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"Globalization has become synonymous with the seemingly unfettered spread of capitalist multinationals, but this focus on the West and western economies ignores the wide variety of globalizing projects that sprang up in the socialist world as a consequence of the end of the European empires. This collection is the first to explore alternative forms of globalization across the socialist world during the Cold War. Gathering the work of established and upcoming scholars of the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and China, Alternative Globalizations addresses the new relationships and interconnections which emerged between a decolonizing world in the post-war period and an increasingly internationalist eastern bloc after the death of Stalin. In many cases, the legacies of these former globalizing impulses from the socialist world still exist today. Divided into four sections, the works gathered examine the economic, political, developmental, and cultural aspects of this exchange. In doing so, the authors break new ground in exploring this understudied history of globalization and provide a multifaceted study of an increasing post-war interconnectedness across a socialist world"--

"Never has Peter Singer's Why Vegan? been more relevant and more necessary, in a world still reeling from a global pandemic crisis. Peter Singer's groundbreaking essay collection denounces human tyranny over animals and demonstrates the need for all of us to eliminate our dependence on meat. Collecting his most important writings from as early as the 1970s-some even before the 1975 publication of his seminal Animal Liberation-Singer illuminates his personal path and the trajectory society needs to take after the coronavirus crisis. In doing so, Why Vegan? makes a devastating case against our failure to confront the consequences of mistreating other beings-not only for the lives of animals, but also for the endangered health of our planet. Whether examining the meat industry's disastrous contributions to climate change or showing how westerners cannot blame China for the repercussions of a live animal market without also acknowledging the viral danger of their own factory farm practices, Singer urges us to reconsider how we lead our lives in the twenty-first century"--

What I believe : Rousseau and religion / Irving Babbitt -- Power without limits : the allure of political idealism and the crumbling of American constitutionalism / Claes G. Ryn -- Russell Kirk and the romance of Babbittianism / Bradley J. Birzer -- The pillars of Hercules : Babbitt, Warren, and the dangers of scientific naturalism / Justin D. Garrison -- Luminosity, imagination, truth : on Voegelin and Ryn / S.F. McGuire -- Politics, moral judgment, and the enlightenment project / William F. Byrne -- Natural law, the moral imagination, and prudent exceptions / Robert C. Koons -- Irving Babbitt and Christianity : a response to T.S. Eliot / Ryan R. Holston -- Can constitutions preserve engendering experience? / Michael P. Federici -- On the moral necessity of constitutionalism : Claes Ryn and ethical democracy / Bruce P. Frohnen -- "Let things be called by their right names" : difference as constraint in American exceptionalism / Richard M. Gamble -- A little place and a big idea : the temptation to imperialism and the loss of republicanism / Justin B. Litke -- Resistance and renewal : Irving Babbitt and China / Zhang Yuan and Justin D. Garrison.

"This book is a comprehensive examination of the Indian textile industry and the various determinants affecting its export performance, trends in labor, and capital productivity, in the post liberalization years. Employing 45 million people, including skilled and unskilled workers, the Indian textile and clothing industry occupies a significant position in the Indian economy in terms of industrial production, employment, and exports. This work traces the growth and expansion of this industry in the post-reform period and studies its contributions to the economic development of the nation. It discusses global trade agreements, India's share in international exports, and its major trading partners across the globe including USA, UK, UAE, Germany, China. It also provides recommendations to Indian policy makers for a possible improvement in the textile exports across the globe. Textile Industry and Exports in Post Liberalization India will be of interest to students and researchers of politics and international relations, economics, development studies, labor economics, sociology and social policy, and South Asian studies"--

