Climate Bridge
Climate change is creating new challenges for spatial and environmental planning on both sides of the Atlantic. Planning and policy must balance moderating climate change impact from rising temperatures, extreme precipitation, and sea level rise with social equity and environmental justice. Climate Bridge compares New Jersey and the German Ruhr region to build an international perspective on how to enact climate action at the government-public interface. The book grew from fifteen years of collaboration between scholars in New Jersey and Germany through summer programs, a landscape architecture design studio, internships for Rutgers University students, and joint publications. Notably, settlement patterns and brownfield issues reveal similarities between the underserved in both regions. The first section compares international environmental planning approaches and outlines different approaches to common problems. The second section presents case studies that highlight adaptation strategies for uncertainties caused by climate change. Finally, the closing section reminds us of our dependence on ecological systems for physical, mental, and emotional well-being. Contributors to this landmark volume include planners, designers, scholars, public administrators, and decision-makers on both sides of the Atlantic. Together, the chapters bring interdisciplinary approaches and diverse perspectives to the environmental, economic, political, and social dimensions of planning and design in the context of climate change.
Military Theory and the Conduct of War
The question of whether there is a general, universal theory for the conduct of war has long preoccupied military thinkers, army personnel and students of conflict. Warfare has been radically transformed throughout history, under the influence of technological change. But is there anything enduring that can be determined about it, taught in military schools and applied in practice? Azar Gat offers a fresh look at the relationship between politics and war, examining the meanings of "victory," offence and defense, and the significance and role of concepts like the 'principles of war' and military 'doctrine'. He analyses the successive military innovations of modernity, including the advent of nuclear weapons and the ongoing cyber and robotics revolutions of our own times. He also explains why guerrilla warfare and terrorism have grown increasingly important, and where they are heading. With China and Russia posing a growing challenge to the global order today, Gat asks if war is truly in our nature--or if it is, in fact, declining. This is a vital text for all students of war, whether in academia, in the military or among the public at large.
Simbhoonath Capildeo’s Discourse of the Rejuvenation and Development of Trinidad and Tobago, Deconstructed
This work originally published in 2003 was revised in 2025 by adding the speeches of Simbhoonath Capildeo made in the Senate of Trinidad and Tobago from March to June 1976 in addition to an extensive interview of Simbhoonath Capildeo published in one of the daily newspapers of T&T in 1976. The public political discourse of Simbhoonath Capildeo has then being completely unearthed and deconstructed revealing his political discourse of the rejuvenation and development of Trinidad and Tobago from 1956 to 1976 in the context of the power relations that impacted his discourse, its formulation, evolution and delivery across time/space. This then is the dossier containing the political discourse of Simbhoonath Capildeo unearthed and deconstructed, revealing the unique discourse of Simbhoonath Capildeo in the political history of T&T.
Intersections of Housing Precarity, Health and Wellbeing in Diverse Global Settings
This book examines the specific manifestations and causes of housing precarity across a diverse range of geographic settings and housing types. Housing has been in crisis across the globe for decades. Precarious housing is defined as that which fails to provide an adequate standard of living to enable health and wellbeing for a person and their family. This book argues that, while causes are often structural, the forms of housing precarity need to be deeply and specifically understood in order to propose solutions. Bringing together contributions from diverse academics across different geographies in the global north and south, chapters offer fresh insights into how housing affects wellbeing in terms of physical and mental health, identity and participation in communities.
Rulemaking
In this substantially updated sixth edition, authors Kerwin and Furlong continue to offer the most comprehensive and accessible exploration of the most critical source of law and policy in the United States today.
Attack from Within
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER UPDATED EDITION: The MSNBC legal analyst explores the impact of disinformation after the 2024 presidential election--and what Americans can do before it's too late. "A comprehensive guide to the dynamics of disinformation and a necessary call to theethical commitment to truth that all democracies require." --Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny Disinformation--the deliberate spreading of lies disguised as truth, whether from opportunists on the far right, misinformed media influencers, or others--is fragmenting America more than ever before, pushing the nation toward extreme views, civil unrest, and violence. In this bestselling book, now with a new foreword by the author, Barbara McQuade identifies how disinformation is seeping into all facets of our society, causing havoc in our voting systems, schools, hospitals, workplaces, and the Capitol. McQuade, an MSNBC legal analyst and former federal prosecutor confronts the ways disinformation is being weaponized to polarize voters, degrade our legal structures, and leverage the political influence of manipulators and authoritarians. Now newly updated, Attack from Within shows us how to fight back against misinformed, extremist thinking and work toward preserving America's hard-won democracy.
