INDIA-PHILIPPINES RELATIONS Intersecting Interests, Shared Vision and Way Forward To celebrate 75 years of diplomatic relations
This book commemorates and celebrates 75 years of robust and multi-dimensional diplomatic relations between our two vibrant democracies, India and the Philippines. Through nine chapters, penned by relying mainly on primary documents, published works, and consultations with experts and practitioners, this book takes the reader beyond historical, civilisational, political and economic synergies to locate the partnership and its potential in both bilateral and multilateral areas. As their importance grows in the regional and global order, there is an imperative to identify avenues for their enhanced understanding through culture, history, economics, science, technology, innovations, and defense collaborations. This understanding will fortify and sustain their partnership to redress challenges posed by geo-economic and geo-strategic tensions - the raison d'etre for them to consolidate past achievements and move towards enhancing their regional and global presence. Given the aggressive posturing by China, suggested policy prescriptions aim to catalyze their holistic connections.This volume responds to questions such as: What explains the need to strengthen India-Philippines partnership undergirded by their historical, diasporic and cultural affinities? How have both New Delhi and Manila reassessed their economic and strategic visions in the context of the transforming Indo-Pacific discourses? Given that defense cooperation has been the hallmark of trust building, how has this been reflected in their shared visions for regional security, peace and prosperity? Finally, what are the key sectors and catalysts for forging closer cooperation for the next 25 years of India-Philippines diplomatic relations?
A Divergent Foreign Policy Alliance
This book examines, through the use of archives and oral evidence, the role of the Pakistan Army in the context of Pakistan's foreign policy and domestic politics. Focusing on its independent relationship with three instruments of policy-making in the United States - State Department, White House and Pentagon - the theory argues that the relationship between the Army and these policy-making bodies arose from a synergistic commonality of interests during 1947-65. The Americans needed a country, on the periphery of the Soviet Union to contain Communism while the Pakistan needed US military support to check Indian regional military hegemonism in South Asia. This alliance was secured to the disadvantage of democratic political institutions of Pakistan. The Army, which became stronger as a result of US military and economic support, came progressively to dominate domestic politics. This led not only to weakened civilian governments in the period under examination but also, in 1958, to the military seizure of political control of the country itself. Religion, the foundation of the creation of the country, failed to keep the East and West wings of Pakistan united. The book explores the influence of the martial-race theory and and reconstructs provincial politics that weakened the Federal Government and allowed the Army to usurp political power to a disproportionate degree. The complications arising in Indo-Pakistan relations as a consequence of an abrupt tilt of the US towards India after the Sino-Indian war in 1962 are also examined. This resulted in China-Pakistan friendship. In conclusion, the book argues that the period under consideration saw a complete failure of the US policy of containing communism while at the same time avoiding war between its allies in the region, and that this had tragic consequences for the future of democracy in Pakistan.
JOHNSTONE September 24
ONE year of genocide. One year of horrors permanently seared into our collective imagination. One year of the goalpost of normality being moved again and again. One year of the rules of war being eroded to the point where hospitals, journalists, and children are now fair game. A year of carnage, a year of despair - but also a year of clarification as the grisly bloodthirsty fangs of the Western Empire moved into the light for the world to see.
Revolutionary Emotions
Revolutionary Emotions proposes a novel emotional theory of revolutionary diffusion and success and argues that emotional mobilization is at the root of both. For centuries, revolutionaries spoke of the emotional arousal--the anger, hope, and the jettisoning of fear--that motivated their participation in revolt. Studies of revolutions, however, rarely give these emotional narratives the power that actors themselves recount. This book argues that revolutionary waves, including the 1848 revolts and the Arab Uprisings, cannot be explained without the emotional arousal that motivated potential revolutionaries to imitate neighboring revolts. The shared identity of revolutionaries across borders leads to a shared emotional arousal and adoption of protest frames and methods. Absent this shared identity, revolutions are unlikely to cause sufficient emotional resonance to spur imitators across borders. In addition to a shared identity, previous history of protests makes diffusion more likely, as seasoned activists capitalize on this emotional jolt to mobilize against their regimes. The emotional power of the crowds is tangible--if difficult to measure--and influences the decisions of key elite players, including the military, on whether to allow the regime to fall. By grounding the theory in the emotional narratives of revolutionaries and by breaking down the various dichotomies that plague the study of revolutions--structure versus agency, and domestic versus international--Revolutionary Emotions provides the first coherent theory of revolutionary diffusion and success.
