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Format: VIII, 264 S. , graph. Darst., Kt.

Edition: 1. publ.

ISBN: 9780745646923 , 9780745646930

Content: "A landmark study in the struggle to contain climate change, the greatest challenge of our era. I urge everyone to read it."--Bill Clinton, 42nd President of the United States of America. Climate change differs from any other problem that, as collective humanity, we face today. If it goes unchecked, the consequences are likely to be catastrophic for human life on earth. Yet for most people, and for many policy-makers too, it is a 'back of the mind' issue. We recognise its importance and even its urgency, but for the most part it is swamped by more immediate concerns. Politicians have woken up to the dangers, but at the moment their responses are mainly on the level of gesture rather than being, as they have to be, both concrete and radical. Political action and intervention, on local, national and international levels, is going to have a decisive effect on whether or not we can limit global warming, as well as how we adapt to that already occurring. At the moment, however, Anthony Giddens argues controversially, we do not have a systematic politics of climate change. Politics-as-usual won't allow us to deal with the problems we face, while the recipes of the main challenger to orthodox politics, the green movement, are flawed at source. Giddens introduces a range of new concepts and proposals to fill in the gap, and examines in depth the connections between climate change and energy security. This book is likely to become a classic in the field. It will appeal to everyone concerned about how we can cope with what amounts to a crisis for our civilisation.

Language: English

Subjects: Economics , Geography

Keywords: Klimaänderung ; Klimaschutz ; Umweltpolitik ; Klimaänderung ; Klimaschutz ; Politik

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Author information: Giddens, Anthony 1938-

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Format: 238 S.

ISBN: 081432231X

Content: The author documents the growth of American Zionism between 1933-1948. he Refers to the Non-Zionist approach of the American Jewish Committee, the personality clashes between Abba Hillel silver and Stephen wise, and the major question in american jewish minds as to whether to give priority to rescuing european jews or to securing a national homeland in palestine.

Language: English

Subjects: History

Keywords: USA ; Politik ; Juden ; Nationalsozialismus ; USA ; Zionismus ; Geschichte 1933-1948 ; Deutschland ; Judenverfolgung ; Geschichte 1933-1945 ; Juden ; USA ; Politik ; Deutschland ; Judenverfolgung ; Geschichte 1933-1945 ; Zionismus ; USA

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Format: 272 S.

ISBN: 0393034119

Content: "I have attempted to take the high ground," writes George F. Kennan in the foreword to this illuminating work, "trying to stick to the broader dimensions of things - the ones that would still be visible and significant in future decades." Against the background of a century of wars, revolution, and uneasy peace, Mr. Kennan advances his thoughts on a broad front: how the individual's quest for power can transform a government into a confusion of ambition, rivalry, and suspicion; how a nation's size can create barriers between the rulers and the ruled; why America must first set its own house in order before it can become a beacon to others. Deeply aware of the pressures under which public officials must act, Mr. Kennan sees a government in Washington that is forced to make decisions on issues of the moment, often without regard for long-term consequences. Neither the legislature, responsive to the interests of a narrow constituency, nor the executive branch, swamped by urgent problems at home and abroad, has the time or inclination to look far beyond the next election. Lost entirely is a vital element in any democracy: deliberation based upon study, review, and judgment. To address problems that defy quick political solutions, Mr. Kennan here boldly lays down a blueprint for a Council of State, a nonpolitical, permanent advisory board that would stand alongside yet apart from government policy makers, with the prestige to be heard "above the cacophony of political ambitions." Rich in historical example, this volume is a brilliant summing up of the experience and thought of the man the Atlantic described in a cover story entitled "The Last Wise Man" as: "diplomat, scholar, writer of rare literary gifts, one of most remarkable Americans of this century."

Language: English

Subjects: Political Science

Keywords: Staat ; Politik ; Außenpolitik ; Politische Philosophie ; USA ; Internationale Politik ; Kommunismus ; Aufsatzsammlung

Author information: Kennan, George Frost 1904-2005

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Format: xiii, 261 pages , illustrations , 25 cm

ISBN: 9781138491830

Series Statement: Routledge studies in sustainability

Content: "The Politics of Sustainability in the Arctic argues that sustainability is a political concept because it defines and shapes competing visions of the future. In current Arctic affairs, prominent stakeholders agree that development needs to be sustainable, but there is no agreement over what it is that needs to be sustained. In original conservationist discourse, the environment was the sole referent object of sustainability, however, as sustainability discourses expand, the concept is linked to an increasing number of referent objects, such as, society, economy, culture and identity. This book sets out a theoretical framework for understanding and analysing sustainability as a political concept, and provides a comprehensive empirical investigation of Arctic sustainability discourses. Presenting a range of case studies from Greenland, Norway, Canada, Russia, Iceland and Alaska, the essays in this volume analyse the concept of sustainability and how actors are employing and contesting this concept in specific regions within the Arctic. In doing so, the book demonstrates how sustainability is being given new meanings in the postcolonial Arctic and what the political implications are for postcoloniality, nature, and development more broadly. Beyond those interested in the Arctic, this book will also be of great value to students and scholars of sustainability, sustainable development, and identity and environmental politics"--

