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This book explores foreign policy developments in post-colonial Africa. A continental foreign policy is a tenuous proposition, yet new African states emerged out of armed resistance and advocacy from regional allies such as the Bandung Conference and the League of Arab States. Ghana was the first Sub-Saharan African country to gain independence in 1957. Fourteen more countries gained independence in 1960 alone, and by May 1963, when the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) was formed, 30 countries were independent. An early OAU committee was the African Liberation Committee (ALC), tasked to work in the Frontline States (FLS) to support independence in Southern Africa. Pan-Africanists, in alliance with Brazzaville, Casablanca and Monrovia groups, approached continental unity differently, and regionalism continued to be a major feature. Africa's challenges were often magnified by the capitalist-democratic versus communist-socialist bloc rivalry, but through Africa's use and leveraging of IGOs – the UN, UNDP, UNECA, GATT, NIEO and others – to advance development, the formation of the African Economic Community, OAU's evolution into the AU and other alliances belied collective actions, even as Africa implemented decisions that required cooperation: uti possidetis (maintaining colonial borders), containing secession, intra- and inter-state conflicts, rebellions and building RECs and a united Africa as envisioned by Pan Africanists worked better collectively. Stephen Magu's research focuses on international political economy, economic development, governance and foreign policy issues as relating to Africa. He is the author of Great Powers and US Foreign Policy towards Africa (2019), Peace Corps and Citizen Diplomacy: Soft Power Strategies in U.S. Foreign Policy (2018) and The Socio-Cultural, Ethnic and Historic Foundations of Kenya's Electoral Violence: Democracy on Fire (2018), and co-editor of Corruption Scandals and their Global Impacts (with Omar Hawthorne, 2018).

Intro -- Title Page -- Contents -- Epigraphs -- Prologue: We Must Stop Shopping but We Can't Stop Shopping -- I. First Days -- 1. What We Give Up and What We Hang On To -- 2. We Don't Shop Equally, So We Won't Stop Equally -- 3. It's Not that Time Turns Weird, It's a Different Kind of Time -- 4. Suddenly We're Winning the Fight against Climate Change -- 5. We Need to Get Used to the Night Again -- II. Collapse -- 6. The End of Growth Is Not the End of Economics -- 7. The Consumption Disaster Begins, the Disaster of Everyday Life Is Over -- 8. Can Advertising Turn into the Opposite of Itself? -- 9. We Adapt to Not-Shopping More Quickly than You Think -- 10. We May Need to See the Ruins to Know It's Time to Build Something New -- III. Adaptation -- 11. A Stronger, Not a Weaker, Attachment to Our Things -- 12. Fast Fashion Cannot Rule but It May Not Have to Die -- 13. Business Plays the Long, Long, Long, Long Game -- 14. If We're No Longer Consumers, What Are We Instead? -- 15. We Are Still Consuming Way Too Much (Part One: Inconspicuous Consumption) -- 16. We Are Still Consuming Way Too Much (Part Two: Money) -- IV. Transformation -- 17. We Finally, Actually, Save the Whales -- 18. We Need a Better Word than Happiness for Where This Ends Up -- 19. Now We're All Shopping in Cyberspace? -- 20. It's Like a World with Fewer People but without Losing the People -- 21. One Hundred and Fifty Thousand Years Later . . . -- Epilogue: There's a Better Way to Stop Shopping . . . -- Acknowledgements -- Source Notes -- Index -- About the Author -- Also by J.B. MacKinnon -- Copyright -- About the Publisher.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Inequality: Why It's So Much Worse and What to Do About It -- What We Know about Inequality that Economists Don't -- The Economic-Recovery Mirage -- Why So Unequal So Fast? -- Regulatory Wreckage -- How to Fix Financial Policy -- Chapter 2 How Unequal Are We? -- Economic Inequality Fundamentals -- Who Has How Much -- What of Wealth? -- The Inequality Engine -- Worse Than That -- The Most Inclusive Ever? -- The Great Financial Crisis and Its Equality Aftermath -- Chapter 3 What Makes Us So Unequal -- The Mechanical Engineering of Economic Inequality -- Death and Taxes -- The Role of Transfer Payments -- A Supply-Side Solution? -- Public Wealth: A Sputtering Part in the Equality Engine -- Is Education the Answer? -- Is Trade Policy a Problem? -- Global Policy Reform? -- What to Do? -- Chapter 4 Why Does Economic Inequality Matter So Much? -- Inequality and Mortality -- Political Polarization -- Inequality's Eviscerating Cost -- Inequality and the Long Recession -- Financial-Crisis Risk -- Chapter 5 Following the Money -- How Central Banks Work -- The Modern Monetary-Policy Construct -- The Fed's Bailout Buckets -- The Fed's Payment Powers -- Rules of the Financial Road -- Four Fundamental Financial-Policy Flaws -- Chapter 6 How Monetary Policy Made Most of Us Poorer -- The Fed's Heavy Hand -- Why It's the Fed's Fault -- How Ultra-Low Interest Rates Made America Still Less Equal and QE Still More Inequitable -- The High Cost of Low-Rate Debt -- The Low-Unemployment Myth -- The Anti-Wealth Effect -- Making Matters Still Worse -- A Bigger Fed, Lower Rates, an Extreme Financial Crisis -- Chapter 7 How to Make Monetary Policy Make Us More Equal -- The Aggregate-Data Error -- The Fed's Real Mandate -- The Fourth Mandate.

