International relations Books
Springer Issues of Terrorism in the PostCoronavirus Era
Book Synopsis1. Introduction.- 2. Post Corona Era Terrorism and Counterterrorism: Environment and Science.- 3. Climate Change and Terrorism in the Post-Corona World Some Initial Thoughts.- 4. A Typology of Enhanced Terrorism: Policy Implications.- 5. Speaking of Terrorism: The Challenge of Science Communication to Decision-Makers.- 6. Gene Editing and CRISPER': The Future Potential Terrorists Tools.- 7. Terrorism During the Pandemic: COVID-19 Impact on Violent Extremism.- 8. The COVID-19 Pandemic and Terrorism: The Emergence of a New Category of Threat.
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Palgrave Macmillan Liberty and Security in an Anarchical World Volume I
Book Synopsis1.Tragedy, Myth, and Liberty in Interstate Theory.- 2.Introduction.-3. Pax Americana: Is the United States a Benevolent Hegemon?.-4. Despotism in the 21st Century: The Case of Nigeria's Democratic Despotism.-5. Individual Liberty and the Responsibility to Protect: Toward a Neolibertarian Foreign Policy.-6. Non-Intervention: The History of a Liberal Ideal.-7. Commercium et pax: local governments, free trade, and isolationist policy.-8. Debt Diplomacy in the 1920s: The Case of the French and Hellenic War Debts.-9. Ludwig von Mises and Wilhelm Röpke on Peace and International Order.-10. Beyond Tariff Reduction: A Libertarian Approach to Reducing Non-Tariff Barriers.-11. The Non-Freedom of Foreign Intervention.
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Springer Cuba in the Multipolar World Order
Book SynopsisChapter 1. Introduction: Cuba in the Multipolar World Order Alliances, Adversities and Global Shifts (Ernesto Domínguez López).- Chapter 2. Boundary conditions for the US policy towards Cuba: policy-making in a context of hegemonic transition (Ernesto Domínguez López).- Chapter 3. US sanctions against Cuba (1988-2022) (Melina Johanna Iturriaga Bartuste).- Chapter 4. Cuban Americans in the making of US policy toward Cuba: Immigration at the core of bilateral relations (Dalia González Delgado).- Chapter 5. US Weaponization of Nature, Accident and Disease in Cuba: From the 1960s Drought and Hurricane Flora to the 2020s COVID and Hurricane Ian (Mikael Wolfe).- Chapter 6. Cuba and Venezuela: Revolutionary Confluence and Utopia in the XXI Century (Miguel Angel Latouche).- Chapter 7. Contemporary Havana-Moscow Relations. An Enduring Friendship in an Everchanging Global Context (Mervyn Bain).- Chapter 8. International and domestic dynamics in EU-Cuban relations before and after the war in Ukraine (Susanne Gratius).- Chapter 9. China and Cuba: Examining the Sino-Cuban Ties in the Context of Latin America and the Caribbean (Christian Pfeiffer).- Chapter 10. Epilog: Cuba in the multipolar world order (Ernesto Domínguez López).
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Palgrave Macmillan Canada and Competing IndoPacific Visions of China and the US
Book SynopsisChapter 1- Introduction: The Strategic Choices Facing Canada in Defining its Relationship with China.- Chapter 2 - International Relations Theory and Canada's Response to the US-China Strategic Rivalry.- Chapter 3- Re-inventing Canada's Middle Power Identity: Practicing Pragmatic Realism in an Era of US-China Strategic Competition in the Indo-Pacific.- Chapter 4 - Realism Redux: Canada's Geostrategic Choices in an Era of Great-power Rivalry.- Chapter 5- Canada's Response to China's Rise, 2015-2023: Analysis of Ottawa's Internal Policy Making.- Chapter 6- Canada Carves Out a Unique Role for Itself While Aligning with the United States and its Like-Minded Allies and Partners.- Chapter 7 - Unable to Resist--Unwilling to Take Risks: Canada in the Vice of Sino-American Rivalry.- Chapter 8 - The Polar Silk Road: Canadian Content in Sino-American Relations.- Chapter 9 - Conclusion.
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Palgrave Macmillan Hand in Hand Canada at the Human Rights and Peacebuilding Nexus
Book SynopsisChapter 1. Introducing the Human Rights and Peacebuilding Nexus.- Chapter 2.Peacebuilding and Human Rights in Canadian Foreign Policy: Mutually Reinforcing or Ships.- chapter 3.Canada's human-rights-based responses to peacebuilding efforts in the context of mass.- Chaoter 4.Sustaining Partnerships: Canadian Civil Society and Foreign Policy at the Human Rights and.- Chapter 5.The Women, Peace and Security Agenda and Women's Rights.- chapter 6.Forced Displacement and Canada's Feminist Foreign Policy: What is missing?.- Chapter 7.The disconnect between Disability Rights and Canadian peacebuilding policy and practice: Mending the Gap.- Chapter 8.Why we need a global Children, Peace and Security Agenda.- Chapter 9.Undercut and Under-Addressed: the Right to Self-Determination and Its Importance for Canadian Foreign and Domestic Policies and Director of the Human Rights Research and Education Centre at the University of Ottawa.- Chapter 10.Addressing Indigenous Rights Through Canadian ForeignPolicy.- Chapter 11. Indigenization of Canadian Foreign Policy: Beyond Tokenism.- Chapter 12.Canada's support for and utilization of international courts and tribunals as tools of international criminal justice.- Chapter 13.Rough beasts slouching toward Kigali: Canadian policy and action at the nexus of peacebuilding in human rights in post-genocide Rwanda.- Chapter 14.Canadian arms exports and the promotion of human rights.- Chapter 15.Canadian mining in the context of conflict, war, peacebuilding and reconstruction Emily Dwyer and Catherine Coumans, Mining Watch Canada.- Chapter 17.Conclusion.
