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Book SynopsisHuman development and the momentous forces of globalization confront the natural world in Latin America and the Caribbean with unprecedented challenges that are shaping a new kind of politics. This first volume of Environmental Politics in Latin America and the Caribbean introduces readers from a broad range of disciplines to the principal environmental problems facing one of the most ecologically diverse parts of the world - from deforestation, land degradation, biodiversity loss and water shortages to climate change. It provides an essential introduction to the historical, political and economic context in which the natural environment in this region is being transformed, providing the backdrop for Volume II which examines the green movement and policymaking. This introductory volume sketches the environmental history of Latin America and the Caribbean to show how society has been shaping the landscape since pre-Columbian times. It surveys ideas that have determined attitudes to the environment since Conquest and the political legacies influencing the emergence of green activism. It examines the impact of changing patterns of economic growth and how states are embracing sustainable development to confront climate change. Together, both volumes of Environmental Politics in Latin America and the Caribbean provide the framework for a modular course on this essential topic, with each chapter structured to be the basis of a single teaching unit. Using tables, boxes and maps to support the student, the two volumes offer an accessible way of understanding the background and context of environmental politics in the region as well as theoretical debates and key developments.Table of Contents List of boxes List of figures List of tables List pf abbreviations Acknowledgements Introduction 1. From Early Civilization to Industrialization 2. The Environment in Ideas 3. Political Legacies and Challenges 4. Development and Globalization 5. The Environment and Economic Policy 6. Sustainable Development and Climate Change References Index

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Book SynopsisGreen issues are rising rapidly up the agenda in Latin America and the Caribbean as governments struggle to reconcile the demands of globalization with the quest for equitable and sustainable growth. This second volume of Environmental Politics in Latin America and the Caribbean reveals how the region is becoming a laboratory of change – and a source of inspiration in global affairs – as states, multilateral agencies and the private sector seek sustainable solutions to its pressing problems. This volume explains the roles institutions, policies and political actors play in green policymaking and builds on the introduction to the historical, political and economic context in which they have evolved provided in Volume I. It examines how democratization in the 1980s gave new space to environmental and indigenous activists, and surveys the ideas inspiring them to forge a new kind of politics. As institutional change has become a defining feature of political development throughout this region, new environmental ministries and agencies have established new standards of regulation and enforcement. Policymakers are advancing innovative ways to tackle complex environmental problems and constitutions, laws and treaties are enshrining new green rights that increasingly assertive courts are upholding. Together, both volumes of Environmental Politics in Latin America and the Caribbean provide the framework for a modular course on this essential topic, with each chapter structured to be the basis of a single teaching unit. Using tables, boxes and maps to support the student, the two volumes offer an accessible way of understanding the background and context of environmental politics in the region as well as theoretical debates and key developments.Table of Contents List of boxes List of figures List of tables List of abbreviations Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Institutions 2. Policy 3. International Relations 4. Actors – Green Parties 5. Actors – Social Movements and NGOs 6. Green Ideology References Index

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Book SynopsisForeign aid remains a crucial policy tool of donor countries, and many countries throughout the world have been or continue to be recipients of aid. In this research review, Professor Milner and Professor Tingley bring together the key published articles from a variety of disciplines which explore and elucidate the geopolitics of foreign aid. The title investigates the motivations for giving aid, the politics surrounding aid for donors and recipients, the role of international institutions and military aid. Table of ContentsContents: Volume I: Acknowledgements Introduction Helen V. Milner and Dustin H. Tingley PART I AID AS FOREIGN POLICY STRATEGY 1. Hans Morgenthau (1962), ‘A Political Theory of Foreign Aid’ 2. Thomas C. Schelling (1955), ‘American Foreign Assistance’ 3. David A. Baldwin (1969), ‘Foreign Aid, Intervention, and Influence’ 4. Eileen M. Crumm (1995), ‘The Value of Economic Incentives in International Politics’ 5. Hans W. Singer ([1964] 2007), 'International Aid for Economic Development: Problems and Tendencies’ 6. Paul Mosley (1985), ‘The Political Economy of Foreign Aid: A Model of the Market for a Public Good’ 7. Scott Jackson (1979), ‘Prologue to the Marshall Plan: The Origins of the American Commitment for a European Recovery Program’ 8. Edwin A. Sexton and Terence N. Decker (1992), ‘U.S. Foreign Aid: Is it for Friends, Development or Politics?’ 9. Brian Lai (2003), ‘Examining the Goals of US Foreign Assistance in the Post-Cold War Period, 1991–96’ 10. Anne Boschini and Anders Olofsgård (2007), ‘Foreign Aid: An Instrument for Fighting Communism? 11. Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith (2007), ‘Foreign Aid and Policy Concessions’ 12. Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith (2009), ‘A Political Economy of Aid’ 13. Miroslav Nincic (2010), ‘Getting What You Want: Positive Inducements in International Relations’ PART II AID AND DONORS 14. R.D. McKinlay and R. Little (1978), ‘A Foreign-Policy Model of the Distribution of British Bilateral Aid, 1960–70’ 15. James Meernik, Eric L. Krueger and Steven C. Poe (1998), ‘Testing Models of U.S. Foreign Policy: Foreign Aid during and after the Cold War’ 16. Richard Ball and Christopher Johnson (1996), ‘Political, Economic, and Humanitarian Motivations for PL 480 Food Aid: Evidence from Africa’ 17. Jean-Philippe Thérien and Alain Noël (2000), ‘Political Parties and Foreign Aid’ 18. Robert K. Fleck and Christopher Kilby (2001), ‘Foreign Aid and Domestic Politics: Voting in Congress and the Allocation of USAID Contracts across Congressional Districts’ 19. Robert K. Fleck and Christopher Kilby (2010), ‘Changing Aid Regimes? U.S. Foreign Aid from the Cold War to the War on Terror’ 20. Joshua William Busby (2007), ‘Bono Made Jesse Helms Cry: Jubilee 2000, Debt Relief, and Moral Action in International Politics’ 21. Dustin Tingley (2010), ‘Donors and Domestic Politics: Political Influences on Foreign Aid Effort’ 22. David H. Bearce and Daniel C. Tirone (2010), ‘Foreign Aid Effectiveness and the Strategic Goals of Donor Governments’ 23. Helen V. Milner and Dustin H. Tingley (2011), ‘Who Supports Global Economic Engagement? The Sources of Preferences in American Foreign Economic Policy’ 24. Martin C. Steinwand (2011), ‘Estimating Free-Riding Behavior: The StratAM Model’ 25. Leonard Dudley and Claude Montmarquette (1976), ‘A Model of the Supply of Bilateral Foreign Aid’ Volume II: Acknowledgements An introduction to both volumes by the editor appears in Volume I PART I AID AND RECIPIENTS 1. Craig Burnside and David Dollar (2000), ‘Aid, Policies and Growth’ 2. Alberto Alesina and David Dollar (2000), ‘Who Gives Foreign Aid to Whom and Why?’ 3. Paul Collier and David Dollar (2000), ‘Does Africa Need a Marshall Plan?’ 4. Paul Collier and David Dollar (2002), ‘Aid Allocation and Poverty Reduction’ 5. Thad Dunning (2004), ‘Conditioning the Effects of Aid: Cold War Politics, Donor Credibility, and Democracy in Africa’ 6. Stephen Knack (2004), ‘Does Foreign Aid Promote Democracy?’ 7. Paul Collier and Anke Hoeffler (2004), ‘Aid, Policy and Growth in Post-Conflict Societies’ 8. Jean-Claude Berthélemy and Ariane Tichit (2004), ‘Bilateral Donors’ Aid Allocation Decisions - A Three-Dimensional Panel Analysis’ 9. Paul Collier and David Dollar (2004), ‘Development Effectiveness: What Have We Learnt?’ 10. Kevin M. Morrison (2009), ‘Oil, Nontax Revenue, and the Redistributional Foundations of Regime Stability’ 11. Sarah Blodgett Bermeo (2011), ‘Foreign Aid and Regime Change: A Role for Donor Intent’ 12. Christopher Kilby and Axel Dreher (2010), ‘The Impact of Aid on Growth Revisited: Do Donor Motives Matter?’ 13. Camelia Minoiu and Sanjay G. Reddy (2010), ‘Development Aid and Economic Growth: A Positive Long-Run Relation’ 14. Alberto Alesina and Beatrice Weder (2002), ‘Do Corrupt Governments Receive Less Foreign Aid?’ 15. Eric Werker, Faisal Z. Ahmed and Charles Cohen (2009), ‘How Is Foreign Aid Spent? Evidence from a Natural Experiment’ PART II AID AND INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS 16. Kul B. Rai (1980), ‘Foreign Aid and Voting in the UN General Assembly, 1967–1976’ 17. Strom C. Thacker (1999), ‘The High Politics of IMF Lending’ 18. Ilyana Kuziemko and Eric Werker (2006), ‘How Much is a Seat on the Security Council Worth? Foreign Aid and Bribery at the United Nations’ 19. Axel Dreher, Jan-Egbert Sturm and James Raymond Vreeland (2009), ‘Development Aid and International Politics: Does Membership on the UN Security Council Influence World Bank Decisions?’ 20. Peter Boone (1996), ‘Politics and the Effectiveness of Foreign Aid’ 21. Joseph Wright and Matthew Winters (2010), ‘The Politics of Effective Foreign Aid’ 22. Christopher Kilby (2009), ‘The Political Economy of Conditionality: An Empirical Analysis of World Bank Loan Disbursements’ 23. Eric Neumayer (2003), ‘The Determinants of Aid Allocation by Regional Multilateral Development Banks and United Nations Agencies’ 24. Randall W. Stone (2004), ‘The Political Economy of IMF Lending in Africa’ 25. Randall W. Stone (2008), ‘The Scope of IMF Conditionality’ 26. Christopher Kilby (2006), ‘Donor Influence in Multilateral Development Banks: The Case of the Asian Development Bank’ 27. Julien Reynaud and Julien Vauday (2009), ‘Geopolitics and International Organizations: An Empirical Study on IMF Facilities’ 28. Helen V. Milner (2006), ‘Why Multilateralism? Foreign Aid and Domestic Principal-Agent Problems’ PART III MILITARY AID AND ITS EFFECTS 29. Steven C. Poe and James Meernik (1995), ‘US Military Aid in the 1980s: A Global Analysis’ 30. Steven C. Poe (1991), ‘Human Rights and the Allocation of US Military Assistance’ 31. Keith Krause (1991), ‘Military Statecraft: Power and Influence in Soviet and American Arms Transfer Relationships’ 32. William Easterly (2008), ‘Foreign Aid Goes Military!’ 33. Patricia L. Sullivan, Brock F. Tessman and Xiaojun Li (2011), ‘US Military Aid and Recipient State Cooperation’ 34. Jean-Paul Azam and Véronique Thelen (2010), ‘Foreign Aid Versus Military Intervention in the War on Terror’ 35. Navin A. Bapat (2011), ‘Transnational Terrorism, US Military Aid, and the Incentive to Misrepresent’

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Book SynopsisThe Antarctic and Southern Ocean are hotspots for contemporary endeavours to oversee 'the last frontier' of the Earth. The Handbook on the Politics of Antarctica offers a wide-ranging and comprehensive overview of the governance, geopolitics, international law, cultural studies and history of the region. Written by leading experts, the Handbook brings together the very best interdisciplinary social science and humanities scholarship on the Antarctic and Southern Ocean, offering a definitive statement on why the world's only uninhabited continent attracts global attention in terms of science, politics and natural resources - and what can be done to manage it. Four sections take readers from the earliest human encounters to contemporary resource exploitation and climate change through thematic and critical analyses: the exploration, exploitation and mapping of Antarctica; its emergence as an object of global interest; human behaviour and environmental change in response to managerial interventions; and a contemplation of possible futures for Antarctica. All topics are covered in accessible yet authoritative contributions. Specialist readers in polar regions, public international law, geography, geopolitics and international relations will appreciate this uniquely comprehensive and up-to-date examination of politics in and around Antarctica, as will scholars with interest in areas beyond national jurisdiction, peace/co-operation studies and the interface between public policy and science.Contributors include: A.E. Abdenur, D.G. Ainley, A. Antonello, D. Avango, P.J. Beck, M. Benwell, L.E. Bloom, A.-M. Brady, C. Braun, N. Brazell, C. Brooks, I. Cardone, S.L. Chown, C. Collis, R. Davis, K. Dodds, A. Elzinga, F. Francioni, M. Haward, A.D. Hemmings, F. Hertel, A. Howkins, J. Jabour, S. Kaye, R.D. Launius, E. Leane, D. Liggett, H. Nielsen, E. Nyman, O. Olsson, H. Österblom, H.-U. Peter, P. Roberts, R. Roura, J.F. Salazar, D. Sampaio, S.V. Scott, T. Stephens, E. Stewart, L.-M. van der Watt, N. Vanstappen, P. Vigni, R. Wolfrum, J. Wouters, O. YoungTrade Review'Quite breathtaking in its coverage, this brilliantly conceived and meticulously edited Handbook on the Politics of Antarctica is the most competent collection of contributions by leading experts to be published to date. An innovative, interdisciplinary conceptualization of Antarctica, offering theoretically informed analysis of various facets of Antarctic governance and geopolitics, further enhance the universal appeal of this extraordinary effort and virtually guarantee its presence on the bookshelves of libraries.' --Sanjay Chaturvedi, Panjab University, India'Antarctica is known as a continent for science, yet to understand this vast polar region requires an understanding of its politics as much as it does knowledge of the dynamics of its ice shelves, its sub-glacial lakes, its oceanography, and its role in the global climate system. This comprehensive, superbly-edited volume of well-crafted essays provides up-to-date coverage on a range of contemporary issues, including governance, regulation, international law, tourism, images, and representations. This is essential reading for anyone concerned with the politics of and about Antarctica and its global relevance.' --Mark Nuttall, University of Alberta, CanadaTable of ContentsContents : 1. Introduction Alan D. Hemmings, Klaus Dodds and Peder Roberts PART I: CONCEPTUALIZING ANTARCTICA 2. Fictionalizing Antarctica Elizabeth Leane 3. Three Waves of Antarctic Imperialism Shirley V. Scott 4. Post-colonial Antarctica Klaus Dodds and Christy Collis 5. Heroic and Post-colonial Antarctic Narratives Nicoletta Brazzelli 6. Antarctica: Feminist Art Practices and Disappearing Polar Landscapes in the Age of the Anthropocene Lisa E. Bloom 7. The Continent for Science Aant Elzinga 8. Mediating Antarctica in Digital Culture: Politics of Representation and Visualisation in Art and Science Juan Francisco Salazar 9. Common Interest and Common Heritage in Antarctica Rüdiger Wolfrum 10. Modern Explorers Peder Roberts 11. Life, Ice and Ocean: Contemporary Antarctic Spaces Alessandro Antonello 12. Selling the South: Commercialisation and Marketing of Antarctica Hanne Nielsen 13. Antarctic Geopolitics Klaus Dodds PART II: ACTING IN AND BEYOND ANTARCTICA 14. Establishing Open Rights in the Antarctic and Outer Space: Cold War Rivalries and Geopolitics in the 1950s and 1960s Roger D. Launius 15. The Originals: The Role and Influence of the Original Signatories to the Antarctic Treaty Marcus Haward 16. Territorial Claims and Coastal States Patrizia Vigni and Francesco Francioni 17. Antarctica and the United Nations Peter J. Beck 18. The EU and the Antarctic: Strange Bedfellows? Nils Vanstappen and Jan Wouters 19. The Past in the Present: Antarctica in China’s National Narrative Anne-Marie Brady 20. A Modest but Intensifying Power? Brazil, the Antarctic Treaty System and Antarctica Daniela Sampaio, Ignacio Javier Cardone and Adriana Erthal Abdenur 21. The Politics of Early Explorers Peder Roberts PART III: REGULATING ANTARCTICA 22. Politics and Environmental Regulation in Antarctica: a Historical Perspective Adrian Howkins 23. Environmental Management: the Fildes Peninsula Paradigm Christina Braun, Fritz Hertel and Hans-Ulrich Peter 24. The Changing Face of Political Engagement in Antarctic Tourism Daniela Liggett and Emma Stewart 25. Southern Ocean Search and Rescue: Politics and Platforms Julia Jabour 26. CCAMLR: An Ecosystem Approach to the Southern Ocean in the Anthropocene Henrik Österblom and Olof Olsson 27. Fishing the Bottom of the Earth: The Political Challenges of Ecosystem-base Management Cassandra M. Brooks and David G. Ainley 28. An Icy Reception or a Warm Embrace? the Antarctic Treaty System and the International Law of the Sea Tim Stephens 29. Svalbard and Antarctica: Problems and Solutions Stuart Kaye 30. Antarctic Cultural Heritage: Geopolitics and Management Ricardo Roura 31. Working Geopolitics: Sealing, Whaling, and Industrialized Antarctica Dag Avango PART IV: FUTURES IN ANTARCTICA 32. Antarctic Politics in a Transforming Global Geopolitics Alan D. Hemmings 33. Antarctic Environmental Challenges in a Global Context Steven L. Chown 34. Argentine Territorial Nationalism in the South Atlantic and Antarctica Matthew C. Benwell 35. Global Legal Norms in the Antarctic Ruth Davis 36. Contemporary Security Concerns Elizabeth Nyman 37. Contemporary Environmental Politics and Discourse Analysis in Antarctica Lize-Marié van der Watt Index

