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Fathers, Real and Imagined -- First Steps in Business and Politics -- Proprietor, Politician, Defendant -- Company Promoter, Bucket-shop Keeper -- Sensualist -- The Gospel of Humanity -- The Spell of Words -- Patriot -- Thief -- Variety Artist -- In Retrospect.

"Drawing inspiration from Pierre Bourdieu's social space theory, the book provides an unprecedent overview of class relations, covering topics such as class polarisation, cultural reproduction, political orientations and globalisation. The book applies Bourdieusian social space approach to show how class boundaries have been maintained or transformed in different European countries. It proposes a renewal of the analysis of distances, divides, and relations of domination between social classes, documenting objective and symbolic boundaries that form the basis of individuals' living and working conditions in eleven European countries. Focusing on transformations of wealth inequalities, education strategies and European labour markets, the book examines the role of cultural, economic and social capital. It will be of interest to students and scholars across the social sciences, in particular to those studying social and wealth inequalities in a comparative perspective and Master's students in European studies"--

"Presidentialism and Democracy in East and Southeast Asia examines the impact of presidential systems on democracies by examining three distinct literatures - the perilousness of competing legitimacies of the executive and legislative branches, issues of institutional design (particularly regarding semi-presidentialism), and the rise of executive aggrandizement. Despite often intense political conflict and temporary instability in the East and Southeast Asia, presidential systems of various types - from relatively "pure" forms to semi-presidentialism and other hybrids - have largely been resilient. Although there are signs of growing autocratization in several cases, presidentialism, associated with both accommodation and conflict, has usually not driven it. This book's contributions to presidentialism debates will be of interests to students and scholars of comparative politics while it also offers detailed analysis of the presidency in these East and Southeast Asian cases"--

Introduction -- Party politics in European micro-states : one step towards mainstreaming / -- Patrick Dumont -- San Marino's increasing instability: politics in the oldest, smallest party -- democracy in the world / Fernando Casal Bértoa -- Party politics in the principality of Liechtenstein / Wouter Veedendaal -- Monaco's political system : national particularities and foreign influences / -- Félicitas Guillot -- The evolution of Andorra's Party System: from parties of 'Notables' to a -- predominant party system / Juli Minoves-Triquell -- A political party system in flux: Iceland's political culture and smallness / Baldur Thorhallsson and Ólafur Th. Harðarson -- Malta: party politics in a small island state / Marcelo Carammia and Roderick Pace -- Party politics in Luxembourg: stable, consensual and pragmatic / Patrick Dumont, Raphaël Kies and Dan Schmit -- Party politics in Montenegro: in the shadow of the statehood issue / Ivan Vuković and Nemanja Batrićević -- Nationalism, clientelism and anti-politics: party politics in the Republic of -- Cyprus / Direnç Kanol and George Pirishis -- Conclusion: Party politics in European micro-states: similar but different / Fernando Casal Bértoa.

This book explores the uses of the past in foreign policy-making. It outlines why and how political leaders refer to historical events in contemporary foreign policy discourses; the goals they hope to achieve; and the sometimes unintended foreign policy consequences of their (ab)use of historical memory. Furthermore, it looks at how political leaders shape domestic collective memories in pursuit of their international agendas, and highlight historical events leaders forget, reinterpret or obscure through selective narratives. The chapters explore a variety of theoretical concepts that shed light on how memory and foreign policy are linked in a complex and reciprocal way. The following mechanisms are discussed: the application of historical analogies; the construction of historical narratives; the creation of memory sites; the marginalisation and forgetting of the past; and the securitisation of historical memory. Through the use of a number of methodological approaches (such as discourse analysis, narrative analysis and content analysis of securitising moves) and a broad range of qualitative and quantitative data (newspaper articles, policy documents, commemorative speeches, interviews with policymakers and the observation of memory sites), the contributions highlight the interdependence of the international, national, regional and local dimensions of memory practices and history writing. Although they mostly focus on national case studies of foreign policy-making, they also reveal how representations of historical events evolve through interaction between political actors at the international level of analysis. The collection originated in the section entitled 'Exploring the Link between Historical Memory and Foreign Policy' at the annual Pan-European Conference of the European International Studies Association (EISA) 2018 held in Prague, the Czech Republic

