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Democracy and Fake News: Information Manipulation and Post-Truth Politics
This book explores the challenges that disinformation, fake news, and post-truth politics pose to democracy from a multidisciplinary perspective. The authors analyse and interpret how the use of technology and social media as well as the emergence of new political narratives has been progressively changing the information landscape, undermining some of the pillars of democracy.The volume sheds …
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Europe under Pressure: The Development of the European Union under the Influe…
The past years were characterized by a massive influx of migrants crossing the Union's external borders seeking asylum. Illegal migration, exploitation of social welfare systems, foreign infiltration and the instrumentalization of religion condensed in terror attacks determine today's changed attitude towards foreigners, refugees and migrants and therefore strongly impact the current European p…
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The Distinction of Peace: A Social Analysis of Peacebuilding
Peacebuilding serves as a catch-all term to describe efforts by an array of international organizations, non-governmental organizations, and even agencies of foreign states to restore or construct a peaceful society in the wake— or even in the midst— of conflict. Despite this variety, practitioners consider themselves members of a global profession. In this study, Catherine Goetze investiga…
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Imperial Overstretch: Germany in Soviet Policy from Stalin to Gorbachev: An A…
The book is an analysis of the rise and fall of the Soviet empire in what, during the Cold War, was called ‘Eastern Europe'. Its central focus is the role played by the German problem in that process.
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European Union - The Second Founding: The Changing Rationale of European Inte…
The author is presenting a broadly structured study about the first fifty years of European integration, its geopolitical context and academic reflection. His study is based on the two-fold thesis that since a few years, the European Union is going through a process of its Second Founding while simultaneously changing its rationale.
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Europe - Against the Tide
Was sind die gegenwärtigen Herausforderungen der Europäischen Union? Wie reagiert sie auf internationale Veränderungen und Krisen? Und wie antwortet sie auf ihre Kritiker in den Mitgliedsstaaten? 16 Beiträge von internationalen Experten geben auf diese Fragen eine Antwort.
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Grazing Communities: Pastoralism on the Move and Biocultural Heritage Frictions
Pastoralism is a diffused and ancient form of human subsistence and probably one of the most studied by anthropologists at the crossroads between continuities and transformations. The present critical discourse on sustainable and responsible development implies a change of practices, a huge socio-economic transformation, and the return of new shepherds and herders in different European regions.…
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Conceptualizing Power in Dynamics of Securitization: Beyond State and Interna…
This volume addresses the ‘question of power’ in current constructivist securitisation studies. How can power relations that affect security and insecurity be analysed from both a transdisciplinary and historical point of view? The volume brings together contributions from history, art history, political science, sociology, cultural anthropology and law in order to determine the role of con…
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Iconographies of Occupation: Visual Cultures in Wang Jingwei’s China, 1939…
Iconographies of Occupation is the first book to address how the “collaborationist” Reorganized National Government (RNG) in Japanese-occupied China sought to visualize its leader, Wang Jingwei (1883–1944); the Chinese people; and China itself. It explores the ways in which this administration sought to present itself to the people over which it ruled at different points between 1939, whe…
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The Impact of Mass Media on Political Support: A Preferences-Perceptions Mode…
Why is citizens' support for political actors and institutions declining? Recent research suggests that voter cynicism is fueled by the manner in which mass media covers political events and issues. This dissertation provides evidence regarding the impact that media coverage of political decision-making procedures has on an audience's political support. It focuses on the role of individual expe…
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