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Introduction / Michael M. Kretzer and Russell H. Kaschula -- A Comparative Analysis of Language Policy and Planning in the -- SADC-Region / Russell H. Kaschula and Michael M. Kretzer -- Language Education Policy and Portuguese Dominant Ideology in -- Angola: Historical Processes, Discourses and Impacts / Nicolau Nkiawete Manuel -- Language in Education Policy in Botswana: Some Critical Issues / Andy Monthusi Chebanne -- ShiKomori, the Bantu Language of the Comoros: Status and -- Perspectives / Mohamed Ahmed Chamanga -- Native Languages of the Democratic Republic of Congo / Helena Lopez Palma, Russell H. Kaschula and Michael M. Kretzer -- Language Policy in Eswatini: Challenges in a Globalised World / Owen G. Mordaunt and Paul Williams -- Language as a Kennel and Husk of the African Philosophy: The Case of -- Lesotho / Mosisili Sebotsa and Khahliso Mahula -- Language and Education in Madagascar: Ideological Conflicts and -- Implementation Challenges / Penelope Howe -- The Prevailing Sociolinguistic and Socio-political Realities in Malawi -- and Their Implications on Language Policy / Joshua Kumwenda and Michael M. Kretzer -- Pluralism without Inclusion: The Case of Mauritius, a Linguistically -- Diverse Diasporic Small Island Developing State (SID) / Nita Rughoonundun-Chellapermal -- Shifting from 'Uncivilized' People's Languages to Ordinary People's -- Languages: An Overview of Past and Current Practices in Mozambique's -- Language-in-Education Policy / Eliseu Mabasso -- Multilingual Education Policy for Namibia: A Case for Endangered -- Indigenous Languages / Sarala Krishnamurthy -- Using, 'Kreol Seselwa', the Seychellois Creole Language to Strengthen -- Connections between the Government, Public Entities, Educational -- Institutions and Beyond / Marie Flora Ben David and Michael M. Kretzer -- Legal Regulations, Obstacles and Current Developments in the -- Language Policy of the Republic of South Africa / Michael M. Kretzer and Russell H. Kaschula -- The Ambivalent Language-in-Education Policy of Tanzania with -- Specific Reference to Kiswahili / Birgit Brock-Utne and Mwajuma Vuzo -- No English but English: The Case of Language Policy and Planning in -- Zambia / Sande Ngalande and Bandana Sinha Kumar -- Ergonyms as Material Complementing Language Policy for Education -- outside the Classroom in Zimbabwe / Liketso Dube.

"Since the 1950s, the domestic politics of the Republic of Vietnam (RVN) has puzzled outside observers. To these external analysts, the American-backed regime seemed to be plagued by instability and factionalism for no apparent reason. Their bewilderment, however, has obscured a deep and complex history. In Disunion, Nu-Anh Tran shows how factional struggles in the Saigon-based republic reflected serious disagreements about political ideas at a pivotal moment in the lead-up to the Vietnam War. The book traces the emergence of Vietnam's anticommunist nationalists back to the struggle for independence and explores how their alliances were tested and then broken during the rule of the RVN's first president, Ngô Đình Diệm. The anticommunists rejected the authoritarianism and ideology of the Vietnamese communists and dreamed of building an independent, democratic government that would unite the Vietnamese nation. The RVN was supposed to be the fulfillment of this long-cherished vision. But discord soon erupted among the anticommunists. Politicians fiercely debated to what extent the government should be democratic and which groups had a legitimate place in political life. The unresolved disagreements provoked intense and continuous infighting that troubled the RVN throughout the regime's existence. Ultimately, the animosity undermined any possibility of realizing the anticommunists' shared vision for the country. Based on previously neglected primary sources and extensive research in Vietnamese and American archives, Disunion paints a rich and sensitive portrayal of leaders and activists in the RVN. Anticommunist nationalists were deeply devoted to their homeland and inspired by forward-looking visions, but they were also hobbled by their failure to live up to their lofty ideals. By examining these historical figures on their own terms, the book offers a fresh perspective on the political history of South Vietnam that has remained misunderstood to this day"--