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Palgrave Macmillan QuantumSocial Investigations across Transnational Movements
Book SynopsisChapter 1:Prologue to Theoretical Parts: Concentrating on Quantum Keys.- Chapter 2:Revitalizing Social Fields: Quantal Correspondences beyond Non-Local Conjugations.- Chapter 3:Relocating Virtual Movements: Quantization of Affective Waves through Indeterminate Hearts.- Chapter 4:Reformulating Complex Encounters: Quantic Logics of Transversal Solidarities.- Chapter 5:Prelude to Empirical Parts: Focusing on Exemplary Movements.- Chapter 6:Remembering Revolutionary-Liberationist Movements: Entangled Mobilizations, Selfless Sacrifices and Secularized Solidarities.- Chapter 7:Reimagining Redemptive-Resistance Movements: Trans-active Engagements, Altruistic Sacrifices and Sanctified Solidarities.- Chapter 8:Composite Findings: Cross-Scientific Frontiers and Interdisciplinary Insights for Future Research.
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Palgrave Macmillan UNESCO Religious Cultural Heritage and Political Contestation
Book Synopsis1 A Concise Introduction to the World of Religious Heritage.- 2 The Values of Tangible Religious Heritage Through the Lens of UNESCO.- 3 The Values of Intangible Religious Heritage Through the Lens of UNESCO.- 4 The Contestation of Religious Heritage Through the Lens of States: Challenging Approaches and Problematic Outcomes.- 5 Contested Religious Heritage in the Middle-Eastern Region: The Old City of Hebron.- 6 Contested Religious Heritage in the Balkans: The Medieval Monuments of Kosovo and Metohija.- 7 Contested Religious Heritage in South East Asia: The Temple of Preah Vihear as a Cambodian World Heritage Site.- 8 The Politicisation of Tangible and Intangible Religious Heritage: A Final Appraisal
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Palgrave Macmillan Technology Rivalry Between the USA and China
Book SynopsisPart I: Introduction.- Chapter 1: The Shifting paradigm of global trade in technology.- Part II: The new era of techno-nationalism and trade mercantilist in the 21st Century.- Chapter 2 U.S. Industrial Policy for the 21st Century: The Washington-Taipei Techno-Democracy Partnership amidst Chip Rivalry with Beijing.- Chapter 3 Technological Sanctions, Industrial Policy, and High-Tech Industry's Changing Strategies.- Chapter 4 . From Dependence to Decoupling: China's Semiconductor Self-Sufficiency amid Geopolitical Pressures.- Part III: Industrial policies in the U.S. allied and partner countries.- Chapter 5 Japan's Grand Geopolitical Strategy on the Semiconductor Industry.- Chapter 6 The Competitiveness and Future Challenge of the Taiwan Semiconductor Industry.- Chapter 7 South Korea's Policy Developments in the Semiconductor Industry.- Chapter 8 Evolution of India's Electronics Policy and Its Semiconductor Pursuit: A Journey that has Just Begun.- Part IV: Geopolitics of technology trade.- Chapter 9 Chip- Four Alliance for A Resilient Global Semiconductor Industry.- Chapter 10. Taiwan's Strategic Imperatives in Safeguarding National Security through Semiconductor Significance amid Sino-US Rivalry.- Chapter 11. US-China Technology Rivalry : Examination upon Decoupling and Hostility.- V.Revalry of digital sovereignty.- Chapter 12. The Great Power Tech Race in the Persian Gulf: A Western Perspective.- Chapter 13. The U.S.-China Digital Rivalry in Africa.
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Palgrave Macmillan Financing for Sustainable Development Goals SDGs in the era of COVID19 and beyond
Book SynopsisChapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Financing sustainable economic development among Belt and Road Initiative countries: Is more finance better?.- Chapter 3: Determinants of Financial Inclusion in Developing Countries.- Chapter 4: Key Elements of Financing in Female Digital Entrepreneurship: A Causal Relationship Analysis using Delphi-DEMATEL approach for Bangladesh.- Chapter 5: Unveiling Aid: Decomposition Insights into EU's SDGs Funding Amid Economic and Political Shifts.- Chapter 6: Climate Change and Fiscal policy for the Green Economy in India.- Chapter 7: Emerging Models of Green Financing in Selected South Asian Countries.- Chapter 8: Addressing the Funding Gap for SDG7 in Sub-Saharan Africa: Leveraging Innovation via Voluntary Carbon Markets.- Chapter 9: Digital Financial Inclusion: A Lifeline for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) - Lessons from Bangladesh Through Crisis and Beyond.- Chapter 10: Leveraging Financial Technology and Innovation for Sustainability in the Post-Covid Era.- Chapter 11: Financing Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through Responsible FinTech.- Chapter 12: The New Global Development Finance: Africa, the Rating Agencies and Combatting Risk Misperceptions.- Chapter 13: Conclusion.
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Springer US Foreign Policy Toward Taiwan
Book Synopsis.- Harry S. Truman Years, 1945-1952..- Dwight D. Eisenhower Years, 1953-1961..- Taiwans Uphill Battle for U.S. Support under the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations..- Jimmy Carter and US-China-Taiwan Relations: A Critical Assessment..- Ronald Reagan, 1981-1988..- U.S. Foreign Policy Towards Taiwan: Obama Vs. Trump..- US and Taiwan in the Post-Cold War Era: Joseph Biden, 2021..- The Origin of USs One China Policy: The Factor of Japan..- The US Policy of Intentional Strategic Ambiguity on Taiwan: Hegemonic Continuity or Attrition in the Post-Cold War Epoch..- Changing Shifts: Taiwan as A Bargaining Chip in Sino -Us Post-Cold War Relations..- The Russo-Ukrainian Conflict: Lessons and Implications for US-Taiwan-China Relations..- Civilizational Politics, Just War Theories, and the US-China-Taiwan Relations..- Americas Strategic Clarity and Taiwans Hedging Policy..- Taiwan In the Island Chain Strategy After Russias Invasion of Ukraine..- Strategic Communication: How the US Government Communicates Its Foreign Policy Toward Taiwan and China.
