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National self-images and regional identities in Russia. Aldershot, England: Ashgate, 2001.
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Kenkyūjo, Kansai Shakai Keizai. Kōiki chihō seifuka to komyuniti no saisei ni kansuru kenkyū: Kaku chiiki no tokusei o ikashita jichi shisutemu no saihen = Researchconcerning revitalizing local communities and forming broad regional government : restructuring of local self-governance system that takes advantage of local features. Ōsaka-shi: Kansai Shakai Keizai Kenkyūjo, 2005.
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Roy Burman, J. J., 1955-, ed. Social dynamics in contemporary North-East India: A study of regional exclusion, self-determination movements, and ethnic violence. New Delhi: Concept Pub. Co., 2013.
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Alcock, Antony Evelyn. A history of the protection of regional cultural minorities in Europe: From the Edict of Nantes to the present day. Basingstoke, Hampshire, England: St. Martin's Press, 2000.
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Cities and regions as self-organizing systems: Models of complexity. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, 1997.
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Reclaiming the nation: The return of the national question in Africa, Asia and Latin America. London: Pluto Press, 2011.
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Baglay, Marat. Constitutional law of foreign countries. ru: INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1569641.
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The fifth, significantly revised edition of the textbook highlights the basic concepts and institutions of foreign constitutional law, reveals its subject, system, sources. The issues of the legal status of the individual, forms of the state, local self-government, etc. are comprehensively analyzed.
In the interests of a more in-depth and integral, comprehensive understanding of the state system of the leading countries, the textbook includes chapters on the USA, Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the Nordic countries, Japan, China, India, the Arab states, the EAEU countries, Uzbekistan. Special chapters contain regional reviews of the main constitutional and legal institutions.
For students, postgraduates and teachers of law schools and faculties.
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Page, Edward. Localism and centralism in Europe: The political and legal bases of local self-government. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991.
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F, Hanekom, and Palmer Patrick N, eds. Guide to South African industrial incentives: Embodying the law and departmental practice relating to the Programme of Regional Industrial Development Incentives as implemented jointly by the governments of the SATBVC countries and the self-governing national states. Durban: Butterworths, 1987.
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Shaw, Robert L. J. The Celestine Monks of France, c. 1350-1450. NL Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789462986787.
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The Celestine monks of France represent one of the least studied monastic reform movements of the late Middle Ages, and yet also one of the most culturally impactful. Their order - an austere Italian Benedictine reform of the late thirteenth century, which came be known after the papal name of their founder, Celestine V (St Peter of Murrone) - arrived in France in 1300. After a period of marginal growth, they flourished in the region from the mid-fourteenth century, founding thirteen new houses over the next hundred years, taking their total to seventeen by 1450. Not only did the French Celestines expand, they gained a distinctive character that separated them from their Italian brothers. More urban, better connected with both aristocratic and bourgeois society, and yet still rigorous and reformist, they characterised themselves as the 'Observant' wing of their order, having gained self-government for their provincial congregation in 1380 following the arrival of the Great Western Schism (1378-1417). But, as Robert L.J. Shaw argues, their importance runs beyond monastic reform: the late medieval French Celestines are a mirror of the political, intellectual, and Christian reform culture of their age. Within a France torn by war and a Church divided by schism, the French Celestines represented hope for renewal, influencing royal presentation, lay religion, and some of the leading French intellectuals of the period, including Jean Gerson.
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Petersson, Bo. National Self-Images and Regional Identities in Russia. Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.
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Multinational Integration, Cultural Identity and Regional Self-Government: Comparative Experiences for Tibet. Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.
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The European Charter of Local Self-government-20th Anniversary (Local And Regional Action No.8) (Local and Regional Action). Council of Europe, 2006.
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Regionalisation and Its Effects on Local Self-government (Local and Regional Authorities in Europe Series: 64). Council of Europe Publishing, 1998.
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Kennedy, Graham, ed. Models of regional governance for the Pacific: Sovereignty and the future architecture of regionalism. Christchurch, N.Z: Canterbury University Press, 2008.
