Politik

China's urbanization has stunned the world in the past two decades- but as the authors of this book explain, the growth is only set to continue. The divide between urban and rural citizens in China implicates every aspect of Chinese life, from education to pollution to healthcare. In this book, one of China's most celebrated academic urbanists and a major urban planner collaborate in laying out and analyzing the problems of China's urban-rural divide, experiences of urbanization, and what the future holds. This book is a must read, not only for the accurate summaries of China's developmental experience it includes, but also for the insights it provides into the mentalities of the government officials and private developers who are creating realities on the ground in Chinese cities.

Economics has always been a heated research topic and green development is rising and integrating with various fields for interdisciplinary studies. Initiated in 2017, the International Conference on Economic Management and Green Development (ICEMGD) is an annual conference aiming at bringing together researchers from the fields of economics, business management, public administration, and green development for the sharing of research methods and theoretical breakthroughs. The 7th International Conference on Economic Management and Green Development (ICEMGD 2023) was held on August 6, 2023. It was a hybrid conference including several on-site workshops and an online session. The workshops were held in London, Galat¿i, Birmingham, Sydney, and Beijing.The proceedings consist of papers accepted by ICEMGD 2023, which are carefully selected and reviewed by professional reviewers from corresponding research fields and the editing committee of the conference. The papers have a diverse range of topics situated at the intersecting fields of economic management, public administration, and green development. ICEMGD is working to provide a platform for international participants from fields like macro- and microeconomics, international economics, finance, agricultural economics, health economics, business management and marketing strategies, regional development studies, social governance, and sustainable development. This proceedings volume, together with the conference, looks forward to sparking inspiration and promoting collaborations. This book will be of interest to researchers, academics, professionals, and policymakers in the fields of economic management, public administration, and development studies.

Liberal civilisation is in crisis - now is a time of monsters.

What is the Commune? A leading radical historian looks at the global resurgence of the commune and asks how they can become sites of liberation.

Challenging our understanding of social struggles as movements, Mehmet Dosemeci traces a 300-year counter-history of struggle predicated on disruption.

After fourteen years of Conservative government, we rightly ask what changed for the better or worse during this prolonged period of power? The country experienced significant challenges including austerity, Brexit and Covid: did they militate against the government's making more lasting impact? Bringing together some of the leading authorities in the field, this book examines the impact of Conservative rule on a wide range of economic, social, foreign and governmental areas. Anthony Seldon, Tom Egerton and their team uncover the ultimate 'Conservative effect' on the United Kingdom. With powerful insights and fresh perspectives, this is an intriguing study for anyone seeking to understand the full scope of the Conservative government's influence on our nation. Drawing the immediate lessons from the last fourteen years will be pivotal if the country is to rejuvenate and flourish in the future.

"Bestselling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H. W. Brands narrates the fierce debate over America's role in the world in the runup to World War II through its two most important figures: President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who advocated intervention, and his isolationist nemesis, aviator and popular hero Charles Lindbergh. Hitler's invasion of Poland in September 1939 launched a momentous period of decision-making for the United States. With fascism rampant abroad, should America take responsibility for its defeat? For popular hero Charles Lindbergh, saying no to another world war only twenty years after the first was the obvious answer. Lindbergh had become famous and adored around the world after his historic first flight over the Atlantic in 1927. In the years since, he had emerged as a vocal critic of American involvement overseas, rallying Americans toward isolationism as the nominal head of the America First Committee. As Hitler advanced across Europe and threatened the British Isles, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt struggled to turn the tide of public opinion. With great effort, political shrewdness and outright deception-aided by secret British disinformation efforts in America-FDR readied the country for war. He pushed the US onto the world stage where it has stayed ever since. In this gripping narrative, H.W. Brands sheds light on a crucial tipping point in American history and depicts the making of a legendary president"--

Stand-out theoretical and empirical explanation of the origins of the First World War by one of the great historians of international diplomacy

A decisive analytic critique of US foreign policy by one of America’s greatest historians

Sovereign Atonement makes an excellent use of a highly specific and in many ways unusual empirical case to build a set of novel theoretical arguments that engages with and contributes to a broad audience of geography, anthropology, political science, post-colonial, and South Asian studies suited for academics, journalists, and practitioners.

This book explores issues at the intersection of communication and African electoral politics, taking Ghana's 2020 general election as a focus of investigation. This interdisciplinary volume redresses gaps in the literature by highlighting the relevance of language and communication to electoral politics in Sub-Saharan Africa in the period of a global pandemic. The collection accounts for local influences on election discourse and illustrates how the specific context within which such discourse is enacted informs the linguistic, multimodal and technological choices of sociopolitical actors. The non-Western perspective it adopts extends work on political communication in a context underexplored in the literature and contributes to ongoing critical conversations on the decolonial and postcolonial aspects of communication studies. Drawing on a variety of data, including political speeches, political cartoons, election campaigns and social media posts, the volume not only addresses the dearth of scholarly work on African political communication, but also demonstrates the complexity of such scholarship and its importance to a comprehensive understanding of contemporary research on language and politics. This book enriches academic and public discussions on the future of democracy across the globe from a linguistic or communication perspective, expands scholarly work on African rhetoric and underscores the importance of engaging with diverse knowledge systems, especially non-Western epistemologies.

