Genre-Crossing Authors An Interview With One Who Does It Well

Genre-Crossing Authors An Interview With One Who Does It Well Ernest Hemingway, Margaret Atwood, C.S. Lewis, Maya Angelou, Joan Didion    a small sampling of some of the all-time great authors who also happened to cross genres with their writing. For some reason, this ability has always fascinated me as a reader. To seamlessly go from memoir, to travel guide, to novel, to poetry collection and do it successfully is a task that only a very skilled writer can pull off. This year, Ive seen a number of authors delve into new genres for the  first time. Steven Pressfield, generally known as a fiction writer, came out with  The Lions Gate, a  history book about  the Six-Day War. Ben Mezrich, who chronicled the rise of Facebook in Accidental Billionaires is debuting as a novelist with Seven Wonders  releasing this month. And the author featured in this article, Marcus Brotherton, is also making his fiction debut with the marvelous Feast For Thieves. Of those three that I read, I especially loved Brothertons novel, as it turned out to be a book with a lot of religion in it that wasnt either cheesy (see Amish fiction) or conspiratorial (see The Da Vinci Code). So I decided to ask him some questions about what it was like to cross genres as a successful, published author. *Disclaimer: I know and occasionally work with Marcus over at my day job. It was I, however, who approached him for this interview because I really enjoyed his book. 1. When did you start writing for fun and not as part of a school assignment? In high school I started to write short stories for fun. Sometimes I’d show them to a teacher or a friend. Sometimes I just kept them to myself. By that point in my schooling, I was incensed that in English classes we were always forced to study great works of fiction, but we were never given the chance in school to write any fiction ourselves. We were always supposed to write analytical essays about the short stories or novels we read, rather than look at the creativity of the pieces and try to produce something similar. Sure, high school students need to learn how to write clear essays. But young people also need to be taught how to write creatively. There’s a dearth of creative thinking today. 2. When you first wrote, was it fiction or non-fiction? I started writing professionally as a newspaper reporter for the Reflector, a mid-sized independent weekly in southwest Washington. My title was “General Assignment,” which meant I covered everything from bus strikes to murders to the new cigar shop opening up in town. Often I had no previous in-depth knowledge about what I was tasked to write about. So I just sort of parachuted into the middle of a story and asked questions to fight my way out. Each day for 5 years I wrote a thousand words a day. That was solid training. You learn how to write a clear, declarative sentence, over and over again. 3. You’ve published over two dozen non-fiction works, specifically in the history genre. Why did you start there? Was it easier to get published? Or was that simply where your desire was? I fell into writing about history. By the time I was working at the newspaper I had a wife and a child to support and a mortgage to pay, and my newspaper job wasn’t cutting it financially, so I needed to moonlight to pay the bills. A former professor of mine worked in the book industry, and he sent me a few books to edit. The more I edited, the more I enjoyed it. I collaborated on a couple of books, and my name began to circulate throughout the book industry. Soon I had more editorial work than I could handle. In 2005 I quit the newspaper and opened my own editorial company, working with publishers to help authors develop and write their books. At the start, mostly I worked on collaborations. I did a few full-length biographies, then one day my agent called. Lt. Buck Compton, one of the original Band of Brothers, wanted to write his memoirs. Was I interested in collaborating with him? I said yes in a heartbeat, then in a quieter moment wondered what I’d done. I didn’t know anything about WWII. But I got busy and studied a lot within the genre, and Buck turned out to be a fabulous teacher. Buck’s book led to other military non-fiction book projects    several of which I was the sole author. The three I’m known best for are A Company of Heroes, Shiftys War, and We Who Are Alive and Remain, a New York Times bestseller. From 2006 to 2012 I interviewed WWII vets almost nonstop, and due to the success of those books, some people today know me more as a historian, but that’s not quite accurate. I’m more of a journalist who’s been fortunate to work with living legends. 4. As a published non-fiction author, when did you know you wanted to delve into fiction? Fiction has always called to me. With a novel, you need to bring alive everything, dream up everything. The characters. Story. The world they live in. The conflicts and challenges that arise. How the characters overcome those obstacles. How everything resolves satisfyingly at the end. Fiction offered me a big blank canvas that allowed me to be as creative as I could be 5. It obviously requires a different set of skills â€" was that a hard transition? I first started writing fiction back in 2003, when I was still at the newspaper. I figured that since I was a pretty good writer already, all I needed to do was sit down at the keyboard, and the next Catcher in the Rye would flow out of me. Didn’t work that way, sorry. In the years since, I’ve actually written three and a half other novels that needed to be thrown away. All of those throwaway books had strengths, but none of them were good enough to be published. Fiction writing is an extremely competitive field, and these other books all proved to be learning experiences for me. Writing a few throwaway books first is pretty typical in novel writing. There’s a unique set of rules that every author needs to learn before he can succeed. It’s a very steep climb to break in and succeed. 6. Were you continuing with non-fiction works while writing your novel? If so, was it hard to go back and forth? Non-fiction has been my bread and butter over the years, and I enjoy it and can make a living at it. So, all the time that I was learning how to write fiction I was writing non-fiction too. After I’d written a few novels that didn’t find publishers, I wised up and started studying books on the craft of story structure and character development. I read book after book after book. It was like getting a university education all over again. Most of the things I learned I could apply to non-fiction too. How to craft a book around a three-act structure. How to make sure your protagonist has a clear goal. How to position him against increasingly difficult obstacles. Stuff like that. 7. What was the publishing process like for your novel versus your previous non-fic books? Was it different? What you expected? It was difficult. If you’re just breaking into fiction then conventional wisdom says you need to stick with predictable and established commercial genres    stuff like mysteries