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Wie unterscheiden wir Wahrheit und Fiktion im Zeitalter der Fake News? Was sollen wir unseren Kindern beibringen? Wie können wir in unserer unübersichtlichen Welt moralisch handeln? Wie bewahren wir Freiheit und Gleichheit im 21. Jahrhundert? Seit Jahrtausenden hat die Menschheit über den Fragen gebrütet, wer wir sind und was wir mit unserem Leben anfangen sollen. Doch jetzt setzen uns die heraufziehende ökologische Krise, die wachsende Bedrohung durch Massenvernichtungswaffen und der Aufstieg neuer disruptiver Technologien unter Zeitdruck. Bald schon wird irgendjemand darüber entscheiden müssen, wie wir die Macht nutzen, die künstliche Intelligenz und Biotechnologie bereit halten. Dieses Buch will möglichst viele Menschen dazu anregen, sich an den grossen Debatten unserer Zeit zu beteiligen, damit die Antworten nicht von den blinden Kräften des Marktes gegeben werden. (Verlagstext)

The dominance of exclusive commons: An exploration and re-evaluation -- The campine: An overview -- Inclusive commons -- Successful commons: What's in a name? -- The road to success

Neither Indigenous nor white, Shireen Morris is both outside observer and instrumental insider in the fight for Indigenous rights. Shaped by her family's Indian and Fijian migrant story, Morris is a key player in what many consider the greatest moral challenge of our nation: constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians. She takes us inside this vital campaign to meet the powerful Indigenous advocates, helpful (and unhelpful) non-Indigenous lawyers, unlikely conservative and monarchist allies and infuriating politicians. We travel with Morris through the wins, disappointments and, ultimately, the betrayals that led to the Turnbull government's heartbreaking rejection of the Uluru Statement from the Heart. Radical Heart is a challenge for all Australians to dream together of a fairer future, and work as one to make it happen

This book critically discusses two crises that shape our present: migration crisis and 2007-2008 crisis. The first part raises several questions regarding migration, borders, labour, humanitarianism and biopolitics; the second part focuses on the false dilemma between an interpretation of contemporary crisis in the West as capitalist or humanist. Thanasis Lagios is Teaching Assistant at the University of Athens, Greece. Vasia Lekka is Adjunct Academic Staff at the Hellenic Open University, Greece. Grigoris Panoutsopoulos is Researcher at the University of Athens, Greece.

Immigration is an issue central to British society, as demonstrated by the vote for Brexit. This collection of essays offers a fascinating exploration of the ethics surrounding immigration policy in the UK. Produced by Theos, a leading Christian think tank, this thought-provoking book considers the range of ethical approaches to the issue.

"Americans tend to believe that their country is very different from Europe. Yet over the past half century they have imported and embraced the most transformative social idea of modern Scandinavia: egalitarianism. Today, the United States is more like Sweden than it is different, dedicated to economic redistribution and to vigorously defending its big government. What price, morally and economically, are today's Americans willing to pay to preserve their egalitarian welfare state? Are they willing to turn life into a fiscal cost item? Will they sacrifice their children's future prosperity to defend their entitlements?The Rise of Big Government: How Egalitarianism Conquered America pursues the answer to these questions by going back to the ideological origins of the modern, egalitarian welfare state. Specifically, the book asks why this unity has been able to set such deep roots in the United States, a country that is often perceived as fundamentally different when it comes to the role of government in the economy. It is shown that there are more similarities than differences between the welfare state in the United States and its Swedish "template."This book is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding how the egalitarian ideology conquered the United States, and who seeks to gain a deeper understanding of its strength, its resiliency, and the problems it faces in the future."--Provided by publisher

Security Strategies of Middle Powers in the Asia Pacific examines what drives the different regional security strategies of four middle powers in the Asia Pacific: Australia, Indonesia, South Korea and Malaysia. Drawing on the extant middle power literature, the authors argue that the regional security strategies of middle powers could take two forms, namely, functional or normative. A functional strategy means that the middle power targets its resources to address a specific problem that it has a high level of interest in, while a normative strategy refers to a focus on promoting general behavioural standards and confidence building at the multilateral level. This book argues that whether a middle power ultimately employs a more functional or normative regional security strategy depends on its resource availability and strategic environment.

Afghanische basisdemokratische und feministische Akteure äußern deutlich ihren Widerspruch zum externen Peacebuilding - doch sie werden nicht gehört. Ihre Analysen und Ideen werden von Politik und Wissenschaft weitgehend ausgeschlossen. Darin schlägt sich, so kann Mechthild Exo zeigen, die koloniale, epistemische Gewalt in der Weltpolitik nieder. Anschaulich und lebendig stellt sie das "unerwünschte Wissen" von vier afghanischen Organisationen vor, die in der künstlerischen Menschenrechtsarbeit, der feministischen Frauenorganisierung seit den 1970ern mit RAWA, dem Kampf gegen die Straflosigkeit von Kriegsverbrechern beziehungsweise dem besatzungskritischen Aufbau demokratischer Strukturen tätig sind. Die Studie ist eine bahnbrechende Pionierarbeit der dekolonialen Friedensforschung.

