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• Contents:
• 1. The business case is a basket case: An introduction
• 2. C. J. Fombrun, N. A. Gardberg & M. L. Barnett.
• 2000. Opportunity platforms and safety nets: Corporate citizenship and reputational risk. Business and Society Review, 105(1): 85-106.
• 3. M. L. Barnett & R. M. Salomon.
• 2006. Beyond dichotomy: The curvilinear relationship between social responsibility and financial performance. Strategic Management Journal, 27(11): 1101-1122.
• 4. M. L. Barnett.
• 2007. Stakeholder influence capacity and the variability of financial returns to corporate social responsibility. Academy of Management Review, 32(3): 794-816.
• 5. M. L. Barnett & R. M. Salomon.
• 2012. Does it pay to be really good? Addressing the shape of the relationship between social and financial performance. Strategic Management Journal,
• 33: 1304-1320.
• 6. A. King, M. Lenox & M L. Barnett.
• 2002. Strategic responses to the reputation commons problem. In A. Hoffman and M. Ventresca (eds.), Organizations, Policy, and the Natural Environment: Institutional and Strategic Perspectives. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 393-406.
• 7. M. L. Barnett & A. A. King.
• 2008. Good fences make good neighbors: A longitudinal analysis of an industry self-regulatory institution. Academy of Management Journal, 51(6): 1150-1170.
• 8. M. L. Barnett.
• 2006. Finding a working balance between competitive and communal strategy. Journal of Management Studies, 43(8): 1753-1773.
• 9. M. L. Barnett.
• 2013. One voice, but whose voice? Exploring what drives trade association activity. Business & Society, 52(2): 213-244.
• 10. M. L. Barnett.
• 2014. Why stakeholders ignore firm misconduct: A cognitive view. Journal of Management, 40(3): 676-702.
• 11. M. L. Barnett & S. Leih.
• 2018. Sorry to (not) burst your bubble: The influence of reputation rankings on perceptions of firms. Business & Society, 57(5): 962-978.
• 12. M. L. Barnett.
• 2019. The business case for corporate social responsibility: A critique and an indirect path forward. Business & Society. (in press-- DOI: 10.1177/0007650316660044)
• 13. Building a better business case: Where do we go from here? Index.
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In business, does it pay to be good? Drawing from two decades of published conceptual and empirical scholarship, this book outlines the mechanisms of the business case for corporate social responsibility and demonstrates the conditions that cause good corporate acts to succeed, or fail, in turning a profit. Central to the explanation is the role of stakeholders, who are portrayed as agents who can turn corporate "good into gold" but lack the capacity to do so consistently. This book takes a critical perspective, noting significant limits on the ability of stakeholders to reward good corporate behavior and rein in bad corporate acts. It concludes with several ways that scholars can improve this important and popular research topic. Using arguments built from two decades of highly cited and award-winning published scholarship, Michael L. Barnett uses strong theoretical building blocks and a well-vetted critical perspective to chart the boundaries of the business case for corporate social responsibility. The original introduction organizes and integrates this world-class research into a coherent and convincing story, while the original concluding chapter takes the reader beyond the current literature and provides a path forward that can build a better business case. A multifaceted mix of conceptual and empirical work across levels of analysis (individual, firm, and industry) provides a comprehensive perspective, warts and all. This critical and approachable collection will be a key resource for management scholars, from doctoral students to senior professors, whether they seek to gain a foothold on the core topic of the relationship between business and society or wish to find a way to add to this rich literature. The book would fit as a resource in doctoral seminars and university libraries. Consulting firms and practitioners may also take interest, as they prepare for, and prepare others for, leadership roles in corporations.
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• Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1 Chapter One Heine's Law and Jewish Foreign Policies 19 Chapter Two The Making of a Prophetic People (pre-1914) 51 Chapter Three Prophets Mugged by Reality (1914-1945) 87 Chapter Four The Cosmopolitan and the National (1945-1967) 121 Chapter Five The New Tribalism (1967-1990) 155 Chapter Six Back to the Future? (1990-present) 195 Chapter Seven The Foreign Policies of an Uncertain People 243 Notes 275 Bibliography 303 Index 335.
