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Great power competition is back on the world stage, and todays international system is home to regional influences on great power relations that cannot be ignored. The United States unipolar moment is long over, and Chinas hegemonic ambitions find expression in a comprehensive global competition with the US that plays out across multiple spheres of world politics. The US-China rivalry can be felt in geostrategic, economic, governance, diplomacy, intelligence, and technological spheres, to name a few. Most accounts of China-US relations in the context of great power conflict emphasize the many ways in which this rivalry has a ripple effect across the globe, with an impact upon the relations and interests of smaller powers. And while these effects are considerable and important, this book contends that attention must also be paid to the ways in which smaller, regional states have the potential to shape this great power rivalry. Put simply, great powers both shape, and are shaped by, smaller states. Any understanding of contemporary great power relations between the US and China requires both a top down, but also a bottom up consideration of the interplay between great powers and regional ones. Often the interests of regional powers are rooted in domestic considerations such as their identities and national interests, and these influences transcend borders and often have an impact upon the great powers. This book considers these smaller, regional actors and attempts to measure the extent to which they influence the US-China rivalry. For this study, constructivist theory, which prioritizes the agency that regional powers enjoy, is loosely used as a tool to enable a more robust and comprehensive understanding of the influences on the contemporary great power relationship. Each of the books chapters represents a region, or part of a region, that enjoys a considerable impact upon US-China relations. Kari Roberts is Associate Professor of Political Science and Chair of the Department of Economics, Justice, and Policy Studies at Mount Royal University (MRU). She is also a Coordinator of the North American and Arctic Defence and Security Network (NAADSN). Saira Bano is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy, History, and Politics at Thompson Rivers University (TRU) in Kamloops, British Columbia. Her research focuses on the nuclear non-proliferation regime, nuclear weapons issues in South Asia and IR theories

"Contributing to a better understanding of contemporary issues of environmental sustainability from a historical perspective, this book provides a cohesive and cogent account of the history of ecological economic thought (EET). The work unearths a diverse set of ideas within a Western and Slavic context, from the Renaissance and the Enlightenment to the late 1940s, to reveal insights firmly grounded in historiographical research and of import for addressing current sustainability challenges, not least by means of improving our grasp on how humans and nature can generously coexist in the long term. The history of EET offered in this volume is rich and diverse, encompassing views that are bound by the observance of the tenets of the natural sciences, but which differ significantly in terms of the role of energy and materials to cultural development and the normative aspects involving resource distribution, social ideals and policy-making. Combining the approaches of independent scholarly figures and scientific communities from different historical periods and nationalities, the book brings elements that are still missing in the scarce literature on the history of ecological economic thought and highlights the underlying threads which unite such initiatives. The book brings a fresh look into the historical development of ecological economic ideas and will therefore be of great interest to scholars and students of ecological economics, environmental economics, sustainability science, interdisciplinary studies and history of economic thought. Marco P. Vianna Franco is a postdoctoral fellow at the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research in Klosterneuburg, Austria, and holds a PhD in economics from the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Cedeplar/UFMG) in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. He works in the fields of ecological economics and history of economic thought with a focus on human-nature relations from the perspectives of political economy, intellectual history, and philosophy of science. Antoine Missemer is a researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and a member of the International Research Centre on the Environment and Development (CIRED) in Paris, France. He holds a PhD in economics from the University of Lausanne, Switzerland and the University of Lyon, France. His research mainly deals with the history of environmental, ecological, energy, and natural resource economics"--

"Contributing to a better understanding of contemporary issues of environmental sustainability from a historical perspective, this book provides a cohesive and cogent account of the history of ecological economic thought (EET). The work unearths a diverse set of ideas within a Western and Slavic context, from the Renaissance and the Enlightenment to the late 1940s, to reveal insights firmly grounded in historiographical research and of import for addressing current sustainability challenges, not least by means of improving our grasp on how humans and nature can generously coexist in the long term. The history of EET offered in this volume is rich and diverse, encompassing views that are bound by the observance of the tenets of the natural sciences, but which differ significantly in terms of the role of energy and materials to cultural development and the normative aspects involving resource distribution, social ideals and policy-making. Combining the approaches of independent scholarly figures and scientific communities from different historical periods and nationalities, the book brings elements that are still missing in the scarce literature on the history of ecological economic thought and highlights the underlying threads which unite such initiatives. The book brings a fresh look into the historical development of ecological economic ideas and will therefore be of great interest to scholars and students of ecological economics, environmental economics, sustainability science, interdisciplinary studies and history of economic thought. Marco P. Vianna Franco is a postdoctoral fellow at the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research in Klosterneuburg, Austria, and holds a PhD in economics from the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Cedeplar/UFMG) in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. He works in the fields of ecological economics and history of economic thought with a focus on human-nature relations from the perspectives of political economy, intellectual history, and philosophy of science. Antoine Missemer is a researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and a member of the International Research Centre on the Environment and Development (CIRED) in Paris, France. He holds a PhD in economics from the University of Lausanne, Switzerland and the University of Lyon, France. His research mainly deals with the history of environmental, ecological, energy, and natural resource economics"--