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Allen, P. M. Cities and Regions as Self-organizing Systems: Models of Complexity (Environmental Problems and Social Dynamics Series). Taylor & Francis, 1997.
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Allen, P. M. Cities and Regions as Self-organizing Systems: Models of Complexity (Environmental Problems & Social Dynamics Series, Vol 1). Taylor & Francis, 1997.
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Freudlsperger, Christian. Trade Policy in Multilevel Government. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198856122.001.0001.
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Trade Policy in Multilevel Government investigates how multilevel polities organize openness in a globalizing political and economic environment. In recent years, the multilevel politics of trade caught the broader public’s attention, not least due to the Wallonian regional parliament’s initial rejection of the EU-Canada trade deal in 2016. In all multilevel polities, competencies held by states and regions have increasingly become the subject of international rule-setting. This is particularly so in the field of trade, which has progressively targeted so-called “behind the border” regulatory barriers. In their reaction to this “deep trade” agenda, constituent units in different multilevel polities have shown widely varying degrees of openness to liberalizing their markets. Why is that? Trade Policy in Multilevel Government argues that domestic institutions and procedures of intergovernmental relations are the decisive factor. Countering a widely held belief among practitioners and analysts of trade policy that involving subcentral actors complicates trade negotiations, it demonstrates that the more voice a multilevel polity affords its constituent units in trade policy-making, the less the latter have an incentive eventually to exit from emerging trade deals. While in shared rule systems constituent unit governments are directly represented along the entirety of the policy cycle, in self-rule systems territorial representation is achieved merely indirectly. Shared rule systems are hence more effective than self-rule systems in organizing openness to trade. The book tests the explanatory power of this theory on the understudied case of international procurement liberalization in extensive studies of three systems of multilevel government: Canada, the European Union, and the United States.
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Комлев, Е. Ю. Правовые основы взаимодействия органов местного самоуправления с государственными и региональными органами власти в Испании. ФГУП «Издательство «Наука», 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.7868/9785020408258.
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The research is a comprehensive study of the legal basis of interaction between local self-government bodies and state and regional authorities in Spain. The author analyzes Spanish regulations of the state and regional levels, decisions of the Constitutional Court of Spain, decisions of the Supreme Court of Spain and research studies of Spanish scientists, which have not been previously examined in the Russian legal doctrine. Decentralized public administration development stages in Spain with regard to the activities of local self-government bodies have been determined and characterized. The author identified the essential characteristics of basic principles and forms of interaction between local self-government bodies and state and regional authorities in Spain. Legal regulation disadvantages which negatively affect protection of the local autonomy principle in Spain have also been revealed. For students, post-graduate students and teachers of law universities and faculties, state and municipal employees, everyone who is interested in current problems of municipal law.
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Hermans, Hubert J. M. The Dynamics of Society-in-the-Self. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190687793.003.0002.
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In the field of tension between globalization and localization, a set of new phenomena is emerging showing that society is not simply a social environment of self and identity but works in their deepest regions: self-radicalization, self-government, self-cure, self-nationalization, self-internationalization, and even self-marriage. The consequence is that the self is faced with an unprecedented density of self-parts, called I-positions in this theory. In the field of tension between boundary-crossing developments in the world and the search for an identity in a local niche, a self emerges that is characterized by a great variety of contradicting and heterogeneous I-positions and by large and unexpected jumps between different positions as the result of rapid and unexpected changes in the world. The chapter argues that such developments require a new vision of the relationship between self and society.
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Susan, Breau. Part 2 The Post-Cold War Era (1990–2000), 43 The ECOWAS Intervention in Sierra Leone—1997–99. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/law/9780198784357.003.0043.
