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Hegemony
Hegemony: Studies in Consensus and Coercion (Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought) Routledge | 244 pages | 2008 | ISBN: 0415955440 | PDF | 2 mbThe ... that hegemony has been so widely and diversely adopted lies in the unique way that Gramsci formulated the 'problematics' of structure/superstructure, coercion/consensus, materialism/idealism and regression/progression within the concept hegemony. However, in much of the contemporary literature the full complexity of ...
India's Nuclear Policy
... unique insights into the workings of India's nuclear decision-making and deterrence system. Moreover, by juxtaposing the Indian nuclear policy and thinking against the theories of nuclear war and strategic deterrence, nuclear escalation, and nuclear coercion, offers a strong theoretical grounding for the Indian approach to nuclear war and peace, nuclear deterrence and escalation, nonproliferation and disarmament, and to limited war in a nuclearized environment. It refutes the alarmist notions ...
The Global Diffusion of Markets and Democracy
... and communities of experts. Drawing together insights from economics, sociology, political science and international relations, the contributors focus on four mechanisms by which markets and democracy have diffused through interdependent decision-making: coercion and the impact of powerful countries and international actors; economic competition for markets and investment; learning from experiences of other countries; and emulation among countries. These mechanisms are tested empirically using ...
Charles Fairchild Pop Idols and Pirates
... to control and justify the particular ways in which the music industry makes money from popular music through specific kinds of relationships with consumers. The battles over piracy have been fought with a remarkable collection of campaigns consisting of advice, coercion and argument about what is or is not the best way to consume music. From these complicated and often contradictory campaigns we form an unusually clear picture of what many within the music industry imagine their industry to be. ...
A New Order of Things: Property, Power, and the Transformation of the Creek Indians
... the eighteenth century that overturned the world of the powerful and numerous Creek Indians and forever changed the Deep South. As the Creeks amassed a fortune in cattle and slaves, new property fostered a new possessiveness, and government by coercion bred confrontation. A New Order of Things is the first book to chronicle this decisive transformation in America's early history, a transformation that left deep divisions between the wealthy and poor, powerful and powerless. Please appreciate ...
Politics without Reason: The Perfect World and the Liberal Ideal
... the locus of a destructive form of desire, one that must be controlled and repressed. The author argues that speaking of ambivalence toward the self is another way of speaking of ambivalence toward freedom, an ambivalence expressed in the impulse toward coercion that plays such a powerful role in the attack on liberalism. depositfiles.com uploading.com mirror Not all books on AvaxHome appear on the homepage. In order not to miss many of them follow ebooks section (see top of ...
Sex, Power, Conflict: Evolutionary and Feminist Perspectives
... headlines and have recently sparked scholarly debates about the nature of the sexes. Concurrently, the scientific community is conducting research in topics of sex and gender issues. Indeed, more research is being done on the topics of sexual conflict and coercion than at any other time in the history of the social sciences. Despite this attention, it is clear that these issues are being addressed from two essentially different perspectives: one is labeled "feminist", while the other, ...
Chinese Economic Coercion Against Taiwan: A Tricky Weapon to Use
Chinese Economic Coercion Against Taiwan: A Tricky Weapon to Use Publisher: RAND Corporation | ISBN: 0833039695 | edition 2007 | PDF | 224 pages | 1 mb Since ... rapidly growing economic relationship. This monograph analyzes the political impact of that relationship and evaluates the prospects for Beijing to exploit it by employing economic coercion against Taiwan. >>:: NO PASSWORD ::<< Uploading Bitroad Megaupload >>::..::!!!NO MIRRORS, READ THE RULES!!!::..::<<
Julie Ayling, Peter Grabosky, Clifford Shearing Lengthening the Arm of the Law
... faced by the public police over the last few decades have meant that police organisations have had to find new ways to obtain and harness the resources needed to achieve their goals. Through entering into relationships of coercion, commercial exchange, and gift with a wide variety of external institutions and individuals operating in both public and private capacities, police organisations have risen to this challenge. Indeed, police organisations are increasingly operating within a business ...
Imaginary Futures: From Thinking Machines to the Global Village
... computer era in the context of desperately competing ideologies, economics, and empires. This is a work of passionate and persuasive scholarship by a contemporary social theorist at the top of his game.' Douglas Rushkoff, author, Coercion, Media Virus, Get Back in the Box. 'Imaginary Futures gives insight into how the dominant utopias of today were shaped in the time of the Cold War and served the ideological needs of the ...
