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Tectonic Politics

Author : Nigel Gould-Davies
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
ISBN 13 : 0815737149
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (157 download)

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Download or read book Tectonic Politics written by Nigel Gould-Davies and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2019-05-21 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political risk now affects more markets and countries than ever before and that risk will continue to rise. But traditional methods of managing political risk are no longer legitimate or effective. In Tectonic Politics, Nigel Gould-Davies explores the complex, shifting landscape of political risk and how to navigate it. He analyses trends in each form of political risk: the power to destroy, seize, regulate, and tax. He shows how each of these forms reflects a deeper transformation of the global political economy that is reordering the relationship between power, wealth, and values. In a world where everything is political, the craft of engagement is as important as the science of production and the art of the deal. The successful company must integrate that craft—the engager's way of seeing and doing—into strategy and culture. Drawing on a career in academia, business, and diplomacy, Gould-Davies provides corporate leaders, scholars, and engaged citizens with a groundbreaking study of the fastest-rising political risk today. “As tectonic plates shape the earth,” he writes, “so tectonic politics forges its governance.”

Civic Education and Liberal Democracy

Author : Peter Strandbrink
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 331955798X
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book Civic Education and Liberal Democracy written by Peter Strandbrink and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-07-10 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the inherent tension in civic education. There is a surging belief in contemporary European society that liberal democracy should work harder to reproduce the civic and normative setups of national populations through public education. The cardinal notion is that education remains the best means to accomplish this end, and educational regimes appropriate tools to make the young more tolerant, civic, democratic, communal, cosmopolitan, and prone to engaged activism. This book is concerned with the ambiguities that strain standard visions of civic education and educational statehood. On the one hand, civic-normative education is expected to drive tolerance in the face of conflicting good-life affirmations and accelerating worldview pluralisation; on the other hand, nation-states are primarily interested in reproducing the normative prerogatives that prevail in restricted cultural environments. This means that civic education unfolds on two irreconcilable planes at once: one cosmopolitan/tolerant, another parochial/intolerant. The book will be of significant interest to students and scholars of education, sociology, normative statehood, democracy, and liberal political culture, particularly those working in the areas of civic education; as well as education policy-makers.

Tectonic Shifts

Author : Mark Schuller
Publisher : Kumarian Press
ISBN 13 : 1565495128
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (654 download)

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Download or read book Tectonic Shifts written by Mark Schuller and published by Kumarian Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 7.0 magnitude earthquake that hit Haiti’s capital on January 12, 2010 will be remembered as one of the world’s deadliest disasters. The earthquake was a tragedy that gripped the nation-and the world. But as a disaster it also magnified the social ills that have beset this island nation that sits squarely in the United States’ diplomatic and geopolitical shadow. The quake exposed centuries of underdevelopment, misguided economic policies, and foreign aid interventions that have contributed to rampant inequality and social exclusion in Haiti. Tectonic Shiftsoffers a diverse on-the-ground set of perspectives about Haiti’s cataclysmic earthquake and the aftermath that left more than 1.5 million individuals homeless. Following a critical analysis of Haiti’s heightened vulnerability as a result of centuries of foreign policy and most recently neoliberal economic policies, this book addresses a range of contemporary realities, foreign impositions, and political changes that occurred during the relief and reconstruction periods. Analysis of these realities offers tools for engaged, principled reflection and action. Essays by scholars, journalists, activists, and Haitians still on the island and those in the Diaspora highlight the many struggles that the Haitian people face today, providing lessons not only for those impacted and involved in relief, but for people engaged in struggles for justice and transformation in other parts of the world.

Shifting Boundaries

Author : Alexis M. Silver
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503605752
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Shifting Boundaries written by Alexis M. Silver and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-27 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As politicians debate how to address the estimated eleven million unauthorized immigrants residing in the United States, undocumented youth anxiously await the next policy shift that will determine their futures. From one day to the next, their dreams are as likely to crumble around them as to come within reach. In Shifting Boundaries, Alexis M. Silver sheds light on the currents of exclusion and incorporation that characterize their lives. Silver examines the experiences of immigrant youth growing up in a small town in North Carolina—a state that experienced unprecedented growth in its Latino population in the 1990s and 2000s, and where aggressive anti-immigration policies have been enforced. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and in-depth interview data, she finds that contradictory policies at the national, state, and local levels interact to create a complex environment through which the youth must navigate. From heritage-based school programs to state-wide bans on attending community college; from the failure of the DREAM Act to the rescinding of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA); each layer represents profound implications for undocumented Latino youth. Silver exposes the constantly changing pathways that shape their journeys into early adulthood—and the profound resilience that they develop along the way.

