Prominent in the EU's recent transformations has been the tendency to advance extraordinary measures in the name of crisis response. From emergency lending to macro-economics, border management to Brexit, policies are pursued unconventionally and as measures of last resort. This book investigates the nature, rise, and implications of this politics of emergency as it appears in the transnational setting. As the author argues, recourse to this method of rule is an expression of the deeper weakness of executive power in today's Europe. It is how policy-makers contend with rising socio-economic power and diminishing representative ties, seeking fall-back authority in the management of crises. In the structure of the EU they find incentives and few impediments. Whereas political exceptionalism tends to be associated with sovereign power, here it is power's diffusion and functional disaggregation that spurs politics in the emergency mode. The effect of these governing patterns is not just to challenge and reshape ideas of EU legitimacy rooted in constitutionalism and technocracy. The politics of emergency fosters a counter-politics in its mirror image, as populists and others play with themes of necessity and claim the right to disobedience in extremis. The book examines the prospects for democracy once the politics of emergency takes hold, and what it might mean to put transnational politics on a different footing.

Politics of Last Resort: Governing by Emergency in the European Union

White, Jonathan

Foreign & International Law

Oxford University Press

For a century at least, parties have been central to the study of politics. Yet their typical conceptual reduction to a network of power-seeking elites has left many to wonder why parties were ever thought crucial to democracy. This book seeks to retrieve a richer conception of partisanship, drawing on modern political thought and extending it in the light of contemporary democratic theory and practice. Looking beyond the party as organization, the book develops an original account of what it is to be a partisan. It examines the ideas, orientations, obligations, and practices constitutive of partisanship properly understood, and how these intersect with the core features of democratic life. Such an account serves to underline in distinctive fashion why democracy needs its partisans, and puts in relief some of the key trends of contemporary politics.

The Meaning of Partisanship

Politics & Social Sciences

Ypi, Lea

Politics & Government

Packed with engrossing examples and the most cutting-edge coverage available, bestselling TERRORISM AND HOMELAND SECURITY, 10th Edition, provides a theoretical and conceptual framework that enables you to understand how terrorism arises and functions. Acclaimed national terrorism experts Jonathan R. White and Steven M. Chermak discuss the theories of the world's best terrorist analysts. You'll learn about the historical background on the phenomenon of terrorism, the roots of contemporary conflicts, current conflicts shaping the world stage, emerging groups and Homeland Security organizations -- including controversies surrounding human rights and protecting civil liberties. In addition, MindTap digital learning solution helps you master key concepts through engaging video cases, career scenarios and more.

Terrorism and Homeland Security, Loose-leaf Version

Chermak, Steven

Social Sciences

Cengage Learning'

Basic Math and Pre-Algebra
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Science & Math

Stimmel, Teri

Searcy, Scott

Lutz, Danielle

Mathematics

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Italian Cultural Lineages (Toronto Italian Studies)

In Italian Cultural Lineages, Jonathan White seeks answers to the elusive questions: what is Italian culture and what is the Italian identity? By tracing Italian life and art through several themes - viewing and spectatorship, fantasy, passion, justice, reputation, and lifestyles - White offers new ways of perceiving an ancient cultural tradition in the twenty-first century. In doing so, he challenges readers to discern rich poetic seams that bind together his varied subject matter. Italian Cultural Lineages is primarily concerned with factors that unify Italians, however geographically dispersed they may be. Drawing on extensive archival and historical research, White shows how oftentimes Italian cultural traditions that appear to be extinct are, in fact, enduring - pushed out of the mainstream or submerged at some given point in history, only to re-surface and take on new meanings at a later date. Other, more marginal currents might disrupt and fragment Italian identity, politically and socially. However, White proposes that the challenge to Italy in these new and difficult lessons in tolerance has the potential to produce a much stronger culture, primed to welcome the marginal into an expanded spirit of all that counts as Italian. Ideally suited to course use, and written with great lucidity, Italian Cultural Lineages will prove fascinating to students, academics, and general readers alike.

University of Toronto Press

In Italian Cultural Lineages, Jonathan White seeks answers to the elusive questions: what is Italian culture and what is the Italian identity? By tracing Italian life and art through several themes - viewing and spectatorship, fantasy, passion, justice, reputation, and lifestyles - White offers new ways of perceiving an ancient cultural tradition in the twenty-first century. In doing so, he challenges readers to discern rich poetic seams that bind together his varied subject matter. 
Italian Cultural Lineages is primarily concerned with factors that unify Italians, however geographically dispersed they may be. Drawing on extensive archival and historical research, White shows how oftentimes Italian cultural traditions that appear to be extinct are, in fact, enduring - pushed out of the mainstream or submerged at some given point in history, only to re-surface and take on new meanings at a later date. Other, more marginal currents might disrupt and fragment Italian identity, politically and socially. However, White proposes that the challenge to Italy in these new and difficult lessons in tolerance has the potential to produce a much stronger culture, primed to welcome the marginal into an expanded spirit of all that counts as Italian. Ideally suited to course use, and written with great lucidity, Italian Cultural Lineages will prove fascinating to students, academics, and general readers alike.

