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With a new preface and updated chapters White Like Me is one-part memoir one-part polemical essay collection. It is a personal examination of the way in which racial privilege shapes the daily lives of white Americans in every realm: employment education housing criminal justice and elsewhere. Using stories from his own life Tim Wise demonstrates the ways in which racism not only burdens people of color but also benefits in relative terms those who are "white like him." He discusses how racial privilege can harm whites in the long run and make progressive social change less likely. He explores the ways in which whites can challenge their unjust privileges and explains in clear and convincing language why it is in the best interest of whites themselves to do so. Using anecdotes instead of stale statistics Wise weaves a narrative that is at once readable and yet scholarly analytical and yet accessible

Introduction : Debating the new terrain --Dragonomics : an internationalized development strategy --A slow thaw across the Pacific : From socialist revolution to pragmatic reform --From state to market : A fork in the reform road --Making openness work : Chile, Costa Rica, and Peru --An institutional resource curse in Argentina and Brazil --Ratcheting down the industrial ladder in Mexico --Latin America's pivot toward Asia.

This book explores the impact of Chinese growth on Latin America since the early 2000s. Roughly twenty years ago, Chinese entrepreneurs headed to the Western Hemisphere in search of profits and commodities, specifically those that China lacked and that some Latin American countries held in abundance -- copper, iron ore, crude oil, soybeans, and fish meal. Focusing largely on Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Mexico, and Peru, Carol Wise traces the evolution of political and economic ties between China and these countries and analyzes how success has varied by sector, project, and country. She also assesses the costs and benefits of Latin America's recent pivot toward Asia. Wise argues that while opportunities for closer economic integration with China are seemingly infinite, so are the risks, and contends that the best outcomes have stemmed from endeavors where the rule of law, regulatory oversight, and a clear strategy exist on the Latin American side.

An insightful examination of the political and economic ties between China and Latin America from the 1950s to the present This book explores the impact of Chinese growth on Latin America since the early 2000s. Roughly twenty years ago, Chinese entrepreneurs headed to the Western Hemisphere in search of profits and commodities, specifically those that China lacked and that some Latin American countries held in abundance—copper, iron ore, crude oil, soybeans, and fish meal. Focusing largely on Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Mexico, and Peru, Carol Wise traces the evolution of political and economic ties between China and these countries and analyzes how success has varied by sector, project, and country. She also assesses the costs and benefits of Latin America's recent pivot toward Asia. Wise argues that while opportunities for closer economic integration with China are seemingly infinite, so are the risks, and contends that the best outcomes have stemmed from endeavors where the rule of law, regulatory oversight, and a clear strategy exist on the Latin American side

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Maps and Illustrations -- Preface / Wise, S. F. -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Military Aviation before the First World War -- Part I: Canadian Training and Air Policy -- Introduction -- 2. Recruiting and Training in Canada, 1914-16 -- 3. Sir Sam Hughes, the Aviation Lobby, and Canadian Air Policy, 1914-16 -- 4. RFC Expansion and the Canadian Air Training Organization -- Part II: The Admiralty and the Air -- Introduction -- 5. Origins of Naval Airpower -- 6. 1916: Diffusion and Misdirection -- 7. Alternative Roles, 1917-18 -- 8. Aviation and the Victory over the Submarine -- Part III: Strategic Airpower -- Introduction -- 9. The Air Defence of Britain -- 10. The RNAS and the Birth of a Bombing Strategy -- 11. The Strategic Air Offensive against Germany -- Part IV: Airpower in the Land Battle -- Introduction -- 12. Experiments on the Western Front, 1914-15 -- 13. The Birth of Airpower, 1916 -- 14. Stalemate on the Western Front, 1917 -- 15. Italy and Macedonia, 1917-18 -- 16. The Ludendorff Offensives, 1918 -- 17. Amiens -- 18. Perfecting the Air Weapon -- Conclusion -- 19. Towards the Establishment of a Canadian Air Force -- Appendices -- A. Canadian Airmen and the British Intervention in Russia, 1918-20 -- B. Canadians in Other Theatres, 1915-18 -- C. Statistical Analysis of Canadians in the British Flying Services -- Notes -- Index

"This introductory book on Thai politics and the rule of law explains why chronically unstable Thailand struggles to mediate and adjudicate its political disputes. It focuses on the continuities between the pre-1932 and post-1932 periods. Since the shift to constitutional monarchy in 1932, the power of the monarch and military has endured; the legislature, electorate and, until recently, judiciary have been comparatively powerless; and constitutions and laws have been comparatively unimportant. Historical continuities are also evident in the persistence of hierarchical thinking and ethno-nationalism, both of which have inhibited open debates about governance, and in the emergence of a distinctively Thai legal culture. Thailand's governance was re-cast ambitiously in the 1890s, 1932 and 1997. Since 1997, governing Thailand and developing Thailand's economy have become harder. So political disputes have become more acute and the absence of a national consensus on dispute settlement mechanisms more obvious. Until governance is again re-cast, Thailand's political instability and cycle of coups will continue. This volume offers contemporary insights and historical context to the general reader, newcomers to Thailand, and students of Thai history, politics and law."--

Introduction / Courtney Coile, Kevin Milligan, and David A. Wise -- Work capacity and longer working lives in Belgium / Alain Jousten and Mathieu Lefebvre -- Health capacity to work at older ages: evidence from Canada / Kevin Milligan and Tammy Schirle -- Health capacity to work at older ages in Denmark / Paul Bingley, Nabanita Datta Gupta, and Peder J. Pedersen -- Health capacity to work at older ages in France / Didier Blanchet, Eve Caroli, Corinne Prost, and Muriel Roger -- Healthy, happy, and idle: estimating the health capacity to work at older ages in Germany / Hendrik Jürges, Lars Thiel, and Axel Börsch-Supan -- Health capacity to work at older ages: evidence from Italy / Agar Brugiavini, Giacomo Pasini, and Guglielmo Weber -- Health capacity to work at older ages: evidence from Japan / Emiko Usui, Satoshi Shimizutani, and Takashi Oshio -- Work capacity at older ages in the Netherlands / Adriaan Kalwij, Arie Kapteyn, and Klaas de Vos -- Health capacity to work at older ages: evidence from Spain / Pilar García-Gómez, Sergi Jiménez-Martín, and Judit Vall Castelló -- Health, work capacity, and retirement in Sweden / Per Johansson, Lisa Laun, and Mårten Palme -- Health capacity to work at older ages: evidence from the United Kingdom / James Banks, Carl Emmerson, and Gemma Tetlow -- Health capacity to work at older ages: evidence from the U.S. / Courtney Coile, Kevin Milligan, and David A. Wise