Co-Creativity and Engaged Scholarship
This open access book explores creative and collaborative forms of research praxis within the social sustainability sciences. The term co-creativity is used in reference to both individual methods and overarching research approaches. Supported by a series of in-depth examples, the edited collection critically reviews the potential of co-creative research praxis to nurture just and transformative processes of change. Included amongst the individual chapters are first-hand accounts of such as: militant research strategies and guerrilla narrative, decolonial participative approaches, appreciative inquiry and care-ethics, deep-mapping, photo-voice, community-arts, digital participatory mapping, creative workshops and living labs. The collection considers how, through socially inclusive forms of action and reflection, such co-creative methods can be used to stimulate alternative understandings of why and how things are, and how they could be. It provides illustrations of (and problematizes) the use of co-creative methods as overtly disruptive interventions in their own right, and as a means of enriching the transformative potential of transdisciplinary and more traditional forms of social science research inquiry. The positionality of the researcher, together with the emotional and embodied dimensions of engaged scholarship, are threads which run throughout the book. So too does the question of how to communicate sustainability science research in a meaningful way.
We Rise for Our Land
In recent years southern Africa has aroused the interest of domestic and foreign investors targeting several sectors. Agrarian and extractive capital has been penetrating the countryside, causing land conflicts, displacement of local peasant communities and in worse cases, deaths. Rural people in general have not, been passive-alone or in alliance with non-governmental organizations and activists, they have organized raised their voices. Resistance movements to capital are taking place throughout the region, even when faced with repression. The book provides critical assessments of the dynamics of agrarian and extractive capital in southern Africa: with contributions from DRC, Namibia, Zambia, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Swaziland, Mozambique, Mauritius and Madagascar.
Encyclopedia Of Diet
A sharp, urgent question about what we feed ourselves has long animated the public good. This is a serious, lucid answer from an era when food and health were everyday politics. Encyclopedia Of Diet: A Treatise On The Food Question (Volume V) situates the diet debate in a comprehensive, scholarly frame. Structured as a reference encyclopedia and a medical reference, it surveys nutrition history, public health reform, and the anglo american context of the early twentieth century. Its themes-diet reform, the ethics of nourishment, and the social stakes of everyday eating-are presented with clarity that invites both the curious reader and the disciplined student. The volume reads as a practical guide for medical students and scholars, while offering a vivid window into how historical nutrition texts shaped policy, practice and public conversation. This edition is more than a reprint. Alpha Editions has restored a work out of print for decades, making available a book that is a cultural treasure and a lasting reference for both casual readers and classic-literature collectors. It stands as a handrail through a formative era of dietary thinking, a scholarly beacon for those tracing the lineage of public health, and a rare artefact of early twentieth-century, Anglo American intellectual life. It is, in short, a valuable, enduring addition to any serious reference library.
Party and Nation
Party and Nation examines immigration as a means to understand party competition in American history. The rise of Donald Trump reflects an ongoing regime change in the U.S., in which multiculturalism and nationalism have emerged as central aspects of the major parties' ideological and coalitional bases. This phenomenon of a multiculturalist Democratic Party and a nationalist Republican Party, the authors suggest, is a dramatic departure from the first American political regime. That older regime was grounded in the Founding generation's commitment to the principle of natural rights and the shaping of a national culture to support that principle. Partisan debates over immigration set into relief the tensions inherent in that commitment. The authors present the permutations of that first regime amidst the territorial expansion of the country and the tragic conflicts over slavery and segregation. With industrialization, the great immigrant wave at the turn of the 20th century, and the rise of the progressive administrative state, the parties began their century-long transformation into the plebiscitary institutions they are today. This new political reality, it is argued, brought with it a situation in which the debate over immigration not only illuminates party differences, but has begun to define them.
