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Rough Seas
Ethnography and Academic Freedom on The Scholar Ship - By Timothy McGettigan and Carlos A. Cuevas
978-0-7618-5610-8 $19.95, Paper Imprint: Hamilton Books November 2011 62pp Size: 6 x 9 Category: International Relations (International Organizations)
The Book: Rough Seas offers an ethnographic account of a fascinating international education adventure on the high seas. The authors, one a professor and the other a student, describe their experiences on The Scholar Ship-the academic equivalent of the United Nations at sea. The authors argue that international educational ventures such as The Scholar Ship will help cultivate a new generation of highly-educated leaders with the necessary skills to tackle the complex intercultural challenges that face the global village in the twenty-first century. The Authors: Timothy McGettigan is a professor of sociology at Colorado State University-Pueblo. His interests include international education, science, technology, and the future. His next book will examine the goals and existing limitations of scientific cosmology. Carlos A. Cuevas is currently attending graduate school at the University of Nottingham, School of Sociology and Social Policy. His graduate studies are sponsored by the Mexican National Council for Science and Technology.
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The Russian Quest for Peace and Democracy - By Metta Spencer
978-0-7391-4473-2 $39.95, Paper Imprint: Lexington Books September 2011 346pp Size: 6 x 9 Category: Russia / Former Republics (International Relations/ Foreign)
The Book:
In The Russian Quest for Peace and Democracy, Metta Spencer recounts the political and military changes that have occurred in Russia up to mid-2010. Using hundreds of interviews she conducted with officials, dissidents, and liberal intellectuals, she describes the various groups, forces, and individuals that worked to liberalize the totalitarian Soviet Union and its fellow nations behind the Iron Curtain, and which ultimately brought about the dissolution of those repressive governments. Spencer identifies four political orientations to describe Soviet society: “Sheep,” ordinary citizens who accepted the undemocratic regime they lived in without challenging it; “Dinosaurs,” hard-line Communist officials; “Termites,” including Mikhail Gorbachev and his advisers and government; and “Barking Dogs,” a few hundred dissidents who made “a lot of noise” protesting, hoping to awaken a grass-roots demand for democracy. The strange rivalry between the Termites and Barking Dogs would ultimately doom perestroika. Spencer’s research dispels the widely-held perception that US President Ronald Reagan “won” the Cold War by standing firm until the Soviet Union “blinked first.” There are vitally important lessons to be learned from the Soviet period, about how to assist citizens of totalitarian and authoritarian regimes around the world. In The Russian Quest for Peace and Democracy, Metta Spencer suggests new ways of building urgently-needed social capital in today’s Russia, where democracy has yet to flourish.
The Author:
Metta Spencer is editor-in-chief of Peace Magazine and professor emeritus of sociology at University of Toronto.
Table of Contents:
Introduction; Chapter 1: Termites and Barking Dogs; Chapter 2: Social Capital and Ideology; Chapter 3: Two Scientists, Two Paths; Chapter 4: Foreign Communists; Chapter 5: Three Freelance Diplomats; Chapter 6: A Civil Society: Elite Bears and Doves; Chapter 7: Scientists and Weaponeers; Chapter 8: In the Hands of Experts; Chapter 9: Do Peace and Democracy Work?; Chapter 10: The Soviet Peace Movement at the Time of the Coup; Chapter 11: The End and the Beginning; Chapter 12: From Below and Sideways; Chapter 13: Social Traps—Toward an Explanation of Totalitarianism; Chapter 14: Quest? What Quest?; Chapter 15: Conclusion; Acknowledgments; Bibliography
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