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The Market for Force

The Consequences of Privatizing Security

By: Deborah D. Avant

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The Market for Force

The Consequences of Privatizing Security

By: Deborah D. Avant

The legitimate use of force is generally presumed to be the realm of the state. However, the flourishing role of the private sector in security over the last twenty years has brought this into question. In this book Deborah Avant examines the privatization of security and its impact on the control of force. She describes the growth of private security companies, explains how the industry works, and describes its range of customers – including states, non-government organisations and commercial transnational corporations. She charts the inevitable trade-offs that the market for force imposes on the states, firms and people wishing to control it, suggests a new way to think about the control of force, and offers a model of institutional analysis that draws on both economic and sociological reasoning. The book contains case studies drawn from the US and Europe as well as Africa and the Middle East.

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332

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Cambridge University Press

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1139446541

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9781139446549

Accenting the Classics

Editing European Music in France

By: Deborah Mawer,Barbara L. Kelly,Rachel Moore,Graham Sadler

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Accenting the Classics

Editing European Music in France

By: Deborah Mawer,Barbara L. Kelly,Rachel Moore,Graham Sadler

Brings new insights to the music of well-known European composers by telling a fascinating, little-known story about French music publishing, specifically through the lens of Jacques Durand's Édition Classique. French composers, performers and musicologists acted as editors of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European 'classics', primarily for piano. Among these editors were Fauré, Saint-Saëns, Debussy, Ravel and Dukas; the objects of their enquiries included core works by Rameau, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Schumann and Chopin. Presenting six composer-editor case studies, the volume shows that the French 'accent', both musical and cultural, upon this predominantly Austro-German music was highly varied. Editorial responses range from scholarly approaches to those directed by performance or compositional agendas, and from pan-European to strongly patriotic stances. Intriguing intersections are revealed between old and new, and between French and cross-European canons. Beyond editing, the book explores the Édition's role in pedagogy and performance, including by pianists Robert Casadesus and Yvonne Loriod, and in the reassertion of contemporary French composition, especially regarding innovation around neoclassicism. It will interest a wide readership, including musicologists, performers and concert-goers, cultural historians and other humanities scholars.

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383

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Boydell & Brewer

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1837650322

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9781837650323

Artists & Prints

Masterworks from the Museum of Modern Art

By: Deborah Wye,Starr Figura,Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)

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Artists & Prints

Masterworks from the Museum of Modern Art

By: Deborah Wye,Starr Figura,Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)

Volume covers the Collection of Prints and Illustrated Books, not the collection of artists' books.

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The Museum of Modern Art

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0870701258

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9780870701252

The Market for Force

The Consequences of Privatizing Security

By: Deborah D. Avant

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The Market for Force

The Consequences of Privatizing Security

By: Deborah D. Avant

In this book Deborah Avant examines the privatization of security and its impact on the control of force.

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310

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0521850266

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9780521850261

Eye on Europe

Prints, Books & Multiples, 1960 to Now

By: Deborah Wye,Wendy Weitman

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Eye on Europe

Prints, Books & Multiples, 1960 to Now

By: Deborah Wye,Wendy Weitman

An intriguing and vibrant study of an innovative and lesser-known facet of contemporart art. Identifies significant strategies exploited by European artists to extend their aesthetic vision within the mediums of prints, books and multiples. Exploring commercial techniques, confrontational approaches and language and the expressionist impulse. Showcases the creativity being channelled into printed art by todays generation.

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338

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The Museum of Modern Art

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0870703714

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9780870703713

Anatomy of Mistrust

U.S.-Soviet Relations During the Cold War

By: Deborah Welch Larson

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Anatomy of Mistrust

U.S.-Soviet Relations During the Cold War

By: Deborah Welch Larson

Synthesizing different understandings of trust and mistrust from the theoretical traditions of economics, psychology, and game theory, Larson analyzes five cases that might have been turning points in U.S.-Soviet relations.

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348

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Cornell University Press

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0801486823

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9780801486821

Marcel Broodthaers

Strategy and Dialogue

By: Deborah Schultz

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Marcel Broodthaers

Strategy and Dialogue

By: Deborah Schultz

The poet and artist Marcel Broodthaers (1924-76) is widely recognized as a key figure in 20th century art who questioned the nature of art, the role of the artist, the functioning of the museum and of the art market. This book sets out Broodthaers's strategy for artistic success and examines the dialogue into which he entered with his contemporaries and predecessors in 19th century French poetry, Pop and Conceptual Art, including Stéphane Mallarmé, Charles Baudelaire, Marcel Duchamp and René Magritte. It provides a broad overview of his objects, paintings, films, slides, books and installations, and his focus upon relationships, also central to Post-Structuralist and postmodern theories. The visual qualities of his works, combining the material with the poetic, his wit and irony, are examined in relation to his subtle method of questioning and contradicting, defying conventional systems and definitions. The author explores the wider framing contexts in which things are presented and the geographical context via maps, notions of the voyage and a sense of place. Institutional critique, the artist's political position and moral responsibilities in society are discussed by analyzing the responses of Broodthaers, Daniel Buren, Joseph Beuys and Hans Haacke to a series of museum events in the early 1970s.

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312

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Peter Lang

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3039109189

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9783039109180

Vincent and Theo

The Van Gogh Brothers

By: Deborah Heiligman

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Vincent and Theo

The Van Gogh Brothers

By: Deborah Heiligman

Beautifully told, this is the true story of the relationship between brothers Theo and Vincent van Gogh.

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465

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Henry Holt

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0805093397

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9780805093391

Book's by Deborah D. Avant

The Market for Force

The Market for Force

Accenting the Classics

Accenting the Classics

Artists & Prints

Artists & Prints

The Market for Force

The Market for Force

Eye on Europe

Eye on Europe

Anatomy of Mistrust

Anatomy of Mistrust

Marcel Broodthaers

Marcel Broodthaers

Vincent and Theo

Vincent and Theo

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