or romances. Right away my story wasn’t predictable. Set in 1946, it’s sort of a neo-Western crime thriller with a twist of WWII thrown in    and it wouldn’t fit neatly into any category. That scared my agent a lot. When we shopped the manuscript to publishers, we had tons of acquisition editors tell us they absolutely loved the story and writing style. But when the book reached the sales teams at various publishing houses, they’d shoot it down. The sales guys simply hadn’t seen a book like this, so they didn’t know what to do with it. Finally one publisher, River North Fiction out of Chicago, was brave enough to bite on it. 8. Do you have any favorite authors that crossed genres? Many novelists will write a memoir or an essay collection, but few have a variety of substantial fiction and non-fiction works. Hemingway comes to mind off the top of my head. Are there others that you drew inspiration from? Definitely Hemingway. I’ve copied out long portions of Hemingway books, just to have the feel of his words pass through my mind and fingers. The legendary C.S. Lewis wrote both fiction and non-fiction. I love his novel, Till We Have Faces. John Grisham is the king of novel writing, yet a few years back he crossed the other way to do a non-fiction book, The Innocent Man. Tim O’brien has written about the Vietnam War from a mixed perspective of fiction and semi-autobiographical memoir. His book The Things They Carried is absolute poetry, one of the most lyrical and haunting war books ever produced. I have tremendous respect for Uncle Toms Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe. It was both a novel and a play and is a great example of the power of literature to help change people’s lives for the better. Katherine Boo’s Behind the Beautiful Forevers  chronicles life in a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport. She’s a modern-day example of a fearless journalist whose writing holds forth remarkable power. Her book was a finalist for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize. Stylistically, I enjoy    and study    a ton of writers, both living and dead, both novelists and non-fiction writers. With fiction, David Benioff and the great Elmore Leonard come to mind immediately. Harper Lee, who wrote To Kill a Mockingbird has an unparalleled voice. Jack London. John Steinbeck. Mark Twain. Yann Martel, who wrote Life of Pi.  Carolyn Chute’s book The Beans of Egypt, Maine, is so gritty, so raw. Almost everything Cormac McCarthy writes is fantastic. In non-fiction, Laura Hillenbrand is at the top of her game. Bob Welch is right up there too. Malcolm Gladwell is in a class by himself. So simple. So clear. I just finished The Boys in the Boat, by Daniel James Brown. The book is nonfiction, but his story-craft is great. 9. I know plenty of readers who are adamant about not reading fiction. Your non-fic books may even have some of those readers. What would you say to those people about fiction? Folks  will sometimes say they don’t read fiction because they want to read only “the truth,” and they insist fiction is untruth because it’s made up. But there’s huge truth in fiction too. It comes embedded in the narrative. Since the truth in fiction comes wrapped around a story that captivates your attention, sometimes the truth will be presented so powerfully that it impacts you more strongly than if you’d read the same truth in a non-fiction book. ___________________ Much thanks to Marcus for answering my questions. Let me know in the comments who some of your favorite genre-crossing authors are!

Genre-Crossing Authors An Interview With One Who Does It Well

Genre-Crossing Authors An Interview With One Who Does It Well Ernest Hemingway, Margaret Atwood, C.S. Lewis, Maya Angelou, Joan Didion    a small sampling of some of the all-time great authors who also happened to cross genres with their writing. For some reason, this ability has always fascinated me as a reader. To seamlessly go from memoir, to travel guide, to novel, to poetry collection and do it successfully is a task that only a very skilled writer can pull off. This year, Ive seen a number of authors delve into new genres for the  first time. Steven Pressfield, generally known as a fiction writer, came out with  The Lions Gate, a  history book about  the Six-Day War. Ben Mezrich, who chronicled the rise of Facebook in Accidental Billionaires is debuting as a novelist with Seven Wonders  releasing this month. And the author featured in this article, Marcus Brotherton, is also making his fiction debut with the marvelous Feast For Thieves. Of those three that I read, I especially loved Brothertons novel, as it turned out to be a book with a lot of religion in it that wasnt either cheesy (see Amish fiction) or conspiratorial (see The Da Vinci Code). So I decided to ask him some questions about what it was like to cross genres as a successful, published author. *Disclaimer: I know and occasionally work with Marcus over at my day job. It was I, however, who approached him for this interview because I really enjoyed his book. 1. When did you start writing for fun and not as part of a school assignment? In high school I started to write short stories for fun. Sometimes I’d show them to a teacher or a friend. Sometimes I just kept them to myself. By that point in my schooling, I was incensed that in English classes we were always forced to study great works of fiction, but we were never given the chance in school to write any fiction ourselves. We were always supposed to write analytical essays about the short stories or novels we read, rather than look at the creativity of the pieces and try to produce something similar. Sure, high school students need to learn how to write clear essays. But young people also need to be taught how to write creatively. There’s a dearth of creative thinking today. 2. When you first wrote, was it fiction or non-fiction? I started writing professionally as a newspaper reporter for the Reflector, a mid-sized independent weekly in southwest Washington. My title was “General Assignment,” which meant I covered everything from bus strikes to murders to the new cigar shop opening up in town. Often I had no previous in-depth knowledge about what I was tasked to write about. So I just sort of parachuted into the middle of a story and asked questions to fight my way out. Each day for 5 years I wrote a thousand words a day. That was solid training. You learn how to write a clear, declarative sentence, over and over again. 