1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996209558503316

Autore

Sperling James

Titolo

Limiting institutions? : the challenge of Eurasian security governance / / edited by James Sperling, Sean Kay, and S. Victor Papacosma

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester University Press, 2003

Manchester, UK ; ; New York : , : Manchester University Press, , 2018, 2003

New York : , : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave

©2003

ISBN

1-280-73456-6

9786610734566

1-84779-086-0

1-4237-0658-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (290 pages) : digital file(s)

Disciplina

355.033047

355/.033047

355.03

Soggetti

National security - Former Soviet republics

Geopolitics - Former Soviet republics

Former Soviet republics Politics and government

Europe Foreign relations Former Soviet republics

Former Soviet republics Foreign relations Europe

Europe Politics and government 1989-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

First published: 2003.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-284) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Part I. Introduction -- part II. Security threats -- part III. Institutions of security governance -- part IV. Conclusion -- Select bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Limiting Institutions examines the security threats in Eurasia and the role of institutions in the post-Cold War international environment. It looks at both the crucial aspect of foreign policy as well as a theoretical area of security studies and its impact in the former Soviet States.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910838165703321

Autore

Tehranian John

Titolo

Whitewashed : America's invisible Middle Eastern minority / / John Tehranian

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : New York University Press, c2009

New York, NY : , : New York University Press, , [2008]

2008

ISBN

9780814784235

0814784232

9780814783276

0814783279

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 p.)

Collana

Critical America

Disciplina

305.89/4073

Soggetti

Arab Americans - Social conditions

Iranian Americans - Social conditions

Turkish Americans - Social conditions

Arab Americans - Legal status, laws, etc

Iranian Americans - Legal status, laws, etc

Turkish Americans - Legal status, laws, etc

White people - Race identity - United States

Racism - United States

Race discrimination - United States

United States Race relations

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 (p. 185-226) and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Price of the Ticket; 1 Constructing Caucasians: A Brief History of Whiteness; 2 Performing Whiteness: Law, Dramaturgy, and the Paradox of Middle Eastern Racial Classification; 3 From Friendly Foreigner to Enemy Race: Selective Racialization, Covering, and the Negotiation of Middle Eastern American Identity; 4 The Last Minstrel Show? Middle Easterners in Media; 5 Threat Level Orange: The War on Terrorism and the Assault on Middle Eastern Civil Rights; 6 Lifting the Veil: Thinking about Reform; Conclusion;



Notes; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

Middle Easterners: Sometimes White, Sometimes Not - an article by John Tehranian. The Middle Eastern question lies at the heart of the most pressing issues of our time: the war in Iraq and on terrorism, the growing tension between preservation of our national security and protection of our civil rights, and the debate over immigration, assimilation, and our national identity. Yet paradoxically, little attention is focused on our domestic Middle Eastern population and its place in American society. Unlike many other racial minorities in our country, Middle Eastern Americans have faced rising, r