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"The world has up to now failed to stop al-Qaeda terrorist attacks and also failed to stop the emergence of more extreme and more brutal terrorist groups than al-Qaeda, such as ISIS/ISIL. The current strategies of counterterrorism are focused on military and security measures and have many shortcomings that allow terrorists to continue their operations. A New Counterterrorism Strategy: Why the World Failed to Stop Al Qaeda and ISIS/ISIL, and How to Defeat Terrorists identifies the shortcomings of present strategies and present a comprehensive and sustainable strategy of counterterrorism. Author Ambassador T. Hamid Al-Bayati provides an introduction that addresses the unique problem of countering terrorism by those motivated by distorted religious ideology and sets the stage for subsequent chapters that explain the failures of counterterrorism strategies to date and draws the lessons to be learned from those mistakes. Al-Bayati also spotlights the problem of terrorist cells developing in all parts of world, where members can work from safe havens to plan attacks, acquire weapons, and gain fighting experience. His proposed strategy addresses issues that are neglected in current counterterrorism strategies, such as undermining the ideology of terrorists, creating effective media campaigns against terrorism, deterring youth from joining ISIS, and shutting off the flow of capital that currently buoys the financial resources of terrorist organizations"--Provided by publisher

Der Band gibt einen Einblick in eine disziplinär ausdifferenzierte Forschungspraxis der Komik in (post-)migrantischen und Kulturgrenzen überschreitenden Kontexten. In den jeweiligen Untersuchungsgegenständen fragen Autor/innen nach dem sozialen Sinn, nach Funktionen und Rollen, inszenatorischen und performativen Mitteln von Lachen, Humor, Komik und Satire. Es wird ersichtlich, dass die Komik neben der Unterhaltung eine Reihe anderer sozialer Funktionen erfüllt: Sie (re-)produziert, spiegelt, kommuniziert oder überwindet jeweils ein bestimmtes Problem, das im soziokulturellen Bereich der Beforschten verankert ist. In der Komik-Kommunikation werden Identitäten formiert und ausgehandelt: mittels aggressiver, gesichtsbedrohender und kompetitiver Komik-Kommunikation werden Grenzen markiert und Freundschaftsbeziehungen getestet. Die Beiträge dieses Bandes dienen dem besseren Bewusstsein, Verständnis und kritischen Umgang mit ethnisch-kulturellen Vorurteilen und negativen Fremdbildern, und sollen die Fremd- und Eigenwahrnehmungen sozialer Gruppen sowie deren historische Hintergründe bewusst machen. Der Inhalt Komik auf der Bühne, in der Literatur und im Film • Komik im (post-)migrantischen Alltag Die Zielgruppen Sozial- und KulturwissenschaftlerInnen Die Herausgeberin Dr. Halyna Leontiy ist wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Kulturwissenschaftlichen Institut Essen (KWI) und Leiterin eines DFG-Projekts zum Thema "Migration und Komik"

Honour killings, the laws and women -- Socio-economic and political conditions underlying honour killing in Sindh -- Researching honour killings in Sindh: methological issues -- Violence in everyday life -- Men's stories of violence -- Women's stories of accusations.

"The discipline of international political economy faces a number of critical challenges at present, as it seeks to incorporate a number of relatively new issues, one of these being 'risk'. This captivating and enlightening study redresses the neglect of 'risk' in this field by focusing on objectivist rationalism. Highlighting some of the calculative practices rationalism makes possible, it demonstrates the deeply political nature of supposedly value-neutral technical pursuits such as accounting, auditing, the practice of statistics, sampling, and credit rating. All these practices are implicated in modernist forms of power and governance. The volume draws on work from various disciplines, including sociology, anthropology, political economy, and philosophy, to explain the apparent unravelling of the rationalist quest for more reliable forms of knowledge. It is highly suitable for courses on international relations/international political economy."--Provided by publisher.

This book extends philosophy's engagement with the double beyond hierarchized binary oppositions. Brian Seitz explores the double as a necessary ontological condition or figure that gets represented, enacted, and performed repeatedly and in a myriad of configurations. Seitz suggests that the double in all of its forms is simultaneously philosophy's shadow, its nemesis, and the condition of its possibility. This book expands definitions and investigations of the double beyond the confines of philosophy, suggesting that the concept is at work in many other fields including politics, cultural narratives, literature, mythology, and psychology. Seitz approaches the double by means of a series of case studies and by engaging loosely in eidetic variation, a methodological maneuver borrowed from phenomenology. The book explores the ways in which wide-ranging instances of the double are connected by the dynamics of intersubjectivity

Bodies of Naples: a journey in the landscapes of porosity -- Cognitive justice and the truth of biology: death (and life) in Venice -- Three earthquakes: wounds, signs, and resisting arts in Belice, Irpinia, and L'Aquila -- Slow: Piedmont's stories of landscapes, resistance, and liberation.

Bringing together the most recent research on the Cultural Revolution in China, musicologists, historians, literary scholars, and others discuss the music and its political implications. Combined, these chapters, paint a vibrant picture of the long-lasting impact that the musical revolution had on ordinary citizens, as well as political leaders

The links between cinema and war machines have long been established. This book explores the range, form, and valences of trauma narratives that permeate the most notable narrative films about the breakup of Yugoslavia. Dijana Jela?a is Adjunct Professor in the Department of Rhetoric, Communication and Theater at St. John s University, USA.

Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The damaged notions of East and West: main concepts -- 1. The politics of critical Islam -- 2. Critical Islam inside academia -- 3. North-American post-colonial studies and European polemics against Islam -- 4. Literary voices turned political -- Conclusion: Beyond the damaged notions of East and West -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

"Recent U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) policy banned transgender personnel from serving openly in the military. Potential changes to this policy raised questions regarding access to gender transition--related health care, the range of transition-related treatments that DoD will need to provide, the potential costs associated with these treatments, and the impact of these health care needs on force readiness and the deployability of transgender service members. A RAND study identified the health care needs of the transgender population and transgender service members in particular. It also examined the costs of covering transition-related treatments, assessed the potential readiness implications of a policy change, and reviewed the experiences of foreign militaries that permit transgender personnel to serve openly"--Publisher's description

"Before the Second World War, Canada was a rural country. Unlike most industrializing countries, Canada's rural population grew throughout the century after 1871--even if it declined as a proportion of the total population. Rural Canadians also differed in their lives from rural populations elsewhere. In a country dominated by a harsh northern climate, a short growing season, long distances, and poor land, they typically relied on three ever-shifting pillars of support: the sale of cash crops, subsistence from the local environment, and wage work off the farm. Canada's Rural Majority is an engaging and accessible history of this distinctive experience, including not only Canada's farmers, but also the hunters, gardeners, fishers, miners, loggers, and cannery workers who lived and worked in rural Canada. Focusing on the household, the environment, and the community, Canada's Rural Majority is a compelling classroom resource and an invaluable overview of this understudied aspect of Canadian history."--

This book explores the morality of compromising. The author argues that peace and public justification are values that provide moral reasons to make compromises in politics, including compromises that establish unjust laws or institutions. He explains how it is possible to have moral reasons to agree to moral compromises and he debates our moral duties and obligations in making such compromises. The book also contains discussions of the sources of the value of public justification, the relation between peace and justice, the nature of modus vivendi arrangements and the connections between compromise, liberal institutions and legitimacy. In exploring the morality of compromising, the book thus provides some outlines for a map of political morality beyond justice