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Joining the Fray

2016-05-06 Political Science
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Release : 2016-05-06
Genre : Political Science
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Book Synopsis Joining the Fray by : Zachary C. Shirkey

Download or read book Joining the Fray written by Zachary C. Shirkey. This book was released on 2016-05-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National leaders often worry that civil wars might spread, but also seem to have little grasp on which civil wars will in fact draw in other states. An ability to understand which civil wars are most likely to draw in outside powers and when this is likely to happen has important policy implications as well as simply answering a scholarly question. Joining the Fray takes existing explanations about which outside states are likely to intervene militarily in civil wars and adds to them explanations about when states join and why. Building on his earlier volume, Is this a Private Fight or Can Anybody Join?, Zachary C. Shirkey looks at how the decision to join a civil war can be intuitively understood as follows: given that remaining neutral was wise when a war began something must change in order for a country to change its beliefs about the benefits of fighting and join the war. This book studies what these changes are, focusing in particular on revealed information and commitment problems.

Joining the Fray

2012-12-28 Political Science
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Release : 2012-12-28
Genre : Political Science
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Book Synopsis Joining the Fray by : Assoc Prof Zachary C Shirkey

Download or read book Joining the Fray written by Assoc Prof Zachary C Shirkey. This book was released on 2012-12-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National leaders often worry that civil wars might spread, but also seem to have little grasp on which civil wars will in fact draw in other states. An ability to understand which civil wars are most likely to draw in outside powers and when this is likely to happen has important policy implications as well as simply answering a scholarly question. Joining the Fray takes existing explanations about which outside states are likely to intervene militarily in civil wars and adds to them explanations about when states join and why. Building on his earlier volume, Is this a Private Fight or Can Anybody Join?, Zachary C. Shirkey looks at how the decision to join a civil war can be intuitively understood as follows: given that remaining neutral was wise when a war began something must change in order for a country to change its beliefs about the benefits of fighting and join the war. This book studies what these changes are, focusing in particular on revealed information and commitment problems.

Entering the Fray

2012-08-02 Religion
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Release : 2012-08-02
Genre : Religion
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Book Synopsis Entering the Fray by : T. Michael W. Halcomb

Download or read book Entering the Fray written by T. Michael W. Halcomb. This book was released on 2012-08-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In modern times the relationship between the church and academy has been strained and tension-filled. Mainstream church culture has often been skeptical of Bible scholars, depicting them as self-serving intellectuals trying to out-think God by devising new and controversial interpretations. Just as well, academics have often leveled harsh critiques against church culture, painting pastors and laity as anti-intellectual pseudo-spiritualists. Entering the Fray argues that, in spite of the wide gap between the academic and ecclesiastical worlds, the modern church should be aware of the key discussions taking place among biblical scholars. To be sure, the average churchgoer has not been tuned in to scholarly conversations concerning matters such as the Messianic Secret, Q, the Historical Jesus, the pistis Christou debate, and related topics. In fact, they may have purposefully tuned out! Some, however, are simply unaware that any such dialogue has taken place, and beyond the internet, may not have the first clue as to how to explore the details. This primer seeks to function as that "first clue" by helping congregants, pastors, and students of the Bible enter into the fray of scholarly discussions that, over the last few hundred years, have shaped both the academy and church. The companion website can be found at http://michaelhalcomb.com/enteringthefray-home.html

Robot Wars: Thrown into the Fray

2013-12-26 Fiction
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Release : 2013-12-26
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis Robot Wars: Thrown into the Fray by : Nicholas Haring

Download or read book Robot Wars: Thrown into the Fray written by Nicholas Haring. This book was released on 2013-12-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The war between humans and robots has been going on for over 40 years. The war had been stalmated, but now the robots have devised a new way of attacking. Can the humans overcome insurmountable odds when they are thrown into the fray?

A Perpetual Fire

2013-09-01 Art
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Release : 2013-09-01
Genre : Art
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Book Synopsis A Perpetual Fire by : Lara Jaishree Netting

Download or read book A Perpetual Fire written by Lara Jaishree Netting. This book was released on 2013-09-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After serving as a missionary and then foreign advisor to Qing officials from 1887 to 1911, John Ferguson became a leading dealer of Chinese art, providing the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and other museums with their inaugural collections of paintings and bronzes. In multiple publications dating to the 1920s and 1930s, Ferguson made the controversial claim that China’s autochthonous culture was the basis of Chinese art. His two Chinese language reference works, still in use today, were produced with essential help from Chinese scholars. Emulating these “men of culture” with whom he lived and worked in Peking, Ferguson gathered paintings, bronzes, rubbings, and other artifacts. In 1934, he donated this group of over one thousand objects to Nanjing University, the school he had helped to found as a young missionary. This work offers a significant contribution to the history of Chinese art collection. John Ferguson learned from and worked with Qing dynasty collectors and scholars, and then Republican-era dealers and archeologists, while simultaneously supplying the objects he had come to know as Chinese art to American museums and individuals. He is an ideal subject to help us see the interconnections between increased Western interest in Chinese art and archeology in the modern era, and cultural change taking place in China.

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