political concerns based on realist calculations. It also looks
at the policies of the two governments in key areas such as the
economy, education, public health, and safeguarding against
gender-based violence. Concern with human security prompts analyses
such as the one adopted in this book to argue that governments
should empower and protect their citizens from serious threats to
their survival. Home to a fifth of the world's population, large
numbers of whom are reeling in poverty, where terrorism continues
to be a concern, along with ongoing border disputes, India and
Pakistan will find it imperative to make careful evaluations of
this multipronged challenge to security. While it has relevance for
regional policy priorities, this analysis also has broader
implications for world powers such as the United States and China,
for whom South Asia remains a key strategic area.
As the world is changing, many scholars, analysts, and policy
makers agree that even as governments need to confront external
threats, creating sustainable domestic environments is imperative
as a policy priority. As events surrounding September 11, 2001
continue to remind us, marginalized sections of the population can
become breeding grounds for dissatisfaction, disenchantment, and
eventually, targets for terrorist groups. Throughout the cold war
period, South Asia served as a strategic region in the bilateral
rivalry between the United States and the former Soviet Union,
coupled with China's careful scrutiny. In the post cold war period,
several bilateral conflicts, the nuclear tests of 1998, the post
9/11 world in which South Asia has become a breeding ground for
terrorists, entwined with an embattled, albeit a shared history,
continue to make India and Pakistan a pivotal region to study. A
timely analysis which starts with traditional approaches and
combines them with new thinking within a human security policy
framework, this book will contribute to a deeper and more holistic
understanding of policy priorities of major players in a pivotal
region of the world. It begins by analyzing security policies of
India and Pakistan that have emerged in the context of
geo-political concerns based on realist calculations. It also looks
at the policies of the two governments in key areas such as the
economy, education, public health, and safeguarding against
gender-based violence. Concern with human security prompts analyses
such as the one adopted in this book to argue that governments
should empower and protect their citizens from serious threats to
their survival. Home to a fifth of the world's population, large
numbers of whom are reeling in poverty, where terrorism continues
to be a concern, along with ongoing border disputes, India and
Pakistan will find it imperative to make careful evaluations of
this multipronged challenge to security. While it has relevance for
regional policy priorities, this analys
Far from being an anachronism, much less a kit-bag of techniques,
people's war raises what has always been present in military
history, irregular warfare, and fuses it symbiotically with what
has likewise always been present politically, rebellion and the
effort to seize power. The result is a strategic approach for
waging revolutionary warfare, the effort "to make a revolution."
Voluntarism is wedded to the exploitation of structural
contradiction through the building of a new world to challenge the
existing world, through formation of a counterstate within the
state in order ultimately to destroy and supplant the latter. This
is a process of far greater moment than implied by the label
"guerrilla warfare" so often applied to what Mao and others were
about. This volume deals with the continuing importance of Maoist
and post-Maoist concepts of people's war. Drawing on a range of
examples that include Peru, Colombia, Bolivia, the Caucasus, and
Afghanistan, the collection shows that the study of people's war is
not just an historical curiosity but vital to the understanding of
contemporary insurgent and terrorist movements. The chapters in
this book were originally published as a special issue of Small
Wars & Insurgencies.
Far from being an anachronism, much less a kit-bag of techniques,
people's war raises what has always been present in military
history, irregular warfare, and fuses it symbiotically with what
has likewise always been present politically, rebellion and the
effort to seize power. The result is a strategic approach for
waging revolutionary warfare, the effort "to make a revolution."
Voluntarism is wedded to the exploitation of structural
contradiction through the building of a new world to challenge the
existing world, through formation of a counterstate within the
state in order ultimately to destroy and supplant the latter. This
is a process of far greater moment than implied by the label
"guerrilla warfare" so often applied to what Mao and others were
about. This volume deals with the continuing importance of Maoist
and post-Maoist concepts of people's war. Drawing on a range of
examples that include Peru, Colombia, Bolivia, the Caucasus, and
Afghanistan, the collection shows that the study of people's war is
not just an historical curiosity but vital to the understanding of
contemporary insurgent and terrorist movements. The chapters in
this book were originally published as a special issue of Small
Wars & Insurgencies.
Alain Bauer argues that we need, with considerable immediacy, to
press the formal study of crime in the academy, and that more
resources need to be channeled towards that purpose. The approach
in universities, if they do deign to study the subject, is often
relegated to adjuncts and regarded by the more established
departments with disdain. Given the prejudices of conventional
scholars towards the subject, it is no wonder that the response to
crime has been inept, and grows increasingly inadequate,
considering the highly adaptive nature of crime and its
implications in a globalized world in the XXIst Century.
