Powerless by Design - The Age of the International Community

"Michel Feher is a keen and lucid analyzer of doctrines and hypocrisies, and in "Powerless by Design" he has given us a truly valuable analysis of the doctrines and hypocrisies of right now."--Paul Berman, author of "A Tale of Two Utopias: The Political Journey of the Generation of 1968"

List of contents

Acknowledgments
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A Puzzling Chiasm
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A New Doctrine
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A Radical Critique
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1. Misguiding Definitions
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2. Self-serving motives
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3. Obfuscating policies
I. Humanitarianism
II. Diplomacy
III. Reconstruction
IV. Justice
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4. Self-fulfilling prophecies
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An Ambiguous Evolution
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An Unsettling Message
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An Emerging Polarization
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Notes

About the author

Michel Feher

Summary

Addresses Western officials' responses to post-Cold War conflicts and analyses the reactions of the Left to their governments' positions. This book argues that sometime in the early 1990s, US and European leaders began portraying themselves as the representatives of a new international community.

Product details

• Authors: Feher, Michel Feher
• Assisted by: Dilip Parameshwargaonkar (Editor)
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.09.2000
• EAN: 9780822326052
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2605-2
• No. of pages: 184
• Dimensions: 211 mm x 141 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 334 g
• Series: Public Planet Books; Public Planet Books
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Globalisierung, Internationale Beziehungen