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  • 1
    UID:
    b3kat_BV010342253
    Format: xviii, 414 Seiten , Illustrationen, karten
    ISBN: 0812925238
    Content: Secretary of Defense in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, McNamara analyzes the Vietnam War and his role in it.
    Language: English
    Subjects: History , Political Science , Geography
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    Keywords: USA ; Vietnamkrieg ; USA ; Vietnamkrieg ; Geschichte ; McNamara, Robert S. 1916-2009 ; Vietnamkrieg ; Geschichte 1961-1968 ; Autobiografie
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  • 2
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    New York : Columbia University Press
    UID:
    gbv_278329195
    Format: 311 S , 24 cm
    ISBN: 0231101562
    Content: "Impressively researched and written with the linguist's precision and flair for language, World Orders Old and New offers a stimulating, fresh perspective from which to view an intellectual culture defined by such dubious political critics as Rush Limbaugh and Dan Quayle."--BOOK JACKET
    Content: "Noam Chomsky, the left's leading critic of government policy, power, and language, takes on the international scene since 1945, devoting particular attention to events following the collapse of the Soviet Union. In World Orders Old and New, he develops an eloquent, incendiary, and forceful critique of Western government, from imperialist foreign policies to the Clinton administration's empty promises to the poor." "Chomsky offers a skeptic's guide to the modern language of power, taking readers on a journey through the Middle East, Central America, Eastern Europe, and other regions of the world where the U.S. makes myriad efforts to "maintain stability" or "restore hope." World Orders Old and New introduces readers to the so-called New World Order, where hopes for international peace and democracy have been challenged by numerous outbreaks of ethnic and regional violence." "With characteristic freshness and intensity, Chomsky reviews the history of superpower efforts to check territorial aggression, citing the war in the Gulf as a prime example of Western bravado, and examines these efforts from his own unique political perspective." "Turning to America, he uncovers the disappointments and doublespeak of the Clinton administration's domestic economic program. In Chomsky's view, the current president's hypocrisy is matched only by the distortions of his policies by the media, especially the New York Times." "Concluding with an assessment of the recent Israeli-Palestinian accord - in which Chomsky expresses concern for the victimization of the Palestinians - this major thinker of our time focuses his no-holds-barred attention once more on the powerless, the power-hungry, and the power-mongers in our increasingly global community
    Note: Based on three lectures (considerably expanded and updated) given at the American University in Cairo, May 1993 , 1. Marching in Place. 1. The Cold War and Population Control. 2. New World Orders. 3. A Test Case: Iraq and the West. 4. The Cold War Reconsidered. 5. North-South/East-West -- 2. The Political-Economic Order. 1. Securing the Home Front. 2. Some Lessons of History. 3. "The Government of the World" 4. The Balance Sheet. 5. Looking Ahead. 6. The Contours of the New World Order -- 3. History's "Greatest Prize" 1. Updating the Monroe Doctrine. 2. Containing the Internal Enemy. 3. The Structure of Power. 4. The Regional Actors. 5. Seeking Peace: Stage One. 6. Seeking Peace: The Interests of the Actors. 7. Seeking Peace: The Recent Phase. 8. Conquering History. 9. The Berlin Wall Falls Again. 10. After the Agreement.
    Language: English
    Subjects: Political Science , Law
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    Keywords: Weltordnung ; Ost-West-Konflikt
    Author information: Chomsky, Noam 1928-
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  • 3
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    New York, NY [u.a.] : Liveright Publ. | New York, NY : Norton
    UID:
    b3kat_BV040709690
    Format: XXIX, 750 S., [8] Bl. , lll., Kt.
    Edition: 1. ed.
    ISBN: 9780871406880 , 9780871404244
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
    Language: English
    Subjects: History , Political Science
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    Keywords: Guerilla ; Geschichte ; Historische Darstellung
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  • 4
    UID:
    b3kat_BV021507588
    Format: 309 S.
    Edition: 1. American ed.
