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This book proposes a radical new way of thinking about our democratic future, our ecological survival, and our ways to keep economies fair. It shows that adopting upper limits to wealth and income; replacing elections with local direct democracy and legal duty involving randomly selected citizens; and replacing welfare and redistribution policies with pre-distribution and reparations promises new solutions to political apathy, discontent, manipulation, economic inequality, unfairness, unequal opportunities, and looming ecological disaster. --

Introduction. Yesterday ; Today ; Tomorrow -- Yesterday. The origins of forgetting ; How is indifference learned? ; Orphans, fathers and resentment ; "Such a generation we shall raise ..." ; Fascism or downright vengeance? ; Turkey's disorganised photo album -- Today/morning. A woman's "unindictable" murder ; "Us" and "them" ; The hour of "Long live our Padishah!" ; The bloodiest front in social projects ; A split-meaning, split-screen way of watching : news hour in Turkey ; Goddamn it! ; The grey daubs of the city proving presence through absence ; The mesmerising vulgarity ; Children of the "Zero Problem" policy : the expedient and inexpedient ; The meatballs of "the people" beat Macbeth to death ; Opposite meanings of the peace sign : Kurds and Turks ; Official memory versus actual memory -- Tomorrow : "What will become of this bridge of ours?". Appetite and hope ; Down! down! down! down! ; Women and children first! ; Middle Easternisation and the question "should we go?" ; The "safety valve" that cannot be located ; Broken bridges, new bridges.

About the Author; Preface and acknowledgements; Glossary; Introduction; 1 The legacy of a revolution; 2 The reformers, the conservatives and the struggle for democracy; 3 Islamist modernists; 4 The relationship between Iran, Lebanon and Hezbollah; 5 The relationship between Iran and Iraq; 6 The relationship between Iran, Palestine and Hamas; 7 The relationship between Iran and Egypt; 8 The global context of Iranian state and society; Notes; References; Index.

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Domestic violence in the Caribbean – Are our solutions effective? -- Chapter 3: Symbolic violence in the Postcolonial Anglo-Caribbean -- Chapter 4: Exploring Domestic Violence Issues and Resolutions through Epic Theatre and Forum Theatre: The Good, the Baddesse and the Ugly -- Chapter 5: Phenomenology as Methodology for Narrating Gender Perceptions on 'Linguistic Violence' -- Chapter 6: Literature as an Agent of Change -- Chapter 7: Trinidad and Tobago's Legal Response to Domestic Violence-Incomplete and Inadequate without a Focus on Achieving Substantive Equality -- Chapter 8: Historicizing Domestic Violence: The Ills of Indenture ship? -- Chapter 9: The personal is political: domestic violence and feminist participation in Bolivarian Venezuela -- Chapter 10: Literary Evocations of Violence (Psychic and Physical) in Selected Works by Indo-Trinidadian Women Writers -- Chapter 11: Understanding Domestic Violence from the perspective of Trinidadian Men -- Chapter 12: Psychological reasons women stay in abusive relationships: Case studies in Trinidad and Tobago -- Chapter 13: The Women in Seafood Landscape: A Look at the Social and Economic Challenges of Gender Based Violence -- Chapter 14: Surviving Domestic and Intimate Partner Violence -- Chapter 15: Deepening the dialogue – Strengthening domestic violence policy and charting a way forward -- Chapter 16: Accounting for Episodes of Domestic Violence in the Anglophone Caribbean: Novel Achievements in the Midst of Persistent Challenges -- Chapter 17: Through the eyes of the perpetrator: the historical and contemporary cultural context of intimate partner violence in the Caribbean -- Index. .

Chapter 1. Discourses and Sources of International Law -- Chapter 2. Sovereignty and Responsibility -- Chapter 3. Historical Ambiguity and Territoriality -- Chapter 4. Normativity and Maritime Competitivity -- Chapter 5. Plights and Human Rights -- Chapter 6. Trade Liberalization and Inhibition -- Chapter 7. Regionalism and Eclecticism.

