The statebuilder's dilemma : on the limits of foreign intervention / / David A. Lake

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910465346203321
• Autore: Lake David A. <1956->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Ithaca, New York ; ; London, [England] : , : Cornell University Press, , 2016; ©2016
• ISBN: 1-5017-0382-X; 1-5017-0383-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (254 pages)
• Disciplina: 327.1/17
• Soggetti: Nation-building; International relations; Electronic books.; Iraq Politics and government 2003-; Somalia Politics and government 1960-1991; Somalia Politics and government 1991-; United States Foreign relations 21st century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Building Legitimate States -- 2. Problems of Sovereignty -- 3. Legitimacy and Loyalty -- 4. Statebuilding in Iraq -- 5. Statebuilding in Somalia -- Conclusion -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The central task of all statebuilding is to create a state that is regarded as legitimate by the people over whom it exercises authority. This is a necessary condition for stable, effective governance. States sufficiently motivated to bear the costs of building a state in some distant land are likely to have interests in the future policies of that country, and will therefore seek to promote loyal leaders who are sympathetic to their interests and willing to implement their preferred policies. In The Statebuilder's Dilemma, David A. Lake addresses the key tradeoff between legitimacy and loyalty common to all international statebuilding attempts. Except in rare cases where the policy ; preferences of the statebuilder and the population of the country whose state is to be built coincide, as in the famous success cases of West Germany and Japan after 1945, promoting a leader who will remain loyal to the statebuilder undermines that leader's legitimacy at home.In Iraq, thrust into a statebuilding role it neither anticipated nor wanted, the United States eventually backed Nouri al-Malaki as the most favorable of a bad lot of alternative leaders. Malaki then used the support of the Bush administration to govern as a Shiite partisan, undermining the statebuilding effort and ultimately leading to the second failure of the Iraqi state in 2014. Ethiopia faced the same tradeoff in Somalia after the rise of a promising but irredentist government in 2006, invading to put its own puppet in power in Mogadishu. But the resulting government has not been able to build significant local support and legitimacy. Lake uses these cases to demonstrate that the greater the interests of the statebuilder in the target country, the more difficult it is to build a legitimate state that can survive on its own.

High Treason and Low Comedy: Egon Erwin Kisch’s Cabaret Plays as History and Art / / Robert T. O’Keeffe

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910968874403321
• Autore: O’Keeffe Robert T
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Hannover, : ibidem, 2020
• ISBN: 9783838273792; 3838273796
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (315 pages)
• Disciplina: 070.92
• Soggetti: Cabaret; Egon Erwin Kisch; Theater; Theatre; Musik; Music
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Introducing Egon Erwin Kisch, the Raging Reporter -- Chapter 2. Notes on the Plays: Sources and Translation -- Chapter 3. The Pursuit -- Chapter 4. Kisch and the Redl Case: Reportage into Melodrama -- Chapter 5. The Ascension of Toni Gallows to Heaven -- Chapter 6. Toni Gallows, a Real Prague Legend: Feuilleton into Comic Fantasy -- Chapter 7. Kisch's Career as Playwright -- Chapter 8. Theatrical Context: German Playwrights and Weimar Comedy and Cabaret -- Chapter 9. Afterlife of the Redl Story: Films, on the English Stage, a Slovak Novel -- Chapter 10. The Toni Gallows Story on Film, the Prague Stage Again, and Television -- Chapter 11. Transformations: History, Historical Fiction, and Fantasy -- Notes -- Bibliographical Note on earlier Kisch editions and the Kisch Gesammelte Werke -- Bibliography -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: High Treason and Low Comedy is the first in-depth treatment in English of E. E. Kisch’s work as a playwright, a phase of his life to which he devoted considerable effort during the years 1920–1925.The translations of his two most successful works for the cabaret stages of Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia form the basis of discussions that fit them into several intersecting streams: biographical, historical, and cultural. The plays are Die Hetzjagd, which describes the last day on earth of the infamous traitor, Colonel Alfred Redl, and Die Himmelfahrt der Tonka Šibenice (Galgentoni), which presents the comical, coarse, and, at times, pathetic efforts of a Prague prostitute to argue her way into heaven. The plays are a portal into the world of Kisch’s youth as an enterprising journalist and into his thinking and writing just before he became “the raging reporter” and the star of international reportage. While they reflect the Prague milieu of his youth during the twilight years of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, they also illustrate Kisch’s lifelong critical attitude toward the conservative authorities of society, their derelictions of duty, and their indifference to the welfare of the common man and woman. The book also examines the long afterlife of both of these stories as they were re-created by artists in stage, film, novelistic, and television adaptations, illustrating the theme of what happens when historical materials are transformed into art.