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    ISBN: 9783031521898
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XV, 284 p.) , Illustrationen
    Uniform Title: Fretelli di Giorgia
    Keywords: Europe ; Communication in politics. ; World politics. ; Political leadership.
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Questions about Giorgia Meloni’s party -- Chapter 2. MSI. The flame of the defeated -- Chapter 3. AN. The flame outside the ghetto -- Chapter 4. FDI. The party of the third generation -- Chapter 5. Organisation and internal democracy -- Chapter 6. National-conservatives -- Chapter 7. Philoatlantists and Eurocritics -- Chapter 8. A mother against the mainstream -- Chapter 9. A changing electorate -- Chapter10. Leading the nation.
    Abstract: This book is an in-depth study of Fratelli d’Italia, the party led by Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. After providing a concise history of the neo-fascist and post-fascist parties to which Fratelli d’Italia is heir, the book examines its founding, statutory rules and internal organisation. The authors explore Meloni’s communication style and the national conservative ideology she has embraced, Fratelli d’Italia’s international network of alliances and its place in EU politics, and the composition of the electorate that led to the success of her and the party in the 2022 parliamentary elections. Through well-documented, rigorous and impartial analysis, the book offers insights into the path Fratelli d’Italia has taken and the identity it has built in its first ten years – explaining why a political tradition that seemed destined for extinction has come to power and is now attempting to change coalition politics in the EU. In doing so, the authors challenge several entrenched assumptions about populist and radical right-wing parties. The Italian edition of the book was reviewed in national newspapers and other media, garnering praise from a wide range of political perspectives. Salvatore Vassallo is Director of the Cattaneo Institute and Professor of Comparative Politics and Public Opinion Analysis at the University of Bologna, Italy. He is Author of Liberiamo la politica (2014, Il Mulino, Bologna), Editor of Sistemi politici comparati (2016, Il Mulino, Bologna), and Co-editor of Il bipolarismo asimmetrico (2023, Il Mulino, Bologna) and “From Mario Draghi to Giorgia Meloni: Domestic Political Change and Management of International Crises” (Contemporary Italian Politics, 2023). Rinaldo Vignati is Research Fellow at the University of Bologna and collaborates with the Research Foundation Carlo Cattaneo Institute, Italy. He has published on politics and film history. He is Co-editor of La prova del No. Il sistema politico italiano dopo il referendum costituzionale (2017, Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli) and Il vicolo cieco. Le elezioni del 4 marzo 2018 (2018, Il Mulino, Bologna) and Author of Indro Montanelli e il cinema (2019, Mimesis, Milano-Udine).
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    ISBN: 9783031518331
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 340 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Communication in politics. ; Language and languages ; Rhetoric. ; World politics. ; Pragmatics.
    Abstract: 1: Self-Staging: Aura and Appearance -- 2: Corruption and Money -- 3: Enemies, Scapegoats, and Conspiracy Theories -- 4: The Establishment, the Elite, and the Experts -- 5: Identity and Negative Myths -- 6: Leadership Style -- 7: Speeches, Lies, and Narrative (Un-)Truth.
    Abstract: “This is a fascinating comparative study. Well written and well researched. I’d thoroughly recommend it”. -Frank McDonough, author of Hitler and the Rise of the Nazi Party and The Hitler Years “This thought-provoking book lets us see Trump as a leader in the authoritarian tradition and reminds us that the playbook Hitler used did not vanish after 1945”. -Ruth Ben-Ghiat, author of Strongmen “By comparing the underlying commonalities between Hitler and Trump, de Berg a way to decode the sway charismatic leaders have on their followers across the ages”. -Peter Pomerantsev, author of How to Win an Information War: Sefton Delmer, the Genius Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler This book compares Trump and Hitler as political performance artists. It explores their populist self-staging and rhetorical strategies and explains how they connected with their respective audiences. It also analyses the two men’s character, work ethic, and management style. In addition, the book addresses seemingly peripheral issues like the reasons behind Hitler’s toothbrush moustache and Trump’s hairstyle. By demystifying Hitler and Trump, the author throws new light on both of them received a Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award and has been translated into three European languages as well as Chinese. Henk de Berg is Professor of German at the University of Sheffield, UK. His previous books include Freud’s Theory and Its Use in Literary and Cultural Studies, which received a Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award. .
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    ISBN: 9783031534911
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXV, 349 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Utopianism
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    Keywords: Intellectual life ; World politics. ; History, Modern.
    Abstract: PART I - THE DECAY OF WESTERN POLITICS: THINKING THE END OF MODERNITY -- Utopia and Time, Mark Featherstone -- Solid and Liquid Modern Utopias: Zygmunt Bauman’s Critical Contribution to Utopia Studies; Michael Hviid Jacobsen -- Ernst Bloch and the Utopia of Law: A Bidimensional Concept of Human Dignity; Lucas Misseri -- Some Key Features of Modern Societies: Capitalism, Forms of Life and Utopia; Dario Altobelli -- New Education as Utopia; Alberto Filipe Araújo and Joaquim Machado de Araújo -- PART II - TO NOWHERE FAST: THE CRISIS OF THE NEOLIBERAL AND THE ACCELERATIONIST POLITICAL PROJECT -- 'If you take it from me, I die; if you leave it, it kills me': The Difficult Relationship Between Utopia and (Neo)Liberalism; Felipe Schwember -- Utopianism Without Hegemony: Liberal Atrophy and the Rise of the Far-Right; Chamsy El-Ojeili and Jack Foster -- Utopia is a Dead End: The Moral Problem of Getting There from Here; Eduardo Fuentes -- Reimagining the University Through Resistance; The Prefigurative Work of Trade Unions and Students’ Unions in Transcending Neoliberal Exploitation; Heather McKnight -- The Utopia of a World Without Borders; Daniel Loewe -- PART III - (POST)SOCIALIST POLITICS WITHOUT CIVIL SOCIETY -- The Russian Revolution as Utopian 'Leap'; Mark Steinberg -- The Utopian Science in a Dystopian Land of Nineteenth-Century Brazil; Eduardo Vasconcelos -- Progress Versus Catastrophe? Utopian Hope in German Marxist Anti-Fascism; Andrew Milner -- Anti-Anti-Utopia for Post-Socialist Times: Fredric Jameson’s An American Utopia in Perspective; Antonis Balasopoulos -- Utopias and Dystopias: Between Violence and Seduction; Alejandra Ríos Ramírez -- PART IV - URBAN GOVERNMENTALITIES AND NEW CITIZENSHIPS -- Socialist Surrealism: Urban Utopias of the Citizens’ Revolution; Japhy Wilson -- The Demise of Professional Utopias: Towards Participatory Urban Imagination; Rachel Kallus -- What Might a Post-Sovereign Polity Look Like On The Inside?; David Thunder -- Making Sense of Fragments: Utopian Prospects for Architecture and Cities Now; Nathaniel Coleman -- Citizenship, Community and Women in Modern Utopias: The Right to the City for Everybody; Julia Urabayen -- PART V - COMMON BEYOND POLIS: ECOPOLITICAL HOPE AS A NEW GLOBAL POLITICAL PROJECT -- Ecosocialism as Utopia; Michael Löwy -- Utopian Ecologies: The Amazonia as Environmental Futurity; Alessandra Santos and Kim Beauchesne -- Engineering Imagined Futures: Community Building Along the Erie Canal; Mark Steven Ferrara -- Food Utopias, Technological Utopianism, Tinkering, Environmental Morality; Paul V. Stock and Matt Comi -- Collaborative is Not Common: The Wonderful and Solipsistic World of Jeremy Rifkin and the Third Industrial Revolution; Jorge León Casero.
    Abstract: This book is both a conceptualization and detailed analysis of the current crisis in which modern utopian categories of political institutions find themselves, as well as a reflection and clarification of the new dangers and opportunities facing post-utopian politics in-the-making. Met with those who believe that no more utopian political projects are possible, the post-utopian movement maintains a non-fantastic or illusory character of being able to apply new great discourses and radically democratic historical narratives, while respecting both the autonomy and emancipation of individuals as plurality and the socio-cultural differences of communities. With this purpose in mind, the book is divided into five thematically differentiated sections: the new utopian categories beyond modern epistemes; the possibility of liberal utopian democracies without neoliberalism; the opportunities of socialist empowerments and insurgencies; the necessity of thinking in the space between two ages; and the urgency to create eco-political post-utopias. Jorge León Casero is Professor at the University of Zaragoza, Spain. He has been the head researcher of the Social Risk Map project. He is the author of several books, book chapters and articles. Julia Urabayen is Professor at the University of Navarra, Spain. In recent years, she has mainly studied public-urban space, forms of political violence, citizenship and the city, as well as governance and feminist utopias. She has published several books, book chapters and articles. .
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    ISBN: 9783031393181
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 279 p. 19 illus., 2 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Theater. ; Theater ; World politics. ; World War, 1939-1945.
    Abstract: Chapter-1: Introduction -- Part One: Dramaturgical Contexts: Institutionalised Ideologies -- Chapter 2 - Institutional Dramaturgy at Deutsches Theater Berlin - Ann-Christine Simke -- Chapter 3 - National Dramaturg Rainer Schlösser and German Theatre after 1933 - Gerwin Strobl -- Chapter 4 - Implementing Germanic Repertoires – Institutional Dramaturgy during WWII - Anselm Heinrich -- Chapter 5 - Brecht’s Performance Theories in Post- war Germany - Ramona Mosse -- Chapter 6 - Cold War Dramaturgies: Institution and Ideology in 1950s German Theatre - Michael Bachmann -- Part Two: Institutional Infrastructures: Theatres of Oppression -- Chapter 7 - Theatre Poznań/Posen (Poland) - Alexander Weigel -- Chapter 8 - Theatre Maribor/Marburg (Slovenia) - Matjaz Birk -- Chapter 9 - Theatre in Prague - Volker Mohn -- Chapter 10 - Theatre in Oslo - Anselm Heinrich -- Part Three: Performance Practice: Dramaturgy and the Aesthetics of War- Chapter 11 - In the Open Air: Shell Shock Theatre - Evelyn Annuss -- Chapter 12 - Berlin – Amsterdam – Westerbork: Revue and the Aesthetics of War: Veronika Zangl -- Chapter 13 - Theatre under the NS regime in Austria: Theatrical activities in Crisis Situations - Brigitte Dalinger -- Chapter 14 - Spanish classical theatre during Third Reich - John London. .
    Abstract: This book examines the institutional contexts of dramaturgical practices in the changing political landscape of 20th century Germany. Through wide-ranging case studies, it discusses the way in which operationalised modes of action, legal frameworks and an established profession have shaped dramaturgical practice and thus links to current debates around the “institutional turn” in theatre and performance studies. German theatre represents a rich and well-chosen field as it is here where the role of the dramaturg was first created and where dramaturgy played a significantly politicised role in the changing political systems of the 20th century. The volume represents an important addition to a growing field of work on dramaturgy by contributing to a historical contextualisation of current practice. In doing so, it understands dramaturgy not only as a process which occurs in rehearsal rooms and writers’ studies, but one that has far wider institutional and political implications. Anselm Heinrich is a Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Glasgow. His books include Entertainment, Education, Propaganda (2007), Theater in der Region (2012), Theatre in Europe Under German Occupation (2017), and a volume on Ruskin, The Theatre, and Victorian Visual Culture (2009). He is currently under contract for a monograph on theatre in Britain during WWII. He has held research fellowships at Harvard, Oxford and Marburg. Ann-Christine Simke is a Lecturer in Performance at the University of the West of Scotland. She recently published the article “Forensic Architecture in the Theatre and the Gallery: A Reflection on Counter hegemonic Potentials and Pitfalls of Art Institutions” (with Anika Marschall, 2022) and is currently under contract for a co-authored (with Anika Marschall) book on intersectional theatre practices.
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    ISBN: 9789819977659
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIII, 293 p. 3 illus., 1 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Middle East ; World politics. ; International relations. ; International trade. ; Internationale Politik ; Nahostkonflikt ; Normalisierung ; Diplomatische Beziehungen ; Politischer Konflikt ; Deeskalation ; Internationales politisches System ; Israel
    Abstract: Part I. International Perspectives -- 1. Introduction: Continuity in Tradition and Reconstruction of the Past: An Analysis of Contemporary Middle East -- 2. On the change in International System: Prospects and pitfalls of Saudi Arabia-Israel Relations -- 3. De-securitizing and Normalizing a Regional Actor: The case of Israel and Abraham Accords -- 4. Israel-Muslim World Relations under China’s Watch -- 5. Africa in the Shadow of Arab – Israel Relations -- 6. Global Protection Force for Palestine -- Part II. Regional Perspectives -- 7. Relations between Tunisia and the Zionist State within a Post-Abraham Peace Accords Context -- 8. GCC-Israel Rapprochement under Abraham Accords: Implications for Israel-Palestine Conflict -- 9. Abraham Accord: Regional Impact on Hezbollah -- 10. Normalization of Relations between Israel and Arab States: An Iranian Perspective -- 11. Israel-Arab Normalization: Reflections from Pakistan -- 12. Periphery Doctrine and Israel Relations with Central Asian States: A Normalized Perspective from Non-Arab Region -- 13. The Arab-Israeli Diplomatic Normalization and its implications for South and Southeast Asian Muslim Countries.
    Abstract: This book focuses on rapprochement and normalisation between Israel and some Arab countries within the context of global and regional geopolitics, bringing together broader perspectives on transformations resulting from this. The analysis is rooted in a historical and cultural construction of the region as an Islamic sphere viewing Israel as a perpetuation of the Western colonial project in the region. It analyses how this normalisation must not be treated as a novel phenomenon, but as a reconstruction of the past and continuity in tradition geared at regional stability, signifying a wider shift in the structure of the global international system. The first section addresses the international perspectives of the changing dynamics through the lens of US domestic politics, disengagement plans, China’s increasing understanding of the geopolitics of the Abrahamic world. It equally pays enough attention to the attendant implications of this normalisation. The second section of the book explores the reflections of regional (state and non-state) actors, such as Turkey, Iran, Syria, Pakistan, and Hezbollah, and the catalysing effects of this normalisation within and beyond the region. The book is a rich resource for scholars of regional and international relations, in particular Middle East studies. It provides useful reading material for both undergraduate and graduate students of Political Science, think tanks, diplomats, and IR experts and policy analysts, who are desirous of having rich theoretical and empirical underpinnings of unfolding realities in the larger Middle East. Bakare Najimdeen is Associate Professor at the Centre for International Peace & Stability (CIPS), Department of Peace and Conflict Studies, National University of Sciences & Technology (NUST), Islamabad, Pakistan.
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    ISBN: 9783031416446
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XI, 266 p. 17 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Music and Literature
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    Keywords: Comparative literature. ; Literature. ; Music ; Culture. ; Civilization ; World politics.
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- Section I: General Perspectives -- “National Anthems in the Nineteenth-Century: Honor Anthems vs. Revolutionary Anthems” -- 2. “What to Sing? Anthems and the Problems of National Building” -- 3. “A Connected History of Republican Anthems: Independence, Decolonization and Nationalism” -- 4. “The Voices of the Nation. The Form and Content of National Anthems” -- 5. “Resounding Nations: Anthems in Europe at War (1936-1945)” -- 6. “Songs of Redemption: A Comparison of the Anthems of European Substate Nationalisms in the Long Twentieth Century” -- Section II Case Studies -- “The National Anthem’s Moment” -- 7. “Globalization of the National Anthem: The Case of Japan and the Japanese Empire in Asia -- 8. “Displaced national anthems: An Example from Iran” -- 9. “Anthems in Schools: Negotiating National and Youth Identities in a Bilingual Florida Elementary School”. .
    Abstract: Music, Words and Nationalism: National Anthems and Songs in the Modern Era considers the concept of nationalism from 1780 to 2020 through anthems and national songs as symbolic and representative elements of the national identity of individuals, peoples, or collectivities. The volume shows that both the words and music of these works reveal a great deal about the defining features of a nation, its political and cultural history, and its self-perception. The book takes an interdisciplinary approach that provides a better understanding of the role of national anthems and songs in the expression of national identities and nationalistic goals. From this perspective, the relationship between hymns and political contexts, their own symbolic content (both literary and musical) and the role of specific hymns in the construction of national sentiments are surveyed. Javier Moreno-Luzón is Professor of Political History at the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain. He is a specialist in the political life of Modern Spain. He has published several books in English including: Modernizing the Nation: Spain during the Reign of Alfonso XIII, 1902-1931 (2012); Metaphors of Spain: Representations of Spanish National Identity in the 20th Century (with Xosé M. Núñez Seixas, eds., 2017); and The Politics of Representation: Elections and Parliamentarism in Portugal and Spain, 1875–1926 (with Pedro Tavares de Almeida, eds., 2017). María Nagore-Ferrer is Associate Professor in Musicology at the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain. Her main area of research is Spanish music in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She is the author of several books, including La revolución coral (2001) and Sarasate, el violín de Europa (2013), as well as numerous articles published in national and international journals.
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    ISBN: 9783031505102
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXII, 288 p. 2 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Utopianism
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    Keywords: Intellectual life ; World politics. ; History, Modern.
    Abstract: PART I - TECHNOPOLITICS -- Comeback to the Forbidden Planet: Dystopia in the Era of Collapse; Andoni Alonso Puello and Iñaki Arzóz -- Unidentified Technical Objects: Not Working, Breaking Laws, Doing Nothing; Eugene Kuchinov and Ivan Spitsyn -- Techno-Naturans Without Terraforming: From the Geoengineering of Mastery to Sympoietic Agency; Jorge León Casero -- Cyberculture, (Dys)Topias and Transformation; Rocío Rueda -- Smart Utopian Cities: Hangovers and Aftermaths; José María Castejón and Enrique Cano -- PART II - POSTHUMANIST BIOPOLITICS -- Post-Apocalyptic Critical Dystopias; Corin Braga -- In the World of Postselves and Posthumans: The Biopolitical Utopia of Postmortalism; Anna Bugajska -- From Utopia to Biopolitical Dystopia: The Creation of New Human Beings in Some Utopias of the Nineteenth-Century; Julia Urabayen -- Between Utopia and Reality (Modern Transhumanism Theories and Posthumanism); Ayazhan Sagikyzy and Anara Asanovna Uyzbayeva -- PART III - NON-WESTERN POLITICS -- Chinese Utopia and Dystopia from Non-Western Point of View; Dmitry Martynov -- Challenging Dystopia with Laughter: Yan Lianke’s Inversion of Political Slogans in Serve the People! (2005); Angela Yiu -- From the Virtuous City to Yūtubiya: A Condensed Account of Utopia Writings in Arabic; Yehoshua Frenkel -- Latin American Modernity and the Historical Role of the Integration Utopia; Juan Pro -- PART IV - MASS MEDIA AND AESTHETIC POLITICS -- The Creative Utopias of Abolitionist Organizing; Rebecca Zorach -- Surveillance and Utopia; Daniel Panka -- Utopias and Dystopias Through Images: The View of the Future in Films and Television Series; Leticia Florez Farfán and Gerardo De la Fuente Lora -- The Way Out is Through: Co-Produced Critical Utopias as Antidotes to Anthropocene Melancholia; Paul Raven -- Phototopia: (Re)Geneating Life from Photographs; Ana Peraica.
    Abstract: This book advocates for the necessity of recovering the value of utopias as political projects that open new channels of action. The criticism of modern political utopias is based on the supposed impossibility of creating for the future because there is no longer a future (apocalyptic ideology). However, this edited collection seeks to show that the post-apocalyptic world in which we live entails a renewed freedom of design for the radical reorganization of institutions. Post-apocalyptic cultures are not obligated to follow the capitalist, anthropocentric, correlationist and sovereign modes of the old political project of emancipation—the Western enlightenment—that has started to collapse. With this in mind, this book is divided into four sections dedicated to the main themes from which to rethink the projects of political emancipation that are possible nowadays: technopolitics; posthumanist biopolitics; non-western politicsl and the crossover between arts and politics. Julia Urabayen is Professor at the University of Navarra, Spain. In recent years, she has mainly studied public-urban space, forms of political violence, citizenship and the city, as well as governance and feminist utopias. She has published several books, book chapters and articles. Jorge León Casero is Professor at the University of Zaragoza, Spain. He has been the head researcher of the Social Risk Map project. He is the author of several books, book chapters and articles.
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    ISBN: 9783031461811
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVI, 291 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Modern Legal History
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    Keywords: Great Britain ; Europe ; Law ; History, Modern. ; World politics.
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2. The 1922 Constitution; Constituting a Polity -- 3. The Partition of Ireland and the 1922 Constitution -- 4. ‘The Supreme Legislative Authority Speaking as The Mouthpiece of the People’: Constituent Power and the Irish Free State -- 5. Opposition to the Constitution of the Irish Free State in 1922 -- 6. The Representative of the Crown and the Governor-General of the Irish Free State: Text and Context -- 7. The National Language and Article 4 of the 1922 Constitution -- 8. A new Constitution; a new language? How the new Courts talked about the Free State Constitution 1922 -- 9. ‘Environmental Stewardship’ and Article 11 of the 1922 Constitution -- 10. The 1922 Constitution as a failed attempt to break with Westminster tradition -- 11. Property Rights and Democratic Decision-Making: Lessons from the 1922 Constitution -- 12. The Civil War, the Constitution and the Collapse of the Rule of Law -- 13. Amending the 1922Constitution: how the process shaped the politics of a new state -- 14. What the drafters learnt in 1937 from the 1922 experience -- 15. The Afterlife of the Constitution of the Irish Free State: Constitutional Echoes in South Asia.
    Abstract: This book deals with the role, development, and legacy of the first Constitution of independent Ireland within the wider context of the establishment of the State. After decades of relative neglect, the 1920s have been receiving increased attention from historians recently thanks to the centenary of the State’s foundation. This book continues this trend of re-examination of this period and looks at key themes, such as the establishment of institutions under the Irish Free State Constitution and the focus on the ideals of popular sovereignty and democracy. It does so from novel and cross-disciplinary perspectives, and it also looks at areas which have received little to no previous attention; from individual aspects like property rights, the Irish language and environmental rights to aspects such as opposition and partition. Laura Cahillane is Senior Lecturer in the School of Law at the University of Limerick, Ireland. Donal Coffey is Assistant Professor in the School of Law and Criminology at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth.
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    ISBN: 9783031461859
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XI, 235 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Sport and Politics
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    Keywords: History, Modern. ; Europe ; World politics. ; Sports
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Sport from above -- Chapter 3. A Swedish invention that conquered the world -- Chapter 4: The development of Swedish sport until the 1930s -- Chapter 5: The development of Swedish sport politics until the 1930s -- Chapter 6. The Social Democrats conquer sport -- Chapter 7: The golden age of sport respectability – the post-war period -- Chapter 8: The golden age of the Swedish sport model -- Chapter 9. The polarisation of sport in the post-industrial era -- Chapter 10: Sport – a political exception?
    Abstract: This book presents a history of Swedish sport, highlighting in particular the relationship between sport politics and people’s changing attitudes towards sport from the eighteenth century until today. It scrutinizes the interaction between sport politics and people’s different approaches to sport in everyday life. By investigating how different ways of pursuing and conceptualizing sport have progressed and interacted, and how they have influenced as well been influenced by sport politics, this book discerns the role of both governmental and municipal politics in the development of sport in Sweden. Jens Ljunggren is Professor of History at Stockholm University, Sweden.
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    ISBN: 9783031494994
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIV, 325 p. 3 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Security, Conflict and Cooperation in the Contemporary World
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    Keywords: Middle East ; Military history. ; Great Britain ; World politics.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Britain, the Middle East, and Oman -- Chapter 3: The Course of the War -- Chapter 4: Coalition Warfare and the International Dimension -- Chapter 5: 'Hearts and Minds' -- Chapter 6: Intelligence and Covert Operations -- Chapter 7: Conclusions.
    Abstract: This book explores Britain’s involvement in the Dhofar War of 1963-1976, focusing on the military aspects of this conflict in Southern Oman. It reveals how both the Conservative and Labour governments in office during this time provided military and security assistance to Oman’s rulers without parliamentary or press scrutiny. Based on archival material and witness accounts, as well as existing secondary source literature and memoirs, this study provides new insights into Britain’s clandestine embroilment in the Dhofar War, an often overlooked but historically significant intervention in the Middle East. This book will be a valuable resource for scholars and students interested in the complex and often controversial history of Britain’s involvement in Middle Eastern politics in the post-colonial period. Geraint Hughes is Reader in Diplomatic and Military History at the Defence Studies Department of King’s College London, teaching at the Joint Services Command and Staff College, Shrivenham, UK. He is the author of Harold Wilson’s Cold War: The Labour Government and East-West Politics, 1964-1970 (2009) and My Enemy’s Enemy: Proxy Warfare in International Politics (2012).
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    ISBN: 9783031569289
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(X, 256 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Modernity, Memory and Identity in South-East Europe
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    Keywords: History, Modern. ; Europe ; Europe ; Intellectual life ; World politics.
    Abstract: Introduction -- Framing the Ottoman nation -- Ottomanism between ideology and realpolitik -- Revolution and disillusion -- Identity policies in action -- Claiming the homeland? -- Reframing the nation -- Conclusion.
    Abstract: This book deals with the complex process of national identity formation in the late Ottoman Empire and early Turkish Republic, during a crucial period characterized by transformative events that reshaped both the state and society. These events included revolutions, wars, mass migrations, ethnic cleansing, genocide, the empire's disintegration, territorial and demographic changes, and the emergence of new states. In the face of these events, a multitude of old and new formulations and imaginings of nation and national identity took shape and interacted with each other. This book focuses on highlighting the diversity of concepts and trajectories that existed during the period and how these played out within a complex web of inclusionary and exclusionary processes, and the various ways in which the nation was constituted and conceptualized.
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    ISBN: 9783031544156
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXIV, 344 p. 24 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Europe ; World politics. ; Social history. ; Collective memory.
    Abstract: “Through a rich account of the conflictual process of naming Nicosia’s streets during the 20th century, this book illuminates the establishment and consolidation of opposing nationalisms in Cyprus from a different angle. Theocharous’ research contributes new, significant empirical knowledge on the symbolic practices within the politics of the ethnic conflict in Cyprus and constitutes a valuable addition to the literatures of ethnic conflict and urban space, the politics of identity, and Cyprus’ studies.” — Dr. Gregoris Ioannou, Reader in Human Resource Management and Organisational Behaviour, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK This book is the first to explore street names and street-naming in the formation of a Greek-Cypriot identity in the cityscape of Nicosia between 1878 and 1975. Rather than treating toponymy as a direct linguistic act of spatial orientation, the book approaches street-naming as a contested practice involving those shared symbols and representations used to depict official history and collective identity as part of a political process. It considers how street names are part of the symbolic politics of space, and how authorities transformed the streets of Nicosia into arenas of struggle for the control of symbolic and material space. It documents historical efforts over the course of a century to impose a ‘geography of forgetting’ to buttress national identity and to cast out the ‘other’ from space — both literally and symbolically — so as to achieve territorial dominance and political legitimacy. The book is another step towards the development of a global perspective on the critical study of street-naming, thereby refining and expanding our knowledge of the political dynamics involved in the process. In their commemorative capacity, street names belong to the politics of public memory and identity. Stella Theocharous is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Heraclitus Research Centre, Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol, Cyprus. .