Deficits, Debt, and Democracy

Author : Richard E. Wagner
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857934600
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (579 download)

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Book Synopsis Deficits, Debt, and Democracy by : Richard E. Wagner

Download or read book Deficits, Debt, and Democracy written by Richard E. Wagner and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely book reveals that the budget deficits and accumulating debts that plague modern democracies reflect a clash between two rationalities of governance: one of private property and one of common property. The clashing of these rationalities at various places in society creates forms of societal tectonics that play out through budgeting. The book demonstrates that while this clash is an inherent feature of democratic political economy, it can nonetheless be limited through embracing once again a constitution of liberty. Not all commons settings have tragic outcomes, of course, but tragic outcomes loom large in democratic processes because they entail conflict between two very different forms of substantive rationality; the political and market rationalities. These are both orders that contain interactions among participants, but the institutional frameworks that govern those interactions differ, generating democratic budgetary tragedies. Those tragedies, moreover, are inherent in the conflict between the different rationalities and so cannot be eliminated. They can, as this book argues, be reduced by restoring a constitution of liberty in place of the constitution of control that has taken shape throughout the west over the past century. Economists interested in public finance, public policy and political economy along with scholars of political science, public administration, law and political philosophy will find this book intriguing.

China's Elite Politics

Author : Zhiyue Bo
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9812836721
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book China's Elite Politics written by Zhiyue Bo and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2010 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sequel to the author's trailblazer (China's Elite Politics: Political Transition and Power Balancing, published by World Scientific in 2007), this book tackles the issue of governance in China. It provides up-to-date information on China's political elites and evaluates their ability to deal with crises through four case studies: Snowstorm in the South, the Tibet issue, the Sichuan Earthquake, and the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.Along with China's Elite Politics: Political Transition and Power Balancing, this book provides rich empirical information on and insightful theoretical understanding of national-level politics in China and serves as a good reference source for students of Chinese politics.

Politics, Taxation, and the Rule of Law

Author : Donald P. Racheter
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461510694
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (615 download)

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Book Synopsis Politics, Taxation, and the Rule of Law by : Donald P. Racheter

Download or read book Politics, Taxation, and the Rule of Law written by Donald P. Racheter and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public Interest Institute began operations in 1992 as Iowa's only state-level, independent, research organization. As a public-policy research organization, our four principal goals are to become an information and analysis resource for all Iowans; provide local, state, and national policy-makers with a rigorous, objective, and understandable analysis of specific policy initiatives; identify practical alternatives for action on critical issues; and provide a forum for policy-makers and individuals to share ideas and concerns. The Institute promotes the importance of a free-enterprise economic system and its relationship to a free and democratic society. It seeks to support the proper role of a limited government in a society based upon individual freedom and liberty. Concerned citizens are challenged to become better informed about public issues, for ideas have consequences, and involved individuals can make a difference. Following the general treatment of how to achieve these ideals contained in LIMITING LEVIATHAN, we have continued our series of books designed to examine the topics raised there in greater depth. In FEDERALIST GOVERNMENT IN PRINCIPLE AND PRACTICE we developed the ways in which dividing governmental power between levels such as national and state can help citizens preserve their freedoms. In this volume we develop the ways in which property rights do the same.

Tectonic Affects in Contemporary Architecture

Author : Yonca Hurol
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 152758822X
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Tectonic Affects in Contemporary Architecture written by Yonca Hurol and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2022-09-28 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tectonics is an old, ontological concept which simultaneously claims to cover the aesthetics/meaning and the technological/technical in architecture. However, since the advent of ‘modernity’, the relationship between architecture and building technology has been problematic. Some of these problems, which are reflected in the theories of architecture and tectonics, relate to the separation of the technology/technical dimension from the aesthetic/artistic, rendering one of them dominant over the other. This book explores the tectonic affects in architecture because these do not separate building technology and aesthetics or meaning. Affects are preconscious aesthetic feelings which can cause meanings if we start thinking about these affects. The book claims that tectonic affects can generate aesthetic value and meaning. It adopts a practical position towards architectural aesthetics and meaning, and concentrates on tectonic affects.

Survival: Global Politics and Strategy (February-March 2020): Deterring North Korea

Author : 0 The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS),
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000948617
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Book Synopsis Survival: Global Politics and Strategy (February-March 2020): Deterring North Korea by : 0 The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS),

Download or read book Survival: Global Politics and Strategy (February-March 2020): Deterring North Korea written by 0 The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-03-31 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Survival, the IISS’s bimonthly journal, challenges conventional wisdom and brings fresh, often controversial, perspectives on strategic issues of the moment. In this issue: Nigel Gould-Davies assesses the impact of Western sanctions on Russia, arguing that they represent a major development in economic statecraft In a special colloquium on the North Korean nuclear threat, Jina Kim, John K. Warden, Adam Mount, Mira Rapp-Hooper, Vipin Narang, Ankit Panda, Ian Campbell and Michaela Dodge offer their ideas for deterring Pyongyang Alexander Klimburg warns that CYBERCOM’s strategy of ‘persistent engagement’ is encouraging a cyber arms race And eight more thought-provoking pieces, as well as our regular book reviews and noteworthy column

