Britain and Africa under Blair [[electronic resource] ] : in pursuit of the good state / / Julia Gallagher

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910465218603321
• Autore: Gallagher Julia
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Manchester ; ; New York, : Manchester University Press; New York, : distributed in the United States by Palgrave Macmillan, 2011
• ISBN: 1-78170-225-X; 1-84779-422-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (177 p.)
• Disciplina: 327.4106
• Soggetti: Economic assistance, British - Africa - History; Electronic books.; Great Britain Foreign relations Africa; Africa Foreign relations Great Britain; Great Britain Foreign relations 1997-; Great Britain Politics and government 1997-2007
• 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: 1. New Labour: doing good in Africa -- 2. Ideas of the good and the political -- 3. How the British found utopia in Africa -- 4. The good, the bad and the ambiguous -- 5. Healing the scar? -- 6. Idealisation in Africa -- 7. The good state -- 8. Conclusion.
• Sommario/riassunto: Africa was a key focus of Britain's foreign policy under Tony Blair. Military intervention in Sierra Leone, increases in aid and debt relief, and grand initiatives such as the Commission for Africa established the continent as a place in which Britain could 'do good'. Britain and Africa under Blair: in pursuit of the good state critically explores Britain's fascination with Africa. It argues that, under New Labour, Africa represented an area of policy that appeared to transcend politics. Gradually, it came to embody an ideal state activity around which politicians, officials and the wider publ

The case for U.S. nuclear weapons in the 21st century / / Brad Roberts

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910460723603321
• Autore: Roberts Brad
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Stanford, California : , : Stanford Security Studies, an imprint of Stanford University Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• ISBN: 0-8047-9715-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (351 p.)
• Disciplina: 355.02/170973
• Soggetti: Nuclear weapons - Government policy - United States; Deterrence (Strategy); National security - United States; Electronic books.; United States Military policy; United States Foreign relations 21st century
• 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 evolution of U.S. nuclear policy and posture since the end of the Cold War -- The first new problem : nuclear-armed regional challengers -- The new regional deterrence strategy -- The second new problem : relations with Putin's Russia -- The evolving relationship with China -- Extended deterrence and strategic stability in Europe -- Extended deterrence and strategic stability in Northeast Asia -- The broader nuclear assurance agenda -- Conclusions -- Epilogue : implications for future strategy, policy, and posture reviews.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book is a counter to the conventional wisdom that the United States can and should do more to reduce both the role of nuclear weapons in its security strategies and the number of weapons in its arsenal. The case against nuclear weapons has been made on many grounds—including historical, political, and moral. But, Brad Roberts argues, it has not so far been informed by the experience of the United States since the Cold War in trying to adapt deterrence to a changed world, and to create the conditions that would allow further significant changes to U.S. nuclear policy and posture. Drawing on the author's ; experience in the making and implementation of U.S. policy in the Obama administration, this book examines that real world experience and finds important lessons for the disarmament enterprise. Central conclusions of the work are that other nuclear-armed states are not prepared to join the United States in making reductions, and that unilateral steps by the United States to disarm further would be harmful to its interests and those of its allies. The book ultimately argues in favor of patience and persistence in the implementation of a balanced approach to nuclear strategy that encompasses political efforts to reduce nuclear dangers along with military efforts to deter them.

Causality and connectives [[electronic resource] ] : from Grice to relevance / / Valandis Bardzokas

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910461842903321
• Autore: Bardzokas Valandis
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2012
• ISBN: 1-283-42423-1; 9786613424235; 90-272-7501-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (218 p.)
• Collana: Pragmatics & beyond new series (P&BNS) ; ; v. 216
• Disciplina: 489/.35
• Soggetti: Greek language, Modern - Grammar, Generative; Greek language, Modern - Causative; Greek language, Modern - Connectives; Greek language, Modern - Grammar, Comparative - English; English language - Grammar, Comparative - Greek (Modern Greek); 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 and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Causality and Connectives; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Causal expression; 1.1. Introduction; 1.2. Cohesion, coherence and relevance; 1.2.1 The functional approach; 1.2.2 Ethnography of communication; 1.2.3 The domain-oriented ; approach; 1.2.4 The psycholinguistic approach; 1.2.5 From the pragmatic to the cognitive pragmatic approach; 1.3. Causality and connectives; Causality and implicature; 2.1. Introduction; 2.2. Notion of implicature vs. notion of 'what is said'; 2.3 Conversational implicature and the tests of detachability/cancellability; 2.4. Grice and causal connectives2.5. Particularized implicature and causal meaning; 2.6. Generalized implicature and causal meaning; 2.7. Conventional implicature and causal meaning; 2.8. Explanatory interpretation of because as a conventional implicature; 2.9. Inferential interpretation of because as a conventional implicature; 2.10. Cancelling causal meaning; 2.11. Detaching causal meaning; 2.12. A truth-conditional approach to causal conjunctions; 2.13. More problems with the Gricean framework: The notion of 'saying'; 2.13.1 Kent Bach's account; 2.13.2 Shortcomings of Bach's account; 2.14. More problems with the Gricean framework: The case of epeidi and ?iatiIntroduction to Modern Greek causal connectives; 3.1. Introduction; 3.2. Tracing the history of the connectives; 3.3. A brief descriptive account; 3.4. Background building; 3.5. Corpus analysis; The Sweetserean approach; 4.1. The domain-oriented approach to causality; 4.2. The framework; 4.3. Causality; 4.4. The case of epeidi and ?iati; 4.4.1 Problems with the case of ?iati; 4.5. Conclusion; Relevance theory; 5.1. Introduction to relevance; 5.1.1 Utterance interpretation; 5.2. Conceptual and procedural meaning; 5.3. Saying and implicating distinctionCausality and relevance; 6.1. Introduction to causality and relevance; 6.2. Towards a characterization of conceptual and procedural encoding; 6.3. Procedural meaning and discourse connectives; 6.4. A procedural view of causal markers; 6.4.1 Enriching the definition of procedural meaning; 6.4.2 Causal markers and base-order explicatures; 6.4.3 Causal markers and higher-order explicatures; 6.5 A conceptual view of causal markers; 6.5.1 Meaning relations?; 6.5.2 More on the conceptual view of causal markers; 6.5.3 Truth conditional meaning and discourse markers6.5.3.1 A truth-conditional view of conceptual causal markers; 6.6. Basic findings; 6.7. Lexical pragmatics; 6.8. Further remarks on the conceptual or procedural view of epeidi and ?iati; 6.9. Other uses of epeidi; 6.9.1 Pre-posed epeidi; 6.9.1.1 Pre-posed epeidi: The data; 6.9.1.2 Epeidi: Further considerations; 6.10. Discourse markers and (non-)propositional meaning; 6.11. Metacommunicative causality; Conclusions; References; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The book explores finely-grained distinctions in causal meaning, mostly from a relevance-theoretic perspective. To increase the challenge of this double task, i.e. a thorough as well as satisfactory account of cause and a detailed assessment of the theoretical model employed to this end, the current study involves an investigation carried out by way of contrasting the prototypical causal exponents of Modern Greek subordination, i.e. epeidi and ?iati. In addition, this objective is achieved in the methodological framework of contrasting a range of contextual applications of the tw