This book examines the Danish Empire, which for over four hundred years stretched from Northern Norway to Hamburg and was feared by small German principalities to the South. Evolving over time, it has included most of Scandinavia and the North Atlantic, has shifted from a Western orientation under the Vikings to an Eastern one in the Middle Ages, and from a North Sea Empire to a Baltic Empire. From the seventeenth to the early twentieth century, it comprised small overseas colonies in India, Africa and the Caribbean. Exploring the rise and fall of Denmark's Kingdom, from 9 AD to the present, this textbook considers how such vast empires were kept together through ideology and symbols, military force, transport systems and networks of civil servants. The authors demonstrate how the lands under Danish rule included a variety of religious groups, social and economic structures, law systems, and ethnic and linguistic groups. They also consider the economic and ideological benefit of an empire structure in comparison to a nation state. Providing a detailed overview of the long history of the Danish Empire, whilst also confronting current debate and providing novel interpretations, this book offers an original, imperial and multi-territorial perspective on the history of the Danish state, providing essential reading for students of Danish or Scandinavian history and European or Global empires. Michael Bregnsbo is Associate Professor of Early Modern and Modern History at the University of Southern Denmark at Odense. He is a specialist in the history of Danish state formation and Danish absolutism. Kurt Villads Jensen is Professor of Medieval History at Stockholm University in Sweden. Having previously worked at the University of Southern Denmark, he is a specialist in crusading history and cultural encounters in the Middle Ages. His publications include Crusading at the Edge of Europe (2017).

An essential book for anyone seeking to understand the dynamics that drive the convergent Chinese television industry. Lins account moves fluently between the levels of historical, technological, political and personal determinants. The exemplary use of production studies provides a comprehensive view of both the complexity and the internal contradictions of the Chinese TV industry, demonstrating how canny producers work at the edges of what is possible. Professor John Ellis, Royal Holloway University of London Professor Lin makes a crucial contribution to our understanding with this book, bringing the rich expertise needed to appreciate the distinct dynamics of Chinese television industries and their incorporation of and negotiation with streaming video. This carefully researched book offers deep accounts of production practices informed by substantial field observations and interviews to bring new insight about major questions. Professor Amanda D. Lotz, Queensland University of Technology, Digital Media Research Centre This book provides a rich description of the shifting production cultures in convergent Chinese television industries across strategic, programming and individual levels. Dr. Lin argues that the current moment of Chinese television is an ideological, cultural and financial paradox in which Chinas one-party ideology clashes with consumer-oriented capitalism and technological advancements. Drawing upon in-depth ethnography of production cultures across Chinese broadcast and digital streaming sectors, this book illuminates how Chinese producers have placed their aspirations for creative freedoms within edge ball practices. Nuanced and timely, Convergent Chinese Television Industries unveils a complex picture of an industry undergoing dramatic transformations. Lisa Lin is a television producer and university professor specialising in factual and documentary production in the UK, Singapore and China. Her producing credits include I Wouldnt Go in There (National Geographic, 2015), G-Force (Hummingbird Music, 2017), The Truth about Fake News (Channel News Asia, 2018), Frontline Medics Diaries (Channel 4, 2020). Dr. Lin holds a PhD in Media and Communications from Royal Holloway, University of London. .

"On the October 7, 2001 American and British forces began to bomb the Taliban's positions in Afghanistan. On November 14, 2001, the nation's capital Kabul fell and the war appeared to be over. Afghanistan was liberated. Life quickly resumed to the streets and the victorious parties met in Bonn, Germany to to strike a deal for Afghanistan's future and the establishment of a new Afghan state, which governed on the basis of human rights as well as democratic, traditional, and Islamic principles. They promised a state that the people of Afghanistan as well as the international community would see as legitimate. In the winter of 2020, after fifteen years, the United States was negotiating a withdrawal from Afghanistan with the Taliban, which occured in full in September 2021. Why did the Afghan state never gain legitimacy? Will the Taliban, now formally in power, suffer a similar crisis of legitimacy? In Waiting for Dignity, Florian Weigand investigates the composition of legitimacy and authority in Afghanistan, confronting the common assumptions of how to build legitimacy in conflict zones by delivering services, holding elections, or adopting traditional institutions. He argues that in Afghanistan's volatile political order, people are suspicious of all authorities and the claims they make. Instead, people judge authorities on the basis of personal experiences when interacting with them, waiting for dignity and hoping for interactions that show that authorities want to serve the public rather than exploit it. The extent to which people perceive interactions to be fair, inclusive, and respectful is vital for the construction of lasting legitimacy and matters more than how an authority gained power, the ideology it advocates, or the scale of service delivery. Waiting for Dignity is based on more than 250 interviews with ordinary Afghans as well as well as various authorities in Afghanistan including insurgents, warlords, and government officials"--