    ISBN: 9780805077889 , 080507788X
    Content: Reveals how the fall of the Berlin Wall transformed the Western alliance between the United States, Britain, and Europe, explaining how terrorism, Asian economic competition, and cultural divides could have profound implications for the West.
    Note: Rev. ed. of: Not quite the diplomat. 2005. -- Includes index.
    Former: Früher u.d.T. Patten, Chris Not quite the diplomat
    Language: English
    Subjects: Political Science
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    Keywords: Europa ; Außenpolitik ; Weltpolitik ; Großbritannien ; USA
    URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis  (Kostenfrei)
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  • 5
    UID:
    b3kat_BV023232490
    Format: XXIII, 311 S. , graph. Darst. , 22 cm
    Edition: 1. ed.
    ISBN: 9780393067019
    Content: Nobel Prize winner Joseph E. Stiglitz and Harvard professor Linda J. Bilmes cast a spotlight on expense items that have been hidden from the U.S. taxpayer, including not only big-ticket items like replacing military equipment (being used up at six times the peacetime rate) but also the cost of caring for thousands of wounded veterans--for the rest of their lives. Shifting to a global focus, the authors investigate the cost in lives and economic damage within Iraq and the region. Finally, with the chilling precision of an actuary, the authors measure what the U.S. taxpayer's money would have produced if instead it had been invested in the further growth of the U.S. economy.--From amazon.com
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Is it really three trillion? -- The costs to the nation's budget -- The true cost of caring for our veterans -- Costs of the war that the government doesn't pay -- The macroeconomic effects of the war -- Global consequences -- Exiting Iraq -- Learning from our mistakes : reforms for the future
    Language: English
    Subjects: Economics , Political Science
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    Keywords: USA ; Golfkrieg ; Kosten ; USA ; Golfkrieg ; Finanzierung
    Author information: Stiglitz, Joseph E. 1943-
    Author information: Bilmes, Linda 1959-
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  • 6
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    New York u.a. : Bantam Books
    UID:
    b3kat_BV008169662
    Format: XXVII, 467 S.
    ISBN: 0553089749
    Content: Frequently interviewed in the American news media, well known to viewers of programs such as Nightline and Face the Nation, Benjamin Netanyahu is one of Israel's best-known leaders. In this evocative and meticulously researched book, five years in the making, he traces the origins, history and politics of Israel's relationship with the Arab world and the West. He provides the most clear-sighted view yet of Israel's precarious situation among the Arabs - and lays out his own ideas for peace in the Middle East. During the Gulf War, Mr. Netanyahu, then Israel's deputy foreign minister and its former ambassador to the United Nations, showed a CNN reporter a map of the Middle East. "Here's the Arab world," he said, "walking" his wide-open hands across its breadth. "And here is Israel," he went on - easily covering the entire country with his thumb
    Content: How is it that this minuscule Jewish state, 40 miles wide including the West Bank, has become the hostile target not only of an Arab world more than 500 times its size but of so much of the West? How is it that a small nation, whose historical right to its homeland was recognized by international consensus at the beginning of this century, now finds the legitimacy of that commitment scorned and eroded? How has the only democracy in the Middle East become the focus of western criticism of the kind never directed at the surrounding Arab tyrannies? Mr. Netanyahu punctures the myriad falsehoods leveled against Israel today by using the facts of history, ancient and modern, to establish his country's case forcefully. He demonstrates the ways in which the Arabs, abetted by much of the world, have forced Israel to shrink to one-fifth the size of the national home originally promised to the Jewish people
    Content: He scrutinizes the tactics of the Arab regimes in fabricating the "Palestinian question" to disguise their own aggressive designs. And he unmasks the PLO, vividly documenting startling PLO statements and strategies regarding Israel never before exposed in the West. An enduring peace between Arabs and Israelis is attainable, Mr. Netanyahu argues - but only if it takes into account the nature of Middle Eastern politics and the volatile forces within Arab and Islamic society. In a powerfully argued summation sure to startle Jews and non-Jews alike, he proposes a sweeping reevaluation of the Jewish attitude toward political realities, tempered by experience and avoiding the extremes of utter passivity and fatalistic defiance, that can do much to assure the Jewish state a position of permanence among the nations
    Language: English
    Subjects: Political Science
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    Keywords: Arabische Staaten ; Außenpolitik ; Israel ; Israel ; Außenpolitik ; Geschichte ; Nahostkonflikt ; Zionismus ; Geschichte
    Author information: Netanyahu, Binyamin 1949-
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  • 7
    UID:
    b3kat_BV010199069
    Format: 501 S. , Ill.