Encyclopedia Of Diet
A bold, restorative look at how we think about food, health, and the body-through the eyes of a seminal early twentieth-century voice. This volume invites readers to travel with Eugene Christian as he threads historical diet treatises, food question essays, and a widening public health nutrition conversation into one cohesive whole. Encyclopedia Of Diet: A Treatise On The Food Question (Volume Iv) gathers the kind of clarity that today's practitioners and students crave: a complete illustrated collection of ideas, from comparative diet treatises to medicinal food history, framed for anglophone europe. It is more than a historical curiosity; it is a practical reference for health practitioners, a signal of the era's reformist zeal, and a touchstone for those exploring how diet shaped societies. The book's themes-nutrition, public health, diet reform-read as both a historical map and a living invitation to dialogue about today's eating questions. A note on literary and historical significance: this volume sits at the crossroads of scholarship and culture, offering a vantage on how food moved from theory to everyday life. For casual readers and classic-literature collectors alike, it is a rare companion that informs as it delights. Selling points: Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint - a collector's item and a cultural treasure.
Encyclopedia Of Diet
A precise, almost ceremonial invitation to think again about what we eat and why. A public domain treatise that quietly reframes the ordinary questions of appetite into a disciplined inquiry about health, society, and belief. Encyclopedia Of Diet: A Treatise On The Food Question (Volume II) offers a concise, thoughtful journey through early twentieth century nutrition discourse. Its pages function as an educational diet manual and a history lesson in public health nutrition, tracing how diet, philosophy, and science intersect in the Anglo American world. Readers will find a clear, human voice that makes complex ideas accessible while preserving the reverence of a classic text. It is both a reference for health educators and a compass for curious readers seeking context for modern dietary debates, without losing sight of period flavour and method. The work is of notable literary and historical significance: a contemporary snapshot of dietetics and public health as they were being shaped, debated, and codified. For collectors and lovers of classic literature, it is a distinctly tangible artefact-a window into the evolution of nutrition science. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint - a collector's item and a cultural treasure, this volume invites you to explore a formative chapter in nutrition, philosophy, and social history. A worthwhile addition to any library, especially for those who value public domain classics and rigorous historical insight.
Encyclopedia Of Diet
A concise beacon to a distant era, and a vital lens on our own: this is the encyclopedia readers have long sought, reimagined for today. Encyclopedia Of Diet: A Treatise On The Food Question (Volume Iii) gathers the nineteenth century's curiosity about nourishment into a coherent, humane exploration. It presents a diet theory overview and a medical reference encyclopedia that speaks to scholars and curious readers alike, linking public health nutrition with practical guidance. The text proceeds as a complete diet collection, elegant in its illustrations and careful in its argument, inviting both casual readers and classic-literature collectors to witness how dietary ideas once shaped policy, culture, and daily life. This volume is more than a relic; it is a living conversation with the past. It offers a window into Victorian era publication ethics, nineteenth century europe's debates about food, health, and society, and a scholarly approach that still informs contemporary thinking. The prose blends literary reverence with accessible clarity, making complex ideas feel immediate and relevant. Selling points Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint - a collector's item and a cultural treasure. Keywords weave through the narrative as naturally as breath: diet encyclopedia, nutrition treatise, food question exploration, public health nutrition, illustrated nutrition guide, academic reference for researchers, policy reform and health. This volume invites discovery, debate, and lasting value.
Best Practices in Urban Solid Waste Management
The book provides an overview of best practices in urban waste management in the zero waste framework, assuming a multidisciplinary perspective. By analysing exemplary cases of firms and local governments, significant ownership, governance, and performance issues are discussed, along with key drivers of sustainable urban waste management.
Organizing for Power
Boston's economy has become defined by a disconcerting trend that has intensified throughout much of the United States since the 2008 recession. Economic growth now delivers remarkably few benefits to large sectors of the working class - a phenomenon that is particularly severe for immigrants, people of color, and women. Labor in 21st Century Boston explores this nation-wide phenomenon of "unshared growth" by focusing on Boston, a city that is famously liberal, relatively wealthy, and increasingly difficult for working people (who service the city's needs) to actually live in. Labor in 21st Century Boston is the only comprehensive analysis of labor and popular mobilizing in Boston today, the volume contributes to a growing body of academic and popular literature that examines urban America, racial and economic inequality, labor and immigration, and the right-wing assault on working people.