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Book SynopsisTerritory continues to be an essential part of modern political discussion, evidenced in the recent decentralization of state structures and rise of sub-state nationalist and regionalist parties. With extensive empirical evidence alongside contemporary theory, this multidisciplinary Handbook makes the case for an outright rejection of state-centric views on territorial politics. Original research by political scientists, geographers, sociologists, lawyers, historians and public policy specialists demonstrates how territory continues to have an impact across institutional and political structures, as well as on culture, identity and citizenship. Over four sections, contributions cover institutions and ideas; elections and political parties; public policy concerns; and geographical perspectives, including conflict resolution and gendered approaches to territorial politics. With perspectives from European, North American, South Asian, Middle Eastern and Australasian case studies, Klaus Detterbeck and Eve Hepburn provide a state-of-the-art international Handbook of Territorial Politics. Incorporating public policy, comparative politics, multilevel governance and political geography, this Handbook provides scholars and students with a compelling compendium on territorial politics that will prove invaluable.Contributors include: I. Adam, J. Agnew, P. Anderson, N. Aroney, N. Behnke, D. Béland, N. Bolleyer, C. Colino, L. de Winter, K. Detterbeck, J. Erk, K. Fahey, M. Gomez, S.L. Greer, E. Hepburn, M. Keating, S. Keil, A. Lecours, P. Lynch, A. Mantegna, L. Moreno, S. Piattoni, L. Piccoli, A.H. Schakel, C. Sharman, K. Stolz, W. Swenden, M. Tatham, S. Vergari, J. Vickers, S. Wälti, C.S. WeissertTrade Review'For a long time neglected, territorial politics has become a wide, differentiated and dynamic area of contemporary social science. This Handbook containing excellent articles by renowned scholars provides a concise overview of relevant topics, approaches, findings and research prospects. It is a valuable compendium for students and academics.' --Arthur Benz, Technische Universitat Darmstadt, Germany'An odyssey through the kaleidoscope of territory, a journey to the essence of power and its organization. The most complete and updated anthology of territorial politics.' --Francesco Palermo, Institute for Comparative Federalism, Italy and IACFSTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction to the Handbook of Territorial Politics Eve Hepburn and Klaus Detterbeck Part I: Institutions, Actors and Ideas 2. Rescaling the European State. A Constructivist and Political Perspective Michael Keating 3. Federal, Devolved or Decentralized State – on the Territorial Architecture of Power Nathalie Behnke 4. Challenges of Interdependence and Coordination in Federal Systems Nicole Bolleyer 5. Multilevel Governance Simona Piattoni 6. ‘Gendering’ Territorial Politics Jill Vickers 7. Decentralization as a Tool for Conflict Resolution Soeren Keil and Paul Anderson Part II: Elections, Parties and Political Culture 8. De-nationalization of Elections? Tracing the Developments in the Conceptualization and Measurement of the Nationalization of the Vote Arjan H. Schakel 9. Statewide Parties in Western and Eastern Europe: Territorial Patterns of Party Organizations Klaus Detterbeck and Eve Hepburn 10. Ethno-Regionalist Parties Lieven de Winter, Marga Gomez and Peter Lynch 11. Multilevel Party Competition: A Theory of Territorial Contagion Eve Hepburn 12. Political Careers and Territorial Politics Klaus Stolz 13. Multiple Territorial Identities and Multi-Level Polities Luis Moreno 14. Regional Citizenship in a System of Plural Memberships and Multilevel Rights Lorenzo Piccoli Part III: Territorial Public Policies 15. Education Policy in Canada and the United States: Dispersed Governance or Centralization? Sandra Vergari 16. Health Policy and Territorial Politics: Disciplinary Misunderstandings and Directions for Research Scott L. Greer 17. Territorial Politics and Environmental Policy: A Comparison of Findings about Climate Change and Resource Management Policies Sonja Wälti 18. Immigration and Sub-State Nations: Researching the Nexus Ilke Adam 19. Regions beyond the State: External Relations and Paradiplomacy Michaël Tatham 20. Comparative Perspectives on the Territorial Politics of Fiscal Federalism: Canada, Australia, and the United States. Daniel Béland and André Lecours 21. Territorial Politics and Economic Development John Agnew and Agostino Mantegna 22. Territorial Reform Policies in Federal and Multilevel Systems César Colino Part IV: Geographical Perspectives 23. Actor-Centered or Institutional Approaches in Europe and the US: Moving toward Convergence Carol S. Weissert and Kevin Fahey 24. Comparative Territorial Politics in sub-Saharan Africa Jan Erk 25. Territorial Politics in South Asia: Between Territorial Accommodation and Majoritarianism Wilfried Swenden 26. Territorial Politics and the Federal Frame in Australia Nicholas Aroney and Campbell Sharman Index

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Book SynopsisFocusing on the city's role as the nexus for new forms of relationships between politics, economics and society, this fascinating book views the city as a political phenomena. Its chapters unravel the city's plural histories, contested political, legal and administrative boundaries, and its policy-making capacity in the context of multi-level and market pressures.Accommodating numerous approaches drawn from a variety of European countries and metropolitan settings, contributors make extensive use of case studies in order to both interpret the variety of processes of metropolitanisation at work over the past few decades and provide insight into the various conceptual and theoretical approaches that the social sciences - and the political sciences in particular - have adopted to explain this phenomenon. This book both studies cities that have developed their own forms of governance, with tailored institutions, a large policy making capability and sometimes a new democratic legitimacy, yet also offers an alternative understanding of cities as objects of public policy; the intended targets of the development of European-level or national urban policies.Students of comparative politics, urban studies and European studies will welcome the mix of conceptual, comparative and case study based approaches that this book encompasses. Practitioners will also benefit from the chance to avail themselves of cutting edge research.Contributors include: F. Artioli, S. Cadiou, J. Caillosse, J. Carpenter, A. Cole, S. Couperus, A. Dowling, D. Galimberti, I. Gordon, H. Heinelt, M. Huré, C. Parnet, R. Payre, C. Pin, P. Prat, K. ZimmermannTrade Review'Cities are back as significant political-administrative units - only now as metropolises. Rather than simply a mechanical effect of the exigencies of economic globalization, this book convincingly demonstrates that an array of active political actors are involved in energizing the trend. It is political praxis not economic structure that provides the key to understanding the efflorescence of urban governance today. The fact that there is much variation across cities in the extent and effectiveness of new models of governance suggests how much one-size-fits-all economic determinism misses the point,' --John Agnew, Distinguished Professor of Geography, University of California, Los AngelesTable of ContentsContents: 1. Cities as Political Objects Alistair Cole and Renaud Payre PART I CAPITAL CITY DYNAMICS 2. Functional Integration, Political Conflict and Muddled Metropolitanism in the London Region: 1850-2016 Ian Gordon 3. The Greater Paris Debate: The French State and its Capital region Pauline Prat 4. A Tale of Two Cities: Madrid and Barcelona in Spain Andrew Dowling PART II CITIES AS POLITICAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE CATEGORIES 5. The City as a Legal Category and legal archive Jacques Caillosse 6. The rise and demise of neighbourhood democracy: decentralising the urban polity in Rotterdam since 1940 Stefan Couperus 7. Cities in the Italian political system: incomplete actors and objects of policies Francesca Artioli 8. Cities in the Multi-level System of German Federalism Hubert Heinelt and Karsten Zimmermann 9. The Métropole as a Contested and Partisan Institution: Reflections on the Case of the French City of Nice. Stéphane Cadiou PART III CITY ACTION IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE 10. Making Metropolis: Innovation and Local Governance issues in Paris and Milan Clement Pin and Déborah Galimberti 11. The Metropolis and the Market: Political Rescaling Through Public-private Bike-sharing Policy in Brussels Maxime Huré 12. Two Faces of the City: Varieties of metropolitanisation in Lyons and Marseilles Christophe Parnet 13. Assembling multi-level governance in regeneration: an international comparison between France and Britain Juliet Carpenter Index

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Book SynopsisExploring the wide variety of political aspects relating to oil resources and markets, The Politics of Oil provides an important and accessible introduction to topics such as the so-called 'resource curse?' oil rent, producer cartels, and international oil governance. Broadening the scope further, Dag Harald Claes also examines the role of oil in political conflicts.Divided thematically into three parts, this book discusses the exercise of political control over oil resources, their extraction, and the income from oil exports; the vagaries of oil market forces and political attempts to govern them; and finally, the complex role of oil in international, regional, and domestic conflicts. Drawing on a number of academic perspectives, including economics, political science, philosophy, history, geology, and more, the key debates surrounding oil are explored. These include the role of OPEC, the future of oil in the context of climate change, and the part oil has played in civil war and terrorism.Easily accessible, this introduction to the intertwined relationship between oil and political decisions and behaviour, is an essential tool for students of political science, economics, and energy related studies of all kinds. It is also valuable for policymakers, industry practitioners, and others interested in the oil business or governance seeking a comprehensive introduction to the subject.Trade Review‘The Politics of Oil is a fascinating and informative study of the evolution of the international oil industry. The work profits from the authors interdisciplinary approach, which draws heavily on a number of fields including but by no means limited to geology, engineering, economics, philosophy, history and political science. The chapters are filled with a wealth of valuable information and insights on many of the pressing issues of our time: From climate change and the potential producer response to the resurgence of Iranian ambitions in the Gulf. To my knowledge, this is the only work of its kind providing a bridge between political and economic approaches to complex geopolitical issues such as the resource curse. It is readily accessible to the general reader interested in oil and politics. All the chapters can serve as supplementary material to academic courses in energy economics geopolitics and energy transitions.’ -- Jennifer Considine, The Energy Journal'Dag Harald Claes has a unique knowledge of the politics, economics and (even more importantly from my point of view) the history of oil. He is one of the few who can blend together the three aspects in a simple and vibrant narrative. The Politics of Oil can be used as a reference in undergraduate classes, but will also be of interest for anybody dealing with the complexities of international energy and environmental politics.' --Paulo Garavini, European University Institute, Italy'This book masterfully discusses how governance, markets, and security come together in creating a nexus full of inspiration for scholars of International Political Economy. What does oil do to sovereignty? Is it a blessing or a curse? How long will OPEC still be in charge? And what does the future hold for the world s most important commodity against the backdrop of climate change? The Politics of Oil will be an invaluable resource for everyone seeking answers to these crucial questions.' --Andreas Goldthau, Royal Holloway University of London, UKTable of ContentsContents: Part I Resource Governance 1. Sovereignty and Ownership 2. Governing Oil Production 3. Oil Income– Blessing or Curse? -With Mads Motrøen Part II Market Control 4. Institutional Governance 5. Producer Governance 6. Opec Part III Political Conflict 7. Oil and the US Hegemony 8. Oil and Regional Security 9. Oil and Domestic Conflicts 10. Climate Change and the Future of Oil Index

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Book SynopsisThe so-called ?'spatial turn?' in the social sciences has led to an increased interest in what can be called the spatialities of power, or the ways in which power as a medium for achieving goals is related to where it takes place. This unique and intriguing Handbook argues that the spatiality of power is never singular and easily modeled according to straightforward theoretical bullet-points, but instead is best approached as plural, contextually emergent and relational.The Handbook on the Geographies of Power consists of a series of cutting edge chapters written by a diverse range of leading geographers working both within and beyond political geography. It is organized thematically into the main areas in which contemporary work on the geographies of power is concentrated: bodies, economy, environment and energy, and war. The Handbook maintains a careful connection between theory and empirics, making it a valuable read for students, researchers and scholars in the fields of political and human geography. It will also appeal to social scientists more generally who are interested in contemporary conceptions of power.Contributors include: J. Agnew, J. Allen, I. Ashutosh, J. Barkan, N. Bauch, L. Bhungalia, G. Boyce, B. Braun, M. Brown, P. Carmody, N. Clark, M. Coleman, A. Dixon, V. Gidwani, N. Gordon, M. Hird, P. Hubbard, J. Hyndman, J. Loyd, A. Moore, L. Muscarà, N. Perugini, C. Rasmussen, P. Steinberg, K. Strauss, S. Wakefield, K. YusoffTrade Review‘Reading the Handbook on the Geographies of Power, you feel like you are on a road trip to visit an old friend (or fiend, to some),especially if you have engaged in understanding, describing, or explaining the unequal geographies of the world. That friend/fiend is power, a pervasive concept in our daily lives, and in the existence of other living and inanimate objects.’ -- Martín Arias-Loyola, Economic Geography‘Handbook on the Geographies of Power is a well-written volume with empirically rich and theoretically well-grounded chapters that are easy to comprehend and will be greatly appreciated by academics and students.’ -- Austin Dziwornu Ablo, Eurasian Geography and EconomicsTable of ContentsContents: Part I Introduction 1. Introduction to the Handbook on the Geographies of Power Mat Coleman and John Agnew Part II Bodies Mat Coleman 2. When Ethnography Meets Space Ishan Ashutosh 3. Sex and Sexuality: Exploring the Geographies of Prostitution Phil Hubbard 4. Spatial Technologies of Racialized Knowing: On Visuality, Measurement, and the Law Robin Wright, Eric Goldfischer, Aaron Mallory and Kate Derickson 5. “This Wack(Yhut) Idea!!!”: The Plantation Bloc and Political Economy of Prison Expansion in Louisiana Jenna M. Loyd 6. Human, All too Human, Geographies Claire Rasmussen and Michael Brown Part III Economy John Agnew 7. Reflections on the Power in and the Power of Financial Markets Adam D. Dixon 8. Corporate–state relations in the age of Trumpism: analytical problems with the neoliberal synthesis and some potential ways forward Joshua Barkan 9. Reproduction, Justice and Spatialities of Power Kendra Strauss 10. Abstract and Concrete Labor in the Age of Informality Vinay Gidwani 11. The Circulation of Financial Elites John Allen Part IV Energy And Environment Mat Coleman 12. The Anthropocene and Geographies of Geopower Kathryn Yusoff 13. The Power of Water Philip Steinberg 14. Animated Place: Invisible Industrial Technologies and the Shaping of Eating Bodies Nicholas Bauch 15. Microontologies and the Politics of Emergent Life Nigel Clark and Myra Hird 16. Destituent Power and Common Use: Reading Agamben in the Anthropocene Bruce Braun and Stephanie Wakefield Part V Warfare John Agnew 17. Human Shields and the Political Geography of International Humanitarian Law Neve Gordon and Nicola Perugini 18. Matrix Governance and Imperialism Pádraig Carmody 19. Governing Banishment: Settler Colonialism, Territory, and Life in an Economy of Death Lisa Bhungalia 20. Military Contracting and the Labor of Force Projection Adam Moore 21. Autonomy, Human Vulnerability and the Volumetric Composition of US Border Policing Geoff Boyce 22. Maps, Complexity, and the Uncertainty of Power Luca Muscarà 23. To Help or Not to Help? Humanitarian Spaces, Power, and Government Jennifer Hyndman 24. Power’s Outsides Mat Coleman and John Agnew Index

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Book SynopsisThis timely book offers an in-depth exploration of state partitions and the history of nationalism in Europe from the Enlightenment onwards. Stefano Bianchini compares traditional national democratic development to the growing transnational demands of representation with a focus on transnational mobility and empathy versus national localism against the EU project. In an era of multilevel identity, global economic and asylum seeker crises, nationalism is becoming more liquid which in turn strengthens the attractiveness of 'ethnic purity' and partitions, affects state stability, and the nature of national democracy in Europe. The result may be exposure to the risk of new wars, rather than enhanced guarantees of peace. Included is a rare and insightful comparative assessment of the lessons not learned from the Yugoslav demise, the Czechoslovak partition, the Baltic trajectory from USSR incorporation to EU integration, and the impact of ethnicity in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Beyond their peculiarities, these examples are used to critically assess the growing liquidity of national identities and their relationship with democracy. Those seeking a deeper understanding of the European partition experience will find this an immensely valuable resource.Trade Review'Stefano Bianchini`s book is a successful effort at building a broad and sturdy bridge between Central European spaces and memories whose grand narratives had long existed, separated from each other like non-connecting vessels. The shadows of the Habsburg, Romanov, and Ottoman empires still hinder an understanding of similarities between the Balkans and the Baltics and prevent us from seeing the bloody conflicts in Bosnia and Ukraine within one comparative perspective. The author puts to work the long historical and political experience of the spring of nations; tells a history enriched by the methods of political science; and helps the reader to gain a better understanding of the behavior of nations on both sides of the European Union's Southeastern boundary. This book gives back to a Central Europe long divided by borders and iron curtains its commonality, which doubtless was deeply felt by the 19th century collective heroes Bianchini describes. If academic wisdom can still help dispel the European fog, then this book comes at just the right time and place.' --gidijus Aleksandravicius, Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania'The book by Stefano Bianchini is an excellent study of how the ideas of nationalism developed, empires disintegrated and new states appeared, how the contradiction between the globalized strata and those who prefer to live in a closed society formed, and what it can lead to. I strongly recommend this research not only to scholars and students, but to all those who think on the future of Europe.' --Konstantin Khudoley, Saint Petersburg State University, Russia'A majestic account of the travails of democracy's widening scope in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century.' --Jean Blondel, European University Institute, ItalyTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: Geopolitical Liquidities and Nationalist Trajectories. Fluid Boundaries and State Reshaping in Nineteenth Century Europe Part I An Atlas of Nation-State Metamorphosis across the twentieth Century 1. The Rise of an Unstable Century 2. World War I as Change Accelerator 3. 1917 and the Russian Revolutions. Multiple Players and Conflicting Aspirations to Independence in a Collapsing Empire 4. The Implications of the Political Debate between Lenin and Wilson: Geopolitics and Self-Determination 5. Irredentism, Hitler, and the “New European Order” 6. The Second Post-War Period: New Borders, Ethnic Cleansing, and the “Double Dimension” of the National Question 7. Post-Cold War Conflicting Principles: Post-Socialist Sovereignty, Ethnic States, and Territorial Integrity Part II State Dismemberments and Their Implications for Europe. How Partitions Affect the Nature of Democracy 8. Europe in Chaos: Breaking Down or Re-building the Walls? 9. Multilevel Partitions, Globalization, and the Metamorphosis of the Nation-State 10. The Lessons not Learned from the Yugoslav Dismemberment 11. The Peculiarities of the Czechoslovak Partition 12. Living in the Past or Tackling the Future: the Baltic Experience from the Partition of the USSR to EU integration 13. Between Partitions and State Failure: the Ethnic Key of Polity in the Experience of Bosnia-Herzegovina 14. The Crisis of the European Project: a New Political Destiny for Partitions? 15. How Partitions Affect the Nature of Democracy in Europe Today Concluding Remarks Index

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Book SynopsisGoverning Compact Cities investigates how governments and other critical actors organise to enable compact urban growth, combining higher urban densities, mixed use and urban design quality with more walkable and public transport-oriented urban development. Philipp Rode draws on empirical evidence from London and Berlin to examine how urban policymakers, professionals and stakeholders have worked across disciplinary silos, geographic scales and different time horizons since the early 1990s.The key mechanisms for integrated urban governance which enable more compact growth are identified by focusing on the underlying institutional arrangements that have connected strategic urban planning, city design and transport policy in the two case study cities. These include a hybrid model of hierarchical and network governance, the effectiveness of continuous adjustment over disruptive, one-off ?integration fixes? and the prioritisation of certain links between sectoral policy and geographic scales over others.With an interdisciplinary approach connecting urban studies and planning with political science, public administration and organisational studies, this book will be of interest to academics and students in those disciplines, as well as urban practitioners and the applied/policy research community.Trade Review'Demonstrating an encyclopaedic grasp of the planning and policy complexities that surround efforts to advance urban sustainability, this extensively referenced and empirically grounded book reveals the multiple pathways that cities can take to achieve the aims of urban compactness. Philipp Rode unpacks the urban governance agenda with a sharp eye to bureaucratically thorny organisational dynamics as well as to the constraints imposed by those who prefer market to state solutions in cities, while also sharing his deep knowledge of how difficult it is to coordinate transport and land use in such conditions. I have yet to decide whether this book's greatest value is its profound grasp of the literature and current debates on policy, planning, land use and transport, or its well-researched and informative account of the steps taken by governing officials in Berlin and London to enhance densification through cross-sector coordination of urban development policies. Both aspects of the book are absolutely invaluable, yet it is the carefully crafted mix of these subjects and sensibilities that makes the book an indispensable resource for scholars and practitioners seeking to discover the holy grail of sustainable urban development.' --Diane E. Davis, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, US'Governing Compact Cities is a prime example of what could be called the new Urban Studies: not beholden to disciplinary and professional silos, but working across them; less focused on one particular city or problem, but comparative in focus and with a keen emphasis on the institutions and processes that make up for integrated city governance over time. Philipp Rode's book on Berlin and London is a must read for students of cities, governance and policy studies alike, as it is for professionals in the field.' --Helmut K. Anheier, Hertie School of Governance, GermanyTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. Compact urban growth and sustainable transport 3. Integrated urban governance and its institutions 4. Berlin: Integrating multi-level metropolitan governance 5. London: Urban governance with a new centre 6. Conclusion: Comparison and implications Index

