Azar Gat (born 1959 in Haifa, Israel) is a researcher and author on military history, military strategy and war and peace in general. Along with Steven Pinker and others, Gat argues that war is in decline in today's world.
He is currently Ezer Weizman Professor of National Security and in his second term (first from 1999–2003) as Chair of the Department of Political Science at Tel Aviv University. He is the founder and head of the University's Executive Masters Program in Diplomacy and Security.Gat is also a Major in the Israeli Army.
Gat holds a doctoral degree from the University of Oxford (1984–86), an MA from Tel Aviv University (1979–83), and a BA from the University of Haifa (1975–78).
He has been Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the University of Freiburg, Germany; Fulbright Fellow at Yale University, USA; British Council Scholar at the University of Oxford, Great Britain; Visiting Fellow at the Mershon Center, Ohio State University, USA; Goldman Visiting Israeli Professor at Georgetown University, USA; and Koret Distinguished Visiting Fellow for Israel Studies at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, USA.
Gat's War in Human Civilization, published in 2006 by the Oxford University Press, was named one of the best books of the year by The Times Literary Supplement.
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圖書標籤: 政治學 民族主義 社會學 國傢 民族 批判想象共同體 nationalism 政治
這本書是反擊後現代民族主義理論的諸多可敬努力之一,可惜在建構上仍然有戰風車之感,不足以提齣真正的挑戰。個人覺得這個議題的立論和駁論都往往太泛化,本書的毛病亦然。但我相信,建立在對歐洲和南亞曆史上的範式分析不足以解釋所有人類社會的民族主義的發生。至少,這本書可以讓讀者多一些vigilance,告訴小白不要張嘴就扯什麼狗屁“imagined community”和“invented tradition”。
評分這本書是反擊後現代民族主義理論的諸多可敬努力之一,可惜在建構上仍然有戰風車之感,不足以提齣真正的挑戰。個人覺得這個議題的立論和駁論都往往太泛化,本書的毛病亦然。但我相信,建立在對歐洲和南亞曆史上的範式分析不足以解釋所有人類社會的民族主義的發生。至少,這本書可以讓讀者多一些vigilance,告訴小白不要張嘴就扯什麼狗屁“imagined community”和“invented tradition”。
評分本書認為:民族是“自然”之物,從古到今都在政治生活中發揮作用,現代主義者認為民族是近代的發明是一個錯誤。這種說法有些道理,在古代政治生活中,族群因素確實也有一定作用,以族群、文化為基礎的動員、歧視、壓迫與屠殺並不少見。問題在於,我想,作者混淆瞭“民族”與“族群”之間的區彆,其認為古代存在若乾民族國傢的說法基本上論證非常的薄弱。
評分這本書是反擊後現代民族主義理論的諸多可敬努力之一,可惜在建構上仍然有戰風車之感,不足以提齣真正的挑戰。個人覺得這個議題的立論和駁論都往往太泛化,本書的毛病亦然。但我相信,建立在對歐洲和南亞曆史上的範式分析不足以解釋所有人類社會的民族主義的發生。至少,這本書可以讓讀者多一些vigilance,告訴小白不要張嘴就扯什麼狗屁“imagined community”和“invented tradition”。
評分這本書是反擊後現代民族主義理論的諸多可敬努力之一,可惜在建構上仍然有戰風車之感,不足以提齣真正的挑戰。個人覺得這個議題的立論和駁論都往往太泛化,本書的毛病亦然。但我相信,建立在對歐洲和南亞曆史上的範式分析不足以解釋所有人類社會的民族主義的發生。至少,這本書可以讓讀者多一些vigilance,告訴小白不要張嘴就扯什麼狗屁“imagined community”和“invented tradition”。
Nations 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載