The performative presidency : crisis and resurrection during the Clinton years / / Jason L. Mast [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910453007803321
• Autore: Mast Jason L.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013
• ISBN: 1-107-23650-9; 1-139-85418-6; 1-139-84274-9; 1-139-84036-3; 1-139-84510-1; 1-139-20693-1; 1-139-84598-5; 1-283-83629-7; 1-139-84155-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xi, 198 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Collana: Cambridge cultural social studies
• Disciplina: 973.929092
• Soggetti: Press and politics - United States - History - 20th century; Mass media - Political aspects - United States - History - 20th century; Mass media and public opinion - United States - History - 20th century; Communication in politics - United States - History - 20th century; Political culture - United States - History - 20th century; Public opinion - United States - History - 20th century; United States Politics and government 1993-2001
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Introduction -- 2. Presidential leadership under the conditions of defusion -- 3. Character formation: the rise of two Bill Clintons, 1992 -- 4. The profanation of a president, 1992-1994: presidential character, the 'climate of suspicion', and the culture of scandal -- 5. The Conservative revolution as purification and its subsequent pollution: the rise and fall of Newt Gingrich, and the fall and rise of Bill Clinton -- 6. Birth of a symbolic inversion: Clinton (re)fuses with the presidential character -- 7. The second term: the Republicans' polluting ; scandal and Clinton's successful performance -- 8. Conclusion.
• Sommario/riassunto: The Performative Presidency brings together literatures describing presidential leadership strategies, public understandings of citizenship, and news production and media technologies between the presidencies of Theodore Roosevelt and Bill Clinton, and details how the relations between these spheres have changed over time. Jason L. Mast demonstrates how interactions between leaders, publics, and media are organized in a theatrical way, and argues that mass mediated plot formation and character development play an increasing role in structuring the political arena. He shows politics as a process of ongoing performances staged by motivated political actors, mediated by critics, and interpreted by audiences, in the context of a deeply rooted, widely shared system of collective representations. The interdisciplinary framework of this book brings together a semiotic theory of culture with concepts from the burgeoning field of performance studies.

Mass Transfer : Advances in Sustainable Energy and Environment Oriented Numerical Modeling / / edited by Hironori Nakajima

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910317734203321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: [Place of publication not identified] : , : IntechOpen, , 2013; ©2013
• ISBN: 953-51-6356-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (524 pages)
• Disciplina: 660.28423
• Soggetti: Mass transfer
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.

A long goodbye [[electronic resource] ] : the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan / / Artemy M. Kalinovsky

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910779535103321
• Autore: Kalinovsky Artemy M
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2011
• ISBN: 0-674-06104-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (304 pages) : illustrations, maps
• Disciplina: 958.104/5
• Soggetti: Disengagement (Military science); Soviet Union Foreign relations Afghanistan; Afghanistan Foreign relations Soviet Union; Afghanistan History Soviet occupation, 1979-1989; Soviet Union Foreign relations 1975-1985; Soviet Union Foreign relations 1985-1991
• 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 and index.
• Nota di contenuto: The reluctant intervention -- The turn toward diplomacy -- Gorbachev confronts Afghanistan -- The national reconciliation campaign -- Engaging with the Americans -- The Army withdraws and the Politburo debates -- Soviet policy adrift.
• Sommario/riassunto: The conflict in Afghanistan looms large in the collective consciousness of Americans. What has the United States achieved, and how will it withdraw without sacrificing those gains? The Soviet Union confronted these same questions in the 1980's, and Artemy Kalinovsky's history of the USSR's nine-year struggle to extricate itself from Afghanistan and bring its troops home provides a sobering perspective on exit options in the region. What makes Kalinovsky's intense account both timely and important is its focus not on motives for initiating the conflict but on the factors that prevented the Soviet leadership from ending a demoralizing war. Why did the USSR linger for so long, given that key elites recognized the blunder of the mission shortly after the initial deployment? Newly available archival material, supplemented by interviews with major actors, allows Kalinovsky to reconstruct the fierce debates among Soviet diplomats, KGB officials, the Red Army, and top ; Politburo figures. The fear that withdrawal would diminish the USSR's status as leader of the Third World is palpable in these disagreements, as are the competing interests of Afghan factions and the Soviet Union's superpower rival in the West. This book challenges many widely held views about the actual costs of the conflict to the Soviet leadership, and its findings illuminate the Cold War context of a military engagement that went very wrong, for much too long.