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With globalization on the wane in a world fractured by growing great power competition, Hoo and McKinney argue that regionalism is likely to re-emerge as a focal area of significance and interest in the coming years. In Asia, how regionalism evolves is inescapably linked to China's part in this story. Hoo, McKinney and their contributors will help readers better understand regionalism as it is approached, conceived and practiced by China. Looking past the conventional attention on the Belt-Road Initiative, the contributors examine the evolving perspectives on regionalism within China, the forms which this regionalism has taken and the implications for the strategic order in Asia. This includes a focus on newer architecture such as the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB); lesser-known mechanisms such as the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia (CICA) and the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC); and more traditional ones such as the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). A valuable resource for scholars and students of China's foreign relations, and of Asian regionalism and strategic order.

This book challenges the orthodox discourse on leadership - often expressed in heroic and individualistic terms - and presents leadership as a practice within which communication, research, imagination and ethical judgements are continuously improvised. It suggests how leaders might become more politically, emotionally and socially savvy.

This book unifies and extends the definition and measurement of economic efficiency and its use as a real-life benchmarking technique for actual organizations. Analytically, the book relies on the economic theory of duality as guiding framework. Empirically, it shows how the alternative models can be implemented by way of Data Envelopment Analysis. An accompanying software programmed in the open-source Julia language is used to solve the models. The package is a self-contained set of functions that can be used for individual learning and instruction. The source code, associated documentation, and replication notebooks are available online. The book discusses the concept of economic efficiency at the firm level, comparing observed to optimal economic performance, and its decomposition according to technical and allocative criteria. Depending on the underlying technical efficiency measure, economic efficiency can be decomposed multiplicatively or additively. Part I of the book deals with the classic multiplicative approach that decomposes cost and revenue efficiency based on radial distance functions. Subsequently, the book examines how these partial approaches can be expanded to the notion of profitability efficiency, considering both the input and output dimensions of the firm, and relying on the generalized distance function for the measurement of technical efficiency. Part II is devoted to the recent additive framework related to the decomposition of economic inefficiency defined in terms of cost, revenue, and profit. The book presents economic models for the Russell and enhanced graph Russell measures, the weighted additive distance function, the directional distance function, the modified directional distance function, and the Holder distance function. Each model is presented in a separate chapter. New approaches that qualify and generalize previous results are also introduced in the last chapters, including the reverse directional distance function and the general direct approach. The book concludes by highlighting the importance of benchmarking economic efficiency for all business stakeholders and recalling the main conclusions obtained from many years of research on this topic. The book offers different alternatives to measure economic efficiency based on a set of desirable properties and advises on the choice of specific economic efficiency models.

This book evaluates local conservation successes of global south in the climate milieu, as an empirical evidence of Bio-rights of commons at community-ecosystem interface for sustainable intensification of natures goods and services. Bio-rights is a right-based neo-economic conservation paradigm that compensates the opportunity costs incurred in conservation efforts by the marginal communities, living near globally important ecosystems and dependent on it for their livelihood, through payments from environment services. The book would bring forth the true value of circular economic interventions in socio-ecological conservation, shaped through sustainable human interactions with nature. This multilevel study of conservation science serves an interdisciplinary academia, consistent with conventions on climate change, bio-diversity and sustainable development, to establish links between conservation priorities and development objectives. Herein, Bio-rights is introduced as a design approach for production linked sustainable development, supplemented with case studies from the east.

The 2019 European Electoral Campaign: in the time of populism and social media examines political advertising during the 2019 elections to the European Parliament, which has become the largest supranational campaign of its kind in the world. Based on a research project funded by the European Parliament, and an archive of more than 11,000 campaign items, the book draws on results from a major content analysis covering every one of the 28 member states involved. The 2019 European Electoral Campaign delivers a unique comparative assessment on the state of political communication within a European Union convulsed by momentous change. This book will be of interest to scholars, researchers and students of political communication, media, political science, history, European (Union) studies as well as a wider readership including politicians, political strategists, and journalists. Edoardo Novelli is Professor at the University Roma Tre, Italy, where he teaches Political Communication and Media Sociology. His research interests focus on political communication, history of propaganda, electoral campaigns and on the relationship between politics, media and images. He is the responsible for the digital archive of Italian political commercials (www.archivispotpolitici.it) and principal investigator of the European Election Monitoring Center 20-23 (www.electionsmonitoringcenter.eu). Bengt Johansson is Professor in Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. His research and teaching focus on political communication and crisis communication. He is currently co-editor of the Journal of Visual Political Communication and is the principal investigator of Swedish Media Election Studies. Dominic Wring is Professor of Political Communication at Loughborough University, UK. His research and teaching interests are in politics, campaigning, advertising and public relations and recently he co-directed a real-time news media analysis of the 2019 General Election in the UK. .

