This book, the second of two volumes, presents a global perspective, with case studies from each continent, on the political economy of indigenous populations. It examines the marginalization of indigenous populations and the structural inequalities they face. These challenges are contextualized within broader globalization trends, including the commodification of indigenous knowledge. The need for cultural preservation amid technological change is highlighted, alongside the need to support environmental justice and indigenous movements. The economic dominance of Western countries and displacement of indigenous communities is challenged through the inclusion of policy recommendations to protect indigenous peoples.

This book sets out a path of justice and equity for indigenous communities that overcomes the historical injustices and structural inequalities that they have faced. It will be relevant to students and researchers interested in the political economy and the protection of indigenous peoples.

The European Union (EU) is marked by historical connections, socio-economic interdependencies, and shared challenges in labour market development. Despite these commonalities, the region is also characterised by significant diversity in economic structures, demographic trends, political contexts, and educational systems.

This volume responds to the urgent need for a nuanced, comparative understanding of employability across the EU - in the face of digital transformation, demographic shifts, and post-pandemic economic recovery.

The purpose of this publication is to provide a multidisciplinary and evidence-based exploration of the key factors shaping employability across the EU. It critically engages with issues such as skills mismatches, youth unemployment, gender disparities, informal work, and migration, offering insights into both persistent challenges and emerging opportunities. By drawing on case studies, policy reviews, and regional data, the book presents a rich mosaic of experiences and diverse approaches to workforce development.

Contemporary Studies in Economic and Financial Analysis publishes a series of current and policy-relevant themed volumes within the fields of economics and finance. Both disciplinary and interdisciplinary studies are welcome.

An inviting collection of Greek and Roman advice on letter writing-plus a gathering of illuminating and intimate letters from Cicero, Seneca, and Pliny

Email, texting, and AI appear to be sending the ancient art of letter writing to the verge of extinction. But this valuable skill doesn't have to become a dead letter. In a world drowning in generic and impersonal communication, now is a perfect time to rediscover the beauty of the personal letter-thoughtful, deliberate, and capable of building and strengthening friendships, romantic relationships, and family, social, and business ties. For inspiration and instruction on how to write a great letter, there are few better guides than the ancient Greeks and Romans, for whom letters were an essential, distinctive, and flexible form. In How to Write a Letter, Yelena Baraz presents lively new translations of selections from Greek and Roman letter-writing manuals and rhetorical treatises, plus a gathering of letters by three great Roman letter writers-Marcus Tullius Cicero, Seneca the Younger, and Pliny the Younger-and the original Greek and Latin on facing pages.

The letter-writing manuals sampled here provide convenient classifications and formulas to their users while the rhetorical treatises offer instructions on tone, register, and length. The featured letters by Cicero, Seneca, and Pliny are tailored to different kinds of recipients, situations, and purposes-including consolation, invitation, recommendation, and to make or strengthen a connection-illustrating how to make every letter fit its occasion and addressee.

Filled with timeless insights about the epistolary art, How to Write a Letter is an instructive and enlightening reminder of why letters still offer us a uniquely personal means of engaging with each other.

A study of oil-rich Alberta reveals the entwined relationships among geoscience, governance, and power.

The Canadian province of Alberta holds the world's fourth-largest reserve of fossil fuels, with oil sands famous for bitumen, a viscous form of petroleum. A critical testing ground for international environmental ideas and energy policies, Alberta pioneered state-led efforts to understand, extract, and sell bitumen. Without natural access to ocean ports, Alberta must negotiate pipeline routes with neighboring provinces and nations to reach global markets. But Alberta is also landlocked in another sense: it is caught in an extractive relationship with oil-rich earth.

In Landlocked, Jeremy J. Schmidt focuses on Alberta's energy industry, particularly its use of water and oil, to argue for a new way of understanding how political authority is forged and maintained through the environment. Schmidt details how water and oil were enrolled in early state-making projects, such as irrigation, and examines the consequences of Alberta's efforts to extract value from land, including a series of events in 2013 that released 4.2 million barrels of bitumen into underground environments. By uncovering the ways that geosciences supported activities-from land settlement to the dispossession of Indigenous peoples-that produced environmental policies and approaches to management and governance, he shows that they aren't merely instruments of state power but central to Alberta's political identity and legitimacy.

