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"Architecture and urbanism have contributed to one of the most sweeping transformations of our times. Over the past four decades, neoliberalism has not only been a dominant paradigm in politics, but a process of bricks and mortar in everyday life. Rather than to ask what a neoliberal architecture looks like, or how architecture represents neoliberalism, this volume examines the multivalent role of architecture and urbanism in geographically variable yet interconnected processes of neoliberal transformation across scales-from China, Turkey, South Africa, Argentina, Mexico, the US, Britain, Sweden, and Czechoslovakia. Analyzing how buildings and urban projects in different regions since the 1960s have served in the implementation of concrete policies such as privatization, fiscal reform, deregulation, state restructuring, and the expansion of free trade, contributors reveal neoliberalism as a process marked by historical contingency. Neoliberalism on the Ground fundamentally reframes accepted narratives of both neoliberalism and postmodernism by demonstrating how architecture has articulated changing relationships between state, society, and economy since the 1960s"--

The first exploration of the profound and often catastrophic impact the American Revolution had on the rest of the world. While the American Revolution led to domestic peace and liberty, it ultimately had a catastrophic global impact-it strengthened the British Empire and led to widespread persecution and duress. From the opium wars in China to anti-imperial rebellions in Peru to the colonization of Australia-the inspirational impact the American success had on fringe uprisings was outweighed by the influence it had on the tightening fists of oppressive world powers. Here Matthew Lockwood presents, in vivid detail, the neglected story of this unintended revolution. It sowed the seeds of collapse for the preeminent empires of the early modern era, setting the stage for the global domination of Britain, Russia, and the United States. Lockwood illuminates the forgotten stories and experiences of the communities and individuals who adapted to this new world in which the global balance of power had been drastically altered

Verlagsinfo: Was macht einen guten Politiker und Staatsmann aus? Welches Wissen und welche Talente braucht ein Präsident, um die Geschicke einer Nation zu lenken? Welchen Richtlinien sollte die Aussenpolitik eines Staates folgen? Der 96-jährige Henry Kissinger ist befugt wie wenige andere Zeitgenossen, solche Fragen zu beantworten. Als Berater und Aussenminister der USA befand er sich an den Brennpunkten der Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts - und gelegentlich auch im Fadenkreuz internationaler Konflikte. Seine daraus gewonnenen Einsichten zu Taktik, Strategie und Diplomatie gelten weltweit als Leitlinien für Staatsmänner. - Henry Kissinger erinnert sich an seine Zeit in der Nixon-Regierung - Insiderwissen zur Annäherung der USA an China, zum Ende des Vietnamkriegs, zum Beginn der Entspannung im Kalten Krieg und zum Nahost-Konflikt - Henry Kissinger verbindet den analytischen Blick des Politikwissenschaftlers mit den Erfahrungen des Realpolitikers - Ein authentischer Einblick in Staatsführung, Verhandlungsstrategien und die Gestaltung von Aussenpolitik - Oral History: das Buch basiert auf einem exklusiven mehrstündigen Interview mit Henry Kissinger. Weltgeschichte aus erster Hand: Henry Kissingers Erinnerung an die Nixon-Ära. 1968 wurde Henry Kissinger von US-Präsident Nixon zum Berater für Aussen- und Sicherheitspolitik ernannt. 1973 wurde er Aussenminister. Für ein Waffenstillstands- und Abzugsabkommen mit Nordvietnam erhielt er im gleichen Jahr gemeinsam mit Lê c Th den Friedensnobelpreis. In jenen Jahrzehnten hat Henry Kissinger fast jede wichtige US-amerikanische und internationale Führungspersönlichkeit getroffen. Seine diplomatischen Gespräche und politischen Entscheidungen betrafen die gröt︢en aussenpolitischen Themen der Zeit und wirken bis heute nach. Mit phänomenalem Erinnerungsvermögen blickt Henry Kissinger zurück und erzählt Weltgeschichte so, dass auch die nachfolgenden Generationen das Gefühl bekommen, direkt dabei gewesen zu sein. Der Leser profitiert dabei persönlich von den einzigartigen Einsichten des grossen Mannes der Diplomatie!