"Contributing to a better understanding of contemporary issues of environmental sustainability from a historical perspective, this book provides a cohesive and cogent account of the history of ecological economic thought (EET). The work unearths a diverse set of ideas within a Western and Slavic context, from the Renaissance and the Enlightenment to the late 1940s, to reveal insights firmly grounded in historiographical research and of import for addressing current sustainability challenges, not least by means of improving our grasp on how humans and nature can generously coexist in the long term. The history of EET offered in this volume is rich and diverse, encompassing views that are bound by the observance of the tenets of the natural sciences, but which differ significantly in terms of the role of energy and materials to cultural development and the normative aspects involving resource distribution, social ideals and policy-making. Combining the approaches of independent scholarly figures and scientific communities from different historical periods and nationalities, the book brings elements that are still missing in the scarce literature on the history of ecological economic thought and highlights the underlying threads which unite such initiatives. The book brings a fresh look into the historical development of ecological economic ideas and will therefore be of great interest to scholars and students of ecological economics, environmental economics, sustainability science, interdisciplinary studies and history of economic thought. Marco P. Vianna Franco is a postdoctoral fellow at the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research in Klosterneuburg, Austria, and holds a PhD in economics from the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Cedeplar/UFMG) in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. He works in the fields of ecological economics and history of economic thought with a focus on human-nature relations from the perspectives of political economy, intellectual history, and philosophy of science. Antoine Missemer is a researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and a member of the International Research Centre on the Environment and Development (CIRED) in Paris, France. He holds a PhD in economics from the University of Lausanne, Switzerland and the University of Lyon, France. His research mainly deals with the history of environmental, ecological, energy, and natural resource economics"--

ch. 1. Peace education : setting the scene / Gavriel Salomon and Ed Cairns -- ch. 2. History of peace education / Ian Harris -- ch. 3. Peace education in societies involved in intractable conflicts : goals, conditions, and directions / Daniel Bar-Tal, Yigal Rosen, and Rafi Nets-Zehngut -- ch. 4. Educational sciences and peace education : mainstreaming peace education into (Western) academia? / Werner Wintersteiner -- ch. 5. What does peace psychology have to offer peace education? Five psychologically informed propositions / Daniel J. Christie and Richard V. Wagner -- ch. 6. The social psychology of intergroup relations / Nicole Tausch, Katharina Schmid, and Miles Hewstone -- ch. 7. Intergroup contact : implications for peace education / Eric W. Mania. [et al.] -- ch. 8. Contributions of developmental psychology to peace education / Louis Oppenheimer -- ch. 9. Peace education and political science / Marc Howard Ross -- ch. 10. The contributions of communication and media studies to peace education / Donald Ellis and Yael Warshel -- ch. 11. Peace and morality : two children of the same parents / Fritz Oser, Christine Riegel, and Sibylle Steinmann -- ch. 12. Philosophy of peace education in a postmetaphysical era / Ilan Gur-Ze'ev -- ch. 13. Teaching about the culture of peace as an approach to peace education / Joseph de Rivera -- ch. 14. Storytelling and multiple narratives in conflict situations : from the TRT group in the German-Jewish context to the dual-narrative approach of PRIME / Dan Bar-On -- ch. 15. The contribution of history teaching to peace building / Alan McCully -- ch. 16. Peace education in the classroom : creating effective peace education programs / David W. Johnson and Roger T. Johnson -- ch. 17. Building a shared future from a divided past : promoting peace through education in Northern Ireland / Tony Gallagher -- ch. 18. Unity-based peace education : education for peace program in Bosnia and Herzegovina : a chronological case study / H.B. Danesh -- ch. 19. Understanding the roots and impact of violence and psychological recovery as avenues to reconciliation after mass violence and intractable conflict : applications to national leaders, journalists, community groups, public education through radio, and children / Ervin Staub, Laurie Anne Pearlman, and Rezarta Bilali -- ch. 20. Peace education in regions of tranquillity / Ilse Hakvoort -- ch. 21. Educating for peace through planned encounters between Jews and Arabs in Israel : a reappraisal of effectiveness / Ifat Maoz -- ch. 22. Open-ended questions / Gavriel Salomon and Ed Cairns.

