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The anti-corruption campaign and the Chinese dream -- Debating governance and the rule of law : China's narrative and images in Western countries -- Soft power and sharp power in the age of Noopolitik -- Methodology -- The framing of governance : the China model and the Chinese -- When "House of cards" meets "in the name of people" : framing China's anti-corruption campaign.

""Racism is an existential threat to America," Theodore R. Johnson declares at the start of his profound and exhilarating book, a refutation of the American Promise enshrined in our Constitution-that all men and women are inherently equal. And yet racism continues to corrode our society. If we cannot overcome it, Johnson argues, while the United States will remain a geopolitical entity, the promise that made America unique on earth will have died. When the Stars Begin to Fall makes a compelling, ambitious case for a pathway to the national solidarity necessary to overcome racism. Weaving memories of his own family's experiences and strands of history into his elegant narrative, Johnson posits that a blueprint for national solidarity can be found in the exceptional citizenship long practiced in Black America, augmented by a more enduring version of the solidarity among members of the military or in communities recovering from a natural disaster. Understanding that racism is a structural crime of the state, he argues that overcoming it requires us to recognize that a color-conscious society-not a color-blind one-is the true fulfillment of the American Promise. Alive to the power of writers from James Baldwin to Isabel Wilkerson to Jon Meacham, When the Stars Begin to Fall is an urgent call to undertake the process of overcoming what has long seemed intractable"--

Since its independence from Britain in 1960, Nigeria has emerged as Africa's second largest economy and one of the biggest producers of oil in the world. Despite its economic success, however, there are deep divisions among its two hundred and fifty ethnic groups. Centered around three of the dominant themes of Nigeria's post-colonial narrative - ethnicity, democracy and governance, this is an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the history and events that have shaped these three areas. World-renowned expert in Nigerian history, Toyin Falola shows us how the British laid the foundations of modern Nigeria, with colonialism breading competition for resources and power and the widening cleavages between the Hausa-Fulani, Yoruba, and Igbo ethnic groups that had been forced together under British rule, the choice of federalism as a political system, and the religious and political pluralism that have shaped its institutions and practices. Using an examination of the outcomes of this history, manifested in hunger, violence, poverty, human rights violations, threats of secession and corruption, where power and resources are used to reproduce underdevelopment, Falola offers insigh

"This book aims to capture the complicated development of Korea from monoethnic to multicultural society, challenging the narrative of 'ethnonational continuity' in Korea, through a discursive institutional approach. At a time when immigration is changing the face of South Korea and an increasingly diverse society becomes empirical fact, this doesn't necessarily mean that multiculturalism has been embraced as a normative, policy-based response to that fact. The approach here diverges from existing academic analyses, which tend to conclude that core institutions defining Korea's immigration and nationality regimes - and which, crucially, also reflect a basic and hitherto unyielding commitment to racial and ethnic homogeneity - will remain largely unaffected by increasing diversity. Here, this title underscores the critical importance of 'discursive agency' as a necessary corrective to still-dominant power and interest-based arguments. In addition, 'discursive agents' are found to play a central role in communicating, promoting, helping to instill the ideas that create a basis for change on the road to remaking Korean society. The Road to Multiculturalism in South Korea will be of interest to students and scholars of Asian studies, immigration and migration studies, race and ethnic studies, as well as comparative politics broadly"--

This book examines the economic, political and security interests of India, Europe and the European Union towards Asia. It analyses their participation in major Asian multilateral organizations, responses to connectivity and Brussels' differential engagement of China and India. It evaluates Indian and European/EU policy towards West Asia, the Iran Imbroglio, the Indo-Pacific and South Asia (Afghanistan, Myanmar and Kashmir). It highlights the elements of convergence/divergence and assesses the challenges and prospects of India-European cooperation in the context of a more assertive China and growing European engagement with Asia. Rajendra K. Jain was formerly Professor and Chairperson at the Centre for European Studies, and Director, Europe Area Studies Programme, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. He has been the first Jean Monnet Chair in India and has most recently published India and the European Union in a Turbulent World (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), Changing Indian Images of the European Union: Perception and Misperception (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019) and India, Europe and Pakistan (Knowledge World, 2018).

KI-Anwendungen drängen auf breiter Front in das Militär hinein, wodurch sich vielfältige Chancen ergeben (in der Administration, der Krisenfrüherkennung, im militärischen Führungsvorgang, beim Waffeneinsatz, .im "Drohnenkrieg", in hybriden Konflikten). Die Entwicklung von Letalen Autonomen Waffensystemen bringt geopolitische, ethische und (völker-)rechtliche Risiken, deren Lösung derzeit nicht absehbar ist. Bisher scheuen die Mächte, die KI entwickeln, allerdings als "letzten Schritt" die Übertragung der Entscheidungsgewalt über das Töten von Menschen an Maschinen. Dieses käme einer Öffnung der "Büchse der Pandora" gleich. Der Inhalt Innovationen und "Revolutionen" im Militär Potentiale von KI im Militär Geopolitische ethische und rechtliche Risiken/Probleme von letalen autonomen Waffensystemen Die Zielgruppen Lehrende und Studierende der Politikwissenschaft, Lehrkräfte im Fach Gemeinschaftskunde Politiker*innen, ihre Mitarbeiter*innen, an Sicherheitspolitik interessierte Bürger*innen Der Autor Ulf von Krause ist Publizist. Er war Berufssoldat, studierte während seiner Dienstzeit Wirtschaftswissenschaften und war zuletzt als Generalleutnant auch in die Vorbereitung von Auslandseinsätzen eingebunden. Nach der Bundeswehrzeit studierte er Politikwissenschaft und promovierte über Entscheidungsprozesse zu den Afghanistaneinsätzen der Bundeswehr. Seine publizistischen Schwerpunkte liegen an der Nahtstelle von Politik und Militär.

"How do religious, ethnic, and national identities interact in religiously homogenous ethnic conflicts? Is it possible for religion to act as a resolution tool in such conflicts? Why? Why not? In search for answers to these questions, Under the Banner of Islam focuses on the ambivalent role Sunni Islam has played in Turkey's Kurdish conflict-both as a conflict-resolution tool and as a tool of resistance-in the last two decades. Relying mainly on participant observation in Civil Friday Prayers and 62 interviews conducted in three different cities in Turkey (Istanbul and the majority-Kurdish Diyarbakir and Batman) between June 2012 and June 2013, it demonstrates that Sunni Islam has had a very limited impact as a conflict-resolution tool in Turkey. Blending interview data with a detailed historical institutional analysis that goes back as early as the nineteenth century, it argues that the strength of Turkish and Kurdish nationalisms, the symbiotic relationship between Turkey's religious and political fields, religious elites' varying conceptualizations of religious and ethnic identities, and the recent political developments in the region (particularly the establishment of an autonomous Kurdish region, Rojava, in Syria) have all contributed to this outcome. The resulting narrative is not only a record of religion, ethnicity, and nationalism in Turkey's Kurdish conflict, but also an investigation of how ethnic and religious identities are negotiated in conflict resolution and how symbolic boundaries are drawn in ethnic conflict zones"--

Frontmatter -- CHAPTER FOUR Myth and Folktale -- CONTRIBUTORS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Chapter 1 GLOBALIZATION AND GOVERNANCE -- PART 1 Globalization and Changing Locations of Governance -- Chapter 2 THE LEVERAGE OF ECONOMIC THEORIES Explaining Governance in an Internationalized Industry -- Chapter 3 POLITICAL INTEGRATION AND DISINTEGRATION IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY -- Chapter 4 GLOBALIZATION AND FISCAL DECENTRALIZATION -- Chapter 5 GLOBALIZATION AND DEMANDS FOR REGIONAL AUTONOMY IN EUROPE -- Chapter 6 MONETARY GOVERNANCE IN A WORLD OF REGIONAL CURRENCIES -- Chapter 7 GOVERNING GLOBAL FINANCIAL MARKETS International Responses to the Hedge-Fund Problem -- Chapter 8 PUBLIC AND PRIVATE GOVERNANCE IN SETTING INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS -- Chapter 9 GLOBALIZATION AND INDUSTRY SELF-REGULATION -- PART 2 Convergence in National Governance -- Chapter 10 INTERNATIONAL CAPITAL MOBILITY AND NATIONAL POLICY DIVERGENCE -- Chapter 11 GLOBALIZATION AND POLICY DIFFUSION Explaining Three Decades of Liberalization -- Chapter 12 CORPORATE GOVERNANCE Global Markets, National Politics -- Chapter 13 GLOBALIZATION, INSTITUTIONS, AND CONVERGENCE Fiscal Adjustment in Europe -- PART 3 Democratic Deficits and the Problem of Accountability -- Chapter 14 DEMOCRACY, ACCOUNTABILITY, AND RIGHTS IN SUPRANATIONAL GOVERNANCE -- Chapter 15 REDEFINING ACCOUNTABILITY FOR GLOBAL GOVERNANCE -- GLOBALIZATION AND CHANGING PATTERNS OF POLITICAL AUTHORITY -- REFERENCES -- INDEX

This book investigates the legitimacy deficits of two potentially conflicting legal systems, namely Public and Islamic international law. It discusses the challenges that Public international law is being presented within the context of its relationship with Islamic international law. It explores how best to overcome these challenges through a comparative examination of state practices on the use of force. It highlights the legal-political legacies that evolved surrounding the claims of the legitimacy of use of force by armed non-state actors, states, and regional organizations. This book offers a critical analysis of these legacies in line with the Islamic Shari'a law, United Nations Charter, state practices, and customs. It concludes that the legitimacy question has reached a vantage point where it cannot be answered either by Islamic or Public international law as a mutually exclusive legal system. Instead, Public international law must take a coherent approach within the existing legal framework. Mohammad Z. Sabuj, is a Barrister (Lincoln's Inn), and Lecturer in Law, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.

Die Autorinnen und Autoren des Bandes zeichnen die manifeste Krise der nuklearen Rüstungskontrolle, Abrüstung und Nichtverbreitung in ihren unterschiedlichen Facetten nach, arbeiten die Ursachen für diese Krise heraus und diskutieren mögliche Entwicklungsszenarien in den genannten Bereichen. Die Wechselwirkungen zwischen den einzelnen Teilbereichen der nuklearen Ordnung, die Implikationen von globalen Machtverschiebungen, technologischen Entwicklungen und Nuklearstrategien sowie die Positionierung von unterschiedlichen Akteuren und die sich daraus ergebenden Konsequenzen werden in den einzelnen Beiträgen vertiefend diskutiert. Während die nukleare Rüstungspolitik insbesondere der USA, aber auch Russlands, in den Analysen einen zentralen Platz einnehmen, werden auch die Rolle von internationalen Organisationen und die Positionierung von ausgewählten Akteuren wie etwa Deutschland in spezifischen Fragen herausgearbeitet. Der Band schließt mit Analysen zu rezenten Entwicklungen in den Fällen Nordkorea und Iran ab. Der Herausgeber Dr. Hakan Akbulut ist Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Lehrstuhl für Internationale Beziehungen und Außenpolitik an der TU Kaiserslautern.