Human Programming

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott Selisker
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Computer Science ◽  
Asian Americans ◽  
Post Cold War ◽  
The Third

The third chapter considers how technological ideas about “programming”—in cybernetics, computer science, and genetics—broadened the applications of automaton discourse and images. Such ideas were used to represent devalued forms of labor, Asian Americans, and post-Cold War fundamentalism.Selisker analyses the history and discorses that inform stereotypes such as hypertechnologicalorientals and new philosophical concepts like posthumanism.

Part 2 The Post-Cold War Era (1990–2000), 46 The Great African War and the Intervention by Uganda and Rwanda in the Democratic Republic of Congo—1998–2003

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Green James A
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Democratic Republic ◽  
Democratic Republic Of Congo ◽  
International Organisations ◽  
International Court Of Justice ◽  
Republic Of Congo ◽  
Post Cold War ◽  
The Third ◽  
Court Of Justice ◽  
International Court

This chapter considers the Great African War of 1998-2003. The first section sets out the factual context of the interventions of Uganda, Rwanda and (on a much lower scale) Burundi in the territory of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). It also considers the counter-force employed by the DRC and other states acting in support of the DRC’s government. The second section considers the positions of the main state protagonists on both sides, as well as of international organisations and states not involved in the conflict. The third section analyses the legality of the actions of the various states involved, including – but not limited to – a consideration of the 2005 International Court of Justice merits decision in the Armed Activities (DRC v Uganda) case. The ad bellum implications of the conflict stretch beyond that decision, but the proceedings at the Court have become its primary legacy in this context.

The analysis of protracted social conflict: a tribute to Edward Azar

2005 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oliver Ramsbotham
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Social Conflict ◽  
Conflict Analysis ◽  
Security Studies ◽  
Post Cold War ◽  
The Third ◽  
Protracted Social Conflict ◽  
Strategic Studies

The aim of this article is to draw attention to the work of a conflict analyst whose theory of ‘protracted social conflict’ – developed in a sustained series of publications over a twenty-year period from the early-1970s – has been neglected in mainstream international relations, strategic studies and security studies circles. The first section offers a conceptual context for assessing the originality and significance of Azar's approach. The second section outlines his theory of protracted social conflict. The third section evaluates his theory in the light of developments in conflict analysis in the 13 years since his death. The conclusion is that Azar's work does not merit such neglect and that it still offers useful pointers for an understanding of the sources of major armed conflict in the turbulent and contested arena of post-Cold War politics.

scholarly journals When Asian Americans Return to Asia: Return Narratives, Transpacific Imagination, and the Post/Cold War

2021 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 95-112
Author(s):  
Chih-ming Wang
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
American Literature ◽  
Asian Americans ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Post Cold War ◽  
Temporal Frame

By focusing on Asian American return narratives as a symbolic indicator of a shift in transpacific relations, this article attempts to address two questions: first, how will a focus on return experiences engage and reframe transpacific imperial geopolitics thatcreated and sustainedAsian American literature, and second, how will a focus on the “post/Cold War”rather than on globalization as a temporal frame challenge the transpacificimagination in American studiesas a cultural and economic narrative of immigration, integration,and salvationthat purports to transcend Cold War divisions.Thearticleanalyses Maxine Hong Kingston’s I Love a Broad Margin to My Life(2011) and Chang-rae Lee’s My Year Abroad(2021)to consider how post-1990s Asian American return narratives rearticulatecontemporary geopolitics. It will conclude with a reflection on the Orientalismof Asian Americanliteraturein the treacherous imaginaryof transpacific futures.

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