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In 2007 the farm subsidies of the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy took over 40 percent of the entire EU budget. How did a sector of diminishing social and economic importance manage to maintain such political prominence? The conventional answer focuses on the negotiations among the member states of the European Community from 1958 onwards. That story holds that the political priority, given to the CAP, as well as its long-term stability, resides in a basic devil's bargain between French agriculture and German industry.

In Farmers on Welfare, a landmark new...

Honor and violence are major themes in the anthropology of the Middle East, yet--apart from political violence--most studies approach violence from the perspective of honour. By contrast, this important study examines the meanings of lethal conflict in a little-studied tribal society in Pakistan's unruly North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) and offers a new perspective on its causes. Based on an in-depth study of local conflicts, the book challenges stereotyped images of a region and people miscast as extremist and militant.

Being grounded in local ethnography enables the book to...

Nancy Knudsen never meant to go to Istanbul.

Maybe she might have included it as part of a holiday along with other dazzling European cities such as Venice, Paris or Salzburg. But the idea of actually living in a Muslim country as an ordinary citizen rather than tourist or expat corporate executive, would never have occurred to her.

Knudsen's story is vivid, lively and sometimes hilarious, full of insights into things she wished she'd known before she arrived in an all-black apartment above a sports field, with not a word of Turkish. She found almost nothing in guidebooks or...

Was tun, wenn plötzlich ein Löwe in der Bibliothek auftaucht? Für die Bibliothekarin ist klar, er muss sich an die Regeln halten: Kein Brüllen, kein Rennen! Und tatsächlich verhält er sich vorbildlich. Er macht sich sogar nützlich und scheint besonders die Märchenstunde zu genießen. Die Kinder gewinnen ihn schnell lieb, und wenn sich so eine große Samtpfote erst einmal ins Herz der Bibliothekarin geschnurrt hat, nimmt diese es vielleicht auch mit den Regeln nicht mehr so genau ...

Through the ethnography and history of fish production, seafood consumption, state modernizing policies and marine science, this book analyzes the role of local knowledge in the management of marine resources on the Eastern Black Sea coast of Turkey. Fishing, science and other ways of knowing and...

This book provides the first analysis of the Trilateral Commission and its role in global governance and contemporary diplomacy.

In 1973, David Rockefeller and Zbigniew Brzezinski founded the Trilateral Commission. Involving highly influential people from business and politics in the US, Western Europe and Japan, the Commission was soon seen by many people as constituting an embryonic or even shadow world government. As the first researcher to have accessed the Commission s archives, the author argues that this study demonstrates that global governance and international diplomacy should...