Europe Meets America
Unlike earlier, restrictive portrayals of William Lescaze, Caramellino focuses on the role that the Swiss architect played in defining the main features of New York social housing and the encounter between European modernity and an American scene still tied to local conventions.
The United States and China
As the US and China vie to shape East Asia’s future, this book dissects their clashing worldviews, the balance of power, and the grave consequences for the region’s security.
North African Societies after the Arab Spring
No attempt to define the Mediterranean as a whole can overlook the various political, religious and social forces at work along its shores. This title shows how these forces interact in complex ways, as evidenced by their impact on the cultural, and political life of the region.
Why Philosophy Matters
This work examines the answers provided by over thirty philosophers to aspects of building character, forging personal relations, promoting sound political strategies, living meaningfully, and dying gracefully. In so doing, over twenty lessons for living a worthy life emerge.
This book analyzes the EU’s challenges as a global actor amid recent political and economic crises. It covers foreign policy, sanctions, and trade, offering timely analysis of EU responses to events like the Ukrainian conflict, and proposes a unique macroeconomic model.
What Comes After Occupy?
Occupy Wall Street in NYC received much publicity, but little attention has been given to the hundreds of Occupy groups in other locations. This volume rectifies this, with essays addressing the creative politics of occupation in these different contexts.
This book offers a multidimensional study of the evolution of far-right parties and ultranationalist ideology and their impact on contemporary European politics, society, and the state, revealing the danger they represent.
Rebuilding Sustainable Communities after Disasters
Bringing together the perspectives of the people on small, remote islands in the South Pacific, the aid organisations who help after a disaster, and the governments, Johnston investigates how the appropriate responses to natural disasters for small communities.
Emancipating the Many
Eschewing the flawed promise of acting for the ‘common good’, this book discusses the process of individuation in order to elucidate contemporary experience as relational phenomena of networked human and non-human actors.
Fight and Flight
Bassano examines the campaigns of three US NGOs to challenge the Reagan Administration’s policy of supporting right-ring terror and oligarchy in Central America during the 1980s.
Governing Environment
Sharma comparatively analyses the federal policies and financing of India and Canada, examining the suitability of federalism as a system of governance to deal with various pressing environmental questions.
Public Opinion towards the EU
Durach investigates the public opinion of the EU in the context of the present economic crisis and other significant challenges, such as the refugee crisis, providing insights into attitudes towards the organisation in Central and Eastern Europe.
The Problem of Modern Greek Identity
Recent political events in Greece have called into question the nature of modern Greek identity. This title investigates what it means to be a Greek today, approaching the subject in a kaleidoscopic way, tracing the line from the Byzantine Empire to Modern Greek culture.
Exploring various dimensions of Euroscepticism in the context of the greatest economic crisis in the history of the EU, this title discusses the future of the European body in a critical context marked by what appears to be “never-ending” concerns of leadership and legitimacy.
This collection of essays examines the Korean Peninsula’s nuclear and reunification challenges through the crucial lens of Sino-Japanese relations. While China and Japan share the goal of a stable, nuclear-free Korea, both North and South Korea adeptly resist their influence.
Humanitarian Subsidiarity
Roughneen examines the possibility of a new humanitarian principle: subsidiarity, to recognise that local populations should make decisions. He argues the humanitarian system’s design should support this and only make higher-level decisions if there is a humanitarian imperative.
A concise guide on how and why the Arab Spring failed, Alfadhel presents a narrative of events in the Arab World. He describes an original investigation into why the Arab Spring cannot be seen as a wave of democratization, due to intolerant Islamist actors’ input in its failure.
The Threat of Geopolitics to International Relations
This text tears apart the simplistic thinking of geopolitics, proposing its replacement with the authors’ own method of ‘geohistory’. This new concept is based on recognising that at the base of any study and evaluation of the international situation lie human characteristics.
The Crowe Memorandum
An “outsider” in the Foreign Office, Sir Eyre Crowe was one of Britain’s most significant public servants. His 1907 Memorandum on Germany had a profound influence on foreign policy for forty years, shaping events from WWI to the eve of WWII.
Reflections on Conservatism brings together scholars studying conservatism from different perspectives. The articles cover a wide range of theoretical aspects and focus on conservative movements and thinkers from different countries.
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