Book Description
America's longest wars have been 'small wars'. This book explains how power differences shape - but don't determine - international relationships.
Author : Brantly Womack
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 11,71 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1107132894
America's longest wars have been 'small wars'. This book explains how power differences shape - but don't determine - international relationships.
Author : Brantly Womack
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 29,19 MB
Release : 2006-02-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780521618342
The value of asymmetry theory is demonstrated in the dynamics of the Sino-Vietnamese relationship.
Author : Brantly Womack
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 551 pages
File Size : 30,72 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9814295272
Presents asymmetry theory, a different paradigm for the study of international relations, derived from China's relationships with its neighbors and the world. This title brings together key writings on the theory and its applications to China's basic foreign policy, particularly towards the United States and the rest of Asia.
Author : Thomas Stephen Long
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 35,33 MB
Release : 2015-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 1107121248
Using multinational sources, the book explores how Latin American leaders influenced US policy in the context of asymmetrical power relations.
Author : I. William Zartman
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 23,77 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Balance of power
ISBN : 9780472089079
Examines perceived power on the basis of which symmetries and asymmetries in the relations between parties can be identified
Author : T. V. Paul
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 47,79 MB
Release : 1994-03-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521466219
This book examines a question generally neglected in the study of international relations: why does a militarily and economically less powerful state initiate conflict against a relatively strong state? T. V. Paul analyses this phenomenon by focusing on the strategic and political considerations, domestic and international, which influence a weaker state to initiate war against a more powerful adversary. The key argument of deterrence theory is that the military superiority of the status quo power, coupled with a credible retaliatory threat, will prevent attack by challengers. The author challenges this assumption by examining six twentieth-century asymmetric wars, from the Japanese offensive against Russia in 1904 to the Argentine invasion of the Falkland Islands in 1982. The book's findings have wide implications for the study of war, power, deterrence, coercive diplomacy, strategy, arms races, and alliances.
Author : Lisa Halliday
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 24,64 MB
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1501166778
A TIME and NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BOOK of the YEAR * New York Times Notable Book and Times Critic’s Top Book of 2018 NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2018 BY * Elle * Bustle * Kirkus Reviews * Lit Hub* NPR * O, The Oprah Magazine * Shelf Awareness The bestselling and critically acclaimed debut novel by Lisa Halliday, hailed as “extraordinary” by The New York Times, “a brilliant and complex examination of power dynamics in love and war” by The Wall Street Journal, and “a literary phenomenon” by The New Yorker. Told in three distinct and uniquely compelling sections, Asymmetry explores the imbalances that spark and sustain many of our most dramatic human relations: inequities in age, power, talent, wealth, fame, geography, and justice. The first section, “Folly,” tells the story of Alice, a young American editor, and her relationship with the famous and much older writer Ezra Blazer. A tender and exquisite account of an unexpected romance that takes place in New York during the early years of the Iraq War, “Folly” also suggests an aspiring novelist’s coming-of-age. By contrast, “Madness” is narrated by Amar, an Iraqi-American man who, on his way to visit his brother in Kurdistan, is detained by immigration officers and spends the last weekend of 2008 in a holding room in Heathrow. These two seemingly disparate stories gain resonance as their perspectives interact and overlap, with yet new implications for their relationship revealed in an unexpected coda. A stunning debut from a rising literary star, Asymmetry is “a transgressive roman a clef, a novel of ideas, and a politically engaged work of metafiction” (The New York Times Book Review), and a “masterpiece” in the original sense of the word” (The Atlantic). Lisa Halliday’s novel will captivate any reader with while also posing arresting questions about the very nature of fiction itself.
Author : Anthony Reid
Publisher :
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 23,47 MB
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Asia
ISBN : 9789971694470
Argues that neither the 'Chinese world order' of tribute relations nor the Westphalia model of sovereign equality ever operated effectively in Asia, but suggests that the past does offer strong indicators about the shape of a new order in Asia.
Author : Anders Pape MØller
Publisher : Oxford University Press, UK
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 31,49 MB
Release : 1997-11-27
Category : Developmental biology
ISBN : 019158939X
Why does nature love symmetry? In Asymmetry, Developmental Stability and Evolution, M--oslash--;ller and Swaddle analyse the evolutionary implications of symmetry. They advance and explain their theory that asymmetry is related to genetic stability and fitness, and that symmetric individuals appear to have quantifiable and significant advantages over their asymmetric counterparts. When assessing potential mates or competitors, animals may be able to use symmetry as an honest indication of quality. This interdisciplinary book, with its associated Web-site, will be of interest to students and researchers in the fields of ecology, evolutionary biology, genetics, and animal behaviour. - ;Why does nature love symmetry? In Asymmetry, Developmental Stability and Evolution, M--oslash--;ller and Swaddle analyse the evolutionary implications of symmetry. They advance and explain their theory that symmetry is related to genetic stability and fitness, and that symmetric individuals appear to have quantifiable and significant advantages over their asymmetric counterparts. When assessing potential mates or competitors, animals may be able to use symmetry as an honest indication of quality. This interdisciplinary book, with its associated Web-site, will be of interest to students and researchers in the fields of ecology, evolutionary biology, genetics, and animal behaviour. -
Author : Neil C. Renic
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 12,3 MB
Release : 2020-04-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0198851464
This book offers an engaging and historically informed account of the moral challenge of radically asymmetric violence -- warfare conducted by one party in the near-complete absence of physical risk, across the full scope of a conflict zone. What role does physical risk and material threat play in the justifications for killing in war? And crucially, is there a point at which battlefield violence becomes so one-directional as to undermine the moral basis for its use? In order to answers these questions, Asymmetric Killing delves into the morally contested terrain of the warrior ethos and Just War Tradition, locating the historical and contemporary role of reciprocal risk within both. This book also engages two historical episodes of battlefield asymmetry, military sniping and manned aerial bombing. Both modes of violence generated an imbalance of risk between opponents so profound as to call into question their permissibility. These now-resolved controversies will then be contrasted with the UAV-exclusive violence of the United States, robotic killing conducted in the absence of a significant military ground presence in conflict theatres such as Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia. As will be revealed, the radical asymmetry of this latter case is distinct, undermining reciprocal risk at the structural level of war. Beyond its more resolvable tension with the warrior ethos, UAV-exclusive violence represents a fundamental challenge to the very coherence of the moral justifications for killing in war.