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This book responds to a gap in the literature in International Relations (IR) by integrating technology more systematically into analyses of global politics.Technology facilitates, accelerates, automates, and exercises capabilities that are greater than human abilities. And yet, within IR, the role of technology often remains under-studied. Building on insights from science and technology studies (STS), assemblage theory and new materialism, this volume asks how international politics are made possible, knowable, and durable by and through technology. The contributors provide empirically rich and pertinent accounts of a variety of technologies relevant to the discipline, including drones, algorithms, satellite imagery, border management databases, and blockchains. Problematizing various technologically mediated issues, such as secrecy, violence, and questions of how authority and evidence become constituted in international contexts, this book will be of interest to scholars in IR, in particular those who work in the subfields of (critical) security studies, International Political Economy, and Global Governance.

The political and symbolic centrality of capital cities has been challenged by increasing economic globalization. This is especially true of secondary capital cities; capital cities which, while being the seat of national political power, are not the primary economic city of their nation state. David Kaufmann examines the unique challenges that these cities face entering globalized, inter-urban competition while not possessing a competitive political economy. Varieties of Capital Cities offers empirically rich case studies of four secondary capital cities: Bern, Ottawa, The Hague, and Washington, DC. Analysed with an innovative research framework, this book shows through its clearly structured analysis, that while the pressures facing these cities are the same, the mechanisms they employ to cope with them are very different. They have formulated a wide variety of policies to supplement their capital function with economically promising profiles, even though they cannot escape their destinies as government cities. This book is an impressive contribution to an area of study largely neglected by urban studies, political science, and economic geography. With vital lessons for urban policy makers, the interested practitioner will find a pool of inspiration for their urban strategies. Students and scholars of these subjects will find this book interesting, and will also find it invaluable as a lesson for how to develop and execute comparative case studies

"This book traces how resilience is conceptually grounded in an understanding of the world as interconnected, complex and emergent. In an interconnected world, we are exposed to radical uncertainties, which require new modes of handling them. Security no longer means the promise of protection, but it is redefined as resilience - as security in-formation. Information and the Internet not only play a key role for our understanding of security in highly connected societies, but also for resilience as a new program of tackling emergencies. Social media, cyber-exercises, the collection of digital data and new developments in Internet policy shape resilience as a new form of security governance. Through case studies in these four areas this book documents and critically discusses the relationship between resilience, the Internet and security governance. It takes the reader on a journey from the rise of complexity narratives in the context of security policy to a discussion of the Internet's influence on resilience practices, and ends with a theory of resilience and the relational. The book shows how the Internet nourishes narratives of connectivity, complexity and emergency in political discourses, and how it brings about new resilience practices. This book will be of much interest to students of resilience studies, Critical Security Studies, Internet-politics, and International Relations in general."--Provided by publisher.

"This book traces how resilience is conceptually grounded in an understanding of the world as interconnected, complex and emergent. In an interconnected world, we are exposed to radical uncertainties, which require new modes of handling them. Security no longer means the promise of protection, but it is redefined as resilience - as security in-formation. Information and the Internet not only play a key role for our understanding of security in highly connected societies, but also for resilience as a new program of tackling emergencies. Social media, cyber-exercises, the collection of digital data and new developments in Internet policy shape resilience as a new form of security governance. Through case studies in these four areas this book documents and critically discusses the relationship between resilience, the Internet and security governance. It takes the reader on a journey from the rise of complexity narratives in the context of security policy to a discussion of the Internet́'s influence on resilience practices, and ends with a theory of resilience and the relational. The book shows how the Internet nourishes narratives of connectivity, complexity and emergency in political discourses, and how it brings about new resilience practices. This book will be of much interest to students of resilience studies, Critical Security Studies, Internet-politics, and International Relations in general."--Provided by publisher

