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  • 1
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    Cham : Springer International Publishing | Cham : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
    ISBN: 9783031398148
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXXVIII, 749 p. 35 illus., 29 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Emigration and immigration ; Emigration and immigration. ; Demography. ; Population. ; Human geography. ; Political science. ; Social sciences. ; Global South ; colonisation ; decolonisation ; forced migration ; food insecurity ; climate change ; gender inequality ; Open Access ; transnational borders ; asylum ; refugees ; diaspora ; colonialism ; displacement ; discrimination ; intersectional inequalities ; Indigenous Peoples ; postcolonialism ; racism ; Sustainable Development Goals ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: 1. South-South Migration, Inequality and Development: An Introduction -- PART I Conceptualising South-South Migration -- 2. The Enduring Impacts of Slavery: An Historical Perspective on South-South Migration -- 3. Recentering the South in Studies of Migration. 4. Writing the Camp -- 5. Migration Research, Coloniality and Epistemic Injustice -- 6. Rethinking Power and Reciprocity in the “Field” -- 7. What does it mean to move? Humanising Cultural Work in South-South Migration -- PART II Unpacking “the South” in South-South Migration -- 8. Trends in South-South Migration -- 9. The Dynamics of South-South Migration in Africa -- 10. Migration as a Collective Project in the Global South: a Case Study of Hadiya Migration to South Africa -- 11. Migration and Inequality in the Burkina Faso- Côte d’Ivoire Corridor -- 12. Unequal Origins to Unequal Destinations: Trends and Characteristics of Migrants' Social and Economic Inclusion in South America -- 13. The Making of Migration Trails in the Americas: Ethnographic Network Tracing of Haitians on the Move -- 14. Migrant Labour and Inequalities in the Nepal-Malaysia Corridor (and Beyond) -- 15. Inter-regional Migration in the Global South: Chinese Migrants in Ghana -- 16. Inter-regional Migration in the Global South: African Migration to Latin America -- PART III Inequalities and South-South Migration -- 17. Poverty, Income Inequalities and Migration in the Global South -- 18. Gendered Migration in the Global South: An Intersectional Perspective on Inequality -- 19. Haitian Migration and Structural Racism in Brazil -- 20. Climate Change and Human Mobility in the Global South -- 21. Why, When and How? The Role of Inequality in Migration Decision-making -- 22. Overcoming and Reproducing Inequalities: Mediated Migration in the “Global South” -- 23. The Design and Use of Digital Technologies in the Context of South-South Migration -- 24. Migrant Resource Flows and Development in the Global South -- 25. South-South Migration and Children’s Education: Expanded Challenges and Increased Opportunities -- 26. Mapping the Linkages between Food Security, Inequality, Migration and Development in the Global South -- PART IV Responses to South-South Migration - 27. The Governance of South-South migration: Same or Different? - 28. Policies towards Migration in Africa -- 29. Migration Governance in South America: Change and Continuity in Times of “Crisis” -- 30. Perú and Migration from Venezuela: From Early Adjustment to Policy Misalignment -- 31. The “ASEAN Way” in Migration Governance -- 32. Unfair and Unjust: Temporary Labour Migration Programmes in and from Asia and the Pacific as Barriers to Migrant Justice -- 33. Migrant Political Mobilisation and Solidarity Building in the Global South.
    Abstract: “Across thirty three dazzling chapters, this groundbreaking collection from some of the world’s leading migration scholars makes a major contribution to the field of migration studies. Centring south-south migration raises vital theoretical, methodological, and empirical questions for research on mobility globally which go far beyond geographical movements within the symbolic geography of the ‘Global South’. Situated at the cutting edge of these debates, the contributors to this volume offer food for thought for scholars and students from a range of disciplines and locations.” --Lucy Mayblin, Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociological Studies University of Sheffield. Author of Asylum After Empire: Postcolonial Legacies in the Politics of Asylum Seeking (2017) and Migration Studies and Colonialism (with Joe Turner, 2020) This open access handbook examines the phenomenon of South-South migration and its relationship to inequality in the Global South, where at least a third of all international migration takes place. Drawing on contributions from nearly 70 leading migration scholars, mainly from the Global South, the handbook challenges dominant conceptualisations of migration, offering new perspectives and insights that can inform theoretical and policy understandings and unlock migration’s development potential. The handbook is divided into four parts, each highlighting often overlooked mobility patterns within and between regions of the Global South, as well as the inequalities faced by those who move. Key cross-cutting themes include gender, race, poverty and income inequality, migration decision making, intermediaries, remittances, technology, climate change, food security and migration governance. The handbook is an indispensable resource on South-South migration and inequality for academics, researchers, postgraduates and development practitioners. Heaven Crawley is Head of Equitable Development and Migration at United Nations University Centre for Policy Research (UNU-CPR), New York, USA, and Visiting Professor of International Migration at Coventry University’s Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations (CTPSR), UK. She was previously Head of Asylum and Migration Research at the UK Home Office and Associate Director at the Institute for Public Policy Research, UK. Joseph Kofi Teye is Director of Research at the Office of Research Innovation and Development at the University of Ghana and Associate Professor of Migration and Development in the Department of Geography and Resource Development of the University of Ghana. He holds a PhD in Geography from the University of Leeds, UK.
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  • 2
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    Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland | Cham : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
    ISBN: 9783031565106
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIII, 371 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Ethics. ; Political ethics. ; Political science.
    Abstract: 1: Beyond Single Stories -- Section I: Ethics and Culture -- 2: Why We’re So Often Wrong about the World -- 3: Beyond Cultural Relativism -- 4: Tradition, Globalization, and Change -- 5: Women Elsewhere -- Section II: Ethics and Economics -- 6: Brief Histories of Poverty -- 7: Development and the Human Good -- 8: Crossing Borders: Immigration in an Unequal World -- 9: Sweatshops, Resource Curses, and the Ethics of Trade -- 10: Charity and/or Justice? -- Section III: Ethics and Politics -- 11: Are Human Rights and Democracy Universal? -- 12: The Ethics of War -- 13: Building Global Peace -- Section IV: Ethics and the Environment -- 14: Population: What’s the Problem? -- 15: Unnatural Disasters -- 16: Climate Change: Problems and Progress -- 17: Conclusion: How to Continue Thinking Ethically.
    Abstract: This textbook is an introduction to thinking ethically about global issues. Unlike existing books in this area, this book is truly interdisciplinary and includes a range of voices from both the Global South and the Global North. Rather than simply applying Western theories to case studies, Prof. Stephen Minister shows readers how to consider context and complexity, while respecting the agency of people elsewhere. It weaves together the work of thinkers and writers from the Global South with philosophical work on global ethics, relevant scholarship from other academic fields, and stories from fieldwork studying global issues on four continents. The textbook explores a variety of topics, including: cultural difference, gender, population, poverty, natural disasters, and development. It then encourages students to build on these ideas and think more deeply about topics such as foreign aid, inequality, immigration, international trade, climate change, human rights, and war and terrorism.Because the book’s style is accessible and engaging, it will be an excellent text for ethics and global studies courses, as well as being of interest to general readers who want to think better about global issues. Stephen Minister is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of Moral Values at Augustana University, USA.
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    Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland | Cham : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
    ISBN: 9783031513701
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 214 Seiten) , Diagramme, Illustrationen
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024
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    Keywords: International relations. ; Diplomacy. ; Security, International.
    Abstract: This book is required reading to grasp the dynamics of economic sanctions. Drawing on recent Western sanctions imposed on the Russian economy, it provides a persuasive corrective to the dominant perspective that sanctions undermine target countries. -Immanuel Ness, Chairperson and Professor of Political Science, Brooklyn College, NY. This is an outstanding contribution to the literature. It provides a comprehensive and balanced analysis of the role of sanctions in the contemporary era. -Alan W. Cafruny, Henry Bristol Professor of International Affairs, Department of Government, Hamilton College, USA. This important study shows how Russia has survived being the most sanctioned country in the world by reorienting its trade towards the East and creating import-substitution policies and investment in local industries. -Jeremy Kuzmarov, author of The Russians are Coming, Again: The First Cold War as Tragedy, the Second as Farce. A timely contribution to the growing sanctions literature that urges policy adjustment to new geopolitical realities. -Dr. Ksenia Kirkham, Lecturer in the Department of War Studies, King’s College London. This book analyses the goals of Western sanctions imposed on Russia from 2014 to 2023. It explores the effects of sanctions on the Russian economy and its political course, as well as the repercussions of the sanctions to the senders and third parties, including spillover effects on neighboring countries and boomerang effects on the senders. While sanctions can be considered relatively effective in terms of economic consequences, the Russian economy is far from being crushed. Importantly, sanctions proved to be ineffective as an instrument of foreign policy. They have failed to alter Moscow’s resolve to continue its military operation and are unlikely to change it in the near future. Dr. Angela Borozna is Adjunct Professor at California State University, Fullerton. Dr. Lada V. Kochtcheeva is Professor of Political Science in the School of Public and International Affairs at the North Carolina State University. .
    Note: Tabellen, Literaturverzeichnisse , Introduction , Sanctions : a theoretical review , Annexation of Crimea : Western sanctions and Russia’s response (2014-2021) , Thewar in Ukraine : avalanche of Western sanctions and Russia’s reaction , Sanctions busting : the role of various states in Russia’s resistance to sanctions , Assessing sanctions effectiveness , Implications of sanctions to the rest of the world , Conclusion
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    Cham : Springer International Publishing | Cham : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
    ISBN: 9783031412837
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxiv, 607 Seiten) , Diagramme
    Edition: 1st edition
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    Keywords: Political science. ; Comparative government. ; Economics. ; Finance, Public. ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction (Nico Steytler) -- Chapter 2. Argentina (Penelope Vaca Avila) -- Chapter 3. Australia (Graham Sansom and Su Fei Tan) -- Chapter 4. Austria (Karl Kössler) -- Chapter 5. Brazil (Sol Garson and Kleber Castro) -- Chapter 6. Canada ( Enid Slack and Zachary Taylor) -- Chapter 7. Ethiopia (Zemelak Ayele) -- Chapter 8. Germany (Henrik Scheller).-Chapter 9. India (Niranjan Sahoo) -- Chapter 10. Italy (Elisabeth Alber, Alice Valdesalici, Greta Klotz) -- Chapter 11. Mexico ( Monica Unda–Gutierrez and Alejandra Reyes) -- Chapter 12. Nepal (Khim Lal Devkota and Gopi Krishna Khanal) -- Chapter 13. Nigeria (Rotimi Suberu) -- Chapter 14: South Africa (Jaap de Visser) -- Chapter 15. Spain (Francisco Velasco Caballero).-Chapter 16. Switzerland (Andreas Ladner) -- Chapter 17. United States of America (Meryl Chertoff) -- Chapter 18. Concluding Remarks (Nico Steytler).
    Abstract: This book brings together leading scholars and practitioners from around the globe to examine the current roles of, and future trends in, local government structures and mechanisms in 16 different federal and federal-type countries. In doing so, this volume explores pressing topics such as the institutions of local government, constitutional recognition, local government competencies, financial management, intergovernmental relations, political culture, and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the role of local government in federal systems. Contributors to this volume provide a timely and comprehensive account of the integral role local governments play in federal countries and offer illuminating perspectives on how these roles may change as individual federal systems evolve. These individual analyses are contextualized in a comparative perspective in order to gain a holistic understanding of the challenges and opportunities of various local government dynamics in different regions around the world. Chapter 16 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com. Nico Steytler is a professor emeritus at the Dullah Omar Institute of Constitutional Law, Governance and Human Rights of the University of the Western Cape, South Africa.
    Note: Tabellen, Literaturhinweise, Index , Open Access
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  • 5
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    Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland | Cham : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
    ISBN: 9783031579660
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XV, 259 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Ethics. ; Continental Philosophy. ; Political science.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Jacques Derrida on Unconditional and Conditional Hospitality -- Chapter 3: Is Unconditional Hospitality a Regulative Idea of Reason? -- Chapter 4: The Hyper-Ethics of Hospitality -- Chapter 5: The Decision of Hospitality -- Chapter 6: The Event of Hospitality -- Chapter 7: Aporias of Responsibility: Sacrificing Others in The Name of The Other -- Chapter 8: The Necessary Contamination of The Unconditional Ethics of Hospitality By Its Other: Sacrificing The Other in The Name of Others -- Chapter 9: The Aporetic Relationship Between The Unconditional Ethics of Hospitality and Politics -- Chapter 10: Hospitality and Non-Human Beings.
    Abstract: The book systematically presents Derrida’s views on hospitality, as reflected in his texts and lectures from 1995 until his death in October 2004. Derrida’s engagement with hospitality is perhaps the most important and extensive philosophical attempt to respond critically to the growing hostility of many governments worldwide towards specific categories of foreigners, such as refugees and immigrants. Particular emphasis is placed on the ‘aporetic’ nature of hospitality that Derrida describes: namely, that, on the one hand, the provision of hospitality brings us face to face with the hyper-ethical ‘law’ of ‘unconditional hospitality,’ which requires the unconditional reception of the other, i.e. the provision of hospitality to the foreigner without conditions, restrictions or expecting anything in return. On the other hand, the provision of hospitality forces us to face the ‘conditional’ laws of hospitality, which, while establishing a right to and a duty of hospitality, simultaneously restrict hospitality by setting conditions for the arrival and stay of the foreigner. The book also analyses the ‘decision’ and the ‘event’ of hospitality, as well as the unresolved ‘aporia’ at the heart of the ethics of hospitality (or of ethics in general), an aporia or contradiction related to the fact that we cannot be hospitable towards a singularity without ‘sacrificing’ some other singularities. Attention is paid to Derrida’s attempt to open the provision of hospitality beyond humans, that is, to other living beings. Derrida’s views on hospitality are examined in the book in the light of the philosophical thought of Emmanuel Levinas, Immanuel Kant and René Schérer. Gerasimos Kakoliris is Associate Professor in Contemporary Continental Philosophy at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. His previous publications include Derrida’s Deconstructive Double Reading: The Case of Rousseau (2022, open access).
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    Cham : Springer International Publishing | Cham : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
    ISBN: 9783031541766
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIV, 320 p. 33 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Sub-National Governance
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    Keywords: Political planning. ; Comparative government. ; Europe ; Political science.
    Abstract: Chapter 1 -- Introducing Partially Independent Nation Territories -- Chapter 2 -- Credibility Explanations for the Success of Ethnoautonomy Arrangements. Chapter 3 -The Quality of Large and Small Nation Territory Governments -- Chapter 4 -- Good Governance’ and Entrenched Self-Government in Scotland: A Success? -- Chapter 5 -The Capacity of Self-Government in Greenland -- Chapter 6 -- Faroese Self-Government: A Disputed but Evolved Model -- Chapter 7 -- The quality of Self-government in the Åland Islands -- Chapter 8 -- Is it better for nation territories to stand on one or two feet?
    Abstract: This book assesses the quality of self-government in four northern European regions with strong autonomy rights. Examining the experiences of Scotland, the Faroe Islands, Greenland and the Åland Islands, it considers how these regions have developed their own political and administrative systems within the larger states they form part of. The book looks to understand the key democratic and administrative qualities of a functioning self-government, and how geographic size and economic and human resources can impact the ways in which partially independent territories govern. It also assesses the emotional dimensions of regional nationalism, and how this impacts the concept and public perception of partially independent nation territories. By focusing on the quality of self-government within these nation territories, the book considers whether strong autonomy contributes to peaceful co-existence within established national borders, or provides new munition for secessionist movements. It will appeal to students and scholars of sub-national governance, European politics, territorial politics and conflict management. Jan Sundberg is Professor Emeritus in Political Science at the Swedish School of Social Science, University of Helsinki, Finland. His research interests include ethnic politics, political sociology, party organizations, local politics, Scandinavian politics, and self-government. Stefan Sjöblom is Professor of Local Administration at the Swedish School of Social Science, University of Helsinki, Finland. His main research interests are local and regional development, administrative reform policies, and hybrid forms of governance.
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  • 7
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    ISBN: 9783031553561
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XII, 344 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Political science. ; International relations. ; Peace. ; Politics and war.
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Prolegomena to the Basic Concepts -- Chapter 3.The Fragile States in the Global Security System -- Chapter 4. State Fragility and Legitimacy: National Dynamics and Domestic-Grown Factors -- Chapter 5.State Fragility and Legitimacy “Beyond the State” -- Chapter 6.Peacebuilding, Statebuilding, and Legitimacy-Based Rule -- Chapter 7.Conclusions.
    Abstract: This book delves into the complex dynamics of legitimizing power in fragile states. With five comprehensive chapters, it analyzes the geopolitical, domestic, and international dimensions of fragile states. The unique contribution lies in unraveling specific forms of legitimization linked to various types of state fragility, providing a nuanced understanding. The book distinguishes between temporary crises and chronic fragility, crucial for shaping effective international support strategies. It addresses the challenges and consequences of weak legitimacy on global security, highlighting its impact on aid interventions and systemic stability. The author's analysis emphasizes the diverse nature of political regimes in fragile states, incorporating considerations of hybrid regimes. Additionally, it explores the dynamics of authoritarian enclaves at the sub-state level, revealing their potential national influence. By scrutinizing the decline of trust in democratic systems, the book addresses contemporary challenges, making it a vital resource for understanding and navigating the complexities of fragile states' political landscapes. Ryszard Ficek is a Lecturer at the College of Social and Economics in Przeworsk, Poland.
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    ISBN: 9783031584145
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XI, 189 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Political science. ; Marxian economics. ; International economic relations.
    Abstract: 1.Introduction -- 2.The Limits to Anti-Value: David Harvey -- 3.Marx’s Grundrisse, and Labour as ‘Not-Capital’: Roman Rosdolsky, Antonio Negri, Mario Tronti -- 4.Systematic Dialectic of the Value-Form: Christopher Arthur -- 5.The ‘Critique of Labour’: Moishe Postone, Wertkritik, John Holloway -- 6.‘The Critique of Political Economy as Critical Social Theory’ -- 7.Conclusion: The Limits to Not-Capital.
    Abstract: As a contribution to critical social theory, this book reconsiders Marx’s critique of political economy through the concept of labour as “not-capital”. Engaging with thinkers who have dealt with Marx’s concepts of “not-capital” and “not-value”, Tetler examines whether and how these concepts can contribute significantly towards a renewal of the critique of political economy beyond the limits of traditional Marxism. In doing so he provides the first in depth interrogation of these concepts, both within Marx’s work itself and within and across the various intellectuals who have put them to use in their attempts to address the faults of traditional Marxism. He argues that the theory of value that sits at the heart of Marx’s critique of political economy requires a negative conception of labour. In helping establish this, the notions of labour as not-capital/value are shown to have formidable ramifications concerning the crisis-ridden nature of capitalist social relations and the struggles operative within and against them. Benjamin Tetler is an independent scholar. He received his Ph.D. in Politics from the University of York in 2023. .
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    ISBN: 9783031547362
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XV, 302 p. 22 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Sub-National Governance
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    Keywords: Political planning. ; Europe ; Comparative government. ; Political science.
    Abstract: 1. Territorial Reforms: Concepts and Cases of Boundary Change -- 2. Theoretical Approaches to the Study of Amalgamations -- 3. Methodological Approaches to the Study of Amalgamations -- 4. Evaluation of Amalgamation Reforms -- 5. Taking Time Seriously in the Study of Local Government Amalgamations -- 6. Taking Space Seriously in the Study of Local Government Amalgamations -- 7. Conclusion .
    Abstract: This book provides a comprehensive analysis of municipal amalgamation reforms in Europe. Adopting the analytical and methodological tools of comparative historical analysis, it examines how the history of local government systems has conditioned the adoption of municipal amalgamation reforms across time and space. Beginning with Sweden’s early amalgamation reforms during the late 1940s and early 1950s, it assesses how the evolution of the Welfare State, decentralization, urbanization, and economic growth have all impacted amalgamation reforms in ten other European countries. The book challenges the prevailing theory that amalgamations are implemented by rational design to improve the efficiency and capacity of local governments. Instead, it argues that state sovereignty, regime changes, centralization of authority and diffusion effects are more likely causes of the adoption of municipal amalgamation reforms. It will appeal to all those interested in public administration, public policy, European politics, and local governance studies. António F. Tavares is Associate Professor at the School of Economics and Management, University of Minho, Portugal. He is also Adjunct Associate Professor at the United Nations University Operating Unit on Policy-Driven Electronic Governance, Portugal.
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    ISBN: 9783031474798
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVI, 173 p. 261 illus., 258 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Economic development. ; International economic relations. ; Imperialism. ; Political science.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Massa Day Done or 'Same Old Khaki Pants ? - contextualising Caribbean political corruption -- Chapter 2: Smokescreens and Pipe Dreams - Examining Anti-Corruption Measures in the Eastern Caribbean -- Chapter 3: Analysing Governance Arrangements – Freedom of Speech & Press and Elections -- Chapter 4: Analysis of Governance Arrangements for Controlling Corruption and their Effectiveness -- Chapter 5: Corruption: The Lived Experience – Interview Participants’ Perspectives.
    Abstract: A ground-breaking scholarly text with resonance and relevance in emerging post-globalism discourse, it provides a theoretical and empirical framework not only for decolonising Caribbean political corruption studies but also for giving agency to small island development outside Western narratives -an exciting prospect of 'small walking tall'. ---Simon Lee, independent scholar and Caribbeanist This book is a pioneering multi-disciplinary analytical study of Caribbean political corruption grounded in Caribbean epistemology, challenging universalist perceptions generated outside the region which take no account of historical and cultural elativity. In tracing the history and development of Caribbean political systems and corruption, it collates and synthesizes existing data, indispensable to current and future research. Rigorous analysis of international corruption measurement tools demonstrates deficiencies and limited validity for small island states in the Caribbean and worldwide. Highly detailed case studies and fieldwork research investigating perceptions of corruption and democratic capacity present invaluable new empirical data and offer insights into remodelling corruption analysis. With its wide cross-disciplinary appeal, this book makes significant and timely contributions to decolonial studies and an emerging decolonization discourse in the Caribbean. Dr. Dawn De Coteau is an international lawyer who practices in England & Wales and the Caribbean region. She obtained the award of Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Liverpool in 2022, with her thesis entitled 'Corruption in Caribbean Politics - Examining Cultural Tolerance’.
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    ISBN: 9783031587306
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIII, 152 p. 5 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Security, International. ; International organization. ; Politics and war.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Research questions, methodology and limitations -- Chapter 3: Relationships -- Chapter 4: Australia -- Chapter 5: Canada -- Chapter 6: New Zealand -- Chapter 7: United Kingdom -- Chapter 8: United States -- Chapter 9: Analysis and Findings -- Chapter 10: Conclusion.
    Abstract: This book analyzes the ‘Five Eyes’ nations’ concerns and policies relating to national security threats through an interdisciplinary theoretical engagement with the Political, Information, Security and Economic (PISE) Model. Through the analysis of secondary data sources such as scholarly and government reports, policy documents, press releases and interviews, the author analyzes the five case studies—Australia, Canada, New Zealand, UK, and the USA—to determine how and why nations use the PISE variables to shape favorable homeland security outcomes, to determine what the points of homeland intersectoral collaboration are among the ‘Five Eyes’ nations. In so doing, Weaver determines that although the ‘Five Eyes’ countries have concerns about homeland security and each, individually, identifies threats and hazards, they do also employ collaborative measures to build resilience and increase efforts to prepare for anticipated security breaches. John Weaver is an associate professor of Intelligence Analysis at York College of Pennsylvania (USA), a retired DOD civilian from the United States’ Intelligence Community, and has served as an officer in the US Army (retiring at the rank of lieutenant colonel). He has lived and worked on four continents and in 19 countries respectively, spending nearly eight years overseas (on behalf of the US government). His experience includes multiple combat deployments, peace enforcement, peacekeeping, humanitarian relief and disaster assistance support in both conventional and unconventional/non-traditional units. John has trained and certified multinational NATO reconnaissance teams based in the Netherlands, Germany and Spain for worldwide deployment in full-spectrum mission sets. He has also personally led several reconnaissance missions throughout Europe, the Middle East, and Asia (including multiple missions in Afghanistan).
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    ISBN: 9783031541650
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIII, 200 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Security, International. ; Economic development. ; Data protection. ; Humanitarian law.
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Securitizing aid -- Chapter 3. Screening as data processing operation -- Chapter 4. Screening as data processing operation -- Chapter 5. The politics of (non-)transparency in non-European contexts -- Chapter 6. Conclusion.
    Abstract: Aid organizations usually embrace the idea of digitalization, both in terms of using diverse technologies and processing data digitally for improving their services, making their operations more efficient and even mitigating various risks. While digital fundraising, the use of biometric ID systems or digitalized cash and voucher assistance enjoys widespread attention both in academic and practitioner circles, it is less known how aid organizations navigate between counterterrorism legislations and data protection laws in technical terms. Limiting the discussion to the EU General Data Protection Regulation and by conceptualizing screening — commonly used to prevent the use of donor money for illicit purposes, money-laundering, terrorism finance or corruption — as a data processing operation conducted by larger international aid organizations operating in the Global South, this book focuses on the matter of ‘transparency’ and ‘right to information’ being at the nexus ofsurveillance studies and privacy studies. By means of legal and social science methods, it simultaneously explores screening in light of classic surveillance and analyses whether opacity around screening by NGOs (data controllers) is in line with the spirit of European Union data protection regime from the perspective of individuals (data subjects). In so doing, Paragi also contributes to the discussion on the politics of transparency and highlights the dilemmas and challenges aid organizations operating in authoritarian regimes or conflict settings may face. Beata Paragi is Associate Professor at the Institute of Global Studies at Corvinus University of Budapest. She earned her PhD in Political Science (Multidisciplinary International Relations) in 2008, and additionally holds a MA-degree in ICT Law from the University of Oslo (2022). Her research interests and teaching focus on development and humanitarian studies, the digital dimension of aid operations, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and qualitative research methods.
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    ISBN: 9783031581601
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXI, 107 p. 6 illus., 5 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: International relations. ; Security, International. ; Peace.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: The Craft -- Chapter 2: Shaping Justice -- Chapter 3: Feeling Justice -- Chapter 4: Being Justice -- Chapter 5: Crafting.
    Abstract: This book is about the making of justice. Despite the growing scholarship on transitional and transformative justice, contested struggles for justice in times of political change fail to get the nuanced attention we think they deserve. It seeks to understand how the making of justice is a craft and how this process of craft making is itself a source of political change. The authors introduce a new and novel conceptual framework of justicecraft which sheds light upon political change by unpacking five key elements—the skills, knowledge, labor, affect, and materiality—involved in contested struggles for justice. Justicecraft illuminates the stories and struggles for justice, enabling a greater understanding of accompanying social, political, and cultural shifts in society which unfold during times of conflict. By framing justice as craft, the authors offer a more fluid understanding of how people are producing justice on the ground—and identify the means, the instruments, the language, and claims involved in the process. Each chapter applies the framework of justicecraft to diverse global case illustrations of struggles against past, present, and future injustices and wrongdoings and draws out the key elements embedded in these processes. Lauren Balasco is Associate Professor of Political Science at Stockton University in Galloway, New Jersey. Eliza Garnsey is British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in International Relations at the UCL Institute for Global Prosperity, London. Arnaud Kurze is Associate Professor of Justice Studies at Montclair State University. Christopher Lamont is Professor of International Relations at Tokyo International University and Visiting Senior Researcher at the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST) at the University of Tokyo.