Emerging Global Economic Situation
This book is a comprehensive compendium of research papers presented at the International Conference on Emerging Global Economic Situation: Impact on Trade and Agribusiness in India. It features thirty-seven scholarly papers and is organized into four thematic parts, each addressing key areas relevant to the changing landscape of agribusiness and trade in India.The first part explores Emerging Trends in the Export of Agricultural Commodities, analyzing shifts in global demand, trade competitiveness, and the export potential of Indian agriculture. The second part examines Emerging Issues in Agribusiness in India, including market access, supply chain management, policy frameworks, and the role of private sector participation.The third section focuses on the Performance of Agro-based Industries in India, offering insights into their economic contribution, production trends, value addition, and employment generation. The final part addresses Innovation and Emerging Areas in Agriculture, highlighting advancements in technology, sustainable practices, and future growth opportunities within the sector.This volume provides valuable perspectives for researchers, students, policymakers, and professionals engaged in agriculture, trade, and rural development. It serves as a critical resource for understanding agribusiness trade policies and their implementation in India, while also reflecting on the broader economic transformations shaping the country's agricultural future in a globalized context.
The Red Wave
A landslide. A reckoning. A warning.The 2025 Australian federal election didn't just change the government-it shattered long-held certainties about the nation's politics, democracy, and identity.In The Red Wave, political analysts and commentators Eddy Jokovich and David Lewis deliver a razor-sharp, deeply informed account of one of the most consequential elections in modern Australian history. With Labor's landslide victory, the collapse of the Liberal Party, and voters more disillusioned than ever, this book takes you inside the heart of a seismic political shift that will define a generation.What You'll Discover Inside: How the Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, and Labor won big by playing it safe-and what it risks by doing nothing boldThe fall of Peter Dutton and the disintegration of the Liberal Party brandThe rise of culture war politics and American-style campaigning in AustraliaWhy political party membership is collapsing-and what replaces itThe role of media manipulation, billionaire interests, and misinformationWhat this election means for climate policy, Indigenous justice, and economic reformWith forensic detail and passionate insight, The Red Wave reveals what really happened behind the headlines-a campaign of extremes, an electorate on edge, and a political system under pressure. Is this the start of a Labor era of transformation? Or just a pause before a more radical, reactionary force re-emerges?Perfect For: Fans of Australian political podcasts and in-depth analysisAnyone trying to understand the real stakes of the 2025 electionJournalists, students, and researchers of political science, media, and democracyTimely. Thought-provoking. Unmissable. The Red Wave is the definitive account of Australia's 2025 federal election-and a powerful call to face the truths we can no longer ignore.
What This Comedian Said Will Shock You
The hilarious and controversial host of HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher has written his funniest, most opinionated, and most necessary book ever--a brilliantly astute and acerbically funny vivisection of American life, politics, and culture. Some of the smartest commentary about what's happening in America is coming from a comedian--this comedian being Bill Maher. If you want to understand what's wrong with this country, it turns out that one of the best informed and most thought-provoking analysts is this very funny pothead. The book was inspired by the "editorial" Bill delivers at the end of each episode of Real Time. These editorials are direct-to-camera sermons about culture, politics, and what's happening in the world. To put this book together, Maher reviewed more than a decade of his editorials, rewriting, reimagining, and updating them. Free speech, cops, drugs, race, religion, the generations, cancel culture, the parties, the media, show biz, romance, health--Maher covers it all. The result is a hugely entertaining work of commentary about American culture in the tradition of Mark Twain, Will Rogers, and H. L. Mencken.
Climate Justice
The social cost of carbon: The most important number you've never heard of--and what it means. If you're injuring someone, you should stop--and pay for the damage you've caused. Why does this simple proposition, generally accepted, not apply to climate change? In Climate Justice, a bracing challenge to status quo thinking on the ethics of climate change, renowned author and legal scholar Cass Sunstein clearly frames what's at stake and lays out the moral imperative: When it comes to climate change, everyone must be counted equally, regardless of when they live or where they live--which means that wealthy nations, which have disproportionately benefited from greenhouse gas emissions, are obliged to help future generations and people in poor nations that are particularly vulnerable.