Preliminary Material /Neil Taylor , Michael Littledyke , Chris Eames and Richard K. Coll -- Environmental Education in Context /Neil Taylor , Michael Littledyke , Chris Eames and Richard K. Coll -- Environmental Education as a Political Event in Papua New Guinea /Ann Ryan -- To Mine or not to Mine on Bougainville /Bert Jenkins and Kathy Jenkins -- Environmental Education in Fiji /Neil Taylor , Kelera Taloga and Sereana Tagivakatini -- Environmental Education in the Sultanate of Oman /Abdullah Ambusaidi and Ahmed Al-Rabaani -- Environmental Education in India /Kartikeya V. Sarabhai and Kiran B. Chhokar -- Environmental Education in a Troubled Land /Princy Selvaruby and Mike Watts -- Emerging from Limbo /Paul Pace -- Environmental Education Programs in Greek Secondary Schools /Evangelos I. Manolas -- Environmental Awareness and Challenges for Environmental Education in Poland /Joost Platje and Krystyna Słodczyk -- An Integrated Model for Environmental Education in Turkey /Muammer Çalik -- Waste Management and Disposal in Botswana /Joseph Thoko Matsoga -- Environmental Education in Botswana /Josiah O. Ajiboye -- The Status of Environmental Education in Namibia /Choshi D. Kasanda -- Environmental Education in Ethiopia /Temechegn Engida and Solomon Areaya -- Participation in School-Based Environmental Education in Tanzania /Upendo Mtaita -- Establishing Environmental Education in the Formal Curriculum in South Africa /Callie Loubser -- Addressing Climate Change in South African Business Education Curricula /Hennie Stoffberg and Paul Prinsloo -- Prospects for and Constraints to Effective Implementation of Environmental Education in Malawi /Gilbert R. Phiri -- Environmental Education in Southern and Eastern Africa /Henry Sammy Wanyama -- Environmental Education in Malaysia /Maria Salih and Noor Azlin Yahya -- Environmental Education in Context /May May Hung Cheng -- Environmental Education in Singapore /Kim Chwee Daniel Tan , Yew-Jin Lee and Aik-Ling Tan -- Helping Displaced People on the Thai-Burma Border Understand their Environmental Rights and Responsibilities /Glenda Kupczyk-Romanczuk -- Conceptions of Environmental Education in Malaysia /Mohd. Zaki Ishak , Hamzah Md. Omar and Mashitoh Yaacob -- Environmental Education in Bhutan /Wangpo Tenzin and Tom W. Maxwell -- Development of Environmental Education in Thailand Under the Philosophy of a Sufficiency Economy /Chanyah Dahsah and Tussatrin Kruatong -- Korean Students' Environmental Literacy and the Environmental Education Program /Hye-Eun Chu and David F. Treagust -- Non-Formal Environmental Education /Nguyen Minh Hang , Do Hai Linh , Nguyen Hong Phuc and Dang Anh Nguyet -- Environmental Education in Context:Observations, Conclusions, and Some Recommendations /Neil Taylor , Michael Littledyke , Chris Eames and Richard K. Coll.

The recent economic crisis was a dramatic reminder that capitalism can both produce and destroy. It's a system that by its very nature encourages predators and creators, locusts and bees. But, as Geoff Mulgan argues in this compelling, imaginative, and important book, the economic crisis also presents a historic opportunity to choose a radically different future for capitalism, one that maximizes its creative power and minimizes its destructive force. In an engaging and wide-ranging argument, Mulgan digs into the history of capitalism across the world to show its animating ideas, its utopias and dystopias, as well as its contradictions and possibilities. Drawing on a subtle framework for understanding systemic change, he shows how new political settlements reshaped capitalism in the past and are likely to do so in the future. By reconnecting value to real-life ideas of growth, he argues, efficiency and entrepreneurship can be harnessed to promote better lives and relationships rather than just a growth in the quantity of material consumption. Healthcare, education, and green industries are already becoming dominant sectors in the wealthier economies, and the fields of social innovation, enterprise, and investment are rapidly moving into the mainstream--all indicators of how capital could be made more of a servant and less a master. This is a book for anyone who wonders where capitalism might be heading next--and who wants to help make sure that its future avoids the mistakes of the past. This edition of The Locust and the Bee includes a new afterword in which the author lays out some of the key challenges facing capitalism in the twenty-first century.

