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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456834103321

Autore

Stourzh Gerald

Titolo

From Vienna to Chicago and back [[electronic resource] ] : essays on intellectual history and political thought in Europe and America / / Gerald Stourzh

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2007

ISBN

1-282-53745-8

9786612537455

0-226-77638-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (412 p.)

Disciplina

320.092

Soggetti

Political science - Europe

Political science - United States

Electronic books.

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. 375-379) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Foreword -- Introduction: Traces of an Intellectual Journey -- 1. Reason and Power in Benjamin Franklin's Political Thought (1953) -- 2. William Blackstone: Teacher of Revolution (1970) -- 3. Constitution: Changing Meanings of the Term from the Early Seventeenth to the Late Eighteenth Century (1988) -- 4. Charles A. Beard's Interpretations of American Foreign Policy (1957) -- 5. The Multinational Empire Revisited: Reflections on Late Imperial Austria (1992) -- 6. Ethnic Attribution in Late Imperial Austria: Good Intentions, Evil Consequences (1994) -- 7. The National Compromise in the Bukovina (1996) -- 8. Max Diamant and Jewish Diaspora Nationalism in the Bukovina (2002) -- 9. The Age of Emancipation and Assimilation: Liberalism and Its Heritage (2001) -- 10. An Apogee of Conversions: Gustav Mahler, Karl Kraus, and fin de siècle Vienna (2004) -- 11. The Origins of Austrian Neutrality (1988) -- 12. Equal Rights: Equalizing the Individual's Status and the Breakthrough of the Modern Liberal State (1996) -- 13. Liberal Democracy as a Culture of Rights: England, the United States, and Continental Europe (2000) -- 14. Tocqueville's Understanding of "Conditions of Equality" and "Conditions



of Inequality" (2006) -- 15. The Unforgivable Sin: An Interpretation of Albert Camus' The Fall (1961) -- Appendix: Bibliographical Information -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects

Sommario/riassunto

Spanning both the history of the modern West and his own five-decade journey as a historian, Gerald Stourzh's sweeping new essay collection covers the same breadth of topics that has characterized his career-from Benjamin Franklin to Gustav Mahler, from Alexis de Tocqueville to Charles Beard, from the notion of constitution in seventeenth-century England to the concept of neutrality in twentieth-century Austria.This storied career brought him in the 1950's from the University of Vienna to the University of Chicago-of which he draws a brilliant picture-and later took him to

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910411947603321

Autore

Betts Judith

Titolo

The Iraq War and Democratic Governance : Britain and Australia go to War / / by Judith Betts, Mark Phythian

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020

ISBN

9783030503192

3030503194

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (244 pages)

Disciplina

956.70443341

320

Soggetti

International relations

Comparative government

Political planning

Politics and war

Foreign Policy

Comparative Politics

International Relations

Public Policy

Military and Defence Studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. The US Alliance -- Chapter 3. Prime Ministerial Dominance: Cabinet, Party, Parliament and the Bureaucracy -- Chapter 4. Managing the media and pro-war spin -- Chapter 5. Managing the Consequences of War: Post-war Inquiries -- Chapter 6. The Chilcot Inquiry -- Chapter 7. Never again? Lessons and Consequences for Australia and the UK.

Sommario/riassunto

'Drawing on an array of primary sources and interviews, The Iraq War and Democratic Governance makes a profound contribution to the field. The book's authoritative account of the post-war inquiries and political consequences in Britain and Australia is essential reading for academics and practitioners interested in matters of international security.' -Patrick A. Mello, Visiting Scholar, Willy Brandt School of Public, University of Erfurt, Germany This book examines the decisions by Tony Blair and John Howard to take their nations into the 2003 Iraq War, and the questions these decisions raise about democratic governance. It also explores the significance of the US alliance in UK and Australian decision-making, and the process for taking a nation to war. Relying on primary government documents and interviews, and bringing together various strands of literature that have so far been discussed in isolation (including historical accounts, party politics, prime ministerial leadership and intelligence studies), the authors provide a comprehensive and original view on the various post-war inquiries conducted in the UK, Australia. Judith Betts teaches government and political communication at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. She has worked in the Australian Public Service, served as a ministerial adviser and as a speechwriter, and currently works as an academic. Mark Phythian is Professor of Politics in the School of History, Politics and International Relations at the University of Leicester, UK. He is the author or editor of over a dozen books, editor of the journal Intelligence and National Security, and a Fellow of the UK Academy of Social Sciences.