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"Words are tools and this book is an essential toolbox for anyone wanting to understand, and influence, public policy on intelligence, secrecy and privacy. Based on years of research, Goldman and Maret have collaborated here to produce the definitive analysis of the official meanings of key concepts from the National Security world. Activists, scholars, and concerned citizens can all benefit from the careful work these two scholars have done to illuminate a part of government operations that is quite consciously kept in the shadows. Casting light on the hidden assumptions and unchallenged framings of the secret world of the Deep State, this book is an invaluable contribution to the struggle to sustain and expand our fragile democracy."--Bloomsbury Publishing

Enth. u.a.: Was in Syrien geschieht/ D. Gerlach. - Internationale Sanktionen gegen Syrien: was haben sie bewirkt?/ A. Zorob. - Iraks Zerfall und der Aufstieg des IS: zwei Seiten einer Medaille/ W. Buchta. - Die Kurdenfrage in der Türkei und der Krieg in Syrien/ O. Ernst. - Der Nahe Osten 2025: drei Zukunftsszenarien/ F. Gaub. - 360 Grad Damaskus: zur Lage der Flüchtlinge in der Region/ B. Blaschke

The theme of this book is the phenomenon of tourism and knowledge construction in tourism. Adopting a broad understanding of the paradigmatic field of tourism as the evolution and relationship between established and emergent schools of thought, this book explores the dynamics between tourism knowledge and the phenomenal world of tourism. It addresses contemporary epistemological debates and examines what constitutes tourism knowledge and how tourism knowledge is acquired. Issues examined in the chapters of this volume include: the nature and conceptualization of paradigms; the historical evolution of tourism knowledge production; embodiment, positionality and situated knowledges; paradigmatic proposals such as critical theory, feminism, humanism, cosmopolitanism, post-political theory and constructivism; a critical exploration of the power relations, contradictions and fragmentation in tourism research; ontologies and conceptualization of tourism and the tourist. This volume invites a critical evaluation and discussion of the anchorage of tourism as a knowledge domain and of tourism as science.

In 'Statehood under water', Alejandra Torres Camprubí revisits the concept of statehood through an analysis on how sea-level rise and the Anthropocene challenge the territorial, demographical, and political dimensions of the State. Closely examining the fight for survival undertaken by low-lying Pacific Island States, she engages with the legal and policy innovations necessary to address these new scenarios. 00The monograph reacts against overly formal approaches to the law on statehood, and is devoted to the reconstruction of the context in which both the challenges, and the measures adopted to tackle them, are taking place. Progressively forged within the international community, it is the kind of political and ethical framework that will soon inform the potential transformation of the law on statehood.

Power sharing has become a common way of ending violent conflicts since the 1990s, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa, in the hope that it positively impacts on both peacebuilding and democratisation. Whether power sharing can actually achieve this is however contested. Bringing together the two strands of power sharing research, which deal with its effects on democratisation and peacebuilding respectively, Patricia Rinck examines how non-ethnic power sharing between former adversaries contributes to, or obstructs, democratic peacebuilding in post-conflict societies. Besides theory, Patricia Rinck discusses the controversial yet crucial role power sharing played in Sierra Leone: after almost a decade of brutal civil war and several failed peace agreements, the power-sharing Lomé Peace Agreement between the Sierra Leonean government and the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) of July 1999 was supposed to end the war and bring peace and democratisation to the war-torn country. Complemented by interviews conducted on site in 2013, the case study analyses how power sharing impacted on democratic peacebuilding, scrutinising its effects on the state monopoly of force, democratic participation and culture of constructive conflict management in post-conflict Sierra Leone. By taking into consideration shortcomings in the agreement itself as well as implementation problems, the study allows for a more nuanced assessment of the reasons for its early breakdown. It assesses the effects of power sharing on democratic peacebuilding in Sierra Leone, addresses implications for research on non-ethnic power sharing in particular and proposes practical consequences for designing and implementing similar power sharing agreements.

