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This book looks at the importance and potential of cluster initiatives in Central and Eastern Europe. Existing clusters are mapped, recent policy advances are described and conclusions are drawn on the potential of business clusters to foster economic growth.
This volume provides the reader with the history of urban warfare and the critical insights into the ethical problems arising from various dimensions of modern urban warfare through ten chapters written by acclaimed experts in the field.
Examines how ideas of sovereignty and security from the non-Western world contribute to order and change in world politics.
Jus Post bellum: Restraint, Stabilisation and Peace seeks to answer the question “is restraint in war essential for a just and lasting peace”? With a foreword by Professor Brian Orend who asserts this as “a most commendable subject” in extending Just War Theory, the book contains chapters on the ethics of war-fighting since the end of the Cold War and a look into the future of conflict. From the causes of war, with physical restraint and reconciliation in combat and political settlement, further chapters written by expert academics and military participants cover international humanitarian law, practicalities of the use of force and some of the failures in achieving safe and lasting peace in modern-day theatres of conflict.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is the latest chapter in a series of events that have their origins in World War One. The difficult existential questions that emerged before and during this conflict still remain unresolved. Contrary to the claim that wars are not supposed to happen in Europe or that we live in the era of the End of History, the experience of Ukraine highlights the salience of the spell of the past. The failure of the West to take its past seriously has left it confused and unprepared to deal with the current crisis. Unexpectedly fashionable claims about the irrelevance of borders and of nation states have been exposed as shallow myths. The author argues that the West’s self...
Ein brutaler Ritualmord erschüttert die kleine Gemeinde Kahlensee. Auf dem verfallenen Gelände einer ehemaligen Nervenheilanstalt wird eine grausam verstümmelte Männerleiche gefunden. Kriminalhauptkommissar Ingo Steeger, gerade mit seiner schwangeren Frau nach Kahlensee gezogen, wird mit den Ermittlungen betraut. Als eine weitere Leiche auf dem Klinikgelände auftaucht, ahnt Steeger, dass er und sein Team Teil eines perfiden Katz-und-Maus-Spiels sind – denn die Geister der Vergangenheit fordern ihren blutigen Tribut. Auftakt zur Serie um den etwas anderen Ermittler Ingo Steeger und dessen Team.
Growing local economies, empowering communities, revitalizing downtowns, developing entrepreneurship, building leadership, and enhancing nonprofits — you can achieve all these benefits and more with a comprehensive and strategic revitalization plan. Chronicling the struggle of local revitalization as organizers move from trial and error to effective revitalization strategies, Promoting Sustainable Local and Community Economic Development documents the current transformation in community revitalization from market-based incentives to mixed strategies of public sector learning, partnerships, and community capacity. Knowledge about the field and what works is growing, but not always publicize...
Title of the first 10 volumes of the series is Germans to America : lists of passengers arriving at U.S. ports 1850-1855.