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Open Letter to President-Elect Trump: Negotiate Nuclear Zero
Open Letter to President-elect Trump: Negotiate Nuclear Zero As president of the United States, you will have the grave responsibility of assuring that nuclear weapons are not overtly threatened or used during your term of office. The most certain way to fulfill this responsibility is to negotiate with the other possessors of nuclear weapons for their total elimination. The U.S. is obligated under Article VI of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty to engage in such negotiations in good faith for an end to the nuclear arms race and for nuclear disarmament. A nuclear war, any nuclear war, would be an act of insanity. Between nuclear weapons states, it would lead to the destruction of the attacking nation as well as the attacked. Between the U.S. and Russia, it would threaten the survival of humanity. There are still more than 15,000 nuclear weapons in the world, of which the United States possesses approximately 7,000. Some 1,000 of these remain on hair-trigger alert. A similar number remain on hair-trigger alert in Russia. This is a catastrophe waiting to happen. Even if nuclear weapons are not used intentionally, they could be used inadvertently by accident or miscalculation. Nuclear weapons and human fallibility are a dangerous mix. Nuclear deterrence presupposes a certain view of human behavior. It depends on the willingness of political leaders to act rationally under all circumstances, even those of extreme stress. It provides no guarantees or physical protection. It could fail spectacularly and tragically. You have suggested that more nations – such as Japan, South Korea and even Saudi Arabia – may need to develop their own nuclear arsenals because the U.S. -
Clios Psyche 6-3 Dec 1999
Clio’s Psyche Understanding the "Why" of Culture, Current Events, History, and Society Volume 6, Number 3 December, 1999 Holocaust Consciousness, Novick’s Thesis, Comparative Genocide, and Victimization How Hollywood Hid the Holocaust Reflections on Through Obfuscation and Denial Competitive Victimhood Melvin Kalfus David R. Beisel Psychohistory Forum Research Associate SUNY-Rockland Community College In the decade following the Second World Review of Peter Novick, The Holocaust in American War and our initial confrontation with the Holo- Life. New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1999. caust in all of its enormity, the motion picture in- ISBN 0395840090, 373 pp., $27. dustry continued to be dominated by “the Jews Peter Novick is a fine historian who has who invented Hollywood.” It was these Jews who written a fine, if flawed, study. In The Holocaust had created the myths that helped Americans cope in American Life he asks many of the right ques- with the enormous trauma of the Great Depression tions and offers some insightful answers. As I read (Continued on page 106) along, I found myself nodding in agreement at IN THIS ISSUE Life Is Beautiful Is Not a "Romantic Comedy"......... 114 Flora Hogman How Hollywood Hid the Holocaust: .............................89 “Vicitm Olympics”: The Collective Melvin Kalfus Psychology of Comparative Genocides................. 114 Ralph Seliger Reflections on Competitive Victimhood .................89 Review Essay by David R. Beisel Forgiveness and Transcendence............................ 116 Anie Kalayjian Response to David Beisel.....................................93 Peter Novick The Holocaust as Trope for "Managed" Social Change..................................... 119 The Memory of the Holocaust: Howard F. Stein A Psychological or Political Issue? .........................94 An Israeli Psychohistorian: Avner Falk ............... -
A History of Globalization 1750-2050
Department of History University of Warwick 3rd Year Advanced Option Course HI 31V A HISTORY OF GLOBALIZATION 1750-2050 Module Booklet 2018-19 Course Tutor: Giorgio Riello Department of History Room H014, ext. 22163 Email: [email protected] 1 HI 31V ONE WORLD: A HISTORY OF GLOBALIZATION, 1750-2050 Context We are perennially told that we live in a ‘global society’, that the world is fast becoming a ‘global village’ and that this is an age of ‘globalisation’. Yet globalisation, the increasing connectedness of the world, is not a new phenomenon. This course provides a historical understanding of globalisation over the period from the mid eighteenth century to the present. It aims to introduce students to key theoretical debates and multidisciplinary discussions about globalisation and to reflect on what a historical approach might add to our understanding of our present-day society and economy. The course considers a variety of topics including the environment, migration, the power of multinationals and financial institutions, trade, communication and the critique of globalisation. Principal Aims To introduce students through a thematic approach to modern global history (post 1750) and the history of globalization. To introduce students to key theories of globalization. To train students to consider contemporary debates in a historical perspective. To explore a range of topics related to globalization and understand how some key features of human history have changed over the period from 1750 to the present. To understand how globalization has shaped people’s lives since the industrial revolution. To provide students with perspectives on Globalization from the point of view of different world areas (ex: China, India, and Africa). -
Teaching About International Organization
Table of Contents PREFACE I. THE UNITED NATIONS: INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION PERSPECTIVES INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS ...................................................................................................... 9 Chadwick F. Alger PROSEMINAR IN INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION AND INTEGRATION ............................................... 16 Harold K. Jacobson INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION ..................................................................................................... 19 W. Andy Knight INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS .................................................................................................... 23 M.J. Peterson THE UNITED NATIONS AND CHANGING WORLD POLITICS ............................................................... 27 Thomas G. Weiss II. THE UNITED NATIONS: INTERNATIONAL LEGAL PERSPECTIVES CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN INTERNATIONAL LAW ............................................................................. 33 Jarat Chopra INTERNATIONAL LAW AND ORGANIZATION ..................................................................................... 36 Lawrence S. Finkelstein SELECTED PROBLEMS IN THE WORK OF INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS: ....................................... 40 PROBLEMS OF MONITORING COMPLIANCE WITH INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS Gregory H. Fox, Thomas M. Franck, and Paul C. Szasz INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS .................................................................................................... 47 Steven Ratner PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW ......................................................................................................... -
Where Does It Come from & Why Does It Persist?