At the end of the nineteenth century Augustus Hopkins Strong worked to bring modernists and traditional Christians together but found the task more difficult than many imagined. In the wake of the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species in 1859, Christianity, or at least many people's understanding of Christianity, was evolving. The rising popularity of Darwinism combined with the pervasive influence of German idealism began forcing many professing Christians to rethink the faith they had long taken for granted. Among those who would be compelled to face the apparent conflicts between modern thought and traditional orthodoxy was Baptist theologian Augustus Hopkins Strong (1836-1921). As president and professor of systematic theology at Rochester Theological Seminary for forty years (1872-1912) Strong stood as the premier theologian of the Northern Baptists at the end of the nineteenth century. Yet, as author John Aloisi shows in this important study, he remains a puzzling figure. Strong considered himself a defender of orthodoxy even as the school he led transitioned to a more modern and arguably less orthodox understanding of the Christian faith. His Systematic Theology went through eight editions, and the later editions increasingly reflected a shift in his thinking. Strong wrestled with how to reconcile Christian theology with modern thought while also trying to solve tensions within his own theology. He hoped to be able to bring modernists and more traditional Christians together around a concept he labeled ethical monism. In the end, while his effort suggested the task was more difficult than many understood it to be, Strong's journey had a significant impact on the direction of Rochester Theological Seminary. This book is openly available in digital formats thanks to a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

An expert's take on how a coup in China could launch a transition to democracy. This short book predicts--contrary to the prevailing consensus--that China's leader Xi Jinping will very soon be removed from office in a coup d'état mounted by rivals in the top leadership. The leaders of the coup will then end China's one-party dictatorship and launch a transition to democracy and the rule of law. Long-time diplomat and development banker author Roger Garside draws on his deep knowledge of Chinese politics and economics first to develop a detailed scenario of how these events may unfold, and then--in the main body of the book--to explain why. His gripping, persuasive account of how Chinese leaders plot and plan away from the public eye is unique in published literature. Garside argues that under Xi's overconfident leadership, China is on a collision course with an America that is newly awakened out of complacency. As Xi's rivals look abroad, they are alarmed that he is blind to the reactions that China's actions have provoked from the world's strongest power and its allies. In domestic affairs, Xi's rivals recognize that economic and social change without political reform have created problems that require not just new leaders but a new system of government. Security abroad and stability at home demand a revolution to which Xi is implacably opposed. To save China--and themselves--from catastrophe, they must remove him and end the dictatorship he is determined to defend. But their will and capacity to do so depend crucially on how liberal democracies act. Garside's scenario shows America leading its allies in creating the conditions in which Xi's rivals move against him.

Situated at the disciplinary boundary between prehistory and history, this book presents a new synthesis of Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Greece, from the rise and fall of Mycenaean civilization to the emergence of city-states in the Archaic period. These centuries saw the growth and decline of varied political systems and the development of networks across local, regional, and Mediterranean scales. As a groundbreaking study of landscape, interaction, and sociopolitical change, Societies in Transition in Early Greece systematically bridges the divide between the Mycenaean period and the Archaic Greek world to shed new light on an often-overlooked period of world history. "This book reconfigures our understanding of early Greece on a regional level, beyond Mycenaean 'palaces' and across temporal boundaries. Alex Knodell's sophisticated arguments enable a fresh reading of the emergence of early Greek polities, revealing the microregions that put to the test overarching 'Mediterranean' models. His detailed study makes a convincing return to a comparative framework, integrating a 'small world' network and its trajectory with the larger picture of ancient complex societies." SARAH MORRIS, Steinmetz Professor of Classical Archaeology and Material Culture, University of California, Los Angeles "A comprehensive, thoughtful treatment of the time period before the crystallization of the ancient Greek city states." WILLIAM A. PARKINSON, Curator and Professor, The Field Museum and University of Illinois at Chicago "An important and must-read account. The strength of this book lies in its close analysis of the important different regional characteristics and evolutionary trajectories of Greece as it transforms into the Archaic and, later, the Classical world." DAVID B. SMALL, author Ancient Greece: Social Structure and Evolution

