International relations Books

Book SynopsisPART I Introduction.- Chapter 1: The Research Problem, Methodology and Organisation of the Book.- PART II The Neoliberal Transformation in Turkey Summarised: From the Institutionalisation of Neoliberalism to the Institutionalisation of AKP Rule.- Chapter 2: The Transition to Neoliberalism.- Chapter 3: The Institutionalisation of, and Crises in Neoliberalism.- PART III Critical-Liberal Approaches on the Political Regime Change in Turkey: Authoritarian Bridges in AKP Ruling Periods.- Chapter 4: The Theoretical Roots of the Critical-Liberal Approaches: Prevailing Master Narratives.- Chapter 5: The Critical-Liberal Approaches: Old and Updated Versions.- Chapter 6: New Issues, Old Dualities: Reclassifying the Narratives.- PART IV In and Beyond the Open-Marxist Critique: Rethinking the Regime Change in Turkey.- Chapter 7: Open-Marxist Analysis on the State as a Social Form.- Chapter 8: Problematising the Critical-Liberal Approaches: Regime or Form.- PART V Conclusion.- Chapter 9: The Political Struggle for Democracy.

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Book Synopsis1. Lee Jarvis (Loughborough, UK), Michael Lister (Oxford Brookes, UK), and Akinyemi Oyawale (Warwick, UK) - New Directions in Vernacular Security Research: An Introduction.- 2. Tinatin Khomeriki (Free University of Tbilisi, Georgia) Horns, Thorns and Territory: Vernacular (in)Security in Tbilisi after the Rose Revolution.- 3. Albert Cano (LSE, UK) Lacanian Vernacular Security: Analysing Peace Walls and Pop Culture in Northern Ireland.- 4. Joshua Akintayo (Kent, UK) Deifying the Vernacular: The Borno Model and the limits of Over-romanticizing Community-Driven Security.- 5. Miranda Booth (Charles Darwin, Australia) Exploring polycentrism and vernacular security in the Pacific.- 6. Muhammed Onuh Copoglu (Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey), What Fire Tells us about Security? A Vernacular Approach on the Security-Politics-Environment Nexus in Turkey.- 7. Andrew Whiting (RHUL, UK) – Militarised masculinity as ‘everyday’ instrumentality: A narrative analysis of popularised soldier’s autobiographies.- 8. Sabrina Ahmed (UEA, UK) - “The Police are like terrorists”: Vernacular security stories from the refugee camps in Bangladesh.- 9. Marine Guéguin (Leeds Beckett, UK) Everyday security practices in an exceptional space: the French carceral system.- 10. Fabrizio Leonardo Cuccu (DCU, Ireland) “You have a responsibility to tell this story”. Positionality, subjugated knowledges, and researching ‘vernacular’ security in Tunisia.- 11. Tom Martin (Open University, UK) Vernacular (national) security strategies.

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Book SynopsisChapter 1: A Tale of Two Wars.- Chapter 2: SIGAR and the Afghanistan IG Enterprise in Context.- Chapter 3: Framework to Assess Afghanistan Oversight.- Chapter 4: SIGAR’s Failure to Audit.- Chapter 5: SIGAR’s Auditing of Failure.- Chapter 6: Afghanistan Oversight in the Congressional Record and Executive Reports.- Chapter 7: hat the Failure of the Afghanistan Oversight Regime Says About the Future.

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Book SynopsisChapter 1. About this Research Paper.- Chapter 2. Constitutional and Institutional Hierarchy in Canada.- Chapter 3. Case Study 1: Assessment of Enhanced Oversight.- Chapter 4. Case Study 2: Workload Assessment due to Enhanced Oversight.- Chapter 5. Findings and Recommendations.

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Book SynopsisIntroduction.- The Discovery of the Bisociative Frame.- Zizek s Mis representation of Mao.- Working Class Intelligentsia and the Spirit of Generalization.- Piaget Marx and Revolution.- Bisociative Revolution Emergence of the Concept.- Bolivian Revolution The Development of the Bisociative Frame.- Polish Revolution of Solidarity and its Contemporary Whereabouts.- Cyclic Theory of Bisociative Revolutions.

