The susceptibility of teaching to White interests: A theoretical explanation of the influence of racial consciousness on the behaviors of White faculty in the classroom.

In the article on set-theoretic level, developed a conceptual model of the system of special types of technical support for difficult organizational-technical system. The purpose of conceptualizing the creation of a system of interrelated and stemming from one of the other views on certain objects, phenomena, processes associated with the system of special types of technical support. In the development of applied concepts and principles of the methodology of system approach. The empirical basis for the development of the conceptual model has served many fixed factors obtained in the warning system and require formalization and theoretical explanation. The novelty of the model lies in the account of the effect of environment directly on the alert system. Therefore, in the conceptual model of the system of special types of technical support included directly in the conceptual model of the system of special types and conceptual model of the environment. Part of the conceptual model of the environment is included in the conceptual model of the enemy of nature and co-systems.

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Is Racial Equality Unconstitutional?

10.1093/oso/9780190683603.003.0006 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Mark Golub

Keyword(s):

Racial Formation ◽

Racial Equality ◽

Racial Consciousness ◽

Constitutional Order ◽

Racial Democracy ◽

Law And Politics ◽

Peculiar Form ◽

American Law ◽

Racial Domination ◽

Fundamental Transformation

This concluding chapter considers the implications of the book’s central claims: that constitutional law marks a contested site of racial formation, that color-blind constitutionalism represents an assertion of white racial interest and identity, and that the peculiar form of racial consciousness it enacts renders the pursuit of racial equality a violation of white rights. Taking up the question of political possibility within a legal system constituted by racial domination, the chapter suggests that racial equality may not be achievable within the current American constitutional order. It calls for a rethinking of American law and politics from the premise that racial equality will require a more fundamental transformation than these constraints would permit, and points toward an explicitly antiredemptive political vision upon which a more authentic racial democracy might be founded.

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The Logic of American Nuclear Strategy

10.1093/oso/9780190849184.001.0001 ◽

2018 ◽

Cited By ~ 17

Author(s):

Matthew Kroenig

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

National Security ◽

International Security ◽

The United States ◽

Theoretical Explanation ◽

Security Studies ◽

Nuclear Deterrence ◽

Nuclear War ◽

Nuclear Strategy ◽

Empirical Record

What kind of nuclear strategy and posture does the United States need to defend itself and its allies? According to conventional wisdom, the answer to this question is straightforward: the United States needs the ability to absorb an enemy nuclear attack and respond with a devastating nuclear counterattack. These arguments are logical and persuasive, but, when compared to the empirical record, they raise an important puzzle. Empirically, we see that the United States has consistently maintained a nuclear posture that is much more robust than a mere second-strike capability. How do we make sense of this contradiction? Scholarly deterrence theory, including Robert Jervis’s seminal book, The Illogic of American Nuclear Strategy, argues that the explanation is simple—policymakers are wrong. This book takes a different approach. Rather than dismiss it as illogical, it explains the logic of American nuclear strategy. It argues that military nuclear advantages above and beyond a secure, second-strike capability can contribute to a state’s national security goals. This is primarily because nuclear advantages reduce a state’s expected cost of nuclear war, increasing its resolve, providing it with coercive bargaining leverage, and enhancing nuclear deterrence. This book provides the first theoretical explanation for why military nuclear advantages translate into geopolitical advantages. In so doing, it resolves one of the most intractable puzzles in international security studies. The book also explains why, in a world of growing dangers, the United States must possess, as President Donald J. Trump declared, a nuclear arsenal “at the top of the pack.”

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The Old Order Changeth, Yielding Place to the New (Murli Manohar Joshi’s Tenure)

10.1093/oso/9780199474943.003.0011 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

R.V. Vaidyanatha Ayyar

Keyword(s):

Public Policy ◽

Case Law ◽

Theoretical Explanation ◽

Educational Institutions ◽

Original Intent ◽

Policy Problem ◽

Old Order ◽

Reinforcing Factors ◽

The Right

This chapter elaborates the shifting case law over the 24 year period from 1982 to 2006 in regard to the right of private individuals and organisations to establish educational institutions, the regulation of admissions to private-unaided institutions (self-financing institutions), and the regulatory power of AICTE. It offers a theoretical explanation of these shifts by elaborating two major reinforcing factors. The first is the adoption of an interpretational philosophy that legitimates judges going beyond the express wording and original intent of Constitution makers, discerning the purpose underlying a constitutional provision, and applying the purpose so discovered to rectify failures of public policy and governance types. The second factor is the inbuilt trait to expand as a result of a generous policy of admitting appeals. Given that judges differ considerably in the judicial philosophy they hold, and their perception of policy problem and solutions case law has bene fluid, creating uncertainty for institutions which are regulated as well as regulators like the AICTE.

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The Black Scholar Reader's Forum: Multiculturalism, Postmodernism and Racial Consciousness

The Black Scholar ◽

10.1080/00064246.1994.11413117 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 24 (1) ◽

pp. 15-22 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Henry Louis Gates ◽

Jon Michael Spencer

Keyword(s):

Racial Consciousness ◽

Black Scholar

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