Rajesh Rajagopalan
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780198085409
- eISBN:
- 9780199082469
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198085409.003.0006
- Subject:
- Political Science, Indian Politics
This chapter discusses key concerns in the literature on nuclear weapons produced outside India and analyses the history of India’s nuclear policy. It suggests that while Indian scholarship has made ...
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This chapter discusses key concerns in the literature on nuclear weapons produced outside India and analyses the history of India’s nuclear policy. It suggests that while Indian scholarship has made significant contributions, it has been focused mainly in South Asia and remains limited to contemporary policy analysis without much effort at generating or testing international relations theory. It also highlights the need for Indian literature to focus on issues such as India’s approach to global nuclear issues and the relationship between nuclear weapons and military strategy.Less
This chapter discusses key concerns in the literature on nuclear weapons produced outside India and analyses the history of India’s nuclear policy. It suggests that while Indian scholarship has made significant contributions, it has been focused mainly in South Asia and remains limited to contemporary policy analysis without much effort at generating or testing international relations theory. It also highlights the need for Indian literature to focus on issues such as India’s approach to global nuclear issues and the relationship between nuclear weapons and military strategy.
Stephen Hopgood
- Published in print:
- 1998
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198292593
- eISBN:
- 9780191684920
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198292593.003.0013
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics
This chapter discusses what has fundamentally changed in the making of American foreign environmental policy over three decades of international environmentalism. It describes three major ...
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This chapter discusses what has fundamentally changed in the making of American foreign environmental policy over three decades of international environmentalism. It describes three major developments since 1972: firstly, the tremendous growth in domestic environmentalism in the United States and its increasing professionalism; secondly, the establishment of new international institutions, especially the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP); and thirdly, the identification of even more complex and genuinely global environmental issues.Less
This chapter discusses what has fundamentally changed in the making of American foreign environmental policy over three decades of international environmentalism. It describes three major developments since 1972: firstly, the tremendous growth in domestic environmentalism in the United States and its increasing professionalism; secondly, the establishment of new international institutions, especially the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP); and thirdly, the identification of even more complex and genuinely global environmental issues.
Charli Carpenter
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780801448850
- eISBN:
- 9780801470363
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9780801448850.001.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics
Why do some issues and threats—diseases, weapons, human rights abuses, vulnerable populations—get more global policy attention than others? How do global activist networks decide the particular ...
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Why do some issues and threats—diseases, weapons, human rights abuses, vulnerable populations—get more global policy attention than others? How do global activist networks decide the particular causes for which they advocate among the many problems in need of solutions? According to this book, the answer lies in the politics of global issue networks themselves. Building on surveys, focus groups, and analyses of issue network websites, the book concludes that network access has a direct relation to influence over how issues are ranked. Advocacy elites in nongovernmental and transnational organizations judge candidate issues not just on their merit but on how the issues connect to specific organizations, individuals, and even other issues. The book describes three case studies of emerging campaigns to show these dynamics at work: banning infant male circumcision; compensating the wartime killing and maiming of civilians; and prohibiting the deployment of fully autonomous weapons (so-called killer robots). The fate of each of these campaigns was determined not just by the persistence and hard work of entrepreneurs but by advocacy elites' perception of the issues' network ties.Less
Why do some issues and threats—diseases, weapons, human rights abuses, vulnerable populations—get more global policy attention than others? How do global activist networks decide the particular causes for which they advocate among the many problems in need of solutions? According to this book, the answer lies in the politics of global issue networks themselves. Building on surveys, focus groups, and analyses of issue network websites, the book concludes that network access has a direct relation to influence over how issues are ranked. Advocacy elites in nongovernmental and transnational organizations judge candidate issues not just on their merit but on how the issues connect to specific organizations, individuals, and even other issues. The book describes three case studies of emerging campaigns to show these dynamics at work: banning infant male circumcision; compensating the wartime killing and maiming of civilians; and prohibiting the deployment of fully autonomous weapons (so-called killer robots). The fate of each of these campaigns was determined not just by the persistence and hard work of entrepreneurs but by advocacy elites' perception of the issues' network ties.
Leela Fernandes
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814760963
- eISBN:
- 9780814762998
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814760963.001.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, American Politics
The acceleration of economic globalization and the rapid global flows of people, culture, and information have intensified the importance of developing transnational understandings of contemporary ...
