Der Hauptfokus der Arbeit liegt auf den Tatbestandsmerkmalen des Paragr. 184i Abs. 1 StGB und identifiziert dabei vermeidbare Schutzluecken und Wertungswidersprueche. Abschliessend wird ein Reformvorschlag entwickelt und festgestellt, dass Paragr. 184i Abs. 1 StGB das gesetzgeberische Ziel bislang nicht erreicht.

This book examines the role of Gulf (Khaliji) women in the public sphere, bringing an intersectional lens into the way women negotiate opportunities and barriers related to their current roles and their methods of integration into local affairs (political, economic, social, religious), surfacing the nuanced experiences of women in the Arab Gulf States. Bringing together multi-disciplinary researchers from higher education, gender studies, comparative politics, cultural Gulf studies and beyond, it facilitates a conversation across a wide range of paradigms. This is a timely publication given the recent and rapid changes in economic statecraft and the regional challenges that warrant women's inclusion in national affairs.

This book will appeal to academics and researchers interested in women and gender in the Arab and Islamic worlds, and particularly those interested in the status of Khaliji women in politics and policymaking, the economy, science, the arts, and academia.

This practical guide offers actionable insights and proven strategies for leaders navigating the complexities of managing distributed teams. Remote leadership goes far beyond adopting the right technology - it demands an intentional combination of communication, team coordination, and strategic alignment. Leading from a distance requires new skills, clear routines, and reliable tools. Rather than focusing solely on theory, this book provides hands-on frameworks that enable leaders to systematically strengthen their remote leadership skills. It begins by laying out the groundwork for effective remote leadership and examining how digital transformation is reshaping the way we lead. It then introduces proven methods and approaches for day-to-day remote leadership practice, with a particular focus on psychological, strategic, and communicative challenges. Backed by research, the book highlights key success factors and future-ready skills for leading distributed teams. Each chapter includes step-by-step methods, self-assessments, and ready-to-use playbooks that can be applied immediately - offering a modular toolkit for effective remote leadership.

Contents

• Remote Leadership - Challenges and Key Success Factors
• How Digital Transformation Is Rewriting the Rules of Leadership
• Leveraging Technology for Remote Team Success
• The Three Pillars of Successful Remote Teams: Structure, Trust, and Vision
• The Art of Balance: Leading and Managing in a Virtual World
• Emotional Intelligence: The Hidden Edge in Remote Leadership

Systematic risks often pose greater threats to investment performance than idiosyncratic factors, particularly in emerging markets where macroeconomic volatility, political instability, and institutional weakness can reshape outcomes. Yet many risk assessments remain anchored in static snapshots of economic indicators, market metrics, political developments, and event risk, often offering limited guidance when structural change is underway. This book addresses that gap by first providing a detailed analysis of EMDEs' current macroeconomic fundamentals and how ongoing structural shifts such as geopolitical realignment, climate pressures, and technological disruption change them, and second through introducing the Investor's Rutter, a practical framework for interpreting how economic, political, institutional, and financial forces interact and evolve over time. Rather than emphasizing prediction, the Investor's Rutter offers a disciplined approach to interpreting change and uncertainty.

Drawing on primary case studies and counterfactuals, the authors show how this framework can help investors make more informed judgments about the pricing of risk, exposure, resilience, and investment strategy across the full investment life cycle. It helps distinguish temporary volatility from deeper structural shifts, identify emerging inflection points, and assess when prevailing assumptions may no longer hold. By integrating perspectives often treated separately in conventional country risk analysis, the book offers a distinctive framework for investors navigating a period in which traditional models face growing limitations.

This book offers the first comprehensive and analytically grounded study of Spanish defence policy from the democratic transition to the present era of renewed geopolitical competition. Spain has undergone a far-reaching process of military modernisation, professionalisation and multilateral integration, becoming an active contributor to NATO, the EU and international operations. Yet this transformation has remained uneven.

Bringing together leading specialists in strategic studies, political science, defence economics, civil-military relations and alliance politics, the volume examines how Spain defines, plans, funds and implements defence policy. It shows how external pressures, alliance commitments and European defence initiatives have been persistently filtered through domestic politics, fiscal constraints, public attitudes, industrial interests and historically embedded strategic traditions.

The book addresses key debates on NATO burden-sharing, European defence integration, the war in Ukraine, military readiness, procurement, industrial capacity and the relationship between national priorities and multilateral commitments. By combining theoretical insight with detailed empirical analysis, it fills a major gap in European defence studies and provides a new framework for understanding Spain's defence trajectory as a case of uneven adaptation.

It will be essential reading for students and scholars of political science, international relations, security studies, defence studies and European studies, as well as for analysts, policymakers and practitioners interested in defence, strategy and international affairs.

This book presents a cultural history of representation in the Australian settler state, tracing how certain bodies were cast as curious, deviant, or monstrous between 1788 and the early twentieth century. Drawing on case studies from courtrooms, exhibition culture, newspapers, photography, and popular literature, the book examines the making of bodily 'types' at the intersection of race, gender, class, and stigmatised embodiment. It brings into dialogue representations of Aboriginal cultural brokers and white settler subjects marked as anomalous, revealing both the coercive force and inherent instability of colonial tropes. Original and interdisciplinary, this book makes a significant contribution to Australian history, settler colonial studies, disability history, and the cultural history of embodiment.