Introduction: Rebel group inclusion and post-war democratisation / John Ishiyama and Gyda M. Sindre -- The effects of rebel parties on governance : organizational endowments, ideology, and governance after civil wars end / John Ishiyama and Michael Christopher Marshall -- Dynamics of post-rebel party governance in Aceh and East Timor : balancing patronage politics and popular democracy / Gyda M. Sindre -- From 'rebel justice' to the 'rule-of-law' : rebel group inclusion and 'good governance' / Benedetta Berti -- The struggle for political stability and governance in Northern Ireland after the peace process : the role of Sinn Féin and the IRA / Matthew Whiting -- The KLA successor parties and the spoils of peace in Kosovo / Stephan Hensell -- How does the inclusion of post-rebel parties shape democracy? Parties, elections and peace in Mozambique, 1992-2018 / Carrie Manning -- The political integration of Islamist armed groups : a viable path to peace and democracy? / Dino Krause and Mimmi Söderberg Kovacs -- Adapting too well? Rebel reconversion and democratization in El Salvador / Ralph Sprenkels -- Post-war ruling parties and their youth wings : how old rebels handle the African millennials / Lovise Aalen, Aslak Orre, and Ragnhild L. Muriaas -- Rebel participation and political transition in post-war Sri Lanka / Shama Ams -- Political parties in de facto states : links with external patrons / Nina Caspersen -- The Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front : coalition dynamics and post-war politics / Terrence Lyons -- Contingency, inclusion, and democracy : a critical analysis of Jamyat-e- Islami in the Afghan state building process / Wahid Watanyar -- Virtual Politics, post-Islamism and authoritarian Inertia in post-conflict Tajikistan / Tim Epkenhans -- Conclusion: Towards a theory of rebel group inclusion and democratisation / John Ishiyama and Gyda Sindre.

Introduction to Himalaya. Section 1- Geospatial Perspective for Monitoring Himalayan Ecosystem. Monitoring Land Use and Land Cover Dynamics Across the Himalayas from 1985 to 2019. Assessment of the Effects of LULC Changes on Surface Temperature. Shifting Cultivation Dynamics of Northeastern India. Monitoring Tea Plantations Dynamics (2000⁰́₃2020) Using Satellite Data in Dooars Regions of Himalaya. Disentangle the Short and Long -Term Forest Degradation Over Most Fire Affected Parts of Western Himalaya, India. Potential of Spaceborne Bistatic Polarimetric Interferometric SAR Modelling for Vegetation Height Estimation. Section 2 ⁰́₃ Monitoring Vegetation Productivity and Climate Change. Estimating Aboveground Biomass of Sal and Teak Forests Using Terrasar-X and Semi-Empirical Model in Part of Terai Himalaya. Spatial Distribution of GPP Over Croplands Using Planetscope Imagery in Majuli Islands, Assam. Vegetation Trend Analysis and Seasonal Change Estimation Based on Time-Series Satellite Data for Northeast India. Century-Scale Variations in Vegetation Greenness and Productivity in Central Himalaya. Climatic Control of High-Latitude Vegetation Monotonic Greening and Browning Trends Across the Himalayas and Anthropogenic Effect. Climate Forcing on Photosynthetic Variability Across Relief Zones in the Himalayas. Section 3 - Forest Fire and Landscape Restoration. Appraisal of Forest Fire Risk Through Geospatial Techniques in Uttarakhand Himalayan Region. Changing Pattern of Forest Fire Regime in Relation to Climatic Oscillation Over Western and Eastern Himalaya, India. Forest Fuel Bed Mapping in Sikkim Himalaya. Floristic Shifting of Endemic Species in Eastern Himalayas due to Climate Change. Landscape Restoration in Indian Himalayan Region.

A technology- and policy-driven transition -- A green and global Europe -- Structure of this book -- 1 A Green and Political Europe -- The EU as a global climate leader -- From European energy security to the European Green Deal -- The political rationale underpinning the European Green Deal -- 2 A Green Europe and the Future of Liberal Democracy -- The internal and external opponents of liberal democracy, and of the European Union -- Picking on the fragilities of liberal democracies

This book offers the first English translation and comprehensive analysis (inclusive of introductory study and endnotes to the translation) of the longest and most complex Italian Renaissance utopia, Ludovico Agostini's Imaginary Republic. It not only reveals the significance of a text that has been mostly forgotten; it also shows how an investigation of Imaginary Republic uncovers neglected and surprising facets of Renaissance utopianism. The current scholarly image of Renaissance utopianism is based, predominantly, on English texts. Other European utopian traditions are considered only tangentially and do not substantially inform the overall picture of the nature of Renaissance utopias. This book's study of Imaginary Republic, within the context of Italian sixteenth- and seventeenth-century utopias, contributes to filling this gap in the critical literature by expanding the current understanding of Renaissance utopianism