Joshua S. Goldstein aborde les défis les plus importants de l'humanité, les examinant sous l'angle des relations internationales. Son œuvre explore les profondeurs de la guerre, de la paix, de la diplomatie et de l'histoire économique, dévoilant les modèles complexes de conflit et de coopération humaine. L'analyse de Goldstein se caractérise par sa précision et sa quête de compréhension des forces motrices des événements mondiaux, offrant aux lecteurs une perspective pénétrante sur le monde. Ses écrits représentent une contribution significative au discours sur l'avenir de l'humanité.
This brief edition of Goldstein's best-selling 'International Relations' covers the subject comprehensively but more compactly than the comprehensive version, giving professors more latitude to use supplementary readings or focus on special topics and interests.
The first book ever to offer a proven, fast, inexpensive, practical approach to permanently cutting greenhouse gas emissions: increasing our commitment to both renewable and nuclear energy, together.
How does gender affect war, and vice versa? In this definitive and lively book, Joshua Goldstein seeks to explain the near-total exclusion of women from combat forces, through history and across cultures. This unique study is illustrated throughout with photos, drawings, and graphics. schovat popis
“The most important political book of the year.”—Gregg Easterbrook, author of The Progress Paradox Everyone knows: wars are getting worse, more civilians are dying, and peacemaking achieves nothing, right? Wrong. Despite all the bad-news headlines, peacekeeping is working. Fewer wars are starting, more are ending, and those that remain are smaller and more localized. But peace doesn’t just happen; it needs to be put into effect. Moreover, understanding the global decline in armed conflict is crucial as America shifts to an era of lower military budgets and operations. Preeminent scholar of international relations, Joshua Goldstein, definitively illustrates how decades of effort by humanitarian aid agencies, popular movements—and especially the United Nations—have made a measureable difference in reducing violence in our times. Goldstein shows how we can continue building on these inspiring achievements to keep winning the war on war. This updated and revised edition includes more information on a post-9-11 world, and is a perfect compendium for those wishing to learn more about the United States’ armed conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Remains of the Everyday traces the changing material culture and industrial ecology of China through the lens of recycling. Over the last century, waste recovery and secondhand goods markets have been integral to Beijing’s economic functioning and cultural identity, and acts of recycling have figured centrally in the ideological imagination of modernity and citizenship. On the one hand, the Chinese state has repeatedly promoted acts of voluntary recycling as exemplary of conscientious citizenship. On the other, informal recycling networks—from the night soil carriers of the Republican era to the collectors of plastic and cardboard in Beijing’s neighborhoods today—have been represented as undisciplined, polluting, and technologically primitive due to the municipal government’s failure to control them. The result, Joshua Goldstein argues, is the repeatedly re-inscribed exclusion of waste workers from formations of modern urban citizenship as well as the intrinsic liminality of recycling itself as an economic process.