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This brilliant new book by one of Europe''s leading social thinkers throws light on the global power games being played out between global business, nation states and movements rooted in civil society. Beck offers an illuminating account of the changing nature of power in the global age and assesses the influence of the ever-expanding counter-powers. The author puts forward the provocative thesis that in an age of global crises and risks, a politics of ""golden handcuffs"" - the creation of a dense network of transnational interdependencies - is exactly what is needed in order to regain natio

Preliminary Material /Christian Giuseppe De Vito and Alex Lichtenstein -- Writing a Global History of Convict Labour /Christian G. De Vito and Alex Lichtenstein -- Contextualising Condemnation to Hard Labour in the Roman Empire /Miriam J. Groen-Vallinga and Laurens E. Tacoma -- Penal Enslavement in the Early Middle Ages /Alice Rio -- Prison and Convict Labour in Early Modern Europe /Pieter Spierenburg -- " An Austrian Cayenne": Convict Labour and Deportation in the Habsburg Empire of the Early Modern Period /Stephan Steiner -- The Long View of Convict Labour in the Portuguese Empire, 1415–1932 /Timothy J. Coates -- Convict Labour Extraction and Transportation from Britain and Ireland, 1615–1870 /Hamish Maxwell-Stewart -- Labouring for the Raj: Convict Work Regimes in Colonial India, 1836–1939 /David Arnold -- The Relegation of Recidivists in French Guiana in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries /Jean-Lucien Sanchez -- "… a Weapon of Immense Value"? Convict labour in British Colonial Africa, c. 1850–1950s /Stacey Hynd -- Colonies of Settlement or Places of Banishment and Torment? Penal Colonies and Convict Labour in Latin America, c. 1800–1940 /Ricardo D. Salvatore and Carlos Aguirre -- Gender and Convict Labour: The Italian Case in Global Context /Mary Gibson -- Forced Labour in Nazi Concentration Camps /Marc Buggeln -- Historicising the Gulag /Lynne Viola -- "A Parade of Trick Horses": Work and Physical Experience in the Political Prison /Padraic Kenney -- Rethinking Working Class Struggle through the Lens of the Carceral State: Toward a Labour History of Inmates and Guards /Heather Ann Thompson -- Bibliography /Christian Giuseppe De Vito and Alex Lichtenstein -- Index of Places /Christian Giuseppe De Vito and Alex Lichtenstein.

Untersucht wird die Frage, ob und inwieweit Umweltpolitik der Globalisierung unterliegt und ob der Umweltschutz dem Muster einer globalen Angleichung gehorcht. Es ergibt sich, daß der Weltmarkt ein umweltpolitisches Gegengewicht hat, das von den internationalen Institutionen und Umweltregimen gebildet wird (globale Netzwerke, quasi-staatliche Organisationen, Öffentlichkeit). Die globale Umweltpolitik hat dabei eine Eigendynamik gegenüber den nationalen Politiken entwickelt; bezeichnend dafür ist, daß selbst fortgeschrittene Länder Umweltmaßnahmen im eigenen Lande mit internationalen Diskursen begründen. Andererseits bestehen große Defizite und Restriktionen des weltweiten Umweltschutzes wegen der Eigenlogik industrieller Interessenkartelle, die eine ökologische Modernisierung behindern. Die "Globalisierungsfalle" des Umweltschutzes ist als Alibi für nationale Handlungsfähigkeit außerordentlich wirksam und selbst Vertreter von Umweltorganisationen sind bereit, vor diesem scheinbaren Sachzwang zu resignieren. (pra)

Global Governance Futures addresses the crucial importance of thinking through the future of global governance arrangements. It considers the prospects for the governance of world order approaching the middle of the twenty-first century by exploring today's most pressing and enduring health, social, ecological, economic, and political challenges. Each of the expert contributors considers the drivers of continuity and change within systems of governance and how actors, agents, mechanisms, and resources are and could be mobilized. The aim is not merely to understand state, intergovernmental, and non-state actors. It is also to draw attention to those underappreciated aspects of global governance that push understanding beyond strictures of traditional conceptualizations and offer better insights into the future of world order.The book's three parts enable readers to appreciate better the sum of forces likely to shape world order in the near and not-so-near future: "Planetary" encompasses changes wrought by continuing human domination of the earth; war; current and future geopolitical, civilizational, and regional contestations; and life in and between urban and non-urban environments. "Divides" includes threats to human rights gains; the plight of migrants; those who have and those who do not; persistent racial, gender, religious, and sexualorientation-based discrimination; and those who govern and those who are governed. "Challenges" involves food and health insecurities; ongoing environmental degradation and species loss; the current and future politics of international assistance and data; and the wrong turns taken in the control of illicit drugs and crime. Designed to engage advanced undergraduate and graduate students in international relations, organization, law, and political economy as well as a general audience, this book invites readers to adopt both a backward- and forward-looking view of global governance. It will spark discussion and debate as to how dystopic futures might be avoided and change agents mobilized.

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: Finding Opportunity in Adversity -- Sect. 1: Strategy in the Recession -- Ch. 1: Adapt Your Business to the New Reality -- Ch. 2: Avoid Making This Strategic Mistake in a Recession -- Sect. 2: Managing Your Business Through the Recession -- Ch. 3: What Really Prevents Companies from Thriving in a Recession -- Ch. 4: Do You Have the Right Sales Channels for a Downturn? -- Ch. 5: Joint Ventures and Partnerships in a Downturn -- Ch. 6: Don't Cut Your Marketing Budget in a Recession -- Ch. 7: Seven Strategies for Leading a Crisis-Driven Reorg -- Sect. 3: Entrepreneurship and Startups in the Recession -- Ch. 8: You Don't Have to Pivot in a Crisis -- Ch. 9: How to Launch a Startup in the Post-Covid Era -- Sect. 4: Managing Yourself and Your Career in the Recession -- Ch. 10: How to Find a (Great) Job During a Downturn -- Ch. 11: Growth After Trauma -- About the Contributors -- Index.