    ISBN: 0812922522
    Content: "With the Chinese economy (the world's third largest) on a trajectory to overtake Japan and the United States in the coming decades, Kristof and WuDunn describe a spectacular economic boom that has enabled a twenty-three-year old to start his own airline or a manual laborer to become a millionaire furniture manufacturer. But they also reveal the chilling paradox lurking beneath these rags-to-riches stories: despite the stock markets and the cellular telephones, China has retained its totalitarian infrastructure, including the notorious "shackleboards" to which dissidents are strapped and brutally tortured. And with the world's largest army, the People's Republic continues to embody a tremendous challenge to the stability of the Pacific Rim." "Never before has China been portrayed so compellingly or with such feeling. As this great nation stands poised to fulfill Napoleon's prediction, China Wakes is an indispensable guide to the rumblings ahead."--BOOK JACKET.
    Content: ""When China wakes, it will shake the world," Napoleon Bonaparte once remarked. That moment is now at hand. And in this book Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, the Pulitzer Prize winning Beijing correspondents of The New York Times, bring to life the people, the politics, and the paradoxes of China as never before. China Wakes combines groundbreaking reportage with the authors' personal account of how they came to discover the human stories within the world's most populous nation. Attracted by China's potential for greatness and repelled by its propensity for cruelty, Kristof and WuDunn struggle to reconcile their optimism about China's future with the brutality that always seems to break their hearts." "In the pages of China Wakes, the story of China's economic takeoff unfolds before us like passages from a great novel. Kristof and WuDunn, the first married couple ever to win a Pulitzer for journalism, take us with them to meet their friends (and enemies) and share their concerns - especially WuDunn's ambivalence about how, as a Chinese-American, she must come to terms with the legacy of her ancestral homeland. WuDunn takes us along as she slips into a China usually hidden from foreigners, a China of cabinet ministers making unwanted advances on local women and of peasants who cannot afford pants for their children. We also accompany Kristof as he witnesses Chinese troops massacring protesters at Tiananmen Square and later comes face to face with the man who betrayed the leaders of the democracy movement to the police.".
    Language: English
    Subjects: Political Science
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    Keywords: China ; Wirtschaftsentwicklung ; Interview
    Author information: Kristof, Nicholas D. 1959-
    Author information: WuDunn, Sheryl 1959-
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  • 8
    UID:
    b3kat_BV047292457
    Format: xii, 221 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karte
    ISBN: 9780197530351 , 0197530354
    Content: "The word "peacebuilding" evokes a story we've all heard over and over: violence breaks out, foreign nations are scandalized, peacekeepers and million-dollar donors come rushing in, warring parties sign a peace agreement and, sadly, within months the situation is back to where it started--sometimes worse. But what strategies have worked to build lasting peace in conflict zones, particularly for ordinary citizens on the ground? And why should other ordinary citizens, thousands of miles away, care? In The Frontlines of Peace, Severine Autesserre, award-winning researcher and peacebuilder, examines the well-intentioned but inherently flawed peace industry. With examples drawn from across the globe, she reveals that peace can grow in the most unlikely circumstances. Contrary to what most politicians preach, building peace doesn't require billions in aid or massive international interventions. Real, lasting peace requires giving power to local citizens. The Frontlines of Peace tells the stories of the ordinary yet extraordinary individuals and organizations that are confronting violence in their communities effectively. One thing is clear: successful examples of peacebuilding around the world, in countries at war or at peace, have involved innovative grassroots initiatives led by local people, at times supported by foreigners, often employing methods shunned by the international elite. By narrating success stories of this kind, Autesserre shows the radical changes we must take in our approach if we hope to build lasting peace around us--whether we live in Congo, the United States, or elsewhere"--
    Note: Literaturhinweise Seite 193-203, Index , 2103 , Preface : war, hope, and peace , Island of peace , Role models , Insiders and outsiders , Designed intervention , Peace by piece , Recasting roles , The home front
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 978-0-19-753037-5
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 978-0-19-754113-5
    Language: English
    Subjects: Political Science
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    Keywords: Friedensforschung ; Friedensbemühung ; Einheimischer
    Author information: Gbowee, Leymah 1972-
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  • 9
    UID:
    b3kat_BV009690233
    Format: VIII, 310 S.