3. You’ve published over two dozen non-fiction works, specifically in the history genre. Why did you start there? Was it easier to get published? Or was that simply where your desire was? I fell into writing about history. By the time I was working at the newspaper I had a wife and a child to support and a mortgage to pay, and my newspaper job wasn’t cutting it financially, so I needed to moonlight to pay the bills. A former professor of mine worked in the book industry, and he sent me a few books to edit. The more I edited, the more I enjoyed it. I collaborated on a couple of books, and my name began to circulate throughout the book industry. Soon I had more editorial work than I could handle. In 2005 I quit the newspaper and opened my own editorial company, working with publishers to help authors develop and write their books. At the start, mostly I worked on collaborations. I did a few full-length biographies, then one day my agent called. Lt. Buck Compton, one of the original Band of Brothers, wanted to write his memoirs. Was I interested in collaborating with him? I said yes in a heartbeat, then in a quieter moment wondered what I’d done. I didn’t know anything about WWII. But I got busy and studied a lot within the genre, and Buck turned out to be a fabulous teacher. Buck’s book led to other military non-fiction book projects    several of which I was the sole author. The three I’m known best for are A Company of Heroes, Shiftys War, and We Who Are Alive and Remain, a New York Times bestseller. From 2006 to 2012 I interviewed WWII vets almost nonstop, and due to the success of those books, some people today know me more as a historian, but that’s not quite accurate. I’m more of a journalist who’s been fortunate to work with living legends. 4. As a published non-fiction author, when did you know you wanted to delve into fiction? Fiction has always called to me. With a novel, you need to bring alive everything, dream up everything. The characters. Story. The world they live in. The conflicts and challenges that arise. How the characters overcome those obstacles. How everything resolves satisfyingly at the end. Fiction offered me a big blank canvas that allowed me to be as creative as I could be 5. It obviously requires a different set of skills â€" was that a hard transition? I first started writing fiction back in 2003, when I was still at the newspaper. I figured that since I was a pretty good writer already, all I needed to do was sit down at the keyboard, and the next Catcher in the Rye would flow out of me. Didn’t work that way, sorry. In the years since, I’ve actually written three and a half other novels that needed to be thrown away. All of those throwaway books had strengths, but none of them were good enough to be published. Fiction writing is an extremely competitive field, and these other books all proved to be learning experiences for me. Writing a few throwaway books first is pretty typical in novel writing. There’s a unique set of rules that every author needs to learn before he can succeed. It’s a very steep climb to break in and succeed. 6. Were you continuing with non-fiction works while writing your novel? If so, was it hard to go back and forth? Non-fiction has been my bread and butter over the years, and I enjoy it and can make a living at it. So, all the time that I was learning how to write fiction I was writing non-fiction too. After I’d written a few novels that didn’t find publishers, I wised up and started studying books on the craft of story structure and character development. I read book after book after book. It was like getting a university education all over again. Most of the things I learned I could apply to non-fiction too. How to craft a book around a three-act structure. How to make sure your protagonist has a clear goal. How to position him against increasingly difficult obstacles. Stuff like that. 7. What was the publishing process like for your novel versus your previous non-fic books? Was it different? What you expected? It was difficult. If you’re just breaking into fiction then conventional wisdom says you need to stick with predictable and established commercial genres    stuff like mysteries or romances. Right away my story wasn’t predictable. Set in 1946, it’s sort of a neo-Western crime thriller with a twist of WWII thrown in    and it wouldn’t fit neatly into any category. That scared my agent a lot. When we shopped the manuscript to publishers, we had tons of acquisition editors tell us they absolutely loved the story and writing style. But when the book reached the sales teams at various publishing houses, they’d shoot it down. The sales guys simply hadn’t seen a book like this, so they didn’t know what to do with it. Finally one publisher, River North Fiction out of Chicago, was brave enough to bite on it. 8. Do you have any favorite authors that crossed genres? Many novelists will write a memoir or an essay collection, but few have a variety of substantial fiction and non-fiction works. Hemingway comes to mind off the top of my head. Are there others that you drew inspiration from? Definitely Hemingway. I’ve copied out long portions of Hemingway books, just to have the feel of his words pass through my mind and fingers. The legendary C.S. Lewis wrote both fiction and non-fiction. I love his novel, Till We Have Faces. John Grisham is the king of novel writing, yet a few years back he crossed the other way to do a non-fiction book, The Innocent Man. Tim O’brien has written about the Vietnam War from a mixed perspective of fiction and semi-autobiographical memoir. His book The Things They Carried is absolute poetry, one of the most lyrical and haunting war books ever produced. I have tremendous respect for Uncle Toms Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe. It was both a novel and a play and is a great example of the power of literature to help change people’s lives for the better. Katherine Boo’s Behind the Beautiful Forevers  chronicles life in a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport. She’s a modern-day example of a fearless journalist whose writing holds forth remarkable power. Her book was a finalist for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize. Stylistically, I enjoy    and study    a ton of writers, both living and dead, both novelists and non-fiction writers. With fiction, David Benioff and the great Elmore Leonard come to mind immediately. Harper Lee, who wrote To Kill a Mockingbird has an unparalleled voice. Jack London. John Steinbeck. Mark Twain. Yann Martel, who wrote Life of Pi.  Carolyn Chute’s book The Beans of Egypt, Maine, is so gritty, so raw. Almost everything Cormac McCarthy writes is fantastic. In non-fiction, Laura Hillenbrand is at the top of her game. Bob Welch is right up there too. Malcolm Gladwell is in a class by himself. So simple. So clear. I just finished The Boys in the Boat, by Daniel James Brown. The book is nonfiction, but his story-craft is great. 9. I know plenty of readers who are adamant about not reading fiction. Your non-fic books may even have some of those readers. What would you say to those people about fiction? Folks  will sometimes say they don’t read fiction because they want to read only “the truth,” and they insist fiction is untruth because it’s made up. But there’s huge truth in fiction too. It comes embedded in the narrative. Since the truth in fiction comes wrapped around a story that captivates your attention, sometimes the truth will be presented so powerfully that it impacts you more strongly than if you’d read the same truth in a non-fiction book. ___________________ Much thanks to Marcus for answering my questions. Let me know in the comments who some of your favorite genre-crossing authors are!