New details of the remarkable relationship between two leaders who teamed up to change history.It?s well known that Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher were close allies and kindred political spirits. During their eight overlapping years as U.S. president and UK prime minister, they stood united for free markets, low taxes, and a strong defense against communism. But just how close they really were will surprise you. Nicholas Wapshott finds that the Reagan-Thatcher relationship was much deeper than an alliance of mutual interests. Drawing on extensive interviews and hundreds of recently declassified private letters and telephone calls, he depicts a more complex, intimate, and occasionally combative relationship than has previously been revealed.

A powerhouse of South African and international scholars and activists reflect on the writings and theories of the late Jabulani Nobleman âEURœMzalaâEUR? Nxumalo in this exciting new volume of essays.

How did Gorbachev and Yeltsin get away with transforming and replacing the Soviet system and its foreign relations? Why did they act as they did in pushing for such radical changes? And how will history evaluate their accomplishments? In this unique and original study, George W. Breslauer compares and evaluates the leadership strategies adopted by Gorbachev and Yeltsin at each stage of their administrations: political rise, political ascendancy, and political decline. He demonstrates how these men used the power of ideas to mobilize support for their policies, to seize the initiative from political rivals, and to mold their images as effective problem solvers, indispensable politicians, and symbols of national unity and élan. Gorbachev and Yeltsin as Leaders also compares these men with Khrushchev and Brezhnev, yielding new insight into the nature of Soviet and post-Soviet politics and into the dynamics of "transformational" leadership more generally. The book is an important contribution to the analysis and evaluation of political leadership. It is exceptionally well written and accessible to the nonspecialist.

The risks connected to the influx of light and small arms into Nigeria in particular and the African continent in general have been covered in the book. In our case study area of Kano State, the study has demonstrated the implications created by the widespread availability of SALW towards the escalation of various categories of violence and conflict. The research was conducted using system theory and fragility state theory as guiding principles. The study generates information to examine the issues surrounding SALW in Nigeria using both primary and secondary data. The research suggested that in order to ensure that illegal porous borders are managed, the security framework structure in Africa needed to work together to address the issueof the proliferation of SALW in the continent. The legal framework for locally manufactured arms, along with the strengthening of our security formations, aims to protect our borders and engage traditional institutions and local communities in the fight against the spread of small arms and light weapons throughout Africa.

V dekabre 2023 goda sostoqlos' zasedanie Soweta glaw prawitel'stw Sodruzhestwa Nezawisimyh Gosudarstw, na kotorom uchastniki otmetili, chto strany-uchastnicy ob#edineniq w tekuschem godu smogli wernut'sq na traektoriü rosta. Ved' po itogam dewqti mesqcew 2023 goda w SNG ob#em promyshlennoj produkcii wyros pochti na tri s polowinoü procenta, gruzoperewozok ¿ pochti na shest'. A dal'nejshie usiliq stran integracionnoj struktury budut naprawleny na ustranenie prepqtstwij wo wzaimnoj torgowle, liberalizaciü w sfere uslug i priwlechenie inwesticij, chtoby sowmestno proizwodit' konkurentnuü produkciü. Ved' sozdanie wysokotehnologichnoj produkcii, po harakteristikam prewoshodqschej inostrannye analogi, ¿ orientir dlq wseh uchastnikow Sodruzhestwa. I primerow takogo äffektiwnogo wzaimodejstwiq uzhe nemalo, w tom w sotrudnichestwe s Ewrazijskim äkonomicheskim soüzom. V chastnosti, w aktiwnoj prorabotke nahoditsq kooperacionnyj proekt sozdaniq ewrazijskogo älektrobusa. Takie skwoznye integracionnye proekty na postsowetskom prostranstwe mogli by zadejstwowat' sowmestnyj nauchnyj, tehnologicheskij i finansowyj potencial Sodruzhestwa. Kak dannoe sotrudnichestwo dejstwuet segodnq? Rech' ob ätom idet w predlagaemoj rabote.

The Covid-19 pandemic triggered a global medical emergency in March 2020, highlighting that it is not solely a concern for healthcare systems but also a challenge affecting every segment of society. The international scientific community suggests that pandemics may occur more frequently with shorter intervals in the future. Consequently, prevention and international cooperation are not mere options; they are absolute necessities. The urgency and speed of action are as crucial as the need to mobilize resources on a significant scale. This book aims to analyze the relationship between the Covid-19 pandemic and climate change. Specifically, it explores the degree of impact of Covid-19 on climate change and examines the possibilities of response by competent authorities through appropriate policies to address climate change. These insights are drawn from the lessons learned during the first year of dealing with the pandemic.

"Il n¿était pas dans mes idées de publier un livre et je ne m¿y serais jamais décidé sans la bienveillante insistance d¿un grand nombre des auditeurs qui m¿ont fait l'¿honneur de suivre mon cours. Ils ont désiré ler résumé de mes leçons ; le leur refuser plus longtemps eût été de ma part de l¿ingratitude. Le livre que je soumets aujourd¿hui au jugement des horticulteurs n¿est donc sauf quelques additions que l¿exposé des faits qui ont été le sujet de nos conférences publiques... "