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Angela Merkel hat nach mehr als zehn Jahren Amtszeit als Bundeskanzlerin längst internationalen Kultstatus erreicht. Eigentlich müsste die Welt nach einer so langen Amtszeit alles über die Politikerin und promovierte Physikerin aus der ehemaligen DDR wissen. Aber gerade ihr Verhalten in der Flüchtlingskrise hat das Interesse neu geweckt – auch beim politischen Gegner: Wie tickt die Kanzlerin? Was denkt sie über die Türkei und was über Seehofer? Wieso reist sie einmal im Jahr nach China? Wie ist das mit ihren Blazern, was bedeuten Begriffe wie »merkeln«? »Das Merkel-Lexikon« beantwortet diese Fragen aus dem Blickwinkel eines Insiders der Berliner Politiszene

Strengthening partnership for regional sustainable development -- Contents -- I. Welcome Remarks by Teo Chee Hean -- II. Strengthening Partnership for Regional Sustainable Development by Tran Dai Quang -- About the Author -- The Singapore Lecture Series.

This book addresses a range of issues surrounding the search for scientific truths in the study of international conflict and international political economy. Unlike empirical studies in other disciplines, says Seung-Whan Choi, many political studies seem more competent at presenting theoretical conjecture and hypotheses than they are at performing rigorous empirical analyses. When we study global issues like democratic institutions, flows of foreign direct investment, international terrorism, civil wars, and international conflict, we often uncritically adopt established theoretical frameworks and research designs. The natural assumption is that well-known and widely cited studies, once ingrained within the tradition of the discipline, should not be challenged or refuted.However, do such noted research areas reflect scientific truth? Choi looks closely at ten widely cited empirical studies that represent well-known research programs in international relations. His discussions address such statistical and theoretical issues as endogeneity bias, model specification error, fixed effects, theoretical predictability, outliers, normality of regression residuals, and choice of estimation techniques. In addition, scientific progress made by remarkable discoveries usually results from finding a new way of thinking about long-held scientific truths, therefore Choi also demonstrates how one may search for novel ideas at minimal cost by developing new research designs with original data.Here is a valuable resource for students, scholars, and policy makers who want to quickly grasp the evolutionary pattern of scientific research on democracy, foreign investment, terrorism, and conflict; build their research designs and choose appropriate statistical techniques; and identify their own agendas for the production of cutting-edge research.

"Hong Kong in the World provides innovative insight into the role of Hong Kong — as a Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China since 1997 — in the global context. This book looks into the institutional settings of Hong Kong in exercising its external relations policies, and specific bilateral relations with different political entities. Written as an introductory text, it is specially designed for undergraduate students interested in Chinese foreign policy, Hong Kong's external relations, and the para-diplomacy of sub-national units."--Provided by publisher

Cover -- Contents -- List of Maps and Figures -- List of Tables -- Maps -- Preface -- Part I: Issues, the Land, the Inhabitants and History -- 1 Introduction: A Chronology of Continuing Instability -- 2 Colonial Heritage and State Instability in Nigeria: A Theoretical Consideration -- 3 The Niger Basin and its Inhabitants -- Part II: The Nationalities -- 4 The Igbo and their Authority Patterns -- 5 The Yoruba and their Authority Patterns -- 6 The Hausa-Fulani and their Authority Patterns -- Part III: Advent and Prospects of a Beleaguered Supra-National State -- 7 Authority Patterns and Governance in Colonial Nigeria -- 8 Forms of Colonial Authority in Other Parts of the Niger Basin -- 9 Colonial State Building Strategies in the Niger Basin -- 10 Military Coups d'État in Nigeria -- 11 Conclusion -- Appendices -- Postscript: Patterns of State Instability in Africa -- Bibliography -- Index.

