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Contains information on Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.

Annotation A detailed analysis of the two approaches, Monetary and traditional Keynesian, to international adjustment and balance of payments.

Examines the importance of NGOs in world environmental politics. Four case studies, including the ivory trade ban and Great Lakes water negotiations, detail how NGOs challenge the traditional structures of world politics.

This wide-ranging text provides an overview of major developments in governance in contemporary society. It illuminates recent theories about the relationship of the public and private sectors, and the interaction of politics and society. The main development in recent years is shown as a shift in the balance between government and society towards the private sector. The book explores the ways in which new balances have been struck between state and market. It examines such new ventures in public-private interaction and endeavours to explain them in terms of coping with the dynamics, complexit.

First Published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Rezension von: Ulrike Ostermaier (Hrsg.), Hochbegabung, Exzellenz, Werte. Positionen in der schulischen Begabtenförderung Festschrift zum zehnjährigen Bestehen des Sächsischen Landesgymnasiums Sankt Afra (Im Auftrag des Vereins der Freunde und Förderer des Sächsischen Landesgymnasiums St. Afra e.V.). Dresden: Thelem 2011 (343 S.; ISBN 978-3-942411-44-8)

Rezension von: Karl-Josef Pazzini / Marianne Schuller / Michael Wimmer (Hrsg.): Wahn, Wissen, Institution II. Zum Problem einer Grenzziehung. Bielefeld: transcript 2007 (180 S.; ISBN 978-3-89942-575-8; 22,80 EUR).

Rezension von: Jürgen Schriewer (Hrsg.): Weltkultur und kulturelle Bedeutungswelten. Zur Globalisierung von Bildungsdiskursen. Frankfurt a.M., New York: Campus 2007 (382 S.; ISBN 978-3-593-38031-5; 45,00 EUR).

In this Important and timely collection of essays, historians reflect on the middle class: what it is, why its struggles figure so prominently in discussions of the current economic crisis, and how it has shaped, and been shaped by, modernity. The contributors focus on specific middle-class formations around the world-an Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and the Americas- since the mid-nineteenth century. They scrutinize these formations in relation to the practices of modernity, to professionalization, to revolutionary politics, and to the making of a public sphere. Taken together, their essays demonstrate that the historical formation of the middle class has been constituted transnationally through changing, unequal relationships and shilling racial and gender hierarchies; colonial practices, and religious divisions. That history raises questions about taking the robustness of the middle class as the measure of a society's stability and democratic promise. Those questions are among the many stimulated by The Making of the Middle Class, which invites critical conversation about capitalism, imperialism, postcolonialism, modernity,, and our neoliberal present