Flying Brothers drops you into cockpits and crisis rooms across the Cold War: supersonic F-5s herding rebel "Tora-Toras" over Manila in 1989, F-86 Sabres firing the first Sidewinder missiles against MiG-17s above the Taiwan Strait in 1958, and AT-6s striking a mutinous warship on a river in downtown Bangkok in 1951.

Instead of retelling Vietnam, Flying Brothers follows America's three treaty allies in Southeast Asia ? Taiwan, Thailand, and the Philippines ? showing how they built airpower that actually worked. The deal was stark: trade territory for technology. By hosting US bases, these countries gained jets, radar, and training they couldn't otherwise afford ? while wrestling with the sovereignty headaches that came with a foreign force on their soil.

At the heart of the story are "diplomats in flight suits": American advisors flying, fixing, and planning alongside their counterparts to turn hand-me-down aircraft into credible defenses and hard-won victories?from the Philippines' air-ground campaign against the Huks to Taiwan's measured, missile-age deterrence. Along the way, Daniel Jackson highlights dogfights, ramp-side ingenuity, and the annual "Flying Brothers" weapons meets that forged real fraternity among allied airmen.

For readers of military and aviation history, Cold War strategy, and Southeast Asia, this is a fast-moving, clear-eyed account of how alliances actually fight: not with speeches, but with checklists, radar tracks, and pilots who know when to hold fire ? and when to press the attack. The result is a persuasive case that well-run advisory missions, tied to coherent political-military aims, can succeed at far lower cost than direct US intervention.

Reveals how nutrition science emerged from Britain's attempts to mold the food chain to its imperial interests.

The Lion's Share offers a biography of nutrition as a scientific discipline, from its imperial birth, through its rise to fame, to its integration into an environmental and political global order. Even though medical knowledge involved food since ancient times, at the beginning of the twentieth century, nutrition was not yet a scientific discipline in an institutional or practical sense. Nevertheless, by the 1930s, it was one of the most politically influential scientific fields, with nutritionists operating as medical diplomats within national, international, and imperial organizations. As historian Alma Igra explains, it is through the global networks of British power that a decidedly marginal field of technical knowledge concerned with agricultural productivity and animal feeding evolved into an area of expertise governing the human diet and related issues of public health, economic development, and humanitarian aid.

The Lion's Share visits five pivotal moments that prompted new nutritional research at transnational meetings in Scotland, Iraq, Vienna, Geneva, and the Netherlands. Through the eyes of the experts, Igra tracks how nutrition became an international science, with mobile labs, collaborations among institutions, and a constant clash between local and imperial practices. Standardization of food measurement created new ways for food to be international and allowed politicians to imagine the world as one. Yet tensions remained that shaped international policy in the twentieth century and still affect international land policy today.

This introductory textbook presents the fundamentals of computing with words, a concept rooted in fuzzy logic that provides greater flexibility in automation technology, control engineering, logistics, and electrical engineering. It is designed for readers who are not only interested in understanding the potential of this promising technology but also in exploring its practical implementation.

To celebrate the 30th anniversary, this translated, renewed and prolonged edition has been expanded to include an introduction to fuzzy design science research (chapter 1) and computing with words (chapter 11).

This book brings critical ideas from interdisciplinary scholars, analytically examines digital technologies and social innovation across various issues, including governance, education, rural transformation, AI ethics, citizen science and other political, cultural, institutional, and ethical domains in Indonesia. It underscores the need to foster inclusive practices that engage diverse populations, and it encourages collaboration among multiple stakeholders-communities, government, businesses, and civil society organizations-to drive sustainable and equitable outcomes. Many societal challenges such as public services, education, and community empowerment fall beyond purely market-driven interests. Under these circumstances, social innovation becomes necessary. Through a collection of case studies of social innovation and forward-looking strategies, this book offers valuable insights into how societies can adapt and thrive in the ever-evolving digital landscape in a vast country like Indonesia, where people have to deal with economic, cultural, and technological disparities. Developing countries like Indonesia are not immune to the rapid influx of digital technology, which is swiftly disrupting both markets and social structures. As in other parts of the world, this wave of technological disruption presents unprecedented opportunities but also introduces significant uncertainties for current and future life. These challenges are particularly pronounced in Indonesia, where inequalities in digital access, technological proficiency, and economic disparity persist, further complicating the situation for individuals, organizations, and policymakers. As technological developments accelerate and unpredictably reshape social structures, anticipating future trajectories becomes increasingly difficult. Agility is therefore essential for navigating this complexity. This book is relevant to social scientists interested in the intersections between technology, society, education, innovation, and policy, in the context of Indonesia, and beyond.