Content: Introduction sustainability as a political concept in the Arctic / Jeppe Strandsbjerg, Marc Jacobsen & Ulrik Pram Gad -- The sustainability of what? Stocks, communities, the public purse? / Rikke Becker-Jacobsen -- Sustainability understandings of Arctic shipping / Kathrin Keil -- Digging sustainability scaling and sectoring of benefits and responsibilities in Greenland and Nunavut mining discourses / Marc Jacobsen -- "Without seals, there are no Greenlanders" Colonial and postcolonial narratives of sustainability and Inuit seal hunting / Naja Graugaard -- Scaling sustainability in the Arctic / Frank Sejersen -- Same word, same idea? Sustainable development talk and the Russian Arctic / Elana Wilson Rowe -- The right to sustainable development and Greenland's lack of a climate policy / Lill Bjørst -- Building a blue economy in the Arctic Ocean : sustaining the sea, or sustaining the state? / Berit Kristoffersen & Philip Steinberg -- Saving the Arctic : green peace or oil riot? / Hannes Gerhardt, Berit Kristoffersen and Kirsti Stuvøy -- Sustaining the Arctic nation-state : the case of Norway, Iceland, and Canada / Ingrid Medby -- 'How we use our nature." Sustainability and indigeneity in Greenlandic discourse / Kirsten Thisted -- Sustaining Denmark - sustaining Greenland / Johanne Bruun -- A new path in the last frontier state? Transforming energy geogragrahies of agency, sovereignty, and sustainability in Alaska / Victoria Hermann -- Geo-assembling narratives of sustainability in Greenland / Klaus Dodds & Mark Nuttall -- Conclusion : sustainability reconfiguring time, space and identity / Ulrik Pram Gad & Jeppe Strandsbjerg

Note: Includes bibliographical references and index

Additional Edition: ISBN 9781351031981

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Politics of sustainability in the Arctic Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019

Language: English

Keywords: Arktis ; Nachhaltigkeit ; Indigenes Volk ; Umweltschutz ; Wirtschaft ; Politik

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Format: VII, 569 S.

Edition: 1. publ.

ISBN: 0582096081

Series Statement: A history of the Conservative Party [3]

Content: Richard Shannon's study of The Age of Disraeli, 1868-1881: The Rise of Tory Democracy (the second volume chronologically in Longman's authoritative History of the Conservative Party) was published to great acclaim in 1992. Here now is its successor, covering the fortunes of the Conservative Party in the period after the death of Disraeli, under the leadership of Lord Salisbury, whose premierships (1885-86, 1886-92 and 1895-1902) provide the main substance of the book

Content: Richard Shannon explores the changes in party thinking and organization under the pressures of the newly expanded electorate. In doing so, he traces the growing ascendancy of Salisbury, who, after sharing the dual leadership of the Party from the Lords with Sir Stafford Northcote in the Commons, became sole leader on forming his first cabinet in 1885. Aristocrat, High Church Anglican, and astute diplomat, Salisbury held the unruly party together by his personal authority; and, by offering moderate social reform along with opposition to Irish Home Rule, he was able to forge the alliance between the Conservatives and the Unionists that would dominate British politics for the rest of the century and beyond. But Richard Shannon argues that one of the unforeseen effects of the Unionist alliance was to stifle the emergence of new social elements in the Party at large

Content: Fittingly, it is Salisbury himself who provides Professor Shannon with the key text for interpreting the period when he noted in 1882: 'Let us hope the chapter of accidents may help us: we shall hardly do much to help ourselves.' For, as this book amply discloses, the Party's success in the later nineteenth century was not at all a matter of purposeful design or conscious plan. Rather, it was a process of adaptation to unforeseen circumstances. The extent of the transformation was astonishing given the relatively short period covered by the book - but it was imposed on the Party from outside by the forces of social change and the accidents (mostly, at least in the earlier part of the period, fortunate ones) of political life

Language: English

Subjects: History

Keywords: British Conservative and Unionist Party ; Geschichte 1881-1902 ; Großbritannien ; Politik ; Geschichte 1881-1902

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