Soft Weapons

Download or read book Soft Weapons written by Gillian Whitlock and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-02-15 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Azar Nafisi’s Reading Lolita in Tehran,Marjane Satrapi’s comics, and “Baghdad Blogger” Salam Pax’s Internet diary are just a few examples of the new face of autobiography in an age of migration, globalization, and terror. But while autobiography and other genres of life writing can help us attend to people whose experiences are frequently unseen and unheard, life narratives can also be easily co-opted into propaganda. In Soft Weapons, Gillian Whitlock explores the dynamism and ubiquity of contemporary life writing about the Middle East and shows how these works have been packaged, promoted, and enlisted in Western controversies. Considering recent autoethnographies of Afghan women, refugee testimony from Middle Eastern war zones, Jean Sasson’s bestsellers about the lives of Arab women, Norma Khouri’s fraudulent memoir Honor Lost, personal accounts by journalists reporting the war in Iraq, Satrapi’s Persepolis, Nafisi’s book, and Pax’s blog, Whitlock explores the contradictions and ambiguities in the rapid commodification of life memoirs. Drawing from the fields of literary and cultural studies, Soft Weapons will be essential reading for scholars of life writing and those interested in the exchange of literary culture between Islam and the West.

Download or read book Soft Weapons written by Keqin Li and published by . This book was released on 1996-12-01 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Weapons of Mass Distraction written by Matthew Fraser and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its march to becoming the world's first hyper-power, the United States has been as dependent on its soft power - the allure of American lifestyles and culture - as it has been on the hard power of military might. In Weapons of Mass Distraction, Matthew Fraser examines the role of American pop cultural industries in international affairs. Fraser focuses on the major areas of soft power - movies, television, pop music, and fast food - and traces the origins, history and current influence of these on U.S. foreign policy. He describes how the American film, television, and music industries enjoy a ubiquitous global presence that has made them indispensable to the U.S. government, which has often gone so far as to fund them directly, including the White House-sponsored radio station in the Middle East launched with the hopes of winning over Muslim youths with American pop songs. A Coca-Cola lobbyist once famously declared that "The best barometer of the relationship of the U.S. and any other country is the way Coca-Cola is treated." Fraser proves this claim isn't to be taken lightly. He charts the global spread of the fast food industry, the role of Coca-Cola and McDonald's in American foreign policy and the recent rise of their opponents: the anti-globalization movement. Do things really go better with Coca-Cola? Fraser's answer is a resounding yes. While American soft power remains a contentious issue, he believes it promotes values and beliefs that are ultimately good for the rest of the world. Still, what are the future implications of American soft power? Will national identities decline as the world order is transformed into a state of "electronic feudalism" where there is no central power? Weapons of Mass Distraction provides an engaging, enlightening, and provocative look at the future of American foreign policy and popular culture in the 21st century.

Download or read book Less-Lethal Weapons under International Law written by Elisabeth Hoffberger-Pippan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-26 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first monograph analysing all legal regimes applicable to the use of less-lethal weapons.

Download or read book The Effects of Nuclear Weapons written by United States. Defense Atomic Support Agency and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Effects of Nuclear Weapons written by United States. Department of Defense and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Indian Defence Review 37.1 (Jan-Mar 2022) written by Air Marshal Anil Chopra and published by Lancer Publishers. This book was released on 2022-03-10 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this edition:- • China’s Geostrategic Perspect And Eastern Ladakh – Lt Gen JS Bajwa • Should the Indian Army stay out of politics? – Ramananda Sengupta • Rebuilding the Combat Fleet of the IAF to 42 Squadrons – Air Marshal Anil Chopra • Soft Kill Air Defence Weapon Systems : The Better Alternative? – Col Mandeep Singh • Make in India: An Appraisal 2022 – Danvir Singh • People’s Liberation Army Navy: A Review – Vice Admiral MP Muralidharan • Sixth Generation Fighter Aircraft: Its Prospects – Gp Capt AK Sachdev • Need to prioritise the IAF’s Unmanned Offensive and Defensive Capability – Air Marshal Anil Chopra • Chinese Roulette: Which way will the Wind Blow? – Brig Deepak Sinha • Military – Civil Fusion Strategy of China – Col NP Singh • The Indian Military and the Element of Surprise – Gp Capt PK Mulay • Aerospace and Defence News – Priya Tyagi • Operational Testing and Evaluation of Weapons and Equipment – Lt Gen NB Singh • Atmanirbhar in Aerospace and Defence Manufacturing – Gp Cap AK Sachdev • War Widows: The Hidden Battles – The Journey of Rebuilding Life – Tamanna Ruth Edwards • Part I: The Defence and Decline of Dacca in 1971 – Sumit Walia • Book Review