This book delves into the intricate dynamics of service politics within the Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA), using a single case study of Bentong, Malaysia, from 2008 to 2018. It explores how the MCA navigated the political landscape during this period, focusing on their service-oriented strategies to maintain political support among the Chinese community in Bentong. By examining the general elections from 2008 - 2018, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of the intersection between service politics and ethnic identity in Malaysia. With the present worldwide focus on ethnic politics and governance, this book provides fresh insights into the techniques used by political parties to gain support from minority communities.

This book covers the low fertility in China that has drawn wide attention and exerts a far-reaching influence on the population development. In this book, with population census and sample survey data, and mathematical demographic methods and statistical methods, the authors systematically examined China's fertility levels over the past decades, fertility patterns, changes in birth numbers, projected the future population and simulated the 4-2-1 family structure and families bereaved of their only child. The authors developed a series of models and methods, got some important results, and drew some important conclusions, which provides reference for understanding the changing trend in China's fertility levels and patters, and for further relaxing China's fertility policy.

This book offers a comprehensive and interdisciplinary examination of how legal frameworks influence sustainable entrepreneurship. Moving beyond traditional approaches that treat regulation and innovation as opposing forces, it explores how laws and policies can both constrain and stimulate entrepreneurial activity aimed at achieving long-term economic, social, and environmental goals. Through research-informed case studies, the book reveals how entrepreneurs can align with regulatory expectations while driving meaningful change.

Featuring contributions from experts in law, finance, and sustainability, the second part of this two-volume set examines how regulatory environments shape and support sustainable entrepreneurship within free-market systems. It also highlights the strategies of mission-driven enterprises that align profit with purpose, particularly in navigating environmental and social regulations. It is an ideal resource for scholars, policymakers, and practitioners seeking to understand and shape the future of sustainable enterprise.

How should we understand the ideological foundations of a state that is simultaneously socialist, market-driven, digitally empowered, and globally influential? Toward a 'Constitutional' Socialist State offers a bold, multidimensional exploration of China's contemporary political evolution, revealing how competing legacies - revolutionary Marxism, constitutionalist aspirations, nationalist rhetoric, and rapid technological transformation - shape its current path.

Bringing together insights from political philosophy, economics, digital governance, and history, the book traces the evolving tensions between early Communist ideals and today's institutional realities. Rather than offering a closed or definitive model, it approaches these themes with an open and multidimensional analytical framework that reflects the complexity of the subject, inviting readers to grapple with ideas still taking shape. Engaging with themes of international relations, social imperialis, Marxist economic thought and the relationship between digital technology and the State, the author advances the provocative concept of constitutional socialism, arguing that safeguarding basic rights is essential to long-term political legitimacy. At its core is the provocative idea of constitutional socialism - the argument that China's long-term legitimacy hinges on protecting fundamental rights.

Wide-ranging, incisive, and rigorously argued, this work provides scholars, practitioners, and globally engaged readers with a fresh conceptual toolkit for assessing China's future trajectory. At a time when the world watches China with growing urgency, this book offers a rare intellectual lens on the ideological debates and structural dilemmas that will shape the century ahead.

This book honours the seminal contributions of William Beinart to southern African history and African Studies, with essays written by his former students and academic and professional colleagues. The scope of the essays in this volume speaks to the breadth of Beinart's influence, bringing together a number of intellectual strands and themes that cut across disciplines, chronologies, and geographies. Key themes explored include environment and nature, rural agriculture, popular politics, political violence, land reform, and the relationship between academia and activism. Beinart's influence is highlighted in each chapter, but the essays here also represent new research and new ways of thinking about long-standing debates. The book intends to stimulate a robust interdisciplinary and intergenerational dialogue on these topics, and to highlight emergent debates and themes of interest to the study and understanding of Africa's past.