Victor Lefebure (1891-1947) earned his bachelor's at University
College London in 1911 and began a research and teaching career at
Wye College before being called to the colors in the 3rd Essex
Regiment in 1915. He was seconded to the Special Brigade of the
Royal Engineers that was developing chemical warfare to be use
against the Germans. He worked with the French forces and they
carried out a number of successful attacks, notably at Nieuport on
October 5, 1916. After the war he became a successful businessman
and the inventor of a number of building materials. This book about
chemical warfare became basic to the subject's history. But the gas
attacks troubled him and in 1931 he wrote Scientific Disarmament,
with introductions by such luminaries at Lloyd George and H.G.
Wells. There he wrote, "Is it illogical or disloyal for technical
men who have fostered armament in a previous national emergency,
and might do so again, to take the initiative in the direction of
disarmament? These questions have inevitably pursued me in writing
this book, for the old loyalty to organisations and friends of the
War must remain to the end. I can only say that it must be the
first objective of any sane person who has seen war, to try to
prevent the kind of catastrophe which engulfed the world in 1914.
The deciding factor is surely this, the obligation to another
generation which might again be sacrificed. If sane disarmament can
assist, and if armament knowledge is an essential part, then this
obligation falls upon those who possess it. Their contribution is
essential, and it is because the scruples which pursued me in
breaking new ground will also pursue them that I make these
comments."
In 1928, the Masonic lodge that George Washington had presided over
as Worshipful Master gathered anecdote about his connections with
Alexandria, Virginia, and commissioned photographs of relics and
places that provide unusual insights into his career. Not the least
of these artifacts is the old clock from Washington's bedroom at
Mt. Vernon, with the hands stopped by his doctor, Elisha Dick, at
the time of his death. Anyone interested in American history will
find this short monograph to be of value.
Three major collections of Unitarian and Nonconformist literature
in Britain are at Luther King House in Manchester, Harris
Manchester College in Oxford University, and the Dr. Williams
Library in London. This book gives important information about the
Unitarian antecedents of the Luther King library, which is used by
five colleges: Northern Baptist, Northern College (United Reformed
and Congregational), Hartley Victoria College, (Methodist)
Unitarian College Manchester, and Luther King House Open College.
In turn, the library and Luther King House cooperate with the
University of Manchester, a major holder of Nonconformist
literature. Manchester thus is a center for scholarship related to
various British denominations.
Admiral T.T. Jeans was a decorated British Naval officer with
considerable experience in the Middle East. He wrote this
fast-moving novel based on his experiences and those of his
compatriots. The plot turns on efforts of Iran to stir trouble by
providing arms to Middle Easter insurgents. While published in
1927, it could as well have been written about arms smuggling in
the 21st century, which makes policing the waters of the Gulf a
present priority.
Two peaks, one in New Hampshire's White Mountains and one in
Yosemite National Park, are named after Thomas Starr King. He left
a brilliant career in Boston to go to San Francisco in 1860, where
his convincing oratory was credited with keeping California firmly
on the Union side in the Civil War. Along with his commitment to
emancipation and the Northern cause, he had a sharp wit and an
enviable prose style, which this volume illustrates well.
Long before Earl Warren was a famous governor of California and
then an important Chief Justice of the United States, he was
forging a career in Freemasonry. Starting as an officer and
eventually master of a local lodge whose history is recounted in
this volume, he worked his way up the stairs of the Masonic
hierarchy to become Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of California.
Dr. Paul Rich is a member of the History of Education Society and
the author of several books about education, including titles about
the interaction of education and imperialism in the days of
colonialism -- Elixir of Empire and Chains of Empire
Few military units attract the attention of Hollywood and novelists
as does the Foreign Legion. Those old enough will remember Buster
Crabbe as Captain Gallant in the 1950s television serial about the
swashbuckling Legionnaires. The non-fictional reality is rather
more stark and gritty, and perhaps this volume is much closer to
the truth, -- even if Gary Cooper and Victor Mature (who both
starred in Legion film potboilers) had a better time of it.
William Atherton DuPuy was a well-known naturalist who wrote
anecdotally and personally about nature in ANIMAL FRIENDS AND FOES,
INSECT FRIENDS AND FOES, THE NATION'S FORESTS, and PLANT FRIENDS
AND FOES. In another vein he authored GREEN KINGDOM, his account of
the life of a forest ranger, and controversially produced HAWAII
AND ITS RACE PROBLEM. He also wrote for Harper's and had a
connection with the Department of the Interior and, less happily,
with the military's chemical warfare projects.
There was a time when how to use finger bowls and napkin rings was
part of education. In dispensing with archaic manners, we seem to
have also dispensed with the common sense sensitivity that among
other advantages made possible political discourse without
viciousness. Decorum has been jettisoned, often with the excuse
that the times are different. The end result has been stress
instead of kindness, the evaporation of care and consideration, and
gross inefficiency in solving problems rather than any alleged
streamlined savings. The quality of our political life has
deteriorated and the upshot has been a stalemate in dealing with
contemporary social problems. The Westphalia Press Civility Series
offers classic texts about behavior, which if taken to heart might
have practical consequences.
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