Established in Ramallah in 1979, al-Haq was the first Palestinian human rights organization and one of the first such organizations in the Arab world. This inside history explores how al-Haq initiated methodologies in law and practice that were ahead of its time and that proved foundational for many strands of today's human rights work in Palestine and elsewhere. Lynn Welchman looks at both al-Haq's history and legacy to explore such questions as: Why would one set up a human rights organization under military occupation? How would one go about promoting the rule of law in a Palestinian society deleteriously served by the law and with every reason to distrust those charged with implementing its protections? How would one work to educate overseas allies and activate international law in defense of Palestinian rights? This revelatory story speaks to the practice of local human rights organizations and their impact on international groups. "This book is a godsend. A perfect example of precisely the kind of research that is most needed now, at a moment when human rights have never been more delegitimized on the international stage and abuses more rampant across the Middle East and North Africa." — MARK LEVINE, author of Heavy Metal Islam: Rock, Resistance, and the Struggle for the Soul of Islam "Clear, concise, accessible, and detailed, this unique book sheds extensive light on how and why al-Haq developed as it did. And in doing so it offers original material on the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories, the development of the human rights movement in Palestine and globally, and the creation and management of civil society organizations." — MOUIN RABBANI, coeditor of Jadaliyya and former Senior Analyst and Special Advisor on Palestine, International Crisis Group

Language, Nation, Race explores the various language reforms at the onset of Japanese modernity, a time when a "national language" (kokugo) was produced to standardize Japanese. Faced with the threat of Western colonialism, Meiji intellectuals proposed various reforms to standardize the Japanese language in order to quickly educate the illiterate masses. This book liberates these language reforms from the predetermined category of the "nation," for such a notion had yet to exist as a clear telos to which the reforms aspired. Atsuko Ueda draws on, while critically intervening in, the vast scholarship of language reform that engaged with numerous works of postcolonial and cultural studies. She examines the first two decades of the Meiji period, with specific focus on the issue of race, contending that no analysis of imperialism or nationalism is possible without it. "Language, Nation, Race is an exceptional book. It not only provides a cogent interpretation of Meiji-era linguistic and literary reform movements but also productively challenges the current scholarly consensus regarding the meaning of these movements. Atsuko Ueda makes an entirely original and convincing argument about the relevance of 'whiteness' to the understanding of linguistic, aesthetic, and cultural values within these movements."—JAMES REICHERT, Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Stanford University "A remarkable accomplishment, bound to have a lasting impact in the field of Japan studies and beyond. Ueda's compelling reading of Meiji period literary and linguistic debates opens new avenues for a philosophical questioning of phoneticism and its significance to the formation of the geopolitical categories of 'West' and 'non- West.'"—PEDRO ERBER, author of Breaching the Frame: The Rise of Contemporary Art in Brazil and Japan

"That Indonesia's ongoing occupation of West Papua continues to be largely ignored by world governments is one of the great moral and political failures of our time. West Papuans have struggled for more than fifty years to find a way through the long night of Indonesian colonization. However, united in their pursuit of merdeka (freedom) in its many forms, what holds West Papuans together is greater than what divides them. Today, the Morning Star glimmers on the horizon, the supreme symbol of merdeka and a cherished sign of hope for the imminent arrival of peace and justice to West Papua. Morning Star Rising: The Politics of Decolonization in West Papua is an ethnographically framed account of the long, bitter fight for freedom that challenges the dominant international narrative that West Papuans' quest for political independence is fractured and futile. Camellia Webb-Gannon's extensive interviews with the decolonization movements' original architects and its more recent champions shed light on complex diasporic and inter-generational politics as well as social and cultural resurgence. In foregrounding West Papuans' perspectives, the author shows that it is the body politic's unflagging determination and hope, rather than military might or influential allies, that form the movement's most unifying and powerful force for independence. This book examines the many intertwining strands of decolonization in Melanesia. Differences in cultural performance and political diversity throughout the region are generating new, fruitful trajectories. Simultaneously, Black and Indigenous solidarity and a shared Melanesian identity have forged a transnational grassroots power-base from which the movement is gaining momentum. Relevant beyond its West Papua focus, this book is essential reading for those interested in Pacific studies, Native and Indigenous studies, development studies, activism, and decolonization"--

