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131415
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2014.
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The outbreak of the First World War remains a great historical puzzle and a source of concern, for if we do not understand how it came about we run the risk of stumbling into a similar catastrophe. This article draws parallels between the world of 1914 and the present. It starts with comfortable assumptions made by so many, then and now, that a major conflict was impossible or improbable and then looks at the paradox that globalization not only made the world more interdependent and linked, but also fostered intense local and national identities. It suggests factors that propelled Europe to war in 1914, including national rivalries, imperialism, the arms race and a shifting power balance between rising and declining powers, as well as ideologies and assumptions such as Social Darwinism and militarism, and points out that similar forces and ideas are present today. The article also stresses the dangerous complacency that can arise as a result of decision-makers having successfully dealt with a series of crises. European decision-makers also assumed that they could successfully use war as an instrument of policy and largely ignored or explained away the mounting evidence that the advantage in conflict was swinging to the defence. Again, as the author points out, there are disquieting parallels with the present.
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030057
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s.l., Novosti Press Agency Publishing House, 1966.
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102p.pbk
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088372
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2009.
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This essay provides an interpretation of Sayyid Jam l ad-D n al-Afgh n , a controversial figure in nineteenth-century Islamic political thought. One aspect of this controversy is the tension between "Refutation of the Materialists," Afgh n 's well-known defense of religious orthodoxy, and a short newspaper article entitled "Reply to Renan" that dismisses prophetic religion as dogmatic and intellectually stifling. In this essay I argue that close attention to Afgh n 's theory of civilization helps resolve this apparent contradiction. Afgh n 's interest in Ibn Khald n and the French historian Guizot is well known, but has not been fully explored in the literature. I suggest that understanding Guizot's distinctive approach to the concept of civilization illuminates Afgh n 's writings on the political utility of religion. Afgh n was an ardent anti-imperialist and his goal was to encourage reform in Islamic countries while resisting Western hegemony. He concluded that the tension between prophetic religion and critical thought could help Islamic civilization to flourish.
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027732
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DelhI, Ajanta Publications, 1984.
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viii, 314p.hbk
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027400
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DelhI, Akashdeep Publishing House, 1989.
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xvii, 345p.hbk
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8171580238
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| 031258 | 958.104/GAN 031258 | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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045461
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2nd ed.
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London, Frank Cass, 1972.
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xvii, 285p.hbk
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African Modern Library
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0714617644
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183672
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Unlike existing studies that examined each of the two World Wars and Africans separately, this study explores African participation and experiences in the First and Second World Wars in Northern Rhodesia (colonial Zambia) together during the period, 1914–1948. A lot has been written on the history of the World Wars in colonial Africa. However, there is not much literature that focuses on African participation and experiences during the two world wars. This study is focused on the core theme, that is, the role played by Africans in both World Wars. This is the main theme that informs the study. The core theme is sub-divided into the following three sub-themes: the making of the Northern Rhodesia Police under the British South African Company, BSACo, a Chartered Company that prohibited by law from housing a standing; recruitment of personnel for the Northern Rhodesia Regiment; the role played by traditional authorities in the recruitment of ‘Askari’ – the Foot Soldiers and the ‘Tenga-Tenga’ War Carriers and the role of government propaganda while bringing to the fore African agency during both Wars. Also discussed in the study is the demobilisation process in which African servicemen – the Foot Soldiers and the ‘Tenga-Tenga’ War Carriers – felt cheated by an Empire-wide system of racial discrimination and hierarchy. Although an expanded government propaganda machinery contributed to the growth of an African political voice in Northern Rhodesia during the period, 1914–1948, that political voice neither included nor translated to much debate or discussion about the concerns of African ex-servicemen and their personal affairs. The study equally examines how their state of affairs affected the relationship between the ex-servicemen and their traditional leaders who were active in the recruitment process that brought them into the Wars in the first place. The study concludes with the re-examination of the older arguments that African servicemen did not play an active role in nationalist politics after the World Wars, and submits otherwise, that is, that they actually did.
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174907
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126761
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2013.
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Gnaeus Julius Agricola (40-93 AD) is a man for our times. Facing the capriciousness of imperial power, he, a successful provincial Roman governor, chose to withdraw from public administration. Yet, by protecting his family, Agricola did not shirk politics. On the contrary, he retreated to the founding cell of any polity, the family, which buttresses and at the same time limits the state. By doing so, Agricola reached greatness despite living under bad emperors.
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037847
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Middlesex, Penguin Books Ltd, 1971.
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222p.
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| 007055 | 327.111/HAY 007055 | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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059952
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San Francisco, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2004.
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xii, 224p.
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157675281X
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| 049301 | 327.73/GAR 049301 | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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075576
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London, Routledge, 2007.
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ix, 152p.
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0415952034
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| 052088 | 327.1/LAY 052088 | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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101530
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New Delhi, Sage Publication, 2010.
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4 Vol. Set.; p.
