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NATO and the Crisis in the International Order

The Atlantic Alliance and Its Enemies

By: Magnus Petersson

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NATO and the Crisis in the International Order

The Atlantic Alliance and Its Enemies

By: Magnus Petersson

The main objectives of this book are to analyse the risks and dangers NATO faces in the current strategic environment and to discuss how the alliance can readjust to those challenges. How can NATO adapt to the dangerous combination of a revisionist Russia, a reluctant United States, and a Europe in crisis? NATO’s relevance and ability to survive have been challenged many times before, and it has not only survived but also has proven highly adaptable to change. This has been good for Western cohesion and for the consolidation of the liberal-democratic, rules-based world order. The main argument of this book is that NATO can overcome this latest set of challenges as well and retain its central role as a cornerstone of the European and transatlantic security order. NATO is different from other alliances because its members share not only interests but values as well, codified in the preamble of the North Atlantic Treaty as allied support for democracy, individual liberty, and the rule of law. The greatest enemy of the alliance is the forces that challenge the common norms and values of NATO’s member states, and – in a larger perspective – the liberal-democratic, rules-based world order, and Western civilisation itself. The book makes an original contribution to the existing literature on NATO and transatlantic relations and discusses the latest developments within NATO since the Trump administration took office. The book will be of much interest to students of NATO, geopolitics, security studies, and International Relations in general.

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The US NATO Debate

From Libya to Ukraine

By: Magnus Petersson

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The US NATO Debate

From Libya to Ukraine

By: Magnus Petersson

Since the Libya War in 2011 it has been widely suggested that NATO's role in US security policy has diminished, because Washington gives Europe less and Asia more strategic priority (a tendency that is reinforced by budget restraints), and because the US is no longer interested in always leading NATO activities that mainly concern European conditions. Several experts have suggested that the US expect that the European security challenges primarily should be handled by NATO's European allies in a new transatlantic burden sharing model, and that the US role should principally be Article V-focused. This book investigates to what extent these claims are valid, and what consequences they may have for European and international security.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1628924527

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Party Realignment in Western Europe

Electoral Drivers and Global Constraints

By: Hagevi, Magnus,Blombäck, Sofie,Demker, Marie,Hinnfors, Jonas,Loxbo, Karl

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Party Realignment in Western Europe

Electoral Drivers and Global Constraints

By: Hagevi, Magnus,Blombäck, Sofie,Demker, Marie,Hinnfors, Jonas,Loxbo, Karl

Identifying a crisis for representative democracy in Western European party systems, this essential book studies the widening gap between political parties’ ideological economic Left–Right rhetoric. Combining in-depth theoretical analysis with empirical research, it addresses whether political party ideologies are converging or diverging, and whether these changes are initiated by the parties themselves, aligned with voter demand, or forced by economic globalization.

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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1800884737

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The Confessing Society

Foucault, Confession and Practices of Lifelong Learning

By: Andreas Fejes,Magnus Dahlstedt

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The Confessing Society

Foucault, Confession and Practices of Lifelong Learning

By: Andreas Fejes,Magnus Dahlstedt

I highly appreciate the quality of Fejes’ and Dahlstedt’s research and writing. They manage to present in a comprehensible way some essential concepts of Foucault that help us to understand better what practices of lifelong learning, in a broad sense, are emerging nowadays in advanced liberal societies. In doing so, they contribute to the renewal of critical thinking in education. They convince me that such renewal is important and necessary... and I think both theoreticians and practitioners of lifelong learning will equally recognize and value this analysis, particularly also, because they present a good mix of theory and practice." -Professor Danny Wildemeersch Today, people are constantly encouraged to verbalise and disclose their "true" inner self to others, whether on TV shows, in newspapers, in family life or together with friends. Such encouragement to disclose the self has proliferated through discourses on lifelong learning through which each citizen is encouraged to become a constant learner. The Confessing Society takes a critical stance towards the modern relentless will to disclose the self and argues that society has become a confessing society. Drawing on Foucault’s later work on confession and governmentality, this book carefully analyses how confession operates within practices of lifelong learning as a way to shape activated and responsible citizens and provides examples of how it might be possible to traverse the confessional truth of the present time. Chapters include: Reflection and Reflective Practices Deliberation and Therapeutic Intervention Lifelong Guidance Medialised Parenting This controversial book is international in its scope and pursues current debates regarding trans-national policy and to research discussions on education, lifelong learning and governance, and it will provoke lively debate amongst educational practitioners, academics, postgraduate and research students in education and lifelong learning in Europe, North America and Australasia.