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Testimonial -- Acknowledgments -- Author -- 1 About This Book -- The Genesis of Job Shop Lean -- The Toyota Production System (and Lean) Gave GT/CM a New Lease of Life -- What This Book Teaches -- Reading Plan for This Book -- Appendices for Select Chapters in This Book -- Supplementary Reading for Select Chapters in This Book -- What's Next? -- Software to Implement Job Shop Lean -- What This Book Does Not Teach -- Management-Oriented Books on Lean -- Appendices -- References -- 2 Introduction to Job Shop Lean -- Lean Is Necessary for Every Manufacturer but … -- … Lean Is Also Insufficient for Many Manufacturers -- How a Job Shop Differs from an Assembly Line -- An Assembly Line Is Inflexible Compared to a Job Shop -- High-Mix Low-Volume Manufacturers with Job Shop-Like Manufacturing Facilities -- Primary Focus of Job Shop Lean -- A Standard Process for Implementing Lean -- Adapting the Lean Thinking Process to Implement Job Shop Lean -- A Comprehensive Approach for Implementing Job Shop Lean -- Illustration of the Comprehensive Approach for Implementing Job Shop Lean -- Appendices -- References -- 3 Is Job Shop Lean Right for You? -- 4 Design For Flow (DFF): The Essential Foundation for Job Shop Lean -- A Tribute to Manufacturing Pioneers of the Past -- Flow: The Essential Foundation for Job Shop Lean -- Flow Delays and the Seven Types of Waste -- Quick-and-Dirty Estimation of the Monetary Value of Any Waste and/or Flow Delay -- Design for Flow: Principles for Factory Layout Design to Achieve Flow -- Role of Product Design and Manufacturing Engineering -- How to Assess If a Factory Layout Is Designed for Flow -- An Approach for Designing a Factory Layout to Achieve Flow -- How to Achieve Flow If the Factory Layout Cannot Be Changed.

Intro -- The Negotiation Process -- About the Author -- Dedication -- Copyright Information © -- Introduction: Anything New Is Disruptive -- Cultural Differences Are a Blessing -- Be a Motion Machine -- The Way You Go About Your Life Tells About Your Values -- Part I Before the Negotiation -- Chapter 1: International Negotiation and Physics - Two Parallel Worlds -- Change Is a Chance -- Don't Live on Illusions -- Chapter 2: Words Carry Messages -- Share What You Want People to Know -- Perceptual Tricks and Duality -- Make Sure Your Message Is Getting Across -- Chapter 3: Preparing Your Negotiation -- Lying Is Useful -- Get Ready to Negotiate Successfully -- Step-by-Step Preparation -- Market Analysis -- Design Your Negotiating Strategy -- Select Your Team Members -- Make the Needed Arrangements -- Part II During the Negotiation -- Chapter 4: Winning and Losing Are Just Emotions -- Be Curious Instead of Furious -- Chapter 5: Sustainable Negotiation Is a Mindset, -- Everything in Life Is an Experiment -- The Easiest Way Is Not Always the Best Way -- Evolutionary Processes Can Be a Powerful Way to Stimulate Progress -- Be a Thought Leader -- How to Succeed with Sustainable Negotiation? -- Chapter 6: Negotiation Is a Process -- Progress Is an Impulse for Activity -- Where We Come from Decides Where We Go To -- Zoom out to Get Bigger Clarity -- The Literature Is Full of Examples That Say You Can't Do This -- Part III After You Close a Deal -- Chapter 7: Ideas Get Old -- Don't Be Your Own Victim -- Get Ready for the First of Many Successful Negotiations -- Don't Be a Conversation Narcissist -- Chapter 8: It Doesn't Need to Be Perfect, It Needs to Be True -- People Are Poor Communicators -- Luck Favors the Persistent -- Chapter 9: Engage with Empathy -- The Search for a Unified Theory -- Portray Your Business's Personality.