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This chapter analyses the intervention by the Economic Community of West African state forces, known as ECOMOG, into Sierra Leone from 1997-1999. After a brief review of the very complex facts surrounding this intervention and the generally positive reaction from the international community, this chapter reviews the legal justifications for this intervention and tests them against the jus ad bellum existing at that time. Reasons given were the restoration of a democratically elected government, self-defence, humanitarian intervention, intervention by consent or invitation and retrospective authorisation by the Security Council to a regional peacekeeping operation. None of these are found to have met the tests for legality within jus ad bellum. A final justification argues that this case study is a precedent as an African exception to the prohibition on the use of force with delegation or assumption of powers by an African regional organisation. This would be a troubling challenge to the United Nations Charter regime but might well be part of a larger trend of African use of force initiatives.
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Bolleyer, Nicole. Sub-National Politics. Edited by Donald P. Haider-Markel. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199579679.013.037.
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This chapter distinguishes three perspectives on the study of sub-national politics: a polity-centered, a systemic, and a regionalist perspective. Most fundamentally, scholars of sub-national politics tend to approach state governments either as self-contained polities or as embedded units. The first polity-centered perspective is defined by its conceptualization of state governments as self-contained ‘political systems’. The literature approaching state governments as embedded entities can be further subdivided in two strands. The systemic perspective conceptualizes state governments as part of one sub-national governmental level that faces the federal or central government as main counter-player. The regionalist perspective, in contrast, looks at forms of cooperation amongst different subsets of state or regional governments. Assessing case studies and comparative work within these three strands allows us to identify existing caveats in the literature and to put the work on American sub-national politics in the context of existing cross-national research.
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Christine, Gray. International Law and the Use of Force. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/law/9780198808411.001.0001.
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This book explores the use of force in international law. It examines not only the use of force by states but also the role of the UN in peacekeeping and enforcement action, and the increasing role of regional organizations in the maintenance of international peace and security. The UN Charter framework is under challenge: Russia’s invasion of Georgia and intervention in Ukraine, the USA’s military operations in Syria, and Saudi Arabia’s campaign to restore the government of Yemen by force all raise questions about the law on intervention. The ‘war on terror’ that began after the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the USA has not been won. It has spread far beyond Afghanistan, leading to targeted killings in Pakistan, Somalia, and Yemen, and to intervention against ISIS in Iraq and Syria. Is there an expanding right of self-defence against non-state actors? The development of nuclear weapons by North Korea has reignited discussion about the legality of pre-emptive self-defence. The NATO-led operation in Libya increased hopes for the implementation of ‘responsibility to protect’, but it also provoked criticism for exceeding the Security Council’s authorization of force because its outcome was regime change. UN peacekeeping faces new challenges, especially with regard to the protection of civilians, and UN forces have been given revolutionary mandates in several African states, but UN peacekeeping is not suited to counter-terrorism or enforcement operations. The UN now turns to regional organizations as first responders in situations of ongoing armed conflict.
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Hermans, Hubert J. M. Society in the Self. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190687793.001.0001.
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In this book, Hubert Hermans, internationally known as the creator of the dialogical self theory, launches a new and original theory in which he links society with the most intimate regions of self and identity. The basic assumption is that the self is organized as an inner society that is simultaneously functioning as part of the society at large as exemplified by developments like self-sabotage, self-radicalization, self-cure, self-government, self-nationalization, and self-internationalization. The book makes even a more radical step. It not only deals with the societal organization of the self but also poses the challenging question whether the self is democratically organized. To what extent do the different self-parts (e.g. roles, emotions, imagined others) receive freedom of expression? To what extent are they treated as equal or equivalent components of the self? The question is posed how the self, in its organizing capacity, responds to the apparent tension between freedom and equality in both the self and society. The theory has far-reaching consequences for such divergent topics as leadership in the self; cultural diversity in the self; the relationship between reason and emotion; self-empathy;, cooperation and competition between self-parts; and the role of social power in prejudice, enemy image construction, and scapegoating. The volume concludes with a trailblazing discussion of cosmopolitan, deliberative, and agonistic models of democracy and their consequences for a democratically organized self in a boundary-crossing society.
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Savage, Robert J. Northern Ireland, the BBC, and Censorship in Thatcher's Britain. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192849748.001.0001.
