International Security: Politics, Policy, Prospects

From war, terrorism and weapons of mass destruction, through environmental and economic crises, to epidemics, cyber-war and piracy, the twenty-first century world seems beset by a daunting range of international security problems.At the same time, the academic study of security has become more fragmented and contested than ever before as new actors, issues and theories increasingly challenge traditional concepts and approaches.This innovative new text focuses on the politics of international security: how and why issues are interpreted as threats to international security and how such threats are managed. After a brief introduction to the field and its major theories and approaches, the core chapters systematically analyze the major issues on the contemporary international security agenda. Each is examined according to a common framework that brings out the nature of the threat and the responses open to policy makers.

Politics & Social Sciences

Smith, Michael E.

Politics & Government

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

From war, terrorism and weapons of mass destruction, through environmental and economic crises, to epidemics, cyber-war and piracy, the twenty-first century world seems beset by a daunting range of international security problems. At the same time, the academic study of security has become more fragmented and contested than ever before as new actors, issues and theories increasingly challenge traditional concepts and approaches. This innovative new text focuses on the politics of international security: how and why issues are interpreted as threats to international security and how such threats are managed. After a brief introduction to the field and its major theories and approaches, the core chapters systematically analyze the major issues on the contemporary international security agenda. Each is examined according to a common framework that brings out the nature of the threat and the responses open to policy makers.

Everyday Life in the Aztec World

Product Description In Everyday Life in the Aztec World, Frances Berdan and Michael E. Smith offer a view into the lives of real people, doing very human things, in the unique cultural world of Aztec central Mexico. The first section focuses on people from an array of social classes - the emperor, a priest, a feather worker, a merchant, a farmer, and a slave - who interacted in the economic, social and religious realms of the Aztec world. In the second section, the authors examine four important life events where the lives of these and others intersected: the birth and naming of a child, market day, a day at court, and a battle. Through the microscopic views of individual types of lives, and interweaving of those lives into the broader Aztec world, Berdan and Smith recreate everyday life in the final years of the Aztec Empire. Review ‘A vast amount of sociocultural information is cleverly interwoven in this carefully crafted narrative …’ C. C. Kolb, Choice Book Description This book offers views of Aztec lives and their interactions in rituals, markets, courts, and on the battlefield. About the Author Frances Berdan is Professor Emerita of Anthropology at California State University, San Bernardino. She is the author or co-author of fourteen books on aspects of Aztec culture, most recently Aztec Archaeology and Ethnohistory (Cambridge, 2014). Her 4-volume co-authored The Codex Mendoza (1992) won the James R. Wiseman Book Award from the Archaeological Institute of America in 1992.Michael E. Smith is Professor in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University. Director of the ASU Teotihuacan Research Laboratory, he is the author of twelve books, including At Home with the Aztecs: An Archaeologist Uncovers Their Daily Life (2016), which won the Best Popular Book award from the Society of American Archaeology in 2017.

History

Berdan, Frances F.

Americas

Cambridge University Press

Emergence of a common security and foreign policy has been one of the most contentious issues accompanying the integration of the European Union. With extensive empirical evidence drawn from interviews, case studies, official documents and secondary sources, Michael Smith examines the specific ways foreign policy cooperation has been institutionalized in the EU. This analysis will appeal to scholars and researchers in international relations, law, foreign policy and European studies.

Europe's Foreign and Security Policy: The Institutionalization of Cooperation (Themes in European Governance)

Emergence of a common security and foreign policy has been one of the most contentious issues accompanying the integration of the European Union. With extensive empirical evidence drawn from interviews, case studies, official documents and secondary sources, Michael Smith examines the specific ways foreign policy cooperation has been institutionalized in the EU. This analysis will appeal to scholars and researchers in international relations, law, foreign policy and European studies.

This book is a vivid and comprehensive account of the Aztecs, the best-known people of pre-Columbian America. It examines their origins, civilization, and the distinctive realms of Aztec religion, science, and thought. It describes the conquest of their empire by the Spanish, and the fate of their descendants to the present day in Central Mexico, making use of the results of the latest excavations, historical documentation, and the author's first-hand knowledge. There is also a fascinating and detailed account of the daily life of the Aztec people, including their economy, family life, class system, and food. This second edition updates the original text with new descriptions of major archaeological sites such as Malinalco and Tlatelolco and expanded coverage of codices, religion, and areas distant from the capital. Dozens of photographs and illustrations have been added for this edition, making this the most informative and up-to-date treatment of Aztec civilization.