    ISBN: 0465084079
    Content: In Ten Years That Shook the World, Valery Boldin, a key Gorbachev aide, gives us a ringside seat to one of history's momentous developments - the collapse of communism and the Soviet Union - as well as a glimpse of the top-secret world behind the Iron Curtain. Here is a fascinating new perspective on the events, personalities, and forces involved in the ending of the cold war. Valery Boldin joined Gorbachev's staff in 1981 as an adviser on agricultural questions at a time when Gorbachev was still a lowly bureaucrat. But as Gorbachev's star rose, so did Boldin's. He soon became Gorbachev's right-hand man, first on the Central Committee and eventually as Chief of Staff. He witnessed at first hand the geritocracy that ruled the USSR during the days of Brezhnev, Andropov, and Chernenko, and was thus in an ideal position to observe the combination of baroque maneuvering and genuine vision that propelled Gorbachev to the top. Present at the creation of perestroika - indeed, he was responsible for drafting key speeches and memoranda - Boldin sat in on many of the most fateful meetings of the era, dealing with the secret murder of Polish officers at Katyn, the Chernobyl disaster, the Afghan war, the secession of the Baltic republics, and the eventual disintegration of the Soviet economy and state. This book tells the story of all those events, portraying each of the key figures of the period both as private persons and as public personalities. But above all, this is the saga of Gorbachev himself (and Raisa): supremely intelligent, courageous, and, in the early years at least, visionary - but also personally ambitious, vain, and at times mean-spirited and disloyal to colleagues and subordinates. Boldin remained a progressive communist loyalist to the end, and he finally broke with his master in the vain hope that the Union could be saved.
    Note: Aus dem Russ. übers.
    Language: English
    Subjects: History , Political Science
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    Keywords: Gorbačev, Michail 1931-2022 ; Politik ; Geschichte 1981-1991 ; Sowjetunion ; Politik ; Geschichte 1981-1991 ; Perestroika ; Erlebnisbericht ; Erlebnisbericht ; Erlebnisbericht
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  • 10
    UID:
    gbv_591632446
    Format: 320 S.
    Edition: Lizenzausg.
    ISBN: 9783893319183
    Series Statement: Schriftenreihe / Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung 743
    Uniform Title: The conscience of a Liberal 〈dt.〉
    Content: Acht Jahre Bush-Regierung standen am Ende einer Entwicklung, welche die Ungleichheit in den USA auf das Niveau der 20er-Jahre zurückgeworfen hat. Diese provokante These durchzieht das Buch des Wirtschaftsnobelpreisträgers Paul Krugman. Ausgehend vom so genannten Goldenen Zeitalter beschreibt er, wie die Vereinigten Staaten bis zur Mitte des 20. Jahrhunderts in einem langen Prozess die sozialen Verwerfungen dieser Epoche überwanden: Der entstehende Wohlfahrtsstaat schuf eine breite, politisch aktive Mittelschicht. Dieses Erbe der Demokraten sei, so Krugmann, in der Phase konservativer Regierungen bewusst verspielt worden. Er legt dar, warum die Politik nach Bush umgehend aktiv für das Wiedererstarken dieser Mittelschichtgesellschaft eintreten muss.(Quelle: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung / Internet).
