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"This book presents a new approach to the analysis of Australian federal election campaigns, approaching them from a professional communication perspective. It stress-tests the campaigns of the major parties against the requirements of effective strategic communication planning and implementation parameters used in professional practice. Research undertaken during the 2022 election period analyses campaign issues, whether communication tools were appropriate, and whether strategic directions led to real outcomes by delivering votes to the parties. Applying the Hallahan model for the first time in an Australian election study, the book offers rare insights into a political culture that employs compulsory voting. It will be of interest to scholars and students of Australian politics, public relations and communication studies"--

Inspired by recent work in evolutionary, developmental, and systems biology, Systems, Relations, and the Structures of International Societies sketches a robust conception of systems that grounds a new conception of levels (of organization, not merely analysis). Understanding international systems as multi-level multi-actor complex adaptive systems allows explanations of important features of the world that are inaccessible to dominant causal and rationalist explanatory strategies. It also develops a comprehensive critique of IR's dominant conception of systems and structures (narrow, rigid, and unfruitful); presents a novel conception of the interrelationship of the social production of continuities and the social production of change; and sketches models of spatio-political structure that cast new light on the development of international systems, including a distinctive account of the nature of globalization.

This book analyses how digital transformation disrupts established patterns of world politics, moving International Relations (IR) increasingly towards Digital International Relations. This volume examines technological, agential and ordering processes that explain this fundamental change. The contributors trace how digital disruption changes the international world we live in, ranging from security to economics, from human rights advocacy to deep fakes, and from diplomacy to international law. The book makes two sets of contributions. First, it shows that the ongoing digital revolution profoundly changes every major dimension of international politics. Second, focusing on the interplay of technology, agency and order, it provides a framework for explaining these changes. The book also provides a map for adjusting the study of international politics to studying International Relations, making a case for upgrading, augmenting and rewiring the discipline. Theory follows practice in International Relations, but if the discipline wants to be able to meaningfully analyse the present and come up with plausible scenarios for the future, it must not lag too far behind major transformations of the world that it studies. This book facilitates that theoretical journey.

Understanding Risks to Cultural Heritage : Are Disasters Natural? / Francesco De Pascale -- Disasters and Heritage Loss / Xavier Romão and Esmeralda Paupério -- Stability of Cultural Information in Unstable Environments : Data Management for Digital Preservation of Immovable Cultural Heritage against Natural Hazards / Michael T. Fisher -- Disaster Risk Assessment Strategies for Cultural Heritage / Xavier Romão and Bijan Rouhani -- From Risk Reduction to Risk Adaptation : Protecting the Past for the Future / Rohit Jigyasu and Jukka Jokilehto -- Remote Sensing and Disaster Risk Management for Cultural Heritage / Louise Rayne, Bijan Rouhani, and Jen Lavris Makovics -- Can Our Past Save Our Future? Traditional Knowledge and Disaster Risk Management for Cultural Heritage / Rohit Jigyasu and Jukka Jokilehto -- Emergency Response to Cultural Heritage / Bijan Rouhani and Xavier Romão -- Cultural Heritage Recovery and Reconstruction / Jukka Jokilehto -- Surviving Disasters : Traditional Disaster-Resilient Designs in Japan / Takeyuki Okubo -- A Case Study from the World Heritage Site of the Tabriz Historic Bazaar and Fire Management, Iran / Farhad Nazari and Mohammad Aminian -- Winds, Rain and Thunder : Hurricanes, Community Support, and Preparedness at Teyuna-Ciudad Perdida Archaeological Park, Colombia, a Case Study / Santiago Giraldo -- Counting the Cost : Architectural Heritage in Post-Quake Christchurch, 2010-2020 / Ian Lochhead -- A Multilevel Framework for Flood Risk Assessment of Cultural Heritage : A Case Study from Portugal / Rui Figueiredo, Xavier Romão, and Esmeralda Paupério -- Leveraging Digital Systems for Disaster Management at the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Bagan Archaeological Zone in Myanmar / Tharaphy Aung and Arun Menon.