E explores, using textual (words) and visual (image) data from the corporate newsletters of two prominent Asian universities, how particular discourses and their associated discursive representations of neoliberal logic and subjectivity occur in higher education. In particular, she looks at the expression of both institutional priorities and state imperatives that lend themselves to a complementarity built upon two contradictory perspectives: individualism and communitarianism. She argues that the ever-increasing demand for, and utility of higher education in neoliberal society means that it no longer functions merely to provide knowledge and skills, but has implications for society, the individual and the state with regard to their ways of thinking, doing and being. Contributing to a growing corpus of literature on how higher education around the world is being shaped by neoliberal policies, E's research is based on work done in the city-state of Singapore, a less-well represented context in current literature. While both higher education institutions possess significantly different institutional identities and backgrounds, the alignment of their varied representations of neoliberal logic and subjectivity with state-sanctioned imperatives that indirectly impose demands and constraints shows how neoliberalism as ideology adapts to the socio-political, socio-cultural and socio-economic dimensions that make up the Singapore context. The discursive representations of context-dependent neoliberal logics and subjectivity are discussed in terms of their ideological implications, focusing primarily on the complementarity between seemingly contradictory ideological positions. E's work uses an innovative framework that integrates aspects of Discourse Theory with Critical Discourse Analysis and demonstrates the use of this framework through empirical linguistic and image analysis. Appealing to academics and graduate students in linguistics, especially those with an interest in critical multimodal discourse analysis, audiences from the domains of higher education research, critical geography, sociology and political science will also find this a useful book.

"The development of European unification has reached a critical stage. Despite 75 years of peace, increases in welfare, and growth since World War II, there is now a growing scepticism of the European agenda from various quarters, most notably embodied in the exit of the United Kingdom from the European Union. To fully understand the dynamics at work, this book presents an introduction to the development of the political economy of Europe from 1900 to 2020. The first part of the book provides an overview of European economic and political history from 1900 to the present. It is clear from this history that Europe's population, and most notably its leaders, have been deeply influenced by ideology during this time. This sets the context for the second part of the book which takes a closer look at some major paradigms framing European dynamics: (1) the market-oriented paradigm, (2) Marx's paradigm, (3) the Fascist paradigm. In this part the essential core of each of these paradigms is presented and critiqued. In the third part, the current bottlenecks of European evolution (the migration crisis, Brexit, rise of new Fascism, the climate crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic) are investigated in the light of a possible emergence of a new scientific paradigm. Europe's role in the global division of labour - its possibility to serve as a role model for the advantages of democratically governing a highly diverse set of populations - is also explained. This book is an ideal text for students undertaking courses on the political economy of Europe in either economics or politics departments. Hardy Hanappi is ad personam chair for Political Economy at the European Commission and director of the Vienna Institute for Political Economy Research (VIPER), Austria. He is the author of South-East Europe in Evolution (Routledge 2015) and co-editor of Theory and Method of Evolutionary Political Economy (Routledge 2017) and Evolutionary Political Economy in Action (Routledge 2017)"--

"In the late 1970s Islam regained its force by generating novel forms of piety and forging new paths in politics throughout the world, including China. The Islamic revival in China, which came to fruition in the 2000s and the 2010s, prompted increases in government suppression but also intriguing resonances with the broader Muslim world-from influential theoretical and political contestations over Muslim women's status, the popularization of mass media and the appearance of new patterns of consumption, to increases in transnational Muslim migration. Although China does not belong to the "Islamic world" as it is conventionally understood, China's Muslims have strengthened and expanded their global connections and impact. Such significant shifts in Chinese Muslim life have received scant scholarly attention until now. With contributions from a wide variety of scholars-all sharing a commitment to the value of the ethnographic approach-this volume provides the first comprehensive account of China's Islamic revival since the 1980s as the country struggled to recover from the wreckage of the Cultural Revolution. The authors show the multifarious nature of China's Islam revival, which defies any reductive portrayal that paints it as a unified development motivated by a common ideology, and demonstrate how it was embedded in China's broader economic transition. Most importantly, they trace the historical genealogies and sociopolitical conditions that undergird the crackdown on Muslim life across China, confronting head-on the difficulties of working with Muslims-Uyghur Muslims in particular-at a time of intense religious oppression, intellectual censorship, and intrusive surveillance technology. With chapters on both Hui and Uyghur Muslims, this book also traverses boundaries that often separate studies of these two groups, and illustrates with great clarity the value of disciplinary and methodological border-crossing. As such Ethnographies of Islam in China will be essential reading for those interested in Islam's complexity in contemporary China and its broader relevance to the Muslim world and the changing nature of Chinese society seen through the prism of religion"--