    Content: Acht Jahre Bush-Regierung standen am Ende einer Entwicklung, welche die Ungleichheit in den USA auf das Niveau der 20er-Jahre zurückgeworfen hat. Diese provokante These durchzieht das Buch des Wirtschaftsnobelpreisträgers Paul Krugman. Ausgehend vom so genannten Goldenen Zeitalter beschreibt er, wie die Vereinigten Staaten bis zur Mitte des 20. Jahrhunderts in einem langen Prozess die sozialen Verwerfungen dieser Epoche überwanden: Der entstehende Wohlfahrtsstaat schuf eine breite, politisch aktive Mittelschicht. Dieses Erbe der Demokraten sei, so Krugmann, in der Phase konservativer Regierungen bewusst verspielt worden. Er legt dar, warum die Politik nach Bush umgehend aktiv für das Wiedererstarken dieser Mittelschichtgesellschaft eintreten muss. (Quelle: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung / Internet) - Die Konservative Bewegung spaltet die Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika. Davon ist Paul Krugman überzeugt. Auf seiner Suche nach stichfesten Beweisen beleuchtet der Autor schlaglichtartig die US-Geschichte der letzten 100 Jahre. Der grundlegende Gedanke: Die Gegenwart verstehen und die Zukunft gestalten kann nur, wer sich der Vergangenheit stellt. Dabei macht der Autor keinen Hehl daraus, dass er politisch auf Seiten der Demokraten steht. Heute sieht Krugman die Vereinigten Staaten in einer vergleichbaren Lage wie vor dem New Deal drei Jahre nach dem Börsencrash von 1929. Damals hatte US-Präsident Franklin D. Roosevelt die Steuern erhöht, um Wirtschafts- und Sozialreformen für mehr Gleichheit durchzuführen. Krugman wiederum zeigt sich davon überzeugt, dass erst dieser aktive Eingriff des Staates eine breite Mittelschicht schuf.Als neokonservative Republikaner wie Ronald Reagan oder George W. Bush schließlich an die Macht gekommen waren und die Gewerkschaften zurückgedrängt hatten, ging die Schere zwischen Arm und Reich dramatisch auseinander. So sieht Krugman die heutigen, horrenden Spitzengehälter als fassbares Ergebnis neokonservativer Politik. Zudem unterstellt Krugman der Konservativen Bewegung, dass sie ihre wahren Ziele hinter populären Forderungen verberge. Wer gegen Abtreibung stimme, bekomme in Wahrheit nur die Senkung der Steuern auf Vermögenserträge, lautet einer der schweren Vorwürfe. Bei seinem Streifzug durch die Geschichte zeigt sich Krugman oft detailversessen und bringt es ganz und gar nicht "straight to the point". Was die Präsidentschaftswahl im November 2008 betrifft, sieht der parteiische Wirtschaftsprofessor und Kolumnist der New York Times den Stern der Republikaner sinken -- und fordert im Gegenzug einen zweiten New Deal. Doch wenn Krugman in seinem Buch die Stunde der Demokraten schlagen hört, geht es nicht nur um fundierte Überzeugungen, sondern dann ist auch der Wunsch Vater des Gedankens. --- Herwig Slezak
    Note: Lizenzausg. Campus Verl., Frankfurt am Main
    Language: German
    Subjects: History , Economics , Political Science , Sociology
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    Keywords: USA ; Einkommensverteilung ; Soziale Ungleichheit ; Konservativismus ; Geschichte 1880-2007
    URL: Cover
    URL: Cover
    Author information: Krugman, Paul R. 1953-
    Author information: Griese, Friedrich 1940-2012
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