Geopolitik

This book offers an overarching view of the underlying challenges that the energy transitions pose to interstate energy relations. Geopolitics of energy currently epitomizes one of the principal sources for geopolitical vicissitudes affecting global energy landscapes. The ever-changing global energy architecture, global decarbonization plans and low-carbon technology developments are having deep geopolitical consequences. The extensive and rapid adjustment towards low-carbon energy is unsettling the conventional transnational energy structures, affecting economies and altering energy interstate relations. The geopolitics of the energy transitions is a field in the making, hence the existent academic literature is scarce and limited in scope. Current debates on decarbonization tend to mimic the geopolitics of oil and gas when discussing the stakeholders involved in the energy transitions. Besides, energy transitions tend to be studied at the national level overlooking the interactions at regional and global scales. Most research on the geopolitics of the energy transitions to date has mainly focused on the path to achieve the transitions to low carbon energy systems, and less on the global dynamics and the impacts of those transitions to inter-state relations and energy security. The fundamental question that needs dwelling is: How, and to what extent, will the multiple dimensions of the ongoing energy transitions affect existing fundamental geopolitical issues, and what new dynamics may result from the decarbonization process of the planet? The reasons to organize this publication are many, but among them stand one, which is functioning as the driving force behind this project: to contribute to a broader discussion on the ways in which energy transitions and geopolitics intersect.

This study draws on three original surveys conducted by the authors to understand the religious, social, and political factors that lead evangelical and born-again Christians to support the state of Israel in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Professor Radhika Desai (University of Manitoba; Convenor, International Manifesto Group):In a world gone beserk with US-incited rage against People's China; in a world where the bulk of Western scholarship has become so deeply compromised so as to yo-yo between the most tendentious anti-Chinese positions and confusion; in a world where the left has lost its ability to distinguish between imperialism and liberation; in a world that fails to understand just how world-changing have been the achievements of actually existing socialisms; Carlos Martinez shines the light of his crystal-clear prose and his acute political and scholarly insight on China's achievements, material, ecological, scientific and social. If you want to understand the most profound earthquake shaking up our world, read this book.Dr Francisco Dominguez (Specialist on Latin American politics):This is a most welcome and timely book. In it, Carlos Martinez furnishes us with rigorous and illuminating analyses covering crucial features of socialist construction in China, essential, especially for Western audiences, to grasp its highly progressive nature. The penetrating discussion Martinez engages in, elegantly pierces through the thick fog of malicious and aggressive imperialist anti-China propaganda. A must for all those who wish to build a better and peaceful world.Professor Roland Boer (Renmin University of China):In this important new book, Carlos Martinez sets out the case for the Western Left's resolute support of the socialist project in China. Based on in-depth research and written in an accessible style, the book will soon become an indispensable resource for anyone who wants to know the facts concerning China. Read it carefully, absorb its insights, and rectify your view of Chinese socialism!Professor Ken Hammond (New Mexico State University):Carlos Martinez's The East is Still Red: Chinese Socialism in the 21st Century, brings together essays and commentaries from his recent writings on a wide range of issues, both historical and contemporary, concerning China's revolutionary path and its ongoing efforts to build a socialist future for the Chinese people. Recognizing the challenges inherent in this effort, and the obstacles being placed in China's way by American-led imperialism, Martinez clearly demonstrates that China remains committed to the revolutionary mission of creating a just and equitable social economy for itself and as part of the imperative work of addressing the challenges of global climate change. He rejects those voices which see China as a neoliberal member of the global capitalist order, and upholds the need to recognize China's achievements in eliminating absolute poverty and improving the lives of its people as well as in leading in the construction of a new international order outside the hegemonic domination of the United States and its allies. This is a most welcome contribution to the discourse about China on the Left, and for a broader audience of the politically engaged.Elias Jabbour (Associate professor of theory and policy of economic planning at Rio de Janeiro State University's School of Economics; Co-author of 'Socialist Economic Development in the 21st Century: A Century after the Bolshevik Revolution'):Carlos Martinez has excelled in defending frontier positions on the nature of the Chinese socioeconomic formation. In fact, it is very rare to find intellectuals with his argumentative power and intellectual sophistication. In this book, the reader will have access to a wide source of information and living theory necessary to understand China and its unique socialism. Carlos Martinez, great intellectual and friend, is an honourable exception among Marxists in the West. Marxism in the West depends heavily on the talent and creativity of people like Martinez.