This Is Only the Beginning
The 2010s were a decade of foodbanks, riots, and the rebirth of political alternatives. Looking to escape a future of rising debt, falling living standards and climate meltdown, a set of movements were born across the globe, led by students, workers and the tent cities of Occupy.A new wave of optimistic, radical young people were building mass movements outside the political bubble, rejecting the neo-liberal consensus and the enrichment of the 1%, and laying the foundations of a new left. Eight years later, Bernie Sanders was favorite to clinch the Democratic Party nomination, and Jeremy Corbyn and Momentum had taken over the Labour Party in Britain, promising 'a new kind of politics'.But as the new left poured into Labour, it was overwhelmed by older, institutional forces on both left and right. Four years after Corbyn became leader, after bitter-infighting and a Brexit-fuelled strategic crisis, it all fell apart. This is the inside story of how the left came back to life in the 2010s, from a man who found himself at the centre of events - featuring unparalleled access and a range of interviews with key left-wing figures. Influential journalist and activist Michael Chessum explains how this movement was built, why it failed, and what it needs to do now.
Examining the US Capitol Attack
On January 6, 2021 protestors stormed the US Capitol. This book is a compilation of the executive summary and the report written by the US Senate. It is being published as an aid to those wishing to read a written version of the report for the purposes of forming their own opinion, research and scholarly activities, or other purposes in the pursuit of the freedom of information. The publisher believes strongly that free information and an educated body politic are critical to a thriving democracy.
Beyond Sustainability
This book approaches environmentalism via two academic disciplines, sociology and philosophy. Both have concerns about the environment's ability not only to sustain itself but to thrive. The authors argue that rather than simple sustainability, we must promote thrivability for the sake of protecting the environment and all living things. In this greatly expanded second edition, the authors have updated data and examples, introduced new topics and concepts, and emphasized the need to lessen our dependence on fossil fuels. Numerous topics are explored, from the differences between sustainability and thrivability, and the overuse of plastic, to mass extinction, the role of natural disasters and more. The Covid-19 pandemic offers an added perspective on the relationship between disease and the environment.
Living My tRuth
Ruth Bader Ginsburg was more than a Supreme Court Judge.In her 87 and-a-half years, Ruth Bader Ginsburg left a significant mark on law, on feminism, and late in her life, on pop culture. She broadened the definition of the American "family" and the types of jobs women AND men are able to take. Her legacy is, in a way, the lives that countless Americans are able to live today.Ruth Bader Ginsburg was more than a Supreme Court Judge...she was a leading lady who left her mark on the law, feminism, and everyday life.You Can Thank Ruth If You Have . . .- Obtained a mortgage without a male cosigner- Opened a checking account without a male co-signer- Started a business without a male co-signer- Gotten a credit card without a male co-signer- Obtained a business loan without a male co-signer- Been hired for a job without gender-based discrimination- Obtained birth control without your husband's permission- Not been forced to provide proof of sterilization in order to apply for or retain employment- Received pension benefits equal to male co-workers- Received equal consideration to be an executor of your child's estateRuth left an amazing legacy behind...empowering women along the way. The contributing authors in this collection of essays recognize the impact Ruth had - not only on our daily personal lives and our American culture, but on human rights around the world.Join us as we celebrate her legacy through real-life stories!"I would like to be remembered as someone who used whatever talent she had to do her work to the very best of her ability." - Ruth Bader Ginsburg
The Politics of Adapting to Climate Change
This book examines the political themes and policy perspectives related to, and influencing, climate change adaptation. It provides an informed primer on the politics of adaptation, a topic largely overlooked in the current scholarship and literature, and addresses questions such as why these politics are so important, what they mean, and what their implications are. The book also reviews various political texts on adaptation.