The Marginal Cost of Public Funds
In a perfect market economy, the cost of raising another euro of tax revenue equals one. However, once distortionary taxes on goods and factors are introduced, the marginal cost of public funds, MCPF, typically deviates from one. Often it exceeds one, but one can also find cases where it falls short of one. This Element introduces the concept of the MCPF, sketches its history, and discusses a number of applications. It does this by undertaking economic evaluations of public sector projects involving a pure public good. An important distinction in the literature relates to where the government has access to lump-sum taxation versus where it must rely on changing a distortionary tax. These are often unit taxes or proportional taxes. Sometimes they are even introduced to alleviate a problem. An example is a tax on emissions of greenhouse gases. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
The Rise and Fall of Neoliberal Rentier Capitalism
The Rise and Fall of Neoliberal Rentier Capitalism is an account of the political economy of capitalism in the 20th and 21st centuries. Capitalism is an unjust form of economic organisation; it is a culture of exacerbated individualism justified by the glorification of individual competition. Today, after 40 years of neoliberalism, capitalism faces again a legitimation crisis. The book discusses capitalism after two revolutions - the Organisational Revolution and the Democratic Revolution. It views capitalism since the New Deal in the US and the post-war as a progressive and developmental era and the Neoliberal Turn as the change from social democracy to radical and regressive global neoliberalism, which was a regressive time for almost forty years. In the Neoliberal Years, rentiers replaced entrepreneurs in the command of the economy and called on the financiers to manage their wealth and serve as organic intellectuals, and both mounted an attack to the state, which is the main capitalist institution. The global crisis and, in 2020, the Covid pandemic showed that the state remains the nations' resource of last instance. The transition of China from statism to an active developmentalism resulted in an extraordinary growth. Given such realities, in 2021 we saw the collapse of neoliberalism, and in the United States, a Developmental Turn - the state is back in the economy. The transition phase we live in is characterised by three main forces - economic liberalism, managerialism, and democracy. Economic liberalism is the great defeated, managerialism became powerful and is developmental, and democracy is the stronger force. It was attacked by neoliberalism and is now being attacked by right-wing populism, but resisted and resists brilliantly, proving that it was a conquest of the popular classes that became a universal value counting on the support of all social classes.
The Marginal Cost of Public Funds
In a perfect market economy, the cost of raising another euro of tax revenue equals one. However, once distortionary taxes on goods and factors are introduced, the marginal cost of public funds, MCPF, typically deviates from one. Often it exceeds one, but one can also find cases where it falls short of one. This Element introduces the concept of the MCPF, sketches its history, and discusses a number of applications. It does this by undertaking economic evaluations of public sector projects involving a pure public good. An important distinction in the literature relates to where the government has access to lump-sum taxation versus where it must rely on changing a distortionary tax. These are often unit taxes or proportional taxes. Sometimes they are even introduced to alleviate a problem. An example is a tax on emissions of greenhouse gases. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
The History and Evolution of Homeland Security in the United States
This book provides a comprehensive and insightful look into the evolution of U.S. Homeland Security, from its early roots to the post-9/11 era. Drawing on their extensive experience as law enforcement professionals, the authors offer a unique perspective on the challenges and triumphs of this critical field.
Getting Political in the Neoliberal City
This book explores the politicization of space and the socio-political engagement of cities that are increasingly being shaped by capitalism and neoliberal governance. It will be invaluable reading to planners, designers, artists and other actors to understand equality, democracy, and social justice today.
The Politics of Unpaid Labour
The Politics of Unpaid Labour introduces the theory of the politics of unpaid labour to advance understanding of inequality within the context of precarious work. It understands unpaid labour as the time and effort people invest to undertake tasks which relate to the work implicitly or explicitly assigned to them, but for which they are not paid. The book establishes a crucial link between unpaid labour's political dimensions and its role in fuelling emerging forms of precarious work characterized by persistent inequalities in a context of labour market reforms, societal shifts, and technological changes, and it reveals how these seemingly disparate elements intertwine, connecting the intricate dynamics of the social system's micro-level components to larger macro-level structural patterns. Comparing working conditions in creative dance, residential care, and online freelancing in the Netherlands, Sweden, the United Kingdom, Germany, Belgium, France, Italy, and Poland, the book's empirical section is based on a wide range of biographical interviews and work diaries. In addition to introducing the major themes, theories, and thinkers of inequality and precarious work within the tradition of work, employment, and economic studies in sociology and the political economy, the theoretical section advances the current discussion on how unpaid labour contributes to inequality in precarious work in three ways. First, it establishes the characteristics differentiating employment from self-employment, and how these lead to a revised definition of unpaid labour. Second, it illustrates that unpaid labour is both shaped by class and serves to reproduce class interests, revealing ongoing changes in welfare, employment, and state institutional policies. Third, it considers the necessity to establish conditions within the labour market conducive to genuinely cultivating and honouring the diversity of human capabilities and actions within labour structures and promoting their manifestation. This is an open access title available under the terms of a [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International] licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
Party Politics in America