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How do American Jews envision their role in the world? Are they tribal-a people whose obligations extend solely to their own? Or are they prophetic-a light unto nations, working to repair the world? The Star and the Stripes is an original, provocative interpretation of the effects of these worldviews on the foreign policy beliefs of American Jews since the nineteenth century. Michael Barnett argues that it all begins with the political identity of American Jews. As Jews, they are committed to their people's survival. As Americans, they identify with, and believe their survival depends on, the American principles of liberalism, religious freedom, and pluralism. This identity and search for inclusion form a political theology of prophetic Judaism that emphasizes the historic mission of Jews to help create a world of peace and justice. The political theology of prophetic Judaism accounts for two enduring features of the foreign policy beliefs of American Jews. They exhibit a cosmopolitan sensibility, advocating on behalf of human rights, humanitarianism, and international law and organizations. They also are suspicious of nationalism-including their own. Contrary to the conventional wisdom that American Jews are natural-born Jewish nationalists, Barnett charts a long history of ambivalence; this ambivalence connects their early rejection of Zionism with the current debate regarding their attachment to Israel. And, Barnett contends, this growing ambivalence also explains the rising popularity of humanitarian and social justice movements among American Jews. Rooted in the understanding of how history shapes a political community's sense of the world, The Star and the Stripes is a bold reading of the past, present, and possible future foreign policies of American Jews.
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• 1 Introduction: The Secularization and Sanctification of Humanitarianism
• 2 Faith in Markets
• Stephen Hopgood and Leslie Vinjamuri
• 3 <"Cultural proximity>" and the Conjuncture of Islam with Modern Humanitarianism
• Jonathan Benthall
• 4 Religious Obligation or Altruistic Giving? Muslims and Charitable Donations
• Ajaz Ahmed Khan
• 5 The Role of Spirituality in Humanitarian Crisis Survival and Recover
• Peter Walker, Dyan Mazurana, Amy Warren, George Scarlett, and Henry Louis
• 6 Religious Giving Outside the Law in New Delhi
• Erica Bornstein
• 7 Pyrrhic Victories? French Catholic Missionaries, Modern Expertise and Secularizing Technologies
• Betrand Taithe
• 8 Faith in the Machine? Humanitarianism in an Age of Bureaucratization
• Michael Barnett
• 9 Bridging the Sacred and the Profane in Humanitarian Life
• Andrea Paras and Janice Gross Stein
• Notes
• Bibliography
• About the Contributors
• Index.
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The global humanitarian movement, which originated within Western religious organizations in the early nineteenth century, has been of most important forces in world politics in advancing both human rights and human welfare. While the religious groups that founded the movement originally focused on conversion, in time more secular concerns came to dominate. By the end of the nineteenth century, increasingly professionalized yet nominally religious organization shifted from reliance on the good book to the public health manual. Over the course of the twentieth century, the secularization of humanitarianism only increased, and by the 1970s the movement's religious inspiration, generally speaking, was marginal to its agenda. However, beginning in the 1980s, religiously inspired humanitarian movements experienced a major revival, and today they are virtual equals of their secular brethren. From church-sponsored AIDS prevention campaigns in Africa to Muslim charity efforts in flood-stricken Pakistan to Hindu charities in India, religious groups have altered the character of the global humanitarian movement. Moreover, even secular groups now gesture toward religious inspiration in their work. Clearly, the broad, inexorable march toward secularism predicted by so many Westerners has halted, which is especially intriguing with regard to humanitarianism. Not only was it a highly secularized movement just forty years ago, but its principles were based on those we associate with "rational " modernity: cosmopolitan one-worldism and material (as opposed to spiritual) progress. How and why did this happen, and what does it mean for humanitarianism writ large? That is the question that the eminent scholars Michael Barnett and Janice Stein pose in Sacred Aid, and for answers they have gathered chapters from leading scholars that focus on the relationship between secularism and religion in contemporary humanitarianism throughout the developing world. Collectively, the chapters in this volume comprise an original and authoritative account of religion has reshaped the global humanitarian movement in recent times.
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• Co-dependence : humanitarianism and the world
• The humanitarian big bang
• Saving slaves, sinners, savages, and societies
• Saving soldiers and civilians during war
• The new international
• Neo-humanitarianism
• Humanitarianism during wartime
• It's a humanitarian's world
• Armed for humanity
• Politics and anti-politics, or, The new paternalism.

