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This book explores regionalism in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and highlights the influence of the European Union (EU) as an extra-regional actor on the organization and integration process. The analysis is guided by theory and explains the emergence, institutional design and performance of SADC's major integration projects in the issue areas of the economy, security and infrastructure. It provides in this way a profound assessment of the organization as a whole. The study shows that South Africa plays a regional key role as driver for integration while external influence of the EU is ambivalent in character because it unfolds a supportive or obstructive impact. The author argues that the EU gains influence over regional integration processes in the SADC on the basis of patterns of asymmetric interdependence and becomes a "game-changer" insofar as it facilitates or impedes solutions to regional cooperation problems.

In Anlehnung an die berühmte Kontroverse zwischen Nobert Elias und Hans Peter Duerr um die Frage der Entstehung der Schamgrenzen im Verhältnis von Körper und Kultur wendet sich dieser Sammelband in inter- und transdisziplinärer Weise der 'Nacktheit im Mittelalter' zu. In 18 Beiträgen aus der gesamten Bandbreite geisteswissenschaftlicher Disziplinen (Geschichte, Islamwissenschaften, Kunstgeschichte, Latinistik, Literaturwissenschaften, Theologie und Philosophie) werden verschiedenste Aspekte entblößter Körper behandelt und umfassend, teilweise mit reichem Bildmaterial dargestellt.

Es handelt sich um Zusatzmaterial zu einem voraussichtlich Ende 2023 erscheinenden Beitrag zum Sammelband von: Garsztecki, Stefan; Laux, Thomas; Nebelin Marian (Hrsg.): Brennpunkte der »neuen« Rechten. Globale Entwicklungen und die Lage in Sachsen. Bielefeld: transcript. Das Zusatzmaterial enthält eine PDF-Datei mit methodischen Anmerkungen und Erläuterungen. Außerdem werden die R-Skripte für die Clusteranalyse und QCA sowie die dazugehörigen Rohdaten zur Verfügung gestellt.

"This book analyses the role of institutionalised summits in international governance, adding a fresh perspective to the controversial debate over the value of institutionalised summits for international governance. It argues that the contribution of these summits to negotiating and implementing international agreements on policy change is ambivalent. Based on an innovative theoretical model it proposes that states strategically select summits with their specific institutional design for advancing their policy preferences. Developing the route to the summit and the route from the summit as precise causal mechanisms, it argues that these choices explain the ambivalence of summit involvement. With empirically rich case studies on the G7 and the European Council, the book provides a rare systematic comparison of different summits. The empirical record shows strikingly similar patterns for G7 and European Council, but it also points to variation deserving further attention in the study of summits in different institutional environments. It will be of interest to researchers in International Relations, Global Governance and European Politics, and those interested in global institutions and decision-making"--

This book explores the stark stratification and struggles over classifications in US academia from a relational perspective, looking beyond material differences and tracing its roots to symbolic power relations. Based on a mixed methods study drawing on both interview and quantitative data, it offers an account of the workings of academia, shedding light on the structures that permit elite departments to define categories and impose legitimate scientific definitions, to which the non-elite must adhere. With a focus on two scientific disciplines, the author shows how the translation of objective structures into mental structures establishes a relationship of power with regard to the definition of scientific categories, thus determining access to resources and opportunities to participate and move within the academic field. A study of the unequal intrusion of economic logics into the academic domain, this volume will appeal to scholars, policy makers and institutional leaders with interests in higher education, inequality within science, academic careers, power relationships and competition in the academy.