Politics and Economics of Eric Kierans

Author : John N. McDougall
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773564306
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Politics and Economics of Eric Kierans written by John N. McDougall and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1993-11-02 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: McDougall believes that study of Kierans' career is important for two reasons: Kierans not only combined practical business and governmental experience with a coherent economic and philosophical outlook but also maintained a comprehensive and integrated approach to the major issues in Canadian politics national unity, economic independence, federal-provincial relations, regional development, resource policy, and macro-economic policy. McDougall examines Kierans' career from his appointment as president of the Montreal Stock Exchange in 1960 to his service as chairman of the Nova Scotia commission on the Charlottetown Accord during the early 1990s. He focuses on Kierans' relationship with René Lévesque in the government of Jean Lesage, his fights within the Trudeau cabinet over the reform of the post office and the development of the Anik satellite, and his criticisms of Canadian economic and resource policies in the 1970s. Using Kierans' ministerial and personal records, his publications and speeches, interviews with him and his former associates, and a variety of secondary sources, the author argues that much of what Kierans said and accomplished is unique and remains relevant to the economic and political problems of today. Kierans has demonstrated that powerful political forces often prevent good ideas and determined effort from improving public policy but he has also shown that thoughtful and responsible public service can at least raise the level of public debate.

By-elections in British Politics, 1832-1914

Author : Thomas G. Otte
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1843837803
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book By-elections in British Politics, 1832-1914 written by Thomas G. Otte and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the many issues surrounding by-elections in the period which saw the extension of the franchise, the introduction of the ballot, and the demise of most dual member constituencies. Between the 1832 Great Reform Act and the outbreak of World War One in 1914, over 2,600 by-elections took place in Britain. They were triggered by the death, retirement or resignation of sitting MPs or by the appointment of cabinet ministers and were a regular feature of Victorian and Edwardian politics. They furnished political parties and their leaders with a crucial tool for gauging and mobilising public opinion. Yet despite the prominence of by-election contests in the historical records of this period, scholars have paid relatively little attention to them. As this book shows, these elections deserve to be taken as seriously today as people took them at the time. They providedimportant linkages between local and national politics, between the four parts of the United Kingdom and Westminster, and between foreign and domestic affairs. They are vital to understanding the evolving electioneering machineries, the varying language of electoral contests, the traction that particular issues had with a growing and frequently volatile electorate, and the fluctuating fortunes of the political parties. This book, consisting of original work by leading political historians, provides the first synoptic study of this important subject. It will be required reading for historians and students of modern British political history, as well as specialists in electoralhistory and politics. T. G. Otte is Professor of Diplomatic History at the University of East Anglia. He is the author and/or editor of some thirteen books. Among the most recent is The Foreign Office Mind: The Making of British Foreign Policy, 1865-1914; Paul Readman is Senior Lecturer in Modern British History at King's College London. He is the author of Land and Nation in England: Patriotism, National Identity and the Politics of Land 1880-1914. Contributors: Luke Blaxill, Angus Hawkins, Geoffrey Hicks, Phillips Payson O'Brien, T.G. Otte, Ian Packer, Gordon Pentland, Paul Readman, Kathryn Rix, Matthew Roberts, Philip Salmon, Anthony Taylor

Global Changes and Sustainable Development in Asian Emerging Market Economies Vol. 2

Author : An Thinh Nguyen
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030814432
Total Pages : 849 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Book Synopsis Global Changes and Sustainable Development in Asian Emerging Market Economies Vol. 2 by : An Thinh Nguyen

Download or read book Global Changes and Sustainable Development in Asian Emerging Market Economies Vol. 2 written by An Thinh Nguyen and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 849 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This two-volume set presents the conference papers from the 1st International Conference on Economics, Development and Sustainability (EDESUS 2019), organized by the University of Economics and Business, Vietnam National University, Hanoi. The collection addresses global changes and sustainable development in Vietnam and other emerging market economies in Asia, and covers wider topics such as economics and business (e.g. economic theory, national and international income distribution, macroeconomic policies, sectors of economy, productivity developments, financial market, business governance, bank financing), development and sustainability (e.g. developing process, development policy, public policy, sustainable growth, sustainability tools, sustainable livelihood, sustainable tourism, green growth), and resources and global change (e.g. human resources, natural resources, climate change, globalization, global challenges). The books are of interest to professors, researchers, lecturers, and students in economics and geography, consultants, and decision makers interested in global changes and sustainable development. Volume 2 focuses on global changes and sustainable development in Vietnam and other emerging market economies in Asia. This covers topics such as sustainability (e.g. sustainable growth, sustainability tools, sustainable livelihood, sustainable tourism), and change in resources globally (e.g. human resources, natural resources, climate change, globalization, global challenges).

