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1. Framing the economic sustainability of oil economies -- 2. Fiscal sustainability, the labour market, and growth in Saudi Arabia -- 3. Outlook for producer economies -- 4. Economic diversification in Arab oil-exporting countries in the context of peak oil and the energy transition -- 5. Economic Diversification and Sustainable Development of GCC Countries -- 6. Redefining economic sustainability in resource-rich states: Comparative lessons -- 7. Fuel and electricity reform for economic sustainability in the Gulf -- 8. Fiscal sustainability and hydrocarbon endowment per capita in the GCC -- 9. GCC fiscal reforms and labor market policies -- 10. Economic diversification and job creation in the Arab Gulf countries: Applying a value chain perspective -- 11. Climate strategy for producer countries: The case of Saudi Arabia -- 12. The sustainability of GCC development under the new global oil order.

This insightful book provides a unified repository of information on jihadist terrorism. Offering an integrated treatment of terrorist groups, zones of armed conflict and counter-terrorism responses from liberal democratic states, it presents fresh empirical perspectives on the origins and progression of conflict, and contemporary global measures to combat terrorist activity.

Corruption and ineffectiveness are often expected of public servants in developing countries, however some groups within these states are distinctly more effective and public oriented than the rest. Why? Patchwork Leviathan explains how a few spectacularly effective state organizations manage to thrive amid general institutional weakness and succeed against impressive odds. Drawing on the Hobbesian image of the state as Leviathan, Erin Metz McDonnell argues that many seemingly weak states have instead a wide range of administrative capacities. Such states are in fact patchworks sewn loosely together from scarce resources into the semblance of unity. McDonnell demonstrates that when the human, cognitive, and material resources of bureaucracy are rare, it is critically important how they are distributed. Too often, scarce bureaucratic resources are scattered throughout the state, yielding little effect. McDonnell reveals how a sufficient concentration of resources clustered within particular pockets of a state can be transformative, enabling distinctively effective organizations to emerge from a sea of ineffectiveness. Patchwork Leviathan presents offers a comprehensive analysis of successful statecraft in institutionally challenging environments, drawing on cases from contemporary Ghana and Nigeria, mid-twentieth-century Kenya and Brazil, and China in the early twentieth century. Based on nearly two years of pioneering fieldwork in West Africa, this incisive book explains how these highly effective pockets differ from the Western bureaucracies on which so much state and organizational theory is based, providing a fresh answer to why well-funded global capacity-building reforms fail-and how they can do better

Frankreich steht seit dem Wahlsieg von E .Macron vor deutlichen Veränderungen. Macron ist aber nicht Auslöser, sondern Ausdruck des Zerfalls der alten politischen Kräfte und der Polarisierung, die vornehmlich die Rechte betreibt. Steuert Frankreich aus der sprichwörtlichen Malaise? Ein Debattenband. Rezension: Die Antipoden M. LePen und E. Macron (zuletzt J. Heye, 2017; A. Fulda, 2017) haben in diesem Jahr wohl die gröt︢e Aufmerksamkeit beansprucht. Dieser Band spiegelt einige Beiträge aus einem Kongress in Wien im Mai 2017 und ist nicht nur für ein wissenschaftliches Publikum gedacht. Er beleuchtet in 15 Beiträgen multiperspektivisch die aktuelle Lage ausgehend von Politik und Krise der V. Republik, die Sozial- und Wirtschaftspolitik, die Rolle der Zivilgesellschaft und die in Frankreich immer besonders virulente Frage von Stadt und Land. Man habe sich in letzter Zeit angewöhnt, die Europäische Union vor allem aus deutscher Sicht zu beurteilen, Deutschland als Zugpferd Nr.1 zu sehen und Frankreich unter dem Begriff der "Malaise" zu subsumieren. Vielmehr habe Europa von einem deutsch-französischen Tandem profitiert. Der Band eignet sich als diskursive Ergänzung zu den Länderkunden von G. Liehr (2016) und H. Uterwedde (2017) und bei einschlägigem Publikumsinteresse für aktuelle Bestände. Anmerkungen bei den Beiträgen, Autorenporträts. (2-3)

Die Artikel des Sonderbandes befassen sich mit unterschiedlichen Ost-West-Migra­tionswellen der letzten 20 Jahre. Gastarbeiter aus der Türkei und Jugoslawien, Flüchtlingswellen im Balkankrieg nach Europa, Migration und ethnische Konflikte an den Randgebieten der ehemaligen Sowjetunion und Arbeitskräftemobilität innerhalb eines vereinten Europas sind die wichtigsten Themenfelder. Mit Rückblick auf die Herausforderungen der letzten 20 Jahre erkennt man viele Gemeinsamkeiten mit den heutigen Problemen. Die Frage stellt sich nun: Hat Europa etwas aus der jüngsten Geschichte gelernt?Mit Beiträgen von:Prof. William Bagatelas; Martin Baldwin-Edwards, Dr. Jens Becker, Ass.Prof. Dr. Biljana Čavkoska, PhD; Prof. Dr. Birsen Ersel; Evangelos Evangelou; Dr. Deniz Genc; Stella Georgieva; Ágnes Hárs, PhD; Susanne Huth; Violeta Ivanova; Prof. Dr. Marion Moehle; Giacomo Morabito, PhD; Angela Munteanu; Prof. Dr. Rossitsa Rangelova; Dr. Lela Rekhviashvili, PhD; Dr. Anna Rocheva; Viorel Rotilă, PhD; Stefano Ruvolo; Prof. Bruno Sergi; Arben Tabaku, MSc; Prof. Dr. Ilia Telo; Prof. Katia Vladimirova; Prof. Dr. Drenka Vuković; Dr. Chris F. Wright; Dr. Kerstin Zimmer, PhD.

Zimbabwe is in a state of crisis. Once an African success story, the country has slipped into a downward spiral and is fast becoming a threat to both political and economic stability in the region. An optimistic time frame is now estimated to be ten years. This books chronicles the steps that led to the downturn of the Zimbabwean state and economy before assessing what can be done to resuscitate this once-thriving society.

"On September 30, 2005, the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published twelve cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. Five months later, thousands of Muslims inundated the newspaper with outpourings of anger and grief by phone, email, and fax; from Asia to Europe Muslims took to the streets in protest. This book is the first comprehensive investigation of the conflict that aroused impassioned debates around the world on freedom of expression, blasphemy, and the nature of modern Islam". --Publisher

The final chapter? : the Iraq War and the end of history / Lloyd C. Gardner -- The Vietnam laugh track / Marilyn B. Young -- Unraveling the domestic foreign policy consensus : presidential rhetoric, American public opinion, and the wars in Vietnam and Iraq / Richard A. Melanson -- Iraq and Vietnam : military lessons and legacies / Richard Lock-Pullan -- A national symphony of theft, corruption and bribery? : anatomy of state building from Iraq to Vietnam / James M. Carter -- Vietnam, victory culture and Iraq : struggling with lessons, constraints and credibility from Saigon to Falluja / David Ryan -- Europe's Vietnam syndrome : America and the quagmire of Iraq / Jon Roper -- No more Vietnams : Iraq and the analogy conundrum / Trevor B. Mccrisken -- Vietnam and Iraq : strategy, exit and syndrome / John Mueller -- Falling dominoes : the United States, Vietnam and the war in Iraq / Matthew Masur -- The Iraq and Vietnam wars : some parallels and connections / John Dumbrell