El castigo penal en sociedades desiguales
聶Es leg穩timo el castigo penal en sociedades desiguales? El candente tema de la inseguridad se hace patente como problema ineludible para los diversos pa穩ses de Am矇rica Latina. Y junto con 矇l aparece el incesante pedido de justicia en la forma de castigo para aquellos que cometen delitos. Sin embargo, en contextos de marcada desigualdad, de altos 穩ndices de pobreza, indigencia y exclusi籀n, 聶es posible justificar el castigo penal sobre personas que ya han sido castigadas con innumerables privaciones y violaciones en sus derechos ciudadanos y humanos? 聶Cumplen las c獺rceles su funci籀n de seguridad y reinserci籀n social, cuando la mayor穩a de ellas constituyen lugares de condiciones de vida infrahumanas donde sus habitantes son expuestos a las peores vejaciones y violaciones? Los autores enfrentan en estas p獺ginas el arduo desaf穩o de reflexionar no s籀lo sobre la validez del castigo penal en tales circunstancias, sino tambi矇n sobre el contexto general que alimenta la permanencia y el incremento del delito, y m獺s aun de los delitos violentos, tomando dicho fen籀meno en su clave social y econ籀mica en la b繳squeda de una soluci籀n justa y duradera. Con la colaboraci籀n de: Libardo Jos矇 Ariza, Ramiro Avila Santamar穩a, Gabriel Bouzat, Juan F. Gonz獺lez Bertomeu, Manuel Iturralde, Roc穩o Lorca Ferreccio, Catalina P矇rez Correa, Lourdes Peroni
Comparative Electoral Management
This book offers the first comparative monograph on the management of elections. It defines electoral management as a new, inter-disciplinary area and advances a realist sociological approach to study it.
Environmental Policy in India
This book systematically introduces historical trajectories and dynamics of environmental policy and governance in India. Drawing on political science theories of policy processes, this innovative edited volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of environmental policy and politics and South Asian studies more broadly.
Understanding Community Economic Growth and Decline
Exploring many facets of growth and re-growth following periods of economic decline and offering practical, real life examples of strategies that have been successfully employed in local and regional economies across the US, this book is required reading for community planners and administrators, those currently working in public administration,
The German Social Democratic Party, 1875-1933
Originally published in 1981, this book covers the development of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) from its inception to the end of the Weimar republic. Within a historical framework it analyses the role and operation of the SPD in the changing social and political climate of Germany and describes the party's internal struggles throughout the period. The party continually debated its aims and the means to achieve them. Conducted by people such as Kautsky, Bernsteina dn Rosa Luxemburg, with close links to Marx, Engels and other leaders of the international socialist movement, this debate within the party was one of the most fundamental socialist controversies, whose relevance remains today.
Foucault, Biopolitics and Resistance
Political resistance is flourishing. In this context, there is a growing interest to reread Michel Foucault's work, especially from the late period, from the perspective of resistance, social movements and affirmative biopolitics. Yet what has been missing so far is a book-length, comprehensive study focusing on this topic. This volume undertakes this task, providing an original typology of the resources of resistance discovered in Foucault's late thinking: resistance as discursive protection of autonomy bodily and affective resistance the strategies, arts and practices of affirmative biopolitics or 'politics of life' The book shows how these different types of tools, arts and practices can be used in resistant politics, in struggles against various regimes and institutions of power and government, so that they mutually supplement and reinforce one another. The author embarks on advancing Foucault's insights on resistance from where he stopped. Furthermore, the volume proposes a novel assessment of the Foucauldian political toolkit in the 21st century context, addressing its pertinence for struggles against neoliberalism and post-Fordist capitalism. Foucault, Biopolitics and Resistance will be an important resource for students and scholars interested in Foucault, resistance and 21st century politics within many fields, including political science, international relations, contemporary and continental philosophy as well as sociology. The work elaborates fresh methodological insights, fruitful for further empirical research on social and political movements.