Definition and Examples of Academic Prose Styles

Academese is an informal, pejorative term for the specialized language (or jargon) used in some scholarly writing and speech. Bryan Garner notes that academese is characteristic of academicians who are writing for a highly specialized but limited audience, or who have a limited grasp of how to make their arguments clearly and succinctly (Garners Modern American Usage, 2016). The Tameri Guide for Writers  defines academese as an artificial form of communication commonly used in institutes of higher education designed to make small, irrelevant ideas appear important and original. Proficiency in academese is achieved when you begin inventing your own words and no one can understand what you are writing. Examples and Observations Dale was not a good writer. Trust me on this. . . . [I]n training to be an academic, Dale was crippled by the need to write in academese. It is not a language formed by any human tongue, and few, if any, academics survive the degradation of it to move on to actual prose.(Dan Simmons, A Winter Haunting. William Morrow, 2002)There is original thought here, but the reader is immediately confronted by the language academics apparently use to communicate with one another. Sometimes it reads like a translation from the German, at others that they are merely trying to impress or indulging in a verbal cutting contest. Here are a few of the words you should be prepared to encounter: hermeneutics, commodified, contextualizing, conceptualize, hyperanimacy, taxonomic, metacritical, rhizome, perspectivizing, nomadology, indexical, polysemy, auratic, reification, metonymic, synecdoche, biodegradability, interstitial, valorize, diegetic, allegoresis, grammatology, oracy, centripetality, and esempla stic.(Stanley Dance in a review of two anthologies of jazz studies; quoted by George E. Lewis in A Power Stronger Than Itself. University of Chicago Press, 2008)Vernacular Equivalents to Academese[E]ffective academic writing tends to be bilingual (or diglossial), making its point in Academese and then making it again in the vernacular, a repetition that, interestingly, alters the meaning. Here is an example of such bilingualism from a review of a book on evolutionary biology by a professor of ecology and evolution, Jerry A. Coyne. Coyne is explaining the theory that males are biologically wired to compete for females. Coyne makes his point both in Academese, which I italicize, and in the vernacular, staging a dialogue in the text between the writers (and the readers) academic self and his lay self: It is this internecine male competitiveness that is assumed to have driven not only the evolution of increased male body size (on average, bigger is better in a physical contest), but als o of hormonally mediated male aggression (there is no use being the biggest guy on the block if you are a wallflower). It is this type of bridge discourse that enables nonspecialists and students to cross from their lay discourse to academic discourse and back. . . .In providing a vernacular equivalent of their Academese, writers like Coyne install a self-checking device that forces them to make sure they are actually saying something. When we recast our point in vernacular terms, we do not simply throw out a sop to the nonspecialist reader, much less dumb ourselves down. Rather we let our point speak itself better than it knows, to come out of the closet in the voice of the skeptical reader.(Gerald Graff, Clueless in Academe: How Schooling Obscures the Life of the Mind. Yale University Press, 2003)If you cannot write about it so that anyone who buys the paper has a reasonable chance of understanding it, you dont understand it yourself.(Robert Zonka, quoted by Roger Ebert in Awake i n the Dark. University of Chicago Press, 2006)Varieties of AcademeseCritics outside the academy tend to assume that academese is one thing, public discourse another. But in fact there are major differences of standards ranging from field to field: what constitutes evidence or valid argument, what questions are worth asking, what choices of style will work or even be understood, which authorities can be trusted, how much eloquence is permitted.(Wayne C. Booth, The Rhetoric of Rhetoric: The Quest for Effective Communication. Blackwell, 2004)Lionel Trilling on the Language of Non-ThoughtA specter haunts our culture--it is that people will eventually be unable to say, They fell in love and married, let alone understand the language of Romeo and Juliet, but will as a matter of course say Their libidinal impulses being reciprocal, they activated their individual erotic drives and integrated them within the same frame of reference.Now this is not the language of abstract thought or of any kind of thought. It is the language of non-thought. . . . There can be no doubt whatever that it constitutes a threat to the emotions and thus to life itself.(Lionel Trilling, The Meaning of a Literary Idea. The Liberal Imagination: Essays on Literature and Society, 1950)Passive Voice in AcademeseIf your style has been corrupted by long exposure to academese or business English, you may need to worry about the passive. Make sure it hasnt seeded itself where it doesnt belong. If it has, root it out as needed. Where it does belong, I think we ought to use it freely. It is one of the lovely versatilities of the verb.(Ursula K. Le Guin, Steering the Craft. Eighth Mountain Press, 1998) Pronunciation: a-KAD-a-MEEZ Also see: Academic WritingBafflegabGobbledygookLanguage at  -ese: Academese, Legalese, and Other Species of GobbledygookRegisterStyleUnder the Flapdoodle Tree: Doublespeak, Soft Language, and GobbledygookVerbiageVerbosity

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Nuclear War Why we Need our Nukes Essay Example For Students