"This book examines authoritarian practices in relation to humanitarian negotiations. Utilising a wide variety of perspectives and examining a range of contexts, the book considers how humanitarians assess and engage with authoritarian practices and negotiate access to populations in danger. Chapters provide insights at the macro, meso, and micro levels, through case studies on the international and domestic legal and political framing of humanitarian contexts (Xinjiang, Afghanistan, Venezuela, Russia, and Syria), as well as the actual practice of negotiating with authoritarian regimes (Ethiopia). A theoretical grounding is provided through chapters elaborating on the ethics and trust-building dimensions of humanitarian negotiations and an overview chapter provides a theoretical framework through which to analyse humanitarian negotiations against the backdrop of different types of authoritarian practices. This book provides a wide-ranging view which broadens the frame of reference when considering how humanitarians view and engage with authoritarian practices. The objective is to both put these contexts into conceptual order and provide a firm theoretical basis for understanding the politics of humanitarian negotiations in such difficult contexts. This book is useful for those studying international politics and humanitarian studies, as well as for practitioners seeking to better systematise their humanitarian negotiations"--

"The emerging conflict between the United States and China has an inherent tendency towards a development of deglobalization. It is the historical prerequisites for this deglobalization that are examined in this book. These assumptions are largely based on what is termed the second wave of globalization, based on increasing technological competition between the US and China, as well as China's expansion along the new Silk Road. In this book, the author makes a distinction between the Old Globalization and New Globalization. The Old Globalization was characterized by competition over costs in general and wage costs in particular, while the New Globalization is categorized by new competencies and skills, especially technological capabilities and technological innovations. The second wave, which is driven by technological innovations, lays the foundation for a counter-strategy on the part of the USA to stem the Chinese technological expansion. It is this new strategy that confines the second wave of globalization from China and lays the foundation for deglobalization. The book analyzes US-China relations from a fresh perspective, namely a systemic thinking approach. The focus is the emerging innovation economy which leads to tension and deglobalization. The book is grounded in evolutionary economics and uses conceptual generalization in its descriptions, analysis, theoretical reflections and real-world cases. The key message is that the economy of the future will be characterized by coordinated wave movements: economic growth mainly controlled by private capital alternating with economic downturns that necessitate collective solutions and government interventions. The book offers policy suggestions, which include promoting effective macroeconomic policies, and extending microeconomic cooperation schemes, related to the innovation economy"--

Cyberspace is essential for socializing, learning, shopping, and just about everything in modern life. Yet, there is also a dark side to cyberspace: sub-national, transnational, and international actors are challenging the ability of sovereign governments to provide a secure environment for their citizens. Criminal groups hold businesses and local governments hostage through ransomware, foreign intelligence services steal intellectual property and conduct influence operations, governments attempt to rewrite Internet protocols to facilitate censorship, and militaries prepare to use cyberspace operations in wars. Security in the Cyber Age breaks-down how cyberspace works, analyzes how state and non-state actors exploit vulnerabilities in cyberspace, and provides ways to improve cybersecurity. Written by a computer scientist and national security scholar-practitioner, the book offers technological, policy, and ethical ways to protect cyberspace. Its interdisciplinary approach and engaging style make the book accessible to the lay audience as well as computer science and political science students

"This book examines differentiated integration in Europe, providing incisive analyses of domestic politics determinants - political conflict, party responses, citizens' preferences and other supply and demand side elements. The four countries compared - Germany, Poland, Switzerland and the United Kingdom - afford rich diversity offering broad empirical material available for cross-country analyses. Featuring interdisciplinary research, the book draws together recent developments in the evolution of European integration differentiation - its dynamics and determinants. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of European integration, comparative politics, political psychology, international relations, and more broadly to European (area) studies"--

