📡[EAL Events] The author, Daniel C. Mattingly, a Yale political scientist and a member of the Council on East Asian Studies, will talk about his new book in the upcoming Yale University Library’s Arts & Humanities Book Talks series on Thursday, April 9, 2020 - 4:30pm to 5:30pm in International Room, Sterling Memorial Library.
NB East Asian Studies
Tocqueville and Putnam insist that civil society helps individuals flourish and resist authority, but Daniel C. Mattingly’s decade of research in rural China leads him to conclude that civil society offers officials leverage over citizens that strengthens the state’s coercive capacity. Learn more about THE ART of POLITICAL CONTROL in CHINA (Cambridge University Press) as the Yale political scientist joins us on the podcast ↙️
A fascinating review, in the Wall Street Journal, of Virtue Politics, a magisterial study of Renaissance humanist political thought by Harvard historian James Hankins. The concerns and ideas of Renaissance thinkers are relevant to our political life today.
World Leaders Lay Out Tests for Obama
Obama arrived ahead of the G-20, eager to try his hand at statecraft, and world leaders appear just as eager to test a president with little international experience.
The Taiwan Statebuilding Party (TSP; Chinese: 台灣基進黨) is a political party in Taiwan which advocates Taiwan independence. The party was established in 2016 as Taiwan Radical Wings.[3] It is supportive of the Democratic Progressive Party.[1]
statecraft
n.
The art of leading a country: “They placed free access to scientific knowledge far above the exigencies of statecraft” (Anthony Burgess).
He advocates freedom of consciousness and responsiveness to history, to the exigencies of the text, to political, social, and human values, to the heterogeneity of human experience. These characteristics are brilliantly exemplified in his own analyses of individual authors and works.
exigency
noun [C or U] FORMAL ━━ n. 緊急, 危急; （pl.） 急務.the difficulties of a situation, especially one which causes urgent demands:
the exigencies of war
Economic exigency obliged the government to act.
exigent
adjective FORMAL
needing urgent attention, or demanding too much from other people:
an exigent problem
an exigent manager
hetero・geneous
━━ a. 異種［異質］の, 雑多な.
het・er・o・ge・ne・i・ty
━━ n.
heterogeneous network 【コンピュータ】異種ネットワーク.
het・er・o・ge・ne・i・ty ━━ n. heterogeneous network 【コンピュータ】異種ネットワーク.
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