Nuclear War: Why we Need our Nukes Essay Nuclear War: Why we Need our NukesAfter much research and discussion I have decided to bring up the constant and ever rising conflict of nuclear warfare and why we need to keep our nuclear weapons. I believe very strongly that we need to keep, test, and build nuclear weapons, people will say that we need to keep a peaceful world and ban all nuclear weapons. The people that talk like that are simply ignorant; because if there is ever any kind of nuclear war or any type of superior threat that needs to be dealt with strongly and promptly nuclear force is most likely going to be the most tactical and reasonable choice.If all the test ban treaties ever written were to come into effect our nation would be in serious danger. Due to the simple fact that everybody else would advance in the world of nuclear technology why we are over here sitting on our sorry asses trying to make the world a better place for plants, animals, and ourselves. I believe either our nation is incredibly ignorant or they are not telling the public everything the amendment grants to us. I strongly believe that if we knew everything that was going on in the world of nuclear warfare, the opinions of very many people would change.Right now as we speak Russia, China, Pakistan and many other countries have access to nuclear weapons which makes them a threat! So why they develop new ways to nuke us, we are fighting with the people about weather or not we should waste tax dollars on a project that could some day save the lives of the United States. You cant forget that nuclear weapons are not used so much as a weapon but as a deterrent. What I am saying by that is, instead of finishing a war with nukes, we could prevent the war all together by using the nukes as a scary little tactic to keep them at bay.This will never be a nuclear free world, you cant dismiss the ever growing world of technology, there will always be the threat of nuclear war, and if its not nukes it will be something more advanced and more dangerous. I just dont understand the big deal!Whoops, hit the wrong button. I really dont care much about the people, or the particular arguments involved on either side. I can only say that it is not something that can ever be right or wrong one way or the other. I dont truly believe that any one with nukes ever intends to use them, but I think the point of nukes is the what if scare factor. Is anyone really willing to take that chance? Nuclear weapons have become the standard for gaining international voice and power, and as far as I can see there really is no other medium for gaining either. The only way for a poor, unindustrialized country (such as Pakistan) to be heard is to instill a fear of annihilation, or just severe damage, in the hearts of the people of other more developed countries. Lets face it, if they didnt scare us, we would never look twice in their direction. Nuclear weapons are, I feel, a permanent part of our world for as long as it continues to exist. Mine as well get used to them.Here is an interview given on Tuesday night to Michael KreponI fear the treaty will be in limbo for many, many yearsMichael Krepon provided rare insight into the arcane Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty on Tuesday night. The president of the Henry L Stimson Centre was engaged in an illuminating discussion with some of Indias bestknown analysts on defence issues Achin Vanaik, Praful Bidwai, Raja Mohan and C Uday Bhaskar. Check out the transcript. Its fascinating.amberish (Tue Aug 13 20:58:41 1996 IST): Mr Krepon, let us begin now. Would you like to comment on how non-officals in the US views Indias stand? Krepon (Tue Aug 13 21:02:21 1996 IST): Amberish: The idea of a timetable for diarmament remains firmly rooted in the game-plans of many states and NGOs, but Im not sure that the idea is spreading. The NWSexcept Chinaremain firmly opposed. The negotiating tactics by some NNWS in Geneva demanding more by way of preambular commitments toward complete nuclear disarmament may be tragically wrong. These tactics assume that the NWS are the demandeurs for a CTBT, and that this provides leverage to get more on disarmament. In fact, only the US Government is strongly interested in a CTBT at this point. The other NWS would just as soon see the Treaty wither and die. Moreover, support for the CTBT here in the US cannot be taken for grantedwitness the Republican Partys presidential platform calling for a resumption of testing and opposition to CTBT ratification. The chances for a CTBT are slipping away. pat (Tue Aug 13 21:03:44 1996 IST): Hello Mr Krepon,Why should India sign CTBT when it is surrounded by neighbours who have a track record of hostilities commited against India.amberish (Tue Aug 13 21:06:44 1996 IST): Mr Krepon, true that at this stage it is the US pushing the CTBT while others would rather watch it die. That is exactly the fear, especially Indias, that others really do not want to de-arm. And how far can India go with a China on its borders, which even the US is wary of?Nikhil Lakshman (Tue Aug 13 21:07:02 1996 IST): Mr Krepon, has Pakistan agreed to sign the CTBT? Is it true that Washington has struck a deal with Beijing to persuade Pakistan to sign the CTBT?Krepon (Tue Aug 13 21:07:19 1996 IST): Nikhil and Amberish: Many thanks for inviting me to join you tonight for this chat. I am grateful to you for opening this direct line of communication. Right now, the Clinton Administration is quite concerned that chances for a truly comprehensive and verifiable test ban treaty are slipping away, in part because of Indias stand, in part by the non-constructive roles played by other countries. Most recently, Iran has indicated that it would join India in taking blocking action, preventing the transmission of the CTBT from Geneva to the UN General Assembly. Im not sure that this is the kind of company that India wishes to keep. Vinay (Tue Aug 13 21:09:43 1996 IST): Mr Krepon, does this mean you wish India to sign the CTBT?amberish (Tue Aug 13 21:10:59 1996 IST): Mr Krepon, perhaps Irans stance comes about because right now the US is planning sanctions against Iran. An Iran pushed against the wall is hardly going to be cooperative. And while, I suppose, India is wary of being identified