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    ISBN: 9783031454226
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIII, 207 p. 1 illus.)
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    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Migration History
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    Keywords: Great Britain ; Social history. ; Emigration and immigration ; Race. ; Europe ; World politics.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Scottishness and Foreignness: The Developing Structures, Powers and Capacity of the Scottish ‘Machinery of Government’ before 1939 -- Chapter 3: The ‘Alien’ Concept: The ‘Scottish’ State and Foreignness, 1885-1914 -- Chapter 4: The ‘Alien’ Concept: Foreignness and Scottish State Institutions, 1914-39 -- Chapter 5: Scotland’s Foreigners: Making Identities in Scotland -- Chapter 6: Conclusion.
    Abstract: This book examines the efforts of the government in Scotland to manage the increase of migrants travelling to Britain at the end of the nineteenth century. Focussing on the period between 1885 and 1914, the book explores how the Scottish machinery of government handled the administration of ‘foreigners.’ The author uses a comparative, thematic approach to analyse migrant experiences, identities, and relationships with state institutions. Drawing from state records held by the National Records of Scotland in Edinburgh, the book argues that Scottish officials in semi-autonomous boards began to recognise, describe and enumerate the presence of the ‘foreigner’ in the early twentieth century, framing their handling of foreignness in accordance with the Aliens Act of 1905. The author goes on to explain that institutions operating in Scotland developed a distinctly Scottish approach to alien matters, which continued up until the Second Word War. Therefore, an increasing number of important decisions affecting migrants were taken by a distinctly Scottish machinery of government, impacting on how Scottish officials understood foreignness, and how those identified as foreigners understood their identity in relation to Scottishness. Contributing significantly to current heated debates on migration and identity amongst researchers and the general public in Europe and beyond, this book provides essential insights into the ways in which a ‘sub-state’ began to develop practices, processes and attitudes towards migration which were not always in line with that of the central government. Terence McBride is an Honorary Associate in History at the Open University in Scotland. He has published widely on the migrant experience in Scotland, including articles in Immigrants and Minorities and Historical Research.
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    ISBN: 9783031519475
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXXI, 242 p. 12 illus., 9 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
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    Keywords: Imperialism. ; Africa ; Great Britain ; Finance. ; History. ; Economic history. ; World politics.
    Abstract: 1.Introduction: Colonial South Africa, Mineral Revolutions and Finance -- 2.From Diamonds to Gold: The Rise of Share Dealing in South Africa -- 3.From Market to Exchange: The JSE’s Early Rules, Regulations And Organisation -- 4. Finance, Industry and Information: The JSE and the Chamber Of Mines -- 5.Between Johannesburg, London and Paris: Deep-Level Mining and International Finance -- 6.Finance and Imperialism at The Exchange: The JSE and the Jameson Raid -- 7.A Modernising Exchange and the South African War -- 8. Conclusions.
    Abstract: “Lukasiewicz’s book is a deeply researched study of a financial organisation and its intimate links with British imperialism and South Africa’s settler colonialism." —Stephanie Decker, Professor in Strategy, Birmingham Business School “Lukasiewicz deserves commendation for producing this illuminating study of actors and institutions at the intersection of trans-imperial and global finance and politics.” —Ayodeji Olukoju, Professor of History, University of Lagos This book provides a unique account of the financial and political history of the South African War by analysing the organisation and operations of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE), the oldest existing stock exchange in the African continent. Identifying the JSE as the nexus between international finance, South African gold mining and British imperialism, the book exposes the financial and political connections between Johannesburg, Pretoria, London, and Paris during the final stage of the imperial ‘scramble for southern Africa.’ Gold mining presented the South African Republic (ZAR) and the whole southern African regional economy with a long-term economic future and new prospects of industrialisation. However, this socio-economic transformation was dependent on extensive capital investments and the institutionalisation of a coercive labour regime based on racial discrimination. This monograph provides the first empirical examination of how international finance, imperial politics, and racialised industrial relations became entrenched in a key financial intermediary in colonial South Africa - first in Kimberley in the Cape Colony, and then in Johannesburg in the ZAR. By studying the Johannesburg capital market’s social microstructures, the author demonstrates how colonial and international financial intermediaries underwrote and financed the largest wave of mining investments in Africa prior to the First World War. Filling an important gap in literature on nineteenth-century British imperialism and Anglo-African-Afrikaner relations, this insightful book uses the JSE as a lens to carefully expose the structures and agency of global finance in the outbreak of the South African War, and the making of South Africa as a unified colonial state. Mariusz Lukasiewicz is a Lecturer in African History at the Institute of African Studies, Leipzig University, in Germany.
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    ISBN: 9783031528194
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIV, 218 p. 20 illus., 19 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements
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    Keywords: Social history. ; World politics. ; Collective memory. ; World history. ; History, Modern. ; Civilization
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction; Stefan Berger and Christian Koller -- Chapter 2. Framing the Collective Memory: The Politics of Mobilisations against Hydropower Projects in Maharashtra, India, 1980–2004; Arnab Roy Chowdhury -- Chapter 3. Seeds as a Site for Humanistic Inquiry: Mapping Memory and Movement through ‘Sovereign Forest’; Jawhar Cholakkathodi -- Chapter 4. Constructing the History of Working-Class Neighbourhoods: Communicative and Cognitive Referencing to the Past in Conflicts over Urban Redevelopment in 1970s and 1980s West-German Cities; Sebastian Haumann -- Chapter 5. Memory of Serfdom and the Peasant Rebellion in Lesko Poviat; Michał Rauszer -- Chapter 6. Revolutionary Memory and the Genesis of the State: A Failed ‘Dress Rehearsal’ and a Changed Script in Polish Socialist Movements 1905-1920; Wiktor Marzec -- Chapter 7. Martyrs of the Labour Movement? Commemoration of Protest Casualties in Switzerland; Christian Koller -- Chapter 8. Negotiating the Past: 2009’s General Strike in theFrench Caribbean and the Colonial Past; Christian Jacobs -- Chapter 9. Mind the Gap: Gay Activism and the Remembrance of Gay Victims at the Dachau Memorial Site; Gabriele Fischer & Katharina Ruhland -- Chapter 10. Imoinda in Berlin: Feminists and the Cultural Memory of Slavery After 1848; Sophie van den Elzen -- Chapter 11. Remembering Tolstoyans: The Soviet/Russian Independent Peace Movement in Search of Russian Historical Tradition of Pacifism; Irina A. Gordeeva -- Chapter 12. Spain, Munich, Auschwitz: The Role of Historical Analogies in the Protest Movements in Europe against the War in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1992-1995; Nicolas Philipp Moll -- Chapter 13. History, Memory and the Populist Right in Germany from the Second World War to the Present Day; Stefan Berger.
    Abstract: Reflecting the growing interest of historians in memory studies, this edited collection examines the relationship between memory and global social movements from 1848 to the present. For a long time, there has been little attempt by historians to consider memory and social activism in an integrated, systematic, and comparative way. However, in recent years, scholars have demonstrated that social movements rely on collective memories to assert claims, mobilize supporters, and legitimize their political visions, while also helping to further shape collective memories. This book delves into the synergies between memory studies and social movements, exploring how social movements have been constructing and creating memories of their own activity, how specific landscapes of memory have influenced social movements, and how activists have used memory as a cultural resource to further their own goals and ambitions. The case studies presented cover a range of different types of political activism, including the fights for workers’, gay, feminist, and pacifist rights, as well as ecological, urban, and far-right movements across the globe, portraying the diverse interrelations that exist between social movements and collective memory. Stefan Berger is Professor of Social History and Director of the Institute for Social Movements at Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Germany, as well as Honorary Professor at Cardiff University, UK. He is also Executive Chair of the Foundation History of the Ruhr. He has published widely on the comparative history of social movements, in particular labour movements as well as national(ist) movements, the history of nationalism and national identity, deindustrialisation studies, and memory studies. Christian Koller is Director of the Swiss Social Archives (Zurich), Adjunct Professor of Modern History at the University of Zurich, and part-time Lecturer in Social History at the Swiss Open University. He has published widely on labour history, the history of racism and nationalism, historical semantics, sports history, the history of colonial armies, the First World War, urban history and in the field of archival and library sciences.
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    ISBN: 9783031536779
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(X, 107 p. 6 illus., 5 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: United States ; World politics. ; America ; International relations ; Civilization ; History, Modern.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: 1984 -- Chapter 3: Conclusion.
    Abstract: ‘A very fine, insightful and original analysis that uses Ronald Reagan's landslide re-election year as the lens through which to explore American politics, society and culture in the 1980s. This very engaging, accessible, and well written volume is highly recommended for students of US History and American Studies.’ — Iwan Morgan, Emeritus professor of US Studies at University College London and author of Reagan: American Icon Forty years after Ronald Reagan’s successful re-election campaign, this book explores the significance of the year 1984 in the making of Reagan’s presidential record and the shaping of his legacy. The authors examine the broader context of how Reagan impacted the nature of the US presidency and international relations during the Cold War, and how this in turn interacted with American popular culture. Serving as an introduction to academics, students and the interested public into what is a rapidly increasingly Reagan scholarship, this book will also appeal to anyone interested in US elections, the evolving nature of the US presidency, and American culture more generally. James Cooper is an Associate Professor of History and American Studies at York St John University, in the UK. He was previously a Senior Lecturer in History at Oxford Brookes University, UK, and the twentieth Fulbright-Robertson Visiting Professor of British History at Westminster College, Missouri, USA. In May 2016, James was a Visiting Fellow at the Norwegian Nobel Institute. R. J. Richardson is a Postgraduate Researcher at York St John University in the UK. Her thesis explores the concept of authenticity in historically-set, long-form drama, through the creation and analysis of the opening season of a series set in New York City in 1945 Bailey Schwab is a Postgraduate Researcher at York St John University, in the UK, undertaking a thesis in presidential history between 1981 and 2009. His research explores the concept of foreign policy doctrine and how it is utilised in the critique of presidential leadership in foreign policy. .
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    ISBN: 9783031465611
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VIII, 340 p.)
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    Series Statement: War, Culture and Society, 1750–1850
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    Keywords: Europe ; France ; Military history. ; World politics.
    Abstract: 1. Scandinavia Before 1814 -- 2. Politics in Scandinavia and Europe, 1814-1830 -- 3.Politics, Culture and Nationhood -- 4. Nations and Nationalism -- 5. Years of Revolution, 1848-1849 -- 6. First Schleswig War and the Constitutional Danish Unitary State -- 7. Scandinavia and the Crimean War -- 8. Scandinavia and the Dano-German Conflict, 1858-1863 -- 9. Second Schleswig War, 1864 -- 10. Scandinavism in the Aftermath of War, 1865-1871 -- 11. Perspectives and Conclusions.
    Abstract: “This is a stunning book about Scandinavianism, based on huge archival work, demonstrating that a unification nationalism was close to the success enjoyed by Italy and Germany. Another consideration deserves stark highlighting: this is the most exciting book in nationalism studies to have appeared for many years, offering a novel realist theory of nationalism that destroys many taken for granted assumptions, about the nineteenth century for sure—but with implications quite as much for present circumstances as well.” -John A. Hall, Professor emeritus, McGill This book explores the intellectual grounds of Scandinavianist ideology and its political development into a national unification movement. Denmark, Norway and Sweden were nearly annihilated during the Napoleonic Wars. The lesson learned was that survival was a matter of size. Whereas their union of 1814 offered Sweden-Norway geostrategic security tempered by fear of Russia, Denmark was the biggest territorial loser of the Napoleonic Wars and faced separatism connected to German nationalism in the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein. This evolved into a national conflict that threatened Denmark’s survival as a nation. Meanwhile, a new generation of Danes, Swedes and Norwegians had come to regard kindred language, culture and religion as a case for Scandinavian union that could offer protection against Russia and Germany. When the European revolutions of 1848 unleashed the First Schleswig War, the influence of Scandinavianism was such that it nearly turned into a Scandinavian war of unification. Rasmus Glenthøj is Associate Professor of History at the University of Southern Denmark. Morten Nordhagen Ottosen is Professor of History at the Norwegian Defence University College.
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    ISBN: 9783031465574
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(X, 480 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: War, Culture and Society, 1750–1850
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    Keywords: Europe ; France ; Military history. ; World politics.
    Abstract: 1. Scandinavia Before 1814 -- 2. Politics in Scandinavia and Europe, 1814-1830 -- 3.Politics, Culture and Nationhood -- 4. Nations and Nationalism -- 5. Years of Revolution, 1848-1849 -- 6. First Schleswig War and the Constitutional Danish Unitary State -- 7. Scandinavia and the Crimean War -- 8. Scandinavia and the Dano-German Conflict, 1858-1863 -- 9. Second Schleswig War, 1864 -- 10. Scandinavism in the Aftermath of War, 1865-1871 -- 11. Perspectives and Conclusions.
    Abstract: This book accounts for Scandinavian unification efforts in a time of great upheaval. The ideological repercussions of the European revolutions of 1848-1849 and the Crimean War (1853-1856) transformed both the international political system and nationalism into more ‘realist’ types. The First Schleswig War (1848-1851) having nearly turned into one of Scandinavian unification, the influence of Scandinavianism extended into the Danish, Swedish and Norwegian courts, cabinets and parliaments, attracting interest from the great powers. The Crimean War offered another window of opportunity for Scandinavian unification, before the Danish-German conflict over the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein nearly united Scandinavia upon the outbreak of the Second Schleswig War in 1864. The ultimate failure of Scandinavianism in its unification efforts was not predetermined, although historiography has made it appear as such. Napoleon III, Cavour and Bismarck all actively contributed to plans for Scandinavian unification, the latter even declaring himself as “very strongly Scandinavian”. Rasmus Glenthøj is Associate Professor of History at the University of Southern Denmark. Morten Nordhagen Ottosen is Professor of History at the Norwegian Defence University College.
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    ISBN: 9783031487231
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIX, 184 p. 10 illus., 9 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Political Psychology
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    Keywords: Middle East ; Political sociology. ; World politics. ; Social psychology. ; Religion and politics.
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. On Emotions, Politics and Political Symbols -- Chapter 3. Neo-Ottomanism as an Alternative Narrative of National Identity -- Chapter 4. From Victimization to Omnipotence: The Pathos of Erdoğan as a Constituent Symbol of the Neo-Ottomanist Narrative -- Chapter 5. Istanbul as the Symbolic Space of the Neo-Ottomanist Narrative: Nostalgia, Romanticism and Domestic Imperial Greed -- Chapter 6. Sites of an Islamic desire for homecoming: the Hagia Sophia and Çamlıca Mosque -- Chapter 7. Towards the Construction of a Neo-Ottomanist Myth: The “Legend” of 15 July and National Narcissism -- Chapter 7. Conclusion.
    Abstract: Tokdoğan combines cutting-edge perspectives on symbolic and emotional politics to analyse Neo-Ottomanism as a powerful political narrative under the AKP and Erdoğan, which has transformed the national habitus of contemporary Turkey. Engaging, scholarly and enlightening, this book will be essential reading for scholars of political emotions, nationalism and Turkish politics and society. —Dr. Jonathan G. Heaney, Queens University Belfast The author approaches the challenging period we are passing through with crucial questions. Contrary to theses declaring the end of politics (or history, or the subject), this study draws our attention to new forms and means of politics. —Prof. Aksu Bora, Hacettepe University This open access book explores the politics of emotions under the ruling Justice and Development Party in Turkey and the leadership of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. It examines how emotional politics and, particularly, the use of a Neo-Ottomanist narrative created a new national mood and contributed to the durability of Erdoğan’s rule. The author analyses the interactions between national narratives, symbolic politics and emotions. She argues that these interactions have formed the basis of Erdoğan’s popular support for more than 20 years. The book is a valuable resource for scholars of political science and sociology, as well as policymakers interested in the rise of authoritarianism in Turkey. Nagehan Tokdoğan is a post-doctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development’s Center for the History of Emotions. Her research focuses on the political sociology of emotions, nationalism, conservatism and authoritarianism in Turkey, as well as right-wing extremism, gender studies, and men and masculinities.
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    ISBN: 9789819728831
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(IX, 272 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: World politics. ; Asia ; China ; International relations.
    Abstract: -- Chapter 1 Introduction. -- Chapter 2 Constructivist Theoretical Framework. -- Chapter 3 China as Territorial Empire.
    Abstract: This book presents an original explanation of the stark contrast between two very different Chinese foreign policy patterns. On the one hand, there is Beijing’s hard power actorness related, among others, to territorial disputes and ‘wolf warrior’ intimidating maneuvers. On the other hand, there are China’s peaceful and cooperative actions, well-illustrated by the Belt and Road Initiative. This book shows that this situation is best understood as a consequence of the coexistence of two different Chinese identities respectively associated with the concepts of nineteenth-century-style territorial empire, and twenty-first-century-style postmodern global power. The book contends that in China’s case, they form a virtuous circle—characterized by a specific division of labor—as both identities are instrumental to the construction of a new, Chinese-led international order. The book provides a detailed analysis of the genesis, development, features, and interplay of these identities. It is relevant to scholars in China studies, political history, contemporary politics, and foreign policy.
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    ISBN: 9783031490965
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XV, 338 p. 13 illus., 9 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 3rd ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Elections. ; World politics. ; Comparative government.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Referendums: Theory and History: Matt Qvortrup -- Chapter 2: Europe: Matt Qvortrup -- Chapter 3: Asia: Osbern Huang and Matt Qvortrup -- Chapter 4: North America and the Caribbean: Todd Donovan and Matt Qvortrup -- Chapter 5: Oceania: Kerryn Baker, Caroline Morris, and Matt Qvortrup -- Chapter 6: Africa: Norbert Kersting -- Chapter 7: Latin America: David Altman -- Chapter 8: Switzerland: Uwe Serdült -- Chapter 9: Referendums Around the World: Trends and Tendencies: Matt Qvortrup.
    Abstract: Direct Democracy is inexpensive. The average cost per vote is about USD 10. So, maybe we should have more of them? Before you answer that question, you need to know the facts about this type of complementary democracy. Referendums Around the World, is a complete and comprehensive revision of the 2016 edition of Referendums Around the World, which in turn was an updated version of the 2013 edition, the proposed volume is a comprehensive revision and update of the previous book. The previous edition provided overviews of the history, legal basis, and practice of referendums around the world, with chapters on, Africa, Australia, Asia Latin America, Europe, and a special chapter on Switzerland (the sui generis of referendums). In addition, this third edition offers a completely revised introduction by the editor, a wholly revised concluding chapter by the editor, a special chapter on winning referendums including perspectives from neuroscience, as well as a list of all nationwide referendums held to date. Matt Qvortrup, DPhil (Oxon) is Professor of Political Science and an Adjunct Professor of Constitutional Law at the Australian National University. His books include, A Comparative Study of Referendums (2nd Edition 2005) and Referendums and Ethnic Conflict (2nd Edition 2022).
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    ISBN: 9783031522437
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    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: 9783031582653
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XII, 348 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Abstract: Introduction -- The Architect of State and Nation-Builder -- Political Leadership Understanding Heydar Aliyev through Insights from Charles De Gaulle and Abraham Lincoln -- The removal of Heydar Aliyev from the Politburo -- The Successful Implementation of the Energy Strategy by Azerbaijan as a Small Power to Achieve National Interests -- Secession and Peace Processes The Leadership of Heydar Aliyev -- The Foreign Policy of Heydar Aliyev -- Azerbaijans Relations with Russia during Heydar Aliyev -- Azerbaijan USA relation 1991 to 2003 -- The Evolution of Strategic Relations between Azerbaijan and Israel during the Heydar Aliyev Period -- Bilateral Relations between Azerbaijan and Iran during the Heydar Aliyev Period -- One Nation Two Leaders Foreign Policy of Heydat Aliyev and Suleyman Demirel.
    Abstract: “This groundbreaking study stands as the foremost exploration of Heydar Aliyev’s vision and policies, illuminating the remarkable reconstruction of Azerbaijan and the establishment of its modern state institutions. This is not just a book; it’s a key to unravelling the roots of today’s prosperous Azerbaijani state and society. An essential read for those seeking profound insights into Azerbaijan's journey of transformation.” – Hikmet Cetin, Former Foreign Minister of Turkey. “This book delves into Aliyev’s multifaceted legacy – political, economic, and social. An invaluable resource for academia and the wider audience, it provides crucial insights into the strategically vital country and its international relations, both regionally and with major powers, during a pivotal period in world history.” – Michael B. Bishku, Professor Emeritus of History, Augusta University, Georgia, USA. This edited book examines and analyses Heydar Aliyev, the architect and founder of modern, post-Soviet Azerbaijan. The editors of the volume discuss developments between 1993 and 2003 – a decade that saw the establishment of the institutional foundations of the current republic, the adoption of a new form of national identity, the redefinition of the concept of the Azerbaijani state, and the creation of a security establishment designed to gain control of territories Armenia had held since the 1988-1994 war over Karabakh. The book explains why this fateful period had far-reaching consequences for Azerbaijan as a fully formed state and society, as well as major implications for its political future and its geopolitical strategy. M. Hakan Yavuz is Professor of Political Science at the University of Utah, USA. Michael M. Gunter is Professor of Political Science at Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville, Tennessee, USA. Shamkhal Abilov is Lecturer in the International Relations Department at Baku Engineering University, Azerbaijan.
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    ISBN: 9789819709069
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXI, 462 p. 6 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: IPP Studies in the Frontiers of China’s Public Policy
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    Keywords: World politics. ; Social evolution. ; Oriental literature.
    Abstract: 1. Introduction: Central Themes and a Review of the Literature -- 2. Institutional Approaches to the Cultural Revolution -- 3. State Building and the Reorganization of Institutional Spatial Configurations before the Cultural Revolution -- 4. The System of Citizenship Distribution Before the Cultural Revolution -- 5. The Rise and Fall of the "Old Red Guards" -- 6. The Rise and Fall of the Tsinghua University Jinggangshan Corps -- 7. The Reconstruction of the Regime and the Shanghai Model -- 8. Competing Strategies for Citizenship - The Cultural Revolution in Small Cities -- 9. Radicalization of Factional Competition and Collective Violence -- 10. Collective Violence and Social Order -- 11. The Impact of the Cultural Revolution and the Transformation of Social Movements.
    Abstract: ‘The Cultural Revolution is a challenging research topic in the field of contemporary Chinese studies. The attraction of this book is the introduction of the “citizenship” and “collective violence” concepts to analyze the Cultural Revolution in a political, sociological style. It succeeds in explaining the complex phenomenon of the subject.’ --Mori Kazuko, emeritus professor of Waseda University, Japan 'Yang Lijun examines how the state structured the institutional framework in a way that led groups to compete for their interests by inevitably hurting the interests of other groups. Changes in the leadership also reverberated through this structure in ways that further exacerbated tensions and led to violence. this carefully researched book provides a persuasive lens for viewing the tensions and violence in this critical period of PRC history.’ --Joseph Fewsmith, Professor of Boston University, US 'Yang Lijun’s book develops an interesting institutional approach to the study of factional struggle and escalation of collective violence through this turbulent period of modern Chinese history. It deepens our understanding of the interaction between various factions as well as between factions and the political leadership.' --Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark This book has been groundbreaking for scholars of the Cultural Revolution, but hitherto was only available in Japanese and Chinese. This edition allows English-language readers to access the work for the first time. The author explains how political struggles within the state, competing sectarian interests, and other complex factors intertwined to produce various forms of collective violence that had a major impact on the political, economic, and social order of the time. Yang Lijun is Professor of Sociology at the Institute of Public Policy at South China University of Technology. She studied social changes and movements in contemporary China. Translator Bio Peter Cuthbert is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins University - Nanjing University Center for Chinese and American Studies. He has spent nearly three decades living in China with roles in the government, non-profit, and commercial sectors.
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    ISBN: 9783031580178
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXI, 335 p. 28 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Latin America ; World politics. ; Social history. ; Labor. ; History. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; International relations
    Abstract: 1: The Second World War in Brazilian history: From the background to the forefront -- 2: Total war, international systems, and social change -- 3: Pragmatic nationalism amidst global uncertainty -- 4: “Improving the race”: Tropical eugenics in times of Nazi triumph -- 5: The Estado Novo and the quest for the “Brazilian ethnic type” -- 6: The 1942 Anti-Axis demonstrations: Taking to the streets -- 7: Brazil under the racist gaze of the Allies -- 8: Antifascism and racial democracy -- 9: Soldiers of production and builders of a new country -- 10: Reframing citizenship for a new world order -- 11: “National union” and class struggle -- 12: Patriots at the ballot box -- 13: Conclusion.
    Abstract: “In this groundbreaking work, Alexandre Fortes unpacks the shape-shifting character of Getúlio Vargas’ first government in the context of a ‘long’ Second World War. Examining the nationwide anti-Axis street protests and the massive strike wave driven by rapid wartime industrialisation, Fortes offers an incisive analysis of the class and racial complexities of Brazilian nationalism.” —Andrew Buchanan, University of Vermont, and author of World War II in Global Perspective, 1931-1953: A Short History This book reexamines the socioeconomic and political transformation that occurred in Brazil during the 1940s as a result of the Second World War. Integrating social and political history, the author explores the adoption of new policies around state-sponsored industrialisation, the consolidation of Brazilian labour law institutions, and the expanded influence of ‘racial democracy’ in the country's domestic and foreign policy. The book argues that the nature of the Brazilian state and its definitions of citizenship were redefined both from ‘the top’ – as a result of Brazil’s integration in the new international order following the War – and ‘from below’ - as antifascism and mass nationalism opened new spaces for subaltern agency. Challenging traditional narratives on Brazil’s transition from the Estado Novo dictatorship of Getúlio Vargas to a postwar democratic experience, this book highlights the extent to which political developments were shaped by key global processes and foreign relations with the USA. The book also focuses on the ‘bottom-up’ forces and actors that brought about change in Brazil, emphasising the role of workers, protestors, and popular actors in shaping history. Breaking new ground in Brazilian historiography, this book makes a significant contribution to studies of populism and democratisation in Latin America. Alexandre Fortes is a Full Professor of Contemporary History at the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. Previously, he was a Mellon Visiting Professor in the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Duke University in the USA.
