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Ethics in international relations : power and morality
No full textOver the eight years of Ronald Reagan’s presidency, the United States overthrew or attempted to overthrow several foreign governments. In Grenada, a combined force from the United States and seven Caribbean nations invaded to oust a newly-installed Marxist regime. In Nicaragua, the United States supported the anti-government Contra rebels in a years long, albeit indirect, effort to topple the Soviet and Cuban-backed Sandinistas. Faced with election fraud and human rights concerns in the Philippines, the U.S. applied political pressure to help oust strongman Ferdinand Marcos and hand the Presidential election to Corazon Aquino’s People Power Movement. As the Reagan administration draws to a close and the Presidency of George H.W. Bush begins, host Peter Krogh and his guests look back on the United States’ record during the Reagan years to discuss the morality of foreign interventions, and ask: when is overthrowing governments the right thing to do? Featuring Richard Allen, former National Security Advisor to President Reagan, journalist Karen Elliott House of the Wall Street Journal, and Madeleine Albright, Georgetown University professor and future Secretary of State.Host Peter Krogh and guests look back on the Reagan presidency and its record of intervention overseas, and discuss the morality of overthrowing foreign governments
Russia and the United States in the age of terrorism
No full textOn September 1, 2004, Chechen and Ingush terrorists seized School Number One in the Russian town of Beslan in North Ossetia. The terrorists held over 1,000 people hostage in a three day standoff that culminated in tragedy when Russian security forces attempted to storm the building. Over 300 civilians were killed, and in the aftermath of the attack President Vladimir Putin pledged to crackdown on international terrorism. As part of the effort to combat terrorism, Putin introduced a plan to strengthen centralized authority within the Russian government. While Putin's proposals drew widespread support within Russia, critics portrayed them as an opportunistic power grab and a step backwards for Russian democracy. In this episode hosted by Peter Krogh, Great Decisions examines issues in Russian security and proposed responses to the increase in international terrorism. Featuring segments fron Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's address to the Foreign Policy Association's World Leadership Forum.Examines recent terrorist attacks in Russia and the responses of the Russian government
Monumentalitet & Kontrast
No full textDanish magazine on brick architecture and the innovative use of bricks. Translated to Danish by V. Krogh for TEGL
Knowledge creation through cooperative experimentation
No full textSi tratta dello sviluppo della conoscenza attraverso approcci di sperimentazione. Il focus è sul processo di generazione di nuova conoscenz
Third World arms bazaar : disaster for sale
No full textAs the Cold War appeared to be nearing its end, the United States and Soviet Union continued to diffuse tensions between the two nations, making nuclear war between the superpowers less likely. However, even as the U.S. and Russia accelerated the pace of their own arms reductions, the sale of weapons to third world countries continued to grow and thrive off of the world’s ethnic, religious, and economic conflicts. Armed with increasingly sophisticated weapons bought from countries such as Great Britain, France, China, and Israel, third world countries quickly became the concern of American policymakers, who feared the potentially devastating consequences of the proliferation of ballistic missiles and chemical and nuclear weapons. Featuring Richard Allen, Karen Elliott House, and Madeleine Albright, this program examines the threat proliferation poses to the United States, as well as possible solutions to prevent dangerous, sophisticated weapons from falling into the hands of unstable regimes.Host Peter Krogh and guests disuss arms trade in Third World countries
Should former United States officials represent foreign interests?
