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Preface -- The Question -- The Theoretical Arguments -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: The Xi-Ma Summit Meeting and US Interests Across the Taiwan Strait -- 1 The KMT-CCP United Front: Committing to "One China" -- Consolidating the "1992 Consensus" and Warning Against Taiwan's Independence -- Stressing on Common Chinese Heritage -- 2 Cross-Strait Rapprochement and Heightened USA-PRC Competition -- US Interests Toward the Taiwan Strait: Democracy and Strategic Ambiguity -- Is the KMT Too Closely Tied with the PRC? -- 3 Main Argument -- The "Second-Image Reversed": External Powers and Domestic Politics -- Great Power Rivalry and Nation-Building Projects -- USA-PRC Relations and Nation Building in Taiwan -- The USA and Taiwan -- The PRC and Taiwan -- Domestic Politics Filters International Systemic Influence: Neoclassical Realism -- 4 Plan of the Book -- References -- Author's Interviews -- Chapter 2: Politics Beyond the Water's Edge: Neoclassical Realism -- 1 The Theoretical Foundations of Neoclassical Realism -- Neoclassical Realism from the Works of Christensen, Dueck, and Layne -- Neoclassical Realism and Taiwan-China Relations -- 2 Proposing a Neoclassical Realist Explanation of Ma Ying-jeou's China Policy -- A Neoclassical Realist Model of Under-balancing: Divided Polity and Fragmented Views on "One China" -- 3 Conclusion -- References -- Author's Interviews -- Chapter 3: Defining "One China" -- 1 Background -- 2 Neoclassical Realism and Social Constructivism -- 3 The Evolution of "One China" in Cross-Strait Interactions -- The Era of Rigidity, 1949-92 -- The Hong Kong Meeting in 1992 -- Equality: "Both Mainland and Taiwan Belong to One China" -- Tacitly Accepting the ROC? -- Love and Hate Relationship: Beijing Persists to Isolate the ROC Internationally -- 4 Conclusion -- References

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction and analytical framework -- Research question and hypotheses -- The analysis of the foreign policies of Arab countries, the Maghreb and Morocco -- From the domestic sources of foreign policy to constructivism through role theory -- Methodology and sources -- Structure of the book -- 1 Objectives, actors and decision-making under Mohammed VI -- A 'new' approach: 'economic diplomacy' and reform of the foreign service -- Changes at the monarchical and security core of decision-making -- The subsidiary role of the government, the parliament and the consultative councils -- Political parties and civil society actors in the periphery -- 2 The tribulations of a 'territorial champion': the international management of a changing Western Sahara conflict -- Domestic and international progress of the 'third way' approach -- Morocco's rejection of the Baker Plan II and the ensuing strategic crisis -- The 'reconciliation' strategy and the Autonomy Plan -- Returning on the defensive in the face of a transformed conflict -- 3 The Sisyphean game of Maghrebi integration and normalisation with Algeria -- Historicist, economistic, security and social discourses on regional cooperation -- The vicissitudes of bilateral relations with Algeria -- Newly dashed expectations after the Arab Spring -- 4 A 'model student' in search of a differentiated relationship with the EU -- Morocco's superficial but effective socialisation by the EU -- An exemplary performance in the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership -- A self-interested welcome to differentiation within the European Neighbourhood Policy -- Weighing up the costs and benefits of cooperation on migration -- 5 Moments of truth and paybacks: from the Advanced Status to the Arab Spring.