Where do classical liberals stand on international relations? Does this differ from their views on domestic policy? And how does this stance vary from other liberal schools of thought? Here, author Edwin van de Haar draws on the writings of major classical liberal thinkers such as David Hume, Adam Smith, Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich Hayek to create an insightful and comprehensive overview of the classical liberal approach to foreign affairs. He delineates how classical liberals embrace a realistic view of human nature, recognising the basic social nature of individuals, yet acknowledging their propensity to quarrel, fight and use violence - and how this has consequently become an inevitable feature of international relations. He compares and contrasts this thinking with other forms of liberal thought, such as libertarianism, social liberalism and conservatism. And he also examines the much bigger difference between classical liberalism and non-liberal thinking on international relations. He argues that classical liberalism has a distinct, timeless and universalist approach to international relations - and that the unique ideas developed by classical liberal writers can, and should, be applied to contemporary world affairs.

A powerful and empowering collection of commentaries and insights by some of today's most respected political thinkers. The world is a mess and America is in big trouble. Despite the finger-pointing, it is the U.S. itself which is causing its own problems. Perpetual war is destroying our nation. To stop the unfolding disaster, we must honestly look at how our own leadership and policies have led the country astray. This book is the perfect place to start.Featuring commentary by Noam Chomsky, Larry Wilkerson, Paul Craig Roberts, Mark Skidmore, Coleen Rowley, William J. Astore, Abby Martin, Dan Kovalik, Lee Camp, Finian Cunningham, Michael T. Klare, Cynthia McKinney, Scott Ritter, Joe Lombardo, Bruce Gagnon, Norman Solomon, Peter Kuznick, Ajamu Baraka, Margaret Kimberley, Matthew Hoh, Garland Nixon, and Dennis Kucinich.

Nous sommes en 1999, et les Etats-Unis sont tranquillement en train d'être capturés par la Grande Bretagne. En effet, une 3ème faillite envers un cartel de banquiers internationaux, signifie que les Etats-Unis deviennent automatiquement la propriété de THE CROWN, d'après les termes d'un contrat rédigé plus de 200 plus tôt. Deux patriotes américains identifient cette menace, et, dans une série de mouvements stratégiques, sauvent le pays de l'invasion étrangère, durant une fenêtre de 18 jours, où la grande Bretagne, a déserté son rôle de Postmaster General, et son bureau de poste de Washington DC. Ils prennent alors le contrôle du Title 4 Flag, et l'enregistrent auprès des Nations Unies, permettant ainsi aux Etats-Unis de redevenir une nation souverraine. Ils succèdent ainsi à la Grande Bretagne en tant que Postmaster General. Leurs actions vont changer le monde à tout jamais, et c'est l'histoire incroyable de ces deux génies que nous vous racontons à travers ce livre.

"Cloud-to-ground" is the scientific term for lightning that strikes directly into the ground. The title of this book, published in conjunction with the Israeli pavilion at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, is derived from this. It investigates the shifts in political power structure that result from the wide-spread use of cloud technology: the storage, processing and analysis of inconceivable amounts of data in computer "clouds". The focus is on major infrastructure projects currently underway in Israel and the Middle East region. These include Nimbus, a major cloud project pursued by the Israeli government for which Google and Amazon are building new powerful data centers, or the Blue Raman fiber-optic cable across the Negev Desert, also laid by Google, which will bypass Egypt on its way from India to Europe and at the same time revive the ancient trade routes that passed through this country. Cloud-to-ground also documents the decommissioning and demolition of countless telephone exchanges in Israel's cities that have become obsolete. It thus brings to attention the physical nature of these largely ignored "black box" structures and connects them to the history of the Middle East and recent developments in global communication technology. Essays by prominent Israeli scholars are complemented by numerous photographs, sketches, and archival documents, as well as a newly compiled index of 140 telephone exchanges in Israel.

