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Psycho-culturology and International Relations: Perspectives and Paradigms -- Mainstream Theories of International Relations and the Attempt to Create the "Chinese School" -- Psycho-culturology: Core Concepts and Perspectives -- Human constant(Jen), the State and International Relations -- From "International Politics" to "International Relations" -- "Lun-jen" and the Outside World -- "Lun-jen" (伦人) and "Fu-guo" (服国) -- "Lun-jen" and "Tianxia" (Tributary system) -- "Harmony" and Lun-jen's Model of Psycho-Social Homeostasis -- China and the System of Nation-states: Approaches and Dilemmas -- The "Individual Jen" and Contemporary International Order -- The "Individual Jen", the "Individual State" and the Modern International Order -- Peace and the Evolution of the International System -- The "Ultimately Individual Jen": Analysis of the American Human Constant and its Psycho-Social Homeostasis -- The Outside World of the "Ultimately Individual Jen" -- "Soft Power", the "Ultimate Individualism" and Americans' Human Constant -- State Forms of Japan and India and the International System -- The Japanese Human Constant and Japanese Diplomacy -- Sequence Consciousness and the "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere": A Psycho-culturological Interpretation of the Japanese State Behavior during World War II -- Cultural Tradition and the Establishment of Western Political System in India -- The Ancient South Asia's International System: Features and Principles of the " Dharma System".

"Now in its fifth edition, Origins of the Cold War 1941-1949 covers the formative years of the momentous struggle that developed between two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union. This accessible text explains how the Cold War originated and developed between 1941 and 1949 and involved the entire globe with proxy wars being fought much to the detriment of the developing world. The fifth edition is revised, updated and expanded to include new material on topics such as the efforts of the Soviet Union, the UK and France to prevent the outbreak of World War II; the reasons behind the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact; atomic diplomacy and the role played by Soviet spies in the West; the culture wars and propaganda; Churchill's efforts to entice the US into the war against Germany; the role of Hollywood in promoting intervention; the US's insouciance concerning the danger of a Japanese attack; the astonishing success of the Soviet Union in recruiting high level American officials to provide invaluable information on politics, science, engineering, avionics, and more. Incorporating the most recent scholarship, Martin McCauley provides students with an invaluable introduction to a fascinating period that shaped today's world. The book is an important staple for courses on modern global history and international affairs"--

"Economics increasingly fails to explain why the pressures of life appear to be intensifying at the same time as income per capita is rising, or why we work more hours for less money in real terms. And why we see the rise of nationalism everywhere when globalization, on average, has made us all richer. The disconnect between our experience of the world and the economic model used to explain it has given rise to "angrynomics": an economy of heightened uncertainty and anger, where faith in the workings of markets and politics has been undermined and rapid and seemingly ever-accelerating economic change has become something to be feared.0Eric Lonergan and Mark Blyth have written a book for anyone anxious, worried - or angry - about the mismatch between how they experience the world with the increasing day to day pressures they face and the model used by economic elites and politicians to explain and justify it. In a powerful and passionately argued analysis, they bring their critical insight and expertise to bear on the nature of angrynomics and offer a set of radical and innovative policies that cut across tired party political lines - and that if implemented might just help the world to be a less angry place."

"Two world wars left millions stranded in Europe. The collapse of empires and the rise of independent states in the twentieth century produced an unprecedented number of people without national belonging and with nowhere to go. Mira Siegelberg's innovative history weaves together ideas about law and politics, rights and citizenship, with the intimate plight of stateless persons, to explore how and why statelessness compelled a new understanding of the international order in the twentieth century and beyond. In the years following the First World War, the legal category of statelessness generated novel visions of cosmopolitan political and legal organization and challenged efforts to limit the boundaries of national membership and international authority. By linking the emergence of mass statelessness to a revolution in legal consciousness, Siegelberg shows how the rights regime created after the Second World War ultimately empowered the territorial state as the source of protection and rights, against alternative political configurations. Today, more than twelve million people are stateless and millions more belong to categories of recent invention, including refugees and asylum seekers. As Statelessness makes clear, understanding the ideological origins of the international agreements that define approaches to citizenship and non-citizenship can better equip us to confront the dilemmas of political structure and authority at a global scale"--

