Geopolitik

Sport can be a vehicle for the expression of identity, and also a factor in the shaping of identity. This book explores the complex interrelationships between nations, regions and states in the landscape of contemporary international sport, with a particular focus on identity.Exploring important themes such as the geopolitics of sports events, contested identities, and ownership of sport and its impact on sporting cultures, the book presents contemporary and historical cases from around the world, including football in a divided Ireland; sport and the anti-Apartheid movement; Chinese sporting nationalism and soft power; and the role of sport media in the shaping of Catalan identity.This is an important resource for students and researchers working in Sports Studies, Sports Journalism, Sports Management Studies, Sports Marketing, Football Studies, Sport and Identity Studies, Sociology of Sport Studies, and Cultural Studies.

Why do people become divided?What steps can we all take to reduce hostility and bring about understanding?Poles Apart has the answers.In Poles Apart, an expert on polarisation, a behavioural scientist and a professional communicator explain why we are so prone to be drawn into rival, often deeply antagonistic factions. They explore the shaping force of our genetic make-up on our fundamental views and the nature of the influences that family, friends and peers exert. They pinpoint the economic and political triggers that tip people from healthy disagreement to dangerous hostility, and the part played by social media in spreading entrenched opinions. And they help us to understand why outlooks that can seem so bizarre and extreme to us seem so eminently sensible to those who hold them.Above all, they show what practical and effective steps we can all take to narrow divisions, build respect for others, and create a greater degree of common understanding.____________________________________________________'Poles Apart is an extraordinary achievement: fresh, deeply authoritative, and entertaining on every page. Everyone talks about polarisation, but no one does it like Goldsworthy, Osborne, and Chesterfield. You'll finish this book wiser, kinder, and more hopeful than when you started it.' Jamie Susskind, author of Future Politics'A fascinating and thought-provoking analysis of the divisions between us, how we bridge them, how we reshape the world - and ourselves too. Essential reading.' Cathy Newman, presenter of Channel 4 News and author'Asks the best question I have ever heard. And, critically, offers solutions. A must read.' Rory Sutherland, Vice Chairman of Ogilvy UK, and author of Alchemy'Technology may have connected the world, but it's now being exploited to divide and polarise us. This is a pivotal moment for this book to be written, read and understood.' Peter Gabriel, musician

A wide-ranging examination of Islamist rule across the world, from constitutional movements like Tunisia's Ennahda to the violent rejectionism of IS.

A searing indictment of how Afghan elites and the Western powers pulled the rug on the Afghan people, abandoning them to their fate.

The authors of this collection address the fears and hopes of our future progress toward a better world in various ways and differing styles.

Although the mandates are lifting, Klaus Schwab's globalist agenda carries forth. Schwab's vision of a Great Reset wraps the entire world so firmly in the grip of the elites' hands that all countries and societies will fearfully await the next lockdown or mandate. Journalist and activist KM Patten discusses this agenda, as well as exposing the mindset of the minions helping to make it a reality.

Wir leben in einer unruhigen und beunruhigenden Zeit!Europa ist auf die neue Zeit schlecht vorbereitet!Europa muss handlungsfähiger werden!Europa braucht verlässliche geopolitische Partner!Europa muss seine sicherheitspolitischen Anstrengungen deutlich verstärken!Europa muss wirtschaftlich resilienter, souveräner und innovativer werden!Europa muss sich seiner Identität versichern!

American intelligence agencies tell Trump that Russia interfered in the 2016 election, but at a press conference following their summit in Helsinki, Trump chooses to give Putin a pass. Back in the White House, his wife Melania will have none of it.

L¿AVENIR nous a souvent fasciné comme horizon d¿attente et objet d¿espérance. Entre les découvertes remarquables et les sidérations dues aux violences de l¿histoire mondiale et à la prise de conscience du désastre environnemental, comment inventer un avenir à l¿époque de l¿Anthropocène ? Comment penser l¿avenir dans un temps suspendu par les crises sanitaire, économique et géopolitique. L¿avenir sera-t-il pris en charge par une démesure techno-économique ? L¿avenir serait-il en train de disparaître (effondrement) ? Et si l¿avenir exigeait de travailler sur les bouleversements des temporalités et des conditions d¿habitabilité de la terre ? Face à la violence, à l¿inefficacité, au leurre, et si l¿avenir était le fruit d¿une résistance, d¿une critique et d¿une utopie ?C¿est cette dernière proposition qui est mise au travail au sein de cet ouvrage collectif. Comment penser l¿articulation entre ces trois fonctions ? Posture critique vis-à-vis de la modernité ; posture utopiste pour continuer, raisonnablement ou pas, d¿espérer ; posture résistante par son ancrage dans le réel et dans les combats actuels. En somme, tenir dans l¿opposition (résistance) à partir de ce qui est identifié comme posant question (critique) pour que l¿avenir espéré puisse advenir (utopie).

