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  • Ideological Fixation

    From the Stone Age to Today's Culture Wars

    de Azar Gat ...
    Combining insights from evolutionary psychology with a broad sweep through history, down to the ideological civil war ripping the United States apart, the book explores the deeper roots of people's inability to accept claims about reality which come from the opposite ideological camp, no matter how valid they might be. After theorists around 1960 proclaimed the 'death of ideology', ideological ... Leer más

    $21.89 USD

  • Military Theory and the Conduct of War

    de Azar Gat ...
    The question of whether there is a general, universal theory for the conduct of war has long preoccupied military thinkers, army personnel and students of conflict. Warfare has been radically transformed throughout history, under the influence of technological change. But is there anything enduring that can be determined about it, taught in military schools and applied in practice? Azar Gat offers ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Nations

    The Long History and Deep Roots of Political Ethnicity and Nationalism

    de Azar Gat ...
    What are the origins of nationalism and why is it capable of arousing such intense emotions? In this major study, Azar Gat counters the prevailing fashionable theories according to which nations and nationalism are modern and contrived or 'invented'. He sweeps across history and around the globe to reveal that ethnicity has always been highly political and that nations and national states have ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • War in Human Civilization

    de Azar Gat ...
    Why do people go to war? Is it rooted in human nature or is it a late cultural invention? How does war relate to the other fundamental developments in the history of human civilization? And what of war today - is it a declining phenomenon or simply changing its shape? In this truly global study of war and civilization, Azar Gat sets out to find definitive answers to these questions in an attempt ... Leer más

    $27.89 USD

  • The Clausewitz Myth

    Or the Emperor's New Clothes

    de Azar Gat ...
    Carl von Clausewitz (1780–1831) is, by far, the most celebrated military theorist, whose prestige has reached new heights. However, this book argues that his reputation has been largely inflated because of the notorious difficulties of understanding his major book, On War (1832). Many of Clausewitz's interpreters, struggling to make sense of his work, have not admitted - to themselves no less than ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • War and Strategy in the Modern World

    From Blitzkrieg to Unconventional Terror

    de Azar Gat ...
    Series series Cass Military Studies
    This volume brings together some of Professor Azar Gat's most significant articles on the evolution of strategic doctrines and the transformation of war during the 20th and early 21st centuries.It sheds new light on the rise of the German Panzer arm and the doctrine of Blitzkrieg between the two world wars; explores the factors behind the formation of strategic policy and military doctrine in the ... Leer más

    $65.99 USD

  • The Causes of War and the Spread of Peace

    But Will War Rebound?

    de Azar Gat ...
    Azar Gat sets out to resolve one of the age-old questions of human existence: why people fight and can they stop. Spanning warfare from prehistory to the 21st century, the book shows that, neither an irresistible drive nor a cultural invention, deadly violence and warfare have figured prominently in our behavioural toolkit since the dawn of our species. People have always alternated between ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

  • Victorious and Vulnerable

    Why Democracy Won in the 20th Century and How it is Still Imperiled

    de Azar Gat ...
    Series series Hoover Studies in Politics, Economics, and Society
    In the blink of an eye, liberal democracy's moment of triumph was darkened by new threats, challenges, and doubts. Rejecting the view that liberal democracy's twentieth-century victory was inevitable, distinguished student of war Azar Gat argues that it largely rested on contingent factors and was more doubtful than has been assumed. The world's liberal democracies, with the United States at the ... Leer más

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    Ideological Fixation

    From the Stone Age to Today's Culture Wars

    de Azar Gat ...
    Narrado por Shawn K. Jain ...

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    16 hora 16 minutos

    After theorists around 1960 proclaimed the "death of ideology," ideological divides and clashes have reemerged with renewed intensity throughout the world. In the United States they have become particularly venomous. Each side in America's escalating ideological civil war charges the other with concocting "fake news" and "alternative facts." The other side is widely viewed as malicious, irrational ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

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