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Palgrave Macmillan Empowering China
Book SynopsisChapter 1. Preface.- Chapter 2. Napoleons prophecy.- Chapter 3. Chinas economic development and its geostrategic impact.- Chapter 4. Nixons opening to China.- Chapter 5. Engaging China.- Chapter 6. Containing China.- Chapter 7. Assessing four decades of US policy with China.- Chapter 8. The dysfunctions of the American political system.- Chapter 9. Unfulfilled promises.- Chapter 10. Conclusion.- Chapter 11. Epilogue. A European perspective. The sovereignty trap.
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Palgrave Macmillan Where Eagles Do Not Dare. Moderate Revisionism in International Politics
Book SynopsisChapter 1 Introduction.- Chapter 2 Theoretical Foundations of Revisionism.- Chapter 3 A Theory of Revisionism.- Chapter 4 With Great Power Comes Growing Satisfaction: The United States from 1879 to 1891.- Chapter 5 Middle in Power and Dissatisfaction: Fascist Italy between 1922 and 1928.- Chapter 6 Limited Power, Seething Dissatisfaction: Maoist China between 1949 and 1958.- Chapter 7 Conclusion.
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Palgrave Macmillan Public Policy Making Gender and Human Security in the Caribbean
Book SynopsisPart 1: Public policy is public space: stakeholders, civil society and alternative public policy makers.- Chapter 1: Women Working for Social Progress (Workingwomen): The Campaign to End Corporal Punishment.- Chapter 2: Climate Change, Bushfires' and Possibilities of Civil Society Based Policy-making in Trinidad and Tobago: Making Room at the Table.- Chapter 3: Child Sexual Abuse, ChildLinK, Civil Society and Communities of Practice in Collaboration with the Guyanese State.- Chapter 4: Climate Change Conversations Gender-based violence interventions in Dominica Before and after the storms: an interview with Ms. Tina Alexander.- Part 2: Human security complexities and caribbean public policy.- Chapter 5: Displacing the Masculine Protagonist: Women, the Arms Trade Treaty, Human Security and Gun Violence in Trinidad & Tobago.- Chapter 6: Intergenerational Trauma and Neglect: Social Housing as a Strategy for Sustainable Development.- Chapter 7: Social Policy Implications for a Restorative Prisoner Re-entry Process.- Chapter 8: Interconnected Threads: From Global Governance to Local Realities in Human Chapter 9: Security: An Interview with Professor Craig Murphy.- Part 3: Crosscutting gender: social policy: sectoral reflections and invisibilities.- Chapter 10: Beijing To and Fro: From Women's Bureaus to Gender Divisions.- Chapter 11: Policy-ing Adolescent Sexuality and Sexual Health in Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago.- Chapter 12: Our Law to Access: The Role of Women's Rights Organisations in the Passage and Implementation of Guyana's Abortion Law.- Chapter 13: Persistent Invisibilities: Purposive Erasure of Marginalised and Minoritised Gender Identities in Caribbean Policy Making.- Chapter 14: The Colonial Origins of Social Policy and Social Work in Guyana.- Chapter 15: Using Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process to Rank Policy Aspirations for Child Protection in Aruba: A Human Capability Approach.- Chapter 16: Social Policy Contestations from Within the Academy. An interview with Dr. Innette Cambridge.- .- Part 4: public policy- 21st century caribbean reflections and futures.- Chapter 17: Understanding the Persistence of the Westminster Whitehall Model in the Caribbean: The Challenges Facing Constitutional Reformers: Interview with Professor Hamid Ghany.- Chapter 18: Recording Our Policy Process: The Caribbean's Postcolonial Challenge of Re-Membering as We Contend with Digitisation and Freedom of Information.- Chapter 19: In Search for Repair: Reflections on Grief, the Repaired and Reparations.
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Palgrave Macmillan The Cool Water Effect
Book SynopsisIntroduction.- Chapter 1 The Emancipatory Turn in Civilization 14.- Chapter 2 The CW-Condition Understood.- Chapter 3 The CW-Condition Measured.- Chapter 4 Development as Emancipation.- Chapter 5 The CW-Condition's Gestation.- Chapter 6 The CW-Condition's Egalitarianness.- Chapter 7 The CW-Condition and Colonialism.- Chapter 8 The CW-Condition in Perspective.- Chapter 9 The CW-Effect beyond Countries.- Chapter 10 The CW-Condition and Genes.- Chapter 11 The Recess of the CW-Condition's Grip.- Conclusion.
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Palgrave Macmillan Chinas HighTech Repression Against Uyghurs Novel Theoretical Insights
Book SynopsisChapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: An Overview of China's policies on Uyghurs.- Chapter 3: China's high-tech repression in East Turkestan.- Chapter 4: Case Selection, Research Methodology, and Field Notes.- Chapter 5: Surveys, In-depth Interviews, and Focus Group Interviews.- Chapter 6: Novel theoretical insights into China's repression within and beyond its borders.- Chapter 7: Conclusion.
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Palgrave Macmillan REALISM IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS THE MAKING OF A DISARRAYED TRADITION
Book SynopsisChapter 1: INTRODUCTION TO A DISARRAYED TRADITION VIA A CRITIQUE OF THE CONSENSUS VIEW.- Chapter 2: E. H. CARR'S REALISM.- Chapter 3: HANS J. MORGENTHAU'S REALISM.- Chapter 4: KENNETH N. WALTZ'S REALISM.- Chapter 5: NEOREALISM AS WALTZ'S THEORY AND ITS CRITICS.- Chapter 6: DEBATES ON INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS: A TALE OF TWO REALISMS.- Chapter 7: JOHN J. MEARSHEIMER'S OFFENSIVE REALISM.- Chapter 8: VARIETIES OF DEFENSIVE REALISM.- Chapter 9: VARIETIES OF NEOCLASSICAL REALISM.- CONCLUSION.- INDEX.