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    ISBN: 9783031545818
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIII, 338 p. 26 illus., 20 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: St Antony's Series
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    Keywords: World history. ; World politics. ; Social history. ; Russia ; Europe, Eastern ; Soviet Union ; Geography. ; Space.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: ‘What, When and Where was Socialist Space?’(Marcus Colla and Paul Betts) -- Part I. Making Socialist Space -- Chapter 2: ‘Visualizing Stalinist Space: The 1951 Geographical Atlas of the USSR for Secondary Schools’(Nick Baron) -- Chapter 3: ‘Room to Experiment: Housing Newlyweds during China’s Early Reform Era’(Jennifer Altehenger) -- Chapter 4: ‘Listening to East Berlin: Can a Soundscape be Socialist?’(Bethan Winter) -- Part II. Globalising Socialist Space -- Chapter 5: ‘Global Bridges, Local Ruins? Re-thinking Socialist Enterprises as Portals of Globalisation’(Anna Calori) -- Chapter 6: ‘The Reordering of Space and References: Eastern European Geologists in Ghana and Nigeria in the 1960-1970s’(Justyna Turkowska) -- Chapter 7: ‘Building the Space of Internationalism: Socialist Assistance to Mongolia in the 1950s-1970s'(Nikolay Erofeev) -- Chapter 8: ‘A World of Their Own: Vietnamese Students in Late SocialistPoland’(Thuc Linh Nguyen Vu) -- Part III. Building, Rebuilding and Destroying Socialist Space -- Chapter 9: ‘Performing Universality: Building Norms and the Circulation of Theatre Architecture in the RSFSR’(Ksenia Litvinenko) -- Chapter 10: ‘A Monument to Friendship: Socialist Modernity and the Reconstruction of Tashkent, 1966-1975’(Marcus Colla) -- Chapter 11: ‘Moscow’s Khrushchevki in Flux: Reflections on the Imminent Demolition of Twentieth Century Socialist Housing’(Ekaterina Mizrokhi) -- Part IV. Epilogue -- Chapter 12: ‘Space Exploration: The Coordinates of History. An Afterword’(Catriona Kelly). .
    Abstract: “This skillfully crafted collection shows both the roominess of socialist space as a category of analysis and also its rich and productive potential. A series of imaginative essays explore socialist spatiality across multiple continents as a dynamic and physically and experientially diverse dimension of twentieth-century history.” —Kristin Roth-Ey, University College London, UK “Utilising the tools of spatial history, this volume impressively brings together geographically diverse and methodologically innovative case studies into a collection that provides rich insights into questions of (im)mobility, locality and border crossing, and hierarchies of internationalism, in the socialist world of the Cold War - from East Asia to the Soviet Union to West Africa.” — James Mark, University of Exeter, UK This edited collection explores the problem of space under socialist regimes in the twentieth century. Bringing together contributions from international scholars with expertise in the architectural, urban, social, and cultural history of twentieth-century socialism, the book includes examples from China, Africa, Mongolia, Eastern Europe, and the USSR. The volume reflects on how developments in the field over the past two decades have altered our understanding of how such spaces were constructed (both literally and discursively), how they could become sites of contested meanings, and how they were perceived outside the socialist world. Moreover, the volume is concerned with how scholarly approaches associated with post-colonialism, global history, gender history, and the ‘temporal’ and ‘sensory’ turns have reconfigured our knowledge of, and approach to, the history of socialist space. Marcus Colla is Associate Professor of Modern European Political History at the University of Bergen, Norway. His first book, Prussia in the Historical Culture of the German Democratic Republic: Communists and Kings, was published in 2022. Paul Betts is Professor of Modern European History at St Antony’s College at the University of Oxford, UK. His most recent works include Ruin and Renewal: Civilising Europe after World War II (2022), and a co-written volume Socialism Goes Global: The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in the Age of Decolonisation (2023). .
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    ISBN: 9783031434747
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XI, 142 p. 14 illus., 7 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: The Evolving American Presidency
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    Keywords: America ; Executive power. ; Political leadership. ; World politics. ; Celebrities.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: The Rise and Presidency of Richard Milhous Nixon -- Chapter 3: The Watergate Crisis -- Chapter 4: What Nixon Did to Us.
    Abstract: “Like Genovese, I’m old enough to remember the Nixon presidency, but most in our country are not. This matters because Richard Nixon was the starting point of a profound, and profoundly dark, trend line in the evolution of the presidency. In this elegant and highly readable book, Genovese draws that line for us. It is no coincidence that in 1987, Richard Nixon penned a letter to Donald Trump saying that if he ever ran for office, he would be ‘a winner!’” — Robert J. Spitzer, Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science, Emeritus SUNY Cortland, Author, The Gun Dilemma (2023) and The Politics of Gun Control (2024) “Carefully researched and elegantly written, this book analyzes how the Nixon presidency and Watergate scandal continue to inform American politics. It is essential reading for understanding challenges to democratic governance in the twenty-first century.” — Meena Bose, Kalikow School Executive Dean and Kalikow Center Director of Presidential Studies, Hofstra University, United States This book examines the Nixon presidency, reviews the events surrounding Watergate and the President’ resignation, and unpacks the effects of Watergate on our politics and public attitudes about the political process. Genovese, a prolific scholar of the American presidency who has published three previous books on Nixon and Watergate, argues that the roots of modern political dysfunction and slash-and-burn politics can be traced to the impact of the Vietnam War, the Watergate Crisis, the policies and activities of the Nixon presidency, and the hyper-partisanship they spawned. Now, 50 years on from the scandal, it is time for a reappraisal of Nixon’s impact and a review of the impact he has had on our political system and political culture. Michael Genovese is President of the Global Policy institute, Director of the Institute for Leadership Studies, and Loyola Chair of Leadership at Loyola Marymount University, USA. He is co-series editor of The Evolving American Presidency.
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    ISBN: 9789819952236
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XI, 634 p. 3 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: China Connections
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    Keywords: China ; Social history. ; World politics.
    Abstract: 1. How did China enter the twentieth Century? -- 2. The Revolution of 1911: Toppled the Autocratic Monarchy -- 3. The establishment of the Northern Warlords -- 4. New thoughts raised by the May Fourth Movement -- 5. The Birth of the Communist Party of China -- 6. National Revolution -- 7. The first few years of the Nanjing government -- 8. The struggle of the workers and Peasants Red Army -- 9. “The Chinese nation is at its most dangerous time” -- 10. The outbreak of the whole nation's war of resistance against Japan -- 11. The war of resistance against Japan entered a stalemate -- 12. When victory is coming -- 13. The Collapse of building a peaceful country jointly and the outbreak of the Civil War -- 14. The national victory of the Democratic Revolution -- 15. China people stand up -- 16. The War to Resist U.S Aggression and Aid Korea -- 17. Large-scale of Social Reform and the Recovery of National Economy -- 18. The establishment of the Basic Socialist System -- 19. Socialist construction advances in twists and turns -- 20. Ten years of turmoil in the Cultural Revolution -- 21. Historic turning point -- 22. Socialism with Chinese characteristics -- 23. Advance bravely in the storm -- 24. Establishing a socialist market economy system -- 25. Walk into New Era. .
    Abstract: With the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation as its central theme, this book presents a panoramic history of the Chinese nation spanning the twentieth century. In their unwavering pursuit of national independence, universal emancipation, and a country of power and shared prosperity, the Chinese people undertook an arduous journey that saw China fundamentally transformed by such historic events and experiences as the overthrow of the imperial system in the 1911 Revolution, the founding of the People’s Republic of China, reform and opening up, and the construction of socialism with Chinese characteristics. Massive in scope, meticulously documented, and rigorously written, this volume has few rivals among general histories of China in the twentieth century.
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    ISBN: 9783031224881
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIV, 419 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Critical Political Theory and Radical Practice
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    Keywords: Political science. ; Critical theory. ; World politics.
    Abstract: Introduction -- Part I: Neoliberal Authoritarianism -- Chapter 1: Terry Maley, Building on Marcuse: An Assessment of the New Phase of Neoliberal Despotism -- Chapter 2: Samir Gandesha, The “Authoritarian Personality” Reconsidered: The Phantom of “Left Fascism” -- Chapter 3: Luca Mandara, Marcuse and the Social Networkers -- Chapter 4: Rodney Doody, The Hedonism and Asceticism of Neoliberal Subjectivity: The Crude Needs of Consumer Capitalism and its Social, Psychological, and Ecological Devastation -- Chapter 5: Christian Garland, Turning Sense Into Nonsense and Nonsense Into Sense: Critical Theory to Refuse the Fallacy of Populism -- Chapter 6: Lauren Langman, Refusals Redux -- Part II: Neoliberalism and Technological Rationality -- Chapter 7: Stefan Gandler, Multiple Subjectivities in Neoliberal Times: Reflections from a Critical Theory in Latin America -- Chapter 8: Haggag Ali, Receptions of Herbert Marcuse’s Critical Theory: A Comparative Approach to Telos and Al Fekr Al Mo’āṣer -- Chapter 9: Wes Furlotte, A Dialectical Critique of Pure Recognition: Settler-Colonialism within Advanced Industrial Canada -- Chapter 10: Nicole K. Mayberry, Color-Blind Racism and One-Dimensionality: Imagining Marcusean Conditions of Freedom Through the Black Radical Tradition -- Chapter 11: Taylor Hines, Artificial Reverie and Administered Negativity -- Chapter 12: Robert E. Kirsch, Reigniting Racket Theory: Horkheimer’s Unfinished Project and Marcuse’s Affinity for American Institutionalism -- Part III: Socialism(s): Still the Proper Response -- Chapter 13: Peter-Erwin Jansen, Human Rights: A Concrete Utopian Concept -- Chapter 14: Charles Reitz, Revolutionary Ecological Liberation: EarthCommonWealth -- Chapter 15: Imaculada Kangussu, 2020: Nature Said, “Stop” -- Chapter 16: Casey Robertson, Marcusean Pathways for Queer Agency through Sonic Conceptions of Noise in the Twenty-First Century -- Chapter 17: James William Lincoln, The Unfreedom of Moral Perception during Occurrent Experience -- Chapter 18: Peter Marcuse, From Reform Politics towards Liberation during the Suicide of Capitalism: Examples from Housing Policy -- Afterword, Douglas Kellner.
    Abstract: This book develops Marcuse’s critique of advanced industrial society and deploys it as a lens to critically analyze contemporary neoliberalism and its structural failures. In the chapters, Marcuse scholars explore three related topics: First, Marcuse’s theory as it applies to the relationship between neoliberalism and authoritarianism, including both the historical relationship between the two and the modern re-emergence of authoritarianism and nationalism in neoliberal states today. Second, a re-examination of the relationship between neoliberal subjectivity and technological rationality that seeks to understand the stabilizing forces of neoliberal society and the way these forces register at the level of thought. Third and finally, Marcuse’s conception of socialism in conversation with contemporary neoliberal rationality, and ways in which alternatives to the status quo remain possible. Together, this volume contributes to recent discussions of neoliberalism and contribute to the development of Marcuse scholarship. Taylor Hines is Assistant Teaching Professor at Barrett, the Honors College at Arizona State University, USA. Peter-Erwin Jansen is a Philosopher and Sociologist who studied with Jürgen Habermas and Axel Honneth at Goethe Universität, Germany, teaches at the University of Applied Sciences in Koblenz, Germany, and studies Holocaust Communication and Tolerance at Touro University in Berlin. Robert E. Kirsch is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Leadership and Integrative Studies at Arizona State University, USA. Terry Maley teaches in the Politics Department and the Social and Political Thought graduate program at York University in Toronto, Canada.
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    ISBN: 9783031332913
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIV, 199 p. 9 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Political Psychology
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    Keywords: Middle East ; Identity politics. ; Political sociology. ; Political science. ; World politics. ; Minderheit ; Kurden ; Internationaler Konflikt ; Politisches Verhalten ; Sozialverhalten ; Politisches Bewusstsein ; Gesellschaftliches Bewusstsein ; Widerstand ; Selbstbild ; Fremdbild
    Abstract: Chapter 1- Introduction -- Chapter 2- An overview of the Turkish-Kurdish conflict narratives and their effects on intergroup relations -- Chapter 3- Understanding the Implications of Victimhood Identity in Turkey’s Kurdish Conflict -- Chapter 4- Collective Identity in Kurds: From Collective Memory of Rights Violations to Rights Consciousness -- Chapter 5- Oath to Death: An Analysis of Sait Kırmızıtoprak’s Contested Memory -- Chapter 6- The other of the other: Syrian refugees from the perspective of Kurdish minority in Turkey -- Chapter 7- From Collective Action to Collective Resistance: Working with the Saturday Mothers -- Chapter 8- Reflexivity and Positionality in Qualitative Research: On Being an Outsider in the Field -- Chapter 9- How did ‘Turkish’ psychology become the mainstream? A discourse analysis on the trajectory of its colonial legacy -- Chapter 10- Conclusion.
    Abstract: Research into Kurdishness touches on many of the important global issues within contemporary social and political psychology - questions about the rigors of methodology, the importance of reflexivity, issues of replicability, and the role of decolonization in research on actors in intractable conflicts. This volume will provide an in-depth account of historical and contemporary research on Kurdishness in Turkey, including research on social identity, conflict and conflict resolution, as well as collective action and resistance. It will also address methodological issues, including fieldwork in conflict zones, reflexivity in research, and intersectionality. This volume also provides lessons from related disciplines such as Kurdish studies and sociology to provide political psychologists some insight into their own research practices from disciplines wherein questions of intersectionality and reflexivity have long been ongoing.
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    ISBN: 9783031499968
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIII, 156 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: International relations. ; Security, International. ; Russia ; Europe, Eastern ; Soviet Union ; World politics. ; Konzeption ; Strategie ; Internationales politisches System ; Position ; Kollektive Sicherheit ; Schwarzmeer-Gebiet
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction - A Geopolitical Matryoshka -- Chapter 2: Russkiy Mir: Socio- Cultural Cognitive Framing of Russian Foreign Policy -- Chapter 3: Wind of Change: Russian Foreign Policy in a Multipolar World -- Chapter 4: Enemy at the Gates: NATO In The Black Sea -- Chapter 5: Socio-Economic Warfare with the “Collective West” Starts in the Black Sea -- Chapter 6: Nothing New on The Easter Front: Russkiy Mir in the Black Sea.
    Abstract: This distinctive book deconstructs the foundational elements of Russian foreign policy from a Russian perspective and with references to Russian sources, rather than the typical Western perspective. The author Olga Raluca Chiriac situates her work at the intersection of strategic studies and cognitive psychology, offering an analysis that goes deep into the roots of Russian strategic behavior, especially socio-cultural elements such as attitudes towards the West, language, culture. She highlights Russia’s unique decision-making process, sometimes overt and other times covert. The book aims to present a mechanism for analysis in both strategic choices and foreign policy, but it also points out that countries and nations are complicated entities, all having a particular historical experience, generational trauma, culture and traditions. Dr. Olga R. Chiriac is a social scientist and professor of political science. Her work is situated at the intersection of psychology and security studies (decision making and strategic culture) with a special interest in military applications of cognitive sciences and political warfare. Dr. Chiriac is the Project Europe Head of Engagement with the Irregular Warfare Initiative of the Modern War Institute, at West Point and Visiting Professor at the University of Bucharest where she leads engagement for the Black Sea Program. She is affiliated as an Associated Researcher with the Joint Special Operations University in Tampa, Florida and the Economic Conflict & Competition Research Group (ECCRG) at Kings College.
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    ISBN: 9783031387234
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XXIX, 585 p. 82 illus., 57 illus. in color.)
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    Keywords: Economic history. ; World politics. ; Latin America ; Economic development. ; Development economics. ; Latin America ; Economic History ; Political History ; Latin American History ; Latin American Economics ; Latin American Development ; Development Studies ; Latin American Studies ; Caribbean Studies ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Latin American economic history in the light of the recent economic cycles -- Chapter 3: The Making of Mexico: The Political Economy of Conquest and Independence -- Chapter 4: Checks and Balances in the Colonial Government of Peru: Evidence from Office Prices -- Chapter 5: Attached once, attached forever: The persistent effects of concertaje in Ecuador -- Chapter 6: Public Education and Indigenous People in Bolivia, 1880’s-1950’s -- Chapter 7: The Age of Mass Migration in Argentina: Social Mobility, Effects on Growth and Selection Patterns -- Chapter 8: European Immigration and Agricultural Productivity in Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1898-1920 -- Chapter 9: Modernizing Elites in Latin America: Social-network Evidence from the Emergence of Banking in Antioquia -- Chapter 10: Colombia: Democratic but Violent? -- Chapter 11: Political Conflict and Economic Growth in Post-Independence Venezuela -- Chapter 12: The Plantation Economy of Surinam in the 18th Century -- Chapter 13: The Legacy of the Pinochet Regime -- Chapter 14: Missionaries and Soldiers in the Forging of Modern Paraguay -- Chapter 15: Uruguay: the Rise of a Monocentric Economy -- Chapter 16: The Lasting Development Impacts of El Salvador’s 1980 Land Reform -- Chapter 17: Global Firms and Local Development -- Chapter 18: Protestant Doctrinal Heterodoxy and Heterogeneity in Guatemala -- Chapter 19: The Expansion of Public Education in Puerto Rico after 1900 -- Chapter 20: Conclusion: Historical Persistence, Possibilism and Utopias in Latin America and the Caribbean.
    Abstract: “How can it be that Latin America is so poor when its governments over the past two centuries have experimented with just about every known model of economic development? Read this book and learn how a new generation of Latin Americanist social scientists, using frontier empirical methods and systematically gathered data, provide an answer based on the region’s social and political organization since the 16th century.” —Stephen Haber, A.A. and Jeanne Welch Milligan Professor, School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford University “A phenomenal synthesis with new insights on the roots of Latin American political economy. A vital read to grasp the origins of macroeconomic management and populism, the stubbornly high inequality, and social tensions.” —Elias Papaioannou, Professor of Economics, London Business School “This fantastic new book maps the latest and most interesting methodological advances in the fields of historical economics and historical political economy onto the history of Latin America. The result is a fascinating new understanding of the persistent effects of historical phenomena in the region – including institutional and cultural changes – on each country’s path to development and economic prosperity, or lack thereof.” —Alberto Bisin, Professor of Economics, New York University This book brings together world-renowned experts and rising scholars to provide a collection of chapters examining the long-term impact of historical events on modern-day economic and political developments in Latin America. It, uses a novel approach, stressing empirical contributions and state-of-the-art empirical methods for causal identification. Contributing authors apply these cutting-edge tools to their topics of expertise, giving readers a compendium of frontier research in the region. Important questions of colonialism, migration, elites, land tenure, corruption, and conflict are examined and discussed in an approachable style. The book features a conclusion from Alberto Diaz-Cayeros, Director of the Center for Latin American Studies at Stanford University. This book is critical reader for scholars and students of economic history, political science, political economy, development studies, and Latin American, and Caribbean studies. Felipe Valencia Caicedo is Assistant Professor in the Vancouver School of Economics at the University of British Columbia, Canada, and a Research Affiliate of CEPR. His primary research interests are in economic history, development economics, and economic growth, with an emphasis on Latin America.
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    ISBN: 9783031315312
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XI, 309 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Culture and Human Rights
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    Keywords: Law—History. ; Comparative literature. ; Literature. ; World politics. ; Drama. ; Law
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction: Slavery and the Forensic Theatricality of Human Rights in the Spanish Empire -- Part I: Slavery, Theatricality and Human Rights in the Spanish Empire -- Chapter 2: Slavery and Human Rights in the Spanish Empire -- Chapter 3: Allegorical Theatricality: Horror and Human Rights in Bartolomé de las Casas’ Atrocity Story A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies -- Part II: Comic Modes of Theatricality and Human Rights in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth Century Spain -- Chapter 4: Carnivalesque Theatricality: Defeat, Revenge and Collective Rights in Micael de Carvajal’s Court of Death and the Tragedy of Atawallpa’s Death -- Chapter 5: Tragicomic Theatricality: Forensic Presentism and a Dual Vision of Rights in Lope de Vega’s The New World Discovered by Christopher Columbus -- Part III: Tragic Modes of Theatricality and Human Rights in Nineteenth Century Cuba -- Chapter 6: Melodramatic Theatricality: Tableaux of Natural Rights and Interracial Solidarity in Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda’s Sab -- Chapter 7: Tragic Theatricality: Vulnerability and Rights in Juan Francisco Manzano’s Autobiography of a Slave and Zafira -- Chapter 8: Epilogue: Forensic Theatricality and Human rights .
    Abstract: This book is a study of the forensic theatricality of human rights claims in literary texts about slavery in the sixteenth and the nineteenth century in the Spanish Empire. The book centers on the question: how do literary texts use theatrical, multisensorial strategies to denunciate the violence against enslaved people and make a claim for their rights? The Spanish context is particularly interesting because of its early tradition of human rights thinking in the Salamanca School (especially Bartolomé de Las Casas), developed in relation to slavery and colonialism. Taking its point of departure in forensic aesthetics, the book analyzes five forms of non-narrative theatricality: allegorical, carnivalesque, tragicomic, melodramatic and tragic. Karen-Margrethe Simonsen is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Aarhus University, Denmark. .
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    ISBN: 9783031276774
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIII, 259 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: Religion—History. ; Culture—Study and teaching. ; Theology. ; Religion and sociology. ; World politics. ; Religion and politics. ; Religion ; Culture
    Abstract: 1. Crisis and Reorientation – Introduction -- 2. Karl Barth’s Performative Theology: Context and Rhetorics in Der Römerbrief 1922 -- 3. “As a tangent touching a circle”: Karl Barth and dialectical theologians rethinking time after 1918 -- 4. Prophecy as a political–theological category in Barth’s Römerbrief? -- 5. From Answers to Questions: Barth and Thurneysen on Dostoyevsky -- 6. The Positive Role of Culture in Barth and Tillich’s Discussion of the Paradox in 1923 -- 7. An Apocalyptic Tone: Karl Barth’s Der Römerbrief between neo-Kantian and hermeneutic paradigms of orientation -- 8. Revisiting the crisis theology of Karl Barth in light of Søren Kierkegaard in a new time of crisis -- 9. The Voice of the Preacher: Literary and Rhetorical Aspects of Der Römerbrief -- 10. A Literary Reception of Karl Barth’s Römerbrief: On Barthianism in John Updike’s Roger’s Version -- 11. “Theology After Gulag and Beyond”: How Can Karl Barth’s Theology Contribute to Reorientation in the Contemporary European Crisis? A post-Soviet Case.
    Abstract: This book uses Karl Barth’s Der Römerbrief (1922) as a prism through which to explore the role of religion and its interactions with cultural and political thought in the turbulent interwar period in Europe. One of the most influential books in twentieth-century protestant theology, Der Römerbrief found Barth arguing that the crisis of the time was grounded in an even more profound crisis that pertained to the human condition as such. While much research has been conducted on Der Römerbrief, most of it has focused on the book’s explicit theology. The aim of the present volume is to mark the centenary of this seminal book with a broader investigation into the movements of thought within Der Römerbrief and its reception and impact within its cultural and intellectual context. This broader approach by a range of Northern European researchers brings attention to interconnections between cultural and theological movements in times of crisis. Christine Svinth-Værge Põder teaches Systematic Theology at the Univeristy of Copenhagen, Denmark. She is the author of Doxological Hiddenness. The Fundamental Theological Significance of Prayer in Karl Barth’s Work, (2009), and editor of Mellem tiderne - fem dialektiske teologer, (2015). Sigurd Baark teaches Systematic Theology at the Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He is the author of The Affirmations of Reason: on Karl Barth’s Speculative Theology (2018). .
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    ISBN: 9789819944279
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VI, 81 p. 1 illus.)
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    Keywords: World politics. ; World history.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introductions: the Dynamics of World History -- Chapter 2: Review of Kumar's Empire -- Chapter 3: Review of Volume I of the Oxford World History of Empire: Theory -- Chapter 4: Review of Volume II of the Oxford World History of Empire: Storylines -- Chapter 5: Review of Olstein, Thinking History Globally -- Chapter 6: World History and the Chinese World View: Review of Fan and Ford -- Chapter 7: Conclusions.
    Abstract: This book provides an analysis of the latest research findings in the field of world history, and includes terse articulations of modernity vis-à-vis empire. In doing so, the author brings together insights from both the disciplines of history and international relations into world systems, emphasising economic aspects, and offering a road map for the evolution of the field of world history. The book achieves this by critically analysing the works of Peter Fibiger Bang, Christopher Alan Bayly, Walter Scheidel, Krishnan Kumar, Xin Fan, Christopher A. Ford and Diego Olstein. The author includes discussions such as how the Roman empire impacted all subsequent Western empires, both early and modern, and current debates in world history and politics such as China’s rise. Niv Horesh is Affiliate Temporary Member at the Louis Freiberg Center for East Asian Studies, at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. A China specialist, he has over 20 years of experience ranging across the private sector, public service and academe. Over the course of his academic career, Niv has held teaching and research positions at, China Agricultural University, the University of New South Wales, Western Sydney University, and the University of Nottingham (UK). Niv’s research incorporates four main strands in the following order: Chinese History, World Monetary History, PRC Political Economy, and PRC Foreign Policy with emphasis on the Middle East.
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    ISBN: 9783031324727
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXIII, 420 p. 11 illus., 8 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Political Leadership
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    Keywords: Europe—Politics and government. ; Political leadership. ; Political planning. ; World politics. ; Legislation. ; Europe
    Abstract: Introduction: The May Premiership.-Part I: Electoral Issues. Chapter 1.The Conservative Leadership Election of 2016.Chapter 2. I’m Not Going to Call a Snap Election’ – Theresa May and the 2017 General Election -- Chapter 3. Attempting to Secure a Sympathetic Press: May and the Media -- Part II: Policy Implementation. Chapter 4. Miscalculations and Constraints: Brexit and the Failed Statecraft of Theresa May -- Chapter 5. Foreign Policy -- Chapter 6.‘An Economy That Works for Everyone’? An Evaluation of The May Government’s Economic Policies and Statecraft -- Chapter 7. Theresa May and Mental Health Policy: A Legacy Unfinished? -- Chapter 8. Theresa May, Statecraft, and the Environment -- Chapter 9. Friends and Allies? Theresa May and the DUP -- Chapter 10. Race Relations Policy -- Part III: Political Debates. Chapter 11. Theresa May’s mode of Conservatism: ‘soft’ One Nation Toryism -- Chapter 12. From Workers on Company Boards to Representatives of ‘Workers Voices’: Explaining May’s Failed ‘One Nation’ Industrial Policy -- Chapter 13. Theresa May as a Political Leader -- Chapter 14. Women political leaders are all feminists, aren’t they? Theresa May and Feminism -- Chapter 15. Theresa May and LGBT Equality -- Chapter 16. Theresa May and Religion – The Vicar’s Daughter in Downing Street -- Chapter 17. Theresa May and the Constitution: A Failure of Statecraft -- Chapter 18. Theresa May and Britishness: Towards a Psychological Dimension of Statecraft -- Chapter 19. Theresa May’s Team: Statecraft and the Cabinet -- Conclusion: Statecraft, Policies, and Politics of Prime Minister Theresa May.
