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Robert Kaufman (Stanford University) challenges trends in recent criticism that have tended to present and apply Walter Benjamin's and Theodor Adorno's theories and practices of the constellation and force-field as if these last stemmed primarily from interventionist Left critique of the aesthetic and the literary. Kaufman's essay "Lyric's Constellation, Poetry's Radical Privilege" shows that on the contrary, Benjamin and Adorno - while certainly holding no brief for "pure" formalist methodology - actually develop the constellation and force-field in urgent response to a kind of Left criticism that sloganeeringly maintains that works of art and culture are historically and sociopolitically determined.

IN HIS RESPONSE TO THE IRAQI INVASION OF KUWAIT, U.S. PRESIDENT GEORGE BUSH FOLLOWED THE PRINCIPLES OF WINSTON CHURCHILL. LIKE CHURCHILL, BUSH DEFINED THE NATIONAL INTEREST BOTH MORALLY AND GEOPOLITICALLY. WHILE CHAMPIONING DEMOCRACY, HE MADE ALLIES WITH UNDEMOCRATIC STATES IN ORDER TO DEFEAT THE GREATER EVIL. WHILE SEEKING PEACE, HE WAS WILLING TO CONFRONT AN AGGRESSIVE TYRANT WITH OVERWHELMING MILITARY POWER. ABOVE ALL, BUSH AND CHURCHILL SUBSCRIBED TO MACHIAVELLI'S MAXIM THAT THE ART OF STATESMANSHIP IS TO ACT DECISIVELY WHEN THE DISEASE IS DIFFICULT TO DETECT BUT EASY TO CURE, RATHER THAN TO WAIT UNTIL THE DISEASE IS EASY TO DETECT BUT THE CURE IS DIFFICULT. NOTHING BETTER ILLUSTRATES CHURCHILL'S VISION THAN THE POLICIES HE ADVOCATED TO DEAL WITH THE THREE GRAVEST CRISES OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: THE IMPERIAL GERMAN THREAT, THE NAZI THREAT, AND THE SOVIET THREAT.

Front cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 The Main Tenets of the Obama Doctrine -- 2 The Obama Doctrine and International Relations Theory -- 3 The Obama Doctrine and Rival Traditions of American Diplomacy -- 4 The Obama Doctrine's Reset with Russia and Europe -- 5 The Obama Doctrine Meets the Middle East and Afghanistan -- 6 The Obama Doctrine's Asian Pivot -- Conclusion -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index

"Covers the commonly ignored topic of heteroskedasticity (unequal error variances) in regression analyses and provides a practical guide for how to proceed in terms of testing and correction."-- Publisher description

Women and minorities have entered higher paying occupations, but their overall earnings still lag behind those of white men. Why? Looking nationwide at workers across all employment levels and occupations, the author examines the unexpected ways that prejudice and workplace discrimination continue to plague the labor market. He probes the mechanisms by which race and sex groups are sorted into "appropriate" jobs, showing how the resulting segregation undercuts earnings. He also uses an innovative integration of race-sex queuing and segmented-market theories to show how economic and social contexts shape these processes. His analysis reveals how race, sex, stereotyping, and devaluation interact to create earnings disparities, shedding new light on a vicious cycle that continues to the leave women and minorities behind

Noted historian Robert G. Kaufman contends that the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, shattered the optimism so prevalent in the United States during the tranquil and prosperous 1990s. President George W. Bush's controversial grand strategy for waging a preemptive Global War on Terror has ignited passionate debate about the purposes of American power and the nation's proper role in the world. In Defense of the Bush Doctrine offers a vigorous argument for the principles of moral democratic realism that inspired the Bush administration's policy of regime change in Iraq