Introduction: December 7/8, 1941 / Beth Bailey and David Farber -- Prologue: The attacks of December 7/8 / Beth Bailey -- The attack on Pearl Harbor ... and Guam, Wake Island, Philippines, Thailand, Malaya, Singapore, and Hong Kong : December 7/8, the Pacific world, American empire, and the American political imaginary / Beth Bailey and David Farber -- "American lives" : Pearl Harbor and war in the US empire / Daniel Immerwahr -- Japan and the "spirit of December 8" / Jeremy A. Yellen -- Popular Japanese responses to the Pearl Harbor attack, December 8, 1941, to January 8, 1942 / Samuel Hideo Yamashita -- Identities and alliances : China's place in the world after Pearl Harbor, 1941-1945 / Rana Mitter -- Worldly medicine in wartime China : an exploration of Pearl Harbor's unintended consequences / Nicole Elizabeth Barnes -- Pearl Harbor and the Asian cultural turn / Ethan Mark -- The Philippines and the politics of anticipation / Christopher Capozzola -- Pearl Harbor and Australia's war in the Pacific / Kate Darian-Smith -- Tolerance, reconciliation, and alliance of hope : Pearl Harbor narratives in Japan / Yujin Yaguchi.

For over seventy years the 'Lucky Country's strategic position had been anchored by the US-led international order that has been in place since the ending of the Second World War. But that order is now under strain due to a confluence of forces, including US President Donald Trump's 'America first' policies, increasingly assertive authoritarian regimes in China and Russia, and the rise of new powers - such as India and Indonesia - as more powerful international players. In this new era, beset with rapid strategic and technological change underpinned by increasing major power jostling in a more multipolar Indo-Pacific, what does the future hold for this region and for Australia's defence policy? Like its companion volumes, Australia's Defence: Towards a New Era? (2014) and Australia's American Alliance (2016), this book brings together leading experts to examine the future of Australian defence policy after American primacy, plotting possible, probable and preferable strategic futures for a country that faces unprecedented strategic challenges

Buying Time: British Submarine Capability in the Far East, 1919-1940 / James Goldrick -- Naval Strategies in Collision: Britain, the USA, and Japan at the Beginning of the Pacific War / Evan Mawdsley -- The Perils of Technological Transformation: A Case Study of the Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor / Alan D. Zimm -- The Dominions and British Maritime Power in the Second World War / Iain E. Johnston-White -- Schnellboote, Strategy, and the Defense of Festung Europa, 1943-1944 / G. H. Bennett -- The Development of Combined Operations Headquarters and the Admiralty during the Second World War: Personalities and Administration / C. I. Hamilton -- To the Jungle Shore: Australia and Amphibious Warfare in the South West Pacific Area, 1942-1945 / Peter J. Dean -- Naval Gunfire Support at Iwo Jima: The Perils of Doctrinal Myopia / Donald K. Mitchener -- Naval Power, Mao Zedong, and the War in China, 1926-1949 / Francis Grice -- The Army-Navy Contest for Control of Land-Based Antisubmarine Aviation and the Military Unification Debate, 1942-1948 / George H. Monahan.

Unmanned aerial vehicles in civilian logistics and supply chain management / Tarryn Kille, Paul Bates, Seu Lee -- The changing face of airmanship and safety culture operating unmanned aircraft systems / Tracy Lamb -- Using unmanned aerial vehicles to deliver medical and emergency supplies to remote areas / Isaac Henderson, Savern Reweti, Robyn Kamira -- Automated system of controlling unmanned aerial vehicles group flight: application of unmanned aerial vehicles group / Tetiana Shmelova, Dmitriy Bondarev -- Drones to the rescue: a case study of cyclone pam / Peter Tatham -- Regulations and laws on the drone (UAV) in the ICAO, USA, China, Japan, Australia, India and Korea / Doo Hwan Kim -- Autonomous drone for mapping indoor environment for civilian logistic applications and their challenges / Lachlan Dowling, Ying Tan, Ranjith R Unnithan -- Construction supply chain management utilizing UAV equipped with rfid material tracking technology / Bryan Hubbard, Heng Wang, Sarah Hubbard -- Survey on evading intrusion detection systems, firewalls and honey pots in a network and its countermeasures / M. Manikandakumar, F. Mohamed Shakir, S. Umamaheswari

Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Series Editor Foreword: Between Hard Spaces and Metaphors -- Acknowledgments -- 1 An Introduction Label: Blending New Colors-Enriching the Canvases of Global Citizenship Education -- 2 "Dancing in Chains": Challenges for Practitioners in Citizenship Education and Citizenship Research in China -- 3 Notes on Global Reading: Critical Cultural Traversals, Transactions and Transformations -- 4 Politics of Emotions in Tanzania: Analyzing Global Citizenship Education Through Secular and Religious Lenses -- 5 Media, Youth, and Global Citizenship: The Challenges of Identity Construction in the Age of Global Media Capitalism -- 6 Expectations, Challenges and the Struggle to Fit In: Exploring the Experiences of Highly Educated Eritrean Migrants in the United Kingdom -- 7 Global Citizenship Education: A Method for Finding in Translation -- 8 The Past, Present and Future State of Citizenship Education in Zimbabwe -- 9 Negotiating the Global and National in Citizenship Education: Historical Legacies and Its Complicated Neighbor in South Korea -- 10 Critically Countering Appropriations of Global Citizenship Education in the Indian Context: Hard, Gated and Unmentionable -- Index.

"From the multi-story dwellings of Ancient Rome to the soaring glass skyscrapers of today, for thousands of years humans have used highrises to house the poor, protect the rich and sometimes narrow the gap between the two. Highrise first examines the history of vertical living in a chapter on the origins, technological triumphs, social failures and future of the highrise. The book then invites young adult readers into homes around the world. Through the lens of the highrise, readers will learn about 10 cities and hear stories that capture what life is like in these diverse places. In addition to being windows on different cultures and experiences, the stories from these cities cover important and, at times, challenging issues that residents must face--from a young mother in the West Bank who cannot visit her parents in Gaza to an LGBTQ activist in China who must hide her sexual orientation from her family. Highrise is a bold and unique volume that illuminates life on our urban planet like never before."--

The caliphs and sultans who once ruled the Muslim world were often assisted by powerful Jewish, Christian, Zoroastrian, and other non-Muslim state officials, whose employment occasioned energetic discussions among Muslim scholars and rulers. This book reveals those discussions for the first time in all their diversity, drawing on unexplored medieval sources in the realms of law, history, poetry, entertaining literature, administration, and polemic. It follows the discourse on non-Muslim officials from its beginnings in the Umayyad empire (661-750), through medieval Iraq, Egypt, Syria, and Spain, to its apex in the Mamluk period (1250-1517). Far from being an intrinsic part of Islam, views about non-Muslim state officials were devised, transmitted, and elaborated at moments of intense competition between Muslim and non-Muslim learned elites. At other times, Muslim rulers employed non-Muslims without eliciting opposition. The particular shape of the Islamic discourse on this issue is comparable to analogous discourses in medieval Europe and China.

This book provides fresh insights into colonial and imperial histories by focusing on spatial appropriations. Moving away from European notions of property, appropriation encompasses the many ways in which social actors consider a space as their own. This space may be physical or immaterial, public or intimate, lived or imagined.In modern empires, spatial appropriations amounted neither to a material and violent dispossession orchestrated by European or Japanese powers, nor to an ongoing and unquestioned resistance by subaltern peoples. They were rather sites of complex interactions, in which the part of each actor owed as much to "foreign" domination as to other political, social, economic and environmental factors.Cutting across common historiographical boundaries, the chapters of this book bring to light the declination and conjugation of various forms of spatial appropriation in the modern imperial age (1820-1960), taking readers on a journey from Russia to China, from the United States to South America, and from the Mediterranean world to Africa.