The Political Economy of Pension Financialisation
The Political Economy of Pension Financialisation addresses - for numerous countries - how and why pension reforms have come to rely more on financial markets, how public policy reacted to financial crises, and regulatory variation. The book demonstrates how the process of pension financialisation reveals that pension policy is not only a social policy that affects retirement income, but also a financial policy that impacts savings rates, corporate finance and the economy. The chapters shed light on pre-funded private pensions as one key component of financialisation, as they turn savings into investments via financial services providers. Readers will also see how pension financialisation and the broader financialisation of the economy are here to stay, despite negative developments during and after the financial crisis.A systematic and comparative overwiew of the financialisation of pensions, The Political Economy of Pension Financialisation is ideal for scholars and postgradues working on Political Economy, Public Policy and Finance. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy.
Human Dignity
Connecting three generations of critical theorists, this edited collection focuses on the mutual complementarity between the concept of "human dignity" and the theory and practice of human rights.Human dignity has recently emerged as a controversial theme in the philosophy of human rights and has become the subject of a growing debate involving theological, political, juridical, moral, and biomedical perspectives. Previously, interpretations of this concept took for granted specific definitions of this term without accounting for the perspective offered by a "Critical Theory of Human Rights." This interdisciplinary perspective relies on a tradition that goes from Immanuel Kant to J羹rgen Habermas, influences new generations, and sheds more light on how human dignity is used (and abused) in contemporary discourses. Based on this tradition, the contributors sustain an engaged discussion of the topic and address issues such as domination, colonialism, multiculturalism, globalization, and cosmopolitanism. Informed by different contexts, each author offers a unique contribution to distinctive aspects of the necessary internal correlation between human dignity and human rights.This book will be of interest to students and researchers in human rights in Europe, North America, and Latin America and readers in the areas of political science, philosophy, sociology, law, and international relations.
Social Policy in Post-Apartheid South Africa
This book critically examines current social policy in post-apartheid South Africa and proposes an alternative social policy agenda to create a new development pathway for the country.
From Millennium Development Goals to Sustainable Development Goals
Millennium development goals (MDGs) and sustainable development goals (SDGs) have significant implications for global development, in particular for African countries. This book seeks to assist Africa's policy makers and political leaders, MNCs and NGOs, plus its increasingly heterogeneous media landscape, to understand and better respond or negotiate the evolving development environment of the 21st century.In this collection of nuanced essays, the contributors interrogate the relationship between the MDGs and SDGs in key areas of African development to enhance our understanding and knowledge of the evolving nature of development. They address issues of governance, agriculture, south-south cooperation in a context of foreign aid, natural resource governance and sustainable development, export diversification and economic growth as well as emerging topics such as the internet of things or the sharing economy, climate change, conflict and non-traditional security. The varied, yet interlinked foci present a holistic overview of Africa's development aspirations, and ability to transform the SDGs' universal aspirations into local realities.This book will be of use to academics and students in Development Studies, Contemporary African Studies, Political Science, Policy Studies and Geography, and should also appeal to policy makers and development practitioners.
Unintended Consequences of Eu External Action
This book offers a conceptualisation of unintended consequences and addresses a set of common research questions, highlighting the nature (what), the causes (why), and the modes of management (how) of unintended consequences of the European Union's (EU) external action.The chapters in the book engage with conceptual and empirical dimensions of the topic, as well as scholarly and policy implications thereof. They do so by looking at EU external action across various policy domains (including trade, migration, development, state-building, democracy promotion, and rule of law reform) and geographic areas (including the USA, Russia, the Western Balkans, the southern and eastern European neighbourhood, and Africa). The book contributes to the study of the EU as an international actor by broadening the notion of its impact abroad to include the unintended consequences of its (in)actions and by shedding new light on the conceptual paradigms that explain EU external action.This book fills the gap in IR and EU scholarship concerning unintended consequences in an international context and will be of interest to anyone studying this important phenomenon. It was originally published as a special issue of The International Spectator (Italian Journal of International Affairs). Chapters 1, 3, 7, 8 and 9 are available Open Access at https: //www.routledge.com/products/9780367346492.
