1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910821707803321

Autore

Mares David R.

Titolo

Aspirational power : Brazil on the long road to global influence / / David R. Mares, Harold A. Trinkunas

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, District of Columbia : , : Brookings Institution Press, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

0-8157-2797-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (240 pages)

Collana

Geopolitics in the 21st Century.

Disciplina

327.81

Soggetti

Globalization - Political aspects - Brazil

Great powers - Philosophy

International relations - Philosophy

Brazil Foreign relations

Brazil Relations

Brazil Foreign economic relations

Brazil Foreign public opinion

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Brazil, the Emerging Powers, and the Future of the International Order -- Interpreting Brazil's Attempts to Emerge in Historical Perspective -- Selling Brazil's Rise : Brazilian Foreign Policy from Cardoso to Rousseff -- Brazil, Order-Making and International Security -- Brazil and the Multilateral Structure of Economic Globalization -- Brazil and the Global Commons -- Emergence : Why Brazil Falls Short and What It Might Do Differently.

Sommario/riassunto

"As the largest country in South America by land mass and population, Brazil has been marked since its independence by a belief that it has a potential to be more than merely a very large country. Set apart from the rest of the hemisphere by culture, language and history, Brazil has also been viewed by its neighbors as a potential great power, and at times, a threat. But even though domestic aspirations and foreign perceptions have held out the prospect for Brazil becoming a major power, the country has lacked the capabilities--particularly on the



military and economic dimensions--to pursue a traditional path to greatness. Aspirational Power examines Brazil as a rising power. It explains Brazil's predilection for soft power through a historical analysis of Brazil's three previous attempts to achieve major power status, each of which shaped its present strategy. Though Brazil's efforts to rise have fallen short it will continue to try to overcome the obstacles to its rise, whether those obstacles are domestic or international"--

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911002990203321

Autore

Lynteris Christos

Titolo

Human Extinction and the Pandemic Imaginary / Christos Lynteris

Pubbl/distr/stampa

2019

[s.l.] : , : Routledge, , 2019

ISBN

9781000698886

1000698882

Edizione

[1 ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Routledge Studies in Anthropology

Classificazione

SOC002000SOC002010

Soggetti

Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social

Social Science / Anthropology

Social sciences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

This book develops an examination and critique of human extinction as a result of the 'next pandemic' and turns attention towards the role of pandemic catastrophe in the renegotiation of what it means to be human. Nested in debates in anthropology, philosophy, social theory and global health, the book argues that fear of and fascination with the 'next pandemic' stem not so much from an anticipation of a biological extinction of the human species, as from an expectation of the loss of mastery over human/non-humanl relations. Christos Lynteris employs the notion of the 'pandemic imaginary' in order to understand the way



in which pandemic-borne human extinction refashions our understanding of humanity and its place in the world. The book challenges us to think how cosmological, aesthetic, ontological and political aspects of pandemic catastrophe are intertwined. The chapters examine the vital entanglement of epidemiological studies, popular culture, modes of scientific visualisation, and pandemic preparedness campaigns. This volume will be relevant for scholars and advanced students of anthropology as well as global health, and for many others interested in catastrophe, the 'end of the world' and the (post)apocalyptic.