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After a brief interlude following the Cold War, nuclear weapons have regained their prominent place in world affairs. Yet our current nuclear age will not be a replay of the Cold War. New technologies, changing political contexts and the death of old arms-control agreements mean that today's nuclear strategists have to navigate unchartered waters filled with fresh perils. Unfortunately, the consequences of failure in the nuclear world can be catastrophic. The immediate imperative today is to lower the possibility of nuclear weapons use during a crisis or conflict involving nuclear powers. While deliberate or pre-emptive nuclear use is less likely, the rising danger of our time is that nuclear weapons will be employed due to some combination of miscommunication, misjudgment, misperception and sheer accident. The Sheathed Sword: From Nuclear Brink to No First Use is a collection of essays by leading scholars and practitioners on the role of nuclear weapons in global security. The contributors examine how individual states view nuclear weapons, the devastating effects of nuclear war on the world's climate and the issues around nuclear no first use. They also debate the feasibility and desirability of a global no-first-use (GNFU) agreement.

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- Part I Ethics -- 2 Edith Stein and Catholic Social Teaching -- 2.1 Stein's Interest in Social Issues -- 2.2 Dignity of the Human Person -- 2.2.1 Association -- 2.2.2 Participation -- 2.2.3 Solidarity -- 2.2.4 Care of Creation -- 2.2.5 The Neighbor -- 2.2.6 Concluding Thoughts -- References -- 3 Putting the Emotion Back into Empathy: Edith Stein's Understanding of Empathy Applied to Contemporary Issues -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Challenging Science -- 3.3 Terrorism -- 3.4 Stein's Theory of Empathy -- 3.5 Polish War Diaries -- 3.6 Conclusion -- References -- 4 Mystical God-Forsakenness and the Ethics of Solidarity -- 4.1 Stein as Mystic -- 4.2 The Roots of a Steinian Mysticism: To Know and to Love God -- 4.3 The Interior Roots of Ethical Action -- 4.4 On Dark Contemplation and "Mystical God-Forsakenness" -- 4.5 The Ethics of Solidarity and the Interior Life -- 4.6 The Way of Benedicta of the Cross -- 4.7 Conclusion -- References -- 5 Love Divined: Discerning a Contemplative Ethic in the Philosophy of Edith Stein -- 5.1 Part One: Mindfulness: Empathy and Freedom at Work -- 5.1.1 Empathy -- 5.1.2 Freedom -- 5.2 Part Two: The Heart of Matter -- 5.2.1 Grace -- 5.2.2 Purity of Heart -- 5.3 Part Three: Discerning a Contemplative Ethic -- 5.3.1 Call and Response -- 5.3.2 Contemplation and Action as an Operative Force for Good in the World -- 5.3.3 Discriminative Discernment -- 5.3.4 Conclusion: Relational Awareness of Eternal Being -- References -- 6 Person in Community, Repentance, and Historical Meaning: From an Individual to a Social Ethics in Stein's Early Phenomenological Treatises -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Value, Personal Unfolding, and Individual Ethics in the Early Stein -- 6.3 The Sociality of Ethical Life: Meaning, Value, and Repentance in Stein's Social Ethics -- 6.4 Conclusion.

As a threat, a pandemic has indirect implications for social, economic and political conditions both at domestic and international levels. Thus, collective and comprehensive efforts are needed in responding to and preventing the expansion of infections caused by the virus, including Covid-19. This international conference provides the discourse on social, economic as well as political issues regarding the condition after the pandemic. Social issues are studied through social welfare, sociology, governance, communication and international relations approaches. Meanwhile, economic problems are discussed through business, economic development and economic management approaches. Under the First International Conference on Humanities and Social Sciences (ICHSOS) 2021, speakers from several countries provided solutions and alternative perspectives in preventing and dealing with problems after the Covid-19 pandemic. This book contains 42 papers presented at the conference

This book provides a comparative analysis of shrinking cities in a broad range of postsocialist countries within the so-called Global East, a liminal space between North and South. While shrinking cities have received increased scholarly attention in the past decades, theoretical, and empirical research has remained predominantly centered on the Global North. This volume brings to the fore a range of new perspectives on urban shrinkage, identifying commonalities, differences, and policy experiences across a very diverse and vivid region with its various legacies and contemporary controversial developments. With chapters written by leading experts in the field, insider views assist in decolonizing urban theory. Specifically, the book includes chapters on shrinking cities in China, Russia, and postsocialist Europe, presenting comparative discussions within countries and crossnational cases on theoretical and policy implications. The book will be of interest to students and scholars researching urban studies, urban geography, urban planning, urban politics and policy, urban sociology, and urban development