Narrative Politics in Public Policy
This book draws on examples from cannabis policy discourse and elsewhere to illustrate how individuals come to subscribe to a particular policy narrative; how policy narratives evolve; how narratives are employed in public policy discourse to compete with other narratives; and how, on implementation, the winning narrative is performed and subsequently institutionalized. Further, it explores how uncertainty and ambiguity are constants in public policy discourse, and how different factions and groups pursue different goals and aspirations. In the current climate of political reality, disputable facts and contestable goals, this book shows how different coalitions and ideologies use narratives to compete for policy dominance.
Anglo-European Intelligence Cooperation
This book investigates everyday practices of intelligence cooperation in anti-terrorism matters, with a specific focus on the relationship between Europe and Britain.
The Ethics of Precaution
Levente Szentkir獺lyi explores why it is morally wrong for industry to release substances into the environment whose health effects are uncorroborated.
Security Without Weapons
Wallace explores ethical yet effective responses to violence, proposing nonviolent intervention (civilian peacekeeping) as a third option for protecting civilians during humanitarian crises. This book addresses a diverse range of literatures and debates, and is both philosophically innovative and practically useful for those worki
International Housing Market Experience and Implications for China
This book examines the impact of China's ever-expanding housing market. Though focusing on China, the editors present discussions of specific policy design challenges encountered in Australia, Japan, Korea, The Netherlands, the Nordic Countries, Singapore, Taiwan, the UK, and the US.
Public Commissions on Cultural and Religious Diversity
Analysing the work of public commissions in Britain, France, Belgium, and Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Italy, Singapore and Norway the book reflects on how they were formed, the way they framed religious and cultural diversity, the questions and controversies they examined, the key political actors involved, public and media reception, legal cha
The Management of Public Services in Central Asia
This book analyses the ability of the newly independent government in Kyrgyzstan to create a realistic national vision, prepare a strategy, organise and control its public services to deliver the desired result. Covering a fifteen year period and using the case study of the educational sector, the author throws light on many other aspects of a c
Child Behavioral Health in Sub-Saharan Africa
This book highlights the emerging research and policy development efforts to address child and adolescent behavioral health in Sub-Saharan Africa, where mental health policy is at an early stage and in need of context-specific attention to its successes and shortcomings. A diverse range of researchers, with expertise on relevant policy in both the region as a whole and country-specific contexts, including Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, and Uganda, outline theoretically informed, culturally appropriate, evidence-based, and youth- and family-focused service models. The first work of its kind with an exclusive focus on the understudied region of Sub-Saharan Africa, this text: Provides an overview of the current state of child and adolescent behavioral health in the regionEvaluates empirical work on risk and protective factors influencing behavioral outcomesHighlights emerging intervention research and dialogue on what works to improvechild and adolescent behavioral healthOffers insight and strategies on how to advance child and adolescent behavioral health in policy, research, and practiceChild Behavioral Health in Sub-Saharan Africa: Towards Evidence Generation and Policy Development is a unique reference that offers guidance for current and future policy-makers, researchers, practitioners, and students as they seek to invest and engage in the healthy development of a future generation.
Problematizing Law, Rights, and Childhood in Israel/Palestine
In this book, Hedi Viterbo radically challenges our picture of law, human rights, and childhood, both in and beyond the Israel/Palestine context. He reveals how Israel, rather than disregarding international law and children's rights, has used them to hone and legitimize its violence against Palestinians. He exposes the human rights community's complicity in this situation, due to its problematic assumptions about childhood, its uncritical embrace of international law, and its recurring emulation of Israel's security discourse. He examines how, and to what effect, both the state and its critics manufacture, shape, and weaponize the categories 'child' and 'adult.' Bridging disciplinary divides, Viterbo analyzes hundreds of previously unexamined sources, many of which are not publicly available. Bold, sophisticated, and informative, Problematizing Law, Rights, and Childhood in Israel/Palestine provides unique insights into the ever-tightening relationship between law, children's rights, and state violence, at both the local and global levels.
Resistance, Power and Conceptions of Political Order in Islamist Organizations
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of Islamist organizations' conceptions of political order based on a comparative case study of the Shiite Lebanese Hezbollah and the Sunni Palestinian Hamas, demonstrating that resistance constitutes both organizations' core norm and is relevant for their conceptions of political order.
Coalition Government as a Reflection of a Nation's Politics and Society
Through examination of parliamentary governments in twelve countries, this book demonstrates the ways in which study of the parties in governing coalitions, and their parliamentary opposition, provides insight into numerous aspects of countries' cultural values, societal schisms, and the issues of greatest contention among its people.
Boko Haram
Boko Haram analyzes the activities and atrocities of Nigeria's Jihadi terrorist group, Boko Haram in the context of global religious fundamentalism and extremism. The book traces the early beginnings of the religious sect, the conversion of its leader to radical Islam in 2002, and the group's campaign of violence.
Urban Horticulture
Including contributions from experts in research and practice from across the United States, this book explores the history, importance, and benefits of horticulture to urban populations. It details how passive and active interaction with plants enriches the lives of individuals and communities. Though not designed as a textbook, it is adaptable
Interdisciplinary Collaboration for Water Diplomacy
This book introduces the concept of Water Diplomacy as a principled and pragmatic approach to problem driven interdisciplinary collaboration, which has been developed as a response to pressing contemporary water challenges arising from the coupling of natural and human systems.
Liberal Parties in Europe
This book investigates how liberal parties have evolved over time as a party family, in a comparative perspective. Through a discussion of the applicability of the concept of party family to liberal parties, it gives a better picture of the development, challenges and opportunities for liberal parties in Europe.
Routledge Handbook of Urban Planning in Africa
This handbook contributes with new evidence and new insights to the on-going debate on the de-colonization of knowledge on urban planning in Africa.
Unhcr as a Surrogate State
This book explores the role of UNHCR in protracted refugee situations, and seeks to understand situations where they may find themselves taking on responsibilities far beyond their mandates, and often becoming a 'surrogate state'.
The Two Worlds of Nineteenth Century International Relations
This edited volume presents a new, grand and global narrative for international relations history for the pivotal nineteenth century. Typically considered by IR scholars to be largely a long century of relative peace after 1815, the contributors offer a re-conceptualization of patterns of IR, arguing that it was in fact a "bifurcated" century.
Public Policy and the Cjeu’s Power
Public Policy and the CJEU's Power offers an overarching analytical framework for thinking about the impact of policy contexts on the CJEU's influence on European public policy and the course of European integration.
Civil-Military Relations in Indonesia
This book examines military operations other than war (MOOTW) of the Indonesian military in the post-Suharto period.
Terrorism and Organized Hate Crime
The ability of law enforcement agencies to manage and act upon intelligence is the key to countering terrorism. Likewise, a critical foundation of intelligence-led policing is the proper analysis of all information gained. Terrorism and Organized Hate Crime: Intelligence Gathering, Analysis, and Investigations, Fourth Edition demonstrates
Shared Mobility
Shared Mobility offers a current view on one of the most significant economic activities in recent years. While most studies investigate shared mobility services and transportation piecemeal by city, mode, or company, this book focuses on transportation network companies themselves, highlighting shared bikes and E-scooters. Sections cover how they perform at the local or regional level in an effort to help governments better plan and regulate these emerging services. Shared Mobility explores the opportunities and challenges in these new systems and provides a thorough and succinct reference text for researchers, graduate students, and professionals in the fields of transportation planning, transportation engineering, and urban planning.
Perspectives on Secession
This book explores the changing nature of secessionist attempts in connection with rapidly evolving geopolitical and technological landscapes. By presenting theoretical chapters as well as case studies on various secessionist movements around the globe, the contributing authors study a range of topics, including: the role of the media in secessionist conflicts; secessionist referenda and the viability of secessionist attempts in terms of their internal dimension; and external support and interference. The book will appeal to political scientists and international relations scholars who are interested in the processes, politics and geopolitical implications of secessionist movements.