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Book SynopsisChapter1: Disinformation and its Socio Political Context.- Chapter2: A Philosophy of Disinformation.- Chapter3: Manipulating Minds The Psychological Underpinnings of Misinformation.- Chapter4: Disinformation Economics.- Chapter5: International Human Rights Law and the Legal Regulation of Disinformation.- Chapter6: Detection Misinformation and Disinformation in Digital Media.- Chapter7: Anthropology of Disinformation.- Chapter8:Journalism and Disinformation.- Chapter9: From The Protocols to Pizzagate.- Chapter10: Disinformation and Trust in Media and Institutions.- Chapter11: Informational Power and Disinformation.- Chapter12: Disinformation and Elections.- Chapter13:Foreign Influence Operations and their Proxies.-  Chapter14: Follow the Money Understanding Economic Incentives Behind Online Disinformation.- Chapter15: Generative Artifical Intelligence and Disinformation.- Chapter16: How Heatlh Disinformation Hijacks Health Narratives to Make Profit, Erode Trust and Score Political Points, and What to Do About It.- Chapter17: Climate Change Disinformation.- Chapter18: Uncovering Networks of Cross Platform Information Operations.- Chapter19: The Russo Ukrainian Information War.- Chapter20: Weaponizing the Issue of Ukrainian War Refugees for Political and Geopolitical Gain.- Chapter21: Case study on Social media Analysis in Elections in Kenya.- Chapter22: Media Literacy as a Policy Response to Disinformation.- Chapter23: Independent Fact Checking, ex post Response to Disinformation.- Chapter24:Using AI to Tackle Disinformation Methods and Tools from the vera.ai Project.- Chapte25: Multilateral Efforts on Information Integrity.- Chapter26: Freedom of Expression and its Limits.- Chapter27: Disinformation in Africa Overview and Responses.- Chapter28: The EU Policy Framework to Counter Disinformation.- Chapter29: Disinformation in the US.- Chapter30: Disinformation in Japan.- Chapter31:Disinformation in Brazil.- Chapter32: Blurring the Bright Line.

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Book SynopsisChapter 1: Mobilizing and Advancing Green Finance and Green Development in a Globalized Africa.- Chapter 2: From North-South to South-South Cooperation: China’s role in renewable energy development in Africa.- Chapter 3: Green Environment and Development in Africa: Impact of China’s Aid and Foreign Direct Investment.- Chapter 4: Financial Technology and Green Finance: Empirical Evidence from Emerging Economies.- Chapter 5: Domestic Resource Mobilization and Inclusive Green Growth in BRICS countries.- Chapter 6: Global Value Chains Embeddedness and Technological Innovation: Green and General Innovations in BRICS+ Countries.- Chapter 7: The Effect of Green Micro Finance on the Sustainability of Micro Small and Medium Enterprises in Ghana.- Chapter 8: Sovereign Wealth Funds as Vehicles for Green Development and Finance: An Exploratory Study in the African Context.- Chapter 9: Green Practices and Performance Across African Firms.- Chapter 10: Agriculture and the Green Agenda: An Analysis of Productivity and Sustainability in Africa.- Chapter 11: Green Industrial Policy in Africa: Emerging Issues and Opportunities.- Chapter 12: Towards Natural Resource Management Policies to Promote the Transition to a Green Economy in Africa.- Chapter 13: Governance, Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility: Are they the Answers to Green Development in Africa?.- Chapter 14: Military Green Technologies and the Scope for Alignment in Africa.- Chapter 15: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Green Development and Finance in Africa: Beyond Policies and Institutions.

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Book SynopsisChapter 1: Introduction: From Margins to Middle: Introducing Movement in Our Understanding of Wars.- Chapter 2: Not to Confuse Ourselves: The Changing Character of War and Conceptual Change.- Chapter 3: ‘Pulling the Strings: Why are Proxy Wars back from the Margins.- Chapter 4: From Lines to Layers: Redrawing the Middle and Margins of the Battlefield.- Chapter 5: The Middle-Ground Amidst Great (Cyber) Power Competition: From Pawns to Kingmakers?.- Chapter 6: Peacemaking from the Peripheries: Lessons from the Women of Sudan on Informal Pathways to Peace.- Chapter 7: Fighting like a Propagandist? How Al Qaeda and the Islamic State Conceptualize their Battlefield.- Chapter 8: Politics of Exclusion in Military Organizations: The Institutional Position of RPA Pilots.- Chapter 9: Explaining European Military Engagement in the Fight Against Daesh.- Chapter 10: Transitional Justice for European Foreign Fighters? What Colombia’s Transitional Justice Mechanism (JEP) Teaches.- Chapter 11: Conclusion: Applying the Middle/Margins Model to International Law and the Rules-Based International Order.

