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"FRESH, CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVE: Most books on nuclear weapons are focused on the past, especially World War II and the Cold War. Scoles offers the first modern analysis of nuclear weaponry today that goes beyond just geopolitical consequences but cultural as well"--

"During the last three decades, Europe has undergone numerous periods of economic and political instability. The process of European integration, once hailed as a beacon of a peaceful co-operation between many, if not all, European nations appears to be stagnating, giving rise to notoriously more frequent manifestations of xenophobic violence, nationalism and right-wing fundamentalism. This book evaluates the portrayal of the migrant Other in selected examples of contemporary French and German cinema from the period 1989-2020 in the context of the ongoing debate about European identity and its socio-political significance. It focuses on the films of some of Europe's most prolific contemporary filmmakers, such as Michael Haneke, Claire Denis and Fatih Akin. It examines cinema's importance not only in reference to various theoretical evaluations of the concept of European identity, but also many notable events that have taken place in Europe in the last thirty years, such as the collapse of the 'Iron Curtain' in 1989, the historical expansion of the European Union in 2004, the migration 'crisis' of 2015, 'Brexit' and the war in Ukraine"--

Der Nahe Osten wird häufig als Krisenregion wahrgenommen. Die sozialen, wirtschaftlichen und politischen Veränderungen, Terrorismus und Staatszerfall, die Folgen des Arabischen Frühlings und des Klimawandels stellen die Staaten dieser Region vor große Probleme. Dieser Band informiert über diese Bereiche hinaus fundiert über vernachlässigte und langfristige Entwicklungslinien jenseits der schnellen Schlagzeile. Die Beiträge beleuchten transnationale Dynamiken und Herausforderungen, vor denen die Schlüsselstaaten der Region stehen. Ebenso wird der Einfluss externer Akteure, etwa der USA, der Europäischen Union, der Vereinten Nationen sowie Russlands und Chinas analysiert.

This book offers a novel and interdisciplinary exploration of revolution as situated protest in Tunisia. Larbi Sadiki and Layla Saleh present extensive local evidence to demonstrate that popular resistance has been a mainstay of modern Tunisia before, during, and after colonialism. Protest makes peoplehood, and peoplehood makes protest: neither is self-contained. The book explores the rich history and diversity of insurrectionary politics in Tunisia from the onset of protests in the 1960s up to the 2011 Arab Spring revolution and beyond, exploring bottom-up activism (hirak) and revolution (thawrah). The six protestscapes presented in the volume (unions, student activists, the phosphate uprising, the 2010-11 revolution, Kamour, and football ultras) offer a novel way of examining partial 'moving snapshots' that are crucial to understanding revolution. They counter the prevailing narrative of revolution as leaderless, a spontaneous surprise with no historical pedigree or inherited learning, and depict instead an active citizenry whose collective memories are stamped by trials of anti-colonial and anti-dictatorial rebellion.

The work aimed to analyse the sustainability efforts – the greening – of five industry sectors in Brazil: aluminium, chemical, steel, cement, and oil and gas. These sectors were chosen because they are the industries with the highest carbon emissions. The research sought to verify the sustainability measures adopted by business and industry actors, with special emphasis on the use of Voluntary Sustainability Standards and ESG values. In order to verify the information provided by the companies, the documents that informed the measures taken by the companies and the numbers supporting their results were always sought out and explained in the text. The conclusions were that the sectors, guided by industry associations, have adopted a broad set of sustainability measures. The results of these measures, however, sometimes lack proof and sometimes lead to sporadic conduct, contrary to the precepts of environmental and social sustainability.

After many years in the little-known world of back-channel mediation, helping sworn adversaries to prevent, manage or resolve conflict, Pierre Hazan felt compelled to re-examine the acute practical and ethical dilemmas that affected his work in Bosnia, Ukraine, the Sahel and the Central African Republic. What is the mediator's responsibility when two belligerents conclude a peace agreement to the detriment of a third? Should mediators never be party to 'ethnic cleansing', even if it saves lives? Is a fragile peace worth sacrificing justice for—or will that sacrifice fuel another cycle of violence? In an increasingly dystopian world, Negotiating with the Devil offers both practical guidelines and a moral compass for mediators whose field of action has transformed dramatically. We have gone from soft to hard power; from 'peace dividends' to war in Europe; from the end of one Cold War to a new East–West confrontation in Ukraine; from Pax Americana to a multipolar world; from the dream of an all-powerful UN to the organisation's marginalisation. Against this tapestry, Hazan sheds light on the complex work of those steering peace negotiations, blending vivid first-hand observation with sharp insights into the psychology of compromise as a first step towards peace.

