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Cover -- Praise for A Bridge in Babylon -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction: A Preparatory Message to the Reader -- Author's Note: Please Read This -- Executive Summary -- Chapter 1-The Phone Call: Here We Go! -- Chapter 2-The Battle Cry: Victory or Valhalla -- Chapter 3-The Chaplain's Day: Twenty-Four Seven -- Chapter 4-Encounter with Fear: A Moment in the Porta-Potty -- Chapter 5-The Coalition Forces: A Funny Story -- Chapter 6-The Witness of War: I Saw Satan Fall like Lightning -- Chapter 7-The Friendships We Forge: Our Band of Brothers -- Chapter 8-The Stigma of the Army Reserve: You Are Just a Reservist -- Chapter 9-The Struggle with Relationships: A Fight with Loneliness -- Chapter 10-The Mistakes Made: Two Failures -- Chapter 11-The End Is Near: RIP/TOA -- Chapter 12-The Holidays at War: Merry Christmas, Maybe -- Chapter 13-The Love of Saguaro Christian Church: My Beloved Saguaro -- Chapter 14-The Last Days: I'm Coming Home -- Chapter 15-The Family Interview: The Ones You Leave Behind -- Chapter 16-The Historical Disappointment: A Quick Commentary -- Chapter 17-The Aftereffects Part 1 -- Chapter 18-The Aftereffects Part 2 -- Chapter 19-The Healing -- EpilogueThe New Road -- Acknowledgments -- Back Cover.

"Experience the battlefields of Iraq through the eyes of an army chaplain. Army chaplain Owen Chandler tells the stories of the men and women serving our country in combat zones around the world -- a life few of us know, but thousands of Americans experience every day. As an "embedded presence of hope" Chandler candidly describes the struggle to hold onto faith and hope amid the brutalities of war and the isolation of being deployed. His honest stories build bridges of compassion and care to those who sacrifice everything for their country--the active duty, reservists, and veterans living in the shadows of America's perpetual wars."--Back cover.

AbstractDiscussions of the liberal international order, both inside and outside the academy, tend to take its necessity and desirability for granted. While its specific contours and content are left somewhat open in such debates, the idea that this international order is essential for global peace and stability is left largely unquestioned. What is more, the potential loss or end of this order is often taken to mean a return to anarchy, chaos, and disorder. In this essay, I question the presumed necessity and desirability of the liberal international order that most discussions of it seem to share. By rethinking the international order as processual, emergent, and grounded in the social and political contexts that shape its constitution and operation, I suggest that fears about the crisis of international order are less about international order itself and more about the loss of a specific order. This specific order, I argue, constituted in part through processes of racialization, is not so much a rules-based order of sovereign equality but rather an international order of White sovereignty that secures the domination and rule of some over others, of Whiteness over non-Whiteness. Recognizing the role of White sovereignty in the contemporary international order points toward a need to take seriously calls for abolition. Rather than signifying a return to chaos and disorder, the prospect and promise of abolition represents a call to break free from the constraints of the present order and reach into an as-yet-unimaginable future.

ABSTRACTWhile there is increasing recognition of the role of race in shaping global politics, the extent to which the construction and operation of international order is entangled with race remains underexplored. In this article, I argue for the centrality of race and racialization in understanding the constitution of international order by theorizing the constitutive connections between race and international order and showing how the two can be examined as intertwined. I do this, first, by articulating conceptualizations of both international order and race that center on processes of regulation and regularization. Second, I bring these together to suggest that race be understood as a form of order that functions to reproduce a historically emergent form of hierarchy and domination across a range of spaces and contexts. Third, I operationalize these conceptualizations by outlining and historicizing some of the key features of this racialized and racializing international order, specifically coloniality, the racial state, and racial capitalism, and thereby illustrate important aspects of the persistence of this order. Centering race in the study of international order, I suggest, helps us better understand how racializing hierarchies and racialized inequalities persist in the present and are reproduced through structures and practices of international order.

During the last decade, there has been an increasing demand from the government, clients, certifying bodies, and the contributing public for human service agencies to provide full information about their finances, operation, and services. For such accountability to be both accurate and meaningful, the agency must be organized along sound administrative and managerial lines and must operate according to the standards established within each operational area (accounting, fund-raising, public relations, etc.). The credibility, and thus the survival, of the agency is at stake. In addition, the ability of the agency to improve its services is enhanced by the constant internal monitoring and evaluation that must be carried out if an agency is seeking to be truly accountable.