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    ISBN: 9783031569326
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXIII, 409 p. 15 illus., 8 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: New Security Challenges
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    Keywords: Africa ; Environmental policy. ; Security, International. ; Economics. ; Power resources.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Oil and Gas Pipeline Structural Resilience, Nigeria and the Global South -- Chapter 3: The Impact of Oil and Gas in Bayelsa, Niger Delta -- Chapter 4: Security and Theoretical Explanation of Pipeline Vandalism in Bayelsa State -- Chapter 5: Research Design and Methodology -- Chapter 6: The Effect of Oil and Gas Activities on Pipeline Vandalism: The Perspectives of Professional Operators -- Chapter 7: Pipeline Vandalism and the Impact of Oil and Gas Activities on Communities: Community Perspectives -- Chapter 8: Discussion and Conclusion.
    Abstract: This book offers a comprehensive analysis of infrastructure insecurity issues in the historic Niger Delta, drawing on empirical fieldwork involving host communities, regulators, and multinational oil and gas operators. It introduces innovative models and theories, such as a pipeline life cycle model focusing on community development, community neglect aggression displacement theory, social aggression theory, stakeholders’ policy development model, contemporary poor governance cycle model, and an infrastructure insecurity nexus model, linking governance, socio-economic conditions, and infrastructure insecurity in resource-rich regions of the Global South. The book bridges gaps left by previous publications, providing depth and applicability of data. It employs the Frustration- Aggression Displacement theory to explain underlying triggers of violence and uses real-world case studies, diagrams, and charts to facilitate understanding. Suitable and engaging for individuals, communities, or regulators involved in oil and gas activities alike, this book offers valuable insights into onshore pipeline infrastructure insecurity in Nigeria, West Africa, and the broader Global South, addressing regulation, compliance, environmental concerns, social aspects, and technological innovations. Abdul L. Abraham Jatto’s research is focussed on oil and gas pipeline infrastructure insecurity in the Niger Delta, with expertise in contemporary political security and resilient infrastructure security. Following a PhD in Politics from the University of Lincoln, focusing on onshore oil and gas pipeline infrastructure insecurity problems in the Niger Delta region. It involved the design of integrative security and socio-economic models for safe transportation of oil and gas, infrastructure security. He has developed a proven interest and experience in the broad spectrum of Nigeria’s human and national security architecture and community development drawing on multi-disciplinary academic qualifications and professionalism. He is an appointed subject expert Judge in Politics and International Relations for the Global Undergraduate Award, Dublin, and has published across many reputable scholarly journals in the field. .
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    ISBN: 9783031593369
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXI, 182 p. 31 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Political Corruption and Governance
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    Keywords: Political science. ; Public administration. ; School management and organization. ; School administration. ; International organization.
    Abstract: Introduction: 1. Corruption Basics -- 2. Corruption as a Management Issue. Part I: Analysis: 3. Sector -- 4. Focus -- Part II: Remediation Approach: 5. Broad Framing -- 6. Specific Measures -- 7. Choosing Options -- 8. Last words.
    Abstract: This open access book provides an accessible insight into how to tackle corruption in organisations and institutions. It explains how to recognise and analyse corruption issues, together with knowledge and advice on how they can be avoided, prevented, or minimised. It also provides a framework through which readers can examine what strategies are available to tackle corruption issues, a rationale for how to prioritise strategies depending on circumstances and context, and guidance on how to critique various options. The book will appeal to professionals and practitioners, as well as academics interested in governance and corruption. Mark Pyman is co-founder of the online network CurbingCorruption.com, having previously created and led Transparency International’s global programme tackling defence and security corruption. He served as a Commissioner in Afghanistan’s Anti-Corruption Committee (MEC). Paul M. Heywood holds the Sir Francis Hill Chair of European Politics at the University of Nottingham, UK. His research focuses on political corruption, institutional design, and state capacity. With Mark, he is also co-founder of the online network CurbingCorruption.com.
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    ISBN: 9783031515484
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (IX, 233 p.) , Illustrationen
    Keywords: Africa ; Security, International. ; International economic relations. ; Peace. ; Terrorism. ; Political violence.
    Abstract: Chapter 1. IGAD Regional Agenda: An Introduction -- Chapter 2. Pan-Africanism and Regional Integration -- Chapter 3. IGAD and Regional Integration: Theories -- Chapter 4. Evolution and Transformation of IGAD -- Chapter 5. Historicising the Logic of Regional Integration in the IGAD Region -- Chapter 6. IGAD and Regional Conflicts -- Chapter 7. IGAD’s Role in Economic Integration -- Chapter 8. Regional Security and the Role of IGAD in Somalia -- Chapter 9. Toward Peace and Security of Somalia and the Horn of Africa.
    Abstract: This book delves into the Inter-Governmental Authority for Development's (IGAD) endeavors to enhance security and economic integration in the Horn of Africa. While aspiring to unite and stabilize the region, IGAD faces complex historical, strategic, and geographical challenges. Through a political economy approach, the book showcases IGAD’s strengths and weaknesses and employs neorealist and regional security complex theories to analyze the involvement of states and non-state actors in IGAD's security agenda, particularly in relation to Somalia. The study highlights opportunities and obstacles to sustainable regional integration, offering practical policy suggestions for curbing armed uprisings and inter-state disputes. It dissects the geopolitical dynamics involving international players like the United States and China, as well as regional powers such as Ethiopia, in IGAD's pursuit of security and economic progress. Valuable for researchers, policymakers, and stakeholders invested in the Horn's security and development, the book bridges gaps in the literature, shedding light on African political development, regional peace and security. Mohamed Farah Hersi is Head of Somaliland's oldest research think tank institution, the Academy for Peace and Development, Hargeisa. He received his Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Hargeisa in Somaliland, his Master of Laws degree from the University of Pretoria in South Africa, and his PhD from the University of Peace in Costa Rica. He has 13 years of experience and expertise in the fields of research, technical consulting service, policy creation and analysis. Adeoye O. Akinola is Head of Research and Teaching at the Institute for Pan-African Thought and Conversation (IPATC), University of Johannesburg, South Africa. He obtained a PhD in Political Science from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. He is the co-editor of the IPATC's journal, “Pan-African Conversation: An International Journal”, and specializes in African political economy, resource governance, migration, conflict, and peace studies.
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    ISBN: 9783031509353
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVIII, 211 p. 6 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Memory Politics and Transitional Justice
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    Keywords: Political science. ; Peace. ; Collective memory. ; Ethnology.
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2. Arraigo -- 3. Dolor de patria -- 4. Empatía -- 5. By way of Conclusion: Paz Epilogue.
    Abstract: This book explores the intersections of affect, memory and privilege among Bogota’s upper middle class. Combining approaches from memory studies, anthropology, feminist and affect theory, this work is concerned with the implications for the present and potential futures contained in affective encounters. It is structured along four affects describing the social, spatial, historical and political aspects of ‘being affected’ by the Colombian conflict. After showing how the Colombian conflict is rooted in specific affective relationships to land, disappointment and crushed hopes in the context of various peace negotiations are portrayed as the central experiences nurturing a sense of a doubling or re-experiencing of past emotions. Then, a specifically upper-middle class emotional habitus and its implication for the social connections to people more directly affected by the conflict are outlined, and peace as an upper middle-class affect is revealed as a privilege not everyone deserves. Hendrikje Grunow is coordinator of the German-Colombian MA program Conflict, Memory and Peace at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt. She holds a doctorate from the University of Konstanz and studied Anthropology and Latin-American Studies in Berlin, Bogota, Zurich and Bern. She co-coordinates the Latin-American regional group at the Memory Studies Association.
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    ISBN: 9783031445460
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIX, 133 p. 5 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: The European Union in International Affairs
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    Keywords: Europe ; Political planning. ; Security, International. ; International relations. ; Integration ; Sicherheitspolitik ; Staatensystem ; Internationale Organisation ; Entwicklung ; Politisches Mandat
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2. Conceptual framework -- 3. A differentiated European defence architecture in the making -- 4. EU (rope) and regional resilience -- 5. Conclusion.
    Abstract: “The successive crises the EU has undergone, notably with the pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, have highlighted dramatically how European security includes while spans well beyond defence. Picking up from this cue, this book masterfully expands the notion of European strategic autonomy across different areas while highlighting its fundamental compatibility with the goal of building stronger partnerships beyond the EU’s borders.” — Nathalie Tocci, director at IAI in Rome “European Actorness in a Shifting Geopolitical Context is a timely and thought-provoking contribution to the discourse on European strategic autonomy. Rieker and Giske go beyond conventional notions of defence to highlight the pressing need to address the growing risk of hybrid threats. With meticulous research and a nuanced understanding of contemporary debates on European integration and security, this volume presents a comprehensive approach to fleshing out European strategic autonomy. A must-read for policymakers, academic experts and anyone interested in understanding Europe’s evolving role on the international stage.” — Mark Leonard, director of ECFR “Rieker and Giske provide an innovative analysis of how external differentiation can help improve EU actorness and security. This is the first study that systematically brings together two core issues in European integration: external differentiation and strategic autonomy. Building on a broad empirical basis, the book makes an important contribution to current political and academic discussions on Europe’s foreign and security policy.” — Frank Schimmelfennig, Professor, ETH Zurich This is an open access book. Over the past decade, the global geopolitical context has changed significantly, with a geopolitical power shift and a more assertive Russia and China. With the unprovoked Russian invasion of Ukraine, European security has been put on high alert. The implications of the Russian military invasion are many and difficult to grasp in full. But the need for greater European strategic autonomy appears increasingly evident. But how can this be achieved in the short run? A common answer to this question is that it is impossible or that this can only be achieved in the long run, if at all. The aim of this book is to present a different perspective. It aims at showing that it should be possible to make the most out of the current European system if we adjust our understanding of how it works. The book argues that strategic autonomy may be reached—also in the short run—if differentiated integration (DI) is seen as an asset rather than a challenge. While the EU remains the core in such a system (together with NATO in the military domain), there is a multitude of other (bilateral and minilateral) regional and sub-regional integration processes that need to be considered to get the full idea of how a more differentiated European strategic autonomy can be achieved. This book starts by presenting a theoretical framework for how to study European actorness beyond the EU (ch.2), then this framework is applied both to understand Europe as a global actor (ch. 3), Europe as an actor in security and defence (ch. 4) and Europe as a regional actor (ch. 5). Pernille Rieker holds a position as a research professor at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) and a part-time full professor at the Inland University College (INN). Rieker is part of NUPI's research group on security and defence and is responsible for NUPI's Center for European Studies (NCE). Furthermore, she is the co-editor of the Scandinavian journal for international studies, 'Internasjonal Politikk'. Mathilde E. Giske is a Ph.D. candidate, Department for Political studies, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
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    ISBN: 9783031414015
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIX, 287 p. 22 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Communication in organizations. ; Sustainability. ; Political science.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Part 1: Theoretical and Empirical Approaches to Communication for Development and Sustainable Social Change in Africa -- Chapter 2: Anchoring Participatory Communication in South Africa’s Municipal Citizen Participation During Integrated Development Planning (IDP) Processes -- Chapter 3: Participatory communication for sustainable development: A study of the Access project in Ghana -- Chapter 4: A theoretical framework towards mutual sustainability communication -- Part 2: Strategic Communication in Governance, Planning and Policy Reforms -- Chapter 5: Exploration of the accentuated value of Strategic Communication Management for Inclusive Citizenry Engagement through governance and sustainability -- Chapter 6: Network Governance as a Catalyst for Sustainable Development on the African Continent -- Chapter 7: Communication Strategies for Community Development: A Study of World Bank SEEFOR-CDDS projects in Ukwa East communities, Abia State, Nigeria -- Part 3: Communication for Social Change, Bottom-up Development and Social Movements in Africa -- Chapter 8: The role of the Sudanese Professionals Association in the Revolution of 2019 towards development and social change -- Chapter 9: Invited and Invented Spaces of Public Participation in South African Local Government: The study of community engagement practices and service delivery protests -- Chapter 10: Movement communication practices of students & the poor: The political economy of communication -- Part 4: Cases Studies in applied Strategic Communication, Development, Social Change and Electoral Reform -- Chapter 11: Public health Communication and Growth -- Chapter 12: Using Digital Technologies in Community Radio to Promote Social Change in Kenya -- Chapter 13: Dwindling Voters’ Turnout and Citizenship Participation: A Political Market Orientation Analysis of Nigeria’s 2015 and 2019 Presidential Elections -- Chapter 14: The Arena Model as a basis for communication strategy formulation for the National Development Plan -- Chapter 15: Concluding Remarks.
    Abstract: This book is the first of its kind within the African region to combine scholarly perspectives from the fields of Strategic Communication Management and Communication for Development and Social Change. It draws insights from scholars across the African continent by unravelling the complementary nature of scholarship between the two fields, through the lens of prevailing governance and sustainability challenges facing African countries, today. This edited volume covers issues that have adversely affected the achievement of goals related to humanitarian upliftment, development and social change for all African nations. Consequently, citizen participation, which lies at the heart of these challenges when considering the question of sustainable governance and policy development for social change in an African context is addressed. To this end, a reflection is also made on various case studies that exist where local citizens do not inform sustainable development programmes, while the promotion of bottom-up development and social change is largely replaced by top-down instrumental action approaches and hemispheric communication instead of strategic communication. Themes explored include: ● Communication for social change, bottom-up development and social movements in the local government sphere ● Strategic communication in governance, planning and policy reforms ● The role of multi-stakeholder partnerships in achieving development of objectives geared towards good governance in Africa ● Public participation, protests, and resistance from 'below' ● Public sector health communications and development ● Media relations, accountability and contested development narratives with the Fourth Estate ● Social media and eParticipation in government development programs. Tsietsi Mmutle is Senior Lecturer at the University of Pretoria in the department of Business Management, he teaches Strategic Communication Management modules at honours and Masters level in the Communication Management unit. Tshepang B. Molale is Senior Lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand, specializing in communication for development and social change. Olanrewaju Olugbenga Akinola lectures in the Mass Communication department of the Olabisi Onbanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, Nigera. Olebogeng Selebi completed her PhD in Communication Management from the University of Pretoria. She was the host of the first Nobel Prize Dialogue event ever to take place on African soil.
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    ISBN: 9783031468094
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XX, 275 p. 8 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Mobility & Politics
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    Keywords: Political science. ; Emigration and immigration ; Emigration and immigration ; Human rights. ; Migrationspolitik ; Asylpolitik ; Internationale Migration ; Kurden ; Asylbewerber ; Zuwanderer ; Vertreibung ; Soziale Situation ; Kurdistan ; Europa
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Homeland Conditions: “Speaking Kurdish was Equal to a Crime." -- Chapter 3: Escape: "I had seen the deaths of my children with my own eyes.” -- Chapter 4: Asylum Processes and Challenges: “We neither die nor live but receive some breath.” -- Chapter 5: Towards Integration: "We cannot achieve integration without struggle.” -- Chapter 6: Self-Governance from below: “Self-help Services are Necessary to Mitigate our Suffering -- Chapter 7: Exile: Exile: “I have not dreamed of being here since I still live there” -- Chapter 8: Conclusion.
    Abstract: Over a million Kurdish-Yezidi refugees are dispersed across European cities and towns. However, they are neither recognized as a distinct community of stateless immigrants nor as a distinct European ethnic or religious minority. They are frequently utilized as data sources without having a voice to address their challenges. This oral testimony project, moving beyond, but contributing to, conventional academic research, provides these communities with a space to tackle multiple questions in their own languages and with their own voices. The book seeks to answer what drives their departures from their home countries, how they escape, what shapes their lives in receiving cities, and finally, how homeland affairs influence their lives in new environments. By addressing all these themes, this book presents refugee-centric knowledge by and with refugees as objects and subjects of their narratives and transcends neoliberal humanitarian, state-centric, and colonial hegemonic epistemes that limit refugees' epistemic capabilities and viewpoints. Veysi Dag is a research fellow of the Minerva Foundation at the Department of International Relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is also a research associate at SOAS, University of London. His research interests focus on studies of migration and diaspora, governance, social movements and transnationalism, comparative politics with a focus on refugee and migration policies in Europe, peacebuilding and conflict transformation, and regional policy analysis with a focus on Middle Eastern politics and the Kurdish-Turkish conflict.
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    ISBN: 9783031513220
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIII, 210 p. 6 illus., 3 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: EADI Global Development Series
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    Keywords: Political science. ; Middle East ; Africa ; Demokratisierung ; Gesellschaft ; Entwicklung ; Politische Beteiligung ; Gemeindeverwaltung ; Politische Mobilisierung ; Marokko ; Tunesien ; Libanon
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2. Social Accountability in review -- 3. Social Accountability in Morocco -- 4. Social Accountability in Tunisia -- 5. Social Accountability in Lebanon -- 6. Conclusion.
    Abstract: This Open Access Pivot represents the first extensive exploration of social accountability within the Arab world following the 2011 Arab uprisings. Drawing on insights from development studies, comparative politics, and Middle East studies, the authors explore the evolution of accountability as a governance concept, review theories on social accountability’s role in improving public service delivery, and categorize types of social accountability initiatives, highlighting respective strengths and weaknesses. Detailed country chapters provide a solid basis for the comparative approach which reveals major variations in meanings of accountability, mobilization strategies, and official responses, rooted in the specific sociopolitical contexts of each country. Moreover, the book analyzes the influence of political and economic elites as well as the nature of popular mobilisation on accountability dynamics in the region. The authors conclude by discerning differences and commonalities across cases and offer recommendations for policymakers, donors, and practitioners seeking to enhance the effectiveness of social accountability initiatives. They address challenges such as the lack of enforcement mechanisms, the difficulty of scaling up initiatives, and the ambiguous effects of international interventions. This pioneering Pivot fills a significant void in the study of social accountability in the MENA region and provides a compelling framework for future research and policy design, making it an indispensable resource for experts and scholars. Ward Vloeberghs is Senior Lecturer in Political Science at Erasmus University College Rotterdam, the Netherlands, where he serves as Head of the Social and Behavioural Sciences Department. He researches (Arab) elites through their symbolic and material articulations of power. Sylvia I. Bergh is Associate Professor in Development Management and Governance at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), Erasmus University Rotterdam, and Senior Researcher at the Research Group Multilevel Regulation and the Centre of Expertise on Global and Inclusive Learning at The Hague University of Applied Sciences. She has published widely on state-society relations in the MENA region. .
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    ISBN: 9783031418501
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIII, 391 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: International relations. ; Security, International. ; International economic relations.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Permanent Counterrevolution, Technocracy, and World War III -- Chapter 2: Shock and Stress -- Chapter 3: Trauma-Based Mind Control -- Chapter 4: Fear and Thread -- Chapter 5: Cognitive Attack -- Chapter 6: Weaponised Deception -- Chapter 7: Mass Paranoia and Hysteria: Turning Society against itself -- Chapter 8: The coming Unrest.
    Abstract: David Hughes was one of the few academics who questioned the mainstream narrative following the attacks that triggered the War on Terror. That gave him a crucial advantage when the Covid emergency was declared. In this provocative study he explores in depth how governments have declared war on their populations to achieve a transformation to a technocratic dictatorship. The combination with psychological techniques developed over many decades makes this a particularly grave danger, which requires careful dissection to be understood and resisted. This book, the first of a two-volume set, provides that analysis. ~ Kees van der Pijl, author of States of Emergency. Keeping the Global Population in Check (Clarity Press, 2022) (The Netherlands) The silent coup engineering global central control depends heavily on asymmetrical warfare – including extensive investment in and application of psychological and neurological weaponry. In this book, David Hughes documents the development and application of a wide portfolio of soft and hard – and often invisible – weapons to brutally manipulate minds and emotions to engineer the adoption of technocracy. The first step to not falling victim is to see these 21st century weapons of war clearly. Hughes’ formidable scholarship helps you to do so. ~ Catherine Austin Fitts, Publisher, The Solari Report (United States) David A. Hughes is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Lincoln. He received his undergraduate and master’s degrees from Oxford University and holds doctorates in German Studies (Duke University) and International Relations (Oxford Brookes University). His research focuses on psychological warfare, "9/11," "Covid-19," the deep state, technocracy, global class relations, and resurgent totalitarianism. Camouflaged by “Covid-19,” an undeclared global class war was initiated in 2020, aimed at replacing liberal democracy with technocracy, a novel, biodigital form of totalitarianism. The opening campaign involved the largest psychological operation in history, intended to demoralise, disorientate, and debilitate the public. This volume deals with the application of shock and stress, trauma-based mind control, the use of fear and threat, cognitive attack, weaponised deception, and techniques for turning society against itself.
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    ISBN: 9783031389177
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXIII, 481 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Macmillan Series in Global Public Diplomacy
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    Keywords: Political planning. ; Diplomacy. ; International relations. ; Political science. ; America ; Public Diplomacy ; Diplomatie ; Internationale Politik ; Politische Kommunikation ; Mitarbeiter ; Praxis ; Geschichte ; USA
    Abstract: Introduction -- Part I Precursors and Concepts -- Chapter 1. Colonial Era Foundations -- Chapter 2. Turning Points in a New Nation -- Chapter 3. Framing Practitioner Communities -- Part II, 20th Century Practitioners -- Chapter 4. Borrowing from Civil Society, 1917-1947 -- Chapter 5. Foreign Service – Building a Foundation, 1948-1970 -- Chapter 6. Foreign Service – Transforming Diplomacy, 1970-1990 -- Chapter 7. Cultural Diplomats -- Chapter 8. International Broadcasters -- Chapter 9. Soldiers -- Chapter 10. Covert Operatives and Front Groups -- Chapter 11. Democracy Builders -- Chapter 12. Presidential Aides -- Part III 21st Century US Diplomacy -- Chapter 13. Reinvention and Fragmentation -- Chapter 14. A Failure to Communicate? -- Chapter 15. Drivers of Change -- Chapter 16. What Happens Now? -- Acronyms -- Selected Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
    Abstract: This book tells the story of how innovative and rival practitioner communities have shaped American diplomacy’s public dimension. It is the fi rst book to frame U.S. public diplomacy in the broad sweep of American diplomatic practice from the early colonial period to the present. “…not only original but also potentially fi eld shifting. This is not simply another good book on American public diplomacy: it will be the book on American public diplomacy.” —Professor Geoffrey Wiseman, DePaul University, U.S.A “American Diplomacy’s Public Dimension, a masterful historical overview of American diplomatic communication, provides fi rst-time insight into the evolution of U.S. public diplomacy from the colonial era to the present day. This book also offers a nuanced assessment of contemporary public diplomacy practices in the face of rapid technological transformation and increasingly ‘societized’ diplomatic engagement. An exceptional blend of public diplomacy scholarship and deep institutional knowledge, this major work will appeal to diplomatic practitioners, professors, and policymakers.” — Vivian S. Walker, Executive Director, U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy “Gregory thinks like an academic while seeing public diplomacy through the lens of the work of the men and women who have put fl esh on the bones of U.S. public diplomacy policies… This book is steeped in deep knowledge and his exceptional dedication to getting our understanding of public diplomacy right.” —Professor Jan Melissen, Editor-in-Chief, The Hague Journal of Diplomacy Bruce Gregory taught graduate and undergraduate courses on public diplomacy at Georgetown University and George Washington University for 17 years. Prior to that, his 33-year government career included positions at the Department of State, U.S. Information Agency, 13 years as executive director of the U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy, and three years on the faculty of the National War College. Publications include peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, public policy reports, and a bimonthly literature review. P.
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    ISBN: 9783031501968
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 289 p. 4 illus., 3 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Studies in Iranian Politics
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    Keywords: Security, International. ; Middle East ; International relations. ; Kollektive Sicherheit ; Sicherheitspolitik ; Militärische Kooperation ; Völkerrechtlicher Vertrag ; Multilateraler Vertrag ; Kernenergie ; Kerntechnik ; Iran
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Part I Iran Nuclear Deal and Its Fracture -- Chapter 2: The Much-Awaited Deal of 2015 -- Chapter 3: The US Exit from the Deal in 2018 -- Chapter 4: Scholarship on the Ramifications of the Fractured Deal -- Part II Theory -- Chapter 5: Cooperation, Spill-over Effects, and Integration -- Chapter 6: Fast-Paced Spill Back Effect -- Chapter 7: Fractured Deal and Triggers to Renewed Proliferation Interest -- Part III Case Study: Iran -- Chapter 8: Iran’s Nuclear Ambition and Its Conflicts in the Pre-Deal Period -- Chapter 9: The Deal and Iran’s Muted Nuclear Status -- Chapter 10: US Exit from the Deal and Tehran’s Intense Proliferation Interest -- Part IV -- Chapter 11 Conclusion.
    Abstract: “This important book offers a new theory and policy-related insights with respect to the Iran nuclear deal. It is the first study to see the nuclear deal as a means toward confidence-building between longstanding enemies. Iranian proliferation activities prior to the deal emerged as a result of simultaneous protracted conflicts with the US, Israel and Iraq. The volume offers a unique comparative analysis of Iranian nuclear policy over time and will be of great interest to academics and foreign policy practitioners alike.” - Patrick James, Dean’s Professor of International Relations, University of Southern California This in-depth study perceptively illuminates how the Iranian nuclear deal unraveled after the Trump administration withdrew, and with what consequences. The case reveals how relations between rival states can be improved through the positive spill-over effects of cooperative arrangements, but also how rapid and comprehensive spill-back can result from their unravelling. With her compelling analysis Khan persuasively demonstrates the importance of a renewed agreement with Iran backed by the United States.” - Annette Freyberg-Inan, Professor of International Relations Theory, University of Amsterdam This book introduces a novel theory surrounding the spillback effects stemming from the fracture of cooperative arrangements, exemplified by the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), and rigorously examines its applicability through an in-depth analysis of the Iranian context. The book draws connections between the JCPOA and the broader landscape of conflict resolution and contends that cooperation can manifest between protracted conflict states, and once established through trust and confidence-building measures, can lead to spill-over effects into other domains. This comprehensive study undertakes a unique comparative analysis, scrutinizing Iran's proclivity towards proliferation before the JCPOA, the period of subdued proliferation during the deal's existence, and the subsequent surge in proliferation activities following US withdrawal. This book marks essential reading for researchers interested in Iranian politics, Middle Eastern politics, nuclear proliferation, US foreign policy, and international relations theory. Saira Khan is an international affairs expert with a career spanning over twenty years as a Professor of International Relations.
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    ISBN: 9783031504266
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 449 Seiten)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Federalism and internal conflicts
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    Keywords: Political science. ; Africa ; Peace. ; Comparative government. ; Zweite Kammer ; Verfassungsrecht ; Organisation ; Politischer Konflikt ; Innenpolitik ; Dezentralisation ; Afrika
    Abstract: 1. The Nation State, Normative Assumptions and Rival Nationalisms -- 2. Federations: Main Features -- 3. Federations and Second Chambers -- 4. Federalism, Devolution and Territorially Based Cleavages in Africa: Does Institutional Design Matter? -- 5. Devolution and Transition in Sudan -- 6. Constitutional adjudication and Constitutional Governance -- 7. Conclusion.