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Springer ChinaGDR Relations from 1949 to 1989
Book SynopsisRelations from 1949 to the late 1950s and the beginning of Mao's Great Leap Forward.- Late 1950 (end of China's Great Leap Forward) until 1963 and the Sino-Soviet Split'.- Mid-1960 until the very early 1980s and the resumption of Sino-East German relations.- The 1980s until Tiananmen and the Collapse of the GDR in 1989.
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Springer Simon Dalby A Pioneer in International Relations
Book SynopsisPart I. On Simon Dalby.- Chapter 1. Simon Dalby: An autobiography.- Chapter 2. Simon Dalby: A Bibliography.- Part II. Simon Dalby Key Texts.- Chapter 3. Geopolitical Discourse: The Soviet Union As Other (1988).- Chapter 4. Environmental Security: Geopolitics, Ecology, and the New World Order (1996).- Chapter 5. Globalizing Environment: Culture, Ontology and Critique (2000).- Chapter 6. Geopolitical Identities: Arctic Ecology and Global Consumption (2003).- Chapter 7. Geopolitics, the Bush Doctrine, and War on Iraq (2003).- Chapter 8. Ecology, Security, and Change in the Anthropocene (2007).- Chapter 9. Warrior Geopolitics: Gladiator, Black Hawk Down and the Kingdom of Heaven (2008).- Chapter 10. Rethinking Geopolitics: Climate Security in the Anthropocene (2014).- Chapter 11. Firepower: Geopolitical Cultures in the Anthropocene (2018).- Chapter 12. Unsustainable Borders: Globalization In a Climate Disrupted World (2021).- Chapter 13. To Build a Better World: Securing Global Life After Fossil Fuels (2021).- Chapter 14. Peace, Violence and Inequality in a Climate Disrupted World (2022).
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Springer Contestation in Prism
Book SynopsisChapter 1. Contestation in Prism: An Introduction.- Chapter 2. Norm Cluster Resiliency in the Face of Contestation: Nuclear Threats and International Resolve.- Chapter 3. Regional Organisations, Exit Threats, and Contestations of Community Norms.- Chapter 4. Soft Contestation' of the Responsibility to Protect? Assessing Canada and Sweden's Norm Diplomacy.- Chapter 5. Conceptualising the Responsibility to Prosecute Norm as a Cluster: Impunity for War Crimes in Sri Lanka.- Chapter 6. Contestation of Normativity in Military Practices and the AI Transformation.- Chapter 7. Gender Equality Norm Cluster in Action: the Resiliency of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in the EU.- Chapter 8. Exceptions as Contestation: Understanding Norm Withdrawal.- Chapter 9. Hidden Transcripts and Normative Transformations.- Chapter 10. Conclusion: A Multifaceted Understanding of Norm Contestation.
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Palgrave Macmillan Neoliberalization of South Korea
Book SynopsisIntroduction: Critical Issues and Debates in South Korea's Neoliberalizatio.- Chapter 2. Neoiberalism and Democracy in South Kore.- Chapter 3. The Dilemmas of Korea's New Democracy in an Age of Neoliberal Globalizatio.- Chapter 4. The Neoliberal Police State and South Korean Democracy.- Chapter 5. From Developmental State to Developmental Neoliberalism: Korean Capitalism in the Aftermath of Neoliberalism.- Chapter 6. From Catch-up to Convergence? Transformation of Capitalism in South Korea.- Chapter 7. The Chaebol, Economic Reform, and Counter-Democratic Neoliberalis.- Chapter 8. The Social Resilience of Organized Labor in Neoliberal Korea: The Case of the Construction Industry.- Chapter 9. Youth Labor Market Segmentation and Policy Preferences in the Neoliberal Er.- Chapter 10. The Vacillation of Culture in Neoliberal South Korea.- Chapter 11.The Construction of Neoliberal Women in Post-IMF Korean Society.- Chapter 12. Neoliberal Korea, Developmental Liberal Asia .
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Palgrave Macmillan Exiled Scholars in Western Academia Refugees or Intellectuals
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Springer Global Storms and Africa in World Politics
Book SynopsisChapter 1. Introduction: Reflections on Global Storms From African Locus of Enunciation.- Part I: Global Financial Architecture and Debt Crisis.- Chapter 2. Decolonising the Global Financial Architecture in Africa.- Chapter 3. Colonial Echoes and Spectres of Financial Apartheid in Africa.- Chapter 4. Debt Crisis in Africa.- Chapter 5. Creditor Contributions, Benefits, and Solutions to Debt Crisis in Africa.- Part II: Global Climate Crisis.- Chapter 6. Implications of Global Capitalism and Climate Change in Africa.- Chapter 7. The Bane of Climate Colonialism in Africa: A Decolonial Approach.- Chapter 8. Climate Colonialism in Africa.- Chapter 9. Implications of Climate Crisis in Southern Africa.- Part III: Global Health Crisis.- Chapter 10. Vaccine Apartheid': An Indictment of Global Health System.- Chapter 11. Vaccine Imperialism in Africa.- Chapter 12. Financing of Small and Medium Enterprises in Post-covid-19 Nigeria.- Chapter 13. Covid-19 and the Global South: An Integrative Approach.- Chapter 14. Emergency Humanitarian Commodity Management During the Covid-19 Pandemic Era in Zimbabwe.- Part IV: Russo-Ukraine War, Coups in Africa and African Agency.- Chapter 15. The Impact of the Russian Ukraine War in Africa.- Chapter 16. Kremlin's Search for International Recognition and Security in the Post- Russia-Ukraine War.- Chapter 17. Resurgence of Coups and Anti-french Sentiments in West Africa.- Chapter 18. Unconstitutional Change of Governments in West and Central Africa: A Decolonial Analysis.- Chapter 19. Coups d'etat and Democratic Backsliding in Africa.- Chapter 20. African Agency in the Context of a New World Dis (Order).