Notes on contributors -- Preface: How to use this book, the intended audience, and acknowledgments / Christian B. Miller, Wake Forest University -- Overview of contemporary metaethics and normative ethical theory / Christian B. Miller, Wake Forest University -- Chronology of ethics / J.B. Schneewind, John Hopkins University -- Methodological issues: reflective equilibrium / Michael DePaul, University of Notre Dame -- Important technical terms in ethics / Dan Boisvert, University of North Carolina, Charlotte John Brunero, University of Missouri, St. Louis Sean McKeever, Davidson College Russ Shafer-Landau, University of Wisconsin, Madison Eric Wiland, University of Missouri, St. Louis -- Part I. Central topics in ethics: 1. Moral realism / Terence Cuneo, University of Vermont; 2. Ethical expressivism / Matthew Chrisman, University of Edinburgh; 3. Constructivism and the error theory / Hallvard Lillehammer, Cambridge University; 4. Morality and practical reason / Joshua Gert, College of William and Mary; 5. Moral psychology / Alfred Mele, Florida State University; 6. Morality and religion / William J. Wainwright, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; 7. Consequentialism / Douglas W. Portmore, Arizona State University; 8. Kantian ethics / Kyla Ebels-Duggan, Northwestern University; 9. Virtue ethics / Christine Swanton, University of Auckland; 10. Feminist ethics / Anita Superson, University of Kentucky -- Part II. New directions in ethics: 11. Moral particularism / Pekka Väyrynen, University of Leeds; 12. Experimental ethics / Thomas Nadelhoffer and Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Duke University; 13 Biology, evolution, and ethics / William FitzPatrick, University of Rochester -- Part III. Additional resources: Resources for the fields of metaethics and normative theory / Christian B. Miller, Wake Forest University; Selected works in contemporary metaethics and normative theory / Christian B. Miller, Wake Forest University.

To understand fully the process of European integration, it is necessary to consider developments at the sub-national and local level. EU integration scholars have been examining the local level using the concept of multi-level governance (MLG) since the 1990s. While MLG was the first concept to scrutinize the position of local levels of public administration and other actors within the EU polity, it overestimates the degree of influence it ascribes to local levels, particularly as far as the rural is concerned. Focusing on Germany and Finland, with country specific information from all EU member states, this book combines MLG with the concept of structural constructivism, in order to reveal some of the hidden aspects of EU integration. Bringing together these concepts and methodologies and replacing mainstream theories of integration with this new approach, offers a more accurate picture of multi-level interaction in rural policy and of the impacts of European integration at the local level. By examining the Community Initiative LEADER+ and setting this within a discussion of the state and structure of rural development policy, this book looks at the challenges, opportunities and policy options which are available and have been implemented in rural development. It shows that these are often context dependent and that the future of rural development policies, their shape and institutional configuration depend on reforms put in place at all levels of governance. Finally, it argues that the MLG of rural development policy must be built with people who have the know-how and the (local) knowledge to implement development projects and who have made LEADER a success in the past.--

Thomas E. Hill, Jr., interprets, explains, and extends Kant's moral theory in a series of essays that highlight its relevance to contemporary ethics. The book is divided into four sections. The first three essays cover basic themes: they introduce the major aspects of Kant's ethics; explain different interpretations of the Categorical Imperative; and sketch a 'constructivist' reading of Kantian normative ethics distinct from the Kantian constructivisms of Onora O'Neill and John Rawls. The next section is on virtue, and the essays collected here discuss whether it is a virtue to regard the natural environment as intrinsically valuable, address puzzles about moral weakness, contrast ideas of virtue in Kant's ethics and in 'virtue ethics, ' and comment on duties to oneself, second-order duties, and moral motivation in Kant's 'Doctrine of virtue'. Four essays on moral rules propose human dignity as a guiding value for a system of norms rather than a self-standing test for isolated cases, contrast the Kantian perspectives on moral rules with rule-utilitarianism and then with Jonathan Dancy's moral particularism, and distinguish often-conflated questions about moral relativism. Hill goes on to outline a Kantian position on two central issues. In the last section of the book, three essays on practical questions show how a broadly Kantian theory, if critical of Kant's official theory of law, might re-visit questions about revolution, prison reform, and forcible interventions in other countries for humanitarian purposes. In the final essay, Hill develops the implications of Kant's 'Doctrine of virtue' for the responsibility of by-standers to oppression"--Publisher's description, back cover