An exploration of the production and reception of nature and spirituality in America's national park systemAmerica's national parks are some of the most powerful, beautiful, and inspiring spots on the earth. They are often considered "spiritual" places in which one can connect to oneself and to nature. But it takes a lot of work to make nature appear natural. To maintain the apparently pristine landscapes of our parks, the National Park Service must engage in traffic management, landscape design, crowd-diffusing techniques, viewpoint construction, behavioral management, and more—and to preserve the "spiritual" experience of the park, they have to keep this labor invisible.Spirituality and the State analyzes the way that the state manages spirituality in the parks through subtle, sophisticated, unspoken, and powerful techniques. Following the demands of a secular ethos, park officials have developed strategies that slide under the church/state barrier to facilitate deep connections between visitors and the space, connections that visitors often express as spiritual. Through indirect communication, the design of trails, roads, and vista points, and the management of land, bodies and sense perception, the state invests visitors in a certain way of experiencing reality that is perceived as natural, individual, and authentic. This construction of experience naturalizes the exercise of authority and the historical, social, and political interests that lie behind it. In this way a personal, individual, nature spirituality becomes a public religion of a particularly liberal stripe. Drawing on surveys and interviews with visitors and rangers as well as analyses of park spaces, Spirituality and the State investigates the production and reception of nature and spirituality in America's national park system

Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One: Egypt -- 1. The Rise of the Brotherhood -- 2. Brotherhood in Power: A Hollow Vision -- 3. The Fall -- Part Two: Libya -- 4. The Libyan Brothers: Out of the Shadows -- 5. Out in the Open -- Part Three: Tunisia -- 6. An-Nahda at the Helm -- 7. Compromise, Crisis and Decline -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Dieses Lehrbuch behandelt die internationalen Beziehungen in fünf Weltregionen: Europa, Naher und Mittlerer Osten, Afrika, Ost-und Südost-Asien und Südamerika. Globalisierung führt nicht zur Vereinheitlichung internationaler Politik. Internationale Kooperation und Konflikte folgen in unterschiedlichen Regionen der Welt spezifischen Mustern. Diese spiegeln neben kulturellen und historischen Unterschieden insbesondere die Interessen der jeweils herrschenden Eliten. In die kritische und theoriebezogene politikwissenschaftliche Analyse dieser Phänomene wird vertieft eingeführt. Fachlich wie allgemein an der internationalen Politik in den Regionen der Welt Interessierte erhalten einen anregenden Überblick. Der Inhalt · Theoretische Grundlagen · Europa · Naher und Mittlerer Osten · Afrika südlich der Sahara · Ost- und Südost-Asien · Amerika - insbesondere Südamerika Die Zielgruppen · Lehrende und Studierende der Politikwissenschaften · An internationaler Politik Interessierte Der Autor Dr. Martin List, akademischer Oberrat im Lehrgebiet Internationale Politik des Instituts für Politikwissenschaft der FernUniversität in Hagen

On Productive Shame, Reconciliation, and Agency prompts a unique cross-disciplinary enquiry into the productive potentialities of the affect of shame. This book contests the ontological understanding of shame and the psychoanalytical interpretation of it based on personal traumatic experiences linked to lack, loss, memory repression, and absence. Rather, the book builds on complex issues (initially proposed by Paul Gilroy) that concern coming to terms with a grim colonial and imperial past: How can one deal with the personal and collective memories of "paralyzing guilt" after dreadful atrocities and genocides? How can such negative experiences be transformed into "productive shame" (not only for the perpetrators, but also for the victims and witnesses)? The collection of essays, discussions, and interviews reflect on the intersection of the historicity, materiality, and structures behind culturally constructed race and racism, anti-Semitism, anti-Romaism, and queer shame across different disciplines, fields, and theories (for example, in philosophy, art and art history, visual culture, architecture, curating, postcolonial history, gender and queer studies). Various case studies and artistic projects employing collaborative and participatory research methods are analyzed practices that empower the process of turning shame into productive agency. The ensuing role of productive shame is to prevent the recurrence of the institutional structures, patterns, and events that are responsible and constructive of racism, and has been contextualized in recent debates on political responsibility and reconciliation in Europe and Africa.