China - Sierra Leone Relations Friendship, Co-operation and Win-Win Diplomacy
This seminal book critically explores China-Sierra Leone relations, within the framework of the long-standing friendship, co-operation and mutual benefit diplomacy, as well as the complex cooperation between the two countries within the geopolitical context of South-South co-operation at bilateral and multilateral levels. To commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the China-Sierra Leone engagements and the establishment of diplomatic relations, on July 29, 2021, the Chinese President Xi Jinping and Sierra Leonean President, Julius Maada Bio, held a long telephone conversation to consolidate the bilateral relations between the two countries. During President Julius Maada Bio's State Visit to China in February 2024, President Xi Jinping described the China-Sierra Leone relationship as "a good example of China-Africa solidarity and cooperation". Although China is one of Sierra Leone's most important bilateral partners, providing significant assistance and implementing various infrastructural projects across the country through the China Aid programme, there is limited understanding of why the two countries hold such importance for each other in the geo-political and geo-economics context, and in the process, have emerged as a model of China-Africa relations and cooperation. This book examines the history, nature, scope, trajectory, key actors (in terms of the Structure-Agency debate) and the complexity of bilateral and multilateral diplomacy, as well as the broader impact of the Sino-Sierra Leone relations on both nations. The book will be of interest to academics, scholars, researchers, policy practitioners, diplomats, educators, journalists and others interested in Sierra Leone and African politics; China-Africa relations, China's geopolitics, International Relations, Political Economy of Africa and China's engagements with the continent.____________________________ Professor David J. Francis is currently a Senior Visiting Research Professor at the Institute of African Studies, Zhejiang Normal University, China. Professor Francis is a distinguished international academic, who served as Head of Department of Peace Studies at the University of Bradford in UK. He also held a Research Professorial Chair as well as UNESCO Chair at the same University. Professor Francis is extensively published with 12 books on Sierra Leone, African politics, peace, security and development issues in general. As a statesman, diplomat and policy practitioner, Professor Francis served as Chief Minister and Foreign Minister of the Republic of Sierra Leone between 2018 and 2023.
We Need to Talk about Defence
Based on a distinguished 35-year career in the RAF as an Air Commodore, Andrew R. Curtis highlights what is wrong with the way defence is managed today, and presents evidence-based proposals to fix it.Defence is failing to deliver. From the ability of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to develop defence policy, to the single service's - Royal Navy, British Army, and Royal Air Force (RAF) - ability to acquire and maintain military capability. This is not a new problem; indeed, ever since the creation of the MoD in 1964, there have been tensions between the department of state and the armed forces over allocations of responsibility, authority and accountability. Concerned with political oversight; the allocation of responsibility, authority, and accountability; administration of people; organisational structures; and policies and processes, Curtis compellingly demonstrates the critical need to reform the management of Defence for the UK's armed forces to fight and win in the future.
Bombing to Provoke
The rapid proliferation and growing sophistication of aerospace weapons--rockets, missiles, and drones--have altered the landscape of warfare. The influence of these weapons on the battlefield is felt profoundly, yet the mechanism of coercion by which these weapons alter the will of the adversary is poorly understood. In Bombing to Provoke, Jaganath Sankaran argues that it is not what these aerospace weapons physically do but what they prompt the target state to do in response that matters for understanding their coercive effect. By threatening a chemical, biological, or nuclear strike or demonstrating the ability to bombard the target's economic and political core repeatedly, aerospace weapons coerce by weaponizing fear and triggering a sense of defenselessness. Sankaran provides a series of historical and current case studies to show how these fears amplify the political vulnerabilities of the target state, coercing it to divert substantial military resources away from other vital missions to redress the threat. This scenario is playing out in real time right now in both the Russo-Ukraine and Israel-Gaza theaters, both of which are seeing barrages of cross-border missile and rocket fire aimed at weakening the target's resolve. For anyone seeking to understand why states at war in the age of aerospace weapon warfare operate and react in the ways that they do, this book's methodical dissection of the strategic rationale behind these weapons makes it necessary reading.
European Union Law
"European Union Law: Questions and Answers" is your essential companion for unlocking the complexities of EU legal frameworks. Crafted to empower students and enthusiasts alike, this book serves as a gateway to mastering key principles and concepts essential for success in the field of law. Delve into the core subjects outlined by the Law Society and the Bar Council, ensuring you're equipped with the knowledge necessary for a qualifying law degree. From understanding the supremacy of EU law over national legislation to dissecting intricate principles like direct effect and state liability, each chapter provides a comprehensive exploration of vital legal topics.This guide doesn't just stop at theory; it encourages active engagement and critical thinking. Through challenging mock factual scenarios and thought-provoking essay questions, readers are prompted to apply their knowledge in practical contexts, honing their problem-solving skills and fostering a deeper understanding of EU law.Whether you're preparing for examinations or seeking to broaden your legal acumen, "European Union Law: Questions and Answers" offers a structured approach to learning. Develop the ability to analyze competing viewpoints, construct reasoned arguments, and utilize technical legal vocabulary effectively.Empower yourself to navigate the complexities of EU law with confidence. Start your journey towards legal excellence today with "European Union Law: Questions and Answers."
The Ecosystem of Exile Politics
The Ecosystem of Exile Politics relays the events in Bhutan that led to the exodus of one-sixth of the population, and then recounts the activism by Bhutan's refugee diaspora that followed in response. Susan Banki asserts that activism functions like a physical ecosystem, in which hubs of activism in different locations interact to pressure the home country. For Bhutan's refugee mobilizers, physical proximity offers advantages in Nepal and India, where organizing protests, lobbying, and collecting information about government abuse in Bhutan is aided by being close to the homeland. But in an ecosystem of exile politics, proximity is both a boon and a bane. Sites proximate to Bhutan can be spaces of risk and disempowerment, and refugee activists rarely secure legal, political, and social protection. While distant diasporas in the Global North may not be in precarious situations, they cannot tap into the advantages of proximity. In examining these phenomena, The Ecosystem of Exile Politics adds to theoretical understandings of exile politics and to empirical research on Bhutan and its refugee population.
