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Addressing the unprecedented challenges facing public leaders
brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic, this comprehensive Research
Handbook reframes the public leadership debate by offering new ways
of thinking about leadership practices. Bringing together
contributions from leading scholars across the world, this
insightful Research Handbook illustrates how the decisions made by
global leaders today will have widespread consequences for future
generations. Chapters evaluate innovative leadership models
including cooperative leadership and spiritual leadership, analyse
international perspectives on leadership in response to the
Covid-19 pandemic, and discuss the role of public leadership in
practice. Exploring important contemporary case studies including
the issues of county lines in the UK and public leadership in the
Small Island States of the Anglophone Caribbean (SIDS), it
concludes by advocating for a new post-pandemic paradigm of public
leadership. Focusing on learning from the practices and experiences
of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Research Handbook will be essential
reading for students and scholars in business management,
economics, public leadership, and public policy and politics. It
will also be beneficial for civil servants, politicians, and
leadership practitioners in healthcare, education, and non-public
sectors.
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Dragonflies (Hardcover)
Stephen Brooks
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This book explains how and why the transatlantic relationship has
remained resilient despite persistent differences in the
preferences, approaches, and policies of key member states. It
covers topics ranging from the history of transatlantic relations,
North Atlantic Treaty Organization and security issues, trade,
human rights, and the cultural sinews of the relationship, to the
impacts of COVID-19, climate change, think tanks, the rise of
populism, public opinion, and the triangular relationship between
the United States (US), Europe, and China. The book also
conceptualizes resilience as a quality arising from myriad forms of
interdependence. This interdependence helps shed light on the
Atlantic partnership's capacity to withstand serious disagreements,
such as those that occurred during the Reagan, George W. Bush, and
Trump presidencies. With a principal focus on the US and Europe,
the contributors to the volume also employ Canadian case studies to
provide a unique and useful corrective. This book will interest all
intermediate and senior undergraduate as well as graduate courses
on relations between the US and Europe, American foreign policy,
and European Union foreign policy. A specialist readership that
includes academic and think tank researchers, policy practitioners,
and opinion leaders will also benefit from this timely volume.
This book explains how and why the transatlantic relationship has
remained resilient despite persistent differences in the
preferences, approaches, and policies of key member states. It
covers topics ranging from the history of transatlantic relations,
North Atlantic Treaty Organization and security issues, trade,
human rights, and the cultural sinews of the relationship, to the
impacts of COVID-19, climate change, think tanks, the rise of
populism, public opinion, and the triangular relationship between
the United States (US), Europe, and China. The book also
conceptualizes resilience as a quality arising from myriad forms of
interdependence. This interdependence helps shed light on the
Atlantic partnership's capacity to withstand serious disagreements,
such as those that occurred during the Reagan, George W. Bush, and
Trump presidencies. With a principal focus on the US and Europe,
the contributors to the volume also employ Canadian case studies to
provide a unique and useful corrective. This book will interest all
intermediate and senior undergraduate as well as graduate courses
on relations between the US and Europe, American foreign policy,
and European Union foreign policy. A specialist readership that
includes academic and think tank researchers, policy practitioners,
and opinion leaders will also benefit from this timely volume.
In the world of Wikipedia, blogging and citizen journalism where
huge masses of information and the capability to disseminate
opinions, thoughts and ideas is available at the click of a mouse
what is the role and impact of political experts? The contributors
to this insightful and original volume argue that across the
western world in general, the political expert occupies as
important a role today as at any time in the past. The ubiquity of
information and the fact that the experts and the organizations to
which they are affiliated may be viewed as having an ideological
agenda has not diminished their role, influence or status.
Governments and the media still rely on them for information and
advice whilst organizations in civil society need them in order to
provide the evidence, arguments and policy recommendations that are
essential to having a voice in the public conversation. By
examining how these policy experts and their think tanks continue
to exert influence across a range of modern western democracies a
better understanding of the role of policy expertise and an
examination of how it may develop and evolve throughout the rest of
the world is reached.
Trust and confidence are topical issues. Pundits claim that
citizens trust governments and public services increasingly less -
identifying a powerful new erosion of confidence that, in the US,
goes back at least to Watergate in the 1970s. Recently, media
exposure in the UK about MP expenses has been extensive, and a
court case ruled in favor of publishing expense claims and against
exempting MPs from the scrutiny which all citizens are subject to
under freedom of information. As a result, revelations about
everything from property speculation to bespoke duck pond houses
have fueled public outcry, and survey evidence shows that citizens
increasingly distrust the government with public resources.
This book gathers together arguments and evidence to answers
questions such as: What is trust? Can trust be boosted through
regulation? What role does leadership play in rebuilding trust? How
does trust and confidence affect public services? The chapters in
this collection explore these questions across several countries
and different sectors of public service provision: health,
education, social services, the police, and the third sector. The
contributions offer empirical evidence about how the issues of
trust and confidence differ across countries and sectors, and
develop ideas about how trust and confidence in government and
public services may adjust in the information age.
