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Governing Compact Cities investigates how governments and other
critical actors organise to enable compact urban growth, combining
higher urban densities, mixed use and urban design quality with
more walkable and public transport-oriented urban development.
Philipp Rode draws on empirical evidence from London and Berlin to
examine how urban policymakers, professionals and stakeholders have
worked across disciplinary silos, geographic scales and different
time horizons since the early 1990s. The key mechanisms for
integrated urban governance which enable more compact growth are
identified by focusing on the underlying institutional arrangements
that have connected strategic urban planning, city design and
transport policy in the two case study cities. These include a
hybrid model of hierarchical and network governance, the
effectiveness of continuous adjustment over disruptive, one-off
?integration fixes? and the prioritisation of certain links between
sectoral policy and geographic scales over others. With an
interdisciplinary approach connecting urban studies and planning
with political science, public administration and organisational
studies, this book will be of interest to academics and students in
those disciplines, as well as urban practitioners and the
applied/policy research community.
Since the 1993 Oslo Accords, the Occupied Palestinian Territory has
been the subject of extensive international peacebuilding and
statebuilding efforts coordinated by Western donor states and
international finance institutions. Despite their failure to yield
peace or Palestinian statehood, the role of these organisations in
the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is generally overlooked owing to
their depiction as tertiary actors engaged in technical missions.
In Palestine Ltd., Toufic Haddad explores how neoliberal frameworks
have shaped and informed the common understandings of
international, Israeli and Palestinian interactions throughout the
Oslo peace process. Drawing upon more than 20 years of policy
literature, field-based interviews and recently declassified or
leaked documents, he details how these frameworks have led to
struggles over influencing Palestinian political and economic
behaviour, and attempts to mould the class character of Palestinian
society and its leadership. A dystopian vision of Palestine emerges
as the by-product of this complex asymmetrical interaction, where
nationalism, neo-colonialism and `disaster capitalism' both
intersect and diverge. This book is essential for students and
scholars interested in Middle East Studies, Arab-Israeli politics
and international development.
Since the debut of the iPhone in 2007, the mobile phone has become
a quick, convenient, and immensely popular gateway for accessing
and consuming news. With three billion mobile phone subscribers,
Asian countries have led this seismic shift in news consumption.
They provide a wide range of opportunities to study how, as mobile
technology matures and becomes routinized, mobile news is
increasingly subject to societal constraints and impositions of
political power that reduce the democratic benefits of such news
and call into question the application of these technological
innovations within governments and societies. News in Their Pockets
explores the societal, technological, and user-related factors
behind why and how digital-savvy college students seek news via the
mobile phone across Asia's most mobile cities-Shanghai, Hong Kong,
Singapore, and Taipei. Situating cross-societal comparative
analyses of mobile news consumption in Asia within a digital and
global context, this volume outlines the evolution of the mobile
phone to its prominence in disseminating news, offers predictors of
patterns in mobile news consumption, investigates user needs and
expectations, and illustrates future impacts on civic engagement
from mobile news consumption. By examining the interplay between
game-changing and empowering communication technology and
constraining social systems, News in Their Pockets provides the
framework necessary for constructive, continuing debates over the
promise and peril of digital news and exposes our underlying
reasoning behind the adoption of the mobile phone as the all-in-one
media of choice to stay socialized, entertained, and informed in
the modern digital age.
The Indian Ocean Region (IOR) is of immense strategic significance
on the global maritime map - not just on account of its centrality
to the current trade and energy flows, but also because of the
extreme disparities and inherent volatility of the region. The
region faces an array of security challenges, both traditional and
non-traditional. These include security of SLOCs, the problem of
piracy, the possibility of renewed terrorism at and from the sea
and the pervasive smuggling of people, narcotics and arms. The
narrative of regional maritime security is also characterized by
oscillating economic growth, growing military presence and a
rapidly deteriorating ecological balance in the Indian Ocean. A
stand-out feature of the IOR is the lack of correspondence between
nations on issues concerning 'security'. While using the high seas
for trade, transportation of energy, major powers have tended to
neglect the impact of the economic activities on the sea itself. In
contrast, smaller regional countries and island states with
developing economies have, at best, been able to use only those
resources of the sea which are vital to their survival. As the
challenges rise, the need to factor in and secure effective
management of the Indian Ocean has turned into a compelling
imperative. While governments and authorities grapple with complex
issues trying to forge a coherent maritime policy, there is a
growing recognition that unless solutions are found quickly, lives,
livelihoods, and in some cases the very future of local populations
could be at risk. This book contains a comprehensive overview of
perspectives of some of the stakeholders in the Indian Ocean
Region. It seeks to identify the key maritime security issues and
explores the potential contribution of the stakeholders in meeting
these challenges.
