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'Zur Hälfte seiner Amtszeit scheint Präsident George W. Bush, wie die Kongreßwahlen vom 5. November zeigten, seine innenpolitische Position konsolidiert zu haben. In der Wirtschaftspolitik bewies er nach innen durch seine Steuersenkungspolitik und nach außen durch die 'Fast-Track'-Ermächtigung des Kongresses Handlungsfähigkeit. In der Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik definierte er seit dem 11. September 2001 die weltweiten Aufgaben der USA so extensiv, ja geradezu imperial, wie nur wenige Präsidenten vor ihm. Wissenschaftler der SWP haben anlässlich der ersten Hälfte der Amtszeit von Präsident George W. Bush im Rahmen eines Kolloquiums Bilanz gezogen'. (Autorenreferat). Inhaltsverzeichnis: Sicherheitspolitik - Peter Rudolf: Ein neues strategisches Paradigma (7-10); Klaus-Dieter Schwarz: Militärstrategie und Streitkräfte (11-14); Oliver Thränert: Rüstungskontrollpolitik (15-19); Ulrich Schneckener: Internationale Bekämpfung des Terrorismus (20-25); Peter Schmidt: NATO-Politik: das Bündnis im Wechselbad amerikanischer Politik (26-32). Innen-, Wirtschafts- und Umweltpolitik - Josef Braml: Machtpolitische Stellung des Präsidenten als Schutzpatron in Zeiten nationaler Unsicherheit (35-39); Jens van Scherpenberg: Wirtschaftliche Entwicklung und Wirtschaftspolitik (40-45); Friedemann Müller: Umweltpolitik (46-50). 'Neue Partner', alte Konflikte - Muriel Asseburg: Der Nahostkonflikt: neue Prioritäten, reduziertes Engagement (53-56); Hannes Adomeit, Olga Alexandrova: Die USA und Rußland (57-61); Gudrun Wacker: Die USA und China: zwischen Konkurrenz und Partnerschaft (62-65); Kay Möller: Die USA und Nordkorea: zurück auf Los (66-69).

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This collection of essays by leading scholars of American literature and culture has emerged out of recent debates on the historical, geographical, symbolic, and cultural significance of the Atlantic, as well as new work in the area of Transatlantic Studies. In a series of fascinating essays the authors have produced diverse and innovative interventions in the field of Anglo-American literary relations. The authors discussed range from Gertrude Stein to Alfred North Whitehead, Charlotte Perkins Gilman to Sarah Grand, Henry James to George Eliot, Elizabeth Stoddard to Charlotte Bronte, Mark Twain to Walter Scott through to Djuna Barnes and Evelyn Waugh. Subjects discussed include Scottish-American literary relations, the Atlanticist dimension of Spiritualism, American interventions in the debate about Highland clearances, American slavery and British pastoralism.
Table of contents:
1 Did Mark Twain bring down the temple on Scott's shoulders? / Susan Manning
2 Stowe's sunny memories of Highland slavery / Judie Newman
3 Gothic legacies: Jane Eyre in Elizabeth Stoddard's New England / Anne-Marie Ford
4 Our Nig: fetters of an American farmgirl / R.J. Ellis
5 Crossing over: spiritualism and the Atlantic divide / Bridget Bennett
6 Poet of comrades: Walt Whitman and the Bolton Whitman Fellowship / Carolyn Masel
7 Nation making and fiction making: Sarah Orne Jewett, The Tory Lover, and Walter Scott, Waverley / Alison Easton
8 Beyond the Americana: Henry James reads George Eliot / Lindsey Traub
9 'If I Were a Man': Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sarah Grand and the sexual education of girls / Janet Beer and Ann Heilmann
10 'Embattled tendencies': Wharton,Woolf and the nature of Modernism / Katherine Joslin
11 Unreal cities and undead legacies: T.S. Eliot and Gothic hauntings in Waugh's A Handful of Dust and Barnes's
Nightwood / Avril Horner and Sue Zlosnik
12 Encounters with genius: Gertrude Stein and Alfred North Whitehead / Kate Fullbrook

Two prominent features of the current global economy are the world-wide recession brought about by the recent financial crisis, and the emergence of major economic powers from within the developing world such as Brazil, China and India. The former represents the failure of global regulatory policies and macroeconomic imbalances between surplus and deficit countries; the latter is symptomatic of a partial shift in economic power towards developing nations, who are often collectively labelled the global South. The macroeconomic imbalances are unsustainable in the longer run as they mean greater absorption relative to income in deficit nations; they require corrective action and international policy coordination. Reducing imbalances also requires large developing countries to raise their domestic consumption and also imports from the rest of the world and international financial institutions to operate as a lender of last resort. Furthermore, the engines of global growth, especially for developing countries, may no longer lie solely in the traditional developed country markets in the USA, Europe and Japan, known collectively as the global North. Rather South-South trade is growing rapidly, and that could be an engine of growth for the global economy, including both developed and developing countries. The various chapters in this edited volume address issues surrounding global imbalances and the prospects for growth in developing countries propelled by South-South interaction. This book should be of interest to students and researchers focussing on political economics, international economics, globalization, global imbalance and the world-wide recession after 2008.