Since 1983, the Resource Institute, headed by Jonathan White, has held an ongoing series of "floating seminars" aboard a 65-foot schooner, events led by leading thinkers and artists in a broad array of disciplines. Ten years in the making, here is a sparkling collection of interviews, conducted by White, with the writers, scientists, environmentalists, and poets that gathered on board to explore our relationship to the wild. Readers can listen to science fiction writer Ursula K. Le Guin discuss the nature of language; microbiologist Lynn Margulis contemplate Darwin's career and the many meanings of evolution and anthropologist Richard Nelson talk about the spiritual life of Alaska's native people. Rounding out the group are such visionaries as writers Gretel Ehrlich, Paul Shepard, and Peter Matthiessen, conservationists David Brower and Roger Payne, theologian Matthew Fox, activist Janet McCloud, Jungian analyst James Hillman, poet Gary Snyder, and ecologist Dolores LaChapelle. By identifying the common link between these conversations, we embark on the search for a deeper and more meaningful understanding of ourselves and the environment.

Talking on the Water: Conversations About Nature and Creativity

History

Random House, Inc.

TRUE TALES OF A MODERN ADVENTURER Pirates, parrots, hurricanes and Himalayas. Stalked by jaguars in the jungle of Guatemala! Will they survive pirates off Costa Rica? How does he escape war in Kashmir?"Jon’s stories are wonderful. I would liken them to Jack Kerouac’s, in that his stories want me to seek adventure, damn the danger!” wrote one reviewer.Hanging out with Jim Morrison, surviving a huge tornado at sea, saving the life of a lone fisherman helpless in a storm…Whether you are a landlubber or sailor, an armchair adventurer or world traveler, you’ll understand why everyone said he should write a book…

Everyone Said I Should Write a Book: The Travels and Adventure of a Sailor and Explorer

Travel

Caribbean

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

THE SEQUEL TO THE ACCLAIMED FIRST BOOK! Following the success of his first book, Jon is back with more true life adventures of a well-lived, vivid and sometimes precarious life. "I must say, I really enjoyed this book. I'm not a sailing person, but I am a traveler and so for that reason, I loved reading about Jon's adventures. His short stories were all very worth telling," one lady reviewer wrote. Venture with him (and his wife) as he runs from angry, wild monkeys on an island off Panama. Get locked up in jail in Iran! Experience the magic of carnival in Brazil and an encounter with Jimmy Buffett in the Caribbean. Defend yourself from a homicidal crewman aboard a sailboat delivery hundreds of miles out in the ocean. These real life adventures and more will keep you captivated and turning the pages as thousands have done with his first book...

Everyone Said I Should Write Another Book: More Travels and Adventures of a Sailor and Explorer (Everyone Said I Should Write a Book)

Central America

The third and final book in the successful trilogy. True life tales of a sailor and adventurer. The closing days of 'Ladyhawke'. What happens on the Turkish mountain? The voyage of 'JoJo' is nearly thwarted by Croatian thieves! 'Imagine' goes on a reef! Enjoy these adventures and more...

Everyone Said I Should Write A Third Book: Blimey! Even More Travels and Adventures of a Sailor and Explorer (Everyone Said I Should Write a Book)

Biographies & Memoirs

Travelers & Explorers

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Politics of Last Resort: Governing by Emergency in the European Union

The Meaning of Partisanship

Terrorism and Homeland Security, Loose-leaf Version

CliffsNotes Basic Math and Pre-Algebra Practice Pack with CD

Italian Cultural Lineages (Toronto Italian Studies)

Italian Cultural Lineages (Toronto Italian Studies)

Talking on the Water: Conversations About Nature and Creativity

Everyone Said I Should Write a Book: The Travels and Adventure of a Sailor and Explorer

Everyone Said I Should Write Another Book: More Travels and Adventures of a Sailor and Explorer (Everyone Said I Should Write a Book)

Everyone Said I Should Write A Third Book: Blimey! Even More Travels and Adventures of a Sailor and Explorer (Everyone Said I Should Write a Book)