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  • Contested and Shared Places of Memory

    History and politics in North Eastern Europe

    Edited by Jorg Hackmann, Marko Lehti ...
    The Baltic–Russian debates on the past have become a hot spot of European memory politics. Violent protests and international tensions accompanying the removal of the "Bronze Soldier" monument, which commemorated the Soviet liberation of Tallinn in 1944, from the city centre in April 2007 have demonstrated the political impact that contested sites of memory may still reveal.In this publication, ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Contestations of Liberal Order

    The West in Crisis?

    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This volume explores the Western-led liberal order that is claimed to be in crisis. Currently, the West appears less as a modernizing or civilizing entity leading the way and more as being engulfed in a deep crisis. Simultaneously, the West still appears to be needed in order to imagine the global order by promoters of liberal peace as well as its opponents. This book asks how and why “crisis” is ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • The Era of Private Peacemakers

    A New Dialogic Approach to Mediation

    by Marko Lehti ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    The field of peacemaking is in turbulent change. There are more peacemaking actors than before but fewer success stories, and an increasing number of violent conflicts tend to resist negotiated agreements. Tools and practices created for traditional inter- and intra-state conflicts have become ineffective and revision of old mediation practices is called for. This book examines how the private ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Struggle for the West

    A Divided and Contested Legacy

    Series series Routledge Critical Security Studies
    In recent years debates about the nature and future of the West have been high on the political agenda. Prognoses of the West’s imminent demise have been countered by those arguing for its continued relevance, or those arguing that while the West will survive its nature, and the balance of power between its constituent units, is transforming.This book argues that understanding contemporary ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Post-Cold War Identity Politics

    Northern and Baltic Experiences

    Edited by Marko Lehti, David J Smith ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Nationalism and Ethnicity
    During the past decade northern Europe has started to assume an identity of its own. Categories of East and West have become blurred, challenging as well the idea of what it means to be Nordic. Post-Cold War Identity Politics maps this process in Scandinavia. Looking at projects designed to help regional development in the Nordic countires, it assesses whether a new way of defining 'Northern-ness' ... Read more

    $56.95 USD

  • Nordic Peace in Question

    A Region of and for Peace

    Series series Nordic Studies in a Global Context
    This book explores historically and theoretically Nordic peace as a marker of identification, ontological (in)security and regional branding. It emphasizes how conceptions of Nordic peace have been translated into policy practices and how it has maintained its relevance over time.The book distinguishes between the Nordic region as a region of peace, a prime example of a Deutschian security ... Read more

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    Edited by Heinrich Geiselberger ...
    We are living through a period of dramatic political change – Brexit, the election of Trump, the rise of extreme right movements in Europe and elsewhere, the resurgence of nationalism and xenophobia and a concerted assault on the liberal values and ideals associated with cosmopolitanism and globalization. Suddenly we find ourselves in a world that few would have imagined possible just a few years ... Read more

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  • Nation-States and Nationalisms

    Organization, Ideology and Solidarity

    Series series Political Sociology
    Despite many predictions made over the last two hundred years that nation-states and nationalism are transient phenomena that will eventually fade away, the historical record and contemporary events show otherwise. Nationalism still remains the most popular, potent and resilient ideological discourse and the nation-state the only legitimate mode of territorial rule.This innovative and concise book ... Read more

    $19.00 USD

  • Reconstructing Karl Polanyi

    Excavation and Critique

    by Gareth Dale ...
    *Shortlisted for the Deutscher Memorial Prize 2017*Karl Polanyi's contribution to political economy and social science is immeasurable. In Reconstructing Karl Polanyi, Gareth Dale, foremost scholar and biographer of Polanyi, provides a sweeping survey of his contributions to the social sciences.An opponent of traditional economics and a believer in economics' contingency to society and culture, ... Read more

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  • Cosmopolitan Vision

    In this new book, Ulrich Beck develops his now widely used concepts of second modernity, risk society and reflexive sociology into a radical new sociological analysis of the cosmopolitan implications of globalization. Beck draws extensively on empirical and theoretical analyses of such phenomena as migration, war and terror, as well as a range of literary and historical works, to weave a rich ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • European Identity

    Series series Contemporary European Politics
    Why are hopes fading for a single European identity? Economic integration has advanced faster and further than predicted, yet the European sense of 'who we are' is fragmenting. Exploiting decades of permissive consensus, Europe's elites designed and completed the single market, the euro, the Schengen passport-free zone, and, most recently, crafted an extraordinarily successful policy of ... Read more

    $31.19 USD

  • Capital, the State, and War

    Class Conflict and Geopolitics in the Thirty Years' Crisis, 1914-1945

    Series series Configurations: Critical Studies Of World Politics
    The history of the modern social sciences can be seen as a series of attempts to confront the challenges of social disorder and revolution wrought by the international expansion of capitalist social relations. Alexander Anievas focuses on one particularly significant aspect of this story: the intersocietal or geosocial origins of the two world wars, and, more broadly, the confluence of factors ... Read more

    $26.69 USD