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David Shorr
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I Call Bullshit
The Republicans' 2016 presidential nominee is just one sign of a major political party coming unhinged. Look beyond Donald Trump's most outrageous statements, and it's not as if the GOP has a reasonable side with workable solutions for the country's problems. After a long career in Washington's foreign policy community and leading and taking part in numerous bipartisan initiatives, David Shorr eventually concluded the Republicans' main policy ideas were no longer credible. In I Call Bullshit, Shorr dismantles the false premises on which the Republicans base their entire approach to the economy, healthcare, foreign policy and voting rights. Four major Republican fallacies have skewed our political debate and made it harder to adopt sensible policies: the beneficent private sector job creators, laissez-faire healthcare, a globally almighty America, and phantom fraudulent voters. Only when Republicans stop getting away with spouting the same nonsense can the national conversation get onto sounder footing. From reading this book you will better understand how the fallacies distort our political discourse and be well equipped to call bullshit on them yourself.
Give the G-20 Its Due - ByGiovanni Grevi & David Shorr
Has the G- 20 developed into a competent body to deal with international challenges, or does it merely coast along with perfunctory meetings while the global economy remains on the edge of the cliff? It's all too easy to judge the G-20 harshly, especially if the group is measured against its early successes responding to the 2008-09 financial meltdown. [...] While there is plenty of room for G-20 nations to raise the level of their diplomatic game, the forum is carving out an important niche in the international system. [...] Any fair assessment must begin by setting aside some of the false choices that have fed cynicism toward the G-20: a focus on short- versus long-term issues; a narrow agenda confined to economic matters or a broader remit; and whether the group is a crisis- driven fire brigade or a management committee for the global economy. [...] At the top of the list was the G-20's core mandate to keep the global economy growing. [...] One of the most striking features of international politics these days is the modest level of international cooperation in the face of epochal challenges, such as balanced economic growth, nuclear nonproliferation and climate change.
The Luckiest Orphans
Founded in 1860, the Hebrew Orphan Asylum of New York was the oldest, largest, and best-known Jewish orphanage in the United States until its closing in 1941. This book, the first history of an orphanage ever published, tells the story of the HOA's development from a nineteenth-century institution into a model twentieth-century child-care facility. Because of the humane and benevolent attitude of the New York Jewish community toward its orphans, the harsh authoritarianism and Dickensian conditions typical of contemporary orphanages were gradually replaced there by a nurturing approach that looked after the religious, social, and personal needs of the children. Though primarily an instrument ...
Bridging the Foreign Policy Divide
Bridging the Foreign Policy Divide brings together twenty leading foreign policy and national security specialists—some of the leading thinkers of their generation—to seek common ground on ten key, controversial areas of policy. In each chapter conservative and liberal experts jointly outline their points of agreement on many of the most pressing issues in U.S. foreign policy, pointing the way toward a more constructive debate. In doing so, the authors move past philosophical differences and identify effective approaches to the major national security challenges confronting the United States. An outgrowth of a Stanley Foundation initiative, this book shows what happens when specialists take a fresh look at politically sensitive issues purely on their merits and present an alternative to the distortions and oversimplifications of today's polarizing political environment.
Bright Spots
Shifting clout between emerging and established powers poses one of the most complex challenges of our time. What is the appetite of key governments to cooperate in problem solving? What stances do they take? The world order can only function well if its main premises and institutions reflect basic common views among the major players. In 2013 the Stanley Foundation carried out a wide-ranging consultation with experts in the policy communities of emerging and established powers about what issues hold potential for advancement. Stepping back from the panoply of multilateral efforts, we take a fresh look at the agenda and ask what problems warrant a more prominent push. David Shorr, Rei Tang, and Rebecca R. Friedman discuss the key points that arose during the yearlong consultations on climate change and energy; economic and human development; and the global commons.
Powers and Principles
What if the major global and regional powers of todayOs world came into closer alignment to build a stronger international community and shared approaches to twenty-first century threats and challenges? The Stanley Foundation posed that question to thirty-three top foreign policy analysts in Powers and Principles: International Leadership in a Shrinking World. Contributing writers were asked to describe the paths that nine powerful nations, a regional union of twenty-seven states, and a multinational corporation could take as constructive stakeholders in a strengthened rules-based international order. Each chapter is an assessment of what is politically possible (and impossible)_with a description of the associated pressures and reference to the countryOs geostrategic position, economy, society, history, and political system and culture. To provide a perspective from the inside and counterweight, each essay is accompanied by a critical reaction by a prominent analyst commentator from the given country. Powers and Principles is aimed at both reflective practitioners of policy and policy-relevant scholars.
Modernisation, National Identity and Legal Instrumentalism (Vol. I: Private Law)
This book, one of two volumes, is an anthology that analyses, through selected examples, the role played in the development of private law by the pursuit of goals serving modernisation or national ideologies in various countries, cultural spheres, and periods.
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Survival 49.2
First published in 2007. This book explores the complicity of democratic states from the global North in state terrorism in the global South.