Aztecs 2E

The Aztecs ruled much of Mexico from the thirteenth century until the Spanish conquest in 1521. Outside of the imperial capital of Tenochtitlan, various urban centers ruled the numerous city-states that covered the central Mexican landscape. Aztec City-State Capitals is the first work to focus attention outside Tenochtitlan, revealing these dozens of smaller cities to have been the central hubs of political, economic, and religious life, integral to the grand infrastructure of the Aztec empire. Focusing on building styles, urban townscapes, layouts, and designs, Michael Smith combines two archaeological approaches: monumental (excavations of pyramids, palaces, and public buildings) and social (excavations of houses, workshops, and fields). As a result, he is able to integrate the urban-built environment and the lives of the Aztec peoples as reconstructed from excavations. Smith demonstrates the ways in which these city-state capitals were different from Tenochtitlan and convincingly argues that urban design is the direct result of decisions made by political leaders to legitimize their own power and political roles in the states of the Aztec empire.

Aztec City-State Capitals (Ancient Cities of the New World)

University Press of Florida

Edited by Michael E. Smith and Frances F. Berdan Anthropology and Archaeology The past two decades have seen an explosion of research on  Postclassic Mesoamerican societies. In this ambitious new volume, the editors  and contributors seek to present a complete picture of the middle and late  Postclassic period (ca. AD 1100-1500) employing a new theoretical  framework.  Mesoamerican societies after the collapse of the great  city-states of Tula and Chichen Itza stand out from earlier societies in a  number of ways. They had larger regional populations, smaller polities, a higher  volume of long-distance trade, greater diversity of trade goods, a more  commercialized economy, and new standardized forms of pictorial writing and  iconography. The emerging archaeological record reveals larger quantities of  imported goods in Postclassic contexts, and ethnohistoric accounts describe  marketplaces, professional merchants, and the use of money throughout  Mesoamerica by the time of the Spanish conquest. The integration of this  commercial economy with new forms of visual communication produced a dynamic  world system that reached every corner of Mesoamerica.  Thirty-six focused  articles by twelve authors describe and analyze the complexity of Postclassic  Mesoamerica. After an initial theoretical section, chapters are organized by key  themes: polities, economic networks, information networks, case studies, and  comparisons. Covering a region from western Mexico to Yucatan and the  southwestern Maya highlands, this volume should be in the library of anyone with  a serious interest in ancient Mexico.

Postclassic Mesoamerican World

Archaeology

University of Utah Press

The Tlahuica were an Aztec ethnic group who lived just south of the Valley of Mexico in what is now the Mexican state of Morelos. Tlahuica Ceramics summarizes ceramic artifacts from numerous Tlahuica sites, including shards from domestic contexts and whole vessels from burials and offerings. This heavily illustrated monograph the first published description of a regional variant of the central Mexican Aztec ceramic style. It includes discussion of the roles of commercial exchange and ethnicity in shaping the distribution of ceramics throughout Morelos.

Tlahuica Ceramics: The Aztec-Period Ceramics of Morelos, Mexico (IMS Monographs)

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Institute for Mesoamerican Studies

Urban Life in the Distant Past: The Prehistory of Energized Crowding (Urban Archaeological Pasts)

Urban Life in the Distant Past (Urban Archaeological Pasts)

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International Security: Politics, Policy, Prospects

International Security: Politics, Policy, Prospects

Everyday Life in the Aztec World

Europe's Foreign and Security Policy: The Institutionalization of Cooperation (Themes in European Governance)

Europe's Foreign and Security Policy: The Institutionalization of Cooperation (Themes in European Governance)

Aztecs 2E

Aztec City-State Capitals (Ancient Cities of the New World)

Postclassic Mesoamerican World

Tlahuica Ceramics: The Aztec-Period Ceramics of Morelos, Mexico (IMS Monographs)

Urban Life in the Distant Past (Urban Archaeological Pasts)