New Cold Wars - the latest from the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author of The Perfect Weapon David E. Sanger - is a fast-paced account of America's plunge into simultaneous confrontations with two very different adversaries. For years, the United States was confident that the newly democratic Russia and increasingly wealthy China could be lured into a Western-led order that promised prosperity and relative peace - so long as they agreed to Washington's terms. By the time America emerged from the age of terrorism, it was clear that this had been a fantasy. Now the three powers are engaged in a high-stakes struggle for military, economic, political, and technological supremacy, with nations around the world pressured to take sides. Yet all three are discovering that they are maneuvering for influence in a far more turbulent world than they imagined. Based on a remarkable array of interviews with top officials from five presidential administrations, U.S. intelligence agencies, foreign governments, and tech companies, Sanger unfolds a riveting narrative spun around the era's critical questions: Will the mistakes Putin made in his invasion of Ukraine prove his undoing and will he reach for his nuclear arsenal - or will the West's famously short attention span signal Kyiv's doom? Will Xi invade Taiwan? Will both men deepen their partnership to undercut America's dominance? And can a politically dysfunctional America still lead the world? Taking readers from the battlefields of Ukraine - where trench warfare and cyberwarfare are interwoven - to the Taiwan headquarters where the world's most advanced computer chips are produced and on to tense debates in the White House Situation Room, New Cold Wars is a remarkable first-draft history chronicling America's return to superpower conflict, the choices that lie ahead, and what is at stake for the United States and the world.

"Hidden Wars documents the gendered political violence that is frequently neglected or ignored in conventional analysis of war and conflict affecting how we understand conflict and which violence we prioritise with implications for post-war peace. Specifically, the book-length study examines the relationship between reports of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) and structural gender inequality in three conflict-affected societies in Asia (Burma, the Philippines, and Sri Lanka). It is based on extensive field research and analysis of an original dataset on conflict-related SGBV in each country. The longitudinal data is purposively contextualized within conflict dynamics, political struggles and local understandings of gender relations. Existing social science research shows that structural gender inequality is the most significant risk factor for SGBV. Building on this scholarship, the authors argue that the presence and type of SGBV in Asian civil conflicts reflect distinct and highly politicized, gendered societies. Scholars and policymakers are aware that reporting silence is a major problem for identifying and responding to SGBV. However, they rarely note the limitations of the data and our knowledge of who perpetrates and/or is a victim of SGBV, when and where, as a result, due to the politicized contexts of reporting and data collection on the ground. Hidden Wars addresses these real-world limitations by examining the social and political conditions - especially the reporting conditions - for SGBV. Localised patterns of SGBV and the prospects for its prevention in low-intensity conflict environments, like those predominant across Asia, are explicated"--

Liberale Völkerrechtskonzeptionen hatten nach dem Fall des Eisernen Vorhangs Konjunktur. Kantisch inspirierte Erwartungen auf eine liberale internationale Friedensordnung sowie ein erreichtes "Ende der Geschichte" (Fukuyama), i.e. ein ideologischer Sieg der westlichen Werte der Menschenrechte, der Demokratie und der Rechtsstaatlichkeit - ein Ende der ideologischen (Klassen-)Kämpfe - sind jedoch im Zuge des russischen Angriffskriegs auf die Ukraine bis auf Weiteres begraben worden. Auch wenn es spätestens seit dem Truppenabzug aus Afghanistan sowie im Hinblick auf den machtpolitischen Aufstieg Chinas wenig überzeugt, weiter unbeirrt von einem Siegeszug liberalen Denkens zu sprechen, so impliziert dies indes mitnichten die Schlussfolgerung, dass der Westen seinen Anspruch auf eine liberale Weltordnung aufgegeben hat ("the great battle for freedom: a battle between democracy and autocracy"). Der Forschungsansatz, inwieweit die Menschenrechte in einer ideologiekritischen Perspektive als Voraussetzung des Friedens gelten können, hat weiter an Berechtigung gewonnen. Eine zunehmend anthropozentrisch angereicherte internationale Rechtsordnung, die Eschatologie des Kantischen Friedensbegriffs sowie die Ambivalenz des Liberalismus, dessen Universalismusgedanke schon immer auch eine imperialistische Schlag- und Schattenseite sowie den Keim gewaltsamer Durchsetzung liberaler Ideen inkorporiert hat, sind hinsichtlich des prekären Verhältnisses von Menschenrechten und Frieden zur Disposition zu stellen.