The Ecosystem of Exile Politics
The Ecosystem of Exile Politics relays the events in Bhutan that led to the exodus of one-sixth of the population, and then recounts the activism by Bhutan's refugee diaspora that followed in response. Susan Banki asserts that activism functions like a physical ecosystem, in which hubs of activism in different locations interact to pressure the home country. For Bhutan's refugee mobilizers, physical proximity offers advantages in Nepal and India, where organizing protests, lobbying, and collecting information about government abuse in Bhutan is aided by being close to the homeland. But in an ecosystem of exile politics, proximity is both a boon and a bane. Sites proximate to Bhutan can be spaces of risk and disempowerment, and refugee activists rarely secure legal, political, and social protection. While distant diasporas in the Global North may not be in precarious situations, they cannot tap into the advantages of proximity. In examining these phenomena, The Ecosystem of Exile Politics adds to theoretical understandings of exile politics and to empirical research on Bhutan and its refugee population.
Instruments of International Order
This book explores the transformation of international relations in the first half of the twentieth century as internationalist schemes for doing world politics came to be practices and principles shared by diplomatic actors across the globe - instruments of international order.
"They Know I Know Everything"
A key figure in French Africa, Robert Bourgi, for the first time ever in a book, discusses his life, his relationship with his mentor Jacques Foccart and all the "missions" he undertook over almost forty years, on behalf of African and French presidents, including the leading lights of the Right (Jacques Chirac, Nicolas Sarkozy, Charles Pasqua, Jacques Toubon, Dominique de Villepin, Claude Gu矇ant, Fran癟ois Fillon etc.). He reveals the financing networks of French political parties, based on his personal notes that he kept for 40 years. He also describes the sensitive cases in which he was involved-the liberation of French journalists from Lebanon in the 1980s; rehabilitation of Mobutu Sese Seko; the liberation of the French hostage, Clothilde Reiss, in Iran; the rescue of Laurent Gbagbo; the resignation of Jean-Marie Bockel; the appointment of French ambassadors to Africa; his lobbying of the ?lys矇e Palace on behalf of African heads of state. From F矇lix Houphou禱t-Boigny and Laurent Gbagbo (Ivory Coast) to Mobutu Sese Seko (DR Congo), via Blaise Compaor矇 (Burkina Faso), Mathieu K矇r矇kou (Benin), Abdoulaye Wade and Macky Sall (Senegal), Mohamed ould Abdel Aziz (Mauritania) and Gnassingb矇 Eyad矇ma (Togo), Pascal Lissouba, Denis Sassou Nguesso (Congo), and above all Omar and Ali Bongo (Gabon), this book throws light on the psychology of numerous presidents, south of the Sahara, and their regimes, giving the reader a fresh look at France's African policy over several decades.
This Fiction Called Nigeria
An uncompromising look at Nigeria's crisis of democracy by a renowned essayist and critic In this groundbreaking work, the essayist and critic Adewale Maja-Pearce delivers a mordant verdict on Nigeria's crisis of democracy. A mosaic of ethnic and religious groups, the most populous country in Africa was fabricated by British colonizers at the turn of the twentieth century. In the years since its independence in 1960, Nigeria spent an unbroken quarter century as a military dictatorship. Yet the blessings of today's democracy are unclear to many, especially among the more than half of the population living in extreme poverty. Buffeted by unemployment, saddled with debt, menaced by bandits and Islamic fundamentalists, Nigeria faces the threat of disintegration. Maja-Pearce shows that recent mobilizations against police brutality, sexism, and homophobia reveal a powerful undercurrent of discontent, especially among the country's youth. If Nigeria has a future, he shows here, it is in the hands of young people unwilling to go on as before.
War-Making as Worldmaking
Since Kenya's invasion of Somalia in 2011, the Kenyan state has been engaged in direct combat with the Somali militant group Al-Shabaab, conducting airstrikes in southern Somalia and deploying heavy-handed police tactics at home. As the hunt for suspects has expanded within Kenya, Kenyan Muslims have been subject to disappearances and extrajudicial killings at the hands of U.S.-trained Kenyan police. War-Making as Worldmaking explores the entanglement of militarism, imperialism, and liberal-democratic governance in East Africa today. Samar Al-Bulushi argues that Kenya's emergence as a key player in the "War on Terror" is closely linked-but not reducible to-the U.S. military's growing proclivity to outsource the labor of war. Attending to the cultural politics of security, Al-Bulushi illustrates that the war against Al-Shabaab has become a means to produce new fantasies, emotions, and subjectivities about Kenya's place in the world. Meanwhile, Kenya's alignment with the U.S. provides cover for the criminalization and policing of the country's Muslim minority population. How is life lived in a place that is not understood to be a site of war, yet is often experienced as such by its targets? This book weaves together multiple scales of analysis, asking what a view from East Africa can tell us about the shifting configurations and expansive geographies of post-9/11 imperial warfare.