Bringing together foreign and domestic policy, The Poverty of the World aims to offer a new answer to the question of why Americans became obsessed with poverty in the 1960s. A history of how American liberals made sense of US power during a period of unprecedented affluence at home, it uses intellectual and political biographies of major figures in postwar US social thought and politics to tell the story of how Americans invented the problem of "global poverty" and executed a war against it.

Despite their very different histories, Australia and France share the typical postcolonial experience of unresolved conflicts. The persistent residues of colonial violence manifest in contemporary outbreaks of violence in Indigenous Australian communities and in communities in France with a large number of immigrants and their descendants from former colonies. In both countries structural limitations and policy failures of the welfare state have become sources of discontent and suffering, leading to interactions between marginalised groups and the state that are punctuated by instances of violent contestation.Violence in France and Australia: Disorder in the Postcolonial Welfare State examines the racial and ethnic dimensions of forms of marginality and the relationships between the welfare state and the postcolonial background to contemporary violence. The essays draw upon field research and innovations in the social theory extending the collection's comparative format and providing novel insights into the configurations of the postcolonial and the welfare state.

Verdenssamfundets forsøg på at forhindre Nordkorea i at udvikle langtrækkende atomvåben er ved at slå fejl. Ved et tilfælde falder to journalister på Dagbladet Information over oplysninger, som tyder på, at en mand i Næstved igennem en årrække har været en nøglespiller i Nordkoreas omgåelse af de internationale sanktioner. De hvirvles ind i en sag, der skal ende med at tage dem flere år."Forbudt farvand" er den utrolige og hidtil ufortalte historie om, hvordan en mystisk forretningsmand slog sig ned i Danmark og byggede en verdensomspændende forretning på varm luft og en vilje til at se stort på internationale sanktioner. Og hvordan han medvirkede til oprustningen af nogle af verdens værste diktaturer.

Não há dúvida de que a Royal Dutch Shell do "Comité dos 300" é uma das mais antigas e maiores de todas as companhias petrolíferas a operar no mundo de hoje. O seu volume de negócios em 2005 foi de 306,73 mil milhões de dólares. A falecida Rainha Juliana dos Países Baixos, Lord Victor Rothschild, o Príncipe Nasi de África Sir Ernest Oppenheimer, os Samuels de Londres e a Casa de Windsor são os maiores accionistas da Royal Dutch Shell. Com a morte de Juliana, as suas acções passaram para a Casa de Orange (Holanda).O relato histórico da indústria petrolífera leva-nos através das reviravoltas da "diplomacia" (mentiras, falsas promessas, chantagem, trapaça, pressão política, intimidação e roubo injusto) da terra e do petróleo iraquianos, cobiçada por todas as nações, mas especialmente por uma Grã-Bretanha imperialista, que interferiu nos assuntos internos do Iraque e do Irão durante quase um século, seduzindo, cajolando e extraindo uma concessão atrás da outra, com base em promessas não cumpridas e na ameaça de um punho de ferro numa luva de veludo.Com a descoberta de ricos depósitos de petróleo bruto no Iraque e no Irão, um estado de conflito prolongado com os EUA e ambos os países tem continuado nos últimos 95 anos.

