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The new edition of this market-leading text brings together
specially commissioned chapters by a team of top international
scholars on the changing politics of this diverse region
negotiating the competing pulls of the European Union and
post-communist Russia.
Drawing upon a series of elite interviews, focus groups and
representative surveys, "Identity and Foreign Policy Perceptions in
the Other Europe" maps changing definitions of statehood in Russia,
Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova as a result of their exclusion from an
expanding Europe. The authors examine the perceptions of the place
of each state in the international political system and its foreign
policy choices. They conclude by drawing comparisons across the
region and considering what the implications are both for the rest
of Europe and for the Atlantic community.
Find out about the life of the naturalist and broadcaster David
Attenborough and his work writing books and making documentaries
for us to watch. The book has photos and simple text suitable for
young children. For children following Book Bands, it is suitable
for those reading at Band 9, Gold. The Info Buzz series, for age
5+, helps children develop their knowledge and understanding of the
world by covering a wide range of topics in a fun, colourful and
interactive way. The books have a lively design, engaging text and
photos, questions to get children thinking and talking and teaching
notes. Each title is written in conjunction with a literacy
consultant and features book band guidance and downloadable
activity sheets online.
Our understanding of management in Asia has not kept pace with the
demands of managers and students. The Handbook of Asian Management
provides in-depth critical reviews of central topics in strategy
and organizational behavior research in Asian contexts. Leading
scholars take stock of what has been learned and give clear
directions towards greater rigor and relevance for research in this
region.
Russia is the world's largest country, and its politics affect the
entire international community. Formally, who exercises the power
of government is decided, as in Western democracies, by competitive
elections that are held at regular intervals. But there have
increasingly been doubts about the extent to which Russian
parliamentary and presidential elections can be considered 'free
and fair', and it is the argument of this coauthored study that
they are better defined as 'authoritarian elections', with a number
of distinct characteristics. Using a wide range of sources,
including surveys, election statistics, interviews, focus groups
and the printed press, the contributors to this important
collection analyse Russia's authoritarian elections in a variety of
ways: how they are conducted, what citizens think about them, and
how the Russian experience relates to a wider international
context. Elections are the central mechanism by which citizens can
seek to hold their government to account; this collection shows the
ways in which that mechanism can be manipulated from above such it
becomes more of an extension of central authority than a means by
which the public at large can impose their own priorities. This
book was originally published as a special issue of Europe-Asia
Studies.
This book focuses on animal laws and animal welfare in major
jurisdictions in the world, including the more developed legal
regimes for animal protection of the US, UK, Australia, the EU and
Israel, and the regulatory regimes still developing in China, South
Africa, and Brazil. It offers in-depth analyses and discussions of
topical and important issues in animal laws and animal welfare, and
provides a comprehensive and comparative snapshot of some of the
most important countries in the world in terms of animal population
and worsening animal cruelty. Among the issues discussed are
international law topics that relate to animals, including the
latest WTO ruling on seal products and the EU ban, the Blackfish
story and US law for cetaceans, the wildlife trafficking and crimes
related to Africa and China, and historical and current animal
protection laws in the UK and Australia. Bringing together the
disciplines of animal law and animal welfare science as well as
ethics and criminology with contributions from some of the most
prominent animal welfare scientists and animal law scholars in the
world, the book considers the strengths and failings of existing
animal protection law in different parts of the world. In doing so
it draws more attention to animal protection as a moral and legal
imperative and to crimes against animals as a serious crime.
The official ideology of Marxism-Leninism is central to Soviet
politics and yet its development in recent years has received very
little scholarly attention. In this book a group of leading
specialists drawn from both sides of the Atlantic advance
decisively upon all earlier discussions of this subject to provide
both an authoritative and detailed picture of the development of
official ideology from the early years up to Gorbachev's 1986 Party
Programme, as well as a consideration of the changing role of
ideology in Soviet foreign and domestic policy-making. The book
will be required reading for all students of Soviet and communist
politics; it should also be of interest to a wider non-specialist
audience.