Politics, Judicial Review, and the Russian Constitutional Court

Author : C. Thorson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230368972
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Book Synopsis Politics, Judicial Review, and the Russian Constitutional Court by : C. Thorson

Download or read book Politics, Judicial Review, and the Russian Constitutional Court written by C. Thorson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-02-07 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analysis of why politicians are driven to create an independent judicial institution with the authority to overrule their decisions. It focuses on a country with no tradition of independent judicial review - Russia. History does not support an independent judiciary here; yet a potentially powerful constitutional court has existed for 20 years.

The Politics of Deforestation and REDD+ in Indonesia

Author : David Aled Williams
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000891135
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Book Synopsis The Politics of Deforestation and REDD+ in Indonesia by : David Aled Williams

Download or read book The Politics of Deforestation and REDD+ in Indonesia written by David Aled Williams and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-06-01 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reflects on Indonesia’s recent experience with REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation), all set within a broader discussion of neoliberal environmentalism, hyper-capitalism, and Indonesian carbon politics. Drawing on the author’s political ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Jakarta, Central Sulawesi, and Oslo, where the author examined Norway’s interests and role in implementing REDD+, this book discusses the long evolution of the idea that foreign state and private financing can be used to protect tropical forests and the carbon stored within them, resulting in both local economic development and global climate benefits. It shows how neoliberal environmental approaches to climate change, of which REDD+ is a leading example, increase the severity of political contestations that must be overcome to reach global climate mitigation goals, and how recent incarnations of REDD+ have tended to forget earlier scholarly advice to couple anti-deforestation approaches with policies that reduce industrial carbon emissions. In Indonesia, tectonic political and economic forces are shown to have negatively impacted REDD+ implementation. Using a political ecology approach, the book links the literature on REDD+ with that covering Indonesia’s recent democratic regression, highlighting how the country’s environmental performance is inextricably linked to the timbre of its political governance. Given the severity of the political contestations that must be overcome to reach its stated goals, REDD+ cannot replace global policies that drastically reduce industrial carbon emissions. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of political ecology, deforestation, climate change, environmental politics, natural resource management, and environmental conservation.

The Ashgate Research Companion to Modern Theory, Modern Power, World Politics

Author : Nevzat Soguk
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317195841
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book The Ashgate Research Companion to Modern Theory, Modern Power, World Politics written by Nevzat Soguk and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-28 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deliberately eschewing disciplinary and temporal boundaries, this volume makes a major contribution to the de-traditionalization of political thinking within the discourses of international relations. Collecting the works of twenty-five theorists, this Ashgate Research Companion engages some of the most pressing aspects of political thinking in world politics today. The authors explore theoretical constitutions, critiques, and affirmations of uniquely modern forms of power, past and present. Among the themes and dynamics examined are textual appropriation and representation, materiality and capital formation, geopolitical dimensions of ecological crises, connections between representations of violence and securitization, subjectivity and genderization, counter-globalization politics, constructivism, biopolitics, post-colonial politics and theory, as well as the political prospects of emerging civic and cosmopolitan orders in a time of national, religious, and secular polarization. Radically different in their approaches, the authors critically assess the discourses of IR as interpretive frames that are indebted to the historical formation of concepts, and to particular negotiations of power that inform the main methodological practices usually granted primacy in the field. Students as well as seasoned scholars seeking to challenge accepted theoretical frameworks will find in these chapters fresh insights into contemporary world-political problems and new resources for their critical interrogation.

Tectonic Uplift and Climate Change

Author : William F. Ruddiman
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461559359
Total Pages : 537 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (615 download)

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Download or read book Tectonic Uplift and Climate Change written by William F. Ruddiman and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A significant advance in climatological scholarship, Tectonic Uplift and Climate Change is a multidisciplinary effort to summarize the current status of a new theory steadily gaining acceptance in geoscience circles: that long-term cooling and glaciation are controlled by plateau and mountain uplift. Researchers in many diverse fields, from geology to paleobotany, present data that substantiate this hypothesis. The volume covers most of the key, dramatic transformations of the Earth's surface.

Eurasia's Shifting Geopolitical Tectonic Plates

Author : Alexandros Petersen
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498525512
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Eurasia's Shifting Geopolitical Tectonic Plates written by Alexandros Petersen and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-07-18 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection features articles, short studies, and interviews by Alexandros Petersen (1984–2014) and constitutes a broad and prescient examination of Eurasian geopolitics. The author analyzes Western relations with the Caucasus and Central Asia, the expansion of Chinese influence, and Russia strategic interests.