Indulging Kleptocracy
A powerful and sophisticated analysis of how Western professionals have enabled kleptocratic elite networks and undermined the rule of law. After the Cold War ended, the British government created the conditions under which a large, multinational class of extremely wealthy kleptocrats based primarily in Russia and Eurasia could move to and thrive in London with a genuine sense of impunity. What is the role of professional enablers in the rise of kleptocracy? In Indulging Kleptocracy, John Heathershaw, Tena Prelec, and Tom Mayne examine the broad range of financial, legal, and related services provided in the UK with respect to suspicious wealth from Russian and Eurasian elites. Through a series of rich, gripping case studies, the authors show how powerful legal and financial service industries that know how to game the system have made it possible for these corrupt elites to operate with relative impunity. They detail how these enablers exploit deregulation and the under-enforcement of the law, offshore their clients' wealth, and enhance their reputations and influence via philanthropy, political donations and the use of the UK's punitive libel regime. They further argue that kleptocracy is not just a moral and economic problem that sits at the margins of real politics, but it impoverishes the global south and undermines institutions in the global north, eroding faith in democracy by empowering corrupt elite business-political networks in global politics. Shedding light on dangerous patterns of corruption, Indulging Kleptocracy explores one of the most fascinating stories in the post-Cold War era and offers suggestions on how to break the system of indulgences and stymie the globalization of kleptocracy.
Self-Determination and Collective Responsibility in the Secessionist Struggle
In this book Costas Laoutides explores the collective moral agency involved in secessionist struggles offering a theoretical model for the collective responsibility of secessionist groups. Case-studies on the Kurds and the people of Moldova-Transdniestria illustrate the author's theoretical arguments as he seeks to establish how, although the princ
China - Sierra Leone Relations Friendship, Co-operation and Win-Win Diplomacy
This seminal book critically explores China-Sierra Leone relations, within the framework of the long-standing friendship, co-operation and mutual benefit diplomacy, as well as the complex cooperation between the two countries within the geopolitical context of South-South co-operation at bilateral and multilateral levels. To commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the China-Sierra Leone engagements and the establishment of diplomatic relations, on July 29, 2021, the Chinese President Xi Jinping and Sierra Leonean President, Julius Maada Bio, held a long telephone conversation to consolidate the bilateral relations between the two countries. During President Julius Maada Bio's State Visit to China in February 2024, President Xi Jinping described the China-Sierra Leone relationship as "a good example of China-Africa solidarity and cooperation". Although China is one of Sierra Leone's most important bilateral partners, providing significant assistance and implementing various infrastructural projects across the country through the China Aid programme, there is limited understanding of why the two countries hold such importance for each other in the geo-political and geo-economics context, and in the process, have emerged as a model of China-Africa relations and cooperation. This book examines the history, nature, scope, trajectory, key actors (in terms of the Structure-Agency debate) and the complexity of bilateral and multilateral diplomacy, as well as the broader impact of the Sino-Sierra Leone relations on both nations. The book will be of interest to academics, scholars, researchers, policy practitioners, diplomats, educators, journalists and others interested in Sierra Leone and African politics; China-Africa relations, China's geopolitics, International Relations, Political Economy of Africa and China's engagements with the continent.____________________________ Professor David J. Francis is currently a Senior Visiting Research Professor at the Institute of African Studies, Zhejiang Normal University, China. Professor Francis is a distinguished international academic, who served as Head of Department of Peace Studies at the University of Bradford in UK. He also held a Research Professorial Chair as well as UNESCO Chair at the same University. Professor Francis is extensively published with 12 books on Sierra Leone, African politics, peace, security and development issues in general. As a statesman, diplomat and policy practitioner, Professor Francis served as Chief Minister and Foreign Minister of the Republic of Sierra Leone between 2018 and 2023.
War-Making as Worldmaking
Since Kenya's invasion of Somalia in 2011, the Kenyan state has been engaged in direct combat with the Somali militant group Al-Shabaab, conducting airstrikes in southern Somalia and deploying heavy-handed police tactics at home. As the hunt for suspects has expanded within Kenya, Kenyan Muslims have been subject to disappearances and extrajudicial killings at the hands of U.S.-trained Kenyan police. War-Making as Worldmaking explores the entanglement of militarism, imperialism, and liberal-democratic governance in East Africa today. Samar Al-Bulushi argues that Kenya's emergence as a key player in the "War on Terror" is closely linked-but not reducible to-the U.S. military's growing proclivity to outsource the labor of war. Attending to the cultural politics of security, Al-Bulushi illustrates that the war against Al-Shabaab has become a means to produce new fantasies, emotions, and subjectivities about Kenya's place in the world. Meanwhile, Kenya's alignment with the U.S. provides cover for the criminalization and policing of the country's Muslim minority population. How is life lived in a place that is not understood to be a site of war, yet is often experienced as such by its targets? This book weaves together multiple scales of analysis, asking what a view from East Africa can tell us about the shifting configurations and expansive geographies of post-9/11 imperial warfare.
