Kategoria BISAC: Political Science >> Geopolitics

Sind es alleine die heldenhaften Taten der Herrscher, die Weltreiche entstehen lassen, und ist der Untergang dieser Weltreiche nur mit der Unfahigkeit derselben zu begrunden? Oder sind es nicht vielmehr die kaum wahrnehmbaren Veranderungen am Grunde der Gesellschaften, die deren Fundamente zerstoren und den Einsturz der alten Macht vorbereiten? Am Beispiel der Geschichte Afghanistans wird aufgezeigt, wie die Veranderungen der Lebensbedingungen die Veranderungen in den Gesellschaften bedingen. Die urkommunistische Stammesgesellschaft, in der alle Gesellschaftsmitglieder Besitzer des...

Antonia Hildebrand, author of The Nine Eleven Handbook, explores how the neo-liberal worldview was created and for what social, political and economic purposes it came into being. Going back to the Great Depression of the thirties, Hildebrand describes an agenda devoted to the creation of an elite which is now so insulated by its power that it is largely unaccountable and owns a large slab of the worlds wealth. In the United States at least, it controls the law, the military, the media and the banking system, leading to widespread injustice, social instability and financial collapses that are...

A popular take on world events that puts the 'geo' back in geopolitics

Los ciudadanos de todo el mundo poseen un inmenso patrimonio sobre el cual pueden ejercer derechos de propiedad, pero la mayor parte de los beneficios que genera este patrimonio, se diluye en politicas publicas de alance colectivo, tales como sostener el gasto fiscal, mientras que los beneficios particulares que deberia recibir cada ciudadano es muy escaso, o simplemente no los reciben. Esto obliga a reorientar los recursos colectivos nacionales que apliquen de forma particular, de modo que sea mas efectivo en el disfrute ciudadano, a esto se le anadiria los recursos que mediante esfuerzo...

Modern capitalist society runs on paid work. Yet for many of us, paid work is at best a frustrating experience. Some of us are burdened with too much work, while others fight the hard realities of precarious, low-paid, low-quality work amid persistent mass unemployment. So what if we rethought the whole system?

That's the ambitious challenge David Frayne takes up in The Refusal of Work. Drawing on substantial empirical research into the lives of people who are actively resisting employment--either by reducing their work hours to the minimum or by giving up work altogether--Frayne...

Modern capitalist society runs on paid work. Yet for many of us, paid work is at best a frustrating experience. Some of us are burdened with too much work, while others fight the hard realities of precarious, low-paid, low-quality work amid persistent mass unemployment. So what if we rethought the whole system?
That s the ambitious challenge David Frayne takes up inThe Refusal of Work. Drawing on substantial empirical research into the lives of people who are actively resisting employment either by reducing their work hours to the minimum or by giving up work altogether Frayne...

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Around the globe, populists have used the decline of established political parties and widespread societal fears of globalization to launch increasingly successful electoral campaigns. Indonesia is no exception. In the 2014 presidential elections, two populists even competed against each other--albeit with vastly different concepts of populism. Prabowo Subianto, the wealthy former...

In the bestselling tradition of Why Nations Fail and The Revenge of Geography, an award-winning journalist uses ten maps of crucial regions to explain the geo-political strategies of the world powers.

All leaders of nations are constrained by geography. Their choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas, and concrete. To understand world events, news organizations and other authorities often focus on people, ideas, and political movements, but without geography, we never have the full picture. Now, in the relevant and timely Prisoners of Geography, seasoned...

China has traditionally viewed her frontier regions Zxinjiang, Tibet, Inner Mongolia and Yunnan as buffer zones. Yet their importance as commercial and cosmopolitan hubs, intimately involved in the transmission of goods, peoples and ideas between China and it west and southwest has meant they are crucial for China s ongoing development. The resurgence of China under Deng Xiaoping s policy of reform and opening has therefore led to a focus on integrating these regions into the PRC (People s Republic of China). This has important implications not only for the frontier regions themselves but...

