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CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL ISSUES: A Global Perspective

Author : Dr. A Ahammad

Publisher : Arambagh Book House (ABH Books)

Page : 26 pages

File Size : 37,83 MB

Release : 2024-01-26

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 9395355352

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"Contemporary Political Issues: A Global Perspective" is an insightful exploration of the dynamic and interconnected world of politics in the 21st century. In this thought-provoking book, I delve into a comprehensive examination of the most pressing political challenges facing our global society today. The world is undergoing rapid transformations, and political landscapes are constantly evolving. From the rise of populist movements to the complexities of international relations, this book offers a nuanced and in-depth analysis of contemporary political issues. It goes beyond the headlines, providing readers with a deeper understanding of the underlying forces shaping political dynamics across the globe. Key Features: 1. Global Scope: This book takes a truly global perspective, examining political issues in different regions and exploring their interconnectedness. From North to South, East to West, each chapter offers insights into the unique challenges faced by various nations while also highlighting the shared global concerns that bind us together. 2. Interdisciplinary Approach: I adopt an interdisciplinary approach, drawing on insights from political science, sociology, economics, and other relevant fields. This multifaceted perspective enables readers to grasp the complexity of contemporary political issues and appreciate the interconnected nature of political, economic, and social forces. 3. Critical Analysis: Rather than presenting a mere catalogue of facts, this book encourages critical thinking. Each chapter includes a rigorous analysis of key issues, encouraging readers to question assumptions, consider multiple perspectives, and engage in informed discussions about the future of global politics. 4. Relevance to Everyday Life: The book bridges the gap between academic discourse and real-world relevance. By exploring how political issues impact individuals and communities, it aims to empower readers with the knowledge needed to navigate the complexities of the modern political landscape. 5. Emerging Trends and Future Prospects: Recognizing that the world is in a constant state of flux, the book explores emerging political trends and anticipates future developments. It equips readers with the tools to understand not only the present but also the potential trajectories of global political dynamics. "Contemporary Political Issues: A Global Perspective" is an essential resource for students, scholars, and anyone interested in gaining a comprehensive understanding of the multifaceted and ever-changing world of politics. Through its engaging and accessible style, the book invites readers to embark on a journey of exploration, inquiry, and enlightenment in the realm of contemporary political issues.



Contemporary Politics, Communication, and the Impact on Democracy

Author : Palau-Sampio, Dolors

Publisher : IGI Global

Page : 420 pages

File Size : 40,14 MB

Release : 2021-11-12

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 1799880591

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The loss of credibility of traditional media and democratic institutions points to the important challenges for the democratic system. Social networks have allowed new political and social actors to disseminate their messages, which has raised diversity. However, it has also lowered the standards for the circulation of messages and has increased disinformation and hate speech. Contemporary Politics, Communication, and the Impact on Democracy addresses communication and politics and the impact on democracy. This book offers a valuable contribution regarding the challenges and threats faced by traditional and stable democracies while disinformation, polarization, and populism have a main role in the present hybrid communicative scenario. Covering topics such as digital authoritarianism, emotional and rational frames, and political conflict on social media, this is an essential resource for political scientists, communication specialists, analysts, policymakers, politicians, critical media scholars, graduate students, professors, researchers, and academicians.



Democracies Divided

Author : Thomas Carothers

Publisher : Brookings Institution Press

Page : 298 pages

File Size : 41,98 MB

Release : 2019-09-24

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 081573722X

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“A must-read for anyone concerned about the fate of contemporary democracies.”—Steven Levitsky, co-author of How Democracies Die 2020 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Why divisions have deepened and what can be done to heal them As one part of the global democratic recession, severe political polarization is increasingly afflicting old and new democracies alike, producing the erosion of democratic norms and rising societal anger. This volume is the first book-length comparative analysis of this troubling global phenomenon, offering in-depth case studies of countries as wide-ranging and important as Brazil, India, Kenya, Poland, Turkey, and the United States. The case study authors are a diverse group of country and regional experts, each with deep local knowledge and experience. Democracies Divided identifies and examines the fissures that are dividing societies and the factors bringing polarization to a boil. In nearly every case under study, political entrepreneurs have exploited and exacerbated long-simmering divisions for their own purposes—in the process undermining the prospects for democratic consensus and productive governance. But this book is not simply a diagnosis of what has gone wrong. Each case study discusses actions that concerned citizens and organizations are taking to counter polarizing forces, whether through reforms to political parties, institutions, or the media. The book’s editors distill from the case studies a range of possible ways for restoring consensus and defeating polarization in the world’s democracies. Timely, rigorous, and accessible, this book is of compelling interest to civic activists, political actors, scholars, and ordinary citizens in societies beset by increasingly rancorous partisanship.



Gridlock

Author : Thomas Hale

Publisher : John Wiley & Sons

Page : 223 pages

File Size : 14,74 MB

Release : 2013-07-11

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 0745670105

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The issues that increasingly dominate the 21st century cannot be solved by any single country acting alone, no matter how powerful. To manage the global economy, prevent runaway environmental destruction, reign in nuclear proliferation, or confront other global challenges, we must cooperate. But at the same time, our tools for global policymaking - chiefly state-to-state negotiations over treaties and international institutions - have broken down. The result is gridlock, which manifests across areas via a number of common mechanisms. The rise of new powers representing a more diverse array of interests makes agreement more difficult. The problems themselves have also grown harder as global policy issues penetrate ever more deeply into core domestic concerns. Existing institutions, created for a different world, also lock-in pathological decision-making procedures and render the field ever more complex. All of these processes - in part a function of previous, successful efforts at cooperation - have led global cooperation to fail us even as we need it most. Ranging over the main areas of global concern, from security to the global economy and the environment, this book examines these mechanisms of gridlock and pathways beyond them. It is written in a highly accessible way, making it relevant not only to students of politics and international relations but also to a wider general readership.



