Blind Oracles

Author : Bruce Kuklick
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691133875
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blind Oracles written by Bruce Kuklick and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2007-08-05 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this trenchant analysis, historian Bruce Kuklick examines the role of intellectuals in foreign policymaking. He recounts the history of the development of ideas about strategy and foreign policy during a critical period in American history: the era of the nuclear standoff between the United States and the Soviet Union. The book looks at how the country's foremost thinkers advanced their ideas during this time of United States expansionism, a period that culminated in the Vietnam War and détente with the Soviets. Beginning with George Kennan after World War II, and concluding with Henry Kissinger and the Vietnam War, Kuklick examines the role of both institutional policymakers such as those at The Rand Corporation and Harvard's Kennedy School, and individual thinkers including Paul Nitze, McGeorge Bundy, and Walt Rostow. Kuklick contends that the figures having the most influence on American strategy--Kissinger, for example--clearly understood the way politics and the exercise of power affects policymaking. Other brilliant thinkers, on the other hand, often played a minor role, providing, at best, a rationale for policies adopted for political reasons. At a time when the role of the neoconservatives' influence over American foreign policy is a subject of intense debate, this book offers important insight into the function of intellectuals in foreign policymaking.

Author : Bruce Kuklick
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400849462
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blind Oracles written by Bruce Kuklick and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-24 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this trenchant analysis, historian Bruce Kuklick examines the role of intellectuals in foreign policymaking. He recounts the history of the development of ideas about strategy and foreign policy during a critical period in American history: the era of the nuclear standoff between the United States and the Soviet Union. The book looks at how the country's foremost thinkers advanced their ideas during this time of United States expansionism, a period that culminated in the Vietnam War and détente with the Soviets. Beginning with George Kennan after World War II, and concluding with Henry Kissinger and the Vietnam War, Kuklick examines the role of both institutional policymakers such as those at The Rand Corporation and Harvard's Kennedy School, and individual thinkers including Paul Nitze, McGeorge Bundy, and Walt Rostow. Kuklick contends that the figures having the most influence on American strategy--Kissinger, for example--clearly understood the way politics and the exercise of power affects policymaking. Other brilliant thinkers, on the other hand, often played a minor role, providing, at best, a rationale for policies adopted for political reasons. At a time when the role of the neoconservatives' influence over American foreign policy is a subject of intense debate, this book offers important insight into the function of intellectuals in foreign policymaking.

Author : Chad Hartsock
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047432967
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sight and Blindness in Luke-Acts written by Chad Hartsock and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008-05-31 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ancient world often thought in terms of physiognomics—the idea that character can be discerned by studying outward, physical features. That physical descriptions carry moral freight in characterization has been largely missed in modern biblical scholarship, and this study brings that to the forefront. Specifically, this is a study of one particular physical marker—blindness. When we look at Greco-Roman literature, a kind of literary topos begins to emerge, a set of assumptions that ancient audiences would typically make when encountering blind characters. Luke-Acts makes use of such a topos in a way that becomes programmatic, serving as a kind of interpretive key to Luke-Acts that is generally unnoticed in modern scholarship.

