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Vicarious Identity in International Relations

Self, Security, and Status on the Global Stage

By: Christopher S. Browning,Pertti Joenniemi,Brent J. Steele

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Vicarious Identity in International Relations

Self, Security, and Status on the Global Stage

By: Christopher S. Browning,Pertti Joenniemi,Brent J. Steele

This book theorizes and problematizes the politics of vicarious identity in International Relations, where vicarious identity refers to processes of 'living through the other'. While prevalent and recognised in family and social settings, the presence and significance of vicarious identification in international relations has been overlooked. Vicarious identification offers the prospect of bolstering narratives of self-identity and appropriating a sense of reflected glory and enhanced self-esteem, but insofar as it may mask and be a response to emergent anxieties, inadequacies and weaknesses it also entails vulnerabilities. The book explores both its attraction and potential pitfalls, theorising these in the context of emerging literatures on ontological security, status and self-esteem, highlighting both its constitutive practices and normative limits and providing a methodological grounding for identifying and studying the phenomenon in world politics. Vicarious identification and vicarious identity promotion are shown to be politically salient and efficacious across a range of scales, from the international politics of the everyday evident, for instance, in practices associated with (militarised) nationalism, through to interstate relations. In regard to this latter the book provides case analyses of vicarious identification in relations between the US and Israel, the UK-US 'special relationship' and Denmark and the US, and develops a framework for anticipating the conditions under which states may be more or less tempted into vicarious identification with others"--

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0197526381

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Ontological Security in International Relations

Self-Identity and the IR State

By: Brent J. Steele

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Ontological Security in International Relations

Self-Identity and the IR State

By: Brent J. Steele

The central assertion of this book is that states pursue social actions to serve self-identity needs, even when these actions compromise their physical existence. Three forms of social action, sometimes referred to as ‘motives’ of state behaviour (moral, humanitarian, and honour-driven) are analyzed here through an ontological security approach. Brent J. Steele develops an account of social action which interprets these behaviours as fulfilling a nation-state's drive to secure self-identity through time. The anxiety which consumes all social agents motivates them to secure their sense of being, and thus he posits that transformational possibilities exist in the ‘Self’ of a nation-state. The volume consequently both challenges and complements realist, liberal, constructivist and post-structural accounts to international politics. Using ontological security to interpret three cases - British neutrality during the American Civil War (1861-1865), Belgium’s decision to fight Germany in 1914, and NATO’s (1999) Kosovo intervention - the book concludes by discussing the importance for self-interrogation in both the study and practice of international relations. Ontological Security in International Relations will be of particular interest to students and researchers of international politics, international ethics, international relations and security studies.

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Routledge

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113598008X

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Negotiating Copyright in the American Theatre: 1856–1951

By: Brent S. Salter

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Negotiating Copyright in the American Theatre: 1856–1951

By: Brent S. Salter

Drawing on fascinating archival discoveries from the past two centuries, Brent Salter shows how copyright has been negotiated in the American theatre. Who controls the space between authors and audiences? Does copyright law actually protect playwrights and help them make a living? At the center of these negotiations are mediating businesses with extraordinary power that rapidly evolved from the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries: agents, publishers, producers, labor associations, administrators, accountants, lawyers, government bureaucrats, and film studio executives. As these mediators asserted authority over creativity, creators organized to respond, through collective minimum contracts, informal guild expectations, and professional norms, to protect their presumed rights as authors. This institutional, relational, legal, and business history of the entertainment history in America illuminates both the historical context and the present law. An innovative new kind of intellectual property history, the book maps the relations between the different players from the ground up.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108620353

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Defacing Power

The Aesthetics of Insecurity in Global Politics

By: Brent J Steele

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Defacing Power

The Aesthetics of Insecurity in Global Politics

By: Brent J Steele

How do nations create and maintain images of power?

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University of Michigan Press

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0472034960

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9780472034963

Restraint in International Politics

By: Brent J. Steele

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Restraint in International Politics

By: Brent J. Steele

Comprehensive examination of restraint in international politics, considered across a range of contexts as a political process, device, and strategy.

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1108486088

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Alternative Accountabilities in Global Politics

The Scars of Violence

By: Brent J. Steele

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Alternative Accountabilities in Global Politics

The Scars of Violence

By: Brent J. Steele

In fields such as politics, international relations, public administration and international law, there is a rapidly growing interest in the topic of ‘accountability’. In this innovative new work, Steele shows how we might recognize how an alternative form of accountability in global politics has been present for some time, and that, furthermore, this form’s continued presence remains one of the most politically powerful, if not endurable, possibilities for resistance in the near future. This book argues that the physical and visually shocking outcomes of violence found on the bodies of humans, as well as the buildings and landscapes which surround us, specifically the scars they leave behind, remain one of our most compelling forms of accountability. Steele develops the theoretical argument on scars and exteriority utilizing insights from several philosophical and theoretical resources including Hannah Arendt, Erving Goffmann, and Richard Rorty. The work examines scars and their effects through several illustrations, including the accounts of Emmett Till, Iranian protestor Neda Agha-Soltan, the Syrian boy Hamza al-Khateeb, the massacre in WWII and then memorializing throughout the 20th century of the Lidice children in the modern-day Czech Republic, the particular architecturally destructive outcomes of the 2008-9 Gaza War, the loss of the Twin Towers in New York, as well as a variety of violent scars found on the landscapes of Europe and Southeast Asia. Emphasizing the importance of the space and ‘time’ of scars, the book illustrates how an alternative form of accountability in the scar can be a useful, disruptive, spontaneous, but also creative practice to challenge the discourses of violence which remain with us today.