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Palgrave Macmillan Multilateralism and the United Nations Security Council
Book SynopsisChapter 1: Introduction: Challenges to Multilateralism and the United Nations Security Council.- Part 1: Voting Behaviour and Co-Sponsorship in the UNSC.- Chapter 2: Coalitions, Peace Missions, and UNSC Decision-Making.- Chapter 3: Coalition Formation and Co-Sponsorship in the United Nations Security Council.- Chapter 4: Multilateral Cooperation and Great Power Rivalry in the UNSC.- Chapter 5: A Crystal Ball for Great Power Plays? Predicting Council Vetoes Through Machine Learning.- Part 2: Multilateralism: Regional Actors, United Nations Agencies, and Member States.- Chapter 6: The Small and Regional Powers Claim for Agency: A Strategic Usage of Non-Traditional Threats Through Arria Meetings.- Chapter 7: Small and Emerging Powers in UNSC Decision-Making.- Chapter 8: Multilateralism in Action: The European Union's Engagement in the United Nations Security Council.- Chapter 9: EU Member States in the Elected 10: Voting and Co-Sponsorship in the UNSC.- Chapter 10: NextGenerationEU and the UN Sustainable Development Goals.- Chapter 11: Conclusion: The UNSC, Multilateralism and Patterns of Global Governance.
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Palgrave Macmillan Security Ethics Commerce and Crime in a Polycentric World
Book SynopsisChapter 1: State of the Question.- Chapter 2: As the World Gets Messier and Messier.- Chapter 3: Three Aims.- Chapter 4: Road Map.- Chapter 5: De Vitoria & Pirates.- Chapter 6: Locke & Body Snatchers.- Chapter 7: Hume & Extortionists.- Chapter 8: Smith & Counterfeiters.- Chapter 9: Bakunin & Gunrunners.- Chapter 10: Huizinga & Robbers.- Chapter 11: Ross & Partizans.- Chapter 12: Schmitt & Smugglers.- Chapter 13: Kolnai & Spies.- Chapter 14: Petraeus & Saboteurs.- Chapter 15: Security Ethics at the Enlightenment’s Eventide.
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Palgrave Macmillan Pros and Cons of China and the Chinese in Africa
Book SynopsisChapter 1: In The Constricting Grip of a Benevolent Titan: African Leadership Agency in Pursuit of National/ Self-Interest.- Chapter 2: Sino-African Relations: Is Africa Gaining or Losing?.- Chapter 3: Euro-American countries' complaints about China's role and place in Africa.- Chapter 4: Ghana: The Relationship between Ghanaians and Chinese Residents, and the Role of the Ghanaian Government in Shaping the Relationship.- Chapter 5: Unpacking the Criticisms of Euro-American Countries on China’s Role and Place in Africa: Power Dynamics and Economic Interests.- Chapter 6: Sino-Zim Relations: Benevolence Friendship or Exploitative Servant-Master Relationship?.- Chapter 7: The Sino-Zimbabwe relationship: Perspectives From The Masses And The Elites.- Chapter 8: China-Africa Bilateral Business Relations or China’s Investment in Africa!?:A Case of Sino-Benin Relations.- Chapter 9: China and infrastructural investment in West Africa: Implications for political and environmental governance in the region.- Chapter 10: Towards a South-South Coalition: An Investigation of China Activities in Central Africa.- Chapter 11: The Paradox of Sino-Africa Relations: The Case of Zimbabwe.- Chapter 12: International Cooperation and National Diffraction: The Institutional Challenges of Moroccan and Egyptian Powers in the Belt and Road Initiative.- Chapter 13: China-Kenya Relations in Perspective.- Chapter 14: Old Game, New Players: The Boons and Pitfalls of Confucianism in Southern Africa.- Chapter 15: Concluding Chapter: Beijing’s Strategic Vision and African Leaders’ Docile Response.
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Palgrave Macmillan Governance Climate Justice
Book Synopsis1. Introduction.- 2. Intergenerational Equity.- 3. Global Responsible Intergenerational Leadership.- 4. Mapping Climate Justice.- 5. Global Climate Justice.- 6. Climate in the 21st Century.- 7. Global Climate Change-Induced Migration and Financial Flows.- 8. Looking Forward to World Peak: Climate Change-Induced Market Prospects.- 9. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of Climate Wealth of Nations: What Temperature Finance Gravitates Towards? Sketching a Climate-Finance Nexus and Outlook on Climate Change-Induced Finance Prospects.- 10. Future Climate Wealth of Nations' Winners and Losers.
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Springer Climate Security Intelligence
Book SynopsisIntroduction.- Scope and motivation.- Difference between climate security and climate change.- Difference between climate threats and risks.- Framing Approach to Understand Developmental Efforts.- Framing climate security intelligence as unintentional threats.- Conventional framework for developing an intelligence capacity.- System level Developmental Efforts.- The demand signals.- Policy prioritizations and sustainability.- Budget process challenges.- Organizational-level Developmental Efforts.- Knowledge producing responsibilities.-Developing knowledge expertise.- Data collection strategies.- Establishing a community of partners.- Decision maker relationships.- Uniqueness of Climate Security Intelligence.-Applying the framework to an analog problem space.- Comparing the framework of the analog problem space to climate security.- A Way Forward.- Towards a learning based approach to climate security intelligence.- What climate security intelligence may look like.
