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Author: Jean-Pierre Dupuy Publisher: Stanford University Press ISBN: 1503636658 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 209
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The possibility of a nuclear war that could destroy civilization has influenced the course of international affairs since 1945, suspended like a sword of Damocles above the heads of the world's leaders. The fact that we have escaped a third world war involving strategic nuclear weapons—indeed, that no atomic weapon of limited power has yet been used under battlefield conditions—seems nothing short of a miracle. Revisiting debates on the effectiveness and ethics of nuclear deterrence, Jean-Pierre Dupuy is led to reformulate some of the most difficult questions in philosophy. He develops a counterintuitive but powerful theory of apocalyptic prophecy: once a major catastrophe appears to be possible, one must assume that it will in fact occur. Dupuy shows that the contradictions and paradoxes riddling discussions of deterrence arise from the tension between two opposite conceptions of time: one in which the future depends on decisions and strategy, and another in which every occurring event is one that could not have failed to occur. Considering the immense destructive power of nuclear warheads and the almost unimaginable ruin they are bound to cause, Dupuy reaches a provocative conclusion: whether they bring about good or evil does not depend on the present or future intentions of those who are in a position to use them. The mere possession of nuclear weapons is a moral abomination.
Author: Jean-Pierre Dupuy Publisher: Stanford University Press ISBN: 1503636658 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 209
Book Description
The possibility of a nuclear war that could destroy civilization has influenced the course of international affairs since 1945, suspended like a sword of Damocles above the heads of the world's leaders. The fact that we have escaped a third world war involving strategic nuclear weapons—indeed, that no atomic weapon of limited power has yet been used under battlefield conditions—seems nothing short of a miracle. Revisiting debates on the effectiveness and ethics of nuclear deterrence, Jean-Pierre Dupuy is led to reformulate some of the most difficult questions in philosophy. He develops a counterintuitive but powerful theory of apocalyptic prophecy: once a major catastrophe appears to be possible, one must assume that it will in fact occur. Dupuy shows that the contradictions and paradoxes riddling discussions of deterrence arise from the tension between two opposite conceptions of time: one in which the future depends on decisions and strategy, and another in which every occurring event is one that could not have failed to occur. Considering the immense destructive power of nuclear warheads and the almost unimaginable ruin they are bound to cause, Dupuy reaches a provocative conclusion: whether they bring about good or evil does not depend on the present or future intentions of those who are in a position to use them. The mere possession of nuclear weapons is a moral abomination.
Author: Vincent Laville Publisher: Vincent Laville ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 154
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Dear friends, this book is expensive because the photos make the file very heavy. In any case, the author is paid a pittance. In my country it says that a picture narrates more than a long speech. People need to see the reality to believe. Be sure that democracy exist only in dreams. This book is mainly about police cruelty, state crimes and about unacceptable times and events. Denouncing, protesting, vociferating, stamping your feet, assisting people, writing books or voting, is absolutely useless. If NGOs, charities or goodwill were a solution, there would no longer be beggars and poor every where on this planet. But this is not the case. So it doesn't work. But please, don't get slaughtered for demands anymore, with a song, signs and a slingshot to defend yourself. Fire is fought with fire. Infections with potions. Weeds with weedkiller. And evil is combated by doing evil. Everything is gangrenous. There is no democratic solution. Wake up. It is the harmful parasites or you.
Author: Benoît Pelopidas Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1003836178 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 203
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This book offers the first non-official history of French nuclear policies which goes beyond the divide between nuclear weapons and nuclear energy policies. It addresses the sizing of France’s nuclear forces, technological assistance to countries with nuclear weapons programs, uranium prospection, nuclear testing, its health effects and protests against it, as well as plans to prevent and manage accidents in nuclear power plants. It is based on new questions and new sources from France and abroad. The chapters in this volume show how independent and interdisciplinary scholarship free from conflicts of interests can uniquely advance our understanding of nuclear history and politics. This is the case because it does not treat the categories and judgments of official discourse as neutral starting points of the analysis. This volume is based on untapped primary sources from France, the UK, the US, India, South Africa and Iran, on a new assessment of the health consequences of French nuclear testing in Polynesia thanks to a modern atmospheric particle transport code coupled with historical weather data, open-source information about radioactive debris (“mushroom”) clouds, as well as data on the composition and particle sizes of the fallout; and on new survey data about French knowledge of and attitudes towards nuclear weapons and nuclear energy. They show notably that the first generation of French nuclear forces lacked technical credibility despite reliance on outside help. Several French officials knew this, as did France's allies and adversaries. Moreover, French strategic collaborations associated to nuclear programs extended to India and South Africa; nuclear safety regulations changed fundamentally after the Cold War, and approximately 110,000 people, i.e. 90% of the French Polynesian population in the 1970s, could have received doses that would qualify them for compensation according to French law. The volume will be of interest to scholars and students of history, politics, international relations, military history, war studies, conflict and global governance. Most of the chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue in Cold War History. A few chapters were first published in the Nonproliferation Review, Diplomacy & Statecraft and Science & Global Security.
