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Presidential Power Theories and Dilemmas

Wealth and Power Philosophical Perspectives

Nuclear Power in Asia Post Fukushima

Nuclear Power in the Developing World

China’s Foreign Policy The Emergence of a Great Power

Australian Perspectives on Global Air and Space Power Past Present Future

Australian Perspectives on Global Air and Space Power Past Present Future

This book surveys historical and emerging global air and space power issues and provides a multidisciplinary understanding of the application of air and space power in the past and present while exploring potential future challenges that global air forces may face. Bringing together leading and emerging academics professionals and military personnel from Australia within the field of air and space power this edited collection traces the evolution of technological innovations as well as the ethical and cultural frameworks which have informed the development of air and space power in the 20th and 21st centuries and contemplates the future. It covers topics such as the insurgents' use of drones the ethics of air strikes the privatisation of air power the historical trajectory of air power strategy and the sociological implications of an ‘air force’ identity. While many of the chapters use Australian-based case studies for their analysis they have broader applicability to a global readership and several chapters examine other nations’ experiences including those of the United States and the United Kingdom. This accessible illuminating book is an important addition to contemporary air and space power literature and will be of great interest to students and scholars of air and space power air warfare military and international history defence studies and contemporary strategic studies as well as military professionals. | Australian Perspectives on Global Air and Space Power Past Present Future

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Russia and Latvia A Case of Sharp Power

Landscape And Power In Ancient Mesoamerica

Defending NATO’s Northern Flank Power Projection and Military Operations

Defending NATO’s Northern Flank Power Projection and Military Operations

This book investigates several aspects of military power and security in the North Atlantic and Arctic regions. NATO’s northern flank is a large maritime and littoral theatre where NATO directly borders Russia’s Northern Fleet Military Administrative Territory which is the location of some of Russia’s most potent air sea and land power capabilities. While military tensions on the northern flank had been relatively low for years the Ukraine war and increased great-power rivalry have altered that dynamic with heightened geopolitical tensions. This has increased the focus on military-strategic competition in this northernmost region of the alliance. This book presents new assessments of several aspects of military power and security in the North Atlantic and Arctic regions. With an analysis of the security and political climate in the High North and of developments in Western military strategies capabilities doctrines and operational concepts the volume seeks to bring together an holistic understanding of the strategic challenges and opportunities facing the North Atlantic states and NATO in this dynamic area of responsibility for the alliance. In doing this the book provides key insights into the role of branch-specific and joint approaches to power projection and operations in the High North which also include selected country case studies. This book will be of much interest to students of NATO military studies security studies and International Relations. | Defending NATO’s Northern Flank Power Projection and Military Operations

GBP 130.00
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China Football and Development Socialism and Soft Power

Managing State Fragility Conflict Quantification and Power

Managing State Fragility Conflict Quantification and Power

This book examines the management of ‘state fragility’ and the practices and impacts of quantification over relations of power in international politics. With the further movement towards quantification and as technical and technological changes advance this book argues that certain important quantifying practices can be understood in terms of symbolic power which is more nuanced and subtle. The aim is that such an understanding can also open space for considering other instances of power that are blurred and nuanced in current international politics. By looking at how the merging of conflict and development issues in the fragile states agenda has been fed by and has fed the authority of ever-perfectible numbers the book offers an approach to address the difficulty in dealing with profound inequality without presuming domination. Instead the example of the g7+ group of self-labelled ‘fragile states’ and its tools indicate that quantification has reached a point of no return but it has done so through indirect practices of management and with the complicity so to say of those deemed least favoured by it. This shows that there is little chance that policy-makers and academics can escape dealing with numbers and there is much to be gained by understanding how complex and knowingly imperfect statistics become authoritative and widespread. This book will be of much interest to students of critical security studies International Political Sociology development studies and IR in general. | Managing State Fragility Conflict Quantification and Power

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The Power of New Urban Tourism Spaces Representations and Contestations

The Power of New Urban Tourism Spaces Representations and Contestations

The Power of New Urban Tourism explores new forms of tourism in urban areas with their social political cultural architectural and economic implications. By investigating various showcases of New Urban Tourism within its social and spatial frames the book offers insights into power relations and connections between tourism and cityscapes in various socio-spatial settings around the world. Contributors to the volume show how urban space has become a battleground between local residents and visitors with changing perceptions of tourists as co-users of public and private urban spaces and as influencers of the local economies. This includes different roles of digital platforms as resources for access to the city and touristic opportunities as well as ways to organise and express protest or shifting representations of urban space. With contemporary cases from a wide disciplinary spectrum the contributors investigate the power of New Urban Tourism in Africa Asia the Americas Europe and Oceania. This focus allows a cross-cultural evaluation of New Urban Tourism and its dynamic and changing conception transforming and subverting cities and tourism alike. The Power of New Urban Tourism will be of great interest to academics researchers and students in the fields of cultural studies sociology the political sciences economics history human geography urban design and planning architecture ethnology and anthropology. | The Power of New Urban Tourism Spaces Representations and Contestations