    Abstract: “Theresa May’s short-lived Premiership is a cautionary tale for politicians. These authoritative and compelling essays provide fascinating insights into why it unfolded and ended as it did, while also pinpointing May’s strengths and achievements as a political leader as well as her weaknesses and failures. It is an important addition to our understanding of this Prime Minister and the contemporary Conservative party.” —Andrew Gamble, Professor and Chair in Politics, University of Sheffield, UK “This important volume brings together senior and emerging scholars to provide a critical and comprehensive evaluation of Theresa May’s premiership. Highly readable, engaging, informative and comprehensive, this book is a must-read for anyone interested in contemporary political history and learning more about a prime minister who was frequently misunderstood.” —Rainbow Murray, Professor of Politics, Queen Mary University of London, UK This book examines the statecraft of former UK Prime Minister, Theresa May as a means of deconstructing her leadership of the United Kingdom. Alongside the inescapable issue of Brexit that dominated her Premiership, it takes a wider view of her record in government by looking at how and why she stood for the leadership of the Conservative Party; scrutinizes her approach to economic, social, and foreign policy; interrogates her attitudes towards Northern Ireland and the DUP; and her longstanding records on race relations, LGBT+ issues, and feminism, as well as more traditional concerns such as faith, constitution, and Britishness. This volume is the first of its kind to adopt such a systematic approach in its evaluation of May’s leadership. Andrew S. Roe-Crines is Senior lecturer in British Politics in the Department of Politics at the University of Liverpool, UK, and the author of several academic journal articles on political rhetoric/oratory, alongside his most recent books Corbynism in Perspective: The Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn (2021) and (with P. Dorey & A. Denham) Choosing Party Leaders: Conservative and Labour Party Compared (2020). David Jeffery is Senior Lecturer in British Politics in the Department of Politics at the University of Liverpool, UK, and is the co-editor (with S. Farrall and A. Mullen) of Thatcherism in the 21st Century: The Social and Cultural Legacy (Palgrave, 2020). He is the author of Whatever Happened to Tory Liverpool? (2023), as well as the author of several journal articles in leading academic journals.
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    ISBN: 9783031156526
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VIII, 175 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: Intellectual life—History. ; Middle East—Politics and government. ; Communication in politics. ; World politics. ; Intellectual life ; Middle East
    Abstract: 1. Introduction: The AKP’s Intellectual Order and Political Technology in Comparative Perspectives -- 2. Quasi-liberal Intellectuals as AKP Apparatchiks: The Second Republic, White Turks, and Other Apologetics -- 3. Islamism, Populism, and Nativism: A Syncretic Brand -- 4. Popular Culture and Conspiracy: Managing the Political Entertainment Scene -- 5.The Rise of Politico Intellectuals: Think Tanks, and the Operators of Political Technology -- 6. Allies: The AKP-MHP Coalition and the Defense Intellectuals -- 7. The State of Turkish Universities during the AKP Rule -- 8. Historians, Ottomanphilia, Perennial Islam, and Contested National Identity in an Era of Cultural War.
    Abstract: This book analyzes how AKP’s embedded intellectuals operate as media spin doctors, exploring their transformation from passionately engaged intellectuals into apparatchiks. This project adapts a post-Soviet geography approach to the media, intelligentsia, and political discourse as derivative of authoritarian regimes to the Turkish context. It offers a fresh look at the Turkish political and intellectual scene and a comparative study of the populist-authoritarian politics of Turkey. Situated in the literature on the post-Soviet authoritarian regimes and their ways of governing, as well as their manipulation of public opinion, the book analyzes AKP-aligned intellectuals as apparatchiks. Gürpınar explores the different constellations of pro-AKP intellectuals vindicating the AKP regime from various angles, including: liberal/progressive intellectuals who initially supported the party for its liberal vistas but continued their support by twisting their progressive rhetoric; Islamist intellectuals blending their Islamism with populism; and national security intellectuals who joined after the AKP came to propagate a national security agenda. The book also provides an overview of the mechanisms of political technology, including the media landscape and its running by the AKP, intellectuals themselves as operators of political technology, and the problem of “cultural power.” The book will be of interest to those studying comparative authoritarian politics, populism, political communication, and scholars of Middle East and Eastern Europe. Doğan Gürpınar is an associate professor at Istanbul Technical University (İTÜ). He has published three books in English: Ottoman/Turkish Visions of the Nation, 1860–1950 (2013), Ottoman Imperial Diplomacy (2014), and Conspiracy Nation: Conspiracy Theories in Turkey (2019).
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    ISBN: 9783031240560
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XV, 123 p. 3 illus., 2 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 2nd ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: America—Politics and government. ; Communication in politics. ; Political science. ; World politics. ; America
    Abstract: Chapter 1: The Disrupting of Mobile Communication -- Part One: Mobile Digital Technology Disrupts the News Media Industry -- Chapter 2: Disrupting Journalism -- Chapter 3: Information Literacy In a Mobile World -- Part 2: Digital Mobile Media Disrupts Consumption of News -- Chapter 4: “Fake news” in a mobile world -- Chapter 5: News Deserts -- Part 3: Digital Mobile Technology Disruption of Electioneering -- Chapter 6: A New World of Campaigning -- Chapter 7: Polarizing Media, Polarizing Politics -- Part 4: Digital Mobile Media Disrupting Democracy -- Chapter 8: Negative Partisanship -- Chapter 9: The Media and the American Voter.
    Abstract: “This is an impressive book that threads the technology of disruption through a comprehensive assessment of historical and recent changes in media communications. In Communicating Politics Online, Chapman Rackaway raises timely questions about what these changes mean for American politics and democracy, including news coverage, political polarization, voting behavior, and the tribal mentality of the digital world.” —Matthew Eshbaugh-Soha, University of North Texas, USA This second edition explores the relationship between politics and media, with a particular emphasis on the significant disruptive changes to media and technology that have faced journalists, campaigners, and the public in recent years. The first edition, in 2014, described the earliest elements of social and online media: Web 2.0, the ‘information economy,’ and the changes from traditional broadcast media to the early online world. With the rise of TikTok, the ‘fake news’ claims of Donald Trump, the decline of local news, and the anti-democratic impulses that drove the January 6, 2021 coup attempts, the last decade has provided a rich and sometimes confounding set of disruptions to political communication that deserve attention. Technology has disrupted political communication in the online environment exceptionally quickly over the last decade, and this book provides a framework for understanding the intersections of these disruptions and their effect on an already-fragile democratic circumstance in the United States. Chapman Rackaway is Chair and Professor of Political Science at Radford University, USA.
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    ISBN: 9789811985829
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIII, 200 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: Asia—Politics and government. ; Japan—History. ; Education—History. ; World politics. ; World history. ; Education and state. ; Asia ; Japan ; Education
    Abstract: 1. Religion and Education in Pre-war Japan: Building a New Identity and Suppressing “Dangerous Thoughts” -- 2. The GHQ’s Initial Reforms: The Dismantling of Japan -- 3. General Headquarters (GHQ) vs. Japanese Communist Party -- 4. University Reform -- 5. Communism in Universities.
    Abstract: This book documents Japan's psychological deterioration caused by its defeat in August 1945. Also, Japan’s traumatic transformation from authoritarianism to democracy is detailed. The study exposes an ideological war between the Soviet Union and the USA within American-occupied Japan, which triggered violent polarization among the Japanese. Under General MacArthur’s tutorage, the defeated Japanese were expected to become a peace-loving people, but the Cold War derailed Japan’s progress toward freedom and democracy. The “Red Purge,” instituted by MacArthur's Headquarters (GHQ) from 1949 to 1950, triggered the devastating side effects on Japan's academic freedom and freedom of speech. Stanford University Professor Dr. Walter C. Eells (1886–1962) served at the GHQ as an influential education adviser and became the most vocal advocate of the Red Purge. Japanese Marxist historians have constructed the popular postwar narrative of the Red Purge, blaming the GHQ for every failure. The vast archival materials, including the GHQ papers, Eells papers, and Japanese-language documents, revealed that the Red Purge was a serious propaganda battle between the Americans and the Soviets in a war-torn Japan. This propaganda war engendered the violently polarized political climate, in which the conservative Japanese government behaved according to the dictates of US Cold War policy. By revealing feverish tensions within the GHQ regarding communist influences in Japanese universities, this study sheds bright new light on the Red Purge and its lasting impact on Japan's political future.
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    ISBN: 9783031209284
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXV, 315 p. 11 illus., 10 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Gender, Development and Social Change
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    Keywords: Economic development. ; World politics. ; Ecology . ; Animal behavior.
    Abstract: 1. Sketching out the contours -- 2. Confronting the coloniality of climate: Weaving reflections on extractivism through feminist political ecology -- 3. Extracting Us: Co-curating creative responses to extractivism through a feminist political ecology praxis -- 4. Ouch! Eew! Blech! A trialogue on porous technologies, places and embodiments -- 5. Aging and feminist political ecology -- 6. More-than-human co-becomings: The interdependencies of water, embodied subjectivities and ethics -- 7. Meanings and practices of care in feminist political ecology: An intergenerational conversation with Khayaat Fakier and Wendy Harcourt -- 8. Caring communities for radical change: What can feminist political ecology bring to degrowth? -- 9. Perspectives on decoloniality for feminist political ecology -- 10. Emotions and conflict: Debating population in and beyond feminist political ecology -- 11. La Mercadita 2050: Telling tomorrows of a market after oil -- 12. The territory of our own body: A conversation on urban environments in the Andes. .
    Abstract: This open access book sets out the contours of feminist political ecology (FPE) as a major contribution to ongoing debates in the field. In an innovative methodological twist, the edited book engages the reader in conversations that have emerged from the multi-sited and cross-generational dialogues of the Well-Being Ecology Gender cOmmunities (WEGO) network over the last four years. The conversations explore topics that range from climate change and extractivism, to body politics and health, degrowth, care and community well-being. The authors reflect on their collective learning process as they map out the new directions of FPE research and analysis. The chapters highlight WEGO transnational/transdisciplinary conversations with local communities, social movements and different academic spaces. The book foregrounds the ethics of doing feminist work inside and outside academe and brings to life the importance of doing reflexive research aware of situated historical and contemporary geographical contours of power. Wendy Harcourt is Professor of Gender, Diversity and Sustainable Development at the International Institute of Social Studies of the Erasmus University Rotterdam in The Hague, The Netherlands and was Coordinator of the WEGO Innovative Training Network (2018-2022). Ana Agostino is Lecturer at the Faculty of Culture at the University CLAEH, Uruguay, and at FLACSO. Rebecca Elmhirst is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Brighton, UK. Marlene Gómez is PhD candidate of the WEGO Innovative Training Network at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. Panagiota Kotsila is ‘Juan de la Cierva’ Fellow at the Institute for Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA), at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain, and Coordinator of the Political Ecology research line at the Barcelona lab for Urban Environmental Justice and Sustainability (BCNUEJ). .
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    ISBN: 9789811976810
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 237 p. 12 illus., 10 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: World politics. ; Anthropology. ; Mass media and culture. ; International relations.
    Abstract: Chapter 1:Interpreting the Cold War and the New Cold War in Asia -- Chapter 2: Curating Memory: Cold-War Narratives in Museums and Memorials in Taiwan, Vietnam, South Korea, And Cambodia -- Chapter 3: Ecology as a Cold-War Scale: Lau Kek Huat’s Absent Without Leave and Ha Jin’s War Trash -- Chapter 4: Where is My Homeland? Mainland Chinese Refugees and Hong Kong Tenement Films during the Cold-War Era -- Chapter 5: Grand Strategies and Everyday Struggles under the New Cold War and COVID-19: A Sociological Political Economy -- Chapter 6: The Cold-War Structure of Feeling: Revisiting the Discourse of “Dalumei” (Mainland Little Sister) in Taiwan -- Chapter 7: China’s Health Diplomacy in the “New-Cold-War” Era: Contrasting the Battle of Narratives in Europe and the Middle East and North Africa -- Chapter 8: Hungary and the New-Cold-War Narrative on China -- Chapter 9: Haunted History: Exorcizing the Cold War.
    Abstract: This collection of essays marks the 30th anniversary of the historic Cold War’s formal conclusion in 1991. It enriches Cold War studies—a field dominated by Political Science, International Relations, and History—with insights from Sociology, Anthropology, Cultural Studies, and Film and Media Studies. Through critical analysis of films, television shows, novels, newspaper and magazine articles, tourist souvenir shops, art exhibits, museums, and other commemorative sites that engage with the themes of conflict, violence, trauma, displacement, marginalization, ecology, and identity, the book provides rich and diverse perspectives on the complex relationship between the historic Cold War and its legacies on the one hand and, on the other, their impact on Asia, its plural histories and peoples, and their shifting ideological beliefs, narratives of identity, and lived experiences. Today, we often speak of an “Asian century” and witness intensifying concerns over a “New Cold War”. A United States in decline and a China on the rise create conditions for a new superpower rivalry, with a trade and tech war already being fought between the two competitors. As grand narratives and strategies of the Cold War jostle to make sense of high-level geopolitical events, this book descends to the level of lived experience, zooming in on ordinary and marginalized peoples, whose lives and livelihoods have been affected over the decades by the Cold War and its legacies. Kenneth Paul Tan is a tenured Professor of Politics, Film, and Cultural Studies at Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU), which hired him under its Talent100 initiative. His recent books include Movies to Save Our World: Imagining Poverty, Inequality and Environmental Destruction in the 21st Century (Penguin, 2022), Singapore's First Year of COVID-19: Public Health, Immigration, the Neoliberal State, and Authoritarian Populism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), Singapore: Identity, Brand, Power (Cambridge University Press, 2018), and Governing Global-City Singapore: Legacies and Futures After Lee Kuan Yew (Routledge, 2017).
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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: 9783031271403
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XX, 325 p. 26 illus., 22 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: Africa—Politics and government. ; Elections. ; Identity politics. ; Communication in politics. ; World politics. ; Sociolinguistics. ; Africa
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction: The Electoral terrain in Zimbabwean politics -- Section A: Electoral environment in Zimbabwean politics -- Chapter 2. Electoral bickering: Reforms, transparency and credibility of Zimbabwean elections -- Chapter 3. Cordoning off the debris of Electoral Violence and Generative Hegemony in Zimbabwean Politics: Spying on the 2023 Harmonised Elections -- Chapter 4. The semiotics of political schisms and prospects of nation-rebuilding: “Varakashi 4ED” and the “Terrorists” -- Chapter 5. Voting: bliss or blisters? The Zimbabwean experience -- Chapter 6. Shifting the Voting Burden to Others: Abstainers and Turn Outers in Zimbabwean Elections. -- Section B: Language, politics and elections in Zimbabwe -- Chapter 7. The interaction of language and politics: Polysemanticism in the aphorism ‘we died for this country, so we will rule Zimbabwe forever.’ -- Chapter 8. Stoking the Flames of Hate language and Conflict ahead of Zimbabwe’s 2023 Polls -- Chapter 9. Hate Speech and the Electoral Processes in Zimbabwe -- Chapter 10. The “New Old Dispensation”: A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Selected ZANU (PF) Leadership Speeches in Post-Mugabe Era and Implications on Zimbabwe`s Electoral Process -- Chapter 11.ChiShona language, a tool in winning political support during campaigning: A case of Buhera South in Zimbabwe -- Chapter 12. Political poetic/ theatrical campaigning pieces in indigenous languages in rural communities: The case of Bikita district in Masvingo, Zimbabwe -- Section C: Electoral institutions and human rights in Zimbabwean politics -- Chapter 13. Adjudication of presidential election disputes in Zimbabwe: The case of Chamisa v Mnangagwa -- Chapter 14. The judiciary and electoral disputes in Zimbabwe’s contemporary political landscape -- Chapter 15. Political dialectics and the role of Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) in elections: Friend or Foe?.-Chapter 16. Electoral laws, reforms, media transparency and the credibility of elections in Zimbabwe.
    Abstract: “This book is a seminal piece of academic work that provides a multi-disciplinary understanding of electoral politics in a post-colonial state in post Mugabe Zimbabwe. A brilliant piece of scholarship on electoral politics in Zimbabwe.” — Pedzisai Ruhanya, University of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe "This volume, which focuses on management of elections, adjudication of electoral disputes, political language of hate, and lack of electoral reforms, is an eye-opener on the problematic and uneven electoral terrain in Zimbabwe. I have nothing but praise for the editors and contributors for this gift of scholarship on a subject of national and even international concern." —Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Professor/Chair of Epistemologies of the Global South and Vice-Dean for Research of the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence, University of Bayreuth, Germany. Volume one of Electoral Politics in Zimbabwe pays special attention to the overarching view that the 2023 harmonized elections define the fate of the major presidential contenders and their parties as well as (re)shaping the political and economic trajectories of the nation. Cognizant of the complex nature of the Zimbabwean political realm and nuanced dynamics at play, the chapters in this volume cover three interrelated themes: the electoral environment in Zimbabwean politics; language, politics, and elections in Zimbabwe; and lastly, electoral institutions and human rights in Zimbabwean politics. The chapters foreground the ongoing tensions and politicking between the two main rivals, the ruling party, ZANU PF and the main opposition party, the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC). The contributors also highlight the impact of internal tensions and factionalism within the contending parties, the apparent voter apathy, disconcerting voices due to claims about lack of transparency and a toxic political space as factors impacting on the outcome of the 2023 presidential elections. The volume will appeal to academics and practitioners in politics, human rights, religion, gender, media, languages, linguistics, and development studies. Esther Mavengano is Lecturer in Linguistics and Literature in the Department of English and Media Studies, Faculty of Arts at Great Zimbabwe University in Masvingo, Zimbabwe. She is also a Research Fellow at the Research Institute for Theology and Religion, UNISA, South Africa, and Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute of English and American Studies, Technischen Universität Dresden, Germany. Sophia Chirongoma is Senior Lecturer in the Religious Studies Department at Midlands State University, Zimbabwe. She is also Academic Associate/Research Fellow at the Research Institute for Theology and Religion (RITR) in the college of Human Sciences, University of South Africa (UNISA). Her research interests and publications focus on the interface between culture, ecology, religion, health, politics, and gender justice.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XV, 293 p. 6 illus.)
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    Series Statement: Twenty-first Century Perspectives on War, Peace, and Human Conflict
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    Keywords: Peace. ; International relations. ; Diplomacy. ; World politics. ; Internationale Politik ; Außenpolitik ; Forderung ; Drohung ; Provokation ; Diplomatie ; Zwang ; Ultimatum ; Politische Kommunikation ; Geschichte ; Erde
    Abstract: Chapter 1: The Use and Utility of Ultimata in Coercive Diplomacy -- Chapter 2: A Genealogy of Ultimata -- Chapter 3: Ultimata in Coercive Diplomacy -- Chapter 4: The Dataset: Data Collection and Coding Procedures -- Chapter 5: Ultimata 1920-2020: A Chronological Survey -- Chapter 6: Ultimata 1920-2020: Patterns and Findings -- Chapter 7: A Typology of Ultimata -- Chapter 8: The Dictate -- Chapter 9: The Conditional War Declaration -- Chapter 10: The Bluff -- Chapter 11: The Brinkmanship Ultimatum -- Chapter 12: Findings and Conclusions.
    Abstract: “This nuanced, sophisticated, and pathbreaking study of ultimata from ancient times to the present explores the diverse reasons behind their issuance and mixed record of success. Sweijs examines the phenomenon of threat and escalation more generally and offers original insights relevant to the theory and practice of international relations.” — Richard Ned Lebow, Presidential Professor Emeritus at Dartmouth College, USA “This impressive work demonstrates that ultimata are far more successful than is commonly believed. This is a major and potentially troubling fi nding that makes this book a “must-read” for everyone with an interest in in coercion and coercive diplomacy.” — Peter Viggo Jakobsen, Professor at the Royal Danish Defence College Center for War Studies, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark Ultimata feature as a core concept in the coercive diplomacy scholarship. Conventional wisdom holds that pursuing an ultimatum strategy is risky. This book shows that the conventional wisdom is wrong on the basis of a new dataset of 87 ultimata issued from 1920–2020. It provides a historical examination of ultimata in Western strategic, political, and legal thought since antiquity until the present, and offers a four-pronged typology that explains their various purposes and effects: 1) the dictate, 2) the conditional war declaration, 3) the bluff, and 4) the brinkmanship ultimatum. The book yields a better understanding of interstate threat behaviour at a time of surging competition. Background materials can be consulted at www.coercivediplomacy.com. Tim Sweijs is the Director of Research at The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies and a Senior Research Fellow at the Netherlands’ War Studies Research Centre. He advises governments and international organisations and has published on international security, contemporary war, coercion, foresight, and defence planning. .
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    Series Statement: Marx, Engels, and Marxisms
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    Keywords: Political science. ; Marxian school of sociology. ; World politics. ; Political sociology.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction: The Post-Soviet Topography: Marxism as a ‘Field” -- Chapter 2: The Maoist Moment: Peasantry and the Agrarian Question -- Chapter 3: Racial Capitalism, Slavery and Patriarchy -- Chapter 4: The Late Marx, Transitions and ‘Modes of Production’ -- Chapter 5: Climate Crisis and the Question of the Commons -- Chapter 6: ‘Socialism’ is not the ‘After’ of Capitalism.
    Abstract: This book engages with the diverse traditions within non-Western Marxisms, as they emerge across the Global South, positioning itself against calls for a “pure” Marxism. The author views Marxism as a conceptual “field,” similar to electromagnetic or gravitational fields, where bodies and objects impact other bodies and objects without necessarily coming in contact with them. So too, in the “field” of Marxism, people behave in specific ways and deploy languages and concepts with their own specific inflections and accents. While rejecting the view of Marxism as an inherently European and fully-formed doctrine that is corrupted by contact with alien contexts, Nigam simultaneously acknowledges the residual force of certain elements of the theory and the gravitational pull that the authoritative figures continue to have on the evolution of the field in non-Western contexts. He argues that since a large part of Marxism’s earthly journey was undertaken in the Global South, it is that experience that needs to be rendered legible, by setting aside the conceptual lens of Western Marxism that repeatedly misreads such experience. Ultimately, the book invites a fruitful and challenging re-examination of a variety of phenomena arising from the contemporaneous co-existence of pre-capitalist and capitalist social relations that have been an inextricable part of the majority of the world—what the author terms “untimely encounters.” Aditya Nigam was formerly Professor at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi, India.
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    ISBN: 9783031292439
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(IX, 270 p. 5 illus.)
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    Series Statement: Political Philosophy and Public Purpose
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    Keywords: Political science—Philosophy. ; Intellectual life—History. ; Political science. ; Critical theory. ; World politics. ; Political science ; Intellectual life
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Part I: Rereading Rousseau, Reclaiming History -- Chapter 2: From fashioned to Fashioner: Rousseau and the Reclaiming of History -- Part II: ‘Marxism and Critical Theory’ -- Chapter 3: The Most Absolute Authority’: Rousseau and the Tensions of Mass Sovereignty -- Chapter 4: Althusser, Rousseau and the Politics of the Encounter -- Chapter 5: The ambivalence of human sociality: Rousseau and recognition -- Part III: ‘Transgression and Resistance’ -- Chapter 6: Olympe de Gouges: Gendering Rousseau -- Chapter 7: Toward a Queer and Feminist Ecology in The Reveries of the Solitary Walker -- Part IV: Sovereignty and Economic Democracy -- Chapter 8: Sovereignty as Responsibility: Rousseau and the Dialectic of Practical Reason -- Chapter 9: Economic Democracy and Rousseau’s Political Thought -- Part V: ‘Rousseau and Intellectual History’ -- Chapter 10: Rousseau in Thai Constitutionalism -- Chapter 11: Rousseau in Meiji Japan: the impact of French Republicanism and Nakae Chômin -- Conclusion co-authored by Denis C. Bosseau, Neal Harris, and Ployjai Pintobtang (NB Owen Brown is no longer co-authoring this chapter).
    Abstract: “This highly innovative and wide-ranging collection 'reloads' Rousseau as a resource for current social and political theory, covering both well-known topics and less familiar ones.” —William Outhwaite, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University of Newcastle, UK “This scintillating volume on Rousseau—with its internationally divergent and original chapters—confronts the realities of the neo-liberal counterrevolution and the ways in which its understanding of ‘freedom’ constitute a danger for a good life of all and the survival of the planet.” —Heinz Sünker, Rudolf Carnap Senior Professor, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Germany “We are living through a crisis of democracy, during which it is necessary not to go back to Rousseau but to go forward to Rousseau and to explore the ways in which his thought can illuminate our contemporary dilemmas. The interdisciplinary focus and breadth of this stimulating collection will be of great help in this endeavour.” —Andy Kilmister, Senior Lecturer of Economics, Oxford Brookes University, UK This book demonstrates that Rousseau offers a distinctive critical voice which is worthy of listening to. Rousseau is shown to target not merely social ‘injustices’, but the very dynamics central to the ‘form of life’ itself. As such we are able to contemplate, and engage in, a more foundational form of social critique. We contend that by returning to Rousseau, both as a theorist in his own right, and as an interlocutor with the contemporary literature within radical political and social philosophy, we can see both the circumscribed nature of contemporary discussion, and the true importance of Rousseau’s thought. In summary, Rousseau remains a figure of vital importance across disciplines and it is high time for an edited volume which connects insights centring his thought and impact today. Denis Bosseau is a doctoral candidate at the University of Sussex, Brighton, UK. Owen Brown is an independent scholar based in Oxford, UK. Neal Harris is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Oxford Brookes University, UK. Ployjai Pintobtang is a Lecturer in the department of Government, University of Chiang Mai, Thailand.
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    ISBN: 9783031206948
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXVI, 238 p. 1 illus.)
