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This book examines the intellectual frameworks within which the case for war in Iraq has developed in the US and the UK. It analyzes the neoconservative roots of the decision to go to war. The book also analyzes the humanitarian intervention rationale that was developed in the context of the Kosovo campaign, Tony Blair's presentation of it, and the case of Iraq. It looks at the parallel processes through which the George Bush administration and Blair government constructed their cases for war, analyzing similarities and divergences in approach. The book considers the loci of the intelligence failure over Iraq, the lessons for the intelligence communities, and the degree to which the decision to go to war in Iraq represented a policy rather than an intelligence failure. It then complements the analyses of US prewar intelligence failures by analysing what post-war inquiries have revealed about the nature of the failure in the UK case. The book discusses the relationship between intelligence and policymaking. It looks at how US Congress dealt with intelligence before the war. The book also examines how the Bush administration tried to manage public opinion in support of its war policies. It then looks at the decisionmaking process of the Bush administration in the year before the war in Iraq. Finally, the book also provides excerpts from a number of speeches and documents which are key to understanding the nature of national security decisionmaking and intelligence failure.
contemporary world: the Green New Deal, a vision for combating climate change and economic inequality through a massive retrofit of energy and related systems, and Universal Basic Income, a set of proposals to provide a minimum salary to all persons. We also acknowledge the important and numerous limitations of the book, limitations which point the way towards future interventions in the development of the spatial contract as a framework. Seen together, this book offers three interlocking frameworks for a new politics of reliance systems. It is an intellectual
networks, and the Asian Art Museum Directors network, have formed in recent years.17 Artist collectives such as Cemeti Art House in Indonesia, established in 1988 by Nindityo Adipurnomo and Mella Jaarsma and discussed in Chapter 6, have allowed artists to operate within their own countries, and to form links with artists in other nations. Such collectives and networks have provided exhibition venues and workshop spaces, facilitated networking and mentorships, contributed to policy development and arts education, and developed the intellectual frameworks needed to enrich
intellectual framework which seeks to establish an understanding of reliance systems. Reliance systems such as water, transportation, food production, healthcare, housing and more enable us as humans to act, to have agency, and hence make us free. Freedom in this active sense of the term is realized in these systems, all of which are collectively produced. Even if we build our own houses, we do so with materials that we generally don’t produce and knowledges that we did not create. The relationships between collectively produced reliance systems and human agency and freedom
repression of female sexuality, which was otherwise as powerful as man’s. 141 Secularism, as both intellectual framework and political network, remained important to the birth control movement into the twentieth century. Though the majority of the Malthusian League’s propaganda continued to consist of turgid proselytising for Malthusian economics, it did also disseminate some practical advice, first in Besant
equipped to challenge the exercise of executive power in this area. The structure of the book The book is divided into five parts. The first examines the intellectual frameworks within which the case for war in Iraq was developed in the US and UK. In Chapter 2 , John Dumbrell analyzes the neoconservative roots of the decision to go to war. He traces the evolution of neoconservative thinking on foreign and
7. Politics and practice This chapter and the following one provide an analysis of Crow in terms of his person, politics and members’ potential power. Left-wing radicalism provided the viewpoint from which Crow looked at the world, guiding his actions and defining his role as a union leader. Indeed, this intellectual framework attributed a crucial role to unions as agents for radical ends. This chapter begins by looking at his intellectual worldview before moving on to examine how it played out in practice and the conditions that facilitated this. ‘Communism
services in particular. Far from a return to an old model that appeared to work, the Irish economy has become more dependent on its status as a tax haven. This makes the country even more vulnerable to external shocks generated by changes in tax policies in other countries. The populist right The mainstream of the Irish economics profession has developed close connections with the Irish political elite and have provided an intellectual framework to justify its austerity policies. However, a more radical and populist discourse has also emerged to target state spending as
accounting for both local contexts and the influence of multiple intellectual frameworks (medical, religious, political and philosophical) in the study of early modern emotion. Thomas Wright: philosopher, theologian, controversialist In order to appreciate Wright’s The Passions in greater contextual detail, it is necessary to understand more about
, representing a worldwide movement brokered by imperial power. The museum’s intellectual framework, its collecting habits, and so many of its methods were closely bound up with the nature and practices of imperialism. Thus the late nineteenth-century museum became, paradoxically, the emblem of modernism. The paradox lay in the fact that it was principally concerned with the past, the deep time of the natural