A maioria dos americanos sabe que existe uma epidemia de droga, mas apenas uma pequena minoria está ciente de que esta foi infligida à nossa sociedade pelos "governantes das trevas, os ímpios em lugares altos, que preferem a escuridão à luz porque as suas acções são más". Este livro é sobre quem são estes homens e como dirigem o maior e mais rentável negócio do mundo, o que conseguiram e quão eficazes têm sido as suas contramedidas.Não pense que o comércio da droga é apenas um comércio de rua, onde os traficantes são controlados pela máfia. Isto é certamente parte do problema, mas os verdadeiros promotores deste comércio maldito encontram-se nos corredores da "elite" deste mundo, as famílias "reais", as famílias "nobres" da Europa e as famílias "melhores" da América, Grã-Bretanha e Canadá. O comércio atinge os mais altos escalões de poder e não foi erradicado, mas apenas um pouco contido. O USDA e as agências de combate às drogas em todo o mundo estão a tentar combater um incêndio florestal com mangueiras sem pressão de água suficiente. Como é que isto é possível?A resposta é que o comércio de drogas não pode ser erradicado porque os seus gestores, os governantes das trevas, os vilões em lugares altos, não permitirão que o negócio mais lucrativo do mundo, com lucros colossais que requerem um capital de investimento mínimo, um produto virtualmente gratuito e com poucos custos de produção, lhes seja tirado.

The world is changing rapidly in several critical areas that could reshape our lifestyles, development, the environment, democracy, and geopolitics. Among the numerous obstacles, barriers, and opportunities, some significant challenges should be considered for the future planning of our territories and regions all over the globe. The Handbook of Research on Current Advances and Challenges of Borderlands, Migration, and Geopolitics collects a robust set of contributions concerning border territories dynamics and geopolitics in the current and future context. Covering key topics such as green economy, biodiversity, territorial management, and spatial planning, this major reference work is ideal for government officials, industry professionals, environmentalists, technicians, policymakers, researchers, academicians, scholars, practitioners, instructors, and students.

What explains the variety of responses that states adopt toward different refugee groups? In this book, Lamis Elmy Abdelaaty asks why states sometimes assert their sovereignty vis-à-vis refugee rights and at other times seemingly cede it by delegating refugee oversight to the United Nations. Including three in-depth case studies of asylum policies in Egypt, Turkey, and Kenya, Discrimination and Delegation argues that foreign policy and ethnic identity, more so than resources, humanitarianism, or labor skills, shape reactions to refugees.

"O inimigo em Washington é mais a temer do que o inimigo em Moscovo". Este é um sentimento que tenho expressado repetidamente. O comunismo não destruiu a protecção tarifária erigida pelo Presidente George Washington. O comunismo não obrigou os Estados Unidos a adoptar o imposto progressivo sobre o rendimento.O comunismo não criou o Conselho da Reserva Federal. O comunismo não arrastou os Estados Unidos para a Primeira e Segunda Guerras Mundiais. O comunismo não impôs as Nações Unidas à América. O comunismo não tirou o Canal do Panamá ao povo americano. O comunismo não criou o plano de genocídio em massa do relatório Global 2000. Foi o SOCIALISMO que trouxe estes males para os Estados Unidos!O comunismo não deu SIDA ao mundo! O comunismo não deu à América níveis desastrosos de desemprego. O comunismo não lançou ataques implacáveis contra a Constituição dos Estados Unidos.O comunismo não obrigou a América a adoptar "ajuda estrangeira", esse imposto maldito sobre o povo americano que é a servidão involuntária.O comunismo não forçou o fim das orações escolares. O comunismo não promoveu a mentira da "separação da igreja e do estado".O comunismo não deu à América um Supremo Tribunal repleto de juízes vinculados e determinados a minar a Constituição dos EUA. O comunismo não enviou os nossos soldados para combater uma guerra ilegal no Golfo para proteger os interesses da coroa britânica.No entanto, durante todos estes anos, enquanto a nossa atenção se concentrava nos males do comunismo em Moscovo, os socialistas em Washington estavam ocupados a roubar da América! Apenas a Ditadura da Ordem Mundial Socialista explica como isto foi, e é, conseguido.

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