Capitalism and dispossession

This edited collection brings together a broad range of case studies to highlight the role of Canadian corporations in producing, deepening, and exacerbating conditions of dispossession both at home and abroad.

Thirty years of failure

Thirty years ago, Canada was a climate leader, designing policy to curb rising emissions and demanding the same of other countries. But in the intervening decades, Canada has become more of a climate villain, rejecting global attempts to slow climate change and ignoring ever-increasing emissions ...

The hillary doctrine

A scholar and a journalist assess the push to make gender equality a cornerstone of America’s international agenda.

Power and identity in the post-soviet realm

With the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the demise of the Cold War’s bipolar world order, Soviet successor states on the Russian periphery found themselves in a geopolitical vacuum, and gradually evolved into a specific buffer zone throughout the 1990s. Focusings on these areas of the post-S...

Nuclear north korea

Nuclear North Korea was first published in 2003 amid the outbreak of a lasting crisis over the North Korean nuclear program. With a new chapter on the way forward for the international community in light of continued nuclear tensions, this book is of lasting relevance to understanding the state o...

External democracy promotion and diversity among international agencies

This research considers the mixed results of international agencies in democracy promotion despite their attempt to shape a common policy emphasized in various international agreements. On the background of backlashes and the search for new answers it analyses how the UNDP and the EC promoted dem...

Burma redux

Contemporary Myanmar faces a number of political challenges, and it is unclear how other nations should act in relation to the country. Prioritizing the opinions of local citizens and reading them against the latest scholarship on this issue, Ian Holliday affirms the importance of foreign interes...

Mayor's desk

In this collection of interviews, 20 mayors from five continents share their strategies for tackling global challenges at the local level.

Friendship studies

This book moves the theorization of friendship beyond western confines to consider the themes in cross-cultural and decolonized contexts.

The aid trap

Over the past twenty years more citizens in China and India have raised themselves out of poverty than anywhere else at any time in history. They accomplished this through the local business sector—the leading source of prosperity for all rich countries. In most of Africa and other poor regions t...

Security politics in the gulf monarchies

David B. Roberts offers a definitive guide to continuity and change in the Gulf region. He explores the forces challenging and bolstering the status quo in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman, and the United Arab Emirates across the political, social, economic, military, and environmental ...

The sarcophagus of identity

Given the increasing centrality of identity to contemporary politics, James Skelly's book provides a critical and useful analysis of the dominant and problematic conceptual bases for self and identity. Inspired in part by his lawsuit against the U.S. Secretary of Defense while serving as an activ...

Environment and development challenges

The Blue Planet Prize, awarded by the Asahi Glass Foundation, is one of the world's oldest and most prestigious international honors for scientists and researchers in environmental studies. This book features contributions from recent award winners eager to add their voices to the global debate o...

Government formation in central and eastern europe

The radical right during crisis

From terrorist attacks to anti-mask protests across the U.S. and Europe, radical right violence escalated in the midst of conspiracy theories and disinformation during the pandemic. This yearbook draws on analyses from an international network of scholars, policy makers, and practitioners who exp...

Smart urban growth for china

This book presents various perspectives on shaping a sustainable urban future for China based on conference discussions of the following questions: What lessons can China learn from other countries through their experiences in combating urban sprawl? What are the “dumb” growth patterns that are e...

Presidential debates

Second only to the Super Bowl in viewers, presidential debates are must-see TV, yet their conception and execution largely remain a mystery to the public—even to journalists. For this third edition, Schroeder analyzes the 2008 and 2012 presidential debates and the role of social media and news ou...

Journal of romanian studies

The biannual, peer-reviewed Journal of Romanian Studies, jointly developed by The Society for Romanian Studies and ibidem Press, examines critical issues in Romanian studies, linking work in that field to wider theoretical debates and issues of current relevance, and serving as a forum for junior...

Enforcing the peace

Anarchy makes it easy for terrorists to set up shop. Yet the international community has been reluctant to commit the necessary resources to peacekeeping—with devastating results locally and around the globe. This daring new work argues that modern peacekeeping operations and military occupations...

Conservation catalysts

This volume collects more than a dozen firsthand accounts of how conservationists at academic institutions are contending with biodiversity loss and climate change. Readers will learn how to protect wildlife habitats, improve water quality, build sustainable economies, and upgrade public amenitie...

Dying to forget

A revealing investigation into the corporate and strategic interests that have long been at the root of U.S. policy toward Israel and the Palestinians.

