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Publisher
Manchester University Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
This collection of essays by leading scholars of American literature and culture has emerged out of recent debates on the historical, geographical, symbolic, and cultural significance of the Atlantic, as well as new work in the area of Transatlantic Studies. In a series of fascinating essays the authors have produced diverse and innovative interventions in the field of Anglo-American literary relations. The authors discussed range from Gertrude Stein...
Publisher
Springer Open
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
This atlas provides a macro-regional overview of the areas that surround the European Union, from the Sahara to the Middle East, Western Balkans to European Russia, Turkey to the Arctic. Detailing key socio-economic data as well as developmental trends, the maps provide a comprehensive territorial analysis at a local scale and explore the potential for regional integration and cooperation.These pioneering maps examine challenges that threaten this...
Publisher
Amsterdam University Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Is the end of the nation-state approaching, now that the international economy takes less and less notice of borders between countries and the European Union has already acquired so much political power? What does national autonomy mean when governments delegate any number of powers to international organizations? Internationalization leads to political change, and the position of the nation-state appears to be undergoing a radical process of erosion....
Publisher
Anthem Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Water Security in the Middle East argues that, while conflicts over transboundary water systems in the Middle East do occur, they tend not to be violent nor are they the primary cause of a war in this region. The contributors in this collection of essays place water disputes in larger political, historical and scientific contexts and discuss how the humanities and social sciences contribute towards this understanding. The authors contend that international...
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University of Michigan Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people face the same family issues as their heterosexual counterparts, but that is only the beginning of their struggle. The LGBT community also encounters legal barriers to government recognition of their same-sex relationships and relationships to their own children. Policy Issues Affecting Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Families addresses partner recognition, parenting, issues affecting children...
Publisher
ANU Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
While political parties remain an indispensable institutional framework for representation and governance in a democracy, the democracies of many Pacific Islands nations are undermined by the weakness and inefficacy of their local political parties. Addressing the implications of the lack of established party systems across the Pacific, this collection seeks to illuminate the underlying assumptions and suppositions behind the importance of coherent...
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Publisher
Manchester University Press
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Everyday Resistance, Peacebuilding and State-making addresses debates on the liberal peace and the policies of peacebuilding through a theoretical and empirical study of resistance in peacebuilding contexts. Examining the case of ‘Africa’s World War’ in the DRC, it locates resistance in the experiences of war, peacebuilding and state-making by exploring discourses, violence and everyday forms of survival as quotidian acts that...
Publisher
ANU Press
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Collaboration has emerged as a central concept in public policy circles in Australia and a panacea to the complex challenges facing Australia. But is this really the cure-all it seems to be? In this edited collection we present scholarly and practitioner perspectives on the drivers, challenges, prospects and promise of collaboration. The papers, first presented at the 2007 ANZSOG Conference, draw on the extensive experience of the contributors in...
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Publisher
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"This book examines how the intensive discussions about the issue of juvenile delinquency in the new international organizations (United Nations, World Health Organization, Council of Europe), which emerged after the end of the Second World War, internationalized the anxieties generated in the fifties and sixties by its purported increase in Europe and beyond. Greece, a regular member-state, anxious to ensure international legitimacy in the aftermath...
Publisher
Duke University Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
In What's Left of the Left, distinguished scholars of European and U.S. politics consider how center-left political parties have fared since the 1970s. They explore the left's responses to the end of the postwar economic boom, the collapse of the Soviet Union, the erosion of traditional party politics, the expansion of market globalization, and the shift to a knowledge-based economy. Their comparative studies of center-left politics in Scandinavia,...
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Publisher
Manchester University Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Mobilising the concept of strategic culture, this study develops a sophisticated and innovative framework to understand developments in German security policy between 1990 and 2003. Germany's contemporary security policies are characterised by a peculiar mix of continuity and change. From abstention in the first Gulf war, to early peacekeeping missions in Bosnia in the early 1990s and a full combat role in Kosovo in 1999, the pace of change in German...
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Publisher
Manchester University Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
This substantially updated and revised edition offers a comprehensive overview of the challenges confronting the political system as well as the international politics of the European Union. It draws from a rich spectrum of regional integration theories to determine what the Union actually is and how it is developing. The book examines constitutional politics of the European Union, from the Single European Act to the Treaty of Nice and beyond. The...
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Publisher
ANU Press
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
The latter years of the first decade of the twenty-first century were characterised by an enormous amount of challenge and change to Australia and Australians. Australia’s part in these challenges and changes is borne of our domestic and global ties, our orientation towards ourselves and others, and an ever increasing awareness of the interdependency of our world. Challenges and changes such as terrorism, climate change, human rights, community...
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Publisher
Berghahn Books
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Postcolonial theory is central to many scholarly debates around the world. Some of these debates have become rather sterile and are characterized by a repetitive reworking of old issues, focusing on cultural questions of language and identity in particular. Margaret A. Majumdar investigates the causes of the apparent stagnation of postcolonial theory in some circles, and provides an overview of the divergence between Anglophone and Francophone approaches...
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Publisher
transcript Verlag
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Deutsch
Description
Donald Trump als Präsident - das war bis zu seinem Triumph unvorstellbar. Noch mehr erstaunt, dass halb Amerika ihn wiederwählen will, darunter ein erheblicher Anteil, für den sich diese Treue nicht einmal »rechnet«. Wenn gerade dort, wo die westliche Demokratie ihren Siegeszug angetreten haben soll, einer wie er so viel Zustimmung erhält, dann fragt man sich, ob 200 Jahre politische Kultur einfach entsorgt werden können. Eigentlich nicht....
Publisher
transcript Verlag
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Deutsch
Description
Demokratie wird auch im Alltag »gemacht«: in der Verteidigung oder Aufgabe persönlicher Freiheiten, im Zulassen von oder Aufbegehren gegen Ungerechtigkeiten, in Gesten des Sich-Einsetzens für andere. Doch wie werden Gleichheit, Freiheit und Solidarität dabei konkret verhandelt? Dieser Frage nehmen sich die Beiträger*innen des Bandes - ausgehend von dem gemeinsam mit Schüler*innen durchgeführten Forschungsprojekt »Making Democracy« - anhand...
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Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The rise of China is changing the strategic landscape globally and regionally. How states respond to potential threats posed by this new power arrangement will be crucial to international relations for the coming decades. This book builds on existing realist and rationalist concepts of balancing, bandwagoning, commitment problems, and asymmetric information to craft explanations about how states respond when faced with potential threats. Specifically,...
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The Russia-Europe relationship is deteriorating, signaling the darkest era yet in security on the continent since the end of the Cold War. In addition, the growing influence of the Trump administration has destabilized the transatlantic security community, compelling Europe—especially the European Union—to rethink its relations with Russia. The volume editors’ primary goal is to illuminate the nature of the deteriorating security relationship...
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Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Building on the concept of depoliticization, this book provides a first systematic analysis of International Organizations (IO) apolitical claims. It shows that depoliticization sustains IO everyday activities while allowing them to remain engaged in politics, even when they pretend not to. Delving into the inner dynamics of global governance, this book develops an analytical framework on why IOs "hate" politics by bringing together practices and...
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Publisher
Brookings Institution Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
In this new Brookings Marshall Paper, Michael O'Hanlon argues that now is the time for Western nations to negotiate a new security architecture for neutral countries in eastern Europe to stabilize the region and reduce the risks of war with Russia. He believes NATO expansion has gone far enough. The core concept of this new security architecture would be one of permanent neutrality. The countries in question collectively make a broken-up arc, from...
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