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic - at the interlocking levels of politics, economy, and society - have been different across regions, states, and societies. In the case of the Middle East and North Africa, which was already in the throes of intense tumult following the onset of the 2011 Arab Spring, COVID's blows have on the one hand followed the trajectory of some global patterns, while at the same time playing out in regionally specific ways. Based on empirical country-level analysis, this volume brings together an international team of contributors seeking to untangle how COVID-19 unfolds across the MENA. The analyses are framed through a contextual adaptation of Ulrich Beck's famous concept of "risk society" that pinpointed the negative consequences of modernity and its unbridled capitalism. The book traces how this has come home in full force in the COVID-19 pandemic. The editors, Larbi Sadiki and Layla Saleh, use the term "Arab risk society". They highlight short-term and long-term repercussions across the MENA. These include socio-economic inequality, a revitalized state of authoritarianism challenged by relentless democratic struggles. But the analyses are attuned to problem-solving research. The "ethnographies of the pandemic" included in this book investigate transformations and coping mechanisms within each country case study. They provide an ethically-informed research praxis that can respond to the manifold crises crashing down upon MENA polities and societies

Russlands Krieg gegen die Ukraine ist ein weiterer Schritt auf dem Weg in eine konfrontative Ordnung Europas und der Welt. Frieden und Freiheit, Sicherheit und Wohlstand in der EU sind in Gefahr. Im Zentrum eines europäischen Aufbruchs stehen institutionelle Reformen, technologische Kompetenz und militärische Fähigkeiten, aber auch ein enger Schulterschluss mit den USA. Die Welt braucht Europa als Herzkammer des Humanismus.

A gripping and explosive account of Vladimir Putin's tyranny, charting his rise from spy to tsar, exposing the events that led to his invasion of Ukraine and his assault on Europe. In Killer in the Kremlin, award-winning journalist John Sweeney takes readers from the heart of Putin's Russia to the killing fields of Chechnya, to the embattled cities of an invaded Ukraine. In a disturbing expose of Putin's sinister ambition, Sweeney draws on thirty years of his own reporting - from the Moscow apartment bombings to the atrocities committed by the Russian Army in Chechnya, to the annexation of Crimea and a confrontation with Putin over the shooting down of flight MH17 - to understand the true extent of Putin's long war. Drawing on eyewitness accounts and compelling testimony from those who have suffered at Putin's hand, we see the heroism of the Russian opposition, the bravery of the Ukrainian resistance, and the brutality with which the Kremlin responds to such acts of defiance, assassinating or locking away its critics, and stopping at nothing to achieve its imperialist aims.

2022 Reprint of the 1919 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Studying the prerequisites for a stable peace settlement during World War I, the author developed a thesis in political geography that he had first outlined in a paper read to the Royal Geographical Society in 1904, "The Geographical Pivot of History." In it he argued that interior Asia and eastern Europe (the heartland) had become the strategic center of the "World Island" as a result of the relative decline of sea power as against land power and of the economic and industrial development of southern Siberia. His extended views were set out in a short book, Democratic Ideals and Reality, published early in 1919 while the Paris Peace Conference was in session. The role of Britain and the United States, he considered, was to preserve a balance between the powers contending for control of this heartland. As a further stabilizing factor, he urged the creation of a tier of independent states to separate Germany and Russia, much along the lines finally imposed by the peace treaty. The book included, apart from the main theme, many farsighted observations-e.g., his insistence on the "one world" concept, the need for regional organizations of minor powers, and the warning that chaos in a defeated Germany would inevitably lead to dictatorship. The book attracted little attention in Britain but rather more in the United States.Contents: Perspective. -- Social momentum. -- The seaman's point of view. -- The landsman's point of view. -- The rivalry of empires. -- The freedom of nations. -- The freedom of men. -- Postscript. -- Appendix: Note on an incident at the Quai d'Orsay, 25th January, 1919. -- Index.

