From Solidarity To Geopolitics

Author : Tsveta Petrova
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107049987

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From Solidarity to Geopolitics by Tsveta Petrova Pdf

This book theorizes a mechanism underlying regime-change waves, the deliberate efforts of diffusion entrepreneurs to spread a particular regime and regime-change model across state borders. Why do only certain states and nonstate actors emerge as such entrepreneurs? Why, how, and how effectively do they support regime change abroad? To answer these questions, the book studies the entrepreneurs behind the third wave of democratization, with a focus on the new eastern European democracies - members of the European Union. The study finds that it is not the strongest democracies nor the democracies trying to ensure their survival in a neighborhood of nondemocracies that become the most active diffusion entrepreneurs. It is, instead, the countries where the organizers of the domestic democratic transitions build strong solidarity movements supporting the spread of democracy abroad that do. The book also draws parallels between their activism abroad and their experiences with democratization and democracy assistance at home.

Author : Yasser Munif
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Syria
ISBN : 0745340725

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The Syrian Revolution by Yasser Munif Pdf

A contemporary history of political violence and grassroots struggles in Syria since 2011

Author : Stefano Guzzini
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107027343

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The Return of Geopolitics in Europe? by Stefano Guzzini Pdf

A comparative study of the relationship between the end of the Cold War and the resurgence of geopolitics in Europe.

Author : Nicola Pratt
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780520281769

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Embodying Geopolitics by Nicola Pratt Pdf

When women took to the streets during the mass protests of the Arab Spring, the subject of feminism in the Middle East and North Africa returned to the international spotlight. In the subsequent years, countless commentators treated the region’s gender inequality as a consequence of fundamentally cultural or religious problems. In so doing, they overlooked the specifically political nature of these women’s activism. Moving beyond such culturalist accounts, this book turns to the relations of power in regional and international politics to understand women’s struggles for their rights. Based on over a hundred extensive personal narratives from women of different generations in Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon, Nicola Pratt traces women’s activism from national independence through to the Arab uprisings, arguing that activist women are critical geopolitical actors. Weaving together these personal accounts with the ongoing legacies of colonialism, Embodying Geopolitics demonstrates how the production and regulation of gender is integrally bound up with the exercise and organization of geopolitical power, with consequences for women’s activism and its effects.

Author : Matthew C. Benwell,Peter Hopkins
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134801596

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Children, Young People and Critical Geopolitics by Matthew C. Benwell,Peter Hopkins Pdf

Young people, and in particular children, have typically been marginalised in geopolitical research, positioned as too young to understand or relate to the adult-dominated world of international relations. Integrating current debates in critical geopolitics and political geography with research in children’s geographies, childhood studies and youth research, this book sets out an agenda for the field of children’s and young people’s critical geopolitics. It considers diverse practices such as play, activism, media consumption and diplomacy to show how children’s and young people’s lives relate to wider regional and global geopolitical processes. Engaging with contemporary concepts in human geography including ludic geopolitics, affect, emotional geographies, intergenerationality, creative diplomacy, popular geopolitics and citizenship, the authors draw on geopolitical research with children and young people from Europe, Asia, Australasia, Africa and the Americas. The chapters highlight the ways in which young people can be enrolled, ignored, dismissed, empowered and represented by the state for geopolitical ends. Notwithstanding this state power, the research presented also shows how young people have agency and make decisions about their lives which are influenced by wider geopolitical processes. The focus on the lives of children and young people problematises and extends what it is we think of when considering ’the geopolitical’ which enriches as well as advances critical geopolitical enquiry and deserves to be taken seriously by political geographies more broadly.

Author : Klaus Dodds
Publisher : SAGE Publications Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2009-11-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1848607083

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Geopolitics by Klaus Dodds Pdf

This major reference collection highlights the contested and diverse nature of geopolitics and charts the controversial intellectual history of the field. Coined by the Swedish author, Rudolf Kjellén, the term 'geopolitics' highlights the role that territory, resources and boundaries play in shaping global political relations. The collection brings together work from international relations, political science, history, geography and law into a definitive collection that covers three dimensions of the geopolitical: classic geopolitics, critical geopolitics, and popular geopolitics.