This book challenges dominant narratives of the circular economy by spotlighting informal entrepreneurs in marginalised contexts. Over 2 billion informal workers worldwide-waste pickers, repair artisans, and recyclers-recover 15-35% of urban waste in low- and middle-income countries, yet remain invisible within policy frameworks that privilege formal-sector innovation. This volume examines the "recognition paradox," whereby informal circular practices are simultaneously operationally central to urban metabolism, institutionally invisible within governance structures, and discursively misrecognized in policy narratives. Through seven empirical chapters spanning Ghana, Sub-Saharan Africa, Peru, Turkey, Mexico, Indonesia, and Zambia, the authors demonstrate how necessity-driven circularity constitutes a parallel system with its own logics and efficiencies. Essential reading for policymakers, researchers, and practitioners seeking to govern circular transitions through inclusive, justice-based frameworks that dismantle colonial epistemologies of modernisation.

This edited collection examines the political and social roles of war veterans in Eastern Europe throughout the long twentieth century. Given the ongoing relevance of ex-combatants in the region, the volume addresses key questions concerning the place of former soldiers in society from 1918 to the present. Its chapters offer national case studies from Central and Eastern Europe, including the Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia. Particular attention is paid to the involvement of conflict survivors in the dissolution of communist federations and the formation of new polities. The collection traces the social and political activities of specific ex-combatant movements and organisations across Eastern Europe, highlighting both how former fighters influenced the regimes under which they lived and how those regimes, in turn, shaped veteran communities. Drawing on interdisciplinary analyses across comparative and entangled history, gender studies, political science, and radicalism studies, this timely collection deepens our understanding of war-related political change in Eastern Europe in the long twentieth century.

This book provides a comprehensive synthesis of research in Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), focusing on its diverse applications and theoretical advancements. It gives an overview of the theoretical foundations of SFL and its application through the lens of synthesis. The book discusses key areas such as grammatical metaphor and projection studies, providing a detailed analysis of primary research and mapping the research landscape. By examining 118 studies on grammatical metaphor and 66 studies on projection, it highlights the evolution and current trends in these fields. The book also reviews the application of appraisal in English for Academic Purposes (EAP) writing, emphasizing the need for methodological rigor and offering recommendations for future research. It addresses key questions regarding methodologies, sample sizes, and analytical frameworks, underscoring the emerging nature of EAP writing research within the appraisal framework. Furthermore, the book explores the application of SFL in translation studies, evaluative language in EAP writing, and systemic functional typology. Overall, this book is an invaluable resource for researchers and practitioners, offering insights into the current state of SFL research and its practical applications across various fields.

This book brings together selected papers presented at the International Scientific Conference "Digital Transformation in Industry: Trends, Management, Strategies" (DTI), held in Ekaterinburg, Russia, on November 19-21, 2025, as part of the biennial DTI framework. Organized by the Institute of Economics of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the conference further developed the strategic research agenda initiated at DTI-2024, with particular emphasis on the theme 'Artificial Intellect in Industry: Effects, Barriers, and the Directions of National Policy'. The book is structured around five interconnected thematic areas. First, it addresses applied cases of artificial intelligence and emerging trajectories of industrial development, including comparative national experiences, sectoral applications, human-machine interaction on the shopfloor, and AI-enabled energy and sustainability solutions. Second, it explores the optimization of business processes and business models through digitalization, focusing on data management, organizational change, and the transformation of enterprise decision-making. Third, it considers digital ecosystem architectures and platform-based solutions, highlighting agent-based modeling, adaptive identification methods, cross-border innovation platforms, hardware emulation tools, and regional dimensions of digital transformation. Fourth, the volume examines the human dimension of AI adoption, including human-centered manufacturing, education, employment, digital skills, wages, and human capital formation under Industry 5.0. Finally, the book explores the application of AI-driven tools in FinTech and cybersecurity, with chapters addressing large language models and proactive cyberattack detection. Taken together, the chapters offer theoretical, methodological, and empirical perspectives on the restructuring of industrial systems under the influence of AI. The book will be of interest to scholars, practitioners, and policymakers engaged in the study and implementation of AI-driven industrial transformation.

This book explores the transformative impact of financial technology (FinTech) and artificial intelligence (AI) on the future of banking. The banking industry is currently undergoing a profound transformation driven by the convergence of FinTech and AI. This integration has created numerous opportunities and challenges, reshaping traditional financial services while opening new avenues for innovation and disruption. Through the utilization of AI, FinTech firms have enhanced customer experiences, streamlined processes, and improved decision-making capabilities. Nevertheless, these developments also raise critical concerns related to ethics, data privacy, and security. By providing a comprehensive historical perspective on the evolution and integration of FinTech and AI in banking, supported by a range of case studies, this book offers valuable insights and guidance for stakeholders seeking to navigate this rapidly evolving landscape.

After nearly two decades, blockchain technology and its native implementation, represented by cryptocurrencies, have gone through substantial development, and their role in financial markets has grown considerably. Evolving from their original objective as a medium of exchange to encompass more sophisticated functionality, an important question emerges: Do cryptocurrencies represent a new investable asset class? This book seeks to explore how cryptocurrencies operate, the underlying blockchain technology, and the heterogeneous functionalities they exhibit today, providing investors with a general overview of this emerging investment opportunity. Moreover, the book offers a systematic review of the academic literature on the role of cryptocurrencies as financial assets, followed by an empirical analysis examining the risk-return characteristics of digital assets and their contribution in terms of diversification to traditional investment portfolios.