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Despite the overwhelming opposition on the left to the war in Iraq,
many prominent liberals supported the war on humanitarian grounds.
They argued that the war would rid the world of a brutal dictator
and liberate the Iraqi people from totalitarian oppression, paving
the way for a democratic transformation of the country.
In A Pact with the Devil Tony Smith deftly traces this
undeniable drift in mainstream liberal thinking toward a more
militant posture in world affairs with respect to human rights and
democracy promotion. Beginning with the Wilsonian quest to ???make
the world safe for democracy??? right up to the present day liberal
support for regime change, Smith isolates leading strands of
liberal internationalist thinking in order to see how the
???liberal hawks??? constructed them into a case for American and
liberal imperialism in the Middle East. The result is a reflection
on an important aspect of the intellectual history of American
foreign policy; establishing howa sophisticated group of thinkers
came to fashion their recommendations to Washington and working to
see what role liberalism may still play in deliberations in the
country on its role in world events now that the failure of these
ambitions in Iraq seems clear.
Despite the overwhelming opposition on the left to the war in Iraq,
many prominent liberals supported the war on humanitarian grounds.
They argued that the war would rid the world of a brutal dictator
and liberate the Iraqi people from totalitarian oppression, paving
the way for a democratic transformation of the country. In A Pact
with the Devil Tony Smith deftly traces this undeniable drift in
mainstream liberal thinking toward a more militant posture in world
affairs with respect to human rights and democracy promotion.
Beginning with the Wilsonian quest to 'make the world safe for
democracy' right up to the present day liberal support for regime
change, Smith isolates leading strands of liberal internationalist
thinking in order to see how the 'liberal hawks' constructed them
into a case for American and liberal imperialism in the Middle
East. The result is a reflection on an important aspect of the
intellectual history of American foreign policy; establishing how a
sophisticated group of thinkers came to fashion their
recommendations to Washington and working to see what role
liberalism may still play in deliberations in the country on its
role in world events now that the failure of these ambitions in
Iraq seems clear.
Tony Smith CBE spent his career managing our UK border controls,
from junior immigration officer to Head of the UK Border Force. He
spent more than four decades in the front line of the conflict
between those who argue for open borders and free movement and
those whose focus is on building barriers. He played a prominent
role in managing security on both sides of the Atlantic after the
9/11 attacks in North America. Along the way he has worked
constantly to make controls more efficient, better informed and
fairer, yet less vulnerable to abuse. After retirement in 2013, he
became a prominent media spokesman on border control issues, from
tackling legal immigration crime, human smuggling and terrorist
travel to managing borders through Brexit and beyond. This is his
story.
"America's Mission" argues that the global strength and prestige
of democracy today are due in large part to America's impact on
international affairs. Tony Smith documents the extraordinary
history of how American foreign policy has been used to try to
promote democracy worldwide, an effort that enjoyed its greatest
triumphs in the occupations of Japan and Germany but suffered huge
setbacks in Latin America, Vietnam, and elsewhere. With new
chapters and a new introduction and epilogue, this expanded edition
also traces U.S. attempts to spread democracy more recently, under
presidents Clinton, Bush, and Obama, and assesses America's role in
the Arab Spring.
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint
Services 3.0 is the next generation of Microsoft SharePoint
technologies. These products expand on SharePoint's
information-sharing and collaboration capabilities, which allow you
to create true enterprise information management, information
sharing, and collaboration solutions.
"SharePoint 2007 Users Guide: Learning Microsoft's Collaboration
and Productivity Platform" is the follow-up edition to the
successful "SharePoint 2003 Users Guide" (Apress, 2005). This book
provides guidance about the new workflows, interface, and other
technologies within SharePoint 2007. Authors -->Seth Bates
-->and -->Tony Smith--> describe SharePoint in a variety
of environments, and have the expertise and ability to stand behind
this useful guide, catering to anyone who works with SharePoint
technologies in any capacity.
