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Wie können Projekte zur Neuverteilung und Umwidmung öffentlicher Straßenräume gelingen? Was lässt sich aus erfolgreichen nationalen und internationalen Beispielen lernen? Die Broschüre fasst Praxiserfahrungen zur Umgestaltung des Straßenraums zugunsten der aktiven Mobilität und der Lebensqualität in Städten zusammen. Gute Beispiele aus Deutschland und Europa wurden anhand einer Evaluationsmatrix untersucht. Viele zeigen wiederkehrende Erfolgsfaktoren. Die Broschüre stellt neun Schlüsselfaktoren für erfolgreiche Straßenumgestaltungen vor, die bestimmte Aspekte im Planungs- und Umsetzungsprozess betreffen. Kommunen und Planende können künftige Projekte damit leichter voranbringen.

Capitalism XXL calls for changing the rules of capitalism in order to tame giant corporations and restore the individual to the world economy. Noels proposes an approach that considers human dimensions and describes a sustainable future economy that will not burden subsequent generations with debt, social inequality, and environmental damage.

"No two nations have exchanged natural resources, produced transborder environmental agreements, or cooperatively altered ecosystems on the same scale as Canada and the United States. Environmental and energy diplomacy have profoundly shaped both countries' economies, politics, and landscapes for over 150 years. Natural Allies looks at the history of US-Canada relations through an environmental lens. From fisheries in the late nineteenth century to oil pipelines in the twenty-first century, Daniel Macfarlane recounts the scores of transborder environmental and energy arrangements made between the two nations. Many became global precedents that influenced international environmental law, governance, and politics, including the Boundary Waters Treaty, Trail Smelter case, hydroelectric megaprojects, and the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreements. In addition to water, fish, wood, minerals, and myriad other resources, Natural Allies details the history of the continental energy relationship--from electricity to uranium to fossil fuels--showing how Canada became vital to American strategic interests and, along with the United States, a major international energy power and petro-state. Environmental and energy relations facilitated the integration and prosperity of Canada and the United States, but also made them responsible for the current climate crisis and other unsustainable forms of ecological degradation. Looking to the future, Natural Allies argues that the concept of national security must be widened to include natural security--a commitment to public, national, and international safety from environmental harms, especially those caused by human actions."

"At present India is a leading producer, distributor, and consumer of generic medicines globally. Disparate Remedies traces the genealogy of this development and examines the public cultures of medicine in the country between 1870 and 1960. The book begins by discussing the expansion of medical consumerism in late nineteenth-century India when British-owned firms extended their sales to distant provincial towns. As a result, laboratory-produced drugs competed with traditional street remedies through side-by-side production of 'Western' and 'Indian' drugs by pharmaceutical companies. The emergent middle classes, the creation of a public sphere, and nationalist politics transformed the medical culture of modern India and generated conflict between Western and Indigenous medical systems and their practitioners. Nandini Bhattacharya demonstrates that these disparate therapies were sustained through the tropes of purity or adulteration, potency or lack of it, and epistemic heritage, even when their material configuration often differed little. Uniquely engaging with the cultures of both consumption and production in the country, Disparate Remedies follows the evolution of medicine in colonial India as it confronted Indian modernity and changing public attitudes surrounding health and drugs."

In this book, James H. Lebovic argues that the policy approach to maintain nuclear superiority did not make sense during the Cold War and makes even less sense now. As he shows, the idea that nuclear superiority is an imperative still serves as the foundation for too much strategic policy in an era where utility of such weapons is highly questionable. Moreover, continuing to rely on them as coercive tools rests on deficient logic and is dangerous. Not only explaining why we remain stuck with a nuclear stance that is largely irrelevant to the era, this book also offers a way out of the type of thinking that keeps such policies in place.

Political hackers, like the infamous Anonymous collective, have demonstrated their willingness to use political violence to further their agendas. However, many of their causes – targeting terrorist groups, fighting for LGBTQ+ rights, and protecting people's freedom of expression, autonomy and privacy – are intuitively good things to fight for. This book will create a new framework that argues that when the state fails to protect people, hackers can intervene and evaluates the hacking based on the political or social circumstances. It highlights the space for hackers to operate as legitimate actors; guides hacker activity by detailing what actions are justified toward what end; outlines mechanisms to aid hackers in reaching ethically justified decisions; and directs the political community on how to react to these political hackers. Applying this framework to the most pivotal hacking operations within the last two decades, including the Arab Spring, police brutality in the USA and the Nigerian and Ugandan governments' announcements of homophobic legislation, it offers a unique contribution to conceptualising hacking as a contemporary political activity