This book traces the life of Maria Mia Truskier, who fled the Nazis as a young Polish Jew in early 1940 and once safely resettled in the United States, became an activist for other refugees, earning renown in the Bay Area as "the oldest refugee" of the East Bay Sanctuary Covenant. Mia worked for decades assisting those fleeing from war, violence and hardship, mainly from Central America and Haiti. Based on extensive interviews with Truskier before she passed away, as well as memorabilia from her own lifetime, including coded letters, newspaper clippings, and old photographs, this book results in a complex and multi-layered oral history. As Mia drew on memories of her life in Europe and World War II, she was situating and constructing those memories while re-reading and discovering these artifacts alongside the author of this book, and ultimately relating the ways that she and her family years later sought to make a difference for other refugees, drawing a connection between two major eras of human displacement: the end of World War II and today

1. The Conscience of an Empire: Ghandi and the British Character 14 . - 2. Arming Your Enemy: Stresemann's Maneuver, Act I 25. - 3. Steady on the Tightrope: Stresemann's Maneuver, Act II 50. - 4. Stalin the Simulator: The Problem of Projected Rationality 73. - 5. A Rendezvous With Evil: How Roosevelt Read Hitler 88. - 6. Hanoi's New Foe: Le Duan Prepares for America 107. - 7. Counting Bodies: The Benefits of Escalation 125. - 8. Overdog Errors 147. - 9. Number Worship 167. - Afterword: Fitting In: Some Thoughts on Scholarship, Sources, and Methods 190

The alliance between the United States and South Korea has endured through seven decades of shifting regional and geopolitical security contexts. Yet it now faces challenges from within. Domestic political turmoil, including deepening political polarization and rising nationalism in both countries, has cast doubt on the alliance's viability-with critical implications for the balance of power in East Asia. Scott A. Snyder provides an authoritative overview of the internal and external pressures on the U.S.-South Korea alliance and explores its future prospects. He argues that nationalist leaders' accession to power could put past successes at risk and endanger the national security objectives of both countries. In the United States, "America first" nationalism favors self-interest over cooperation and portrays allies as burdens or even free riders. "Korea first" sentiments, in both progressive and conservative forms, present the U.S. military presence in South Korea as an obstacle to Korean reconciliation or a shackle on South Korea's freedom of action. Snyder also examines North Korea's attempts to influence South Korean domestic politics and how China's growing strength has affected the dynamics of the alliance. He considers scenarios in which the U.S.-South Korea relationship weakens or crumbles, emphasizing the consequences for the region and the world. Drawing on this analysis, Snyder offers timely recommendations for stakeholders in both countries on how to preserve and strengthen the alliance.

An unvarnished portrait of gentrification in an underprivileged, majority-minority small cityNewburgh is a small postindustrial city of some twenty-eight thousand people located sixty miles north of New York City in the Hudson River Valley. Like many other similarly sized cities across America, it has been beset with poverty and crime after decades of decline, with few opportunities for its predominantly minority residents. Sixty Miles Upriver tells the story of how Newburgh started gentrifying, describing what happens when White creative professionals seek out racially diverse and working-class communities and revealing how gentrification is increasingly happening outside large city centers in places where it unfolds in new ways.As New York City's housing market becomes too expensive for even the middle class, many urbanites are bypassing the suburbs and moving to smaller cities like Newburgh, where housing is affordable and historic. Richard Ocejo takes readers into the lives of these newcomers, examining the different ways they navigate racial difference and inequality among Newburgh's much less privileged local residents, and showing how stakeholders in the city's revitalization reframe themselves and gentrification to cast the displacement they cause to minority groups in a positive light.An intimate exploration of the moral dilemma at the heart of gentrification, Sixty Miles Upriver explains how progressive White gentrifiers justify controversial urban changes as morally good, and how their actions carry profound and lasting consequences for vulnerable residents of color