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This book addresses the British broadcast media’s coverage of the conflict in Northern Ireland throughout the 1980s, one of the most turbulent decades in post-war British and Irish history. It explores the incessant wrangling between the government of Margaret Thatcher and an aggressive broadcast media determined to provide objective news and information about the complexities of ‘the Troubles’ to regional, national, and international audiences. The Thatcher government was determined to protect its interests by shaping a narrative of the conflict in simplistic terms, presenting it as a fight between the democratic forces of law and order and ruthless terrorists hell-bent on carnage and chaos. Programming that questioned this simple paradigm by challenging the decisions, policies, and tactics of politicians, civil servants, and the army provoked outrage, angering governments intent on influencing how the conflict was presented at home and abroad. Senior officials employed a variety of tactics to try and shape a complex narrative, including threatening journalists with prosecution under the draconian Prevention of Terrorism Act. The constant pressure exerted by the government succeeded in encouraging self-censorship within both the BBC and IBA. Nevertheless, BBC and independent television companies remained determined to provide objective, cutting-edge reporting about the relentless violence of ‘the Troubles’. This resulted in the imposition of formal censorship in 1988. However, threatening, bullying, denouncing, and finally censoring the broadcast media did not enable London to control the contested narrative of ‘the Troubles’.
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Luehrmann, Sonja. Soviet Atheism and Its Aftermath. Edited by Phil Zuckerman and John R. Shook. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199988457.013.15.
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If Soviet atheism is a variety of secularism, it more resembles eliminationist movements viewing religions as obstacles to the political integration of citizens into the state. Before World War II, the Bolshevik government issued decrees to disentangle the state from the church. Later, Khrushchev emphasized atheism and closed churches as part of a general populist, mobilizational approach to promoting communist values. By the 1970s, religious practices were not precluded but were assigned a marginal space outside of public engagement. The post-Soviet era has seen self-reported religiosity increase, while self-reported atheism has diminished, although remaining significant. Russia’s 1997 law on Freedom of Conscience and Religious Organizations requires a denomination to exist in a region for fifteen years to enjoy the full legal and tax status. Today, Russia differentiates between “good” religions that help to promote particular moral visions and “bad” religions that create social strife, promote violence, and endanger public health.
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Volokitina, Tatiana V., and Aleksandr S. Stykalin, eds. Moscow and Eastern Europe. National models of Socialism in the countries of the region (1950s — 1970s). Formation, features, modern assessments. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0834-9090, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.31168/4469-1634-4.
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The collection of articles examines a wide range of issues related to the forma- tion and implementation attempts of national models of Socialism in the countries of Eastern Europe, it focuses on historical traditions, lifestyle and mentality of the people. In comparison with the basic Soviet model, it considers their similarities and differences, evolution of the ideology and practice of national Socialism, the nature of relations with the hierarchical centre and so force. Special attention is paid to the Yugoslav practice of building Socialism as an alternative to the Soviet experience. The authors study the development of the Yugoslav concept of self- government, its practical implementation from the 1950s to the 1970s as well as perception of this model in the countries of the region.
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Christine, Gray. Part 3 The Post 9/11-Era (2001–), 54 The Conflict in Georgia—2008. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/law/9780198784357.003.0054.
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This chapter discusses the 2008 conflict between Russia and Georgia. It explains the background of rising tensions between separatists in the regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, and the Georgian government; the outbreak of conflict; the Russian intervention; and the extension of the conflict beyond South Ossetia and Abkhazia. It then examines Russia’s claims that it was acting in self-defence in protection of its nationals and of its peacekeeping forces in Georgia, and the reactions of other states to these claims. It also provides a critical account of the Report of the Independent International Fact-finding Mission on the Conflict in Georgia, and its controversial arguments, first, for a wide interpretation of the scope of the prohibition of the use of force in Article 2(4) UN Charter as applicable to non-state entities, and, second, for a wide view of the concept of threat of force.
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Nehring, Daniel, Gerardo Gómez Michel, and Magdalena López, eds. A Post-Neoliberal Era in Latin America? Policy Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781529200997.001.0001.
