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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “janice gross stein”
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  • The Cult of Efficiency

    by Janice Gross Stein ...
    Series series The CBC Massey Lectures
    We live in an age dominated by the cult of efficiency. Efficiency in the raging debate about public goods is often used as a code word to advance political agendas. When it is used correctly, efficiency is important: it must always be part of the conversation when resources are scarce and citizens and governments have important choices to make among competing priorities.Even when the language of ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Innovating for the Global South

    Towards an Inclusive Innovation Agenda

    by Janice Gross Stein, Joseph Wong, Dilip Soman ...
    Series series Munk Series on Global Affairs
    Despite the vast wealth generated in the last half century, in today’s world inequality is worsening and poverty is becoming increasingly chronic. Hundreds of millions of people continue to live on less than $2 per day and lack basic human necessities such as nutritious food, shelter, clean water, primary health care, and education.Innovating for the Global South offers fresh solutions for ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Diplomacy in the Digital Age

    Essays in Honour of Ambassador Allan Gotlieb

    Edited by Janice Gross Stein ...
    Edited by Canada's premiere commentator on global affairs, this must-read for political junkies will show the quailty of M&S's new Signal imprint: for everyone who wants to be well informed about international relations and the nature of the diplomacy in the age of Wikileaks.Inspired by Allan Gotlieb's capacity to reshape diplomacy for the times, the contributors to this volume grapple with the ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Behavioral Economics and Nuclear Weapons

    by Jeffrey D. Berejikian, John Downer, Florian Justwan, Harald Müller, Etel Solingen, Janice Gross Stein, Nicholas Wright, Zachary Zwald, Morielle Lotan, Jean-Pierre Dupuy ...
    Series series
    Recent discoveries in psychology and neuroscience have improved our understanding of why our decision making processes fail to match standard social science assumptions about rationality. As researchers such as Daniel Kahneman, Amos Tversky, and Richard Thaler have shown, people often depart in systematic ways from the predictions of the rational actor model of classic economic thought because of ... Read more

    $67.09 CAD

  • We All Lost the Cold War

    by Richard Ned Lebow, Janice Gross Stein ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in International History and Politics
    Drawing on recently declassified documents and extensive interviews with Soviet and American policy-makers, among them several important figures speaking for public record for the first time, Ned Lebow and Janice Stein cast new light on the effect of nuclear threats in two of the tensest moments of the Cold War: the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 and the confrontations arising out of the Arab ... Read more

    $101.19 CAD

  • Peace versus Justice

    Negotiating Forward- and Backward-Looking Outcomes

    by Patrick Audebert-Lasrochas, Juan Carlos M. Beltramino, Franz Cede, Daniel Druckman, Christophe Dupont, Janice Gross Stein, Robert B. Lloyd, Paul W. Meerts, Vitaly V. Naumkin, James C. O'Brien, Marie-Pierre Richarte, Valérie Rosoux, Beth A. Simmons, Irina D. Zvyagelskaya, Terrence Lyons, I. William Zartman ...
    This book examines the costs and benefits of ending the fighting in a range of conflicts, and probes the reasons why negotiators provide, or fail to provide, resolutions that go beyond just "stopping the shooting." What is the desired and achievable mix between negotiation strategies that look backward to end current hostilities and those that look ahead to prevent their recurrence?To answer that ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

  • Psychology and Deterrence

    by Robert Jervis, Richard Ned Lebow, Janice Gross Stein ...
    Series series Perspectives on Security
    Detterence is the most basic concept in American foreign policy today. But past practice indicates it often fails to work - and may increase the risk of war. Psychology and Deterrence reveals this stratgy's hidden and generally simplistic assumptions about the nature of power and aggression, threat and response, and calculation and behavior in the international arena.Most current analysis, the ... Read more

    $36.29 CAD

  • The Credibility of Transnational NGOs

    When Virtue is Not Enough

    Edited by Peter A. Gourevitch, David A. Lake, Janice Gross Stein ...
    We rely on NGOs to monitor the ethical practices of governments and for-profit firms and to undertake many humanitarian tasks that public and private actors will not do. While we are critical of public and private sector failures, we do not reflect enough on the credibility of the NGOs which take their place. Can we be sure that products NGOs label as child-labor free are in fact so, that the ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Access Denied

    The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering

    Edited by Ronald Deibert, John Palfrey, Rafal Rohozinski, Jonathan Zittrain ...
    Series series Information Revolution and Global Politics
    A study of Internet blocking and filtering around the world: analyses by leading researchers and survey results that document filtering practices in dozens of countries.Many countries around the world block or filter Internet content, denying access to information that they deem too sensitive for ordinary citizens—most often about politics, but sometimes relating to sexuality, culture, or religion ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Peacemaking in the Middle East

    Problems and Prospects

    Edited by Paul Marantz, Janice Gross Stein ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: War and Security in the Middle East
    This book, first published in 1985, examines the whole problem of peacemaking in the Arab-Israel conflict. It considers the different countries involved, the changing positions they have adopted over time and the range of opinion within each country. It looks at the role of the superpowers and shows how their vacillations and their viewing of the conflict in simple terms as part of the global ... Read more

    $79.69 CAD

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  • The Triumph of Narrative: Storytelling in the Age of Mass Culture

    by Robert Fulford ...
    Series series The CBC Massey Lectures
    Narrative has been central to human life for millennia, and the twentieth century has been preeminently the age of the story. Mass culture and mass leisure have enabled us to spend far more time absorbing stories, real and imaginary, than any of our ancestors. Whether or not this has been to our benefit is one of the questions raised by journalist and 1999 CBC Massey lecturer Robert Fulford. ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Uses and Abuses of History

    by Margaret MacMillan ...
    History can be a very useful tool in understanding why we and those we must deal with think and react in certain ways. But in the wrong hands it can be dangerous and used to foster a sense of grievance or a desire for revenge. Eminent historian Margaret MacMillan is fascinated by the power of history in our thinking. In The Uses and Abuses of History, she points out some of the traps that we can ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD