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Environmental Injustice and Catastrophe meticulously explores key global security issues that pose severe threats to the future of humanity and the planet. This distinctive, timely, and conceptually rigorous book combines a rich body of research. It is a valuable source for sociologists, political scientists, historians, critical theorists, and all those who care about our future and environment

"Russia inspires fear. For decades, American presidents viewed the Soviet Union as an "evil empire," and now, the Ukrainian crisis has added a new chapter to this narrative inherited from the Cold War. Russia's behavior is regarded with distrust and its "nuisance power" arouses frustration. The country's image has not been so negative since the collapse of the Soviet Union. But at the same time--and this is a key point of this book--Russia is fearful, too. Thirty years after the end of the Soviet Union, multiple ghosts haunt the country, its elites, and its society, from concern over demographic and economic decline to worry about the country's vulnerability to external intervention, reviving the old notion of Russia as a "besieged fortress." Opened up practically overnight under President Boris Yeltsin, the country had to deal with a rapid and violent globalization. Faced with both a West that emerged victorious from the Cold War and a shockingly dynamic China, Russia constantly questions its identity and the notion that its fate is to bridge East and West. Vacillating between reformist aspirations and a fear of liberal society, which is often portrayed as amoral and perverse, the country, and certainly its leader Vladamir Putin, sometimes seems tempted to take refuge in a new isolation. This book is more than timely: no other book offers a comprehensive overview of Russia's fears and challenges that could help the American public to understand how the country deals with its own issues and how this influences Russia's foreign policy, including the ongoing war in Ukraine. This in-out aspect is critical to understand the country's international stance and therefore directly U.S. policy and security"--

Este libro recoge el contenido de cuatro conferencias de Carlos Taibo que se interesan por materias próximas entre sí: la perspectiva del decrecimiento, la teoría del colapso, la discusión sobre el ecofascismo y las tesituras que, a manera de ilustración de todo lo anterior, se revelan en la Iberia vaciada. Los textos correspondientes, de franca vocación pedagógica y divulgadora, configuran introducciones a esas cuatro cuestiones y aportan un material de debate singularmente útil a efectos de lidiar con algunos de los problemas principales que hoy se plantean en el horizonte. Producto de una amplia trayectoria de publicaciones, surgen, en cierto sentido, de la reflexión de movimientos hondamente preocupados por el derrotero que la especie humana, a través de un sistema llamado capitalismo, está imprimiendo al planeta

This Element comprehensively scrutinizes the key issue of the accountability of policy-makers in democratic governance. The electoral punishment of the incumbents, parliamentary control of the government, and sanctions in the case of administrative misconduct or negligence are the most visible manifestations of accountability in politics. However, the phenomenon is much more complex, and fully understanding such a multifaceted object requires bridging bodies of work that usually remain disjointed. This Element assesses the effectiveness of vertical accountability through elections and how interinstitutional accountability operates in checks-and-balances systems, along with the growing role of the courts. It evaluates how the accountability of the bureaucracy has been affected by managerial reforms and different governance transformations. It also scrutinizes to what extent mediatization and policy failure boost accountability, before zooming in on the feelings and reactions of those who are held accountable. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

"À l'heure où la question des abus d'autorité dans l'Église, voire des abus spirituels ou sexuels, fait la une de l'actualité, dans une période où le pape lui-même a eu l'occasion de dénoncer la dérive du cléricalisme et où l'Église universelle se voit vigoureusement invitée à pratiquer la synodalité, comment ne pas se ressourcer dans les textes bibliques pour mesurer combien ceux-ci se gardent de cette tentation cléricale? Insérée dans les structures et les fonctionnements humains, l'Église ne peut échapper à ces logiques de pouvoir. Mais ces logiques sont tout à fait opposées à la démarche évangélique, comme le montre ici très bien le bibliste Yves-Marie Blanchard, invitant à relire des passages-clés du Nouveau Testament qui évoquent à leur manière cette question très sensible." --