too closely with Iran, its opposition to just a CTBT has been constant.Krepon (Tue Aug 13 21:11:51 1996 IST): Nikhil: Chinas support for a CTBT has been less than fulsome, as is evident by Beijings opposition to a flexible entry-into-force formula for the Treaty. My sense is that Islamabad would have great difficulty signing the CTBT if New Delhi refuses to do so. Benazirs political opposition has expressed itself against this course of action, which limits her freedom of maneuver on this issue. I am not privvy to whatever deal was struck between the US and Chinese governments, but I doubt if Beijing could or would choose to force Islamabads hand on signing the Treatyassuming one emerges from Geneva.amberish (Tue Aug 13 21:14:34 1996 IST): Mr Krepon, India is against joining the CTBT for fear of its security. So is the US in a position to give some sort of a guarantee against a nuclear threat to India? How valid and useful would such a guarantee be?Nikhil Lakshman (Tue Aug 13 21:16:39 1996 IST): Mr Krepon, There is amazing consensus on this issue in India and no political party would ever risk ignoring that consensus and sign the CTBT. Again, many Indians feel Washington persistently ignores New Delhis security concerns, so why they feel should India go along with the US on this issue? Krepon (Tue Aug 13 21:17:41 1996 IST): Amberish: Iran is actively pursuing the nuclear option, as is evident from Tehrans purchasing interests on black markets, and its odd pursuit for a nuclear power program, despite its considerable oil reserves. Tehran would not be too displeased if the CTBT didnt happen, which may account for its unfortunate blocking tactics. Vinay: Yes, I would like India to sign Nehrus treaty, and I would like India not to block other states from signing Nehrus treaty. This treaty is an essential precondition to the elimination of nuclear weapons. I believe it would be tragic to loose this treaty in pursuit of objectives that are unobtainable at this time.Nikhil Lakshman (Tue Aug 13 21:20:29 1996 IST): Is there a way out of the impasse? Or will the CTBT go ahead minus India, Iran and Pakistan? What happens three years hence? Some Indians fear likely sanctions if New Delhi refuses to sign by that deadline. Do you think that is possible? rajamohan (Tue Aug 13 21:21:30 1996 IST): hi michael, this is raja mohan and c uday bhaskar at the same number. could you tell us about the prospects for ratification of the ctbt in us congress, since the republicans seem tohave come out against the ctbt in their election platform?amberish (Tue Aug 13 21:23:30 1996 IST): Mr Krepon, the history of disarmament talks has been one of failures. And it fails because the status quo do not give any margin to accommodate the other powers-in-waiting. So how can this rigidity of the statu quo powers be overcome. And why on earth do Britain and France need nuclear weapons today. If they were to agree to disarm, would it not go a long way in convcing others of genuing disarmament desires?Nikhil Lakshman (Tue Aug 13 21:25:50 1996 IST): Mr Krepon,invoking Gandhi and Nehru may cut little ice with the Indian people who are fed up with what they interpret as Washingtons consistent balming of Pakistani interests, despite evidence of that countrys nuclear programme. In any case, why is Indias demand that the nuclear powers set a deadline for the obliteration of their nuclear arsenals impractical?uday bhaskar (Tue Aug 13 21:30:03 1996 IST): michael, has there ever been an EIF of this nature where a nation that is opposing the draft is being named or shall we say being dragged into the treaty?and as a follow up why was the US not able to prevail with the original EIF which talked about the five nuclear powers only?StarWar (Tue Aug 13 21:30:08 1996 IST): Does this episode emphasise the rhythm that third world countries can influence the world, only, by putting their foot down? Comments..amberish (Tue Aug 13 21:31:36 1996 IST): Mr Krepon, can there not be a CTBT minus the recaltricant nations, who might be persuaded to join a few years later if they realise that there is no point in being out of the CTBTKrepon (Tue Aug 13 21:33:13 1996 IST): To Pat, Kikhil Amberish: I dont believe India would seek or accept US security guarantees in order to sign the CTBT. Relevant sociological literature Essay The simple reason is that a number of countries really dont want the CTBT to enter into force, and are using this procedural device to leave the nuclear option open. India has risen to the bait, and now, I fear, the Treaty will remain in limbo for many, many years. Surely, this is a great shame. praful and achin : (Tue Aug 13 21:57:59 1996 IST): what is missing from the Indian debate is that the draft provides for a future conference that can alter the EIF provision. Nikhil Lakshman (Tue Aug 13 21:58:00 1996 IST): Thank you, Mr Krepon. But the situation in India is about the same. No Indian prime minister could afford to sign the CTBT. It would be the chalice of hemlock for him. Just as a declaration that we seek from the US would be to an American president.StarWar (Tue Aug 13 22:00:19 1996 IST): Uday, I am in Los Angeles, CAPeace (Tue Aug 13 22:02:38 1996 IST): Wwhy is the American government so condecending towrds the third world countries?praful and achin : (Tue Aug 13 22:03:09 1996 IST): the Indian demand for time bound link to ctbt is an utterly unconvincing cover for its own duplicity and its obsession wiht keeping the nuclear weapons option including the fusion option indefiniteoy open.Krepon (Tue Aug 13 22:04:06 1996 IST): Amberish: The idea of non-testing and non-use for the next fifty years may well be utopian, but this would be an easier task than phased reductions to zero. Actually, I propose to pursue both simultaneously, although not with the deadlines that India and other states demand. To me, a CD negotiations on deadlines for disarmament is a recipe for stalemate. Worse, it would let the US Russia off the hook for START III, IV, V. (Sorry for the fishing metaphorshave just spent a few days with