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    Series Statement: Marx, Engels, and Marxisms
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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: 9789811998010
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIII, 110 p. 3 illus., 2 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: Security, International. ; World politics. ; Peace. ; International relations. ; Rüstungsbegrenzung ; Nonproliferation ; Kernwaffe ; Internationales Regime ; Proliferation ; Rüstungsplanung ; Atommacht ; Rivalität ; Internationale Politik ; Geschichte ; USA ; Frankreich ; Südkorea
    Abstract: Prologue -- Chapter 1 The Origin of the ROK Nuclear Program -- Chapter 2 The U.S. and the Emerging Threat of Proliferation: Opportunities and risks for the non-proliferation regimes created in the changing context of the Cold War order, 1960–1974 -- Chapter 3 The Rise and Downfall of Gaullism and France’s Nuclear Deals with Third World States, 1945–1974 -- Chapter 4 The Coexistence of the ROK–France–IAEA Nuclear Cooperation Agreement and the ROK–U.S. Nuclear Cooperation Agreement, 1975 -- Chapter 5 The Fall of the Gaullist Technocrats and End of the ROK Nuclear weapons Program, 1976–79; Epilogue.
    Abstract: This book traces the development of U.S-led global nuclear non-proliferation diplomacy during the three decades since the Eisenhower’s “Atoms for Peace” in 1953. The U.S. non-proliferation efforts had diverse obstacles. It had to prevent nuclear states’ export of nuclear technology while dissuading non-nuclear states from developing nuclear weapons. In addition, building non-proliferation regime was not always its top foreign policy priority. To understand the complex process of non-proliferation, the book examines the relations among three different actors in the nuclear field: a global non-proliferation regime builder (U.S.), a potential nuclear proliferator (France) and a would-be nuclear state (Republic of Korea). In tracing how they developed nuclear strategies, conflicting and compromising with one another, the book pays special attention to how the transforming Cold War structure in the 1970s not only affected foreign policies of the involved countries but also complicated their relationship. The exploration ultimately highlights the multidimensional nature of international discussion on nuclear non-proliferation as the ROK’s nuclear development attempts, U.S. non-proliferation efforts, and the U.S.-France nuclear technology cooperation in the 1970s were all deeply connected. .
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    ISBN: 9783031238079
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (VIII, 334 p. 37 illus.)
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in the History of Economic Thought
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    Keywords: Economics—History. ; Macroeconomics. ; Economics. ; International economic relations. ; Economic history. ; World politics. ; Economics. ; Trevor Winchester Swan ; Internal-external model ; Neoclassical growth models ; Australian economy ; Reserve Bank of Australia policy ; Macroeconomic model-building and forecasting ; Sir Robert Menzies economic advisor
    Abstract: Introduction - Peter Swan -- Published Works -- “Australian War Finance and Banking Policy”, The Economic Record, 16, (June, 1940) -- “Some Notes on the Interest Controversy”, The Economic Record, 17, (December, 1941), 153-165 -- “Price Flexibility and Employment”, The Economic Record, 21, (December, 1945), 236-253 -- “Price Flexibility and Employment, Rejoinder”, The Economic Record, 22, (December, 1946), 282-284 -- “Progress Report on the Trade Cycle”, The Economic Record, 26, No.51, (December 1950) 186-200 -- “Measures for International Economic Stability”, A Report by a Group of Experts Appointed by the Secretary-General of the United Nations, New York, 1951, vii+48pp. (Part Author) -- “Australia after the Import Cuts”, The Banker (April 1952), 205-210 -- The Economic Development of Malaya. Report of a mission organised by the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (part author); Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1955 -- “Economic Growth and Capital Accumulation”, The Economic Record, 32, No. 63, (1956), 334-361 -- Reprinted in Peter Newman (ed.) Readings in Mathematical Economics, Volume 2, Capital and Growth, 172-199, Baltimore: John Hopkins Press, 1968 -- Also reprinted in Macroeconomic Theory: Selected Readings. Harold R. Williams and John D. Huffnagle, eds. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1969: 477-86 -- “Economic Control in a Dependent Economy”, The Economic Record, 36 (March 1960), 51-66. First presented at a seminar, 30 June 1953 -- “Circular Causation”, The Economic Record, (December 1962), 421-26 -- Obituary: “Wilfred Edward Graham Salter: 1929-1963”, The Economic Record, 39, No. 88 (December 1963), 486-87 -- “Of Golden Ages and Production Functions”, in K. Berrill (ed.,) Economic Development with Special reference to South East Asia. London. Macmillan, 1964, 3-16 -- “International Monetary Issues and the Developing Countries”, in Report of a Group of United Nations Experts, 1965 (part-author) -- “Longer Run Problems Of the Balance of Payments”, in H.W. Arndt and W.M. Corden (eds.), The Australian Economy, Sydney: Cheshire, 1963. Originally mimeographed and circulated in May 1955 -- Reprinted in R.E. Caves and H.G. Johnson (eds.), Readings in International Trade (selected by a Committee of the American Economic Association) -- Obituary: “Horace Plessay Brown: 1916-71” The Economic Record, (March 1971), 115-118 -- “Overseas Investment in Australia; Treasury Economic Paper No. 1”, The Economic Record, 48. No. 122, (1972) -- “Perceptions in Kalediscope, a Review of a book by H.W. Arndt”, The Australian Economic Review, 4th Qtr 1986 -- “The Principle of Effective Demand – A ‘Real Life Model”, The Economic Record 65(1), (December, 1989), 378-398 -- “Economic Growth”, The Economic Record 78 No.243 December 2002, 375-380. .
    Abstract: This book, the second of two volumes, explores the legacy of Trevor Winchester Swan, often described as Australia’s greatest ever economist. Some of Swan’s most prominent articles are presented alongside analysis of his work from leading historians of economic thought to provide a broad and insightful view of his work. Particular attention is given to Swan’s work on the balance of payments, economic development, capital accumulation, and the neoclassical growth model. This book aims to shed light on the enigmatic and influential life of Trevor Winchester Swan. It will be relevant to students and researchers interested in the history of economic thought and those that want to understand the foundations of modern macro, trade, and neoclassical economics. Peter Swan is Professor of Banking and Finance at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) Business School, Australia.
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    ISBN: 9783031337963
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXV, 433 p. 11 illus., 8 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: Elections. ; Africa ; Identity politics. ; Communication in politics. ; World politics. ; Sociolinguistics.
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction: The Nexus Between Gender, Religion and the Media in Zimbabwean Electoral politics -- Section A: Gender and electoral politics in Zimbabwe. Chapter 2. Electoral Participation as a fundamental right for women with disabilities in Zimbabwe -- Chapter 3. Unpacking the issue of gender and electoral violence in Christopher Mlalazi’s They Are Coming -- Chapter 4. Shona Women and Grassroots Politics in Zimbabwe: Prospects for the 2023 General Elections -- Chapter 5. Critical thinking, Gender and Electoral politics in Zimbabwe -- Chapter 6. Of pains, regrets and suppressed desires: Gendered Politics and Women Activism in Zimbabwean Electoral Politics -- Chapter 7. Rhetoric or reality? Assessing the efficacy of Policy and legislative interventions in enhancing women political participation in Zimbabwe -- Chapter 8.Post-independence election violence: Re-thinking the marginalisation of Women in Zimbabwean politics -- Chapter 9. Voter Rights and Gender: An Analysis of the Importance of Voter Education in Zimbabwe. Section B: Media and electoral politics in Zimbabwe. Chapter 10. Pollytricking or political contestation? The digital space as alternative public sphere in the run up to the 2023 public election in Zimbabwe -- Chapter 11. Zimbabwean Press and electoral violence: a framing analysis of the March 2022 by-elections -- Chapter 12. Melancholia and polysemanticism in Winky D’s sonic retentions: Subverting expressive barricades and voicing the electoral process through performance -- Chapter 13. The morbidity of Zimbabwe’s transformational politics: Hope or doom in the post-coup era? -- Chapter 14. The rhetoric of Onoma and the intersection of memory and power dynamics in naming and name-calling in Zimbabwe’s electoral politics -- Chapter 15. The Effectiveness of social media in mitigating unfair Mainstream media electoral coverage in Zimbabwe -- Section C: Traditional Leaders and electoral politics in Zimbabwe. Chapter 16. Traditional leaders as vote brokers and king makers in Zimbabwe’s Elections -- Chapter 17.The institution of Traditional leadership and partisan politics in Zimbabwe -- Chapter 18. The Role of Traditional Leaders and Culture in Zimbabwean Elections -- Chapter 19. A critique of the responsibility of traditional leaders in the electoral process: A Zimbabwean experience -- Chapter 20. Abusing the traditional sceptre: Chiefs and electoral collusion in Zimbabwe -- Chapter 21. Traditional Leaders, Electoral Politics and Impregnability of the Rural Constituency in Zimbabwe.
    Abstract: "If Zimbabwe won political independence in 1980 and reclaimed land in 2000, it is yet to win democracy. Elections in Zimbabwe remain not only a site of violence, but participation of women is limited too. Media is instrumentalised just as traditional leaders are patronised for political ends. This collection of well-researched essays on the subject of elections is most welcomed and makes an indispensable addition to the understanding of problematic political culture in Zimbabwe." –Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Professor/Chair of Epistemologies of the Global South & Vice-Dean for Research of the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence, University of Bayreuth, Germany. Volume two of Electoral Politics in Zimbabwe: The 2023 Election and Beyond argues that research into Zimbabwe’s politics is multifaceted and topical, particularly because for more than two decades now, this Southern African state has been dogged by multiple problems including hyperinflation, drought, escalating poverty levels, extremely high unemployment rates and political instabilities. The volume’s overall goal is to ignite intellectual discussions and practical action towards turning the political wheels that have been in place for decades. The first segment examines the interface between gender and electoral politics in Zimbabwe. The second part discusses the role of the media in Zimbabwe’s electoral politics. The third section reflects on the role of traditional leaders and religious discourses in Zimbabwe’s electoral politics. The book will be a key resource to colleges, universities and organisations in Zimbabwe, the Southern Africa region and even beyond. Esther Mavengano is Lecturer in the Faculty of Arts at Great Zimbabwe University in Masvingo, Zimbabwe. She is also Research Fellow at the Research Institute for Theology and Religion, UNISA, South Africa, and Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute of English and American Studies, Technischen Universität Dresden, Germany. Sophia Chirongoma is Senior Lecturer in the Religious Studies Department at Midlands State University, Zimbabwe. She is also Academic Associate/Research Fellow at the Research Institute for Theology and Religion at the University of South Africa. .
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    ISBN: 9783031225048
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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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    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Politics and Development of Contemporary China
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    Keywords: Asia ; China ; Political science. ; Executive power. ; World politics. ; Ethnology ; Culture. ; Kommunistische Partei ; Ideologie ; Loyalität ; Identitätsentwicklung ; Soziale Kontrolle ; Indoktrination ; China
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction: China’s National Self, President Xi Jinping, and the Realization of the Chinese Dream -- Chapter 2: Anti-corruption Forever: Discipline and Loyalty -- Chapter 3: Loyalty Toward State and Nation: Top-level design and “Moral Careers” -- Chapter 4: Loyalty to the Nation: Lunar and Martian exploration for Lasting Greatness -- Chapter 5: Post-Zero-Covid Policy: Limits to Loyalty on the Horizon?
    Abstract: This book analyses the ideology that China's leader Xi Jinping has crafted during his decade in power. China’s political system and domestic and foreign policies have, between 2012 and 2022, become more defined by the political thought of Xi Jinping, the most powerful leader of the Chinese Communist Party since the time of Mao Zedong. Today, Xi’s China is embroiled in superpower rivalry with the United States and its allies. Therefore, ongoing ideological transformation in the People’s Republic is destined to have global repercussions. Yet surprisingly, the ideological mission of Xi Jinping is poorly understood. Based on analysis of Xi Jinping’s collected speeches, the book argues that China’s new state ideology is constructed around the three key concepts of loyalty, discipline, and greatness. Xi’s mission is about ideological re-orientation and re-activation, as well as organizational innovation, seeking to frame China’s “national self” as a collective unit under one political banner and one leader. However, despite the monumental Party-state effort to boost the new ideology and state-scripted “moral careers”, the book contends that Xi Jinping cannot take for granted that political and patriotic loyalty will forever trump the formation of “disloyal moral careers” in society. Johan Lagerkvist is Professor of Chinese Language and Culture at Stockholm University, Sweden and Senior research fellow at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs.
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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: 9789811987847
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(X, 5 p. 8 illus., 6 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Governing China in the 21st Century
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    Keywords: World politics. ; International relations. ; Political science.
    Abstract: 1. The Long East Asia: The Premodern State and Its Contemporary Impacts -- 2. The Edge of Civilizations: The Chinese Civilization and the Development of World Civilizations -- 3. War and State Formation in Ancient Korea and Vietnam -- 4. The Sovereign’s Dilemma: State Capacity and Ruler Survival in Imperial China -- 5. “The Great Affairs of the States”: Man, the State and War in the Warring States Period -- 6. Understanding Nation with Minzu: People, Race, and the Transformation of Tianxia in 19th and 20th Centuries China -- 7. Unipolarity, Hegemony, and Moral Authority: Why China Will not Build a 21st Century Tributary System -- 8. East Asian Monarchy in Comparative Perspective -- 9. Legalist Confucianism: What’s Living and What’s Dead -- 10. The Minben Meritocratic State’s Impact on Contemporary Political Culture -- 11. Conclusion.
    Abstract: This book brings together a range of studies that aim at illustrating the ideas, institutions, historical patterns, and contemporary relevance of the social-political system that existed in the main part of East Asia during the premodern era. This is most often known as the Confucian literati-bureaucratic state, the imperial Chinese bureaucratic state, or the Confucian-Legalist state, that was established and endured most notably in China, but also in several East Asian societies such as Korea, Vietnam, Japan. That state and sociopolitical system also greatly shaped state making in several kingdoms in the region – such as Ryukyu and Dali – which were later merged into larger polities. Illuminating the significance of these historical patterns for today, this book will interest political scientists, historians, philosophers, and the general public. Zhengxu Wang is Distinguished Professor at the School of International Relations and Public Affairs Fudan University, China. He obtained his Ph.D. in political Science from University of Michigan, and subsequently obtained academic experiences in the National University of Singapore and the UK’s University of Nottingham, where he served as Associate Professor at its School of Contemporary Chinese Studies and Senior Fellow and Deputy Director of its China Policy Institute. .
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXI, 159 p.)
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    Series Statement: Studies in Diplomacy and International Relations
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    Keywords: America—Politics and government. ; Europe—Politics and government. ; Diplomacy. ; International relations. ; World politics. ; America ; Europe
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: American Philhellenism and “The Greek Fire” -- Chapter 3: The Tradition of Neutrality in America -- Chapter 4: The Origins and Promulgation of the Monroe Doctrine -- Chapter 5: Lessons for Greek American Relations.
    Abstract: This book attempts to explain why despite widespread popular support (the “Greek Fire”) in the United States of America for the Greek Revolution, the promulgation in 1823 of the Monroe Doctrine led to Washington D.C.’s non-recognition of the Hellenic efforts. It examines the origins and tradition of the diplomatic doctrine of neutrality and argues that the Monroe Doctrine represents its full realization. The new foreign policy doctrine is placed within its proper diplomatic framework, while the role of Secretary of State John Quincy Adams is highlighted. What remains remarkable, is how high on the U.S. policy agenda the Greek War of Independence was and how close it came to being politically vindicated. The epilogue of this book demonstrates based on specific historical episodes, that the “Greek Fire” and the Monroe Doctrine set in many ways the political framework that came to define Hellenic-American relations for almost the next two centuries.
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    ISBN: 9783031338205
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XV, 187 p. 1 illus.)
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    Keywords: Political science—Philosophy. ; Political science. ; Ethics. ; World politics. ; Political science
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Psychological and Moral Hypocrisy -- Chapter 3: Domination, Critique and Democratic Hypocrisy -- Chapter 4: Apologetic Narratives: Justifying the Unjustifiable -- Chapter 5: Conclusion: Beyond the Critique of Democratic Hypocrisy, Before Cynical Resignation.
    Abstract: "Mazzone has focused our attention on an important and underappreciated topic; the way hypocrisy suppresses the complaints of the oppressed and poses a particular threat not just to our politics but to democracies as a whole. The topic could hardly be more urgent." -- Ekow N. Yankah, Thomas M. Cooley Professor of Law at the University of Michigan, USA Unconfessed by definition, hypocrisy is one of the most used and abused polemical categories, even today, to denounce the "masked cynicism" of certain social actors, especially when they hold public office. But has hypocrisy always been just that? Should we really always be wary of it and challenge its every manifestation? What forms of hypocrisy can we distinguish? What kind of relationship exists between hypocrisy and the lack of self-critical attitude of those who are used to challenge the conduct of others? And above all: what relationship exists between this common vice, democratic politics and the institutional reproduction of different forms of oppression and domination? These are just some of the questions that inspire this philosophical journey back into the history of one of the most chameleonic concepts of Western culture. In Mazzone’s conception, democratic hypocrisy includes argumentative strategies used by institutional actors to refuse any kind of responsibility when their decisions, actions or roles are called into question by the protests of citizens in a democratic context. He reveals the relationship that exists between such “apologetic narratives” and the institutional reproduction of different forms of oppression and domination. Ultimately, the book urges civic vigilance against underhand wannabe authoritarians, who – as a group – are evolving to find new ways to trick people into opposing democracy. Leonard Mazzone is Research Associate in Social and Political Philosophy at the Department of Social and Political Sciences of the University of Florence, Italy.
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    ISBN: 9789819919956
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVIII, 316 p. 10 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: Asia—Politics and government. ; Ethnology—Asia. ; Collective memory. ; Culture. ; World politics. ; Asia ; Ethnology
    Abstract: Part I: Introduction -- 1. Trajectories of Memory: An Introduction -- Part II. Politics of Memory -- 2. The Leadership of Muhammad Masserie in Perhimpoenan Kaoem Betawi (The Association of Ethnic Betawi) 1923-1940 -- 3. Locating Sikuru, “Hero of Loloda” -- 4. The Treaty of Tumbang Anoi, 1894: Impact on Borneo’s Social Structure -- 5. Minangkabau Silek Harimau: Evolving Oral Traditions, Performance and Choreography -- Part III. Remembering War and Peace -- 6. National Histories, Private Memories: Indonesia and the Japanese Occupation -- 7. Japanese War Memory and Transnational Activism for Indonesian Survivors of Enforced Military Prostitution During World War Two -- 8. Memory of the Seroja Struggle: Challenges of Life after Military Operations 1978-1998 -- 9. From Stalin to Khruschev: The Dynamics of the Soviet Union - Indonesia Relations (1945-1964) -- Part IV. Tracing Agency -- 10. Politics of Recognition: Heroes, Victims, and the Contest over History in post-Suharto Indonesia -- 11. Contestation and Coalition: The Role of Botoh in Local Political Dynamics, Tuban District, 1974-2006 -- 12. Indoctrination in Higher Education: Guided Democracy Politics in Campus Environment (1961-1965) -- 13. Indonesia’s Student and Non-Student Protesters in May 1998: Break and Reunification -- Part V. Curating Memory -- 14. Youth Visitor’s Meaning-Making Process on The National History of Indonesia in The Museum Sejarah Nasional: A Study of Constructivist Learning -- 15. Engaging with the Public: Comparing the National Museum of Indonesia and the Kolong Tangga Museum from the perspective of New Museology -- 16. Building Meaning in The Balai Kirti Presidential Museum of The Republic of Indonesia.
    Abstract: This book is a collection of essays in Indonesian history and archaeology dealing with different and multiple trajectories, along four broad themes. The first part of the book covers competing or evolving representations of events, customs or traditions, and historical personae in Indonesian official and popular expression, as they are shaped by economic, political, and cultural forces. The second part deals with memories of war and peace, examining transnational conflict and collaboration, the role of political elites and state projects dealing with the aftermath of military aggression, while also focusing on the impact and responses of civilians. The third part focuses on how state and civil societies frame historical figures, in ways that transcend the dichotomy of heroes and victims. The fourth part of the book looks at the way Indonesian museums and museology serve as sites where new kinds of memory work occur, in a post-1998 era. The book is designed with the aim of clearing a space for a plurality of memory works. Discussions in this volume extend from Loloda island in Eastern Indonesia, to Sabang island at the north westernmost end of the archipelago, and to the cosmopolitan centers. Temporally, it covers the colonial, the post-independence and contemporary eras. By juxtaposing diverse works, the book offers a new vista of multiple trajectories of memory being traced out in and about Indonesia. This is an open access book. Melani Budianta is Professor of literature and cultural studies, Faculty of Humanities, Universitas Indonesia. She has a scholarly interest in the politics of representation, gender, power and cultural diversity. She has done transdisciplinary work in cultural commoning with cultural activists in Indonesia. Sylvia Tiwon is Associate Professor of South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley. She teaches literature, gender, oral and cultural studies of Southeast Asia with a focus on Indonesia. Her areas of interest include national and pre-national literature, oral discourse and mythologies, as well as socio-cultural formations.
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    ISBN: 9789819907809
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxii, 256 Seiten) , Illustrationen
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    Keywords: Africa—Politics and government. ; Legislation. ; World politics. ; Political science. ; Africa ; Parlament ; Gesetzgebende Gewalt ; Gesetzgebung ; Öffentlicher Haushalt ; Bewilligung ; Qualitativ vergleichende Analyse ; Nigeria
    Abstract: 1. Salient Topical Issues on Legislative Effectiveness in Nigeria’s National Assembly: An Introduction -- 2. Concept, Origin, Significance and Composition of Legislature in Democratic Governance: A Theoretical Exposition -- 3. Historical Development and the Institutional Framework of the Nigerian National Assembly -- 4. Legislative Powers and Lawmaking Process in the Nigerian National Assembly -- 5. Legislative Effectiveness: A Discourse on Measuring Toolkits, Benchmarks and Indicators -- 6. Measuring Legislative Effectiveness in the Nigerian National Assembly: The Birth of ILES Model -- 7. Comparative Analysis of Legislative Effectiveness of the 4th–8th National Assemblies -- 8. Assessing the Legislative Effectiveness of the National Assembly: The ILES Model Approach -- 9. Interpreting the Lawmaking Performance and Determinants of Legislative Effectiveness of the National Assembly -- 10. Legislative Impact on the People and the Challenges Facing the National Assembly -- 11. The Patterns and Dynamics of Legislative-Executive Relations and the Impact on Legislative Effectiveness -- 12. Cost of Running the National Assembly and the Budgetary Process in the Fourth Republic -- 13. Conclusion: Toward Reforming the National Assembly
    Abstract: This book evaluates the legislative effectiveness of Nigeria’s National Assembly under the Fourth Republic. The assessment covers five Assemblies (4th–8th) and focuses specifically on lawmaking, cost of running the National Assembly, and the budget making process. It empirically assesses the effectiveness of the Nigerian national legislature beyond previous emotional and sentimental evaluations of the institution. It has developed a model ‘Institutional Legislative Effectiveness Score’ used in assessing the institutional performance of the National Assembly from two perspectives: first, by comparing the performances of the two chambers in the same Assembly; and second, by comparing the performances of the institution across Assemblies. Aside lawmaking, the book also covers the major topical issues that characterized public evaluation of the institution. These include: size of the institution, budgeting process, cost of funding the institution, and the debate on the appropriate way in reforming the National Assembly. Adebola Rafiu BAKARE is a lecturer and currently Head of the Department of Political Science, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria.
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    ISBN: 9783031436505
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIV, 268 p. 2 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: Europe ; World politics. ; Political sociology.
    Abstract: 1.Britain: a decade of crises, 2008-2022 -- 2. The British Empire: finessing the collapse, 1942-56 -- 3. European Union: particular anxieties, deeper issues, 2008-22 -- 4. Britain’s Financial Crisis: debts, bail-outs and austerity, 2008-10 -- 5. European Union: the migration crisis, 1999-2015 -- 6. Brexit Crisis: unpacking some of the lessons, 2016-22 -- 7.The Covid-19 Pandemic, 2020 -- 8. The Disaster in Ukraine: tracking the failures of political elites, 1991-2022 -- 9. Re-imagining Britain: crises, identity and representation,1973-98 -- 10. On Living in a Rich Country. - 11. Afterword.
    Abstract: The period 2008–2022 has seen the British state/government embroiled in a number of full-blown crises, each impacting the fundamental operations of the state and demanding, therefore, urgent responses from the government of the day. In the first case, the 2008 near-collapse and partial nationalization of the banking system consequent upon decades of irresponsible credit creation coupled to permissive regulation; in the second , the migration crisis of 2015, which saw waves of refugees moving through Europe, provoking anxious responses from European Union member states and opening-up related political debates in Britain; thus, third , the 2016 referendum in regard to membership of the European Union, which the London-based elite clearly thought they would navigate easily before, to their evident shock, losing, an event itself precipitating further extraordinary Westminster manoeuvring; and then fourth the 2020 Covid- 19 pandemic, met with an initial casual sangfroid before the government, its actions informed by epidemiological modelling, made an abrupt shift to ‘lockdown’, with dramatic social and economic consequences. To these episodes, whose impacts run down to the present, could be added, fifth, the 2022 disaster in Ukraine where the British state/government has chosen to involve itself by supporting one set of combatants in a conflict where presently, after more than a year of fighting, there is little sign of a means to the resolution of the violence. This book examines the crises and tracks how each developed; how state/ government failings in one case were rehearsed in the next; and, more generally, how these crises have been amplified by the decades-long celebration of globalization theory; and, finally, at how following the most recent crisis the future might unfold, hence the ideas of deglobalization, resilience and, more speculatively, the possibilities of democratization. P. W. Preston is Emeritus Professor of Political Sociology in the Department of Political Science and International Studies, University of Birmingham, UK.
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    ISBN: 9789819931811
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XII, 213 p. 1 illus.)
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    Keywords: Constitutional law. ; Political science. ; Executive power. ; World politics.
    Abstract: 1. Introduction: Discovering the WA Constitution -- 2. The What, Why and How of Constitutions -- 3. The WA Constitution in the Federal System -- 4. Origins of the WA Constitution: Framers, History and Documents -- 5. First Peoples and the WA Constitution -- 6. The Constitution and System of Government -- 7. Voting Rights and Electoral System -- 8. Amending the State Constitution: Fundamental or Ordinary Law? -- 9. What Should Be Done? Consolidation and Beyond -- 10. Conclusion.
