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Oil, Illiberalism, and War

An Analysis of Energy and US Foreign Policy

By: Andrew T. Price-Smith

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Oil, Illiberalism, and War

An Analysis of Energy and US Foreign Policy

By: Andrew T. Price-Smith

An argument that America's addiction to crude oil has driven a foreign policy of intervention and exploitation hidden behind a facade of liberal internationalism. The United States is addicted to crude oil. In this book, Andrew Price-Smith argues that this addiction has distorted the conduct of American foreign policy in profound and malign ways, resulting in interventionism, exploitation, and other illiberal behaviors that hide behind a facade of liberal internationalism. The symbiotic relationship between the state and the oil industry has produced deviations from rational foreign energy policy, including interventions in Iraq and elsewhere that have been (at the very least) counterproductive or (at worst) completely antithetical to national interests. Liberal internationalism casts the United States as a benign hegemon, guaranteeing security to its allies during the Cold War and helping to establish collaborative international institutions. Price-Smith argues for a reformulation of liberal internationalism (which he terms shadow liberalism) that takes into account the dark side of American foreign policy. Price-Smith contends that the “free market” in international oil is largely a myth, rendered problematic by energy statism and the rise of national oil companies. He illustrates the destabilizing effect of oil in the Persian Gulf, and describes the United States' grand energy strategy, particularly in the Persian Gulf, as illiberal at its core, focused on the projection of power and on periodic bouts of violence. Washington's perennial oscillation between liberal phases of institution building and provision of public goods and illiberal bellicosity, Price-Smith argues, represents the shadow liberalism that is at the core of US foreign policy.

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Contagion and Chaos

Disease, Ecology, and National Security in the Era of Globalization

By: Andrew T. Price-Smith

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Contagion and Chaos

Disease, Ecology, and National Security in the Era of Globalization

By: Andrew T. Price-Smith

An analysis of infectious disease as a threat to national security that examines the destabilizing effects of the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic, HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa, SARS, and Mad Cow Disease. Historians from Thucydides to William McNeill have pointed to the connections between disease and civil society. Political scientists have investigated the relationship of public health to governance, introducing the concept of health security. In Contagion and Chaos, Andrew Price-Smith offers the most comprehensive examination yet of disease through the lens of national security. Extending the analysis presented in his earlier book The Health of Nations, Price-Smith argues that epidemic disease represents a direct threat to the power of a state, eroding prosperity and destabilizing both its internal politics and its relationships with other states. He contends that the danger of an infectious pathogen to national security depends on lethality, transmissability, fear, and economic damage. Moreover, warfare and ecological change contribute to the spread of disease and act as “disease amplifiers.” Price-Smith presents a series of case studies to illustrate his argument: the Spanish influenza pandemic of 1918-19 (about which he advances the controversial claim that the epidemic contributed to the defeat of Germany and Austria); HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa (he contrasts the worst-case scenario of Zimbabwe with the more stable Botswana); bovine spongiform encephalopathy (also known as mad cow disease); and the SARS contagion of 2002-03. Emerging infectious disease continues to present a threat to national and international security, Price-Smith argues, and globalization and ecological change only accelerate the danger.

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The Health of Nations

Infectious Disease, Environmental Change, and Their Effects on National Security and Development

By: Andrew T. Price-Smith

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The Health of Nations

Infectious Disease, Environmental Change, and Their Effects on National Security and Development

By: Andrew T. Price-Smith

In recent decades, new pathogens such as HIV, the Ebola virus, and the BSE prion have emerged, while old scourges such as tuberculosis, cholera, and malaria have grown increasingly resistant to treatment. The global spread of disease does not threaten the human species, but it threatens the prosperity and stability of human societies. In this pathbreaking book, Andrew Price-Smith investigates the influence of infectious disease on nations' stability and prosperity. He also provides a theoretical and empirical foundation for the emerging field of health security. Price-Smith shows that the global proliferation of infectious disease will limit the ability of states to govern themselves effectively and to maximize their economic power. Because infectious disease can cause poverty, intra-state violence and political instability may increase. This in turn may have negative long-term effects on regional economic and political stability, damaging international relations and development. Price-Smith takes an interdisciplinary approach to topics ranging from the effects of global environmental change on the spread of disease to the feedback loop between public health and the strength of a nation's economy and its political stability over time. As the proliferation of infectious disease threatens international stability and the policy interests of the United States in years to come, its study will become an increasingly important subfield of political science.

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Contagion and Chaos

Disease, Ecology, and National Security in the Era of Globalization

By: Andrew T. Price-Smith

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Disease, Ecology, and National Security in the Era of Globalization

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Oil, Illiberalism, and War

An Analysis of Energy and US Foreign Policy

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An Analysis of Energy and US Foreign Policy

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The Premise

By: J. Andrew Mosley

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The Premise

By: J. Andrew Mosley

The Declaration of Independence is underpinned by the premise "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal." This book attempts to pare down this premise to its bones, carving away methodically to reveal whether or not its words merely stand on how they sound versus how they are realized in everyday life. Along the way, many companion ideas are introduced and explored that are intended to widen the thinking field of the reader. The purpose of these sidebars is to challenge the reader to think outside the regular, the expected, and to question assumptions and set aside presumptions. Perhaps the most difficult challenge presented by this book is that it asks for honesty. America has experienced considerable difficulty with living up to the true meaning of its creed, its founding premise. This volume suggests that the difficulty arises more from what is read into the premise rather than what was ever intended to be lived into it. It is abundantly clear that Thomas Jefferson absolutely did not have thousands of enslaved Africans in mind when he said "All men are created equal." The inclusion of all people, regardless of race, was an add-on concept that needed a life of its own so that the formerly excluded could own their own lives. It is not the intention of this book to do away with the Declaration premise. It occupies a hallowed ceremonial place in American thought and reflection. It seems to have provoked many men, women, boys, and girls to good works and worthy strides toward the collective well-being of all. The Premise is a grand and holy wish begging to be questioned but, for its celebrity, is rarely ever called to the stand.

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Finding Assurance with Thomas Goodwin

By: Andrew S. Ballitch

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Finding Assurance with Thomas Goodwin

By: Andrew S. Ballitch

Glory in nothing but that you are in Christ In Finding Assurance with Thomas Goodwin, Andrew S. Ballitch explores how deeply the doctrine of assurance of faith impacted Goodwin's life and how Christians can learn from him today. Doubt is a common Christian experience, and assurance of faith is a universal Christian desire. The Puritans were acutely aware of this reality—none more than Thomas Goodwin (1600–1680). Goodwin wrestled with doubt for seven years after his conversion. When assurance came, it was with joy and confidence that Christ was for him personally. His confidence fueled a life of holiness, service, and perseverance. Ballitch highlights how Goodwin's life informed his theology and vice versa, so that readers can experience for themselves the joys of assurance.

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