Introduction: Tokugawa Religious Orthopraxy and the Phenomenon of Domain Shinto, Bernhard Scheid -- Part 1: Tokugawa Orthopraxy -- 1. Anti-Christian Temple Certification ( terauke ) in Early Modern Japan: Establishment, Practice, and Challenges, Nam-lin Hur (University of British Columbia, Canada) -- 2. Ieyasu's Posthumous Title and the Tokugawa Discourse on ?Divine Country," Sonehara Satoshi (Tohoku University, Japan) -- Part 2: Unwanted Religious Groups -- 3. Anti-Christian Measures and Religious Institutions in the Nagasaki Port City in the Early Edo Period (1614-1644), Carla Tronu (University of Kyoto, Japan) -- 4. When the Lotus went Underground: the Nichiren Buddhist Fujufuse Movement and its Early Modern Persecution, Jacqueline I. Stone (Princeton University, USA) -- 5. 'Deviant Practices' and 'Strange Acts': Late Tokugawa Judicial Perspectives on Heteropraxy, Kate Wildman Nakai (Sophia University, Japan) -- Part 3: Intellectual Challenges -- 6. Shinto as a Quasi-Confucian Ideology, Inoue Tomokatsu (Saitama University, Japan) -- 7. Buddhist-Confucian Polemics and the Position of Shinto, W.J. Boot (Leiden University, the Netherlands) -- 8. Ikeda Mitsumasa and Confucian Ritual, James McMullen (University of Oxford, UK) -- 9. Calendars and Graves: Shibukawa Harumi's Critique of Hoshina Masayuki and Yamazaki Ansai, Hayashi Makoto (Aichi Gakuin University, Japan) -- Part 4: Institutional Challenges -- 10. Shinto in the 1660s and 1670s: The Shrine Clauses of 1665 as an Expression of Domain Shinto, Mark Teeuwen (University of Oslo, Norway) -- 11. Domain Shinto and shinto-uke in Okayama-han, Stefan Köck (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria) 12. 'Kami is kami, Buddha is Buddha': Religious Policies in Mito Domain in the Later 17th Century, Brigitte Pickl-Kolaczia (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria) -- 13. Shinto Priests and the Yoshida in Izumi Province, Yannick Bardy (University of Lille, France) -- 14. Conflicts over Shrine Priests' Faith and Affiliation: the Shirakawa, Yoshida, and Hirata Atsutane, Anne Walthall (UC Irvine, USA) -- Bibliography -- Index

"This guidebook will show how supervisors can ensure support staff to deliver quality services for people with disabilities whose quality of life is heavily dependent on how well those services are provided. Supervisors must ensure staff receive necessary training in their job duties, are actively supported to stay motivated to work proficiently and, at times, effectively assisted to improve their work performance. Supervisors have to overcome many challenges to fulfill these critical duties, often involving frequent changes in their staff work force and varying or limited resources. Complicating the job of staff supervisors is a lack of formal training necessary to perform their supervisory duties effectively. When supervisors do receive training in how to supervise staff work performance, the training is not always very useful. The training is frequently too general to equip supervisors with knowledge and skills to affect staff work performance on a routine basis. The training also is commonly based on unproven means of promoting quality staff performance, stemming from current fads or ideology that has little if any hard evidence to support the training content. Over the last five decades, a technology for supervising staff work performance in the human services has been evolving, derived from applied research conducted in many human service agencies. However, most supervisors have not had opportunities to become aware of these evidence-based means of fulfilling their supervisory duties. The purpose of The Supervisor's Guidebook is to describe the existing evidence-based approach to supervision. Description of the approach is supplemented with practical suggestions based on our combined experience encompassing over 100 years of supervising staff performance in the human services. The intent is to provide supervisors with detailed information about tried and tested means of promoting diligent and proficient staff performance and to do so in a way that maximizes staff enjoyment with their work"--