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Book Synopsis'Andreas Raspotnik's book is a well-written history of the European Union's struggle for recognition in the Arctic; a struggle underpinned by attempts to define what the Circumpolar North means for the EU. Raspotnik adopts the lens of critical geopolitics, which proves very productive in terms of capturing the character of the EU-Arctic nexus. The Union is revealed as a reluctant geopolitical actor, as inherent EU drive to be present in a neighboring region interplays with the lack of genuine interest.'- Timo Koivurova, University of Lapland, Finland 'In spite of an interpretation that the European Union is 'no geopolitical actor' from the critical approach, the Union clearly impacts (Arctic) geopolitics in the fields of climate and environmental policies, fisheries and science, and benefits from the high geopolitical stability of the Arctic. This book is an informative study and in-depth analysis on European geopolitical agency in a distinct spatiotemporal context, the early-21st century's Arctic, and the EU's process to (re)construct European legitimacy there. Next step is to analyze, if the EU tries to influence the discourse on how to use (govern) the land and waters, as well as resources, of the Arctic.'- Lassi Heininen, University of Lapland, Finland The Arctic is a region that has seen exponential growth as a space of geopolitical interest over the past decade. This insightful book is the first to analyse the European Union?s Arctic policy endeavours of the early 21st Century from a critical geopolitical perspective.Exploring the EU?s decade-long undertaking to construct legitimacy in the Arctic between 2008 and 2017, Andreas Raspotnik investigates whether the EU can figure prominently in the Artic region as an international actor. This book presents the EU?s interest in the Arctic as a fascinating test case for how the EU aims to assert its policies and values in a neighbouring region. By providing an in-depth analysis of the EU?s process to establish legitimacy and credibility in the Arctic, Andreas Raspotnik sheds light on the debate regarding whether or not the EU can be perceived as a geopolitical actor.This contemporary and intriguing book will appeal to scholars and students of international relations, European studies, geography, and Arctic studies, as well as those on courses relating to international organizations and global/regional politics. It will also be of interest to the broader public with an interest in the challenges and opportunities of the Arctic region.Trade Review'Andreas Raspotnik has provided a clear-eyed assessment of the successes and failures of EU policy with regards to the Arctic. In doing so, he has established himself as one of the most exciting young scholars in both EU and Arctic studies.' --Michael Byers, University of British Columbia, Canada and author of International Law and the Arctic'Many recent books about international relations in the Arctic pretend to be about geopolitics - this one actually is. The book is well-researched, and Raspotnik provides a refreshing take on how the Arctic appeared on the European Union's ''neighbourhood radar''.' --Geir Honneland, Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Norway'In his book, The European Union and the Geopolitics of the Arctic, Andreas Raspotnik skilfully excavates and interrogates the European Union's Arctic policies and strategies. The EU multi-faceted relationship with the High North is teased out - it cares about climate change, sustainability, governance, transport and economic opportunity, indigenous peoples and their rights as well as animal welfare. Love it or loath it, the EU's impact in the Arctic matters and this book explains how, why and where.' --Klaus Dodds, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK and co-author of The Scramble for the Poles (Polity 2016)Table of ContentsContents: PART I INTRODUCTION 1. The Geopolitics of an Arctic Meltdown and the Question of EUropean Arctic Space PART II GEOPOLITICS 2. The Thought Experiment Referred to as Geopolitics PART III THE ARCTIC 3. Arctic Geopolitics and the Regional Zeitgeist of the Twenty-First Century PART IV THE EUROPEAN UNION 4. EUropean Dimensions of Arctic Presence 5. An Action in the Making: The EU’s Arctic Policymaking Process 6. The EU’s Arctic Space-Making Practices PART V CONCLUSION 7. A European Geopolitical Subject in the Arctic? Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.This innovative Research Agenda draws together discussions on the conceptualization of territory and the ways in which territory and territorial practices are intimately bound with issues of power and control. Expert contributors provide a critical assessment of key areas of scholarship on territory and territoriality across a wide range of spatial scales and with examples drawn from the global landscape. After an introduction to shifting ideas of territory, territoriality and sovereignty, the book deals with territory in its more traditional macro-scale sense at the level of the nation-state before going on to explore questions of territory, identity and belonging at a more micro-scale focusing on issues of citizenship, inclusion and exclusion.A Research Agenda for Territory and Territoriality will be a key resource for scholars and students in geopolitics and social and cultural geography, whilst also being a thought-provoking read for those interested in nations and nationalism, sovereignty, conflict, citizenship, and territory, place and locality.Trade Review'This terrific book demolishes the false but commonly held assumption that territory is merely the inert stage on which the real political or sociological action of life takes place. Its sophisticated analysis of fascinating and wide-ranging examples demonstrates that far from being a passive platform, territory is an active and contested element in so many of the dramas of our age. We forget this at our peril.' -- Nick Megoran, Newcastle University, UK'With wonderfully illustrative case studies, David Storey and colleagues bring us on an engaging intellectual journey. They broaden our critical reading of territory and territoriality, connecting to and extending a range of important debates in political and cultural geography, from nationalism and biopolitics, to sovereignty and violence. With the emergence of the Black Lives Matter movement, the book feels even more important as contributors bring nuanced perspectives to the territorial strategies and socio-political conditioning of citizenship, belonging and exclusion.' -- John Morrissey, National University of Ireland, Galway, IrelandTable of ContentsContents: 1 Territory and territoriality: retrospect and prospect 1 David Storey 2 The history and persistence of territory 25 Alexander B. Murphy 3 The contingency of sovereignty 43 John Agnew 4 Nation, territory, memory: making state-space meaningful 61 Anssi Paasi 5 Territory, identity and the UK overseas territories 83 Nichola Harmer 6 The politics of place: violence as a territorial marker 103 Niall Cunningham 7 Territory and food sovereignty 127 Amy Trauger 8 Territory, locality and citizenship 145 Richard Yarwood 9 Tenuous territories 159 David Storey 10 Bodies in space: new frontiers 179 Sian Evans Index

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Book SynopsisDrawing critically on the UN concept of 'human security', this book offers a transformative understanding of security in responding to the Mediterranean refugee crisis. From a range of arts, humanities and social science disciplines, and through case studies incorporating key governmental, NGO and refugee perspectives, the book critiques the major geopolitical, economic and social issues of the crisis. It documents the prioritization of population management techniques that are underpinned by conventional territorial logics of security, before reflecting on the alternative priorities of human security that can facilitate an active human rights framework and a more holistic and humanitarian interventionism. In advancing a human security approach to the crisis, the book insists upon our interconnected global sense of precarity, interrogates the human consequences of the endless cycles of conflict and displacement, and challenges the impoverished thinking of statist security agendas that divide the world into zones of sanctuary and abandonment. Of broad appeal and relevance across the social sciences, from geography and migration studies to international relations and critical security studies, this book will also be a timely read for people working for NGOs and policy makers looking for a more holistic response to the ongoing refugee crisis. Contributors include: T. Bicchieri, A. Bilgic, J. Bloomer, M. Brehony, R. Browne, M. Brunicardi, V. Cirefice, C. Dorrity, L. Elliott, D. Estrada-Tanck, D. Gasper, T.J. Hughes, J. Hyndman, G. Kearns, V. Ledwith, J. Morrissey, A. Mountz, K. Reilly, C. WilcockTrade Review'Can the framework of human security be reconstituted to provide an ethical grounding for international politics? The chapters in this volume grapple with this question as they incisively critique the Global North's response to the so-called ''refugee crisis'', and consider what kinds of conceptional and institutional changes are necessary to prioritize solidarity over securitization.' --Emily Gilbert, University of Toronto, Canada'Can human security be salvaged from the violence, exclusions, and cruelties created by the geopolitics of humanitarianism? Haven suggests that it can, offering important insights into opportunities for developing geosocial solidarity with refugees with safer forms of space-making and human rights work. But it does so without succumbing to siren songs about safety and pity that perform protection and care in damaging and uncaring ways. It thereby reminds us that while the ''Mediterranean Crisis'' is most definitely a crisis of human insecurity, it remains a crisis created by exclusionary approaches to security as much as by war, disease and human vulnerability. A call to ongoing critical thinking about what might make ''safe space'' safe for all, it brings together well-informed interdisciplinary arguments about the human geographies of human rights that human security urgently needs.' --Matt Sparke, University of California, Santa Cruz, US'With adroit editorial leadership, John Morrissey and the contributors take us on an intellectual journey. They convey vividly what is at stake for those enduring inhumane security. As they sweep through and with the crisis affecting the Mediterranean, it feels all the more poignant as the migration crisis is co-joined with the Covid-19 pandemic. Both have been described as ''invisible'' and yet the consequences for human security are far from invisible.' --Klaus Dodds, Royal Holloway, University of London, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1. Intervening for Human Security John Morrissey 2. Critical Human Security: Reclaiming a Cosmopolitan Ethics of Dignity and Recognition Lorraine Elliott 3. Between Security and Reparations: Ireland and the European Refugee Crisis Gerry Kearns 4. ‘Disposable People’: Borderlands and State Securitization in the EU Claire Dorrity 5. Situating Marginalised Human Geographies: A Human Security Approach to Direct Provision TJ Hughes 6. Seeking Safe Haven in Canada: Geopolitics and Border Crossings after the Safe Third Country Agreement Jennifer Hyndman 7. The Only Honest Thief: Critiquing the Role of Human Smugglers Julian Bloomer 8. Operation PONTUS: An Eye Witness Account from On Board L.É. NIAMH Michael Brunicardi 9. Disrupting Imagined Geographies: Media, Power and Representation in Contemporary Migration Ryan Browne 10. Discounting the Displaced: Examining Hungary’s Denial of Human Security for Migrants, Asylum Seekers and Refugees Teo Bicchieri and Valerie Ledwith 11. Hierarchies of Race, Gender and Mobility in the Journey to Irish Citizenship Margaret Brehony 12. Performing Home, Security and Solidarity in the Everyday: The Alternative Refugee Accommodation of City Plaza V’cenza Cirefice 13. Human Security and International Human Rights Law in the Mediterranean Crisis Dorothy Estrada-Tanck 14. A Human Security Perspective on Migration to Europe Ali Bilgic and Cathy Wilcock Index

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Book SynopsisThe growing salience of migration in today's political and economic climate has drawn attention to the relevance of regional responses to global human mobility. This unique book explores the dynamics of migration governance beyond the traditional perspective of the state and examines why, how and with what effects states cooperate at a regional level on aspects of international migration and mobility. Developing an innovative approach centered on the organisation of migration governance, The Dynamics of Regional Migration Governance provides a comparative analysis of developments in regional and sub-regional migration governance on a truly global scale. From Africa, Asia-Pacific and Central Asia, to Europe, the Middle East and North and South America, leading scholars offer a fresh understanding of the trajectories and particularities of regional migration governance. These engaging chapters show how human mobility and its governance can create tensions between states that hinder or prevent cooperation. Providing a much-needed shift from a focus on governance outputs to governance processes, this compelling book highlights how regional practices, processes and structures of migration governance can play an active role in producing understandings of international migration as a social and political issue. Deploying geographical scope, conceptual insight and empirical depth, this comprehensive book is ideal for advanced students, as well as scholars investigating regionalism, migration and mobility. An acutely relevant work, it will also appeal to professional practitioners and policymakers working in international migration 'This is a unique and forward-looking book that looks at regional migration governance from a dynamic and multi-level perspective beyond formal regional institutions, focusing also on non-state actors. This collection is also unique in that it covers a number of world regions including Asia and Latin America and not just the usual suspects of EU and North America. I strongly recommend this work to students and scholars and, why not, practitioners working in the area of governance, migration, and international relations.' - Anna Trandafyllidou, European University Institute, ItalyTrade Review'This collection includes contributions from some of the most important scholars working in the area of migration studies. The focus is especially timely, given the crises within the European and American systems but equally this book does not shy away from exposing the varying degrees of power and influence within regions and where institutions still fall far short of their mission to govern migration flows. This ambitious collection offers an original mix of countries and institutions rarely found in one volume. It is fresh, analytically rich, and above all a most useful reference point for students and scholars alike.' --Brad Blitz, Middlesex University, UK'This volume offers the first systematic attempt to analyse the role of regional groupings in the area of migration, offering a compelling framework for comparative analysis of the structures and processes of governing migration. It makes a vital step in scoping and framing a new research agenda on regional migration governance.' --Christina Boswell, University of Edinburgh, UK'The regional features of migration patterns and processes have long been important for scholars and policymakers in understanding migration trends, impacts and trajectories, as well as migration possibilities. Critical analysis of regional migration governance has been more muted. Coming right on the eve of the implementation phase of the Global Compact on Migration, this book guides us through variations and particularities in regional migration governance globally. It will certainly become a go-to resource for researchers, policymakers and practitioners alike.' --Marie McAuliffe, Australian National University and the International Organization for Migration, SwitzerlandTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction: the dynamics of regional migration governance Andrew Geddes, Marcia Vera Espinoza, Leila Hadj Abdou and Leiza Brumat 2. Regional migration governance: perspectives ‘from above’ and ‘from below’ Sandra Lavenex and Nicola Piper 3. Migration governance in South America: regional approaches versus national laws Victoria Finn, Cristián Doña-Reveco and Mayra Feddersen 4. Three generations of free movement of regional migrants in Mercosur: any influence from the EU? Leiza Brumat and Diego Acosta 5. ‘Crisis’, ‘normality’ and European regional migration governance Andrew Geddes 6. The ambivalent drivers of migration governance relations between the EU and Tunisia Luca Lixi 7. Regional cooperation on migration and mobility: experiences from two African regions Eva Dick and Benjamin Schraven 8. The politics of migration interdependence in the post-Arab Spring Middle East Gerasimos Tsourapas 9. North America: weak regionalism, strong borders Leila Hadj Abdou 10. Between depoliticisation and path dependence: the role of Mexico in regional migration governance in North America Marcia Vera Espinoza 11. The uneven migration governance of ASEAN Stefan Rother 12. Regional migration governance in the Eurasian migration system Andrey Leonov and Oleg Korneev 13. Conclusions Andrew Geddes, Leila Hadj Abdou, Marcia Vera Espinoza and Leiza Brumat Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary. Challenging the mainstream view of the environment as either threatening or valuable, this book considers how geographic knowledge can be applied to offer a more nuanced understanding. Framed within geopolitics and using a range of methodologies, the chapters encapsulate different approaches to demonstrate how selective forms of knowledge, measurement, and spatial focus both embody and stabilize power, shaping how people perceive and respond to changing features of human-environment interactions. With key case studies analyzed throughout, this will be a timely read for geography and environmental studies scholars. It will also be beneficial to those studying political science and regional studies, as well as those working in NGOs and think tanks. Contributors include: L. Acton, B. Blue, L.M. Campbell, S. Dalby, O. Evrard, C.A. Fox, N.J. Gray, M. Himley, C. Johnson, F. Lasserre, P. Le Billon, M. Mostafanezhad, S. O'Lear, L. Olman, B. Schneider, L. Shykora, C. Sneddon, J. Swann-Quinn, M. Tadaki, P.-L. Têtu, S.D. VanDeveerTrade Review'This book maps out new research terrain by showing how geopolitics has environmental dimensions that go well beyond the national state and international relations. The rich chapters present case studies that put flesh on the bones of the programmatic arguments of Shannon O'Lear.' --Noel Castree, Manchester University, UK and the University of Wollongong, Australia'A Research Agenda for Environmental Geopolitics lays bare our assumptions about what we mean by environment and by geopolitics. O'Lear and her contributors give us the tools to make explicit the impacts of power, actors, and interests in shaping placed-based decision-making and policy (in)action.' --Geoff Dabelko, Ohio University, US'This book offers refreshing, new perspectives on environmental geopolitics that go far beyond established concerns with global environmental governance and local political ecology. In addition to shedding light on how politics influences the way we manage the environment, O'Lear and contributors reveal the myriad ways in which politics shapes how we understand and encounter the socio-natural world in which we live.' --Philip Steinberg, Durham University, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1 Environmental geopolitics: an introduction to questions and research approaches 1 Shannon O’Lear PART I INTERPRETING AND MEASURING THE ENVIRONMENT 2 Getting the measure of nature: the inconspicuous geopolitics of environmental measurement 16 Brendon Blue and Marc Tadaki 3 Science, territory, and the geopolitics of high seas conservation 30 Noella J. Gray, Leslie Acton, and Lisa M. Campbell 4 The geopolitics of environmental global mapping services: an analysis of Global Forest Watch 44 Birgit Schneider and Lynda Olman PART II POWER, KNOWLEDGE AND HUMAN–ENVIRONMENT INTERACTIONS 5 Conflicts, commodities and the environmental geopolitics of supply chains 59 Philippe Le Billon and Lauren Shykora 6 Underground geopolitics: science, race, and territory in Peru during the late nineteenth century 74 Matthew Himley 7 Local knowledges and environmental governance: making space for alternative futures in the Arctic circumpolar region and the Mekong River Basin 88 Coleen A. Fox and Christopher Sneddon PART III OVERCOMING SELECTIVE SPATIAL FOCUS 8 The geopolitics of transportation in the melting Arctic 105 Frédéric Lasserre and Pierre-Louis Têtu 9 Environmental geopolitics of rumor: the sociality of uncertainty during northern Thailand’s smoky season 121 Mary Mostafanezhad and Olivier Evrard 10 Digging deep: crossing scale in the Georgian mining industry 136 Jesse Swann-Quinn 11 Looking ahead: environmental geopolitics research 151 Shannon O’Lear, Simon Dalby, Corey Johnson, and Stacy D. VanDeveer Index 167

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Book SynopsisElgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.The power of borders emerges not only from their institutional and legal nature but also from their symbolic and identity-forming significance. This innovative Research Agenda uncovers links between different levels of border-making processes, or bordering, from the political to the cognitive, and connects everyday processes and experiences of border-making to the wider social world.Grounded in their original research, contributors offer a variety of discussions on future directions for border studies, including two areas which may prove particularly fruitful; firstly, the question of the broader political salience of borders and secondly, the ways in which the border studies paradigm increasingly connects ontological and ethical questions to processes of border-making. Taken together, these address the question of how everyday bordering practices and discourses can be productively linked to different aspects of social relations.This timely book will be an invigorating read for those studying borders across a wide range of disciplines including human geography, political science, sociology, anthropology, history, international law as well as the humanities, notably art, media studies and philosophy.Trade Review‘A Research Agenda for Border Studies, edited by James W. Scott, is a timely and concise sweep of border theory as it has developed over the past two decades. Drawing upon a number of theoretical perspectives and case studies, this engaging book provides a clear understanding of the state of borders in global perspective. Chapters are written by both established and emerging border scholars, and each provides a careful examination of border theory and analysis at different scales and in different locations. The result is a study of borders from multiple perspectives and through very different lenses. A must read if you want to know why borders matter more and more in a contemporary world and networked world.' -- Heather Nicol, Trent University, Canada'This book ably answers a necessary question: what is a relevant research agenda for border studies in an age of post-disciplinary scholarly inquiry? The contributors to this volume, individually and collectively, show that while borders today may be seen to be inescapably political, they are also inescapably cultural, social and economic. This is a must-read book for those who seek both a starting point and inspiration for their own study of borders in the contemporary world.' -- Thomas M Wilson, Binghamton University, State University of New York, US'At a pivotal time when right-wing populists and responses to a global pandemic are erecting new borders, Scott and a diverse team of international and interdisciplinary critical scholars are setting a new agenda for critical border studies. An important book giving hope for a brighter future.' -- Harald Bauder, Toronto Metropolitan University, CanadaTable of ContentsContents: Part 1 Introduction 1 Introduction to A Research Agenda for Border Studies James Wesley Scott Part 2 Socio-Political Borders 2 Interpreting Politics of Borders Anna Casaglia 3 Rescaling the border: National populism, sovereignty, and civilisationism Paul Richardson 4 Beyond Post-Coloniality in Border Studies Innocent Moyo 5 Borders as Resources: Towards a Centering of the Concept Christophe Sohn Part 3 Borderscapes and Beyond 6 Reading Borders in the Everyday: Bordering as Practice Deljana Iossifova 7 Borders and Belonging Victor Konrad 8 Materialized Narratives of Border: Articulating the Unspeakable through Everyday Objects Tuulikki Kurki 9 Bordering as a Psychological Process: The Case of a Cross-Border Worker at the Spanish Moroccan Border Alicia Español Part 4 Ethics and Border Research Agendas 10 Exploring Links between Borders and Ethics Jussi Laine 11 “Go Anywhere I Damn Well Please”? Towards an Anarchist Vocational Ethics of International Borders Nick Megoran Index