InhaltVorbemerkung 9Erster Teil 11- Extensive Feindpropaganda 11- Die russische Position 14- Die Strategie der Destabilisierung 17- Eskalation 19- Folgen des Umsturzes und erste Reaktionen Russlands 21- Lügen und Hetze 25- Das Versagen der westlichen Medien 29- Militarisierung 33- Restauration und Indoktrination 37- Bürgerkrieg 43- Taktik und Propaganda 48- Gibt es eine Perspektive für die EU? 50- Erneute Drohungen und Kriegstreiberei 53- Provokationen 56- Anzeichen von Ernüchterung 58- Caveat emptor ¿ Der Käufer trägt das Risiko 61- Die Endlosschleife 66- Vorläufige Waffenruhe 67- Wirtschaftskrieg gegen Russland 70- Freihandel, Klitschko, NATO-Manöver und Proteste in Moskau 73- USA ¿ Kein Vorbild für Frieden und Freiheit 79- Drei Wortmeldungen zur Sache - Rede des russischen Präsidenten zum Beitritt der Krim zur Russischen Föderation 80 - Karl-Wilhelm Lange an Frank-Walter Steinmeier 97 - Willy Wimmer: Alarmstufe ¿Rot¿ 100Zweiter Teil 105- Gelenkte Politik und Meinungsmache 105- Wladimir Putin, Barack Obama und Joe Biden 110- Demagogie 114- Rechtsextremismus, Korruption und Mord 119- Kriegsvorbereitungen 124- Konsequenzen 133- Zwischenbilanz 2015 138Dritter Teil 141- Der Kampf um die Macht 141- Kriegshetze und Hybris 151- Weitere Truppenverlegungen und "Information Warfare" 155- Russland in der Defensive 166- Spionage, Fake News, Indoktrination 170- Hinter den Kulissen 181- Die Ukraine ¿ ein ¿failed state¿ 188- Krieg in Syrien 193- Keine Sanktionen, kein Krieg! 204- Der Machtwechsel in den USA 219- Wladimir Putin: ¿Wir brauchen Freunde¿ 225- Ein Ende des Kalten Krieges? 231- Donald Trump ¿ Hoffnungen und Chaos 236- Erwartungen und offene Fragen 242Bildquellen 253

Warlord is the definitive chronicle of Churchill's crucial role as one of the world's most renowned military leaders, from his early adventures on the North-West Frontier of colonial India and the Boer War through his extraordinary service in both world wars. Using extensive, untapped archival materials, Carlo D'Este illuminates Churchill's character as never before, exploring his strategies behind the major military campaigns of World War I and World War II?both his dazzling successes and disastrous failures?while also revealing his tumultuous relationships with his generals and other commanders, including Dwight D. Eisenhower.As riveting as the man it portrays, Warlord is a masterful, unsparing portrait of one of history's most fascinating and influential leaders during what was arguably the most crucial event in human history.

Terror Threat examines every facet of terrorist operations affecting this country today -- and it does so in a way that shows how serious the danger really is.

George Friedman delivers the geopolitical story that the mainstream media has been unable to uncover - the startling truth behind America's foreign policy and war effort in Afghanistan, Iraq, and beyond.Friedman, founder of Stratfor, one of the world's most respected private global intelligence firms, and Geopolitical Futures, has an unmatched ability to provide clear perspective on the current geopolitical map. In America's Secret War, George Friedman identifies the United States' most dangerous enemies, delves into presidential strategies of the last quarter century, and reveals the real reasons behind the attack of 9/11-and the Bush administration's motivation for the war in Iraq. It describes in eye-opening detail America's covert and overt efforts in the global war against terrorism: Not only are U.S. armies in combat on every continent, but since 9/11 the intelligence services of dozens of nations have been operating in close partnership with the CIA.Drawing on his vast information-gathering network, Friedman presents an insightful picture of today's world that goes far beyond what is reported on television and in other news media. Al Qaeda's war plans and how they led to 9/11The threat of a suitcase nuclear bomb in New York and how that changed the course of the war.The deal the U.S. made with Russia and Iran which made the invasion of Afghanistan possible - and how those deals affect the United States today.How fear and suspicion of the Saudis after 9-11 tore apart the Bush-Saudi relationship and why Saudi Arabia's closest friends in the administration became the Saudi's worst enemies.The real reasons behind George W. Bush's invasion of Iraq and how WMD became the cover for a much deeper game.How the CIA miscalculated about Saddam Hussein's and Iran's real plans, leaving the U.S. bogged down in the war.How the war in Iraq began with a ruse, pretending that a "target of opportunity" attack on Saddam Hussein had presented itself. The real story about why the U.S. raises and lowers its alert status and why the United States can't find and destroy al Qaeda.The strategic successes that are slowly leading the United States to victoryAmerica's Secret War is an unprecedented look at the new world war being waged behind-the-scenes today. It is sure to stir debate and capture headlines around the world.