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Introduction: leading questions -- The case of Musa I -- Dark matter affluence and sweet spot systems -- Cross-ecological delivery economies -- "The most outlying lands" -- The Sri Lanka wealth rush -- South Indian emergence -- The central role of Borneo -- The Indonesian seaway -- The Sub-Himalayan-Yungui Plateau sweet spot -- The East Africa coastal sweet spot -- The North Sea lattitude sweet spot -- Beyond the binary -- Structural assymetries -- Institutions without institutionality -- Crossing chieftain geographies -- Shrine landscapes -- Feast and dance -- Great works -- Palace universes -- Looking and sounding the part -- Coda: death by a thousand cuts.

Introduction: anonymous portraits -- Social skin in Roman-Byzantine Syro-Palestine -- Ritual purity in medieval Ashkenaz -- Sacred space in Papal Avignon and the Comtat Venaissin -- Marriage and divorce in Israeli film -- Conclusion: patriarchy and feminism.

"Radicalisation is a conceptual investigation within Western liberal democratic societies that follows an analytical framework linking expertise theory to discourse analysis of publications from the academic, governmental, and non-governmental spheres, as well as a dozen interviews with experts in the field. The reader will come to understand the socio-political configurations that led to the emergence of radicalisation as an object of study. The book also identifies the historical tensions regarding models, definitions, and operationalisation of the concept of radicalisation in social sciences research. Finally, a new model explaining how the term radicalisation became the central conceptual framework of a new field of expertise will be proposed. The book is situated within the fields of security studies, crime prevention, and sociology of expertise. The book is innovative in its distinct focus on the term radicalisation and the expertise thereof. With its diachronic and synthetical approach, the book also serves as an entry point for all researchers and practitioners seeking an introduction to the subject of radicalisation and violent extremism. The book addresses the debates among academics, public experts, and policymakers into the origin, dissemination, and maintenance of the field of expertise. Thus, the aim is not so much to uncover the "true" meaning of the term as to understand how it has been socially constructed, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of Criminology, Security Studies, and Sociology"--

Introduction: the present deferred -- The neverland of différance -- Traces of the hollowed now -- The imperative of archetypal possession -- The eternal now and the pleasures of displacement -- Aristotle's impossible possibility -- Gender performativity in the land of make believe -- Kairos and Eros: time and desire -- The serpentine circle as image of wholeness -- Conclusion: a return to the present.

Coalitions in times of crisis / Torbjörn Bergman, Gabriella Ilonszki and Johan Hellström -- Concepts and measurements / Andrea Fumarola and Jonas Lindhal -- Fragility of coalition governance in Bulgaria / Dobrinka Kostova -- Regularity and instability : coalition governments in Czechia 2008-2022 / Petra Guasti and Zdenka Mansfeldova -- Estonia : the breakdown of the exclusionary logic / Tõnis Saarts -- Hungary : party alliances and personal coalitions / Éva Ványi and Gabriella Ilonszki -- Latvia : populist wind of change / Jānis Ikstens -- Lithuania : ministerial government and the EU factor / Irmina Matonyte and Ieva Gajauskaite -- Poland : resilience to the external crisis, permanent coalition patterns, and weakening of the position of the prime minister / Marzena Cichosz and Joanna Kozierska -- Live fast, die young : Romanian coalitions in time of crisis / Veronica Anghel -- Slovakia : gradual settlement of rules in an unstable environment / Branislav Dolný -- Slovenia : newcomers as prime ministers : a new mode of coalition governance? / Alenka Krašovec and Tomaž Krpič -- New patterns of coalition politics in Central and Eastern Europe? / Torbjörn Bergman, Gabriella Ilonszki and Johan Hellström.

This book takes the empirical dynamics of climate displacement as its starting point. It examines the moral and political problems raised by the interaction of climate change and displacement in five domains: community relocation, territorial sovereignty, labour migration, refugee movement, and internal displacement.

Luke William Hunt is a philosophy professor and former FBI Special Agent. In 'Police Deception and Dishonesty', he evocatively illustrates how the police's widespread use of proactive deception and dishonesty is inconsistent with fundamental norms of political morality. Drawing on his experience, a range of literature, and case studies regarding interrogations, undercover operations, pretextual detentions, and other common scenarios, Hunt makes a compelling case that many proactive tactics erode public faith in the police institution and weaken the police's legitimacy.