This book provides detailed instructions for using Microsoft
SharePoint 2003. Users will be given the information necessary to
execute basic and advanced features of SharePoint Portal Server and
Windows SharePoint Services. It also includes instructions for all
readers on how to build the most common SharePoint solution
scenarios and descriptions of the best ways to configure SharePoint
around these scenarios.
This book will also have a foreword by Scot Hillier, author of
Microsoft SharePoint: Building Office 2003 Solutions
(1-59059-338-3, 2004, Apress) and Advanced SharePoint Services
Solutions (1-59059-456-8, Apress, 2005).
Great sales coaching positively impacts individual, team and
organisational sales performance. However, in today's
results-driven and time-poor business world, the embedding of sales
coaching into everyday practice is often overlooked. This guide
utilises the authors' own experiences of helping companies and
individuals turn average, static and infrequent sales coaching
regimes into successful business strategies for winning sales
teams. Looking at the reality of sales coaching today, the book
explores the how, what and why of sales coaching. Through extensive
research into elite coaches in the world of business and sports the
authors explore the mindset, skills and behaviours required to be a
top sales coach. They also consider how to be coached. How the
sales person can overcome any natural shyness, fear of performance
critique and seek out specific, timely and actionable coaching
feedback. Using the latest thinking in neuroleadership and
psychology, the book outlines the nine key behaviours of a great
coach and provides a range of practical sales coaching models,
tools and techniques which can be easily integrated into a sales
leaders every-day pressurised role. Coaching Winning Sales Teams is
an essential read for sales leaders and professionals, alongside
researchers and practitioners working in HR, Learning and
Development and Sales Effectiveness.
Was George W. Bush the true heir of Woodrow Wilson, the
architect of liberal internationalism? Was the Iraq War a result of
liberal ideas about America's right to promote democracy abroad? In
this timely book, four distinguished scholars of American foreign
policy discuss the relationship between the ideals of Woodrow
Wilson and those of George W. Bush. "The Crisis of American Foreign
Policy" exposes the challenges resulting from Bush's foreign policy
and ponders America's place in the international arena.
Led by John Ikenberry, one of today's foremost foreign policy
thinkers, this provocative collection examines the traditions of
liberal internationalism that have dominated American foreign
policy since the end of World War II. Tony Smith argues that Bush
and the neoconservatives followed Wilson in their commitment to
promoting democracy abroad. Thomas Knock and Anne-Marie Slaughter
disagree and contend that Wilson focused on the building of a
collaborative and rule-centered world order, an idea the Bush
administration actively resisted. The authors ask if the United
States is still capable of leading a cooperative effort to handle
the pressing issues of the new century, or if the country will have
to go it alone, pursuing policies without regard to the interests
of other governments.
Addressing current events in the context of historical
policies, this book considers America's position on the global
stage and what future directions might be possible for the nation
in the post-Bush era.
The liberal internationalist tradition is credited with America's
greatest triumphs as a world power--and also its biggest failures.
Beginning in the 1940s, imbued with the spirit of Woodrow Wilson's
efforts at the League of Nations to "make the world safe for
democracy," the United States steered a course in world affairs
that would eventually win the Cold War. Yet in the 1990s,
Wilsonianism turned imperialist, contributing directly to the
invasion of Iraq in 2003 and the continued failures of American
foreign policy. Why Wilson Matters explains how the liberal
internationalist community can regain a sense of identity and
purpose following the betrayal of Wilson's vision by the brash
"neo-Wilsonianism" being pursued today. Drawing on Wilson's
original writings and speeches, Tony Smith traces how his thinking
about America's role in the world evolved in the years leading up
to and during his presidency, and how the Wilsonian tradition went
on to influence American foreign policy in the decades that
followed--for good and for ill. He traces the tradition's evolution
from its "classic" era with Wilson, to its "hegemonic" stage during
the Cold War, to its "imperialist" phase today. Smith calls for an
end to reckless forms of U.S. foreign intervention, and a return to
the prudence and "eternal vigilance" of Wilson's own time. Why
Wilson Matters renews hope that the United States might again
become effectively liberal by returning to the sense of realism
that Wilson espoused, one where the promotion of democracy around
the world is balanced by the understanding that such efforts are
not likely to come quickly and without costs.
