This volume studies complexity theory and offers elements that support the continued and ever-growing need for its use. It probes technology, culture, and science to navigate systems within organisations, to divulge the broad spectrum in which complexity theory may be utilised.
Milieus of ReMemory
Milieus of ReMemory concentrates on how people in Lebanon situate and work on memories of violence and trauma, as well as exchange of voices, detailing how memory activism and memory projects constitute emergent milieus of social exchange and ethical responsibility.
This volume presents some of the key approaches to war reporting and suggests trajectories for further critical research into media visualisation of conflict. It highlights the visual culture of conflict, specifically the claim that images are central to contemporary geopolitics.
The Post-Crisis Crises
Dobrescu shows that, in the post-crisis period, global turmoil has moved to the regional level. He proves that the clash between spheres of influence and the world order is being reproduced over and over again in almost every important region of the world.
Challenges and Critiques of the EU Internal Security Strategy
The papers gathered here explore a variety of areas and issues related to, or raised by, the EU Internal Security Strategy. They cover such matters as critical infrastructure protection and environmental crime, from a range of disciplinary perspectives.
Crisis in Governance
An academic view of military intervention in Bangladesh, with insights from unique personal experience and confidential documents. This book reveals unrecorded facts about the causes of the 2007 intervention and the ambiguous role of foreign powers.
This volume provides an in-depth consideration of Africa and how it fares in today’s globalised world. Its varied, but interrelated, perspectives touch on contemporary issues in international relations, especially as they relate to Africa’s development and global impacts.
This eclectic, multicultural volume features papers from international scholars discussing global issues including immigration, identity, mass media, and globalization. An excellent supplement for courses in international communication, cultural studies, and global studies.
Contemporary Customary Land Issues in Africa
Drawing from the Land Use and Rural Livelihoods in Africa Project, the contributions here examine current trends in customary land issues in Africa, focusing on the practice of converting customary land into leasehold tenure, particularly in Zambia.
The Persecution of Professors in the New Turkey
This book tells the story of an American academic, Clyde R. Forsberg Jr., living and working in the AKP heartland of Turkey. It recounts the events surrounding his wrongful arrest for “aiding and abetting a terrorist organization”, employing a media studies approach.
World events in 2017 showed the fundamental features of social systems. The structure of power is changing, with the prominent roles played by Trump, Putin and Xi. As such, this text explores peace and conflict, politics, international relations, and social sciences.
Analyzing Foreign Policy Crises in Turkey
This collection examines foreign policy crises and the way the states and leaders deal with them. It sheds light on how the reactions of the Turkish ruling elite change while trying to manage crises, such as that of Cyprus and the Aegean Sea.
Malewska-Szałygin argues that common-sense convictions of rural Polish citizens are “post-peasant” or “post-agrarian”, rather than post-socialist or post-communist, drawing on ethnographic fieldwork carried out in the early 2000s in the highland region in the south of Poland.
The Marawi Siege and Its Aftermath
Despite the liberation of Marawi, the Philippines confronts a virulent terrorist threat. To make sense of the siege and its aftermath, this book brings together counter-terrorism experts to analyze the rise of ISIS, terror financing, and the continuing problem of extremism.
This publication investigates the challenges faced by Turkey in the last twenty years through case studies of the humanitarian, cultural, economic and political dimensions of its role in a diffuse neighbourhood, in which the country has tried to exert its power in recent decades.
Contemporary Perspectives on Turkey’s EU Accession Process
Turkey’s EU bid is more controversial than ever, with relations at an all-time low. Using (de)Europeanisation as a framework, these essays explore the accession process from various perspectives, examining Turkish policy, EU discourse, and comparisons with the Western Balkans.
Looser explores the differences between extrinsic and intrinsic Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), reflecting on the impact these discrepancies have on CSR stakeholders.
Based on case studies in Sub-Saharan Africa, this book examines the paradoxes of environmental resource management and climate change policy. It critiques flawed interventions and calls for questioning orthodoxies to address Africa’s developmental challenges.
Fossati assesses contemporary world politics, beginning by defining concepts such as “world order”, before going on to classify foreign policies into four models of political cultures. He shows how multipolar and bipolar systems have remained relatively stable.
The energy-rich Caspian and Eastern Mediterranean regions are plagued by deep-seated conflicts. This book investigates the impact of their abundant energy resources on these disputes and on the power game between the EU and Russia.
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