scholarly journals Introduction: The crisis of Russia - the West and new approaches to the issue of arms control

2020 ◽  
pp. 5-15
Author(s):  
Tatiana Parkhalina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Arms Control ◽  
The West ◽  
New Approaches

Book Review: Vietnam and the West: New Approaches

2012 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 626-628
Author(s):  
Mariam B. Lam
Keyword(s):  
The West ◽  
New Approaches

Why Movements Matter. The West German Peace Movement and U.S. Arms Control Policy

2002 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 419
Author(s):  
Michael L. Hughes ◽  
Steve Breyman
Keyword(s):  
Arms Control ◽  
Control Policy ◽  
Peace Movement ◽  
The West

scholarly journals First Crusade Letters and Medieval Monastic Scribal Cultures

2019 ◽  
Vol 71 (3) ◽  
pp. 484-501
Author(s):  
THOMAS W. SMITH
Keyword(s):  
Twelfth Century ◽  
The West ◽  
First Crusade ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
Monastic Communities ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
New Research

The letters of the First Crusade have traditionally been read as authentic and trustworthy eyewitness accounts of the expedition and they contribute greatly to scholarly understanding of the campaign. But new research on them demonstrates that many of the documents are in fact twelfth-century confections produced in the monastic communities of the West as a means of supporting, participating in and engaging with the crusading movement. This article develops new approaches to the letters and new research questions which account for and accept the problematic authenticity of the corpus, pivoting away from traditional methodologies to explore the monastic scribal cultures that produced and consumed First Crusade letters.

Book reviews

2012 ◽  
Vol 168 (1) ◽  
pp. 130-160
Author(s):  
Redactie KITLV
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Medical Anthropology ◽  
The West ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Personal Names ◽  
New Approaches

Chie Ikeya, Refiguring women, colonialism, and modernity in Burma (Henk Schulte Nordholt) Thomas J. Conners, Mason C. Hoadley, Frank Dhont, Kevin Ko (eds), Pancasila’s contemporary appeal: Relegitimizing Indonesia’s founding ethos (R.E. Elson) I Nyoman Darma Putra, A literary mirror: Balinese reflections on modernity and identity in the twentieth century (Dick van der Meij) Margaret Jolly. Serge Tcherkézoff and Darrell Tryon (eds), Oceanic encounters: Exchange, desire, violence (H.J.M. Claessen) Rudolf Mrázek, A certain age: Colonial Jakarta through the memories of its intellectuals (Lutgard Mutsaers) Jan Ovesen and Ing-Britt Trankell, Cambodians and their doctors: A medical anthropology of colonial and post-colonial Cambodia (Vivek Neelakantan) Daromir Rudnyckyj, Spiritual economies: Islam, globalization and the afterlife of development (Gabrial Facal) Claudine Salmon, Sastra Indonesia awal: Kontribusi orang Tionghoa (Melani Budianta) Renate Sternagel, Der Humboldt von Java: Leben und Werk des Naturforschers Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn 1809-1864 (Andreas Weber) Wynn Wilcox (ed.), Vietnam and the West: New approaches (Hans Hägerdal) Zheng Yangwen and Charles J.H Macdonald (eds), Personal names in Asia: History, culture and identity (Rosemary Gianno)

scholarly journals Who stole disarmament? History and nostalgia in nuclear abolition discourse

2020 ◽  
Vol 96 (5) ◽  
pp. 1387-1403
Author(s):  
Kjølv Egeland
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Nuclear Weapons ◽  
Arms Control ◽  
Nuclear Deterrence ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
The World ◽  
Shared Goal ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Nuclear Arms

Abstract Influential members of the disarmament community have in recent years maintained that further progress towards the international community's nominally shared goal of a world without nuclear weapons depends on recapturing the spirit and practices of cooperation that prevailed in the late 1980s and 1990s. Proponents of abolition, in this view, should focus their efforts on revitalizing the tried and tested arms control formula that was implemented following the end of the Cold War. In this article, I argue that this call to make disarmament great again reflects unwarranted nostalgia for a past that never was, fostering overconfidence in established approaches to the elimination of nuclear weapons. Far from putting the world on course to nuclear abolition, the end of the Cold War saw the legitimation of nuclear weapons as a hedge against ‘future uncertainties’ and entrenchment of the power structures that sustain the retention of nuclear armouries. By overselling past progress towards the elimination of nuclear arms, the nostalgic narrative of a lost abolitionist consensus is used to rationalize the existing nuclear order and delegitimize the pursuit of new approaches to elimination such as the movement to stigmatize nuclear weapons and the practice of nuclear deterrence.

Understanding George Kennan

Worldview ◽  
1984 ◽  
Vol 27 (9) ◽  
pp. 7-10
Author(s):  
Thomas M. Magstadt
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Arms Control ◽  
The West ◽  
High Ranking ◽  
Public Figures ◽  
American Diplomacy

On February 16, 1984, George Frost Kennan, the eminent historian, Russianologist, and antinuclear gadfly, reached eighty, that milestone at which former high-ranking American diplomats are customarily canonized as "elder statesman." Mr. Kennan is now a certified elder, but the nature of his statesmanship raises interesting questions—not simply because of Kennan's great notoriety but because any serious attempt to answer them cuts to the very core of the most profound issues facing the nation in the final quarter of the twentieth century.For over thirty years now Kennan has been one of the most controversial public figures in the West. His critique of American diplomacy, especially in the areas of Soviet-American relations and strategic arms control, has had an ironic edge, emanating as it does from the architect of containment—America's historic response to the Soviet challenge.

scholarly journals La théorie et la pratique de l’Arms Control : Bilan et perspectives

2005 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 647-663
Author(s):  
Jean Klein
Keyword(s):  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Arms Control ◽  
The Past ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
Past Experiences

Arms control, as developed by American civilian strategists in the late 1950s, sought to maintain the equilibrium upon which mutual deterrence was dependent, and strove to prevent direct conflict between the two nuclear protagonists. Has it exhausted its virtuality and will there be a return to the tradition of general and total disarmament? One comes to ask within the framework of this analysis, whether the Washington treaty of december 1987 introduces a new element to arms control, or whether it closely follows the methods used in former agreements. In an effort to better comprehend this question, the past experiences in arms control will be examined before making any conjectures on its anticipated evolution, all the while taking into consideration the new approaches used in the American-Soviet relations, the problems created by technological innovation, and the intentions of both the small and medium States.

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