The election of President Obama in 2008 and the apparent decline of
American power in the world has rekindled an old and important
debate. Is the United States exceptional in its values and
institutions, as well as in the role that it is destined to play in
world affairs? In this book, Stephen Brooks argues that American
exceptionalism has been and continues to be real. In making this
argument he focuses on five aspects of American politics and
society that are most crucial to an understanding of American
exceptionalism today. They include the appropriate relationship
between the state and citizens, religion, socio-economic mobility,
America's role in the world, and ideas about the Constitution.
American exceptionalism matters in domestic politics chiefly as a
political narrative around which support for and opposition to
certain policies, values and vision of American society coalesce.
But in world affairs it is not the story but the empirical reality
of American exceptionalism that matters. Although the long era of
America's global economic dominance has entered what might be
called a period of diminished expectations, the United States
remains exceptional-the indispensable nation-in world affairs and
is likely to remain so for many years to come.
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Dragonflies
Stephen Brooks
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Contrary to the view held by many who study American foreign
policy, public diplomacy has seldom played a decisive role in the
achievement of the country's foreign policy objectives. The reasons
for this are not that the policies and interventions are
ill-conceived or badly executed, although this is sometimes the
case. Rather, the factors that limit the effectiveness of public
diplomacy lie almost entirely outside the control of American
policy-makers. In particular, the resistance of foreign
opinion-leaders to ideas and information about American motives and
actions that do not square with their pre-conceived notions of the
United States and its activities in the world is an enormous and
perhaps insurmountable wall that limits the impact of public
diplomacy. This book does not conclude that public diplomacy has no
place in the repertoire of American foreign policy. Instead, the
expectations held for this soft power tool need to be more
realistic. Public diplomacy should not be viewed as a substitute
for hard power tools that are more likely to be correlated with
actual American influence as opposed to the somewhat nebulous
concept of American standing.
Questions about the role and influence of think tanks in matters of
foreign policy and geopolitics are both timely and important. The
reconfiguration of global power, explosion of social media, shifts
away from traditional print and oral-based ways of imparting
knowledge, and the dramatic increase in the volume of information
and ideas clamoring for the attention of policy-makers are changing
the landscape of foreign policy-making and the pathways through
which influence is achieved. This book explains the impact of think
tanks on the framing of domestic and international conversations on
matters of foreign policy and geopolitics. An international group
of prominent experts examine these issues in specific countries and
also across national and regional borders to better understand how
governments and actors in civil society are influenced by the
activities of think tanks.
Learn how to bridge the gap between the traditional animation
principles and digital software. Tradigital Flash: 12 Principles of
Animation in Adobe Flash brings the essentials of traditional
animation and Adobe Flash together. The early masters of animation
created a list of 12 principles which are important for anyone who
wants to create interesting and believable animation. Digital
animation continues to make incredible technological advancements
that give animators the capability to produce visually stunning
work. New technology, however, also has a tendency to create an
environment where animators are so focused on adapting to the new
workflow that they tend to dismiss these fundamental animation
principles- which often leads to poor and lifeless character
animation. Tradigital Flash helps you focus on these principles
while using the program's wide array of features to create
believable animation, consistently. Tradigital Flash joins three
other Tradigital books covering Maya, Blender, and 3ds Max. This
new volume in the series approaches the topic in a different way,
giving readers both a practical look at the software, and providing
a theoretical understanding of the genre. Learn a new principle in
each chapter, the Flash tools most related to it and how to put it
all together. A plethora of examples demonstrate the good methods
which animators should use in Flash, how to avoid the bad ones and
ways to create a workflow that works for you. An easy-to-follow
approach with examples throughout the book that build on each
other, showing how the principles act together. A companion website
www.rubberonion.com/tradigital-animate features more examples,
downloadable FLA resource files, video tutorials.
Understanding American Politics provides a unique introduction to
the contemporary political landscape of the United States. Placing
the study of American politics within a broader context of other
western democracies, this textbook reinforces the idea that in
order to understand the American system, students need to begin by
understanding their own. This balanced, comparative perspective is
integrated throughout to better explain and highlight the ways in
which American politics and government work in relation to other
democracies. Streamlined to fit easily in today’s US politics
courses, the third edition is fully updated and revised to engage
with key issues in American politics while providing an accessible
entry to the foundations of American government that detangles the
polarized analysis characterizing so much information on the study
of American politics. New chapters on special interest groups and
the distinct American mediascape feature alongside up-to-date
analysis on civil rights and inequalities incorporated in all
chapters. Ultimately, this textbook enables non-American readers to
understand the how and why of American politics by relating the
subject to the experience and institutions of their own countries.