The concept of the metropolitan area, as best exemplified by Los Angeles, has highlighted two contradictory characteristics of the current urban scene: the dispersion of political power among a number of centers, and the presence of issues and problems whose impact transcends the jurisdiction of any one local government. In this book the author have focused their attention of the process by which organized groups have sought to identify public issues and to reach decision on them within one of the most rapidly developing and most complex metropolitan areas of the United States: Los Angeles. Beginning with a discussion of the setting and framework of the Los Angeles metropolitan area, the authors attempt to clarify the nature of the legal, political, social, and economic forces tha have shaped the present system. The second part of this work is concerned with the contenders for leadership within the area: the central city, the urban county, and the suburbs. On the basis of the collected information, the authors next pose the hypothesis that democratic ideology and group interests have combined to produce competing power centers from which groups operate while at the same time lacking sufficient resources to dominate decision making. In the final section of a number of possible alternatives that might produce decision on area-wide issues are examined, and suggestions for bringing together the various political groupings are given. Research for this work was carried out under a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible

"Populism and Neoliberalism argues that the roots of populism lay in the contradiction between the democratic ideal - which implies that the people should decide - and neoliberal governance, which seeks to make markets and competition the arbiters of major social developments. Neoliberalism is not the product of a clearly conceived ideology but rather a set of doctrines based on a few major principles which have been embraced by decision-makers of all kinds with little reassessment along the way. In practice, a certain art of governing that exploited an economic thinking which is fond of models insensitive to social complexity gradually imposed itself by being wrongly identified as the successor to liberalism. The rise of populist movements poses a significant challenge to liberal democracies, yet the causes of these movements remain beyond the understanding of experts. The explanation of populism is often limited to a mere political analysis. Contrary to that, this book investigates the economic and social dynamics of the free market system and explains how populism emerges from its imbalances. It also aims to explain the emergence of the neoliberal doctrines during the 1930s and to characterise their common features. In light of this, it explores how the rise of inequality and social discontent create a pressing duty to develop another model, and argues that we must now rethink our policies in depth in order to respond to the challenge of authoritarian populism. This book marks a significant intervention in the debate about the rise and fall of neoliberalism. Its analysis of the links between the failings of neoclassical economics and the failings of neoliberal politics provides essential reading for anyone interested in the damaging impact of neoliberalism, the failings of neoclassical economics, and explanations for the rise of populism"--

The "non-west" methodological concept for building a system of international relations in the Eurasian space -- Asianization as a main trend in world politics -- Digital panopticon" as an objective reality of the global world: the dilemma between social control and civic engagement -- Greek Myth as the Beginning of Political Geography: Heracles in Ancient Spain -- Geography of Russia's Foreign Trade in the 18th and Early 19th Centuries -- The Role of Svalbard in the Policy of Russia and Norway amid the Cold War -- Review of the Training of Grassroots Officials Since the CPC Became the Governing Party -- Geography of international activities of St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly of the sixth convocation -- Problems and prospects of promoting digital trade in Russia -- Institutional Analysis of eHealth Development in EAEU Countries -- National policy against corruption in the framework of global integration processes -- Russia-China Cooperation: Linking the Eurasian Economic Union and Belt and Road Initiative -- The continuity of the US policy towards Central Asia -- International Governance of the Caspian Sea: 1991-2018 -- Eurasia's Post-Pandemic Political and Socioeconomic Prospects -- Xinjiang. The New Development Trends -- The state policy of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the field of combating religious extremism -- Forming the Package of Framework Documents and Laws of Azerbaijan in the Sphere of Military Security in 1994-2019 -- Development Trends of the Strait of Malacca Countries in the Field of Countering Non-traditional Threats to National Security in the Context of the Indo-Pacific Region in 2010s-2020s -- Fluctuations in the Global Food Market: Politics versus Economics? -- Geo-Eco-Ideology: Modern World in Search of Common Values -- Climate change and the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development -- Sustainable Development in BRICS countries: from Concept to Practice -- The Development of Cooperation between Member States of the Arctic Council 1996-2019: Environmental Partnership or struggle for resources -- Evolution of the Environmental Policy of the European Union: Stages, Actors and Trends -- The development of international sustainable industrial tourism on the example of Germany.

Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Editorial Note -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Reflections on Jewish Studies, the Jerusalem School and the Research on the Era of the "Final Solution" -- I. German Jewry under the National Socialism in Historical Perspective -- 1. German Jewry under the National Socialism in Historical Perspective -- 2. History and Historical Consciousness. Similarities and Dissimilarities in the History of German and Czech Jews 1918–1945 -- II. Modern Antisemitism and the Ideology of the "Final Solution" -- 3. Critique of Judaism in European Thought. On the Historical Meaning of Modern Antisemitism -- 4. Richard Wagner and the Origins of the Redemptive Antisemitism -- 5. Uniqueness in Context. Review of Ian Kershaw, To Hell and Back: Europe 1914–1949 -- III. German Society and the Jews under the Nazi Regime -- 6. Popular Opinion in Nazi Germany and the "Jewish Question" -- 7. German Population in Nazi Germany as a Factor in the Policy of the "Solution of the Jewish Question": The Nuremberg Laws and the Reichskristallnacht -- 8. German Population and the "Solution of the Jewish Question" at the Time of the Wannsee Conference -- IV. Jewish Society and its Leadership in Nazi Germany -- 9. Jewish Society in Germany as Reflected in Secret Nazi Reports on Popular Opinion 1933–1943 -- 10. The Reichsvereinigung and the Fate of the Jews. Continuity or Discontinuity in German- Jewish History in the Third Reich -- 11. Ghetto in an Annihilation Camp. Jewish Social History in the Years of the "Final Solution" and its Ultimate Limits -- V. Historiography of the National Socialism and the "Final Solution" -- 12. Major Trends and Tendencies in German Historiography on National Socialism and the "Final Solution" 1924–1984 -- 13. Singularity and its Relativization. Changing Views in German Historiography on National Socialism and the "Final Solution" -- 14. The Historikerstreit from a Personal Retrospective. On the "Case Nolte" and his Generation -- VI. In Search of History and Memory -- 15. In Search of History and Memory. Excerpts from Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death -- Annotated References -- Index of Names and Places

1 Interpreting sport and transition in post-socialist and post-Soviet Europe: States, nations and markets ÁLVARO RODRÍGUEZ-DÍAZ, JOEL ROOKWOOD AND EKAIN ROJO-LABAIEN PART 1: Neoliberal sport in the post-socialist countries of Eastern Europe 2 The transformation of sport in post-communist Hungary: A transitology-informed approach GYOZO MOLNAR AND TAMÁS DÓCZI 3 The politics of sport in Poland after 1945: From socialist mass sports to market-oriented elite sports? JACEK DROZDA, KRZYSZTOF JASKULOWSKI AND PIOTR MAJEWSKI 4 Sport as a mirror of society: The case of Croatia SUNCICA BARTOLUCI 5 Capacities for change: Insights into the Lithuanian sports system 60 VILMA CINGIENE AND RENATAS MIZERAS PART 2 Sport transition from the socialist state to the open market 6 The Romanian sport system: Paths to commercialisation LÁSZLÓ PÉTER 7 Playing in long shadows: Bosnian sport after Yugoslavia, socialism and war RICHARD MILLS 8 Sport and physical activity in post-communist Albania PHILIPPA VELIJA 9 Sport in post-socialist Ukraine MARYNA KRUGLIAK AND OLEKSANDR KRUGLIAK 10 Statehood, nationalism and separatism: The role and meaning of sport in Georgia and its breakaway republics JOEL ROOKWOOD PART 3 Post-Soviet presidentialism and sport mega events 11 Sport in the political and economic transition in Belarus: State nationalism and mega events ÁLVARO RODRÍGUEZ-DÍAZ 12 Seeking out a nation?: Sport policy changes in post-Soviet Russia VITALII GOROKHOV 13 Russia and the politics of extraverted urbanism in the 2014 Winter Olympics and the 2018 World Cup OLEG GOLUBCHIKOVAND SVEN DANIELWOLFE 14 Oil-funded sports events as the embodiment of the evolution of post-Soviet Azerbaijan EKAIN ROJO-LABAIEN 15 Sports politics in authoritarian regimes: The synergies of sport, ideology and personality cult in Turkmenistan SLAVOMÍR HORÁK 16 Sport, transition and nation-state building: Evidence from post- Soviet and post-socialist states 268 JOEL ROOKWOOD, EKAIN ROJO-LABAIEN AND ÁLVARO RODRÍGUEZ-DÍAZ Index