Parodi shows that boundary disputes have and continue to play a
major role in creating tensions in South America. Of the 25
international territorial boundaries that exist in South America,
eight were marked with major wars, eight with lesser wars, and five
with some level of violence. As recently as 1995, the armies of
Ecuador and Peru were at war to define a boundary. In 1982
Argentina went to war, inspired by the call to restore a piece of
its mutilated national territory. Venezuela and Guyana, Guyana and
Suriname, and Suriname and French Guiana have not completed
boundary demarcation agreements. Bolivia's insistence on its right
for sovereign access to the Pacific Ocean is a source of tension
with Chile and Peru. Colombia and Venezuela have unresolved
boundary issues in the Gulf of Venezuela. Clearly, boundary
disputes have and continue to play a major role in creating larger
conflicts within South America.
Territorial boundaries are marks on the ground, but, as Parodi
shows, their staying power or stability depends on their grip on
consciousness. By examining the boundary theory of South American
states and its implementation, he also explains how the symbolic
system of South American boundaries is used to instill national
identity, mobilize people to war, and control population and
territory. This text will be of particular interest to scholars,
students, and researchers involved with Latin American politics,
diplomacy, and international relations.
In the past decade the Asia-Pacific region has become a focus of
international politics and military strategies. Due to China's
rising economic and military strength, North Korea's nuclear tests
and missile launches, tense international disputes over small
island groups in the seas around Asia, and the United States
pivoting a majority of its military forces to the region, the
islands of the western Pacific have increasingly become the center
of global attention. While the Pacific is a cur- rent hotbed of
geopolitical rivalry and intense militarization, the region is also
something else: a homeland to the hundreds of millions of people
that inhabit it.
Based on a decade of research in the region, "The Empires' Edge"
examines the tremendous damage the militarization of the Pacific
has wrought on its people and environments. Furthermore, Davis
details how contemporary social movements in this region are
affecting global geopolitics by challenging the military use of
Pacific islands and by developing a demilitarized view of security
based on affinity, mutual aid, and international solidarity.
Through an examination of "sacrificed" is- lands from across the
region--including Bikini Atoll, Okinawa, Hawai'i, and Guam--"The
Empires' Edge" makes the case that the great political contest of
the twenty-first century is not about which country gets hegemony
in a global system but rather about the choice be- tween
perpetuating a system of international relations based on
domination or pursuing a more egalitarian and cooperative future.
The geopolitical history of the Middle East in the twentieth
century, which falls into three relatively distinct phases, is best
understood when approached simultaneously from the global and the
regional perspectives. The imperialist phase, which began in the
nineteenth century and lasted until the end of World War II, was
followed by the cold war between the Soviet Union and the West that
continued to the beginning of the 1990s. The last phase, which
began with the demise of the Soviet Union, is still taking shape.
These stages may overlap and, in some instances, unfold
simultaneously, developments within the region being shaped and
constrained by extra-regional forces for extra-regional
purposes.
The sovereignty and independence of the states of the region has
been limited in varying degrees by the wishes, needs, interests,
and ambitions of the major powers. The geopolitical considerations
have varied over time, being very different in the period between
the world wars than in the period of intense East-West rivalry that
followed, with the present post-cold war era being radically
different from what preceded it. These changing geopolitical
realities constitute the framework for this examination of the
Middle East in the twentieth century, and the organizing principle
for the selection of materials from the truly vast amount of
information available. An important resource for scholars,
students, and researchers involved with Middle Eastern history and
international relations.
In the quarter century that has passed since the collapse of the
Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, fanciful establishment
intellectuals have advanced the idea that an "end of history" has
somehow arrived. The model of "democratic capitalism" is said to be
the final stage in the development of political economy. It is
often suggested that it is simply a matter of waiting for the rest
of the world to catch up, and at that point the Western model will
have achieved a final and eternal triumph. In this work, the
anarchist philosopher Keith Preston expresses skepticism of these
presumptions. Expounding upon the critique of modernity advanced by
Friedrich Nietzsche well over a century ago, Preston argues that
the historical cycle associated with the rise of modernity is
winding down. The forces of globalism, liberalism, capitalism,
democracy, and Americanization are closer to achieving universal
hegemony than ever before. Yet Preston subjects all of these to
relentless criticism, and challenges virtually every presumption of
the present era's dominant ideological model. Drawing upon a wide
range of ideological currents and intellectual influences, Preston
observes how the hegemony of what he calls the
"Anglo-American-Zionist-Wahhabist" axis is being challenged within
the realm of international relations by both emerging blocks of
rival states and insurgent non-state actors. Citing thinkers as
diverse as Ernst Junger and Emma Goldman, Max Stirner and Alain de
Benoist, Hans Hermann Hoppe and Kevin Carson, Preston offers an
alternative vision of what the future of postmodern civilization
might bring.
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The Prince
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Niccolo Machiavelli; Translated by William Kenaz Marriott; Edited by Tony Darnell
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