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Book SynopsisTravelling through various historical and geographical contexts, Social Imaginaries of Space explores diverse forms of spatiality, examining the interconnections which shape different social collectives. Proposing a theory on how space is intrinsically linked to the making of societies, this book examines the history of the spatiality of modern states and nations and the social collectives of Western modernity in a contemporary light. Debarbieux offers a practical exploration of his theory of the social imaginaries of space through the analysis of a number of case studies. Advanced geography scholars will find the analysis of space and its impact on societies a valuable tool in understanding the ways in which space, culture and behaviour interact. Historians of Western modernity will also benefit from Debarbieux's analysis of case studies that impact modern life.Trade Review'The trajectory of this book crosses brilliantly major phenomena of cultural and social geography, emphasizing the importance of social, political, mental and imaginative cartographies constantly proliferating and giving birth to new definitions for urbanism and non urban settlements. Debarbieux examines with ease and clarity the radical historical and rhetorical narratives leading to the formation of solid imaginary concepts, without neglecting the fact that despite rhetorical changes along national and state history, imaginaries did not lose their constitutive place in the nation agenda. Debarbieux proposes an original, informative and unique position regarding the binding of space to societal transformations, developing an idiosyncratic vocabulary including almost all the facets of effervescent spatial manifestation of the visual and the imaginative socially constructed world. The book, I sincerely hope, will ring the bell for the need to expand the boundaries of humanistic geography, emphasizing the urge to shape new imaginative models and debates having in common the dialectical relationships between the and reality reflection. The rich bibliography offered is of high interest to those who wish to relieve their thirst for additional information.' --Miron M. Denan, Geography Research Forum'Debarbieux continues to traverse with ease the Anglophone/Francophone border in social theory with this most recent work, a creative and highly readable exploration of the political significance of social imaginaries of space. Through a series of conceptual essays and related case studies, or in his terms ''detours'', he crafts an intriguing, jargon-free narrative that examines the spatial imaginings that have generated the territorial ideals and practices of modern states and nations. Debarbieux further demonstrates that while the rhetoric of post-nationalism and globalization has changed the content of these imaginaries, it has not diminished their constitutive role. His is a cosmopolitan vision but one that does not dismiss the power of particularism, especially evident in the place loyalties that have become so prominent in current national and global political debate.' --J. Nicholas Entrikin, University of California, Los Angeles and University of Notre Dame, US'Social Imaginaries of Space explores a crucial contact zone between cultural and political geographies. Written by a major figure of contemporary Francophone geography, this ambitious book brilliantly analyses how spatial imaginaries have continuously constituted societies and their mutations in the modern era.' --Ola Söderström, University of Neuchâtel, SwitzerlandTable of ContentsContents: 1. Framing the spatial dimension of social imaginaries 2. Concept 1 - Social Imaginaries and space 3. Case 1 - Competing imaginaries of nature in Yosemite 4. Concept 2 - State Imaginary of Territory 5. Case 2 - England at the time of the Tudors and Stuarts, or the self-representation of the modern State 6. Case 3 - Science and State imaginary in colonial Indochina 7. Concept 3 - The singularity of the national imaginary 8. Case 4 - Nationalist rhetoric of space and of time in Paris, Washington and other places 9. Concept 4 - Post national political imaginaries of space 10. Case 5 - Post-national imaginary of New York Italianness 11. Case 6 - Post national imaginaries of nature 12. Epiphany - Leviathan at the border Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.Exploring how demographic dynamism continues to shape the character of societies, this forward-looking Research Agenda offers insights into how the human population has undergone fundamental demographic shifts, and the impact these have had on how we organize ourselves politically, the design of our economic systems, and even our societal relationships.The Research Agenda first introduces readers to the foundations of demographic change: fertility, mortality and migration. Chapters examine the political impact of forced migration, urbanization, gender dynamics, the intersection of race, identity and electoral politics, religious and ethnic groups, and health. The implications of the geographic shift in population centres from the Global North to the Global South are also highlighted, as well as the relationship between demography on the one hand and political and economic power on the other.This will be an invigorating read for social science scholars looking to develop their research or interact with current research trends, particularly scholars of human geography, development studies and geopolitics.Trade Review‘Jennifer Sciubba’s collection highlights crucial research questions on political demography. Must an older world be a more peaceful world, a young population more rebellious? How to highlight the neglected internally-displaced? Is universal urbanisation a threat? How destabilising are biased sex ratios? How will whites manage minority status? How does the weaponisation of fertility and population provoke conflict? Can the challenges of demographic dividend and youth bulge be met? A thought-provoking vista of a turbulent future.’ -- David Coleman, University of Oxford, UK'A Research Agenda for Political Demography has raised the bar by pulling together scholarly work on the critical impact of demographic change—both incremental and seismic—on issues of economic development and migration, gender and race, climate change and conflict. Policy-makers and researchers in health, economics, national security and urban planning will gain new insights on the state of current research, critical questions which can be addressed as well as recommendations on gaps and further areas for inquiry. A stimulating and insightful read.' -- Jeffrey Jordan, President and CEO, PRB, US'Not using demography to anticipate the all-too-predictable economic slowdowns, growing populism, and conflict is a major analytic crime and government failing. If you want to know what is coming over the horizon and reshape the future to your advantage, read this book by world-class political scientists and demographers.' -- Mathew Burrows, Director of the Atlantic Council's Foresight, Strategy and Risks Initiative, USTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to A Research Agenda for Political Demography 1 Jennifer D. Sciubba PART I FOUNDATIONS OF DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGE 2 Research in population aging: uncharted territory 17 Jennifer D. Sciubba 3 Progressing research on forced migration 29 Tiffany S. Chu 4 Urbanization: poverty, conflict, and climate change as causes and consequences 45 Matthew Cobb and Alex Braithwaite 5 Sex, demographics and national security 61 Valerie M. Hudson PART II IMPLICATIONS OF DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGE: CONTEXT AND CONNECTIONS 6 Whiteshift: demographic change, populism and polarization in the West 81 Eric Kaufmann 7 Wombfare: the weaponization of fertility 101 Monica Duffy Toft 8 Health and demography 115 Jeremy Youde 9 Population, rebellion and revolution 131 Jack A. Goldstone 10 A research agenda for youth policies and investments 147 John F. May 11 Demography and democracy 161 Hannes Weber 12 Demographic engineering and strategic demography 179 Michael S. Teitelbaum 13 The demographic dividend: positive prospects, unclear path 199 Kaitlyn Patierno, Elizabeth Leahy Madsen and Smita Gaith 14 Forecasting in age-structural time 215 Richard Cincotta 15 A twenty-first century agenda for policy-relevant demographic research 235 Suzanne E. Fry Index

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Book SynopsisThis thought-provoking book explores the concept of energy cultures as a means of understanding social and political relations and how energy injustices are created. Using Eastern Europe as an example, it examines the radical transition occurring as the region leaves behind the legacy of the Soviet Union, and the effects of the resulting power struggle between the energy cultures of Russia and the European Union.In this timely study, Michael Carnegie LaBelle applies an energy justice framework to an analysis of different national energy cultures, exposing both the domestic and international power relations that influence geopolitics in Eastern Europe. He assesses the entire energy value-chain in the region in this context, providing a radical critique of power dynamics within the energy system with the aim of fostering a just energy transition. Scholars interested in energy justice, conflict, policy and culture from across disciplines including law, politics, public policy, sociology and geography will find this book a fascinating read. It will also be useful to scholars of international relations and geopolitics for its analysis of the impact of EU energy policy on the countries examined, as well as of the relationship between the EU and Russia.Trade Review'LaBelle's unique book is a herculean effort of research, writing and balancing the thin line of central European politics. Meticulously researched, masterfully written and politically just, this exciting new volume provides an important contribution to the literature on energy justice and transition in central and eastern Europe. This commanding work is relevant, interesting and a necessary read for all those interested in Europe's energy future.' -- Tina Soliman Hunter, Macquarie University, Australia'Michael Carnegie LaBelle's book is a great contribution to understanding how societal values, norms and practices shape the physical energy realities in Eastern Europe. Energy Cultures points to a crucial aspect determining the unfolding energy transformation in the region, from everyday practices to geopolitics.' -- Andreas Goldthau, University of Erfurt, Germany'This is a welcome exploration into energy culture in Eastern Europe, and combines the unique and growing perspective of energy justice in the analysis. It is written by one of the most esteemed professors working in energy policy across Eastern Europe at this moment and will be of immense value for a whole range of interdisciplinary scholars. A highlight is the interactive analysis that focuses on Hungary, Poland and Lithuania and the energy challenges ahead!' -- Raphael Heffron, University of Dundee, UK'This book offers a novel and comprehensive perspective on the intersections among energy justice and political transformation in a part of the world that has experienced - and is continuing to experience - rapid economic and infrastructural change. It is a state-of-the-art resource for the wide range of scholars and practitioners interested in these topics, in the region and beyond.' -- Stefan Bouzarovski, University of Manchester, UKTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction: Energy culture in an age of transformation 2. Combustion of Energy Cultures in Eastern Europe 3. Lithuania: The Lithuanian Battle for the Independence 4. Hungary: The Geopolitics of household utility bills 5. Poland: The other side of the European energy transition 6. The power of energy cultures 7. Justice and Equity in the Energy System 8. Conclusion: Building a culture of justice in the energy transition References Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.This timely Research Agenda highlights how slow violence, unlike other forms of conflict and direct, physical violence, is difficult to see and measure. It explores ways in which geographers study, analyze and draw attention to forms of harm and violence that have often not been at the forefront of public awareness, including slow violence affecting children, women, Indigenous peoples, and the environment.Demonstrating a range of research methods and theoretical perspectives, this Research Agenda looks at the topic of slow violence through qualitative fieldwork, document analysis, geospatial technologies and cartographic analysis and representation. Key case studies consider slow violence in the form of social injustice, environmental alteration, and harmful human-environment interactions. The chapters also highlight how physical infrastructure, social and legal practices, places that have experienced armed conflict, and groups of people being labeled or marginalised can foster forms of slow violence.Scholars and students of human geography, particularly those looking at decolonization, environmental and social justice and different geographic methods for research, will find this book to be a beneficial read. It will also be useful for those studying structural harm and indirect violence more widely.Trade Review'This collection of impressive research and poignant scholarship is a must read for scholars interested in examining the spatial temporalities of violence. Also, recommended for professors seeking to engage students in productive and provocative dialogue about violence and its myriad and insipid encroachments into the geographies of everyday life.' -- Jennifer L. Fluri, University of Colorado, Boulder, US'This book explores vital new avenues of thought and political possibility across a wide range of geographical locations. O'Lear has brought together a crucial set of consequential analyses and interventions. This is an invaluable book for scholars of environmental and social justice.' -- – Rob Nixon, Author of Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor'Engaging with the spatial and temporal complexities of slow violence requires innovative theoretical and methodological approaches. The chapters in this valuable collection do not disappoint. Essential reading for anyone interested in exploring diverse ways to analyze the practices and processes that shape contemporary forms of systemic and structural violence.' -- Kevin J. Grove, Florida International University, US'Peace is arguably more than just the absence of war. It should be about identifying and rooting out all the insidious forms of violence, particularly between human groups, that not only can lead to war but that also poison the everyday lives of people when unaddressed. This is the basis for investigating ''silent violence.'' Yet, as this innovative volume suggests, the spatial and temporal framings and contexts must also be central to that investigation, since it is the accumulation of threats over time and their embeddedness in places that makes them so intractable.' -- John Agnew, UCLA, US, and Co-Editor of The Handbook of Geographies of PowerTable of ContentsContents: 1 Geographies of slow violence: an introduction 1 Shannon O’Lear 2 Geography, time, and toxic pollution: slow observation in Louisiana 21 Thom Davies 3 Rhythms of crises: slow violence temporalities at the intersection of landmines and natural hazards 41 Ruth Trumble 4 Complicating the role of sight: photographic methods and visibility in slow violence research 57 John Paul Henry 5 Tourism development as slow violence: dispossession in Guatemala’s Maya Biosphere Reserve 73 Jennifer A. Devine, Hannah L. Legatzke, Megan Butler and Laura Aileen Sauls 6 From violent conflict to slow violence: climate change and post-conflict recovery in Karamoja, Uganda 89 Daniel Abrahams 7 Enduring infrastructure 107 Kimberley Anh Thomas 8 Slow violence and its multiple implications for children 123 Sheridan Bartlett 9 For Indigenous youth: towards caring and compassion, deconstructing the borderlands of reconciliation 137 Joseph P. Brewer II and Jay T. Johnson 10 The infliction of slow violence on first wives in Kyrgyzstan 155 Michele E. Commercio 11 When rednecks became meth heads: cultural violence, class anxiety, and the spatial imaginary 173 Aaron H. Gilbreath 12 The slow violence of law and order: governing through crime 189 Samuel Henkin and Kelly Overstreet 13 Dark cartographies: mapping slow violence 205 Peter Vujakovic 14 Closing thoughts and opening research pathways on geographies of slow violence 225 Shannon O’Lear Index 233

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Book SynopsisThis authoritative Handbook presents a comprehensive analysis of the spatial transformation of the state; a pivotal process of globalization. It explores the state as an ongoing project that is always changing, illuminating the new spaces of geopolitics that arise from these political, social, cultural, and environmental negotiations. Drawing together a diverse set of expert contributors, this book showcases compelling scholarship on the changing geographies of the state. Chapters examine the state from a range of theoretical angles and analyse a variety of relevant themes, including feminist geographies, the relationship between state and environment, urbanization, security geographies, nation-building, and geographical political economies. The book considers the state as spatial in both form and outlook, illustrating how it occupies existing and constantly-changing political geographic conditions, and how it is maintained by the practices of categorizing and managing territory. Taking a multidisciplinary approach, this Handbook will be a valuable resource for academics and students across a range of subjects, including human geography, international relations, political science, spatial planning, and urban studies. The key case studies explored will also provide valuable examples for scholars and policy-makers seeking a better understanding of the broad scope of geopolitics in a globalizing world.Trade Review‘It is an excellent collection of contributions, drawing together many parallel streams and deserves to be on the reading agenda of researchers and students alike.’ -- David Newman, Geography Research Forum‘The Handbook on the Changing Geographies of the State, with a comprehensive geographical scope, and with academic powerhouses such as John Agnew and Jason Dittmer, immediately positions itself as a collection demanding attention.’ -- Franck Billé, Eurasian Geography and Economics'This Handbook introduces readers to key ideas and issues related to geography and state power in the 21st century. A compelling collection, it investigates the production and transformation of the state, focusing on the spatial practices and expressions of political power over time. The volume brings together an extraordinary group of contributors, presenting researchers and students with a rich compendium of expert knowledge on the state as a form of social and political organisation that remains vital to understand and interrogate in these turbulent times.' --Katharyne Mitchell, University of California, Santa Cruz, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface xx 1 Changing geographies of the state: themes, challenges and futures 1 Sami Moisio, Andrew E.G. Jonas, Natalie Koch, Christopher Lizotte and Juho Luukkonen CONCEPTUAL POINTS OF DEPARTURE 2 Introduction: conceptual points of departure 30 Sami Moisio 3 Cultural geographies of the state and nation 33 Alex Jeffrey 4 The everyday state 46 Rhys Jones 5 Feminist geographies of state power 61 Dana Cuomo and Vanessa Massaro 6 Assemblage and the changing geographies of the state 72 Jason Dittmer 7 The state and historical geographical materialism 82 Kevin R. Cox NATIONALISM, IDENTITY AND THE STATE 8 Introduction: nationalism, identity and the state 93 Natalie Koch 9 The great swindle of nationalist sovereigntism: on territory, psychology, and communication technologies 96 Luca Muscarà 10 Indigenous nationalisms as profound challenges to settler colonial regimes 107 Kate Coddington 11 Orientalist-settler colonialism: foundations and practices of post-9/11 white nationalism in the United States 119 Christabel Devadoss and Karen Culcasi 12 The ‘problem’ of religion in the secular state: sectarianism and state formation in Lebanon 132 Caroline Nagel 13 Building nations/building states/building cities: concrete symbols of identity 145 Benjamin Forest and Sarah Moser GEOGRAPHICAL POLITICAL ECONOMIES OF THE STATE 14 Introduction: geographical political economies of the state 158 Sami Moisio 15 Geoeconomics and the state 161 John Agnew 16 The geography of policy-making: mobile policy, territory and state space 173 Russell Prince 17 Neuroliberalism in the digital age: the emerging geographies of the behavioural state 185 Mark Whitehead 18 The combined ascent of the austerity state and the security state and its changing geographies 198 Bernd Belina and Tino Petzold 19 Feminist political economies of the Nordic welfare state: gendering the economy and economizing gender equality 212 Hanna Ylöstalo THE STATE, ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT 20 Introduction: the state, energy and the environment 225 Natalie Koch 21 State of nature: on the co-constitution of resources, state and nation 228 Tom Perreault 22 Governmentality and the global geopolitics of consumption-based environmental accounting 240 Afton Clarke-Sather 23 Already existing dystopias: tribal sovereignty, extraction, and decolonizing the Anthropocene 251 Andrew Curley and Majerle Lister 24 Sustainability as ‘corporate social responsibility’: paradoxes of hydrocarbon development in the Russian Arctic 263 Stephanie Hitztaler and Veli-Pekka Tynkkynen 25 Sovereignty and climate necropolitics: the tragedy of the state system goes ‘green’ 276 Meredith J. DeBoom PART V SECURITY AND THE STATE 26 Introduction: security and the state 288 Christopher Lizotte 27 Imagining the ‘outside’ danger: the critical geopolitics of security and the armed forces in Latin America (1960–2018) 291 Jerónimo Ríos Sierra and Heriberto Cairo 28 The school–security nexus and the changing geographies of the state 302 Nicole Nguyen 29 Spheres of influence 313 Stefanie Ortmann 30 Cyberspace: the new frontier of state power 325 Frédérick Douzet PART VI TERRITORY, THE STATE AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT 31 Introduction: territory, the state and urban development 339 Andrew E.G. Jonas 32 Territory, the state and geopolitics of mega city-region development in China 343 Yi Li and Fulong Wu 33 Competitive upscaling in the state: extrospective city-regionalism 355 David Wachsmuth 34 Emerging citizenship regimes and rescaling (European) nation-states: algorithmic, liquid, metropolitan and stateless citizenship ideal types 368 Igor Calzada 35 Post-crash cities: the Great Recession, state restructuring and urban governance 384 Mark Davidson 36 ‘Urbanizations’ of green geopolitics: new state spaces in global unsustainability 398 Yonn Dierwechter SPATIAL PLANNING AND THE STATE 37 Introduction: spatial planning and the state 413 Juho Luukkonen 38 Private expertise and the reorganization of spatial planning in England 416 Matthew Wargent, Gavin Parker and Emma Street 39 Metropolitanization as state spatial transformation 428 Carola Fricke and Enrico Gualini 40 Transforming the geography of the welfare state through neoliberal spatial strategies: the case of Denmark 442 Kristian Olesen 41 The absolutist city developer: predatory megaprojects and the state–planning nexus in Qatar 455 Agatino Rizzo 42 State land concessions and the spatial politics of rural planning 465 Miles Kenney-Lazar Index