This book explores the implications of descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive digital enterprises and their practices for different functional domains and in different counties during COVID-19. This book will bring new dimensions of study to the concept of digital enterprises which is sure to change after COVID-19 as it has upended the way in which people work, live and communicate. Covering a broad range of topics related to digital enterprises, this book is meant for business owners, digital professionals, managers, researchers, and academics who are seeking to integrate digital enterprises in order to allow organizations and countries to stay on a sustainable development trajectory while living with COVID-19. Subhra R Mondal, Ph.D. is working as senior research fellow with Institute of Development Economics Research, University of Economics, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Her research interests are brand management, brand equity with innovative tools, smart tourism, destination marketing, social media marketing, AI & Web 5.0, and digital recruitment. She has published 25 publications indexed with WoS and Scopus along with 2 books and 12 scientific monographs. She has over 12+ years of experience in research and teaching. She is associated with different collaborative projects in European and Vietnamese organizations. Jana Majerova, PhD. works as academic and research staff at AMBIS University, a.s. (Prague, Czech Republic) and as an Assoc. Prof. at University of Zilina (Zilina, Slovak Republic). Her professional and research activities are focused on the issue of the Sustainable brand management and bankruptcy law. She has authored more than 170 publications: 4 scientific monographs; 3 university textbooks; 1 script; 36 publications in journals registered in WoS or SCOPUS and more than 80 papers published in conference proceedings. Subhankar Das (Academician, Researcher, Author, Writer, Blogger, Data Science trainer, Social Media Marketing Consultant) received his Ph.D. in Social Media Advertisement & Media Planning. He has 12+ years of teaching and research experience. He is currently associated as senior research fellow with Institute of Development Economics Research, University of Economics, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. He has published 20+ Research Papers in various International Referred Journals (Scopus, Thomson Reuters, SSCI, SCIE).

The hallmark of this book is its conversational format. The conversations are organic: no jargons, no additives such as equations and tables. Each conversation comes in bite-size, taking no more than ten minutes to digest. Li Way Lee is a professor emeritus at Wayne State University, USA. He is a founding member of the Society for the Advancement of Behavioral Economics (SABE). Aaron Keathley is an undergraduate student at Wayne State University, USA. He plays lacrosse on the university team, helps with food banks in Detroit, and immerses himself in behavioral economics and political science.

This book provides a valuable overview of concrete negotiations in industry and business and shows ways to achieve successful negotiation breakthroughs. It brings together the aspects of negotiation preparation, negotiation execution, negotiation psychology, and negotiation success that have often been perceived separately until now. The authors provide helpful recommendations for effectively taking into account intercultural elements as well. This book is particularly interesting for employees in development, quality management, purchasing, production, marketing and sales who negotiate prices, performance characteristics of products and services and quality characteristics with customers or suppliers. In addition to the structured six-step approach, psychological and nonverbal tools are also explained in a practical and clear manner, leading negotiators to a successful negotiation conclusion.

This book aims to explore the development model of Great Bay Area (GBA) of China as economic engine under the context of open policy. Based on comprehensive research, both theoretically and practically, on the leading free ports in the world and the regional development of well-known bay areas, it analyzes the challenges and opportunities of GBA synergetic free ports. A series of initiatives on the development of GBA synergetic free ports are proposed, including the synergy of space, industry, finance, technological innovation, institution, social governance, and personnel. Also, it ends with a system dynamic model to simulate the regional impact on GBA synergetic free ports, which indicates that economic development, trade, government finance, and population agglomeration would be improved significantly, in the GBA synergetic free ports scenario.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is everywhere, yet it causes damage to society in ways that can't be fixed. Calling for the restructuring of AI, Dan McQuillan sets out an anti-fascist approach that replaces exclusions with caring and outlines new mechanisms that support collective freedom.

Social work education and interventions with Black African families are frequently impaired because of discrimination, racism and the structuring priorities of neoliberalism. Rooted in rich and fascinating empirical work with practitioners and educators, this urgent, scholarly and accessible book emphasises that 'Black Lives Matter'. Intent on nurturing more progressive and pluralistic practices in pedagogy and practice, the book is a timely and significant contribution seeking to remake social work approaches to issues of 'race', racism and social justice.

Quels sont les entrecroisements possibles entre les concepts de diversité et de vulnérabilité. Leur usage combiné amorce-t-il les fondements d'un regard nouveau sur la pensée et les pratiques politiques et sociales ?

Felix Anderl's book is a stimulating analysis of the decline of the social movement against the World Bank and the rise of a new form of transnational rule. The book observes international organizations and social movements in their interaction, demonstrating how social movements are divided and ruled in the absence of a ruler.

Drawing on post-structural political theory, this book explores two concepts used to make sense of our disturbed reality: the state and the network. It argues that, in order to better understand today's world, we must pull apart the familiar lines of our maps to find new insights and opportunities for a better future.