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The acceleration of economic globalization and the rapid global flows of people, culture, and information have intensified the importance of developing transnational understandings of contemporary issues. Transnational feminist perspectives have provided a unique outlook on women's lives and have deepened our understanding of the gendered nature of global processes. This book examines how transnational perspectives shape the ways in which we create and disseminate knowledge about the world within the United States, and how the paradigm of transnational feminism is affected by national narratives and public discourses within the country itself. An innovative theoretical project that is both deconstructive and constructive, this book interrogates the limits of feminist thought, primarily through case studies that illustrate its power to create new fields of research out of traditionally interdisciplinary lines of inquiry. It discusses ways to approach, analyze, and capture processes that exceed and unsettle the nation-state within the transnational feminist paradigm. Examining the links between power and knowledge that bind interdisciplinary theory and research, the book shines new light on issues such as human rights as well as academic debates about transnational feminist perspectives on global issues.Less
The acceleration of economic globalization and the rapid global flows of people, culture, and information have intensified the importance of developing transnational understandings of contemporary issues. Transnational feminist perspectives have provided a unique outlook on women's lives and have deepened our understanding of the gendered nature of global processes. This book examines how transnational perspectives shape the ways in which we create and disseminate knowledge about the world within the United States, and how the paradigm of transnational feminism is affected by national narratives and public discourses within the country itself. An innovative theoretical project that is both deconstructive and constructive, this book interrogates the limits of feminist thought, primarily through case studies that illustrate its power to create new fields of research out of traditionally interdisciplinary lines of inquiry. It discusses ways to approach, analyze, and capture processes that exceed and unsettle the nation-state within the transnational feminist paradigm. Examining the links between power and knowledge that bind interdisciplinary theory and research, the book shines new light on issues such as human rights as well as academic debates about transnational feminist perspectives on global issues.
David R. Swartz
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199329533
- eISBN:
- 9780199369379
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199329533.003.0010
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
The rise of public evangelicalism can be explained in part by new attention to global concerns. This chapter, in a close analysis of evangelical rhetoric and activism regarding human rights, tracks ...
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The rise of public evangelicalism can be explained in part by new attention to global concerns. This chapter, in a close analysis of evangelical rhetoric and activism regarding human rights, tracks the transformation of a narrowly focused anticommunism at midcentury into a new and broader internationalism at the end of the twentieth century. This new global sensibility stresses social justice in addition to personal evangelism. It emphasizes economic development in addition to disaster relief. It values ecumenism over sectarianism. These trajectories were sparked in part by the global experience and from international evangelicals themselves, whose presence in key institutions—such as the Latin American Theological Fraternity, the World Evangelical Fellowship, the Lausanne Congress, and InterVarsity Christian Fellowship—helped to broaden and intensify American evangelical political commitments. By the 2000s, evangelicals on the left and the right had spearheaded the passage of the International Religious Freedom Act, a clear indication of evangelicalism’s heightened level of social engagement.Less
The rise of public evangelicalism can be explained in part by new attention to global concerns. This chapter, in a close analysis of evangelical rhetoric and activism regarding human rights, tracks the transformation of a narrowly focused anticommunism at midcentury into a new and broader internationalism at the end of the twentieth century. This new global sensibility stresses social justice in addition to personal evangelism. It emphasizes economic development in addition to disaster relief. It values ecumenism over sectarianism. These trajectories were sparked in part by the global experience and from international evangelicals themselves, whose presence in key institutions—such as the Latin American Theological Fraternity, the World Evangelical Fellowship, the Lausanne Congress, and InterVarsity Christian Fellowship—helped to broaden and intensify American evangelical political commitments. By the 2000s, evangelicals on the left and the right had spearheaded the passage of the International Religious Freedom Act, a clear indication of evangelicalism’s heightened level of social engagement.
Egle Rindzeviciute
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781501703188
- eISBN:
- 9781501706257
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501703188.001.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, Russian Politics
This book introduces readers to one of the best-kept secrets of the Cold War: the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis, an international think tank established by the U.S. and Soviet ...
