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"While globalization has undoubtedly occurred in many social fields, in sport the importance of 'the nation' has remained. This book examines the continuing but contested relevance of national identities in sport within the context of globalizing forces. Including case studies from around the world, it considers the significance of sport in divided societies, former global empires and aspirational nations within federal states. Each chapter looks at sport not only as a reflection of national rivalries but also as a changing cultural tradition that facilitates the reimagining of borders, boundaries and identities. The book questions how these national, state and global identifications are invoked through sporting structures and practices, both in the past and the present. Truly international in perspective, it features case studies from across Europe, the UK, the USA and China and touches on the topical issues of race, religion, terrorism, separatism, nationalism and militarism. Sport and National Identities: Globalization and Conflict is fascinating reading for anyone with an interest in the sociology of sport or the relationship between sport, politics, geography and history" --

In the era of the so-called Fourth Industrial Revolution, we increasingly work with machines in both cognitive and manual workplaces. This collection provides a series of accounts of workers' local experiences that reflect the ubiquity of work's digitalisation. Precarious gig economy workers ride bikes and drive taxis in China and Britain; domestic workers' timekeeping and movements are documented; call centre workers in India experience invasive tracking but creative forms of worker subversion are evident; warehouse workers discover that hidden data has been used for layoffs; academic researchers see their labour obscured by a 'data foam' that does not benefit them; and journalists suffer the algorithmic curse. These cases are couched in historical accounts of identity and selfhood experiments seen in the Hawthorne experiments and the lineage of automation. This collection will appeal to scholars in the Sociology of Work and Digital Labour Studies and anyone interested in lea rning about monitoring and surveillance, automation, the gig economy and the quantified self in the workplace.

"This book explores a striking common feature of pre-modern ruling systems on a global scale: the participation of childless and celibate men as integral parts of the elites. In bringing court eunuchs and bishops together, this collection shows that the integration of men who were normatively or physically excluded from biological fatherhood offered pre-modern dynasties the potential to use different reproduction patterns. The shared focus on ruling eunuchs and bishops also reveals that these men had a specific position at the intersection of four fields: power, social dynamics, sacredness and gender/masculinities. The thirteen chapters present case studies on clerics in Medieval Europe and court eunuchs in the Middle East, Byzantium, India and China. They analyze how these men in their different frameworks acted as politicians, participated in social networks, provided religious authority, and discuss their masculinities. Taken together, this collection sheds light on the political arena before the modern nation-state excluded these unmarried men from the circles of political power."--Provided by publisher.

"This book provides a comprehensive understanding of the various dimensions of India's international positioning and foreign relations. Already a dominant player in South Asian politics, India has gained a strong footing in the international pecking order with the signing of the Indo-US nuclear agreement and significant support for its claim for a permanent seat in the Security Council. The chapters presented here look at myriad aspects: India's relations with its neighbours and global powers farther afield including the US, the European Union, Russia and China; India's policies, influences and strengths; developments in economy, knowledge and innovation amid evolving global realities as well as geostrategic equations and alliances; its present and future plans vis-à-vis its standing in the world; and how international politics is likely to emerge in the coming years. The volume will be useful to academics, researchers and students of politics and international relations as also to policy practitioners and those in media interested in Indian affairs, foreign policy and international relations."--Provided by publisher.

"At the end of the Cold War, the United States emerged as the world's most powerful state, and then used that power to initiate wars against smaller countries in the Middle East and South Asia. According to balance-of-power theory--the bedrock of realism in international relations--other states should have joined together militarily to counterbalance the U.S.'s rising power. Yet they did not. Nor have they united to oppose Chinese aggression in the South China Sea or Russian offensives along its Western border. This does not mean balance-of-power politics is dead, argues renowned international relations scholar T.V. Paul, but that it has taken a different form. Rather than employ familiar strategies such as active military alliances and arms buildups, leading powers have engaged in "soft balancing," which seeks to restrain threatening powers through the use of international institutions, informal alignments, and economic sanctions. Paul places the evolution of balancing behavior in historical perspective from the post-Napoleonic era to today's globalized world."--Publisher description.

This book explores ways in which India can negotiate the low carbon path up until 2030, when it is expected to be the largest economy after the US and China. It comprehensively reviews the low climate pathways for India and provides a guide to the pathways that the country can adopt. India's population, energy demands and emissions will increase significantly, and the challenge is to restrict its CO2 emissions and walk the low carbon path. Through its Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs), India has pledged to reduce its emissions significantly. Addressing the question of which low carbon paths India can adhere to without compromising its growth, the book identifies the key factors that feed into existing models of climate change and discusses the cost of action versus inaction. It also examines key issues concerning India's environment through the lens of the transport, industry and water sectors. The book concludes by looking at policy implications for low carbon growth in India.