American federalism : origins and debate -- American federalism in practice -- Individual rights -- Federalism and civil rights -- Federalism and education -- Federalism and same-sex marriage -- Federalism and physician-assisted death -- American federalism and individual rights -- The future of federalism and rights.

As Cold War battle lines are seemingly re-drawn, Russia's various 'frozen' war zones (ongoing separatist conflicts) are often cited as particularly volatile and assumed by some Western commentators and policymakers to be 'next' on Putin's 'wish list'. But, as Helena Rytövuori-Apunen demonstrates here, this is a gross (and dangerous) oversimplification that will only serve to fuel the vicious circle of reciprocal military escalation. Drawing on a range of empirical research and across separatist conflicts in Georgia (South Ossetia and Abkhazia), Moldova (Transnistria and Gagauzia) and Azerbaijan (Nagorno-Karabakh) and the 2014 annexation of Crimea from Ukraine, her timely book provides a balanced assessment and critique of the assumptions and misunderstandings that inform mainstream discussions, as well as placing the conflicts in their proper and complex historical contexts. At a time when there is an increasing tendency to view Russia as the source of all instability in Eastern Europe, Power and Conflict in Russia's Borderlands is essential reading for anyone interested in the geopolitics of post-Soviet Russia, as well as policymakers and practitioners of peace/conflict resolution studies.

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Sources of Gramsci's theorical categories. Chapter 2: Autonomy and Antagonism in Rosa Luxemburg and Gramsci -- Chapter 3: Gramsci's 'Rosa -- Chapter 4: Gramsci and Lenin: Hegemony and the Philosophy of Praxis -- Chaper 5: Gramsci and Sorel: Scission Spirit and Moral and Intellectual Reform -- Chapter 6. Gramsci and Machiavelli: Jacobinism mediating the Prince's movement.Translations of the passive revolution -- Chapter7. Passive revolution and the nature of our time -- Chapter 8. The particularity of the passive revolution in Brazil: translating Gramsci -- Education and hegemony -- Chapter 9. Gramsci and educating the educator -- Chapter 10. Education as reproduction of hegemony and its antithesis -- Chapter 11. Gramsci and labor as a foundation of hegemony -- Gramsci and labor as a foundation of hegemony -- Chapter 12. Class and Party in Gramsci -- Chapter 13. Gramsci and the emancipation of the subaltern classes -- Chapter 14. Postscript.

The United States is undergoing a profound and radical transformation, all features of which point to the fact of its departure at an accelerated rate from its largely self-proclaimed status as a global hegemon. The United States has lost ground in every single category that defines the power and status of a nation in relation to its rivals. This book delves into the reasons for a catastrophic decline of the American nation, addressing a range of factors from the economic (especially energy), to cultural, technological and military factors. America's deindustrialized economy is now deeply affected by what can only be described as a massacre of her small and middle-size businesses and the implosion of the US commercial aerospace industry. America's only driver of real growth, the shale oil industry, is facing realities which may make the Great Depression pale in comparison. Disintegration also seeks answers to the precipitous moral and professional decline of the always mediocre qualities of the American elites, from the corridors of political power to those of the military and business, now spiraling out of control. More alarmingly, the trend also points to the possibility of the actual physical disintegration of the United States as a unified entity--whether the divisions are ethnic or ideological. The most profound fault line is cultural--between the Coastal self-proclaimed elites backed by the secular, liberal media and deep state, who promote the most radical ideologies as it concerns gender and race, and the working class majority whom the former polemicize as deplorables, Christian fundamentalists, white supremacists, and climate and science denialists. Investigating these factors sheds light on America's future which holds very little promise for the country which had once proclaimed itself to be a shining city on the hill. The American collapse is not just coming, we are presently experiencing it. How can we deal with a catastrophe which is unfolding before our very eyes? Disintegration lays out some possibilities.

A thrilling and provocative account of unfolding tensions between China and the West, filled with the people, stories and sticky situations from Bill Birtles' five years as ABC correspondent.