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Affect Emotions and Power in Development Studies Theory and Practice

America's Strategy in World Politics The United States and the Balance of Power

America's Strategy in World Politics The United States and the Balance of Power

Less than a year after the United States entered the Second World War Nicholas Spykman wrote a book that placed the war effort in the broader context of the 1940s global balance of power. In America's Strategy in World Politics Spykman examined world politics from a realist geopolitical perspective. The United States he explained was fighting for its very survival as an independent country because the conquests of Germany and Japan raised the specter of our geopolitical encirclement by hostile forces controlling the power centers of Europe the Middle East and East Asia. Spykman warned that the United States could not safely retreat to a defensive position in the Western Hemisphere. Spykman looked beyond the immediate strategic requirements of the Second World War envisioning a postwar world in which the United States would help shape the global balance of power to meet its security needs. Even though Soviet Russia was our wartime ally Spykman recognized that a geopolitically unbalanced Soviet Union could threaten to upset the postwar balance of power and thereby endanger U. S. security. Spykman also foresaw the rise of China in postwar Asia and the likely need for the United States to ally itself with Japan to balance China's power. He also recognized that the Middle East would play a pivotal role in the postwar world. Spykman influenced American postwar statesmen and strategists. During the Cold War the U. S. sought to deny the Soviet Union political control of Western Europe the Middle East and East Asia. Spykman's geopolitical vision of U. S. security supported by a balanced Eurasian land mass coupled with his focus on power as the governing force in international relations makes America's Strategy in World Politics relevant to the twenty-first century. | America's Strategy in World Politics The United States and the Balance of Power

GBP 140.00
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Nuclear Power Safety and Governance in East Asia

The Power of Silence Silent Communication in Daily Life

Questioning Planetary Illiberal Geographies Territory Space and Power

Questioning Planetary Illiberal Geographies Territory Space and Power

This book engages with current debates on ‘planetary urbanization’ and the nature of urban political theory but notably considers the implications of illiberalism on space territory and power. Such a focus is timely as illiberalism (across various settings and terrains) is producing and embedded in increasingly complex hybrid multi-scalar non-linear and globally networked flows. Through ordinary explorations drawn from diverse empirical case studies (China the United States India South Korea and Singapore) and via mixed methodologies the chapters in this volume seek to advance theory that moves beyond assumptions and certainties of what illiberalism is how and where it operates what it looks like and how it is experienced and embodied in different contexts offline and online. Chapters critically reflect upon themes like authoritarianism and the spatialization of illiberal power from the grassroots up to national governments and stress the need to move beyond normative understandings and portrayals of these terms and concepts. Presciently this volume looks back on recent history pre-dating the Covid-19 pandemic and some of the shocking political transformations now underway: as such the chapters offer a valuable lens to critically consider issues like public health policies surveillance and policing borders and bordering and activism and resistance. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Territory Politics Governance. | Questioning Planetary Illiberal Geographies Territory Space and Power

GBP 120.00
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Power in Coalition Strategies for strong unions and social change

Power in Coalition Strategies for strong unions and social change

How can we change things in an age in which governments are fixated on the bottom line and conventional protest rallies have lost their punch?Coalitions can be important tools for social change and union revitalisation. What makes them successful? What causes them to fail? Community organiser Amanda Tattersall examines successful coalitions between unions and community organisations in three countries: the public education coalition in Sydney Toronto's Ontario Health Coalition fighting to save universal health care and Chicago's living wage campaign run by the Grassroots Collaborative. She explores when and how coalitions can be a powerful strategy for social change organisational development and union renewal. Power in Coalition is essential reading for unionists community activists and anyone passionate about social change. 'A fascinating insight into the potential for coalitions to restore the balance of power between governments and the communities they are supposed to serve. ' - Julian Burnside AO QC'Amanda Tattersall shows that coalitions though hard work at times are the best means we have to rebalance power beat poverty and injustice and build a future that includes all of us especially the weakest. ' - Tim Costello AO CEO World Vision Australia'If unions are to maximise their influence in the 21st century they must build alliances with other organisations around economic social and ecological concerns affecting humanity. This book shows it is possible to build the necessary coalitions to achieve this end. ' - Jack Mundey AO instigator of the 1970s Green Bans movement in Sydney | Power in Coalition Strategies for strong unions and social change