Long regarded as the "gold standard" of political parties texts, this new, nineteenth edition of Party Politics in America brings its comprehensive and authoritative coverage of party politics into an age of heightened partisan conflict; threats to the acceptance of democratic institutions; changes in the balance of power among the president, Congress, and the Supreme Court, and judicial rulings that upend long-established precedents. Marjorie Hershey and Barry Burden build on the book's three-pronged coverage of party organization, party in the electorate, and party in government and incorporate important developments in racial politics, social media use, and battles over access to the vote. The book uses contemporary examples to bring to life the fascinating story of how parties shape our political system.New to the nineteenth edition: Fully updated through the 2022 and 2024 elections, including changes in virtually all the empirical data, boxed materials, and examples throughout the book Discusses the transformation of the Republican Party into the Party of Trump, with attendant changes in the parties' coalitions and electoral prospects Examines the relevance of party politics and elections to college-age and other young voters in times of intense and off-putting polarization Considers the implications of recent changes in both parties to the likelihood that democracy will survive in the US Provides online Instructor's Resources, including author-written test banks, essay questions, relevant websites with correlated sample assignments, and links to a collection of course syllabi
Re-Defining Terrorism
Re-Defining Terrorism examines the emergence of the counter-radicalisation agenda in the UK and internationally. Offering original insights into counter-radicalisation's extensive effects, Itoiz Rodrigo Jusu矇 offers a complete and innovative examination of the development of counter-radicalisation discourses and policies. Outlining (counter)radicalisation as a new technology of governance embedded in the production and promotion of particular mentalities, conducts, identities, and subjectivities, the chapters investigate the transformations that the figure of the terrorist has gone through since the early 2000s and stresses the role of the media in the (re)production of new imaginaries of terror. Based on a large amount of rich qualitative data, the author shows how vocabularies and narratives of (counter)radicalisation are disseminated in popular culture establishing new lens through which terrorism and political violence are comprehended and acted upon in the UK and beyond. Breaking fresh ground where the counter-radicalisation (and counter-extremism) agenda is still a relatively new and developing phenomenon in the UK and globally, this is compelling reading for policymakers, practitioners, undergraduate and post-graduate students and scholars across disciplines including critical studies on terrorism; criminology; media and communication studies; cultural studies; gender studies; social policy; and peace and conflict studies.
The Routledge Handbook of Catalysts for a Sustainable Circular Economy
This groundbreaking handbook leads the way in accelerating the transition to a sustainable circular economy by introducing the concept of a catalyst as a positive and enhancing driving force for sustainability. Catalysts create and maintain favourable conditions for complex systemic sustainability transition changes, and a discussion and understanding of catalysts is required to move from a linear economy to a sustainable and circular economy.With contributions from leading experts from around the globe, this volume presents theoretical insights, contextualised case studies, and participatory methodologies, which identify different catalysts, including technology, innovation, business models, management and organisation, regulation, sustainability policy, product design, and culture. The authors then show how these catalysts accelerate sustainability transitions. As a unique value to the reader, the book brings together public policy and private business perspectives to address the circular economy as a systemic change. Its theoretical and practical perspectives are coupled with real-world case studies from Finland, Italy, China, India, Nigeria, and others to provide tangible insights on catalysing the circular economy across organisational, hierarchical, and disciplinary boundaries.With its broad interdisciplinary and geographically diverse scope, this handbook will be a valuable tool for researchers, academics, and policy-makers in the fields of circular economy, sustainability transitions, environmental studies, business, and the social sciences more broadly.The Open Access version of this book, available at http: //www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Malaysia’s State Formation
This book comes up with the Contested Leviathan Framework to describe the essence of Malaysia's political economy. The framework is developed from tracing Malaysia's political economy over approximately 157 years (1800-1957) and tested against the many issues confronting post-colonial Malaysia. Using concepts of timing, sequence, path dependence and increasing returns the book explains that Malaysia's political economy is the result of deep institutional processes, not a contrived act that was hatched at the point of independence. The book explains that whilst British administration made short-term rational choices, it failed to take into consideration the path-dependent nature of policy choices and their long-term unintended consequences that preserved Malaysia's terms of reference and produced autonomous communities with mutually exclusive political, economic and social institutions. These institutional qualities made it imperative for actors, at some point, to embark on some form of power-sharing arrangement. Applying the Contested Leviathan Framework the book explains that recent events - the first electoral turnover in 2018 and the formation of a unity government in 2022 - have done little to dismantle the character of Malaysia's political economy; a state that still sees political, economic and social life along ethnic imperatives driven by mutually exclusive institutions and interests.A valuable read for scholars of Malaysian history and politics, as well as for scholars of postcolonial state formation and public policy more broadly.
The Agency of the Governed in the Global South
This collection argues that areas of limited statehood - the lack of state capacities in most parts of the global South - provides opportunities for the governed to raise their voices and be listened to. It was originally published as an online special issue of the journal Third World Thematics.
