Ian Shapiro Boeken

A spirited defense of the Enlightenment against assaults from both the left and the right that explains its urgent implications for our contemporary politics

The book presents a compelling argument for the concept of containment as a viable strategy to safeguard American democracy in a post-September 11 landscape. Drawing parallels to George Kennan's influential "Long Telegram," it outlines a bold vision for national security that emphasizes the need for a robust, strategic response to contemporary threats. Shapiro's analysis seeks to reshape the discourse around American security, suggesting that historical strategies can inform modern challenges.

Investigates a political dilemma, and evaluates answers that have been proposed in the utilitarian, Marxist, social contract, anti-Enlightenment, and democratic traditions.

One of our nation's most prolific and widely discussed political theorists, Ian Shapiro speaks with a distinctive voice. His work is Deweyan in its inspiration, cosmopolitan in its concerns, and practical in its referents. In this book, he provides his first extended statement on contemporary democratic politics.Democracy's Place includes seven essays in which Shapiro carefully integrates the theoretical and the applied. Four deal principally with democratic theory and its link to problems of social justice; the other three detail applications in the United States, the postcommunist world, and the author's native South Africa. All advance a view of democratic politics which rests on principled, yet nuanced, suspicion of hierarchical social arrangements and of political blueprints. Shapiro's writing is unified as well by a pervasive concern with the relations between the requirements of democracy and those of social justice. These themes, substantiated by complex yet accessible arguments, offer a constructive democratic perspective on contemporary debates about liberalism, communitarianism, and distributive justice.

Americans face economic hardship but respond with fantastical solutions, from tax-cut magic to the end of capitalism. Michael Graetz and Ian Shapiro focus on what truly worries people: their own insecurity. The authors propose concrete reforms affecting jobs, unemployment, health care, and wages and share strategies to achieve changes people need.

This comprehensive critical evaluation examines the use of rational choice explanations in political science. In an accessible style, the authors assess rational choice theory's effectiveness in studying collective action, political party behavior, and phenomena like voting cycles and Prisoner's Dilemmas. Their critique reveals that the celebrated successes of rational choice theory are questionable and that a fundamental rethinking is necessary for meaningful contributions to political understanding. They highlight methodological defects in empirical tests of rational choice theories, stemming from the theory's tendency to defend universal political models. Consequently, many tests are poorly executed and irrelevant for evaluating these models. Properly conducted tests often undermine rational choice theories or support trivial propositions. The authors suggest ways to reformulate rational choice propositions into testable hypotheses for political study. In the concluding chapter, they address various counterarguments from rational choice theorists, initiating a dialogue that is likely to persist.

Presuming that the problem of political equality, as it bears on both persons and assemblages, is about being accorded access to the material and symbolic resources needed to manage an effective civic presence, Michael J. Shapiro's critical interventions engage the way aesthetic genres illustrate this problem. Addressing literary, cinematic, photographic, musical, art historical, and architectural compositions, Shapiro's inquiries encounter the way a wide variety of texts elevate voices, bodies, and life dramas that have existed below thresholds of recognition.In Aesthetics of Equality, Shapiro offers a guide to aesthetic methods that emphasize the way writing strategies engage diverse artistic genres to articulate political problems. Emphasizing relationships between compositional form and ideational commitment, while focusing on the texts' protagonists (aesthetic subjects), the analyses cover a wide variety of spaces and historical moments in scenes ranging from ancient Israel and Egypt in the Old Testament's Genesis to the ethno-histories of California and Texas, with attention on the right to urban space in such megacities as Paris, New York, Los Angeles, and Istanbul.

Současný americký politolog Ian Shapiro hájí tezi, že v demokracii by mělo docházet k omezování principu dominance, a ukazuje, jak odpor proti dominanci prakticky prosazovat ve vnitrostátní i zahraniční politice. Dotýká se při tom aktuálních diskusí o volebních systémech, nezávislosti soudů, úloze peněz v politice, minimální mzdě a ochraně menšin. V kapitolách věnovaných dominanci přesahující státní hranice cílí na úlohu mezinárodních institucí, spekuluje o vojenských zásazích, jež mají zabraňovat genocidě a etnickým čistkám, a poukazuje na problémy, které jsou spjaty s prosazováním demokracie v zahraničí. Na základě poznatků o úspěšných politických kampaních minulosti Shapiro vysvětluje, jakým způsobem vytvářet efektivní politické koalice a jak jejich prostřednictvím prosazovat ideál nedominance.

Kniha známého amerického politologa Iana Shapira z roku 2007 se věnuje současné zahraniční politice Spojených států, která po 11. září čelí zcela novým výzvám. Představuje politiku zadržování (containment) jako alternativu k nefunkční Bushově doktríně. Politika zadržování přizpůsobená realitě 21. století podle Shapira nabízí "nejlepší ochranu Američanů před násilnými útoky a zároveň je nejlepším způsobem, jak zachovat demokracii v Americe a také ji šířit ve světě." Shapirova smělá vize bezpečnosti ve světě po 11. září připomíná Dlouhý telegram George Kennana, ve kterém byla strategie zadržování poprvé představena. Ve druhé polovině 20. století pomohla Americe vyhrát studenou válku a Shapiro ve své další brilantní analýze mocenských strategií ukazuje, nakolik má šanci uchránit Spojené státy před hrozbou světového terorismu.