Dieses neue große Lehrbuch bietet eine umfassende, aktuelle und wissenschaftlich vertiefte Darstellung der Rechtsvergleichung. Als Grundlagenwerk soll es sowohl für Studierende und Doktoranden zur Einarbeitung und Vertiefung geeignet sein als auch für Wissenschaftler und Praktiker wichtige und teils neuartige Erkenntnisse, Strukturen und Diskussionsbeiträge bereithalten. Nach einer allgemeinen Einführung in die Rechtsvergleichung, ihre Vorgehensweise, ihre Beziehung zu Nachbargebieten und ihre Ziele befasst sich das Buch umfassend mit der aktuellen Methodendebatte, die weite Teile der allgemeinen Diskussion über Rechtsvergleichung beherrscht. Dabei wird Wert auf Aktualität gelegt und die große Bedeutung des öffentlichen Rechts ebenso berücksichtigt wie die des Privatrechts. Es erfolgt eine umfassende Darstellung der hauptsächlich rechtsvergleichenden Kontexte: Kontext des common law (mit Betonung der Unterschiede zwischen USA und England und einem Ausblick in andere Länder des common law); Grundkontext des kontinentaleuropäischen Rechts (mit Schwerpunkt Deutschland und Frankreich); Vielfalt des kontinentaleuropäischen Kontexts (mit Österreich, Schweiz, Spanien, Osteuropa, Skandinavien, Lateinamerika und der Frage der Konvergenz); Kontext afrikanischen Rechts (mit staatlichem Recht und einem Schwerpunkt beim traditionellen afrikanischen Recht in seiner heutigen Bedeutung); Kontexte in Asien (mit China, Japan/Taiwan/Südkorea, Indien, Indonesien); Kontext islamischen Rechts (mit klassischem islamischem Recht und der Rolle islamischen Rechts heute, Exkurs zum jüdischen und kanonischen Recht); Kontexte transnationalen Rechts (mit Völkerrecht, Europarecht, lex mercatoria). Vorteile auf einen Blick: umfassende und vertiefte Behandlung auch der nord- und osteuropäischen, lateinamerikanischen und nichtwestlichen Rechtsordnungen; berücksichtigt gleichermaßen Privatrecht und öffentliches Recht; zur Einarbeitung und Vertiefung gleichermaßen geeignet. Zielgruppe: Mit ausländischem Recht und Fragen der Rechtsvergleichung befasste Hochschullehrer, Rechtsanwälte, Notare und Richter sowie Studierende und Doktoranden der Rechtswissenschaften.

This book examines the challenges that the ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) members need to overcome in order to sustain and intensify economic growth. The ASEAN market is widely regarded as a new hub of growth, not least in light of increasing protectionism and declining economic growth of the three large countries in Northeast Asia (China, Japan, and South Korea). The contributors address a range of issues with a concentrated focus on evidence from Indonesia, including globalisation, increasing populism, trade, FDI, the benefits of the production network, and related issues such as spill-over, crises, innovation and technology, and selected sectoral commodity and policy analysis of Indonesia. This book analyses and explains the relationship between trade and foreign direct investment, and technical changes, with regard to improving "productivity" in the supply-side economic growth model using, in particular, Indonesia as the de facto leader of ASEAN. This book will be of interest to academics and students specialising in international economics and international development.

Part I: Comparative Perspectives -- Chapter 1. The Potential to Secure a Fair Trial Through Evidence Exclusion: A Swiss Perspective -- Chapter 2. The Potential to Secure a Fair Trial Through Evidence Exclusion: A German Perspective -- Chapter 3. Regulating Interrogations and Excluding Confessions in the United States: Balancing Individual Rights and the Search for the Truth -- Chapter 4. The Potential to Secure a Fair Trial Through Evidence Exclusion: A Taiwanese Perspective -- Chapter 5. The Potential to Secure a Fair Trial Through Evidence Exclusion: A Chinese Perspective -- Chapter 6. Criminal Justice and the Exclusion of Incriminating Statements in Singapore -- Part II: Exclusionary Rules – quo vadis -- Chapter 7. The Purposes and Functions of Exclusionary Rules: A Comparative Overview -- Chapter 8. The Fair Trial Rationale for Excluding Wrongfully Obtained Evidence -- Chapter 9. Exclusionary Rule of Illegal Evidence in China: Observation from Historical and Empirical Perspectives -- Chapter 10. Securing a Fair Trial Through Exclusionary Rules: Do Theory and Practice form a Well-balanced Whole? -- Chapter 11. Exclusionary Rules – Is It Time for Change?

This book compares the wellbeing of older Russian adults in the EU, USA, China, Japan, and Russia. Through providing a general overview of population ageing, social, economic and IT-literacy among older Russian adults, it fills the gap in quality of life research in developing and transition societies. The topic is revealed in the context of the modern elderly's changing identity, their life plans, and intergenerational relations. The connection between ageism and sexism are identified and interpreted, thereby using comparative materials on different countries. The book discusses the issue of educating the elderly in a new direction-namely, the use of ICTs. It also presents the result of studies on pension reform discussions over social networks, which illuminate the social response to the political, social, and economic agenda. As such this book will be a valuable read to researchers specialized in aging, gender studies, quality of life studies, Russian studies, ICT adoption studies, and to those studying the social transformation of Russia, Eastern Europe, the BRICS countries, which face similar problems with aging