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Routledge

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1136179275

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Ontological Security in International Relations

Self-Identity and the IR State

By: Brent J. Steele

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Ontological Security in International Relations

Self-Identity and the IR State

By: Brent J. Steele

This volume demonstrates that ontological security is a major motivating rationale for state action and inaction, challenging and complementing realist, liberal and constructivist accounts to international politics.

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1135980098

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Restraint in International Politics

By: Brent J. Steele

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Comprehensive examination of restraint in international politics, considered across a range of contexts as a political process, device, and strategy.

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Alternative Accountabilities in Global Politics

The Scars of Violence

By: Brent J. Steele

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Alternative Accountabilities in Global Politics

The Scars of Violence

By: Brent J. Steele

In this innovative new work, Steele shows how we might recognize how an alternative form of accountability in global politics has been present for some time, and that, furthermore, this form's continued presence remains one of the most politically powerful, if not endurable, possibilities for resistance in the near future.

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0415632692

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2005 Comic Book Checklist and Price Guide, 1961 to Present

By: Maggie Thompson,Brent Frankenhoff,Peter Bickford,John Jackson Miller

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2005 Comic Book Checklist and Price Guide, 1961 to Present

By: Maggie Thompson,Brent Frankenhoff,Peter Bickford,John Jackson Miller

Lists prices for more than 75,000 publishers from 1961 to the present.

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0873498283

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9780873498289

The Principles and Practice of Medicine

By: John D. Stobo,Thomas A. Traill,David B. Hellmann,Paul W. Ladenson,Brent G. Petty

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The Principles and Practice of Medicine

By: John D. Stobo,Thomas A. Traill,David B. Hellmann,Paul W. Ladenson,Brent G. Petty

Completely rewritten by the internal medicine faculty as Johns Hopkins, this is a brand-new version of Harvey's classic book.

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McGraw Hill Professional

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0071383654

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Always to Remember

The Story of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

By: Brent K. Ashabranner

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The Story of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

By: Brent K. Ashabranner

Focusing on the work of Jan Scruggs, Vietnam vet, to get a memorial fund started.

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Scholastic

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0590445901

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9780590445900

Using Computers in the Law Office

By: Brent D. Roper

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Using Computers in the Law Office

By: Brent D. Roper

This is the text instructors and students turn to for up-to-date, practical information about how legal assistants can maximize the use of computers to do their work most effectively. Legal timekeeping and billing, case management and docket control software, litigation support software, and Internet legal/factual research are just some of the computer-related topics covered. The material also includes legal applications related to database management, word processing, spreadsheets and presentation graphics. Students will welcome the greatly expanded, hands-on tutorials in this edition. The text also examines the expanded role of new technologies, mobile computing, document management, security, ethics, the electronic courthouse and many other trends in legal computing.

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Cengage Learning

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1401809421

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Tracks, Trails, and Thieves

The Adventures, Discoveries, and Historical Significance of Ferdinand V. Hayden's 1868 Geological Survey of Wyoming and Adjacent Territories

By: Jack E. Deibert,Brent Henry Breithaupt

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Tracks, Trails, and Thieves

The Adventures, Discoveries, and Historical Significance of Ferdinand V. Hayden's 1868 Geological Survey of Wyoming and Adjacent Territories

By: Jack E. Deibert,Brent Henry Breithaupt

Detailed recounting of the first government-sponsored geological survey of the Wyoming and adjacent territories in 1868. The results of Hayden's survey provided the earliest descriptive stratigraphic-structural profile across the Rocky Mountains and the initial discovery of dinosaur tracks in western North America"--

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0813725216

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Book's by Brent J Steele

Vicarious Identity in International Relations

Vicarious Identity in International Relations

Ontological Security in International Relations

Ontological Security in International Relations

Negotiating Copyright in the American Theatre: 1856–1951

Negotiating Copyright in the American Theatre: 1856–1951

Defacing Power

Defacing Power

Restraint in International Politics

Restraint in International Politics

Alternative Accountabilities in Global Politics

Alternative Accountabilities in Global Politics

Ontological Security in International Relations

Ontological Security in International Relations

Restraint in International Politics

Restraint in International Politics

Alternative Accountabilities in Global Politics

Alternative Accountabilities in Global Politics

2005 Comic Book Checklist and Price Guide, 1961 to Present

2005 Comic Book Checklist and Price Guide, 1961 to Present

The Principles and Practice of Medicine

The Principles and Practice of Medicine

Always to Remember

Always to Remember

Using Computers in the Law Office

Using Computers in the Law Office

Tracks, Trails, and Thieves

Tracks, Trails, and Thieves

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