Despite many predictions to the contrary, the Arctic has emerged today as a zone of cooperation. At the core of regional stability and security is an emerging architecture of cooperation focused on the Arctic Council. This new order is based not on military strength or a scramble to control resources, but on the multilateral pursuit of common interests. This book focuses on understanding and explaining the emergence of cooperation in the Arctic through an exploration by leading scholars and experts on the region of a key set of interlinked questions. What constitutes the current form of...

The emergence of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa on a global stage has upset the dominance of the United States as the world s only superpower. But can they chart a path toward a more just global economy? This collection, which brings together leading political economists from around the world, argues that the BRICS are actually amplifying some of the worst features of international capitalism.
This book aims to fill a gap in studies of the BRICS grouping of countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa). It provides a critical analysis of their economies,...

Unapologetically Black is the story of Doni Glover's trek from the streets of East Baltimore to two decades of journalism that has taken him to Canada, Jamaica, Tanzania, Ethiopia and Jordan. Along the way, he has hosted the longest-running customized news talk show in the nation at Radio One. More importantly, he joined the Fourth Estate twelve years ago when he founded www.bmorenews.com. Since then, his flagship online news service now garners one million hits per month with visitors from 200 nations. Boasting one of the largest African American news video libraries in the nation,...

When it comes to government's role in personal matters such as family planning, most bristle at any interference from the State on how to exercise their reproductive rights. China's infamous "one child" policy is a well-known example of reproductive politics, but history is filled with other examples of governmental population control to advance its interests. Reproductive States is the first volume of a collection of case studies that explores when and how some of the most populous countries in the world invented and implemented state population policies in the 20th century.

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Why is the United Nations not more effective on global environmental challenges? The UN Charter mandates the global organization to seek four noble aspirations: international peace and security, rule of law among nations, human rights for all people, and social progress through development. On environmental issues, however, the UN has understood its charge much more narrowly: it works for "better law between nations" and "better development within them." This approach treats peace and human rights as unrelated to the world's environmental problems, despite a large body of evidence to the...

Why is the United Nations not more effective on global environmental challenges? The UN Charter mandates the global organization to seek four noble aspirations: international peace and security, rule of law among nations, human rights for all people, and social progress through development. On environmental issues, however, the UN has understood its charge much more narrowly: it works for "better law between nations" and "better development within them." This approach treats peace and human rights as unrelated to the world's environmental problems, despite a large body of evidence to the...

The Content of this book is highly informative and precise, practical and pragmatic assessment of global ground realities, book touches base with some extreme harsh global realities and provides ground level perspective about some of the most pressing global issues, The content of this book is unique and exclusive in many ways, the book debates extreme fundamental causes and reasons for rising terrorism related violence, growing religious intolerance and deteriorating law and order situation in many different parts of the world, Every matter of public concern be it "Economics and Politics,...

In August 2007 a Russian flag was planted under the North Pole during a scientific expedition triggering speculation about a new scramble for resources beneath the thawing ice.

But is there really a global grab for Polar territory and resources? Or are these activities vastly exaggerated? In this rich and wide-ranging book, Klaus Dodds and Mark Nuttall look behind the headlines and hyperbole to reveal a complex picture of the so-called scramble for the poles. Whilst anxieties over the potential for conflict and the destruction of what is often perceived as the world's last...

In August 2007 a Russian flag was planted under the North Pole during a scientific expedition triggering speculation about a new scramble for resources beneath the thawing ice.

But is there really a global grab for Polar territory and resources? Or are these activities vastly exaggerated? In this rich and wide-ranging book, Klaus Dodds and Mark Nuttall look behind the headlines and hyperbole to reveal a complex picture of the so-called scramble for the poles. Whilst anxieties over the potential for conflict and the destruction of what is often perceived as the world's last...

When it comes to government's role in personal matters such as family planning, most bristle at any interference from the State on how to exercise their reproductive rights. China's infamous "one child" policy is a well-known example of reproductive politics, but history is filled with other examples of governmental population control to advance its interests. Reproductive States is the first volume of a collection of case studies that explores when and how some of the most populous countries in the world invented and implemented state population policies in the 20th century.

The...