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Palgrave Macmillan Examining Perspectives of SmalltoMedium Powers in Emergent Great Power Competition
Book SynopsisChapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Australia: Shifts in the Night: Australia’s Defense Reforms and the China Debate.- Chapter 3: A comparative analysis of the role of middle powers in the Mekong Subregion and the case of Vietnam.- Chapter 4: Unraveling South Korea’s Strategic Shift Amid Great Power Competition.- Chapter 5:Poland's Foreign Policy Choices in a Changing International Environment.- Chapter 6: Trapped between Asymmetries: Finland’s Security Strategies in the Past, Present and Future.- Chapter 7: Hungary: A Hedging Strategy of Connectivity — Across the Hedgerow of Sovereigntism.- Chapter 8: Sweden:Still a medium sized dog with a big dog attitude?.- Chapter 9: Brazil: Geopolitics in an Era of Renewed Great Power Competition.- Chapter 10: The Implications of the Rise of Small and Middle Powers for U.S.-China Great Power Competition.- Chapter 11 Conclusions.
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Palgrave Macmillan The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe at 50Conflict Management During and After the Cold War
Book SynopsisPart I: Introduction to the OSCE.- Chapter 1: Institutionalizing Security and Cooperation in Europe and Across the Atlantic.- Chapter 2: The OSCE and International Relations Theory.- Part II: The OSCE – History and Structure.- Chapter 3: The Origins of the CSCE During the Cold War.- Chapter 4: Expansion and Decline of the OSCE after the End of the Cold War.- Chapter 5: The Organizational Structures and Roles of the OSCE.- Part III: Long-Term Structural Conflict Prevention.- Chapter 6: Principles of Structural Conflict Prevention – The OSCE Approach.- Chapter 7: Structural Conflict Prevention in the Baltic States: Estonia and Latvia.- Chapter 8: Structural Conflict Prevention in Central Asia.- Chapter 9: Structural Conflict Prevention in Belarus.- Part IV: Short-term Operational Conflict Prevention.- Chapter 10: Operational Conflict Prevention – The OSCE Approach.- Chapter 11: Operational Conflict Prevention in Ukraine – Crimea, 1992-99.- Chapter 12: Operational Conflict Prevention in Kosovo, 1992-2008.- Chapter 13: Operational Conflict Prevention in [North] Macedonia, 1991-2002.- Chapter 14: Operational Conflict Prevention in Georgia – South Ossetia and Abkhazia, 1991-2008.- Part V: The OSCE Role in Post-Conflict Stabilization and Peacebuilding.- Chapter 15: Post-Conflict Peacebuilding – The OSCE Approach.- Chapter 16: The OSCE Minsk Group - Managing the Conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, 1993-2020.- Chapter 17: Post-Conflict Stabilization in Bosnia-Herzegovina.- Chapter 18: Mediating Conflict in Moldova - Transdniestria and Gagauzia.- Part VI: Managing Violent Conflicts: Crisis and War.- Chapter 19: Managing Violent Conflict – The OSCE Approach.- Chapter 20: Promoting an End to War in Chechnya, 1991-99.- Chapter 21: The OSCE “Minsk Prrocess” in Ukraine, 2013-2022.- Part VII: Conclusions: The OSCE at 50: What is its Future?.- Chapter 22: Can the OSCE Find a New Role after the Russian Invasion of Ukraine?.- Chapter 23: Conclusion: Security Cooperation in the OSCE is “What States Make of It”.
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Palgrave Macmillan Global Partnerships and Neocolonialism
Book SynopsisChapter 1.- Introduction: Global Partnerships and Neocolonialism.- Chapter 2 Prospects of Solidarity in the Era of Neocolonialism.- Chapter 3Partnership Instead of Colonialism? The Origins and Colonial Elements of Development Cooperation.- Chapter 4 International “Development” Cooperation and Social Change from Below. Challenges to the Viability of a Social and Solidarity Economy in Haiti 2010-2020.- Chapter 5 Neocolonialism Facilitated by the World Bank? A Case Study of the World Bank’s Involvement in the Development of Guyana’s Oil and Gas Sector.- Chapter 6 Global Energy Partnerships. Green Colonialism and an Ecological New International Economic Order.- Chapter 7 Transcending Imperialist/Sub Imperialist Partnerships.- Chapter 8 Fairtrade Certification of Commercial Farms: The Case of South African Wine Farms.- Chapter 9. From Colonial Nursing to an Imperial Mode of Reproduction.- Chapter 10 Knowledge Production for “Development” – Challenges and Pitfalls of Decolonization.- Chapter 11 Recognizing Complicity and our Unwillingness (and Inability) to do so.- Chapter 12 In Search of a Democratic Eco-Socialist Politics.
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Palgrave Macmillan Geopolitics and strategy China the Quad and the Southeast Asian Pivot
Book SynopsisChapter one - Geopolitics revised.- Chapter two - The changing nature of Strategy.- Chapter three - China‘s Geopolitical Ambitions.- Chapter four - China’s Maritime Geography and its Naval Expansion.- Chapter five - The Quad response.- Chapter six - Japan, Geopolitics, the Quad and the Indo Pacific.- Chapter seven - US, Geopolitics, the Quad and the Indo Pacific.- Chapter eight - Australia, Geopolitics, the Quad and the Indo Pacific.- Chapter nine - India, Geopolitics, the Quad, and the Indo Pacific.- Chapter ten - Southeast Asia as the Geopolitical Pivot.- Chapter eleven - Geopolitics and the future.
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Palgrave Macmillan Walzer and Justice Spheres of Justice in the 2020s
Book SynopsisChapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. The Factory of Spheres: Michael Walzer and Practical Equality.- Chapter 3. Interpretation and Social Meanings.- Chapter 4. Maybe Even Souls: The Moral Basis of Socialism in Spheres of Justice.- Chapter 5. Complex Equality, Political Participation, and Democracy in the Workplace.- Chapter 6. Michael Walzer on Immigration: A Critical Analysis.- Chapter 7. Whatever Happened to Shared Understandings? Do They Survive?.- Chapter 8. Spheres of Justice Revisited After 41 Years.- Chapter 9. Defending the Medical Sphere: Using Walzer in the 2020s.- Chapter 10. Response.