Author : Mario Del Pero
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801459481
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Eccentric Realist written by Mario Del Pero and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 2008 election season, the Democratic and Republican presidential candidates both aspired to be understood as foreign policy "realists" in the mold of Henry Kissinger. Kissinger, who is distrusted on the neoconservative right for his skepticism about American exceptionalism and on the liberal left for his amoral, realpolitik approach, once again stood as the sage of foreign relations and the wise man who rises above partisan politics. In The Eccentric Realist, Mario Del Pero questions this depiction of Kissinger. Lauded as the foreign policy realist par excellence, Kissinger, as Del Pero shows, has been far more ideological and inconsistent in his policy formulations than is commonly realized. Del Pero considers the rise and fall of Kissinger's foreign policy doctrine over the course of the 1970s—beginning with his role as National Security Advisor to Nixon and ending with the collapse of détente with the Soviet Union after Kissinger left the scene as Ford's outgoing Secretary of State. Del Pero shows that realism then (not unlike realism now) was as much a response to domestic politics as it was a cold, hard assessment of the facts of international relations. In the early 1970s, Americans were weary of ideological forays abroad; Kissinger provided them with a doctrine that translated that political weariness into foreign policy. Del Pero argues that Kissinger was keenly aware that realism could win elections and generate consensus. Moreover, over the course of the 1970s it became clear that realism, as practiced by Kissinger, was as rigid as the neoconservativism that came to replace it. In the end, the failure of the détente forged by the realists was not the defeat of cool reason at the hands of ideologically motivated and politically savvy neoconservatives. Rather, the force of American exceptionalism, the touchstone of the neocons, overcame Kissinger's political skills and ideological commitments. The fate of realism in the 1970s raises interesting questions regarding its prospects in the early years of the twenty-first century.

Author : George Robert Stow Mead
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Chaldæan Oracles written by George Robert Stow Mead and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jin-Yi Cai
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3540725040
Total Pages : 772 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theory and Applications of Models of Computation written by Jin-Yi Cai and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-07-23 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Theory and Applications of Models of Computation, TAMC 2007, held in Shanghai, China in May 2007. It addresses all major areas in computer science; mathematics, especially logic; and the physical sciences, particularly with regard to computation and computability theory. The papers particularly focus on algorithms, complexity and computability theory.

Author : Joonsang Baek
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540887326
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Provable Security written by Joonsang Baek and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-10-09 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Provable Security, ProvSec 2008, held in Shanghai, China, October 30 - November 1, 2008. The 25 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 79 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on Encryption, Signature, Analysis, Application of Hash Functions, Universal Composability, and Applications.

Author : G. R. S. Mead
Publisher : Leonardo Paolo Lovari
ISBN 13 : 8885519202
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chaldean Oracles written by G. R. S. Mead and published by Leonardo Paolo Lovari. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: UNDER this general title is now being published a series of small volumes, drawn from or based upon, the mystic, theosophic and gnostic writings of the ancients, so as to make more easily available for the ever-widening circle of those who love such things, some echoes of the mystic experiences and initiatory lore of their spiritual ancestry. There are many who love the life of the spirit, and who long for the light of gnostic illumination, but who are not sufficiently equipped to study the writings of the ancients at first hand, or to follow unaided the labours of scholars. These little volumes are therefore intended to serve as introduction to the study of the more difficult literature of the subject; and it is hoped that at the same time they may become for some, who have, as yet, not even heard of the Gnosis, stepping-stones to higher things.

Author : Yue Hao
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3540315985
Total Pages : 1205 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Computational Intelligence and Security written by Yue Hao and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-06-18 with total page 1205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two volume set LNAI 3801 and LNAI 3802 constitute the refereed proceedings of the annual International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Security, CIS 2005, held in Xi'an, China, in December 2005. The 338 revised papers presented - 254 regular and 84 extended papers - were carefully reviewed and selected from over 1800 submissions. The first volume is organized in topical sections on learning and fuzzy systems, evolutionary computation, intelligent agents and systems, intelligent information retrieval, support vector machines, swarm intelligence, data mining, pattern recognition, and applications. The second volume is subdivided in topical sections on cryptography and coding, cryptographic protocols, intrusion detection, security models and architecture, security management, watermarking and information hiding, web and network applications, image and signal processing, and applications.

Author : Roberto De Prisco
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3540380817
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Security and Cryptography for Networks written by Roberto De Prisco and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-08-31 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here are the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Security and Cryptology for Networks, SCN 2006. The book offers 24 revised full papers presented together with the abstract of an invited talk. The papers are organized in topical sections on distributed systems security, signature schemes variants, block cipher analysis, anonymity and e-commerce, public key encryption and key exchange, secret sharing, symmetric key cryptanalisis and randomness, applied authentication, and more.