Eco-Emancipation
The case for an eco-emancipatory politics to release the Earth from human domination and free us all from lives that are both exploitative and exploited Human domination of nature shapes every aspect of our lives today, even as it remains virtually invisible to us. Because human beings are a part of nature, the human domination of nature circles back to confine and exploit people as well--and not only the poor and marginalized but also the privileged and affluent, even in the world's most prosperous societies. Although modern democracy establishes constraints intended to protect people from domination as the arbitrary exercise of power, it offers few such protections for nonhuman parts of nature. The result is that, wherever we fall in human hierarchies, we inevitably find ourselves both complicit in and entrapped by a system that makes sustainable living all but impossible. It confines and exploits not only nature but people too, albeit in different ways. In Eco-Emancipation, Sharon Krause argues that we can find our way to a better, freer life by constraining the use of human power in relation to nature and promoting nature's well-being alongside our own, thereby releasing the Earth from human domination and freeing us from a way of life that is both exploitative and exploited, complicit and entrapped. Eco-emancipation calls for new, more-than-human political communities that incorporate nonhuman parts of nature through institutions of representation and regimes of rights, combining these new institutional arrangements with political activism, a public ethos of respect for nature, and a culture of eco-responsibility.
The Magnificat of White Thought
Being ignorant is not a crime. It is the maintenance of a person in this state or the confiscation of truth and knowledge that could be a crime.Why so much blood, desolation, destruction, chaos wherever this so-called superior "race" goes? On what do these leucodermas elites base their alleged superiority? Is it this barbarity that the French colonizer Jules Ferry was talking about when he affirmed that his superior race had the right and the duty to civilize the inferior races? A civilization that is synonymous with looting, massacres, rapes, occupation, theft and military bases in other people's homes is what Jules Ferry was referring to? Will this short Western reign through chaos catch up with them? Certainly. Also, certain that no one can escape the Universal Law of action-reactions. In this era of the reversal of the poles of power throughout the world, the most powerful of yesterday are less and less so. Oscar Elimby's intention behind this book writing is to inform, to prevent and not to incite revolt, violence or any other form of destructive action. Isn't it said that to possess knowledge is to possess power? This power and respect so much sought after by young people is information. Elimby's work targets all peoples without any discrimination that agrees to cultivate non-violence. He has chosen to quote certain people in full in order to avoid any interpretation.The objective is to bring those who turned their backs on the crimes of their elites to become aware of some horrible actions on the populations and governments of foreign countries.
Diversity of Aesthetics
Critical conversations and reflections about lessons learned at the intersection of social movements and artist production.Diversity of Aesthetics collects powerful and timely conversations among leading cultural critics, artists, and organizers to connect the threads between some of the most pressing social struggles and conflicts of our time: policing, war, borders and migration, economic crisis.Across three themes--infrastructure, migration, and riots--militant thinkers, artists, educators, and others discuss aesthetic production, forms of social organization, modes of struggle against gendered and racialized capitalism, and revolutionary theory. Common to all three conversations is a commitment to rethinking the relationship between forms of critique and forms of struggle undertaken by collective social practices, offering lessons for tactics, strategies, and practices.
Water And Power For San Francisco From Hetch-Hetchy Valley In Yosemite National Park
Unlock the secrets of a forgotten masterpiece with "Water and Power for San Francisco from Hetch-Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park" by Martin Samuel Vilas. This captivating work, out of print for decades, has been lovingly restored and republished by Alpha Editions, offering a rare glimpse into the historical battle for water rights and environmental preservation. Dive into the heart of early 20th-century America, where the clash between urban development and natural conservation unfolds in the breathtaking landscapes of Yosemite. Vilas's compelling narrative and insightful analysis make this book a timeless exploration of human ambition and nature's resilience. This edition is more than just a reprint; it's a collector's item and a cultural treasure, meticulously preserved for today's and future generations. Whether you're a casual reader or a classic literature aficionado, this book promises to enrich your understanding of history and inspire a deeper appreciation for the delicate balance between progress and preservation. Don't miss the chance to own a piece of literary history that continues to resonate with the challenges of our modern world.
Research on the Image Construction of ASEAN in Chinese Mainstream Media
Routledge Handbook of Transnational Terrorism
This handbook provides contributions by some of the world's leading experts in the field on recent phenomena and trends in transnational terrorism.
Terror Financing in Kashmir
This book analyses the layered and complex web of terror financing in Kashmir. It examines the role of multiple actors -- including formal and informal, state and non-state, profit and non-profit, and local and international -- to delineate the various strands of an intricate financial system. It shows how, over time, these sophisticated networks have largely remained elusive to Indian counter-terrorism agencies and the need for a specialised and focused effort to understand it.Drawing on interviews with confidential sources within terror networks, as well as inputs and intel from security agencies on the ground, the author lays the groundwork for a robust counter-terrorism strategy in Kashmir. This book will be a must read for professionals and researchers in security studies, military and strategic studies, politics and international relations, and South Asian studies.
What is Sexualized Violence?