    Abstract: This book explores the relationship between federalism, social divides and conflict in African countries. It details the origins, design and performance of major federal and quasi-federal states to assess their performance and propose new methods for managing these divides. Drawing on evidence from countries such as Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa, the book examines the nature and causes of ethnonationalism, mobilisation and confrontation with the nation state. The book is a comprehensive treatment of the five major federal and devolved systems in Africa. It explains their origin, design and operation, and assesses their performance. More importantly, the book explains the distinct nature of federal and devolved systems in the Global South. Federal and devolved systems in Africa cannot be understood in isolation from the nature of state power on the continent. The book explains the impact of unregulated state power on the dynamics of federal and devolved systems in Africa. Federalism and devolution have not failed but have been betrayed – both in the past and the present – in serving as a venue for accommodation, intergovernmental bargaining and negotiated reform. Assefa Fiseha is Professor of Law and Governance at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia.
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    ISBN: 9783031443435
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XXV, 343 p. 52 illus.)
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    Keywords: Macroeconomics. ; Public administration. ; Political science. ; Accounting. ; Public Sector Balance Sheet ; intergenerational fairness ; climate change mitigation ; democratic accountability ; public ownership ; state owned assets ; national wealth funds
    Abstract: PART 1. PURPOSE AND PROLOGUE -- Chapter 1. Owning and Owing -- Chapter 2. From Warfare to Welfare in Three Generations -- PART 2. ACCOUNTING FOR GOVERNMENT -- Chapter 3. Why Government Accounting Matters -- Chapter 4. What Does the Government Balance Sheet Look Like? -- Chapter 5. Why Accrual Accounting Matters -- Chapter 6. Accrual Accounting – How it Works in Practice -- Chapter 7. Central Banks and the Public Sector Balance Sheet -- Chapter 8. Looking to the Future: The Comprehensive Balance Sheet -- Chapter 9. Comparison of Public Sector Balance Sheets -- Chapter 10. Comparison of Comprehensive Balance Sheets -- Chapter 11. Review of Fiscal Rules -- PART 3. MANAGING PUBLIC COMMERCIAL ASSETS AND LIABILITIES -- Chapter 12. Finding, Understanding and Valuing Public Commercial Assets -- Chapter 13. The Asset Map: A Shortcut to Understanding Property Holdings Better -- Chapter 14. Institutionalising Asset Management -- Chapter 15. What Should Governments Do with Public Commercial Assets? -- Chapter 16. Managing Assets Better: The Role of Public Wealth Funds -- Chapter 17. Pensions and Other Liabilities: The Benefits of Disclosure and Management -- PART 4. PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE -- Chapter 18. Balance Sheets, Culture and National Achievement in Europe 1560 - 1834 -- Chapter 19. How Accounting Can Save Democracy -- Chapter 20. Implementing Change.
    Abstract: This important book…is a call for sensible change. It should be answered. —Martin Wolf, Chief Economics Commentator, Financial Times As individuals, we depend on the services that governments provide. Collectively, we look to them to tackle the big problems – from long-term climate and demographic change to short-term crises like pandemics or war. Funding this activity, and managing the required fi nances sustainably, is diffi cult – and getting more so. But governments don’t provide – or use – basic fi nancial information that every business is required to maintain. They ignore the value of public assets and most liabilities. This leads to ineffi ciency and bad decision-making and piles up problems for the future. Governments need to create balance sheets that properly refl ect assets and liabilities, and to understand their future obligations and revenue prospects. Net Worth – both today and for the future – should be the measure of fi nancial strength and success. Only if this information is put at the centre of government fi nancial decision-making can the present challenges to public fi nances around the world be addressed effectively, and in a way that is fair to future generations. The good news is that there are ways to deal with these problems and make government fi nances more resilient and fairer to future generations. The facts, and the solutions, are non-partisan, and so is this book. Responsible leaders of any political persuasion need to understand the issues and the tools that can enable them to deliver policy within these constraints. Ian Ball a principal architect of the New Zealand Government’s fi nancial management reforms, initiator of the International Public Sector Accounting Standards and CEO of the International Federation of Accountants. Willem Buiter former Chief Economist at Citigroup and EBRD, professor of economics at the LSE, Cambridge and Yale, and an original member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England. John Crompton former investment banker with Morgan Stanley and HSBC in London, New York, and Hong Kong, as well as a Senior Corporate Finance Advisor at the HMT. Dag Detter Investment advisor to governments led the comprehensive restructuring of Sweden’s national portfolio of commercial assets and author of ‘The Public Wealth of Nations’. Jacob Soll Professor of Philosophy, History, and Accounting at the University of Southern California and the author of The Reckoning: Financial Accountability and the Rise and Fall of Nations.
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    ISBN: 9783031541254
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XI, 222 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Political science ; Social sciences ; Political science.
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- Part 1: Legitimacy in Global Governance -- 2. Subject and Concept of Legitimacy -- 3. Legitimacy, Justice and Democracy -- 4. The All-Affected Principle -- 5. Towards a Standard of Legitimacy for Global Governance Institutions -- Part 2: The G20 -- 6. Nature and Functions of the G20 -- 7. The Legitimacy of the G20 -- 8. Conclusions.
    Abstract: “Sören Hilbrich’s work on legitimacy and global governance is original, illuminating and very thorough in its discussion of the question of the nature of legitimacy for international institutions. I am especially impressed with the in-depth discussion of the legitimacy of the G20.” —Thomas Christiano, University of Arizona “Sören Hilbrich develops a conception of legitimacy as the right to function, which is applicable to all political institutions. The implication of this conceptually rich discussion is that we should not be too ambitious in our legitimacy standards for Global Governance institutions. This study is a remarkable achievement and is a must for those interested in International Political Theory.” —Michael Zürn, WZB Berlin Social Science Center Global governance has a major impact on the lives of people around the world. However, traditional theories of legitimacy were usually developed for states and are not suitable for the diversity of global governance institutions that exist today. This book first develops a normative concept of legitimacy that is applicable to all political institutions. According to this concept, to regard an institution as legitimate means ascribing it the right to exercise its function in political practice. Secondly, the book discusses how the use of this concept opens up new perspectives in the debate on legitimacy criteria for global governance institutions. In this context, the book analyses the relationship of legitimacy to the values of justice and democracy and discusses the role of feasibility constraints and the all-affected principle in legitimacy judgements. The concept of legitimacy as the right to function opens up the conceptual space to accommodate the insight that legitimacy criteria are not the same for all global governance institutions, but depend on their function and context. Thirdly, the book applies the developed theoretical framework to a specific global governance institution, the G20. Sören Hilbrich is a researcher at the German Institute of Development and Sustainability in Bonn, Germany.
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    ISBN: 9783031553455
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXIV, 182 p. 26 illus., 16 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Security, International. ; International relations. ; Diplomacy.
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2.The American Military and Football -- Chapter 3 International Relations Theory -- Chapter 4. Strategic Theory -- Chapter 5. Football and U.S. Military Strategy -- Chapter 6. Levels of War -- Chapter 7.Operations and the Principles of War -- Chapter 8. Application of Joint Doctrine and Joint Functions -- Chapter 9. Design, Planning, and Problem Solving -- Chapter 10. Revolution, Innovation, and Adaptation -- Chapter 11. Civil-Military Relations -- Chapter 12. The Similarities -- Chapter 13. The Differences -- Chapter 14. Conclusion / Epilogue -- Bibliography.
    Abstract: This book provides the reader with a history on the linkages between American Football and the American Way of War. It provides concise summaries of aspects of tactics, operations, and strategy, as well as international relations theory using football as a metaphor to simplify the concepts. International relations theory and military strategy tend to be complicated subjects often explained with jargon that puts the average reader to sleep. A book about war and foreign policy explained through football analogies and comparisons is designed to liven the topic and explain various military theories, strategies, and concepts. War and football tend to dominate national media. War is often a topic of debate from the highest levels of government to local bars and coffeehouses. Football is the monolith of sports that blankets sports television and radio throughout the year. This book provides the reader an understanding of how military professionals formulate and execute strategy in an easily understandable manner. Daniel Sukman is an Army Strategist who served as the Chief of Strategy Development on the Joint Staff”.
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    ISBN: 9783031421747
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXI, 218 p. 2 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Twenty-first Century Perspectives on War, Peace, and Human Conflict
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    Keywords: Peace. ; Diplomacy. ; Security, International. ; International relations. ; Nichtstaatliche Organisation ; Politischer Konflikt ; Innenpolitik ; Friede ; Schlichtung ; Mediation ; Norm ; Diffusion ; Myanmar
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction: Unsettled Reflections from Golden Valley, Myanmar -- Chapter 2: Promoting Peace or Pushing Norms? Understanding Normative Agency in Mediation Processes -- Chapter 3: New Kids on the Block: The Rise of NGO Mediators in Mediation and Peacemaking -- Chapter 4: The Promised Land of Inclusive Peace: NGO Mediators as Norm Promoters of Inclusion -- Chapter 5: What’s in a Norm? What Normative Frameworks in Myanmar Reveal about Inclusivity -- Chapter 6: Chronicles of a Norm for Sale: Norm Entrepreneurship in the Myanmar NCA Negotiations -- Chapter 7: “The Trouble with Inclusivity”: How Promoting Inclusive Peace led to an Exclusive Outcome -- Chapter 8: Conclusion: The Life and Death of Inclusive Peace in Myanmar.
    Abstract: Can informal actors such as NGOs mediate peace agreements? If so, how does it work and what are the consequences for international peace mediation? This book tackles these questions and more through looking at the role of nongovernmental (NGO) mediators in promoting “inclusive peace” to negotiating parties in Myanmar’s Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) negotiations from 2011-2015. The author argues that NGO mediators, traditionally seen as part of civil society or as weak mediators with little power or leverage, have become established mediation actors alongside more formal actors and are redefining the mediation field through norm promotion. However, even if NGO mediators can promote norms, the book questions whether they should promote norms in the first place, as the NCA process shows how the promotion of inclusivity contributed to a more exclusive outcome of years of peace negotiations in Myanmar. The outcome of the NCA process presents a critical and cautionary tale of promoting a presumed universal norm into a given locale and expecting a certain outcome without understanding how an external norm interacts with existing normative frameworks. This is an open access book. Julia Palmiano Federer holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Basel and a Master in International Affairs from The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. Dr. Palmiano Federer is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Ottawa and the Head of Research at the Ottawa Dialogue, an organisation that specializes in the resolution of armed conflicts around the world through Track Two diplomacy, a form of unofficial and informal dialogue between warring parties. She is also currently a Senior Fellow at the Negotiation and Conflict Resolution Collaboratory at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership.
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    ISBN: 9783031504587
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XV, 244 p. 7 illus., 6 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in International Relations
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    Keywords: Security, International. ; Krieg ; Stellvertreterkrieg ; Internationale Politik ; Internationale Kooperation ; Internationaler Konflikt ; Politisches Feld ; Ethik ; Moral ; Internationale Norm ; Erde
    Abstract: Chapter 1 The Nature of Proxy Relationships and their Ethics -- Chapter 2 A Brief History of Proxy Wars Part 1: Ancient to Modern -- Chapter 3 A Brief History of Proxy Wars Part 2: The Cold War -- Chapter 4 Jus ad Bellum and the Implications for Proxy Warfare -- Chapter 5 Mitigating the Moral Hazards of Proxy Warfare -- Chapter 6 Conclusion: Applying the Proxy Moral Framework.
    Abstract: “At a time when proxy wars are being fought across the globe, this book should be required reading for senior military and national security officials. Professor Pfaff, one of the nation’s foremost authorities on Just War, gives us a fresh and indispensable guide to the ethics and legality of proxy wars and how they fit into the long tradition of Just War. He also provides a much-needed blueprint for the containment and resolution of such conflicts from Ukraine to the Middle East.” –Michael Hirsh, Columnist, Foreign Policy Magazine “Professor Pfaff's book brings clarity and rigor to an increasingly important feature of international relations: states' use of proxies to achieve indirectly what they prefer not to do directly. It makes a crucial contribution to the normative analysis of international competition by carefully identifying the potential moral harms and hazards of this type of relationship. In an era in which many conflicts feature hostilities between proxies, this book is an essential guide to understanding their nature and complexity.” --Mitt Regan, McDevitt Professor of Jurisprudence, Georgetown University Law Center "Tony Pfaff's excellent book examines the ethics of an increasingly important aspect of warfare: supporting proxies who do the actual fighting and dying to accomplish their national objectives while furthering their sponsor's interests. Highly recommended for those who care about keeping America both safe and morally strong." --Dr. John Nagl, Professor Warfighting Studies, US Army War College, and author of Eating Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya to Vietnam Proxies can effectively transfer risk and lower the costs of international competition; however, they set conditions for moral failure and hazard. Applying the framework of the Just War Tradition, this book addresses how international actors can address those challenges and establish ethical and effective security relationships. DR. C. Anthony Pfaff (Colonel, U.S. Army, Ret.) is the research professor for Strategy, the Military Profession and Ethics at the US Army War College’s Strategic Studies Institute, a Senior Non-resident fellow at the Atlantic Council, and a Distinguished Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy. .
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    ISBN: 9783031561801
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 201 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Ecocriticism. ; Communication in the environmental sciences. ; Medicine and the humanities. ; Political science.
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2. Climate Change Denial: An Ecocidal, Parallel Universe of Simulation -- 3. COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy: The Ongoing, Hyperreal Saga of a Deadly Epidemic and Infodemic -- 4. Alternative Facts Trump Reality: The Spectacular Anatomy of an Insurrection -- 5. The Baudrillardian “Discourse of the Good:” Putin’s False Flag Operation to Denazify Ukraine -- 6. Conclusions. .
    Abstract: This transdisciplinary book investigates the profound repercussions of living in a post-truth world in which “alternative facts” and post-truth knowledge claims, often bordering on the absurd, have replaced the real in the collective imagination of millions of people around the planet. Through discussions on climate change denial, the anti-vaccination movement, the January 6th Insurrection and the Russia-Ukraine War, this study explores the gravity of the current 'infodemic,' or the increasing inability of a large segment of the population to distinguish between reality and misrepresentation, and the destabilizing impact this infodemic has on democratic models of governance around the globe, coinciding with the rise of autocratic forms of populism. Keith Moser is Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Mississippi State University. He has more than one-hundred major publications including nine books and eighty-five articles. Moser’s research examines many issues linked to social-ecological justice, including Environmental Ethics (Environmental Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, Ecocriticism, Ecolinguistics, and Biosemiotics) and postmodern French thought as it relates to literature, Popular Culture, and society in general.
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    ISBN: 9783031388941
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XV, 239 p. 6 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Peace. ; Political science. ; Human rights. ; Friedenskonsolidierung ; Friedenssicherung ; Friede ; Konflikt ; Transformation ; Fortschrittsglaube ; Entwicklung ; Tendenz
    Abstract: 1 PeaceTech World -- Part I What Is PeaceTech? -- 2 PeaceTech: What Is It? -- 3 PeaceTech Technologies -- 4 PeaceTech Drivers -- 5 Double Disruption -- Part II Doing PeaceTech -- 6 PeaceTech Ecosystem -- 7 Doing One Thing -- 8 PeaceTech as Hack -- 9 Conflict Early Warning Systems -- 10 Peace and Space -- 11 Peace Analytics -- Part III PeaceTech Challenges -- 12 Doing PeaceTech -- 13 Ethics and Morals -- 14 PeaceTech Futures.
    Abstract: Why are we willing to believe that technology can bring about war… but not peace? PeaceTech: Digital Transformation to End War is the world's first book dealing with the use of technological innovation to support peace and transition processes. Through an interwoven narrative of personal stories that capture the complexity of real-time peace negotiation, Bell maps the fast-paced developments of PeaceTech, and the ethical and practical challenges involved. Bell locates PeaceTech within the wider digital revolution that is also transforming the conduct of war. She lays bare the ‘double disruption’ of peace processes, through digital transformation, and through changing conflict patterns that make processes more difficult to mount. Against this backdrop – can digital peacebuilding be a force for good? Or do the risks outweigh the benefits? PeaceTech provides a 12-Step Manifesto laying out the types of practice and commitment needed for successful use of digital tools to support peace processes. This open access book will be invaluable primer for business tech entrepreneurs, peacebuilders, the tech community, and students of international relations, informatics, comparative politics, ethics and law; and indeed for those simply curious about peace process innovation in the contemporary world. Christine Bell is Professor of Constitutional Law. Assistant Principal (Global Justice), and Executive Director of the Peace and Conflict Resolution Evidence Platform (PeaceRep), based at the School of Law, at the University of Edinburgh. A long-time expert and practitioner in the field of peace processes and constitution-making, she manages digital and PeaceTech innovation.
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    ISBN: 9783031490743
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XV, 133 p. 2 illus., 1 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Classical Liberalism
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    Keywords: Political science. ; Economics. ; Identity politics. ; Political sociology.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Classical Liberalism against Populism -- Chapter 2: Populism - defining characteristics -- Chapter 3: A Threat to Liberty, Free Markets, and the Open Society -- Chapter 4: Explaining Populism -- Chapter 5: The Populist Divisive, Activist Ideas -- Chapter 6: The Classical Liberal Ideas, Predicaments, and Potentials -- Chapter 7: Expose the Populist Strategies and Consequences -- Chapter 8: Defend and Develop the Liberal Institutions -- Chapter 9: Advance a Liberal Politics of Identity -- Chapter 10: Develop Liberal Statecraft -- Chapter 11: A Classical Liberal Revival.
    Abstract: “One cannot fight the collectivistic identity politics of populism with cost-benefit studies and policy analysis alone. As Nils Karlson argues in his riveting, essential book, the arts, and the humanities, “emotions. . . ethos . . . narratives,” are necessary to save us from 1984 in 2024.” ---Deirdre McCloskey, Professor emerita of Economics, History, English, And Communication, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA "Classical liberalism is better than populism, flat out. Nils Karlson will tell you why, both for the US and Sweden, and for the broader world." ---Tyler Cowen, Professor of Economics, George Mason University, USA This open access book by Nils Karlson explores the strategies used by left- and right-wing populists to make populism intelligible, recognizable, and contestable. It presents a synthesized explanatory model for how populists promote autocratization through the deliberate polarization of society. It traces the ideational roots of the core populist ideas and shows that these ideas form a collectivistic identity politics. Karlson argues that to fight back requires the revival of liberalism itself by defending and developing the liberal institutions, the liberal spirit, liberal narratives, and liberal statecraft. The book also presents and discusses an extensive list of counterstrategies against populism. Written within the tradition of political theory and institutional economics, this book uses a wide variety of sources, including results and analyses from social psychology, ethics, law, and history. Nils Karlson is the founder and former CEO of the Ratio Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. .
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    ISBN: 9783031565137
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXI, 272 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: The Theories, Concepts and Practices of Democracy
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    Keywords: Political science. ; Elections. ; Legislation.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Deliberative Democracy as a Conceptual Landscape -- Chapter 2:Guardian Models of DD: Knowledge, Expertise and the Revival of Epistocracy -- Chapter 3: Epistemic Models of DD: Reasoning and Judging in an Epistemically Correct Way -- Chapter 4: Integrative Models of DD: Representing and Arguing for the Common Good -- Chapter 5: Radical Models of DD: Digitising and Networking for Demarchy -- Chapter 6: Recasting Democracy as a Metagame -- Chapter 7: Bibliographical References.
    Abstract: The book proposes an analytical map of developments in deliberative democracy (DD) that departs from previous attempts to explain them by using alleged "turns" (epistemic turn, empirical turn, etc.), or "generational shifts". This analytical approach clarifies what is at stake each time new “conceptual innovations” are proposed. The analysis of the various conceptual innovations proposed is then connected to the possible "institutional solutions" devised to boost the legitimacy of current liberal democratic regimes. The scope of the book is not merely academic, devoted to tracking the progress of a subdisciplinary field in democratic theory, but includes assessment of the public relevance of the academic debates developed in that subfield. The aim of the book is finally that of challenging the methodological tenets employed by deliberative democracy authors working within the four conceptual areas identified, and the vision of democracy they uphold. Developments in DD have been dominated by liberal perspectives subscribing to the minimalist notion of democracy defended by political economists. In challenging this minimalist notion of democracy, the book proposes an alternative way of seeing democracy. Antonino Palumbo (PhD) is a political theorist working on globalization, the transformation of governance, and the implications of changes in state steering for modern representative democracies. .
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    ISBN: 9783031608902
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XI, 109 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Information Technology and Global Governance
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    Keywords: Political science. ; Technology ; Communication. ; Information theory.
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2. Artificial Intelligence and Going Beyond Cherished Assumptions -- 3. Reality Nostalgia: Musings on the Post-Information, Post-Truth Society -- 4. Living With or Through Technology? -- 5. The Less-than-Novel Escapism of the Metaverse -- 6. Where Are We at? Reconsidering (Un)Reality -- 7. Conclusions.
    Abstract: This book examines escapist coping strategies brought about by the pace, breadth and governance of technological change. It argues that escapism manifests in various forms, ranging from nostalgia for a fantasised past of unhindered reason and agency, to progressive visions of societal and political improvement, and greater empowerment. Drawing on post-humanist theory and critical disability studies, the book also assesses how escapism should not be viewed as an unavoidable reaction to technological change, and develops a model for an ethically equitable relationship between humans and technology. It will appeal to all those interested in media and communication studies, technology studies, philosophy, governance and politics. Ignas Kalpokas is Associate Professor in the Department of Public Communication, and Senior Researcher in the V. Kavolis Institute of Transdisciplinary Research, Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania. He also holds research positions at SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Poland and LCC International University, Lithuania.
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    ISBN: 9783031566950
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIX, 323 p. 5 illus., 4 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Africa ; Security, International. ; Economic development.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: In Search of Governance, Development and Peace in Africa. By Adeoye O. Akinola and Emmaculate Asige Liaga -- Chapter 2: African Union and the Quest for Peace and Security in Africa: A Critique. By Adiat A. Abiodun -- Chapter 3: Operationalisation of the Abuja Treaty (1991) and the Impact of Economic Regionalism on the African Union’s Peace and Security Architecture. By Michael Washaya -- Chapter 4: A Critical Assessment of the Challenges of the African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS). By Abdisalan M Habib and Emmaculate Asige Liaga -- Chapter 5: African Union at 20: Taking Stock of the AU’s normative and institutional frameworks on Human Rights and Governance. By Tendai Shephard Mbanje -- Chapter 6: EndSARS Protest and Political Participation of Youths in Nigeria. By Zainab Monisola Olaitan -- Chapter 7: Women-focused Legislation, Economic Empowerment and Sustainable Development in Africa. By Omowumi Omodunni Idowu -- Chapter 8: SADC Peacekeeping Missions, and the Quest for Regional Security: From Congo to Mozambique. By Ramontja Naledi and Adeoye O. Akinola -- Chapter 9: African Union and the Consequences of Coup d’états in West Africa. by Arushi Singh -- Chapter 10: Regionalism, Trade, and the Development of Member States: A Perspective of ECOWAS Trade Liberalisation Scheme in Nigeria. By Ganiyu L. Ejalonibu.-Chapter 11: The Role of RECs in Mitigating the Impact of Natural Disasters in Africa: The Case of SADC. By Siphumelele Duma and Rich Mashimbye -- Chapter 12: The Global Gateway Africa: Europe Investment Package and the Future of EU-AU Relations. By Gabriele Casano and Eleonora Panizza -- Chapter 13: Peace and Security: The Question of ‘Reunification’ or ‘Unification’ of Cameroon. By Gallous Atabongwoung -- Chapter 14: MNCs, Conflict and the Contradictions of Resource Extraction in the DRC. By Divine K. Yamulamba and Adeoye O. Akinola -- Chapter 15: Pan-African Integration: Afrophobia Conundrum and Migration Politicking in South Africa. By Farai Joseph Chidhume, Olawale Akinrinde, and Mandiedza Parichi -- Chapter 16: Insights from Niger Delta Coastal Communities on Decolonial Climate Adaptation. By Fidelis Allen.
    Abstract: This book critically engages with the development-security nexus in contemporary Africa, coinciding with the twentieth anniversary of the African Union (AU). Despite widespread discourse on the 'Africa Rising' narrative, many African states grapple with persistent economic challenges, violent conflicts, Afrophobia, and democratic setbacks. The AU's efforts, alongside those of other regional actors, to leverage regionalism for driving socio-economic and political development while ensuring peace and security have yielded limited results. Consequently, this edited volume takes an incisive approach to unpack the complex and vexed issues obstructing sustainable advancements in security and development in Africa. While existing studies have predominantly centered on conventional conflict and development concerns, this book sheds light on the emerging realities and evolving dynamics shaping the region's trajectory. Utilising a comprehensive case study approach, the book places Africa's challenges within both historical and contemporary contexts, aiming to present sustainable policy options to bridge the myriad gaps in the continent's peace, security, and governance architecture. By addressing the intricacies of balancing individual state interests with collective regional advancement, this volume offers a pathway toward unlocking Africa's potential for development and fostering a prosperous and harmonious 'Africa We Want'. Adeoye O. Akinola is Head of Research and Teaching, and African Union Studies at the Institute for Pan-African Thought and Conversation (IPATC), University of Johannesburg in South Africa. He obtained a doctorate from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. He specialises in African political economy, African Union Studies, migration, conflict, and peace studies. Among his recent book publications are Contemporary Issues on Governance, Conflict and Security in Africa (Palgrave, 2023), and Worlds Apart? Perspectives of Africa-EU Migration (Jacana Media, 2022). Emmaculate Asige Liaga is a Postdoctoral researcher at the IPATC, University of Johannesburg in South Africa. She obtained a doctorate from the University of Pretoria, South Africa. Her research investigates the strategies of peacebuilding employed by both local and international organizations of peace operations in post-conflict communities, analysing the top-down and bottom-up approaches by both foreign intervention and local-level organizations.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XII, 149 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Political Philosophy and Public Purpose
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    Keywords: Political science. ; Political science ; Ethics. ; Human rights.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Seeking Unity In A Pluralistic World -- Chapter 2: Pluralism In Liberal Political Theory: From Pluralism As A Fact To Pluralism As An Inherent Value -- Chapter 3: Respect As The Default Moral Principle Of A Liberal Political Community: Why Does Respect At The Essentially Political Level Not Lead To Respect At The Structural Level? -- Chapter 4: The Dual Interpretation Of The Criterion Of Reciprocity: The Path To A More Respectful Political Community -- Chapter 5: Disrespect And Misrecognition As A Reason For Lack Of Commitment To The Political Community: The Case Of Young French Citizens Of Immigrant Origin -- Chapter 6: Respect, Civic Friendship, And The Role Of Emotion.
