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The Economic Weapon
The first international history of the emergence of
economic sanctions during the interwar period and the legacy of
this development Economic sanctions dominate the landscape
of world politics today. First developed in the early twentieth
century as a way of exploiting the flows of globalization to defend
liberal internationalism, their appeal is that they function as an
alternative to war. This view, however, ignores the dark paradox at
their core: designed to prevent war, economic sanctions are modeled
on devastating techniques of warfare. Tracing the use of economic
sanctions from the blockades of World War I to the policing of
colonial empires and the interwar confrontation with fascism,
Nicholas Mulder uses extensive archival research in a political,
economic, legal, and military history that reveals how a coercive
wartime tool was adopted as an instrument of peacekeeping by the
League of Nations. This timely study casts an overdue light on why
sanctions are widely considered a form of war, and why their
unintended consequences are so tremendous.
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Listen. If
\"In this new collection, Douglas Barbour experiments with what he calls \"rhythmically intense open form.\" Listen. If presents technically innovative poetry that invites the reader to join in some serious play. Barbour's vivid, ekphrastic poems engage an ongoing conversation among artworks-not only classic paintings but also popular music-while his lyric poems astutely, accessibly evoke places, moments, and feelings. This is poetry that takes up language both as the already-said and as a playground for brilliant technique. Leaping from love to landscapes, politics to jazz, Keats to Milne to Monk, these poems yearn to be spoken aloud for the pure joy of sound.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The State of the Japanese State
Gavan McCormack’s latest work argues that Abe Shinzo’s efforts to re-engineer the Japanese state may fail, but his radicalism continues to shake the country and have consequences not easy to predict. Its significance will be recognized by those researching contemporary world politics, international relations and the history of modern Japan.
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In the Blink of an Ear
An ear-opening reassessment of sonic art from World War II to the present Marcel Duchamp famously championed a \"non-retinal\" visual art, rejecting judgments of taste and beauty.
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XX : poems for the twentieth century
\"XX is award-winning poet Campbell McGrath's astonishing sequence of one hundred poems--one per year--written in a vast range of forms, and in the voices of figures as varied as Picasso and Mao, Frida Kahlo and Elvis Presley. Based on years of historical research and cultural investigation, XX turns poetry into an archival inquiry and a choral documentary\"--Jacket flap.
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A Century of Modern Chinese Poetry
This volume-a completely overhauled and updated version of
Michelle Yeh's 1992 classic Anthology of Modern Chinese
Poetry -brings together modern poetry from the Chinese-speaking
world dating from the 1910s to the 2010s. Featuring the work of 85
poets from mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, and
Singapore, it contains more than 280 poems that span the entire
history of modern Chinese poetry. Poets include those regarded as
canonical as well as some who have been newly \"discovered\" or
reevaluated in recent years, each selected for their distinctive
voice and inimitable style. Also, for the first time, contemporary
song lyrics are included as poetry. This diversity of perspectives,
along with its geographic reach and expansive timeframe, make the
anthology a much-needed contribution to the study of Chinese poetry
and world literature. With short biographies of the poets, a select
bibliography, and a comprehensive introduction, A Century of
Modern Chinese Poetry is a critical resource for students,
scholars, and general readers alike.
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From Tao Guang Yang Hui to Xin Xing : China's complex foreign policy transformation and Southeast Asia
This article traces China's foreign policy transformation from 2013 to the present. It also examines Deng Xiaoping's doctrinal response to the political crises of 1989–91 and compares it to current Chinese foreign policy doctrines.From the early 1980s until the 2010s, China's foreign policy has generally focused on keeping a low profile. Deng's Tao Guang Yang Hui foreign policy doctrine is characterized by its \"No's\", while Xi Jinping's Xin Xing is marked by its \"New's\". The move from Tao Guang Yang Hui to Xin Xing is a major doctrinal shift in China's foreign policy.Since the 19th Party Congress in 2017, Xi's \"new\" narratives have seemingly dominated Chinese foreign policy. However, old principles, particularly that of \"non-interference\" or \"no hegemony\", are still alive, albeit in a different form.This transformation is driven by three forces, which this paper describes in the 3As framework: China's Ambition to be a \"great country\" and a \"non-hegemon\" in a changing world; its provision of Alternatives to fill the gaps in regional and global governance structures; and its Adaptation to what it deems as \"unprecedented major changes in a century\" (Da Bian Ju).As China undergoes this foreign policy transformation, contradictions and dilemmas inevitably emerge.While China's foreign policy transformation is currently being disrupted by the coronavirus crisis, there have been adjustments which were already apparent before the crisis. The ambitious \"One Belt and One Road\" strategy, for instance, was replaced by the \"Belt and Road Initiative\"; \"constructive intervention\" was replaced by \"constructive role\"; and \"common destiny\" was replaced by \"shared future\". Looking ahead, China's foreign policy transformation could include more strategic or, at least, tactical adjustments.
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