Politics and government

Drawing on ideas from across the natural sciences, social sciences and humanities, James Tyner considers how the advent of the Anthropocene and and the coming age of artificial intelligence challenges us to rethink our notions of violence.

Examining mainstream media on COVID-19 across China, Italy, the United Kingdom, and the United States, and by drawing from various critical theoretical traditions, this book seeks answers to key questions about the experience of living and dying under COVID-19.

This book examines the development of global cities in Indonesia and proposes a new paradigm for urban development, grounded in inclusive social development.

This edited volume provides a structured analysis of AI governance principles, challenges, and implementation strategies.

This edited collection is based on comparative ethnographic research and explores the concept of riverine rights in Aotaroa New Zealand, Colombia and India where rivers have been declared legal persons: the Whanganui River, Rio Atrato, the Ganga and the Yamuna.

Bedrohungen erkennen, bevor sie eskalieren.

A revealing look at the interrelationship between secret intelligence agencies and the wider societies and cultures they inhabitIntelligence agencies are traditionally understood as cloistered entities.

As artificial intelligence continues to advance rapidly, we face critical questions about how to develop these systems safely, ethically, and effectively.

En un mundo en donde la violencia no da tregua, existen historias que renuevan la esperanza.

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This book equips urban planning professionals, students, and policymakers with the knowledge to not only advocate for public goods but to effectively implement, manage, and maintain them in real-world projects and policies.

This book equips urban planning professionals, students, and policymakers with the knowledge to not only advocate for public goods but to effectively implement, manage, and maintain them in real-world projects and policies.

This comprehensive monograph presents cutting-edge research methods for analyzing urban green space equity across multiple scales.

This comprehensive monograph presents cutting-edge research methods for analyzing urban green space equity across multiple scales.

This volume examines how elections and reform across West Asia and North Africa function less as routes to alternation than as instruments of control.

This volume examines how elections and reform across West Asia and North Africa function less as routes to alternation than as instruments of control.

This book offers a sweeping yet incisive account of how China has navigated world politics from the late Qing dynasty to the Xi Jinping era.

This book offers a sweeping yet incisive account of how China has navigated world politics from the late Qing dynasty to the Xi Jinping era.

This book offers a thorough investigation of how Citizen Charters may be effective vehicles for improving accountability, transparency, and citizen engagement in local governance, focusing particularly on Bangladesh's experience within the broader South Asian context, highlighting how Citizen Charters may empower people and change local government responsiveness in developing nations.

Concept a plusieurs facettes, le pouvoir est percu tantot comme un objet attribue a certains, tantot comme une propriete des uns en contact avec les autres, tantot encore comme une capacite de faire appliquer une volonte, tantot aussi comme une modalite institutionnelle de faire fonctionner la societe.

This book offers a thorough examination of the multifaceted impacts and responses enacted by South Asian economies to extra-ordinary health threats such as the recent pandemic of COVID-19.

This book offers a thorough examination of the multifaceted impacts and responses enacted by South Asian economies to extra-ordinary health threats such as the recent pandemic of COVID-19.

This book introduces new indices catered for elevated air movement for systematic ventilation performance evaluations regarding thermal comfort, indoor air quality, and energy efficiency.

This book introduces new indices catered for elevated air movement for systematic ventilation performance evaluations regarding thermal comfort, indoor air quality, and energy efficiency.

This book provides a comprehensive and systematic overview of the provisional measures regime in investor-State arbitration, from the legal basis of provisional measures in investor-State arbitration to the purpose of provisional measures, from the categories of provisional measures to provisional measures suspending parallel proceedings, and from the authority of investor-State arbitral tribunals to grant provisional measures to the requirements for granting provisional measures and to the compliance with provisional measures.

This book provides a comprehensive and systematic overview of the provisional measures regime in investor-State arbitration, from the legal basis of provisional measures in investor-State arbitration to the purpose of provisional measures, from the categories of provisional measures to provisional measures suspending parallel proceedings, and from the authority of investor-State arbitral tribunals to grant provisional measures to the requirements for granting provisional measures and to the compliance with provisional measures.

This volume, Climate Change and Children's Rights in Zimbabwe: Toward Social Policy-Based Interventions, provides a comprehensive examination of the intersection between climate change and children's rights in Zimbabwe, one of the world's most climate-vulnerable nations.

This book seeks a common tread linking economic growth, urban development and environmental sustainability, specifically focusing on urban and metropolitan contexts in developed countries.

This book offers a thorough investigation of how Citizen Charters may be effective vehicles for improving accountability, transparency, and citizen engagement in local governance, focusing particularly on Bangladesh's experience within the broader South Asian context, highlighting how Citizen Charters may empower people and change local government responsiveness in developing nations.

This comprehensive volume offers a critical, socio-demographic examination of the COVID-19 crisis and human mobility in Indonesia.

Nationalisation: Swear word for some, cure-all for others both within and outside the ruling party.

Nationalisation: Swear word for some, cure-all for others both within and outside the ruling party.

This book seeks a common tread linking economic growth, urban development and environmental sustainability, specifically focusing on urban and metropolitan contexts in developed countries.

This book provides a groundbreaking exploration of gender and migration in the Arabian Gulf, challenging dominant narratives that reduce women's migration to domestic labor and caregiving.

Explores the evolving role of forward air controllers and close air support from 2006 to 2013, focusing on the surges in Iraq and Afghanistan and highlighting the strategic challenges and tactical successes of coalition forces.

This comprehensive volume offers a critical, socio-demographic examination of the COVID-19 crisis and human mobility in Indonesia.

A major actor in the American Revolution, the English intellectual Thomas Paine (1737-1809) is best remembered for his pamphlet Common Sense (1776), which advocated American independence from Britain.

Wie verhindern wir den Krieg?

Explores the evolving role of forward air controllers and close air support from 2006 to 2013, focusing on the surges in Iraq and Afghanistan and highlighting the strategic challenges and tactical successes of coalition forces.

Globalisierung und Digitalisierung haben Wohlstand gebracht - und zugleich Spaltung, Angst vor Statusverlust und politische Wut.

A practical framework for aligning intelligence analysis with operational military planning and forecasting Planning, Intelligence, and the Art of War equips military planners and intelligence professionals with a clear methodology for synchronizing intelligence support with the demands of modern, multi-domain operations.

Drawing on a wealth of research on regionalism, this book offers a new insight into the role of regional entities as key building blocks of international society after the end of the Cold War.

Wie kommt es zur Entdeckung des Neuen in der sozialwissenschaftlichen Forschung?

Wie kommt es zur Entdeckung des Neuen in der sozialwissenschaftlichen Forschung?

This book explains how democracy unravels from within.