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by Timofey Agarin, Karl Cordell
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016

In order to gain access to the EU, nations must be seen to implement formal instruments that protect the rights of minorities. This book examines the ways in which these tools have worked in a number of post-communist states, and explores the interaction of domestic and international structures that...
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Europe in Emerging Asia

Opportunities and Obstacles in Political and Economic Encounters

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Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2015

In light of the Eurozone crisis and the growth of Asian economies, have new challenges emerged for the relations between nations in these regions? As the Asian consumer class grows and its culture globalizes, what does this mean for the export of Eurocentric values and norms? And what does the future...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017

Globalization is one of the most contested and (ab)used concepts of our time. Whether one interprets it as a ‘collective illusion’ or as the final stage of capitalism, as ‘uncontrollable multitude’ or as a radical opening of new spaces of freedom, the ‘global age’ represents the conceptual...
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Taming an Uncertain Future

Temporality, Sovereignty, and the Politics of Anticipatory Governance

by Liam P.D. Stockdale
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015

A popular cliché in contemporary public discourse holds that we live in a time of increasing uncertainty; that the next catastrophe is perpetually imminent and yet increasingly beyond our capacity to foresee. The future, in short, is becoming much more difficult to control. One consequence of this...
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by Phil Gurski
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2018

Why are we still at ‘war’ with terror 16 years after 9/11? This book will discuss what we have collectively done well, what we have done poorly, what we have yet to try and how we get to the point where terrorism does not dominate public discourse and cause disproportionate fear around the world. This...
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Rethinking Peace

Discourse, Memory, Translation, and Dialogue

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Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2019

Long considered a subfield of international relations and political science, Peace Studies has solidified its place as an interdisciplinary field in its own right with a canon, degree programs, journals, conferences, and courses taught on the subject. Internationally renowned centers offering programs...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2017

Heidegger’s influence in the twentieth century probably outstrips that of any other philosopher, at least in the so-called Continental tradition. The 'revolution' Heidegger brought about with his compelling readings of the broader philosophical tradition transformed German philosophy and spread...
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by Markus Fraundorfer
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017

In recent years, a growing literature has focused on how to create more effective and democratic global governance mechanisms to better tackle global challenges such as health epidemics, global hunger, Internet surveillance or the consequences of climate change. Yet there is a gap in accessible published...
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The Tragedy of Human Development

A Genealogy of Capital as Power

by Tim Di Muzio
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017

How might an objective observer conceive of what humans have accomplished as a species over its brief history? Benjamin argues that history can be judged as one giant catastrophe. Liberals suggest that this is to sombre an assessment and that human history can be read as a story of greater and greater...
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Carbon Capitalism

Energy, Social Reproduction and World Order

by Tim Di Muzio
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015

Modern civilization and the social reproduction of capitalism are bound inextricably with fossil fuel consumption. But as carbon energy resources become scarcer, what implications will this have for energy-intensive modes of life? Can renewable energy sustain high levels of accumulation?? Or will...
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Greek Endgame

From Austerity to Growth or Grexit

by Nicos Christodoulakis
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015

The book explores in depth both the origins of the Greek debt crisis and the conditions under which the economy might be turned around from its current malaise. Greek debt turned explosive after the 2008 global crisis, through a combination of a fiscal spree and domestic policy complacency,...
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The Practice of Freedom

Anarchism, Geography, and the Spirit of Revolt

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Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016

The last two decades have seen a re-birth of practices and principles that connect with the ‘soul’ of left-libertarianism, although they may not explicitly engage with the anarchist tradition. From practices of mapping and land-use planning to local protests and transnational social movements,...
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Understanding Islam and the West

Critical Skills for Students

by Nathan Lean
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2018

As the world’s second-largest faith and by some accounts the most fast-growing, Islam is often at the forefront of intense public conversation in debates about politics, international relations, globalization, modern society and culture. From the rise of ISIS and revolutions in North Africa...
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Religious Activism in the Global Economy

Promoting, Reforming, or Resisting Neoliberal Globalization?

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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016

Protests of neoliberal globalization have proliferated in recent years, not least in response to the financial crisis, austerity and increasing inequality. But how do religious groups organize themselves in response to these issues? This book systematically studies the relationship of religious...
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