Intro -- Introduction -- References -- Contents -- About the Author -- Chapter 1: The Origins of the Sovereign Citizen Movement -- 1.1 Tax Protestors -- 1.2 Anti-Federalist -- 1.2.1 The Posse Comitatus -- 1.3 The Militia Movement -- 1.4 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 2: Behavior and Underlying Ideology -- 2.1 Jurisdiction -- 2.2 Warrants -- 2.3 Joinder -- 2.4 I Do Not Consent -- 2.5 Traveling -- 2.6 Refusing to Identify Themselves -- 2.7 I Don't Answer Questions -- 2.8 Self-Made License Plates -- 2.9 Black's Law Dictionary -- 2.10 What's the Emergency? -- 2.11 Fee Schedules -- 2.12 What's Your Bond Number? -- 2.13 Do You Have a Business Card? -- 2.14 Recording Traffic Stops or Live Broadcasting -- 2.15 Calling 911 -- 2.16 Return Driver's License -- 2.17 Revoking the Vehicle's Registration -- 2.18 Not U.S. Citizens -- 2.19 Driving Is a God-Given Right -- 2.20 Not a Car, Truck or Vehicle -- 2.21 Corpus Delicti -- 2.22 Where Is the Injured Party? -- 2.23 Did You Take an Oath? -- 2.24 What Crime Am I Being Accused of Committing? -- 2.25 Am I Being Detained? -- 2.26 You Are Dismissed -- 2.27 Lie to Police -- 2.28 I Demand to Speak to Your Supervisor -- Chapter 3: Violence and Sovereign Citizens -- 3.1 Andrew Joseph Stack -- 3.2 Jerry Kane Jr. and Joseph Kane -- 3.3 Nathaniel "Sach" Kargas -- 3.4 Jered and Amanda Miller -- 3.5 Stephen Paddock -- 3.6 Travis Reinking -- 3.7 Jared Loughner -- 3.8 Terry Lyn Smith -- 3.9 John Terry Chapman Jr -- 3.10 Forrest Gordon Clark -- 3.11 Scott Roeder -- 3.12 Attempts, Threats, Unsuccessful Plots, and Jailhouse Conversions -- 3.13 Janay Rebecca Smith -- 3.14 Mitchell Timothy Taebel -- 3.15 Michael Wayne Parsons -- 3.16 Ted Klaudt -- 3.17 Steven Lorenzo -- 3.18 The Insane Deuces -- References -- Chapter 4: Paper Terrorism and Other Tactics -- 4.1 What Is Paper Terrorism? -- 4.2 False Liens.

Intro -- 30-Day Skin Fix -- About The Author -- Dedication -- Copyright Information © -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Read Me First! -- Chapter 1 -- You Must Cleanse -- Retinoids: Why You Cannot Live Without Them -- To Tone or Not to Tone -- Chapter 2 -- Calm and Stop the Inflammation -- What Is Inflammation? -- More Common Diseases That May Cause Inflamed Skin -- Burns from Sun, Chemicals, or Heat -- Shaving Bumps and Consequences -- Home Topical Remedies for Inflamed Skin -- Home Oral Remedies for Inflamed Skin -- Home LED -- Time to Go to the Doctor -- Chapter 3 -- Fade the Brown Spots -- Home Topical Remedies -- Doing It at Home with a Topical Prescription -- Oral Remedies -- Tranexamic Acid -- Brown and Red Blotchy Face, Neck, and Chest (Melasma, Poikiloderma) -- Benign Seborrheic Keratosis -- How Best to Protect from the Sun? -- Chapter 4 -- Fix the Scars Quickly -- Body Wounds on the Skin -- Compress and Elevate -- When to Compress and Not to Compress -- Wound Gels, Ointments, and Patches -- When a Wound May Scar -- Keloids and Hypertrophic Scars -- Chapter 5 -- Stop the Eczema, Rashes, and Dry Skin -- Correcting the pH -- Fixing the Skin Barrier -- Fixing Your Skin Flora Balance -- Sensitive Skin -- Sweaty Skin and Heat Rashes -- Dry Bump on the Arms -- Cracked and Peeling Feet -- Dry and Peeling Lips -- Lip Sugar Scrubs -- Dry and Peeling Fingertips -- Nail Infections -- Things That Look Like Eczema but Aren't -- Things That Look Like Acne but Aren't -- Urgent Infections That Can Mimic Acne or Eczema -- Shingles and How It Is Different Than Herpes -- Chapter 6 -- Hives, Bug Bites, and Urgent Itches -- Allergy to Bug Bites -- Plant Dermatitis (Poison Ivy) -- Chapter 7 -- Quick Acne Fixes -- Acne Medications -- Spinning Brushes -- Makeup Sponges/Brushes -- Certain Hormone Medications and Steroids.

