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"The book is a philosophical-historical examination of the influence of the knowledge of China imparted by the Jesuits on the thinking of the German Enlightenment in the 18th century. Is it not primarily concerned with a comprehensive reconstruction of the philosophy of the thinkers discussed, but rather with the political and intellectual contextualisation of a line of thought that recognised the practical philosophy and state organisation of China as different from that of Europe, but equal to it and in some respects superior to it. This challenged the claim of theology that Christian revelation alone provided access to truth. The volume analyses the opposition to this line of thought, especially on the part of Protestant orthodoxy. It argues that in the German Enlightenment of the 18th century, the possibility emerged to conceive philosophy on the basis of reason as a phenomenon not limited to Europe but as a path followed under different conditions in China"--

"This book traces the history of everyday relations of Greek-Orthodox Christians and Muslims of Cappadocia, an Ottoman countryside inhabited by various ethno-religious groups, either sharing the same settlements, or living in neighbouring villages. Based on Ottoman state archives, testimonies collected by the Centre of Asia Minor Studies, and various pre-1923 hand-written and printed sources mostly in Ottoman- and Karamanli-Turkish, and Greek, the study covers the period from 1839 to 1923 and proposes an anthropological perspective on everyday cross-religious interactions. It focuses on questions such as identification and mapping of communities, sharing of space and resources, use of languages, and religiosity in the context of conversions and of shared sacred spaces and beliefs to investigate everyday realities of a multireligious rural society which disappeared with the fall of the Empire"--

Traditionally, humanitarianism is considered a nonpolitical urgent response to human suffering. However, this characterization ignores the context of the politics that created the crises in the first place. In The Politics of Crisis-Making, Estella Carpi exposes how the politics of defining crises affect the social identity and membership of the displaced. Her ethnographic research in Lebanon brings to light interactions among aid workers, government officials, internally displaced citizens, migrants, and refugees after the 2006 war in Beirut's southern suburbs and during the 2011-2013 arrival of refugees from Syria to the Akkar District (northern Lebanon). By documenting different cultures, modalities, and traditions of assistance, Carpi offers a full account of how the politics of crisis-making play out in Lebanon. An important read, The Politics of Crisis-Making reveals that crisis, as an official discourse and framework of action, has the power to shape the social membership of forced migrants and internally displaced people, engendering unequal political, ethnic, and moral economies

Bringing together new research by leading scholars, this volume rethinks the role played by militaries in politics. It introduces new theories of military politics, arguing against the inherited theories and practices of civil-military relations, and presents rich new data on senior officership and on the intersection of military politics and military operations. As the first volume in Berghahn Books' Military Politics series, it provides a blueprint for a new research paradigm dedicated to tracing how militaries shape their political environments, focusing particularly on the core democratic questions raised by politically-effective (and ineffective) militaries.

Cover -- Halftitle page -- THE EUROPEAN UNION SERIES -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction: Moving Crises to the Centre of the Research Agenda -- What crisis? -- The study of EU crises -- Key themes in this volume -- Overview of chapters -- Conclusion -- Part I Theorising and Conceptualising Crises and Challenges in the EU -- 2 European Integration Theory and Crises -- Introduction -- Intergovernmentalism -- Neofunctionalism -- Postfunctionalism -- Conclusion -- 3 A Crisis Management Perspective on the European Union -- Introduction -- Introducing crisis management research -- Defining crises and crisis management -- The centralisation thesis -- Decision-making under pressure -- Communicating and 'meaning making' -- Learning and reform -- Conclusion -- 4 The History of Crisis in the EU -- Introduction -- Crisis and integration: praxis and theory -- The elements of crisis and dynamics of crisis response -- The polycrisis -- Conclusion -- Part II Crises in the EU -- 5 The Eurozone Crisis: From Crisis to Resilience? -- Introduction -- A resilience approach -- Short-term crisis management -- Recovery -- Long-term crisis prevention -- Improved monitoring -- Transformative capacity -- The Covid 19 resilience test -- Conclusion -- 6 The Brexit Crisis: A Crisis for Whom? -- Introduction -- The UK's decision to withdraw -- The EU responds: how to manage Brexit -- Article 50 and negotiating the UK's departure -- Conclusion -- 7 The Migration Crises: The EU's Evolving Approach to Border Management -- Introduction -- Evolution of the EU's border and migration policies -- Technology, institutional change, policy processes and crisis language -- Future trends and steps forward -- Conclusion.

"Based on original analysis from leading experts on presidential elections, Making of the Presidential Candidates 2024 describes all of the systematic aspects of the nomination campaign today: party rules, fundraising, media attention, voter coalitions, prospects for female candidates, and more"--

"A range of meaningful objects-exhibits of human remains or live people, fetishes, objects in a Catholic Museum, exotic photographs, commodities, and computers-demonstrate a subordinate modern consciousness about powerful objects and their 'life'. The Spirit of Matter discusses these objects that move people emotionally but whose existence is often denied by modern wishful thinking of 'mind over matter'. It traces this mindset back to Protestant Christian influences that were secularized in the course of modern and colonial history"--

"This book focuses on the lived experiences of migrants who (try to) access the workplace and explores the barriers and support they encounter. The chapters look at the ways in which inclusion and exclusion from the workplace are done linguistically from historical, discourse analytical, narrative and language assessment perspectives"--

Introduction: Street Children, Problem, Historiography, Discourses, and Evidence -- 1 Street Children before the Bolshevik Revolution: Prelude to the Crisis -- 2 Soviet Street Children: Definition, Identity, Demography, Geography, and Origins -- 3 A Revolutionary Childhood: Ideals, Declarations, Challenges, and Realities -- 4 New Economic Policy: Cheka Comes to Play -- 5 A "Happy Soviet Childhood": Stalinist Childhood Revisited -- Epilogue: Vanished Childhood in the Early Soviet Union

"Martin Jay reflects on the Frankfurt School's legacy, turning the school's practice of "immanent critique" in on itself, applying critical pressure on a number of its own ideas to probe for their contradictory impulses. He unearths and examines the pathologization of political deviance through stigmatizing "authoritarian personalities," the undefended theological premises of Walter Benjamin's work, and the ambivalence of its members' analyses of anti-Semitism and Zionism. Additional questions include the advocacy of a politics based on a singular notion of the truth"--