Learning about STEM topics at a young age is an important part of
primary education. Using real-life examples, Robots helps young
readers become familiar with what robots are, why they are so
useful to us, how they work and why they are so important now and
for the future. For children progressing through Book Bands, it is
suitable for reading at level 9: Gold. The Info Buzz series, for
age 5+, helps children develop their knowledge and understanding of
the world by covering a wide range of topics in a fun, colourful
and interactive way. The books have a lively design, engaging text
and photos, questions to get children thinking and talking and
teaching notes. Each title is written in conjunction with a
literacy consultant and features book band guidance and
downloadable activity sheets online. Also available in the series:
Info Buzz STEM: Computers and Coding Info Buzz STEM: Drones Info
Buzz STEM: Engineering Info Buzz STEM: Robots Info Buzz: Black
History (6 titles) Info Buzz: Famous People (4 titles) Info Buzz:
Geography (4 titles) Info Buzz: History (8 titles) Info Buzz:
People Who Help Us (4 titles) Info Buzz: Religion (4 titles) Info
Buzz: The Seasons (4 titles)
Offers the latest research on this topic.
This book focuses on the challenge that Australia faces in
transitioning to renewable energy and regenerating its cities via a
transformation of its built environment. Both are necessary
conditions for low carbon living in the 21st century. This is a
global challenge represented by the United Nation's Sustainable
Development Goals and the IPCC's Climate Change program and its
focus on mitigation and adaptation. All nations must make
significant contributions to this transformation. This book
highlights the new knowledge and innovation that has emerged from
research projects undertaken in the Co-operative Research Centre
for Low Carbon Living between 2012 and 2019 - an initiative of the
Australian Government's Department of Industry, Science and
Technology that is tasked with responding to the UN challenges.
Four principal transition pathways were central to the CRC and
provide the thematic structure to this volume. They focus on
technology, buildings, precinct and city design, and human
behaviour - and their interactions.
Find out about the world with these fun, interactive first
non-fiction books Learn about the life of the world's most famous
writer, William Shakespeare, and his work writing plays and acting
in them. The book has photos and simple text suitable for young
children. For children following Book Bands, it is suitable for
those reading at Band 9, Gold. The Info Buzz series, for age 5+,
helps children develop their knowledge and understanding of the
world by covering a wide range of topics in a fun, colourful and
interactive way. The books have a lively design, engaging text and
photos, questions to get children thinking and talking and teaching
notes. Each title is written in conjunction with a literacy
consultant and features book band guidance and downloadable
activity sheets online.
The Soviet system has undergone a dramatic transformation: from
communist monopoly to multiparty politics, from marxism to
competing values, from centralisation to fragmentation, and from
state ownership to a mixed economy. This book, by three of the
West's leading scholars of Soviet and post-Soviet affairs, traces
the politics of transition in the late 1980s and early 1990s from
its origins to its uncertain post-communist future. The authors
analyse the full impact of transition on official and popular
values, central and local political institutions, the post-Soviet
republics, the CPSU and the parties which replaced it, and
political communication. Detailed but clearly and accessibly
written, The Politics of Transition provides an ideal guide to the
changes that have been taking place in the politics of the
newly-independent nations that together constitute a sixth of the
world's land surface.
The communist world was supposed to have had its 'revolution' in
1989. But the demise of the Soviet Union came two years later, at
the end of 1991; and then, perplexingly, a series of irregular
executive changes began to take place the following decade in
countries that were already postcommunist. The focus in this
collection is the changes that took place in Serbia, Georgia,
Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan between 2000 and 2005 that have together
been called the 'coloured revolutions': of no particular colour in
Serbia, but Rose in Georgia, Orange in Ukraine and Tulip in
Kyrgyzstan. Apart from exploring political change in the 'coloured
revolution' countries themselves, the contributors to this
collection focus on countries that did not experience this kind of
irregular executive change but which might otherwise be comparable
(Belarus and Kazakhstan among them), and on reactions to 'democracy
promotion' in Russia and China. Throughout, an effort is made to
avoid taking the 'coloured revolutions' at face value, however they
may have been presented by local leaders and foreign governments
with their own agendas; and to place them within the wider
literature of comparative politics. This book was previously
published as a special issue of Journal of Communist Studies and
Transition Politics.
At first, it seemed as if the international financial crisis that
broke out in 2008 would have little effect in Russia and the other
post-Soviet states. But, by the end of the year, growth was
slowing, banks were reluctant to lend, share values had collapsed
and unemployment was rising inexorably. The stability of the Putin
leadership, it appeared, had been built on the turnaround in
economic performance that it had managed to achieve over more than
a decade. How would it cope with a sudden reversal? In Ukraine,
living standards fell even more sharply. In Belarus, there were
fewer obvious signs of economic difficulty, but it could hardly be
unaffected by the performance of its major trading partners.
