Qatar and the Gulf Crisis (Ulrichsen Kristian Coates)(Pevná vazba)

Qatar and the Gulf Crisis (Ulrichsen Kristian Coates)(Pevná vazba)

Divided Gulf: The Anatomy of a Crisis (Krieg Andreas)(Pevná vazba)

Introduction.- Chapter I: Perceptions and Divisions in Security and Defence Structures in Arab Gulf States.- Chapter II: Tribe and Tribalism: The Trojan Horse of GCC States?.- Chapter III: Bitter Brethren: Freud's Narcissism of Minor Differences and the Gulf Divide.- Chapter IV: The UAE, Qatar and

Power and Politics in the Persian Gulf Monarchies(Paperback / softback)

Essays on the six monarchies of the Gulf: Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, and

Qatar: Small State, Big Politics (Kamrava Mehran)(Paperback)

The Persian Gulf state of Qatar has fewer than 2 million inhabitants, virtually no potable water, and has been an independent nation only since 1971. Yet its enormous oil and gas wealth has permitted the ruling al Thani family to exert a disproportionately large influence on regional and even

Masters of the Pearl: A History of Qatar (Morton Michael Quentin)(Pevná vazba)

Qatar is a country of spectacular contrasts: from pearl fishing, its main industry until the 1930s, to gas and oil, which generate immense wealth today; to famously being at the center of both triumph and controversy in recent years for hosting the 2022 FIFA World Cup. Almost a lifetime since he

Europe and the Financial Crisis (Della Posta Pompeo)(Pevná vazba)

The global financial and economic crisis has brought about many effects that are still difficult to interpret univocally. This book studies the consequences of the crisis on Europe by examining the effects on the European institutional setup, governance and architecture and by studying in detail

Digital Media and the Greek Crisis: Cyberconflicts, Discourses and Networks (Ferra Ioanna)(Pevná vazba)

This book concentrates on the parallel evolution of debt crisis and digital communications in Greece. By examining four different online and social media platforms, it uncovers the impact of digital media on the contentious politics of crisis, as well as the impact of the political economic sphere

The Courage to Act: A Memoir of a Crisis and Its Aftermath (Bernanke Ben S.)(Pevná vazba)

Social Vulnerability to Disasters (Thomas Deborah S. K.)(Pevná vazba)

The 2010 Haiti and Chili earthquakes, the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and the 2011 Fukushima earthquake and tsunami in Japan are but a few examples of recent catastrophic events that continue to reveal how social structure and roles produce extensive human suffering and differential

Cities and crisis (Konvitz Josef W.)(Pevná vazba)

Cities have been missing from analyses of the global economic crisis and debates about how to generate a sustainable recovery. Cities and crisis provides a fresh assessment of what has changed since 1990 and what has not, of policy assumptions about urban economies, and of lessons of experience. A

Teach for Arabia: American Universities, Liberalism, and Transnational Qatar (Vora Neha)(Pevná vazba)

Teach for Arabia offers an ethnographic account of the experiences of students, faculty, and administrators in Education City, Qatar. Education City, home to the branch campuses of six elite American universities, represents the Qatari government's multibillion dollar investment over the last two

The Transatlantic Reconsidered: The Atlantic World in Crisis (Lerg Charlotte A.)(Pevná vazba)

The Atlantic community seems to be in crisis and it is time to critically rethink past narratives and traditional frameworks of transatlantic relations. Exploring the historiography and legacies of the Atlantic World, contributors open up new, transnational, and global perspectives, helping us to

Ecological Justice and the Extinction Crisis: Giving Living Beings Their Due (Wienhues Anna)(Pevná vazba)

As the biodiversity crisis deepens, Anna Wienhues sets out radical environmental thinking and action to respond to the threat of mass species extinction. The book conceptualises large-scale injustice endangering non-humans, and signposts new approaches to the conservation of a shared planet

Reset Modernity! (LaTour Bruno)(Pevná vazba)

Texts and images document the disconnection between modernity and ecological crisis: do we need to reset modernity's operating system?Modernity has had so many meanings and tries to combine so many contradictory sets of attitudes and values that it has become impossible to use it to define the

Crisis at the Cathedral (Dams Jeanne M.)(Pevná vazba)

Sir Anthony Eden and the Suez Crisis: Reluctant Gamble (Pearson Jonathan)(Pevná vazba)

A reappraisal of Sir Anthony Eden's conduct of foreign relations during the Suez crisis of 1956. This book challenges previous assumptions and demonstrates that Eden was not as bellicose as has been alleged. It traces his conduct of crisis management, from July until his decision to use force on 14

Fourteenth Colony: The Forgotten Story of the Gulf South During America's Revolutionary Era (Bunn Mike)(Pevná vazba)

The Black Mediterranean: Bodies, Borders and Citizenship (Proglio Gabriele)(Pevná vazba)

This edited volume aims to problematise and rethink the contemporary European migrant crisis in the Central Mediterranean through the lens of the Black Mediterranean. Bringing together scholars working in geography, political theory, sociology, and cultural studies, this volume takes the Black

Our World in Crisis: Health and Disease (Howell Izzi)(Pevná vazba)

Comprehensive explorations of major issues affecting the global

Humanity (Ai Weiwei)(Pevná vazba)

Writings on human life and the refugee crisis by the most important political artist of our time Ai Weiwei (b. 1957) is widely known as an artist across media: sculpture, installation, photography, performance, and architecture. He is also one of the world's most important artist-activists and a

The Human Age: How We Caused the Climate Crisis (Palsson Gsli)(Pevná vazba)

Where natural occurrences once controlled climate, geology and the genesis and demise of species, humankind now holds the reins. The Human Age is an intrepid exploration of the new geological epoch in which we now find ourselves: the Anthropocene. Defined as the Age of Man, this is the epoch in

A Crisis of Beliefs: Investor Psychology and Financial Fragility (Gennaioli Nicola)(Pevná vazba)

Our World in Crisis: Civil War and Genocide (Watts Franklin)(Pevná vazba)

Comprehensive explorations of major issues affecting the global

The Crisis of the Human Sciences: False Objectivity and the Decline of Creativity (Botz-Bornstein Thorsten)(Pevná vazba)

Centralization and over-professionalization can lead to the disappearance of a critical environment capable of linking the human sciences to the real world. The authors of this volume suggest that the humanities need to operate in a concrete cultural environment able to influence procedures on a