Author: Vincent Laville Publisher: Vincent Laville ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 154
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Dear friends, this book is expensive because the photos make the file very heavy. In any case, the author is paid a pittance. In my country it says that a picture narrates more than a long speech. People need to see the reality to believe. Be sure that democracy exist only in dreams. This book is mainly about police cruelty, state crimes and about unacceptable times and events. Denouncing, protesting, vociferating, stamping your feet, assisting people, writing books or voting, is absolutely useless. If NGOs, charities or goodwill were a solution, there would no longer be beggars and poor every where on this planet. But this is not the case. So it doesn't work. So please, don't get slaughtered for demands anymore, with a song, signs and a slingshot to defend yourself. Fire is fought with fire. Infections with potions. Weeds with weedkiller. And evil is combated by doing evil. Everything is gangrenous. There is no democratic solution. Wake up. It is the harmful parasites or you.
Author: Rémi Kauffer Publisher: Algora Publishing ISBN: 1892941295 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 248
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Manipulating scientific and professional opinions, destabilizing commercial enterprises, misleading the media and confusing the public -- disinformation is back! The techniques honed during the Cold War are now weapons in a merciless industrial and commercial struggle between the U.S. and Europe. Boeing and Airbus, the oil companies and the medical industries are just three of the major theaters of operation ... Welcome to Manipulation.com. Kauffer sees the Internet as the ideal tool for anyone with an axe to grind, where information (true or false) can circulate without any control.
Author: Reinhard Haas Publisher: Springer ISBN: 3658259876 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 382
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This open access book discusses the eroding economics of nuclear power for electricity generation as well as technical, legal, and political acceptance issues. The use of nuclear power for electricity generation is still a heavily disputed issue. Aside from technical risks, safety issues, and the unsolved problem of nuclear waste disposal, the economic performance is currently a major barrier. In recent years, the costs have skyrocketed especially in the European countries and North America. At the same time, the costs of alternatives such as photovoltaics and wind power have significantly decreased.
Author: Olivier van Beemen Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 1787382354 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 325
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For Heineken, "rising Africa" is already a reality: the profits it extracts there are almost 50 per cent above the global average, and beer costs more in some African countries than it does in Europe. Heineken claims its presence boosts economic development on the continent. But is this true? Investigative journalist Olivier van Beemen has spent years seeking the answer, and his conclusion is damning: Heineken has hardly benefited Africa at all. On the contrary, there are some shocking skeletons in its African closet: tax avoidance, sexual abuse, links to genocide and other human rights violations, high-level corruption, crushing competition from indigenous brewers, and collaboration with dictators and pitiless anti-government rebels. Heineken in Africa caused a political and media furor on publication in The Netherlands, and was debated in their Parliament. It is an unmissable exposé of the havoc wreaked by a global giant seeking profit in the developing world.
Author: Angela Kronenburg García Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1000802566 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 284
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This edited volume examines the changes that arise from the entanglement of global interests and narratives with the local struggles that have always existed in the drylands of Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia/Inner Asia. Changes in drylands are happening in an overwhelming manner. Climate change, growing political instability, and increasing enclosures of large expanses of often common land are some of the changes with far-reaching consequences for those who make their living in the drylands. At the same time, powerful narratives about the drylands as ‘wastelands’ and their ‘backward’ inhabitants continue to hold sway, legitimizing interventions for development, security, and conservation, informing re-emerging frontiers of investment (for agriculture, extraction, infrastructure), and shaping new dryland identities. The chapters in this volume discuss the politics of change triggered by forces as diverse as the global land and resource rush, the expansion of new Information and Communication Technologies, urbanization, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the spread of violent extremism. While recognizing that changes are co-produced by differently positioned actors from within and outside the drylands, this volume presents the dryland’s point of view. It therefore takes the views, experiences, and agencies of dryland dwellers as the point of departure to not only understand the changes that are transforming their lives, livelihoods, and future aspirations, but also to highlight the unexpected spaces of contestation and innovation that have hitherto remained understudied. This edited volume will be of much interest to students, researchers, and scholars of natural resource management, land and resource grabbing, political ecology, sustainable development, and drylands in general. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
Author: Catherine Gegout Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0190911476 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 416
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Why Europe Intervenes in Africa analyses the underlying causes of all European decisions for and against military interventions in conflicts in African states since the late 1980s. It focuses on the main European actors who have deployed troops in Africa: France, the United Kingdom and the European Union. When conflict occurs in Africa, the response of European actors is generally inaction. This can be explained in several ways: the absence of strategic and economic interests, the unwillingness of European leaders to become involved in conflicts in former colonies of other European states, and sometimes the Eurocentric assumption that conflict in Africa is a normal event which does not require intervention. When European actors do decide to intervene, it is primarily for motives of security and prestige, and not primarily for economic or humanitarian reasons. The weight of past relations with Africa can also be a driver for European military intervention, but the impact of that past is changing. This book offers a theory of European intervention based mainly on realist and post-colonial approaches. It refutes the assumptions of liberals and constructivists who posit that states and organisations intervene primarily in order to respect the principle of the 'responsibility to protect'.
Author: Jean-Pierre Dupuy
Author: Jean-Pierre Dupuy
Author: Vincent Laville
Author: Benoît Pelopidas
Author: Vincent Laville
Author: Rémi Kauffer
Author: Reinhard Haas
Author: Olivier van Beemen
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Author: Catherine Gegout