Intro -- Foreword -- Contents -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Section I: Background and Review of Related Literature -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 General Background -- 1.2 Background to the Ethiopian Higher Education System -- 1.3 The Need for Diversifying the Higher Education System of Ethiopia -- 2 Objectives -- 2.1 General Objective -- 2.2 Specific Objectives -- 3 Expected Outcomes -- 4 Review of Literature -- 4.1 Conceptualizing Differentiation -- 4.2 Importance of Differentiation -- 4.3 National Experience -- 4.4 International Experience -- 4.5 Experience from Selected Countries -- 4.5.1 Africa -- 4.5.1.1 Egypt -- 4.5.1.2 South Africa -- 4.5.1.3 Ghana -- 4.5.1.4 Tanzania -- 4.5.1.5 Pan Africa University (PAU) -- 4.5.2 Asia -- 4.5.2.1 China -- 4.5.2.2 South Korea -- 4.5.2.3 Uzbekistan -- 4.5.3 South America -- 4.5.3.1 Chile -- 4.5.4 Europe -- 4.5.4.1 Germany -- 4.5.4.2 France -- 4.5.4.3 The United Kingdom -- 4.5.5 North American -- 4.5.5.1 The USA -- 4.5.5.2 Canada -- 4.5.6 Summary of Lessons Learnt from the Case Countries -- 4.5.7 International Classification Systems -- 4.5.8 Types of Differentiation -- 4.5.9 Pre-differentiation Actions -- 4.5.10 Enabling Factors and Challenges for Differentiation -- 4.5.10.1 Enabling Factors -- 4.5.10.2 Challenges -- 4.5.11 Key Lessons -- 4.5.11.1 Lessons From National Experience -- 4.5.11.2 Lessons From International Experience -- 5 Developing a Differentiation Model and Standards for Ethiopia -- 5.1 Characteristics of the Ethiopian Higher Education System: A conceptual model for differentiation -- 5.2 Setting Standard for Differentiating HEIs in Ethiopia -- 5.2.1 Suggested Differentiation for the Higher Learning System of Ethiopia -- 5.2.1.1 Research University -- 5.2.1.2 University of Applied Sciences -- 5.2.1.3 Comprehensive University -- 5.2.1.4 TVET Colleges.

Part I: Theorizing and Contextualizing Extractive Bargains -- Chapter 1:Extractive Bargains and the State-Society Nexus: One World, Many Bargains -- Chapter 2: From Extractivism to Sustainability: Scenarios and Lessons from Latin America -- Chapter 3: Extractive Bargains and Indigenous Peoples: A Comparative Perspective -- Part II: Global North Case Studies -- Chapter 4: The Legacy of Sweden's Social Democratic State for Extractive Bargains with Indigenous Sami Reindeer Herding Communities -- Chapter 5: Extractive Settler Colonialism: Navigating Extractive Bargains on Indigenous Territories in Canada -- Chapter 6: Self-government and Resource Extraction in Greenland: From Independence to Diverse Bargains? -- Chapter 7: Keeping Oil in the Soil: National Bans on Oil Extraction as the Future of Global Climate Policy? -- Part III: Global South Case Studies -- Chapter 8: Extractive Policies in Mexico under López Obrador: Bargains for Whom? -- Chapter 9: Colombia: Contradictions of the Territorial Peace Extractive Bargain -- Chapter 10: Embedding Extractive Industries in Local Communities: The Chinese State's Response to the Local Resource Curse -- Chapter 11: Creating a Gender-Sensitive Extractive Bargain in Tanzania through Local Content and Women's Economic Empowerment -- Chapter 12: Contradictions of Privatized Developmentalist Bargains: Offshore Petroleum Extraction and Corporate Social Responsibility in Ghana -- Chapter 13: Extractive Bargains Reconciling Postcolonial Pluralism? Plural Economies in Bolivia and Ecuador -- Part: IV Beyond the National: Bargains at Other Scales -- Chapter 14: Global Extractive Bargains for Green New Deals -- Chapter 15: Conclusion: Debates and Extractive Bargains at Different Scales.