friends dropping lines in the water.) Actually, the least difficult strategy is to demand no more tests and no more use. This is the most direct approach to devaluation. StarWar (Tue Aug 13 22:07:10 1996 IST): Raja Mohan, when was India responsible for an imbroglio concerning nuclear issue? Any precedence. If so, is there a learning piece from that experience that you (India Ministry) are not employing to execute the CTBT successfully. praful and achin (Tue Aug 13 22:07:49 1996 IST): Nikhil: you can always create a situation thro media manipulation where a consensus is manufactured and then say that you cnanot sign a ctbt etc. the same govt signs unequa;l treaties e.g. gatt but refuses to sign a nondiscriminatory ctbt. Lets be precise. NPT is disciminatiory but a CTBT can at best be claimed to be disciminatory depending upon your interpretaition of various provisions. New Delhis stand is unconvincing and inconsistent.(Tue Aug 13 22:08:24 1996 IST): This is raj. Achin and Praful seem to think only India has motivations in its approach to the ctbt. What about the US? Why has the US been so enthusiastic about the ctbt after so many years? It is worth asking this question. Many US officials are on record saying that the principal gain for the US from the ctbt is that it will freeze the nuclear capabilities of all others. That the UsS will gain much less from additional testing than the threshold states. The CTBt is part of a larger arms control strategy of the US where it wants to retain its primacy in the international system. Why do praful and achin love the US hegemony so much?amberish (Tue Aug 13 22:11:10 1996 IST): Michael, thanks. No more tests and no more use. Here comes one tricky part, how do we ensure that those with nuke weapons wont use them or blackmail others with them (precisely Indias fears vis-a-vis China, and definitely Pakistans fear against a nuke India). So what can be done to have some surety at this stage that signing a CTBT is not Indias death warrant?Krepon (Tue Aug 13 22:12:12 1996 IST): Praful Achin: Thank you for joining us. I am at a loss to figure out how to mend the EIF problem at this late date. China, Russia, Egypt, Pakistan, Iran, and perhaps other countries have indicated that they cannot accept a less inclusive list of states that must sign, ratify without disabling conditions, and deposit ratifications before the CTBTs entry into force. Given the difficulties involved in getting 44 countries to take such action, it is mystifying why New Delhi has declared that it will block transmittal of treaty text from Geneva to New York. Hell: The Republican Party seems to have decided to take cary of Indias problem. That India should have adopted such an extreme position is rather extraordinary. What is the matter of principle or sovereignty that is so great as to disallow other countries from signing the CTBT?Krepon (Tue Aug 13 22:14:42 1996 IST): Nikhil: This is our sad lot: The political arguments that work in India are hemlock in the US; the arguments that work for a CTBT here (such as stockpile steawrship) reinforce worst fears in India.praful and achin (Tue Aug 13 22:15:30 1996 IST): Raj: we will not descend to the gutter level. We have been consistently critical of the US and all other nuclear weapon states, more so than you and others who are preapared even to compromise on the NPT. Our opposition to the npt lets remind you, is a) more accurate b0 more comprehensive c) more consistent than yours, Subramaniam, sunderji etc. We do question US motives.But we are not so stupid as to argue that the motives determine the objective outcomes of all treaties or that motives should primarily decide whether India shoudl sign the CTBT.Nikhil Lakshman (Tue Aug 13 22:15:50 1996 IST): Mr Krepon, do you think (Tue Aug 13 22:18:52 1996 IST): Mr Krepon: Do you think it is fair for America to arm twist the other countries into signing the CTBT infact even talk about it, after they have perfected their Nuclear capacities and built up their arsenal as well as become A one stop shop for terrorists and warring nationsKrepon (Tue Aug 13 22:22:04 1996 IST): Amberish: You and Rajamohan and many other thoughtful and intelligent Indians talk about the coercise power of nuclear weaponseven though they may no longer be used, they still have political utility. This notion may have been true in the past, but is it true today? How useful were nukes in the Vietnam War? Or the Suez Crisis? When the US recently threatened Libya, elliptically, over the CW facility under construction, which country was more damagedthe US or Libya? Why continue to foster the myth that nukes provide political utility or coercise power? What power resides in a weapon that cannot be used? The real instrument of coercison today is economic power, not nukes. Stop repeating arguments that no longer make sense! Nikhil Lakshman (Tue Aug 13 22:27:08 1996 IST): Mr Krepon, you mentioned a little while ago that the CTBT will be in limbo for many years. Does that mean the treaty is brain dead, and that the CD in Geneva will end in a stalemate? Is there hope for the treaty to be revived? And what will it take for that to happen?