No full textWhen a company wants to bolster its image in Washington, it turns to lobbyists. Drawn from the ranks of former government officials and politicians, lobbyists capitalize on their access to policymakers to promote their clients’ interests. Increasingly, lobbyists in Washington have taken on the role of representing foreign interests. The practice of advocating on behalf of foreign governments and corporations translates into big business for lobbyists, yet it also raises significant questions about the harm done to American interests when top officials suddenly switch sides to become registered foreign agents. Faced with a growing number of lobbyists representing countries including Marxist Angola, China, and Japan, Senator David Boren proposed legislation that would prohibit former high government officials from advocating on behalf of foreign entities. Do these foreign agents pose a danger to American interests, or are there benefits that accrue to the U.S. through the lobbying process? In this episode, host Peter Krogh sits down with Senator Boren and Richard Allen, former National Security Advisor to President Reagan and a registered foreign agent, to discuss lobbyists and their impact on American foreign policy.Examines the role of lobbyists acting on behalf of foreign powers in the formulation of American foreign policy
Feeding the world
No full textMore than half of the world’s food comes directly from grain, and a significantly larger amount comes indirectly from grain through meat and dairy products. So when two years of severe draught caused the world’s grain reserves to drop dramatically in the late 1980s, policymakers began to worry. By 1989 the world supply of grain was down to just 54 days, meaning that one more bad harvest could have wiped out the reserve. At the same time, the amount of land available for farming was shrinking rapidly, and as the world’s population continued to expand, food consumption was beginning to exceed production. The question facing nations around the world was whether this was a temporary glitch in an otherwise stable system, or whether a new approach was needed in order to feed the world. In the United States, agricultural experts were divided into two contradictory camps over the cause of the crisis; while some claimed that the amount of arable land in the world was rapidly disappearing, others attributed the crisis to massive agricultural subsidies in developed nations, which in turn depressed prices worldwide and drove low-cost producers in third world countries out of the market. What is causing the global agricultural crisis, and how should the world feed itself? In this episode of Great Decisions, host Peter Krogh sits down to discuss these issues with Richard Allen, former National Security Advisor to President Reagan, journalist Karen Elliott House of the Wall Street Journal, and Madeleine Albright, Georgetown University professor and future Secretary of State. Also featuring interviews with Lester Brown, President of the Worldwatch Institute, and Ewen Wilson, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for Economics.Examines the debate over the world’s dwindling food supply
Persian Gulf
No full textThe Persian Gulf has long been a strategic crossroads where the interests of the world’s great powers converge, and where minor conflicts frequently have global consequences. Since World War II American ships have been patrolling the Gulf to keep the sea-lanes open and the West’s vital supply of oil flowing. Following the 1979 Iranian Revolution, however, the American position in the Gulf hit a rough patch. Just months after the pro-American Shah was overthrown in Iran, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in what the U.S. saw as a flanking maneuver designed to gain access the strategic waters of the Gulf. Concerned by the turn of events, President Carter responded with a grave warning that became known as the Carter Doctrine—that an “attempt by any outside force to gain control of the Persian Gulf region will be regarded as an assault on the vital interests of the United States of America, and such an assault will be repelled by any means necessary, including military force.” Just as menacing to American interests in the region were Iran’s attempts to export Islamic fundamentalism, which threatened to destabilize other nations in the Gulf. In response, the U.S. began supporting Iraq in its bloody war of attrition against Iran -- not to ensure an Iraqi victory, but to prevent an Iranian one. By 1989 the flow of oil in the region had been secured, Iran and Iraq had bled each other to an impasse, and the Soviets had withdrawn from Afghanistan. Yet obstacles remained in U.S.-Iran relations, including a number of Americans being held hostage by the pro-Iranian terrorist group Hezbollah. As George H.W. Bush begins his Presidency, host Peter Krogh sits down to discuss American policy in the Gulf with Richard Allen, former National Security Advisor to President Reagan, journalist Karen Elliott House of the Wall Street Journal, and Madeleine Albright, Georgetown University professor and future Secretary of State. Together they examine American interests in the region and discuss guidelines for new administration’s foreign policy toward the Persian Gulf.Examines America’s interests in the Persian Gulf and guidelines for U.S. policy in the region
Didaktiske paradigmer og refleksion:replik til Ellen Krogh
No full textThe article discusses the proposal of a didactic reflection paradigm set forward by Ellen Krogh in this issue of CURSIV. In CURSIV 9, Krogh proposed the paradigm in a discussion of possible links between the phenomenological analysis of subject didactics by Frede V. Nielsen and the semiotic analysis of subject didactics by Sigmund Ongstad. The two positions offer fundamentally different insights into didactics. Nielsen’s position establishes didactics as a knowledge domain and Ongstad’s position points to the dynamics of subject didactics by analyzing communication as a basic aspect. Krogh’s proposal is discussed in some detail and it is argued that a reflection paradigm does not live up to the criterion providedby Nielsen that a didactic paradigm must refer to a naturalistic phenomenon to be applicable for selection of content, at least in the interpretation of Nielsen that underlies this article.A possible utilitarian didactical paradigm, already indicated by Krogh as a historical paradigm prominent in our time, is also discussed. It is suggested that reflection could be seen as a normative response to the utilitarian paradigm, and not as a paradigm in its own right. It is concluded that reflection must be understood as an overarching cultural phenomenon and a very important qualification of all Nielsen’s paradigms, and also a possible utilitarian paradigm, because it has the potential to add dynamic elements to the more or less static didactic paradigms. Thus the semiotic analysis may be said to qualify the phenomenological analysis. In this sense, the phenomenological and the semiotic analysis can be linked.<br/
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