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Book SynopsisTourism in European Microstates and Dependencies carefully examines the nuances and realities associated with tourism, social and economic development, geography, and geopolitics of Europe's smallest microstates and dependencies. Through case study-based material, the book covers the smallest states of Europe, the European dependencies inside Europe, and other unique territorial anomalies and unrecognized de facto states. It looks at how, besides small size and economy of scale, one of the characteristics that connects these unique states and territories is their dependence on tourism, or their desire to develop it, for their socio-economic well-being. This book provides a thorough overview of tourism-related challenges and opportunities associated with smallness/scale, limited population size, economic development, cross-border cooperation (dependency) with larger neighbour states, relationships with the European Union, geopolitical challenges, questions of sovereignty, vulnerability, and touristic importance on the world stage. It provides a comprehensive examination of the smallest states and state-like entities in Europe. It examines the social, economic, and political importance of tourism in some of the smallest countries and territories in the world. It is the first book of its kind to look systematically at small, yet extremely important, areas of Europe from tourism, socio-economic, and geopolitical perspectives. Coverage includes Andorra, Liechtenstein, Monaco, San Marino, the Vatican City, Åland, Akrotiri and Dhekelia, the Faroe Islands, Gibraltar, Guernsey, Isle of Man, Jersey, Svalbard, Llívia, Campione d'Italia, Transnistria, Abkhazia, and South Ossetia, as well as several other enclaves, autonomous areas, and unrecognized 'micro-nations'. This book will be an invaluable resource for post-graduate students and research scholars in the areas of tourism, geography, political science, and European studies.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Europe’s Smallest States and Anomalous Geographical Areas Chapter 2: Transfrontier Relationships in Europe Chapter 3: The Pyrenean Co-Principality of Andorra Chapter 4: Europe’s Alpine Mini-State: The Principality of Liechtenstein Chapter 5: Large Luxury and Tiny Grandeur: The Principality of Monaco Chapter 6: More than Just a Mountain: The Republic of San Marino Chapter 7: Vatican City: The Smallest Country on Earth but Probably the Most Visited Chapter 8: Europe’s Autonomous Regions, Dependencies and Overseas Territories Chapter 9: International Exclaves and Extraterritorial Places Chapter 10: Unrecognized Polities: The de Facto States and Micronations of Europe Chapter 11: Vulnerability, Dependency and Touristic Appeal: The Costs and Benefits of Smallness and Marginality Chapter 12: Perspectives on Tourism and Small Polities in Europe

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Book SynopsisGreenland is becoming a critically important territory in terms of tourism, climate change and competition for resource access, yet it has been poorly represented in academic literature. Tourism now features as a major source of income for the territory alongside fisheries. Cruise tourism is increasing rapidly, and might superficially appear to be best suited to Greenlandic conditions, given the lack of large-scale accommodation infrastructure and almost non-existent land routes between settlements. Ironically, one of the most spectacular tourist attractions is the large number of icebergs that are being calved as the result of glacier retreat and ice cap melting, both appearing to be taking place at ever increasing rates. As a consequence of ice removal, the territory's claimed extensive range of mineral resources, not least rare earth elements and hydrocarbons, are becoming more accessible for exploitation and, thereby, are acting increasingly as the focus for geopolitical competition. This book explores the nature of dynamics between tourism, climate change and the geopolitics of natural resource exploitation in the Arctic and examines their interrelationships specifically in the critical context of Greenland, but within a framework that emphasises the wider global implications of the outcomes of such interrelationships. This book is the first to explore these interrelationships in depth in English.Table of ContentsPart 1: Arctic Context 1: Framing the Arctic 2: The Changing Role of the Arctic: Transforming Peripherality 3: Arctic Tourism: Sustainability, Resilience and Identity Part 2: Dynamic Greenland 4: Evolving Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat) 5: Greenland’s ‘Self-Sustainability’ 6: Greenlandic Identity and Culture within Development Processes, including: The Renegotiation of Greenlandic Identity by Kirsten Thisted 7: Tourism Supporting Greenland’s Aspirations 8: Peripherality, Tourism and Geopolitical Dimensions of Accessibility in Greenland 9: Fulcrum of Climate Change? 10: Tourism and Imagery: Soft Power, Branding and Cultural Disconnection, Including Understanding Adventure Tourism by Chinese Outbound Tourists by Rong Huang 11: Paradoxes of Cruise Tourism to Greenland 12: Greenlandic Independence and Tourism Futures – Exploring the Logics of Modernity and Indigeneity, by Carina Ren and Mette Simonsen Abildgaard Part 3: Conclusions 13: Summary and Conclusions

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Book SynopsisIn 2011, the diplomatic and expert consensus was that Bashar al-Asads regime would fail, causing Syria to disintegrate into several ethnic enclaves or mini-states. A decade later and Bashar is still in control, having defeated the rebels and gained the support of Russia. The years of internal warfare have brought about changes in the spectrum of parties involved in the Syrian state, and the final outcome is inevitably going to be shaped by geo-politics. The Alawi minority still in large measure controls the Sunni-Muslim (Arab) majority. The other players are a gallery of ever changing allegiances: ISIS, Jabhat al-Nusra, and many other radical Islamic groups; the Muslim Kurdish and Christian Arab communities; as well as Shii Lebanese Hizballah. External horizon players are Iran; Sunni Turkey and Saudi Arabia; Jewish Israel; the United States and Russia. This study aims to analyze the agendas, actions, and interrelations of these various actors from 2011 until the present. It will discuss their ongoing politics and assess forthcoming developments. Both Iran and Russia continue to support Bashar, but compete for political, military, and economic influence. The US has greatly reduced involvement, keeping only 900 troops in northeastern Syria, to protect its Kurdish allies and fight against ISIS. Turkey still occupies parts of northern Syria, with the aim of eliminating the Kurdish forces. Syrian and Russian military attempts to conquer this area continue sporadically. The Israeli air force has attacked Iranian and Hizballah positions with the tacit approval of Russia. However, Russias war on Ukraine in February 2022 may result in restricting Israeli interdictions and instead enhance cooperation with Tehran in order to counter the US and NATO. Both Russia and Iran have been incapable of reconstructing the massively destroyed Syrian infrastructure; the US and Europe are reluctant to contribute due to Bashars continued Alawi minority-based autocratic and corrupt rule.

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Book SynopsisThis comprehensive Handbook tackles the increasingly urgent problem of the impact of climate change on conflict and human security. It analyses the ways in which scarcity of resources leads to food, water and health insecurities, resulting in population migration. Chapters cover how these contribute globally to societal insecurity and violent conflict in a growing number of regions.Featuring contributions from leading international scholars, the Handbook is divided into thematic sections, examining first the effects of environmental scarcity on security at a macro level before delving into region-specific issues and challenges. The final section investigates the actors, institutions and processes engaged with environmental security, discussing the shifting international political discourse and how this is challenging the conservative military security paradigm.The combination of comparative global analysis alongside regionally focused studies makes this Handbook an invaluable resource for all scholars and students of environment and climate security. It will also be of interest to policy professionals working on issues of environmental scarcity and new security challenges.Trade Review‘The contributors to this edited volume seek to fill the gaps in existing knowledge on these topics, and do so in a creative and well-researched manner, making the book a reliable reference source for further studies in this field.’ -- Fatemeh Shayan, International Affairs'Swain, Öjendal and Jägerskog’s important Handbook brings new debates, new voices and new cases to the growing research literature on environment and security links and threats to human security at local, national, regional and global scale.' -- Stacy D. VanDeveer, University of Massachusetts, US'The editors rightly shine a spotlight on the human security dimensions of environment and security links in this Handbook. This more inclusive approach provides a more complete picture of the multi-layered complexity of connections, avoiding the reductionism that afflicts some treatments of these topics. This Handbook reaches beyond the usual suspects to provide in-depth analysis in a wide range of country level and issue specific chapters.' -- Geoffrey Dabelko, Ohio University, US'The Handbook of Security and the Environment offers a unique perspective on the intersection between the traditional notions of security and emerging concepts of environmental security. It effectively captures the contemporary knowledge base on environmental security and advances it considerably by exploring pragmatic and actionable steps that can enhance the prospects of enduring global peace. The nuanced analysis captures different geographical contexts and international actors, and unpacks innovations in securing environmental resources - notably food, water and energy - against global impacts of climate change, excessive resource exploitation, mass migration, volatility in food prices, and spiking water scarcity.' -- Zafar Adeel, Simon Fraser University, CanadaTable of ContentsContents: Preface and acknowledgements xiv PART I INTRODUCTION 1 Introduction: security and the environment – the link 2 Ashok Swain, Joakim Öjendal and Anders Jägerskog PART II MACRO PROCESSES OF ENVIRONMENTAL SECURITY 2 Scarcity, abundance and migration: the future of environmental security 14 James R. Lee 3 Global climate change and security threats 26 Simon Dalby 4 Global water crises and challenges for water security 40 Larry A. Swatuk 5 Climate change and (in)security in transboundary river basins 62 David Michel, Mats Eriksson and Martina Klimes 6 Revisiting freshwater abundance within the peace and conflict discourse 76 Adan E. Suazo PART III MICRO PROCESSES OF ENVIRONMENTAL SECURITY 7 Environment and security in West Africa: response of the international community and the complexity on the ground 88 Mats Hårsmar 8 Mining, environmental changes and human security in South Africa 103 Sethulego Matebesi 9 Green impunity: measuring ecojustice, institutional capacities and policy design as an approach to environmental security 115 Celeste Cedillo and Juan Antonio Le Clercq 10 Climate change and security threats in Southeast Asia 132 Elliot Brennan 11 Cases and implications of environmental insecurity in Southeast Asia 149 Mely Caballero-Anthony and Margareth Sembiring 12 Environment and energy in Central Asia: challenges and prospects 162 Vakur Sümer, Dauren Aben and Zhengizkhan Zhanaltay 13 Water and environmental security in China 176 Zhijian Wang and Samuel Smith 14 Environment and security in India: a hyphenated discourse 192 Jayati Srivastava 15 Nepal: reflections on the environmental and human security debate 212 Bishnu Raj Upreti 16 Security and environment in the Middle East 228 Nadim Farajalla, Elie Dib, Olivia Macharis and Emil Kaston PART IV ACTORS AND PROCESSES ENGAGED WITH ENVIRONMENTAL SECURITY 17 Climate change and the environment at the UN Security Council: towards a comprehensive approach 241 Martin Wall and Janani Vivekananda 18 Understanding and framing scarcity, sustainability and security: why and how to use the complexity lens 257 Shafiqul Islam and Enamul Choudhury 19 The environment of lasting peace: natural resources and climate change in peace negotiations 273 Barbara Magalhaes Teixeira 20 Bribery, corruption, geopolitics and investigation 290 Mark Nuttall 21 Renewable energy, security and environment 307 Huiyi Chen 22 Displaced populations, food security and frontier agriculture 320 Dorte Verner and Edinaldo Tebaldi Index

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Book SynopsisAn analysis of the political and ecological consequences of charting the Amazon River basin in narrative fiction, Mapping the Amazon examines how widely read novels from twentieth-century South America attempted to map the region for readers. Authors such as José Eustasio Rivera, Rómulo Gallegos, Mario Vargas Llosa, César Calvo, Márcio Souza, and Mário de Andrade travelled to the Amazonian regions of their respective countries and encountered firsthand a forest divided and despoiled by the spatial logic of extractivism. Writing against that logic, they fill their novels with geographic, human, and ecological realities omitted from official accounts of the region. Though the plots unfold after the height of the Amazon rubber boom (1850–1920), the authors construct landscapes marked by that first large-scale exploitation of Amazonian biodiversity. The material practices of rubber extraction resurface in the stories told about the removal of other plants, seeds, and minerals from the forest as well as its conversion into farmland. Smith places the counter-discursive impulses of each novel in dialogue with various modernizing projects that carve Amazonia into cultural and economic spaces: border commissions, extractive infrastructure, school geography manuals, Indigenous education programs, and touristic propaganda. Even the “novel maps” studied, however, have blind spots, and Mapping the Amazon considers the legacy of such unintentional omissions today.Trade Review‘Mapping the Amazon: Literary Geography After the Rubber Boom navigates the complexity of Amazonian literature with intelligence and deftness. With theoretical sophistication and an ethical commitment to contextualizing her material historically and geographically, Amanda Smith has produced lucid new readings of José Eustasio Rivera, Rómulo Gallegos, Mario Vargas Llosa, César Calvo, and Márcio Souza. The final discussion is a beautiful, unexpectedly affirming conclusion to a book full of sharp critical insights.’ Jennifer L. French, Williams College‘The breadth and depth of literary analysis in this book is truly remarkable… [Mapping the Amazon] is a book about the darker side of literary creativity. On one level, it is a definitive study of the literary Amazon—a fine synopsis of the region’s evocative literature. However, at another level it is truly subversive. By exposing the inner workings of the novel maps, Mapping the Amazon emerges as a scathing critique, not only of exploitative capitalism but also of literature-as-exploitation.’ Richard Francaviglia, Journal of Latin American Geography‘Smith’s investigation focuses rigorously on the aesthetic complexities of these texts to demonstrate how, in a way even the authors themselves sometimes do not suspect, new ways arise of understanding their power of eco-criticism... Smith’s contribution is this call, like few today, to awaken new energies in the literary and cultural criticism about the Amazon precisely because she has her feet grounded in the harsh history of the region, while her eyes are focused on different future possibilities for the region.’ Felipe Martínez-Pinzón, ReVistaTable of ContentsIntroduction1. Reading Maps with La vorágine: Cartographic Illusion on the Río Negro2. Sensing Like a Shaman, Seeing Like a State: Guayana according to Rómulo Gallegos3. The Upper Marañón, the Summer Institute of Linguistics, and the Nobel Laureate4. Extractivism in Iquitos: From Rubber to Ayahuasca Literature5. The Remains of Modern(ista) Export Routes along the Madeira and the MamoréConclusionsAcknowledgmentsBibliography

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Book SynopsisThe energy transition is fundamentally transforming geopolitics, with renewable energy and other decarbonization options reshaping existing energy markets, trade flows, and energy security strategies. What new opportunities and challenges await us? Will it pacify global energy relations or bring a perilous transition?This comprehensive Handbook discusses the geopolitical implications of the energy transition. The first part summarizes established insights and delivers suitable notions and analytical frameworks to investigate the phenomenon. Subsequent parts then provide a detailed and comparative overview of the geopolitics of the energy transition from different perspectives: expectations, technologies, and countries. Combined, the chapters provide a quintessential starting point for scholars and practitioners and prepare them for changes to come.The Handbook of the Geopolitics on the Energy Transition is essential for students of politics, geography, environmental studies and international relations seeking to grasp the present circumstances of renewable energy geopolitics. It also benefits policy makers working in sectors such as energy and foreign policy.Trade Review‘This volume helps readers understand the complex and deeply interconnected aspects of the myriad global energy transitions taking place. The impressive contributions help us better grapple with the geopolitical aspects of global energy systems that are rapidly changing. An indispensable volume.’ -- Morgan Bazilian, Colorado School of Mines, US‘Daniel Scholten’s impressive edited volume has brought together a distinguished group of authors to consider how net zero policies will reshape geopolitics. The authors offer us theoretical and empirical insights into how a geopolitical world dominated by fossil fuels will be altered by serious climate policies. This is an important book for anyone who wants to understand the potential political consequences of the energy transition.’ -- Michael Pollitt, University of Cambridge, UK‘This Handbook is an important and original contribution to the geopolitics of energy at a critical juncture in global history. An international collection of researchers examines the longer-term implications of the rise of renewable energy and decline of fossil fuels from a wide array of lenses, addressing crucial questions on the energy system and its supply chain, energy security and energy justice in key global regions. This Handbook is an indispensable guide to this complex and necessary transformation.’ -- Roger Fouquet, National University of Singapore‘The world faces a climate emergency, and we find ourselves thrown into an energy security and affordability crisis. This volume provides an indispensable guide to the geopolitical challenges associated with transforming the global energy system. It brings together an impressive team of researchers from multiple disciplines from across the globe.’ -- Michael Bradshaw, University of Warwick, UK‘This impressive volume is the ideal starting point for anyone interested in the geopolitics of the energy transition. It brings together most of the top experts on this topic and covers every part of the globe, all renewable energy sources and both opportunities and challenges related to the energy transition.’BR> -- Indra Overland, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI), NorwayTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction: the geopolitics of the energy transition 1 Daniel Scholten PART I ENERGY GEOPOLITICS AND THE ENERGY TRANSITION 2 Geopolitics, geoeconomics and energy security in an age of transition towards renewables 20 David Criekemans 3 Energy systems – making energy services available 44 Aad Correljé 4 The political history of fossil fuels: coal, oil, and natural gas in global perspective 67 Per Högselius 5 The facts and figures of the energy transition 84 Dolf Gielen and Francisco Boshell 6 US–China rivalry and its impact on the energy transformation: difficult cooperation fraught with dilemmas 107 Jacopo Maria Pepe, Julian Grinschgl, and Kirsten Westphal PART II TWO STEPS FORWARD, ONE STEP BACK: THE GEOPOLITICAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE ENERGY TRANSITION 7 Transition to renewable energy and the reshaping of consumer–producer power relations 125 Kamila Pronińska 8 The geopolitics of energy transportation and carriers: from fossil fuels to electricity and hydrogen 141 Karen Smith Stegen, Julia Kusznir, and Cäcilia Riederer 9 Industrial competition – who is winning the renewable energy race? 158 Thomas Sattich and Stella Huang 10 Barrels, booms, and busts: the future of petrostates in a decarbonizing world 183 Thijs Van de Graaf 11 Critical materials – new dependencies and resource curse? 197 Emmanuel Hache, Gondia Sokhna Seck, Fernanda Guedes, and Charlene Barnet 12 Changing energy systems and markets from the ground up – citizens, cooperatives and cities 217 Colin Nolden 13 Exploring the geopolitical impacts of energy justice: an interdisciplinary research agenda 232 Christine Milchram and Morena Skalamera 14 The politics of sustainability: energy efficiency, carbon pricing, and the circular economy 247 Michaël Aklin and Patrick Bayer PART III NEW TECHNOLOGIES, NEW INTERDEPENDENCIES 15 Solar powers – renewables and sustainable development around the world or geostrategic competition? 264 Thomas Sattich, Stephen Agyare, and Oluf Langhelle 16 Wind energy – experiences with onshore and offshore projects 282 Yaroslava Marusyk 17 A new life for old giants: hydropower and geothermal 300 Victor R. Vasquez 18 The potential of biomass 334 Joana Portugal-Pereira, Francielle Carvalho, Régis Rathmann, Alexandre Szklo, Pedro Rochedo, and Roberto Schaeffer 19 Hydrogen as carbon-free energy carrier and commodity 351 Ad van Wijk 20 A new hope for nuclear? 372 Elina Brutschin PART IV RECALIBRATING ENERGY, INDUSTRY, FOREIGN, AND SECURITY POLICY 21 US defense strategy: forging an industrial orientation towards energy security and foreign policy 388 Amy Myers Jaffe 22 The EU’s external energy governance in the age of the energy transition 404 Marco Giuli and Sebastian Oberthür 23 China and the geopolitics of the energy transition 420 Duncan Freeman 24 The India story: ensuring energy access, security, justice, and sustainability for a fifth of humanity 431 Shuva Raha, Nandini Harihar, and Tulika Gupta 25 Energy transition dynamics in Southeast Asia 449 Muhamad Izham Abd Shukor, Nurjuanis Zara Zainuddin, and Noor Miza Razali 26 A renewable power in waiting? Australia’s changing energy geopolitics 468 Christian Downie 27 The global energy transition and Russian structural power: scenarios and strategic options 483 Filippos Proedrou 28 Geopolitical challenges of renewable energy adoption in MENA 498 Emre Hatipoglu, Aisha Al-Sarihi, and Brian Efird 29 Energy transformation and energy challenges in sub-Saharan African countries: a new paradigm for the 21st century? 513 Gondia Sokhna Seck, Emmanuel Hache, Edi Assoumou, and Rebecca Martin 30 Renewable energies in Latin America: resources, public policies, and geopolitics 535 Gonzalo Escribano, Lara Lázaro, and Eva Pardo Index 551