This edited volume examines the development and challenges of governance, democracy, and human rights in Africa. It analyzes the emerging challenges for strengthening good governance in the region and explores issues related to civil, political, economic, cultural, and social rights highlighting group rights including women, girls, and other minority groups. The project presents a useful study of the democratization processes and normative developments in Africa exploring challenges in the form of corruption, conflict, political violence, and their subsequent impact on populations. The contributors appraise the implementation gap between law and practice and the need for institutional reform to build strong and robust mechanisms at the domestic, regional, and international levels. Michael Addaney is Scholar at the Research Institute of Environmental Law of Wuhan University Law School, Wuhan, China. Michael Gyan Nyarko is Litigation Coordinator and Researcher, Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, South Africa. Elsab Boshoff is Technical Assistant/Legal Officer at the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights Secretariat in Banjul, The Gambia

"It has become increasingly clear that an adequate understanding of contemporary processes of social, cultural, and religious change is contingent on an appreciation of the growing impact of digital media. Utilising results of an unprecedented global study, this volume explores the ways in which young adults in seven different countries engage with digital and social media in religiously significant ways. Presenting and analysing the findings of the international research project Young Adults and Religion in a Global Perspective (YARG), an international panel of contributors shed new light on the impact of digital media and its associated technologies on young people's religiosities, worldviews, and values. Case studies from China, Finland, Ghana, Israel, Peru, Poland, and Turkey are used to demonstrate how these developments are progressing, not just in the West, but across the world. This book is unique in that it presents a truly macroscopic perspective on trends in religion amongst young adults. As such, it will be of great interest to scholars working in religious studies, digital media, communication studies, sociology, cultural studies, theology and youth studies"--

This comprehensive Research Handbook examines the key drivers of the arms trade, mapping the main trends in Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America. It also explores the principal defence markets internationally, including the US, China, India, Russia and the UK in greater detail. Across twenty-six chapters, international experts assess the central drivers of the arms trade, such as the insecurities of small states in an increasingly realist world of power politics, the continued presence of conflict, technological change and the presence of corruption. Analysing critical issues from the future of air and naval power and their implications for the trade to the impact of emerging technology and the prospects for arms control, the chapters raise a number of central issues as to the challenges and future direction of the arms trade. The Research Handbook concludes that defence spending and procurement have remained paramount and on a general upward trend since the Cold War, particularly in Asia and the Middle East.

SECTION I: ICT, Digital Divide and Development -- Economics of ICT, Digital Divide and Development – Some Emerging Issues -- ICT and Wellbeing: A Cross Country Analysis -- Digital Divide: How India and China Stack up? -- Evolution of Inter-state disparities in the use of ICT: A study of Indian States -- Is India Digitally Divided? Identifying the Determinants of ICT Diffusion at the Household level -- SECTION II: ICT and Economic Sector -- Impact of Communication Sector in Indian Economy: An Input-Output Analysis -- Technological Disruptions and the Indian IT Industry: Responding to New Challenges -- IT Enabling Indian Firms: The importance of IT Outsourcing Companies -- Time Zone Differences and Service Trade -- SECTION III: ICT and Social Sector -- Effect of ICT on the Performance of Indian States in Terms of Socio-economic Indicators -- SECTION IV: ICT and Institution -- Red Tape, Corruption and ICT -- ICT of Multinational Company Products and its Impact of Consumption Behaviour in the Era of Globalisation -- Screen Game, Physical Activity and Academic Self-Efficacy. .

Mapping the shadowlands of capitalism / Kenneth Lipartito and Lisa Jacobson -- Lifting the veil of money : what economic indicators hide / Eli Cook --Accounting for reproductive labor : feminist economists and the construction of social knowledge on rural women in the global South / Eileen Boris -- The loose cotton economy of the New Orleans waterfront in the late nineteenth century / Bruce E. Baker -- Jim Crow's cut : white supremacy and the destruction of black capital in the forests of the Deep South / Owen James Hyman -- In the shadow of incorporation : hidden economies of the Hispano borderlands, 1890-1930 / Bryan W. Turo -- Capitalism's back pages : "immoral" advertising and invisible markets in Paris's mass press, 1880-1940 / Hannah Frydman -- Capitalism's black heart in wartime France / Kenneth Mouré --The emergence of the offshore economy, 1914-1939 / James Hollis and Christopher McKenna -- Comrades in-between : transforming commercial practice in the People's Republic of China, 1949-1962 / Philip Scranton -- Hidden realms of private entrepreneurship : Soviet Jews and post-World War II Artels in the USSR / Anna Kushkova.

