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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “michael c desch8”
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  • Cult of the Irrelevant

    The Waning Influence of Social Science on National Security

    by Michael C. Desch ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in International History and Politics
    How professionalization and scholarly “rigor” made social scientists increasingly irrelevant to US national security policyTo mobilize America’s intellectual resources to meet the security challenges of the post–9/11 world, US Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates observed that “we must again embrace eggheads and ideas.” But the gap between national security policymakers and international relations ... Read more

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  • Power and Military Effectiveness

    The Fallacy of Democratic Triumphalism

    by Michael C. Desch ...
    Since 1815 democratic states have emerged victorious from most wars, leading many scholars to conclude that democracies are better equipped to triumph in armed conflict with autocratic and other non-representative governments.Political scientist Michael C. Desch argues that the evidence and logic of that supposition, which he terms “democratic triumphalism,” are as flawed as the arguments for the ... Read more

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  • Public Intellectuals in the Global Arena

    Professors or Pundits?

    Edited by Michael C. Desch ...
    What is a public intellectual? Where are they to be found? What accounts for the lament today that public intellectuals are either few in number or, worse, irrelevant? While there is a small literature on the role of public intellectuals, it is organized around various thinkers rather than focusing on different countries or the unique opportunities and challenges inherent in varied disciplines or ... Read more

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  • Bridging the Theory-Practice Divide in International Relations

    by Daniel Maliniak, Susan Peterson, Ryan Powers, Michael J. Tierney, Amanda Murdie, Sarah E. Mendelson, Jessica F. Green0, Thomas Hale1, Marc A. Levy2, Christina J. Schneider3, Steven Radelet4, Edward D. Mansfield5, Jon C. W. Pevehouse6, Robert B. Zoellick7, Thomas B. Pepinsky8, David A. Steinberg9, Dimitri G. Demekas0, Sarah Kreps1, Jessica Weeks2, Peter D. Feaver3, Michael G. Findley4, Joseph K. Young5, Scott Edwards6, Paul C. Avey7, Michael C. Desch8, John R. Harvey9 ...
    There is a widening divide between the data, tools, and knowledge that international relations scholars produce and what policy practitioners find relevant for their work. In this first-of-its-kind conversation, leading academics and practitioners reflect on the nature and size of the theory-practice divide. They find the gap varies by issue area and over time.The essays in this volume use data ... Read more

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    A Radical Philosophical Challenge to Morality and Truth

    by Friedrich Nietzsche ...
    Beyond Good and Evil is one of Friedrich Nietzsche's most influential philosophical works. In it, Nietzsche challenges traditional moral values, religious beliefs, and philosophical assumptions, calling for a reevaluation of truth and power. Provocative, complex, and intellectually daring, this book reshaped modern philosophy and continues to influence thought across literature, psychology, and ... Read more

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  • Tell Me How It Ends

    An Essay in 40 Questions

    by Valeria Luiselli ...
    American Book Award Winner: A “moving, intimate” account of serving as a translator for undocumented children facing deportation (The New York Times Book Review). Nonfiction Finalist for the Kirkus PrizeFinalist for National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism Structured around the forty questions volunteer worker Valeria Luiselli translates from a court system form and asks undocumented Latin ... Read more

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  • Foodopoly

    The Battle Over the Future of Food and Farming in America

    by Wenonah Hauter ...
    "A meticulously researched tour de force" on politics, big agriculture, and the need to go beyond farmers' markets to find fixes ( Publishers Weekly).Wenonah Hauter owns an organic family farm that provides healthy vegetables to hundreds of families as part of the Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) movement. Yet, as a leading healthy-food advocate, Hauter believes that the local food movement ... Read more

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  • Give Us Liberty

    A Tea Party Manifesto

    by Dick Armey, Matt Kibbe ...
    Former Majority Leader of the U.S. House of Representatives and leading organizer of the Tea Party movement, Dick Armey offers a Tea Party Manifesto: Give Us Liberty. Written with Matt Kibbee, President and CEO of FreedomWorks, Give Us Liberty defines the issues and agenda of the wildfire grassroots movement that is electrifying the nation, as it calls on fiscal conservatives to take back America ... Read more

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  • Trans.Can.Lit: Resituating the Study of Canadian Literature

    Resituating the Study of Canadian Literature

    by Smaro Kamboureli, Roy Miki ...
    Series series TransCanada
    The study of Canadian literature—CanLit—has undergone dramatic changes since it became an area of specialization in the 1960s and ’70s. As new global forces in the 1990s undermined its nation-based critical assumptions, its theoretical focus and research methods lost their immediacy. The contributors to Trans.Can.Lit address cultural policy, citizenship, white civility, and the celebrated status ... Read more

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  • Distributing Our Technological Inheritance

    by Gar Alperovitz, Hildegarde Hannum ...
    Series series Annual E. F. Schumacher Lectures
    The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.Arguing that our current sophisticated technology builds on a history of scientific achievements which are rightly our shared cultural inheritance, Gar Alperovitz then constructs a philosophical argument for broad distribution of the profits earned ... Read more

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  • Building a Civil Society

    Associations, Public Life, and the Origins of Modern Italy

    by Steven C. Soper ...
    The most passionate advocates of Italy’s unification in the nineteenth century possessed an almost limitless faith in the benefits of civic association. They also shared a common concern: once Italian unification was achieved and various freedoms were established, would ordinary Italians naturally become responsible, progressive citizens – especially after centuries of foreign rule, regional ... Read more

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  • The Incidental Steward

    Reflections on Citizen Science

    by Akiko Busch ...
    A search for a radio-tagged Indiana bat roosting in the woods behind her house in New York’s Hudson Valley led Akiko Busch to assorted other encounters with the natural world—local ecological monitoring projects, community-organized cleanup efforts, and data-driven citizen science research. Whether it is pulling up water chestnuts in the Hudson River, measuring beds of submerged aquatic ... Read more

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