Never speak to strangers and other writing from russia and the soviet union

David Satter arrived in the Soviet Union in June 1976 as the correspondent of the Financial Times of London and entered a country that was a giant theater of the absurd. The articles in this collection are a chronicle of Russia from the day Satter arrived in the Soviet Union until the present.

Forms of pluralism and democratic constitutionalism

In this interdisciplinary volume, a group of prominent international scholars considers alternative political formations to the nation-state, discussing their ability to preserve and expand the achievements of democratic constitutionalism in the twenty-first century and their capacity to deal wit...

Reassembling motherhood

Reassembling Motherhood brings together contributors from across the disciplines to consider the transformation of motherhood as both an identity and a role. It examines how bearing and rearing a child are being restructured as reproductive labor and care work change around the globe, emphasizing...

Engaging the future

This heavily illustrated best seller provides students and experienced planners with tools and examples to help communities prepare for uncertain futures. It explains how to utilize forecasts, scenarios, plans, and projects to represent, manipulate, and assess ideas to make more informed decision...

A moving border

Italy’s northern border follows the watershed that separates the drainage basins of Northern and Southern Europe. Running mostly at high altitudes, it crosses snowfields and perennial glaciers—all of which are now melting as a result of anthropogenic climate change. As the watershed shifts so doe...

Civil strife against local governance

This book connects the critical issue of community protests to the equally precarious issue of political trust in local governance in South Africa by using comparative analysis of grassroots activism in predominantly black communities and predominantly white communities.

Scandal

Charting the changes from Watergate to the present, this book is a rigorous and compelling investigation of the politics of scandals.

Legalizing theft

When our infrastructures deteriorate, when social benefits are frozen, when our living conditions are precarious, it is because of tax havens. A source of growing inequalities and colossal tax losses, the use of tax havens by large corporations and wealthy individuals explains the increasingly po...

Three revolutions: mobilization and change in contemporary ukraine i

This multivolume project explores the revolutionary events that have unfolded in Ukraine since 1990: the Revolution on Granite (1990); the Orange Revolution (2004–2005); and the Euromaidan Revolution (2013–2014). It provides a comprehensive collection of firsthand accounts of the historic upheava...

Nuclear nightmares

The thinking and leadership we need to avoid an irreversible tragedy.

Anticipating a nuclear iran

The strategic and political implications of an already-nuclear rogue power.

Urban-suburban interdependencies

Experts in urban and regional planning, political science, economics, and related fields look at issues such as economic interdependencies, global competitiveness, and intergovernmental relationships to address how cities and their suburbs are dependent on each other. The chapters consider possib...

Territorial cohesion and the european model of society

In this second book in a series on European spatial planning, the authors examine territorial cohesion as a successor concept to the European Spatial Development Perspective. Fundamental ideas about Europe and its distinct “model of society” lie behind the concept of territorial cohesion, which c...

Desolation and enlightenment

During and especially after the Second World War, a group of leading scholars who had been perilously close to the war's devastation joined others fortunate enough to have been protected by distance in an effort to redefine and reinvigorate Western liberal ideals for a radically new age. Treating...

Organizing the 1%

Canada is ruled by an organized minority of the 1%, a class of corporate owners, managers and bankers who amass wealth by controlling the large corporations at the core of the economy. But corporate power also reaches into civil society and politics in many ways that greatly constrain democracy.I...

Ukraine: putin’s war for russia’s “near abroad”

Retired US Ambassador John J. Maresca draws on his personal papers to offer a first-hand account of his role in negotiating the end of the Cold War with the USSR.

Belarus - a silenced history

This book argues that Russian assimilation policies and the labeling of Belarus as “Russia’s little brother” have been elements of a deliberate imperialistic policy, as Belarus shares most of its history with Poland and Lithuania.

Dangerous strait

Today the most dangerous place on earth is arguably the Taiwan Strait, where a war between the United States and China could erupt out of miscalculation, misunderstanding, or accident. How and to what degree Taiwan pursues its own national identity will have profound ramifications in its relation...

We can do better

The view that capitalism is an inherently flawed, exploitative, crisis-prone, oppressive system is not new. But neoliberal capitalism’s flaws are increasingly dangerous in Western countries and globally as corporations exert growing influence on governments, as the endless pursuit of profits push...

About canada: public-private partnerships

In a public-private partnership, or P3, a private, for-profit corporation assumes control over the design, construction, financing and operation of public infrastructure and services. P3s have been used in Canada since the early 1990s, but they are now so common that they have become the standard...