What is Sexualized Violence? Intersectional Readings uses an intersectional, queer, and subject-oriented approach to examine how societies constitute subjects as abilized and vulnerabilized with respect to sexualized violence.Contributing to our thinking about the dynamic relationship between social structure, subject formation, intersubjectivity, and violence, this text deploys an intersectional reading to engage with the complex social topography that both offers and imposes violence as a socially mediated practice. Instead of discussing one particular group at the intersection of race and gender, this book discusses the constitution of positionalities through systems of oppression and includes racialization, gender, sexuality, disability, and age. Moreover, the text is also interested in explicitly engaging with how the history of disciplines, institutions, and organizations contributed to the current constitution of opportunities for violence. It gives us modes of thinking to confront sexualized violence as a social problem and challenge the discourses and social structures that uphold it.This book is meant to offer questions and approaches for students and scholars, practitioners and policy makers, and survivors of sexualized violence who have an interest in an intersectional perspective on sexualized violence.
Rethinking Citizenship in Central and Eastern Europe
This book explores the diverse landscape of citizenship practices in Central and Eastern Europe, an area often overlooked in research. Through an interdisciplinary lens, the contributors explore how education and political participation shape these practices in a region marked by historical and social complexities. The book offers fresh insights into how citizenship is perceived and practiced, highlighting the role of civic education in fostering political engagement. By addressing both the challenges and opportunities of citizenship in this dynamic region, this volume contributes to broader debates on citizenship and democracy across Europe and beyond.
Food Aid Reconsidered
Food aid continues to be a high profile, and perhaps the most controversial form of aid. Food Aid Reconsidered: Assessing the Impact on Third World Countries, originally published in 1991, which concentrates on recent experience, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa, provided a stocktaking on the state of the debate and the contribution that economics and other social sciences had made to resolving many of the controversies surrounding food aid at the time. These issues include the gap between the potential and actual contribution of food aid on food security and agricultural production in developing countries, European dairy aid to India and possible alternatives to exporting food from developed countries for providing humanitarian assistance to hungry people. Today it can be read in its historical context.
Parliaments in the Late Russian Empire, Revolutionary Russia, and the Soviet Union
This book examines the meanings that were attached to the terms "parliament" and "parliamentarism" in the different historical and discursive contexts of the late Russian Empire, revolutionary and Soviet Russia, and the Soviet Union. It discusses those institutions referred to as parliaments by contemporaries, gives special attention to their functions, and traces the broader debates on parliamentarism within Russia and the Soviet Union, in Russian 矇migr矇 circles, and among foreign observers. It highlights that only the late imperial and perestroika assemblies can be considered legislative institutions that expressed dissensus but argues that other assemblies, often referred to as "rubber-stamp" parliaments due to their lack of legislative competence and influence over other authorities, should not be dismissed. The Supreme Soviet, for instance, provided an integrative function binding society and elites in a top-down manner, while its deputies engaged in information acquisition and state micromanagement through interactions with their constituents. It also played an important role in interparliamentary relations and, as one of the first institutions of nominal parliamentarism in an autocratic single-party regime, of which there were many in the twentieth century, served as a model for numerous state socialist regimes. By addressing the role of parliaments in reassembling imperial spaces through political representation and the functions of nominal legislative institutions, the book explores the contribution of Russian and Soviet assemblies to global political modernity.Winner of the 2024 Ab Imperio Best Book Award for the best study in new imperial history and history of diversity in Northern Eurasia, up to the late twentieth century.
Islamic State, Biopolitics, and Media Governmentality
This book analyses the Islamic State's (IS) media and governance strategy from a critical media and cultural studies perspective.
Introduction to Professional Policing
This 2nd edition has been reviewed and significantly updated in line with the dynamic and ongoing demands faced by operational policing and therefore the associated knowledge requirements for policing education and training. It includes new chapters on community and neighbourhood policing, problem solving and volunteers in policing.
Family Taxation
This Element seeks to provide an in-depth survey of the papers written on the optimal taxation of the incomes of the members of family households, as opposed to households with just a single individual, over the period beginning with the early 1980s and ending in the late 2010s.This literature, solidly within the public finance tradition, is not large, and so the Element gives quite a full exposition and discussion of the main contributions. The papers are grouped according to the type of tax system they have dealt with: linear, piecewise linear and non-linear taxation.