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Book SynopsisChapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Theoretical framework.- Chapter 3: Germany’s policy towards China at the federal level.- Chapter 4: Role of German Bundesländer in Sino-German relations.- Chapter 5: City-level diplomacy in German-Chinese relations.- Chapter 6: The European Union and Germany’s role in EU-China policy.- Chapter 7: Conclusions.

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Book Synopsis.- Drones and Qualitative Arms Races: A Theoretical Approach..- Drones War: A Historical Analysis..- Military Drones and the Offense-Defense Balance in the Air Domain..- Frontiers of Drones Industry: Majors and evolution in the Air Warfare..- Proliferation of military Drones in Regional and Middle Powers..- Global Market for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles..- ???????Drones and Future Wars.

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Book SynopsisChapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: The Within-State Politics of Policymaking: Entrepreneurial Political Técnicos in the Configuration of National Financial Systems.- Chapter 3: The Politics of State Involvement in Credit Markets in Brazil.- Chapter 4: The Politics of State Involvement in Credit Markets in Chile.- Chapter 5: The Politics of State Involvement in Capital Markets in Brazil.- Chapter 6: The Politics of State Involvement in Capital Markets in Chile.- Chapter 7: Implications.

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Book SynopsisChapter 1 - Introduction: Assumptions, Importance, and Definitions.- Chapter 2 - Explaining Canadian Interventions.- Chapter 3 – OPERATION IMPACT: IRAQ - Deploying a relatively large contingent quickly (850 personnel deployed in 4-5 weeks).- Chapter 4 – OPERATION UNIFIER: UKRAINE - Deploying a relatively small contingent slowly (200 personnel deployed in 11 weeks).- Chapter 5 - OPERATION PRESENCE: MALI - Deploying a relatively small contingent even slower (250 personnel deployed in 19 weeks).- Chapter 6 - OPERATION CHALLENGE: COLOMBIA - A very slow non-deployment decision (0 Personnel in 39 weeks).- Chapter 7 - Conclusion: The Role of Bureaucracy in Intervention.

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Book SynopsisKapitel 1. Der Russland-Ukraine-Krieg: Eine diskursive Einführung.- Kapitel 2. Ungewissheiten des Krieges: Eine Neubewertung des Diskurses.- Kapitel 3. Politische Komplexitäten und Problematiken des Russland-Ukraine-Krieges.- Kapitel 4. Eine Unzufriedenheit mit dem Russland-Ukraine-Krieg.- Kapitel 5. Die Sanktionskriege: Auswirkungen und Konsequenzen.- Kapitel 6. Der Propagandakrieg und die Vierte Gewalt.- Kapitel 7. Zeitenwende: NATO-Renaissance und eine neue Weltordnung.- Kapitel 8. Die Finanzierung des Krieges und der Wiederaufbau der Ukraine.- Kapitel 9. Eingefrorene Lösungen, diplomatische Herausforderungen und geopolitische Unwägbarkeiten.

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Book SynopsisAmerica’s reputation and power fell to new lows during Trump’s presidency. Militarily, the United States held its own, but its soft power suffered mightily. President Biden pledges to work with the international community, rely on cooperation with like-minded allies, challenge adversaries, and restore American democracy, society and economy to levels that will once again command international respect. De-Trumping U.S. Foreign Policy will address the objectives, obstacles, and potential outcomes of this attempt over the next few years. Sloan evaluates both elite and public opinion from democratic allies around the world, plus elite opinions from states less friendly to the United States. He documents and analyses Biden’s approach to foreign policy and his goals for the U.S. role in the world. The volume will also examine how Biden’s domestic policy objectives, in the areas of the pandemic, systemic racism, political equity, the economy and climate change, relate to his foreign policy goals. The early steps made by Biden will be laid out and evaluated and hidden chances of success or failure will be measured, with a striking analysis of what failure might mean for the USA and the world.