(Tue Aug 13 22:29:05 1996 IST): michael, this is raj. i dont have to tell you that the US has drawn profound lessons from the gulf war. that nuclear weapons and other mass destruction weapons can be used to constain US conventional superiority in regional conflicts. Both the US nuclear posture reveiw and the counterproliferation doctrine have reemphasized the utility of nuclear weapons. Can we really deny that? I think the US is being prudent. why dont you give the same benefit of doubt to India?amberish (Tue Aug 13 22:30:00 1996 IST): Michael, there is no doubt that economic power means a lot more than weapons in the armoury. Which is why Japan is a power today, and India is not (nor for that matter suspected nuclear states like Pakistan, Israel, N Korea). But Japan is protected by being close to US and is part of US economic ties. Regarding the use of N-arms, that is precisely the fear: that the only time they were used was against a country that did not posses them (Japan, August 1945), and never again when there was a threat (howsoever remote) of retaliation Vietnam and Suez had at least covert Soviet backing. In fact, other opposing powers kept a check, and today it is this very system of checks and balances that is missing. and which must be redressed, in part, by the US.Nikhil Lakshman (Tue Aug 13 22:31:12 1996 IST): Mr Krepon, have you been in touch with the Pakistanis? Do you sense a weakening of their resolve? (Tue Aug 13 22:33:39 1996 IST): michael, this is raj. i dont have to tell you that the US has drawn profound lessons from the gulf war. that nuclear weapons and other mass destruction weapons can be used to constain US conventional superiority in regional conflicts. Both the US nuclear posture reveiw and the counterproliferation doctrine have reemphasized the utility of nuclear weapons. Can we really deny that? I think the US is being prudent. why dont you give the same benefit of doubt to India?StarWar (Tue Aug 13 22:36:11 1996 IST): Michael Krepon, If todays coercion is economic biggy, why not legislate the treaty pass in U.N as majority not unanimous. This was incidentally suggested by Jaap Ramaker of Netherlands. Secondly, if China, Russia, Britain and France opt to wait till India, Pak and Israel ratify your goddamn treaty, comments like the four Bs are hiding behind Indian sari may not be very diplomatic. Capitol Hill has a reputation, you know.Krepon (Tue Aug 13 22:36:13 1996 IST): Raja: You have become quite adept at putting those who disagree with your perspective on the defensivebut I miss your analytical talents. You ask why the US has all of a sudden become so supportive of the CTBT. Surely there must be some nefarious ulterior motives, such as putting India into a strait jacket.

Peter Calabrese Essays - Business Cycle, Financial Crises

Peter Calabrese Economics 101 Dr. Maglione March 22, 2000 How has your life changed since 1991? Have you noticed: an increase of material goods around your house, a new car in your driveway, or a little bit bigger gut due to eating more prime rib and filet mignon. If you have answered yes to any of these questions you are among the millions that have benefited from the economic boom. The economic boom refers to the period of economic expansion that started in March of 1991 and is still happening to this day. The following report will analyze various aspects of the economic boom including: what contributed to the boom and the areas of the economy which are positively and negatively affected. It will also review how long it is projected to last and possibilities that could send our economy into a recession or even depression. "The Economic Boom" as previously stated refers to the period of economic expansion that started in March of 1991 and has been proceeding for the past 108 months. These 108 months have been the longest period of economic growth ever in American history. The stock market is growing faster than it ever has before. Unemployment is at an all time low and what's even more impressive is that inflation is staying down. As of February 2000 over 100,000 people were earning over a million dollars a year. It seems as though everything is contributing to the "Boom". Suddenly there is an increase in entrepreneurs, these entrepreneurs create jobs for people. The stock market is reaching record heights and with unemployment at a low people have money to invest in companies. Stocks now account for 54% if household financial assets. 40 million investors have entered the market since the Boom began. The end of the cold war is another of the more important events leading to the ?Boom." With the collapse of the Soviet Union, America has been able to reduce its emphasis from national security to economic growth. Now instead of making wartime supplies with increased tax revenue the government can set it sites on balancing the budget. To further increase American production and sales European and Asian countries began dropping trade barriers. Finally and perhaps of most importance is the new technology. Technology is paving the way toward the future. Everything from online stock trading to car companies such as Ford ordering supplies. Online buying or e-commerce has cut cost and the time that it takes to ship a product. Free markets incorporated states that purchasers are saving anywhere from 2% to 5% by letting suppliers bid for business online Gartner group estimates that technology investments will rise from 3.5% of revenue which it is now to an average of 5.8%. The internet also allows instant analysis of goods farmers can find where they will get the highest prices for their crops, and after these crops have been delivered they can log onto the net to see how their product compares to others of the same type. Finally the net is also used to collect information from customers. This information can then be used to design a more desirable superior product. For the most part the main part of the economy that is positively affected by the "Boom" is technology and anyone that has anything to do with technology. From technology stocks to business that process orders online technology is making the market turn. However certain parts of the economy seem to be going belly up. Low price imports from developing countries are wiping out thousands of American jobs in the steel and textile industries. As a matter of fact even in this time of economic wealth 44 million Americans are still without health insurance. Finally the gap between poor and rich is enormous, The bottom fifth of US households receives less than 4% of the national income with the top fifth is responsible of obtaining more than half of the income. How long will the "Boom" last? No one can really tell for sure, but predictions can be made as to why it will either bust or continue. In a recent interview with President Clinton he states the reasons that he believes the boom will last. First the president states that the hard times