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The perils and promise of global transparency : why the information revolution may not lead to security, democracy, or peace
Argues that increasing levels of transparency do not always change international politics for the better.
While the trend toward greater transparency will bring many benefits, Kristin M. Lord argues that predictions that it will lead inevitably to peace, understanding, and democracy are wrong. The conventional view is of authoritarian governments losing control over information thanks to technology, the media, and international organizations, but there is a darker side, one in which some of the same forces spread hatred, conflict, and lies. In this book, Lord discusses the complex implications of growing transparency, paying particular attention to the circumstances under which transparency's effects are negative. Case studies of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda and the government of Singapore's successful control of information are included.
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The Moral Warrior
For the first time in history, the capabilities of the U.S. military far outstrip those of any potential rival, either singly or collectively, and this reality raises fundamental questions about its role, nature, and conduct. The Moral Warrior explores a wide range of ethical issues regarding the nature and purpose of voluntary military service, the moral meaning of the unique military power of the United States in the contemporary world, and the moral challenges posed by the \"war\" on terrorism.
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The failures of American and European climate policy : international norms, domestic politics, and unachievable commitments
Examines why some nations, but not others, have met their commitments to international climate treaties.
In this timely work, Loren R. Cass argues that international norms and normative debates provide the keys to understanding the evolution of both domestic and international responses to the threat of global climate change. Ranging from the early identification and framing of this problem in the mid 1980s through the Kyoto Protocol's entry into force in 2005, Cass focuses on two normative debates that were critical to the development of climate policy-who should bear primary responsibility for reducing global greenhouse gas emissions and what principles would guide these reductions. He examines why some nations, but not others, have met their commitments, and concludes that while many states affirmed the international norms, most did not fully translate them into domestic policy. Cass offers an index to measure the domestic salience of international norms and compare the level of salience across states and within states over time, and uses it to assess the European Union, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
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The sorrows of empire : militarism, secrecy, and the end of the Republic
Examines American militarism and its repercussions at home and abroad, sounding a warning about the military-industrial complex and analyzing its influence on American policy making.
Global capitalism, democracy, and civil-military relations in Colombia
Explores the connections between globalization and democratization in Colombia.
Through the lens of global capitalism theory, William Avilés examines democratization and civil-military relations in Colombia to explain how social and international forces led to the ostensibly contradictory outcome of democratic and economic reform coinciding with political repression. Focusing on the administrations in power from 1990 to the present, Avilés argues that the reduction in the institutional powers of the military within the state reflected changes in the structure of the global economy, the emergence of globalizing technocrats and politicians, and shifts in U.S. foreign policy strategies toward \"democracy promotion.\" These same factors explain Colombia's establishment of a low-intensity democracy-a structure of elite rule in which the strategies of coercion (state and para-state repression) and consensus (competitive elections, civilian control over the military) maintain control and legitimacy. In the age of capitalist globalization, a low-intensity democracy is most concomitant with neoliberalism, establishing the political and economic environment most suitable to the investments of transnational corporations.
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Energy and the Politics of the North Atlantic
Since the onset of the Second Industrial Revolution in the second
half of the nineteenth century, energy has become a key axis of
politics and international relations, particularly for the United
States and Western Europe. In Energy and the Politics of the
North Atlantic , George A. Gonzalez documents how the United
States-thanks to its copious reserves of oil, coal, and natural
gas-was able to assume a dominant position in the world system by
the 1920s. This energy/economic imbalance was an important causal
factor underlying the eruption of World War II. After 1945, and in
the context of the Cold War with communism, the United States used
its access to both fossil fuels and nuclear power as a means to
defeat the Soviet Union and its allies. Driving American foreign
policy, Gonzalez argues, is a domestic system of urban sprawl based
on the automobile and the energy reserves necessary to maintain it.
The massive consumer demand created by urban sprawl underpins US
foreign policy in the Middle East, while concerns over access to
energy drive the European Union project.
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