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This book introduces readers to one of the best-kept secrets of the Cold War: the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis, an international think tank established by the U.S. and Soviet governments to advance scientific collaboration. From 1972 until the late 1980s IIASA in Austria was one of the very few permanent platforms where policy scientists from both sides of the Cold War divide could work together to articulate and solve world problems. This think tank was a rare zone of freedom, communication, and negotiation, where leading Soviet scientists could try out their innovative ideas, benefit from access to Western literature, and develop social networks, thus paving the way for some of the key science and policy breakthroughs of the twentieth century. Ambitious diplomatic, scientific, and organizational strategies were employed to make this arena for cooperation work for global change. Under the umbrella of the systems approach, East-West scientists co-produced computer simulations of the long-term world future and the anthropogenic impact on the environment, using global modeling to explore the possible effects of climate change and nuclear winter. Their concern with global issues also became a vehicle for transformation inside the Soviet Union. The book shows how computer modeling, cybernetics, and the systems approach challenged Soviet governance by undermining the linear notions of control on which Soviet governance was based and creating new objects and techniques of government.Less
This book introduces readers to one of the best-kept secrets of the Cold War: the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis, an international think tank established by the U.S. and Soviet governments to advance scientific collaboration. From 1972 until the late 1980s IIASA in Austria was one of the very few permanent platforms where policy scientists from both sides of the Cold War divide could work together to articulate and solve world problems. This think tank was a rare zone of freedom, communication, and negotiation, where leading Soviet scientists could try out their innovative ideas, benefit from access to Western literature, and develop social networks, thus paving the way for some of the key science and policy breakthroughs of the twentieth century. Ambitious diplomatic, scientific, and organizational strategies were employed to make this arena for cooperation work for global change. Under the umbrella of the systems approach, East-West scientists co-produced computer simulations of the long-term world future and the anthropogenic impact on the environment, using global modeling to explore the possible effects of climate change and nuclear winter. Their concern with global issues also became a vehicle for transformation inside the Soviet Union. The book shows how computer modeling, cybernetics, and the systems approach challenged Soviet governance by undermining the linear notions of control on which Soviet governance was based and creating new objects and techniques of government.
Vijay Joshi
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- March 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780190610135
- eISBN:
- 9780190610166
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190610135.003.0012
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, International
This chapter reviews the main features of India’s integration with the global economy and examines India’s stance on global economic issues. Since 1991, India’s trade and foreign investment flows ...
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This chapter reviews the main features of India’s integration with the global economy and examines India’s stance on global economic issues. Since 1991, India’s trade and foreign investment flows have more than trebled as a proportion of GDP, consequent upon the liberalization of various restrictions. The effects on productivity and growth have been highly favourable. Instability has been avoided by retaining some capital controls on ‘hot money’. On international monetary issues, India has no axe to grind. It should use this neutral status to demand better mechanisms to adjust deficits and surpluses of key countries, and better arrangements for provision of international liquidity. In the trade arena, India needs urgently to fashion a coherent response to the global trend towards mega-regional trade agreements. Non-engagement runs the risk of leaving India vulnerable to discrimination, and exclusion from rule-making on ‘behind the border’ issues.Less
This chapter reviews the main features of India’s integration with the global economy and examines India’s stance on global economic issues. Since 1991, India’s trade and foreign investment flows have more than trebled as a proportion of GDP, consequent upon the liberalization of various restrictions. The effects on productivity and growth have been highly favourable. Instability has been avoided by retaining some capital controls on ‘hot money’. On international monetary issues, India has no axe to grind. It should use this neutral status to demand better mechanisms to adjust deficits and surpluses of key countries, and better arrangements for provision of international liquidity. In the trade arena, India needs urgently to fashion a coherent response to the global trend towards mega-regional trade agreements. Non-engagement runs the risk of leaving India vulnerable to discrimination, and exclusion from rule-making on ‘behind the border’ issues.
Valerie Hudson and Patricia Leidl
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- November 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780231164924
- eISBN:
- 9780231539104
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231164924.001.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, American Politics
Hillary Rodham Clinton is the first Secretary of State to declare the subjugation of women worldwide a serious threat to U.S. national security. Known as the Hillary Doctrine, her stance was made ...