How poor migrants shape city politics during urbanizationAs the Global South rapidly urbanizes, millions of people have migrated from the countryside to urban slums, which now house one billion people worldwide. The transformative potential of urbanization hinges on whether and how poor migrants are integrated into city politics. Popular and scholarly accounts paint migrant slums as exhausted by dispossession, subdued by local dons, bought off by wily politicians, or polarized by ethnic appeals. Migrants and Machine Politics shows how slum residents in India routinely defy such portrayals, actively constructing and wielding political machine networks to demand important, albeit imperfect, representation and responsiveness within the country's expanding cities.Drawing on years of pioneering fieldwork in India's slums, including ethnographic observation, interviews, surveys, and experiments, Adam Michael Auerbach and Tariq Thachil reveal how migrants harness forces of political competition—as residents, voters, community leaders, and party workers—to sow unexpected seeds of accountability within city politics. This multifaceted agency provokes new questions about how political networks form during urbanization. In answering these questions, this book overturns longstanding assumptions about how political machines exploit the urban poor to stifle competition, foster ethnic favoritism, and entrench vote buying.By documenting how poor migrants actively shape urban politics in counterintuitive ways, Migrants and Machine Politics sheds new light on the political consequences of urbanization across India and the Global South

Introduction: "Do nothing" or, an epochal crisis -- Systemic unpreparedness inducing a variety of psychological reactions -- The branches and social strata hardest hit : a list to be carefully remembered for the next systemic rupture -- Were nature, the environment and crime statistics "winners" of the crisis? Disputed "improvements" and their flip sides -- Children and relationships -- Labour and the economy : "generation Corona" -- Corona and re-globalisation 1 : sharpening awareness about the differences between political systems and their growing asymmetries -- A battle for values and transformation not confined to bilateral competition, but spanning the globe -- Unprecedented penetrative depth : uplifting technology, changing sexuality, questioning science? -- Corona and re-globalisation 2 : creating conscience for national and international reforms -- Intellectual rhetoric between cheap "humanistic" appeal and kitsch -- "Humanised" technology instead of a new humanism? -- A boost to "post-human hybrid intelligence" such as biological espionage and sentiment analysis? -- Striking a balance : was Corona a watershed for western humanism and the basic rationality of the enlightenment? -- The vast variety of political instrumentalisations -- Three more far-reaching aspects within global democracies and open societies : confirmation bias, "republican" turn and re-globalisation drive -- Corona : an unprecedented crisis accelerating the (temporary?) Rupture of advanced life patterns -- including gender role models in democracies -- "Unsocial sociability" and the re-shaping of the global order : anthropology and politics intertwined -- Medical diplomacy, or : the great divide of principles over and after Corona. More "do it alone" -- or more cooperation? -- Don't forget the bizarre, the surreal and the perfidious : from Mona Lisa to Sharon Stone and global terror -- Coronavirus crisis social psychology : between disorientation, infodemic and the need to understand -- Conspiracy theories : misusing the crisis for legitimating the absurd in times of "fake news" -- The perspective : the real question is not about COVID-19, but about "the world after" -- In search of examples of efficient resilience : from the evolutionary teachings of bats to regional self-administration within political autonomies to a "flexible" handling of constitutions -- Crisis resistance in the face of Corona and in anticipation of potential future pandemics : a short overview of different options of socio-political responses -- The primordial path to follow : enhancing resilience. Basic philosophical assumptions and their implications for crisis-policy design -- Revisioning the concept of resilience : a necessary step (not only) after Corona -- Progressing from resilience to multi-resilience : two basic approaches -- Five principles of multi-resilience -- Summary. Multi-resilience : a crucial topic to shape "globalisation 2.0" -- The Corona effect and "diseasescape" : towards weaker, but more realistic globalisation and transnationalisation? -- The uncertainty about the future of COVID-19 : short-term scenarios versus big-picture trends -- Technological requirements : six trends -- Towards a post-Corona world : seven upcoming conflict lines open societies should prepare for -- The post-Corona world : potentials and visions for a "better globalised" international system -- Chances and limits of resilience : the development paradox and the increasing danger of man-made disasters with multi-sectoral side effects -- Towards a broader and more integrated policy of future preparedness : contributions from selected guiding concepts -- Fostering local, national and international paths towards multi-resilience : leverage points for interrelated social change bottom-up and top-down -- "Health terror"? Towards an adequate framework for a post-Corona socio-political philosophy : "resistance" and power critique will not suffice -- Seven strategic recommendations for pro-positive multi-resilient policy-making in the post-Corona world of open societies -- Recommendations for global post-Corona policy-making in an increasingly multipolar world -- The (productively) ambiguous post-Corona vision : a "new world" ahead? -- "Corona positivism" : the global pandemic as an unprecedented "chance" for radical transformation -- or even as the epochal example for what (social) art should achieve? -- Corona as a driver of re-globalisation towards post-Corona globalisation -- A post-Corona core task : re-positioning the open systems of Europe and the West by the means of multi-resilience -- An end to geopolitical rivalry? Not likely -- despite some positive signals -- Back to business as usual -- or systemic improvements at the "evo-devo" interface? -- Integrating the obvious. Post-Corona, multi-resilience and "futures literacy" : "bring together what belongs together" -- Corona and emerging new responsibility patterns -- Outlook : a post-Corona world in the making. Towards difficult, but feasible innovation -- for the sake of a more pro-positive re-globalisation.