    Abstract: This book provides the first comprehensive introduction to, and enquiry into, the rules of Western Australia’s (WA) system of government. The WA Constitution is not well known or understood ― or even easy to identify ― and this book provides an essential guide. It brings academic expertise and careful scholarship to the exploration of sometimes complex constitutional issues in a way that will be invaluable for those with specialist interest in constitutional law and government while also being engaging and accessible for a wider audience. In doing so, it combines authorial expertise from constitutional law and political science — something essential to a well-rounded understanding of the simultaneously legal and political nature of a Constitution.
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    ISBN: 9783031214646
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 344 p. 2 illus., 1 illus. in color.)
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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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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(X, 248 p.)
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    Keywords: Theater—History. ; Great Britain—History. ; World politics. ; Political science. ; Theater ; Great Britain
    Abstract: Introduction -- Chapter 1: Popular Culture and the Industrial Revolution -- Chapter 2: Chartism and Drama -- Chapter 3: Clarion Calls -- Chapter 4: Marxists and Fabians -- Chapter 5: Votes for Women -- Chapter 6: Ragged Trousered Philanthropists -- Chapter 7: Their Theatre and Ours -- Chapter 8: New Way Wins -- Chapter 9: Unity -- Chapter 10: Landscape with Chimneys -- Chapter 11: Fings Ain’t Wot They Used T’Be -- Chapter 12: Cartoons, Archetypes, Slogans, Theatre -- Chapter 13: Hopes for Great Happenings -- Chapter 14: The Bone Won’t Break -- Chapter 15: The End of the Road.
    Abstract: This book provides an overview of the inception, development and achievements of British socialist and workers theatre – a feat which has not been attempted before. It explores the connections between politics and culture (specifically theatre) and between political theory and cultural (theatrical) expression. The book is organized chronologically and uncovers much in labour and theatre history which is in danger of being lost. It can also be seen as a way into different moments in its subject’s story (e.g. post-Ibsen naturalism; agitprop theatre; ‘fringe’ theatre of the 1970s) and the relationship of such forms to specific political events and ideas at specific points in history. Robert Leach taught at Birmingham and Edinburgh Universities and was also a freelance theatre director. He has published more than a dozen books on theatre subjects, including Theatre Workshop: Joan Littlewood and the Making of Modern British Theatre and An Illustrated History of British Theatre and Performance both of which were shortlisted for Theatre Book of the Year.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XI, 296 p. 3 illus., 2 illus. in color.)
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    Series Statement: Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century
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    Keywords: Political science. ; Political sociology. ; Political science ; World politics.
    Abstract: 1 Introduction -- PART I Trust, Distrust, and Democracy -- 2 Trust in Science Revisited. Social-Epistemic Challenges in Democratic and Digital Societies -- 3 Suspicious Minds: Towards a Typology of Political Distrust -- 4 Distrust and Democracy -- PART II Authoritarianism and Democracy -- 5 Whose populism? What democracy? On the Conceptual and Normative Connections of Populism and Democracy -- 6 Carl Schmitt and the Political Theology of Populism -- 7 Between Democracy and Authoritarianism: The Illiberal Challenge -- 8 The Grey Areas of Democracy: Indifference and the Erosion of Democratic Principles from Within -- 9 Constitutional Thought, Democracy and Crisis Government -- PART III Democracy—The Will of the People? -- 10 From the Democracy of Opinions to the Democracy of Procedures -- 11 The Agenda Problem in Referendum Democracy -- 12 On the Concept and Practice of Democracy in Late Modern Mass Conditions: An Oakeshottian Update.
    Abstract: Is it possible, in the complex modern world, to have a government ‘by the people’? Does, for example, digital technology help us to bring the reality closer to the ideal? Or does it actually make the ideal unattainable? The volume brings together conceptual historians, philosophers, political theorists and sociologists to discuss the criticisms and crises of democracy with fresh approaches to the idea of democracy, democratic theory, democratic institutions, trust and distrust, populism, and advancement of technologies in Western societies. Eerik Lagerspetz is Professor of Practical Philosophy at the University of Turku, Finland. Oili Pulkkinen is a historian, who is currently researching artificial intelligence, democracy, political subjectivity and time.
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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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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIX, 205 p. 5 illus., 2 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Marx, Engels, and Marxisms
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    Keywords: Asia—History. ; Intellectual life—History. ; Philosophy—History. ; Civilization—History. ; World politics. ; Mass media and history. ; Philosophy ; Asia ; Intellectual life ; Civilization
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2. Homelands and Revolutions -- 3. Popular Front and the Polyphony of Marxism -- 4. Meanings of Marxism: The Debate on the Bengal Renaissance and Marx's Notes on Indian History -- 5. The Afterlife of the Popular Front and the Academisation of Marxism -- 6. Conclusion.
    Abstract: “Prasanta Dhar’s book is a pioneering contribution examining the global circulation of Marxism and its link to Indian Marxisms and thinking over more than fifty years. Dhar’s book seamlessly stitches the global with the local. A unique feature of the book is its illuminating characterization of the difference between the Marxians and the Marxists in Calcutta. The former were closet or academic Marxists who may or may not have been directly involved in realpolitik, whereas the latter were. Finally, this is the first exploration of how Calcutta Marxisms circulated throughout the world , generating debate on modes of production, and giving rise to the school of Subaltern Studies.” —Amiya Kumar Bagchi, Emeritus Professor Institute of Development Studies, Kolkata This book examines the global circulation of Marxism seen from one of its most highly charged sites: Calcutta, India. Building on but also revising approaches to global intellectual history, the book presents the circulation through Calcutta as a historically sited problem of mass mediation. Using tools from media studies, the book explores the publics, the technologies and the meanings of Marxism in Calcutta. Demonstrating how the Popular Front was split between the so-called 'people's group' and those whom were called 'intellectuals', the book argues that the people's group generally identified themselves as Marxists and preferred audio-visual media, while the so-called intellectuals privileged academic rigour and print media, usually referring to themselves as Marxians. Thus, the author reveals a polyphony of Marxisms amongst the Popular Front. Tracing Marxism back to the Bengal Renaissance and the Swadeshi and Naxal movements, this book shows how debate around the meaning of 'Marxism' continued throughout the 1970s in Calcutta, and helped to engender the historiographical movement that has come to be known as Subaltern Studies. Prasanta Dhar is a historian of South Asia and has taught at the University of Toronto in Canada.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XX, 358 p. 9 illus., 8 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Security, Conflict and Cooperation in the Contemporary World
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    Keywords: Europe—History. ; International relations—History. ; World politics. ; Economic history. ; History, Modern. ; International relations ; Europe
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction (Michele Di Donato) -- Part 1: The European Community and Late 20th Century Globalization -- Chapter 2. The Single Market: A Race to the Bottom or Convergence towards High Standards? (1985-1997) (Laurent Warlouzet) -- Chapter 3. Economic and Monetary Union (Lucia Quaglia) -- Chapter 4. Global Europe at the End of the Cold War. The Demise of the North-South Dimension? (Sara Lorenzini) -- Chapter 5. The Accession of the Neutrals: (Re)assessing the First Post-Cold War Enlargement of the EU (Maximilian Graf) -- Part 2: Political Cultures and Societal Actors -- Chapter 6. The End of European History? The European People’s Party and the Transformation of Europe from Cold War to post-Cold War (Wolfram Kaiser) -- Chapter 7. The European Social Democrats: Neoliberalism or Internationalism? (Michele Di Donato) -- Chapter 8. The European Trade Union Confederation: A Labor Movement among EU Institutions and their Constraints (Paolo Borioni) -- Part 3: Negotiating the New Europe: National Perspectives -- Chapter 9. Flawed Designs? France and the Maastricht treaty (Frédéric Bozo) -- Chapter 10. Negotiating the New Europe: Germany (Guido Thiemeyer) -- Chapter 11. The High Point of British Europeanism? John Major, Britain and the Maastricht Negotiations (N. Piers Ludlow) -- Chapter 12. Italy and the Maastricht Treaty: An Unpredictable Fateful Choice? (Antonio Varsori) -- Chapter 13. Greece and the Maastricht Treaty: The Fortress That Wasn’t, (Nicos Christodoulakis) -- Chapter 14. The Iberian Peninsula and the Challenge of European integration (Maria Elena Cavallaro) -- Part 4: Conclusion -- Chapter 15. Europe beyond the Cold War (Federico Romero).
    Abstract: Offering a fresh take on a crucial phase of European history, this book explores the years between the 1980s and 1990s when the European Union took shape. Whilst contributing to existing literature on the Maastricht Treaty and European integration at the end of the twentieth century, the book also brings those debates into the twenty-first century and makes connections with longer-term issues. The transformation of the European political climate in the wake of the global financial crisis in 2008, and the watershed Brexit vote in 2016, has made it all the more urgent to reconsider the way scholars and opinion-makers have looked at European integration in the past. Drawing from recently released archival documents, the authors analyse European cooperation as part of the broader international history in which it unfolded, taking into account the changes in the Cold War order and the advance of a new phase of globalisation. Comparing and contrasting the debates, objectives and achievements of the 1980s and 1990s with the current political landscape of the European Union, this book proposes a novel interpretation of the choices that were made during the Maastricht years, and of their longer-term consequences. Michele Di Donato is Assistant Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Pisa in Italy. His research focuses on the international history of the European Left, the Cold War and late 20th Century globalisation Silvio Pons is Professor of Contemporary History at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa in Italy. He is the president of the Gramsci Foundation in Rome and a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Cold War Studies.
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    ISBN: 9783031188060
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 248 p. 25 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: Europe—History. ; History, Modern. ; World politics. ; Europe
    Abstract: Part I: Visual Rhetorics of Communist Romania: Life Under the Totalitarian Gaze -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Living in the Totalitarian World -- Part II: Visual Rhetorics of Power: The Communist Gaze -- 3. Communist Propaganda: Imagery, Propaganda, and Rhetorical Grounding -- 4. Visual Rhetorical Analyses of Propaganda in LateCommunist Romania -- Part III: Visual Rhetorics of Resistance: A Silver Lining -- 5. Asserting a Presence: Rhetorics in Time of the 1989 Revolution and Early Post-Communism -- Part IV: Bridging the Past and Present in Post/Communism -- 6. Returning the Gaze: The Visual Rhetorics of Resistance -- 7. Back to the Future?
    Abstract: Visual Rhetorics of Communist Romania: Life under the Totalitarian Gaze offers personal accounts and theoretical insight into the Cold War era when little information about life beyond the Iron Curtain could transpire to the West. Adriana Cordali develops a unique visual rhetorical theory for analyzing communist totalitarian propaganda and the resistance to it, and reveals the deliberate, strategic in/visibilities the rhetoric of power engaged in. Building upon the local history, ideology, and politics of the regime imposed after WWII, she identifies propaganda’s rhetorical features, visual tropes, and symbols and examines striking photographs and print materials from Ceaușescu’s regime (1966-1989) and the time of regime change (1989-1990), as well as an award-winning Romanian film that depicts women’s life at the time. Converging visual rhetoric and culture with history and politics, Visual Rhetorics of Communist Romania is a first book of this kind and will interest readers of rhetoric and communication, visual rhetoric, and political discourse in the region. Adriana Cordali is an independent scholar, professor, technical writer for federal agencies, and article editor for academic publishers. She has a Graduate Diploma in International Studies (Johns Hopkins University) and a PhD in Rhetoric (Illinois State University), served as Chair of the Romanian Forum of the Modern Language Association (MLA) (2016-17), has published works in visual rhetoric, cultural studies, and post/communism, and received the 2014 Florence Howe Award for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship in English from the Women’s Caucus of the MLA.
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    ISBN: 9783031205330
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XI, 273 p. 3 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: St Antony's Series
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    Keywords: Europe—History—1492-. ; Judaism—History. ; Religion—History. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; World politics. ; Judaism ; Religion ; Europe
    Abstract: Chapter 1 -- Jewry and Ioannis Metaxas -- Chapter 2 -- Jewish communities and Antisemitism in Greece: Nineteenth-century conflict and the rise of political antisemitism -- Chapter 3 -- Twentieth-century hostility and obligatory integration: Marginalization and distrust of the “inassimilables” -- Chapter 4 -- The ideological leanings of the Metaxist regime and Greek Jewry -- Chapter 5 -- Metaxist domestic policies and societal perceptions -- Chapter 6 -- The Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Jewry: Domestic suspicion and international support -- Chapter 7 -- Conclusions.
    Abstract: Delving into a traditionally underexplored period, this book focuses on the treatment of Greek Jews under the dictatorship of Ioannis Metaxas in the years leading up to the Second World War. Almost 86% of Greek Jews died in the Holocaust, leading many to think this was because of Metaxas and his fascist ideology. However, the situation in Greece was much more complicated; in fact, Metaxas in his policies often attempted to quash anti-Semitism. The Fourth of August Regime and Greek Jewry, 1936-1941 explores how the Jews fit (and did not fit) into Metaxas's vision for Greece. Drawing on unpublished archival sources and Holocaust survivor testimonies, this book presents a ground-breaking contribution to Greek history, the history of Greek anti-Semitism, and sheds light on attitudes towards Jews during the interwar period. Katerina Lagos is Professor of History at California State University, Sacramento (CSUS), in the USA, and the Director of the Angelo K. Tsakopoulos Hellenic Studies Center and Hellenic Studies Program. Katerina teaches modern European and Greek history, having previously studied at the University of Washington, New York University, and St. Antony’s College, Oxford. She has published on interwar Greece, minorities, and has co-edited The Greek Military Dictatorship: Revisiting a Troubled Past, 1967-1974 (2021).
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    ISBN: 9783031181191
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXVI, 387 p. 28 illus., 23 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: Europe—History. ; Law—History. ; Criminology—History. ; Finance. ; History. ; World politics. ; Law ; Criminology ; Europe
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction. “Tax predators” rather than “ tax havens”: new perspectives on the history of the international tax evasion and avoidance market (Sébastien Guex) -- Part I. Emergence and Expansion of Tax Havens -- Chapter 2. The Emergence and Expansion of Tax Havens, 1850-2000: Insights From a New Dataset (Sébastien Laffite).-Chapter 3. Emergence and Expansion of the Swiss Tax Haven: The Tax Privileges for Rich Foreigners in the Canton of Vaud, 1840-1959 (Vivien Ballenegger) -- Chapter 4. Emergence of, and Threats to, the Belgian Tax Haven during La Belle Epoque, 1890-1914 (Simon Watteyne) -- Chapter 5. The Oil Multinational Shell. A History of Tax Dodging via Tax Havens, Political Pressure and Other Ways, 1914-1974 (Tijn van Beurden) -- Chapter 6. Swedish Emigration to Switzerland in the 1960s-1980s Period: Tax Exile and Settlement Choices (Thibaud Giddey and Mikael Wendschlag) -- Chapter 7. The Rise of Tax Havens and Conduit Countries From the Early 2000s (Arjan Lejour) -- Chapter 8. Luxury Freeports as Purpose-Built Conduits for Tax Evasion, 1990-2020 ( Chloe Fyfe) -- Part II. Tax Evasion: Extent, Causes, and Conflicts -- Chapter 9. Income Tax Evasion and Avoidance in Germany, 1850-1920 (Marc Buggeln) -- Chapter 10. Volume, Social Distribution, and the Instrumentalisation of Tax Evasion in Switzerland: the Case of Zurich, 1860-1945 (Sylvain Praz) -- Chapter 11. War Profits and Tax Evasion. Italian Fiscal Policies in the First World War and After the War, 1915-1924 (Fabio Ecca) -- Chapter 12. Tax Compliance in a Crisis: Evidence from the Great Depression, 1929-1936 (Sacha Dray) -- Part III. Fighting Tax Evasion and Tax Havens -- Chapter 13. Criminalizing Tax Evasion in France, Early 19th century-2008 (Katia Weidenfeld) -- Chapter 14. “These Patriots who Misuse the Law”: The Background to the United Kingdom’s Anti-Tax Haven Legislation of 1936 (James Hollis) -- Chapter 15. Tax Evasion as Seen by French Tax Administrations from the 1920s to the 1970s: Pragmatism in Action (Béatrice Touchelay) -- Chapter 16. Detecting Ordinary Tax Evaders: the Example of the 1945 National Solidarity Tax in France (Isabelle Rabault-Mazières) -- Chapter 17. Tax Education After WWII: How Spain, the USA and West Germany Tried to Make Their Citizens Pay Honestly (Korinna Schönhärl, Nasrin Düll, Nadya Melina Ramírez Lugo).
    Abstract: “This book is a brilliant collection of case studies depicting an in-depth overview of the origins of tax evasion and tax havens in select countries in Europe during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It does an excellent job in enhancing our understanding of the history of tax havens and its link to capitalist globalisation.” —Aretha Campbell, author of Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing, and Tax Evasion (Palgrave, 2021) “This book is the very best in-depth historical study we have of tax evasion and tax havens, and the related development of modern states, over the period since globalisation gathered momentum in the late nineteenth century.” —W. Elliot Brownlee, Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara This collective book offers a panorama of the history of tax evasion, tax avoidance and tax havens from the nineteenth century to the present day, based on the latest research in contemporary history. It aims to show that this phenomenon is at the heart of global capitalism, partly as a response of the ruling classes to the rise of progressive taxation, but for other reasons too: notably the development of a powerful tax evasion and avoidance industry in different countries. The book argues that tax competition between states has stimulated the development of tax havens. It discusses the notion of the ‘tax haven’ and proposes a more rigorous concept - that of the ‘tax predator’. Finally, the book sheds light on the socio-political conflicts that have developed around tax evasion and the way in which states have fought against or tolerated the phenomenon. Sébastien Guex is Full Professor of History at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. His research interests lie in social, economic and political history, and he has studied public finance, taxes, and tax havens - in particular the Swiss tax haven. He is a member of the federal commission in charge of the publication of the Diplomatic Documents of Switzerland series. Finally, he is one of the founders, in 2002, of one of the most influential NGOs on tax policy at the international level, the Tax Justice Network (TJN). Hadrien Buclin is a part-time Lecturer at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. He was also, in 2017-2019, a visiting research fellow at Paris 1 University. His research focuses on the social and political history of Switzerland in the twentieth century. He is the author of Les intellectuels de gauche: critique et consensus dans la Suisse d’après-guerre (1945-1968) (2019), as well as several scientific papers.
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    ISBN: 9783031271076
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIII, 276 p. 6 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History
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    Keywords: Great Britain—History. ; Science—History. ; Medicine—History. ; History, Modern. ; World politics. ; Social history. ; Great Britain ; Science ; Medicine
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2. Alcohol and the Liver in Edwardian Britain -- 3. New Moderationism and the Liver in Interwar Britain -- 4. Cirrhosis as a Nutritional Disorder -- 5. Alcoholic Cirrhosis in the Late Twentieth Century -- 6. Conclusion.
    Abstract: The relationship between alcohol consumption and liver cirrhosis has long been contested by doctors and medical professionals, creating numerous implications for the public reputation of alcohol in Britain. Despite this, it was not until the 1970s that cirrhosis came to be understood as an ‘alcoholic disease’. This book contextualises developments in this debate through the twentieth century by examining the significant influence that medical expertise had on policy responses to alcohol misuse, as well as the social reputation of alcohol consumption. It demonstrates how the degree to which drinking was seen to be responsible for liver disease directly shaped how different groups, such as the temperance movement and the drinks industry, exaggerated or downplayed the destructive properties of alcohol. Covering a series of themes including the science of disease causation, the social standing of medical expertise, and alcohol and public health policy, this book argues that in order to properly understand the trajectory of debates around drinking we need to consider the twentieth-century ‘alcohol problem’ as primarily a medical issue. Contrary to the tendency by existing works to disassociate perceptions and responses to alcohol use from the objective knowledge of its effects on the body, this book shows that medical understandings of liver disease influenced how alcohol was conceptualised in relation to its harms. Offering a fresh perspective on the interaction between scientific knowledge and policy during the twentieth century, this book provides insights for those researching the social, political and cultural history of modern Britain, as well as historians of medicine and health. Ryosuke Yokoe is a JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow based in the Graduate School of Economics at the University of Tokyo, Japan. He is a historian of medicine and previously studied and taught at the University of Sheffield in the UK.
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    ISBN: 9783031287428
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXII, 174 p.)
    Edition: 2nd ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Italian and Italian American Studies
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    Keywords: Italy—History. ; Europe—History—1492-. ; World politics. ; Europe ; Italy
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2. Before Messina -- 3. After Messina -- 4. The Spiritual Father of a New Generation -- 5. 1934-1941: Cracks in the Family -- 6. A Union Ended (1941-1946).
    Abstract: "This is a book that combines a dramatic political history with a no less dramatic family, personal history. The reader is in for a rare treat." -David Kertzer, Paul Dupee, Jr. University Professor of Social Science and Professor of Anthropology and Italian Studies at Brown University and Winner of the Pulitzer Prize (2015) Gaetano Salvemini (1873 - 1957), one of the most influential Italian intellectuals of his generation, was an historian, a professor, and a tireless anti-fascist who mentored a new generation of young intellectuals and political activists, such as Piero Gobetti, Ernesto Rossi, and Carlo & Nello Rosselli. After losing his wife and five children in the 1908 Messina earthquake, Salvemini began a new family with his second wife, Fernande Dauriac, and her two children, Jean and Ghita. Yet, despite its marked influence on his life and politics, Salvemini's second family and its involvement with fascism have never been studied before. Consulting hitherto unused archival sources, Filomena Fantarella uncovers a little known dimension of Salvemini's life and reveals the personal costs of his anti-fascism, especially considering the tragic embrace of fascism by his stepson, Jean Luchaire. .
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    ISBN: 9783031300066
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXXIII, 243 p. 6 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: Asia—History. ; United States—History. ; Middle East—Politics and government. ; World politics. ; History, Modern. ; Asia ; United States ; Middle East
    Abstract: 1.Introduction -- PART I: THE FOUNDATIONS OF POLITICAL LEADERSHIP IN SAUDI ARABIA -- 2. Tribal decision-making: From traditional to modern context -- 3. Central characteristics of Saudi foreign policy -- PART II: THE 1973 ARAB-ISRAELI WAR AND THE ARAB OIL EMBARGO -- 4. Emerging pan-Arabism and the politicization of Arab oil -- 5. Conflicting interests and King Faysal’s decision to support Egypt’s war efforts -- PART III: THE END OF THE OIL EMBARGO AND THE MURDER OF KING FAYSAL -- 6. Towards the end of the oil embargo -- 7. Faysal’s threats of a new oil embargo -- 8. The murder of King Faysal -- 9. The top-secret Saudi plan to use the USSR to pressure the US -- PART IV: THE SURVIVAL OF THE SAUDI MONARCHY DURING THE CARTER ADMINSTRATION (1977-1981) -- 10. Saudi concerns of the Marxist and Arab revolutionary threats (1977-1978) -- 11. The 1978-1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran -- 12. Inspired by the Islamic Revolution: Rebellions, uprisings and coup attempts -- 13. Saudi, CIA messages to President Carter: A US policy-change towards the Saudis is necessary -- 14. Final Conclusions.
    Abstract: This book provides a new perspective on the study of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and its monarchy – its political leadership and decisions. Moreover, it analyzes how that decision-making evolved before, during, and after the Arab–Israeli War of 1973, and the subsequent Arab oil embargo that followed; the run-up to and aftermath of the 1975 murder of King Faysal; discussions over the oil weapon; and Saudi responses to the Carter presidency in the United States. Through the prism of tribal decision-making, this book sheds new light on a number of important political events, which have shaped the political leadership in Saudi Arabia, and explores the behind-the-scenes workings of the Saudi royal family. Samuel Willner is Research Fellow at the University of Haifa, Israel.
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    ISBN: 9783031387586
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIV, 331 p. 1 illus.)
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    Keywords: International relations ; Europe, Central ; United States ; World politics. ; Russia ; Europe, Eastern ; Soviet Union ; Economic history.
    Abstract: Part I. Divide et Impera -- Chapter 1. The Gold in the Hands of Nazi Germany -- Chapter 2. The Tripartite Commission for the Restitution of Monetary Gold -- Chapter 3. The Gold (Brussels and Washington) -- Part II. US-Czechoslovak Differences -- Chapter 4. Compensation for Nationalized Property, the US Surplus and Rolling Mill -- Chapter 5. The Oatis Case, IBM in Czechoslovakia and the Augsteins’ Case -- Part III. The US Congress as a Hammer -- Chapter 6. Prague Gold vs. the State Department until 1968 -- Chapter 7. The Position of Washington up to 1980 -- Chapter 8. Final Negotiations -- Part IV. The Gold at Home -- Chapter 9. Operation 'Return 82' -- Chapter 10. Conclusion.
    Abstract: This book provides a detailed account of the Czechoslovak-American dispute that arose over monetary gold which was forcibly seized by Nazi Germany in the 1930s. After the Second World War, the Czechoslovak gold was found by the American armed forces in the salt mines in Merkers, Germany. Over the next 37 years, it became a part of complicated Czechoslovak-American relations, international economic trade, and political-ideological disputes and conflicts. Only in February 1982, after extensive diplomatic discussions, was a sufficient portion of the gold returned to the Czechoslovak State Bank in Prague. This book maps the story of this gold, how it was seized, blocked and finally, returned. Tracing the path of the monetary gold from its seizure by Nazi Germany in the 1930s to the last decade of the Cold War, the author outlines the main diplomatic steps taken to resolve the dispute, which framed the shape of bilateral relations between Communist Czechoslovakia and the USA. Offering a new contribution to the history of the Second World War and shedding light on East-West relations during the Cold War period, this book will provide useful reading for those researching modern European history, the Cold War, and international history. Slavomír Michálek is Executive Director of the Institute of History at the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava, Slovakia. A graduate of the Faculty of Arts, Comenius University, his research covers US foreign Policy and Czechoslovak-US relations after the Second World War, the history of the United Nations, Slovak figures in Czechoslovak interwar diplomacy, and the second and third Slovak and Czechoslovak democratic exiles in the USA.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 298 p. 3 illus., 1 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: Intellectual life ; World politics. ; Europe ; America ; Philosophy
    Abstract: Chapter 1 – introduction -- Part I. Friends or foes? Liberalism and socialism between concepts and experience -- Chapter 2 - Liberalisms and Socialisms: Recalibrating Some Analytical Criteria, Michael Freeden -- Chapter 4 - Social Liberalism and Liberal Socialism: Tensions and Compatibility, Françoise Orazi -- Chapter 3 - Getting around the Antinomies of Socialism and Liberalism, Cornelius Crowley -- PART II. Reassessing the liberalism-socialism paradigm in economic thought -- Chapter 5 - Marx, socialism and liberty, Fabien Tarrit -- Chapter 6 - Decentralization, Centralization and Adaptation, Dean V. Williamson -- Chapter 7 - Marx’s Socialism, Mises’s Liberalism and Their Problematic Theories of Needs and Preferences, Sina Badiei -- Chapter 8 - A Utopian Consensus: Liberals, Socialists and the Growth Ideal at the end of the Cold War, Iason Zarikos -- PART III. Socialist and/or liberal identities: polity, politics and policy -- Chapter 9 - Individual, Free Association and Common Ownership: The British Co-operative Movement and political ideology, François Deblangy -- Chapter 10 - The Labour Party’s International Thought from 1900 to 1939: Webs of Liberal and Socialist Traditions, Niaz Pernon -- Chapter 11 - Exploring the relationship between liberalism and socialism in Britain’s NHS, Louise Dalingwater -- PART IV. From conceptual to discursive struggles: activism, partisanship and rhetorical strategies -- Chapter 12 - New Deal Liberalism and ‘Creeping Socialism’: the Republican Party and the Construction of Modern American Conservatism, c. 1933 – c. 1960, Robert Mason -- Chapter 13 - The Conservatives’ representation of socialism and liberalism during PMQs since the 1990s, Stéphane Revillet -- Chapter 14 - Prefigurative Activism Today: from Socialist Values via Anarchist Means to the Neoliberal Status Quo, Rafal Soborski.