Dass wir alle in einer gemeinsamen Wirklichkeit leben, setzen wir meist unhinterfragt voraus. Sehen Andere die Welt dann doch einmal anders, mag es uns scheinen, als sähen sie diese einfach nicht so, wie sie wirklich ist. Schwerer fällt uns anzuerkennen, dass andere zuweilen in ganz anderen Wirklichkeiten unterwegs sind als wir selbst. - Der Autor zeigt, wie sich die Vorstellung einer Pluralität menschlicher Wirklichkeiten mit der Annahme einer wahrnehmungsunabhängigen Realität vereinbaren lässt, ohne sich in einen Relativismus der vielen Wirklichkeiten zu verlaufen. In Auseinandersetzung mit "kontinentalen" und "analytischen" Ansätzen legt er eine elegante Theorie menschlicher Wirklichkeiten vor, die konstruktivistische und realistische, phänomenologische und naturalistische Motive unerwartet miteinander verbindet.

Frauen begehen kaum Gewaltverbrechen - Mord ist ein vorwiegend von Männern verübtes Delikt. Am spektakulären Einzelfall bilden sich normative Vorstellungen zu Macht, Gewalt, Sexualität und Geschlecht anhand der Konstruktion eines abnormalen Anderen ex negativo ab: Er führt vor, was die normale Frau, der normale Mann nicht sein kann.Melanie Grütter zeigt, dass die Definition von krimineller Abweichung in Wissensdiskursen ausgesprochen wirkmächtig in Bezug darauf ist, wie Geschlecht gedacht wird. Ihre historische Analyse stützt sich auf bisher kaum oder gar nicht erschlossene Primärquellen und eröffnet Einblicke auf die Permanenz und den Wandel von Geschlechterverhältnissen bis in die gegenwärtigen Diskurse

Cover -- Contents -- Abbreviations and typographic conventions -- Prologue (or, will social scientists' never-ending disputes over words ever end?) -- First Act -- 1. Sandwichness wars -- 1.1 A sandwich is a sandwich is a sandwich -- 1.2 Criteria -- 1.3 A burrito is a burrito is a burrito -- 1.4 Bread -- 1.5 Meat and dairy -- 1.6 Law and social science -- 2. The problem -- 2.1 What's the problem? -- 2.2 Objects -- 2.3 Characters -- 2.4 Levels -- 2.5 Human -- 2.6 What we talk about when we talk about 'bread,' 'planet,' and 'religion' -- 3. Nine ways to decline -- 3.1 What's your problem? -- 3.2 Nine arguments and nine responses -- 3.3 Envoi -- 4. Technical FAQs -- 4.1 Introductory FAQs -- 4.2 FAQs about definitions and concepts -- 4.3 FAQs about words and meaning -- 4.4 FAQs about other words and expressions -- 4.5 FAQs about sources -- 4.6 Concluding FAQs -- 5. Two activities -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Words and distinctions -- 5.3 The catch -- 5.4 Moving forward: pragmatically -- 6. Practical reason activities -- 6.1 The basic idea -- 6.2 Dinnertime -- 6.3 Collective -- 6.4 The good and the true -- 6.5 Deliberative democracy and constructivism -- 6.6 'Practical' -- 6.7 The plan -- Second Act -- 7. Word first -- 7.1 Words -- 7.2 Words, words, words -- 7.3 Dump ontology -- 7.4 Descriptively and normatively -- 8. Activity WF and its discontents -- 8.1 Trouble -- 8.2 Merely -- 8.3 Verbal and merely verbal -- 8.4 Struggles -- 8.5 Social science -- 8.6 Against -- 8.7 For -- 8.8 How words matter -- 9. Distinction first -- 9.1 Distinctions and classifications -- 9.2 Research on classification -- 9.3 Good news and bad news -- 9.4 Desiderata -- 9.5 Individuation -- 9.6 How to choose -- 9.7 A Chinese encyclopedia -- 10. Conversation starters (fragments, sketches, suggestions, doubts) -- 10.1 Hey! -- 10.2 Are some animals more equal than others?.