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Book SynopsisTravelling through various historical and geographical contexts, Social Imaginaries of Space explores diverse forms of spatiality, examining the interconnections which shape different social collectives. Proposing a theory on how space is intrinsically linked to the making of societies, this book examines the history of the spatiality of modern states and nations and the social collectives of Western modernity in a contemporary light. Debarbieux offers a practical exploration of his theory of the social imaginaries of space through the analysis of a number of case studies. Advanced geography scholars will find the analysis of space and its impact on societies a valuable tool in understanding the ways in which space, culture and behaviour interact. Historians of Western modernity will also benefit from Debarbieux's analysis of case studies that impact modern life.Trade Review'The trajectory of this book crosses brilliantly major phenomena of cultural and social geography, emphasizing the importance of social, political, mental and imaginative cartographies constantly proliferating and giving birth to new definitions for urbanism and non urban settlements. Debarbieux examines with ease and clarity the radical historical and rhetorical narratives leading to the formation of solid imaginary concepts, without neglecting the fact that despite rhetorical changes along national and state history, imaginaries did not lose their constitutive place in the nation agenda. Debarbieux proposes an original, informative and unique position regarding the binding of space to societal transformations, developing an idiosyncratic vocabulary including almost all the facets of effervescent spatial manifestation of the visual and the imaginative socially constructed world. The book, I sincerely hope, will ring the bell for the need to expand the boundaries of humanistic geography, emphasizing the urge to shape new imaginative models and debates having in common the dialectical relationships between the and reality reflection. The rich bibliography offered is of high interest to those who wish to relieve their thirst for additional information.' --Miron M. Denan, Geography Research Forum'Debarbieux continues to traverse with ease the Anglophone/Francophone border in social theory with this most recent work, a creative and highly readable exploration of the political significance of social imaginaries of space. Through a series of conceptual essays and related case studies, or in his terms ''detours'', he crafts an intriguing, jargon-free narrative that examines the spatial imaginings that have generated the territorial ideals and practices of modern states and nations. Debarbieux further demonstrates that while the rhetoric of post-nationalism and globalization has changed the content of these imaginaries, it has not diminished their constitutive role. His is a cosmopolitan vision but one that does not dismiss the power of particularism, especially evident in the place loyalties that have become so prominent in current national and global political debate.' --J. Nicholas Entrikin, University of California, Los Angeles and University of Notre Dame, US'Social Imaginaries of Space explores a crucial contact zone between cultural and political geographies. Written by a major figure of contemporary Francophone geography, this ambitious book brilliantly analyses how spatial imaginaries have continuously constituted societies and their mutations in the modern era.' --Ola Söderström, University of Neuchâtel, SwitzerlandTable of ContentsContents: 1. Framing the spatial dimension of social imaginaries 2. Concept 1 - Social Imaginaries and space 3. Case 1 - Competing imaginaries of nature in Yosemite 4. Concept 2 - State Imaginary of Territory 5. Case 2 - England at the time of the Tudors and Stuarts, or the self-representation of the modern State 6. Case 3 - Science and State imaginary in colonial Indochina 7. Concept 3 - The singularity of the national imaginary 8. Case 4 - Nationalist rhetoric of space and of time in Paris, Washington and other places 9. Concept 4 - Post national political imaginaries of space 10. Case 5 - Post-national imaginary of New York Italianness 11. Case 6 - Post national imaginaries of nature 12. Epiphany - Leviathan at the border Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis thought-provoking book explores how the global ecological crisis profoundly challenges conventional meanings of environmental security and raises important questions about how states and other institutions now face the future.Simon Dalby provides unique insights into the traditional search for security in terms of using firepower to dominate states and environments, and how this is now endangering people across the globe. Whereas earlier concerns about nuclear firepower focused on the security dilemmas it posed, Dalby offers a new perspective into the existential threats to civilization presented by the combustion of fossil fuels. Propounding that the constraint of firepower in both senses is now key to a flourishing human future, the book calls for international relations scholars to rethink many of the central premises in the field and formulate new policies that focus on the necessity of ecological flourishing to provide meaningful security in a climate disrupted world.Visionary and inspiring, Rethinking Environmental Security will be a critical read for scholars and students of international relations, climate change, environmental governance and regulation, and political geography and geopolitics. Its novel ideas will also be beneficial for policy makers and practitioners in these fields.Trade Review‘This extraordinarily comprehensive book provides an ontological and political reworking of one of the master concepts in International Relations – security – to help us grasp the multiple dangers and anxieties associated with the unsustainable trajectory of global capitalist societies in the Anthropocene. Simultaneously critical and visionary, this unique account pushes us to see environmental security as less about environmental and social protection and more about world making.’ -- Robyn Eckersley, University of Melbourne, Australia‘Simon Dalby has long been a thorn in the side of business-as-usual approaches to ecology, security, and planetary futures. In Rethinking Environmental Security, he demonstrates that existing practices cannot create security—not for the planet, not for its people, and not for a political-economic system premised on climate stability and ever-expanding fossil fuel use. Dalby shows that the firepower destabilizing the international system is not military might, but the extractivist logic of the world’s energy economy. Climate stationarity is dead—and promises to take with it much of the thinking about security, territoriality and risk that brought us to this point. Dalby reminds us that nothing will change until our understanding of security wakes up to the politics of the Anthropocene.’ -- Ken Conca, American University, US‘Simon Dalby has been at the forefront of efforts to rethink “security”, “environmental security” and the discipline of International Relations for almost three decades. Rethinking Environmental Security is a lucid and important addition to this body of work, framed around the claim that, in a world of both war and climate change, humanity needs to develop ways of controlling firepower in all its forms.’ -- Jan Selby, University of Sheffield, UKTable of ContentsContents: Preface Introduction to Rethinking Environmental Security 1. Realism, firepower and insecurity 2. Sustainable development/environmental insecurity 3. Geostory: deep time and history 4. The geopolitics of colonizing nature 5. Global security/environmental conflict 6. Catastrophic and existential risks 7. Whole earth security: an engineered world 8. Environmental peacebuilding Conclusion References Index

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Book SynopsisThis insightful and timely book considers the role of great-power competition in what has come to be known as gray zone conflict. Based on cutting-edge empirical research, it addresses the question: how can interactions between adversaries in international crises be managed in ways which avoid dangerous escalation?Drawing together diverse perspectives, an interdisciplinary team of academics and policy analysts take a data-driven approach to analyzing international crises over the past 100 years. Taking the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine as a backdrop for critical evaluation, chapters examine US and NATO approaches to the management of escalation in asymmetric conflicts. Ultimately, the book identifies areas where classical deterrence theory is incompatible with the realities of the contemporary conflict environment, and proposes innovative tools for managing crises in the future. Providing historical overviews of escalation management in international crises, this comprehensive book is essential reading for students and scholars of international politics, international relations, terrorism and security, and foreign policy, particularly those studying Chinese, Russian and US strategic decision making. It will also be beneficial to policy analysts, military leaders, and journalists focusing on contemporary international issues.Trade Review‘As great power competition moves into a gray zone between peace and war, this impressive team of experts provides state-of-the-art analysis and decision-making tools on how to prevent crisis escalation in this new era. A must-read for scholars and practitioners of international security and indeed for a public concerned with contemporary trends.’ -- Etel Solingen, University of California, Irvine, US‘Finally, we have a comprehensive assessment of escalation management in today's crises. In this ambitious volume, the contributors expose how prior understandings of deterrence and escalation by scholars and practitioners alike have proven inadequate to explain the realities of contemporary gray zone competition and proxy conflicts among the great powers. The authors excel in providing both diagnosis and prescription regarding threats to American security and influence. They do this through combining the strengths of different analytical approaches including quantitative examinations of 100-years of international crises, computational modeling, survey research, and simulations. Readers will gain a clear sense of the current state of the foreign policy toolkit available to manage tensions in places like Ukraine and the Taiwan Strait and how that toolkit needs to evolve going forward.’ -- Kyle Beardsley, Duke University, USTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: managing escalation in international crises 1 Jonathan Wilkenfeld and Egle E. Murauskaite 1 International crises and the gray zone: tracing crises through history 17 Egle E. Murauskaite 2 Gray zone: defining the space in between 30 Allison Astorino-Courtois 3 Conceptual framework for managing international crises, 1990–2020 52 Egle E. Murauskaite and Allison Astorino-Courtois 4 One hundred years of international crises, 1918–2018 78 Jonathan Wilkenfeld and David Quinn 5 Regime, power, state capacity, and the use of violence in gray zone international crises 110 Egle E. Murauskaite, David Quinn, Jonathan Wilkenfeld, Allison Astorino-Courtois, and Corinne S. DeFrancisci 6 Escalation management in gray zone crises: the proxy factor 143 Jonathan Wilkenfeld, Egle E. Murauskaite, David Quinn, Devin H. Ellis, Allison Astorino-Courtois, and Corinne S. DeFrancisci 7 Public opinion in the gray zone 174 Catarina P. Thomson 8 Modeling and analyzing gray zone scenarios for crises in the Aegean Sea and South China Sea 201 Alexander H. Levis 9 Exploring the role of U.S. information operations in gray zone crises 231 Devin H. Ellis 10 Toolkit for planners and operators in gray zone crisis environments 249 Robert J. Elder and Allison Astorino-Courtois Index 275

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Book SynopsisIn this timely book, leading scholar Oran Young reflects on the future of the global order. Developing new lenses through which to consider needs for governance arising on a global scale, Young investigates the grand challenges of the 21st century requiring the most urgent and sustained planetary responses: protecting the Earth’s climate system; controlling the eruption of pandemics; suppressing disruptive uses of cyberspace; and guiding the biotechnology revolution. Exploring how developments such as globalization, the rise of increasingly influential non-state actors, and the onset of the cyber age are eroding the institutional foundations of international society, this book considers the prospects for new forms of global order that differ in important ways from the familiar but increasingly problematic states system. Offering critical insights into the pressing need for institutional change to meet 21st century challenges, this book will prove beneficial to scholars working on matters involving governance on a global scale. Practitioners looking to connect their actions to broader analytic concerns will also find the book insightful.Trade Review‘Oran Young, known worldwide for his contributions to thinking about governance, has taken advantage of the isolation imposed by Covid-19 to produce a ground-breaking analysis of the distinctive challenges of the 21st century along with changes in the global order as we move beyond a western-dominated world. The result is essential reading for all those interested in governance. It will also inspire policy analysts looking for fresh perspectives on specific issues.’ -- Jian Yang, Shanghai Institutes for International Studies, China‘In this timely book, Oran Young, the world’s leading authority on international governance, provides a deep analysis of 21st century challenges of planetary governance. Using a range of prominent cases, he considers different ways to think about the needs for governance and explores alternative approaches to addressing them.’ -- Alexander N. Vylegzhanin, Moscow State Institute of International Relations, Russia‘Oran Young is a towering intellectual – the dean of academics concerned with environmental governance. As a person also engaged with the very governance he studies, he can think profoundly and act too, powerfully and pragmatically. This combination of imagining the ideal while engaging with the actual makes him a unique guide to the future, a future that may differ drastically from the present.’ -- Durwood Zaelke, Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Building intellectual capital for turbulent times 2. Grand challenges of planetary governance in the 21st century 3. Steering mechanisms for social and socioecological systems 4. What do we mean when we speak about the effectiveness of governance systems? 5. Does formalization enhance institutional effectiveness? 6. Escaping social and socioecological traps in complex systems 7. The technological dimensions of governance 8. The future of the global order References Index

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Book SynopsisIn an era of turbulent ocean geopolitics, where environmental concerns and resource extraction are increasing interest in who owns what at sea, this timely book examines the international politics involved in how states delineate ownership and rights in the ocean. Analysing why some states settle their maritime boundary disputes and why others erupt into conflict, Andreas Østhagen uses the innovative approach of combining international law and international relations theory to examine four countries and their maritime disputes: Australia, Canada, Colombia and Norway. With a focus on marine resources, chapters unpack the dispute dynamics concerning offshore oil and gas, fisheries, and strategic security concerns. Through an examination of what led these states to settle their disputes, this innovative book delineates the wider political and legal factors behind boundary-making at sea and aims to improve the way that society resolves ocean conflicts. Navigating the complexities of international law and conflict resolution at sea, this book will prove a thought-provoking read for students and scholars of geopolitics and law. With ocean-governance an increasingly pressing matter on the political agenda of international negotiations such as UN Climate Change conferences, it will also prove an informative resource for officials engaged in ocean affairs, geopolitics, and the law of the sea.Trade Review‘In exploring the question of why states succeed, and fail, to resolve their maritime disputes, Andreas Østhagen provides a nuanced and comprehensive analysis of the various factors – political, legal, economic, even symbolic – that hamper or promote successful outcomes. This interdisciplinary lens of analysis yields new and important insights, making the volume an indispensable reference work for future research.’ -- Suzanne Lalonde, Université de Montréal, Cana‘Østhagen makes good use of a study of efforts to settle boundary disputes to illuminate the complex mix of factors leading to success or failure in individual cases. In the process, he helps us to understand why cooperation is difficult to achieve in international society where states are sensitive to appearances as well as to more objective indicators of their relative standing.’ -- Oran R. Young, University of California, Santa Barbara, US‘Combining international political and legal perspectives, Ocean Geopolitics offers fresh and timely insights on both the challenges and opportunities involved in the resolution of ocean boundary disputes – increasingly urgent issues spanning the global ocean. Highly recommended.’ -- Clive Schofield, World Maritime University (WMU), Sweden‘Andreas Østhagen’s book provides us with a panoramic map of the world’s maritime boundary disputes. After reading Andreas’ book carefully, readers will learn that although the governance tools and mechanisms for resolving maritime disputes are not perfect and not everyone is satisfied with the way disputes are handled, in general governments and people around the world still express their hope for peace by their patience to solve these problems. Andreas Østhagen's book reminds us that to achieve a more lasting peace and the stability of the oceans, the world needs a more integrated governance approach.’ -- Yang Jian, Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (SIIS), ChinaTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Sea of troubles 2. States, borders and maritime boundaries 3. Explaining maritime boundary dispute settlement 4. Australia – the oceanic continent 5. Canada – in the shadow of the hegemon 6. Colombia – through the Caribbean labyrinth 7. Norway – looking to Russia and the Arctic 8. Legal context and precedent 9. Oil and gas and public perception 10. Security and fisheries 11. The future of boundary disputes at sea Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.This perceptive Advanced Introduction provides a contemporary analysis of Russia’s political system, political institutions and its place on the global stage.Richard Sakwa deftly explores Russia’s emergence as an independent state, examining the structure of its existing political and economic system, its transformation following the constitutional reform of 2020, and the immediate and long-term consequences of the Russia-Ukraine war. The book offers a concise overview of Putin’s leadership, assessing the domestic and international impact across his presidential terms. This informative and prescient Advanced Introduction ultimately goes on to question whether Russia can survive in its present state and considers a series of potential future outcomes.Key Features: Assesses Putin’s leadership and political repercussions Delivers comparative analysis of Russia’s political institutions Analyses key facets of Russia’s domestic and international politics Evaluates the short and long-term effects of the Russia-Ukraine war This book will be a highly important read for scholars and academics specialising in international politics, international relations, comparative politics and geopolitics. Offering an incisive summary of Russia’s national and international political position, this Advanced Introduction will also be of interest to career professionals working in international development and diplomacy.Trade Review‘Richard Sakwa is possibly the foremost scholar of Russian affairs writing in the English language. His latest book lives up to its billing as an Advanced Introduction, providing a sophisticated analysis of the complexities of Russia's political and economic system. Its insightful analysis will enhance the understanding of all who read it.’ -- Paul Robinson, University of Ottawa, Canada.‘In this thought-provoking book Sakwa provides a rich, theory-based introduction to the key issues facing Russian politics. While uncompromisingly critical of Putin’s slide into authoritarianism, he also considers the possibility of a positive evolution of Russia after Putin. This is precisely the sort of nuanced discussion of the complexities of Russian politics that we need today.’ -- Nicolai Petro, University of Rhode Island, US

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Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.This perceptive Advanced Introduction provides a contemporary analysis of Russia’s political system, political institutions and its place on the global stage.Richard Sakwa deftly explores Russia’s emergence as an independent state, examining the structure of its existing political and economic system, its transformation following the constitutional reform of 2020, and the immediate and long-term consequences of the Russia-Ukraine war. The book offers a concise overview of Putin’s leadership, assessing the domestic and international impact across his presidential terms. This informative and prescient Advanced Introduction ultimately goes on to question whether Russia can survive in its present state and considers a series of potential future outcomes.Key Features: Assesses Putin’s leadership and political repercussions Delivers comparative analysis of Russia’s political institutions Analyses key facets of Russia’s domestic and international politics Evaluates the short and long-term effects of the Russia-Ukraine war This book will be a highly important read for scholars and academics specialising in international politics, international relations, comparative politics and geopolitics. Offering an incisive summary of Russia’s national and international political position, this Advanced Introduction will also be of interest to career professionals working in international development and diplomacy.Trade Review‘Richard Sakwa is possibly the foremost scholar of Russian affairs writing in the English language. His latest book lives up to its billing as an Advanced Introduction, providing a sophisticated analysis of the complexities of Russia's political and economic system. Its insightful analysis will enhance the understanding of all who read it.’ -- Paul Robinson, University of Ottawa, Canada.‘In this thought-provoking book Sakwa provides a rich, theory-based introduction to the key issues facing Russian politics. While uncompromisingly critical of Putin’s slide into authoritarianism, he also considers the possibility of a positive evolution of Russia after Putin. This is precisely the sort of nuanced discussion of the complexities of Russian politics that we need today.’ -- Nicolai Petro, University of Rhode Island, US

