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The future of the Middle East
\"The Future of the Middle East first focuses on the way in which land use is considered a critical issue in physical urban development. Population growth and the need to develop urban areas has given rise to concerns regarding the management of natural disasters in urban communities. The authors investigate Iran's agricultural sector, particularly its current condition and trends, in an effort to assess the welfare of the community as well as the environmental quality. Additionally, this compilation aims to determine the main causes of economic development in Yazd City, reviewing the role of merchants in the historical context. The evolution of U.S. policy in Afghanistan is evaluated from the war's initiation in 2001 up to the present. Despite overtures to achieve a cease fire and on again off again talks with the Taliban, President Trump has conceded that the U.S. will remain in Afghanistan until we have either a deal or total victory, neither of which looks realistic at this time. The authors attempt to link the increase in youth population in Afghanistan to rising terrorism, addressing implications on security and policy. Following this, the US-led reconstruction efforts that followed the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan and the 2003 invasion of Iraq are described. In the penultimate chapter, the structure of law enforcement agencies in Afghanistan and their contribution to the promotion of state authority, security perception and legitimacy is evaluated. In closing, the reconstruction of the magnificent ruins of Palmyra, a World Heritage monument, is assessed\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Global Cities, Governance and Diplomacy
This book illustrates the importance of global cities for world politics and highlights the diplomatic connections between cities and global governance.
While there is a growing body of literature concerned with explaining the transformations of the international order, little theorisation has taken into account the key metropolises of our time as elements of these revolutions. The volume seeks to fill this gap by demonstrating how global cities have a pervasive agency in contemporary global governance.
The book argues that looking at global cities can bring about three fundamental advantages on traditional IR paradigms. First, it facilitates an eclectic turn towards more nuanced analyses of world politics. Second, it widens the horizon of the discipline through a multiscalar image of global governance. Third, it underscores how global cities have a strategic diplomatic positioning when it comes to core contemporary challenges such as climate change.
This book will be of much interest to students of urban studies, global governance, diplomacy and international relations in general.
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Governing Neighborhoods in Urban China
Governing Neighborhoods in Urban China
examines the key mechanisms operating at the grassroots
level in China that contribute to urban development and increased
public support for the legitimacy and authority of the Chinese
state. Beibei Tang uncovers new trends and dynamics of
urban neighborhood governance since the 2000s to reveal the
significant factors that contribute to regime survival.
Tang introduces the concept of hybrid authoritarianism, a
governance mechanism an authoritarian state employs to produce
governance legitimacy, public support, and regime sustainability.
Hybrid authoritarianism is situated in an intermediary governance
space between state and society. It accommodates both state and
non-state actors, deals with a wide range of governance issues,
employs flexible governance strategies, and in this context,
ultimately strengthens CCP leadership.
Tang documents processes of hybrid authoritarianism through her
focus on various types of urban neighborhoods, including new urban
middle-class neighborhoods, and the increasing urbanization of the
countryside. Governing Neighborhoods in Urban China
provides a conceptual framework that avoids scholarly approaches
that tend to reify either one-party autocracy or Western-centric
notions of democracy.
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New World cities : challenges of urbanization and globalization in the Americas
\"For millennia, urban centers were pivots of power and trade that ruled and linked rural majorities. After 1950, explosive urbanization led to unprecedented urban majorities. That transformation--inextricably tied to rising globalization--changed almost everything for nearly everybody. New World Cities looks at six metropolises during the twentieth century--Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Montreal, Los Angeles, and Houston--exploring the challenges of explosive urbanization and the gains and limits of popular politics\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Urbanization and party survival in China
While the Chinese urban movement has successfully transferred surplus labor from the countryside to urban industries that urgently require free and cheap labor, numerous problems have arisen as a result of the unprecedented huge-scale process.
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Export pipelines from the CIS region : geopolitics, securitization, and political decision-making
This timely collection offers fresh perspectives to the analysis of the 'New Great Game' the fight for access to the Caspian Sea region's energy resources. To date, the export of the Caspian crude oil and natural gas has only been assessed geopolitically, which oversimplifies the political dynamics of the region and neglects to acknowledge the Caspian countries as actors in their own right.
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Antisemitism and Antiurbanism, Past and Present
STUDIES ON ANTISEMITISM have highlighted, on several occasions, that modern Jew hatred opposes urbanization and urban life. Although the importance of antiurban sentiments for antisemitism is highly accepted in the field of antisemitism studies, there have been very few attempts at developing theoretical and empirical approaches concerning the relationship of these two phenomena. The question of the character and origin of antiurbanism, in particular, has been left unanswered. This chapter seeks to provide some initial theoretical and empirical insights regarding the relationship between antisemitism and city hatred. I focus mainly on German history because city and Jew hatred had its
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