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AT THE DAWN OF THE 21ST CENTURY, MANKIND IS WITNESSING A POST-COLD WAR ERA IN WHICH A GLOBAL RELIGIOUS RESURGENCE IS CHALLENGING THE EXPECTATIONS OF MODERNIZATION THEORY AS WELL AS THE PROGRESSIVE SECULARIZATION AND WESTERNIZATION OF DEVELOPING SOCIETIES. RELIGIOUS IS A MAJOR IDEOLOGICAL, SOCIAL, AND POLITICAL FORCE; IT IS EXPLOITED BY GOVERNMENTS, POLITICAL PARTIES, AND OPPOSITION MOVEMENTS; IT IS A SOURCE OF BOTH LIBERATION AND VIOLENT EXTREMISM.

This book analyses the political and economic challenges Taiwan has faced since since its democratic revolution began with the lifting of martial law in 1987. Taiwan's Democracy will be of huge interest to students and scholars of Taiwan studies, Chinese politics and economics, international politics and economics, and development studies.

The world is movement. People migrate in response to labor needs and human disaster; money and memes flit between countries, and people move almost too quickly to track; the flow of energy and commodities bind consumers to providers in supply chains that neither party can usually envisage. Needless to say, this is as true of criminal activities as any other sphere of human endeavor, especially when it comes to trafficking drugs. According to the United Nations, as of 2010 the trade in opiates generates an annual turnover of up to $65 billion, with cocaine accounting for a further $88 billion. The crudest street gang peddling crack or heroin in a darkened stairwell is part of a complex transnational business, even if its members scarcely know from which country their product originally hails. The roaring torrents of Afghan opiates and Latin American cocaine crash through border checkpoints, leaving corrupted customs officers and pipelines for other illicit transfers in their wake, hollow out political systems, and transform into equally powerful flows of dirty money that in due course wash into every banking system in the world.

This book analyses the political and economic challenges Taiwan has faced since its democratic revolution began with the lifting of martial law in 1987. Taiwan's Democracy will be of huge interest to students and scholars of Taiwan studies, Chinese politics and economics, international politics and economics, and development studies.

"As the world's population continues to grow, there is an ever increasing need for huge investment in basic infrastructure: water and sewage, energy production and distribution, transportation and telecommunication. At the same time, infrastructure systems in developed countries are deteriorating and in need of renewal. Today, many of the engineering and economic problems surrounding infrastructure construction projects have been solved, but the threat of social misalignments and political conflicts renders the development and management of such projects more challenging than ever before. This book presents a new theoretical framework that allows us to analyze the institutional and social movement processes, both negative and positive, that surround global infrastructure projects as they confront cross-national and cross-sectoral (such as private-public partnerships) institutional differences. The value of this framework is illustrated through a series of studies on a wide range of infrastructure projects, including roads, railroads, ports, airports, water supply and energy pipelines"--

Chapter 1. Introduction: What are the political challenges of COVID-19 in Latin America? -- Part I: The deniers -- Chapter 2. Brazilian response to Covid-19: polarization and conflict -- Chapter 3. Mexico in the face of Covid-19: in between actions and inefficiency -- Chapter 4.Nicaragua: denying the health crisis and the political crisis -- Part II: State Action During COVID-19 Pandemic -- Chapter 5. Managing the pandemic in Colombia: between the immediate response and the structural consequences -- Chapter 6. The Uruguayan's State's structure and the management of the pandemic -- Part III: Social Movements and pandemic -- Chapter 7. Solidarity during the Pandemic: Creative Recombinations in Social Movement Frames and Repertoires -- Chapter 8. Transformative events and collective action in Chile during the Covid pandemic -- Part IV: Public opinion and pandemic -- Chapter 9. Presidential approval during the Covid-19 pandemic in Argentina -- Chapter 10. Identity versus fear of death: political polarization under the Covid-19 pandemic in Brazil -- Chapter 11. Between pessimism and mistrust: Ecuadorian attitudes in the 2020 coronavirus pandemic -- Chapter 12. "For the sake of all, the Poor First": covid, mañaneras and the popularity of the mexican president -- Chapter 13. Conclusion: Comparing cases to understand the political challenges of COVID-19 in Latin America.

We are at a turning point when it comes to the political implications of climate change. Given the reality of a future in a climate-changed world, it is time for us—broadly as a species, but particularly as academics—to move beyond the foci of the last few decades on the politics of preventing climate change through global agreements. There is a growing literature on the obvious need to slow the impacts of climate change, develop postcarbon energy systems, and design new forms of global environmental governance. Beyond these immediate needs, however, climate change poses a range of new problems and requires a broader research agenda for a climate-challenged politics.