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Routledge

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1136734309

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Sport as Social Policy

Midnight Football and the Governing of Society

By: David Ekholm,Magnus Dahlstedt

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Sport as Social Policy

Midnight Football and the Governing of Society

By: David Ekholm,Magnus Dahlstedt

This book analyses the increasing use of sport in European and Western welfare states as a tool of social policy and its promotion as a solution to social problems. Midnight Football is a sports-based intervention targeting social inclusion and crime prevention in young people aged 12–25 in Sweden. This book takes a close look at its organization, pedagogy and potential outcomes. Drawing on cutting-edge research into Midnight Football in Sweden, and exploring other community sport programmes including Midnight Basketball in the United States, this book shines new light on broader social transformations regarding urban segregation and social exclusion, social policy and the governing of welfare and social policy. This book also offers new perspectives on how sport and the lives of young people intersect with and shape broader shifts in welfare and social policy in Western states, shifts that are manifested in increased inequality, social polarization and profound changes in urban geographies. This is fascinating reading for anybody with an interest in the relationships between sport and wider society, or in sport development, sport policy, social policy, public policy or youth and social work.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000802612

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Pride Parades and LGBT Movements

Political Participation in an International Comparative Perspective

By: Abby Peterson,Mattias Wahlström,Magnus Wennerhag

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Pride Parades and LGBT Movements

Political Participation in an International Comparative Perspective

By: Abby Peterson,Mattias Wahlström,Magnus Wennerhag

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com/doi/view/10.4324/9781315474052, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license Today, Pride parades are staged in countries and localities across the globe, providing the most visible manifestations of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer and intersex movements and politics. Pride Parades and LGBT Movements contributes to a better understanding of LGBT protest dynamics through a comparative study of eleven Pride parades in seven European countries – Czech Republic, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK – and Mexico. Peterson, Wahlström and Wennerhag uncover the dynamics producing similarities and differences between Pride parades, using unique data from surveys of Pride participants and qualitative interviews with parade organizers and key LGBT activists. In addition to outlining the histories of Pride in the respective countries, the authors explore how the different political and cultural contexts influence: Who participates, in terms of socio-demographic characteristics and political orientations; what Pride parades mean for their participants; how participants were mobilized; how Pride organizers relate to allies and what strategies they employ for their performances of Pride. This book will be of interest to political scientists and sociologists with an interest in LGBT studies, social movements, comparative politics and political behavior and participation.

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1315474034

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The US NATO Debate

From Libya to Ukraine

By: Magnus Petersson

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From Libya to Ukraine

By: Magnus Petersson

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1628924519

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Risk, Power and the State

After Foucault

By: Magnus Hörnqvist

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Risk, Power and the State

After Foucault

By: Magnus Hörnqvist

Risk, Power and the State addresses how power is exercised in and by contemporary state organisations. Through a detailed analysis of programmatic attempts to shape behaviour linked to considerations of risk, this book pursues the argument that, whilst Foucault is useful for understanding power, the Foucauldian tradition – with its strands of discourse analysis, of governmentality studies, or of radical Deleuzian critique – suffers from a lack of clarification on key conceptual issues. Oriented around four case studies, the architecture of the book devolves upon the distinction between productive and repressive power. The first two studies focus on productive power: the management of long-term unemployment in the public employment service and cognitive-behavioural interventions in the prison service. Two further studies concern repressive interventions: the conditions of incarceration in the prison service and the activity of the customs service. These studies reveal that power, as conceptualised within the Foucauldian tradition, must be modified. A more complex notion of productive power is needed, which covers interventions that appeal to desires, and which govern both at a distance and at close range. Additionally, the simplistic paradigm of repressive power is called into question by the need to consider the organising role of norms and techniques that circumvent agency. Finally, it is argued, Foucault's concept of strategies – which accounts for the thick web of administrative directives, organisational routines, and techniques that simultaneously shape the behaviour of targeted individuals and members of the organisation – requires an organisational dimension that is often neglected in the Foucauldian tradition.

