Petrotyranny
Title | Petrotyranny PDF eBook |
Author | John Christopher Bacher |
Publisher | Dundurn |
Pages | 347 |
Release | 2000-09 |
Genre | Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | 0888669569 |
John Bacher uncovers frightening facts about the world's oil industry and explores the potential for global conflict.
First World Petro-Politics
Title | First World Petro-Politics PDF eBook |
Author | Laurie E. Adkin |
Publisher | University of Toronto Press |
Pages | 691 |
Release | 2016-01-01 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 1442612584 |
First World Petro-Politics examines the vital yet understudied case of a first world petro-state facing related social, ecological, and economic crises in the context of recent critical work on fossil capitalism. A wide-ranging and richly documented study of Alberta's political ecology - the relationship between the province's political and economic institutions and its natural environment - the volume tackles questions about the nature of the political regime, how it has governed, and where its primary fractures have emerged. Its authors examine Alberta's neo-liberal environmental regulation, institutional adaptation to petro-state imperatives, social movement organizing, Indigenous responses to extractive development, media framing of issues, and corporate strategies to secure social license to operate. Importantly, they also discuss policy alternatives for political democratization and for a transition to a low-carbon economy. The volume's conclusions offer a critical examination of petro-state theory, arguing for a comparative and contextual approach to understanding the relationships between dependence on carbon extraction and the nature of political regimes.
Transitional Morphology
Title | Transitional Morphology PDF eBook |
Author | Elisa Mattiello |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 255 |
Release | 2022-12-31 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1009168282 |
Based on corpus data, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of a morphological phenomenon in Modern English, Combining Forms (CFs).
Peace Magazine
Title | Peace Magazine PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 140 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Disarmament |
ISBN |
Choice
Title | Choice PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 674 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Academic libraries |
ISBN |
Genocide, Ethnonationalism, and the United Nations
Title | Genocide, Ethnonationalism, and the United Nations PDF eBook |
Author | Hannibal Travis |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 371 |
Release | 2013-01-17 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1136298002 |
Genocide, Ethnonationalism, and the United Nations examines a series of related crises in human civilization growing out of conflicts between powerful states or empires and indigenous or stateless peoples. This is the first book to attempt to explore the causes of genocide and other mass killing by a detailed exploration of UN archives covering the period spanning from 1945 through 2011. Hannibal Travis argues that large states and empires disproportionately committed or facilitated genocide and other mass killings between 1945 and 2011. His research incorporates data concerning factors linked to the scale of mass killing, and recent findings in human rights, political science, and legal theory. Turning to potential solutions, he argues that the concept of genocide imagines a future system of global governance under which the nation-state itself is made subject to law. The United Nations, however, has deflected the possibility of such a cosmopolitical law. It selectively condemns genocide and has established an institutional structure that denies most peoples subjected to genocide of a realistic possibility of global justice, lacks a robust international criminal tribunal or UN army, and even encourages "security" cooperation among states that have proven to be destructive of peoples in the past. Questions raised include: What have been the causes of mass killing during the period since the United Nations Charter entered into force in 1945? How does mass killing spread across international borders, and what is the role of resource wealth, the arms trade, and external interference in this process? Have the United Nations or the International Criminal Court faced up to the problem of genocide and other forms of mass killing, as is their mandate?
Canadian Book Review Annual
Title | Canadian Book Review Annual PDF eBook |
Author | Joyce M. Wilson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 648 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780968242155 |