Discover the driving forces behind political revenge with "Revanchism," a comprehensive analysis of revenge-driven policies shaping nations and histories. This book explores the resurgence of nationalist agendas and how historical grievances influence modern geopolitics. Chapters Overviews: 1. Revanchism - Introduces the concept and its impact on national and international politics. 2. Irredentism - Examines the link between revanchism and claims to lost territories. 3. Treaty of Frankfurt (1871) - Analyzes its role in fueling revanchist sentiments, particularly Franco-German relations. 4. Alsace–Lorraine - Highlights its significance as a symbol of revanchist desires. 5. Aftermath of World War I - Discusses how the post-war landscape fostered revanchist ambitions in Europe. 6. France–Germany Relations - Explores how historical grievances affect current conflicts between the two nations. 7. French–German Enmity - Delves into the long-standing enmity and its political impact. 8. Partition of the Ottoman Empire - Investigates the impact on Middle Eastern revanchist sentiments. 9. Neo-Ottomanism - Explores its rise and connection to historical revanchism in modern Turkish politics. 10. Kurdish Rebellions During World War I - Examines their effect on post-war realignments and revanchist movements. 11. Central Powers - Provides insight into their role in World War I and subsequent revanchist policies. 12. Fourteen Points - Analyzes President Wilson’s points and their impact on revanchist sentiments. 13. Triple Entente - Discusses its influence on pre-World War I and later revanchist claims. 14. Treaty of Sèvres - Examines its implications for revanchist aspirations after World War I. 15. Theories of Political Behavior - Delves into theories explaining revanchist actions and policies. 16. Pan-Turkism - Investigates its historical and contemporary revanchist elements. 17. Military History of Austria - Contextualizes Austria’s military history within revanchist narratives. 18. List of Irredentist Claims or Disputes - Provides a comprehensive list of historical and current claims. 19. List of Land Borders with Dates of Establishment - Details land borders and their role in revanchist politics. 20. Albert Bettannier - Highlights his contributions to the discourse on revanchism. 21. Italian Entry into World War I - Explores its implications for Italian revanchist movements. "Revanchism" offers essential insights into how historical grievances shape current political realities and global affairs. Equip yourself with this critical analysis to understand the forces driving nations toward revenge.

Why have so many central and inner cities in Europe, North America and Australia been so radically revamped in the last three decades, converting urban decay into new chic? Will the process continue in the twenty-first century or has it ended? What does this mean for the people who live there? Can they do anything about it? This book challenges conventional wisdom, which holds gentrification to be the simple outcome of new middle-class tastes and a demand for urban living. It reveals gentrification as part of a much larger shift in the political economy and culture of the late twentieth century. Documenting in gritty detail the conflicts that gentrification brings to the new urban 'frontiers', the author explores the interconnections of urban policy, patterns of investment, eviction, and homelessness. The failure of liberal urban policy and the end of the 1980s financial boom have made the end-of-the-century city a darker and more dangerous place. Public policy and the private market are conspiring against minorities, working people, the poor, and the homeless as never before. In the emerging revanchist city, gentrification has become part of this policy of revenge.

Looking to the future in confronting the Islamic State The Islamic State (best known in the West as ISIS or ISIL) has been active for less than a decade, but it has already been the subject of numerous histories and academic studies—all focus primarily on the past. The Future of ISIS is the first major study to look ahead: what are the prospects for the Islamic State in the near term, and what can the global community, including the United States, do to counter it? Edited by two distinguished scholars at Indiana University, the book examines how ISIS will affect not only the Middle East but the global order. Specific chapters deal with such questions as whether and how ISIS benefitted from intelligence failures, and what can be done to correct any such failures; how to confront the alarmingly broad appeal of Islamic State ideology; the role of local and regional actors in confronting ISIS; and determining U.S. interests in preventing ISIS from gaining influence and controlling territory. Given the urgency of the topic, The Future of ISIS is of interest to policymakers, analysts, and students of international affairs and public policy.

Through analyses of public artworks that have taken the form of blockades and barricades since the 1990s, this book theorises artists’ responses to global inequities as cultural manifestations of counter-revanchism in diverse urban centres. This book is the first to analyse artworks as forms of counter-revanchism in the context of the rise of the global city. How do artists channel the global spatial conflicts of the 21st century through their behaviours, actions, and constructions in and on the actually existing conditions of the street? What does it mean for artists—the very symbol of freedom of personal expression—to shut down space? To refuse entry? To block others’ passage? The late critical geographer Neil Smith’s influential writing on the revanchist city is used as a theoretical frame for understanding how contemporary artists engender the public sphere through their work in public urban spaces. Each chapter is a case study that analyses artworks that have taken the form of walls and barricades in China, USA, UK, Ukraine, and Mexico. In doing so, the author draws upon diverse fields including art history, geography, philosophy, political science, theatre studies, and urban studies to situate the art in a broader context of the humanities with the aim of modelling interdisciplinary research grounded in an ethics of solidarity with global social justice work. Collectively these case studies reveal how artists’ local responses to urban revanchism since the end of the Cold War are productive reorientations of social relations and harbingers of worlds to come. By using plain language and avoiding excessive academic jargon, the book is accessible to a wide variety of readers. It will appeal to scholars and graduate students in the fields of studio art, modern and contemporary art history, performance studies, visual culture, and visual studies; especially in relation to those interested in conceptual practices, performance art, site-specificity, public art, political activism, and socially engaged art. Cultural geographers and urban theorists interested in the social and political ramifications of temporary and everyday urbanism will also find the analysis of artworks relevant to their own studies.

This is a pioneering study about the relationship between fresh water, peace, and security in Asia from the Middle East to Siberia but with a special focus on South and Southeast Asia. Asia is home to many of the world's great rivers and lakes, but its huge population and booming economies make it the most water-scarce continent on a per capita basis. Over extensive irrigation, pollution, and global warming add to the demographic and economic pressures on Asia's fresh water supplies. The location of the sources for much of South and Southeast Asia's fresh water is in the Chinese controlled Tibetan Plateau, and China's increasing exploitation of these water sources have created growing geopolitical tensions that could boil over into conflict. India is reliant on fresh water from Tibet, which gives the Chinese uncomfortable leverage over India and further exacerbates their unsettled border disputes. Vietnam, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and other countries of the region also find themselves in similarly vulnerable positions where water is scarce and the sources are increasingly being exploited and polluted upstream by the continent's most powerful country. Brahma Chellaney proposes strategies to avoid conflict and more equitably share and preserve Asia's water resources.

Delft Centre for Sustainable Urban Areas carries out research in the field of the built environment and is one of the multidisciplinary research centres at TU Delft. The Delft Research Centres bundle TU Delft's excellent research and provide integrated solutions for today's and tomorrow's problems in society. OTB Research Institute for Housing, Urban and Mobility Studies and the Faculties of Architecture, Technology, Policy and Management and Civil Engineering and Geosciences participate in this Delft Research Centre. --