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Disequilibrium, Polarization, and Crisis Model
Different international relations theorists have studied political change, but all fall short of sufficiently integrating human reactions, feelings, and responses to change in their theories. This book adds a social psychological component to the analysis of why nations, politically organized groups, or states enter into armed conflict. The Disequilibrium, Polarization, and Crisis Model is introduced, which draws from prospect theory, realism, liberalism, and constructivism. The theory considers how humans react and respond to change in their social, political, and economic environment. Three case studies, the U.S. Civil War, the Yugoslav Wars (1991-1995), and the First World War are applied to illustrate the model’s six process stages: status quo, change creating shifts that lead to disequilibrium, realization of loss, hanging on to the old status quo, emergence of a rigid system, and risky decisions leading to violence and war.
Constitutional Polarization
In this book, Josep M. Colomer argues, against much conventional wisdom, that political polarization is embedded in the constitutional design. The book puts forth that sustained conflict and institutional gridlock are not mainly questions of character, personalities, or determined by socioeconomic or cultural inequalities. They are, above all, the result of the formula of separation of powers between the Presidency and Congress, which, together with a system of only two parties, fosters adversarial politics and polarization. Colomer contends that in the past, bipartisan cooperation and domestic peace flourished only under a foreign existential threat, such as during the Cold War. Once such a...
Realism and Fear in International Relations
This book examines the fascinating story of how the chief architects of realism (Hans Morgenthau, Kenneth Waltz and John Mearsheimer) dealt with some of the most pressing political issues of our time through the lenses of fear. Pashakhanlou conducts the most comprehensive evaluation of their works to date, compromising of a meticulous analysis of 400 of their publications. As such, this book is an invaluable resource for practitioners, students and concerned citizens that seek to understand how three of the most influential International Relations scholars thought about the implications of fear at the global level. ‘In this important book, the author gets to the heart of the underlying emo...
The Nomad
Born the illegitimate daughter of an aristocratic Russian emigree, Isabelle Eberhardt (1877-1904) was a cross-dresser and sensualist, an experienced drug-taker and a transgressor of boundaries: a woman who reinvented herself as a man, wandering the Sahara on horseback.
Coco Chanel
La journaliste Isabelle Fiemeyer, qui côtoie depuis très longtemps le personnage de Coco Chanel, nous offre sous une plume romanesque un portrait très réaliste d'une figure du XXe siècle érigée en mythe pour le meilleur et pour le pire. Fruit de la seule enquête vraiment sérieuse sur la période de l'Occupation, ce livre réhabilite Coco tout en nous rappelant que le style Chanel fut synonyme d'émancipation des femmes.
Homo animal nobilissimum
This study deals with the philosophical approaches of thirteenth-century thinkers to concrete manifestations of 'quantum ad naturalia' in human lives and to the practical outlines and peculiarities of humanity in their commentaries on Aristotle’s works on natural philosophy.
Relations. Beyond Anthropocentrism. Vol. 5, No. 1 (2017). Food: shared life: Part I
CONTENTS: Editorial. Summer School "Cibo: la vita condivisa", Paola Fossati - The Philosophical Origins of Vegetarianism: Greek Philosophers and Animal World, Letterio Mauro - God, the Bible and the Environment: an Historical Excursus on the Relationship between Christian Religion and Ecology, Marco Damonte - Respect for Intergrity: How Christian Animal Ethics Could Inform EU Legislation on Farm Animals, Alma Massaro - Philosophy of Nutrition: a Historical, Existential, Phenomenological Perspective, Enrico R.A. Calogero Giannetto - Livestock Production to Feed the Planet. Animal Protein: a Forecast of Global Demand over the Next Years, Antonella Baldi & Davide Gottardo - Skeptics and "The White Stuff": Promotion of Cows' Milk and Other Nonhuman Animal Products in the SkepticCommunity as Normative Whiteness, Corey Lee Wrenn - Donovan O. Schaefer, Religious Affects: Animality, Evolution, and Power (2015). Review, Eleonora Adorni
The Republican Alternative
The Republican Alternative seeks to move beyond the mere notion of scholarly inquiry into the republic—the subject of recent rediscovery by political historians interested in Europe’s intellectual heritage—by investigating the practical similarities and differences between two early modern republics, as well as their self-images and interactions during the turbulent seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Among the world’s most economically successful societies, Switzerland and the Netherlands laid much of the foundation for their prosperity during the early modern period discussed here. This volume attempts to clarify the special character of these two countries as they developed, including issues of religious plurality, the republican form of government, and an increasingly commercially-driven agrarian society.
