Values and geopolitics : Europe is who and where it is -- Strategy : what can Europe do, what does Europe want? -- Europe and the (other) great powers -- Europe and its neighbours -- Europe, military power and NATO -- European defence and maybe even a European army -- Brexit, strategy, and the EU : Britain takes leave -- Conclusion : which Europe are we doing this for?
Introduction : tracing the history of construction reports from Simon (1944) to the Construction Sector Deal (2018) -- A critique of the modern construction industry -- Replacing target setting -- Setting out the priorities of the broad objectives -- The size and scope of the construction sector -- Innovation in the modern construction industry -- A quality built output by a competitive industry -- Efficiency and professionalism -- Construction industry strategies -- The construction market -- The way forward.
Introduction -- theoretical and methodological background of the survey / Anna Skolimowska -- Constructivist perspective on identity issue in international relations / Anna Skolimowska -- In search of academic tools to evaluate the European Union's identity on the global stage / Anna Skolimowska -- The European Union's identity on the global stage / Anna Skolimowska -- The social construction of identity and belonging : perceptions of EU in the western Balkans / Laura Maria Herța and Adrian Corpadean -- The European Union and the countries of Eastern partnership- the type of cooperation and neighbours' perception / Beata Piskorska -- Russia's perceptions of the European identity / Olga Barburska -- From the hopeless continent towards the rising star : the perceptions of the European Union by African elites / Anna Maslon-Oracz and Iwona Janczyk -- EU-India's dialogue and the changing self-representations of the actors / Ana Pantea -- East Asia-European Union relations : the case of Japan and South Korea in the last decade / Olga Barbasiewicz -- Critical views on the EU's international relations and identity as shaped by Latin American experiences and perspectives / Șerban Văetiși -- American think tanks perspective of the European identity in foreign affairs / Bartosz M. Rydlinski -- Conclusions / Anna Skolimowska.
Introduction -- Methodology -- Liberty and democracy -- Democratization -- Religion and politics -- Political Islam and democracy -- Use of religion for political purposes -- Sectarianism -- Lack of democratic tradition -- Political and administrative errors -- Exogenous factors -- Structural factors -- Conclusion.
Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; PART I The Value View; 1 The Value View-the Basics; 2 The Components of a Claim; 3 In Defense of the Value View; PART II The Agency View; 4 The Agency View-the Basics; 5 The Components of Owing: Exclusionary Reasons and Relationality; 6 How Agency Generates Rights; 7 The Strength of Claims (and Rights); 8 The Moral Significance of Rights; 9 Losing Rights; PART III Exercise-Based Rights; 10 Exercise-Based Rights-the Very Idea; 11 Exercise-Based Rights-Why Accept Them?; Bibliography; Index
Situating the field -- Removing religions in the 1950s and the early 1960s -- Introducing ethnicity: the promise of the utopian alterity -- Ethnicity perpetuated: Nanzhao history between China and Thailand -- Religious revival in Dali and Xizhou -- Culturalization of religion and ethnicity -- Temple lost, temple regained: the sacred public space.
The physical and social dimensions of climate change -- The rise and role of social inequality in the production of climate change -- Maintaining inequality : the ideology of denial and the creation of climate change uncertainty -- The polluting elite and the political economy of climate change denial -- Anthropological lens on climate change -- Changing world of the indigenous Alaskan Yupik and Iñupiat peoples -- Water vulnerability and social equity in Ecuador -- On the bottom rung of a low lying nation : social ranking and climate change in Bangladesh -- Haiti : a legacy of colonialism, a future of climate change -- Mali: climate change, desertification, and food insecurity -- The consequential intersection of social inequality and climate change : health, coping, and community organizing.
The UN Security Council has been given the primary responsibility for maintaining international peace and security. The precise meaning of this responsibility, however, is contested. This lack of clarity is frequently criticised as a source of incoherent and selective decision-making, undermining the legitimacy of the Security Council. In case studies of the Security Council's controversies on Iraq and Syria, this book instead reveals contestation and competing interpretations of responsibility as crucial conditions for the constitution and negotiation of normative order. The case studies also underline the importance of public Security Council meetings as dynamic sites for coping with a plurality of normative orders and how their symbolic and material manifestations shape processes of collective legitimation. This book concludes that these processes demonstrate the crucial role of justification and critique as practices of normative ordering in the Security Council.The Justification of Responsibility in the UN Security Council argues that normative orders in international organisations are constructed by multifaceted processes of questioning, reaffirming and coordinating claims of normativity and legitimacy. Connecting research on norms and legitimacy in international relations with pragmatist sociology, the book provides an account of the complexities and inconsistencies of decision-making processes and their normative foundations in international organisations. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of international organisations, international relations theory and global governance.
The complexity of the city Jerusalem: historical background -- The Arab education system in Israel: East Jerusalem -- Methodology -- Policy and power: curriculum and textbooks -- Struggle of the people: principals and teachers -- Struggle of the people: graduates and parents.
State and Tribes in Syria: Informal Alliances and Conflict Patterns explores the policies of the successive Syrian governments towards the Arab tribes and their reactions to these policies. The book examines the consequences of the relationship between state and tribe since the fall of the Ottoman Empire and its withdrawal from Syria in 1916 until the eruption of the current Syrian civil war. Throughout history and up to the present day, tribalism continues to influence many issues related to governance, conflict and stability in the Middle East and North Africa. The book provides a dissection of a crucial, but neglected axis of the current crisis on the relationship between the state and the tribes. The research draws on data gathered through interviews with members of Syrian tribes, as well as written literature in various languages including English, Arabic and French. The book combines the research focus of political scientists and anthropologists by relating the local patterns (communities and tribal affiliations) to the larger system (state institutions and policies) of which they are a part. State and Tribes in Syria: Informal Alliances and Conflict Patternsadvances our knowledge of an under-studied component of the Syrian society: the tribes. Therefore it is a vital resource for students, scholars and policymakers interested in Syrian Studies and Middle Eastern Studies.
From the Truman doctrine to the second superpower detente: the rise and fall of the Cold War -- Why did we get the end of the Cold War wrong? -- His finest hour? George Bush and the diplomacy of German unification -- Another Transatlantic split? American and European narratives and the end of the Cold War -- The necessary partnership? The Clinton presidency and post-Soviet Russia -- Learning from history? From Soviet collapse to the new Cold War -- Not just convenient: China and Russia's new strategic partnership in the age of geopolitics -- Power shifts, economic change and the decline of the West -- Still the American empire -- Beyond the West: terrors in Transatlantia -- Europe: still between the superpowers -- The rise of populism and the crisis of globalization: Brexit, Trump and beyond.