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Diaspora as Translation and DecolonisationThis innovative study engages critically with existing conceptualisations of diaspora, arguing that if diaspora is to have analytical purchase, it should illuminate a specific angle of migration or migrancy. To reveal the much-needed transformative potential of the concept, the book looks specifically at how...
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Networked Nonproliferation: Making the Npt PermanentThe Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) had many opponents when, in 1995, it came up for extension. The majority of parties opposed extension, and experts expected a limited extension as countries sought alternative means to manage nuclear weapons. But against all predictions,...
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Atomic Steppe: How Kazakhstan Gave Up the BombAtomic Steppe tells the untold true story of how the obscure country of Kazakhstan said no to the most powerful weapons in human history. With the fall of the Soviet Union, the marginalized Central Asian republic suddenly found itself with the world's fourth largest...
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The Atlantic Realists: Empire and International Political Thought Between Germany and the United StatesIn The Atlantic Realists, intellectual historian Matthew Specter offers a boldly revisionist interpretation of realism, a prevalent stance in post-WWII US foreign policy and public discourse and the dominant international relations theory during the Cold War. Challenging the common view of realism as a...
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Subversive Archaism: Troubling Traditionalists and the Politics of National HeritageIn Subversive Archaism, Michael Herzfeld explores how individuals and communities living at the margins of the modern nation-state use nationalist discourses of tradition to challenge state authority under both democratic and authoritarian governments. Through close attention to the claims and experiences of mountain shepherds...
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Climate Change and Disaster Resilience: Challenges, Actions and Innovations in Urban PlanningClimate change and natural disasters have always been hot topics of discussion and debate from the living rooms of citizens to meetings to civil society organizations' candlelight vigils. The consensus from the scientific and academic community on the threat of climate change clashes with...
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Public Service Motivation?: Rethinking What Motivates Public ActorsChris O'Leary looks afresh at the reasons for prosocial work choices in the first substantive critique of Public Service Motivation (PSM). With critical analysis of theoretical and empirical research to date, this book explores the pros and cons of PSM and interrogates the reasons...
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Filipino Time: Affective Worlds and Contracted LaborFrom spectacular deaths in a drag musical to competing futures in a call center, Filipino Time examines how contracted service labor performed by Filipinos in the Philippines, Europe, the Middle East, and the United States generates vital affects, multiple networks, and other lifeworlds as...
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Filipino Time: Affective Worlds and Contracted LaborFrom spectacular deaths in a drag musical to competing futures in a call center, Filipino Time examines how contracted service labor performed by Filipinos in the Philippines, Europe, the Middle East, and the United States generates vital affects, multiple networks, and other lifeworlds as...
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Throwing the Moral Dice: Ethics and the Problem of ContingencyMore than a purely philosophical problem, straddling the ambivalent terrain between necessity and impossibility, contingency has become the very horizon of everyday life. Often used as a synonym for the precariousness of working conditions under neoliberalism, for the unknown threats posed by terrorism, or...
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Targeting Commitment: Interagency Performance in New ZealandThis book explores how and why the New Zealand government made progress and how the program was able to create and sustain the commitment of public servants and unleash the creativity of public entrepreneurs. The authors combine case studies based on the experience of...
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Fighting Machines: Autonomous Weapons and Human DignityLethal autonomous weapons are weapon systems that can select and destroy targets without intervention by a human operator. Fighting Machines explores the relationship between lethal autonomous weapons (LAWS), the concept of human dignity, and international law. Much of this analysis speaks to three fundamental...
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Engineering Expansion: The U.S. Army and Economic Development, 1787-1860Engineering Expansion examines the U.S. Army's role in U.S. economic development from the nation's founding to the eve of the Civil War. William D. Adler starts with a simple question: if the federal government was weak in its early years, how could the economy...
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Time for Reparations: A Global PerspectiveIn this sweeping international perspective on reparations, Time for Reparations makes the case that past state injustice--be it slavery or colonization, forced sterilization or widespread atrocities--has enduring consequences that generate ongoing harm, which needs to be addressed as a matter of justice and equity....
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The Democratic Soul: Spinoza, Tocqueville, and Enlightenment TheologyIn The Democratic Soul, Aaron L. Herold argues that liberal democracy's current crisis--of extreme polarization, rising populism, and disillusionment with political institutions--must be understood as the culmination of a deeper dissatisfaction with the liberal Enlightenment. Major elements of both the Left and the Right...
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The True Origins of World War II: The Missing Pieces of the PuzzleWORLD WAR II POP QUIZAfter losing World War I, Germany was disarmed, forbidden to build an air force or submarines, and its army could not exceed 100,000 men. So how was Hitler able to start World War II?a) He did it sneakily, tricking the...
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Split Waters: The Idea of Water ConflictsLimited, finite, contaminated, unavailable or expensive, water divides people all around the globe. We all cannot do without water for long, but can for long enough to fight for it. This commonsensical narration of water conflicts, however, follows a pattern of scarcity and necessity...
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World Leadership in the Balance: China and the Us Clash for SupremacyChina and the United States have entered a multifaceted cold war: trade, high tech, space, defense, environment and values as they jostle for influence throughout the world. This rivalry between the world's top two economic powers will likely dominate the decades to come and...
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Kampf um EuropaEuropa droht sich unter der Vorherrschaft eines totalit ren Liberalismus als abendl ndische Heimstatt seiner V lker von der Geschichte zu verabschieden. Bew hrte Ordnungsmodelle und Wertvorstellungen werden geschliffen und die Integrit t geschichtlich gewachsener V lker einer multikulturellen Transformation ausgesetzt. Die Globalisierung genannte...
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Urban Sustainability and Justice: Just Sustainabilities and Environmental PlanningUrban Sustainability and Justice presents an innovative yet practical approach to incorporate equity and social justice into sustainable development in urban areas, in line with the commitments of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals and the New Urban Agenda. This work proposes a feminist reading...
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