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Springer Bulgaria in the Global Economy
Book SynopsisChapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Dependent Pathways: The Historical Evolution of Bulgaria’s Economy.- Chapter 3. Bulgaria's Macroeconomic Foundations in a Turbulent Global Context.- Chapter 4. Bulgaria’s Integration in the EU - Benefits and Challenges.- Chapter 5. Bulgaria and the Regional Cooperation in the Black Sea Region.- Chapter 6. Foreign Economic Relations of Bulgaria with Key Global Players.- Chapter 7. Bulgaria's Foreign Trade in Goods.- Chapter 8. Bulgaria's Foreign Trade in Services.- Chapter 9. The Role of Bulgaria in the Global Value Chains.- Chapter 10. Foreign Direct Investment in Bulgaria.- Chapter 11. Bulgaria’s Participation in the International Labour Migration.- Chapter 12. Technological Advancement of the Bulgarian Economy in the Era of Digitalization.- Chapter 13. Green Transformation: Bulgaria's Path in the Energy Transition Process.- Chapter 14. Conclusion.
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Palgrave Macmillan Global Security Reimagined A MultiDisciplinary Exploration
Book SynopsisChapter 1: Reimagining Security in the Era of Uncertainty.- Chapter 2: Psychological Security in Everyday Life: So, You Tell Me, Why Aren’t We Scared?.- Chapter 3: Innocent Objects: Children as Moral Claims in Conflict.- Chapter 4: The Porosity of Emerging Technologies and Global Security Threats.- Chapter 5: Citizenship, Dignity and Security: Practices of Ontological Security.- Chapter 6: Unsecured Bodies: Rethinking Loss, Death, and Security in the Aftermath of Genocide.- Chapter 7: The Reemergence of Nuclear Competition and Global (In)Security.- Chapter 8: Securing Ontological Security During Disasters: Feminising Security ‘From Below’.- Chapter 9: Indigenous Peoples and Security: Global Perspectives.- Chapter 10: The Borderlands of Human Security: The Experiences of Ukrainian Romani Refugees.- Chapter 11: Security and Settlement of Refugees.- Chapter 12: Competing Insecurities: Student Employability and Personal Branding.- Chapter 13: Protecting Planetary Commons: More-than-human (In)Security in Climate Change.- Index.
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Palgrave Macmillan Order and Agency in the IndoPacific
Book SynopsisIntroduction: Order(ing) and Agency in the Indo-Pacific: Analytical Issues and the Contributions of this Volume.- The Indo-Pacific Interregnum.- Multilateral Foundations and Minilateral Developments: Navigating Institutional Evolution and Cooperative Saturation in the Indo-Pacific.- Mapping Global Geoeconomics: Beyond Sino-Centrism and the Belt and Road Initiative.- Australia, Japan, and a ‘Greater AUKUS’.- India in the Indo-Pacific: Ordering at the Margins.- Vietnam and the Philippines: Neorealist/Liberal Internationalist Actorness and Middle Power Agency in the Indo-Pacific.- Small Powers Navigating Strategic Competition in the Indo-Pacific: Conceptual Perspectives and Evidence from Pacific Island Countries.- Europeans and the Indo-Pacific: Is there a ‘Third Way’ between China and the United States?.- Facing a Balancing Coalition? Chinese Views of Indo-Pacific Strategies.
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Springer Economic Warfare in the 21st Century
Book SynopsisChapter 1. The Problem, The Need, The Condition.- Part I: Evaluation of UK Condition.- Chapter 2. Can Britain Weaponize its Economic Interdependence.- Chapter 3. Is UK Ready to Conduct Economic Warfare in the 21st Century.- Chapter 4. UK Machinery and Ethics of Economic Warfare.- Part II: Evaluation of NATO Condition.- Chapter 5. The Forgotten Arsenal: Advocating for NATO's Strategic Use of Economic Warfare.- Chapter 6. Athena’s Shield Is Brittle: Why and How NATO Needs to Get Serious About Economic Warfare.- Part III: Evaluation of European Union Condition.- Chapter 7. Who Wins and Who Looses Waging Economic Warfare Against Russia.- Chapter 8. The Two Faces of Coercion: Comparing China and Russia's Economic Coercive practices and approaches in Europe.- Chapter 9. Switzerland and Sanctions Against Russia: lessons for the EU from a non-member state.
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Springer Latin American Perspectives on CivilMilitary Relations today
Book SynopsisChapter1: Introduction.- Chapter2: Civil military relations in Latin America.- Chapter3: Always on the political scene.- Chapter4: The Armed Forces and Chilean society.- Chapter5: Limits of exogenous analytical frameworks of political control over the armed forces in Brazil.- Chapter6: Argentina.- Chapter7: Uruguay.- Chapter8: Civil military relations in Colombia in the post.- Chapter9: The Venezuelan Armed Forces and the praetorian temptation.- Chapter10: Coups and Self Coups in the Americas.
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Springer China and Russia after the Ukrainian War
Book SynopsisPart I: The status quo before the Ukraine War: China.- Chapter 1. China was a thriving coming-to-be power.- Chapter 2. Russia was a re-emerging power.- Chapter 3. Russia during the Ukraine War.- Chapter 4. China during the Ukraine War.- Chapter 5. Communications in Geopolitics.- Part II: New Normal – World Order 3.0.- Chapter 6. China's new normal.- Chapter 7. Russia's new normal.- Part III: The Outlook.- Chapter 8. China's perspective.- Chapter 9. Russia's perspective.- Part IV: New World Order.- Chapter 10. China and Russia after the Ukrainian War.
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Springer Criminal NonState Actors
Book Synopsis.- Introduction: criminal entities as a distinct typology of non-state actors and its role in South America..- Conceptualizing Criminal Non-State Actors..- Governance Capacities and Criminal Non-State Actors: dominating the local to expand globally..- Pioneering Criminal Non-State Actors in South America: the rise and downfall of Colombia drug cartels and their consequences..- Comando Vermelho: from a prison gang to a transnational criminal organization..- Brazilian Criminal Organizations as Transnational Non-State Actors: the Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC)..- Brazilian Amazon as locus of Criminal Non-State Actors in South America.