The OECD/G20 Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) Project has, thus far, mostly been an OECD-driven project. Nevertheless, its efforts in involving representatives from developing and emerging countries in the Asia-Pacific region have been encouraging and are laudable, given the tremendous challenges of achieving global consensus in a highly technical field and the tight time frame of the BEPS Project. The Asia-Pacific region poses unique challenges in its great diversity of economic development, as well as cultural and legal traditions. Australia, Japan, New Zealand and Korea, as OECD members, are at the forefront of tax innovation and development, while China, India and Indonesia are at the table as members of the G20. However, the majority of the countries in the region are non-OECD, non-G20 developing countries. For these developing countries, the BEPS changes will bring added challenges at a time when their economies are rapidly transforming and they are in the midst of absorbing and legislating pre-existing international tax principles and modernizing their tax administration --Back cover

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. Video Documentary and Rural Public Culture in Ethnic China -- 2. EngageMedia: The Gado Gado Tactics of New Social Media in Indonesia -- 3. Wei dianying and Xiao quexing: Technologies of "Small" and Trans-Chinese Screen Practices -- 4. Converging Contents and Platforms: Niconico Video and Japan's Media Mix Ecology -- 5. In Access: Digital Video and the User -- 6. MicroSD-ing "Mewati Videos": Circulation and Regulation of a Subaltern-Popular Media Culture -- 7. Documenting "Immigrant Brides" in Multicultural Taiwan -- 8. Bollywood Banned and the Electrifying Palmasutra: Sensory Politics in Northern Nigeria -- 9. The Asianization of Heimat: Ming Wong's Asian German Video Works -- 10. Politics in the Age of YouTube: Degraded Images and Small-Screen Revolutions -- 11. Pop Cosmopolitics and K-pop Video Culture -- 12. Videation: Technological Intimacy and the Politics of Global Connection -- 13. Staying Alive: Imphal's HIV/AIDS (Digital) Video Culture -- 14. "Everyone's Property": Video Copying, Poetry, and Revolution in Arab West Asia -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index

The definitive book on Obama's historic nuclear deal with Iran from the author of the Foreign Affairs Best Book on the Middle East in 2012This timely book focuses on President Obama's deeply considered strategy toward Iran's nuclear program and reveals how the historic agreement of 2015 broke the persistent stalemate in negotiations that had blocked earlier efforts. The deal accomplished two major feats in one stroke: it averted the threat of war with Iran and prevented the possibility of an Iranian nuclear bomb. Trita Parsi, a Middle East foreign policy expert who advised the Obama White House throughout the talks and had access to decision-makers and diplomats on the U.S. and Iranian sides alike, examines every facet of a triumph that could become as important and consequential as Nixon's rapprochement with China. Drawing from more than seventy-five in-depth interviews with key decision-makers, including Iran's Foreign Minister Javad Zarif and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, this is the first authoritative account of President Obama's signature foreign policy achievement.

"Azan on the Moon is an in-depth anthropological study of people's lives along the Pamir Highway in eastern Tajikistan. Constructed in the 1930s in rugged high-altitude terrain, the road fundamentally altered the material and social fabric of this former Soviet outpost on the border with Afghanistan and China. The highway initially brought sentiments of disconnection and hardship, followed by Soviet modernization and development, and ultimately a sense of distinction from bordering countries and urban centers that continues to this day. Based on extensive fieldwork and through an analysis of construction, mobility, technology, media, development, Islam, and the state, Till Mostowlansky shows how ideas of modernity are both challenged and reinforced in contemporary Tajikistan. In the wake of China's rise in Central Asia, people along the Pamir Highway strive to reconcile a modern future with a modern past. Weaving together the road, a population, and a region, Azan on the Moon presents a rich ethnography of global connections"--Provided by publisher

An urgently needed "risk map" of the many dangers that could derail Asia's growth and stability Since Marco Polo, the West has waited for the "Asian Century." Today, the world believes that Century has arrived. Yet from China's slumping economy to war clouds over the South China Sea and from environmental devastation to demographic crisis, Asia's future is increasingly uncertain. Historian and geopolitical expert Michael Auslin argues that far from being a cohesive powerhouse, Asia is a fractured region threatened by stagnation and instability. Here, he provides a comprehensive account of the economic, military, political, and demographic risks that bedevil half of our world, arguing that Asia, working with the United States, has a unique opportunity to avert catastrophe – but only if it acts boldly. Bringing together firsthand observations and decades of research, Auslin's provocative reassessment of Asia's future will be a must†'read for industry and investors, as well as politicians and scholars, for years to come