"Heterarchy in World Politics challenges the fundamental framing of international relations and world politics. IR theory has always been dominated by the presumption that world politics is, at its core, a system of states. However, this has always been problematic, challengeable, time-bound, and increasingly anachronistic. In the 21st century, world politics is becoming increasingly multi-nodal and characterized by "heterarchy" - the coexistence and conflict between differently structured micro- and meso quasi-hierarchies that compete and overlap not only across borders but also across economic-financial sectors and social groupings. Thinking about international order in terms of heterarchy is a paradigm shift away from the mainstream "competing paradigms" of realism, liberalism, and constructivism. This book explores how, since the mid-20th century, the dialectic of globalization and fragmentation has caught states and the interstate system in the complex evolutionary process toward heterarchy. These heterarchical institutions and processes are characterized by increasing autonomy and special interest capture. The process of heterarchy empowers strategically situated agents - especially agents with substantial autonomous resources, and in particular economic resources - in multi-nodal competing institutions with overlapping jurisdictions. The result is the decreasing capacity of macro-states to control both domestic and transnational political/economic processes. In this book, the authors demonstrate that this is not a simple breakdown of states and the states system; it is in fact the early stages of a structural evolution of world politics. This book will interest students, scholars and researchers of international relations theory. It will also have significant appeal in the fields of world politics, security studies, war studies, peace studies, global governance studies, political science, political economy, political power studies, and the social sciences more generally"--

Introduction -- Part I: Studies -- 1. Pindar's "Gold" and Heraclitus's "Kosmos" as Being Itself -- 2. In the Black Notebooks: The "Turn" Away from the Transcendental-Phenomenological Positioning of Being and Time to the Thinking of Being as Physis and Aletheia -- 3. Heidegger's Manifold Thinking of Being: In Honor of Prof. William J. Richardson -- 4. Athena, Art, and Overcoming the Egoity of Our Age -- 5. Mythos, Being, and the Appropriation of a Religious Tradition -- 6. On Heidegger's Heraclitus Lectures: In Nearness of a Process Metaphysics? -- 7. The Path through Heidegger's Thought: Interview with FILOZOFIA -- Part II: Translation -- 8. "Martin Heidegger's Thinking and Japanese Philosophy" by Koichi Tsujimura and "Reply in Appreciation" by Martin Heidegger -- Part III: Reflections and Impressions -- 9. Heidegger and the Earliest Greeks -- 10. Heidegger, Phenomenology, and Metaphysics -- 11. Why "Phenomenology" Inevitably Slides toward Idealism/Subjectivism/Constructivism -- 12. Heidegger's "Clearing" Is Not Identical with the Human Being -- 13. Heidegger, Max M#x81;ller, and Metaphysics: "Heidegger Remains a Metaphysician" -- 14. Heidegger, Plato, and "Light" -- 15. Hegel and the Inexhaustible Depth of "Things" -- 16. Facticity Only in the Light of Eternity -- 17. Another Suggestion on Thinking: Heidegger and Whitehead -- 18. Heidegger and C.G. Jung on Wholeness as the Telos of the Human Being -- 18. Heidegger and C.G. Jung on "Opposites" -- 20. Heidegger and Melville -- 21. Heidegger and a Robert Frost Poem -- 22. The Unspeakable Mystery of All Things -- 23. A "Hermetic Saying" and the Hermetic Tradition -- 24. Heidegger and Walt Whitman -- 25. Heidegger and the Limit of Language -- and Rumi -- 26. Thomas Aquinas, "God," and the "Godhead of God" -- Afterword -- A Note on the Text and Heidegger's Gesamtausgabe -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Notes on contributors -- 1 The blurred line between state identity and realpolitik -- 2 Neoclassical realism: domestic politics, systemic pressures, and the impact on foreign policy since the Arab Spring -- 3 What constructivism? -- 4 Historical sociology and Middle East international relations -- 5 Subaltern realism meets the Arab world -- 6 Islam, political Islam, and the state system -- 7 Don't shoot the elephant: Middle East stability after the Iranian nuclear deal -- 8 The revolutionary guard in Iranian domestic and foreign power politics -- 9 The Arab uprising and regional power struggle -- 10 US-Israel relations during the Obama administration: fundamental shift, or adaptation to new realities? -- 11 Saudi Arabia and Iran: Islam and foreign policy in the Middle East -- 12 The Arab Spring and Russian foreign policy toward the Middle East -- 13 China's foray into the Middle East: from ambivalence to ambition? -- 14 Oil production, innovation, and politics in the Middle East -- 15 Qatar: an ambitious small state -- 16 GCC foreign policy: the struggle for consensus -- 17 EU policy in the Middle East: unfulfilled aspirations -- 18 Old and new challenges for ethnic and religious minorities in the Middle East -- 19 UN Security Council Resolution 1325: a framework for women's peace activism in the Middle East? -- 20 The demise of the Arab strongman? Authoritarianism and the future of the Middle East -- 21 Armed non-state actors and strategic decision-making -- 22 Islamic State: aberration, or accelerant of system-wide changes to come? -- 23 Proxy relations: Iran and Hezbollah -- 24 The Muslim Brotherhood and An-Nahda after the Arab Spring: a failed project -- 25 Transition and the Arab Spring -- 26 Shock absorption: Palestinian-Israel status quo 2009-17.