Maps, gardens, and quilts / Gwyn Kirk and K. Melchor Quick Hall -- Darkness all around : black water, land, animals, and sky / K. Melchor Quick Hall -- Roots, branches, and wings / Gwyn Kirk -- Cultivating intergenerational gardens with Judith Atamba : an ecowomanist analysis of a transnational black women's gardening collaboration / K. Melchor Quick Hall and Judith Atamba -- Theorizing ecofeminist intersectionalities and their implications for feminist teachers / Christina Holmes -- On black women's spatial resistance : tracing modes of survival and safe spaces across the Atlantic / Dannie Brice -- Rematriation : a climate justice migration / Aurora Levins Morales -- A conversation with Stephanie Morningstar, coordinator of the North East Farmers of Color (NEFOC) Land Trust / Stephanie Morningstar and K. Melchor Quick Hall -- Ecofeminism as intersectional pedagogy and practice / Tatyana Bakhmetyeva -- Climate justice in the wild n' dirty South : an autoethnographic reflection on ecowomanism as engaged scholar-activist praxis before and during COVID-19 / Frances Roberts-Gregory -- Lifelines : repairing war on the land / Gwyn Kirk with Ruth Bottomley and Susan Cundiff -- Intimate pedagogy, melancholic things / Linh Hua -- Teaching and learning gendered ecologies across the curriculum / Yvonne Braun, K. Melchor Quick Hall, Christina Holmes, and Gwyn Kirk -- A word about womanist ecology : an autoethnography of understanding the sacredness of community gardens for Africana indigenous people in America / Ravá Shelyn Chapman -- A conversation with Nuria Costa Leonardo : feminist visionary, builder, farmer, and teacher / Margo Okazawa-Rey and Nuria Costa Leonardo.

This handbook focuses on and compares the education systems in the three Americas: North, Central and South America, and includes a chapter on most countries in the region. The chapters follow a common structure and include schematic diagrams of the structure of mainstream education from pre-primary to tertiary level. Each chapter starts with a description of the historical and social foundations of the education system from the post-World War II period up to today, including political, economic and cultural contexts and conditions. By highlighting important dates and structural decisions, the current education system can be understood as resulting from past developments. The first part ends with a description of the transitions to the labour market that are offered, and the way in which these are organized in the education system described. The second part consists of an overview of the institutional and organizational principles as well as the structure of education from pre-primary to tertiary level. It includes a focus on legislative bases and financial provisions for the education system and a description of the structure by using the ISCED-classification. It further includes information of the supply of human resources such as teachers and other educators. The third and final part of the handbook discusses selected educational trends and aspects. In this context, three topics are of particular interest: dealing with inequality, ICT and digitization activities, and STEM-related policies and programmes.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Summary of Contents -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Executive Summary -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Global Outlook -- Summary -- Global context -- Pandemic developments -- Global trade -- Financial markets -- Commodity markets -- Major economies: Recent developments and outlook -- United States -- Euro area -- Japan -- China -- Emerging market and developing economies -- Recent developments -- Outlook -- Per capita income growth and poverty -- Global outlook and risks -- Global outlook -- Risks to the outlook -- Policy challenges -- Key global challenges -- Challenges in advanced economies -- Challenges in emerging market and developing economies -- References -- Chapter 2 Regional Outlooks -- East Asia and Pacific -- Recent developments -- Outlook -- Risks -- Europe and Central Asia -- Recent developments -- Outlook -- Risks -- Latin America and the Caribbean -- Recent developments -- Outlook -- Risks -- Middle East and North Africa -- Recent developments -- Outlook -- Risks -- South Asia -- Recent developments -- Outlook -- Risks -- Sub-Saharan Africa -- Recent developments -- Outlook -- Risks -- References -- Chapter 3 High Trade Costs: Causes and Remedies -- Introduction -- Prospects for trade growth -- Patterns in trade costs -- Correlates of trade costs -- Policies to lower trade costs -- At-the-border measures -- Between-the-border measures -- Behind-the-border measures -- Comprehensive reform packages -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4 Emerging Inflation Pressures: Cause for Alarm? -- Introduction -- Global inflation before the pandemic -- Inflation during the pandemic -- Drivers of inflation during the pandemic -- Relative importance of drivers of inflation -- Prospects for inflation -- Short-term inflation prospects -- Longer-term inflation prospects -- Policy implications.

"This book explores the evolution of the 30 functioning multilateral development banks (MDBs). MBDs have their roots in the growing system of international finance and multilateral cooperation, with the first recognisable MDB being proposed by Latin America in financial cooperation with the US in the late 1930s. That Inter-American Bank did not eventuate but was a precursor to the World Bank being negotiated at Bretton Woods in 1944. Since then, a complex network of regional, sub-regional, and specialised development banks has progressively emerged across the globe, including two significant recent entrants established by China and the BRICS. MDBs arrange loans, credits, and guarantees for investment in member states, generally with the stated aim of fostering economic growth. They operate in both the Global North and South, though there are more MDBs focusing on emerging and developing states. While the World Bank and some of the larger regional banks have been scrutinised, little attention has been paid to the smaller banks or the overall system. This book provides the first study of all 30 MDBs and it evaluates their interrelationships. It analyses the emergence of the MDBs in relation to geopolitics, development paradigms and debt. It includes sections on each of the banks as well as on how MDBs have approached the key sectors of infrastructure, human development, and climate. This book will be of particular interest to researchers of development finance, global governance, and international political economy."