"Globalization has become synonymous with the seemingly unfettered spread of capitalist multinationals, but this focus on the West and western economies ignores the wide variety of globalizing projects that sprang up in the socialist world as a consequence of the end of the European empires. This collection is the first to explore alternative forms of globalization across the socialist world during the Cold War. Gathering the work of established and upcoming scholars of the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and China, Alternative Globalizations addresses the new relationships and interconnections which emerged between a decolonizing world in the post-war period and an increasingly internationalist eastern bloc after the death of Stalin. In many cases, the legacies of these former globalizing impulses from the socialist world still exist today. Divided into four sections, the works gathered examine the economic, political, developmental, and cultural aspects of this exchange. In doing so, the authors break new ground in exploring this understudied history of globalization and provide a multifaceted study of an increasing post-war interconnectedness across a socialist world".--

Cover -- Titel -- Zum Buch -- Über den Autor -- Impressum -- Inhalt -- Ein Brandstifter als Präsident -- 1. «Sie sind gefeuert»: Der Mann und die Marke -- Immobilieninvestor und Milliardär -- Bankrotteur, Comeback Kid und Fernsehstar -- Politische Ambitionen -- 2. «Make America Great Again»: Vom Kandidaten zum Präsidenten -- Polarisierung und Zukunftsangst als Treibstoff für Trumps Kampagne -- Trump vs. 16: Der Kampf um die Nominierung -- Trump vs. Clinton: Der Kampf ums Weiße Haus -- 3. «Ich bin der einzige, der zählt»: Führungsstil und Mitarbeiter -- Die Trump-Show -- TV- und Twitter-Präsident -- Chaos (November 2016 - Juli 2017) -- Dominanz der Generäle (August 2017 - Dezember 2018) -- Let Trump be Trump (Januar 2019 -) -- Folgen für die Politik -- 4. «Ich werde eine große, große Mauer bauen»: Die Einwanderung -- Immigration als Chance und Problem -- Die Illusion von Sicherheit und einem weißen Amerika -- Von der imaginierten zur realen Flüchtlingskrise -- Showdown über den Mauerbau -- 5. «Einfach zu gewinnen»: Handelskonflikte -- TPP, Nafta und Strafzoll-Orgien -- Handelskrieg mit China -- Amerikas Eigentore -- 6. «Beste Wirtschaft der Geschichte»: Deregulierung und Steuersenkung -- Deregulierungspolitik als Allheilmittel -- Steuersenkungen und Infrastrukturprogramm -- Das Märchen vom Trump-Boom -- 7. «Das ist eure letzte Chance»: Kulturkriege -- Rechte Richter -- Der neue Kyros -- 8. «America First»: Die Trump-Doktrin -- Isolationismus und Unilateralismus -- Nationalismus in der Praxis -- 9. «Einer der größten Feinde»: EU, Nato und Deutschland im Fadenkreuz -- Transatlantische Konfrontationen -- Die EU als Feind -- Deutsch-amerikanische Entfremdung -- 10. «Ich glaube Ihnen»: Russland-Kapriolen -- Die Trump-Putin-Connection -- Trump gegen außenpolitisches Establishment -- 11. «Instabil und chaotisch»: Der Mittlere Osten.