Elite Populism and Malay Political Leaders in Malaysia
This book focuses on the many kinds of populist politicians in Malaysia who capitalise on the mindset of the Malay majority population by appealing to their need for a protector. In order to demonstrate that populism is pervasive and can even be found in this developing nation in Southeast Asia, the book presents the background, policies, and rhetoric of seven prominent Malay politicians in Malaysia who utilise populism as a strategy. It does so by comparing various populist leaders in Malaysia to demonstrate that populism is merely a method for these politicians to garner support. Since most of these leaders come from the establishment, the rhetoric against the elites is merely performative rather than a true belief of these Malay leaders. The book takes a case-study approach to understanding the rise of populism in Malaysia, and Asia more generally. It offers a framework that is grounded in the sociopolitical context of the Malay community, which helps to elucidate the phenomenon of elite populism in the country.
Diversity Dysfunction
The diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) agenda that has captured American institutions in recent years is controversial. While many applaud it on ethical grounds for allegedly redressing past discrimination, critics charge that DEI policies are unfair and damage institutions, including organizations critical to U.S. national security. Until now, however, there has been no systematic study of the operational effects of DEI policies on the U.S. intelligence community. Diversity Dysfunction documents a purposeful effort by the Barack Obama and Joe Biden administrations to reorient the organizational cultures of our intelligence agencies toward the Marxist tenets of DEI and to degrade longstanding and highly effective practices in ways that harm performance. While the damage is readily apparent, we do not yet know the full consequences of the injuries inflicted by the DEI agenda. Our global adversaries have surely noticed the resulting weaknesses in U.S. intelligence but have not yet exploited them. One day, they will. Jettisoning DEI now is our best chance to mitigate the risk.
Stories of Change
Based on in-depth interviews with over twenty inspirational Kenyan and Ugandan Christian and Muslim leaders actively involved in struggles for LGBTIQ rights, this open access book shows how religious leaders in East African countries can be agents of progressive social change. Through a community-based approach of life-story methodology, a team of field-leading scholars and practitioners from Kenya and the UK draws out crucial, critical insights into the personal, theological and social sacrifices and challenges that these religious leaders face in everyday realities dominated by conservative religious interpretations and theologies. In so doing, they also identify common strategies religious leaders develop to respond to these challenges while keeping true to their mission. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com
In Search of Green China
The world cannot address its pressing environmental problems without China. But can China be relied upon as a steadfast steward of nature, as its leaders have claimed in recent years? Prominent environmental campaigner and reporter Ma Tianjie gets to the heart of China's remarkable ecological transformation to answer this question. He takes us on a journey through the country's thirty-year struggle to clean up its rivers, clear its air and stabilize carbon emissions, drawing out the complex political impulses that have helped and hindered progress. Anchoring his storytelling in some of China's major environmental challenges - from Beijing's 'airpocalypse' to the cancer villages of the Huai River basin, he shows how the ideas and actions of few extraordinary individuals were critical in changing China from a heavily polluted country to a place where environmental issues are high on the agenda. The complex ecological tapestry Ma paints illuminates the key ideas, experiences and influences that have shaped China's environmental consciousness and will continue to frame the search for green China well into the twenty-first century.
Superpower Europe
The European Union is in a state of revolution. In response to new global realities from the climate crisis to the Covid-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine to the emerging cold war with China, the EU is transforming into a federal superpower in a new world order. In this timely intervention, Marc De Vos gets to the heart of the challenges facing the European Union as it undergoes this silent revolution. Charting its changing mission and identity from a European community into a geostrategic coalition of Eurasian countries; from a union of values into a union of power; and from a market project into a state project, he exposes what's at stake for both the EU itself and its partners across the world. But retaining this new superpower status, he cautions, is not a given. The European Union's de facto metamorphosis must mature into a democratic political structure or it risks a crisis of legitimacy that could ultimately threaten the stability of the European Union itself.
Beyond Nationalism
This book discusses the meaning of the common good in a European Union thorned by nationalist tendencies and presents concrete policies to improve its achievement. It analyses the normative relevance of EU values as a shared moral standpoint that allows highly diverse member states to label a given collective choice as 'good' or 'bad'. It discusses the role of EU institutions as both guardians and enablers of EU values in a globalised world and introduces a few proposals for institutional reform at the EU level that could strengthen this role. It also presents six strategies to improve civic friendship in the EU, in the absence of which any institutional efforts to promote the common good may be undermined by the citizens' lack of willingness to share its burdens.
The Ballot Box Battlefield
The Ballot Box Battlefield is a non-fiction easy read for those interested in participating in the electoral process as candidates or individuals, and academics interested in politics. Readers will learn: *How to participate in a political election as a candidate*Elements of a good campaign*How to deal with winning or losing a race*The role of democracy: the good, the bad and the ugly*Then role of electoral authorities in Canada*Five tips for those running for school board, council, or provincial or federal office*The obligations of citizens*Five tips on how to write a speech*Five tips on how to build relationships*Five types of voters to ignore*Five unknowns in any political campaignThis book can prepare you to run for office or to support a political candidate.