Drawing on a wide range of evidence, an international group of
scholars address the impact of the international financial crisis
in the post-Soviet states and the continuing implications of the
crisis for these countries themselves and for the wider world. This
book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Communist
Studies and Transition Politics, now known as East European
Politics.
The communist world was supposed to have had its 'revolution' in
1989. But the demise of the Soviet Union came two years later, at
the end of 1991; and then, perplexingly, a series of irregular
executive changes began to take place the following decade in
countries that were already postcommunist. The focus in this
collection is the changes that took place in Serbia, Georgia,
Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan between 2000 and 2005 that have together
been called the 'coloured revolutions': of no particular colour in
Serbia, but Rose in Georgia, Orange in Ukraine and Tulip in
Kyrgyzstan. Apart from exploring political change in the 'coloured
revolution' countries themselves, the contributors to this
collection focus on countries that did not experience this kind of
irregular executive change but which might otherwise be comparable
(Belarus and Kazakhstan among them), and on reactions to 'democracy
promotion' in Russia and China. Throughout, an effort is made to
avoid taking the 'coloured revolutions' at face value, however they
may have been presented by local leaders and foreign governments
with their own agendas; and to place them within the wider
literature of comparative politics. This book was previously
published as a special issue of Journal of Communist Studies and
Transition Politics.
Learning about STEM topics at a young age is an important part of
primary education. Using real-life examples, Drones helps young
readers become familiar with what drones are, why they are so
useful to us, how they work and how they might be used in the
future. For children progressing through Book Bands, it is suitable
for reading at level 9: Gold. The Info Buzz series, for age 5+,
helps children develop their knowledge and understanding of the
world by covering a wide range of topics in a fun, colourful and
interactive way. The books have a lively design, engaging text and
photos, questions to get children thinking and talking and teaching
notes. Each title is written in conjunction with a literacy
consultant and features book band guidance and downloadable
activity sheets online. Also available in the series: Info Buzz
STEM: Computers and Coding Info Buzz STEM: Drones Info Buzz STEM:
Engineering Info Buzz STEM: Robots Info Buzz: Black History (6
titles) Info Buzz: Famous People (4 titles) Info Buzz: Geography (4
titles) Info Buzz: History (8 titles) Info Buzz: People Who Help Us
(4 titles) Info Buzz: Religion (4 titles) Info Buzz: The Seasons (4
titles)
This title was first published in 2001. This series brings together
the most significant journal articles to appear in the field of
comparative politics since the 1970s. The aim is to render
accessible to teachers, researchers and students, an extensive
range of essays as a basis for understanding established terrain
and new ground.
Belarus is one of the least studied European states to emerge from
the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. In fact, few Western
specialists paid much attention to its affairs during the Soviet
era. Nevertheless, Belarus constitutes an important and sensitive
border region between Russia and the western part of the continent.
In Postcommunist Belarus, a stellar group of contributors examines
the issues and the search for identity that Belarus has confronted
in the period leading up to and following independence. The country
is run in an authoritarian fashion by President Alexander
Lukashenko and many observers, both inside and outside Belarus,
would use the term "dictatorship" to describe his rule. Belarusian
authorities prefer to emphasize the strong support of the people
for the president and his cautious approach to economic reform. It
seems unlikely that the country can hold out permanently against
the wider pressures of democratization and economic reform that are
transforming its neighbors. The country's situation offers
political scientists many facets for comparison with established
models. Belarus is grappling with challenges that are conceptual
and psychological as much as they are political, economic, and
social. Through new research, the contributors to Postcommunist
Belarus offer an important, coherent, and comparative perspective
on this little-known country.
Russia's transition from communism holds great significance not
only for that country but also for the wider world. This collection
of essays examines the broad spectrum of Russia's transition since
1991 - considering not only the pattern of events but also what the
changes have meant for Russians themselves, and for their future.
Particular attention is given to political attitudes and foreign
policy, to the changing status of women, to religion and
censorship, and to the continuing war in Chechnya.
Series Information: The Making of the Contemporary World
Of course we watched it all on television, day by day, as the Evil
Empire transmuted into the Circus Bear, but seeing it and knowing
what to think about it are not the same. Scholars from eastern and
western Europe and North America help out, in 14 papers from an
April 1992 conference in Naples.
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