    Abstract: This book aims to re-evaluate the relations between two major ideologies that have been increasingly contested in recent years, yet continue to be invoked or rejected as foundational systems for political thought or action. With socialism conceiving of itself as an alternative to economic liberalism, the two systems of thought emerged partially in opposition to each other. However, this book seeks to redefine their specificities and the way in which they have not only opposed each other but drew on common notions or paradigms to become both competing and complementary systems of thought and practices. With contributions from eminent political scientists and historians of political and economic thought, the book examines how the polarisation of debates and politicisation of concepts such as property, freedom, the individual, or the State, serve to construct the adversary and form a basis for political commitment. Offering an interdisciplinary assessment of the relation between liberalism and socialism, the authors help to make sense of current debate on individual freedom, political obligation and the changing role of the State. Providing an innovative perspective, this edited collection will be of interest to scholars and students researching political and economic thought, history or science, as well as anyone seeking to understand current developments affecting Western societies, and their past, present, and future ideologies. Stéphane Guy’ s research focuses on the history of ideas and political thought. He is the author of Genèse du travaillisme britannique (2019). Ecem Okan studies the history of economics with an interest in political and moral philosophy during the Scottish Enlightenment. Vanessa Boullet specialises in Irish Studies and in the interactions between economy, society, and politics in Ireland. Jeremy Tranmer works on the far left and the relationship between popular music and politics since the 1960s. The editors are members of the Interdisciplinarité dans les Etudes Anglophones (IDEA) research center at the University of Lorraine, France.
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    ISBN: 9783031060755
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVI, 511 p. 1 illus.)
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    Keywords: History, Modern. ; World history. ; World politics.
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- Part I -- 2. Historical Background: World War II and Tensions in the Wartime Alliance -- 3. The Origins of the Cold War in Europe: from World War II to the Berlin Blockade -- 4. Studying the Cold War: core themes and concepts. Is there a new international history of the Cold War? -- 5. The Early Development of the Cold War in Europe: the division of Germany, the formation of NATO and European Integration -- 6. The Origins of the Cold War in East Asia: the emergence of communist China, Japan and the Korean War -- Part II -- 7. The Superpowers and the Cold War in the 1950s -- 8. Crises 1958–1962 -- 9. The Vietnam War -- 10. The Cold War and the Third World: Latin America -- 11. The Middle East and the Cold War -- 12. Waging the Cold War -- Part III -- 13. Détente -- 14. The Travails of Détente -- 15. Beyond Geopolitics: economics, culture and the transnational Cold War -- 16. The Superpowers and the end of the Cold War -- 17. Regional Finales.
    Abstract: This book provides an advanced introduction to the Cold War, assessing its origins, development and conclusion as a dynamic interaction between superpower confrontation and complex regional and local situations. The evolution of the subject’s scholarly debate is discussed throughout and the contest situated alongside enduring historical themes including decolonisation, development, nationalism and globalisation. Regional case studies, on Europe, East and Southeast Asia, Latin America and the Middle East, illuminate the Cold War’s global reach. Thematic analysis considers competition in military, strategic and economic spheres, as well as in aspects of culture, ideology, society, and Human Rights. The Cold War’s transnational elements and facets of international cooperation are also highlighted. The book unpacks the subject’s extensive scholarly discourse, underlining the interdisciplinary character of today’s Cold War historiography and the importance of understanding that its development has been informed by a vibrant interface between international history, international relations and the Cold War itself. Elspeth O’Riordan is a Visiting Lecturer in the Defence Studies Department at King’s College London, in the UK. She studied at the London School of Economics and has held lectureships at the Universities of St Andrews and Dundee in Scotland. Her research focuses on twentieth-century British and international history. She has published widely on British foreign policy in the interwar and post-war periods, including the book, Britain and the Ruhr Crisis (Palgrave Macmillan, 2001). .
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    Keywords: France—History. ; Civilization—History. ; Religion—History. ; World politics. ; Social history. ; Goth culture (Subculture). ; Religion ; France ; Civilization
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Creatures of Infamy: Lettres de cachet, Family Honor, and the Uses of Secrecy -- Chapter 3: The Fate of Secrets in a Public Sphere: The Comte de Broglie and the Demise of the Secret du Roi -- Chapter 4: Those Who Know Your Secrets: Jesuit Secrecy and the Proto-nationalism of the Jansenists -- Chapter 5: “I Promise Never to Speak to Anyone”: Polices Practices and the Bastille -- Chapter 6: Desire, Dread, and the Grateful Dead: Bastille Cadavers and the Revolutionary Gothic Imaginary -- Chapter 7: The Marat of Versailles: Transparency During and After the Terror -- Chapter 8: Conclusion.
    Abstract: This book traces changing attitudes towards secrecy in eighteenth-century France, and explores the cultural origins of ideas surrounding government transparency. The idea of keeping secrets, both on the part of individuals and on the part of governments, came to be viewed with more suspicion as the century progressed. By the eve of the French Revolution, writers voicing concerns about corruption saw secrecy as part and parcel of despotism, and this shift went hand in hand with the rise of the idea of transparency. The author argues that the emphasis placed on government transparency, especially the mania for transparency that dominated the French Revolution, resulted from the surprising connections and confluence of changing attitudes towards honour, religious movements, rising nationalism, literature, and police practices. Exploring religious ideas that associated secrecy with darkness and wickedness, and proto-nationalist discourse that equated foreignness with secrecy, this book demonstrates how cultural shifts in eighteenth-century France influenced its politics. Covering the period of intense fear during the French Revolution and the paranoia of the Reign of Terror, the book highlights the complex interplay of culture and politics and provides insights into our attitudes towards secrecy today. Nicole Bauer is Assistant Professor of European History at the University of Tulsa in the USA. A cultural historian of early modern France, she is particularly interested in pulling threads from different directions to understand and uncover the cultural origins of political and social movements.
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    Keywords: Africa—History. ; Africa, Sub-Saharan—History. ; Terrorism. ; Political violence. ; World politics. ; Africa, Sub-Saharan ; Africa
    Abstract: 1. A decade of Boko Haram activities: the attacks, responses and challenges ahead - J. Tochukwu Omenma, Ike E. Onyishi and Alyious-Michaels Okolie -- 2. A decade of terror: revisiting Nigeria’s interminable Boko Haram insurgency - Olumuyiwa Babatunde Amao -- 3. Boko Haram insurgency: a decade of dynamic evolution and struggle for a caliphate - J. Tochukwu Omenma -- 4. Counterinsurgency operations of the Nigerian military and Boko Haram insurgency: expounding the viscid manacle - Freedom C. Onuoha, Chikodiri Nwangwu and Michael I. Ugwueze -- 5. Mathematical approach to the analysis of terrorism dynamics - C. Okoye, O. C. Collins and G. C. E. Mbah -- 6. Boko Haram, pro-synergic conditions and community involvement in counterinsurgency - Bonaventure N. Nwokeoma, Kelechi E. Okpara and Nnabuike O. Osadebe -- 7. Interagency collaboration and the management of counter-insurgency campaigns against Boko Haram in Nigeria - Okechukwu M. Ikeanyibe, Charles N. Olise, Isah Abdulrouf and Ikechukwu Emeh -- 8. Non-military approach against terrorism in Nigeria: deradicalization strategies and challenges in countering Boko Haram - Hakeem Onapajo and Kemal Ozden -- 9. Responsibility to protect: external intervention on Boko Haram terrorism in Nigeria - Chijioke Egwu Ekumaoko and Kingsley Emeka Ezemenaka. .
    Abstract: This book provides a contemporary overview of Boko Haram's activities. Since Boko Haram emerged in 2002, media-driven narratives as well as social scientific methodologies have been increasingly applied to draw generalisable conclusions on what goals the groups have pursued, what strategies it has used for these purposes and the counter campaign strategies authorities have pursued. But from 2009 to 2018, Boko Haram has pursued high-intensity violence: assassinations, bombing, kidnappings, beheading or threats of violence, conscriptions and territorial occupation. This makes it imperative to deepen and broaden our understanding of the groups’ activities toward a problem-solving and policy-relevant analysis. Previously published in Security Journal Volume 33, issue 3, September 2020.
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    ISBN: 9783031188251
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    Keywords: Great Britain—History. ; Intellectual life—History. ; Civilization—History. ; World politics. ; Intellectual life ; Civilization ; Great Britain
    Abstract: Introduction -- ‘Home Rule’ Imagined by Its Champions -- The Future of Ireland in the Pro-home Rule Press -- Irish Self-Government Further Imagined: Pro-home Rule Fiction -- Home Rule as an Anti-utopia: Advanced Nationalism and the Future of Ireland -- Home Rule as Dystopia: What Unionists Feared Would Happen Under Irish Self-Rule -- Reaching Out to New Converts, Providing an Outlet for New Voices: The Use of Images and Fiction in the Debate on Ireland’s Future -- British Positivists and the Prospect of Home Rule -- Michael Davitt, Utopianism and Home Rule -- William Morris and Irish Home Rule -- Epilogue.
    Abstract: This book attempts to delve into the connection between imagination and politics, and examines the many expectations and fears engendered by the Irish home rule debate. More specifically, it assesses the ways politicians, artists and writers in Ireland, Britain and its empire imagined how self-government would work in Ireland after the restitution of an Irish parliament. What did home rulers want? What were British supporters of Irish self-government willing to offer? What did home rule mean not only to those who advocated it but also to those who opposed it? Pauline Collombier is Associate Professor at the University of Strasbourg, France.
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    ISBN: 9789811908217
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XI, 216 p. 325 illus.)
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    Series Statement: Islam in Southeast Asia
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    Keywords: Southeast Asia—History. ; Islam—Doctrines. ; World politics. ; Religion and politics. ; Southeast Asia ; Islam
    Abstract: This book focuses on the written heritage of Muslims in the Philippines, the historical constitution of chancelleries within the Islamic sultanates, and the production of official letters to conduct local and international diplomacy. The standard narrative on Muslims in the Philippines is one that centres political and armed struggles within the region. However, two important aspects remain unattended: the cultural and intellectual production of the sultanates, and the Moro involvement in Southeast Asian Islamic civilization. This book connects the development and personality of the Philippine sultanates into the regional context of local communities that adopted an international faith. Political alliances and religious missions altered different ethnolinguistic groups and furnished them with the Word, the Qur’anic message, and the Arabic script. Indeed, customary orality and Adab shaped a way of being and acting modelled after what was called the Bichara. Particularly, the book studies the Moro Letter as cultural craft with political meaning, and Jawi heritage in the Philippines. A general catalogue of Jawi manuscripts from the National Archives of the Philippines is provided as appendix. Isaac Donoso, PhD, specializes in Philippine and Islamic Studies. He is the author of Islamic Far East: Ethnogenesis of Philippine Islam (2013) and editor of More Islamic than We Admit: Philippine Islamic Cultural History (2017). He is a Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the University of Alicante in Spain.
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    Series Statement: Queenship and Power
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    Keywords: Europe—History. ; Civilization—History. ; Europe—History—476-1492. ; Europe—History—1492-. ; World politics. ; Civilization ; Europe ; Europe ; Europe
    Abstract: 1 Resilience: An Introduction -- 2 Two Sisters, Two Towns, Two Kings: Facing War and Still Ruling -- 3 Hungaria Hispanica: Resilient Hungary and Its Integration into the Spanish Habsburg System, 1558–1648 -- 4 The Futility of Madame: Marguerite of Lorraine and Elisabeth-Charlotte of the Palatinate in the Service of Their Threatened Homelands -- 5 Francis Taaffe, Third Earl of Carlingford, and the House of Lorraine’s Exile and Restoration, 1670–1704 -- 6 Ex vulnere vigor: Emblematic Representations of Resilience in the Royal Festivals in Honour of Pedro II (1648–1707), King of Portugal -- 7 The Eighteenth-Century Crisis in the European Order and Victor Amadeus II as a Model of Resilience for Italian Patriotism and Cultural Unity -- 8 Charles of Bourbon, King of Southern Italy (1734–1759): The Resilience of the Neapolitan ‘Nation’, the Development of Reformism and the Strength of the Reaction -- 9 The European Catholic Dynasties and the Fight Against Smallpox: Bourbon Rulers Between Resilient and Resistant Actions -- 10 Resilience Born of Desperation: Keeping Dynasties Going in Eighteenth-Century Europe -- 11 Resilience and Revolution: The Defence of the Dynastic Interests of Charles IV and Maria Luisa of Parma in the Changing World of the Late Eighteenth Century -- 12 The Resilience and Resistance of the Bourbon Monarchy in the Kingdom of Naples (1799–1802) -- 13 ‘We Alone Know’: How King Frederick VI of Denmark and His Regime Coped with Defeat in 1814 -- 14 ‘Cholera Adunque è Malattia Nervosa’: The 1836–1837 Cholera Epidemic in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies: Reception, Resilience, and Revolution.
    Abstract: This book demonstrates the evolution of resilience and recovery as a concept by applying it to a new context, that of courts and monarchies. These were remarkably resilient institutions, with a strength and malleability that allowed them to ‘bounce back’ time and again. This volume highlights the different forms of resilience displayed in European courts during the medieval and early modern periods. Drawing on rarely published sources, it demonstrates different models of monarchical resilience, ranging from the survival of sovereign authority in political crisis, to the royal response to pandemic challenges, to other strategies for resisting internal or external threats. Resilience and Recovery illustrates how symbolic legitimacy and effective power were strongly intertwined, creating a distinct collective memory that shaped the defence of monarchical authority over many centuries. Fabian Persson is a Lecturer and Associate Professor in History at Linnaeus University in Sweden and specialises in the Swedish court with a particular interest in women and power. Munro Price is Professor of Modern European History at the University of Bradford, UK, and specializes in late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century French political and diplomatic history. Cinzia Recca is senior lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Catania, Italy, in the Department of Education. Her main field of research includes the European Enlightenment, especially with regard to court studies and women's roles.
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    ISBN: 9783031239403
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(V, 278 p.)
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    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Utopianism
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    Keywords: Great Britain—History. ; Religion—History. ; Intellectual life—History. ; Social history. ; World politics. ; Great Britain ; Intellectual life ; Religion
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2. The State of the Literature -- 3. Reconceiving Religion -- 4. Owenite Socialism in Religious Context -- 5. Owenite Religion as a Socialite Religion -- 6. Religion and the History of Socialism -- 7. Conclusion.
    Abstract: This book challenges existing accounts of the role of religion in early-nineteenth-century British socialism. Against scholarly interpretations which have identified Owenite socialists as anti-religious or as imitating Christianity, this book argues that Owenites offer a re-conception of the nature of ‘religion’ as advanced through knowledge of the natural and social world, as a prospective source of solidarity which could serve as the unifying bond for communities, and as constituted by ethical conduct. It shows how this re-conception was formed through a sincere and considered reflection upon the problem of religious truth and was shaped by the particular religious context of early-nineteenth-century Britain. It then demonstrates the importance of this reimagination of religion to their understanding of socialism. Their religious interests were not an eccentric adornment to their socialism, an outdated residue yet to be shed and encumbering the development of a mature socialism, or merely instrumental to their temporal goals. Instead, Owenite ambitions of religious reform were grounded in the philosophical preoccupations which animated their socialism. Edward Lucas completed his DPhil at the University of Oxford, UK and now works for the UK government.
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    ISBN: 9783031386732
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VIII, 356 p. 1 illus.)
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    Series Statement: Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History
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    Keywords: Africa—History. ; Medicine—History. ; Africa, Sub-Saharan—History. ; Surgery. ; World politics. ; Technology. ; History. ; Africa ; Medicine ; Africa, Sub-Saharan
    Abstract: Chapter One: Introduction -- Part 1: The Face of War -- Chapter Two: Beginnings -- Chapter Three: The Making of a Surgeon -- Chapter Four: The Restoration of a Lost Soul: War -- Chapter Five: A Divine Right to Look Human: Brenthurst and Beyond -- Chapter Six: The Post-War Years: Going Solo -- Part 2: The Surgeon Ambassador -- Chapter Seven: The Heart of Darkness? Albert Schweitzer and Lambarene -- Chapter Eight: Fallen Blossoms: Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Nagashima and an Engagement with Modernity -- Chapter Nine: “The Brotherhood of Pain”: Israel -- Part 3: Utopia? -- Chapter Ten: “A Multitude of Differing Genes”: Intellect, Education and Equality -- Chapter Eleven: “He is My Younger Brother”: Nationalism, Independence and the Cold War -- Chapter Twelve: A Utopian Vision: Jack Penn’s Brave New World.
    Abstract: This book traces the career of pioneering South African plastic and reconstructive surgeon, Jack Penn, from its beginnings during the Second World War. It explores the establishment of Penn’s private practice, and his work in diverse countries, including Gabon, Japan and Israel, as he sought to rectify the injury caused by conflict. It also addresses his role on the President’s Council, established by Prime Minister P.W. Botha to introduce reform to the system of apartheid. Penn’s career is contextualised by modernisation which was a significant feature of twentieth-century South Africa. It was linked with race from the inception of the state in 1910 with racial segregation and paternalism. Penn’s work during the Second World War was part of a “modernist” bent by the state under Jan Smuts to take the lead in promoting science and technological development – which continued during apartheid. Modernisation was also fluid with state priority shifting between the two poles of development and security as apartheid policies were met with hostility both within the state and beyond its borders. Within the context of decolonisation, increasing black urbanisation required a balancing act on the part of the state to uphold the ideology of racial distinction while simultaneously addressing economic challenges – and this was reflected in the reform initiatives under Botha. Plastic and reconstructive surgery as evident in the work of Jack Penn is intertwined with this narrative of apartheid, modernisation and reform. It demonstrated Western prowess, with medicine and development a perceived bulwark against Communism. It also served as a means for the modernising apartheid state to initiate, maintain or enhance alliances with other states in the facing of mounting isolation and international condemnation. The career of Jack Penn, then, is a lens through which the contradictions, complexities and anxieties of twentieth-century South Africa are exposed. Suryakanthie Chetty is Senior Lecturer at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. She published her book, Africa Forms the Key: Alex Du Toit and the History of Continental Drift, with Palgrave in 2021.
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    ISBN: 9783031420993
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIII, 124 p.)
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    Keywords: Great Britain ; Civilization ; Social history. ; World politics.
    Abstract: 1. A Royalist Cause? -- 2. Royalism Reborn: Scotland -- 3. Royalist Peacemaking: Ireland and England -- 4. Thinking Royalist -- 5. Conclusion.
    Abstract: This book addresses a conundrum. Alone of the major competing political interests during the civil wars of the 1640s, royalism needed to transcend attachment to one nation or one religious tradition and recruit a support base in each of England, Ireland and Scotland. This book aims to provide a concise interpretation and reassessment of royalism during these crucial years and focuses on this dilemma, and on the resources, intellectual and practical, deployed to address it, with mixed success. It focuses on the key ideas and values which made royalism a formidable political alternative, rather than on the more usual factional, military or literary perspectives. It argues that a ‘three-kingdom’ perspective not only gives a broader view but also clarifies the distinctive characteristics of English royalism, more robust than its counterparts in the other nations. Robert Armstrong is Fellow and Associate Professor in History at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.
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    ISBN: 9789819953707
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XV, 312 p. 55 illus., 50 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: Cogeneration of electric power and heat. ; Fossil fuels. ; Russia ; Europe, Eastern ; Soviet Union ; World politics.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Coal in the Soviet Economy -- Chapter 3: Reforms in the Russian coal sector -- Chapter 4: Regional trends within the Russian coal sector: Cases of Komi, Kuzbass and Sakhalin -- Chapter 5: Modern Coal Companies of Russia -- Chapter 6: Interconnections between international coal and natural gas markets -- Chapter 7: Russian Coal Sector in the Age of Climate Change -- Chapter 8: Conclusions.
    Abstract: The Russian coal sector today faces challenges in the form of global decarbonization, sanctions, and difficulties in retaining market access and competitiveness. This new market environment warrants an examination of what lessons can be drawn from the past tribulations of one of Russia’s most iconic and strategically important industries. This book analyzes the Russian coal industry developments in historical and political contexts, including those of energy transition. The key tenets of contemporary dialogue between Russia and those who advocate for a speedy energy transition to phase out coal are presented. The book addresses the question of the coal industry as a sacrifice for the sake of Russia’s rapprochement with the West. The contribution of this book, therefore, is filling the gap between two large research inquiries – climate change mitigation and energy transition on the one hand, and the existing large coal industry of a given country on the other. Nikita Lomagin is Academic Director of the Energy Policy and International Relations Research Center (ENERPO), European University at St. Petersburg and Professor in the World Economy Department at St. Petersburg State University. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Davis Center for Russian Studies at Harvard and researcher at the Kennan Institute, University of Michigan Law School, Finnish Institute for international relations. Irina Mironova is Associate Research Fellow at the ENERPO Research Center. She held research and teaching positions at ERIRAS, Gubkin University of Oil and Gas; Venice International University; OSCE Academy in Bishkek; Energy Charter Secretariat. Since 2018, Irina works at the Strategy Department of one of the Russian energy companies. Maxim Titov is a seasoned professional with over 20 years of practicing Sustainable Energy and Sustainable Finance at international development institutions. He joined the European University at Saint-Petersburg in 2016 as an Executive Director of ENERPO. Maxim served as a visiting professor at the Venice International University for the 2018 spring semester. Michael Oshchepkov is an economist currently working in the energy sector. He has experience in energy market research, corporate sustainability reporting analysis, and speaking at international conferences on energy topics. Besides, Michael is a Research Fellow at the ENERPO Research Center and a climate change advocate at Climate Scorecard, an NGO.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXV, 284 p. 7 illus., 6 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: Middle East ; Middle East ; World politics. ; Imperialism. ; Europe ; International relations
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2. The Political and Cultural Geography of a Tribal Uprising -- 3. The Disintegration of Iran as a Failed State and the Rise of Simko -- 4. The Survivalist Simko -- 5. Simko during the First World War -- 6. Simko and Mar Shimun: The Kurdish-Assyrian War of Survival -- 7. The End of the First World War and Simko's Revolt -- 8. Simko's Wars against Iran -- 9. Simko's Last Battle -- 10. The End of Simko -- 11. Conclusion.
    Abstract: This book focuses on the rise of Kurdish nationalism in northwestern Iran in the context of the emergence of the Kurdish leader, Ismail Agha Simko, who organized a movement to establish a Kurdish state between 1918 and 1922 The rise of Simko is analyzed in the historical framework of the collapse of the Russian and Ottoman empires, as well as the disappearance of Iranian governmental authority in various provinces of the country during and after the end of the First World War. The book also investigates the impact of Iranian, Turkish, and Assyrian nationalisms on Simko and his movement. Drawing upon original documents, the author provides an in-depth analysis of the political, and socio-economic causes for the rise of proto-Kurdish nationalism in northwestern Iran during and after the Great War. Mehrdad Kia is the Co-Director of the Central and Southwest Asian Studies Center at the University of Montana, USA, where he is also a professor of Middle Eastern and Central Asian history and politics.
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    ISBN: 9783031109171
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XV, 360 p. 4 illus., 1 illus. in color.)
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    Keywords: Europe ; France ; Language and languages. ; World politics. ; Civilization ; Social history.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Dominance Challenged: The French-Speakers of Flanders and Calls for Linguistic Equality before World War I -- Chapter 3: A War of Words: Invasion, Occupation, and the Shattering of Flanders’s Linguistic Equilibrium, 1914-1918 -- Chapter 4: From Resurgence to Retreat: The French-Speakers of Flanders from the End of World War I to the Language Laws of the 1930s -- Chapter 5: An Uneasy Status Quo, 1932-1960 -- Chapter 6: Decline and Fall: The Last Fights for French in Flanders, 1960-1974 -- Chapter 7: Conclusion: The Continued Presence of the Francophones of Flanders.
    Abstract: This book examines the efforts of the French-speaking minority in Flanders, Belgium to maintain a legal and social presence of the French language in Flemish public life. Chronologically, the study is bookended by two developments, almost exactly a century apart. In 1873, the first laws were passed which required the use of Dutch in some aspects of public administration in Flanders, challenging the de facto use of French among the Flemish ruling class. One hundred and one years later, the last French daily newspaper in Flanders collapsed, marking the end of a once-vibrant French-language public sphere in Flanders. The author contends that the methods and arguments by which French speakers defended the role of French in Flemish public life changed along with the social and political situation of this minority. As the Flemish movement grew over the course of the twentieth century, French speakers’ appeals to the “free choice” of language lost traction, and they put forward claims that they represented an ethnolinguistic minority who deserved protection for their mother tongue. Providing new insights for scholars of European history, and in conversation with the literature on liberalism, national identity, and Francophonie, this book demonstrates how the debate over the role of French in Flanders was at the center of Belgium’s ethnolinguistic conflict – the repercussions of which continue to be felt to this day. David J. Hensley is Associate Professor of History at Georgia Highlands College, USA. He previously taught at Queen’s University Belfast and the University of Central Oklahoma.
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    ISBN: 9783031095047
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VII, 339 p. 1 illus.)