    Abstract: This book examines what the justification of political power and the character of a liberal political community in the conditions of pluralism should look like, with the aim of equal respect for all. Sylvie Bláhová argues that if those who understand the principle of respect as the basis of political liberalism are to fulfill all the prerequisites of this principle, they must ensure respect within the liberal political community as a whole. The classic interpretation of political liberalism ensures respect during the process of justification of political power, yet many individuals in the liberal political community remain disrespected, mainly due to their group membership. Accordingly, Bláhová looks for a more complex interpretation of the principle of respect within political liberalism, one that ensures respect beyond the justification of political power. The author argues that the way to achieve respect in the liberal political community is to interpret the criterion of reciprocity in a dual way. Specifically, Bláhová claims that respect can be ensured only only in conjunction with the principle of civic friendship, which makes respect more comprehensive. This novel interpretation can ensure unity of the liberal political community and make it stable, which is crucial in conditions of pluralism. Sylvie Bláhová is Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science, Philosophical Faculty, University of Hradec Králové, Czechia. .
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(X, 456 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: International relations. ; Human rights. ; Political science. ; Economic development.
    Abstract: Introduction.-Chapter 1: The early years.-Chapter 2: Manley and seaga.-Chapter 3: Second Manley and Patterson to the present.-Chapter 4: Globalization and general economic policies -- Chapter 5: Some questions of international law -- Chapter 6: Self determination and title to territory -- Chapter 7: the use of force.-Chapter 8: The law of the sea.-Chapter 9:The question of drugs.-Chapter 10: Extradition.-Chapter 11: Caricom relations.-Chapter 12: The organization of america states -- Chapter 13: U.N. Security council reform -- Chapter 14: Human rights.-Chapter 15: The Inter-American human rights system.-Chapter 16: Refugee matters.-Chapter 17: The reparations debate -- Chapter 18:Diaspora policy.-Chapter 19: Selected international relationships -- Chapter 20:Concluding remarks.
    Abstract: In the years since Independence in 1962, Jamaica’s foreign policy has reflected the flux and reflux of international affairs. There has been continuity in the midst of change; and while the country has sought to deepen its traditional friendships and widen its network of allies, it has also experienced occasions of externally determined crisis and major disagreement both within the Caribbean and in the wider world. Bearing in mind the profound changes which have taken place in the international sphere since independence, this book examines some of the main initiatives and responses which have characterised Jamaican foreign policy over the last sixty years. Stephen Vasciannie is Professor of International Law in the Faculty of Law at the University of the West Indies,Mona, Jamaica. Lisa Vasciannie is Senior Lecturer in International Relations in the Department of Government at the University of the West Indies,Mona, Jamaica.
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    ISBN: 9783031586699
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XII, 179 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Political science. ; International relations. ; Security, International.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: The Kremlin -- Chapter 3: The People -- Chapter 4: The Economy -- Chapter 5: The Military -- Chapter 6: The (Dis-) Information Machine -- Chapter 7: Conclusion.
    Abstract: This book is about Russia. Yet, this book is not about Russia per se. To those, whose sole interest is a better understanding of the Kremlin’s decision making and how it shapes Russia’s present and future, we would refer to a rather long list of sources that we dutifully noted throughout the book. Instead, based on our expertise in Russian studies and the challenges that we experienced in the past 2 years, this book aims to offer a methodology to address questions when there is no ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ answer (due to lacking reliable information). Any attempt to answer this sort of questions using the commonly accepted deductive approach, based on scientific methods is bound to fail, because of the very nature of these questions. Therefore, using Russia as a case study, this book aims to advance a way of analysing (however limited, biased and uncertain) available information to advance a more critical understanding of the subject in question by using the methodology of dialectic inquiry. Ofer Fridman is Senior Lecturer at the Department of War Studies, King's College London and Director of Operations at Sympodium Institute for Strategic Communications. Vera Michlin-Shapir is Director of Education at Sympodium Institute for Strategic Communications and Visiting Research Fellow at King’s Russia Institute, King’s College London.
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    ISBN: 9783031522437
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XV, 467 p. 3 illus., 1 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: International Political Theory
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    Keywords: Political science. ; International relations. ; World politics. ; Political science
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction (David Boucher, Alexandros Koutsoukis, David Reidy, David Sullivan, Peter Sutch, Howard Williams) -- Part VII: Challenges to the World Order -- Chapter 2. Rethinking Money and Trade (Aaron James) -- Chapter 3.Security in the Global Context: Blurring the Internal-External Divide (Alistair J. K. Shepherd) -- Chapter 4. Global Climate Change: Political Realism and the Case for a World Climate Bank (Alyssa R. Bernstein) -- Chapter 5. Environmental Responsibility: Oceans and the Polar Regions (Hannes Hansen-Magnusson) -- Chapter 6. Reparations for Loss and Damage? The Cosmopolitan Right in the Context of the Coloniality of Climate (Milla Vaha) -- Chapter 7. The Legitimacy of International Law (Paul B. Stephan) -- Part VIII: Justice, Reconciliation and Restoration -- Chapter 8. Global Distributive Justice (Peri Roberts) -- Chapter 9. Global Inequalities, Pluralism and Tolerance (Justyna Miklaszewska) -- Chapter 10. Crimes Against Humanity (Andrew Altman) -- Chapter 11. Private Property and the International Law System (Alice Pinheiro Walla) -- Part IX: Peace, Conflict and Force in the 21st Century -- Chapter 12. Political Violence Misliked: the Meaning of ‘Terrorism’ (Christopher J Finlay) -- Chapter 13. Desire and the Political Theology of the International (John-Harmen Valk) -- Chapter 14. Humanitarian Interventions: Ethical Dilemmas for Humanitarian NGOs (Charlotte Dany) -- Chapter 15. Just War Theory and Drone Warfare: Morality, Virtual Wars and Human Security in the War on Terror (Lily Hamourtziadou) -- Chapter 16. Democratic Peace? (Jeff Bridoux) -- Part X: Global (Mis)Conceptions -- Chapter 17. The Nature and Limits of Rawls’s International Vision (David Reidy) -- Chapter 18. Cosmopolitanism: Power Matters (Antonio Franceschet and Holly Ching) -- Chapter 19. Gender Politics: Towards a Feminist Rethinking of Disaster Response (Jordan Pascoe and Mitch Stripling) -- Chapter 20. The Clash of Civilizations and the End of History (David Sullivan) -- Chapter 21. The Open Society and Attitudes to Transnational Migration: A Process Sociological Approach to Liberal Democratic Anxieties (Alexander Mack) -- Chapter 22. The Crisis of Decency in World Politics (Steven C. Roach) .
    Abstract: As the world confronts new challenges like pandemics and climate change, academic political theory has struggled to keep pace with events. Increasingly, our thinking must become international in scope. Focusing on themes from realism, sovereignty, and the nation-state to post-colonialism, gender, and indigeneity, these volumes attempt to bring political theory into the twenty-first century. — Steven B. Smith, Alfred Cowles Professor of Political Science, Yale University, USA This is a major new work by internationally renowned editors and cutting-edge contributors. The handbook pulls off the difficult feat of simultaneously canonizing and de-parochializing International Political Theory, by extending its historical genealogy as well as its regional and thematic reach. The results are presented in accessible chapters for the student of the new field. — Peter Niesen, Professor of Political Theory, University of Hamburg, Germany An excellent example of the handbook genre, focussing on a seminal yet often under-appreciated field: international political theory… This is a must-have collection for those passionate about political philosophy at the global level. — Brian Orend, Professor of Philosophy, University of Waterloo, Canada, and author of The Morality of War As a whole, the volume takes a global perspective, de-centring Europe by providing alternative voices and by contextualizing Europe within the broader narratives… It is just what one hopes for from a handbook. — Morag Goodwin, Professor of Global Law and Development, Tilburg University, Germany This handbook provides a comprehensive exploration of International Political Theory, which in its broadest terms examines the ways in which ideas about justice, sovereignty, and legitimacy shape international politics. The two volumes of the handbook cover topics ranging from the foundations of international political thought to the latest debates in the field. Chapters 4 and 13 are available through open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com Howard Williams is Distinguished Honorary Professor, Cardiff University, UK. David Boucher is Professor of Political Philosophy and International Relations, Cardiff University, UK; Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Johannesburg (2015– 25), South Africa. Peter Sutch is Professor of Political and International Theory, Cardiff University, UK; Visiting Professor, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. David Reidy is Professor of Philosophy, University of Tennessee, USA. Alexandros Koutsoukis is Lecturer in International Relations, University of Central Lancashire, UK.
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    ISBN: 9783031586187
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXIII, 419 p. 53 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Political science. ; International relations. ; America
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction: Polarization and America’s Role in the World” -- 2. Chapter 2. Are We Drowning at the Water’s Edge? Foreign Policy Polarization among the US Public -- Chapter 3. Finding the Water’s Edge: When Negative Partisanship Influences Foreign Policy Attitudes -- Chapter 4. Beyond Party: Ideological Convictions and Foreign Policy Conflicts in the US Congress -- Chapter 5. Foreign Policy Free Agents: How Lawmakers and Coalitions on the Political Margins Help Set Boundaries for U.S. Foreign Policy -- Chapter 6. Bryan W. Marshall and Patrick J. Haney, “Support and Defend? Executive Ascendancy and Congressional Abdication in US Foreign Policy -- Chapter 7. James Bryan and Jordan Tama, “The Prevalence of Bipartisanship in U.S. Foreign Policy: An Analysis of Important Congressional Votes -- Chapter 8. Congressional Polarization and Limitation Riders in Foreign Aid Appropriations -- Chapter 9. Social Fabric Decay: The Case of Congressional Travels Abroad. Chapter 10. Brakeman or Booster? Presidents, Ideological Polarization, Reciprocity and the Politics of US Arms Control Policy -- Chapter 11. Polarized We Trade? Intra-Party Polarization and U.S. Trade Policy -- Chapter 12. Polarization, Casualty Sensitivity, and Military Operations: Evidence from a Survey Experiment -- Chapter 13. The Reputational Consequences of Polarization for American Foreign Policy: Evidence from the US-UK Bilateral Relationship -- Chapter 14. Looking Ahead: Prospects for Effective Foreign Policy and Avenues for Further Research.
    Abstract: Polarization in the United States has been on the rise for several decades. In this context, few observers expect politics today to stop “at the water’s edge,” as the old cliché goes. But key questions about the relationship between polarization and US foreign policy remain to be fully answered. To what extent are American ideas about foreign policy now polarized along partisan lines? How is polarization changing the foreign policy behavior of the US Congress and President? And how is polarization altering the effectiveness of US foreign policy and influencing America’s role in the world? This edited volume explores these questions and more, bringing together existing knowledge as well as considering how the political dynamics and execution of US foreign policy may evolve in the years ahead. Gordon M. Friedrichs is a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, Germany. Jordan Tama is Provost Associate Professor in the Department of Foreign Policy and Global Security at American University in Washington DC, USA.
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    ISBN: 9783031524233
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVI, 292 p. 16 illus., 8 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 4th ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Political science. ; Russia ; Europe, Eastern ; Soviet Union ; Europe
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2. The Historical Context -- 3. Land and People -- 4. Social Structure and Social Policy -- 5. Politics and Government -- 6. The Economy -- 7. Rights, Freedoms, and Civil Society -- 8. Culture and Media -- 9. Russia and the World -- 10. Conclusion.
    Abstract: This textbook offers an up-to-date and incisive overview of contemporary Russia. Systematically covering the country’s history, geography, society, politics, economy and culture, it analyses current developments —the headlines and the more everyday— and situates its analysis in the wider historical context to help readers make sense of one of the world’s most important regions. Building on the success of its previous editions and analysing complex questions in the light of expertise gathered over decades, this remains the leading text for a wide-ranging account of Russia today. Praised for its accessible and engaging writing style, this new edition is essential reading for anyone interested in gaining a more nuanced and wide-ranging understanding of contemporary Russia. It is ideal for undergraduate and postgraduate students studying Russian society, culture, politics, and international relations. Edwin Bacon teaches International Politics at the University of Lincoln. He is the author of more than half a dozen books on Russian politics and history. He has previously worked at Birkbeck University of London, the University of Birmingham, Bishop Grosseteste University, and the University of Warwick, as well as briefly for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and as Parliamentary Special Adviser to the Foreign Affairs Select Committee of the House of Commons. He runs the book blog russiainfiction.com and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
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    ISBN: 9783031538810
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XV, 236 p. 3 illus., 2 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Contemporary African Political Economy
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    Keywords: Security, International. ; Africa ; Agriculture ; International economic relations. ; International organization.
    Abstract: -- Chapter 1: Introduction. -- Chapter 2: Echoing the Debate on Food Security in the West African Region. -- Chapter 3: Methodological Problems in Food System Research in the West African Region. -- Chapter 4: Theoretical Linkages and Underpinnings. -- Chapter 5: The World Trade Organisation and the Global Structuring of the Agrifood System. -- Chapter 6: The WTO, ECOWAS, and the Prospects for Food Security in West Africa. -- Chapter 7: Conclusion.
    Abstract: This book explores the multilateral control of agro-economic spaces in West African developing countries through international trade, spearheaded by the World Trade Organization’s Agreement on Agriculture. Responding to growing food insecurity in the region, Ichimi here examines the web of intricacies in this arrangement by discussing some of the main international trade policies directly and indirectly impacting on food security in West Africa and critically engaging with empirical praxis as well as the theoretical underpinnings vis-a-vis multilateral strategies adopted for the amelioration of the crisis. In so doing, he expose how multilateral trading agreements under the auspices of the World Trade Organization produce negative outcomes for the food security status of a large and growing population in West Africa, privileging primary commodity production and export, maintaining the preference for food imports, and driving the pattern of agricultural investment towards an inexorable dependence of the sector on the dictates of the international market. Godwin S. Ichimi is a Senior Research Fellow at the Nigeria Institute of International Affairs. He heads the Division of African Politics and Integration as well as the institute’s Center for Ocean Governance and the Blue Economy and Early Warning Systems Center. He holds a PhD in Politics and International Relations from the University of Aberdeen, and his research interests span international political economy with emphasis on international development cooperation as well as human and national security issues.
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    ISBN: 9783031587474
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIX, 293 p.)
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    Series Statement: The Palgrave Macmillan Series in International Political Communication
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    Keywords: Security, International. ; International relations. ; Mass media ; Europe ; Political science.
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Disinformation and propaganda -- Chapter 3. Method and Material -- Chapter 4. Sources and Frames -- Chapter 5. The liberal left a threat to traditional Sweden -- Chapter 6. Liberalistic Defiance during a Pandemic.
    Abstract: It is a well-known fact both among scholars of propaganda and disinformation, and among political leaders that Sputnik and RT are using their news coverage for disinformation purposes to harm Western and European societies. Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which enhanced the security threat by disinformation, the EU decided to ban these two media. Against this backdrop, the study asks what the disinformation about Sweden in Sputnik and RT looked like prior to the ban (It should be noted that both channels still publish news for a European audience by way of VPN and other pathways.) It is done by way of a narrative approach, which means that the analyses seek to trace what stories that were told and how. The study thus analyzes the narrative logic of propaganda and disinformation narratives promulgated by Russian state-sponsored media platforms Sputnik and RT, and aim to show how these media have sought to denigrate Sweden. This is an open access book. Maria Hellman is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Department of Economic History and International Relations, Stockholm University. Her research interests include global communication, global journalism, security studies and international relations. She has published her work in journals such as International Political Sociology, International Journal of Cultural Studies, Media, War and Conflict and New Media and Society.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXIX, 310 p. 30 illus.)
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    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Sub-National Governance
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    Keywords: Political planning. ; Political science. ; Geography.
    Abstract: Introduction: Research summary: sustainability transitions in times of uncertaintly -- 1: Transition and the New Economy: a global movement for relocalisation and the Commons -- 2: Planning Beyond the Mainstream -- 3: Placemaking – identity and sustainabilty transitions in a planning context -- 4: Localism and Neighbourhood Planning – tools of placemaking transitions? -- 5: Findings: Frome – context to ‘The Home of Localism’ -- 6: Discussion: planning for transition in a post-Brexit political landscape.
    Abstract: This book explores the impact of recent planning reforms on emergent, alternative models of local governance. It uses the pioneering approach of Frome in Somerset, UK to showcase development and governance alternatives in a post-Brexit landscape. It investigates the role of planning in contributing to sustainable development under localism, and examines how key actors have used the Neighbourhood Planning process to put forward niche, community-based development futures. In doing so, the book offers valuable methodological, empirical and theoretical contributions to wider debates concerning transition, placemaking, local politics and planning. It will appeal to all those interested in public policy and governance. Amy Burnett is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Enterprise, Environment and Development Research (CEEDR), Middlesex University London, UK. She is an interdisciplinary researcher whose work focuses on the role of civil society groups, social enterprises and networks in promoting innovative and sustainable development in the context of planning and regeneration, policy influence and organisational design.
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    ISBN: 9783031585319
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XV, 99 p. 3 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Executive Politics and Governance
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    Keywords: Political planning. ; Psychology. ; Political science.
    Abstract: -- Chapter 1: Introduction. -- Chapter 2 – Behavioral insights and public policy. -- Chapter 3 – Behavioral public policy and the monopoly of nudging. -- Chapter 4 – The right behavioral technique for the right context. -- Chapter 5 – Legitimacy of behavioral public policy and trust in public institutions. -- Chapter 6 – Implications for research and practice.
    Abstract: This book provides a new perspective on behavioral public policy. The field of behavioral public policy has been dominated by the concept of ‘nudging’ over the last decade. As this book demonstrates, however, ‘nudging’ is one of many behavioral techniques that practitioners and policymakers can utilize in order to achieve their goals. The book discusses the advantages and disadvantages of these alternative techniques, and demonstrates empirically how the impact of ‘nudging’ and ‘non-nudging’ interventions are often dependent on varying political contexts and the degree of trust that citizens have toward policymakers. In doing so, it addresses the important question of how citizens understand and approve of the use of behavioral techniques by governments. The book will appeal to all those interested in public management, public policy, behavioral psychology, and ‘nudging’. Paolo Belardinelli is Assistant Professor in the O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University Bloomington, USA, and Faculty Affiliate to the Ostrom Workshop.
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    ISBN: 9783031510199
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 243 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Security, International. ; Economic development. ; International relations. ; Political science. ; Africa
    Abstract: This book presents the reality of democratic reversals and waves of coups cutting through Africa, explores the political economy of coups, and through a case study approach, provides a nuanced analysis of the negative impacts of coups in Africa and interrogates the roles of African regional organisations in curtailing coups and foreign powers in distorting the security architecture of African states, particularly in the Sahel region. It proffers sustainable policy templates for politicaldevelopment,professionalism of the military and the subsequent withdrawal of the military from African politics. Apart from its policy relevance, it will serve as a resource pool for researchers working in the area of African political development, peace and security, and security sector reforms. With the incremental exit of France from the Sahel, the book will also offer a nuanced perspective on the ‘scramble for the soul’ of the Sahel by non-Western powers, such as China, Russia, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia. Dr Adeoye O. Akinola is Head of Research and Teaching, and Head of the African Union Studies Unit at the Institute for Pan-African Thought and Conversation / Institute for Global African Affairs, University of Johannesburg in South Africa. He obtained a doctorate in Political Science from the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. He was a Visiting Professor at the United Nations University for Peace (UPEACE) Africa Regional Programme in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; and a Lecturer at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria, between 2007-2012.
    Note: Political Economy of Coup d’États and Spectre of the Domino Effect in Africa in the 2020s , Historicising Coup d’États in Africa , The Nature of Post-Colonial African States and Military Coups : a Convergence , Military Coups and the Question of Misgovernance : a Malian Case Study , Patterns and Case Studies of Military Coups in Contemporary Africa : 1952–2022 , The Impact of Economic Sanctions as a Response to Coups in Africa : Case of Mali , Coups and Internal Military Dynamics , Military Coups and Democratisation in Africa : Rethinking the Role of Foreign Military Actors , Eliciting Compliance from Member States : Coups and the Role of African Regional Organisations , Of Democratic Deficit, Reversals, and the Return of Coups in Africa
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    ISBN: 9783031542008
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIII, 288 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Edition: 1st ed.
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    Keywords: Europe ; Security, International. ; Economics. ; Law
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Perspectives on the significance of borders in Europe: Past challenges, future developments -- Chapter 2. EU Border Policy: Enhanced Border Security and Challenges to Free Movement -- Chapter 3. TThe return of borders in the world economy: An EU-perspective -- Chapter 4. The boundaries of the internal market in- and outside the EU -- Chapter 5. EU norm promotion in a conflictual world. An existential necessity with obstacles? -- Chapter 6. The ability of the EU to extend its model of a social market economy beyond its borders -- Chapter 7. The EU's dependence on Russian energy — A force that divides or unites the Union? -- Chapter 8. The EU's fight against money laundering and terrorist financing in a digital and fragmented world.-Chapter 9. The European security order: Is this the end of the road? -- Chapter 10. A European Marshall Plan for a Ukraine on the way to the EU -- Chapter 11. The EU’s internal and external borders in a world torn by conflict.
    Abstract: “This book takes a sophisticated multi-disciplinary approach to the central issue of the EU’s borders in a changing and turbulent world, and the content of the volume reflects the breadth and the significance of the problem. The focus on borders is distinctive and enables some important insights about European and world order more generally. This will be an important contribution to a growing literature on the implications of the European crisis.” - Michael Smith, Honorary Professor in European Politics, University of Warwick, UK This open access book examines the implications for the EU of a radically changed international context characterized by systemic rivalry, competition over norms and regulations, and growing strategic tension. Globalization that once tied national economies together and internationalized social phenomena, such as education, research and innovation, and tourism, has gone in reverse. An opposite trend is driving the world into distinct spheres of competing models of governance, regulation, technological development, and communication. Facing the most extensive rupture of economic and inter-state relations since the onset of the Cold War, the management of the EU’s internal and external borders is taking on a completely new meaning. The open access book brings together scholars from economics, law, and political science to provide up dated assessments and policy advice on the insecurity in the neighborhood and war in Ukraine, the EU’s role in the future European security architecture, weaponized energy dependence, and the global competition on norms. Antonina Bakardjieva Engelbrekt is Professor of European Law and Board Director of the Institute for European Law at the Faculty of Law of Stockholm University, Sweden. Per Ekman is a researcher in Political Science at the Department of Government, Uppsala University, Sweden. Anna Michalski is Associate Professor in Political Science at the Department of Government, Uppsala University, Sweden. Lars Oxelheim is Professor of International Business and Finance at University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway, Professor Emeritus at Lund University, and affiliated with the Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN), Sweden.
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    Keywords: Political science.
    Abstract: Freddy and Bijukumar present a rather nuanced and yet incisive analysis on the emerging dynamics of international conflicts. They present especially novel on conflicts unfolding between emerging powers and great powers that will eventually determine the nature of great power competition in the twenty-first century. - Prof Swaran Singh, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi A seminal work on Great-Power Conflicts by Freddy and Kumar brings a fresh and Global South perspective to comprehend the emerging great power conflicts. The book demonstrates how these conflicts not only alter the international system but also threaten peaceful development of Global South. Theoretically sound, the book puts forward a very convincing proposition that emerging great-power conflicts are rather becoming new norm and thereby these “asymmetrical” conflicts not only alter the regional structure but also trigger great- power conflicts. -Dr. Rajiv Ranjan, Associate Professor, Department of East Asian studies, Delhi University The rise and fall of states in the international system has been an interesting problem which has received attention amongst scholars, policy makers, journalists, politicians and leaders of states. The dramatic rise of China and India in particular, in terms of their economy and military capabilities, has brought about a paradigm shift in terms of thinking about world politics that is coupled with the decline of the US’ hegemonic status. This volume explores potential futures when it comes to emerging power - great power competition and what may push us towards more pessimistic or optimistic scenarios. Haans J Freddy is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science, Madras Christian College, Chennai, India. V. Bijukumar is Professor and Chair, Centre for Political Studies, School of Social Science, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnisse , Introduction : emerging powers and great powers , Power transition in world politics : a theoretical analysis , Case study I : US-China rivalries , Case study II : US-Russia rivalries , Case study III : China-India rivalry , Conclusion
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    ISBN: 9783031502002
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXV, 373 p. 26 illus., 11 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: Europe ; International relations ; Europe, Central ; Great Britain ; United States ; Security, International.
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2. From Herford to Heidelberg: The Structures of Liaison -- 3. Military Intelligence -- 4. Scientific and Technical Intelligence -- 5. Security Intelligence -- 6. Political Intelligence -- 7. Building A New Germany -- 8. Conclusion.
    Abstract: “A first-class contribution to the blossoming discipline of Intelligence Studies, taking certain debates and puzzles in fascinating new directions. Empirically and ideationally, this book oozes quality” —Christopher Moran, Professor, University of Warwick, and author of Classified: Secrecy and the State in Modern Britain “The British and American Intelligence Divisions in Occupied Germany, 1945-1955 unearths a trove of new material on Nazi-era and post-war Germany. Intelligence Divisions makes a very strong case for seeing German democracy as the result of relentless work by the Anglo-American secret states. Several sacred cows are slaughtered in the process” —Simon Ball, Professor, University of Leeds, and author of Secret History: Writing the Rise of Britain’s Intelligence Services This book provides the first history of the British and American Intelligence Divisions (IDs) in occupied Germany and the liaison between them. It reveals that after the fall of Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich, much of Germany was controlled by an Anglo-American secret system of rule which was the real backbone of the occupation and largely explains its successful outcomes. Based in Heidelberg, the American ID was the senior American military intelligence organisation in occupied Germany, responsible for the security of American forces in Europe. The British ID, based in Herford, was a purpose-built intelligence organisation designed to ensure the security of the British Zone of Germany and to help achieve the Allied occupation objectives. The IDs undertook military, scientific, security, political, and state-building intelligence tasks which each form the focus of a chapter in this book. Luke Daly-Groves is a Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Manchester. Prior to this, he lectured at the University of Central Lancashire where he developed a specialist module on modern Germany (1933-1965). He has also taught the history of Germany and secret intelligence at the University of Leeds. In 2021, he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society by invitation of the society’s President, in recognition of his contribution to scholarship.
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    ISBN: 9783031431609
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(X, 257 p. 2 illus.)
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    Series Statement: Security, Conflict and Cooperation in the Contemporary World
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    Keywords: Italy ; International relations ; Terrorism. ; Political violence. ; Security, International. ; Middle East ; Europe
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction - Fast Forward: Uses and Abuses of the Lodo Moro -- Chapter 2: Italy in the Maelstrom of International Terrorism -- Chapter 3: A Broader View from Sudan to Austria: The Construction of a Functional Archetype -- Chapter 4: 1973: Fiumicino Attack -- Chapter 5: European Appeasement, A State Decision: The Genesis of the Lodo -- Chapter 6: From Terrorist Movements to State Terrorism: Italy Faced with a Security Dilemma -- Chapter 7: The Evolution of the Lodo -- Chapter 8: Conclusions: Raison d’État and the Right to Truth.
