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This book brings an intersectional perspective to border studies, drawing on case studies from across the world to consider the ways in which notably gender and race dynamics change the ways in which people cross international borders, and how diffuse and virtual borders impact on migrants' experiences.

Military aviation in the British Dominions before the First World War / Michael Molkentin -- The Australian prisoner of war experience in Stalag Luft III, 1942-45 / Kristen Alexander -- Sir James Rowland and the changing strategic use of air power in Australia, 1942-1979 / Peter Yule and Nicole Townsend -- Australian air power strategy, technologies, and counter-insurgency in Malaya during the Cold War / Peter Hunter -- The importance of asking why the Royal Australian Air Force Exists / Jason Begley and Travis Hallen -- Identity as a gatekeeper in Western Air Forces / Jarrod Pendlebury -- The Royal Australian Air Force and the tyranny of training / Tom Frame -- Human, Organisational, and technological lessons from air power and joint operations in major conflict / Charles Vandepeer -- The privatisation of air power / Peter Layton -- Hypersonic propulsion as an air power disruption or disturbance / Michael Spencer -- Military culture and resistance to technical innovation / Matt Hegarty -- Rubbery assumptions : anti-G suits and air power in the Second World War / Peter Hobbins -- Ethics, strategy, and Australian air power in the 21st century / Deane-Peter Baker -- Manoeuvre in the 21st century / Jo Brick -- An overview of Australian space power, from desert rockets to new beginnings / Amy Hestermann-Crane -- Can the Australian Defence Force become the most uncrewed and autonomy-enabled defence force in the world? / Keirin Joyce -- Space power and the vulnerabilities of satellites / James-Andre Galam -- Considering the effects of disruptive technologies on air and space power / Christopher Wooding -- Conclusion / Jarrod Pendlebury.

"This handbook examines the study of International Relations (IR) in Russia, giving a comprehensive analysis of historical, theoretic-conceptual, geographical, and institutional aspects. It identifies the place and role of Russia in Global IR and discusses the factors which facilitate or impede the development of Russian IR studies. The contributors represent diverse Russian regions and IR schools and offer an overview of different intellectual traditions and key IR paradigms in the post-Soviet era. Filling the vacuum in international understanding of the Russian perspective on pivotal international issues they demonstrate the continuity and change in Russia's international policy course over the past three decades and explain how different foreign policy schools and concepts have affected Russian foreign policy making and the decision-making process. Providing a unique contribution to the discussion on non-Western IR theory, this handbook will appeal to scholars and students of International Relations, Russian Studies, World Politics, and International Studies"--

This book explores relationships between war, displacement and city-making. Focusing on people seeking refuge in Somali cities after being forced to migrate by violence, environmental shocks or economic pressures, it highlights how these populations are actively transforming urban space. Using first-hand testimonies and participatory photography by urban in-migrants, the book documents and analyses the micropolitics of urban camp management, evictions and gentrification, and the networked labour of displaced populations that underpins growing urban economies. Central throughout is a critical analysis of how the discursive figure of the 'internally displaced person' is co-produced by various actors. The book argues that this label exerts significant power in structuring socio-economic inequalities and the politics of group belonging within different Somali cities connected through protracted histories of conflict-related migration

"The Politics of Prison Crowding investigates recent transformations in Italy's penal system to make the key analytical observation that conditions of overcrowding have become the 'new normal' under which the modern prison system continues to operate and deliver punishment. Engaging with the politics of crowding thus entails a direct and pertinent engagement with the modern state's politics of criminal justice and social control. Worldwide over the last decades, a growing number of jurisdictions have prison systems operating above or to the limit of their capacity, yet little attention has been paid to these elements in the analysis of prison politics and day-to-day function. By exploring the crowding issue, this book offers an original and interesting insight into the politics and dynamics characterising contemporary prison systems. The hypothesis of this study is that the politics of prison crowding have become the template for the daily administration of the prison system, which incorporates not just policy and rules but day-to-day functions and practices regulating life behind bars. Through interviews in modern Italian prisons, the book brings to light a radical redefinition of a carceral system that harshens the delivery of punishment while justifying this exacerbation of pain by adding new bureaucratic logic to the administration of the penal system within a narrative of compliance to human rights standards. By shedding new light on prison politics to open new critical perspectives and research paths, The Politics of Prison Crowding offers a fundamental tool to scholars, students and all professional policymakers and practitioners dealing with prison policies and the politics of justice"--

Introduction. The Brandt Commission and the multinationals : two planetary perspectives and the Great Transformation in the 1970s and 1980s -- Development vs. dependency -- Distorters of development : the multinational corporations -- The G77 and the NIEO : the contours of a New World Order -- The Great Transformation of the 1970s and 1980s -- A commission against world poverty -- A commission for a New World Order -- Proposal for a New Keynesian World Order but where are the multinationals? -- Cancún : from Utopia to apology. The opening towards a Neoliberal Global Market Order -- The follow-up commissions for planetary policies and the final farce -- The Brandt Commission and the global corporations today -- Planetary perspectives : one world to share. An interview with Shridath Ramphal.

"Yun examines three ironic phenomena of South Korean democracy that have developed after its democratic transition in 1987. While the evaluation of South Korea's political system by external institutions has steadily improved, people's trust in the nation's political system continues to decline. However, in the face of political distrust, unlike Western democracies, voter turnout has increased. Even though political participation and the political influence of citizens has been strengthened over time, the political influence of civic organizations that fostered the initial democratization movement in the 1980s has weakened, parallel to the decline in citizens' confidence in these organizations"--

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Post-war South and Southern migrants in Turin: between imagination and reality -- 2 Educational 'otherness' -- 3 Southern children and special education -- 4 Talking to grown-up children -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Authors -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Religion and Deliberative Democracy: An Interface of Practices -- 1 Deliberative Democracy and Religion as Practices: Problems and Potentials -- 2 Case Study 1: Religious Spaces and Gender-Based Violence: A Deliberative Approach to Voicing our Pain -- 3 Case Study 2: Gyae ma ne nka (Let It Be): A Religious Notion of Peace or a Shutdown of Democratic Conversations? -- 4 Case Study 3: Church, Charity, and Philanthropy: Deciding Faith-Based Actions Democratically -- 5 Now What? Recommendations and Implications for Policy Makers, Religious Leaders, Researchers, and Practitioners -- Index.