scholarly journals Western Military Interventions after the Cold War. Evaluating the Wars of the West, Marek Madej (dir.), 2019, New York, Routledge, 281 pages.

2020 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 195
Author(s):  
Jacob Fortier
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Cold War ◽  
Military Interventions ◽  
The West ◽  
The Cold War

Rethinking Humanitarian-Military Interventions: Violence and Modernity in an Age of Globalisation

2017 ◽  
pp. 15-42
Author(s):  
Damian Grenfell
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Military Interventions ◽  
The West ◽  
Post Cold War ◽  
The Third ◽  
Local Populations ◽  
Liberal Peace ◽  
Liberal Ideology ◽  
The Cold War

In Chapter One Damian Grenfell argues that interventions are bound up with exogenous assertions of power that aim to reconfigure local populations not just in terms of a ‘liberal peace’, but also the creation of a sustainable form of modern nation-state. This tends to remain the case even in a period of intensifying globalisation. The first section of the chapter develops definitions of humanitarian-military interventions since the end of the Cold War and accounts for the massive expansion of capabilities that allow for the transgression of sovereignty during conflict. These interventions – as it is argued across the second section – reflect the dominance of the West in a post-Cold War world, as the deployment of material and discursive resources in sites of conflict conform largely to the contours of a liberal ideology. Building on and extending these arguments, the third section claims that critiques of liberal peace do not venture deeply enough into understanding power relations between interveners and the intervened. Rather, ideological assumptions of what constitutes ‘peace’ are manifestations of attempts to instill a particular form of modernity within societies, one that is clearly tied to the formation and consolidation of a nation-state.

Fluorescence Microscopy and Fluorescence Probes

1998 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 164-165
Author(s):  
James B. Pawley
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Cold War ◽  
Fluorescence Microscopy ◽  
Fluorescence Probes ◽  
The West ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
East West

Fluorescence Microscopy and Fluorescence Probes, edited by Jan Slavik, 1996. Plenum Press, New York and London. 306 pages. (hardback, $95)This volume is a compilation of abstracts of papers presented at the Fluorescence Microscopy and Fluorescence Probes Conference held in Prague in June 1995. This conference was one of the first tangible results of the end of the Cold War in the field of microscopy. As such, it attracted a great many of those who constitute the vanguard of progress in the field of fluorescence microscopy, on both sides of the old East-West divide. About one-third of the 127 contributors were from the West.

Islam and the West: Coexistence or Clash?

2012 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 363-374
Author(s):  
Noor Mohammad Osmani ◽  
Tawfique Al-Mubarak
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Critical Evaluation ◽  
Western Civilization ◽  
Peaceful Coexistence ◽  
The West ◽  
Comprehensive Review ◽  
The World ◽  
Islamic Civilization ◽  
The Cold War

Samuel Huntington (1927-2008) claimed that there would be seven eight civilizations ruling over the world in the coming centuries, thus resulting a possible clash among them. The West faces the greatest challenge from the Islamic civilization, as he claimed. Beginning from the Cold-War, the Western civilization became dominant in reality over other cultures creating an invisible division between the West and the rest. The main purpose of this research is to examine the perceived clash between the Western and Islamic Civilization and the criteria that lead a civilization to precede others. The research would conduct a comprehensive review of available literatures from both Islamic and Western perspectives, analyze historical facts and data and provide a critical evaluation. This paper argues that there is no such a strong reason that should lead to any clash between the West and Islam; rather, there are many good reasons that may lead to a peaceful coexistence and cultural tolerance among civilizations

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