TABLE OF CONTENTS -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR -- PREFACE -- ONE-Kaufmann: Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre -- I. DOSTOEVSKY -- II. KIERKEGAARD -- III. NIETZSCHE -- IV. JASPERS -- V. HEIDEGGER -- VI. SARTRE -- VII. A STORY WITH A MORAL -- TWO-Dostoevsky: NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND -- THREE-Kierkegaard: ON HIMSELF -- 1. On His Mission -- 2. On His Works -- 3. On His "Mode of Existence" -- 4. "That Individual" -- FOUR-Nietzsche: "LIVE DANGEROUSLY" -- 1. "The Challenge of Every Great Philosophy" -- 2. "The Gay Science" -- 3. On Free Death -- 4. The Beginning of "The Will to Power" -- 5. From "Ecce Homo" -- FIVE-Rilke: THE NOTES OF MALTE LAURIDS BRIGGE -- SIX-Kafka: THREE PARABLES -- 1. An Imperial Message -- 2. Before the Law -- 3. Couriers -- SEVEN-Jaspers: EXISTENZPHILOSOPHIE -- 1. On My Philosophy -- I. THE COURSE OF MY DEVELOPMENT -- II. MAKING TRADITION OUR OWN -- III. DRIVES TO THE BASIC QUESTIONS -- IV. MY WORKS -- V. EPILOGUE -- 2. Kierkegaard and Nietzsche -- I. HISTORICAL REFLECTIONS -- THE CONTEMPORARY SITUATION -- II. KIERKEGAARD AND NIETZSCHE -- III. MEANING OF THE PHILOSOPHICAL SITUATION PRODUCED BY KIERKEGAARD AND NIETZSCHE -- 3. The Encompassing -- I. THE ENCOMPASSING WHICH WE ARE: EMPIRICAL EXISTENCE, CONSCIOUSNESS AS SUCH, SPIRIT -- II. THE ENCOMPASSING AS BEING ITSELF -- WORLD AND TRANSCENDENCE -- III. EXISTENZ, ANIMATION AND GROUND OF ALL MODES OF THE ENCOMPASSING -- IV. REASON: THE BOND BETWEEN THE VARIOUS MODES OF THE ENCOMPASSING -- V. REASON AND EXISTENZ -- VI. REFLECTIONS ON THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE FORM OF THIS BASIC IDEA -- VII. PHILOSOPHICAL RESULT -- EIGHT-Martin Heidegger: THE WAY BACK INTO THE GROUND OF METAPHYSICS -- NINE-Sartre: EXISTENTIALISM -- 1. The Wall -- 2. Self-Deception -- I. SELF-DECEPTION AND FALSEHOOD -- II. PATTERNS OF SELF-DECEPTION -- III. THE "FAITH" OF SELF-DECEPTION -- 3. Portrait of the Anti-Semite

The vexed and sometimes shocking story of Martin Luther, one of the most important figures in modern European history, and his increasingly vitriolic attitudes towards the Jews - as well as the ominous legacy of Luther's anti-semitism for the future of Germany in the centuries to come

Intro -- Titelblatt -- Urheberrecht -- Inhalt -- Einführung -- Die imperiale Apartheid -- Eine Welt voller Flüchtlinge -- Ausgrenzungsimperialismus: Mauer und Todesstreifen nach freiheitlicher Art -- Die Illusion vom "Wiederaufbau" -- Die Phantom-Ökonomie des humanitär-industriellen Komplexes -- Sexuelle Gewalt- und Elendsökonomie -- Vom Pufferstaat zum Ethno-Zoo -- Die Gemeinsamkeit der Demokraten -- Inländische Ausländer als Humanressourcen -- Innere Menschenjagd und Abschiebungsterror -- Das demokratische KZ -- Zonen des Rassismus -- Der demokratische Mob in Aktion -- USA: Rassistische Basisidentität und Intergetto-Bürgerkrieg -- Synthetische Identitäten und Neo-Rechtsradikalismus -- Die Nützlichen und die Unnützen -- Die Globalisierung der "Anständigen" -- Das Imperium und seine Theoretiker -- Das Reich und die neuen Barbaren (Jean Christophe Rufin) -- Empire - die Krisenwelt als Disneyland der "Multitude" (Michael Hardt/Antonio Negri) -- Gehen wir an die Wurzel des Übels -- Der kapitalistische Formzusammenhang -- Arbeit: -- Wert/Mehrwert -- Geld/Kapital -- Markt/Konkurrenz -- Staat/Souveränität -- Politik -- Recht -- Nation -- Demokratie -- Wie killen wir dieses Monster? -- Der Nahe Osten und das antisemitische Syndrom -- Kapitalistische Verbrennungsreligion und Ölregimes -- Der Antiimperialismus und die antisemitische Krisenideologie -- Der Staat Israel und sein paradoxer weltkapitalistischer Status -- Das Ende der "nationalen Befreiungsbewegungen" und der Spuk der palästinensischen Staatsgründung -- Israel als "Alien" der kapitalistischen Welt und der arabische Neo-Antisemitismus -- Vom Zionismus zur Herrschaft der Ultras: Die innere Krise der israelischen Gesellschaft.