Few global security issues stimulate more fervent passion than the application of brute force. Despite the fierce debate raging about it in government, society and the Academy, inadequate strategic understanding surrounds the issue, prompting the urgent need for —the first comprehensive systematic global analysis of 21st century state-initiated internal and external applications of brute force.
Based on extensive case evidence, Robert Mandel assesses the short-term and long-term, the local and global, the military, political, economic, and social, and the state and human security impacts of brute force. He explicitly isolates the conditions under which brute force works best and worst by highlighting force initiator and force target attributes linked to brute force success and common but low-impact force legitimacy concerns. Mandel comes to two major overarching conclusions. First, that the modern global application of brute force shows a pattern of futility—but one that is more a function of states misapplication of brute force than of the inherent deficiencies of this instrument itself. Second, that the realm for successful application of state-initiated brute force is shrinking: for while state-initiated brute force can serve as a transitional short-run local military solution, he says, it cannot by itself provide a long-run global strategic solution or serve as a cure for human security problems. Taking the evidence and his conclusions together, Mandel provides policy advice for managing brute force use in the modern world.
Автор: Emily St. John MandelНазвание: Station ElevenISBN: 1447268970 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781447268970 Издательство: Pan MacmillanРейтинг: Цена: 7690.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть Описание: Longlisted for the Baileys Women`s Prize for Fiction, Station Eleven is a post-apocalyptic story of love, loss and survival.
Автор: Mandel Emily St JohnНазвание: Station ElevenISBN: 0804172447 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780804172448 Издательство: Random House (USA)Цена: 10390.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.Описание: An audacious, darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days of civilization's collapse, Station Eleven tells the spellbinding story of a Hollywood star, his would-be savior, and a nomadic group of actors roaming the scattered outposts of the Great Lakes region, risking everything for art and humanity. A National Book Award FinalistA PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist Kirsten Raymonde will never forget the night Arthur Leander, the famous Hollywood actor, had a heart attack on stage during a production of King Lear. That was the night when a devastating flu pandemic arrived in the city, and within weeks, civilization as we know it came to an end. Twenty years later, Kirsten moves between the settlements of the altered world with a small troupe of actors and musicians. They call themselves The Traveling Symphony, and they have dedicated themselves to keeping the remnants of art and humanity alive. But when they arrive in St. Deborah by the Water, they encounter a violent prophet who will threaten the tiny band's existence. And as the story takes off, moving back and forth in time, and vividly depicting life before and after the pandemic, the strange twist of fate that connects them all will be revealed.
Автор: Mandel Emily St JohnНазвание: Lola QuartetISBN: 1447280075 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781447280071 Издательство: Pan MacmillanРейтинг: Цена: 7690.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.Описание: From the New York Times bestselling author of Station Eleven comes The Lola Quartet, a novel full of mystery and moral darkness.
Автор: Mandel, Miriam B.Название: Hemingway and africaISBN: 1571139672 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781571139672 Издательство: Boydell & BrewerРейтинг: Цена: 42240.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.Описание: New scholarly essays providing a multifaceted approach to the role of Africa in Hemingway`s life and work.
Автор: Frank, Pierre Bensaid, Daniel Mandel, ErnestНазвание: Long march of the trotskyists contributions to the history of the fourth internationalISBN: 0902869809 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780902869806 Издательство: НеизвестноРейтинг: Цена: 18390.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.Описание: We live in an age where everything has been internationalised. Imperialism brought in its wake world politics and world economics. In this book, Pierre Frank explains how the Fourth International, founded in 1938 by Revolutionary Marxist militants, nuclei, currents and organizations, answered the problem of the construction of anti-capitalist, revolutionary political formations. As Ernest Mandel's biographical essay explains, Frank was secretary to Leon Trotsky in 1932-1933. This book draws on Frank's experience as a central leader of the Fourth International through to 1979. Daniel Bensa d's appendix explains the following 30 years of the Fourth International life. Two contributions develop its perspective of establishing a new independent political representation of the working class that takes into account the diversity of the working class in defending a resolutely class-based programme: a statement by founders of the French LCR explaining its decision to dissolve into the NPA; and the key resolution adopted by the Fourth International's 2009 world congress.
