Diesen, The Ukraine War & the Eurasian World Order (2024)

Glenn Diesen.
The Ukraine War & the Eurasian World Order.
Atlanta, Georgia: Clarity Press, 2024.

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Author Information:

• Glenn Diesen, University of Southeast Norway.
• Glenn Diesen (b. 1979), Wikipedia.
• Glenn Diesen, YouTube channel.
• Glenn Diesen. EU and NATO Relations with Russia: After the Collapse of the Soviet Union. Farnham, UK: Ashgate Publishing, 2015. London: Routledge, 2016.
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• Glenn Diesen. Russia's Geoeconomic Strategy for a Greater Eurasia. London: Routledge, 2018.
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• Glenn Diesen. The Decay of Western Civilisation and Resurgence of Russia. London: Routledge, 2019.
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• Glenn Diesen. Russian Conservatism: Managing Change under Permanent Revolution. Lanhan, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2021.
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• Glenn Diesen. Europe as the Western Peninsula of Greater Eurasia: Geoeconomic Regions in a Multipolar World. Lanhan, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2021.
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• Glenn Diesen. Great Power Politics in the Fourth Industrial Revolution: The Geoeconomics of Technological Sovereignty. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.
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• Glenn Diesen. Russophobia: Propaganda in International Politics. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
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• Glenn Diesen. The Think Tank Racket: Managing the Information War with Russia. Atlanta, Georgia: Clarity Press, 2023.
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Wikipedia Articles:

• Realism (international relations).
• Liberalism (international relations).
• Idealism in international relations.
• Liberal internationalism.
• Liberal international order.
• Polarity (international relations).

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Diesen provides a very good summary of international relations theory, contrasting realism and liberalism, which then provides a very insightful framework for understanding geopolitical events over the last 500 years. He then describes events since the late-1980s end of the Cold War, how the West's/USA's dismissal of Russia's security concerns and aggressive expansion of NATO eastwards eventually provoked the recent war in Ukraine, and the consequences this has for the now emerging (already emerged) multipolar world order and the end of previous world order of liberal hegemony dominated by the USA. This book is an excellent introduction to understanding past events and the approaching future.

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Lao-Tzu; Addiss & Lombardo trans, Tao Te Ching (2007)

Lao-Tzu.
Tao Te Ching.
Translated by Stephen Addiss and Stanley Lombardo.
Boulder, Colorado: Shambhala Publications, 2007.
Originally published: Hackett Publishing Company, 1993.

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Wikipedia Articles:

• Laozi.
• Tao Te Ching.
• Tao.
• Wu wei.
• Taoism.
• Taoist philosophy.

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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy:

• Laozi.
• Daoism.
• Religious Daoism.

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This edition of the Addiss and Lombardo translation has these dust jacket blurbs by Gary Snyder:

• "Of the many translations I have read in English, this is unquestionably the best."
• "This crystalline translation of the Tao Te Ching is accurate down to the nuance and is as concisely poetic as the original. It preserves the quirks and flavors of the original text. The translators harkened to the message of the book itself, and kept it clear and gently strong."

I chose this book on the basis of these endorsements by Gary Snyder (also, it's a nice little hardback, printed on nice paper). While this translation is very poetic (how would I know that it follows the original text very closely?) I also found it very terse and cryptic. This edition has no explanatory notes or commentary; the Introduction by Burton Watson provides some historical context but is of no help in understanding the text. As a beginner encountering the Tao Te Ching for the first time I often found this edition too cryptic and occasionally, to me, incomprehensible. I think an edition with added commentary or explanatory notes would be very helpful. Here are some alternatives.

• Lao Tzu. Lao-Tzu's Taoteching: with selected commentaries from the past 2,000 years. Translated by Red Pine. Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press, 2018.
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• Laozi. Daodejing. Translated by Edmund Ryden. Oxford World's Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
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• Lao Tzu. Tao Te Ching. Translated by D. C. Lau. Penguin Classics. London: Penguin Books, 1963.
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• Lao Zi. Dao De Jing: A Philosophical Translation. Translated by Roger T. Ames and David L. Hall. New York: Ballantine Books, 2003.
  (has much commentary by the translators)
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• Lao Tzu. The Way and Its Power: Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching and Its Place in Chinese Thought. Translated by Arthur Waley. New York: Grove Press, 1958.
  (has a lengthy introduction)
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• Lao Tzu. Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way. Translated by Ursula K. Le Guin. Boulder, Colorado: Shambhala Publications, 2019.
  (has some explanatory footnotes)
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• Laozi. The Daodejing of Laozi. Translated by Philip J. Ivanhoe. Hackett Classics. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 2003.
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• Lao Tzu. Tao Te Ching: A New English Version. Translated by Stephen Mitchell. New York: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2006.
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The Wikipedia article on Tao Te Ching contains a list of "notable translations". The Bibliography of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy article "Laozi" includes many translations.