Power Politics

Author : Clif Stratton

Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA

Page : 176 pages

File Size : 41,5 MB

Release : 2020-08-17

Category : Energy consumption

ISBN : 9780190696221

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"A higher education history textbook that focuses on carbon energy in world history. This is part of the Roots of Contemporary Issues series"--



Contemporary Native American Political Issues

Author : Troy R. Johnson

Publisher : Rowman Altamira

Page : 334 pages

File Size : 16,92 MB

Release : 1999

Category : Law

ISBN : 9780761990611

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Moving into the 21st century, Native American, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian communities remain culturally vibrant and politically innovative as they continue to struggle for survival on many fronts. Editor Troy R. Johnson has assembled a volume of top scholarship from which emerge the complexity and diversity of Native American political life. Each topical section is introduced by the editor's own commentaries, which provide background and integrated analyses of the issues at hand. These are followed by informative and critical studies, many drawn from the American Indian Culture and Research Journal, which offer grounded experiences and perspectives from a variety of Native American political settings.



Global Trends 2040

Author : National Intelligence Council

Publisher : Cosimo Reports

Page : 158 pages

File Size : 14,91 MB

Release : 2021-03

Category :

ISBN : 9781646794973

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"The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic marks the most significant, singular global disruption since World War II, with health, economic, political, and security implications that will ripple for years to come." -Global Trends 2040 (2021) Global Trends 2040-A More Contested World (2021), released by the US National Intelligence Council, is the latest report in its series of reports starting in 1997 about megatrends and the world's future. This report, strongly influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic, paints a bleak picture of the future and describes a contested, fragmented and turbulent world. It specifically discusses the four main trends that will shape tomorrow's world: - Demographics-by 2040, 1.4 billion people will be added mostly in Africa and South Asia. - Economics-increased government debt and concentrated economic power will escalate problems for the poor and middleclass. - Climate-a hotter world will increase water, food, and health insecurity. - Technology-the emergence of new technologies could both solve and cause problems for human life. Students of trends, policymakers, entrepreneurs, academics, journalists and anyone eager for a glimpse into the next decades, will find this report, with colored graphs, essential reading.



Global Political Economy

Author : Ronen Palan

Publisher : Psychology Press

Page : 310 pages

File Size : 29,98 MB

Release : 2000

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 0415204887

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The text aims to provide succinct summaries of topical, wide-ranging issues and controversies, presenting a compact guide which should be of use to students and lecturers in IPE and international relations.



Global Transformations

Author : David Held

Publisher : Stanford University Press

Page : 548 pages

File Size : 21,58 MB

Release : 1999

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 9780804736275

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In this book, the authors set forth a new model of globalization that lays claims to supersede existing models, and then use this model to assess the way the processes of globalization have operated in different historic periods in respect to political organization, military globalization, trade, finance, corporate productivity, migration, culture, and the environment. Each of these topics is covered in a chapter which contrasts the contemporary nature of globalization with that of earlier epochs. In mapping the shape and political consequences of globalization, the authors concentrate on six states in advanced capitalist societies (SIACS): the United States, the United Kingdom, Sweden, France, Germany, and Japan. For comparative purposes, other states—particularly those with developing economics—are referred to and discussed where relevant. The book concludes by systematically describing and assessing contemporary globalization, and appraising the implications of globalization for the sovereignty and autonomy of SIACS. It also confronts directly the political fatalism that surrounds much discussion of globalization with a normative agenda that elaborates the possibilities for democratizing and civilizing the unfolding global transformation.



International Political Economy in the 21st Century

Author : Roy Smith

Publisher : Taylor & Francis

Page : 361 pages

File Size : 39,28 MB

Release : 2017-02-10

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 1317612744

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Understanding of the theories that underpin international political economy (IPE), and their practical applications, is crucial to the study of international relations, politics, development and economics. This is a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the field, with an engaging and coherent foundation to the subject. It considers traditional and alternative approaches to IPE, and in doing so elucidates key concepts, assumptions and the intellectual and historical context in which they arose and developed. At all times, it makes clear their relevance to issues from trade, finance and government, to environment, technology, health, labour, security, migration, development and culture. The book encourages independent reflection and critical thinking through a range of in-text guiding features. In addition, each chapter presents theoretical analysis alongside contemporary issues, helping the reader to relate to the real world of IPE and to better understand how theory helps inform interpretation of it. New to this edition: comprehensively updated to include key coverage of the post-2015 framework of the Sustainable Development Goals, the financial crisis and international government responses - successful or otherwise - to recent challenges; fully updated data, reflective questions, recommended readings, concept and example boxes, and illustrations; new chapters on health, migration and labour; additional coverage of trade theories and key contemporary issues, such as national versus human security, economic versus human development and illegal networks in global trade.