Overreach - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Overreach write by Michael MacDonald. This book was released on 2014-10. Overreach available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the run-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, a fair number of Americans thought the idea was crazy. Now everyone, except a few die-hards, thinks it was. So what was going through the minds of the talented and experienced men and women who planned and initiated the war? What were their assumptions? Overreach aims to recover those presuppositions. Michael MacDonald examines the standard hypotheses for the decision to attack, showing them to be either wrong or of secondary importance: the personality of President George W. Bush, including his relationship with his father; Republican electoral considerations; the oil lobby; the Israeli lobby. He also undermines the argument that the war failed because of the Bush administration’s incompetence. The more fundamental reasons for the Iraq War and its failure, MacDonald argues, are located in basic axioms of American foreign policy, which equate America’s ideals with its interests (distorting both in the process) and project those ideals as universally applicable. Believing that democratic principles would bring order to Iraq naturally and spontaneously, regardless of the region’s history and culture or what Iraqis themselves wanted, neoconservative thinkers, with support from many on the left, advocated breaking the back of state power under Saddam Hussein. They maintained that by bringing about radical regime change, the United States was promoting liberalism, capitalism, and democracy in Iraq. But what it did instead was unleash chaos.
On Hijacking Science
On Hijacking Science - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook On Hijacking Science write by Edwin E. Gantt. This book was released on 2018-04-17. On Hijacking Science available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines the origins, presence, and implications of scientistic thinking in psychology. Scientism embodies the claim that only knowledge attained by means of natural scientific methods counts as valid and valuable. This perspective increasingly dominates thinking and practice in psychology and is seldom acknowledged as anything other than standard scientific practice. This book seeks to make this intellectual movement explicit and to detail the very real limits in both role and reach of science in psychology. The critical chapters in this volume present an alternative perspective to the scholarly mainstreams of the discipline and will be of value to scholars and students interested in the scientific status and the philosophical bases of psychology as a discipline.
Overreach
Overreach - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Overreach write by Susan L. Shirk. This book was released on 2022-10-12. Overreach available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Susan L. Shirk combines decades of research, analysis, and first-hand anecdotes to illuminate China's evolving role on the world's stage and the deterioration of relations with the United States. Shirk opens the 'black box' of China's political system, revealing what lies behind China's aim to expand soft and hard power abroad, and how the United States might respond.
Overreach
Overreach - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Overreach write by George C. Edwards. This book was released on 2012-03-25. Overreach available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A presidential scholar argues that in President Obama's first two years in office, his policies failed because of his use of persuasion on the public instead of exploiting Democratic opportunities that already existed.
Atheist Overreach
Atheist Overreach - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Atheist Overreach write by Christian Smith. This book was released on 2018-09-05. Atheist Overreach available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In recent years atheism has become ever more visible, acceptable, and influential. Atheist apologists have become increasingly vociferous and confident in their claims: that a morality requiring benevolence towards all and universal human rights need not be grounded in religion; that modern science disproves the existence of God; and that there is nothing innately religious about human beings. In Atheist Overreach, Christian Smith takes a look at the evidence and arguments, and explains why we ought to be skeptical of these atheists' claims about morality, science, and human nature. He does not argue that atheism is necessarily wrong, but rather that its advocates are advancing crucial claims that are neither rationally defensible nor realistic. Their committed worldview feeds unhelpful arguments and contributes to the increasing polarization of today's political landscape. Everyone involved in the theism-atheism debates, in shared moral reflection, and in the public consumption of the findings of science should be committed to careful reasoning and rigorous criticism. This book provides readers with the information they need to participate more knowledgably in debates about atheism and what it means for our society.