Wards of the State
Longlisted for the 2025 National Book Awards in Nonfiction"An immersive, devastating look at foster children's lives." (Seattle Times) A compelling exploration of the broken American foster care system, told through the stories of six former foster youth. This powerful narrative nonfiction book delves into the systemic failures that lead many foster children into the criminal justice system, highlighting the urgent need for reform. ​This book is a must-read for anyone interested in child welfare, social justice, and the transformative power of the best narrative nonfiction. In Wards of the State, award-winning journalist Claudia Rowe's storytelling is both vivid and unflinching, offering readers a deep understanding of the foster care-to-prison pipeline. Through interviews with psychologists, advocates, judges, and the former foster children themselves, Rowe paints a heartbreaking picture of the lives shaped by this broken system. By the time Maryanne was 16 years old, she had been arrested for murder. In and out of foster and adoptive homes since age 10, she'd run away, been trafficked and assaulted, and finally pointed a gun at a man and pulled the trigger. She fled, but it didn't take long for the police to catch up with her. In court, the defense blamed neither traffickers, nor Maryanne, but Washington state itself--or rather, its foster care system, which parents thousands of children every year. The courts didn't listen to that argument, but award-winning journalist Claudia Rowe did. Washington state isn't alone. Each year, hundreds of thousands of children grow up in America's $30 billion foster care system, only to leave and enter its prisons, where a quarter of all inmates are former foster youth. Weaving Maryanne's story with those of five other foster kids across the country--including an 18-year-old sleeping on the New York City subways; a dropout turned graduate student; and a foster child who is now a policy advisor to the White House--Rowe paints a visceral survival narrative showing exactly where, when, and how the system channels children into locked cells.Rowe brings her extensive experience and investigative prowess to this eye-opening work. With a career spanning over 25 years, Rowe has written for publications such as The New York Times and Mother Jones, and her reporting has influenced policy changes in Washington State. Her previous book, The Spider and the Fly, was a gripping true-crime memoir that showcased her ability to blend personal narrative with broader social issues.
Family Taxation
This Element seeks to provide an in-depth survey of the papers written on the optimal taxation of the incomes of the members of family households, as opposed to households with just a single individual, over the period beginning with the early 1980s and ending in the late 2010s.This literature, solidly within the public finance tradition, is not large, and so the Element gives quite a full exposition and discussion of the main contributions. The papers are grouped according to the type of tax system they have dealt with: linear, piecewise linear and non-linear taxation.
Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason and the Method of Metaphysics
In two often neglected passages of the Critique of Pure Reason, Kant submits that the Critique is a 'treatise' or a 'doctrine of method'. These passages are puzzling because the Critique is only cursorily concerned with identifying adequate procedures of argument for philosophy. In this book, Gabriele Gava argues that these passages point out that the Critique is the doctrine of method of metaphysics. Doctrines of method have the task of showing that a given science is indeed a science because it possesses 'architectonic unity' - which happens when it realizes the 'idea' of a science. According to Gava's novel approach, the Critique establishes that metaphysics is capable of this unity, and his reading of the Critique from this perspective not only illuminates the central role of the Transcendental Doctrine of Method within it, but also clarifies the relationship between the different parts of the work.
Vigilance Is Not Enough
A broad and deep survey of American intelligence from before the Revolution to the present Every nation has an intelligence apparatus--some means by which its top officials acquire needed information on sensitive issues. But each nation does it differently, influenced by its history, its geographical conditions, and its political traditions. In this book, Mark M. Lowenthal examines the development of U.S. intelligence to explain how and why the United States went from having no intelligence service to speak of to being the world's predominant intelligence power almost overnight, and he discusses the difficult choices involved in maintaining that dominance in a liberal democracy. Lowenthal describes how the lack of a tradition of spycraft both hindered and helped American efforts to develop intelligence services during and after the Second World War. He points to the political pragmatism--leading to difficult choices--with which most intelligence directors operated; the constant tension between security and civil liberties in a constitutional democracy; the tension between the need for secrecy and the accountability required for democratic governance; and the way the growing importance of technology changed both the methods and the objectives of intelligence gathering. Far more than simply an episodic history, this book offers an analysis of why American intelligence developed as it did--and what it has meant for the nation's and the world's politics.
How Disinformation Ruins Public Diplomacy
How Disinformation Ruins Public Diplomacy evaluates and analyzes how Chinese and Russian public diplomacy strategies differ from the existing academic literature and debates, specifically in the context of the new disinformation era.
Article 47 of the EU Charter and Effective Judicial Protection, Volume 2
This ambitious, innovative project examines the principle of effective judicial protection in EU law over two volumes. The principle of effective judicial protection is a cornerstone of the EU's judicial system and is re-affirmed in Article 47 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. Since the 1980s the Court of Justice has used the principle to shape EU and national procedural rules; more recently, the principle has acquired an even more central role in the EU constitutional structure. In the second volume an expert team explores how the national courts have applied Article 47 and the principle of effective judicial protection. It takes a comparative overview of the case law to assess the level of convergence (or divergence) of the national courts' approaches. The questionnaire methodology allows for an accurate charting of national courts' application of Article 47 at the domestic level. Given the wide application of Article 47, the collection will be of interest to EU constitutional scholars, comparative lawyers, as well as civil servants at both the national and EU level.