Learn how to make the most of SharePoint 2016 and its wide range of
capabilities to support your information management, collaboration,
and business process management needs. Whether you are using
SharePoint as an intranet or business solution platform, you will
learn how to use the resources (such as lists, libraries, and
sites) and services (such as search, workflow, and social) that
make up these environments. In the fifth edition of this
bestselling book, author Tony Smith walks you through the
components and capabilities that make up a SharePoint 2016
environment. He provides step-by-step instructions for using and
managing these elements, as well as recommendations for how to get
the best out of them. What You Will Learn Create and use common
SharePoint resources like lists, libraries, sites, pages and web
parts Understand when and how workflows and information management
policies can be used to automate process Learn how to take
advantage of records retention, management, and disposition Make
the most of SharePoint search services Take advantage of social
capabilities to create social solutions Who This Book Is For
Whether you have not yet used SharePoint at all, have used previous
versions, have just started using the basic features, or have been
using it for a long of time, this book provides the skills you need
to work efficiently with the capabilities SharePoint 2016 provides.
This book provides a wide-ranging and in-depth reappraisal of the
relation between Marx's economic theory in Capital and Hegel's
Logic by leading Marxian economists and philosophers from around
the world. The subjects dealt with include: systematic dialectics,
the New Dialectics, materialism vs. idealism, Marx's 'inversion' of
Hegel, Hegel's Concept logic, Hegel's Essence logic, Marx's levels
of abstraction of capital in general and competition, and capital
as Hegelian Subject.
How Woodrow Wilson's vision of making the world safe for democracy
has been betrayed-and how America can fulfill it again The liberal
internationalist tradition is credited with America's greatest
triumphs as a world power-and also its biggest failures. Beginning
in the 1940s, imbued with the spirit of Woodrow Wilson's efforts at
the League of Nations to "make the world safe for democracy," the
United States steered a course in world affairs that would
eventually win the Cold War. Yet in the 1990s, Wilsonianism turned
imperialist, contributing directly to the invasion of Iraq in 2003
and the continued failures of American foreign policy. Why Wilson
Matters explains how the liberal internationalist community can
regain a sense of identity and purpose following the betrayal of
Wilson's vision by the brash "neo-Wilsonianism" being pursued
today. Drawing on Wilson's original writings and speeches, Tony
Smith traces how his thinking about America's role in the world
evolved in the years leading up to and during his presidency, and
how the Wilsonian tradition went on to influence American foreign
policy in the decades that followed-for good and for ill. He traces
the tradition's evolution from its "classic" era with Wilson, to
its "hegemonic" stage during the Cold War, to its "imperialist"
phase today. Smith calls for an end to reckless forms of U.S.
foreign intervention, and a return to the prudence and "eternal
vigilance" of Wilson's own time. Why Wilson Matters renews hope
that the United States might again become effectively liberal by
returning to the sense of realism that Wilson espoused, one where
the promotion of democracy around the world is balanced by the
understanding that such efforts are not likely to come quickly and
without costs.
Part One of this book examines the social-state, neoliberal,
catalytic-state, and democratic-cosmopolitan models of
globalisation. Each necessarily tends to function in a manner
contradicting essential claims made by its leading advocates. This
"immanent contradiction" provides a theoretical warrant for moving
to a new position, addressing the shortcomings of the previous
framework. The first three chapters of Part Two are devoted to a
Marxian model of capitalist globalisation, in which the
irresolvable contradictions and social antagonisms of the
capitalist global order are explicitly recognised. The final
chapter is devoted to a Marxian model of socialist globalisation,
in which those contradictions and antagonisms are overcome,
bringing the systematic dialectic of globalisation to a
close.
Tony Smith, Ph.D. (1980) in Philosophy, Stony Brook State
University of New York, is currently Professor of Philosophy of
Iowa State University. He has published extensively in the field of
Marxian social theory, including The Logic of Marx's 'Capital' and
Technology and Capital in the Age of Lean Production (SUNY Press
1990, 2000).
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