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Russia's Security Policy under Putin
This book examines the evolution of Russia’s security policy under Putin in the 21st century, using a critical security studies approach. Drawing on critical approaches to security the book investigates the interrelationship between the internal-external nexus and the politics of (in)security and regime-building in Putin’s Russia. In so doing, it evaluates the way that this evolving relationship between state identities and security discourses framed the construction of individual security policies, and how, in turn, individual issues can impact on the meta-discourses of state and security agendas. To this end, the (de)securitisation discourses and practices towards the issue of Chechnya...
Shattering the Christian Looking Glass
Shattering the Christian Looking Glass dismembers the towering edifice of Catholic dogma. Short, highly readable, but immensely powerful, Shattering challenges the Church to defend its dogma and the Church's legitimacy.
Mafia State
Award-winning journalist and bestselling author Luke Harding's haunting, brilliant account of the insidious methods used against him by a resurgent Kremlin which led to him becoming the first western reporter to be deported from Russia since the days of the Cold War. FEATURING A NEW FOREWORD FROM THE AUTHOR 'A courageous and explosive exposé.' ORLANDO FIGES 'Luke Harding is one of the best reporters in the world.' ROBERT SAVIANO 'An essential read.' NEW STATESMAN In 2007, Luke Harding arrived in Moscow to take up a new job as a correspondent for the British newspaper the Guardian. Within months, mysterious agents from Russia's Federal Security Service - the successor to the KGB - had broken...
Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society
This special issue deals with the phenomenon of violence in the post-Soviet space. It examines both political and legal discourses and practices of internal and external violence, broadly conceived, simultaneously aspiring to situate them in the broader literature on political violence and ethnic and separatist conflict, and to examine these from political, legal, and security studies perspectives. The issue approaches the problem of violence in the post-Soviet space from three perspectives: international-structural, inter-state, and domestic-political. The contributors focus on structural sources of violence, such as the relevance of the self-determination principle, the role of democratization, and the relationship between violent behavior inside and outside the state. They also analyze the role of the Russian Federation in generating, perpetuating, and mitigating political violence. Finally, they adopt a bottom-up approach, exploring how non-state actors contribute to political violence.
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Die Experimentalstadt
Die Beiträge des Bandes befassen sich mit den ständigen Veränderungsprozessen, denen Städte unterworfen sind. Sie sind geprägt von Aufbau und Zerfall, Chaos und Planung. In ihnen kumuliert das soziokulturelle und technische Gefüge moderner Gesellschaften. Prägend sind dabei beispielsweise Symptome der zunehmenden Segregation oder der Verödung der Innenstädte. Anderseits erstarken soziale Innovationen, wie z.B. die Do-it-yourself-Bewegung in welcher verstärkt auch Kreativschaffende oder Künstler als Schnittstellenakteure fungieren und mit Ihren Aktivitäten in den öffentlichen Raum intervenieren. Die daraus entstehenden Narrationen, Atmosphären und deren Interpretationen prägen als soziokulturelle Ausdrucksformen den Körper einer Stadt und zeichnen Erzählungen des Wandels nach. Der Band setzt sich mit diesen Phänomenen sowohl theoretisch als auch empirisch auseinander.
