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The Challenge to NATO
The Challenge to NATO is a concise review of NATO, its relationship with the United States, and its implications for global security.
Croatian Cultural Renaissance
Croatia is a magnificent land full of surprises. Visitors are amazed to discover a country with spectacular natural wonders, a great culinary tradition, excellent wine, architecture, a beautiful language, and a vibrant national culture. While it is a small country when measured in square miles, market size, or military power, it has a rich culture that has profoundly impacted the world. The contributors to Croatian Cultural Renaissance: From the Margins to the Crossroad of Europe were the protagonists who survived the communist period and then lived through the fraught period of the Croatian War of Independence in the 1990s; they worked to understand, build, and preserve their cultural identity and freedom as Croatian people. They are diplomats, government officials, artists, and academics who are recognized within Croatia for their intellectual prowess and for their vital and noteworthy contributions to their country. While the chapters explore different areas of Croatia’s national culture, they are united in showing how the national identity and ethos have deep roots and provide insight in what it means to be Croatian today.
Gifts Given
On August 27, 1956 in Clinton, Tennessee, twelve African American students made history when they were the first to walk through the doors of a legally desegregated high school. On that day, integration in the South formally moved from the courtroom to the classroom. Author Doug Davis was a frontline witness to history. His mother was an English teacher at the high school, and his father was a lawyer in the initial court case. Although school opened with minimal disruption, the first week ended with tanks rolling into town to keep order. Later, when the parents of the black students were reluctant to send their children to school, the authors father was one of three who escorted the students...
Cultural Imperialism and the Decline of the Liberal Order
The end of the Cold War heralded in a new era for liberalism. Eastern European states adopted democracy and capitalism to gain acceptance by the West. Yet, a mere two decades later, liberalism was in crisis. The rise of illiberal democracies and nationalist movements in the second decade of the twenty-first century have left scholars baffled. How could this happen? Dr's. Davis and Slobodchikoff show that the decline of the liberal order lies within its own ideology: as it champions freedom, liberalism requires its adherents to give up their cultural traditions and adopt the global ethos to be legitimate. Through a systematic analysis of Western and Russian soft power in Poland and Serbia, the authors explain the decline of liberalism and the battle over the balance of power in Eastern Europe.
Still Waters
This book contains a unique blend of poetic style and verse. A plethora of thought provoking poems that will make you laugh, make you angry, and make you cry. If you have not heard of Doug "Hollywood" Davis before, then you are missing out on who some are calling the "Poet Of The New Century". A two time "Editor's Choice Award" winner, and nominee for "Poet Of The Year" since arriving on the scene in 2007, The author pushes boundaries, and is bringing poetry into the twenty-first century.
Almost
Doug Davis considers himself an ordinary American guy who's led anything BUT an ordinary life. From the start of his days in a tenement walk-up on New York's Lower East Side through his current quiet life in the Maine countryside, the road between has seen roller-coaster scale ups and downs in an airline career, any number of entrepreneurial adventures that came SO close to huge successes, a glimpse into the belly of the beast on 9/11, and not one but two derailments en route to being a pro baseball player. So many 'almosts, ' but at the end of each was always a next adventure for a man whose unbeatable spirit kept him moving forward, always sure that the bad times were just bumps along the way in a life well-lived.
Eastern Christianity in the Digital Space
Existing through the ordeals of the Communist regimes of the last century and then facing the expansion of the Internet and the digitalization of the present one, East-European Orthodoxy seeks to re-establish itself on the geopolitical and religious map of today's world. Dragoș-Ioan Șamșudean argues that, within this context, new religious actors such as Ortho-bloggers, manifest themselves in the digital environment of blogs and social media, driven not only by spiritual and religious motivations but also by political, economic and institutional ones. Caught between the inabilities of the Orthodox Church to offer them a safe religious online framework to express themselves and their vario...
The End of a Childhood
Pat Davis grew up in a small town in Wisconsin. Hes about to embark on a journey that would change his life forever. While his mother and sister take him to college in their familys station wagon they reminisce about the many childhood adventures of the wonderful decade of the 60s. His large family, combined with a neighborhood of boys is the perfect ingredient to conjure up stories that contain humorous, adolescent behavior along with heartfelt emotions. Although his limited travels have brought him many memories and revelations, this time he discovers something he wasnt looking for.
Spartan Sports Encyclopedia
The complete history of Michigan State's men's athletics program is detailed for the first time, with vignettes about seasons and celebrities and a complete review of scores and statistics.
Making Russia and Turkey Great Again?
This study analyzes theoretically and empirically the background of the rise to power of Vladimir Putin in Russia and Recip Tayyip Erdogan in Turkey. It situates this analysis in the contexts of the historical assessment of the fragility of liberal democracy and the persistence and growth of authoritarianism, populism, and dictatorship in many parts of the world. The authors argue that the question whether Putin and Erdogan can make Russia and Turkey great again is hard to confirm; personal ambition for power and wealth is certainly key to an understanding of both rulers. They each squandered opportunities to build from free and fair democratic electoral legitimacy and economic progress. The...