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Book SynopsisIran is More than Persia: Ethnic Politics in Iran analyses Iranian politics from a unique perspective, one that focuses on the relations between the Persian-dominated Iranian state and the country’s ethnic minorities. The book explores the stability of the ruling regime in light of the challenges that multiethnicity brings. Persians comprise less than half of the population of Iran and more than 40 percent of Iranians lack fluency in the Persian language. An overwhelming majority of non-Persian groups inhabit most of Iran’s border regions; as such the book explores Iran’s foreign policy toward neighboring states that share co-ethnic populations. Iran’s ethnic minorities inhabit the state’s poorest provinces and the country’s growing environmental and water supply challenges hit the ethnic minority provinces harder than the Persian center, adding an ominous ethnic character to what are often presented as purely environmental or economic challenges. The book further examines the potential impact of ethnic based unrest in Khuzestan on Iran’s oil production, Iran’s main oil producing region. Drawing on a rich assortment of primary data and interviews, this book offers unparalled insights into ethnic politics in Iran. It will be of interest to upper-level undergraduates and postgraduates, researchers and professionals interested in the Middle East, international relations, and ethnic studies.

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Book SynopsisThis book provides a broad picture of Sri Lanka’s on-going political and economic crisis as the culmination of several centuries of colonial and neo-colonial developments. The book presents the Sri Lankan crisis as an exemplification of a broader global existential crisis facing more and more debt trapped countries, especially in the post-colonial Global South. The book's in-depth case study raises important questions pertaining to sovereignty and political and economic democracy in Sri Lanka and the world at large. The book also explores the emergence of the crisis in the context of the accelerating geopolitical conflict between China and the USA in the Indian Ocean. It ponders if the debt crisis, economic collapse and political destabilization in Sri Lanka were intentionally precipitated to the advantage of the Quadrilateral Alliance (USA, India, Australia and Japan). Moving beyond geopolitical rivalry, the book juxtaposes Sri Lanka’s political-economic crisis with the broader ecological crisis of climate change and sea-level rise. The book concludes with a consideration of the ethical dilemmas behind the debt and survival crisis in Sri Lanka and across the world. It points out a range of social movements and initiatives in Sri Lanka and the Global South which subscribe to collective and ecological alternatives and a Middle Path of sustainability and social justice.

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Book SynopsisInternationale Politik hat heutzutage einen zentralen Stellenwert und beeinflusst aktiv den Alltag der Menschen - gleichzeitig ist sie sehr komplex und teilweise widersprüchlich. Johannes Varwick erklärt Ihnen, wie internationale Beziehungen zu verstehen sind und wer diese gestaltet. Sie erhalten einen Überblick über die zentralen Konzepte, Perspektiven und Themen des Fachs Internationale Beziehungen sowie über die aktuellen Spannungsfelder ? von der Globalisierung über Menschenrechte und Wirtschaftsbeziehungen bis hin zu Umweltproblemen und Kriegen.

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Book SynopsisIntroduction.- Europe's Failed Strategic Ambitions: Lessons from the Eastern Partnership and the Ukraine Conflict 2013/14.- The Black Sea: A Recent History Through Romania's Eyes.- Towards Green Interdependence? The European Green Deal and EU's Energy Cooperation with South Caucasus Countries.- The Promotion of Democracy and Great Power Politics: The Prism of Energy.- The Long-Growing Rise of Russian Assertiveness Toward its Post-Soviet Neighbors in Europe.- Punishment or Modus Vivendi? How to Deal with Post-Soviet de facto Regimes?.- Turkey's New Foreign Policy Identity in the Black Sea Region From a Cooperative to a Combative State.- Without a Compass in Dangerous Waters. A Georgian Perspective on the Geopolitical Shifts in the Black Sea Region.- Black Sea Security After Russia's war Against Ukraine: Transformation of the Status Quo?.- Election Monitoring Civil Society Organizations in Georgia in Times of Democratization and Autocratization.- Freedom, Equality and Control as the Role of Free Media in Times of Political Disturbance and Threats. Case Studies from Polish Media System after 2015..- Perspectives.

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