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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463262303321

Titolo

Norm dynamics in multilateral arms control [[electronic resource] ] : interests, conflicts, and justice / / edited by Harald Muller and Carmen Wunderlich

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Athens, : University of Georgia Press, 2013

ISBN

0-8203-4424-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (409 p.)

Collana

Studies in security and international affairs

Altri autori (Persone)

MullerHarald <1949 May 13->

WunderlichCarmen

Disciplina

327.1/74

Soggetti

Arms control

Security, International

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

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations and Acronyms; INTRODUCTION. Where It All Began; CHAPTER ONE. Theoretical Approaches in Norm Dynamics; Part I. Norm Conflicts and Norm Dynamics; CHAPTER TWO. Regime Conflicts and Norm Dynamics: Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Weapons; CHAPTER THREE. Humanitarian Arms Control: The Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Treaty, the Programme of Action on Small Arms and Light Weapons, and the Convention on Cluster Munitions; Part II. External Drivers of Norm Dynamics; CHAPTER FOUR. Arms Control Norms and Technology

CHAPTER FIVE. Winds of Change: Exogenous Events and Trends as Norm Triggers (or Norm Killers)Part III. Norm Entrepreneurs as Drivers of Norm Dynamics; CHAPTER SIX. Established and Rising Great Powers: The United States, Russia, China, and India; CHAPTER SEVEN. Good International Citizens: Canada, Germany, and Sweden; CHAPTER EIGHT. Non-aligned Reformers and Revolutionaries: Egypt, South Africa, Iran, and North Korea; CHAPTER NINE. Beyond the State: Nongovernmental Organizations, the European Union, and the United Nations; CONCLUSION. Agency Is Central; Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G

HI; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z



Sommario/riassunto

"Efforts to create or maintain rules to contain the risks stemming from an unrestrained multilateral arms race are at the core of a world order based on consensual norms rather than on a pure balance of power. Whereas security cooperation is conventionally considered to be motivated primarily by interest- and security-based factors, studies have shown that all actors use moral arguments and are deeply embedded in the normative patterns surrounding their realm of action. Norm Dynamics in Multilateral Arms Control, based on research conducted by a large PRIF team led by Harald M

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785599503321

Titolo

Chinese ecocinema [[electronic resource] ] : in the age of environmental challenge / / edited by Sheldon Lu and Jiayan Mi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hong Kong, : Hong Kong University Press

London, : Eurospan [distributor], 2009

ISBN

988-220-672-7

1-282-75028-3

9786612750281

988-220-537-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (384 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

LuSheldon H

MiJiayan

Disciplina

791.43095109/04

Soggetti

Motion pictures - China - History

Environmentalism in motion pictures

Environmentalism - China

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"This book originated from a panel on "New Chinese Ecocinema and Ethics of Environmental Imagination" that we organized for the annual convention of the Association for Asian Studies in Boston, March 2007"--P. [ix].

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references, filmography, and index.

Nota di contenuto

Hydro-politics : water, river, and national trauma. Framing ambient Unheimlich : ecoggedon, ecological unconscious, and water pathology



in new Chinese cinema / Jiayan Mi ; Gorgeous Three Gorges at last sight : cinematic remembrance and the dialectic of modernization / Sheldon H. Lu ; Submerged ecology and depth psychology in Wushan yunyu : aesthetic insight into national development / Nick Kaldis ; Floating consciousness : the cinematic confluence of ecological aesthetics in Suzhou River / Andrew Hageman -- Eco-aesthetics, heteroscape, and manufactured landscape. The idea-image : conceptualizing landscape in recent martial arts movies / Mary Farquhar ; Façades : the new Beijing and the unsettled ecology of Jia Zhangke's The world / Jerome Silbergeld ; Ruins and grassroots : Jia Zhangke's cinematic discontents in the age of globalization / Hongbing Zhang -- Urban space in production and disappearance. Of humans and nature in documentary : the logic of capital in West of the tracks and Blind shaft / Ban Wang ; Toward a Hong Kong ecocinema : the dis-appearance of "nature" in three films by Fruit Chan / Chris Tong ; A city of disappearance : trauma, displacement, and spectral cityscape in contemporary Chinese cinema / Jing Nie -- Bioethics, non-anthropocentrism, and green sovereignty. In the face of developmental ruins : place attachment and its ethical claims / Xinmin Liu ; Ning Hao's Incense : a curious tale of earthly Buddhism / Xiaoping Lin ; Putting back the animals : woman-animal meme in contemporary Taiwanese ecofeminist imagination / Chia-ju Chang ; "Reconstructing the god-fearing community" : filming Tibet in the twenty-first century / Donghui He.

Sommario/riassunto

In coming decades, film will be one of the primary ways in which China adopts and expands ecological consciousness. This anthology is the first book-length study of China's ecosystem through the lens of cinema, in a historic moment of unparalleled environmental crises and destruction. Proposing ""ecocinema"" as a new critical framework, the volume collectively investigates a wide range of urgent topics in today's world: Chinese and Western epistemes of nature and humanity; socialist modernization amid capitalist globalization; shifting configurations of space, locale, cityscape, and natural la