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Hillary Rodham Clinton is the first Secretary of State to declare the subjugation of women worldwide a serious threat to U.S. national security. Known as the Hillary Doctrine, her stance was made part of the 2010 Quadrennial Diplomatic and Development Review of U.S. foreign policy, formally committing America to the proposition that the empowerment of women is a stabilizing force for domestic and international peace. Blending history, fieldwork, theory, and policy analysis while incorporating perspectives from officials and activists on the front lines of implementation, this book investigates the Hillary Doctrine in principle and practice. Does the insecurity of women make nations less secure? How has the doctrine changed the foreign policy of the United States and altered its relationship with other countries, such as China and Mexico? With specific studies of Guatemala, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen, this invaluable policy text closes the gap between rhetoric and reality, confronting head-on what the future of fighting such an entrenched enemy entails. It reports directly on the work being done by U.S. government agencies, including the Office of Global Women's Issues, established by Clinton during her tenure at the State Department, and explores the complexity and pitfalls of attempting to improve the lives of women while safeguarding the national interest.Less
Hillary Rodham Clinton is the first Secretary of State to declare the subjugation of women worldwide a serious threat to U.S. national security. Known as the Hillary Doctrine, her stance was made part of the 2010 Quadrennial Diplomatic and Development Review of U.S. foreign policy, formally committing America to the proposition that the empowerment of women is a stabilizing force for domestic and international peace. Blending history, fieldwork, theory, and policy analysis while incorporating perspectives from officials and activists on the front lines of implementation, this book investigates the Hillary Doctrine in principle and practice. Does the insecurity of women make nations less secure? How has the doctrine changed the foreign policy of the United States and altered its relationship with other countries, such as China and Mexico? With specific studies of Guatemala, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen, this invaluable policy text closes the gap between rhetoric and reality, confronting head-on what the future of fighting such an entrenched enemy entails. It reports directly on the work being done by U.S. government agencies, including the Office of Global Women's Issues, established by Clinton during her tenure at the State Department, and explores the complexity and pitfalls of attempting to improve the lives of women while safeguarding the national interest.
Jennifer Prah Ruger
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- June 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780199694631
- eISBN:
- 9780191862144
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780199694631.003.0010
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Public and Welfare, International
With a growing presence on the world stage, the BRICS nations—Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa—are expanding their influence and impact worldwide. These countries can address global ...
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With a growing presence on the world stage, the BRICS nations—Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa—are expanding their influence and impact worldwide. These countries can address global health issues as they build their own health systems. They are growing in significance, separately as nations and collectively as a center of gravity. They are assuming multiplying roles in global health, including funding, knowledge generation and dissemination, technical assistance and policy advice, empowerment and agency enhancement, advocacy, surveillance and outbreak response, and health system development. Their emerging economies and health systems link them closely to the developing world’s concerns, while their growing economic and political influence draws them into the company of industrialized countries and gives them a more powerful voice in global affairs. Their emergence as global health actors may call more attention to developing countries’ perspectives and needs.Less
With a growing presence on the world stage, the BRICS nations—Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa—are expanding their influence and impact worldwide. These countries can address global health issues as they build their own health systems. They are growing in significance, separately as nations and collectively as a center of gravity. They are assuming multiplying roles in global health, including funding, knowledge generation and dissemination, technical assistance and policy advice, empowerment and agency enhancement, advocacy, surveillance and outbreak response, and health system development. Their emerging economies and health systems link them closely to the developing world’s concerns, while their growing economic and political influence draws them into the company of industrialized countries and gives them a more powerful voice in global affairs. Their emergence as global health actors may call more attention to developing countries’ perspectives and needs.
Tim Clydesdale
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- February 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226110653
- eISBN:
- 9780226110677
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226110677.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Education
Wild parties, late nights, and lots of sex, drugs, and alcohol. Many assume these are the things that define an American teenager's first year after high school. But the reality is really quite ...
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Wild parties, late nights, and lots of sex, drugs, and alcohol. Many assume these are the things that define an American teenager's first year after high school. But the reality is really quite different. As this book reports, teenagers generally manage the increased responsibilities of everyday life immediately after graduation effectively. But, like many good things, this comes at a cost. Tracking the daily lives of fifty young people making the transition to life after high school, the book reveals how teens settle into manageable patterns of substance use and sexual activity; how they meet the requirements of postsecondary education; and how they cope with new financial expectations. Most of them, we learn, handle the changes well because they make a priority of everyday life. But the book finds that teens also stow away their identities—religious, racial, political, or otherwise—during this period in exchange for acceptance into mainstream culture. This results in the absence of a long-range purpose for their lives and imposes limits on their desire to understand national politics and global issues, sometimes even affecting the ability to reconstruct their lives when tragedies occur.Less
Wild parties, late nights, and lots of sex, drugs, and alcohol. Many assume these are the things that define an American teenager's first year after high school. But the reality is really quite different. As this book reports, teenagers generally manage the increased responsibilities of everyday life immediately after graduation effectively. But, like many good things, this comes at a cost. Tracking the daily lives of fifty young people making the transition to life after high school, the book reveals how teens settle into manageable patterns of substance use and sexual activity; how they meet the requirements of postsecondary education; and how they cope with new financial expectations. Most of them, we learn, handle the changes well because they make a priority of everyday life. But the book finds that teens also stow away their identities—religious, racial, political, or otherwise—during this period in exchange for acceptance into mainstream culture. This results in the absence of a long-range purpose for their lives and imposes limits on their desire to understand national politics and global issues, sometimes even affecting the ability to reconstruct their lives when tragedies occur.
