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War In The Age Of Intelligent Machines And Unintelligent Government, Ian Buchanan
War In The Age Of Intelligent Machines And Unintelligent Government, Ian Buchanan
Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)
The 2004 US election must have caused hearts to sink everywhere in the Third World. The bloody insurgency in Iraq only strengthened the position of the 'War President', giving him greater license to continue his campaign of terror. Atthe time of the election the death toll of US soldiers was nearing a thousand with the number injured seven times that. To which toll one must add the haunting fact that of the 500 000 plus US servicemen and women who served in theFirst Gulf War some 325 000 are now on disability pensions suffering a variety of acute maladies generally …
Benjamin Constant: From The Age Of War To The Age Of Commerce, Gregory C. Melleuish
Benjamin Constant: From The Age Of War To The Age Of Commerce, Gregory C. Melleuish
Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)
Benjamin Constant was a distinguished liberal thinker whose continuing fame rests on his differentiation between ancient and modern liberty. In making this distinction Constant was attempting to demonstrate that the values which had actuated the ancient Greeks and Romans, and which many of the most extreme players in the French Revolution had attempted to emulate, were no longer relevant in the modern world. For Constant the Revolution had demonstrated that the values of ancient liberty were positively harmful when applied to modern politics. In this Constant was following Montesquieu and his view that 'sweet commerce', as manifested in the regime …