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Palgrave Macmillan Inclusion and political representation in peacemaking
Book SynopsisIntroduction.- The politics of inclusion in peace negotiations.- A conceptual history of political representation.- Unveiling inclusion in peace negotiations through women’s political representation.- The narratives of inclusion and representation in the Havana Dialogues.- Women’s representation in the Havana Dialogues.- Final remarks.
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Palgrave Macmillan The Political Psychology of Populism
Book SynopsisChapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Rethinking Today’s Masses.- Chapter 3. January 6, 2021, Washington, D.C.: “The Psychological Misery of the Masses”.- Chapter 4. Contempt and Humiliation as Political Action.- Chapter 5. Putin: Conviction, Rationality, Action.- Chapter 6: The Putin Doctrine: Narratives of Missing Origins.- Chapter 7. The Sovereign State: International Relations and Putin’s Hyper-reality.- Conclusion. Populism: The Democracy of Resentment.
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Palgrave Macmillan Aid Dynamics in Jamaican Development Empowering Communities through Loans and Grants
Book SynopsisChapter 1: Introduction and background of the roles of loans versus Grants in Jamaican Communities.- Chapter 2: The economics of loans and grants and how they contribute to the economics of community.- Chapter 3: Social Development of communities in Jamaica with the help of loans/grants.- Chapter 4: Facing impossible choices- servicing debt or serving their people within these communities.- Chapter 5: Recommendations for Managing Loans and Grants in Jamaican Communities- a Policy Maker Perspective.
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Palgrave Macmillan Divine Diplomacy
Book SynopsisSection I: Religion and Politics.- Chapter 1: Religion and Politics in the United States.- Chapter 2: The Rise and Influence of Evangelicals in United States Politics.- Chapter 3: Holy Alliance: Evangelicals, Neoconservatives, and the Republican Party.- Chapter 4: Theoretical Analysis of Evangelicals and United States Foreign Policy.- Section II: Pakistan - United States Relations: Challenges and Opportunities.- Chapter 5: A Troubled History: From Cold War to 9/11.- Chapter 6: A New Era: The War on Terror.- Chapter 7: Post 9/11 Pakistan: Religious and Political Dynamics, Structures, and Challenges.- Section III: US-Pakistan Fractured Alliance, Bridging Divides, Reimagining Shared Futures.- Chapter 8: A Clash of Civilizations? Importance of Interfaith Dialogue in Building Bridges.- Chapter 9: A Future Vision: Recommendations and Challenges.- Index.
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Springer Artificial Intelligence Media and International Security
Book SynopsisChapter1: AI, warfare, and the surveillance state.- Chapter2: AI Transformation in Media, Reshaping War Between Reality and Virtuality.- Chapter3: Communication Dimensions in Mitigating the Global Security Threats of Malicious AI artificial intelligence.- Chapter4: Digital Imperialism Neurosymbolic Artificial Intelligence, International Security, Information Flows and Social Media in the 21st Century.- Chapter5: Behind the Screen Exploring the Influence of Artificial Intelligence on Established Media and Addressing the question of International Security.- Chapter6: Media Diplomacy in the Age of AI Transformative Potential and Ethical Challenges.- Chapter7: AI and transnational data flows Challenges and imperatives of sovereignty.- Chapter8: Artificial Intelligence on Journalism Limites and Risks.- Chapter9: Artificial intelligence and media communications in Russia.
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Palgrave Macmillan Criminal Actors in Latin America
Book SynopsisChapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Criminal Groups in Mexico.- Chapter 3: Criminal Actors in Colombia.- Chapter 4: Criminal Actors in El Salvador and Honduras.- Chapter 5: Criminal Actors in Brazil and Argentina.- Chapter 6: Conclusion.
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Palgrave Macmillan Moving Right The Changing Role of the Left in Neoliberal Europe
Book SynopsisChapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. The historical and ideological premises of the emergence of neoliberalism: A neo-Gramscian Analysis.- Chapter 3. Between International and European Pressures: The Global Market of Education and Labour.- Chapter 4. Neoliberal education? The path towards marketisation. From the Berlinguer reform to the Good School.- Chapter 5. Between Disintermediation and Flexibility: The Transformation of Labour and Industrial Relations in Italy.- Chapter 6. From Gramsci to Renzi, from the Italian Communist Party to the Democratic Party: Exploring the Subjective and Objective dimensions of Transformation Processes.- Chapter 7. Conclusions and final remarks.
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Springer Transnational Organized Crime
Book SynopsisPart 1: Unconventional Organized Crime Landscape- national security implications.- Overview of unconventional crime as a business model.- Wildlife trafficking.- Antiquities and Cultural Property.- trafficking for financing terrorism.- Rare earth metals and wood products Migration.- Counterfeit, fraudulent and Suspect Items (CFSI) COVID masks and Pharmaceuticals, aviation, nuclea.- Food Fraud.- Part 2: Law Enforcement and Technology solutions.- Border security technology and solutions.- Big data.- AI and ML.- Augmented and virtual reality.- Intelligence analysis.
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Palgrave Macmillan Securitisation and Islamism in Egypt and Saudi Arabia
Book SynopsisChapter 1: Introduction: Securitisation, Islamism and Human Rights.- Chapter 2: Securitisation of Islamism – A Theoretical Framework.- Chapter 3: Securitisation of Islamism in Egypt: State Power, Repression and Regional Dynamics.- Chapter 4: Islamism and the Saudi State: Security, Repression and the Politics of Wahhabism.- Chapter 5: Human Rights in the Crossfire.- Chapter 6: Regional and Global Implications.- Chap 7: Conclusion: The Perils of Securitisation and the Path to Reform.
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