Tom Dedeurwaerdere, Eric Brousseau, and Bernd Siebenhüner
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- August 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780262017244
- eISBN:
- 9780262301213
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262017244.003.0017
- Subject:
- Political Science, Political Theory
This book has reviewed new challenges faced in the governance of global public goods (GPGs) in terms of environmental concern and emerging global issues, and has compressed the generated knowledge ...
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This book has reviewed new challenges faced in the governance of global public goods (GPGs) in terms of environmental concern and emerging global issues, and has compressed the generated knowledge and developed perspectives for understanding and designing the governance of GPGs. It has also demonstrated, through an analysis, that the state/government continually engages in finding solutions to improve the provision of GPGs. This goal is achieved through its participation in transnational cooperation to overcome global disasters or by designing markets or incentives for influencing behaviors and cooperation through economic measures. The findings of analyses in the book have also revealed that effective governance of GPGs needs to be democratic, reflexive, and knowledge oriented.Less
This book has reviewed new challenges faced in the governance of global public goods (GPGs) in terms of environmental concern and emerging global issues, and has compressed the generated knowledge and developed perspectives for understanding and designing the governance of GPGs. It has also demonstrated, through an analysis, that the state/government continually engages in finding solutions to improve the provision of GPGs. This goal is achieved through its participation in transnational cooperation to overcome global disasters or by designing markets or incentives for influencing behaviors and cooperation through economic measures. The findings of analyses in the book have also revealed that effective governance of GPGs needs to be democratic, reflexive, and knowledge oriented.
Ben Saul
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199535477
- eISBN:
- 9780191712197
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199535477.003.0001
- Subject:
- Law, Public International Law
This introductory chapter begins by discussing the shifting and contested meanings of terrorism over time. It explains how the meaning of terrorism is affected by one state issue to global issues. It ...
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This introductory chapter begins by discussing the shifting and contested meanings of terrorism over time. It explains how the meaning of terrorism is affected by one state issue to global issues. It argues that the term terrorism has been erratically deployed to describe all form of evils and things that are not evil at all. It also discusses how international attempts of defining terrorism in legal terms have been exceedingly difficult not only for ideological and political reasons, but also because of the many technical difficulties of definition. It then reveals the main focus of the book which is defining terrorism in international criminal law.Less
This introductory chapter begins by discussing the shifting and contested meanings of terrorism over time. It explains how the meaning of terrorism is affected by one state issue to global issues. It argues that the term terrorism has been erratically deployed to describe all form of evils and things that are not evil at all. It also discusses how international attempts of defining terrorism in legal terms have been exceedingly difficult not only for ideological and political reasons, but also because of the many technical difficulties of definition. It then reveals the main focus of the book which is defining terrorism in international criminal law.
Raj Kumar
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- January 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780813179001
- eISBN:
- 9780813179018
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813179001.003.0004
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics
This chapter uses Woodrow Wilson’s fourteenth point as a basis for proposing multistakeholder alliances to solve global issues that require multiple perspectives and collaboration between the private ...
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This chapter uses Woodrow Wilson’s fourteenth point as a basis for proposing multistakeholder alliances to solve global issues that require multiple perspectives and collaboration between the private and public sectors. The author explains the meaning of the term multistakeholder alliance and then offers recent examples of alliances formed to tackle difficult international issues such as vaccination, AIDS, and energy efficiency. The chapter concludes with the assertion that contemporary global issues cannot be resolved without the collaboration of companies, foundations, organizations, and influential individuals.Less
This chapter uses Woodrow Wilson’s fourteenth point as a basis for proposing multistakeholder alliances to solve global issues that require multiple perspectives and collaboration between the private and public sectors. The author explains the meaning of the term multistakeholder alliance and then offers recent examples of alliances formed to tackle difficult international issues such as vaccination, AIDS, and energy efficiency. The chapter concludes with the assertion that contemporary global issues cannot be resolved without the collaboration of companies, foundations, organizations, and influential individuals.