    Abstract: This book sheds light on the so-called ‘Moro Doctrine’, an Italian state security policy which has been portrayed in literature as an under-the-counter agreement made between Italy and Palestinian movement during the Cold War. The Moro Doctrine, or ‘Lodo Moro’ as it is known in Italy, aimed to protect the peninsula from Palestinian attacks by allowing terrorists to use Italian territory as a base for weapons and guerrilla fighters. Responsibility for the ‘Lodo’ was instrumentally placed on Aldo Moro, the five- time Prime Minister of Italy, after his death, and since then his name has become indelibly linked with the shame of having negotiated with Palestinian terrorists. Thanks to records collected from over twenty archives in Italy, the USA, France, Germany, Britain and Russia, concrete evidence shows that the significance of this agreement needs to be rethought. The author argues that the decision to adopt the Lodo was not solely made by Moro, but also involved key figures of the Christian Democrat and Socialist parties, various magistrates and even the President of the Republic. It illustrates how terrorism was used as an effective tool in international diplomacy to influence foreign and domestic policies. Offering a re-examination of Italian counter-terrorist policy, this book analyses how Italy responded to international terrorism during the Cold War, providing a useful read for those researching Italian and European history, Cold War studies, the history of international relations and diplomacy, and Middle-East history. Valentine Lomellini is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science, Law and International Studies at the University of Padua in Italy. Here, she teaches Terrorism and Security in International History, and the History of International Relations. She is also the author of La diplomazia del terrore: 1967–1989 (2023).
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    ISBN: 9783030997243
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 278 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: Africa—Politics and government. ; Political planning. ; Public administration. ; Political science. ; Africa ; Staatstätigkeit ; Politischer Prozess ; Selbsthilfeförderung ; Forschung ; Lehre ; Sozialwissenschaften ; Afrika
    Abstract: This open access book responds to the need for a specifically African focus on public policy. It outlines the fundamental principles of public policy research, and engages with major issues in the study of public policy from an African perspective, covering essential topics such as the location and centrality of social sciences in relation to public policy, leadership, methodology, institutions, governance, and gender. This book is essential for understanding the various aspects and dimensions of policy making in Africa that underscore quality research and are at the core of excellence in teaching and learning. E. Remi Aiyede is Professor of Political Institutions, Governance and Public Policy in the Department of Political Science, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. Beatrice Muganda is the Deputy Executive Director and Director of Higher Education at the Partnership for African Social and Governance Research (PASGR), a pan-African not-for-profit organization based in Nairobi, Kenya.
    Note: Open Access , Introduction: Research Capacity for Evidence-Informed Policy Making in Africa , Policy Analysis and Innovation: Why the Humanities and the Social Sciences Matter for Social Transformation in Africa , Social Science Foundations of Public Policy , Research Methods for Public Policy , Governance and Politics of Public Policy in Africa , Contemporary Issues in Public Policy , Political Economy of Public Policy , Social Diversity, Gender, Equity and Public Policy , Leadership, Governance and Public Policy in Africa , The Global Context of Public Policy , From Research to Policy Action: Communicating Research for Public Policy Making , Conclusion: Towards Excellence in Research, Learning and Teaching Public Policy
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    ISBN: 9783031182792
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 238 p. 6 illus., 5 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Canada and International Affairs
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    Keywords: International relations. ; Politics and war. ; Security, International. ; Militärische Intervention ; Operation ; Niederschlagung ; Strategie ; Militär ; Sicherheitspolitik ; Ressourcen ; Einsatz ; Bereitschaft ; USA ; Kanada ; Afghanistan
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2. Countries with Different Material Capabilities Behaving Similarly -- 3. Unipolarity and Irregular Warfare: Assessing the Afghanistan Intervention’s Strategic Environment -- 4. American and Canadian Security Beliefs: Transitioning to Similar Foreign and Security Policies during the Afghanistan Intervention -- 5. Domestic Hurdles, Canadian and American Foreign Policy Executives(FPEs)’ Structural Autonomy and Resource-Extraction Capability -- 6. Conclusion: Unravelling the Research Puzzle.
    Abstract: “Federman Rodriguez sets out to resolve an intriguing puzzle: How did two countries with so great a disparity of national power, Canada and the United States, come to adopt similar military policies in Afghanistan in 2006-2011? International Relations theory and historical precedent would have predicted otherwise. Rodriguez’s highly readable volume provides a compelling explanation of Canadian and US foreign policy and sheds light on the opportunities and limitations of power in the international system.” --Elinor Sloan, Carleton University, Canada. “Federman Rodriguez adapts the theory of neoclassical realism to explain, despite vastly different capabilities, how Canada and the United States’ foreign and security policy in Afghanistan converged on a counterinsurgency campaign. He provides a theoretically unique and empirically rich analysis of the decisions made by each country. This book is important in understanding what happened to the ill-fated intervention in Afghanistan.” --Brian C. Schmidt, Carleton University, Canada. The book aims to explain the factors that brought about a high degree of similarity between American and Canadian foreign and security policies during the Afghanistan intervention. Specifically, it seeks to explain why, despite their different positions in the international distribution of power, the United States and Canada embraced similar counterinsurgency (COIN) strategies from 2005/2006 to 2011. During this time, the United States and Canada fought against insurgent groups, sought to maintain stabilized areas by mentoring Afghan forces, and invested in infrastructure and governance. These goals, which corresponded to the ‘clear,’ ‘hold,’ and ‘build’ COIN components, entailed sending troops and civilian officials to a war zone and committing financial resources. Federman Rodriguez is Assistant Professor of the Faculty of International Relations, Political and Urban Studies at Rosario University, Bogotá, Colombia.
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    ISBN: 9783031156106
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VII, 404 p.)
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    Series Statement: Marx, Engels, and Marxisms
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    Keywords: Political science—Philosophy. ; Italy—History. ; Intellectual life—History. ; Political science. ; Italy ; Political science. ; Intellectual life
    Abstract: PART ONE – THE YOUNG REVOLUTIONARY -- 1. The premises of an uninterrupted discourse -- 2. Dialectics versus positivism: the young Gramsci’s philosophical background -- 3. Self-education and autonomy of producers -- 4. Lenin and the topicality of revolution -- 5. L’Ordine Nuovo -- 6. The origin and defeat of the Italian revolution -- 7. The party problem -- 8. Revolutionary reflux and reactionary offensive -- PART TWO – THE POLITICAL LEADER -- 9. The new Party -- 10. The Comintern and the “Italian case” -- 11. Toward a new majority -- 12. Gramsci leading the Party -- 13. Theoretical maturity between 1925 and 1926 -- 14. The Congress of Lyon -- PART THREE – THE THEORETICIAN -- 15. From Sardinia’s contradictions to the sourther question -- 16. The Notebooks: the difficult beginnings of a “disinterested” work -- 17. Hegemonic relations, productive relations and the subaltern -- 18. Permanent transformism -- 19. Historical premises and congenital contradictions in Italian biography -- 20. “The old dies and the new cannot be born” -- 21. The double revision of Marxism and similarity with Lukács -- 22. Translatability and hegemony -- 23. The philosopher man and the tamed gorilla -- 24. Michels, the intellectuals and the issue of organization -- 25. The dismantling of the old schemes of political art.
    Abstract: This intellectual biography provides an organic framework for understanding Antonio Gramsci’s process of intellectual development, paying close attention to the historical and intellectual contexts out of which his views emerged. The Gramsci in Notebooks cannot fully account for the young director of L’Ordine Nuovo, or for the communist leader. Gramsci’s development did not occur under conditions of intellectual inflexibility, of absence of evolution. However, there is a strong thread connecting the “political Gramsci” with Gramsci as a “cultivated man.” The Sardinian intellectual’s life is marked by the drama of World War I, the first mass conflict in which the great scientific discoveries of the previous decades were applied on a large scale and in which millions of peasants and workers were slaughtered. In all of his theoretical formulations, this dual relation, which epitomizes the instrumental use of “simpletons” by ruling classes, goes beyond the military context of the trenches and becomes full-fledged in the fundamental relations of modern capitalist society. In contrast with this notion of social hierarchy, which is deemed natural and unchangeable, Gramsci constantly affirmed the need to overcome the historically determined rupture between intellectual and manual functions, due to which the existence of a priesthood or of a separate caste of specialists in politics and in knowledge is made necessary. It is not the specific professional activity (whether material or immaterial) that determines the essence of human nature: to Gramsci, “all men are philosophers.” In this passage from Notebooks, we find the condensed form of his idea of “human emancipation,” which is the historical need for an “intellectual and moral reform”: the subversion of traditional relations between rulers and ruled and the end of exploitation of man by man. Giovanni Fresu is professor of political philosophy at the Federal University of Uberlandia, Brazil and a researcher in political philosophy at the University of Cagliari, Italy.
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    ISBN: 9783031280085
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVIII, 346 p. 15 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: European Administrative Governance
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    Keywords: Political planning. ; Public administration. ; Political science.
    Abstract: Part I. Introducing and Theorizing the Administrative State -- 1. An Introduction to the Administrative State -- 2. Theorizing the Administrative State -- Part II. Outlooks on the Domestic Administrative State -- 3. Evolving Tensions in Public Governance -- 4. Public Administration Sustainability and Its Organizational Basis -- 5. Agency Governance in Integrated Administrative Systems -- 6. Restructuring Public Governance in Integrated Administrative Systems -- 7. Designing the Administrative State -- Part III. Outlooks on the Multilevel and International Administrative State -- 8. Administrative Sciences and the Multilevel Administrative State -- 9. European Integration and the Administrative State -- 10. Incomplete Contracting and Policy Influence -- 11. The Autonomy of International Public Administration -- 12. The Organizational Dimension of Global Governance. 13. Conclusion.
    Abstract: This book examines the transformation of the administrative state, since it was first coined by Dwight Waldo seventy years ago. Empirically, the book assesses how the administrative state is facing endogenous reforms through administrative devolution, as well as exogenous shifts by the rise of multilevel administrative systems and international bureaucracy. Facing dual shifts, the book offers a comprehensive analysis of how the administrative state handles three interconnected challenges: first, a need for innovation and reform as well as stability and robustness; second, administrative autonomy among regulatory bodies as well as political leadership and democratic accountability; and third, nation-state sovereignty as well as international collaboration. It also highlights the robust character of the administrative state by demonstrating profound stability in public governance even during times of profound turbulence. It will appeal to scholars and students of public policy, public administration and global governance, as well as practitioners interested in new developments in public governance. Jarle Trondal is Professor in the Department of Political Science and Management, University of Agder, Norway; Professor at ARENA Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo, Norway; and Senior Fellow at The Institute of European Studies, University of California, Berkeley, US. His research interests include European public administration, administrative behavior and reform, global governance, and organizational studies.
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    ISBN: 9783031220463
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXIX, 260 p. 1 illus.)
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    Series Statement: Marx, Engels, and Marxisms
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    Keywords: Political science—Philosophy. ; Political science. ; Marxian school of sociology. ; World politics. ; Marxian economics. ; Political science
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Preface -- Part 1: State, politics, social classes and historical change -- Chapter 2. Introduction -- Chapter 3. The capitalist state at the center: A Critique of Michel Foucault's concept of power -- Chapter 4. The place of State in the Marxist theory of history -- Chapter 5. State and transition to capitalism: Feudalism, Absolutism and Bourgeois political revolution -- Chapter 6. State and transition to socialism: Was the Paris Commune a workers' power? -- Chapter 7. The concept of revolutionary crisis: 1789: France in 1789 -- Chapter 8. The Political scene and class interests in capitalist society: Marx's analysis -- Part 2: Politics and economy in the formation of the working classes -- Chapter 9. Pre-capitalism, capitalism and worker resistance: Elements for a theory of union action -- Chapter 10. The (difficult) formation of the working class -- Chapter 11. The constitution of the proletariat into a class in the Manifesto of the Communist Party: Polemicizing with Some Classic Interpretations -- Chapter 12. The exhaustion of the 20th century revolutionary cycle -- Chapter 13. Middle class and unionism -- Chapter 14. Citizenship and social classes. .
    Abstract: This book offers a reassessment politics against the predominating economicist approach to historical materialism within contemporary Marxism. Boito draws on the structural interpretation of Marxism inspired by Althusser’s works of the mid-1960s and, especially, by Poulantzas’ Political Power and Social Classes. The volume aims to demonstrate the role of the political dimension (together with the economy) and, to a further extent, to contribute to renew contemporary Marxist political theory. The chapters cover topics such as: the nature of political power; the structure and functions of the state; the role of politics in historical change; political crises; and the political formation of the working class. The book highlights the role of political structures and practices in the reproduction of economic and social relations and also in the process of historical change. The aim of the book is to contribute to the renewal of Marxist thought, breaking with the economicist conception that dominated it throughout the last century, and finally meeting the demands of the socialist struggle in the 21st century. Armando Boito is Professor of Political Science at the State University of Campinas, Brazil. He is editor of the Brazilian journal Crítica Marxista. Among other books, he has published Reform and Political Crisis in Brazil: Class Conflicts in Workers' Party Governments and the Rise of Bolsonaro Neo-fascism (2021). .
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    ISBN: 9783031270444
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVI, 346 p. 22 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Interest Groups, Advocacy and Democracy Series
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    Keywords: Political planning. ; Political science. ; Public administration.
    Abstract: Chapter One: Think Tanks in Australia -- Chapter Two: Understanding Think Tanks: A Global Endeavour -- Chapter Three: Studying Australian Think Tanks -- Chapter Four: The State of the Industry -- Chapter Five: The Evolutionary Path and Comparative Perspectives -- Chapter Six: Influence Intentions -- Chapter Seven: Influence Methods -- Chapter Eight: Influence Claims and Perceptions -- Chapter Nine: NSW Child Protection and Adoption Laws -- Chapter Ten: School Funding Reforms -- Chapter Eleven: Australia’s Diplomatic Deficit -- Chapter Twelve: Influence Processes and Manifestations -- Chapter Thirteen: Conclusions.
    Abstract: “An outstanding piece of scholarship. Consistently rigorous, deep and broad. It is the definitive analysis of Australia’s think tanks to date. It thoroughly diagnoses the reasons for their growth, how they work, and dives deep into the toughest questions – how much do think tanks really change policy outcomes in Australia, and how do they do it?” --John Daley AM, Founding Chief Executive of the Grattan Institute, Australia “The deepest and most comprehensive scholarly account yet produced on the important and growing role of think tanks in Australia's public policy ecosystem. Trent Hagland's book is essential reading for think tankers, scholars and the policy makers they are hoping to influence.” --Allan Gyngell AO, National President of the Australian Institute of International Affairs, and Founding Executive Director of The Lowy Institute for International Policy, Australia “Trent Hagland has produced the first comprehensive account of policy-oriented think tanks in Australia. Building on the international think-tank literature, he examines the growth and diversification of Australian think tanks. Three original and detailed case studies provide rich new perspectives concerning the activities and achievements of leading think tanks, in their ongoing attempts to influence policymaking.” --Brian Head, Professor, School of Political Science and International Studies, The University of Queensland, Australia This book provides the most comprehensive study of the Australian think-tank industry to date. Drawing on empirical evidence, it first assesses the structure of the industry, the methods think tanks use to persuade policymakers, and public perceptions of their effectiveness. The book then proceeds to examine three unique policy cases to analyse think tank influence on policymaking. It argues that whilst think tanks play important roles in Australia’s policy process, their impacts vary depending on their approach and objectives. The book also demonstrates that policymakers with contrasting ideological orientations diverge in their assessments of the utility and influence of think tanks. It will appeal to students and scholars of public policy, and practitioners in public administration and governance. Trent Hagland is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Sydney Business School, Australia.
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    ISBN: 9783031225918
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXI, 293 p. 1 illus.)
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    Series Statement: Marx, Engels, and Marxisms
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    Keywords: Political science—Philosophy. ; Political science. ; Marxian school of sociology. ; Political sociology. ; Political science
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction to the English Edition- Part 1: Dialectics and History -- Chapter 2. Dialectics as a Methodological Principle -- Chapter 3. History as the Object of Totality -- Part 2: The History and Logic of Marx’s Concept of the Individual -- Chapter 4. The Concept of the Individual in the Context of the Young Hegelian School -- Chapter 5. The Concept of the Individual in Marx’s Theory of Estrangement -- Chapter 6. The Concept of the Individual From the Perspective of History -- Chapter 7. The Concept of the Individual and Marx’s Philosophy. -- Part 3: The Normative Significance of Marx’s Concept of the Individual -- Chapter 8. Theoretical Criticism and the Concept of the Individual -- Chapter 9. A Critical-Based Theory of Individual Emancipation -- Chapter 10. Moral Criticism and the Good -- Part 4: Situating the Marx’s Concept of the Individual in the Present -- Chapter 11. Chinese Socialist Practice and the Revival of Marx’s Concept of the Individual -- Chapter 12. Studies on Marx’s Concept of the Individual and China’s Modernisation.
    Abstract: This book reconstructs the concept of the individual in Marx as the key to a fresh interpretation of Marxian philosophy. Marx moved from an examination of the contingency and indeterminacy of individual consciousness in his early years to a critique of the atomistic individual and materialised social relations in his later years. His thought proposes that ‘real individuals’ are the basis for an understanding of human society that promotes the emancipation of humankind. Marx’s philosophy has often been misunderstood as lacking a concept of the individual. In China this misunderstanding not only relates to cultural and linguistic particularities (the word ‘individual’ is seldom used in Chinese), but also relates to a misleading view of socialism and communism. This book helps remedy this misunderstanding and draws important comparisons and contrasts between Marx’s concept of the individual with that of liberalism, and between Western and Eastern Marxism. Zhi Li works at School of Philosophy, Wuhan University, China, and was previously Visiting Scholar at KU Leuven, Belgium, and University of Bristol, UK. His previous publications include: The Concept of the Individual in the Thought of Karl Marx (2014), and The Ethical Critique: Karl Marx and Present World (2022).
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    ISBN: 9783031206948
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXVI, 238 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: World politics. ; Political sociology. ; Political science. ; Labor. ; History.
    Abstract: Introduction -- Chapter 1. Proletarian Youth Organizations Before the Stuttgart Conference -- Chapter 2. The Birth of a Socialist Youth International -- Chapter 3. The Anti-Militarist Struggle -- Chapter 4. The Organization of Educational Work -- Chapter 5. Unionization and the Economic Struggles of Socialist Youth -- Chapter 6. The Function and Activities of the Vienna International Secretariat from 1907 TO 1914 -- Chapter 7. The Danger of WAR: International Youth Initiatives from 1912 TO 1914 -- Chapter 8.The Youth International During World War I -- Conclusions: The End of a History and the Beginning of a Historiography.
    Abstract: “Patrizia Dogliani’s new history of the International Union of Socialist Youth draws fresh air into the often claustrophobic spaces of the history of socialism.” —Glenda Sluga, Professor of International History,European University Institute, Florence, Italy “With this new book, Patrizia Dogliani once again demonstrates why she is one of the preeminent scholars of modern international and transnational history…It is an impressive achievement.” —Talbot Charles Imlay, Professor, University of Laval, Quebec, Canada “Long recognized as a pioneering historian of youth, Patrizia Dogliani offers a rich transnational panorama of socialist youth. With an impressive command of sources, Dogliani provides an essential guide to political activism among youth across class, gender, and nationality.” —Mary Gibson, Professor of History, City University of New York, USA This book represents a valuable contribution to the history of European socialism between the Great Depression of the 1880s and WWI. It comes to fill a gap in the scholarship, insofar as it investigates the history of the Socialist Youth International. Capitalizing on an approach based on social, quantitative and political history, and on an analysis of mentalities and languages, the book reconstructs the many-sidedness of the “school of recruits” of the social-democratic parties and revolutionary movements. The working conditions of youth in Europe, its unionization and economic struggles, the fight against militarism, the pedagogical work, the internationalism and the commitment to maintain peace, and the attitude of young militants towards revolution are some of the themes investigated in the book. It also clarifies the role and the engagement with the issue of the new generation shown by prominent figures of Marxism such as Karl Liebknecht, Jean Jaurès, Henri De Man, Willi Münzenberg, Henriette Roland Holst, and Robert Danneberg. Finally, the book constitutes also a page of European social and political history, reconstructed through the relationship of youth working class movement with the Marxist tradition. Patrizia Dogliani is Full Professor of Contemporary History at Bologna University, Italy, and Visiting Professor in Academic institutions in France and in USA. .
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    ISBN: 9783031255311
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIX, 200 p. 7 illus., 5 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Political Corruption and Governance
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    Keywords: Europe—Politics and government. ; Political science. ; Business. ; Management science. ; Europe
    Abstract: Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Concepts -- 3. Context and methodology -- 4. Practices in practice -- 5. Drivers of continuity -- 6. Drivers of change -- 7. Evaluating exclusive situationalism and its broader horizons -- 8. Conclusions .
    Abstract: “A welcome and relevant study with an innovate approach, this book provides a sharp insight into processes of business-politics relations within Lithuanian society and does so from a wide perspective. A well-designed research that gives the ability to grasp the depth of the problems and makes a useful reading both for researchers and international policy makers.” Laurynas Pakštaitis, Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania Ainius Lašas reveals the world of informal networks and shady arrangements that represent the blind spots of mainstream political science. He guides us through “backstage democracy” in a theoretically competent and empirically responsible manner. His understanding of informal politics is unique and his conclusions make us hope that the marriage of business and politics does not inevitably result in “dirty togetherness.” Jan Zielonka, Professor of European Politics at the University of Oxford, UK, and Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy This book investigates how the actual dynamics of business-state relations work in a democracy and their changes overtime. The focus is limited to one country because access to high-level sources, who are able to openly discuss the nature of the business-politics nexus, cannot be easily replicated. The study is distinctive in a number of ways. First, its focus on politics and business touches upon a number of academic disciplines – business sciences, political science, public policy and administration. Second, it is not limited to a static picture of a relatively new democracy, but instead examines the dynamics of change over the last twenty years. As such, it talks to situations in a number of other countries, especially those in Central and Eastern Europe and the post-Soviet space. Third, the methodological approach, which combines anonymous interviews, mass media sources, governmental and non-governmental reports, is not very typical and thus provides a relatively fresh perspective on studying such social phenomena. Finally, the study offers original theoretical and analytical frames that can be conveniently applied and tested in other national/regional contexts. Ainius Lašas is the Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities at Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania. His research focuses on informal political culture and its practices in transitional democracies. .
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    ISBN: 9783031182198
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXVII, 321 p. 8 illus., 2 illus. in color.)
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    Series Statement: Twenty-first Century Perspectives on War, Peace, and Human Conflict
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    Keywords: Peace. ; International relations. ; Security, International. ; Bewaffneter Konflikt ; Friedenskonsolidierung ; Friedenssichernde Maßnahme ; Friede ; Konfliktregelung ; Konflikt ; Transformation ; Anpassung ; Politische Beteiligung ; Fallstudie ; Erde
    Abstract: 1 Introduction. Exploring Alternative Approaches to Peacebuilding - Cedric de Coning, Rui Saraiva, and Ako Muto -- 2 Adaptive Peacebuilding: Leveraging the Context-specific and Participatory Dimensions of Self-sustainable Peace - Cedric de Coning -- 3 How Can the UN Sustaining Peace Agenda Live Up to Its Potential? - Youssef Mahmoud -- 4 Experiencing Adaptive Actions Within a Complex Peacebuilding Framework: The Colombian Case - Lina Penagos -- 5 Adaptive Peacebuilding in Mozambique: Examples of Localized International Non-Governmental Organizations (L-INGOs) in a Complex and Uncertain Environment - Rui Saraiva -- 6 Temporary International Presence in Hebron (TIPH): Impartiality and an Adaptive Peacebuilding Approach in Structural Asymmetry - Ryoji Tateyama -- 7 The Challenges and Effects of Externally Driven and Locally Driven Peacebuilding Approaches in a Complex Context: A Case Study of the Syrian Conflict - Ako Muto -- 8 Accommodating Incomplete DDR, Security Sector Development, and Veterans’ Issues to Peacebuilding Efforts: National Responses, Suco, and Local Security in Timor-Leste - Yukako Tanaka-Sakabe -- 9 China’s Peacebuilding in South Sudan: “Top-down” Adaptation and Its Effectiveness - Miwa Hirono -- 10 The Role of Adaptive Peacebuilding in Japan’s Assistance of the Mindanao Peace Process in the Philippines - Miyoko Taniguchi -- 11 Conclusions. What Have We Learned About Adaptive Peacebuilding from Comparing Determined-Design with Context-Specific Peacebuilding Experiences? - Cedric de Coning, Rui Saraiva, and Ako Muto.
    Abstract: Adaptive Peacebuilding is an invaluable contribution to our thinking and practice. The various cases studied demonstrate that context specific peacebuilding help to sustain peace because they stimulate, facilitate, and support local agency and resilience. - Elizabeth Spehar, Assistant Secretary-General for Peacebuilding Support Adaptive Peacebuilding is a welcome addition to the literature on peacebuilding. It captures the complexities needed to making peacebuilding work in different contexts. - Kwesi Aning, Professor, Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre, Accra, Ghana This book responds to the urgent need to improve how we prevent and resolve conflict. It introduces Adaptive Peacebuilding through evidence-based research from eight case studies across Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America. It also considers how China and Japan view and practice peacebuilding. The book focuses on how peacebuilders design, implement and evaluate programs to sustain peace, how interactions between external and local actors have facilitated or hindered peacemaking, and how adaptation to complexity and uncertainty occurred in each case study. Cedric de Coning is Research Professor with the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI), and Senior Advisor with the African Center for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes (ACCORD). Rui Saraiva is Research Fellow at the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) Ogata Sadako Research Institute for Peace and Development. Ako Muto is Executive Senior Research Fellow at the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) Ogata Sadako Research Institute for Peace and Development.
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    ISBN: 9783031265303
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XI, 255 p. 1 illus.)
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    Keywords: Europe—Politics and government. ; Political science. ; Political sociology. ; Social justice. ; Social structure. ; Equality. ; World politics. ; Europe
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2. The First Structural Experiment: Communist-era Homogenisation -- 3. Consequences of the Experiment: the Division between Society and the nomenklatura -- 4. The Second Experiment: the Differentiation of the Social Structure -- 5. Consequences of the Second Experiment: the ‘winners’ – ‘losers’ Division -- 6. The Formation of Social Divisions and the Theory of Practices of Repartition -- 7. Conclusion.
    Abstract: The monograph examines the sources of Polish social divisions. It explains their emergence and discusses the mechanisms behind their evolution from 1945-2022. The findings corroborate the idea that divisions were formed irrespective of the current state of social hierarchy, or the accepted interpretation of justice, and that they existed both in totalitarian and democratic systems alike. The book distinguishes the category of divisions from the practices of repartition, and demonstrates that the repartitions discussed in a political discourse do not generate divisions, but constitute the politicization of the latter. Repartitions are understood as discursive, dichotomic juxtapositions that result from the existence of divisions and can be used as political tools. It has been demonstrated that they can also function as analytical categories used with a view to determining the state of social inequalities. The notions of divisions and repartitions discussed in this volume confirm the existence of the continuity of changes and describe the evolution of Polish society has a consequence. Piotr Borowiec is Head of the Department of Theory and Methodology of Politics at the Institute of Political Science and International Relations, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland. He is the editor-in-chief of the international journal Teoria Polityki and author and co-author of over 70 articles on the sociology of politics, political theory, and methodology, as well as seven monographs. .
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    ISBN: 9783031154973
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 219 p. 1 illus.)
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    Keywords: Political planning. ; Medical policy. ; Political science.
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2. The Politics of Policy Learning -- 3. Slovenia -- 4. Czech Republic -- 5. Poland -- 6. Conclusion.