Traditionally there has been a long and sustained interest in studying the history of economic ideas in France. This second volume analyses the evolution of political economy during the long nineteenth century, combining an assessment of both liberals and their opponents

"Nur weiße Menschen können Rassisten sein, nur Männer sind zu toxischem Verhalten fähig, es gibt kein biologisches Geschlecht, unsere Sprache ist sexistisch - ein neuer moralischer Kanon erobert westliche Universitäten und erschüttert die liberale Gesellschaft. Aber macht er die Welt auch wirklich besser? Helen Pluckrose und James Lindsay begeben sich in ihrem Bestseller auf die Spuren eines wissenschaftlichen Aktivismus, der überall nur noch Feinde sieht." (Rückseite des hinteren Banddeckels)

Vom Sklavenwiderstand bis zum Jiu-Jitsu der Suffragetten, vom Aufstand im Warschauer Ghetto bis zu den Black Panther und den Queer-Patrouillen zeichnet Elsa Dorlin in ihrem preisgekrönten Buch eine Genealogie der politischen Selbstverteidigung nach. Diese Geschichte der Gewalt wirft ein neues Licht auf die Definition der modernen Subjektivität und die zeitgenössische Sicherheitspolitik. Sie führt zu einer Neuinterpretation der politischen Philosophie, in deren Rahmen Hobbes und Locke mit Frantz Fanon, Michel Foucault, Malcolm X, June Jordan und Judith Butler in ein faszinierendes Streitgespräch geraten.

This open access book contributes to the creation of a cyber ecosystem supported by blockchain technology in which technology and people can coexist in harmony. Blockchains have shown that trusted records, or ledgers, of permanent data can be stored on the Internet in a decentralized manner. The decentralization of the recording process is expected to significantly economize the cost of transactions. Creating a ledger on data, a blockchain makes it possible to designate the owner of each piece of data, to trade data pieces, and to market them. This book examines the formation of markets for various types of data from the theory of market quality proposed and developed by M. Yano. Blockchains are expected to give data itself the status of a new production factor. Bringing ownership of data to the hands of data producers, blockchains can reduce the possibility of information leakage, enhance the sharing and use of IoT data, and prevent data monopoly and misuse. The industry will have a bright future as soon as better technology is developed and when a healthy infrastructure is created to support the blockchain market.

'China: From Mao to Post-Mao''Taiwan: From Colonialism to Authoritarian State to Democracy'; 'Malaysia: From Ethnic Enclave to Ghetto Escape'; 'Conclusion'; '3 Political Merit-Making'; 'The Interfering State Hypothesis and the State Failure Hypothesis'; 'China'; 'Taiwan'; 'Malaysia'; 'Conclusion'; '4 A (Chinese) Good Person'; 'Heritage'; 'Globalization'; 'A New Subjectivity'; 'Civic Selving'; '5 Gifts, Groups, and Goodness'; 'Gifts and Groups'; 'The Qualities and Limits of Social Capital'; 'Local Temples and Social Capital'; 'Lukang's Temples'