1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910793934103321

Autore

Cunliffe Philip

Titolo

Cosmopolitan dystopia : International intervention and the failure of the West / / Philip Cunliffe

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , 2020

Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2020

©2020

ISBN

1-5261-5208-8

1-5261-5145-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1 online resource (1 volume))

Collana

Manchester University Press

Disciplina

306

Soggetti

Liberalism

Intervention (International law)

Internationalism

Dystopias

Cosmopolitanism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

Cosmopolitan Dystopia' shows that rather than populists or authoritarian great powers it is cosmopolitan liberals who have done the most to subvert the liberal international order. 'Cosmopolitan Dystopia' explains how liberal cosmopolitanism has led us to treat new humanitarian crises as unprecedented demands for military action, thereby trapping us in a loop of endless war. Attempts to normalize humanitarian emergency through the doctrine of the 'responsibility to protect' has made for a paternalist understanding of state power that undercuts the representative functions of state sovereignty. The legacy of liberal intervention is a cosmopolitan dystopia of permanent war, insurrection by cosmopolitan jihadis and a new authoritarian vision of sovereignty in which states are responsible for their peoples rather than responsible to them. This book will be of vital interest to scholars and students of international relations, IR theory and human rights.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910787456403321

Autore

Rios Christopher M.

Titolo

After the monkey trial : evangelical scientists and a new creationism / / Christopher M. Rios

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Fordham University Press, , 2014

ISBN

0-8232-5669-3

0-8232-5668-5

0-8232-5670-7

0-8232-6138-7

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Disciplina

231.7/652

Soggetti

Bible and evolution

Creationism

Evolution (Biology) - Religious aspects - Christianity

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 (pages 231-256) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Ebb and Flow: Evangelicals and Evolution, 1860's to 1940's -- 2. A Society for the Correlation of Science and the Bible: The American Scientific Affiliation, 1940's to 1965 -- 3. Unexpected Resistance: The Research Scientists’ Christian Fellowship, 1940's to 1965 -- 4. An Increasingly Powerful Movement: Modern Creationism to the 1980's -- 5. Against the Tide: The American Scientific Affiliation, 1965 to 1985 -- 6. A New Apologetic: The Research Scientists’ Christian Fellowship, 1965 to 1985 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

In the well-known Scopes “Monkey Trial” of 1925, famously portrayed in the film and play Inherit the Wind, William Jennings Bryan’s fundamentalist fervor clashed with defense attorney Clarence Darrow’s aggressive agnosticism, illustrating what current scholars call the conflict thesis. It appeared, regardless of the actual legal question of the trial, that Christianity and science were at war with each other. Decades later, a new generation of evangelical scientists struggled to restore peace. After the Monkey Trial is the compelling history of those evangelical scientists in Britain and America who, unlike their



fundamentalist cousins, supported mainstream scientific conclusions of the world and resisted the anti-science impulses of the era. This book focuses on two organizations, the American Scientific Affiliation and the Research Scientists’ Christian Fellowship (today Christians in Science), who for more than six decades have worked to reshape the evangelical engagement with science and redefine what it means to be a creationist.