Empire of Humanity explores humanitarianism's remarkable growth from its humble origins in the early nineteenth century to its current prominence in global life. In contrast to most contemporary accounts of humanitarianism that concentrate on the last two decades, Michael Barnett ties the past to the present, connecting the antislavery and missionary movements of the nineteenth century to today's peacebuilding missions, the Cold War interventions in places like Biafra and Cambodia to post-Cold War humanitarian operations in regions such as the Great Lakes of Africa and the Balkans; and the creation of the International Committee of the Red Cross in 1863 to the emergence of the major international humanitarian organizations of the twentieth century. Based on extensive archival work, close encounters with many of today's leading international agencies, and interviews with dozens of aid workers in the field and at headquarters, Empire of Humanity provides a history that is both global and intimate. Avoiding both romanticism and cynicism, Empire of Humanity explores humanitarianism's enduring themes, trends, and, most strikingly, ethical ambiguities. Humanitarianism hopes to change the world, but the world has left its mark on humanitarianism. Humanitarianism has undergone three distinct global ages-imperial, postcolonial, and liberal-each of which has shaped what humanitarianism can do and what it is. The world has produced not one humanitarianism, but instead varieties of humanitarianism. Furthermore, Barnett observes that the world of humanitarianism is divided between an emergency camp that wants to save lives and nothing else and an alchemist camp that wants to remove the causes of suffering. These camps offer different visions of what are the purpose and principles of humanitarianism, and, accordingly respond differently to the same global challenges and humanitarianism emergencies. Humanitarianism has developed a metropolis of global institutions of care, amounting to a global governance of humanity. This humanitarian governance, Barnett observes, is an empire of humanity: it exercises power over the very individuals it hopes to emancipate. Although many use humanitarianism as a symbol of moral progress, Barnett provocatively argues that humanitarianism has undergone its most impressive gains after moments of radical inhumanity, when the "international community" believes that it must atone for its sins and reduce the breach between what we do and who we think we are. Humanitarianism is not only about the needs of its beneficiaries; it also is about the needs of the compassionate.

• Co-dependence : humanitarianism and the world
• The humanitarian big bang
• Saving slaves, sinners, savages, and societies
• Saving soldiers and civilians during war
• The new international
• Neo-humanitarianism
• Humanitarianism during wartime
• It's a humanitarian's world
• Armed for humanity
• Politics and anti-politics, or, The new paternalism.

Empire of Humanity explores humanitarianism's remarkable growth from its humble origins in the early nineteenth century to its current prominence in global life. In contrast to most contemporary accounts of humanitarianism that concentrate on the last two decades, Michael Barnett ties the past to the present, connecting the antislavery and missionary movements of the nineteenth century to today's peacebuilding missions, the Cold War interventions in places like Biafra and Cambodia to post Cold War humanitarian operations in regions such as the Great Lakes of Africa and the Balkans; and the creation of the International Committee of the Red Cross in 1863 to the emergence of the major international humanitarian organizations of the twentieth century. Based on extensive archival work, close encounters with many of today's leading international agencies, and interviews with dozens of aid workers in the field and at headquarters, Empire of Humanity provides a history that is both global and intimate. Avoiding both romanticism and cynicism, Empire of Humanity explores humanitarianism's enduring themes, trends, and, most strikingly, ethical ambiguities. Humanitarianism hopes to change the world, but the world has left its mark on humanitarianism. Humanitarianism has undergone three distinct global ages imperial, postcolonial, and liberal each of which has shaped what humanitarianism can do and what it is. The world has produced not one humanitarianism, but instead varieties of humanitarianism. Furthermore, Barnett observes that the world of humanitarianism is divided between an emergency camp that wants to save lives and nothing else and an alchemist camp that wants to remove the causes of suffering. These camps offer different visions of what are the purpose and principles of humanitarianism, and, accordingly respond differently to the same global challenges and humanitarianism emergencies. Humanitarianism has developed a metropolis of global institutions of care, amounting to a global governance of humanity. This humanitarian governance, Barnett observes, is an empire of humanity: it exercises power over the very individuals it hopes to emancipate. Although many use humanitarianism as a symbol of moral progress, Barnett provocatively argues that humanitarianism has undergone its most impressive gains after moments of radical inhumanity, when the "international community" believes that it must atone for its sins and reduce the breach between what we do and who we think we are. Humanitarianism is not only about the needs of its beneficiaries; it also is about the needs of the compassionate.".