Canadian Human Rights Champions
Canadian Human Rights Champions recounts the inspiring stories of a select group of advocates who have fought to secure civil, social, and political rights for all Canadians. The book profiles thirty-eight remarkable individuals, delving into their motivations, the challenges they overcame, and the opportunities they seized, while underscoring the crucial importance of defending human rights. It reveals how these champions devoted themselves to an often arduous and challenging struggle, making lasting contributions to building a more just and equitable society in Canada.Adopting a comprehensive approach, the book focuses on a "basket of rights" drawn from the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, highlighting fundamental freedoms such as the right to association, expression, and equality protections against discrimination based on race, gender, sexual orientation, and disability. It also explores the existing and evolving rights of Indigenous peoples in the context of treaties and international agreements, the Canadian Constitution, reconciliation, as well as the crucial emerging right to a clean environment.In addition to honouring Canadian heroes, the anthology also highlights those who have championed human rights on the international stage. Canadian Human Rights Champions celebrates the next generation of young activists who are leaving their mark in shaping our collective future and providing hope in these challenging times.
The Wolves of K Street
A dazzling and infuriating portrait of fifty years of corporate influence in Washington, The Wolves of K Street is a "not-so-guilty pleasure" (The New York Times): irresistibly dramatic, spectacularly timely, explosive in its revelations, and impossible to put down. In the 1970s, Washington's center of power began to shift away from elected officials in big marble buildings to a handful of savvy, handsomely paid operators who didn't answer to any fixed constituency. The cigar-chomping son of an influential congressman, an illustrious political fixer with a weakness for modern art, a Watergate-era dirty trickster, the city's favorite cocktail party host--these were the sort of men who now ran Washington. Over four decades, they'd chart new ways to turn their clients' cash into political leverage, abandoning favor-trading in smoke-filled rooms for increasingly sophisticated tactics, such as "shadow lobbying," where underground campaigns sparked seemingly organic public outcries to pressure lawmakers into taking actions that would ultimately benefit corporate interests rather than ordinary citizens. With billions of dollars at play, these lobbying dynasties enshrined in Washington a pro-business consensus that would guide the country's political leaders--Democrats and Republicans alike. A good lobbyist could ghostwrite a bill or even secretly kill a piece of legislation supported by the president, both houses of Congress, and a majority of Americans. Yet nothing lasts forever. Amid a populist backlash to the soaring inequality these influence peddlers helped usher in, DC's pro-business alliance suddenly began to fray. And while the lobbying establishment would continue to invent new ways to influence Washington, the men who'd built K Street would soon find themselves under legal scrutiny, on the verge of financial collapse or worse. One would turn up dead behind the eighteenth green of an exclusive golf club, with a $1,500 bottle of wine at his feed and bullet in his head. An "absorbing" (The Atlantic), "engrossing" and "meticulously researched" tale (The Guardian)--brought to life with "novelistic detail" and "considerable narrative skill" (The New York Times)--The Wolves of K Street is essential reading for anyone looking to understand how corporate interests are undermining American democracy.
Made in America
From the acclaimed author of Mao's America comes the untold story of how misguided and selfish U.S. elites transformed China from a Communist wasteland into a global superpower--at America's expense. One of the most effective anti-communist voices in America today, Xi Van Fleet made waves with her breakout book Mao's America, exposing eerie parallels between China's past and America's present woke revolution. Now, alongside renowned Chinese dissident Yu Jie, she sounds the alarm once more--revealing how the CCP's rise was not just enabled by Soviet Russia but, shockingly, by the United States itself. Understanding this hidden history is essential for Americans in confronting the CCP's global ambitions and stopping the spread of Communism at home. For over a century, progressive and Communist ideologies have steadily infiltrated American society, shaping U.S.-China policies that have, intentionally or not, empowered the CCP. From its founding in 1921 to its brutal takeover of China 28 years later, the CCP's ascent was fueled by foreign support--first from the Soviets, then increasingly from the U.S. After the Sino-Soviet split and the near-collapse of China, the United States emerged as the CCP's primary enabler, helping transform it into the world's second-largest economy and our greatest geopolitical threat. Most Americans remain unaware of their own country's role in the CCP's unprecedented success. While others have explored pieces of this story, no book has revealed the full picture--until now. With meticulous research and unflinching clarity, this book exposes the uncomfortable truth: to effectively counter the CCP, we must first dismantle communist influence at home.
The War on Terror and the Caribbean
This book offers a multifaceted understanding of how the 9/11 attacks and the subsequent War on Terror affected the Caribbean.This book dives deeper into how the 9/11 attacks and the subsequent War on Terror impacted the region's tourism industry, anti-terrorism legislation, and the banking/financial and immigration system. This book analyzes the US-led War on Terror through a broader conceptual lens, i.e., using two Schmittian perspectives (the friend-enemy and the sovereign in times of exception), which offers an opportunity for the methodological interpretation of Bush's counterterrorism policy to give a novel conceptual understanding of the War on Terror in relation to the Caribbean. Thus, this book offers a nuanced and novel perspective on the subject matter.This book will be of much interest to students studying about terrorism, Caribbean studies, political theory, and international relations.