The election of President Obama in 2008 and the apparent decline of
American power in the world has rekindled an old and important
debate. Is the United States exceptional in its values and
institutions, as well as in the role that it is destined to play in
world affairs? In this book, Stephen Brooks argues that American
exceptionalism has been and continues to be real. In making this
argument he focuses on five aspects of American politics and
society that are most crucial to an understanding of American
exceptionalism today. They include the appropriate relationship
between the state and citizens, religion, socio-economic mobility,
America's role in the world, and ideas about the Constitution.
American exceptionalism matters in domestic politics chiefly as a
political narrative around which support for and opposition to
certain policies, values and vision of American society coalesce.
But in world affairs it is not the story but the empirical reality
of American exceptionalism that matters. Although the long era of
America's global economic dominance has entered what might be
called a period of diminished expectations, the United States
remains exceptional-the indispensable nation-in world affairs and
is likely to remain so for many years to come.
Trust and confidence are topical issues. Pundits claim that
citizens trust governments and public services increasingly less -
identifying a powerful new erosion of confidence that, in the US,
goes back at least to Watergate in the 1970s. Recently, media
exposure in the UK about MP expenses has been extensive, and a
court case ruled in favor of publishing expense claims and against
exempting MPs from the scrutiny which all citizens are subject to
under 'freedom of information.' As a result, revelations about
everything from property speculation to bespoke duck pond houses
have fueled public outcry, and survey evidence shows that citizens
increasingly distrust the government with public resources. This
book gathers together arguments and evidence to answers questions
such as: What is trust? Can trust be boosted through regulation?
What role does leadership play in rebuilding trust? How does trust
and confidence affect public services? The chapters in this
collection explore these questions across several countries and
different sectors of public service provision: health, education,
social services, the police, and the third sector. The
contributions offer empirical evidence about how the issues of
trust and confidence differ across countries and sectors, and
develop ideas about how trust and confidence in government and
public services may adjust in the information age.
Contrary to the view held by many who study American foreign
policy, public diplomacy has seldom played a decisive role in the
achievement of the country's foreign policy objectives. The reasons
for this are not that the policies and interventions are
ill-conceived or badly executed, although this is sometimes the
case. Rather, the factors that limit the effectiveness of public
diplomacy lie almost entirely outside the control of American
policy-makers. In particular, the resistance of foreign
opinion-leaders to ideas and information about American motives and
actions that do not square with their pre-conceived notions of the
United States and its activities in the world is an enormous and
perhaps insurmountable wall that limits the impact of public
diplomacy. This book does not conclude that public diplomacy has no
place in the repertoire of American foreign policy. Instead, the
expectations held for this soft power tool need to be more
realistic. Public diplomacy should not be viewed as a substitute
for hard power tools that are more likely to be correlated with
actual American influence as opposed to the somewhat nebulous
concept of American standing.
For many years the world's most successful wine magazine published
on their last page a monthly Wine Legend. These were and, in some
cases, still are the most sought after wines around the world from
specific vineyards and vintages. Names that can bring a shiver to
the back of a wine lover's neck and be spoken about in hushed
tones. Chateau Palmer '61, Ridge, Monto Bello 1970, Biondi-Santi,
Tenuto il Greppo 1975 to name but a few. This book brings these
wines together for the first time, over 100 absolutely legendary
wines. With an introduction by Stephen Brook who pulled together
the information and the photographs, this is a beautiful gift for
anyone who enjoys wine.
Questions about the role and influence of think tanks in matters of
foreign policy and geopolitics are both timely and important. The
reconfiguration of global power, explosion of social media, shifts
away from traditional print and oral-based ways of imparting
knowledge, and the dramatic increase in the volume of information
and ideas clamoring for the attention of policy-makers are changing
the landscape of foreign policy-making and the pathways through
which influence is achieved. This book explains the impact of think
tanks on the framing of domestic and international conversations on
matters of foreign policy and geopolitics. An international group
of prominent experts examine these issues in specific countries and
also across national and regional borders to better understand how
governments and actors in civil society are influenced by the
activities of think tanks.
The wines of Bordeaux are universally recognized as being among the
finest in the world and in this fully revised and updated edition
of his classic text, renowned wine expert Stephen Brook provides an
unrivalled survey of the region and its wines. The Complete
Bordeaux offers detailed information on the many communes and
appellations of Bordeaux along with descriptions and assessments of
all its major properties. As well as incisive portraits of the
leading properties and their produce, Stephen Brook provides a
detailed look at Bordeaux's lesser-known areas and chateaux. There
is also an invaluable vintage guide to the last four decades.
Bordeaux encapsulates an incredible 13,000 wineries throughout 54
appellations and this book includes a thorough explanation of
Bordeaux's history, terroir and winemaking styles. Praise for the
third edition: "A fresh and authoritative addition to the Bordeaux
library." Eric Asimov, The New York Times "This new edition is the
ultimate guide to perhaps the greatest wine area in the world.
Whether you use the book in your local wine store or tote it on a
journey to Bordeaux itself, this book is definitive. And
magnificent." Huffington Post
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