ANTI- SEMITISM WHAT ARE ITS NEW FORMS? WHERE DOES IT COME FROM & WHY DOES IT PERSIST? WILL IT EVER GO AWAY? A SYMPOSIUM WITH AYAAN HIRSI ALI, DAVID BERGER, PHYLLIS CHESLER, JEREMY COHEN, IRWIN COTLER, MOHAMMED S. DAJANI DAOUDI, HASIA DINER, STUART EIZENSTAT, AVNER FALK, IRA FORMAN, MICHEL GURFINKIEL, DAVID KERTZER, BRIAN KLUG, DAVID MAMET, DAVID NIRENBERG, EMANUELE OTTOLENGHI, CYNTHIA OZICK, DINA PORAT, ALVIN ROSENFELD, ARI ROTH, SHLOMO SAND, MAXIM SHRAYER, CHARLES ASHER SMALL, ELI VALLEY, HANS-JOACHIM VOTH, XU XIN AND OTHERS ONLINE: MICHAEL BARKUN, BENT BLÜDNIKOW, ROBERT CHAZAN, LEONARD DINNERSTEIN, EVA FOGELMAN ZVI GITELMAN, MICHAEL GOLDFARB, JONATHAN JUDAKEN, SHMUEL TRIGANO, SERGIO WIDDER ART CREDIT 34 JULY/AUGUST 2013 INTERVIEWS BY: SARAH BREGER, DINA GOLD,GEORGE JOHNSON, CAITLIN YOSHIKO KANDIL, SALA LEVIN & JOSH TAPPER THE OLDEST HATRED IS BY SOME ACCOUNTS ALIVE AND WELL, BY OTHERS AN OVERUSED EPITHET. WE TALK WITH THINKERS FROM AROUND THE GLOBE FOR A CRITICAL AND SURPRISINGLY NUANCED EXAMINATION OF ANTI-SEMITISM'S ORIGINS AND STAYING POWER. DAVID BERGER Europe meant that Jews became the Christianity could not eliminate the evil OUTSIDERS & ENEMIES quintessential Other, and they conse- character of Jewish blood. quently became the primary focus of David Berger is editor of History and In the ancient Greco-Roman world, peo- hostility even in ways that transcended Hate: The Dimensions of Anti-Semi- ple evinced a wide variety of attitudes to- the theological. tism and Ruth and I. Lewis Gordon Pro- ward Jews. Some admired Jewish distinc- Once this focus on Jews as the Other fessor of Jewish History and dean of the tiveness, some were neutral, but others became entrenched, it continued into Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish were put off by the fact that unlike any modern Europe. -
Contents Humanities Notes
Humanities Notes Humanities Seminar Notes - this draft dated 24 May 2021 - more recent drafts will be found online Contents 1 2007 11 1.1 October . 11 1.1.1 Thucydides (2007-10-01 12:29) ........................ 11 1.1.2 Aristotle’s Politics (2007-10-16 14:36) ..................... 11 1.2 November . 12 1.2.1 Polybius (2007-11-03 09:23) .......................... 12 1.2.2 Cicero and Natural Rights (2007-11-05 14:30) . 12 1.2.3 Pliny and Trajan (2007-11-20 16:30) ...................... 12 1.2.4 Variety is the Spice of Life! (2007-11-21 14:27) . 12 1.2.5 Marcus - or Not (2007-11-25 06:18) ...................... 13 1.2.6 Semitic? (2007-11-26 20:29) .......................... 13 1.2.7 The Empire’s Last Chance (2007-11-26 20:45) . 14 1.3 December . 15 1.3.1 The Effect of the Crusades on European Civilization (2007-12-04 12:21) 15 1.3.2 The Plague (2007-12-04 14:25) ......................... 15 2 2008 17 2.1 January . 17 2.1.1 The Greatest Goth (2008-01-06 19:39) .................... 17 2.1.2 Just Justinian (2008-01-06 19:59) ........................ 17 2.2 February . 18 2.2.1 How Faith Contributes to Society (2008-02-05 09:46) . 18 2.3 March . 18 2.3.1 Adam Smith - Then and Now (2008-03-03 20:04) . 18 2.3.2 William Blake and the Doors (2008-03-27 08:50) . 19 2.3.3 It Must Be True - I Saw It On The History Channel! (2008-03-27 09:33) . -
Social Sciences & Humanities
Volume 2 Fall, 2016 Social Sciences & Humanities NEWSLETTER Looking Forward, Looking Back we welcome our s we turn the corner on another summer, Lakehead students back A University is in full swing as we welcome our students back for the start of for the start of another exciting academic year. September, for many of us, is like a new calendar year where we look forward another exciting to a series of new beginnings: new students, new classes, and academic year a host of new experiences. It is also a perfect time to re ect on the past academic year, and to celebrate our achievements and accomplishments over the past few months. Since the last newsletter, our faculty has experienced an embarrassment of riches. In addition to all the stories contained inside, we have much to celebrate among our faculty members, such as Dr. Sandra Jeppesen’s recent appointment as a Lakehead University Research Chair, and Dr. Serajul Islam’s latest edition. We also congratulate our recent graduates, who are already making a difference on campus and beyond. Lar- issa Speak (HBA English ‘ 09) won the Dean’s Medal in the Faculty of Law, as the top student in the law school’s inaugural class and Kate Beaulieu (MA English ’16) won this Inside this Issue year’s Poulin Award for outstanding citizenship. 1 Message from the Dean In this edition of the Alumni Newsletter you will nd updates on three of our distin- 2 Where are they now? guished alumni, as well as reviews for books recently published by our faculty covering a > Carla Whillier: Mental Health Lawyer/ wide variety of topics re ective of the diverse areas of inquiry that makes up the Faculty Advocate of Social Sciences and Humanities. -