Author : David Featherstone
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781780324128

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Solidarity by David Featherstone Pdf

Despite the frequency with which the word 'solidarity' is invoked the concept itself has rarely been subjected to close scrutiny. In this original and stereotype-busting work, David Featherstone helps redress this imbalance through an innovative combination of archival research, activist testimonies and first-hand involvement with political movements. Presenting a variety of case studies, from anti-slavery and anti-fascist organizing to climate change activism and the boycotts of Coca-Cola, Featherstone unearths international forms of solidarity that are all too often marginalized by nation-centred histories of the left and social movements. Timely and wide-ranging, this is a fascinating investigation of an increasingly vital subject.

Author : Robert A. Saunders,Vlad Strukov
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781351205016

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Popular Geopolitics by Robert A. Saunders,Vlad Strukov Pdf

This book brings together scholars from across a variety of academic disciplines to assess the current state of the subfield of popular geopolitics. It provides an archaeology of the field, maps the flows of various frameworks of analysis into (and out of) popular geopolitics, and charts a course forward for the discipline. It explores the real-world implications of popular culture, with a particular focus on the evolving interdisciplinary nature of popular geopolitics alongside interrelated disciplines including media, cultural, and gender studies.

Author : Clara Rachel Eybalin Casséus
Publisher : Cultural Memories
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Caribbean Area
ISBN : 1787079783

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Geopolitics of Memory and Transnational Citizenship by Clara Rachel Eybalin Casséus Pdf

This book offers new perspectives on transnational citizenship, memory and statehood. Drawing on case studies of Haitians and Jamaicans abroad, the book examines how citizens actively engage with their state of origin through narratives of remembrance. Memory is shown to play a key role in deconstructing citizenship and connecting beyond borders.

Author : Alison Mountz
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781452960104

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The Death of Asylum by Alison Mountz Pdf

Investigating the global system of detention centers that imprison asylum seekers and conceal persistent human rights violations Remote detention centers confine tens of thousands of refugees, asylum seekers, and undocumented immigrants around the world, operating in a legal gray area that hides terrible human rights abuses from the international community. Built to temporarily house eight hundred migrants in transit, the immigrant “reception center” on the Italian island of Lampedusa has held thousands of North African refugees under inhumane conditions for weeks on end. Australia’s use of Christmas Island as a detention center for asylum seekers has enabled successive governments to imprison migrants from Asia and Africa, including the Sudanese human rights activist Abdul Aziz Muhamat, held there for five years. In The Death of Asylum, Alison Mountz traces the global chain of remote sites used by states of the Global North to confine migrants fleeing violence and poverty, using cruel measures that, if unchecked, will lead to the death of asylum as an ethical ideal. Through unprecedented access to offshore detention centers and immigrant-processing facilities, Mountz illustrates how authorities in the United States, the European Union, and Australia have created a new and shadowy geopolitical formation allowing them to externalize their borders to distant islands where harsh treatment and deadly force deprive migrants of basic human rights. Mountz details how states use the geographic inaccessibility of places like Christmas Island, almost a thousand miles off the Australian mainland, to isolate asylum seekers far from the scrutiny of humanitarian NGOs, human rights groups, journalists, and their own citizens. By focusing on borderlands and spaces of transit between regions, The Death of Asylum shows how remote detention centers effectively curtail the basic human right to seek asylum, forcing refugees to take more dangerous risks to escape war, famine, and oppression.

Author : Sami Moisio
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317587774

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Geopolitics of the Knowledge-Based Economy by Sami Moisio Pdf

We live in the era of the knowledge-based economy, and this has major implications for the ways in which states, cities and even supranational political units are spatially planned, governed and developed. In this book, Sami Moisio delves deeply into the links between the knowledge-based economy and geopolitics, examining a wide range of themes, including city geopolitics and the university as a geopolitical site. Overall, this work shows that knowledge-based "economization" can be understood as a geopolitical process that produces territories of wealth, security, power and belonging. This book will prove enlightening to students, researchers and policymakers in the fields of human geography, urban studies, spatial planning, political science and international relations.