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• 1. Introduction: The International Humanitarian Order
• Section 1: UN and World Order
• 2. Bringing in the New World Order: Legitimacy, Liberalism, and the United Nations World Politics
• 3. The New U.N. Politics of Peace: From Juridical Sovereignty to Empirical Sovereignty." Global Governance
• 4. The United Nations and Global Security: The Norm is Mightier Than the Sword
• 5. Humanitarianism with a Sovereign Face: UNHCR in the Global Undertow
• Section 2: The Ethics of Intervention
• 6. The Politics of Indifference at the United Nations: The Security Council, Peacekeeping, and Genocide in Rwanda
• 7. UNHCR and the Ethics of Repatriation.
• 8. Building a Republican Peace: Stabilizing States After War
• 9. Humanitarianism Transformed.
• 10. Conclusion: Beyond the International Humanitarian Order?
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One of the genuinely remarkable but relatively unnoticed developments of the last half-century is the blossoming of an international humanitarian order - a complex of norms, informal institutions, laws, and discourses that legitimate and compel various kinds of interventions by state and nonstate actors with the explicit goal of preserving and protecting human life. For those who have sacrificed to build this order, and for those who have come to rely on it, the international humanitarian represents a towering achievement cause for sobriety. What kind of international humanitarian order is being imagined, created and practiced? To what extent are the international agents of this order deliverers of progress or disappointment? Featuring previously published and original essays, this collection offers a critical assessment of the practices and politics of global ethical interventions in the context of the post-cold war transformation of the international humanitarian order. After an introduction that introduces the reader to the concept and the significance of the international humanitarian order, Section I explores the braided relationship between international order and the UN, whiles Section II critically examines international ethics in practice. The Conclusion reflects on these and other themes, asking why the international humanitarian order retains such a loyal following despite its flaws, what is the relationship of this order to power and politics, how such relationships implicate our understanding of moral progress, and how the international humanitarian order challenges both practitioners and scholars to rethink the meaning of their vocations.
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• Bureaucratizing world politics
• International organizations as bureaucracies
• Expertise and power at the International Monetary Fund
• Defining refugees and voluntary repatriation at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
• Genocide and the peacekeeping culture at the United Nations
• The legitimacy of an expanding global bureaucracy.

An innovative perspective on the behavior of international organizations and their effects on global politics. The authors argue against the conventional wisdom that these bodies are little more than instruments of state.

• Bureaucratizing world politics
• International organizations as bureaucracies
• Expertise and power at the International Monetary Fund
• Defining refugees and voluntary repatriation at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
• Genocide and the peacekeeping culture at the United Nations
• The legitimacy of an expanding global bureaucracy.

• Introduction: Depraved Indifference
• 1. It Was a Very Good Year
• 2. Rwanda Through Rose-Colored Glasses
• 3. "If This Is an Easy Operation..."
• 4. The Fog of Genocide
• 5. Diplomatic Games
• 6. The Hunt for Moral ResponsibilityBrief Chronology of Rwandan Conflict Selected Chronology of United Nations' Security AgendaAcknowledgments Notes Index.
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Why was the UN a bystander during the Rwandan genocide? Do its sins of omission leave it morally responsible for the hundreds of thousands of dead? Michael Barnett, who worked at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations from 1993 to 1994, covered Rwanda for much of the genocide. Based on his first-hand experiences, archival work, and interviews with many key participants, he reconstructs the history of the UN's involvement in Rwanda. In the weeks leading up to the genocide, the author documents, the UN was increasingly aware or had good reason to suspect that Rwanda was a site of crimes against humanity. Yet it failed to act. In Eyewitness to a Genocide, Barnett argues that its indifference was driven not by incompetence or cynicism but rather by reasoned choices cradled by moral considerations. Employing a novel approach to ethics in practice and in relationship to international organizations, Barnett offers an unsettling possibility: the UN culture recast the ethical commitments of well-intentioned individuals, arresting any duty to aid at the outset of the genocide. Barnett argues that the UN bears some moral responsibility for the genocide. Particularly disturbing is his observation that not only did the UN violate its moral responsibilities, but also that many in New York believed that they were "doing the right thing" as they did so. Barnett addresses the ways in which the Rwandan genocide raises a warning about this age of humanitarianism and concludes by asking whether it is possible to build moral institutions.
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• Introduction: Depraved indifference?
• 1. It was a very good year
• 2. Rwanda through rose-colored glasses
• 3. "If this is an easy operation..."
