Territoriality and the Westernization Imperative

Territoriality and the Westernization Imperative
Author: Claude V. Chang
Publisher: University Press of America
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2008-01-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 1461689074

Coexistence in an atmosphere of mutual respect in a pluralist world order has become an even greater challenge in the practice of international relations since the murderous acts committed by al-Qaeda on September 11, 2001 (9/11) that demanded justice. This book looks beyond today's popular narratives. Dr. Chang explores the extent to which the tragedy of 9/11 has been exploited by the neoconservative-controlled U.S. administration as opportunity to launch its grand strategy for creating an American-centric order, necessary for the continuation of U.S. hegemony in the twenty-first century. Specific controversial concerns are extensively examined within the historical and theoretical context of territoriality and power. The state of the American economy; the Arab-Israel conflict; and the invasion of Iraq and its aftermath are treated as interrelated issues and examined in terms of the Westernization imperative inherent in the grand strategy that principally requires the containment of an emerging China.

Political geography, geopolitics and territorial management: Brazilian perspectives

Political geography, geopolitics and territorial management: Brazilian perspectives
Author: Gutemberg de Vilhena Silva
Publisher: Editora Autografia
Total Pages: 187
Release: 2023-05-04
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 8551853163

This book aims to contribute to debates in the fields of political geography, geopolitics and territorial management from the point of view of authors who work in Brazilian universities in the five regions of the country.

Decolonizing the Westernized University

Decolonizing the Westernized University
Author: Ramón Grosfoguel
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2016-10-26
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1498503764

An underlying assumption undergirding institutions of higher education is that they serve as a means to upward socioeconomic mobility and, in turn, a way to address poverty that is tied to certain racialized/sexualized bodies. Although the education crisis is not an American or European problem in the geographic sense, but instead a global problem that plays itself out differentially across space and time, this volume focuses on the westernized university, in the US and abroad. It asks questions about what is westernized about the university, what its aims are, and how those who work in, through and outside these sites of knowledge production—with local or global social movements—can participate in the slow, careful process of decolonizing the westernized university. Decolonizing the Westernized University: Interventions in Philosophy of Education from Within and Without provides a sharper understanding of the crisis and the responses to the westernized university at multiple sites around the world. As an intervention in the philosophy of education discourse, which tends to assume the university is a neutral space, this collection will be of particular value to students and scholars working in philosophy of education, Latina/o philosophy, Africana philosophy, social epistemology, education, cultural studies, and ethnic studies, as well as to intellectual activists in the United States, south of the border, and around the world.

Rachid Ghannouchi

Rachid Ghannouchi
Author: Azzam Tamimi
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2001
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0195140001

In fact, Ghannouchi contends that civil society is an Islamic concept whereas secularism, especially in the model imported to the Muslim world under the guise of modernization, weakens it."--Jacket.

Radical Traditions

Radical Traditions
Author: Andrew Clay McGraw
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2013-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199941424

In Radical Traditions, author Andrew Clay McGraw shows how music kontemporer embodies the tensions between culture as represented and lived. Through a highly interdisciplinary approach this book presents an all-encompassing social and musical history of musik kontemporer.

The Grand Chessboard

The Grand Chessboard
Author: Zbigniew Brzezinski
Publisher: Basic Books
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2016-12-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 0465093086

Bestselling author and eminent foreign policy scholar Zbigniew Brzezinski's classic book on American's strategic mission in the modern world. In The Grand Chessboard, renowned geostrategist Zbigniew Brzezinski delivers a brutally honest and provocative vision for American preeminence in the twenty-first century. The task facing the United States, he argues, is to become the sole political arbiter in Eurasian lands and to prevent the emergence of any rival power threatening our material and diplomatic interests. The Eurasian landmass, home to the greatest part of the globe's population, natural resources, and economic activity, is the "grand chessboard" on which America's supremacy will be ratified and challenged in the years to come. In this landmark work of public policy and political science, Brzezinski outlines a groundbreaking and powerful blueprint for America's vital interests in the modern world. In this revised edition, Brzezinski addresses recent global developments including the war in Ukraine, the re-emergence of Russia, and the rise of China.

Constructing Human Rights in the Age of Globalization

Constructing Human Rights in the Age of Globalization
Author: Mahmood Monshipouri
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2015-06-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1317473906

Both human rights and globalization are powerful ideas and processes, capable of transforming the world in profound ways. Notwithstanding their universal claims, however, the processes are constructed, and they draw their power from the specific cultural and political contexts in which they are constructed. Far from bringing about a harmonious cosmopolitan order, they have stimulated conflict and opposition. In the context of globalization, as the idea of human rights has become universal, its meaning has become one more terrain of struggle among groups with their own interests and goals. Part I of this volume looks at political and cultural struggles to control the human rights regime -- that is, the power to construct the universal claims that will prevail in a territory -- with respect to property, the state, the environment, and women. Part II examines the dynamics and counterdynamics of transnational networks in their interactions with local actors in Iran, China, and Hong Kong. Part III looks at the prospects for fruitful human rights dialogiue between competing universalisms that by definition are intolerant of conradiction and averse to compromise.

A Readers Guide to Contemporary Feminist Literary Criticism

A Readers Guide to Contemporary Feminist Literary Criticism
Author: Maggie Humm
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2015-07-17
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1317341740

This introduction to feminist literary criticism in its international contexts discusses a broad range of complex critical writings and then identifies and explains the main developments and debates within each approach. Each chapter has an easy-to-use format, comprising an introductory overview, an explanation of key themes and techniques, a detailed account of the work of specific critics, and a summary which includes critiques of the approach. Each chapter is accompanied by a guide to the primary texts and further reading.