GBP 130.00
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Literature and Power A Critical Investigation of Literary Legitimacy

Power and Representation in Byzantium The Forging of the Macedonian Dynasty

Power and Representation in Byzantium The Forging of the Macedonian Dynasty

Throughout the history of Byzantium 65 emperors were dethroned and only 39 reigns ended peacefully. How might a usurper get away with murdering his predecessor? And how could a bloody act of regicide lead to one of the most glorious of all eras in Byzantium? These were questions that puzzled Michael Psellos as he looked back at Basil I’s assassination of Michael III and the origin of the Macedonian dynasty. Might the imperial art of Basil his sons and grandson help to explain how the dynasty overcame its violent beginnings and secured the loyalty of its subjects? It has long been recognised that the early Macedonian emperors were active propagandists but royal art has usually been viewed thematically over the span of centuries. Official iconography has been understood to project imperial power in ways which were impersonal and unchanging. This book instead adopts a chronological approach and considers how Basil justified his seizure of power and how his successors went on to articulate their own ideas about authority. It concludes that imperial art did at times reflect the personality of the emperor and the political demands of the moment such as the need for an heir the nature of court politics or the choice of successor. This innovative account of the forging of the Macedonian dynasty will appeal to those interested in how early medieval kings and emperors used art to create their own image to differentiate themselves from rivals and to extend the boundaries of their personal power. | Power and Representation in Byzantium The Forging of the Macedonian Dynasty

GBP 130.00
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Populism in Power Discourse and Performativity in SYRIZA and Donald Trump

Big Data and Competition Law Market Power Assessment in the Data-Driven Economy

Big Data and Competition Law Market Power Assessment in the Data-Driven Economy

Recent studies on competition law and digital markets reveal that accumulating personal information through data collection and acquisition methods benefits consumers considerably. Free of charge fast and personalised services and products are offered to consumers online. Collected data is now an indispensable part of online businesses to the point that a new economy a data-driven sector has emerged. Many markets such as the social network search engine online advertising and e-commerce are regarded as data-driven markets in which the utilisation of Big Data is a requisite for the success of operations. However the accumulation and use of data brings competition law concerns as they contribute to market power in the online world resulting in a few technology giants gaining unprecedented market power due to the Big Data accumulation indirect network effects and the creation of online ecosystems. As technology giants have billions of consumers worldwide data-driven markets are truly global. In these data-driven markets technology giants abuse their dominant positions but existing competition law tools seem ineffective in addressing market power and assessing abusive behaviour related to Big Data. This book argues that a novel approach to the data-driven sector must be developed through the application of competition law rules to address this. It argues that current and potential conflicts can be mitigated by extending the competition law assessment beyond the current competition law tools to offer a modernised and unified approach to the Big Data–related competition issues. Promoting new legal tests for addressing the market power of technology giants and assessing abusive behaviour in data-driven markets this book advocates for cooperation between competition and data protection authorities. It will be of interest to students academics and practitioners with an interest in competition law and data protection. | Big Data and Competition Law Market Power Assessment in the Data-Driven Economy

GBP 130.00
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Discourse in the Digital Age Social Media Power and Society

Discourse in the Digital Age Social Media Power and Society

This collection makes the case for existing critical discourse analysis theory and methods to meaningfully engage with the communicative parameters power dynamics and technological affordances of contemporary digital spaces. This book lends a critical focus on discursive practices operating through the paradigm of social media communication addressing the crucial interface of discourse and the participatory web with disciplinary rigour and a well-balanced focus. This volume features chapters highlighting a diverse range of methods including multi-sited ethnography multimodality argumentation studies and topic modelling as applied to a global range of case studies to present a holistic portrait of the latest methodological and theoretical debates in this space. The collection demonstrates the many and pervasive impacts of digital mediation on established discursive practices that are (re-)shaping existing social values practices and demands. In so doing the collection advocates for a new tradition in critical discourse research one which is rigorous in accounting for both solid discursive frameworks and the evolving complexity of digital platforms and which triangulates methodologies in order to fully make sense of contemporary discursive practices and power relations on the online-offline continuum. This collection will be of interest to students and scholars in critical discourse studies digital communication media studies and anthropology. | Discourse in the Digital Age Social Media Power and Society

GBP 130.00
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