The Ballot Box Battlefield
The Ballot Box Battlefield is a non-fiction easy read for those interested in participating in the electoral process as candidates or individuals, and academics interested in politics. Readers will learn: *How to participate in a political election as a candidate*Elements of a good campaign*How to deal with winning or losing a race*The role of democracy: the good, the bad and the ugly*Then role of electoral authorities in Canada*Five tips for those running for school board, council, or provincial or federal office*The obligations of citizens*Five tips on how to write a speech*Five tips on how to build relationships*Five types of voters to ignore*Five unknowns in any political campaignThis book can prepare you to run for office or to support a political candidate.
Analysis of Youth Entrepreneurship in Uvira
In the DRC in general, and in the town of Uvira in particular, young people have become involved in entrepreneurship, not only to find a means of survival, but also to combat unemployment and poverty, and thereby contribute to the socio-economic development of the town of Uvira. However, this contribution is rarely assessed to identify its determinants and limiting factors. This study consists of an analytical assessment of the contribution of youth entrepreneurship to the socio-economic development of the city of Uvira. To this end, this assessment identifies the impact of entrepreneurial activities carried out by young people on the socio-economic conditions of the city's population, identifies the constraints that limit the contribution of youth entrepreneurship to the socio-economic development of the city of Uvira, and proposes a project whose strategies to be implemented will promote youth entrepreneurship, in order to contribute effectively to the socio-economic development of the city of Uvira.
Organizational climate
This book talks about the organizational climate in modern organizations of all shapes and types of work. The book reviews a number of topics that deal with the prevailing organizational climate in modern organizations in a way that reviews the foundations and principles from which the ideal organizational climate is based, in addition to reviewing a number of important topics that currently prevail in contemporary organizations such as organizational zombies and digital training in light of artificial intelligence, in addition to reviewing some of the organizational diseases that organizations are exposed to, and the prevailing climate is considered a source of them.
European Union and Mercosur
Exchanges between people of different nationalities put pressure on jurists around the world to produce the legal instruments needed to underpin, guarantee and standardise the contracts that are being formed. It is in this sense that the clash of historically diverse legal conceptions, such as the two great families of law that govern the European Union and Mercosur, fuelled by the urgency of resolving conflicts that are often pioneering, imposes urgency on the creation of internationally respected and less bureaucratic regulations. This necessary legal regulation is subject to the inescapable mediation of words and will have the English language as its favoured vehicle. Thus, the increase in the number of cases whose connecting elements refer to the need to know the provisions of that legal system and, on the other hand, the need to forge a new common legal culture within the economic blocs, through international law, including the extrajudicial forms of dispute resolution that are the basis of the common law legal culture itself, leave no doubt that there will be a legal confluence between common law and civil law.
Highway to Hell
The world stands on the precipice of a nuclear Armageddon, the byproduct of a confluence of the demise of the foundational principles of arms control that had served as a check on the world's two largest nuclear-armed nations, the United States and Russia, and the geopolitical consequences of a failing hegemon clashing with an emerging multipolar reality. Nuclear weapons, once codified as weapons of deterrence intended never to be used, have morphed into weapons that have become integrated in the warfighting plans of the nuclear-armed powers. Deterrence is no longer in vogue--warfighting and war winning are. There will be no winner in a nuclear conflict. Critical thinking about the dangers posed by nuclear weapons, the necessity of arms control, and the consequences of nuclear war has never been more urgently needed. Highway to Hell: The Armageddon Chronicles, 2015-2024 affords the reader a comprehensive insight into these critical issues as they were unfolding, free of the circumspection and narrative management of conventional histories. Scott Ritter has been sounding the alarm about the dangerous path the world is headed down for some time now--his book Scorpion King: America's Suicidal Embrace of Nuclear Weapons from FDR to Trump, serves as a stark warning about the inherent dangers posed by nuclear weapons and the policies that sustain them. Another book, Disarmament in the Time of Perestroika: Arms Control and the End of the Soviet Union, brings to life the important potential of arms control agreements in bringing the threat posed by nuclear weapons to heel by detailing his own personal experiences from 1988-1990 as a weapons inspector in the successful implementation of the INF arms control treaty with the Soviet Union. Highway to Hell offers some of Scott Ritter's best writing and analysis on the danger of nuclear weapons and the need for arms control, culled from dozens of articles he wrote from 2015 to 2024 on the arms race, the death of arms control, the nuclear role of China, Iran, North Korea and Israel, and the U.S. nuclear posture shift from deterrence to employment. This is where we are today: on the cusp of a nuclear conflict with Russia. Humanity is no longer protected from nuclear war by the series of arms control treaties between the US and Russia. This book awakens the reader to the existential danger nuclear weapons pose today, and seeks to motivate them to do something about it
The Pashtun Tahafuz Movement
The Pashtun Tahafuz Movement is the only well-branded together movement that created awareness within the Pashtun communities about the atrocities and war crimes of the Pakistan army in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Waziristan. However, it started long marches, and rallies to divert the attention of the international community towards the forced disappearances of its workers and leaders by the agencies. Frequently, they used social media as a bridge of communication. Originally, its demands included the release of missing persons and an end to extra-judicial killings of Pashtuns, stopping humiliation of passengers at security checkpoints, and removal of landmines in FATA. On 13 January 2018, Naqeebullah Mehsud was killed in a fake police encounter in Karachi. The PTM is the latest manifestation of decades of Pashtun protest against state brutalities. Its origin can be traced back to 2014 when student leaders of Gomal University in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province were propelled into activism to protect the rights of Pashtuns. The PTM is a nonviolent movement led by Manzoor Pashteen against the alleged enforced disappearances, extra-judicial killings, as well as the mistreatment of the Pakhtun community by security forces. The Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) was established in Pakistan to advocate the rights and protection of the Pashtun people, particularly in the context of their treatment by the Pakistani state and military. The movement emerged in response to a long history of violence, discrimination, and human rights abuses experienced by Pashtuns, especially in the aftermath of the War on Terror and the military operations conducted in Pakistan's tribal areas. It's important to note that the Pakistani government and military often justify their actions in Waziristan as necessary for national security and combating terrorism. However, the situation remains deeply controversial, with ongoing debates about the balance between security measures and the rights of the local population.
