To install click the Add extension button. That's it.

The source code for the WIKI 2 extension is being checked by specialists of the Mozilla Foundation, Google, and Apple. You could also do it yourself at any point in time.

4,5
Kelly Slayton
Congratulations on this excellent venture… what a great idea!
Alexander Grigorievskiy
I use WIKI 2 every day and almost forgot how the original Wikipedia looks like.
Live Statistics
English Articles
Improved in 24 Hours
Added in 24 Hours
What we do. Every page goes through several hundred of perfecting techniques; in live mode. Quite the same Wikipedia. Just better.
.
Leo
Newton
Brights
Milds

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Kenneth Jowitt (born 1940) is an American political scientist. He was the President and Maurine Hotchkis Senior Fellow[1] at Stanford University's Hoover Institution and the Robson Professor, emeritus, of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, positions he has held since 2001 and 1995 respectively.

YouTube Encyclopedic

  • 1/3
    Views:
    29 701
    7 094
    16 345
  • Globalization or Americanization with Ken Jowitt
  • Conversations with History: Kenneth Jowitt
  • The Empire Dialogues: The U.S. and World Order

Transcription

Biography

Jowitt was born and raised in Ossining, New York, approximately thirty miles north of New York City.[2] After graduating from Columbia University in 1962, Jowitt pursued post-graduate and doctoral studies at the University of California, Berkeley, earning his Master's in 1963 and his doctorate in 1970. Jowitt also spent some of his post-graduate life in Romania during the Ceauşescu regime, where he studied the political and cultural dynamics of post-Stalinist Communist Europe.

Professional career

Jowitt has been a professor at UC-Berkeley since 1968. Among other honors and forms of recognition, he won the University Distinguished Teaching Award in 1983, and has been the recipient of two Stanford Hoover fellowships. From 1983 to 1986 he was dean of undergraduate studies at his alma mater, the University of California-Berkeley.

Focusing on social theory and comparative politics, Jowitt specializes in the study of post-Stalinist Eastern Europe and Communist studies. He has published numerous essays, articles, books, and scholarly theses related to these and other Cold War and post-Cold War era subjects.

One of Jowitt's more notable scholarly works is New World Disorder: The Leninist Extinction, a collection of essays written between 1974 and 1990 that focuses on the nature of Communist regimes. The last three essays argue against a popular early 1990s philosophy that espoused Western triumphalism, and the essays dispute the "end of history" theory propounded at the time by former neoconservative scholar Francis Fukuyama.

He also contributed an essay, entitled "In Praise of the Ordinary: An Essay on Democracy," to Adam Michnik's anthology, Letters from Freedom.

Jowitt is noted for receiving standing ovations at the conclusion of his course lectures at UC-Berkeley.[3]

Middle East

Jowitt has taken what some would consider a qualified, anti-Wilsonian stance with respect to the Global War on Terror, and criticizing—both in print and during public debates—writers such as David Frum, who have articulated a desire for the United States to change the Middle East into a more pluralistic, democratic region, primarily through military intervention.[4]

Although he initially supported the 2003 invasion of Iraq, he later became a critic of what he viewed as an unwillingness on the part of the Bush administration to implement a "realist" foreign policy, especially with respect to the Middle East and the ongoing War on Terror.

Bibliography

  • Revolutionary Breakthroughs and National Development: The Case of Romania. (University of California Press, 1971)
  • The New World Disorder: The Leninist Extinction (University of California Press, 1992)
  • "Really Imaginary Socialism", (East European Constitutional Review, spring/summer 1997)
  • "In Praise of the Ordinary: An Essay on Democracy", published in Adam Michnik's Letters from Freedom (University of California Press, 1998)
  • "Russia Disconnected", (Irish Slavonic Studies 19 [1998])
  • "Challenging the Correct Line", (East European Politics and Society, fall 1998)
  • "Ethnicity: Nice, Nasty, Nihilistic", in Ethnopolitical Warfare: Causes, Consequences, and Possible Solutions, ed. Daniel Chirot and Martin E. P. Seligman (American Psychological Association, 2001)

References

  1. ^ "Jowitt appointed first Pres and Maurine Hotchkis Senior Fellow: 5/01".
  2. ^ Kreisler, Harry (December 7, 1999). Ken Jowitt Interview. Conversations with History.
  3. ^ "Is it true that there is a professor at UC Berkeley who receives a standing ovation at the end of every lecture? If so, what is his/her name and why?".
  4. ^ "ROCK MY WORLDVIEW: How to Win the War on Terror". Hoover Institution. Retrieved 2020-11-24.

External links

This page was last edited on 14 December 2023, at 11:19
Basis of this page is in Wikipedia. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported License. Non-text media are available under their specified licenses. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. WIKI 2 is an independent company and has no affiliation with Wikimedia Foundation.