"The European Union in a Global Context explores the interplay between the state and state sovereignty, nationalism, European integration and globalisation. It provides essential foundations in these areas, while using stimulating arguments to prompt discussion and provoke interest in the relationships between these processes. It critically analyses the challenges faced by the EU from the contemporary political and economic dynamics of globalisation (IPE), including trading relationships set through the WTO and bilateral relations with emerging markets, especially the BRIC economies. Likewise, pressures from within, such as a resurgence of nationalism, localisation, anti-austerity politics, and Euroscepticism are examined. While the Union is fundamentally challenged by pressures from above and below, and by its own internal dysfunction, it remains central to the effective management of the international political economy. The European Union in a Global Context is a lively, focussed and engaging text, incorporating anecdotes and contemporary arguments, and presenting different perspectives on European integration and globalisation. It will be of key interest to European Politics, European Studies, European Union Studies and more broadly to global political economy, foreign and security policy and international relations"--

"Urban Planning During Socialism examines the transformations of cities during the period of state socialism of the 20th century, summarizing the urban and architectural studies that trace their transformations. The book focuses primarily on the periphery of the socialist world, both spatially and in terms of scholarly thinking. It does so through a case study of Budapest's post-war urbanisation and Valga, Estonia drawing on cultural and material studies to demonstrate diverse and novel concepts of 'periphery' through transformations of socialist cityscapes rather than homogenous views on cities during the period of state socialism of the 20th century. In doing so the book explores the transversalities of political, economic, and social phenomena; the places for everyday life in socialist cities; the role of professional communities on production and reproduction of space and ecological thinking. This book is aimed at scholarly readership, in particular scholars in architecture, urban planning, and geography, as well as undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate students in these disciplines studying the urban transformation of cities after World War II in socialist countries. It will also be of interest for planning officials, architects, policymakers and activists in former socialist countries"--

"In the wake of controversial disclosures of classified government information by WikiLeaks and Edward Snowden, questions about secrecy and the legitimacy of political institutions is rarely far from the headlines. Furthermore, state secrecy persists both in the foreign and domestic policy of democratic states, in the form of classified intelligence programs, espionage, secret military operations, diplomatic discretion, closed-door political bargaining, and bureaucratic opacity. This book explores important philosophical questions and issues surrounding democratic secrecy, above all whether the state's claim to restrict access to information can be justified. Dorota Mokrosinka examines the democratic status of secret uses of political power, arguing that secrecy is in fact a fundamental form of democratic governance, rather than an exception, and that secrecy protects the integrity of the democratic decision-making process. Examples such as the Manhattan Project, the Iraq war, collaboration between international secret services, secret voting and the Wiki-Leaks and Snowden disclosures are used throughout the book. State Secrecy and Democracy: A Philosophical Inquiry is essential reading for those in political philosophy, ethics, politics, international relations and security studies and law"--

Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction: gripping with the myth of neutrality -- Part 1 Defining expertise -- 1 Trustworthy experts and untrustworthy experts: insights from the cognitive psychology of expertise -- 2 Covid-19 and denialism: a primer on cognitive psychology for science communicators and policymakers -- 3 Do we still need experts? -- 4 Hypocritical experts -- 5 The epistemic authority of practice -- Part 2 Expertise in action -- 6 Reimagining expertise and neutrality towards epistemic justice in research, clinical translation, and policy: a perspective from neuroethics -- 7 Expertise in action: insights from naturalistic decision making (NDM) -- 8 What the pandemic showed us about reason and values -- 9 The priests of the biomedical religion: against a flawed understanding of experts -- 10 Scarce resource allocation during infectious disease outbreaks: a communitarian perspective -- Part 3 Expertise and its values in the New World -- 11 Legal expertise and its subject matter within common law adjudication -- 12 The revolution of (neuroscience) experts in the courtroom? -- 13 When the politics of contextuality (can) subvert science: a case study of Australian women's perceptions of alcohol consumption and breast cancer risk -- 14 The post-truth challenge to expertise -- 15 Expertise for a New World: is bioarchaeology fit for purpose? -- List of Contributors -- Index.