Peter N. Stearns
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814783627
- eISBN:
- 9780814783634
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814783627.003.0010
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History
This concluding chapter emphasizes that modernity will continue to progress as more nations begin to adopt it, and that adjustments to modernity are still ongoing regardless of its many failures. ...
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This concluding chapter emphasizes that modernity will continue to progress as more nations begin to adopt it, and that adjustments to modernity are still ongoing regardless of its many failures. There are likewise attempts made on quantifying happiness to some extent, though there are difficulties with such ventures. Furthermore, the issues involved are global, as more and more societies reach a measurable level of modernity. Yet while many difficulties are associated with modernity and with finding a viable solution for closing the modernity–happiness gap, modernity itself has brought many real gains. Abolishing it would not be the answer, though we would certainly benefit from a more thoughtful acceptance of modernity and an evaluation of the adjustment process therein.Less
This concluding chapter emphasizes that modernity will continue to progress as more nations begin to adopt it, and that adjustments to modernity are still ongoing regardless of its many failures. There are likewise attempts made on quantifying happiness to some extent, though there are difficulties with such ventures. Furthermore, the issues involved are global, as more and more societies reach a measurable level of modernity. Yet while many difficulties are associated with modernity and with finding a viable solution for closing the modernity–happiness gap, modernity itself has brought many real gains. Abolishing it would not be the answer, though we would certainly benefit from a more thoughtful acceptance of modernity and an evaluation of the adjustment process therein.
Myles A. Wickstead
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780198744924
- eISBN:
- 9780191806025
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198744924.003.0008
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Development, Growth, and Environmental
The overarching objective of a new set of Sustainable Development Goals will be to eliminate absolute poverty by 2030. Aid will continue to be important, but will focus on a diminishing number of ...
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The overarching objective of a new set of Sustainable Development Goals will be to eliminate absolute poverty by 2030. Aid will continue to be important, but will focus on a diminishing number of countries and increasingly on global public goods. The chapter looks at the need to revisit global institutional economic and political structures, better to reflect shifts in the balance of power since the end of the Second World War, without which the international system is at risk of fracturing. Development is ultimately about the well-being of everyone, and must be addressed as a global issue.Less
The overarching objective of a new set of Sustainable Development Goals will be to eliminate absolute poverty by 2030. Aid will continue to be important, but will focus on a diminishing number of countries and increasingly on global public goods. The chapter looks at the need to revisit global institutional economic and political structures, better to reflect shifts in the balance of power since the end of the Second World War, without which the international system is at risk of fracturing. Development is ultimately about the well-being of everyone, and must be addressed as a global issue.
Paul Biegler
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- August 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780262015493
- eISBN:
- 9780262295628
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262015493.003.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind
Statistics show that depression is a major global health issue today. According to a description by William Styron, a writer who experienced depression first hand, “depression takes on the quality of ...
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Statistics show that depression is a major global health issue today. According to a description by William Styron, a writer who experienced depression first hand, “depression takes on the quality of physical pain. But it is not an immediately identifiable pain, like that of a broken limb.” This explains why a significant number of people, when faced with depression, seek relief via the health care system. Between 2004 and 2005, primary care physicians in Australia prescribed antidepressant medication (ADM) to more than 11 million patients, compared to only approximately 7.5 million between 1999 and 2000. This book introduces cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) as an equally effective treatment for depression. It has been subject to extensive trials with outcomes shown to be as good as those achieved with ADM.Less
Statistics show that depression is a major global health issue today. According to a description by William Styron, a writer who experienced depression first hand, “depression takes on the quality of physical pain. But it is not an immediately identifiable pain, like that of a broken limb.” This explains why a significant number of people, when faced with depression, seek relief via the health care system. Between 2004 and 2005, primary care physicians in Australia prescribed antidepressant medication (ADM) to more than 11 million patients, compared to only approximately 7.5 million between 1999 and 2000. This book introduces cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) as an equally effective treatment for depression. It has been subject to extensive trials with outcomes shown to be as good as those achieved with ADM.