Freedom of information is a principle commonly associated with the United States' First Amendment traditions or digital-era technology boosters. Barriers Down reveals its unexpected origins in political, economic, and cultural battles over analog media in the postwar period. Diana Lemberg traces how the United States shaped media around the world after 1945 under the banner of the "free flow of information," showing how the push for global media access acted as a vehicle for American power.Barriers Down considers debates over civil liberties and censorship in Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, and elsewhere alongside Americans' efforts to circumvent foreign regulatory systems in the quest to expand markets and bring their ideas to new publics. Lemberg shows how in the decades following the Second World War American free-flow policies reshaped the world's information landscape, though not always as intended. Through burgeoning information diplomacy and development aid, Washington diffused new media ranging from television and satellite broadcasting to global English. But these actions also spurred overseas actors to articulate alternative understandings of information freedom and of how information flows might be regulated. Bridging the historiographies of the United States in the world, human rights, decolonization and development, and media and technology, Barriers Down excavates the analog roots of digital-age debates over the politics and ethics of transnational information flows

In 2011, political protests sprang up across the world. In the Middle East, Europe, Latin America, the United States unlikely people sparked or led massive protest campaigns from the Arab Spring to Occupy Wall Street. These protests were made up of educated and precariously employed young people who challenged the legitimacy of their political leaders, exposed a failure of representation, and expressed their dissatisfaction with their place in the aftermath of financial and economic crisis. This book interrogates what impacts—if any—this global protest cycle had on politics and policy and shows the sometimes unintended ways it continues to influence contemporary political dynamics throughout the world. Proposing a new framework of analysis that calls attention to the content and claims of protests, their global connections, and the responsiveness of political institutions to protest demands, this is one of the few books that not only asks how protest movements are formed but also provides an in-depth examination of what protest movements can accomplish. With contributions examining the political consequences of protest, the roles of social media and the internet in protest organization, left- and right-wing movements in the United States, Chile's student movements, the Arab Uprisings, and much more this collection is essential reading for all those interested in the power of protest to shape our world.

"Rage for Order surveys the sprawling, often frenetic attempt to redesign law in the British Empire. Across the world in the early nineteenth century, colonial officials, indigenous subjects, settlers, convicts, sailors, soldiers, and slaves participated in contests that shaped a new British imperial constitution. Contemporaries imagined that law would provide a blueprint for the empire and for global order. Within turbulent British colonies, legal reform targeted petty despots and augmented the power of the crown to intervene in the administration of justice. At the edges of empire, British campaigns to police slave trading and piracy linked imperial interests to emerging world regions and conjured new sovereignties. Rage for Order breaks new ground in the history of international law by looking beyond the treatises of jurists and instead tracing vernacular constitutional politics across the globe--in new crown colonies such as Ceylon and Trinidad, expanding settler colonies such as New South Wales and Upper Canada, established plantation colonies in the West Indies and Indian Ocean, and regions not under direct British control, from the South Atlantic to the eastern Mediterranean to the Pacific islands. By uncovering the lost history of a global empire of law, Benton and Ford reveal the way imperial structures continue to influence our understandings of world order and international law."--

"Relations between the EU and East Asia have consistently expanded in recent years, particularly between the EU and Japan. Against the background of negotiations on an economic and strategic partnership agreement, the EU-Japan relationship is set to become the single most comprehensive 'region-to-state' relationship the world has known today, accounting for more than a third of world GDP and a combined population of more than 600 million people.This book addresses the potential role of the EU, in cooperation with Japan, to craft a stable and prosperous mode of governance in the Asian region. In today's globalized world seemingly defined by waxing Chinese power and waning American power, the book reflects the lack of appreciation for an EU-Japan concert in maintaining and developing multilateral principles. It aims towards fortifying this relationship by acknowledging that in order to enhance the credibility and capabilities of such an alliance, it is necessary to take stock of where the partnership stands today, what kind of obstacles still need to be overcome and which options have been left untouched.By introducing state-of-the-art empirical research in multiple fields, this book will be of key interest to students and scholars of international relations, comparative regionalism, the European Union and Japanese politics."--Provided by publisher.

Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Chapter 1: Recalibrating Alterity, Difference, Ontology: Anthropological Engagements with Human and Non-Human Worlds -- Knowing the World: What and How -- Singularity or Multiplicity: Ontology and the Human -- Alterity and Difference, or the Engines of the Ontological Turn -- Vistas -- Materialities -- Politics -- Recalibrations. Assessments, Critiques and Exits -- Conclusion -- Chapter Overview -- Notes -- References -- Part I: Vistas -- Chapter 2: The Relationality of Species in Chewong Animistic Ontology -- Chewong Metaphysics and Ontology -- Bongso and the Elephants -- My Research on Chewong Cosmology -- Connectedness and Separation: Chewong Notions of Consciousness, "Speciesness", Relatedness, and Vision -- Shamanic Qualities and Power -- Separation and Metamorphosis -- Post-Humanism and Human Exceptionalism -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3: Alterity, Predation, and Questions of Representation: The Problem of the Kharisiri in the Andes -- "Ontologizing Difference", or Partial Connections? -- Powerful Entities and Beings -- Historical Continuities -- The Significance of Fat -- The Question of Predation -- The Capacity of Conversion -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4: False Prophets? Ontological Conflicts and Religion-Making in an Indonesian Court -- Introduction -- New Prophets? -- Religion-Making in Indonesia -- Between Revelation and Deviance -- Creating Incommensurable Worlds in Court -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Newspaper -- Chapter 5: Chronically Unstable Ontology: Ontological Dynamics, Radical Alterity, and the "Otherwise Within" -- Ontological Closures -- Reversibility of the Otherwise -- Ifugao Ontological Dynamics -- Another "Otherwise" -- Ontological Openings -- Notes -- References -- Part II: Materialities

Preliminary Material /Alexander N. Chumakov and William C. Gay -- Introduction: Contemporary Russian Philosophy and the Challenges of Globalization /William C. Gay -- Globalization from a Philosophical Point of View: Russian Vision /Alexander N. Chumakov -- Russian Culture and Challenges of Socio-cultural Globalization /Ilia V. Ilyin and Olga G. Leonova -- The Transformation of Economics, Politics, and Law in Globalization /Vladimir V. Mironov -- The Cultural Heritage of Russia and Globalization /Sergey A. Nikolsky -- Globalization and Contemporary Russia: The Need for Innovation /Pavel S. Seleznev -- International Migration, Globalization, and Development /Ivan A. Aleshkovski -- Internal Anarchy in Russia as an Obstacle for National and International Security (After the Dismantling of the Soviet Union) /Valentina G. Fedotova -- The Change of the Elites in Modern Russia /Yakov A. Pleis -- America and Russia: A Multipolar World as an Echo of Fear before Future Unification /Alexander V. Katsura -- The New World Order and Philosophy /Leonid E. Grinin -- The Prospect for Politicization of Orthodox Christianity /Anastasia V. Mitrofanova -- Non-linear Futures: The "Mysterious Singularity" in View of Mega-History /Akop P. Nazaretyan -- The Tragedy of Philosophy and the Philosophy of Tragedy (Sergey N. Bulgakov and Lev I. Shestov) /Vladimir N. Porus -- Liberalism in a Non-ideal World /Tatiana A. Alekseeva -- Bibliography /Alexander N. Chumakov and William C. Gay -- Index /Alexander N. Chumakov and William C. Gay.

"Rage for Order surveys the sprawling, often frenetic attempt to redesign law in the British Empire. Across the world in the early nineteenth century, colonial officials, indigenous subjects, settlers, convicts, sailors, soldiers, and slaves participated in contests that shaped a new British imperial constitution. Contemporaries imagined that law would provide a blueprint for the empire and for global order. Within turbulent British colonies, legal reform targeted petty despots and augmented the power of the crown to intervene in the administration of justice. At the edges of empire, British campaigns to police slave trading and piracy linked imperial interests to emerging world regions and conjured new sovereignties. Rage for Order breaks new ground in the history of international law by looking beyond the treatises of jurists and instead tracing vernacular constitutional politics across the globe--in new crown colonies such as Ceylon and Trinidad, expanding settler colonies such as New South Wales and Upper Canada, established plantation colonies in the West Indies and Indian Ocean, and regions not under direct British control, from the South Atlantic to the eastern Mediterranean to the Pacific islands. By uncovering the lost history of a global empire of law, Benton and Ford reveal the way imperial structures continue to influence our understandings of world order and international law."--

