American Government or The Human Potential for Peace

American Government: Using MicroCase? ExplorIt

Author: Barbara Norrander

This Windows-compatible package includes access to MicroCase® datasets and workbook. You make your own decisions about the issues as you analyze and interpret current NES and GSS data.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgements. Preface. Getting Started. Part I: Foundations. 1. "One Nation:" The History and Politics of Region. 2. Federalism: "A More Perfect Union." 3. "Of the People:" An Interested and Informed Public. Part II: Freedom: Civil Liberties and Civil Rights. 4. Civil Liberties: Free Speech. 5. Civil Rights: Equality. Part III: Government and the Individual. 6. Public Opinion and Political Socialization. 7. The Media. 8. Political Participation. 9. Political Parties. 10. Elections. 11. Interest Groups and PACs. Part IV: Institutions. 12. The Congress. 13. The Presidency. 14. The Bureaucracy. 15. The Courts. Appendix A: Variable Names and Sources.

The Human Potential for Peace: An Anthropological Challenge to Assumptions about War and Violence

Author: Douglas P Fry

In The Human Potential for Peace: An Anthropological Challenge to Assumptions about War and Violence, renowned anthropologist Douglas P. Fry shows how anthropology--with its expansive time frame and comparative orientation--can provide unique insights into the nature of war and the potential for peace. Challenging the traditional view that humans are by nature primarily violent and warlike, Professor Fry argues that along with the capacity for aggression humans also possess a strong ability to prevent, limit, and resolve conflicts without violence. Raising philosophy of science issues, the author shows that cultural beliefs asserting the inevitability of violence and war can bias our interpretations, affect our views of ourselves, and may even blind us to the possibility of achieving security without war. Fry draws on data from cultural anthropology, archaeology, and sociology as well as from behavioral ecology and evolutionary biology to construct a biosocial argument that challenges a host of commonly held assumptions.
The Human Potential for Peace includes ethnographic examples from around the globe, findings from Fry's research among the Zapotec of Mexico, and results of cross-cultural studies on warfare. In showing that conflict resolution exists across cultures and by documenting the existence of numerous peaceful societies, it demonstrates that dealing with conflict without violence is not merely a utopian dream. The book also explores several highly publicized and interesting controversies, including Freeman's critique of Margaret Mead's writings on Samoan warfare; Napoleon Chagnon's claims about the Yanomamo; and ongoing evolutionary debates about whether"hunter-gatherers" are peaceful or warlike. The Human Potential for Peace is ideal for undergraduate courses in political and legal anthropology, the anthropology of peace and conflict, peace studies, political sociology, and the sociology of war and violence. Written in an informal style with numerous entertaining examples, the book is also readily accessible to general readers.

Access Denied or Hatreds Kingdom

Access Denied: The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering

Author: Ronald J Deibert

Many countries around the world block or filter Internet content, denying access to information--often about politics, but also relating to sexuality, culture, or religion--that they deem too sensitive for ordinary citizens. Access Denied documents and analyzes Internet filtering practices in over three dozen countries, offering the first rigorously conducted study of this accelerating trend.

Internet filtering takes place in at least forty states worldwide including many countries in Asia and the Middle East and North Africa. Related Internet content control mechanisms are also in place in Canada, the United States and a cluster of countries in Europe. Drawing on a just-completed survey of global Internet filtering undertaken by the OpenNet Initiative (a collaboration of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto, the Oxford Internet Institute at Oxford University, and the University of Cambridge) and relying on work by regional experts and an extensive network of researchers, Access Denied examines the political, legal, social, and cultural contexts of Internet filtering in these states from a variety of perspectives. Chapters discuss the mechanisms and politics of Internet filtering, the strengths and limitations of the technology that powers it, the relevance of international law, ethical considerations for corporations that supply states with the tools for blocking and filtering, and the implications of Internet filtering for activist communities that increasingly rely on Internet technologies for communicating their missions.

Reports on Internet content regulation in fortydifferent countries follow, with each country profile outlining the types of content blocked by category and documenting key findings.

Contributors:

Ross Anderson, Malcolm Birdling, Ronald Deibert, Robert Faris, Vesselina Haralampieva, Steven Murdoch, Helmi Noman, John Palfrey, Rafal Rohozinski, Mary Rundle, Nart Villeneuve, Stephanie Wang, and Jonathan Zittrain

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Hatred's Kingdom: How Saudi Arabia Supports the New Global Terrorism

Author: Dore Gold

Dore Gold, former Israeli Ambassador to the U.N. and internationally known Middle East expert, uses previously unpublished intelligence documents to piece together the links between the current wave of global terrorism-from the World Trade Center to Bali, Indonesia-and the ideology of hatred taught in the schools and mosques of Saudi Arabia.

Table of Contents:

	List of Maps
	Introduction: The Roots of Terror	1
Ch. 1	Violent Origins: Reviving Jihad and the War Against the Polytheists	17
Ch. 2	Countering the Wahhabi Menace	31
Ch. 3	"White Terror": The Ikhwan and the Rise of the Modern Saudi Kingdom	41
Ch. 4	Building the Modern Saudi State: Oil, the Palestine Question, and the Americans	57
Ch. 5	Reactivating Wahhabism	73
Ch. 6	The Hothouse for Militant Islamic Radicalism	89
Ch. 7	Wahhabism Reasserts Itself	105
Ch. 8	Wahhabism's Global Reach	125
Ch. 9	Countdown to September 11 : The Gulf War and Wahhabism's New Outburst in the 1990s	157
Ch. 10	The Hatred Continues	185
	Conclusion: Ending the Hatred	213
App	Saudi Support for Terrorism: The Evidence	229
	Notes	253
	Glossary	285
	Acknowledgments	289
	Index	293