• 4. The fog of genocide
• 5. Diplomatic games
• 6. The hunt for moral responsibility
• Brief chronology of Rwandan conflict
• Selected chronology of United Nations' security agenda.

• Introduction: Depraved indifference?
• 1. It was a very good year
• 2. Rwanda through rose-colored glasses
• 3. "If this is an easy operation..."
• 4. The fog of genocide
• 5. Diplomatic games
• 6. The hunt for moral responsibility
• Chronology of Rwandan conflict.

• 1. A Narrative of Arab Politics Dialogues and Regional Order Which Dialogues Among Which Arab States? Organization of the Book
• 2. The Game of Arab Politics The Structure of Arab Politics Symbolic Exchanges The Changing Game of Arab Politics
• 3. The Creation of "Arab" Polticis, 1920-1945 Arab Nationalism Arab Nationalism and Independence Arab Nationalism and Palestine Arab Nationalism and Unification
• 4. Securing Arabaism, 1945-1955 Palestine and Israel Arab Nationalism and Sovereignty Arab Nationalism and the West
• 5. The Ascent and Descent of Arabism, 1956-1967 Suez, Arabism and the West Arabism and the Rise and Decline of Unificiation The Debate about Israel
• 6. Sovereignty and Statism, 1967-1990 Khartoum and the Consecration of Sovereignty The War of Ramadan, the Peace Process, and Constricted Arabism Fragmentation in Arab Politics
• 7. The End of the Arab States System? Arab Politics Since the Gulf War The Gulf War The Reorganization of Arab-Israeli Politics The Changing Security Order The Future Arab Order
• 8. The Making and Unmaking of Arab Politics The Pattern of Strategic Interaction A Narrative of Arab Politics.
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-- A.M. Ansari, CMEIS, University of Durham, Journal of Islamic Studies.
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• 1. A Narrative of Arab Politics Dialogues and Regional Order Which Dialogues Among Which Arab States? Organization of the Book
• 2. The Game of Arab Politics The Structure of Arab Politics Symbolic Exchanges The Changing Game of Arab Politics
• 3. The Creation of "Arab" Polticis, 1920-1945 Arab Nationalism Arab Nationalism and Independence Arab Nationalism and Palestine Arab Nationalism and Unification
• 4. Securing Arabaism, 1945-1955 Palestine and Israel Arab Nationalism and Sovereignty Arab Nationalism and the West
• 5. The Ascent and Descent of Arabism, 1956-1967 Suez, Arabism and the West Arabism and the Rise and Decline of Unificiation The Debate about Israel
• 6. Sovereignty and Statism, 1967-1990 Khartoum and the Consecration of Sovereignty The War of Ramadan, the Peace Process, and Constricted Arabism Fragmentation in Arab Politics
• 7. The End of the Arab States System? Arab Politics Since the Gulf War The Gulf War The Reorganization of Arab-Israeli Politics The Changing Security Order The Future Arab Order
• 8. The Making and Unmaking of Arab Politics The Pattern of Strategic Interaction A Narrative of Arab Politics.
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-- A.M. Ansari, CMEIS, University of Durham, Journal of Islamic Studies.
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• 1. A Narrative of Arab Politics Dialogues and Regional Order Which Dialogues Among Which Arab States? Organization of the Book
• 2. The Game of Arab Politics The Structure of Arab Politics Symbolic Exchanges The Changing Game of Arab Politics
• 3. The Creation of "Arab" Polticis, 1920-1945 Arab Nationalism Arab Nationalism and Independence Arab Nationalism and Palestine Arab Nationalism and Unification
• 4. Securing Arabaism, 1945-1955 Palestine and Israel Arab Nationalism and Sovereignty Arab Nationalism and the West
• 5. The Ascent and Descent of Arabism, 1956-1967 Suez, Arabism and the West Arabism and the Rise and Decline of Unificiation The Debate about Israel
• 6. Sovereignty and Statism, 1967-1990 Khartoum and the Consecration of Sovereignty The War of Ramadan, the Peace Process, and Constricted Arabism Fragmentation in Arab Politics
• 7. The End of the Arab States System? Arab Politics Since the Gulf War The Gulf War The Reorganization of Arab-Israeli Politics The Changing Security Order The Future Arab Order
• 8. The Making and Unmaking of Arab Politics The Pattern of Strategic Interaction A Narrative of Arab Politics.
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-- A.M. Ansari, CMEIS, University of Durham, Journal of Islamic Studies.