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Sage library of international relations
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Vol. 1: The foundations of the American tradition
Vol. 2: The traditions of great power
Vol. 3: Anti-American tradition
Vol. 4: Regional and national varieties of anti-Americanism
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9781847872715, hbk
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ID:
101848
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2011.
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There have been two distinctive aspects to James Tully's approach to the study
of imperialism over the years, and both are put to work in these remarkable
volumes.
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The first is his belief in two seemingly contradictory claims: (i) that
imperialism is much more pervasive than usually thought (conceptually, historically and practically); and yet (ii) that there are many more forms of resistance to it than usually appreciated. The second is the way Tully places the
situation of indigenous peoples at the heart of his analysis. This goes back to
his groundbreaking work on Locke, and his extraordinary re-interpretation of
Locke's work in the context of early modern discourses of imperialism. But the
situation of indigenous peoples also deeply informed his argument in Strange
Multiplicity
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-and not only in terms of the central motif of the lectures provided by Haida artist Bill Reid. In that book, he sought to reveal and defend a
much richer conception of legal and cultural pluralism than had hitherto been
appreciated by liberal constitutionalists and their critics. Indigenous peoples
are not simply a litmus test for our thinking about pluralism but represent a
much deeper challenge to the way we conceptualize notions of citizenship,
sovereignty, democracy and freedom in the first place-and indeed the nature
of political philosophy itsel.
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ID:
108021
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2011.
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In his essay on Arendt's "antiprimitivism," Jimmy Casas Klausen partly agrees
with scholars such as Anne Norton and Norma Claire Moruzzi who suggest
that especially the discussion of "Hottentots" in The Origins of Totalitarianism
is replete with racial prejudice.
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Yet, to the extent that racial explanations cannot fully account for why and how Arendt also targets "Boers," Klausen argues,
these criticisms are lacking. He contends that what is ultimately the problem is
Arendt's antiprimitivist notion of culture that chastises Boers for their indolence and turns Hottentots into barely human primitives without history. In
what follows, I take issue with this characterization of Arendt as an antiprimitivist situated in the German tradition of culture as Bildung. Arendt's essays
on culture, which Klausen cites to support his argument, actually include several criticisms of this tradition. More importantly, it is hard to maintain this
charge of antiprimitivism given that these essays, in line with the arguments in
The Human Condition, raise serious concerns about using the realm of cultural
production as a yardstick of humanity.
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ID:
111636
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2012.
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This paper distinguishes and integrates national identity and national image through a deep role analysis. It argues that the meaning of China's rising rests upon the views of those who evaluate China's role playing. This role analysis mediates between international relations and Chinese foreign policy. It also mediates between China watchers and their China. The two dimensions of role-role taking and role making-generate four different discursive approaches to interpreting the rise of China, each in its own way associated with the affects of opportunity and threat. They are "nation state,""civilization,""Tianxia," and "Asianism." In response to the external view on the rise of China, Chinese narrators often take the Tianxia and nation state approaches as components of their conception of national role. These conceptions mediated by role-making and role-taking, evolve into four possible strategic focuses-national interests, imperialism, sovereignty and center-periphery. While this last strategic focus on role-taking has recently attracted enthusiastic response in China, it has been re-appropriated by social science concepts such as soft power and social capital that assume an egoistic role-making China is on the move.
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ID:
029694
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New York, Holot, Rinehart and Winston, 1963.
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xxi, 970p.Hbk
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Rinehart Books in European History
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ID:
000510
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London, Sage Publication, 1997.
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257p.
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0-7619-5331-0
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122972
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2013.
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This paper scrutinizes the challenges which scholars face when examining the interconnections between the state and geopolitics in the purported "transnational world". By discussing the relational perspective which "opens" the traditional state-as-a-monolith centric view of geopolitics, the paper sets a foundation for the present special section on the changing geopolitics of state spaces. The paper proceeds by first reflecting on the move from geopolitically "closed" to more open state territories, and then considers some of the ways the state has been examined in spatially sensitive research with respect to geopolitical scholarship. Finally, the paper maps out possible horizons for forthcoming studies on the geopolitics of state spaces.
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ID:
095095
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2010.
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The British empire set off an explosion of poetry, in English and native languages, particularly in India, Africa and the Middle East. This poetry - largely neglected in the scholarship on nationalism - was often revolutionary both aesthetically and politically, expressing a spirit of cultural independence. Attacks on England and the empire are common not just in native colonial poetry but also in poetry of the British isles. This article discusses some of the most influential poets, including: Shawqi of Egypt, Tagore of India, Rusafi of Iraq, Yeats of Ireland, Iqbal of Pakistan, Greenberg of pre-State Israel, and Kipling, the 'poet of empire'. In contrast with other empires, many poets were inspired by British culture to create revolutionary art and seek political independence. Most strikingly, British rule was instrumental in the revival of vernacular Hebrew poetry after 1917 as the centre of Hebrew literature shifted from Odessa to Tel Aviv.
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