A fresh perspective on conflict and peace-making that highlights the cosmologies and invisible entities that state, society and religious authorities draw on to claim or reclaim legitimacy and control. Peace-making can be a violent, arbitrary assertion of power. At the same time, the spheres of power, politics and religion are rarely discrete: when governments behave like gods through demonstrations of arbitrary violence, the remaking of moral and spiritual worlds can provide radical ways to contest the brutality of both conflict and peace. This book is an exploration of the way that Nuer- and Dinka-speaking communities living around the Bilnyang and connected river systems in Warrap and Unity States in South Sudan have experienced peace-making and conflict in an increasingly militarized South Sudan. The book traces patterns of violence in peace-making back to colonial and mercantile activities in the late 19th century, but focuses on the period since the 1980s. Challenging dominant understandings of conflict and peace centred on neo-liberal brokerage and settlements or a politics entirely driven by instrumentalist, neo-patrimonial, marketized logics, this book shows how South Sudanese authorities, particularly religious authorities, have contested the legitimacy of violence and peace by drawing on divinely inspired notions of authority and norms of conduct. Drawing on archive, ethnographic and oral history research, as well as participant observations of the elite peace negotiations since 2013, Pendle describes the peace-making efforts of a range of actors from international diplomats to chiefs, Nuer prophets and local priests, to show how peace-making in South Sudan became an instrument used by actors to build authority by reshaping rituals, remaking hierarchies and re-encoding moral protest against oppressive regimes. By recasting anthropological and historical scholarship on divine authorities and moral communities in South Sudan, this book brings a new perspective to conflict, peace and governance that will be invaluable not only to scholars but to policymakers, practitioners and NGOs. This book is available as an Open Access ebook under the Creative Commons license CC-BY-NC.

Three main themes are intertwined throughout the book: Russian Arctic interests; Putin's vision to regain great power status; and the emerging narrative of a new cold war in the Arctic. Weaved together, they dovetail nicely to present a qualitative assessment of Russian Arctic strategy devoid of ideological biases.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I Theory and issues -- 1 Catch-up industrialization theory -- 1.1 Advantages of backwardness and technological leap -- 1.2 Flying-geese pattern and limitations -- 1.3 Catch-up theory revisited and technological creep -- 1.4 Unravelling structural change challenges -- 2 Middle-income trap -- 2.1 Definition of middle-income trap -- 2.2 From East Asian miracle to innovative East Asia -- 2.3 When was Thailand caught in the middle-income trap? -- 2.4 Catching-up problems -- 2.5 Comparing China, Malaysia, and Thailand -- 3 Developmental states and business groups -- 3.1 Developmental state political economy -- 3.2 Latecomer nation domestic business groups theory -- 3.3 Four types of Thai family business groups -- 3.4 Theory of management critical points -- 4 Dependency theory and multinational corporations -- 4.1 Dependency theory -- 4.2 MNCs and human capital investment -- 4.3 BOI and target industries -- 4.4 Exploitation of foreign direct investment -- Part II Policies toward innovation-driven growth -- 5 Upper-middle-income development model -- 5.1 The 1960s and 1970s import substitution industrialization -- 5.2 The 1980s and 1990s export-oriented industrialization of and the Asian financial crisis -- 5.3 Economic performance of Thailand -- 5.4 End of the low-cost advantage era -- 5.5 Low R& -- D activity levels -- 6 High-income development model -- 6.1 The 2000s-2010s economic revitalization and ASEAN Economic Community -- 6.2 The 2020s economic rearrangement to identify a high-income nation model -- 6.3 From creative economy to new S-curves -- 7 EEC plan and foreign investors -- 7.1 Eastern Economic Corridor Plan -- 7.2 Belt Road Initiative of China.

Intro -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- 1 Reorienting the tax debate: Political economy and tax regimes in Latin America -- PART I Taxation and the dominance of raw material export sectors -- 2 Natural resource wealth and fiscal institutions in Latin America since independence -- 3 Fiscal revenues from hydrocarbons and minerals in Latin America: Challenges in an era of unprecedented decarbonization and growing digitalization -- 4 The political economy of mobilizing tax resources in Bolivia -- 5 Tax culture: a conceptual proposal and empirical approach to the economic elite in Chile -- 6 Tax evasion and capital flight in resource-rich Latin America: What we can learn from Argentina -- PART II Taxation and allocational politics -- 7 The political economy of failed progressive fiscal reforms in Latin America -- 8 Redistributive threats, development models, and taxation in Latin America -- 9 A close relationship with the economic elite: the historical roots of the poor Mexican tax state -- 10 Business coordination and regressive taxation in Latin America -- 11 Ground rent, capital accumulation, and the limits of taxation in resource-rich countries: the case of Argentina (1993-2020) -- 12 Tax system and exchange rate in the appropriation of agrarian ground rent in Uruguay, 2000-2020 -- PART III New perspectives on political economy and tax regimes -- 13 Raw materials, tax reforms, and sustainable development: lessons from Latin America -- 14 Contours of rent-based societies: concluding remarks and new perspectives on political economy and taxation -- Index.