Foreign powers and intervention in armed conflicts [[electronic resource] /] / Aysegul Aydin

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910462058703321
• Autore: Aydin Aysegul <1973->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Stanford, California, : Stanford University Press, 2012
• ISBN: 0-8047-8294-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (213 p.)
• Collana: Stanford security series
• Disciplina: 355.02
• Soggetti: War - Economic aspects; Politics and war; Intervention (International law) - Economic aspects; International relations; 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: Front matter -- CONTENTS -- TABLES AND FIGURE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. BRINGING FOREIGN POWERS BACK IN -- 3. DEFENDING ECONOMIC INTERESTS ABROAD -- 4. IN INTERNATIONAL CONFLICTS -- 5. THE CRITICAL TEST -- 6. IN CIVIL WARS -- 7. CONCLUSION -- APPENDIX. MEASUREMENT AND RESEARCH DESIGN -- NOTES -- INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: Intervention in armed conflicts is full of riddles that await attention from scholars and policymakers. This book argues that rethinking intervention—redefining what it is and why foreign powers take an interest in others' conflicts—is of critical importance to understanding how conflicts evolve over time with the entry and exit of external actors. It does this by building a new model of intervention that crosses the traditional boundaries between economics, international relations theory, and security studies, and places the economic interests and domestic political institutions of external states at the center of intervention decisions. Combining quantitative and qualitative evidence from both historical and contemporary conflicts, including interventions in both interstate conflicts and civil wars, it presents an in-depth discussion of a range of interventions—diplomatic, economic, ; and military—in a variety of international contexts, creating a comprehensive model for future research on the topic.

Gustav Mahler / / Jens Malte Fischer ; translated by Stewart Spencer

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910781998803321
• Autore: Fischer Jens Malte
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New Haven [Connecticut] : , : Yale University Press, , 2011
• ISBN: 0-300-17219-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 766 pages, [16] pages of plates) : illustrations, portraits
• Disciplina: 780.92; B
• Soggetti: Composers - Austria; Biographies.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: First published under the title Gustav Mahler : der fremde Vertraute.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1 What Did Mahler Look Like? An Attempt at a Description -- 2 Small Steps: Kalischt and Iglau (1860-75) -- 3 Studies in Vienna (1875-80) -- 4 The Summer Conductor: Bad Hall (1880) -- 5 Emotional Ups and Downs in Laibach (1881-2) -- 6 For the Last Time in the Provinces: Olmütz (1882-3) -- 7 Presentiment and a New Departure: Kassel (1883-5) -- 8 The Avid Reader: Mahler and Literature -- 9 Becoming Mahler: Prague (1885-6) -- 10 The First Symphony -- 11 Life's Vicissitudes: Leipzig (1886-8) -- 12 Notes on Mahler's Songs -- 13 Lowland Dreams: Budapest (1888-91) -- 14 The Conductor -- 15 The Second Symphony -- 16 Self-Realization: Hamburg (1891-7) -- 17 Jewishness and Identity -- 18 The Third Symphony -- 19 The God of the Southern Climes: Vienna (1897-1901) -- 20 Mahler's Illnesses: A Pathographical Sketch -- 21 The Fourth Symphony -- 22 Vienna in 1900: Alma as a Young Woman (1901-3) -- 23 The Fifth Symphony -- 24 'Nothing is lost to you': Faith and Philosophy -- 25 The Sixth Symphony -- 26 Opera Reform - Early Years of Marriage - Mahler's Compositional Method (1903-5) -- 27 The Seventh Symphony -- 28 The Administrator - Contemporaries - Signs of Crisis (1905-7) -- 29 ; The Eighth Symphony -- 30 Annus Terribilis (1907) -- 31 Das Lied von der Erde -- 32 Starting Afresh: New York (1908-11) -- 33 The Ninth Symphony -- 34 Crisis and Culmination (1910) -- 35 The Fragmentary Tenth Symphony -- 36 'My heart is weary' - The Farewell -- 37 Mahler and Posterity -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgements
• Sommario/riassunto: A best seller when first published in Germany in 2003, Jens Malte Fischer's Gustav Mahler has been lauded by scholars as a landmark work. He draws on important primary resources-some unavailable to previous biographers-and sets in narrative context the extensive correspondence between Mahler and his wife, Alma; Alma Mahler's diaries; and the memoirs of Natalie Bauer-Lechner, a viola player and close friend of Mahler, whose private journals provide insight into the composer's personal and professional lives and his creative process.Fischer explores Mahler's early life, his relationship to literature, his achievements as a conductor in Vienna and New York, his unhappy marriage, and his work with the Metropolitan Opera and the New York Philharmonic in his later years. He also illustrates why Mahler is a prime example of artistic idealism worn down by Austrian anti-Semitism and American commercialism. Gustav Mahler is the best-sourced and most balanced biography available about the composer, a nuanced and intriguing portrait of his dramatic life set against the backdrop of early 20th century America and fin de siècle Europe.