'Organizational research methods' (ORM) are making an ontological turn by studying the nature of Being, becoming, and the meaning of existence in the world. For example, without ontology, there is no 'ground' and no 'theory' in Grounded Theory (GT) This book explores ten ways to develop fourth wave GT that is grounded and theory. 1st wave GT commits inductive fallacy inference, 2nd wave GT bandaids it with positivistic content coding. 3rd wave GT turns to social constructivism, but this leaves out the materiality and ecology of existence. The first three waves do not address falsification or verification. There is another theme. Qualitative research methods is a discipline craft, not mere science or something that automated text analysis software can displace. Quantiative narrative analysis (QDA) is one more way to colonize and marginalize indigenous ways of knowing (IWOK) Without an ontological turn, its the death of storytelling predicted by Walter Benjamin and Gertrude Stein predicted. The good news is Western Empirical Science is beginning to listen to IWOK-Native Science experiential living story method of relations not only to other humans but to other animals, plants, to living air, water, and earth in living ecosystem of an enchanted world There is a gap in the qualitative research methodology practices and comprehensive advanced approaches causing a split between practice and theory. So called Grounded Theory (inductive positivism)Organizational Research: Storytelling in Action is about how to conduct ten kinds of ontological Research Methods and conduct their interpretative analyses, for organization studies, in an ethically answerable way. It is aimed at people who want a more 'advanced' treatment than available in so-called Grounded Theory or automated narrative analysis books.

Introduction Hans Kelsen for Americans; D. A. Jeremy Telman -- Part I: Hans Kelsen and American Legal Philosophy -- Chapter 2 Kelsen in the U.S.: Still Misunderstood; Brian Bix -- Chapter 3 Marmor's Kelsen; Michael Steven Green -- Part II: Hans Kelsen and the Development of Public International Law -- Chapter 4 The Kelsen-Hart Debate: Hart's Critique of Kelsen's Legal Monism Reconsidered; Lars Vinx -- Chapter 5 Peace and Global Justice Through Prosecuting the Crime of Aggression? Kelsen and Morgenthau on the Nuremberg Trials and the International Judicial Function; Jochen von Bernstorff -- Chapter 6 Hans Kelsen, the Second World War and the U.S. Government Thomas Olechowski -- Part III: Kelsen in Unexplored Dialogues -- Chapter 7 Arriving at Justice by a Process of Elimination: Hans Kelsen and Leo Strauss; Elisabeth Lefort -- Chapter 8 Kelsen and Niebuhr on Democracy; Daniel R. Rice -- Chapter 9 Hans Kelsen's Psychoanalytic Heritage – an Ehrenzweigian Reconstruction; Bettina Rentsch -- Chapter 10 A Morally Enlightened Positivism? Kelsen and Habermas on the Democratic Roots of Validity in Municipal and International Law; David Ingram -- Part IV: Kelsen's Legacies -- Chapter 11 The Neglect of Hans Kelsen in West German Public Law Scholarship, 1945–1980; Frieder Günther -- Chapter 12 Philosophy of Law and Theory of Law: The Continuity of Kelsen's Years in America; Nicoletta Ladavac -- Chapter 13 Pure Formalism? Kelsenian Interpretive Theory between Textualism and Realism; Christoph Bezemek -- Chapter 14 Cognition and Reason: Rethinking Kelsen in the Context of Contract and Business Law; Jeffrey M. Lipshaw -- Chapter 15 Kelsen's View of the Addressee of the Law: Primary and Secondary Norms; Dru Stevenson -- Chapter 16 Kelsen, Justice, and Constructivism; Joshua Felix -- Conclusions -- Chapter 17 In Defense of Modern Times: A Keynote Address; Clemens Jabloner -- Chapter 18 Hans Kelsen's Modernist Secularism and the Free Exercise of Religion; Jeremy Telman.

