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In: The southern journal of philosophy 47.2009, Suppl.
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In: The southern journal of philosophy 47.2009, Suppl.
In: http://hdl.handle.net/1993/34580
The Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 was an unprecedented event and turning point during the Cold War. This thesis examines the relatively unknown Canadian military involvement in the crisis, and why it has remained so for the past fifty-eight years. Canadian reaction and involvement centres around the hours after President John F. Kennedy's television address to the world on October 22nd, 1962, as the United States (US) military went into defense readiness condition three (DEFCON 3) alert, where 5 is 'normal', and 1 indicates 'nuclear war is imminent'. The complication and nexus of this thesis, starts when the Canadian Minister of National Defence (MND) Doug Harkness, went to Prime Minister (PM) John G. Diefenbaker to request a comparable alert status for Canadian Forces, and was denied. Harkness subsequently advised his Chairman (CCOS) and the three service military chiefs (COS) to 'quietly' prepare, as he continued for the next two and one-half days to seek authority to match the American alert status. Diefenbaker finally agreed to match the US military alert status on October 24th, 1962, after they went to DEFCON 2, but he only agreed to match DEFCON 3. Since then, Harkness has been continuously scapegoated for putting the military on full alert without authority. This became the alleged breakdown in civil-military relations (CMR) that appears to have also tainted the Canadian military. There is little to substantiate an actual breach of CMR here, other than at the highest levels of military leadership. ; May 2020
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In: Perspectives on politics, Volume 7, Issue 1, p. 180-181
ISSN: 1541-0986
In: Perspectives on politics: a political science public sphere, Volume 7, Issue 1, p. 180-181
ISSN: 1537-5927
In: Analyses of social issues and public policy, Volume 3, Issue 1, p. 185-187
ISSN: 1530-2415
Altemeyer (2003) used the Global Change Game (GCG) to examine leadership tactics among those scoring high on authoritarianism and social dominance orientation. His innovative approach to studying the global consequences of following such leaders produced results consistent with years of research on both variables. As the world becomes more interconnected through globalization, future simulations such as the GCG may provide insight into how authoritarianism and social dominance orientation might manifest in different regions of the world.
In: Studies in Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy
Through case studies that highlight the type of information that is seldom reported in the news, Faces of Environmental Racism exposes the type and magnitude of environmental racism, both domestic and international. The essays explore the justice of current environmental practices, asking such questions as whether cost-benefit analysis is an appropriate analytic technique and whether there are alternate routes to sustainable development in the South.
In: Blacks in the Diaspora
Using the writings of slaves and former slaves, as well as commentaries on slavery, Between Slavery and Freedom explores the American slave experience to gain a better understanding of six moral and political concepts-oppression, paternalism, resistance, political obligation, citizenship, and forgiveness. The authors use analytical philosophy as well as other disciplines to gain insight into the thinking of a group of people prevented from participating in the social/political discourse of their times.Between Slavery and Freedom rejects the notion that philosophers need not consider
In: The Journal of social psychology, Volume 154, Issue 6, p. 480-490
ISSN: 1940-1183
In: The Journal of social psychology, Volume 146, Issue 4, p. 443-461
ISSN: 1940-1183
In: Political psychology: journal of the International Society of Political Psychology, Volume 26, Issue 6, p. 887-904
ISSN: 1467-9221
In this archival study, themes of authoritarianism (Adorno, Frenkel‐Brunswik, Levinson, & Sanford, 1950) were content coded in American comic books. Comic books produced during years of relatively high social and economic threat (1978–82 and 1991–92) contained more aggressive imagery, more conventional themes, less intraception, and fewer spoken lines by women characters relative to comic books produced during years of relatively low threat (1983–90). Unexpectedly, speaking roles for characters of color did not differ due to the influence of threat. Discussion focused on the theoretical relationship between threat and manifestations of authoritarianism at the societal and individual levels.
In: Political psychology: journal of the International Society of Political Psychology, Volume 26, Issue 6, p. 887-904
ISSN: 0162-895X
In: The black scholar: journal of black studies and research, Volume 33, Issue 3-4, p. 14-17
ISSN: 2162-5387
In: Environmental politics, Volume 11, Issue 4, p. 144
ISSN: 0964-4016