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1135154392

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Adult Education and the Formation of Citizens

A Critical Interrogation

By: Andreas Fejes,Magnus Dahlstedt,Maria Olson,Fredrik Sandberg

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Adult Education and the Formation of Citizens

A Critical Interrogation

By: Andreas Fejes,Magnus Dahlstedt,Maria Olson,Fredrik Sandberg

Adult Education and the Formation of Citizens turns attention towards normative claims about who adults should become through education, and what capacities and skills adults need to develop to become included in society as ‘full’ citizens. Through these debates, adults are construed as not yet citizens, despite already being citizens in a formal sense; this book problematises such regimes of truth and their related notions of the possibilities and impossibilities of adult education and citizenship. Drawing on empirical examples from the two main adult education institutions in Sweden, folk high schools and municipal adult education, it argues that, through current regimes of truth, these institutions become spaces for the re-shaping of the "abnormal" citizen. The book suggests that only certain futures of citizenship and its educational provision are made possible, while other futures are ignored or even made impossible to imagine. Offering a unique focus on critically problematising the role of adult education in relation to the fostering and shaping of citizens, the book addresses the important contemporary challenges of the role of adult education in a time of migration. Adult Education and the Formation of Citizens will be of great interest to academics, researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of adult education, lifelong learning and education.

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1351111337

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Bright Lights, Dark Shadows: The Real Story of ABBA

By: Carl Magnus Palm

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Bright Lights, Dark Shadows: The Real Story of ABBA

By: Carl Magnus Palm

Revel in the bright lights of ABBA’s show-stopping musical career, and hear the whispers from the shadows that lurked behind. Bright Lights Dark Shadows: The Real Story of Abba is the first true, full-scale biography ever written about the band. With lucid prose and an inquisitive eye, author, Carl Palm, covers all aspects of the band’s lives and careers. The period before the group formed; their global domination throughout the 1970s; their marriages and divorces; their business empire and; their eventual, inevitable split.

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Omnibus Press

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0857120573

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Performance Drivers

A Practical Guide to Using the Balanced Scorecard

By: Nils-G¿ran Olve,Jan Roy,Magnus Wetter

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Performance Drivers

A Practical Guide to Using the Balanced Scorecard

By: Nils-G¿ran Olve,Jan Roy,Magnus Wetter

A Practical Guide to Using the Balanced Scorecard performance drivers Nils-Goran Olve, Jan Roy and Magnus Wetter Since the groundbreaking work of Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton, the concept of the Balanced Scorecard has achieved increasing popularity in the business world. Previously, many organizations had built their business objectives around financial targets and goals that bore little relation to a long-term strategic vision. Typically, this leaves a gap between the development of a company's strategy and its implementation. The business scorecard, however, provides a more 'balanced view' by looking at not just-financial concerns, but also customers, internal business processes, and learning and growth. But it is not just a system of performance measurement - by focusing on future potential success it can be used as a dynamic management system that reinforces, implements and drives corporate strategy forward. In this book, the authors draw on their extensive experience with scorecard projects to provide a step-by-step method for introducing the Balanced Scorecard into an organization. This is done through the use of some of the most important practical examples in existence, with case studies from ABB, Coca Cola, Electrolux, British Telecom, Nat West, Skandia and Volvo. The desired strategic control system using scorecards that is presented focuses on creating and communicating a total comprehensive picture to all members of the organization from the top down, a long-term view of what the company's strategic objectives really are, how to make use of knowledge gained through experience and the required flexibility of such a system to cope with the fast-changing business environment. This book will provide senior and operational managers, consultants and business academics with a comprehensive view of emerging Balanced Scorecard practice supported by both business advice and a theoretical foundation. Reflections on the relations between the Balanced Scorecard and other areas, such as TQM, information systems and intellectual capital and knowledge management are also made. Business Strategy