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• War Preparation and State Power
• The Framework
• Preferences and Constraints
• State Strategies for War Preparation
• The Conservation and Transformation of State Power
• An Excursion on State Power
• Egypt and Israel in Historical Perspective
• Egypt
• Israel
• Explaining Egyptian War Preparation Strategies
• Consolidation and Intent, 1952-1956
• From the Suez War to the 1967 War
• Defeat, Consolidation, and Redemption, 1967-1973
• From Victory to Self-Defeat, 1973-1977
• Explaining Israeli War Preparation Strategies
• Mobilization and Integration, 1948-1956
• In the Eye of the Hurricane, 1957-1967
• Life during Wartime, 1967-1977
• War and the Transformation of State Power
• Egyptian War Preparation Strategies and State Power
• Israeli War Preparation Strategies and State Power
• Egypt and Israel in Comparative and Theoretical Perspective
• The Construction of the Government's War Preparation Strategies
• War Preparation and State Power
• Jewish Investment and Capital Inflow, 1932-1939
• National and Public versus Private Jewish Capital Flow to Palestine, 1918-1937
• Summary of Fiscal Operations, 1962/63-1978
• Soviet-Egyptian Military Aid Accounts
• Arab Financial Assistance to Egypt, 1973-1976
• Capital Imports to Israel, 1950-1967
• Share of Capital Imports in Total Resources and Gross Investments, 1950-1967
• Investments by Branch in the Economy, 1950-1967
• Gross Investment in Fixed Assets, by Investing Sector, 1952-1966
• Capital Imports to Israel, 1967-1977.

What determines the strategies by which a state mobilizes resources for war? And does war preparation strengthen or weaken the state in relation to society? By exploring these questions, Michael Barnett develops a theoretical framework that traces the connection between war preparation and changes in state-society relations, and applies that framework to Egypt from 1952 to 1977 and Israel from 1948 through 1977. The study addresses major issues in international relations, comparative politics and Middle Eastern studies. The author argues that Egyptian and Israeli war preparation strategies were a function of systemic, state and societal variables, and that leaders in each state attempted to balance the demands imposed by international conflict with their domestic economic and political objectives.
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What determines the strategies by which a state mobilizes resources for war? And does war preparation strengthen or weaken the state in relation to society? By exploring these questions, Michael Barnett develops a theoretical framework that traces the connection between war preparation and changes in state-society relations, and applies that framework to Egypt from 1952 to 1977 and Israel from 1948 through 1977. The study addresses major issues in international relations, comparative politics and Middle Eastern studies. The author argues that Egyptian and Israeli war preparation strategies were a function of systemic, state and societal variables, and that leaders in each state attempted to balance the demands imposed by international conflict with their domestic economic and political objectives.
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• The November Revolution//The Elusive Trail to the Standard Model//The Mystery of Flavors//Carriers of Force//Anything That Can Happen, Will Happen//Precision Detectors Lead to Great Discoveries//Creating Extremely High-Energy Collisions//The Smallest and the Largest: Astrophysics Meets Particle Physics//The Status of the Standard Model// A Historical Perspective on Particle Physics// Appendix A: Physics Background and Numerical Examples// Appendix B: How Detectors Work//Appendix C: Suggested Reading//Appendix D: The Greek Alphabet//Appendix E: Glossary.
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A primer on the evolution of particle physics and the search for the fundamental building blocks of matter. The book presents the full current body of understanding of particle physics in way accessible to a reader with some basic principles of physics (energy, momentum, electrical charge). This concise book tells the fascinating story of how 20th century physicists revealed layer upon layer of structure within the atom to reach the basic particles of matter, and then culminates in descriptions of current theories which form the Standard Model and the discovery of the top quark.This book includes chapters on cosmology. The book includes many illustrations and photographs, and integrates the stories of the individual scientists throughout. It includes 4 color photographs, and the famous 'Particle Chart'. The book is a collaboration among eminent physicists (including J.D. Jackson and G. Goldhaber) at LBL, CERN and high school teachers in the Contemporary Physics Education Project to develop a novel book to teach particle physics to students. The book can thus be used as a supplement for courses in advanced high school and physics courses. From the reviews: 'Recommended as a supplementary text for introductory college courses or for advanced high-school courses; science teachers will find it useful for updating their knowledge in an ever-expanding field of physics research' - 'Physics Today'.
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