Intro -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- The Concept of Human Well-Being -- What Do We Know About Human Well-Being? -- Subjective Well-Being -- Objective Well-Being -- Domestic and International Determinants of Human Well-Being -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- Part I: Domestic Determinants -- Chapter 2: Political Representation -- Political Parties as Representational Actors -- Political Representation and Human Well-Being -- Case Narrative: Brazil -- Empirical Analyses -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: Governance -- Good Governance and Human Well-Being -- Bureaucratic Quality -- Corruption -- Rule of Law -- Governance, Political Regimes, and Human Well-Being -- Case Narrative: Japan -- Empirical Analyses -- Conclusion -- References -- Part II: International Determinants -- Chapter 4: Globalization -- Globalization: Inception and Phases -- Globalization and Human Well-Being -- Economic Globalization -- Social Globalization -- Political Globalization -- Case Narrative: China -- Empirical Analyses -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: Conflict -- Conflict and Human Well-Being -- Case Narrative: Iraq -- Empirical Analyses -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6: Conclusion: Concluding Remarks, Policy Implications, and Future Research -- References -- Appendix A -- Appendix B: KOF Index of Globalization -- References -- Index

Intro -- TITLE PAGE -- DEDICATION -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- Chapter I: GENGHIS KHAN: THE ACCIDENTAL EMPIRE BUILDER: (1162-1227) -- Chapter II: PRINCE HENRY: THE EXPLORER WHO MADE A SCIENCE OF DISCOVERY: (1394-1460) -- Chapter III: ROBERT CLIVE: THE ROGUE WHO CAPTURED INDIA FOR THE BRITISH EMPIRE: (1725-1774) -- Chapter IV: MAYER AMSCHEL ROTHSCHILD: THE GODFATHER OF GLOBAL BANKING: (1744-1812) -- Chapter V: CYRUS FIELD: THE TYCOON WHO WIRED THE ATLANTIC: (1819-1892) -- Chapter VI: JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER: THE TITAN WHO BUILT THE ENERGY INDUSTRY AND ALSO LAUNCHED GLOBAL PHILANTHROPY: (1839-1937) -- Chapter VII: JEAN MONNET: THE DIPLOMAT WHO REINVENTED EUROPE: (1888-1979) -- Chapter VIII: MARGARET THATCHER: THE IRON LADY WHO REVIVED FREE MARKETS: (1925-2013) -- Chapter IX: ANDREW GROVE: THE MAN BEHIND THE THIRD INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION: (1936-2016) -- Chapter X: DENG XIAOPING: THE PRAGMATIST WHO RELAUNCHED CHINA: (1904-1997) -- Chapter XI: THE BEST IS YET TO COME -- AUTHOR'S NOTE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR -- PRAISE -- ALSO BY JEFFREY E. GARTEN -- COPYRIGHT -- ABOUT THE PUBLISHER.

One of the common features of communist regimes is the use of art for revolutionary means. Posters in particular have served as beacons of propaganda - vehicles of coercion, instruction, censure and debate - in every communist nation. They have promoted the authority of state and revolution, but have also been used as an effective means of protest. By their nature posters are ephemeral, tied to time and place, but many have had far-reaching, long-lasting impact. They are imbued with both artistic integrity and personal conviction - Bolshevik posters, for example, are among the most vibrant, passionate graphics in art history. This is the first truly global survey of the history and variety of communist poster art. Each chapter is written by an expert in the field, and examines a different region of the world: Russia, China, Mongolia, eastern Europe, North Korea, Vietnam and Cuba. This beautifully illustrated, comprehensive survey examines the broad range of political and visual cultures of communist posters, and will appeal to a wide audience interested in art, history and politics

"In the coming decades, rising sea levels, heavier storms, and drought and desertification will force hundreds of millions of people from their homes -- and even their countries. Where will they go? What rights will they have? Who will take care of them? Over 200 million Asians are at risk. Picture shrinking coastlines in Pakistan, India, and China and border skirmishes over access to shared rivers and farmable land. Imagine ocean waves forcing tens of thousands of Pacific and Indian Ocean islanders and more than 100,000 Caribbean islanders to flee. Picture the abandonment of Miami Beach and costal communities up and down the Americas. All this as hundreds of millions become desperate for water as droughts ravage Africa and the Middle East. Rising Tides sounds an alarm over the impending climate refugee crisis and offers a continent-by-continent look at the dangers. John R. Wennersten and Denise Robbins argue that nations must take on the problem together -- it will take solutions beyond the strategic, fiscal, and legal capability of a single country or agency."