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Book SynopsisElgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary. Challenging the mainstream view of the environment as either threatening or valuable, this book considers how geographic knowledge can be applied to offer a more nuanced understanding. Framed within geopolitics and using a range of methodologies, the chapters encapsulate different approaches to demonstrate how selective forms of knowledge, measurement, and spatial focus both embody and stabilize power, shaping how people perceive and respond to changing features of human-environment interactions. With key case studies analyzed throughout, this will be a timely read for geography and environmental studies scholars. It will also be beneficial to those studying political science and regional studies, as well as those working in NGOs and think tanks. Contributors include: L. Acton, B. Blue, L.M. Campbell, S. Dalby, O. Evrard, C.A. Fox, N.J. Gray, M. Himley, C. Johnson, F. Lasserre, P. Le Billon, M. Mostafanezhad, S. O'Lear, L. Olman, B. Schneider, L. Shykora, C. Sneddon, J. Swann-Quinn, M. Tadaki, P.-L. Têtu, S.D. VanDeveerTrade Review'This book maps out new research terrain by showing how geopolitics has environmental dimensions that go well beyond the national state and international relations. The rich chapters present case studies that put flesh on the bones of the programmatic arguments of Shannon O'Lear.' --Noel Castree, Manchester University, UK and the University of Wollongong, Australia'A Research Agenda for Environmental Geopolitics lays bare our assumptions about what we mean by environment and by geopolitics. O'Lear and her contributors give us the tools to make explicit the impacts of power, actors, and interests in shaping placed-based decision-making and policy (in)action.' --Geoff Dabelko, Ohio University, US'This book offers refreshing, new perspectives on environmental geopolitics that go far beyond established concerns with global environmental governance and local political ecology. In addition to shedding light on how politics influences the way we manage the environment, O'Lear and contributors reveal the myriad ways in which politics shapes how we understand and encounter the socio-natural world in which we live.' --Philip Steinberg, Durham University, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1 Environmental geopolitics: an introduction to questions and research approaches 1 Shannon O’Lear PART I INTERPRETING AND MEASURING THE ENVIRONMENT 2 Getting the measure of nature: the inconspicuous geopolitics of environmental measurement 16 Brendon Blue and Marc Tadaki 3 Science, territory, and the geopolitics of high seas conservation 30 Noella J. Gray, Leslie Acton, and Lisa M. Campbell 4 The geopolitics of environmental global mapping services: an analysis of Global Forest Watch 44 Birgit Schneider and Lynda Olman PART II POWER, KNOWLEDGE AND HUMAN–ENVIRONMENT INTERACTIONS 5 Conflicts, commodities and the environmental geopolitics of supply chains 59 Philippe Le Billon and Lauren Shykora 6 Underground geopolitics: science, race, and territory in Peru during the late nineteenth century 74 Matthew Himley 7 Local knowledges and environmental governance: making space for alternative futures in the Arctic circumpolar region and the Mekong River Basin 88 Coleen A. Fox and Christopher Sneddon PART III OVERCOMING SELECTIVE SPATIAL FOCUS 8 The geopolitics of transportation in the melting Arctic 105 Frédéric Lasserre and Pierre-Louis Têtu 9 Environmental geopolitics of rumor: the sociality of uncertainty during northern Thailand’s smoky season 121 Mary Mostafanezhad and Olivier Evrard 10 Digging deep: crossing scale in the Georgian mining industry 136 Jesse Swann-Quinn 11 Looking ahead: environmental geopolitics research 151 Shannon O’Lear, Simon Dalby, Corey Johnson, and Stacy D. VanDeveer Index 167

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Book SynopsisThis authoritative Handbook presents a comprehensive analysis of the spatial transformation of the state; a pivotal process of globalization. It explores the state as an ongoing project that is always changing, illuminating the new spaces of geopolitics that arise from these political, social, cultural, and environmental negotiations. Drawing together a diverse set of expert contributors, this book showcases compelling scholarship on the changing geographies of the state. Chapters examine the state from a range of theoretical angles and analyse a variety of relevant themes, including feminist geographies, the relationship between state and environment, urbanization, security geographies, nation-building, and geographical political economies. The book considers the state as spatial in both form and outlook, illustrating how it occupies existing and constantly-changing political geographic conditions, and how it is maintained by the practices of categorizing and managing territory. Taking a multidisciplinary approach, this Handbook will be a valuable resource for academics and students across a range of subjects, including human geography, international relations, political science, spatial planning, and urban studies. The key case studies explored will also provide valuable examples for scholars and policy-makers seeking a better understanding of the broad scope of geopolitics in a globalizing world.Trade Review‘It is an excellent collection of contributions, drawing together many parallel streams and deserves to be on the reading agenda of researchers and students alike.’ -- David Newman, Geography Research Forum‘The Handbook on the Changing Geographies of the State, with a comprehensive geographical scope, and with academic powerhouses such as John Agnew and Jason Dittmer, immediately positions itself as a collection demanding attention.’ -- Franck Billé, Eurasian Geography and Economics'This Handbook introduces readers to key ideas and issues related to geography and state power in the 21st century. A compelling collection, it investigates the production and transformation of the state, focusing on the spatial practices and expressions of political power over time. The volume brings together an extraordinary group of contributors, presenting researchers and students with a rich compendium of expert knowledge on the state as a form of social and political organisation that remains vital to understand and interrogate in these turbulent times.' --Katharyne Mitchell, University of California, Santa Cruz, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface xx 1 Changing geographies of the state: themes, challenges and futures 1 Sami Moisio, Andrew E.G. Jonas, Natalie Koch, Christopher Lizotte and Juho Luukkonen CONCEPTUAL POINTS OF DEPARTURE 2 Introduction: conceptual points of departure 30 Sami Moisio 3 Cultural geographies of the state and nation 33 Alex Jeffrey 4 The everyday state 46 Rhys Jones 5 Feminist geographies of state power 61 Dana Cuomo and Vanessa Massaro 6 Assemblage and the changing geographies of the state 72 Jason Dittmer 7 The state and historical geographical materialism 82 Kevin R. Cox NATIONALISM, IDENTITY AND THE STATE 8 Introduction: nationalism, identity and the state 93 Natalie Koch 9 The great swindle of nationalist sovereigntism: on territory, psychology, and communication technologies 96 Luca Muscarà 10 Indigenous nationalisms as profound challenges to settler colonial regimes 107 Kate Coddington 11 Orientalist-settler colonialism: foundations and practices of post-9/11 white nationalism in the United States 119 Christabel Devadoss and Karen Culcasi 12 The ‘problem’ of religion in the secular state: sectarianism and state formation in Lebanon 132 Caroline Nagel 13 Building nations/building states/building cities: concrete symbols of identity 145 Benjamin Forest and Sarah Moser GEOGRAPHICAL POLITICAL ECONOMIES OF THE STATE 14 Introduction: geographical political economies of the state 158 Sami Moisio 15 Geoeconomics and the state 161 John Agnew 16 The geography of policy-making: mobile policy, territory and state space 173 Russell Prince 17 Neuroliberalism in the digital age: the emerging geographies of the behavioural state 185 Mark Whitehead 18 The combined ascent of the austerity state and the security state and its changing geographies 198 Bernd Belina and Tino Petzold 19 Feminist political economies of the Nordic welfare state: gendering the economy and economizing gender equality 212 Hanna Ylöstalo THE STATE, ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT 20 Introduction: the state, energy and the environment 225 Natalie Koch 21 State of nature: on the co-constitution of resources, state and nation 228 Tom Perreault 22 Governmentality and the global geopolitics of consumption-based environmental accounting 240 Afton Clarke-Sather 23 Already existing dystopias: tribal sovereignty, extraction, and decolonizing the Anthropocene 251 Andrew Curley and Majerle Lister 24 Sustainability as ‘corporate social responsibility’: paradoxes of hydrocarbon development in the Russian Arctic 263 Stephanie Hitztaler and Veli-Pekka Tynkkynen 25 Sovereignty and climate necropolitics: the tragedy of the state system goes ‘green’ 276 Meredith J. DeBoom PART V SECURITY AND THE STATE 26 Introduction: security and the state 288 Christopher Lizotte 27 Imagining the ‘outside’ danger: the critical geopolitics of security and the armed forces in Latin America (1960–2018) 291 Jerónimo Ríos Sierra and Heriberto Cairo 28 The school–security nexus and the changing geographies of the state 302 Nicole Nguyen 29 Spheres of influence 313 Stefanie Ortmann 30 Cyberspace: the new frontier of state power 325 Frédérick Douzet PART VI TERRITORY, THE STATE AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT 31 Introduction: territory, the state and urban development 339 Andrew E.G. Jonas 32 Territory, the state and geopolitics of mega city-region development in China 343 Yi Li and Fulong Wu 33 Competitive upscaling in the state: extrospective city-regionalism 355 David Wachsmuth 34 Emerging citizenship regimes and rescaling (European) nation-states: algorithmic, liquid, metropolitan and stateless citizenship ideal types 368 Igor Calzada 35 Post-crash cities: the Great Recession, state restructuring and urban governance 384 Mark Davidson 36 ‘Urbanizations’ of green geopolitics: new state spaces in global unsustainability 398 Yonn Dierwechter SPATIAL PLANNING AND THE STATE 37 Introduction: spatial planning and the state 413 Juho Luukkonen 38 Private expertise and the reorganization of spatial planning in England 416 Matthew Wargent, Gavin Parker and Emma Street 39 Metropolitanization as state spatial transformation 428 Carola Fricke and Enrico Gualini 40 Transforming the geography of the welfare state through neoliberal spatial strategies: the case of Denmark 442 Kristian Olesen 41 The absolutist city developer: predatory megaprojects and the state–planning nexus in Qatar 455 Agatino Rizzo 42 State land concessions and the spatial politics of rural planning 465 Miles Kenney-Lazar Index

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Book SynopsisIn The Fall of the West Nicholas Hagger examined the evidence for the origin of Covid and whether it has been used as a bio-weapon between West and East. He saw the US, worried by China’s Belt-and-Road Initiative in 140 countries, as collaborating with the Western Syndicate’s New World Order based on the Great Reset advocated by Schwab’s World Economic Forum and the UN’s Agenda 2030. He saw an authoritarian New World Order that could accommodate Russia and China as being established before a democratic World State. In The Golden Phoenix (which completes a quartet that includes The Syndicate, The Secret History of the West and The Fall of the West and is also a sequel to Peace for our Time), Hagger carries the story forward from Ukraine’s being a corridor between the Black Sea and Europe for Russian natural gas to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. In 2019 Hagger was invited to Russia to give a lecture in Moscow on a supranational World State to an audience which included men in military uniform, and he received several awards, including the Russian Ecological Foundation’s Golden Phoenix lapel badge. He was asked to write two letters to Putin and was in contact with Putin’s advisers. The phoenix rises from ashes, and Hagger considers whether the West is rising from the ashes of its withdrawal from Afghanistan to advance its technocratic New World Order by supplying arms to Ukraine and blocking Russian gas; or whether a Russian authoritarian New World Order is rising from the ashes of the defunct Soviet Union to dominate southern Ukraine, and eventually some former Soviet territories, in alliance with China’s Belt-and-Road New World Order in 140 countries; or whether the supranational democratic global New World Order he outlined in World State and World Constitution is rising from the ashes of the Second World War like a golden phoenix. The Russian Foreign Minister has said that NATO is in effect in a war with Russia, and that there is a real danger of a Third World War, and Hagger assesses the likely outcome of the current conflict.

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Book SynopsisIn the context of COVID-19, the production and governance of urban space has experienced a rapid digitalization and datafication, creating new challenges for citizenship. The urban realm is not only the environment where a new standard for digital development is set but also the realm from which rescaling nation-states are pervasively emerging. Emerging Digital Citizenship Regimes: Postpandemic Technopolitical Democracies explores the roles played by digital citizenship in the context of changing geographies of the nation-state in Europe in the aftermath of the global pandemic; and reframes the concept of digital citizenship amid the rescaling of nation-states in Europe by connecting it to the increasing digitalisation of urban environment as a corollary of pandemic. By theorising the concept of citizenship in the digital age through the lens of the evolutionary character of its classical concept or by drawing upon the narratives regarding the democratising potential and risks of the Internet, Emerging Digital Citizenship Regimes explores the complex interaction of social and political variables shaping offline and online civic practices and their intertwined relation to the urban environment, analysing the way it is produced and governed in the COVID-19 new context.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction: Digital Citizenship Regimes in the Postpandemics Chapter 2. Digital Citizenship Regimes Rescaling Nation-States? Chapter 3. Taxonomy for Emerging Digital Citizenship Regimes Chapter 4. Algorithmic Nations: A Conceptual Assemblage for Postpandemic Technopolitical Democracies Chapter 5. Trends, Aftermaths, Emancipations Chapter 6. Future Research & Policy Avenues

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Book SynopsisGlobalization: A Multi-Dimensional System provides a comprehensive understanding of the complex process of globalization and how it impacts nations, organizations and individuals who operate in its environment. C. Gopinath addresses why some nations welcome its benefits whilst others seek protection from it and provides an insightful look into arguments for and against globalization. Highlighting important updated content on the topic, this new edition: Takes a comprehensive multidisciplinary view of globalization within five domains: economy, politics, social, business and physical Discusses underlying theories and provides a framework for step-by-step analyses of global issues from a systems perspective Enhanced chapters provide notes and definitions to help reinforce key items and include several examples of contemporary events and issues as illustrations Instructors’ website includes PowerPoint slides, test bank and guidelines for case discussion and projects. This all-encompassing fourth edition will be an excellent resource for sociology, business and management students. The book will also provide an illustrative reference to practitioners in international economics, international relations and cross-cultural management.Trade Review‘Now in its fourth edition delivers even more stunning material on how globalization continues to shape our lives and livelihoods.’ -- Mauro F. Guillén, author of Rude Awakening: Threats to the Global Liberal Order‘Gopinath brilliantly connects the present with history through rich, recent examples of the impact of interactions across the world. Insights from the COVID-19 pandemic, in particular, enhance his pragmatic framework, rooted in systems thinking, that analyzes the forces of globalization and its facets. An entertaining and thought-provoking read, Gopinath offers much to both scholars and curious practitioners of international management.’ -- Sri Zaheer, University of Minnesota, US‘How timely! C. Gopinath’s Globalization is destined to be widely read and debated in this great age of globalization (or de-globalization – depending on your point of view).’ -- Mike Peng, University of Texas at Dallas, US and author ofGlobal Business and Global StrategyTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction to globalization: a multi-dimensional system 2. What is new about globalization? 3. Taking a systems view 4. Preserving cultural diversity 5. Collaborations and disaffections: a search for identity 6. Economic development and poverty 7. Global business influences 8. Management philosophies and practices 9. It is one planet 10. Moving to a multi-polar world 11. Looking ahead Appendix A Global garments supply chain: a case from Bangladesh Appendix B Covid-19: global disruption Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisGlobalization: A Multi-Dimensional System provides a comprehensive understanding of the complex process of globalization and how it impacts nations, organizations and individuals who operate in its environment. C. Gopinath addresses why some nations welcome its benefits whilst others seek protection from it and provides an insightful look into arguments for and against globalization. Highlighting important updated content on the topic, this new edition: Takes a comprehensive multidisciplinary view of globalization within five domains: economy, politics, social, business and physical Discusses underlying theories and provides a framework for step-by-step analyses of global issues from a systems perspective Enhanced chapters provide notes and definitions to help reinforce key items and include several examples of contemporary events and issues as illustrations Instructors’ website includes PowerPoint slides, test bank and guidelines for case discussion and projects. This all-encompassing fourth edition will be an excellent resource for sociology, business and management students. The book will also provide an illustrative reference to practitioners in international economics, international relations and cross-cultural management.Trade Review‘Now in its fourth edition delivers even more stunning material on how globalization continues to shape our lives and livelihoods.’ -- Mauro F. Guillén, author of Rude Awakening: Threats to the Global Liberal Order‘Gopinath brilliantly connects the present with history through rich, recent examples of the impact of interactions across the world. Insights from the COVID-19 pandemic, in particular, enhance his pragmatic framework, rooted in systems thinking, that analyzes the forces of globalization and its facets. An entertaining and thought-provoking read, Gopinath offers much to both scholars and curious practitioners of international management.’ -- Sri Zaheer, University of Minnesota, US‘How timely! C. Gopinath’s Globalization is destined to be widely read and debated in this great age of globalization (or de-globalization – depending on your point of view).’ -- Mike Peng, University of Texas at Dallas, US and author ofGlobal Business and Global StrategyTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction to globalization: a multi-dimensional system 2. What is new about globalization? 3. Taking a systems view 4. Preserving cultural diversity 5. Collaborations and disaffections: a search for identity 6. Economic development and poverty 7. Global business influences 8. Management philosophies and practices 9. It is one planet 10. Moving to a multi-polar world 11. Looking ahead Appendix A Global garments supply chain: a case from Bangladesh Appendix B Covid-19: global disruption Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.This innovative Research Agenda draws together discussions on the conceptualization of territory and the ways in which territory and territorial practices are intimately bound with issues of power and control. Expert contributors provide a critical assessment of key areas of scholarship on territory and territoriality across a wide range of spatial scales and with examples drawn from the global landscape. After an introduction to shifting ideas of territory, territoriality and sovereignty, the book deals with territory in its more traditional macro-scale sense at the level of the nation-state before going on to explore questions of territory, identity and belonging at a more micro-scale focusing on issues of citizenship, inclusion and exclusion.A Research Agenda for Territory and Territoriality will be a key resource for scholars and students in geopolitics and social and cultural geography, whilst also being a thought-provoking read for those interested in nations and nationalism, sovereignty, conflict, citizenship, and territory, place and locality.Trade Review'This terrific book demolishes the false but commonly held assumption that territory is merely the inert stage on which the real political or sociological action of life takes place. Its sophisticated analysis of fascinating and wide-ranging examples demonstrates that far from being a passive platform, territory is an active and contested element in so many of the dramas of our age. We forget this at our peril.' -- Nick Megoran, Newcastle University, UK'With wonderfully illustrative case studies, David Storey and colleagues bring us on an engaging intellectual journey. They broaden our critical reading of territory and territoriality, connecting to and extending a range of important debates in political and cultural geography, from nationalism and biopolitics, to sovereignty and violence. With the emergence of the Black Lives Matter movement, the book feels even more important as contributors bring nuanced perspectives to the territorial strategies and socio-political conditioning of citizenship, belonging and exclusion.' -- John Morrissey, National University of Ireland, Galway, IrelandTable of ContentsContents: 1 Territory and territoriality: retrospect and prospect 1 David Storey 2 The history and persistence of territory 25 Alexander B. Murphy 3 The contingency of sovereignty 43 John Agnew 4 Nation, territory, memory: making state-space meaningful 61 Anssi Paasi 5 Territory, identity and the UK overseas territories 83 Nichola Harmer 6 The politics of place: violence as a territorial marker 103 Niall Cunningham 7 Territory and food sovereignty 127 Amy Trauger 8 Territory, locality and citizenship 145 Richard Yarwood 9 Tenuous territories 159 David Storey 10 Bodies in space: new frontiers 179 Sian Evans Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.The power of borders emerges not only from their institutional and legal nature but also from their symbolic and identity-forming significance. This innovative Research Agenda uncovers links between different levels of border-making processes, or bordering, from the political to the cognitive, and connects everyday processes and experiences of border-making to the wider social world.Grounded in their original research, contributors offer a variety of discussions on future directions for border studies, including two areas which may prove particularly fruitful; firstly, the question of the broader political salience of borders and secondly, the ways in which the border studies paradigm increasingly connects ontological and ethical questions to processes of border-making. Taken together, these address the question of how everyday bordering practices and discourses can be productively linked to different aspects of social relations.This timely book will be an invigorating read for those studying borders across a wide range of disciplines including human geography, political science, sociology, anthropology, history, international law as well as the humanities, notably art, media studies and philosophy.Trade Review‘A Research Agenda for Border Studies, edited by James W. Scott, is a timely and concise sweep of border theory as it has developed over the past two decades. Drawing upon a number of theoretical perspectives and case studies, this engaging book provides a clear understanding of the state of borders in global perspective. Chapters are written by both established and emerging border scholars, and each provides a careful examination of border theory and analysis at different scales and in different locations. The result is a study of borders from multiple perspectives and through very different lenses. A must read if you want to know why borders matter more and more in a contemporary world and networked world.' -- Heather Nicol, Trent University, Canada'This book ably answers a necessary question: what is a relevant research agenda for border studies in an age of post-disciplinary scholarly inquiry? The contributors to this volume, individually and collectively, show that while borders today may be seen to be inescapably political, they are also inescapably cultural, social and economic. This is a must-read book for those who seek both a starting point and inspiration for their own study of borders in the contemporary world.' -- Thomas M Wilson, Binghamton University, State University of New York, US'At a pivotal time when right-wing populists and responses to a global pandemic are erecting new borders, Scott and a diverse team of international and interdisciplinary critical scholars are setting a new agenda for critical border studies. An important book giving hope for a brighter future.' -- Harald Bauder, Toronto Metropolitan University, CanadaTable of ContentsContents: Part 1 Introduction 1 Introduction to A Research Agenda for Border Studies James Wesley Scott Part 2 Socio-Political Borders 2 Interpreting Politics of Borders Anna Casaglia 3 Rescaling the border: National populism, sovereignty, and civilisationism Paul Richardson 4 Beyond Post-Coloniality in Border Studies Innocent Moyo 5 Borders as Resources: Towards a Centering of the Concept Christophe Sohn Part 3 Borderscapes and Beyond 6 Reading Borders in the Everyday: Bordering as Practice Deljana Iossifova 7 Borders and Belonging Victor Konrad 8 Materialized Narratives of Border: Articulating the Unspeakable through Everyday Objects Tuulikki Kurki 9 Bordering as a Psychological Process: The Case of a Cross-Border Worker at the Spanish Moroccan Border Alicia Español Part 4 Ethics and Border Research Agendas 10 Exploring Links between Borders and Ethics Jussi Laine 11 “Go Anywhere I Damn Well Please”? Towards an Anarchist Vocational Ethics of International Borders Nick Megoran Index

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Book SynopsisThis comprehensive study delves into the strategic importance of the Mediterranean Sea and examines key conflicts, as well as the roles of extra-regional actors such as NATO, Russia, and the USA in shaping dynamics within the Eastern Mediterranean.