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    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Political History
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    Keywords: Europe—History. ; America—History. ; Intellectual life—History. ; World history. ; World politics. ; Europe ; America ; Intellectual life
    Abstract: 1. Civic continuities in an Age of Revolutionary Change. Europe and the Americas, c. 1750-1850; Judith Pollmann and Henk te Velde -- Part 1: Residual powers -- 2. Distance and Proximity. Parliamentary Representation and the Persistence of Local Ties in Britain, France and the Netherlands, c. 1780s – 1850; Henk te Velde -- 3. Post-revolutionary France: the ultimate test case?; Bernard Rulof -- 4. Regional resilience in the Age of Revolutions: the persistence of the Dutch provinces, 1748-1848; Diederik Smit -- 5. Order, War and Religion: the Chilean Republic between Tradition and Change; Ana María Stuven -- Part 2: The power of practice -- 6. The ‘Sanction of Precedent’: Publishers and Political Dissent in Central Europe during the Age of Revolution; James M. Brophy -- 7. Maintaining Order in Revolutionary Times – The Political Practices of a Mercantile Elite in the Rhineland, 1770-1830; Anne Sophie Overkamp -- 8. Indigenous Citizens and Black Republicans: Continuities and Evolutions of Subalterns’ Political Visions and Repertoires in post-Independence Colombia and Mexico; James E. Sanders -- 9. Restoring the Moral Order of the Community. The Symbolic Repertoire of Collective Action in the Dutch Age of Revolutions; Joris Oddens -- Part 3: Experiencing and domesticating change -- 10. The experience of ‘reform’ in English local governance in the era of the ‘Reform ministry’ (1830-41); Joanna Innes -- 11. ‘The free action of the collective power of individuals’: Vernacular Democracy and the Sovereign People; Dana D. Nelson -- 12. The spirit of the belltower. Chronicling urban time in an age of revolution; Judith Pollmann.
    Abstract: This open access book explores the role of continuity in political processes and practices during the Age of Revolutions. It argues that the changes that took place in the years around 1800 were enabled by different types of continuities across Europe and in the Americas. With historians of modernity tending to emphasise the rise of the new, scholarship has leaned towards an assumption that existing modes of action, thought and practice simply became extinct, irrelevant or at least subordinate to new modes. In contrast, this collection examines continuities between early modern and modern political cultures and organization in Europe and the Americas. Shifting the focus from political modernization, the authors examine the continued relevance of older, often local, practices in (post)revolutionary politics. By doing so, they aim to highlight the role of local political traditions and practices in forging and enabling political change. The book argues that while political change was in fact at the centre of both the old and new polities that emerged in the Age of Revolutions, it coexisted with, and was indeed enabled by, continuities at other levels. Judith Pollmann is Professor of Early Modern History at the Institute for History at Leiden University, the Netherlands. Henk te Velde is Professor of Modern History at the Institute for History at Leiden University, the Netherlands.
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    ISBN: 9789819907106
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXI, 282 p. 4 illus., 2 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: China Academic Library
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    Keywords: Civilization—History. ; Culture—Study and teaching. ; China—History. ; World politics. ; Culture ; China ; Civilization
    Abstract: Chinese Civilization in World History -- Geographic Factors -- Chinese Language -- Rise of Classical Thoughts -- Confucianism -- Daoism and Other Schools of Thought -- Buddhism in China -- Recurrent Themes in Chinese Civilization -- Changes over Two Millennia -- Late Imperial State and Society (Qing) -- Stratification of Late Imperial Society -- Sino-European Relations -- Background of the 19th Century Rebellion -- The Taiping Rebellion -- Foreign Affairs Movement -- Chinese Foreign Relations 1857-1895 -- The Transitional Generation -- The Boxers -- Revolutionary Intellectuals 1898-1911 -- The May Fourth Movement -- The New Literature -- The Political Scene in 1923-1927 -- The Nanjing Decade -- War of Resistance Against Japan. .
    Abstract: The book is a meticulous work in answering these questions which often occur to foreigners as well as modern Chinese themselves at the thought of the old China and its experience in modern times: What is Chinese civilization? How could it exist for several millennia and spread that far? Is there anything inherent in this civilization? From the standpoint of an “outsider” to this civilization, the author incorporates various elements, such as geographic factors, language, thoughts, with the recurrent themes along the two thousand years and changes throughout, rather than simply following a lineal progression. His historiographical approach, the methodology of eclectic common sense, as he termed it, is a new try in this field and will present a brand new perspective for both readers and researchers in that field.
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    ISBN: 9783031286513
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXVII, 194 p. 53 illus.)
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    Series Statement: Queenship and Power
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    Keywords: Europe—History—To 476. ; Italy—History. ; Women—History. ; World politics. ; Numismatics. ; Women ; Europe ; Italy
    Abstract: 1 Literary Sources -- 1 Aurelian’s Anonymous Uxor -- 2 Ulpius Crinitus -- Bibliography -- 2 Numismatic Sources -- 1 The Venèra Hoard -- 2 The interregnum between Aurelian and Tacitus -- Bibliography -- 3 The Epigraphic Sources -- 1 The Inscriptions of Ulpia Severina, Coniux Aureliani -- 2 The Titles of Σεπτιμία Ζηνοβία Σεβαστή -- Bibliography -- Concluding Remarks.
    Abstract: Of the twelve Augustae who lived during the fifty years of the so-called “military anarchy” (235-284 A.D.), Ulpia Severina, wife of the “Illyrian” emperor Aurelian (270-275 AD), is certainly one of the most enigmatic and less known. The book focuses on Ulpia Severina, who, even though never mentioned by name in literary sources, has been studied almost exclusively from the perspective of the numerous coins issued in her name and is the subject of many interesting honorific inscriptions that had not been thoroughly examined or adequately valued until this study. This exceptional situation, represented by the sole presence of Ulpia Severina on the throne of Rome, deserves more attention than it has received. The pages of the university history textbooks dedicated to the reconstruction of a fifty-year phase of Roman-imperial history must be, if not rewritten, at least integrated in order to give the deserved space to this empress and, therefore, to the so-called “interregnum,” which lasted at least two months, between the death of Aurelian and the advent of emperor Tacitus. Margherita Cassia is associate professor of Roman History at the Department of Humanities, University of Catania. Her research interests comprise the condition of women in the imperial age (Egypt, Sicily, Asia Minor); the city-country relationship in Cappadocia, Pontus, Malta and Sicily; society, economy, and culture in the Cappadocian Fathers; political history, ethnogeography, and family ties in Strabo’s Geography; the role of medicine in the Roman-imperial age; imperial power and the medical profession; and university teaching of ancient history. Her publications include: Cappadocia romana. Strutture urbane e strutture agrarie alla periferia dell’Impero (2004), La piaga e la cura. Poveri e ammalati, medici e monaci nell’Anatolia rurale tardoantica (2009), Andromaco di Creta. Medicina e potere nella Roma neroniana (2012), Fra biografia e cronografia. Storici cappadoci nell’età dei Costantinidi (2014), Marcello di Side. Gli imperatori adottivi e il potere della medicina (2016), Roma e la sua storia. Dalla città all’Impero (2019).
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    ISBN: 9789819907342
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XX, 1734 p. 111 illus., 31 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: China ; World politics. ; Civilization
    Abstract: 1. Pre-20th Century China -- 2. 1900-1912: The Era of Transformation -- 3. 1912-1927: Disarrangements of Power and New Intellectual Trends -- 4. 1927-1937: The First Decade of the National Government -- 5. 1937-1949: From the War of Resistance to Civil War -- 6. 1949-1953: A Confrontation Between two regimes. .
    Abstract: This book provides readers with rich context and detailed description leading to new perspectives on major historical events in China. Positioned as a thought leader and highly acclaimed arts professional in China, the author is able to give a historical account of China’s twentieth century that is richly informed by its valent fields of political economy and cultural studies. Western readers' knowledge of China’s twentieth century remains based on pioneering research of modern scholars such as Fairbank and Jonathan Spence. In recent years, however, it is rare to see a complete history of China spanning the nineteenth and twentieth centuries which also includes the first two decades of the twenty-first century. This book contributes new narrative and perspective to this span of history. Now, as the Sino-US trade conflict makes dramatic impact on a post-COVID global economy, readers have the need for a fresh understanding of how China came to be what it is today. The author’s groundbreaking work provides new insight provided by newly uncovered sources explaining how China came to be what it is today from a cultural and sociological perspective, in a historical mode. Lü Peng is an eminent art historian, historiographer, critic, and curator. Born in 1956, he served as an associate professor for his alma mater, the Chinese Academy of Fine Arts, in Hangzhou. He is now a professor at the Macao University of Science and Technology, as well as at Sichuan Fine Arts Institute. He is Doctor of Letters from the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou.
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    ISBN: 9783031365140
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVI, 419 p. 26 illus., 20 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: Imperialism. ; Great Britain ; Middle East ; Civilization ; World politics.
    Abstract: 1. “Veiled under the easy name of the Eastern Question”: Locating the Eastern Question in 1870s Britain -- 2. “Altered out of all recognition”: Unearthing the Eastern Question from Its Grave -- 3. “The Eastern Question cannot settle itself”: From Bulgaria to India and Back Again -- 4. The Triumph of War: The 1877-1878 Russo-Turkish War in Victorian Society -- 5. Surveillance, Negotiation, and Propaganda in British Imperialism: The Case of Cyprus -- 6. Imperialism by Negotiation: Britain at the 1878 Congress of Berlin -- 7. Another Eastern Question: The Eastern Question Expands -- 8. “The Eastern Question will never be solved”: The Perseverance of History.
    Abstract: This book examines mid-Victorian discourse on the expansion of the British Empire’s role in the Middle East. It investigates how British political leaders, journalists and the general public responded to events in the Ottoman Empire, which many, if not most, people in Britain came to see as trudging towards inevitable chaos and destruction. Although this ‘Eastern Question’ on a post-Ottoman future was ostensibly a matter of international politics and sometimes conflict, this study argues that the ideas underpinning it were conceived, shaped, and enforced according to domestic British attitudes. In this way, this book presents the Eastern Question as as much a British question as one related in any way to the Ottoman Empire. Particularly in the crucial decade of the 1870s, debates in Victorian society on the Eastern Question served as proxies for other pressing issues of the day, including electoral reform, changing religious attitudes, public education, and the costs of maintaining Britain’s empire. This book offers new perspectives on the Eastern Question’s relationship to these trends in Victorian society, culture, and politics, highlighting its significance in understanding Britain’s imperial programme more widely in the second half of the nineteenth century. Leslie Rogne Schumacher teaches history, leadership, and intelligence studies at Wells College in Aurora, NY, USA. He also serves in the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies at Cornell University and as a Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia, PA, USA. He is a historian of Europe and the Middle East, focusing on nationalism, imperialism, and migration in the Mediterranean Sea and its basin from the 1700s to the present day. .
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    ISBN: 9783031494383
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XI, 332 p. 2 illus.)
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    Series Statement: Britain and the World
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    Keywords: Great Britain ; Africa, Sub-Saharan ; International relations ; Imperialism. ; World politics.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Part I. Educational Policy -- Chapter 2: Racialised Educational Diplomacy: Scholarships and Race, 1960-1964 -- Chapter 3: UK-South African Educational Cooperation in the Years of ‘High’ Apartheid, 1964 to 1979.-Chapter 4: Forging Ties with the ‘Successor Generation’, 1979 to 1994.-Part 2: Cultural and Sporting Contact.-Chapter 5: The British Broadcasting Company: Asset or Hindrance to the Perception of the UK in Apartheid South Africa?.-Chapter 6: British ‘Cultural Manifestations’ in South Africa, 1960 to 1994.-Chapter 7: UK Policy Towards Sporting Contact with South Africa, 1960 to 1977.-Chapter 8: UK Policy Towards Sporting Contact with South Africa, 1977 to 1994.-Chapter 9: Conclusion.
    Abstract: Daniel J. Feather is a Senior Lecturer in History at Liverpool John Moores University, in the UK. He has published articles in leading international and diplomatic history journals and obtained multiple research grants from bodies such as the Royal Historical Society and British Academy. Daniel is a British Council Research Partner and is also on the editorial board of AM Digital’s Apartheid South Africa, 1981-1994 digitisation project. This book analyses the British government’s use of cultural diplomacy in South Africa from 1960 to 1994. Previously, scholarship on UK-South African relations has focussed mainly on political, economic, or military links; this book makes an important and original intervention by emphasising how the British government sought to use cultural ties as part of its diplomacy in South Africa. The book also highlights the controversy these links generated owing to broader international efforts to ostracise South Africa owing to the racist apartheid system in the country at the time. By examining British policy towards educational exchanges, performing arts tours, radio and television broadcasts, and sporting contact, this book provides a dynamic case study from which to analyse Britain’s use of cultural diplomacy during a period of relative decline, while also adding a new layer to the well-established literature on the UK-South African special relationship. .
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    ISBN: 9783031217142
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIV, 353 p. 10 illus., 4 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: United States—History. ; Medicine—History. ; Law—History. ; Social history. ; World politics. ; Race. ; United States ; Law ; Medicine
    Abstract: Chapter 1.Introduction -- Chapter 2.“Friendless and Homeless:” The Gold Rush to 1870 -- Chapter 3. “A Sin and a Shame:” Regional Institutional Development in the Late 19th Century -- Chapter 4. “Helpless and Delinquent”: The Los Angeles Psychopathic Association -- Chapter 5. “The Thankless Task:” Parole, Eugenics; and the Institutionalization of the Addicted -- Chapter 6. “Their Responsibility:” From the Great Depression to the Birth of the Community Clinic -- Chapter 7. “To Promote Mental Health:” The Bureaucracy of Disability at Midcentury -- Chapter 8. “Whistling in the Dark:” California’s Politics of Disability Transformed -- Chapter 9. California after the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act -- Conclusion.
    Abstract: This book explores the political, legal, medical, and social battles that led to the widespread institutionalization of Californians with disabilities from the gold rush to the 1970s. By the early twentieth century, most American states had specialized facilities dedicated to both the care and the control of individuals with disabilities. Institutions reflect the lived historical experience of many Americans with disabilities in this era. Yet we know relatively little about how such state institutions fit into specific regional, state, or local contexts west of the Mississippi River; how those contexts shaped how institutions evolved over time; or how regional institutions fit into the USA’s contentious history of care and control of Americans with mental and developmental disabilities. This book examines how medical, social, and political arguments that individuals with disabilities needed to be institutionalized became enshrined in state law in California through the creation of a “bureaucracy of disability.” Using Los Angeles County as a case study, the book also considers how the friction between state and county policy in turn influenced the treatment of individuals within such facilities. Furthermore, the book tracks how the mission and methods of such institutions evolved over time, culminating in the 1960s with the birth of the disability rights movement and the complete rewriting of California’s laws on the treatment and rights of Californians with disabilities. This book is a must-read for those interested in the history of California and the American West and for anyone interested in how the intersections of disability, politics, and activism shaped our historical understanding of life for Americans with disabilities. Eileen V. Wallis is Professor of History at California Polytechnic State University, Pomona, in Pomona, California, USA. Her research focus is the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American West, with a focus on California. She is particularly interested in the intersections of race, gender, disability, and class, and the ways in which those variables interacted with structures of power during the Progressive era. .
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    ISBN: 9783031280979
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XI, 136 p.)
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    Keywords: Middle East—History. ; Women—History. ; History, Modern. ; World politics. ; Economic history. ; Women ; Middle East
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2. Why Women Are Absent From Political and Economic Histories? -- 3. The Pre-Revolution Struggles and the Emergence of New Classes -- 4. Women, Daily Life and Street: Women’s Participation in the Nineteenth Century Demonstrations -- 5. Economic Crisis, the Coloniality of Consumption and Women’s Resistance -- 6. From Resistance to Repression: Modernization and Transformations of Women’s Movement -- 7. Epilogue.
    Abstract: Most scholarship on the nineteenth and early twentieth century Constitutional Revolution in Iran has focused on the role of two groups, intellectuals and the clergy. The role of women has largely been ignored, despite their widespread participation in the Revolution, and existing research on women has mainly focused on their achievements in the realm of women’s rights, which means that other aspects of women’s activism remain un-investigated. The aim of this book is twofold: first, it presents one of the very first studies of women’s resistance strategies and their resistance to consumerism in Iran; second, and in relation to the first objective, it attempts to demonstrate the biased nature of knowledge production in the studies of women in past societies, particularly the role of women in economics. This book therefore explores the public role of women and their efforts to revive Iran’s economy during and after the Constitutional Revolution. Maryam Dezhamkhooy is an Affiliated Researcher at Heidelberg University, Germany.
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    ISBN: 9783031295119
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(X, 263 p.)
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    Series Statement: War, Culture and Society, 1750–1850
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    Keywords: Military history. ; World politics. ; World history.
    Abstract: 1.Introduction -- Part I Royalism and Royalists in Transnational Perspective: Comparative Approaches from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic -- 2. Royalist Commitment in the Age of the Atlantic Revolutions (1770s–1820s): Some Initial Definitions and Guidelines for Future Research -- 3. Popular Royalism in Scandinavia and Spanish America Before 1814 -- 4. King, War and Bread: Popular Royalism in Southern Europe (1789–1830) -- 5. Spanish Royalism in a European Perspective (1820–23) -- Part II Dynamics of Royalist Mobilization: War, Patronage Networks and Community -- 6. Counterrevolutionaries? Underground Struggles and Gender Relations During the French Revolution (Brittany, 1793–99) -- 7. Militias and Popular Royalism During the War of Independence of New Spain -- 8. Between Discipline and Rebellion: Popular Participation in Basque Royalism (1814–33) -- 9. Revolts, Brigandage and Popular Royalism in Southern Italy in the Aftermath of National Unification -- Part III Visions of the Royalist People: Discursive Construction of Reactionary Mass Politics -- 10. ‘The True Language of the Spanish People’ and Discourses of Early Ecclesiastical Antiliberalism -- 11. A Kingdom of This World: Ultramontanism and the Mobilization of the Masses During the Papacy of Pius IX (1846–78) -- 12. A Kingless People is a Dangerous Crowd: An Examination of French Far-right Demophobia in Pierre Gaxotte’s La révolution française (1928) -- 13. Epilogue: Emancipation and Popular Politics—An Aporia of Liberalism -- .
    Abstract: This book offers a ground-breaking approach to royalism and popular politics in Europe and the Americas during the Age of Revolutions. It shows how royalist and counterrevolutionary movements did not propose a mere return to the past, but rather introduced an innovative way of addressing the demands and expectations of various social groups. Ordinary people were involved in the war and adapted the traditional imaginary of the monarchy to craft new models of political participation. This edited collection brings together scholars from France, Spain, Norway, and Mexico, to provide a transatlantic comparative perspective. It is a must-read for scholars and students looking to discover the lesser-known side of the Age of Revolutions, and the motivations of those who fought in the name of the king. Andoni Artola is Assistant Professor at the University of the Basque Country, Spain. Álvaro París is Assistant Professor at the University of Salamanca, Spain.
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    ISBN: 9783031364259
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VI, 270 p. 3 illus.)
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    Series Statement: Security, Conflict and Cooperation in the Contemporary World
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    Keywords: International relations ; Asia ; World politics. ; Imperialism. ; History, Modern.
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2. Pursuing the Idea of India -- 3. Politics and Diplomacy in Princely India -- 4. Independent India and the World -- 5. The Chinese Experience -- 6. From Indian History to the History of Civilization -- 7. Conclusions.
    Abstract: “An important and deeply researched book that offers a compelling critical account of a significant actor in India’s colonial and post-colonial history. This fine piece of original scholarship is likely to define debates surrounding Panikkar’s life and work for years to come.” —Paul McGarr, FRHistS, FRAS, Associate Professor in US Foreign Policy, University of Nottingham Shedding light on the role of India within twentieth-century international relations, this book explores the life and career of Kavalam Madhava (K. M.) Panikkar (1894–1963), an Indian historian, statesman and diplomat. Having been involved in Indian intellectual and political life throughout the transition from the British Empire to the Nehruvian era, Panikkar was an important figure in the evolution of the modern Indian state. Based on over four years of extensive research both in India and Europe, and the analysis of public writings and unpublished archival documents, this book examines Panikkar’s role in the Indian national movement, the governance of several Princely states, and India’s foreign policy, notably with China. Not only do the authors critically re-evaluate Panikkar’s intellectual and political thoughts, but also his influence on the broader issue of India’s path towards independence. Offering a valuable contribution to modern Indian diplomatic history and wider international relations, this comprehensive book emphasises Panikkar’s importance in shaping the modern idea of India and crucial elements of Indian foreign policy. Mauro Elli is Associate Professor of Contemporary History in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Milan ‘La Statale’, Italy. He is a member of the Secretariat for the International Commission of History of International Relations, an affiliated body of the International Committee of Historical Sciences. Rita Paolini oversees research support in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Previously, she was a Research Fellow at the University of Milan, where she obtained her Ph.D. in Contemporary History, and she was affiliated to Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, India.
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    ISBN: 9783031419041
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VI, 122 p.)
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    Keywords: Italy ; World politics. ; Historiography. ; History
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2. The Origins of Fascism: The Contemporary Interpretation -- 3. Coming to Terms with the Near Past: Post-War Historiography -- 4. The Historiography on Fascism from the End of the Cold War -- 5: Confronting the Last Two Years of Fascism: Historiography on the Italian Social Republic (1943-1945) -- 6. Conclusion.
    Abstract: This is the first book on Italian Fascism to analyse the rich historiography written in Italian for the benefit of the English-speaking students. Claudia Baldoli clarifies the most important research and debates from the origins of Fascism to the ways in which it is remembered today. Claudia Baldoli is Associate Professor in Contemporary History at the University of Milan, Italy. .
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    ISBN: 9783031450174
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXI, 334 p. 2 illus.)
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    Keywords: Europe ; Great Britain ; International relations ; World politics.
    Abstract: Introduction -- Chapter 1. New Zealand and Britain’s failed Accession Attempts, 1960-69 -- Chapter 2. Negotiations for European Community Enlargement, 1970-71 -- Chapter 3. New Zealand, the European Communities Act and the Treaty of Accession, 1971-72 -- Chapter 4. New Zealand and the First Year of British Membership in the European Community, 1973 -- Chapter 5. Renegotiation, Referendum and the Review of New Zealand’s Special Arrangement, 1975 -- Chapter 6. Lamb is Shepherded into the CAP and New Zealand’s Special Arrangement is Extended, 1979-81 -- Chapter 7. Cold War Endings to Brexit and Free Trade Agreements, 1985-2022 -- 8. Conclusions.
    Abstract: This book explores how New Zealand, a small country almost as far from Western Europe as it is possible to be, assumed political importance in Britain’s accession to the European Community vastly out of proportion to its size, proximity and strategic position. At several points in accession negotiations, the issue of New Zealand’s continued trade with Britain threatened to derail UK Government attempts to join the Community. This issue also interacted with the broader context of the Cold War, economic shocks and decolonisation, materially affecting the terms of entry into the European Community, and altering Britain’s relations with its European partners and the British public’s perceptions of British membership. After entry, New Zealand continued to resurface as a continued source of tension between Britain and an integrating Europe. The role that New Zealand played sheds light on Britain’s attempts to retain global influence after the demise of its formal empire. Contributing to a growing body of research which challenges the traditional historical narratives of British ‘decline’ and colonial ‘independence’ in the second half of the twentieth century, this book fills an important gap in the historiography of Britain following the 1973 enlargement of the European Communities. Hamish McDougall is Executive Director of the New Zealand Institute of International Affairs – Whare Tawāhi-a-mahi i Aotearoa. Previously, his doctoral study of international history at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), focussed on the topic of Anglo-New Zealand relations in the context of European integration.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIV, 207 p. 1 illus.)
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    Series Statement: Global Political Transitions
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    Keywords: Political science. ; Europe—Politics and government. ; Comparative government. ; World politics.
    Abstract: 1. Democratisation Theory and Comparative Politics -- 2. From 'Organic Democracy' to 'Democracy without Adjectives': Spain 1976-77 -- 3. From Dictatorship to Dictatorship: Greece 1973 -- 4. From Dictatorship to 'Difficult Democracy': Turkey 1983 -- 5. Is 'Democracy Out of Tyranny' Feasible and Viable?.
    Abstract: This book examines three cases of democratic transitions by self-transformation of the non-democratic regimes in Southern Europe—the Spanish reforma pactada-ruptura pactada of 1976-77, the Greek “Markezinis experiment” of 1973, and the Turkish democratic transition of 1983—in a comparative perspective. The author argues that a democratic transition initiated by the regime elites is, in contrast to widely held assumptions and notwithstanding some reservations on whether democracy can be (re-)introduced by non-democrats, worth viewing as a “window of opportunity” for democratisation. It is up to the democratic counter-elites to respond to it, using the civil society and the international factor as allies to achieve their goal of acquiring more concessions from the regime. Ioannis Tzortis is Teaching Fellow in the Department of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Birmingham, UK.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIV, 201 p. 43 illus., 2 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Keywords: Europe—Politics and government. ; Elections. ; Communication in politics. ; World politics.
    Abstract: 1. Studying Referendums and Voting in Scotland -- 2. The 2014 Referendum Campaign -- 3. How Voters Reacted to Campaign Cues -- 4. Explaining Referendum Vote Choice -- 5. Two Earthquakes or One? -- 6. Electoral Behaviour 2014 to 2019: The Multi-Level Voter in Scotland -- 7. How the Referendum Changes Scotland: Engagement, Polarisation and Losers' Consent -- 8. Conclusion.
    Abstract: “This book is short but very sweet, in electoral analysis terms. You can pick this book up and read it in one sitting, gain a ton of fascinating insights you didn’t know, gain a depth of understanding about referenda in general and the Scottish referendum in particular, and learn lessons from the 2014 independence referendum and what has followed with all the implications still to come. Accessible and careful scholarship at its best.” —Jane Green, Professor of Political Science, University of Oxford, UK “This outstanding book provides a wonderfully detailed but accessible analysis of the lasting significance of a seismic event in Scottish – and UK – politics, the 2014 independence referendum. Packed with informative and authoritative data, The Referendum that Changed a Nation is a must-read for anyone who wants to enhance their understanding of contemporary Scottish politics and a constitutional debate which will not disappear anytime soon.” —Jon Tonge, Professor of Politics, University of Liverpool, UK Drawing on data from the Scottish Referendum Study and subsequent Scottish Election Studies, this book provides the first in depth analysis of how voters engaged with the independence referendum in 2014 and what impact this has had on vote choice, polarisation and engagement in Scotland since then. The book contains eight chapters, and discusses how voters engaged with the referendum campaign, explains vote choice by examining reactions to the cues of parties, leaders and events, and compares the importance of these to calculations about risk. Ailsa Henderson is Professor of Political Science at the University of Edinburgh, UK. Robert Johns is Professor of Politics at the University of Essex, UK. Jac M. Larner is Lecturer in Politics at Cardiff University and Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, UK. Christopher J. Carman is Stevenson Professor of Citizenship at the University of Glasgow, UK. .
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