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American Ways
Author | : Gary Althen |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0933662688 |
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Althen (former foreign student adviser, U. of Iowa) gives advice to foreign visitors to the U.S. that is intended to help them understand the motivations, attitudes, communication styles, and actions of Americans. Emphasizing the interpretation of observed behavior, he covers ways of reasoning and American ideas about politics, family life, education, religion, the media, social relationships, racial and ethnic diversity, male-female relationships, sports and recreation, driving, shopping, personal hygiene, and organizational and public behavior. Over-generalization is an understandable danger in such a work as this, but Althen does make an effort to emphasize that there are variations among Americans, while he concentrates on the similarities. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
American Ways
Author | : Maryanne Kearny Datesman,JoAnn Crandall,Edward N. Kearny |
Publsiher | : Pearson Education ESL |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : English language |
ISBN | : 0131500864 |
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Indhold: Introduction: Understanding the Culture of the United States; Traditional American Values and Beliefs; The American Religious Heritage; The Frontier Heritages; The Heritage of Abundance; The World of American Business; Government and Politics in the United States; Ethnic and Racial Diversity in the United States; Education in the United States; How Americans spend their leisure time; The American Family; American Values at the Crossroads;
American Ways Third Edition
Author | : Gary Althen,Janet Bennett |
Publsiher | : Nicholas Brealey |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2011-03-04 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781931930963 |
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An exhaustive advice book for foreign visitors to the U.S. seeking to understand the motivations, attitudes, and actions of Americans.
Reconsidering the American Way of War
Author | : Antulio J. Echevarria II |
Publsiher | : Georgetown University Press |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2014-05-28 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 9781626160675 |
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Challenging several longstanding notions about the American way of war, this book examines US strategic and operational practice from 1775 to 2014. It surveys all major US wars from the War of Independence to the campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as most smaller US conflicts to determine what patterns, if any, existed in American uses of force. Contrary to many popular sentiments, Echevarria finds that the American way of war is not astrategic, apolitical, or defined by the use of overwhelming force. Instead, the American way of war was driven more by political considerations than military ones, and the amount of force employed was rarely overwhelming or decisive. Echevarria discovers that most conceptions of American strategic culture fail to hold up to scrutiny, and that US operational practice has been closer to military science than to military art. This book should be of interest to military practitioners and policymakers, students and scholars of military history and security studies, and general readers interested in military history and the future of military power.
Enemies of the American Way
Author | : David Bell Mislan |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 197 |
Release | : 2012-05-24 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781441188847 |
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Why do presidents, when facing the same circumstances, focus on different threats to national security? Enemies of the American Way attempts to answer this question by investigating the role of identity in presidential decision making. The book explains why presidents disagree on what constitute a threat to the US security via the study of three US presidencies in the 19th century (Cleveland, Harrison and McKinley). These case studies help draw a theory of threat identification to understand how and why specific actions are taken, including the decision to wage war. Using a constructivist approach, the book develops a rule-based identity theory to posit that American identity defines potential national security threats, i.e., how a policymaker defines Americans also defines the threats to Americans. Enemies of the American Way offers a new means of understanding a key period when America rose to prominence in international relations while proposing a template that can be used to explain American foreign policy today. It will appeal to students of international relations and foreign policy.
Working the American Way
Author | : Robert Day |
Publsiher | : How To Books Ltd |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 185703984X |
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The purpose of this book is to help the reader to better understand American values, expectations, and behaviours in business activities and to help them to develop practical strategies for being successful in working with Americans.
The American Way of Strategy
Author | : Michael Lind |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2006-10-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0198042140 |
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In The American Way of Strategy, Lind argues that the goal of U.S. foreign policy has always been the preservation of the American way of life--embodied in civilian government, checks and balances, a commercial economy, and individual freedom. Lind describes how successive American statesmen--from George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Alexander Hamilton to Franklin Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, and Ronald Reagan--have pursued an American way of strategy that minimizes the dangers of empire and anarchy by two means: liberal internationalism and realism. At its best, the American way of strategy is a well-thought-out and practical guide designed to preserve a peaceful and demilitarized world by preventing an international system dominated by imperial and militarist states and its disruption by anarchy. When American leaders have followed this path, they have led our nation from success to success, and when they have deviated from it, the results have been disastrous. Framed in an engaging historical narrative, the book makes an important contribution to contemporary debates. The American Way of Strategy is certain to change the way that Americans understand U.S. foreign policy.
Law Science Liberalism and the American Way of Warfare
Author | : Stephanie Carvin,Michael John Williams |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781107067172 |
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Founded and rooted in Enlightenment values, the United States is caught between two conflicting imperatives when it comes to war: achieving perfect security through the annihilation of threats; and a requirement to conduct itself in a liberal and humane manner. In order to reconcile these often clashing requirements, the US has often turned to its scientists and laboratories to find strategies and weapons that are both decisive and humane. In effect, a modern faith in science and technology to overcome life's problems has been utilized to create a distinctly 'American Way of Warfare'. Carvin and Williams provide a framework to understand the successes and failures of the US in the wars it has fought since the days of the early Republic through to the War on Terror. It is the first book of its kind to combine a study of technology, law and liberalism in American warfare.