The Limits of Influence - 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 The Limits of Influence write by Howard B. Schaffer. This book was released on 2009-09-01. The Limits of Influence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the first systematic history of U.S. efforts to help forge a settlement between India and Pakistan on the "Kashmir question." Former ambassador Howard B. Schaffer draws on interviews with senior American officials, historical research, and his decades of experience in South Asia to explain and evaluate three generations of U.S. activities and policies toward the volatile region. The Limits of Influence chronicles America's views on—and involvement in—the long-standing struggle waged between India and Pakistan over Kashmir since their independence in 1947. He brings the discussion up to the current day, concluding with recommendations on the role Washington might usefully play in resolving the long-simmering dispute, thus reducing the dangerous tensions between two nuclear-armed archrivals in a region of great importance. His book is a fascinating piece of diplomatic history as well as an instructive look at the present and future of the Kashmir dilemma and its impact on vital U.S. concerns. "Indian and Pakistani positions on the terms of a settlement have grown closer over the past few years. A quiet shove by Washington may be more likely than before to help push the two governments over the elusive finish line they have never been able to cross on their own. And the critical part Pakistan plays in the war on terrorism has added to the importance of a Kashmir settlement to major American interests in South Asia and beyond...." —From the Introduction
The Limits of Influence
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The Limits of Influence
The Limits of Influence - 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 The Limits of Influence write by Stephen E. Braude. This book was released on 1997. The Limits of Influence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Paper edition of a 1986 work in which Braude (philosophy, U. of Maryland) carefully speculates about an oft-maligned aspect of parapsychology, with insights relevant to the progress of psychology as well as the philosophy of science and of the mind. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The Limits of Family Influence
The Limits of Family Influence - 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 The Limits of Family Influence write by David C. Rowe. This book was released on 1994-01-01. The Limits of Family Influence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Challenging firmly established assumptions about the influence of child rearing on the development of children's personalities and intelligence, this book contends that there has been too heavy an emphasis on the family as the bearer of culture. It draws from behavior genetic research to reveal how environmental variables such as social class, parental warmth, and one- versus two-parent households may be empty of causal influence on child outcomes. The book examines the theoretical basis of socialization science and describes, in great detail, what behavior genetic studies can teach us about environmental influence.
The Limits of Free Will
The Limits of Free Will - 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 The Limits of Free Will write by Paul Russell. This book was released on 2017-09-22. The Limits of Free Will available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Limits of Free Will presents influential articles by Paul Russell concerning free will and moral responsibility. The problems arising in this field of philosophy, which are deeply rooted in the history of the subject, are also intimately related to a wide range of other fields, such as law and criminology, moral psychology, theology, and, more recently, neuroscience. These articles were written and published over a period of three decades, although most have appeared in the past decade. Among the topics covered: the challenge of skepticism; moral sentiment and moral capacity; necessity and the metaphysics of causation; practical reason; free will and art; fatalism and the limits of agency; moral luck, and our metaphysical attitudes of optimism and pessimism. Some essays are primarily critical in character, presenting critiques and commentary on major works or contributions in the contemporary scene. Others are mainly constructive, aiming to develop and articulate a distinctive account of compatibilism. The general theory advanced by Russell, which he describes as a form of "critical compatibilism", rejects any form of unqualified or radical skepticism; but it also insists that a plausible compatibilism has significant and substantive implications about the limits of agency and argues that this licenses a metaphysical attitude of (modest) pessimism on this topic. While each essay is self-standing, there is nevertheless a core set of themes and issues that unite and link them together. The collection is arranged and organized in a format that enables the reader to appreciate and recognize these links and core themes.
