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Gulliver's Troubles

Author : Adekeye Adebajo

Publisher : University of Kwazulu Natal Press

Page : 436 pages

File Size : 14,90 MB

Release : 2008

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN :

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"Gulliver's Troubles offers the first comprehensive assessment of the post-Cold War foreign policy of Nigeria - one of Africa's most important states. Expert contributors, comprising academics and scholar-diplomats, analyse Nigeria's most vital domestic challenges and critical regional issues from historical and contemporary perspectives. Nigeria's relations with its neighbours and other significant states and regional and international bodies also come under scrutiny. The debates here, while multi-faceted, share the premise that an effective foreign policy must be built on a sound domestic base and democratic stability."--BOOK JACKET.







Gulliver Unbound

Author : Stanley Hoffmann

Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield

Page : 176 pages

File Size : 13,1 MB

Release : 2004

Category : History

ISBN : 9780742536012

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Renowned for his compassionate and balanced thinking on international affairs, Stanley Hoffmann reflects here on the proper place of the United States in a world it has defined almost exclusively by 9/11, the war on terrorism, and the invasion of Iraq. A true global citizen, Hoffmann's analysis is uniquely informed by his place as a public intellectual with one foot in Europe, the other in America. In this brilliant essay, he considers point by point the events and actions that have led America down the path of imperialism, becoming a power at once arrogant, victorious, and unilateral. Tracing the significance of September 11 in the short term and over the long course of American history, Hoffmann explains the contradictions and the consequences for international order--and disorder.



Gulliver's Travels

Author : Jonathan Swift

Publisher : Echo Library

Page : 204 pages

File Size : 28,58 MB

Release : 2011-08-01

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 9781603037228

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Study Guide to Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift

Author : Intelligent Education

Publisher : Influence Publishers

Page : 210 pages

File Size : 49,35 MB

Release : 2020-02-15

Category : Study Aids

ISBN : 1645422895

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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, an immediate popular success when it was published as Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World in 1726. As a novel of eighteenth century Britain, Gulliver’s Travels was a satire on human nature and a parody of the "travellers' tales" literary subgenre that was popular at the time. Moreover, Swift has given us a book which helps us measure our achievements, our failures and our predicaments against those of another age and another set of values. This Bright Notes Study Guide explores the context and history of Swift’s classic work, helping students to thoroughly explore the reasons it has stood the literary test of time. Each Bright Notes Study Guide contains: - Introductions to the Author and the Work - Character Summaries - Plot Guides - Section and Chapter Overviews - Test Essay and Study Q&As The Bright Notes Study Guide series offers an in-depth tour of more than 275 classic works of literature, exploring characters, critical commentary, historical background, plots, and themes. This set of study guides encourages readers to dig deeper in their understanding by including essay questions and answers as well as topics for further research.



Theory of World Security

Author : Ken Booth

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 455 pages

File Size : 35,99 MB

Release : 2007-12-20

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 1139467506

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What is real? What can we know? How might we act? This book sets out to answer these fundamental philosophical questions in a radical and original theory of security for our times. Arguing that the concept of security in world politics has long been imprisoned by conservative thinking, Ken Booth explores security as a precious instrumental value which gives individuals and groups the opportunity to pursue the invention of humanity rather than live determined and diminished lives. Booth suggests that human society globally is facing a set of converging historical crises. He looks to critical social theory and radical international theory to develop a comprehensive framework for understanding the historical challenges facing global business-as-usual and for planning to reconstruct a more cosmopolitan future. Theory of World Security is a challenge both to well-established ways of thinking about security and alternative approaches within critical security studies.



Transgressive Fiction

Author : R. Mookerjee

Publisher : Springer

Page : 230 pages

File Size : 28,34 MB

Release : 2013-05-07

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 1137341084

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Often dismissed as sensationalist, transgressive fiction is a sophisticated movement with roots in Menippean satire and the Rabelaisian carnal folk sensibility praised by Bakhtin. This study, the first of its kind, provides a thorough literary background and analysis of key transgressive authors such as Acker, Amis, Carter, Ellis, and Palahniuk.



Wilsonianism

Author : L. Ambrosius

Publisher : Springer

Page : 224 pages

File Size : 14,22 MB

Release : 2002-10-14

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 1403970041

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In Wilsonianism , American foreign relations specialist Lloyd E. Ambrosius has compiled his published and unpublished essays on Woodrow Wilson's liberal ideology and statecraft during and after World War I. Although the president failed in his pursuit of a new world order, his legacy of Wilsonianism - the principles of national self-determination, economic globalization, collective security, and progressive historicism - continued to shape U.S. foreign relations throughout the American Century. Ambrosius examines the American roots of Wilson's liberal internationalism, the dilemmas and contradictions in his principles, and the problematic consequences of U.S. efforts to implement Wilsonian ideals without fully appreciating the world's cultural pluralism as well as its economic and political interdependence. Offering a pluralist variant of the realist tradition in international relations, Ambrosius stresses the centrality of power; but maintains that culture and political economy as well as military strength determine the balance of power within and among nations or empires. Consequently, he concludes, making the world safe for democracy has been more problematic in practice, both at home and abroad, than proclaiming Wilsonian principles in the abstract.



Weak States in the International System

Author : Michael I. Handel

Publisher : Taylor & Francis

Page : 354 pages

File Size : 41,38 MB

Release : 1990

Category : History

ISBN : 9780714640730

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This work defines weak states and their strengths and weaknesses. It examines why they are weak and their position in different international systems as well as their economic positions.