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John Wiley & Sons

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0471495425

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Robot Ecology

Constraint-Based Design for Long-Duration Autonomy

By: Magnus Egerstedt

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Robot Ecology

Constraint-Based Design for Long-Duration Autonomy

By: Magnus Egerstedt

A revolutionary new framework that draws on insights from ecology for the design and analysis of long-duration robots Robots are increasingly leaving the confines of laboratories, warehouses, and manufacturing facilities, venturing into agriculture and other settings where they must operate in uncertain conditions over long timescales. This multidisciplinary book draws on the principles of ecology to show how robots can take full advantage of the environments they inhabit, including as sources of energy. Magnus Egerstedt introduces a revolutionary new design paradigm—robot ecology—that makes it possible to achieve long-duration autonomy while avoiding catastrophic failures. Central to ecology is the idea that the richness of an organism’s behavior is a function of the environmental constraints imposed by its habitat. Moving beyond traditional strategies that focus on optimal policies for making robots achieve targeted tasks, Egerstedt explores how to use survivability constraints to produce both effective and provably safe robot behaviors. He blends discussions of ecological principles with the development of control barrier functions as a formal approach to constraint-based control design, and provides an in-depth look at the design of the SlothBot, a slow and energy-efficient robot used for environmental monitoring and conservation. Visionary in scope, Robot Ecology presents a comprehensive and unified methodology for designing robots that can function over long durations in diverse natural environments.

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Princeton University Press

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069121168X

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How To Live Icelandic

By: Nína Björk Jónsdóttir,Edda Magnus

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How To Live Icelandic

By: Nína Björk Jónsdóttir,Edda Magnus

The ultimate insider’s guide to Iceland, full of inspiration and ideas and how to's to help you experience the very best of Icelandic life, landscape, culture, style and art.

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How to Live

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0711267375

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Capitalist Restructuring, Globalization and the Third Way

Lessons from the Swedish Model

By: J. Magnus Ryner

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Capitalist Restructuring, Globalization and the Third Way

Lessons from the Swedish Model

By: J. Magnus Ryner

This book addresses the contemporary debate about the 'third way' in European social democracy, by analysing the exemplar case of social democracy - 'the Swedish model' - this book challenges the recent 'third way' perspective. The author argues strongly against the widely held belief that the nature of contemporary capitalist restructuring and globalisation has rendered traditional social democracy obsolete.

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113452692X

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NATO and the Crisis in the International Order

The Atlantic Alliance and Its Enemies

By: Magnus Petersson

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The Atlantic Alliance and Its Enemies

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NATO and the Crisis in the International Order

NATO and the Crisis in the International Order

The US NATO Debate

The US NATO Debate

Party Realignment in Western Europe

Party Realignment in Western Europe

The Confessing Society

The Confessing Society

Sport as Social Policy

Sport as Social Policy

Pride Parades and LGBT Movements

Pride Parades and LGBT Movements

The US NATO Debate

The US NATO Debate

Risk, Power and the State

Risk, Power and the State

Adult Education and the Formation of Citizens

Adult Education and the Formation of Citizens

Bright Lights, Dark Shadows: The Real Story of ABBA

Bright Lights, Dark Shadows: The Real Story of ABBA

Performance Drivers

Performance Drivers

Robot Ecology

Robot Ecology

How To Live Icelandic

How To Live Icelandic

Capitalist Restructuring, Globalization and the Third Way

Capitalist Restructuring, Globalization and the Third Way

NATO and the Crisis in the International Order

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