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Long, Austin. “The Limits of Special Operations Forces.” PRISM 6, no. 3 (2016): 35–47.
David Tucker • United States Special Operations Forces
start from the premise that power relationships are constitutive of society because those who have power construct the institutions of society according to their values and interests. Power is exercised by means of coercion (the monopoly of violence, legitimate or not, by the control of the state) and/or by the construction of meaning in people’s m
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For the phenomenal expansion of civil society and non-state actors across the globe in recent decades, see Karen T. Litfin, “Sovereignty in World Ecopolitics,”
Prasenjit Duara • The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future (Asian Connections)
Advances and Challenges in International Higher Education
American Academy of Arts & Sciencesamacad.orgThe Uganda Rural Training and Development (URDT) organization was founded. Mwalimu Musheshe, Ephrem Rutaboa, and Silvana Veltkamp, a small group of dedicated young leaders, decided to do something about the economic and social development needs of Africa. They concluded that most approaches to rural development were failing because they were not ad
... See moreWilliam A. Adams • Mastering Leadership: An Integrated Framework for Breakthrough Performance and Extraordinary Business Results
In Orange Organizations, strategy and execution are king. In Green Organizations, the company culture is paramount.
Frederic Laloux • Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness
The incongruity of the source of our problems, which are global – but where cause and effect are not directly visible – and the institutions of justice, which are, by and large, limited to the sovereign nation, requires that the sacred notion of the singular sovereign has to be restructured or give way to be shared with regional and global entities
... See morePrasenjit Duara • The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future (Asian Connections)
In Orange, the world presents a new face. We see it no longer as a fixed universe governed by immutable rules, but as a complex clockwork, whose inner workings and natural laws can be investigated and understood.
Frederic Laloux • Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness
as we go against such formidable constraints, we can still rely on the quintessentially human capacity to hope, to imagine and to envision new possibilities for environmental action, justice and peace. The possible re-emerges as an organising category in our lives and our thinking not despite but because of living through the seemingly impossible a
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