    Abstract: Rather than merely assessing how partisan politics, institutions, and professional interests affected post-communist reform trajectories, Popic’s study is based on a novel and original argument emphasizing the importance of endogenous factors, such as policy learning and policymakers’ prior exposure to experiences with market mechanisms, in shaping policy change. The book is a substantive and timely addition to an understudied dimension of the restructuring process of post-communist welfare state: the field of public healthcare. Evelyne Hübscher, Central European University, Austria After the fall of communism, healthcare marketization invested Eastern European countries, often to the detriment of equality and fairness. The book reveals that such wave of reforms generated a variety of marketized healthcare arrangements across countries. Challenging existing interpretations, it conceptualizes policy change as an endogenous process based on “learning”, thus leading the reader to a fascinating journey into how the never-ending “ballet” between ideas, institutions and interests shaped the politics of reform and, ultimately, policy outputs. Matteo Jessoula, University of Milan, Italy This book provides the first in-depth study of healthcare reforms in post-communist Eastern Europe. Combining insights from comparative politics and public policy analysis, it examines health reforms in Slovenia, the Czech Republic, and Poland between 1989 and 2019. The book argues that the post-communist transformation of healthcare policy has entailed a process of policy learning, and that the countries' reform pathways were shaped by a series of initiatives aimed at applying market-oriented policy ideas in healthcare. The success of these initiatives has been influenced by three factors: policy legacies, political competition, and institutional configurations. The book offers a novel comparison of health reform in the region and policy changes more generally. It will appeal to scholars and students of public policy, health policy, and European politics. Tamara Popic is Lecturer at the School of Politics and International Relations, Queen Mary University of London, UK. Her research interests include health politics and policy in post-communist countries. She is the co-editor of Health Policy in Europe: A Handbook (2021).
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    ISBN: 9783031243707
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXVII, 290 p. 14 illus., 12 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies
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    Keywords: Information technology—Law and legislation. ; Mass media—Law and legislation. ; Crime—Sociological aspects. ; Law and the social sciences. ; Political science. ; International law. ; International relations. ; Mass media ; Information technology ; Crime
    Abstract: Part I: Introduction to IP -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Part II: Case Studies -- Chapter 2: China Enga/ges in International Regulation of Geographical Indications -- Chapter 3: China Engages in International Regulation of Disclosure Obligation -- Chapter 4: China Emerges in International Standardisation -- Chapter 5: China’s Bilateral IP Engagement: A Look into the Chinese FTAs -- Chapter 6: China and Multilateral IP Governance -- Part III: Discussion -- Chapter 7: Who Governs? Actors in China’s International IP Engagement -- Chapter 8: Principles for China’s International IP Engagement -- Chapter 9: China’s Strategies to Engage in Global IP Governance -- Chapter 10: Conclusion.
    Abstract: This book analyses how China has engaged in global IP governance and the implications of its engagement for global distributive justice. It investigates five cases on China’s IP engagement in geographical indications, the disclosure obligation, IP and standardisation, and its bilateral and multilateral IP engagement. It takes a regulation-oriented approach to examine substate and non-state actors involved in China’s global IP engagement, identifies principles that have guided or constrained its engagement, and discusses strategies actors have used in managing the principles. Its focus on engagement directs attention to processes instead of outcomes, which enables a more nuanced understanding of the role that China plays in global IP governance than the dichotomic categorisation of China either as a global IP rule-taker or rule-maker. This book identifies two groups of strategies that China has used in its global IP engagement: forum and agenda-related strategies and principle-related strategies. The first group concerns questions of where and how China has advanced its IP agenda, including multi-forum engagement, dissembling, and more cohesive responsive engagement. The second group consists of strategies to achieve a certain principle or manage contesting principles, including modelling and balancing. It shows that China’s deployment of engagement strategies makes its IP system similar to those of the EU and the US. Its balancing strategy has led to constructed inconsistency of its IP positions across forums. This book argues that China still has some way to go to influence global IP agenda-setting in a way matching its status as the second largest economy. Wenting Cheng is Grand Challenge Research Fellow at the College of Law, the Australian National University (ANU), Canberra, Australia. .
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    ISBN: 9783031143465
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXI, 715 p. 26 illus., 3 illus. in color.)
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    Series Statement: Environmental Politics and Theory
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    Keywords: Human ecology—Study and teaching. ; Political science. ; Environmental policy. ; Environment. ; Economic development. ; Human ecology ; Innenpolitik ; Umwelt ; Ökologie ; Umweltpolitik ; Umweltschutz ; Auswirkung ; Klimaschutz ; Theorie ; Politische Theorie ; Ökologische Bewegung
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction: “The Time for Social and Political Transformation Based on the Environment is Now.” -- Chapter 2. Environmentalism and Political Ideologies -- Chapter 3 Democracy, Citizenship and Nationalism in Environmental Political Theory -- Chapter 4. Eco-anxiety and the Responses of Ecological Citizenship and Mindfulness -- Chapter 5. Biosphere Breaking Bad: The Imperatives of Deep Adaptation -- Chapter 6. Animal Citizens: Do We Need to Rethink the Status of Animals or Citizenship Itself? -- Chapter 7. Degrowth: A State of Depense -- Chapter 8. The Nature of the State: A Deep History of Agrarian Environmentalism -- Chapter 9. The Environmental Political Role of Counter-Hegemonic Environmental Ethics: Replacing Supremacist Ethics and Connecting Environmental Politics, Environmental Political Theory and Environmental Sciences -- Chapter 10. Critical Feminism: A Feminist Environmental Research Network (FERN) for Collaborative and Relational Praxis -- Chapter 11. Property and the Anthropocene: Why Power on Things is Central to Our Ecological Predicament -- Chapter 12. Ecosystem Policy and Law: A Philosophical Argument for the Anticipatory Regulation of Environmental Risk, etc.
    Abstract: “The Palgrave Handbook on Environmental Politics and Theory seeks to reclaim a space for critically engaged scholarship that encourages dissent and speaks up for the many communities that are mobilizing for a radical change of political course. By confronting systems of denial and inviting conceptual and ethical innovation, the chapters form a powerful collective response.” —Eva Lövbrand, Associate Professor in Environmental Change, Linköping University, Sweden “Written by an impressive array of both established scholars and new voices, Kassiola and Luke are to be congratulated for assembling such a variety of topics, scholars and approaches, which has produced an excellent addition to the Palgrave Handbook series.” —John Barry, Professor of Green Political Economy, Queens University Belfast, United Kingdom This Handbook is exhibits the latest interdisciplinary explorations in environmental politics, an urgently burgeoning field of intellectual and practical importance., Environmental politics and theory encompasses empirical, normative, policy, political, organizational, and activist discussions unfolding across many disciplines. Through the volume’s contributions emphasizing environmental policy issues, normative prescriptions, and implementation strategies, the next generation of thinkers and activists will have useful profiles of the theories, concepts, and movements central to environmental politics and theory. It is the editors’ aspiration that this volume will become a go-to resource on the myriad perspectives relevant to studying and improving the environment for advanced researchers as well as an introduction to students seeking to understand the basic foundations and recommended resolutions to many of our environmental challenges. Environmental politics is more than theory alone, so the Handbook also considers theory-action connections by highlighting the past and current: thinkers, activists, social organizations, and movements that have worked to guide contemporary societies toward a more environmentally sustainable and just global order. Joel Jay Kassiola is Professor in the Department of Political Science at San Francisco State University, Department of Political Science, San Francisco, California, USA. He serves as Series Editor for Palgrave's Environmental Politics and Theory book series. Timothy W. Luke is University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Political Science at Virginia Tech, USA. Chapter “Eco-Anxiety and the Responses of Ecological Citizenship and Mindfulness” is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
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    Series Statement: Gender and Politics
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    Keywords: Europe—Politics and government. ; Identity politics. ; Security, International. ; Europe ; Europäische Union ; Sicherheitspolitik ; Frau ; Menschenhandel ; Prostitution ; Feminismus
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2. Internal Security and the EU: The Securitisation by Contagion of Trafficking in Women for Sexual Exploitation -- 3. Prostitution and the EU: Neoliberalism, Vulnerability and Security -- 4. The Intersection of Security and Neo-abolitionism in the EU’s Anti-trafficking Policies -- 5. Desecuritising Trafficking in Women for Sexual Exploitation Through a Neo-Abolitionist Approach? the European Women’s Lobby -- 6. Desecuritising Trafficking in Women for Sexual Exploitation Through a Sex Work Approach? Aradau Post-anarchism and Whore-Walks -- 7. Conclusions.
    Abstract: This book explores the triangular dynamics of securitisation and desecuritisation that underpin the EU’s approach to trafficking in women for sexual exploitation. That is, its progressive securitisation within the EU’s anti-trafficking policies and the existence of two distinct and competing approaches that coexist among feminist struggles against such trend: a neo-abolitionist approach, on the one hand, that is increasingly defended from within EU institutions, and has thus become increasingly entangled with the securitisation of trafficking in women; and a sex work approach, on the other, that has been largely relegated to the domains of academia and civil society. As such, this book addresses the intersection of security and feminist neo-abolitionism within the EU’s anti-trafficking policies, as well as the desecuritising potential of the anti-trafficking advocacy of both transnational neo-abolitionist and sex worker organisations. This book unprecedentedly brings together three bodies of literature that rarely interact: Critical Security Studies, EU Gender Studies and the feminist literature on prostitution and trafficking in women and demonstrates their fruitful interaction in an extensive empirical analysis of the EU’s internal security, violence against women and anti-trafficking policies. Lucrecia Rubio Grundell is UNA4CAREER Postdoctoral Fellow in the Faculty of Political Science and Sociology at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain.
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    Edition: 3rd ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: America—Politics and government. ; Environmental policy. ; Political planning. ; Political science. ; Social justice. ; America
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Environmental Policy on the Front-Lines -- Chapter 2: Contextualizing Environmental Policy -- Chapter 3: The Messy Process of Making Environmental Policy -- Chapter 4: The Official Players in the Policy Process -- Chapter 5: The Unofficial Players in the Policy Process -- Chapter 6: Translating Vague Environmental Statues into Rules & Regulation -- Chapter 7: Where the Rubber Meets the Road: Implementing Environmental Policy -- Chapter 8: Is it Working? Evaluating the (In)Justice in Environmental Policy -- Chapter 9: Natural Resources and the Energy Policy Nexus -- Chapter 10: Food Politics & Policy -- Chapter 11: Understanding Environmental Policy from the Ground Up.
    Abstract: US Environmental Policy in Action provides a comprehensive look at the creation, implementation, and evaluation of environmental policy, which is of particular importance in our current era of congressional gridlock, partisanship and polarization, and escalating debates about federal/state relations. With a continued focus on the front lines of environmental policy, Rinfret and Pautz take into account the major changes in the practice of US environmental policy during the Trump and Biden administrations. Providing real-life examples of how environmental policy works rather than solely discussing how congressional action produces environmental laws, this third edition of US Environmental Policy in Action offers a practical approach to understanding contemporary American environmental policy. Sara R. Rinfret is Professor of Public Administration and Policy and Master of Public Administration Program Director at Northern Arizona University, USA. Michelle C. Pautz is Professor of Political Science and Associate Dean for Curriculum and Academic Student Success at the University of Dayton, USA. .
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    Keywords: America—Politics and government. ; Constitutional law. ; Political science. ; Identity politics. ; America
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction: The 2021-2022 Term at the Supreme Court -- Chapter 2: Alabama Assoc. of Realtors, NFIB v. Dep. of Labor, and Biden v. Missouri on the Pandemic Restrictions -- Chapter 3: American Hospital Association v. Becerra on Deference to Federal Agencies -- Chapter 4: Biden v. Texas on Immigration Policy at the US/Mexico Border -- Chapter 5: Carson v. Makin on Religion and Schools -- Chapter 6: Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health on Abortion and Roe v. Wade -- Chapter 7: FBI v. Fazaga and US v. Zubaydah on State Secrets and the Post-9/11 Cases -- Chapter 8: Kennedy v. Bremerton on Religious Expression in Schools -- Chapter 9: NY State Rifle & Pistol v. Bruen on the Second Amendment and Concealed Carry Laws -- Chapter 10: Ramirez v. Collier on the Death Penalty and Religious Rights -- Chapter 11: Shurtleff v. Boston on Free Expression and Government Speech -- Chapter 12: US v. Vaello Madero on Puerto Rico in the Constitutional Order -- Chapter 13: Vega v. Tekoh on Enforcement of the Miranda Rule) -- Chapter 14: West Virginia v. EPA on the Clean Air Act and Federal Agency Powers -- Chapter 15: Whole Woman’s Health v. Jackson on Delegated Enforcement of Abortion Restrictions -- Chapter 16: The Legacy of Justice Stephen Breyer -- Chapter 17: Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s First Years on the Court -- Chapter 18: The Influence of the Trump Justices and the New Court Majority -- Chapter 19: The Leak of the Dobbs Draft.
    Abstract: Each year, the Supreme Court of the United States announces new rulings with deep consequences for our lives. This fifth volume in Palgrave’s SCOTUS series describes, explains, and contextualizes the landmark cases of the US Supreme Court in the term ending 2022. With a close look at cases involving key issues and debates in American politics and society, SCOTUS 2022 tackles the Court’s rulings on abortion, guns, religion, environmental regulation, pandemic controls, immigration and more. Written by notable scholars in political science and law, the chapters in SCOTUS 2022 present the details of each ruling, its meaning for constitutional debate, and its impact on public policy or partisan politics. Finally, SCOTUS 2022 offers an analysis of the current ideological and interpretive divisions on the Court, including an analysis of the unprecedented leak of the Dobbs draft ruling. Morgan Marietta is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA.
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    Edition: 1st ed. 2023
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    Keywords: Environmental policy. ; Political science. ; Environmental law, International. ; Klimaänderung ; Klimaschutz ; Umweltpolitik ; Internationale Kooperation ; Global Governance ; Internationales Regime ; Wandel ; Wirkung ; Auswirkung ; Erde
    Abstract: This volume examines the process through which climate change is transforming global governance, as both an increasingly central issue on the international stage and an increasingly structured policy domain with its specific modes of governing, networks of actors, discourses, and knowledge practices. Collectively, the contributions aim to assess how and why climate change is becoming a dominant frame in international politics. In doing so, they also contribute to understanding the dynamics and drivers of climatization. As global warming progresses and efforts to mitigate and adapt intensify, living under a changing climate—or in a ‘new climate regime’ (Latour 2015)—increasingly appears as a central feature of ‘our’ new, and highly unequal, human condition in the Anthropocene. In other words, we firmly believe that climatization is here to stay. It is thus crucial to better understand this process, recognizing its problems and ambiguities, but also examining its transformative potential and identifying the conditions under which such potentials can be harnessed with a view to building a more effective and equitable climate politics. We think that the chapters in this book contribute to this endeavour. Stefan C. Aykut is Professor of Sociology, member of the Cluster of Excellence Climate, Climatic Change, and Society (CLICCS) and Director of the Center for sustainable society research (CSS) at Universität Hamburg, Germany. Lucile Maertens is Senior Lecturer in Political Science and International Relations at the Institute of Politic Studies of the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, and member of the Center of International History and Political Studies. .
    Note: Climatizing the UN Security Council , Preparing the French military to a warming world : climatization through riskification , ‘Climatizing’ military strategy? : A case study of the Indian armed forces , Alternative globalities? : Climatization processes and the climate movement beyond COPs , Reversing climatisation : transnational grassroots networks and territorial security discourse in a fragmented global climate governance , The climate brokers : philanthropy and the shaping of a ‘US-compatible’ international climate regime , ‘Incantatory’ governance : global climate politics’ performative turn and its wider significance for global politics , The climatization of global politics : introduction to the special issue
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    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Federalism and Internal Conflicts
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    Keywords: Asia—Politics and government. ; Political science. ; Asia
    Abstract: Introduction: a Revised Template of Federalism; Theory and Concepts; Methodology; Chapterisation -- Chapter 1 Concept of Asymmetric Federalism and the Politics of Recognition--- Introduction; Theoretical Framework of Asymmetric Federalism; Exclusion/Inclusion in Federalism -- Chapter 2 Founding Moment (1946-56): Introduction; Princely States: asymmetric Integration; SRC’s asymmetric approach to state-making; CA and the Making of asymmetric provision for tribal self-governance -- chapter 3. Federal Asymmetry in India and Various Forms---Introduction; State level asymmetry -- Chapter 4 Politics of Fiscal Asymmetry in India: Introduction; Finance Commission and Fiscal Asymmetry; Special Category States -- Chapter 5 Ethnic Cleavages and Federal Asymmetry: introduction; Demographics: ethnicity and diversity; demand for more -- Chapter 6 The Making and Unmaking of the Special Category States in India: introduction; SCS as federal asymmetry; SCS: development and governance -- Chapter 7 Asymmetry within Asymmetry in India: Introduction; 5th Schedule;6th Schedule; ethnic cleavages and tribal autonomous councils -- Chapter 8 The Working of Sub-State federal asymmetry in Tripura: Introduction; A brief history; Formation of the ADC; Activates of the ADC; institutionalization, development and delivery; governmental performance of the ADC; implications for governance; governmental cost of self-government -- Chapter 9 Bodoland Territorial Autonomous Districts in Assam: introduction; a short trajectory of Bodoland movement; The case of Bodoland: whose homeland; Bodo ethnic peace accords for power-sharing and legitimacy; from BAC to BTC: half-hearted institutionalization -- Chapter 10 A Comparative Assessment of Asymmetric Federalism in India: introduction; a brief macro history; comparative practices; contentious territory claims; making of a political region; limited federalism -- Conclusion: Summary of Findings and Evaluation.
    Abstract: This book provides a critical account of federal asymmetry in India - its origins, context, forms and functioning - by taking into account the institutional effectiveness of asymmetric institutions in the regions for identity fulfillment, development and governance. It argues that while some asymmetry, de jure/ or de facto, is part of all federations for meeting some special circumstances, in India, which has followed a different path of federation building, asymmetric institutional solutions especially in the border areas have played a crucially important role in accommodating ethno-cultural diversity, ensuring law and order, a level of development and governance in a process that has turned the ‘rebels into stakeholders’. India’s federal asymmetric designs and their working has been a key to holding the peripheries within the Union of India. The book utilizes both archival research and empirical survey data, as well as elite interviews. Harihar Bhattacharyya is Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Burdwan, India. He holds a PhD in Government from the London School of Economics and Political Science. He taught at the South Asia Institute a the University of Heidelberg, Germany, Hull University, UK, Institute of Federalism, Fribourg, and Delhi University, India.
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    ISBN: 9783031282102
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(IX, 205 p. 2 illus., 1 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: America—Politics and government. ; Political science. ; Political leadership. ; International economic relations. ; Economic sociology. ; America
    Abstract: Chapter 1. The Unsolvable Problem -- Chapter 2. False Hope -- Chapter 3. Chronic Crisis -- Chapter 4. Dream Eating Democracy -- Chapter 5. No Escape -- Chapter 6. What if This Book is Wrong?
    Abstract: This book argues that American democracy is in crisis. The economic system is slowly subjecting Americans of nearly all income levels and backgrounds to enormous amounts of stress. The United States lacks the state capacity required to alleviate this stress, and politicians increasingly find that if they promise to solve economic problems, they are likely to disappoint voters. Instead, they encourage voters to blame each other. The crisis cannot be solved, the economy cannot be set right, and democracy cannot be saved. But American democracy cannot be killed, either. Americans can’t imagine any compelling alternative political systems. And so, American democracy continues on, in a deeply unsatisfying way. Americans invent ever-more elaborate coping mechanisms in a desperate bid to go on. But it becomes increasingly clear that the way is shut. The American political system was made by those who are dead, and the dead keep it. Benjamin Studebaker received his PhD in Politics and International Studies from the University of Cambridge, UK.
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    ISBN: 9783031247408
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXX, 393 p. 18 illus., 11 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Studies in National Governance and Emerging Technologies
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    Keywords: Political planning. ; Political science. ; Law. ; Wasserfahrzeug ; Schiff ; Unbemanntes Fahrzeug ; Transportmittel ; Technischer Fortschritt ; Militär ; Waffensystem ; Autonomes System ; Seekrieg ; Seeschifffahrt ; Sicherheit ; Meer ; Politik
    Abstract: Chapter 1 Introduction to Autonomous Vessels in Maritime Affairs: Law & Governance Implications -- Part I: Setting the Scene -- Chapter 2 Innovate or Fade – Introducing Ocean Innovation Diplomacy to the Maritime Sector -- Chapter 3 Evolution of IMO’s MASS: Through the Prism of the Chair -- Part II: Naval Warfare & Security -- Chapter 4 Advent of a New Era in Naval Warfare: Autonomous and Unmanned Systems Advent -- Chapter 5 Maritime Security in the Age of Autonomous Ships -- Part III: Safety & Seaworthiness -- Chapter 6 Designing Norms for Autonomous Ships: The Obligation to Call for Help and the Duty to Save Life in Danger at Sea -- Chapter 7 Why Compromise? Safety and Seaworthiness Challenges of MASS in the Shipping and Port Sector -- Chapter 8 How to Ensure Safe Navigation: Navigation Safety Regulation in MASS -- Part IV: Global Environmental Change -- Chapter 9 Autonomous Vessels in the Era of Global Environmental Change -- Part V: Autonomous Passenger Transportation -- Chapter 10 Autonomous Urban Passenger Ferries – A New Mobility Mode in Need of Appropriate Regulation, etc.
    Abstract: This book examines law and governance implications in relation to maritime autonomous surface ships (MASS). Adopting a multi-disciplinary approach, it focuses on a wide array of timely, topical and thorny issues, including naval warfare and security, seaworthiness and techno-regulatory assessments, global environmental change, autonomous passenger transportation, as well as liability and insurance. It also considers selected national and regional developments. The book provides an insight into the role of innovation-diplomacy as the driving force that could expedite the transition from automation to autonomy. After navigating through the complex law and governance landscape, it concludes by assessing critical findings for further consideration. The book will appeal to scholars and students of maritime technology, law and governance. Tafsir Matin Johansson is Assistant Professor at the World Maritime University, Sasakawa Global Ocean Institute, Sweden. Jonatan Echebarria Fernández is Honorary Lecturer at The City Law School, City, University of London, UK. Dimitrios Dalaklis is Professor at the World Maritime University, Sweden. Aspasia Pastra is a Post-Doctoral Fellow and Maritime Policy Analyst at the World Maritime University, Sasakawa Global Ocean Institute, Sweden. Jon A. Skinner is Adjunct Professor at Mat-Su College, University of Alaska Anchorage, and an instructor at the Graduate College of Professional Military Education, Air University, USA. Chapter 11 and Chapter 18 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
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    ISBN: 9783031207730
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXXVII, 248 p. 13 illus., 12 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: Europe—Politics and government. ; Emigration and immigration—Government policy. ; Security, International. ; International relations. ; Identity politics. ; Europe ; Emigration and immigration ; Politischer Wandel ; Sicherheitspolitik ; Einflussgröße ; Internationaler Konflikt ; Geschichtsbild ; Name ; Innenpolitik ; Außenpolitik
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2. Macedonia’s Long Transition: An overview of the key issues -- 3. Macedonia’s Revolving Security Threats: Perpetual Instability on the Edge of Europe -- 4. The Impossible Reconciling of Historical Narratives: The Macedonian name dispute and prospects for the future -- 5. The Economic Transition of Macedonia -- 6. Privatisation in Macedonia and Communities in Transition -- 7. Political Parties and the Trials of Democracy -- 8. Euro-Atlantic Integrations on Hold -- 9. Migration Movements and their Implications for Macedonia -- 10. The Identity Shift: Claims on Antiquity in Macedonian Fiction and Drama -- 11. The Dissonant Narratives of the Skopje 2014 Project -- 12. An Analysis of Bulgaria’s Rejection of the Macedonian Ethno-Linguistic Identity and its Implications.
    Abstract: “This is a most worthy and timely contribution which will clearly have an impact on regional studies of the Balkans, the new Eastern Europe, and post communism.” — Martyn Rady, Masaryk Professor Emeritus of Central European History, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, UK This book provides a broad, interdisciplinary analysis of events impacting on North Macedonia since its independence, particularly during the last decade. In the past thirty years, the country has gone through deep political, social and economic transition, along with a name change from ‘Macedonia’ to the ‘Republic of North Macedonia’ following the Prespa Agreement signed with Greece. The contributors consider Macedonia’s challenges, its multi-ethnic make-up and its ambition to enter the European mainstream through the auspices of the European Union and NATO. The volume includes chapters on international politics and North Macedonia’s place in the region’s security architecture as well as the difficulties of the privatisation of socially owned enterprises, political corruption, state capture and backsliding. The book also covers the controversial ‘Skopje 2014’ project in addition to the impact of migration along the ‘Balkan Route’ and the current wranglings with Bulgaria over identity politics. Robert Hudson is Emeritus Professor in European History and Cultural Politics at the University of Derby, UK, Professor honoris causa at University American College Skopje, North Macedonia and the former Director of the Identity, Conflict, and Representation Research Centre. Ivan Dodovski is Professor in Critical Theory and Dean of the School of Political Science at University American College Skopje, North Macedonia.
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    ISBN: 9783031191084
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XV, 125 p. 7 illus., 4 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: Security, International. ; Politics and war. ; Biology. ; Chemische Waffe ; Biologische Waffe ; Nonproliferation ; Massenvernichtungswaffe ; Rüstungsbegrenzung ; Völkerrechtlicher Vertrag ; Kontrolle ; Dual-Use-Gut ; COVID-19
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Novel Neuroweapons -- Chapter 3: Neuroscience Developments of Concern -- Chapter 4: The Chemical Weapons Convention -- Chapter 5: The Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention -- Chapter 6: Conclusion.
    Abstract: This book offers an analysis of how the Chemical and Biological Weapons (CBW) regime has responded in the immediate aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic. Coronavirus has highlighted the need to better protect modern societies from natural, accidental and deliberate disease affecting humans, animals and plants. Within that context preventing the deliberate hostile use of biological and chemical agents will be of increasing importance. Dando asks to what extent there has been a significant strengthening to the CBW non-proliferation regime in the immediate aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic using an analysis focused on two proposals to strengthen the Chemical Weapons Convention and the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention which aim to constrain advances in science and technology developments that could be misused. On this basis he concludes that it would be hard to argue that to date there has been a significant strengthening of the CBW regime. Malcolm Dando is Leverhulme Emeritus Fellow, Division of Peace Studies and International Development, School of Social Studies, University of Bradford, UK.
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    ISBN: 9783031205774
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXIII, 305 p. 43 illus., 34 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Sub-National Governance
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    Keywords: Political planning. ; Political science. ; Sustainability.