Contemporary Conflict Resolution
The indispensable guide to conflict resolution in a troubled world Conflict prevention and resolution, peacekeeping, and peacebuilding have never been more important as priorities on the global agenda. The wars in Ukraine and Gaza, and tensions between the major powers in what is now a multi-polar world, require new conflict resolution responses. The fifth edition of this hugely popular text offers a commanding overview of today's changing conflict landscape and the latest developments and new ideas in the field. Fluently written in an easy-to-follow style, it guides readers carefully through the key concepts, issues and debates, evaluates successes and failures, and assesses the main challenges for conflict resolution today. Comprehensively updated and illustrated with new case studies, the fifth edition returns to its favoured twelve-chapter format. It remains the leading text for students of peace and security studies, conflict management and international politics, as well as policy-makers and those working in NGOs and think tanks.
The Pashtun Tahafuz Movement
The Pashtun Tahafuz Movement is the only well-branded together movement that created awareness within the Pashtun communities about the atrocities and war crimes of the Pakistan army in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Waziristan. However, it started long marches, and rallies to divert the attention of the international community towards the forced disappearances of its workers and leaders by the agencies. Frequently, they used social media as a bridge of communication. Originally, its demands included the release of missing persons and an end to extra-judicial killings of Pashtuns, stopping humiliation of passengers at security checkpoints, and removal of landmines in FATA. On 13 January 2018, Naqeebullah Mehsud was killed in a fake police encounter in Karachi. The PTM is the latest manifestation of decades of Pashtun protest against state brutalities. Its origin can be traced back to 2014 when student leaders of Gomal University in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province were propelled into activism to protect the rights of Pashtuns. The PTM is a nonviolent movement led by Manzoor Pashteen against the alleged enforced disappearances, extra-judicial killings, as well as the mistreatment of the Pakhtun community by security forces. The Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) was established in Pakistan to advocate the rights and protection of the Pashtun people, particularly in the context of their treatment by the Pakistani state and military. The movement emerged in response to a long history of violence, discrimination, and human rights abuses experienced by Pashtuns, especially in the aftermath of the War on Terror and the military operations conducted in Pakistan's tribal areas. It's important to note that the Pakistani government and military often justify their actions in Waziristan as necessary for national security and combating terrorism. However, the situation remains deeply controversial, with ongoing debates about the balance between security measures and the rights of the local population.
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization and Conflict De-escalation
This book's main objective is to determine what role, if any, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) plays in de-escalating tensions among its members.
The Palestine Laboratory
How Israel makes a killing from the occupation of Palestine **WINNER OF THE 2023 WALKLEY NON FICTION JOURNALISM PRIZE****Shortlisted for the 2023 Moore Prize for Human Rights Writing** Israel's military industrial complex uses the occupied, Palestinian territories as a testing ground for weaponry and surveillance technology that they then export around the world to despots and democracies. For more than 50 years, occupation of the West Bank and Gaza has given the Israeli state invaluable experience in controlling an "enemy" population, the Palestinians. It's here that they have perfected the architecture of control. Best-selling journalist Antony Loewenstein, author of Disaster Capitalism, uncovers this largely hidden world in a global investigation with secret documents, revealing interviews and on-the-ground reporting. This book shows in-depth, for the first time, how Palestine has become the perfect laboratory for the Israeli military-techno complex: surveillance, home demolitions, indefinite incarceration and brutality to the hi-tech tools that drive the 'Start-up Nation'. From the Pegasus software that hacked Jeff Bezos' and Jamal Khashoggi's phones, the weapons sold to the Myanmar army that has murdered thousands of Rohingyas and drones used by the European Union to monitor refugees in the Mediterranean who are left to drown. Israel has become a global leader in spying technology and defence hardware that fuels the globe's most brutal conflicts. As ethno-nationalism grows in the 21st century, Israel has built the ultimate model.