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Shakespeare, Measure for Measure (1991)

William Shakespeare.
Measure for Measure.
Edited by N. W. Bawcutt.
The Oxford Shakespeare.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
This edition was first published in 1991.

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Book Series: The Oxford Shakespeare; Oxford World's Classics.

Some other noteworthy editions of Measure for Measure :

• William Shakespeare. Measure for Measure. Edited by A.R. Braunmuller and Robert N. Watson. The Arden Shakespeare, Third Series. London: Bloomsbury Press, 2020.
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• William Shakespeare. Measure for Measure, Second Edition. Edited by Brian Gibbons. The New Cambridge Shakespeare. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
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• William Shakespeare. Measure for Measure. Edited by Grace Ioppolo. Norton Critical Editions. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2009.
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• William Shakespeare. Measure for Measure. Edited by Terri Bourus and Emma Smith. The New Oxford Shakespeare. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024.
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Editor: N. W. Bawcutt

• Bernard Beatty, Obituary: Dr Nigel Bawcutt, University of Liverpool, 31 October 2023.
• N. W. Bawcutt, OCLC WorldCat Entities.
• Bawcutt, N. W., The Library of Congress, LC Name Authority File (LCNAF).
• N. W. Bawcutt, "'Policy,' Machiavellianism, and the Earlier Tudor Drama", English Literary Renaissance, Volume 1, Number 3, Autumn 1971.
• N. W. Bawcutt, editor. The Control and Censorship of Caroline Drama: The Records of Sir Henry Herbert, Master of the Revels, 1623-73. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.
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• Bawcutt also edited editions of Middleton & Rowley, The Changeling; Ford, 'Tis Pity She's a Whore; Shakespeare & Fletcher, The Two Noble Kinsmen; Marlowe, The Jew of Malta; and Richard Fanshawe.

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Wikipedia Articles:

Shakespeare:

• William Shakespeare (1564–1616).
• Measure for Measure, written between summer 1603 and late 1604; first performed in 1604; first printed in 1623.
• Chronology of Shakespeare's plays: Measure for Measure (1603–1604).
• Shakespearean comedy.
• Shakespearean problem play.

English Renaissance Literature, Drama:

• English Renaissance, 16th - 17th Centuries.
• English literature: English Renaissance (1500–1660).
• Elizabethan literature.
• English literature: Jacobean period (1603–1625).
• English Renaissance theatre.

England during Shakespeare's Time:

• Tudor period, 1485–1603.
• Elizabethan era, 1558–1603.
• Elizabethan government.
• Elizabethan Religious Settlement.
• English society: Tudor society.
• Elizabeth I (1533–1603); Queen of England and Ireland 1558–1603.
• Elizabeth I: Later years.
• Stuart period, 1603–1714.
• Jacobean era, 1603–1625.
• James VI and I (1566–1625); King of Scotland as James VI 1567–1625; King of England and Ireland as James I 1603–1625.
• Early modern Britain, 16th – 18th Centuries.

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Engel & Martin, Russia in World History (2015)

Barbara Alpern Engel and Janet Martin.
Russia in World History.
New Oxford World History.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.

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Book Series: New Oxford World History.

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Author Information: Barbara Alpern Engel

• Barbara A. Engel, Department of History, University of Colorado, Boulder.
• Barbara Engel (historian) (b. 1943), Wikipedia.
• Barbara Alpern Engel. Women in Russia, 1700–2000. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
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• Five Sisters: Women Against the Tsar. Edited and Translated by Barbara Alpern Engel and Clifford N. Rosenthal. Allen and Unwin, 1975. New York and London: Routledge, 1992. DeKalb, Illinois: Northern Illinois University Press, 2013.
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• Barbara Engel, OCLC WorldCat Entities.
• Engel, Barbara Alpern, The Library of Congress, LC Name Authority File (LCNAF).

Author Information: Janet Martin

• Janet L. B. Martin, Professor Emeritus, Department of History, University of Miami.
• Janet Martin. Medieval Russia, 980–1584, Second Edition. Cambridge Medieval Textbooks. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
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• Martin, Janet, 1945-, The Library of Congress, LC Name Authority File (LCNAF).

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Wikipedia Articles:

• History of Russia.
• Russia.
• Russians.
• Culture of Russia.
• Russian literature.
• Russian philosophy.
• Religion in Russia.

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