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Chapter 1: Methodological Consideration -- Chapter 2: An Overview of the Existing Literature -- Chapter 3: Contribution to Knowledge -- Chapter 4: Terrorism and the Caribbean -- Chapter 5: Understanding Terrorism: Stakeholders of Terrorism, and the Caribbean. A Caribbean Case Study -- Chapter 6: Conclusion and Recommendation.

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- 1. Entering the Transnational World -- Scope and Main Argument -- Bringing the Regional Scale In -- Outline of the Book -- What May Be Gained? -- 2. Four Paths toward a Comparative Sociology of Regional Integration -- Coming from Below: The Burst of the National Container -- Transnationalism-a Local Phenomenon? -- Transnationalism-a Global Phenomenon? -- The Missing Closure Dimension of "Transnational" -- Coming from Above: The Granfalloon of World Society -- Wallerstein's World-System -- Meyer's World Polity -- Luhmann's World Society -- Inside a Granfalloon: Uncovering the Internal Structure of World Society -- Coming from Europe: The Particularism of "Europeanization" -- Europe-Concept or Case? -- "Europeanization" as "Regionalization in Europe" -- Toward a Comparative-Universalist Alternative -- Learning from the Limitations of the Sociology of Europe -- Coming from Politics: The Beacon of Comparative Regionalism -- Early Comparative Approaches to Regionalism in Political Science -- The Latest Wave of Comparative Regionalism in Political Science -- Is There Really No Sociological Equivalent? -- The Missing Fourth Leg of the Elephant -- 3. The Regionalized Structure of Transnational Human Activity, 1960-2010 -- An Increasingly Interconnected World? -- The Transnational World as a Square -- Comparing Regionalism across Time, Regions, and Activity Types -- Absolute Regionalization -- Absolute Globalization -- Relative Regionalization -- Relative Globalization -- Results for Alternative Constellations of Regions -- Letting the Algorithm Speak -- Summary and Discussion -- Color Plates -- 4. Why Does Regionalism Occur in Transnational Human Activity? -- Culture, Politics, Economics, or Geography -- Cultural and Historical Factors -- Economic and Technological Factors.

"Through analyses of three eventful years in Nazi Germany's history, this book offers a new account of the phenomenon of extreme state violence as a special category of violence, in which the armed forces are used unnecessarily and excessively, often on thin pretexts, and only rarely with the intention of carrying a message to the public"--

Drawing on evolutionary epistemology, process ontology, and a social-cognition approach, this book suggests "cognitive evolution," an evolutionary-constructivist social and normative theory of change and stability of international social orders. It argues that practices and their background knowledge survive preferentially, communities of practice serve as their vehicle, and social orders evolve. As an evolutionary theory of world ordering, which does not borrow from the natural sciences, it explains why certain configurations of practices organize and govern social orders epistemically and normatively, and why and how these configurations evolve from one social order to another. Suggesting a multiple and overlapping international social orders' approach, the book uses three running cases of contested orders, Europe's contemporary social order, the cyberspace order, and the corporate order, to illustrate the theory. Based on the concepts of "common humanity" and "epistemological security," the author also submits a normative theory of "better" practices and of bounded progress.

"Syria-Palestine in the Late Bronze Age presents an explicitly anthropological perspective on politics and social relationships. An anthropological reading of the textual and epigraphic remains of the time allows us to see how power was constructed and political subordination was practised and expressed. Syria-Palestine in the Late Bronze Age identifies a particular political ontology, native to ancient Syro-Palestinian societies, which informs and constitutes their social worlds. This political ontology, based on patronage relationships, provides a way of understanding the political culture and the social dynamics of ancient Levantine peoples. It also illuminates the historical processes taking place in the region, processes based on patrimonial social structures and articulated through patron-client bonds"--Provided by publisher

Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One -- The Growth of a Conception: Nomads and Cities; Chapter Two -- The Political Economy of Bedouin Societies; Chapter Three -- Oases in the Desert; Chapter Four -- Labor Migrants: Balancing Income and Social Security; Chapter Five -- Smuggling Drugs; Chapter Six -- Roving Traders Are the Bedouin's Lifeline; Chapter Seven -- Personal and Tribal Pilgrimages: Imagining an Orderly Social World; Conclusion; References; Index.