War, Peace, and Populist Discourse in Ukraine
This book explores the detrimental effects on global peace of populism's tendency to present complex social issues in simplistic "good vs. evil" terms.
Blood Revenge in Irregular Warfare
This book offers an original assessment of the ways in which the sociocultural code of blood revenge and its modern remnants shape irregular warfare.
Constructive Competition in the Caspian Sea Region
Drawing on theoretical insights from functionalist framework, this volume examines three intertwined case studies: the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline (BTC), the Southern Gas Corridor (SGC) and the Caspian Environmental Program (CEP) and portrays a new image of the Caspian Sea region.
Genocides and Xenophobia in South Asia and Beyond
This volume foregrounds some of the unknown or lesser-known incidents of xenophobia and genocide from India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, South Africa, and Rwanda. A comprehensive and transdisciplinary text, the book will be useful for students and researchers of human geography, sociology.
Annihilation of Caste by B.R. Ambedkar - English (Hardcover Library Edition)
'Annihilation of Caste' is a thought-provoking and revolutionary work by Dr B R Ambedkar, one of the most influential figures in Indian history. Originally written as a speech for a conference in 1936, The Book challenges the deep-rooted caste system in India and the social hierarchy it creates. Dr Ambedkar argues that the caste system perpetuates social and economic inequality, and impedes progress and growth for the nation as a whole. He presents a compelling case for the annihilation of caste and the creation of a society based on principles of equality and justice. This book remains a powerful and influential critique of caste and a call to action for social justice and equality in India and beyond and continues to inspire activists and intellectuals to work towards a more just and equitable world.
Political Parties in Post-Uprising Tunisia and Morocco
This book offers a comparative, theory-grounded study of Maghrebi political parties since the Arab uprisings, specifically focused on Tunisia and Morocco in the first decade after the 2011 watershed elections.
Annihilation of Caste by B.R. Ambedkar - English
'Annihilation of Caste' is a thought-provoking and revolutionary work by Dr B R Ambedkar, one of the most influential figures in Indian history. Originally written as a speech for a conference in 1936, The Book challenges the deep-rooted caste system in India and the social hierarchy it creates. Dr Ambedkar argues that the caste system perpetuates social and economic inequality, and impedes progress and growth for the nation as a whole. He presents a compelling case for the annihilation of caste and the creation of a society based on principles of equality and justice. This book remains a powerful and influential critique of caste and a call to action for social justice and equality in India and beyond and continues to inspire activists and intellectuals to work towards a more just and equitable world.
Stories of Change
Based on in-depth interviews with over twenty inspirational Kenyan and Ugandan Christian and Muslim leaders actively involved in struggles for LGBTIQ rights, this open access book shows how religious leaders in East African countries can be agents of progressive social change. Through a community-based approach of life-story methodology, a team of field-leading scholars and practitioners from Kenya and the UK draws out crucial, critical insights into the personal, theological and social sacrifices and challenges that these religious leaders face in everyday realities dominated by conservative religious interpretations and theologies. In so doing, they also identify common strategies religious leaders develop to respond to these challenges while keeping true to their mission. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com
Understanding Biological Emergencies
This book investigates the links between the main sources of biological emergencies and presents a comprehensive policy framework that seeks to achieve the ultimate goal of biological security.
The Changing Character of War and Peacemaking
Geo-politics shifted dramatically with the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. This major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which had started in 2014, drew in the United States, most of Western Europe, and their allies around the world. Meantime, Russia strengthened its ties with China, North Korea, Iran, and others in Asia and the Global South. There was a resultant split in the UN Security Council and deepening global division along the lines of prior conflicts in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. The belief that large scale warfare between developed states had been consigned to history vanished with the return of trench and tank warfare reminiscent of the First World War, and this combined with the newer technologies of drones, cyber, and artificial intelligence. The nature of war remains the same - one side tries to force its will on another which resists with reciprocal military force - but the character of war is changing dramatically. The character of peace-making is being forced to adapt to the new situation. International structures that facilitated negotiations are dissolving and those who sought to lead through resolving conflicts have been replaced by those who lead in conducting conflicts. The 10th Annual Conference on the Resolution of Intractable Conflict held at Oxford University in September 2023 drew experts from across the globe to address The Changing Character of War and Peacemaking and in this book the New England Journal of Public Policy and ARTIS Europe Ltd have published the best papers from that meeting.
Public management for efficient public services in the DRC
At the end of our study, entitled Public Management and the Efficiency of State Public Services, we were asked to diagnose the operating methods of public services in the city-province of Kinshasa, over the period 2006 to 2019. The aim was to gain a managerial perception of quality in their various public interventions. Explicitly, these services have become increasingly inefficient over time, i.e., they fail to perform better when called upon in their mission of general interest. In other words, we have sought to demonstrate how these public services, in their organizational and operational modes, are unable to provide satisfactory solutions to the problems of the local population. Opinions on the quality of public services in Kinshasa do not seem to be favorable. Many complain about the way they are provided. The current state of public administration reform shows that there are dysfunctions.