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Book SynopsisOffering a fresh perspective, this timely book analyzes the socio-cultural and physical production of planned capital cities through the theoretical lens of feminism. Dorina Pojani evaluates the historical, spatial and symbolic manifestations of new capital cities, as well as the everyday experiences of those living there, to shed light on planning processes, outcomes and contemporary planning issues. Chapters explore seven geographically, culturally and temporally diverse capital cities across Australia, India, Brazil, Nigeria, Kazakhstan, Myanmar and South Korea. Pojani argues that new capital cities have embodied patriarchal systems to govern their respective polities which has magnified problems in these cities. The book highlights how in new capitals, notions such as the state, the nation, urbanism, religion, the economy and even nature have been conceived of or treated in patriarchal terms, to the detriment of women and other disadvantaged groups.This book will be an invigorating read for urban studies and planning scholars. The information about the processes of new city formation will also be of great use to urban planners.Trade Review‘Another recent book by Dorina Pojani, Trophy Cities, is relentlessly critical of the underlying gender bias that undergirds these ventures. As its subtitle proclaims, she offers “a feminist perspective on new capitals.” She documents “the patriarchal character of most nationalisms,” including the male-led predilection to found new capitals. Importantly, this intersectional feminist lens centres “not only gender by also class, race, ethnicity, religion and other systems of domination.”’ -- Lawrence J. Vale, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US‘In Trophy Cities, Dorina Pojani offers a much-needed feminist analysis of the planning of capital cities across the globe. With a diverse set of case cities and an abundance of well-researched examples from them, this book makes a significant contribution and offers a fresh perspective to our understanding of cities, how we plan them, and with what consequences. The book, or select chapters, would be excellent additions to include in cities and urbanization courses, as well as feminist theory courses. Pojani’s accessible writing style makes the book suitable for both undergraduate and graduate students, as well as policymakers and practitioners. This book challenges us to re-evaluate the traditional and dominant planning paradigms and envision something different - something better.’ -- Megan E Heim La Frombois, Journal of the American Planning Association‘Feminism is not only about political representation or economic freedom, it is also about liberating our cities from only the pursuit of capital and making them the sites of play and community, about freeing all people in the way they occupy space and live out their daily lives, about giving dignity to the lived experience. Trophy Cities is a bold proposal for planning our cities around people and not money, for prioritizing joy over wealth. I'll be thinking about it for some time to come.‘Table of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction: why a feminist perspective on new capital cities? 2. New capitals in the context of national history and international relations 3. The spatial manifestation of new capitals 4. The symbolic manifestation of new capitals 5. The capital as an everyday city 6. Conclusion: what would a feminist capital look like? Reference Index

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Book SynopsisExploring the wide variety of political aspects relating to oil resources and markets, The Politics of Oil provides an important and accessible introduction to topics such as the so-called 'resource curse?' oil rent, producer cartels, and international oil governance. Broadening the scope further, Dag Harald Claes also examines the role of oil in political conflicts.Divided thematically into three parts, this book discusses the exercise of political control over oil resources, their extraction, and the income from oil exports; the vagaries of oil market forces and political attempts to govern them; and finally, the complex role of oil in international, regional, and domestic conflicts. Drawing on a number of academic perspectives, including economics, political science, philosophy, history, geology, and more, the key debates surrounding oil are explored. These include the role of OPEC, the future of oil in the context of climate change, and the part oil has played in civil war and terrorism.Easily accessible, this introduction to the intertwined relationship between oil and political decisions and behaviour, is an essential tool for students of political science, economics, and energy related studies of all kinds. It is also valuable for policymakers, industry practitioners, and others interested in the oil business or governance seeking a comprehensive introduction to the subject.Trade Review‘The Politics of Oil is a fascinating and informative study of the evolution of the international oil industry. The work profits from the authors interdisciplinary approach, which draws heavily on a number of fields including but by no means limited to geology, engineering, economics, philosophy, history and political science. The chapters are filled with a wealth of valuable information and insights on many of the pressing issues of our time: From climate change and the potential producer response to the resurgence of Iranian ambitions in the Gulf. To my knowledge, this is the only work of its kind providing a bridge between political and economic approaches to complex geopolitical issues such as the resource curse. It is readily accessible to the general reader interested in oil and politics. All the chapters can serve as supplementary material to academic courses in energy economics geopolitics and energy transitions.’ -- Jennifer Considine, The Energy Journal'Dag Harald Claes has a unique knowledge of the politics, economics and (even more importantly from my point of view) the history of oil. He is one of the few who can blend together the three aspects in a simple and vibrant narrative. The Politics of Oil can be used as a reference in undergraduate classes, but will also be of interest for anybody dealing with the complexities of international energy and environmental politics.' --Paulo Garavini, European University Institute, Italy'This book masterfully discusses how governance, markets, and security come together in creating a nexus full of inspiration for scholars of International Political Economy. What does oil do to sovereignty? Is it a blessing or a curse? How long will OPEC still be in charge? And what does the future hold for the world s most important commodity against the backdrop of climate change? The Politics of Oil will be an invaluable resource for everyone seeking answers to these crucial questions.' --Andreas Goldthau, Royal Holloway University of London, UKTable of ContentsContents: Part I Resource Governance 1. Sovereignty and Ownership 2. Governing Oil Production 3. Oil Income– Blessing or Curse? -With Mads Motrøen Part II Market Control 4. Institutional Governance 5. Producer Governance 6. Opec Part III Political Conflict 7. Oil and the US Hegemony 8. Oil and Regional Security 9. Oil and Domestic Conflicts 10. Climate Change and the Future of Oil Index

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Book SynopsisAddressing the growing economic, political, and cultural presence of Asian states in the Arctic region, this timely book looks at how that presence is being evaluated and engaged with by Arctic states and their northern communities. A diverse range of authors addresses the question that underpins so much of this interest in Asian engagement with the northern latitudes: what do Asian countries want to gain from the Arctic? Although China, Japan, India, Singapore and South Korea were only accepted as formal observers to the Arctic Council in 2013, this book outlines a longer history of Asian-Arctic engagement that spans centuries. It highlights how this role as observer generates new challenges, dangers and opportunities for Arctic states and their northern communities. Climate change, energy and other resources such as fish, global geopolitical change and northern autonomy are shown to all play a part in mediating how Asian states are observed and evaluated in the Arctic Council and beyond. Students of Asian and Arctic studies will find the exploration of the roots of religion, culture and trade in the long-standing Asian interest in the Arctic to be compelling. This will also be a beneficial read particularly for scholars in geopolitics, international relations and political science as it shows how an intergovernmental forum can have global, national and local impacts. Contributors include: M.M. Bennett, S. Chaturvedi, K. Dodds, N. Filimonova, N. Hong, S. Knecht, N. Liu, I.A. Medby, Y.-K. Park, U. Sinha, C.Y. WoonTrade Review'What is the role of the global Arctic narrative? Why do Asian states strongly request to join the Arctic Council but are not active in the working groups? This book provides insightful observations on similar important questions, exploring the wider role of Asian states in the Arctic.' --Ping Su, International Arctic Science Committee'Focusing on critical geopolitics and drawing upon case studies from China to India, and from Indigenous Peoples to the Arctic Council, this is an important contribution to the growing body of academic studies focused on Asia in the Arctic. The authors revealed how geographical imaginaries, geopolitical dynamics and regimes of governance meet. Highly recommended for anyone interested in gaining a deeper understanding of the dynamics at play in the Arctic, or in the politics of peripheries and frontiers.' --Aki Tonami, University of Tsukuba, Japan'The increased accessibility of the Arctic as the world's climate warms and sea-ice retreats for a larger portion of the year has made the region something of a hotspot for global geopolitics. This original and lively collection is devoted to how and why Asian states, traditionally not important actors in Arctic affairs, have become focused on and involved in the region. Given the ongoing shift in the world's center of economic gravity towards Asia this is a necessary read for anyone who wants to understand the world of tomorrow.' --John Agnew, UCLA, US and author of Globalization and Sovereignty (2018)Table of ContentsContents: Chapter 1: Introduction: The Arctic Council, ‘Asian States’ and the ‘Global Arctic Klaus Dodds and Chih Yuan Woon Section I- Institutional and Geopolitical Context: The Arctic Council, Arctic States, Permanent Participants, Observers Chapter 2: The Arctic Council, Asian Observers and the Role of ‘Shadow Networks’ in the Science-Policy Interface Sebastian Knecht Chapter 3: Scale-Jumping in the Arctic Council: Indigenous Permanent Participants and Asian Observer States Mia M. Bennett Chapter 4: The Asian Factor in ‘Arctic Connectivity’: Ecology, Geopolitics and the Social Sanjay Chaturvedi Section II- Asia and the Arctic and Arctic States in Asia Chapter 5: The Arctic Policy of China: An Analysis of Russian Academic Discussions Nadezhda Filimonova Chapter 6: Observed as Arctic: Norwegian and Icelandic Arctic State Identities and the Asian ‘Other’ Ingrid A. Medby Chapter 7: Going Beyond the ‘Original Inter-Arctic States’: China Acting in the Arctic and Observing the Arctic Council Nong Hong Chapter 8: Boosting South Korea in a Changing Arctic Council: Achievements and Challenges Young-Kil Park Chapter 9: India in the Arctic: Civilization Connect and Contemporary Policy Uttam Sinha Chapter 10: The Fear of By-Pass: The Flexible Diplomacy of Jacking-up and Stretching out Singapore’s Arctic Connections Chih Yuan Woon and Klaus Dodds Chapter 11: Afterword Nengye Liu Index

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Book SynopsisThere is now emerging across the world a group of scholars whose work crosses the conventional disciplinary boundaries in the social sciences. Their model combines the breadth of vision of the classical political economy with analytical advances of modern social science. This innovative two volume collection brings together the key papers that comprise the new political economy of globalisation, identifying a competing range of concepts and theories. It will prove an invaluable source of reference to students and researchers alike.Trade Review'No subject is of more relevance to the social sciences as a whole, and none has occasioned a wider range of divergence in approach, than that of globalisation. Globalisation is not just a process of importance in its own right but one which can test the pre-existing, bounded and national, limits of academic disciplines. The impact of this question has, however, too often been at the expense of precision. The contemporary debate on globalisation is in need, above all, of anchoring in conceptual and theoretical precision, in historical perspective, in facts. It is this challenge which the present collection admirably addresses: complementing analysis of change within the international economy with debate on the continued, if altered, role of the state, it at the same time explores changing patterns of governance and the possibilities that open, in an altered international situation, for new forms of actor and norms. Higgott and Payne have produced a collection that is stimulating, focused and original.' -- Fred Halliday, London School of Economics and Political Science, UKTable of ContentsContents: Volume I Acknowledgements Introduction Richard Higgott and Anthony Payne PART I CONCEPTS AND THEORIES 1. James N. Rosenau (1996), ‘The Dynamics of Globalization: Toward an Operational Formulation’ 2. Susan Strange (1994), ‘Wake Up, Krasner! The World Has Changed’ 3. Philip G. Cerny (1994), ‘The Dynamics of Financial Globalization: Technology, Market Structure, and Policy Response’ 4. Eric Helleiner (1995), ‘Explaining the Globalization of Financial Markets: Bringing States Back In’ 5. Robert Wade (1996), ‘Globalization and Its Limits: Reports of the Death of the National Economy are Greatly Exaggerated’ 6. John Zysman (1996), ‘The Myth of a “Global” Economy: Enduring National Foundations and Emerging Regional Realities’ 7. Jonathan Perraton, David Goldblatt, David Held and Anthony McGrew (1997), ‘The Globalisation of Economic Activity’ 8. John Gerard Ruggie (1995), ‘At Home Abroad, Abroad at Home: International Liberalisation and Domestic Stability in the New World Economy’ 9. Philip McMichael (1996), ‘Globalization: Myths and Realities’ 10. Robert W. Cox (1992), ‘Global Perestroika’ 11. Bob Jessop (1997), ‘Capitalism and its Future: Remarks on Regulation, Government and Governance’ PART II THE STATE 12. Louise Amoore, Richard Dodgson, Barry K. Gills, Paul Langley, Don Marshall and Iain Watson (1997), ‘Overturning “Globalisation”: Resisting the Teleological, Reclaiming the “Political’ 13. Susan Strange (1995), ‘The Defective State’ 14. Paul Hirst and Grahame Thompson (1995), ‘Globalization and the Future of the Nation State’ 15. Leo Panitch (1995), ‘Globalisation and the State’ 16. Jan Aart Scholte (1997), ‘Global Capitalism and the State’ 17. Peter Burnham (1999), ‘The Politics of Economic Management in the 1990s’ 18. Peter Evans (1997), ‘The Eclipse of the State? Reflections on Stateness in an Era of Globalization’ 19. Linda Weiss (1997), ‘Globalization and the Myth of the Powerless State’ 20. Geoffrey Garrett (1998), ‘Shrinking States? Globalization and National Autonomy in the OECD’ 21. Mark W. Zacher (1992), ‘The Decaying Pillars of the Westphalian Temple: Implications for International Order and Governance’ 22. David Armstrong (1998), ‘Globalization and the Social State’ 23. Michael Mann (1997), ‘Has Globalization Ended the Rise and Rise of the Nation-State?’ Name Index Volume II Acknowledgements An introduction by the editors to both volumes appears in volume I PART I NEW MODES OF GOVERNANCE 1. John Gerard Ruggie (1993), ‘Territoriality and Beyond: Problematizing Modernity in International Relations’ 2. James N. Rosenau (1995), ‘Governance in the Twenty-first Century’ 3. Paul Taylor (1999), ‘The United Nations in the 1990s: Proactive Cosmopolitanism and the Issue of Sovereignty’ 4. Robert Wade (1996), ‘Japan, the World Bank, and the Art of Paradigm Maintenance: The East Asian Miracle in Political Perspective’ 5. Jan Aart Scholte (2000), ‘“In the Foothills”: Relations between the IMF and Civil Society’ 6. Gary Marks, Liesbet Hooghe and Kermit Blank (1996), ‘European Integration from the 1980s: State-Centric v. Multi-level Governance’ 7. James Anderson and James Goodman (1995), ‘Regions, States and the European Union: Modernist Reaction or Postmodern Adaptation?’ 8. Saskia Sassen (1995), ‘The State and the Global City: Notes Towards a Conception of Place-Centered Governance’ 9. A. Claire Cutler (1995), ‘Global Capitalism and Liberal Myths: Dispute Settlement in Private International Trade Relations’ 10. Timothy J. Sinclair (1994), ‘Passing Judgement: Credit Rating Processes as Regulatory Mechanisms of Governance in the Emerging World Order’ 11. Ronnie D. Lipschutz (1997), ‘From Place to Planet: Local Knowledge and Global Environmental Governance’ 12. Anne-Marie Slaughter (1997), ‘The Real New World Order’ PART II NEW ACTORS, NORMS AND ISSUES 13. Lorraine Eden (1991), ‘Bringing the Firm Back In: Multinationals in International Political Economy’ 14. John H. Dunning, ‘An Overview of Relations with National Governments’, Leslie Sklair, ‘TNCs As Political Actors’ and Andrew Walter, ‘Do They Really Rule the World?’ in Ankie Hoogvelt et al (1988), ‘Debate: Transnational Corporations’ 15. Louis W. Pauly and Simon Reich (1997), ‘National Structures and Multinational Corporate Behavior: Enduring Differences in the Age of Globalization’ 16. Jessica T. Mathews (1997), ‘Power Shift’ 17. Leon Gordenker and Thomas G. Weiss (1995), ‘NGO Participation in the International Policy Process’ 18. Cecelia Lynch (1998), ‘Social Movements and the Problem of Globalization’ 19. Robert W. Cox (1999), ‘Civil Society at the Turn of the Millennium: Prospects for an Alternative World Order’ 20. Richard Falk (1998), ‘Global Civil Society: Perspectives, Initiatives, Movements’ 21. Kathryn Sikkink (1993), ‘Human Rights, Principled Issue-Networks, and Sovereignty in Latin America’ 22. Andrew Hurrell and Ngaire Woods (1995), ‘Globalisation and Inequality’ 23. David Held and Anthony McGrew (1998), ‘The End of the Old Order? Globalization and the Prospects for World Order’ 24. Richard Devetak and Richard Higgott (1999), ‘Justice Unbound? Globalization, States and the Transformation of the Social Bond’ Name Index

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Book SynopsisThe Kyoto Protocol has singularly failed to shape international environmental policy-making in the way that the earlier Montreal protocol did. Whereas Montreal placed reliance on the force of science and moralistic injunctions to save the planet, and successfully determined the international response to climate change, Kyoto has proved significantly more problematic. International Environmental Policy considers why this is the case.The authors contend that such arguments on this occasion proved inadequate to the task, not just because the core issues of the Kyoto process were subject to more powerful and conflicting interests than previously, and the science too uncertain, but because the science and moral arguments themselves remained too weak. They argue that 'global warming' is a failing policy construct because it has served to benefit limited but undeclared interests that were sustained by green beliefs rather than robust scientific knowledge.This highly topical book takes a frank look at the political motivations that underpin the global warming debate, and will appeal to political scientists and energy policy analysts as well as anyone with an interest in the future of the environment and in the policies we create to protect it.Trade Review'The book does not attempt to say what "should" be done about global warming. Instead it uses a framework of thinking about how interests - including those of governments and scientists as well as business and activists - affect negotiations over international issues. The ultimate aim is to reconsider the international environmental institutions that attempt to balance these interests and forge workable agreements. The failure of Kyoto points to inadequacies in the current mechanisms. Boehmer-Christiansen and Kellow have made a valuable contribution to understanding this failure and where solutions might emerge.' -- Ross McKitrick, The World EconomyTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction 2. The International Environmental Policy Process: Increasing Complexity and Implementation Failure 3. Energy Interests, Opportunities, and Uneven Burden-sharing 4. The Kyoto Process 5. The Failure of Principled Discourse 6. Institutionalizing Scientific Advice: Designing Consensus as a Policy Driver? 7. The Suppression of Scientific Controversy 8. Baptists, Bootleggers and the Kyoto Process Bibliography Index

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