This volume identifies, discusses and addresses the wide array of ethical issues that have emerged for engineers due to the rise of a global economy. To date, there has been no systematic treatment of the particular challenges globalization poses for engineering ethics standards and education. This volume concentrates on precisely this challenge. Scholars and practitioners from diverse national and professional backgrounds discuss the ethical issues emerging from the inherent symbiotic relationship between the engineering profession and globalization. Through their discussions a deeper and more complete understanding of the precise ways in which globalization impacts the formulation and justification of ethical standards in engineering as well as the curriculum and pedagogy of engineering ethics education emerges. The world today is witnessing an unprecedented demand for engineers and other science and technology professionals with advanced degrees due to both the off-shoring of western jobs and the rapid development of non-Western countries. The current flow of technology and professionals is from the West to the rest of the world. Professional practices followed by Western (or Western-trained) engineers are often based on presuppositions which can be in fundamental disagreement with the viewpoints of non-Westerners. A successful engineering solution cannot be simply technically sound, but also must account for cultural, social and religious constraints. For these reasons, existing Western standards cannot simply be exported to other countries. Divided into two parts, Part I of the volume provides an overview of particular dimensions of globalization and the criteria that an adequate engineering ethics framework must satisfy in a globalized world. Part II of the volume considers pedagogical challenges and aims in engineering ethics education

Das Buch zeichnet ein differenziertes Bild vom aktuellen Linksextremismus in Deutschland. Die Autoren werfen einen kritischen Blick auf den Forschungsstand, beschreiben die Geschichte des Linksextremismus und entwickeln auf Basis der Selbstdarstellungen typischer linksextremer Gruppen eine Skala, die die verschiedenen Dimensionen eines linksextremen Einstellungsmusters umfasst. Auf dieser Grundlage führte Infratest dimap eine repräsentative Befragung der deutschen Bevölkerung durch, die die weite Verbreitung linksextremer Einstellungen in der Bevölkerung zeigt. Darüber hinaus erfolgt eine kritische Betrachtung der Diskussion um den Begriff «Extremismus». Der Zusammenhang von (Links-)Extremismus und Gewalt wird ebenso erörtert wie die Realität linksextremen Gewalthandelns. Hinzu kommen Interviews mit ehemaligen Linksradikalen und linksaffinen Jugendlichen

We develop a micro-founded general equilibrium model with heterogeneous agents to identify pertinentconstraints to financial inclusion. We evaluate quantitatively the policy impacts of relaxing each of theseconstraints separately, and in combination, on GDP and inequality. We focus on three dimensions of financialinclusion: access (determined by the size of participation costs), depth (determined by the size of collateralconstraints resulting from limited commitment), and intermediation efficiency (determined by the size ofinterest rate spreads and default possibilities due to costly monitorin

Der Band untersucht die Bedingungen für die grenzüberschreitende Verbreitung von Informationen in den Medien. Am Beispiel der Großregion SaarLorLux, der Region mit der größten grenzüberschreitende Mobilität in der EU, arbeitet er Hürden für die grenzüberscheitende Medienkommunikation heraus, zeigt aber auch Chancen für die Ausbildung eines interregionalen Medienraums auf.Der erste Teil des Bandes ist medialen Praktiken und Inhalten gewidmet; untersucht werden u.a. die Verbreitung von "faits divers", grenzüberschreitende Twitter-Kommunikation und die Nutzung von Smartphones durch Grenzpendler. Im zweiten Teil liegt der Schwerpunkt auf institutionellen Aspekten der interkulturellen Medienpraxis in Grenzräumen. Die Beiträge untersuchen den Einfluss von Berufs- und Interessenverbänden oder auch Kommunikationsinstrumenten wie Pressekonferenzen auf die Berichterstattung sowie Wechselbeziehungen zur Politik.Die Autorinnen und Autoren aus Deutschland, Frankreich und Luxemburg stellen in dem Band die Ergebnisse eines von 2010 bis 2014 bestehenden internationalen und interdisziplinären Forschungsverbunds vor.Mit Beiträgen von:Vincent Goulet, Christian Lamour, Thilo von Pape und Michael Scharkow, Corinne Martin, Philippe Hamman, Bénédicte Toullec, Christoph Vatter, Nicolas Hubé und Martin Baloge