1 Introduction: The Measure of Modern Theory in World Politics; . - Part I Theoretical Interventions; . - 2 Ever Since the Days of Thucydides: On the Textual Origins of IR Theory;. - 3 Appropriating Adam Smith: Affirmation and Contestation in Discourses of Political Economy;. - 4 Marx and Materiality: "International Relations" as Embedded Efficiencies and Emergencies;. - 5 No International Theory, but What about Transformation? A Critical Reading of Martin Wight and Raya Dunayevskaya. - 6 Hannah Arendt and the Geopolitics of Ecology. - 7 Critical Spirits/Realist Specters: Some Hypotheses on the Spectro-Poetic sof International Relations;. - Part II Security, Representation, and Subjectivity; . - 8 The Centrality of Tabloid Geopolitics: Western Discourses of Terror and the Defacing of the Other;. - 9 Writing from the Edge;. - 10 The Presence of War: "Here and Elsewhere";. - 11 Territorializing the Soul: The Geopolitics of Subjectivity;. - 12 Return of the Oppressed: Recognition, Violence, and the Mediation of Estrangement;. - 13 The Achievements of Feminism in IR. - Part III The Analytics of World Politics. - 14 Between U.S. Imperialism and "Empire": World Politics and the Globalization of Late Capitalist Subjectivity;. - 15 "Beyond" the International: The Immanence of the Global;. - 16 Interdisciplining Global Thinking;. - 17 The (Human) Subject of Security: Beyond the Biopolitics of Resilience;. - 18 Melancholia, Realism, and International Relations;. - 19 Beyond Dualism: Expanded Understandings of Religion and Global Justice;. - 20 The Paradox of Crisis and the Importance of Being Disinterested. - 21 Constructivism, Archaeology, and Humanitarian Intervention: A Reflection on Method. - Part IV Virtual Communities;. - 22 What Would a Global Civic Order Look Like? A Perspective from Islamic History;. - 23 Cosmopolitan Theory and World Politics: An Argument for Cosmopolitan Realism;. - 24 The Last Frontier:Contemporary Peregrinations over the Borders of International

"Teaching and Learning with in the Digital Age is for all those concerned with the crucial impact of emerging digital technologies on teaching on learning. It explores what we mean by the digital age, its influence on teenage cultural practices and how it informs our understanding of knowledge, pedagogy and practice. By examining teaching with digital technologies through new learning theories cognisant of the digital age, it aims to both advance thinking and offer strategies for teaching technology-savvy students that will ensure meaningful learning. Illustrated throughout with case studies from across the subjects and the age range, key issues considered include: - How young people create and share knowledge both in and beyond the classroom and how current and new pedagogies can support this level of achievement - The use of complexity theory as a framework to explore teaching in the digital age - The way learning occurs - one way exchanges, online and face to face interactions, learning within a framework of constructivism, and in communities - What we mean by critical thinking, why it is important in a digital age, and how this can occur in the context of teaching - How students can create knowledge through a variety of teaching and learning activities, and how the knowledge being created can be shared, critiqued and evaluated. With an emphasis throughout on what it means for practice, this book aims to improve understanding of how learning theories currently work and can evolve in the future to promote truly effective learning in the digital era. It is essential reading for all student teachers, those engaged in Masters' level work, as well as students on Education Studies courses"-- Provided by publisher