Intro -- Immortalaeism -- About the Author -- Copyright Information © -- POWER -- Preface -- 1. The Definition of Power -- Section I: The Rational Definition of Power -- 1.1: The Idea of Power -- 1.1.1: The Idea of Power in Respect of Entities -- 1.1.2: The Idea of Power with Respect to Dominion -- 1.1.3: The Idea of Power Without Entity -- 1.1.4: Understanding, the Ability of Ability -- 1.2: The Acting Elements Involved in the Operation of Power -- 1.3: The Function of Power -- 1.4: Alluding to the System of Power (Basic Approach to Acquiring Power) -- Section II: The Anthropomorphism of Power -- 1.5: The Way of Power -- 1.6: The Teaching of Power -- 1.7: The Will of Power -- 2. The Empirical Representation of Power -- Section I: Power in Information -- 2.1: Specialising in a Field of Knowledge -- 2.2: Innovation -- 2.3: Advancing in Knowledge and the New Age -- 2.4: Religious Order and Knowledge -- 2.5: Concluding Remarks on Section I: Power in Information -- Section II: Power in Relationships -- 2.6: Reciprocity of Power -- 2.7: Power and Men, Men Behind Power -- Section III: The Power of the Mind -- 2.8: Power in Natural Light and the Power of Reason -- 2.8.1: A Short Explanation of the Affiliated Terms of Light -- 2.9: The Power of Transcendental Thought and Universal Understanding -- 2.10: In Conclusion -- 3. Truth, Principle, Knowledge and Power -- 3.1: Truth -- 3.2: Principle -- 3.3: Knowledge -- 3.3.1: The Way of Finding an Exact Right Answer in Life / Reason for Processionalism -- 3.3.2: The 'Blessing' of Knowledge -- 3.3.3: Errancy in Regard to the Use of Knowledge -- 4. Different Kinds of Power -- 4.1: That Different Powers Exist -- 4.2: On the Relationship Between Dualities -- 4.3: Dualities as Different Kinds of Power -- 4.4: On the Design of Different Powers -- 5. The Purpose of Power.

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the Author -- List of Figures -- Part I -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- 1.1 Aims and Contributions of the Book -- 1.2 The Cases: Discourses on 'Rising Japan' and 'Rising China', and US Trade Policy -- From 'Japan Problem' to 'China Threat'? -- 1.3 Sources and Time Frame -- 1.4 Overview of the Chapters -- Chapter 2: State of the Art and Key Concepts -- 2.1 US-Chinese and US-Japanese Economic Relations -- 2.2 Ideas and Discourses in IR and IPE -- 2.3 American Exceptionalism, the Liberal Theory of History and US-Japan and US-China Policies -- 2.4 'Liberal' Identity, the 'Other' and US-Japan and US-China Policies -- Chapter 3: Political Discourse Theory and Rhetorical Analysis: Fundamental Premises and Key Terms -- 3.1 Discourse as Ontological Horizon and Empirical Object of Research -- 3.2 Identity as Discourse: Neither Stable Nor 'Anything Goes' -- 3.3 Dislocation, Antagonism and Heterogeneity: The Instability of Hegemony -- 3.4 From 'Ideas' to Discourses: Rhetorical Political Analysis -- Putting Theory into Practice -- Structuring of the Analysis -- Collection and Organization of Sources -- Part II -- Chapter 4: The US Congressional Discourse on Japan and China: Issues and Topics -- 4.1 The US Congress and Japan: Issues and Topics -- 4.2 The US Congress and China: Issues and Topics -- Chapter 5: Nomination and Predication: Initial Articulations of Self and Other -- 5.1 The 'Arrogant Japanese' and 'Communist China' Versus a 'Strong Ally' and a 'Big Economic Power' -- 5.2 'Our Nation' and 'the American People' Versus 'Uncle Sam' and 'Uncle Sucker' -- Chapter 6: Argumentation on the Main Topics: The Trade Deficit and the Challenge to US World Leadership -- 6.1 The Trade Deficit with Japan: 'The Most Competitive Economy' Versus 'the Most Protectionist Country on Earth' -- Japan as 'Unfair'.