In diesem Band wird die Bedeutung von lokalen Innovationsimpulsen für eine verstärkt auf erneuerbaren Energietechnologien und Geschäftsmodellen basierende Energieversorgung analysiert. Anhand der Fälle Bürgerwind, Contracting, Mini/Mikro-KWK und Intelligente Infrastrukturen werden spezifische technische, politische, räumliche und soziale sowie wirtschaftliche Faktoren untersucht und im Buch dargestellt. Der Band zeigt auf, wie sich parallel zu den traditionellen Strukturen des Energiesystems spezifische und teils konkurrierende Struktur- und Organisationsmuster ausbilden. Damit ermöglicht er Praktikern aus der Energiewirtschaft sowie Wissenschaftlern ein besseres Verständnis der Entstehung und Etablierung von erfolgreichen, nachhaltigen und sozialverträglichen lokalen Innovationsimpulsen. Die Buchidee entsprang aus Arbeiten der Projektgruppe des BMBF geförderten Projektes LITRES - Lokale Innovationsimpulse zur Transformation des Energiesystems. Aus dem Inhalt Transformation des deutschen Energiesystems Erfolgsfaktoren und lokale Innovationsimpulse für Bürgerwind, Contracting-Projekte, Mini-/Mikro-KWK und Intelligente Infrastrukturen Multi-level Governance Geschäftsmodellentwicklung Politik, Situative Governance und Transfomation des Energiesystems Die Zielgruppe Praktiker in öffentlichen, privaten und genossenschaftlichen Einrichtungen, die sich mit der Gestaltung des Energiesystems befassen Dozenten, Wissenschaftler und Studierende mit Bezug zu energiewirtschaftlichen-, -politischen und planerischen-technischen Fragestellungen (Energiewirtschaft, Raumplanung, Soziologie, Politikwissenschaft) Der Herausgeber Dr. Gerhard Fuchs arbeitet auf dem Gebiet der Innovationsforschung und Techniksoziologie am Institut für Sozialwissenschaften der Universität Stuttgart. Zwischen 1993 und 2002 war er Abteilungsleiter an der Akademie für Technikfolgenabschätzung in Baden-Württemberg

"Approximately one presidential administration removed from the Great Recession of 2008, an event still referred to as the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, a study of that first economic crisis is not only timely but relevant, as the country still struggles to fully regain the economic footing that it lost with the burst of the housing bubble and the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers. The Great Depression--the worst economic crisis the industrialized Western world has ever seen--permanently changed public policy, setting in motion many of the economic patterns, political templates, and government programs that still govern U.S. social and economic policy. Until the 1930s, most Americans believed that the economy regulated itself according to impersonal, natural economic laws, and they were comfortable leaving economic matters to those market forces."

Tanil Bora discusses "currents" under the following headings: late Ottoman mindset world, westernism, Kemalism, nationalism, Turkism and criticism, conservatism, Islamism, liberalism, left, feminism and Kurdish political movement. It does not just focus on certain texts, but also on words and gestures, and focuses on "who said," not "what." Thus, it reveals the ideological content and "climate" that surrounds political thought

"A different kind of White House memoir, presidential speechwriter David Litt's comic account of his years spent working with Barack Obama and his reflection on Obama's legacy in the age of Trump. Like many twentysomethings, David Litt frequently embarrassed himself in front of his boss's boss. Unlike many twentysomethings, Litt's boss's boss was President Obama. At age twenty-four, Litt became one of the youngest White House speechwriters in history. Along with remarks on issues like climate change and criminal justice reform, he was the president's go-to writer for comedy. As the lead on the White House Correspondents' Dinner speech (the "State of the Union of jokes"), he was responsible for some of President Obama's most memorable moments, including Keegan-Michael Key's appearance as Luther, Obama's "anger translator." With a humorist's eye for detail and a convert's zeal, Litt takes us inside his eight years on the front lines of Obamaworld. In his political coming-of-age story, he goes from starry-eyed college student--a self-described "Obamabot"--to nervous junior speechwriter to White House senior staff. His behind-the-scenes anecdotes answer questions you never knew you had: What's the classiest White House men's room? What's the social scene like on Air Force One? How do you force the National Security Council to stop hitting reply-all on every e-mail? In between lighthearted observations, Litt uses his experience to address one of today's most important issues: the legacy and future of the Obama movement in the age of Donald Trump"--