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In the mid-1970s, Latin America entered a period of profound social and economic crisis, marked by the rise of brutal military dictatorships across much of the region and the near-collapse of some of Latin America’s largest economies, in Mexico and Brazil. In response to this crisis, governments across the region adopted neoliberal structural adjustment programmes from the 1980s onwards, under the auspices of international organisations, such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. These reforms typically entailed sweeping cuts to public health and welfare programmes, the privatisation of large parts of the public infrastructure, the redistribution of wealth to economic elites, and a notable growth in poverty. As a result, these structural adjustment programmes faced growing resistance from the early 1990s onwards. Social and political movements, such as the Zapatistas in Mexico, formulated powerful challenges to neoliberal orthodoxy, while the election to government of left-wing populist leaders such as Hugo Chávez (1998), Evo Morales (2005) or Rafael Correa (2006) opened the door to experiments with a range of anti-neoliberal political programmes. The failures of these programmes and ongoing conflicts between neoliberal and anti-neoliberal elites and social movements have by the mid-2010s resulted in growing social instability. This book examines cultural responses to this instability. It looks at a wide range of cultural forms, such as literature, underground cinema, street fairs and self-help books to explore how Latin Americans construct subjectivities, build communities and make meaning in their everyday lives in during a profound crisis of the social. In this context, the book emphasises the role which neoliberal and anti-neoliberal narratives of self and social relationships may come to play in popular culture and everyday lived experience in Latin America today.
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Itrich-Drabarek, Jolanta, ed. Encyclopedia of Public Administration. Dom Wydawniczy i Handlowy ELIPSA, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.33896/978-83-8017-283-8.
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Encyclopedia of Public Administration is the first Polish interdisciplinary encyclopedia covering the issues of public administration, both in the theoretical context and with reference to its functioning in practice. The publication, whose idea was developed by researchers from the Institute of Political Sciences at the Faculty of Political Science and International Studies of the University of Warsaw, was prepared by scientists from eight Polish universities. Readers seeking knowledge and information on such issues as democracy, the system of public authorities in Poland, including local and regional self-government authorities, rules governing the practice of the functioning of offices, issues regarding officials and professional ethics, and finally forms of citizens’ participation in co-governance and their rights in relations with the public administration system, will appreciate the several hundred entries. Issues related to the functioning of the Polish administration in the structures of the European Union are also taken into account. This list does not exhaust the extensive range of entries. The Encyclopedia is addressed to various readers – the scientific community, students, representatives of public administration or citizens seeking information about the system of public institutions and the rules governing their functioning. The authors of the entries are authorities in the field of law, state systems and political issues of public administration, such as Professors Hubert Izdebski, Robert Kmieciak, Izabela Malinowska, Stanisław Mazur, Andrzej Misiuk, Jacek Sroka, Jacek Wojnicki and scientific editor of the volume Jolanta Itrich-Drabarek, Head of the Department of State Sciences and Public Administration at the Faculty of Political Science and International Studies, University of Warsaw.
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Pike, David L. Cold War Space and Culture in the 1960s and 1980s. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192846167.001.0001.
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Cold War Space and Culture in the 1960s and 1980s: The Bunkered Decades studies the two periods in which Americans were actively encouraged to build backyard shelters while governments exhausted their budgets on fortified super-shelters and megaton bombs. The dreams and nightmares inspired by the specter of nuclear destruction were expressed in images and forms of fallout shelters and other bunker fantasies from comics, movies, and pulp paperbacks to policy documents, protest movements, and survivalist tracts. Bunker fantasies stratified class, region, race, and gender and created often unrecognized through-lines leading from the 1960s and the less-studied 1980s into the present day. A substantial Introduction defines “bunker fantasy” and the meanings of shelter and security since the end of World War II. The five chapters of Part 1 taxonomize the primary and sometimes overlapping forms taken by the bunker and its fantasies during its first heyday in the years around the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962: the basement or backyard shelter, suburbia, and the nuclear family; the cave, tribalism, and feral humanity; the private supershelter, survivalism, and self-reliance; the community shelter, infrastructure, and urban bunkerism; and the government supershelter, paranoia, and paternalism. The four chapters of Part 2 treat the new bunker fantasies that emerged around 1983, the closest the world had come to nuclear war since 1962, in general popular culture, men’s action fiction, nuclear realism, and feminist science fiction. A conclusion briefly discusses the legacy of these decades in today’s anxieties around security, borders, and apocalypse both real and imagined.