    Abstract: 1. Community-led innovation: facts, rhetoric, and policy challenges -- Part 1: Models -- 2. New Models of Innovation in Old Industrial Regions -- 3. On the Performance of Regional Innovation Systems -- 4. Social Tipping Dynamics for disruptive innovation policies towards a stable climate scenario -- 5. Digital technologies and mediation in the context of territorial innovation -- 6. Towards an integrated conceptual framework of Territorial Innovation in Less Developed Regions: the Sustainable Regions’ approach -- Part 2: Tools -- 7. Digitalisation in a multilevel governance context: the case of Cohesion Policy -- 8. Prototyping a digital platform to promote mediation practices in the territory -- 9. The role of strategic environmental assessment for sustainability in urban systems transformation -- Part 3: Policy and actors -- 10. The role of state and non-state actors in ensuring the effectiveness of innovation policy -- 11. European Urban Agenda: The Predicaments of Decentralised Coordinative Action -- 12. Local Development through entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystems -- 13. Tourism and development in lagging regions -- 14. Territorial Cohesion and Innovation: a needed dialogue.
    Abstract: This book examines the roles of communities in the general framework of territorial innovation, particularly in the context of less developed regions. With a specific focus on Portugal, it offers conceptual improvements that will be of use to other European regions. The book will appeal to scholars and students of regional governance and politics, from public administration to economics, sociology, geography and political science, as well as to practitioners. Filipe Teles is Pro-Rector for Regional Development and Urban Policies at the University of Aveiro. Fernando Ramos is Professor of Communication Sciences and Technologies at the University of Aveiro. Carlos Rodrigues is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Social, Political and Territorial Sciences at the University of Aveiro. Anabela Botelho is Professor of Economics at the University of Aveiro. .
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    ISBN: 9783031172304
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIX, 172 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Sustainable Development Goals Series
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    Keywords: Africa—Politics and government. ; Political planning. ; Political science. ; Africa
    Abstract: 1 Transnational Actors and Policymaking in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Scholarly Context -- 2 Transnational Policy Process: Analytical Framework -- 3 Transnational Actors and Social Policymaking in Ghana: A Brief Historical Background -- 4 Transnational Actors and Policymaking: The Ghana Poverty Reduction Strategy (GPRS) -- 5 Ghana’s Decision to LEAP Out of Poverty: Interrogating the Transnational Involvement -- 6 Transnational Policymaking After the GPRS and LEAP in Ghana and Beyond -- 7 Conclusion: Lessons and Implications.
    Abstract: This book examines the roles played by transnational actors to influence poverty reduction policies in Ghana. Whereas previous studies on anti-poverty policies have primarily focused on the ‘carrot and stick’ approach deployed by transnational actors – whereby developmental assistance is granted in return of certain conditions being met – this book demonstrates that there are several alternative strategies. Indeed, rather than adopting ‘hard’ means of shaping policy, many transnational actors in fact use a ‘soft’ approach characterized by collaboration. In order to demonstrate this, the book examines two poverty reduction programmes. Utilising research based on interviews with national policymakers, civil-society organizations and the media, it compares different approaches used by transnational actors and the attendant outcomes for national and international parties. Drawing on an interdisciplinary perspective, the book will appeal to scholars and students of public policy and international relations. Rosina K. Foli is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political Science, University of Ghana. Her research interests include social policy, governance, and poverty reduction in sub-Saharan Africa.
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    ISBN: 9783031225598
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 203 Seiten)
    Edition: 3rd ed. 2023
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    Keywords: International organization. ; Political science. ; Internationale Organisation ; Internationale Politik ; Internationales Regime ; Global Governance ; Politisches Mandat
    Abstract: Introduction: The State and International Organizations -- Chapter 1: Sovereignty and Globalization -- Chapter 2: Power and Interdependence -- Chapter 3: Regimes and Institutions -- Chapter 4: Efficiency and Ideas -- Chapter 5: The United Nations and Its System -- Chapter 6: From International to Human Security -- Chapter 7: The Institutions of Collective Security -- Chapter 8: Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid -- Chapter 9: Economic Institutions and Trade -- Chapter 10: International Finance -- Chapter 11: Development -- Chapter 12: The Environment -- Chapter 13: The Technical Details -- Chapter 14: The Fuzzy Borders of Intergovernmentalism -- Chapter 15: Conclusions.
    Abstract: This comprehensively revised and updated edition offers an introduction to international organizations (IO) theory in the field of IR. It looks at the different ways in which IOs are studied and then applies these different modes to a variety of specific case studies. The book is written as a primer for students studying global governance and IR theory. It highlights analytic tools available to understand what IOs are designed to do, how they work, what effects they have, and how to design them better. It goes beyond simple questions of whether IOs matter, and looks at the ways in which the different analytical tools developed within the rubric of IO theory are useful for answering different questions about the role of IOs in international politics. J. Samuel Barkin is a professor in the Department of Conflict Resolution, Human Security, and Global Governance, McCormack Graduate School, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA. He has published widely on the topics of international relations and international organization theory, including The Sovereignty Cartel (2021), International Relations Last Synthesis? (2019), Interpretive Quantification: Methodological Explorations for Critical and Constructive IR (2017), Realist Constructivism: Rethinking International Relations Theory (2010). He has taught undergraduate and graduate courses on both international organization and global governance.
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    ISBN: 9783031214646
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 344 p. 2 illus., 1 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: Europe—Politics and government. ; Political leadership. ; Political science. ; World politics. ; Europe
    Abstract: 1. Introduction (Matt Beech and Simon Lee) -- Part 1: Ideas, Leadership and Elections -- 2. Conservative Party Ideology in the Age of Brexit (Matt Beech) -- 3. Prime Ministerial Leadership in the Age of Brexit (Roderick Crawford) -- 4. The General Elections: 2015, 2017, 2019 (Christopher Fear) -- 5. The EU Referendum and British Politics (Jasper Miles) -- 6. Parliament and the Constitution (Philip Norton) -- Part 2: Continuity and Change in Public Policy -- 7. Two Steps Backwards: UK Economic Policy in the Ages of Austerity and Brexit, 2015 to 2020 (Simon Lee) -- 8. Conservative Governments and Education Policy in the Age of Brexit, 2015 to 2020 (Joseph Tiplady) -- 9. The Submerged Welfare State: Health and Social Care Policy in England from 2015 to 2020(Holly Jarman) -- 10. Conservative Welfare Policies: Ideational Oscillation in the Age of Brexit (Daniel Pitt) -- 11. Consistently inconsistent? Assessing UK Climate Action in the Age of Brexit (Jeremy F.G. Moulton) -- 12. British Defence Policy and Brexit: Finding Stability During a Period of Uncertainty (Philip Mayne) -- 13. Foreign Policy and International Development from Cameron to Johnson (James R. Pritchett) -- Part 3: Four Nation Politics -- 14. A Much-Misgoverned Nation: England in the Age of Brexit (Simon Lee) -- 15.Scotland, Conservatism and the British Union, 2015-20 (Margaret Arnott) -- 16. Wales and the Conservative Government, 2015-20 (Roger Awan-Scully) -- 17. Alienation and Destabilization: Northern Ireland in the Age of Brexit (Cillian McGrattan). .
    Abstract: This book provides the first evaluation of the three Conservative administrations which have been affected, shaped and determined by the age of Brexit. It breaks new ground by collectively analysing the Cameron, May and Johnson governments in an era of political and social shock and disruption, caused by the phenomenon of Brexit. As an edited collection, the book brings experts together who explain the complexities of ideas, leadership, votes, policy areas and territorial politics in an accessible and concise fashion. Contributors consider the continuities and discontinuities in Conservative Party ideas and political action. Matt Beech is Reader in Politics & Director of the Centre for British Politics at University of Hull, UK, and IES Senior Fellow at UC Berkeley, USA. Simon Lee is Senior Lecturer in Politics at University of Hull, UK.
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    ISBN: 9783031154478
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XX, 262 p. 17 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: Political science.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Policy-Making and Budget Changes -- Chapter 3: Budgeting Policy Within the Union: Italy in the European Context -- Chapter 4: Approaching an Explanation of Longitudinal Change in the Italian Budget -- Chapter 5: Incremental Changes or Punctuations? -- Chapter 6: To Change or Not to Change: Governments’ Spending Intentions -- Chapter 7: The Impact of the Decision-Making Process -- Chapter 8: Conclusion.
    Abstract: "Alice Cavalieri has produced a careful and comprehensive analysis of public budgeting during the turbulent course of modern Italian history… It is bound to become a standard go-to resource for future studies of budgeting and policy processes more generally." —Bryan D. Jones, JJ “Jake” Pickle Regents Chair in Congressional Studies, University of Texas at Austin, USA "Alice Cavalieri’s volume is an original piece of empirical research and a great contribution to the understanding of recent political changes in Italy." —Luca Verzichelli, Professor of Political Science, University of Siena, Italy This book assesses Italian budgetary policy over the last thirty years. Covering more than three decades of political change and national transformation, it considers the institutional and external factors that have shaped long-term budgetary changes. The book analyses the levels of expenditure allocation across varying budget categories, and compares the budget bill and budget law in order to shed new light on the specific dynamics that have influenced budgetary decision-making processes. Overall, the book provides important conclusions on the role of the budget as a governmental policy instrument, the consequences of multilevel governance over national budgetary policy, and the impact of national and international crises on budgetary changes. With Italy being one of the most important parliamentary democracies in Europe and a key actor within the European Union, these conclusions have important repercussions for other European parliamentary democracies. The book will appeal to scholars and students of European public policy, public administration and economic governance. Alice Cavalieri is a Researcher at the University of Trieste, Italy. She is the Italian country lead for the Oxford Covid-19 Government Response Tracker (OxCGRT), and a member of the Comparative Agendas Project. Her research interests include budget politics and policy change in Italy and Europe.
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    ISBN: 9783031220531
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXIII, 313 p. 5 illus., 4 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in International Relations
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    Keywords: International relations. ; Security, International. ; Internationale Politik ; Rivalität ; Militärisches Gleichgewicht ; Strategische Stabilität ; Bedrohungsvorstellung ; Rüstungswettlauf ; Geschichte ; Japan ; USA ; Pazifischer Raum
    Abstract: 1. Overbalancing as a Systemic Pathology -- 2. Explaining Japan’s Rush to the Pacific War -- 3. Appropriate Balancing in the Naval Arms Control Era, 1920-1931 -- 4. The Manchurian Crisis as an Exogenous Shock, 1931-1933 -- 5. Overbalancing and Japan’s Rush to the Pacific War, 1933-1941 -- 6. Beyond Japan and the Pacific War.
    Abstract: This book investigates the phenomenon of overbalancing through an analysis of Japan’s foreign policy during the interbellum. In the mid-1930s, Japan withdrew from a naval arms control framework that had restrained military buildup on both sides of the Pacific Ocean since the early 1920s. By doing so, Japan not only triggered a naval arms race with the United States that exhausted its economy, it also destroyed the last institutionalized structure regulating the relationship between the two Pacific powers. Japan and the United States became caught in a spiral of tensions that culminated with the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941. Puzzling is the fact that the international environment in the Asia-Pacific was relatively stable in the mid-1930s, while Washington was pursuing a policy of accommodation toward Tokyo. By rejecting arms control and engaging in unfettered naval expansion, Japan overbalanced against the United States and began its rush to the Pacific War. The book explains Japan’s overbalancing with a neoclassical realist model that combines the literatures on threat perception and civil-military relations. Amid the Manchurian crisis of 1931-1933, as the Japanese government collaborated with the military institution to address the situation in China, military influence on the formulation of foreign policy surged. The perceptual and policy biases of the military, which include the tendency to distrust other countries’ intentions, to adopt worst-case analyses of international dynamics and to strive to maximize military power, gradually penetrated the decision-making process. Dysfunctions in the preexisting structure of Japanese civil-military relations, engendered by an over-depoliticization of the military institution, allowed the navy to convince policymakers that the United States was inherently hostile to Japan, hence the necessity to prepare for war. The government was brainstormed, adopting the biased military perspective on international affairs. Japan overbalanced in a myopic but conscious way. Lionel P. Fatton is Assistant Professor of International Relations at Webster University Geneva, Switzerland, and Research Collaborator at the Research Institute for the History of Global Arms Transfer, Meiji University, Japan.
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    ISBN: 9783031243158
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(IX, 214 p.)
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    Series Statement: Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies
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    Keywords: Peace. ; Political science. ; Internationale Politik ; Friedensforschung ; Konfliktforschung ; Katastrophenschutz ; Zivilschutz ; Gesundheitswesen ; Menschliche Sicherheit ; Bewaffneter Konflikt ; Umweltschutz ; Totalitarismus ; Interdependenz ; Verflechtung ; Existential Risk Studies
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Foundations -- Chapter 3: At the Intersection of PCS and ERS -- Chapter 4: Great Powers Conflict -- Chapter 5: Peace, Pandemics, and Conflict -- Chapter 6: Climate Change Peace and Conflict -- Chapter 7: Emerging Technologies, Risk, Peace, and Conflict -- Chapter 8: Totalitarianism Risk and Peace -- Chapter 9: Conclusion.
    Abstract: This book explores the topic of peace and the long-term survival of the human species. Drawing on Existential Risk Studies (ERS), the book lays out a theoretical framework for drawing new perspectives and approaches for looking toward the future and addressing existential risks related to the complexity and dynamics of conflict. Looking at five research lines in Peace and Conflict Studies (PCS); (1) Great Powers Conflict, (2) Peace, Pandemic, and Conflict, (3) Climate, Peace, and Conflict, (4) Emerging Technologies, Peace, and Conflict and (5) Totalitarianism, the chapters discuss how these lines are defined and discussed, how they are understood in ERS, and what approaches would be beneficial to adapt and integrate into PCS. By drawing on ERS and grounding the discussion in lines of research that will be important to the field of PCS, this book suggests that long-term perspectives are needed in the field, especially in regard to existential risk and their implications of conflict. Noah B. Taylor is a Guest Lecturer in Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. He is a practitioner, researcher, and teacher of Peace and Conflict Studies, focusing on a wide range of research areas including Elicitive Conflict Transformation, Transrational Peace Philosophy, Emerging Technologies, and Existential Risk.
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    ISBN: 9783031273384
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(IX, 232 p. 2 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Languages at War
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    Keywords: Africa—History. ; African languages. ; Peace. ; Sociolinguistics. ; Security, International. ; Africa
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Swahili and the Maji Maji Resistance against German Rule -- Chapter 3: Swahili and African Military Formation: Between WWI and WWII -- Chapter 4: Swahili and Imperial Britain: Colonial Creation/African Appropriation -- Chapter 5: Swahili and the Conflicts of the Great Lakes Region -- Chapter 6: Swahili and the Cold War -- Chapter 7: Swahili and the War on Terrorism in the Post-Cold War Period -- Chapter 8: Conclusion.
    Abstract: This monograph examines the roles and functions of Swahili in war/conflict situations, and the impact of wars on the destiny of the language. Covering a period of over a century, the monograph explores this sociolinguistic theme in the context of six wars/conflicts: the Maji Maji resistance against German rule, the two World Wars, the anti-colonial resistance to British colonialism, the wars of the Great Lakes region, the cold wars, and the ongoing war against terrorism. In geographical focus, some of the war situations explored here are “local,” others are “transnational,” and others still rather “global” in scope and ramifications. In the final analysis, the monograph provides important snapshots of the conflict-based history of the Swahili language, demonstrating once again that language is a malleable tool that can be appropriated and galvanized to serve the interests of either party in a conflict and sometimes as a means of creating hegemonic and anti-hegemonic meanings. Alamin Mazrui is Professor at Rutgers University, USA. He has authored and edited several books and written numerous articles in sociolinguistics, education, literature, and culture. He has a special interest in human rights and civil liberties and has written policy reports on these subjects. Mazrui is also a published Swahili poet and playwright. Kimani Njogu holds a Ph.D in linguistics from Yale University (1994). He is the Executive Director of Twaweza Communications, Nairobi, and serves in the Kiswahili Commission at the African Academy of Languages (ACALAN), an organ of the African Union. His research interests revolve around language, culture and society.
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    ISBN: 9783031234668
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XX, 224 p. 3 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: The Palgrave Macmillan Series in International Political Communication
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    Keywords: Communication in politics. ; Political science. ; Communication.
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2. Normative Controversies: Challenges to Apply a Systemic Approach to Deliberation -- 3. Bringing the Public Sphere and the Media Back to the Systemic Approach -- 4. Justifications as a Linkage Mechanism -- 5. Reason-Giving across Arenas: Elite Actors -- 6. Reason-Giving across Arenas: Broader Public of Citizens -- 7. The Emotional Dimension of Reason-Giving -- 8. Emotions and Reasoning in Divided Groups -- 9. Conclusion and Research Outlook.
    Abstract: “Deliberative democracy has often been dismissed as an unrealistic ideal especially in our time of democratic crisis. Maia, Hauber, and Choucair put all doubts to rest in this theoretically rich, deeply researched and empirically grounded study of reason-giving in a mediated public sphere. Using a fascinating case study as a foundation, this book builds a compelling picture of both what is wrong with the present state of political communication but also what we can do to put it right”. Professor Simone Chambers, Chair of the Department of Political Science, University of California Irvine, USA “Yet again, a highly innovative account of the complexities of democratic public debate. Public reasons do not only circulate through, and thus link, various media and non-media arenas; they also characteristically intertwine arguments and emotions. While many of us may have “known” these things intuitively, Rose Maia and her team thoroughly demonstrate them in sound theorizing and insightful case studies”. Professor Hartmut Wessler, Institute for Media and Communication Studies, University of Mannheim, Germany Adopting a systemic perspective, this book explores media-based communication and reason-giving as a linkage process that transcends time and space. Arguments, reasoning perspectives and emotional concerns link elites’ and citizens’ political judgement within and across a set of interrelated arenas in the political system. Rousiley C.M. Maia is Professor of Political Communication at the Federal University of Minas Gerais. Gabriella Hauber was a postdoctoral researcher at the Federal University of Minas Gerais when this book was written. She is currently Assistant Professor of Communication at the Federal Technological University of Curitiba Tariq Choucair was a doctoral student at the Federal University of Minas Gerais when this book was written. He is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Digital Media Research Center at the Queensland University of Technology.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXV, 125 p. 2 illus., 1 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: Peace. ; International relations. ; Security, International. ; Politischer Konflikt ; Innenpolitik ; Minderheitenfrage ; Innerstaatlicher Konflikt ; Beilegung ; Internationaler Konflikt ; Friede ; Versöhnung ; Gesellschaft ; Ethnische Gruppe ; Zypern
    Abstract: CHAPTER ONE: Cyprus, a Special Case -- CHAPTER TWO: Rethinking the “Cyprus Problem” -- CHAPTER THREE: “On-the-Ground” Perspective: Cyprus is a Perfect Example of a Negotiation Culture Inherent in Lengthy Peace Processes -- CHAPTER FOUR: Greek Cypriot Vassiliou and Turkish Cypriot Akinci Bridge the Cyprus Divide -- CHAPTER FIVE: Reflections and Conclusion.
    Abstract: This book follows the author's 22-year journey through Cyprus and surrounding countries beyond in an exploration of conflict resolution with regard to the Cyprus Problem. The struggle is emblematic of numerous international attempts over the years to resolve this identity-based ethnic conflict historically referred to as the Cyprus Problem. So far all have failed miserably. The current situation indicates any solution other than a formal partition of the island between the two communities seems increasingly remote as the years pass.This has led the author to conclude a resolution to the Cyprus Problem no longer is a realistic political goal, but rather one eclipsed by the need for a non-political solution, which at least may succeed in convincing people on both sides to live together peacefully for their joint benefit. A. Marco Turk is Professor and Director Emeritus of the Negotiation, Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding Program at the California State University Dominguez Hills. .
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    ISBN: 9783031247279
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XI, 105 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: Political science. ; Executive power.
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Protocol: the word and the concept -- Chapter 2. Governing Through Protocol -- Chapter 3. Protocol as Method.
    Abstract: This book provides a genealogy of the concept of ‘protocol’ in government. It examines the functions that different protocols play in the contemporary world, and how they act as devices which regulate delicate and strategic fields of politics and society. The book opens by assessing the historical origins of the word ‘protocol’, proposes a typology of protocols, and highlights the three main actions of these devices: formalising, standardising, and certifying. It then stresses the ways in which protocols are employed as governing devices, their use as policy instruments, and their role within capitalism. The book concludes by analysing protocol as a method for managing various aspects of social life. The politics of protocols and the dilemmas they present, especially within crisis and emergency scenarios, are also discussed. The book will appeal to scholars and students of public policy, sociology, political philosophy and the theory of law. Enrico Gargiulo is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Bologna, Italy. His publications include Invisible Borders: Administrative Barriers and Citizenship in the Italian Municipalities (2021), as well as works on citizenship, registration and identification, demographic devices, population enactment, administrative discretion, security and police forces.
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    ISBN: 9783031250170
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXIII, 326 p. 11 illus., 5 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Marx, Engels, and Marxisms
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    Keywords: Political science. ; Marxian school of sociology. ; Social psychology. ; Economic development. ; International economic relations.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Rethinking Marxism from the Outside -- Chapter 2: A Class-Focused Marxian Theory: Class and Need -- Chapter 3: Hegemony, Symbolic and the Foreclosed Real -- Chapter 4: Global Capitalist Hegemony and the Foreclosure of World of the Third -- Chapter 5: Economic Dualism: A Critique of Political Economy of Development -- Chapter 6: Global Capital and its Camp -- Chapter 7: Unveiling World of the Third -- Chapter 8: Hegemonic Capital and Social Needs -- Chapter 9: Engagement of Global Capital with World of the Third -- Chapter 10: Ethico-Politics of Anti-Capitalist Critique and Post-Capitalist Praxis.
    Abstract: "Chakrabarti and Dhar creatively and originally combine Marx, Freud, and post-colonialism by rethinking (advancing) each through the lens of the other. They extend and transform earlier such efforts achieving important new insights in and for the now global Marxian tradition." ---Richard D. Wolff, Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Co-founder, Democracy at work This book brings together Marxian philosophy and Lacanian psychoanalysis to argue that the hegemonic form of global capital is founded on the foreclosure of class and world of the third. The authors counterpose the world of the third to the mainstream notion of the third world, seen as a lacking other in desperate need of aid and development. Thus, for them, the hegemonic form of global capital is engendered through the foregrounding of the poor, victim third world and the foreclosure of the non-capitalist world of the third. Building on what they characterize as an ab-original reading of Marxian historical materialism and the Lacanian real, the authors seek to conceptualize a counter-hegemonic revolutionary subject as a basis for postcapitalist alternatives to the hegemonic form of global capital. Anjan Chakrabarti is Professor of Economics at the University of Calcutta, India. Anup Dhar is former Professor of Philosophy at Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University, India.
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    ISBN: 9783031255922
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XII, 315 p. 1 illus.)
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    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology
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    Keywords: Medical anthropology. ; Political anthropology. ; Economic anthropology. ; Ethnology. ; Medical care. ; Political science.
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction—On Legitimacy. Healthcare and Public Safety -- Chapter 2. Health Inequalities and Ethics of Responsibility: A Comparative Ethnography -- Chapter 3. Misgovernance Kills: Italian Evidence -- Chapter 4. The Fragility of Legitimacy: Access to Health Care in Manantali, Mali. Chapter 5. "I Chose this ‘Other Way’": An Ethnographic Approach to Medical Pluralism Within the Context of Greek Cancer Care -- Chapter 6. Covid-19 Pandemic, Hydroxychloroquine and Healthcare System in Turkey -- Chapter 7. Negotiating Power over Human Bodies: Populism, People and the Politics of Health in Delhi -- Chapter 8. The Poverty of Opportunity: Where Are We Going; Where Have We Been -- Chapter 9. The Views of Selected Tennesseans on Universal Health Care as a Right -- Chapter 10. The Biopolitics of Complementary Spiritual Healing in South Korea and Israel -- Chapter 11. Health Sovereignty in West-Central Mexico: Legitimacy from the Grassroots -- Chapter 12. Disabled People and Access to the Labour Market: The Case of Greece -- Chapter 13. Managing Public Health in a Fragile Consociation: Lebanon between Wars, Explosions and the Covid-19 Pandemic -- Chapter 14. Interrogating the Public Health Approach: Lessons from the Field of Urban Violence -- Chapter 15. Maintaining the Health of the Public: Containing the Threat of Terrorist Resurgence in Contemporary Peru.
    Abstract: The complex, highly problematic, often thorny dynamics of trust and authority are central to the anthropological study of legitimacy. In this book, this sine qua non runs across the in-depth examination of the ways in which healthcare and public health are managed by the authorities and experienced by the people on the ground in urban Europe, the USA, India, Africa, Latin America and the Far and Middle East. This book brings comparatively together anthropological studies on healthcare and public health rigorously based on in-depth empirical knowledge. Inspired by the current debate on legitimacy, legitimation and de-legitimation, the contributions do not refrain from taking into account the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the health systems under study, but carefully avoid letting this issue monopolise the discussion. This book raises key challenges to our understanding of healthcare practices and the governance of public health. With a keen eye on urban life, its inequalities and the ever-expanding gap between rulers and the ruled, the findings address important questions on the complex ways in which authorities gain, keep, or lose the public’s trust. Italo Pardo is Honorary Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Kent, UK. He established and co-edits the journal Urbanities-Journal of Urban Ethnography and co-founded and presides over the not-for-profit association, International Urban Symposium-IUS. Giuliana B. Prato is Honorary Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Kent, UK. She chairs the Commission on Urban Anthropology (IUAES), co-founded the International Urban Symposium-IUS, of which she is Secretary-Treasurer, and co-founded and serves on the Board of Urbanities-Journal of Urban Ethnography.
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    ISBN: 9783031225048
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXII, 334 p. 8 illus., 5 illus. in color.)
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    Series Statement: Marx, Engels, and Marxisms
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    Keywords: Europe—Politics and government. ; Political science. ; Marxian school of sociology. ; World politics. ; Political sociology. ; Europe
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Part I: A third road in Eastern Europe? -- Chapter 2. The interdependence of socialist Hungary’s external and internal balances: The bridge model and the consolidation of the Kádár era (Tamás Gerőcs and András Pinkasz) -- Chapter 3. The neoliberalism as a legal project in state socialist Hungary (Attila Antal) -- Chapter 4. Dance around a “sacred cow”: Women’s night work and the gender politics of the mass worker in state-socialist Hungary and internationally (Susan Zimmermann) -- Chapter 5. Emancipated or excluded?: Women workers and the gender regime in state socialist Hungary (Eszter Bartha) -- Part II: System change and the alternatives -- Chapter 6. System change and property relations: On Soviet perestroika’s historical experiences (Tamás Krausz) -- Chapter 7. The rise and fall of red Halas, 1944–2019 (Chris Hann) -- Part III: The new canon -- Chapter 8. Imagining state socialism in Slovakia after 1989: Public discourse and history education practices (Slávka Otčenášová) -- Chapter 9. Between goulash Communism and dictatorship: The image of the Hungarian state socialism in secondary school textbooks (published after 1990) (Bálint Mezei) -- Part IV: Concluding Essays -- Chapter 10. The socialist transition in the materialist view of history and the state socialist systems (György Wiener) -- Chapter 11. State socialist experiments – Historical lessons (Péter Szigeti).