PART I: CONCEPTUAL ISSUES 1. From Legacy to Leverage-- Laurence Chalip 2. Megas for Strivers: the Politics of Second Order Events-- David Black 3. 'Legacy' Revisited-- Holger Preuss 4. Sports Mega-Events and Mass Participation in Sport-- Mike Weed 5. Neo-Liberalism and Sports Mega-Events-- Michael Silk PART II: PREVIOUS SPORTS MEGA-EVENT STRATEGIES 6. Sydney 2000 and Melbourne 2006: A Tale of Two Australian Cities-- Bob Stewart 7. 'Leaving Las Magas', or Can Sustainability ever be Social? Vancouver 2010 in Post-Political Perspective-- Caitlin Pentifallo and Robert Van Wynsberghe 8. Seoul 1998-- Alan Bairner and Ji-Hyun Cho 9. The Legacy of the 2002 Shanghai Tennis Masters Cup-- Dongfeng Liu 10. London 2012-- John Horne and Barrie Houlihan PART III: 'EMERGING STATES' AND SPORTS MEGA-EVENTS 11. Magical Thought and the Legacy Discourse of the 2008 Beijing Games-- Wolfram Manzenreiter 12. Dreaming Big: Spectacular Events and the 'World-Class' City - The Commonwealth Games in Delhi-- Amita Baviskar 13. South Africa's 'Coming Out Party': Reflections on the Significance and Implications of the 2010 FIFA World Cup-- Scarlett Cornelissen 14. Qatar, Global Sport, and the 2022 FIFA World Cup-- Paul Brannagan and Richard Giulianotti 15. Russia: Showcasing a 'Re-Emerging' State?-- Oleg Golubchikov and Irina Slepukhina

The language of human rights has become the public vocabulary of our contemporary world. Ironically, as the political influence of human rights has grown, their philosophical justification has become ever more controversial.Building on a theory of discourse ethics and communicative rationality, this book addresses the politics and philosophy of human rights against the background of the broader social transformations that are shaping the modern world. Rejecting the reduction of international human rights to the Trojan horse of a neo-liberal empire's bid for world power, as well as the conservative objections to legal cosmopolitanism as encroachments upon democratic sovereignty, Benhabib develops two key concepts to move beyond these false antitheses. International human rights norms need contextualization in specific polities through processes of what she calls 'democratic iterations.' Furthermore, such norms have a 'jurisgenerative power,' in that they enable new actors to enter fields of social and political contestation; they promote new vocabularies for public claim-making and anticipate a justice to come.Ranging over themes such as sovereignty, citizenship, genocide, European anti-semitism, the crisis of the nation-state, and the 'scarf affair' in contemporary Europe and Turkey, this major new book by one of our leading political theorists reflects upon the political transformations of our times and makes a compelling case for a cosmopolitanism without illusions.

Autobiographical studies -- The stranger in sociology : the power games of race relations -- Charlie -- Race philanthropy in the origins of 20th century Black sociological studies -- Race philanthropy : personalities, institutions, networks and communities -- Philanthropic regional consciousness and institution-building in the American South : the formative years, 1867-1920 -- Leonard Outhwaite's advocacy of scientific research on Blacks in the 1920 -- The cracked back door : foundations and Black social scientists between the world wars -- Dollars for the silent South : southern White liberalism and the Julius Rosenwald Fund, 1928-1948 -- Blacks in sociology : historical trends and contexualized biographical cases -- The "Negro problem" within and beyond the institutional nexus of pre-World War I sociology -- Race relations research and Black Americans between the two world wars -- Bitter Canaan : Charles S. Johnson as sociologist of African American and African sociological thought -- Teaching sociology in historically Black colleges and universities -- Martin Luther King, Jr. as a public sociologist -- Race relations research between the 1940s and 1970s : introduction to a history of race relations research -- Hylan Lewis' blackways of Kent -- Black radical sociological thought -- African diasporic sociology -- The political sociology of "when things change and remain the same" : the paradoxes and dilemmas of race in the American Academy -- Not quite in the club -- The race politics of knowledge production -- Gazing through the kitchen window : race and elite academic employment in post-1970s America.

A half-century ago, the international community made a solemn promise to 'never again' allow genocide to go unchallenged. In the early days of the Post-cold War 'New World Order', though, international leaders failed to stop horrific genocides in Bosnia and Rwanda, chiefly because Western leaders lack the 'political will' to use decisive force to suppress ongoing genocide. Despite increased attention to war crimes issues in the Clinton Administration, and increased rhetoric about its commitment to halting genocide, American military force policy still gives lowest priority to responding to gross abuses of human rights. In Genocide and the Global Village , Kenneth Campbell explains why the international community fails so miserably to prevent, suppress, and punish contemporary genocide. The book integrates the scattered pieces of this complex problem - political, military, legal, and ethical - into a more complete and clearer picture of the challenge facing the world today. Campbell engages in a complex, multi-level analysis of genocide's impact upon world order, and the interplay of politics and morality in the international community's determination of the appropriate role for military force in halting genocide and securing an emerging global civil society. Campbell recommends practical steps the international community can take to greatly improve its response the next time genocide occurs - a next time that will occur.