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction. Civil Resistance and Contentious Space in Hong Kong -- 1 From Political Acquiescence to Civil Disobedience: Hong Kong's Road to Occupation -- 2. Spontaneity and Civil Resistance: A Counter Frame of the Umbrella Movement -- 3. Rude Awakening: New Participants and the Umbrella Movement -- 4. Perceived Outcomes and Willingness to Retreat among Umbrella Movement Participants -- 5. Praxis of Cultivating Civic Spontaneity: Aesthetic Intervention in the Umbrella Movement -- 6. Creating a Textual Public Space: Slogans and Texts from the Umbrella Movement -- 7. From Repression to Attrition: State Responses towards the Umbrella Movement -- 8. Protesters and Tactical Escalation -- 9. Mass Support for the Umbrella Movement -- 10. Correlates of Public Attitudes toward the Umbrella Movement -- 11. The Power of Sunflower: The Origin and the Impact of Taiwan's Protest against Free Trade with China -- 12. The Mirror Image: How does Macao Society read Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement? -- 13. Hong Kong Now, Shanghai Then -- Appendix .The Umbrella Movement—Chronology of Major Events -- Index

"In this indispensable and comprehensive text, Scott D. Watson critically examines the current understanding of international order that underpins international disaster management and disaster diplomacy. Based on empirical analysis of the three international 'disaster management regimes' (disaster relief, disaster risk reduction, and disaster migration) and case studies of disaster diplomacy in the United States, Egypt and China, Watson argues that international disaster management and disaster diplomacy are not simply efforts to reduce the impact of disasters or to manage bilateral relations, but to reinforce key beliefs about the larger international order. Challenging the conventional understandings of disasters as natural, as an exogenous shock, or as an unintended and accidental outcome of the current order, this text shows how the ideological foundations of the current heterogenous international order produce recurrent disasters. International Order and the Politics of Disaster will be a vital source for undergraduate or graduate students interested in international responses to disasters and complex humanitarian emergencies, forced migration and displacement, as well as climate change and development"--

Can You Hear the People Sing? : Victims/Survivors Rights In People's Tribunals / Regina Paulose -- Political Will and the People's Will : The Role of People's Tribunals in International Justice / Benjamin Duerr -- People's Tribunals and Truth Commissions / Ronald Rogo -- Panem et circences? : Peoples' Tribunals from a TWAIL perspective / Thamil Venthan Ananthavinayagan -- The Right to Tell : The Sarajevo Women Court in Search for a Feminist Approach to Justice / Nena Tromp -- The Iran Tribunal : An International People's Tribunal for the Promotion of Truth and Justice / Roya Ghiasi, Geoffrey Nice, Hamid Sabi, Shokoufeh Sakhi -- The role of the PPT in securing the rights of Rohingya and other minorities in Myanmar / Azril Mohd Amin -- People's Tribunals, Law and Ecological Justice : The Australian Contribution / Binoy Kampmark -- People's Tribunals and how they Examine Childhood Sexual Abuse / Alan Collins -- The China Tribunal / Susie Hughes, David Matas -- Transitional Justice Delayed Is Not Transitional Justice Denied : Contemporary Confrontation of Japanese Human Experimentation During World War II Through a People's Tribunal / Zachary Kaufman -- From Painkillers to Cures : Challenges and Future People's Tribunals / Shadi Sadr

"The most significant debate in global economic history over the past twenty years has dealt with the Great Divergence, the economic gap between different parts of the world. Thus far, this debate has focused on China, India and north-western Europe, particularly Great Britain. This book shifts the focus to ask how Japan became the only non-western county that managed, at least partially, to modernize its economy and start to industrialize in the 19th century. Using a range of empirical data, Peer Vries analyses the role of the state in Japan's economic growth from the Meiji Restoration to World War II, and asks whether Japan's economic success can be attributed to the rise of state power. Asserting that the state's involvement was fundamental in Japan's economic 'catching up', he demonstrates how this was built on legacies from the previous Tokugawa period. In this book, Vries deepens our understanding of the Great Divergence in global history by re-examining how Japan developed and modernized against the odds."--Bloomsbury Publishing