    Abstract: This volume brings together a diverse set of scholars to address the long theoretical, conceptual and political debate on the interpretation of “actually existing” socialism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. While the major paradigms – totalitarianism, neo-totalitarianism, revisionism, post-revisionism, modernization, and the world-system analysis – are well known in the Western (English-language) literature, the concept of state socialism, which has strong theoretical roots in Hungary (going back to the works of György Lukács and István Mészáros) received less international attention. This book contributes to a productive discussion about viable alternatives to capitalism by introducing and theoretically elaborating on the concept and practice of state socialism, highlighting the historical significance of Hungary’s experiment with the “new economic mechanism” of 1968. It generates a common point of reference for various generations of anti-systemic thinkers, scholars, and activists to move beyond Cold War simplifications and ideological divides, and contributes to the discussion about anti-capitalist alternatives, which are relevant today for the global left. The chapter “Dance Around a ‘Sacred Cow’: Women’s Night Work and the Gender Politics of the Mass Worker in State-Socialist Hungary and Internationally” is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial- NoDerivatives 4.0 International License via link.springer.com. Eszter Bartha is Associate Professor at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary. She has published extensively on the state socialist era and the working class. Tamás Krausz is Professor Emeritus at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary. He is an internationally renowned scholar of the Soviet and Russian history in the 20th century, with a special focus on the history of left-wing ideas. Bálint Mezei is Associate Professor at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary. The main subjects of his publications are the interparty relations of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party, Eurocommunism and studies based on oral history. .
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    ISBN: 9783031328190
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIII, 129 p.)
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    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Sub-National Governance
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    Keywords: Political planning. ; Political science. ; Regionalism.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Setting the Scene -- Chapter 2: The Way Things Used to Be -- Chapter 3: Reorganisation, Reorganisation, Reorganisation: The Changing Map of Local Government -- Chapter 4: Explaining the Persistence of the Unitary Principle in the Department’s Mindset -- Chapter 5: A Strange Affair: Local Government Reorganisation in Northamptonshire 2018-21—A Case Study -- Chapter 6: Doomsday Approaches and then Recedes -- Chapter 7: What is the Problem About Two-Tier Local Government? -- Chapter 8: Why Bigger is Not Better -- Chapter 9: Where Do We Go from Here?.
    Abstract: This book challenges the notion that bigger local government is always better. Whilst the central government in Britain has often supported increases in local government size, the book argues that this has been detrimental, and has caused the erosion of distinctive community identities that were previously represented by local authorities empowered to make significant local choices about services and future strategy. Drawing from national and international evidence, it offers an alternative narrative about the size, role, function and purpose of local government to that currently dominating policy discussion. It aims to provide readers who oppose size increases in local government with the evidence and arguments to influence change in their areas. The book will appeal to policymakers working in central and local government, as well as academics interested in public policy, public administration and local government. Steve Leach is Emeritus Professor of Local Government at De Montfort University, England. Colin Copus is Emeritus Professor of Local Politics at De Montfort University, England and a Visiting Professor at the University of Ghent, Belgium.
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    ISBN: 9783031313035
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 236 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Recovering Political Philosophy
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    Keywords: Political science—Philosophy. ; Law—Philosophy. ; Law—History. ; Political science. ; Political science ; Law ; Law
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Reverence and the Politics of Authority -- Chapter 2. Plato’s Laws and the Enigma of Godlikeness -- Chapter 3. Classical Utopianism in Plato’s Laws -- Chapter 4. The Athenian’s Rehabilitation of Tragedy -- Chapter 5. Reverence and the Disunity of Political Virtue -- Chapter 6. Epilogue.
    Abstract: “The Reverent City is among the best studies of Plato’s Laws. Ballingall argues convincingly that reverence or awe plays a far greater role in classical political thought than is ordinarily understood.” —Mark Lutz, Director, Society for Greek Political Thought and Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA “A subtle and penetrating interpreter of Plato, Ballingall shows that Plato’s Laws has important lessons to teach our irreverent age. This is a book for serious students of Plato, but also for those concerned about the drift of our politics away from all things respectful and reverent.” –Devin Stauffer, Professor and Associate Chair, Department of Government, University of Texas at Austin, USA “Ballingall’s astute study of Plato’s Laws addresses the puzzles and covers all the aspects of reverence while offering a thoughtful tribute to this unlikely friend of reason.” –Harvey C. Mansfield, Kenan Professor of Government, Harvard University, USA This book offers an original interpretation of Plato’s Laws and a new account of its enduring importance. Ballingall argues that the republican regime conceived in the Laws is built on "reverence," an archaic virtue governing emotions of self-assessment—particularly awe and shame. Ballingall demonstrates how learning to feel these emotions in the right way, at the right time, and for the right things is the necessary basis for the rule of law conceived in the dialogue. The Laws remains surprisingly neglected in the scholarly literature, although this is changing. The cynical populisms haunting liberal democracies are focusing new attention on the “characterological” basis of constitutional government and Plato’s Laws remains an indispensable resource on this question, especially when we attend to the theme of reverence at its core. Robert Ballingall is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Maine, USA. Previously, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Program on Constitutional Government at Harvard University and Allan Bloom Memorial Postdoctoral Fellow for Research in Classical Political Thought at the University of Toronto, where he also earned his PhD.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 149 p. 8 illus., 5 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: Europe ; Political science. ; Political leadership. ; Identity politics.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction to a practical guide on conducting qualitative research in parliaments -- Chapter 2: Set Up: The European Parliament -- Chapter 3: Introducing our Data -- Chapter 4: How was data gathered? Doing research interviews and ethnography -- Chapter 5: Coding the data -- Chapter 6: Interpreting the data -- Chapter 7: Conclusion.
    Abstract: ”This book is a must-read for so many people: it is an essential guide on how to do outstanding, transparent qualitative research; a critical reflection on the internal workings of the European Parliament; and a much-needed discussion of the role that gender, diversity and equality play in everyday (political) practices.” ---Ariadna Ripoll Servent, Professor for Politics of the European Union, Salzburg University, Austria “Guide to Qualitative Research in Parliaments provides a concise, hands-on guide to qualitative parliamentary research, including all stages of the research process. Contributing fascinating insights from a research project, rich examples and practical guidance, this is a must-read for scholars interested in qualitative research and a useful tool for students.” ---Josefina Erikson, Associate Professor in Political Science, Uppsala University, Sweden This open access book is a hands-on guide on doing qualitative research in parliaments, exploring achievements and drawbacks for all. From early-career scholars looking for an ‘in’ to start their research to senior academics interested in methodological details, the book offers a novel approach to discussing qualitative methodologies. It presents unique insights based on a large-scale qualitative study in the European Parliament using interview and ethnographic data. Comprehensive yet accessible, the book accounts the step-by-step process of qualitative research in parliaments, offering a reflexive and analytical perspective that moves beyond a textbook or theory-only format. Valentine Berthet is a postdoctoral researcher in the University of Helsinki, Centre for European Studies (CES). Barbara Gaweda is Senior Researcher in the University of Helsinki, Centre for European Studies (CES). Johanna Kantola is Professor of European Societies and their Politics in the University of Helsinki, Centre for European Studies (CES), Finland. Cherry Miller is a Lecturer in British and Comparative Politics at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK. Petra Ahrens is Academy Research Fellow at Tampere University, Finland. Anna Elomäki is Academy of Finland Research Fellow at Tampere University, Finland.
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    ISBN: 9783031390432
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XII, 235 p. 1 illus.)
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    Keywords: Peace. ; Security, International. ; Africa ; Friede ; Friedenspolitik ; Friedenssichernde Maßnahme ; Sicherheit ; Friedensforschung ; Konfliktforschung ; Beispiel ; Afrika
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction: Innovations in African Research and Writing on Peace and Security -- Chapter 2: Inculcating the Peace Innovation Approach in Shaping the Future of Peace and Security in Africa -- Chapter 3: Community’s Changing Social Structures as an Opportunity Rather than a Threat -- Chapter 4: Coping Mechanisms Employed by Survivors of Conflict Related Sexual Violence in the 2007/2008 Post-election Violence in Kenya -- Chapter 5: Transcending Inward Brokenness for Growth: A Determinant of Transformative Leadership -- Chapter 6: A Systematic Review on the Effects of PTSD Associated Alcohol Abuse on Social Economic Status Among Youth Living in Kiambu County, Kenya -- Chapter 7: The Nexus Between Peacekeeping and Counterterrorism: A Case of African Union Mission in Somalia -- Chapter 8: Cybersecurity and Online Child Trafficking in Africa: A Critique of the Legal Measures Adopted by African Countries.
    Abstract: “… Brings a breath of fresh air to scholarship in [peace and security] by including issues not usually canvassed in discussions … This is what makes for innovations as the authors and editors have ably demonstrated.” —Prof. Patricia Kameri-Mbote, Director, Law Division United Nations Environment Programme “… An accessible yet rigorous reflection by committed African scholars and practitioners on issues of peace and security …” —Dr. Odomaro Mubangizi, S.J., Former Dean of the Philosophy Department at the Institute of Philosophy and Theology, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and Editor of Justice, Peace and Environment Bulletin “… Helpful to social change organizations and policy-making bodies at local, national, and international levels.” —David Atwood, PhD, Former Director and Representative for Disarmament and Peace, Quaker United Nations Office, Geneva, and Consultant, Small Arms Survey, Geneva This edited volume harnesses African expertise to examine the local and global dimensions of peace. It is an outcome of a workshop in Nairobi, Kenya that convened African academics and practitioners with diverse specialisations. The authors’ contributions foreground local voices across a broad scope of inquiry, including rural community structures, health, trauma, sexual violence, peacekeeping and cybersecurity. African knowledge is essential to understanding peace on the continent – the complexities of conflict and insecurity, the lived experiences of individuals and communities, and their responses to such phenomena. This analytical approach underpins the book, creating fertile ground to identify and develop innovations that hold the promise for sustainable African solutions. Joseph Adero Ngala is Professor of International Relations and Diplomacy at the United States International University Africa, Kenya. Rachel Julian is Professor of Peace Studies at Leeds Beckett University, UK. Jonathan Henriques is Research Fellow at the South Sudan Center for Strategic and Policy Studies, South Sudan.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVIII, 258 p. 1 illus.)
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    Series Statement: Political Philosophy and Public Purpose
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    Keywords: Political science. ; Political science ; Critical theory. ; World politics.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Socialisme ou Barbarie -- Chapter 2: Society, Reality, Alienation and Ideology -- Chapter 3: The modern symbolic revolution -- Chapter 4: The interpretation of Machiavelli -- Chapter 5: The theory of the political -- Chapter 6: Democracy and Totalitarianism -- Chapter 7: Conclusions.
    Abstract: This book proposes a new interpretation of Claude Lefort’s thought focusing on his phenomenological method. Although all scholars recognize the influence of Merleau-Ponty, so far no one has demonstrated the fundamental coherence between Merleau-Ponty’s theory and the main concepts proposed by Lefort; in particular between the concept of institution and the definitions of social and democracy. If Merleau-Ponty uses the idea of institution to think beyond the division between subject and object, to think together continuity and difference, permanence and change, this same concept allows Lefort to understand society as both conflict and unity. From this starting point, this study will attempt to clarify Lefort’s concept of the political and his interpretations of modernity, humanism, and the work of Niccolò Machiavelli. These very concepts will show the difference from structuralism, Michel Foucault’s contemporary theory and theories of immanence. At the same time this study highlights an internal tension in Lefort’s own thinking: between autonomy and experience, institution and insurgence. Mattia Di Pierro is a Post-Doc researcher at the Philosophy Department of the University of Milan, Italy. His research mainly concerns contemporary political thought, theories of democracy and of modernity. He is the author of L’esperienza del mondo: Claude Lefort e la fenomenologia del politico (ETS 2020) and numerous articles on history of political thought and political philosophy.
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    ISBN: 9783031361074
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XII, 186 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Global Political Thinkers
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    Keywords: Political science. ; America ; International relations. ; Peace. ; Political leadership. ; Internationale Politik ; Internationaler Konflikt ; Friede ; Friedenskonsolidierung ; Person ; Politische Elite ; Lateinamerika
    Abstract: Introduction -- Chapter 1: An Intellectual of the Americas: Carlos Saavedra Lamas’ vision for peace -- Chapter 2: Adolfo Pérez Esquivel: Grassroots movements and Human Rights -- Chapter 3: The International Political Thought of Alfonso García Robles -- Chapter 4: Oscar Arias and Reconciliation in Central America -- Chapter 5: Rigoberta Menchú: Peacebuilding through respect for diversity -- Chapter 6: Juan Manuel Santos: Colombian diplomacy for peace (2010-2018) -- Chapter 7: Javier Pérez de Cuellar: United Nations -- Conclusion.
    Abstract: “This welcomed and important book immensely enriches the literatures on peace studies, Global IR, and Latin American contributions to international society. It focuses upon seven Latin American Nobel Peace recipients ranging from Carlos Saavedra Lamas (1936) to Juan Manuel Santos (2016), and their impact on ideas and practices of peace in Latin America and beyond, including issue-areas such as mediation and diplomacy, human rights, nuclear disarmament, indigenous rights, peacekeeping, reconciliation, and ending civil wars.” — Prof. Arie M. Kacowicz, Chaim Weizmann Chair in International Relations, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel “From the social activism of Rigoberta Menchú to the global initiatives of UN Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, this book explores the connection between the power of ideas and the actions of peace leaders to build a better world. The authors’ analyses serve as a reminder to academics and diplomats of the importance of taking small and large steps to manage and transform conflict and create institutions with a human focus.” — Ambassador Claudia Fuentes Julio, Permanent Representative of Chile to the United Nations and other International Organizations in Geneva, Switzerland This book analyzes the contributions of seven Latin American peace actors to reconciliation and conflict resolution: Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Alfonso García Robles, Óscar Arias Sánchez, Rigoberta Menchú Tum, Juan Manuel Santos, and Javier Pérez de Cuéllar. Working within an eclectic conceptual approach to systematize the difusion of their ideas, the chapters build upon three fundamentals of mainstream constructivism: a) change across time and space in each peace actor’s lifetime; b) socialization through changing norms, rules, and language; and c) processes of interaction in which they chose strategies and built networks. In their respective historical times, their views and ideas transcended the confines of Latin America to influence global political thought and produce change that favored peace. Roberto Domínguez is Professor of International Relations at Suffolk University, USA. Andrea Oelsner is Associate Professor and Director of the Political Science and IR Programs at the University of San Andrés, Argentina.
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    ISBN: 9783031373831
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(IX, 240 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Recovering Political Philosophy
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    Keywords: Political science. ; Political science ; Critical theory. ; Political science
    Abstract: 1. Introduction (Ian Dagg) -- 2. The Limits of Regimes: Education and Character Formation in Xenophon’s Political Thought (Gregory A. McBrayer) -- 3. The Beautiful and the False: An Introduction to Plato’s Hippias (Alex Priou) -- 4. The Connection Between Moral Virtue and Politics in Aristotle’s Ethics (John Hungerford) -- 5. Machiavelli’s Revolutionary Classical Education (John Peterson) -- 6. Bacon’s Transformation of Philosophy: An Introduction to the Education of Bacon (Ian Dagg) -- 7. John Locke’s Approximate Regime (Cole Simmons) -- 8. Education and Regime in Rousseau’s Social Contract (Ian Dagg) -- 9. Tocqueville’s Defense of Aristocratic Literature (Antonio Sosa) -- 10. Nietzsche and Political Education (Michael Grenke).
    Abstract: This volume is an inquiry into the history of political philosophy by way of the general theme of education. Each contributor addresses the relationship between a particular political philosopher’s broad teaching on the best political order and that political philosopher’s teaching about education. The unifying contention of the work is that each political philosopher considered in the volume promotes a certain kind of political regime and therefore a particular mode of education essential to that regime. Each chapter, written by a separate contributor, is distinguished from the others primarily by the political philosopher being considered. The book has a chapter dedicated to each of the following political philosophers: Plato, Xenophon, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Bacon, Locke, Rousseau, Tocqueville, and Nietzsche. The volume provides a survey of educational models by some of the greatest thinkers of the West, while continually demonstrating that the two themes of politics and education are inseparable. Ian Dagg is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Dallas and Baylor University, USA. He received a doctoral degree from the University of Dallas in Philosophic Studies in Politics. He has published “Natural Religion in Montesquieu’s Persian Letters and The Spirit of the Laws” as well as a Review Essay of On the Happiness of the Philosophic Life by Heinrich Meier translated by Robert Berman in Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy. His dissertation is Bad Beginnings, Failed Attempts to Control Convention, and Political Concessions: An Analysis of Plato’s Laws.
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    ISBN: 9783031350283
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXIX, 406 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Political Philosophy and Public Purpose
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    Keywords: Political science. ; Political science ; Social sciences ; Analysis (Philosophy). ; Marxian school of sociology.
    Abstract: Introduction: How Factoring Philosophy Puts Philosophy on the Sidelines -- Chapter One: Is Life Absurd? -- Chapter Two: Being Mortal -- Chapter Three: Reinventing Humans: The Strange Allure of Stoicism -- Chapter Four: Beyond the Illusion of Philosophical Egoism: Recovering Self-Love and Selfishness -- Chapter Five: Moral Luck, Responsibility, and this Worldly Life -- Chapter Six: The Pure Self in Political Life: Reconsidering the Primacy of the Right over the Good -- Chapter Seven: Values as Purely Subjective: Against the Idea of “A New Creation” -- Chapter Eight: Setting Aside the Purely Subjective: Reclaiming the Discourse of Truth and Error -- Beyond “the Illusion of the Economic”: Renewing the Concept of Capital: A Foreword to Chapters Nine, Ten, and Eleven -- Chapter Nine: Why Wealth is a Poor Concept -- Chapter Ten: Capital, the Truth about Utility -- Chapter Eleven: The Myth of Instrumental Reason and Action -- Conclusion: Just Enough Phenomenology -- Appendix A: Dogmas of Factoring Philosophy -- Appendix B: Symptoms of Factoring Philosophy.
    Abstract: This book considers diverse philosophical topics unified by the identification of false moves commonly found in modern philosophy, mainstream Anglo-American philosophy, and social theory. The authors expose the sources of fundamental problems that recur in philosophy—basic problems with what the authors call factoring philosophy. Factoring philosophy fails to attend to the phenomenological task of determining when what is distinguishable is separable and when not. Consequently, factoring philosophy makes phenomenological mistakes, false moves, when it treats as separable what is only distinguishable. Analytic philosophy is prone to false moves when it fails to recognize that phenomenology is the necessary complement to analysis. There is nothing wrong with analysis—we might as well give up thinking as give up analysis—and nothing is wrong with the values prized by analytic philosophy. As Hegel observed, “philosophizing requires, above all, that each thought should be grasped in its full precision and that nothing should remain vague and indeterminate.” Ultimately, this book contends that false moves prevail in philosophical analysis and social theory when they neglect their phenomenological foundations. Patrick Murray is John C. Kenefick Faculty Chair in the Humanities, Creighton University, USA. Jeanne Schuler is Professor of Philosophy, Creighton University, USA.
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    ISBN: 9783031366284
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XV, 257 p. 22 illus., 11 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: International Series on Public Policy
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    Keywords: Political planning. ; Political science. ; Comparative government. ; Technological innovations.
    Abstract: 1. An introduction to Research and Innovation Policy Design -- 2. The Determinants of Policy Design Choices: a Theoretical Framework for Analysis -- 3. Choosing and Blending Instruments for R&I Policies -- 4. Research and Innovation Policy Design in France -- 5. Research and Innovation Policy Design in Italy -- 5. Comparative Research and Innovation Policy Design.
    Abstract: This book investigates the determinants of policy design choices in an area of public policy embracing multiple sectors of public responsibilities: Research and Innovation (R&I). Drawing on case studies from France and Italy, it assesses how governments design research and innovation policy strategies. It also examines how policymakers and stakeholders translate their interests into different design strategies, and the impact of varying political orientations and institutional setups on shaping choices for alternative policy instruments. Lastly, the book considers how the interactions between policy makers and policy takers influence policy design choices. It will appeal to scholars and students of comparative public policy, public administration, emerging technologies, and governance. Claudia Acciai is a researcher at the Department of Sociology, Copenhagen University, Denmark. Her research interests include comparative public policy analysis, public administration, innovation studies, and science of science.
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    ISBN: 9783031221620
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxiii, 297 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Information technology and global governance
    Keywords: Africa ; Technology ; Information technology. ; Digital media. ; Political science. ; Kommunikationspolitik ; Informationspolitik ; Informationstechnik ; Kommunikationstechnik ; Nutzung ; Digitale Spaltung ; Ostafrika ; Tansania ; Kenia ; Uganda ; Ruanda
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction: Information and Communication Technologies as a Tool for Development -- Chapter 2: The History of ICT in East Africa from 1950-1990 -- Chapter 3: A Policy Paradox (Theoretical Framework) -- Chapter 4: Constructing a Policy for an ICT led vision—Centralization and Hierarchy in Rwanda -- Chapter 5: Technological Lessons from the Past: The Tanzanian Experience -- Chapter 6: Measuring the ICT Led Vision -- Chapter 7: Citizen Participation in ICT Policymaking -- Chapter 8: Cyber-Pessimism: Using ICT in Uganda for Surveillance and Control and Suppression -- Chapter 9: Conclusion and Recommendations.
    Abstract: “This book provides a framework for analyzing infrastructure policymaking that will guide development scholars for years to come.” —Michael Craw, Faculty Member and Director of the Master of Public Administration program, The Evergreen State College, USA “Bowman’s comparative evaluation of ICTs in East Africa is a must read for anyone interested in the intersection of culture, technology, law, and politics.” —L. Jean Camp, Professor of Informatics and Director of Center for Security and Privacy in Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, Indiana University Bloomington, USA “Dr. Bowman’s careful fieldwork and analysis unpacks the political economy of ICT implementation in East Africa. She expertly integrates historical, sociological, political, and economic realities that inform ICT policy development and implementation.” —Dorina Bekoe is a research staff member with the Africa program at the Institute for Defense Analyses USA, and author of Voting in Fear: Electoral Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa (2012) This book uses comparative case study methodology and extensive field work to examine and compare outcomes of four East African nations (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and Rwanda) that implemented formal Information and Communications Technology policies in the 1990s. Based on extensive fieldwork, the book assesses the emergence of a new policy and technological arena from the turn of the millennium to the present. In addition to tracing the implementation and reception of these policies, Bowman considers to what extent the politics of infrastructure in four connected but distinct African nations have resulted in global participation and equitable distribution and access of infrastructure to all citizens, as well as the impact a recent history of war or peace have on the technological outcomes in these communities. The book provides us with invaluable new data on how policy and politics function in emerging democracies, and illuminates long-overlooked opportunities and conditions necessary for the distribution of new and potentially beneficial technologies in other developing countries. Warigia M. Bowman is Associate Professor of Law and Director of the Sustainable Energy and Natural Resources Law Program at the University of Tulsa, USA.
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    ISBN: 9783031385964
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIX, 279 p. 6 illus., 5 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies
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    Keywords: Peace. ; Economic development. ; Security, International. ; Friedenssichernde Maßnahme ; Friedenssicherung ; Internationale Organisation ; Politisches Mandat ; Entwicklung ; Gastland
    Abstract: 1. The Future Trajectory of UN Peace Operations (Alexander Gilder, David Curran, Georgina Holmes and Fiifi Edu-Afful) -- Part 1 Reforming Security -- 2. Reforming Security Institutions: Implications of Local Actors’ Incorporation on the Construction of Democratic Security Environments (Alessandra Jungs de Almeida and Juliana Viggiano) -- 3. International Policing and/as the Future of UN Peace Operations (Charles T Hunt) -- Part 2 Resolving Conflict and Ensuring Protection -- 4. Attack Helicopters and Other Technologies for Enforcement in UN Peace Operations (Walter Dorn) -- 5. The Future Dynamics Between UN Stabilisation and UN Peace Operations: Conflict Management Versus Conflict Resolution (Shannon Zimmerman) -- 6. UNTSO: The Future of UN Peacekeeping in the Middle East (Diego Salama) -- Part 3 Strengthening Partnerships -- 7. The Future Of United Nations-African Union (UN-AU) Cooperation On Peace And Security (Ruth Adwoa Frimpong) -- 8. The Islamic Conception of Peacebuilding (hifz al-salam) Under the Auspices of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and the United Nation’s Sustaining Peace Agenda (Mohammad Sabuj) -- 9. Advancing a Children, Peace and Security Agenda for the Future of UN Peacekeeping (Dustin Johnson, Catherine Baillie Abidi, Laura Cleave, and Shelly Whitman) -- Part 4 Ensuring Future Accountability -- 10. Accountability for Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse: Rethinking Relationships (Sabrina White) -- 11. Safeguarding from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse in Peace Operations: Lessons for the Future (Sarah Blakemore, Rosa Freedman and Nicolas Lemay-Hébert) -- 12. An Alternative Approach: The African Union’s ’s SEA Regulatory Framework (Ai Kihara-Hunt and Roisin Burke).
    Abstract: “This collection of essays is a rich survey of the challenges facing the UN and an examination of the opportunities offered by partnerships, technology and reform.” — Roger Mac Ginty, Professor in Defence, Development and Diplomacy, Durham University, UK. “This volume shines because its contributions showcase the complex nature of contemporary peacekeeping and the multiple operational challenges it must evolve to address.” — Dr Katharina P. Coleman, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of British Columbia, Canada. “This book brings together new voices and fresh ideas on future pathways for UN peace operations.” — Dr Jenna Russo, Head of the Brian Urquhart Center for Peace Operations, International Peace Institute, USA Alexander Gilder is Associate Professor of International Law and Security at the School of Law, University of Reading, UK and Associate Faculty at the School of Humanitarian Studies, Royal Roads University, Canada David Curran is Associate Professor and Research Group Leader: Security, Vulnerability and Resilience at the Centre for Trust, Peace, and Social Relations, Coventry University, UK Georgina Holmes is Lecturer in Politics and International Studies at the School of Social Sciences and Global Studies, The Open University, UK. Fiifi Edu-Afful is Senior Research Fellow at the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre, Ghana.
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    ISBN: 9783031340635
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(IX, 252 p. 22 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: America ; Urban policy. ; Cities and towns ; Political science. ; Human geography.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: The Third Founding of American Democracy -- Chapter 2: A Corporatist-Ruralist Vetocracy -- Chapter 3: The Role of Cities in Global History -- Chapter 4: America’s Urban History -- Chapter 5: First-Wave Structural Reforms: The Adoption of City-States -- Chapter 6: Second-Wave Structural Reforms: The Constitution -- Chapter 7: City-State Policy Agenda -- Chapter 8: Urban Livability Agenda -- Chapter 9: A More Perfect Union.
    Abstract: This book proposes a radical reorganization of political and electoral power to address the current political imbalance between urban and rural populations in the United States. Hogan argues that, despite being smaller in population, a “financialist-ruralist coalition” has effectively used the Constitution—especially equal representation in the Senate—to create an anti-urban “vetocracy.” This political imbalance protects the interests of the financial elite and rural cultural conservatives, while effectively blocking urban interests, particularly regarding the adoption of a broad range of structural reforms and progressive policy preferences. By re-dividing many of the largest federated states into smaller city-states, the book posits, the United States would reduce the ability of non-urban interests to control the Senate. This would allow an empowered urbanite alliance to pass the forward-looking legislation the nation needs to remain internationally competitive in the coming decades. Thor Hogan is a Professor of Politics and Environmental Sustainability at Earlham College, USA.
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