Journeys to the other shore : Muslim and Western travelers in search of knowledge / / Roxanne L. Euben

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910345145903321
• Autore: Euben Roxanne Leslie <1966->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Princeton, : Princeton University Press, c2006
• ISBN: 1-282-08688-X; 9786612086885; 1-4008-2749-3
• Edizione: [Course Book]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (327 p.)
• Collana: Princeton studies in Muslim politics
• Disciplina: 910.4
• Soggetti: Travel, Medieval; Voyages and travels; Travelers - Arab countries; Travelers - Europe; East and West
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-301) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration and Spelling -- Chapter 1. Frontiers: Walls and Windows -- Chapter 2. Traveling Theorists and Translating Practices -- Chapter 3. Liars, Travelers, Theorists: Herodotus and Ibn Battuta -- Chapter 4. Travel in Search of Practical Wisdom -- Chapter 5. Gender, Genre, and Travel -- Chapter 6. Cosmopolitanisms Past and Present, Islamic and Western -- Notes -- Glossary of Arabic and Greek Terms -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The contemporary world is increasingly defined by dizzying flows of people and ideas. But while Western travel is associated with a pioneering spirit of discovery, the dominant image of Muslim mobility is the jihadi who travels not to learn but to destroy. Journeys to the Other Shore challenges these stereotypes by charting the common ways in which Muslim and Western travelers negotiate the dislocation of travel to unfamiliar and strange worlds. In Roxanne Euben's groundbreaking excursion across cultures, geography, history, genre, and genders, travel signifies not only a physical movement across lands ; and cultures, but also an imaginative journey in which wonder about those who live differently makes it possible to see the world differently. In the book we meet not only Herodotus but also Ibn Battuta, the fourteenth-century Moroccan traveler. Tocqueville's journeys are set against a five-year sojourn in nineteenth-century Paris by the Egyptian writer and translator Rifa'a Rafi' al-Tahtawi, and Montesquieu's novel Persian Letters meets with the memoir of an East African princess, Sayyida Salme. This extraordinary book shows that curiosity about the unknown, the quest to understand foreign cultures, critical distance from one's own world, and the desire to remake the foreign into the familiar are not the monopoly of any single civilization or epoch. Euben demonstrates that the fluidity of identities, cultures, and borders associated with our postcolonial, globalized world has a long history--one shaped not only by Western power but also by an Islamic ethos of travel in search of knowledge.

Dangerous thresholds : managing escalation in the 21st century / / Forrest E. Morgan ... [et al.]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910145964603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Santa Monica, CA, : RAND Project Air Force, 2008
• ISBN: 1-282-03321-2; 9786612033216; 0-8330-4636-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (275 p.)
• Collana: Rand Corporation monograph series
• Altri autori (Persone): MorganForrest E
• Disciplina: 355.02
• Soggetti: Escalation (Military science); Conflict management; Security, International - 21st century; World politics - 21st century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "MG-614-AF"--P. [4] of cover.; "Prepared for the United States Air Force."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-245).
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Preface; Contents; Figures; Summary; Acknowledgments; Glossary; CHAPTER ONE- Introduction; Background; Contemporary Challenges; Purpose of This Monograph; Organization and Approach; CHAPTER TWO- The Nature of Escalation; Understanding Escalation; Dimensions of Escalation: Vertical, Horizontal, and Political; Escalation Mechanisms; Complexity in Escalation; Motives for Escalation; Dynamics of Escalation; Escalation and Instability in the 21st Century; Anticipating and Managing Escalation; CHAPTER THREE- China's Thinking on Escalation: Evidence from Chinese Military Writings; Introduction Background and Conceptual Issues; Understanding Chinese Views on Escalation and War Control; Assessing Chinese Escalation Behavior Through the Lens of the Second Artillery Doctrine; Second Artillery Nuclear Operations and Escalation; Second Artillery Conventional Missile Strike Campaigns; Chinese Views on Space Warfare and Escalation; Conclusion; CHAPTER FOUR- Regional Nuclear Powers; Escalation Risks Inherent in Emergent Nuclear Capability; Sources of Regional Instability; Conclusion; CHAPTER FIVE- Escalation in Irregular Warfare; Irregular Warfare's Many Paths of Escalation; Escalation in Stability Operations: Two Illustrative Cases Escalation in the Global Jihad; Escalation Management in the Struggle Against Global Jihad; Conclusion; CHAPTER SIX- Managing Escalation in a Complex World; The First Step in Managing Escalation Is Understanding Its Nature; Managing Escalation Risks in Today's World; Recommendations for the U.S. Air Force; APPENDIX A- China, Force, and Escalation: Continuities Between Historical Behavior and Contemporary Writings; APPENDIX B- Case Studies of Escalation in Stability Operations; APPENDIX C- Modified Method for Delphi Analyses; Bibliography
• Sommario/riassunto: This analysis of escalation dynamics and approaches to escalation management draws on a range of historical examples from World War I to the struggle against global Jihad to inform escalation-related decision making.