Provides a process and framework for using historical knowledge in intelligent decision making, and presents several situations in which world leaders did and did not do this.
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Provides a process and framework for using historical knowledge in intelligent decision making, and presents several situations in which world leaders did and did not do this.
Two professors of government analyze both political disasters and successes of recent decades to provide telling lessons on how to use history to improve decision-making. A dozen case studies are drawn in pungent detail both from the record and from backstage information gained …
Stories of the disastrous blunders of American presidents will show readers the inner workings of the White House and how some of our greatest leaders could make decisions that were terribly wrong. The fascinating stories are recounted as narratives and are as entertaining as th…
Stories of the disastrous blunders of American presidents will show readers the inner workings of the White House and how some of our greatest leaders could make decisions that were terribly wrong. The fascinating stories are recounted as narratives and are as entertaining as th…
This text aims to expand the growing scholarly debate around genocide by exploring the involvement of the USA and other liberal 'Western' democracies in activities supposedly restricted to totalitarian and authoritarian regimes.
Indhold: Overview Adam Jones: Introduction: history and complicity. Peter Stoett: Shades of complicity: towards atypology of transnational crimes against humanity Genocide, war crimes and the West (Jan-Bart Gewald: Imperial Germany and the herero of Southern Africa. Ward Churchi…
"Genocide and war crimes are increasingly the focus of scholarly and activist attention. Much controversy exists over how, precisely, these grim phenomena should be defined and conceptualized. Genocide, War Crimes and the West tackles this controversy, and clarifies our understa…
"Genocide and war crimes are increasingly the focus of scholarly and activist attention. Much controversy exists over how, precisely, these grim phenomena should be defined and conceptualized. Genocide, War Crimes and the West tackles this controversy, and clarifies our understa…