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This book offers an account of ten crucial moments in the history of ideas, which represent ten key moments of the discovery of pluralism. From the Indian emperor Ashoka to Origen and from Nicola Cusano to Las Casas, Montaigne, Lessing, giants who opened the way to the thought of tolerance, challenging the dogma of a unique truth dictated by authority, followed in this reconstruction by other glowing thinkers of the twentieth century, such as Horace Kallen, Margaret Mead, and Jacques Dupuis. These protagonists, each in their own way, battled against monism for the respect of differences and for the knowledge of otherness. This kind of hall of fame of pluralist thinkers ends with the most important figure of the pluralism of values, Isaiah Berlin, of whom an unpublished interview appears here for the first time in English. The volume is unique in this two-thousand-year-old variety of voices gathered under the denominator of cultural pluralism that they embody in the deepest and most challenging sense, often at the limits and beyond the limits of heresy. It is of great value and interest to scholars and students of theoretical, moral, political philosophy, sociology, comparative studies, comparative literature, religious diversity, religious studies, anthropology, and all those interested in the history of tolerance

This book explores the topic of peace and the long-term survival of the human species. Drawing on Existential Risk Studies (ERS), the book lays out a theoretical framework for drawing new perspectives and approaches for looking toward the future and addressing existential risks related to the complexity and dynamics of conflict. Looking at five research lines in Peace and Conflict Studies (PCS); (1) Great Powers Conflict, (2) Peace, Pandemic, and Conflict, (3) Climate, Peace, and Conflict, (4) Emerging Technologies, Peace, and Conflict and (5) Totalitarianism, the chapters discuss how these lines are defined and discussed, how they are understood in ERS, and what approaches would be beneficial to adapt and integrate into PCS. By drawing on ERS and grounding the discussion in lines of research that will be important to the field of PCS, this book suggests that long-term perspectives are needed in the field, especially in regard to existential risk and their implications of conflict

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- Soft Power in a Changing Global Environment -- In Search of an African Perspective On Soft Power -- The Purpose of This Book: Why Nigerian Soft Power? -- The Plan of the Book -- Notes -- References -- 2 Soft Power: Theoretical, Conceptual, and Methodological Perspectives -- Introduction -- Theoretical Approaches to Soft Power -- Liberalism and Soft Power -- Constructivism and Soft Power -- Realism and Soft Power -- Conceptualizations of Soft Power -- Competing Conceptions of Soft Power -- Soft Power as Resources -- Soft Power as Behaviour -- Operationalizing Soft Power: The Problem of Attraction -- Competing Methodological Approaches to Soft Power -- Agent-Centred Approaches to Soft Power -- Subject-Centred Approaches to Soft Power -- Outcomes-Based Approaches to Soft Power -- Contextualizing Soft Power: The Case of Nigeria -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- 3 Classical Realism and Soft Power -- Introduction -- Realism, Power, and International Relations -- On the Concept of Power -- Bringing Soft Power in -- Conceptualizing Soft Power: A Relational Approach -- What Is Soft Power? -- Attraction and Persuasion as Soft Power Behaviours -- Operationalizing Soft Power: An Analytical Framework -- Context and Relationship -- Operational Categories of Soft Power Resources -- Culture as a Source of Soft Power -- Political Sources of Soft Power -- Military Sources of Soft Power -- Economic Sources of Soft Power -- Power Conversion Process -- Target Perception -- Foreign Policy Outcomes -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 4 The West African Context -- Introduction -- Relational Dynamics of West African States -- West Africa: An Overview.

"In this companion volume to Peasants, Capitalism, and the Work of Eric R Wolf: Reviving Critical Agrarian Studies, the authors further develop their thinking on agrarian transitions to capitalism, the development of imperialism, and the place of the peasantry in these dynamics, with special reference to the global South in an era of politico-ecological crisis. This book seeks to elaborate further the authors' approach to the agrarian question, utilising a new theoretical approach to understand the dynamics of the peasantry, and peasant resistance, in relation to capitalism, state, class, and imperialism in the global South. Focusing on the political role of the peasantry in contested transitions to capitalism and to modes of production beyond capitalism, the book contends that an understanding of these dynamics requires an analysis of class struggle and of the resources, material and discursive, that different classes can bring to bear on this struggle. The book focuses on the rise of capitalism in the global South within the context of imperial subordination to the global North, and the place of the peasantry in shaping and resisting these dynamics. The book presents case studies of contested transitions to agrarian capitalism in Bolivia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, and South Asia. It also examines the case of transition to a post-capitalist mode of production in Cuba. The book concludes with an assessment of the nature of capitalism and imperialism within the contemporary politico-ecological crisis, and the potential role of the peasantry as agent of emancipatory change towards social and environmental sustainability. This book will be of great interest to students and researchers in the areas of peasant studies, rural politics, agrarian studies, development and political ecology"--

Trends in fertility transition -- Estimation of China's low fertility rates in 2000-2010 -- China's fertility trends in the period from 2006 to 2017 -- How low is China's fertility rate -- Structural shifts in fertility rate -- Quantum effect and tempo effect of fertility -- Intermediate fertility variables -- Counterfactual fertility trends -- The two-child policy and fertility -- Demographic trends under the two-child policy -- Labor supply -- Ageing population -- Impacts of the two-child policy on demand for maternal and child health services -- The impact of the two-child policy on preschool and school-age populations and the demand for teachers -- Pro-natalist policies in developed countries and their effects.

Analytical framework: reconceptualizing the EU's normative power through diffusion theory -- Evolution of EU-ASEAN relationship and the EU's changing foreign policy towards ASEAN -- Norm and policy diffusion in EU-ASEAN economic and trade cooperation -- Norm and policy diffusion in EU-ASEAN security cooperation -- The EU as a partial normative power: cross-case comparison.

'The book the NHS has always deserved' Andrew Marr'A sensational and much-needed book . . . thorough, scholarly and above all readable' Chris van Tulleken--------------------------------------------------How does our National Health Service really work, and what does that mean for our future?Since its foundation in 1948, the NHS has come to define our national identity, making history (and the headlines) again and again - from cutting edge discoveries like the first 'test tube baby', to its heroic response to the Coronavirus crisis. But the NHS has also become a battleground for some of the fiercest political contests of our time, perceived either as a national treasure, or as a lumbering piece of state machinery in need of renovation.In Fighting for Life, bestselling journalist Isabel Hardman cuts through the sentimentality and sloganeering on all sides of the political spectrum. Packed with gripping stories from the people at the beating heart of this venerated institution - its nurses, its doctors, its patients and the politicians who decide its fate - this is the essential book for understanding our NHS, and who we are as a nation

"Nazmul Sultan explores Indian contributions to democratic theory, as anticolonial thinkers developed principles of peoplehood and self-rule. Indians contested British claims that the "backwardness" of the Indian people offered a democratic justification for imperial domination."--