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Gelvin, James L. The New Middle East. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/wentk/9780190653996.001.0001.
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Since Muhammad Bouazizi set himself on fire in Tunisia on December 17, 2010, galvanizing the Arab uprisings that continue today, the entire Middle East landscape has changed in ways that were unimaginable years before. In spite of the early hype about a so-called "Arab Spring" and the prominence observers gave to calls for the downfall of regimes and an end to their abuses, most of the protests and uprisings born of Bouazizi's self-immolation have had disastrous results across the whole Middle East. While the old powers reasserted their control with violence in Egypt and Bahrain, Libya, Yemen, and Syria have virtually ceased to exist as states, torn apart by civil wars. In other states, namely Morocco and Algeria, the forces of reaction were able to maintain their hold on power, while in the "hybrid democracies" of Lebanon, Palestine, and Iraq, protests against government inefficiency, corruption, and arrogance have done little to bring about the sort of changes protesters have demanded. Simultaneously, ISIS, along with other jihadi groups (al-Qaeda, al-Qaeda affiliates, Ansar al-Shariahs, etc.) has thrived in an environment marked by state breakdown. This book explains these changes, outlining the social, political, and economic contours of what some have termed "the new Middle East." One of the leading scholars of modern Middle Eastern history, James L. Gelvin lucidly distills the political and economic reasons behind the dramatic news arriving each day from Syria and the rest of the Middle East. He shows how and why bad governance, stagnant economies, poor healthcare, climate change, population growth, refugee crises, food and water insecurity, and war increasingly threaten human security in the region.
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Tibet on Fire: Buddhism, Protest, and the Rhetoric of Self-Immolation. Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
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Spencer-Rodgers, Julie, and Kaiping Peng, eds. The Psychological and Cultural Foundations of East Asian Cognition. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199348541.001.0001.
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The unprecedented economic growth in many East Asian societies in the few past decades have placed the region center stage, and increasing globalization have made East-West cultural understanding of even greater importance today. This book is the most comprehensive on East Asian cognition and thinking styles to date, and is the first to bring together a large body of empirical research on “naïve dialecticism” (Peng & Nisbett, 1999; Peng, Spencer-Rodgers, & Nian, 2006) and “analytic/holistic thinking” (Nisbett, 2003), theories in cultural psychology that stem from Richard Nisbett’s (2003) highly influential and successful book on The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently … and Why. More specifically, the current book examines the psychological, philosophical, and cultural underpinnings and consequences of “dialectical thinking” (Peng & Nisbett, 1999) and cognitive holism (Nisbett, 2003) for human thought, emotion, and behaviour. Since the publication of Peng and Nisbett’s (1999) seminal article, research on this topic has flourished, and East-West cultural differences have been documented in almost all aspects of the human condition and life, from the manner in which people reason and make decisions, conceptualize themselves and others, to how they cope with stress and mental illness, and interact with others, including romantic partners and social groups. Twenty-one chapters written by leading experts in psychology and related fields cover such diverse topics as cultural neuroscience and the brain, lifespan development, attitudes and group perception, romantic relationships, extracultural cognition (the adoption of foreign mind-sets and perspectives), creativity, emotion, the self-concept, racial/ethnic identity, psychopathology, and coping processes and wellbeing. This research has practical implications for business and organizational management, international relations and politics, education, and clinical and counselling psychology, and may be of particular interest to business professionals, managers in government and non-profit sectors, as well as educators and clinicians working with East Asians and Americans of East Asian descent.