The Pennsylvania State University
The Pennsylvania State University The Graduate School Department of Comparative Literature ARCHETYPES AND AVATARS: A CASE STUDY OF THE CULTURAL VARIABLES OF MODERN JUDAIC DISCOURSE THROUGH THE SELECTED LITERARY WORKS OF A. B. YEHOSHUA, CHAIM POTOK, AND CHOCHANA BOUKHOBZA A Dissertation in Comparative Literature by Nathan P. Devir © 2010 Nathan P. Devir Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy August 2010 The dissertation of Nathan P. Devir was reviewed and approved* by the following: Thomas O. Beebee Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and German Dissertation Advisor Co-Chair of Committee Daniel Walden Professor Emeritus of American Studies, English, and Comparative Literature Co-Chair of Committee Baruch Halpern Chaiken Family Chair in Jewish Studies; Professor of Ancient History, Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies, and Religious Studies Kathryn Hume Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English Gila Safran Naveh Professor of Judaic Studies and Comparative Literature, University of Cincinnati Special Member Caroline D. Eckhardt Head, Department of Comparative Literature; Director, School of Languages and Literatures *Signatures are on file in the Graduate School. iii ABSTRACT A defining characteristic of secular Jewish literatures since the Haskalah, or the movement toward “Jewish Enlightenment” that began around the end of the eighteenth century, is the reliance upon the archetypal aspects of the Judaic tradition, together with a propensity for intertextual pastiche and dialogue with the sacred texts. Indeed, from the revival of the Hebrew language at the end of the nineteenth century and all throughout the defining events of the last one hundred years, the trend of the textually sacrosanct appearing as a persistent motif in Judaic cultural production has only increased. -
Rape As a Weapon of War: the Ed Mystification of the German Wehrmacht During the Second World War Alisse Baumgarten Claremont Mckenna College
Claremont Colleges Scholarship @ Claremont CMC Senior Theses CMC Student Scholarship 2013 Rape as a Weapon of War: The eD mystification of the German Wehrmacht During the Second World War Alisse Baumgarten Claremont McKenna College Recommended Citation Baumgarten, Alisse, "Rape as a Weapon of War: The eD mystification of the German Wehrmacht During the Second World War" (2013). CMC Senior Theses. Paper 586. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/586 This Open Access Senior Thesis is brought to you by Scholarship@Claremont. It has been accepted for inclusion in this collection by an authorized administrator. For more information, please contact [email protected]. CLAREMONT McKENNA COLLEGE RAPE AS A WEAPON OF WAR: THE DEMYSTIFICATION OF THE GERMAN WEHRMACHT DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR SUBMITTED TO PROFESSOR JONATHAN PETROPOULOS AND DEAN GREGORY HESS BY ALISSE BAUMGARTEN FOR SENIOR THESIS ACADEMIC YEAR 2012-2013 APRIL 29, 2013 2 Contents Introduction ......................................................................................................................... 1 Chapter 1: Sex and the Nazis .............................................................................................. 9 The Rules of the Early Reich .......................................................................................... 9 The Ideal Woman .......................................................................................................... 12 The Advent of War ...................................................................................................... -
Falk on Arab-Israeli Conflict
