Reindeer husbandry and global environmental change : pastoralism in Fennoscandia

Volume ini menawarkan pemahaman holistik tentang tantangan lingkungan dan sosial yang memengaruhi peternakan rusa kutub di Fennoscandia saat ini. Peternakan rusa kutub merupakan mata pencaharian dengan warisan tradisional dan kepentingan budaya yang panjang. Seperti banyak masyarakat pastoral lainnya, penggembala rusa kutub dihadapkan dengan tantangan yang signifikan. Meliputi Norwegia, Swedia,…

RNA, the Epicenter of Genetic Information

Kisah asal-usul dan kemunculan biologi molekuler membingungkan. Kemenangan awal dalam genetika bakteri dan kompleksitas genom hewan dan tumbuhan memperumit sejarah yang rumit. Buku ini mendokumentasikan banyak kemajuan, serta prasangka dan kekeliruan pendiri. Buku ini menyoroti penurunan prematur RNA menjadi sekadar perantara antara gen dan protein, meremehkan jumlah informasi yang diperlukan u…

The ethics of national security intelligence institutions : theory and applic…

Buku ini membahas etika lembaga intelijen keamanan nasional yang beroperasi dalam demokrasi liberal kontemporer. Pengumpulan intelijen oleh badan-badan seperti CIA, MI6, dan Mossad melibatkan praktik-praktik yang tampaknya tidak konsisten dengan prinsip-prinsip moralitas biasa – praktik-praktik seperti berbohong, memata-matai, memanipulasi, dan tindakan rahasia. Namun, dalam upaya mempertahan…

The political economy of transnational governance : China and Southeast Asia …

Dua dekade terakhir telah menyaksikan perubahan sosial ekonomi dan politik yang luas di Asia, seperti meningkatnya arus modal, barang, orang, dan pengetahuan intraregional, kebangkitan Tiongkok sebagai ekonomi terbesar kedua di dunia, dan meningkatnya pengaruhnya di Asia Tenggara, meningkatnya konfrontasi AS-Tiongkok di arena global, dan gempuran pandemi Covid-19 global. Berfokus pada interaksi…

Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation: towards a nuclear-weapon free world?

A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via www.tandfebooks.com as well as the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license and is part of the OAPEN-UK research project. This book examines the current debate on nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament, notably the intern…

Cyber security politics :socio-technological transformations and political fr…

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Glocal Governance

This open access book develops a conceptual framework for glocal governance as a multi-stakeholder local governance approach based on global human rights norms and democratic principles. It discusses glocal governance as part of an ongoing global transformation process that began in the 1990s, when democracy and individualizing responsibilities for governance became the dominant political syste…

„Beyond the Wall”: Game of Thrones aus interdisziplinärer Perspektive

Dieses Open-Access-Buch beleuchtet das Serienphänomen „Game of Thrones“ aus unterschiedlichen wissenschaftlichen Perspektiven: Die rechtswissenschaftliche trifft auf die sprach-, musik-, literatur- und sozialwissenschaftliche, ferner die (kunst-)historische, psychologische und theologische Perspektive. Die Beiträge zeigen auf, dass die Serie reiche Anknüpfungspunkte für die wissenschaft…

Expertise, Policy-making and Democracy

ABSTRACT This book offers a concise and accessible introduction to debates about expertise, policy-making and democracy. It uniquely combines an overview of recent research on the policy role of experts with discussions in political philosophy and the philosophy of expertise. Starting with the fact that well-functioning democracies require experts and expert knowledge, the book examines two ty…

Russia-China Relations

This open access book examines Russia-China relations across a variety of civilian and military areas of cooperation. Leading experts in the field present empirical case studies covering a wide range of strategic cooperation areas between Russia and China, such as technological, military, economic and political cooperation. The contributing authors shed new light on Chinese and Russian strategi…