Author : Mahir Ibrahimov,Gustav A. Otto,Lee G. Gentile (Jr.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Eurasia
ISBN : 1940804310

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Cultural Perspectives, Geopolitics, & Energy Security of Eurasia by Mahir Ibrahimov,Gustav A. Otto,Lee G. Gentile (Jr.) Pdf

Author : Gavin Brown,Helen Yaffe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317572565

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Youth Activism and Solidarity by Gavin Brown,Helen Yaffe Pdf

From April 1986 until just after Nelson Mandela’s release from prison in February 1990, supporters of the City of London Anti-Apartheid Group maintained a continuous protest, day and night, outside the South African Embassy in central London. This book examines how and why a group of children, teenagers and young adults made themselves ‘non-stop against apartheid’, creating one of the most visible expressions of anti-apartheid solidarity in Britain. Drawing on interviews with over ninety former participants in the Non-Stop Picket of the South African Embassy and extensive archival research using previously unstudied documents, this book offers new insights to the study of social movements and young people’s lives. It theorises solidarity and the processes of adolescent development as social practices to provide a theoretically-informed, argument-led analysis of how young activists build and practice solidarity. Youth Activism and Solidarity: The Non-Stop Picket Against Apartheid will be of interest to geographers, historians and a wide range of other social scientists concerned with the historical geography of the international anti-apartheid movement, social movement studies, contemporary British history, and young people’s activism and geopolitical agency.

Author : Theodor Tudoroiu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319779201

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Brexit, President Trump, and the Changing Geopolitics of Eastern Europe by Theodor Tudoroiu Pdf

This book analyzes the combined consequences of Brexit and of the new US foreign policy under President Trump on the geopolitical situation of Eastern Europe. It perceives the evolution of the East European regional security complex as a struggle between the European Union's Kantian, win-win geopolitical vision and Russia's neoclassical geopolitics, also promoted by President Trump. In the most probable scenario, the latter approach will have the upper hand. The EU's post-Brexit control by the Franco-German axis will likely be followed by the geopolitical irrelevance of the EU due to the renationalization of member states' foreign policy, with Germany becoming the main West European actor. Consequently, Eastern Europe will be turned into the arena of a mainly three-cornered neoclassical geopolitics rivalry opposing Russia, the Franco-German axis and then Germany, and the US in alliance with the post-Brexit UK and certain East European states. The book will appeal to scholars across the fields of International Relations, Geopolitics, European Studies, and Area Studies.

Author : Heriberto Cairo,Breno Bringel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429871863

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Critical Geopolitics and Regional (Re)Configurations by Heriberto Cairo,Breno Bringel Pdf

This book seeks to develop our understanding of the contemporary geopolitical reconfigurations of two regions of the world system with high cultural affinity and traditional close relations: Latin America and Europe. Relations between Latin America and Europe have been interpreted generally in the social sciences as synonyms of interstate relations. However, although States remain the most important actor in the geopolitical scene, they have been deeply reconfigured in recent decades, impacted by transnational dynamics, politics and spaces. This book highlights interregional relations and transnational dynamics between Latin America and Europe from a critical geopolitics perspective, promoting a new look for interregional relations which encompasses international cooperation and development, global policies, borders, inequalities and social movements. It brings attention to the relevance of interregionalism in the current geopolitical reconfiguration of the world system, but also argues for systematic inclusion of relevant new social actors and imaginaries in this traditional sphere of states. These social actors, particularly social movements and practices of contestation, are developing not only "international" bonds but a new "transnational" field, where networks defy traditional territorial orders. This volume seeks to generate a new discussion among scholars of geopolitics, international relations, social theory and social movement studies by encouraging a development of an interregional and transnational perspective of the two regions.