11 Unconscious Aspects of the Arab-Israeli Conflict AVNER FALK Most experts agree that the Arab-Israeli conflict is the most intractable in the modern world (cf. Friedman 1989, Reich, 1991). Its violence and persistence have defied rational analysis. The Middle-East Peace Con- ference brokered by U.S. Secretary of State James Baker, which opened on October 30, 1991, in Madrid, Spain, and the Washington talks that followed, are not considered likely to produce a peace treaty any time soon. The irrational obstacles, resistances and fears on both sides are so great that the negotiations are expected to break down at any time. The Iranian Shiite leaders and Palestinian Arab extremists have held a War Conference calling for jihad against Israel. While rationalistic views of the conflict by political scientists focus on the conscious aspects of territorial claims and nationalisms, psycho- analytic views of the strife have raised the unconscious issues of group self, defensive group narcissism, historical hurts, narcissistic injury, denial, projection, splitting, externalization, and lack of empathy. Although all of these unconscious processes do play a vital role in the conflict, I believe that a still more powerful role is played by the inability to mourn historical losses on both sides. I review the psychohistorical and psychopolitical literature on the conflict and attempt to support my thesis with evidence from Jewish and Arab historiography. Despite its obvious conscious causes, the bloody Palestinian Arab intifada (uprising) raging in the Israeli-occupied territories and in Israel This chapter is based on lectures given by the author at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Truman Institute (1988) and Washington's Brookings Institution (1989). -
September-1998
Clio’s Psyche Examining the "Why" of History and Culture Volume 5, Number 2 September, 1998 Psychohistorical Dreamwork Introduction A Sociology of Dreams? Kelly Bulkeley Montague Ullman Santa Clara University Albert Einstein College of Medicine-Emeritus Most people associate the modern study of "For sociology, interested only in man dreams with Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung. What awake, the sleeper might as well be dead." This is is less well known is that these two oneiric a quote from the late distinguished French cultural [dreamwork] pioneers were in fact quite anthropologist Roger Bastide. Based on his studies knowledgeable historians of dreaming. Both Freud of dreams in transitional cultures in Brazil, he and Jung were intimately familiar with the long, raised the question: "...whether the sociologist is rich history of Western dream theory and right to ignore the other half of our life, to envisage investigation, a history that stretches back through man standing and sitting, but never asleep and more than three millenia. Freud and Jung drew adream" ("The Sociology of the Dream" in G.E. upon this history to develop their monumental Von Grunebaum and Roger Caillois (eds.), The psychological theories, which are not so much Dream and Human Societies, 1966). radical new statements about dreams as modern In primitive societies in the early stages of renderings of ancient teachings and insights. transition, there is a unity between the world of In recent years psychohistorians have myth and the sacred as reflected in the dream and begun in IN THIS ISSUE The Kennedy Tapes and The Cuban Missile Crisis .....................................56 Psychohistorical Deamwork H. -
Clios Psyche 11-1.2.3.4 June 2004-Mar 2005
Clio’s Psyche Understanding the "Why" of Culture, Current Events, History, and Society Volume 11 Number 1 June 2004 The Memoirs of the Hitler Family Reflections on Civilians Doctor: Eduard Bloch in Warfare David Beisel Peter Petschauer SUNY-Rockland Appalachian State University Dr. Eduard Bloch (1872-1945) is well known My essay explores the experience of civilians in to historians of twentieth century Germany, espe- war and its implications for them and society. It is also cially to Hitler scholars. As the Hitler family physi- about the effects of war on my family, my friends, and cian during Adolph’s childhood and adolescence, he me. Though I have never fought in war, I have always treated Hitler for various minor complaints, and was lived with its effects. Upon reflection, it is apparent to the first to diagnose then treat his mother Klara’s me that, even in the U.S., few people have avoided its breast cancer. This essay is a review of “The Autobi- influence. ography of Obermedizinalrat Dr. Eduard Bloch,” My own experiences with war placed me at the (Continued on page 8) periphery of the “Italian Theatre” during WWII. A unit of the German army (the Wehrmacht) was sta- tioned in our village, Afers (Eores), in northern Italy. Philip Pomper: A Psychohistorical We children enjoyed the fun of playing with the sol- Scholar of Russia diers, including sitting on their laps as they shot their cannons at American and British planes droning over- Paul H. Elovitz head on their mission to bomb Austria and Germany. Ramapo College The FLAK (anti-aircraft artillery) hit some of the planes, sending them crashing into our mountains and Philip Pomper is a distinguished scholar of forests.