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"A comprehensive history of Temple University Japan and how it has developed over time as a successful experiment in international education"--

"The book explores Jewish US American identity beyond the white and educated "model minority" stereotype. Jewish life and Judaism are explored across personal, socio-cultural, and political-global implications, arguing for more inclusive approaches to relationships among race, ethnicity, culture, and religion in theory, teaching, and practice"--

"An award-winning journalist's powerful portrait of his native Baghdad, the people of Iraq, and twenty years of war"--

"This book presents a vision of plurilingual, intercultural education, demonstrates how it can be realised in practice, and does so in a way which is easily and quickly accessible to teachers of all subjects and in all educational institutions, as well as to other educationists, including policymakers"--

"An Atonal Cinema theorises contemporary Palestinian cinema, utilizing contrapuntal dialogue as a mode of resistance with which to decentre and respond to texts from Europe, South America and Israel which have co-opted its images"--

Die umfangreiche Jugendstudie, die die Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung 2021/22 im Nahen Osten und in Nordafrika durchgeführt hat, ist weltweit richtungsweisend. Sie knüpft inhaltlich an die fünf Jahre zuvor durchgeführte Studie an und erlaubt aktuelle Einblicke in Selbstverständnis, Lebenschancen und Zukunftsperspektiven von 12.000 jungen Menschen zwischen 16 und 30 Jahren aus Ägypten, Algerien, Irak, Jemen, Jordanien, Libanon, Libyen, Marokko, Palästina, Sudan, Syrien und Tunesien. Auf die arabischen Aufstände der frühen 2010er-Jahre, die viele Hoffnungen weckten, folgten Rückschläge: autoritäre Gegenreaktionen, ökonomische Einbrüche, ein beschleunigter Klimawandel, die Corona-Pandemie und schließlich der Ukraine-Krieg mit seinen Auswirkungen auf Nahrungsmittel- und Energiesicherheit. Nachdem Bemühungen um demokratischere Strukturen die Lebensbedingungen nicht nachhaltig verbessert haben und eine ganze Generation junger Menschen durch die Krisen weiter entmündigt und enteignet wurde, herrschen nun Enttäuschung und Ratlosigkeit vor. Dennoch, auch das zeigt diese Studie, engagieren sich einige Gruppen voller Energie für die Gesellschaft und sind optimistisch, dass die schweren Krisen auch neue Möglichkeiten eröffnen.

The shock of Donald Trump's election caused many observers to ask whether the liberal international order - the system of institutions and norms established after World War II - was coming to an end. The victory of Joe Biden, a committed institutionalist, suggested that the liberal order would endure. Even so, important questions remained: Was Trump an aberration? Is Biden struggling in vain against irreparable changes in international politics? What does the future hold for the international order?The essays in Chaos Reconsidered answer those questions. Leading scholars assess the domestic and global effects of the Trump and Biden presidencies. The historians put the Trump years and Biden's victory in historical context. Regional specialists evaluate U.S. diplomacy in Asia, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America. Others foreground topics such as global right-wing populism, the COVID-19 pandemic, racial inequality, and environmental degradation. International relations theorists reconsider the nature of international politics, pointing to deficiencies in traditional IR methods for explaining world events and Trump's presidency in particular. Together, these experts provide a comprehensive analysis of the state of U.S. alliances and partnerships, the durability of the liberal international order, the standing and reputation of the United States as a global leader, the implications of China's assertiveness and Russia's aggression, and the prospects for the Biden administration and its successors.

With steely determination, Xi Jinping has forged his way to absolute power at home, consolidated China's role as a global superpower, and promoted instrumental myths about his life. All the while, in many ways he has remained a mystery. Which is a problem, assert Stig Stenslie and Marte Kjær Galtung, because to understand China today, it is essential to understand Xi. Who is he? What is his vision for China? What explains his rise? How is he perceived by the masses? These are among the questions that gave rise to this book. Using Xi as a lens with which to examine China's political development over the past decade, the authors succeed in shining new light on the innermost circles of Chinese politics and on the authoritarian leader himself.

It explore issues of diversity and inclusion in relation to artificial intelligence (AI).The author leads a research group on Digitalization and Robotization of Society at NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology