In Populism, Demagoguery, and Tyranny, Tomas Pacheco-Bethencourt examines the political challenges posed by populism to constitutional democracy, with a twofold aim of clarifying its impact and addressing it effectively. He combines conceptual history, history of political thought, political history, and political philosophy to help analyze the political impact of populism on constitutional democracies.

Pacheco-Bethencourt begins his analysis by demonstrating that lessons can be learned by bringing ancient Greece's institutional framework to the discussion. It was during this time that republican procedures and practices of constitutionalism were born, explored, and refined by new oversight strategies. To underpin the argument, Pacheco-Bethencourt dives into examples of populist movements in Argentina, Venezuela, Hungary, Poland, France, and Spain to establish how the theory and real politics meet. It is here that the connection between populist rhetoric and political opportunism is exemplified. Politicians use populism as a tool to strategically reach power or push their political agenda, bridging strategy and politics. Opportunism has an ethical dimension that has to do with self-serving actions and willingness to deceive, akin to what could be compared to the negative connotations of classical demagoguery, also explored herein.

This book will be of great interest to researchers studying populism and its future in modern politics, in addition to undergraduate and postgraduate students of populist rhetoric.

This book argues that corporate harms can and should be conceptualised as horrific because they are novel forms of damage on an unprecedented scale.

There is long-term recognition of widespread, systemic harms caused by corporations and the relative dearth of response by the criminal legal system. This book argues that the harms caused by corporations generate a category crisis for criminal law. Leaving aside the difficulties that criminal law has in conceptualising the corporation as a criminal legal subject, corporate harms in and of themselves raise categorical challenges because they are beyond the imagination of the criminal law in terms of magnitude, size, type, and quality. Corporate harms tend not to be the subject of criminal law because they are too vast, too diffuse, and too disturbing for existing legal categories. Drawing on criminal law, criminology, cultural legal studies, and horror as both genre and affect, this book reconceptualises corporate harm through the lens of horror. It argues that corporate violence is structurally horrific in its scale, temporality, spatial reach, ordinariness, and institutional betrayal.

This book will appeal to scholars and students with relevant interests in legal theory, law and literature, criminal law, criminology, and cultural studies.

This timely book challenges seven widespread misconceptions about democracy that continue to shape public and academic debates about its past, present, and future.

Drawing on historical evidence, comparative research, and case illustrations, it demonstrates that commonly repeated claims-such as that democracy cannot be defined, that it was born in ancient Athens, that it is only for Western countries, that it is ineffective, or that it is in terminal decline-rest on shaky foundations. In a clear, accessible, and research-based style, the authors show how these myths distort our understanding of democracy and exaggerate its vulnerabilities - challenging doomsday accounts of democracy to offer a more balanced, historically informed perspective. While not ignoring real challenges such as populism, polarisation, and authoritarian pushback, the book emphasises that the core promise of democracy-the peaceful transfer of power through elections-remains unmatched as a tool to secure peace, freedom, and progress. It is thus both a myth-buster and a treatise in defence of democracy.

This book is of key interest to scholars and students of democracy, and more broadly, to readers interested in international relations, comparative politics, and history.

The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution- Non- Commercial- No Derivatives (CC- BY- NC- ND) 4.0 international licence.

In this exploration of the central Chinese concept of qi, a team of authors trace its role in early texts and contemporary neuroscience to show how it continues to be relevant beyond China.

As life-long scholars of qi related practices, Adam Frank, Nancy Chen, and Stephen Field offer new insights into the significance of qi in the current Anthropocene. They connect Daoist studies, Chinese medicine, martial arts, popular culture, and historical phenomenology to examine the experience of qi as part of the natural world, as breathwork, as mind-body connections, and as an increasingly frequent referent in film, comic books, and medicinal products.

This interdisciplinary conversation includes explorations of qi in the context of ancient texts, performing arts, medical anthropology, and consciousness studies. Their approach allows them to reveal the fundamental role qi plays in our shared experience of being human-in the air we breathe, the food we eat, and the fractured identities with which many of us contend.

Covering its earliest inception in the minds of Chinese proto-scientists to its function in our transglobal world, this co-authored work opens up novel ways of studying brains, minds and the spaces we now inhabit.

A Psychoanalytic Framework for Civic Renewal: Reimagining Democracy from the Ground Up offers a compelling and original thesis: that the global crisis of democracy is not a purely political or economic problem but a deeply rooted psychological and relational one.

The book synthesizes key psychoanalytic and psychological concepts to argue that the health of a democracy is directly tied to the citizenry's capacity for mentalization-the foundational ability to understand ourselves and others in terms of our inner thoughts, feelings, and intentions. It methodically builds its argument, beginning with the developmental origins of mentalization in infancy and linking it to attachment theory and the cognitive function of theory of mind. It then expands this framework to the societal level, demonstrating how a collective failure to mentalize leads to the collapse of epistemic trust and a dangerous regression to primitive psychological defenses like splitting and "us vs. them" thinking. The work presents a powerful, integrated solution: a new educational model that cultivates not only mentalization and its core social-emotional skills but also the complementary intellectual capacity for critical thinking.

This book serves as a vital resource for educators, policy makers, and mental health professionals, offering an interdisciplinary framework that bridges the divide between abstract political theory and practical, psychological solutions.

This innovative collection explores the complex and multifaceted relationship between translation and anarchism, showing how the circulation of key authors and theories on a global scale has been underpinned by language and translation.

Chapters feature case studies from across Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, and East Asia that highlight the relevance of multilingual exchanges in the growth of anarchist movements across geographic contexts as well as the decisive role of translation in their evolution and transformation. Through different disciplinary lenses - including history, sociology, philosophy, and comparative literature - the collection charts a relevant area of knowledge that has been clearly under-researched and aims to foster cross-disciplinary conversations between scholars in language and translation and social sciences.

This book will be of interest to students and scholars in translation studies, political science, global literature, area studies, and social and cultural history.

Open Casket brings political and philosophical clarity to bear on the brutal murder of Emmitt Till and his mother's decision to show the world her son's body.


The open casket is a central motif, a political and ethical focal point, for thinking about Mamie Till-Mobley's pain and suffering and her profound act of truth-telling as she wanted the world to bear witness to the gratuitous, despicable, and atrocious dimensions of anti-Blackness. The critical and powerful essays within this book capture both the horror of Emmett Till's murder/lynching and the powerful agency and the indomitable Black maternal love and courage that Mamie Till-Mobley demonstrated. Through the open casket, Mamie Till-Mobley reclaimed her son's body, and re-signified his dignity and familial-relational meaning to white America, Black America, and the world. It was her agency-in spite of the horror of his disfigured body and the unbearable affective weight that she experienced by such a site/sight-that forced white America to witness the terror of anti-Blackness, to tarry with its own egregious systemic racism.


In solemn recognition of the 70th anniversary of Till's murder, George Yancy and A. Todd Franklin gather interdisciplinary voices to articulate the political, spiritual, and existential significance of Black hope in the face of seeming hopelessness.

A comprehensive and up-to-date overview of one of the most complex, interesting, and vibrant countries in Latin America.

Beyond what appears in the news or the facile explanations of political factions, Venezuelan history holds a wealth of knowledge that is largely unknown. With world-renowned figures such as Simon Bolivar, the largest oil reserves in the world, and enormous crises such as the one experienced between 2016 and 2022, Venezuela is a country of contrasts, great achievements, and great problems. It is not surprising that it was the country where magical realism was invented.

Historical Dictionary of Venezuela, Fourth Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section contains cross-referenced entries on important personalities as well as aspects of the country's politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Venezuela.

Notes from the EU's Eastern Edge is a bold, singular book-auto-ethnography with analytic bite, theoretically literate without scholasticism, and ethically self-aware. It shows how Kremlin "migration engineering" met a ready-made European script of fear, pride, and denial along the Belarus-Poland frontier. It traces how memory politics and securitized compassion turn migrants into symbols in border forests, as well as in newsrooms, museums, and classrooms, while bilingual gatekeepers launder hard edges into "responsible" discourse. The book's core contribution is to shift Polish-populism studies from monist typologies to a processual account of a dialectical, polycentric regime of managed antagonisms, refusing the easy pejorative of "populism" and retaining an emancipatory horizon. Vivid reportage sits with compact documentary mini-cases to show how trauma, sovereignty and solidarity are being rewritten at Europe's edge. Definitive for debates on borders, memory and the political unconscious in Central Europe.

This book explores the European stances of three of Northern Ireland's political parties, culminating in one of the most tumultuous episodes in recent UK, Irish, and European politics.

It examines how and why Sinn Fein, the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP), and the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) developed their respective positions on Europe and reveals that each party adopted approaches to the European Union (EU) that do not neatly align with expectations about the influence of party voters and members. To make sense of this, the book offers an alternative account grounded in historical institutionalism, incorporating additional factors that capture the transnational nature of Northern Ireland's politics. It stresses the importance of understanding how participation in different political institutions over time has shaped these parties' behaviour. It argues that an institutional analysis of party politics in Northern Ireland can add valuable insights, including into the tumultuous Brexit period, and demonstrates that the ways in which these parties approached European integration are key to understanding the wider story of the UK and Ireland's relationship with the EU.

This book will be of key interest to students and scholars of Irish politics and Irish studies, British politics, European politics and integration, and party politics.

In 1930, George Riddoch, Charles Symonds, Russell Brain, Hugh Cairns, Macdonald Critchley, and Derek Denny-Brown formed the Hexagon Club with the aim of discussing over dinner developments in medical and surgical neurology. Over the next 10 years, they met on 32 occasions, sometimes with guests, and discussed 42 topics of past or emerging clinical and research interest. Honed in this way, the presentations led to a large number of publications, many of lasting importance.

This was a time of transition in medicine and society. The members' lives illustrate the experience of medical service in the First World War carried forward to responsibility for developing neurological services during the Second World War; training in neurology and neurosurgery with independence from general medicine and surgery; developing the model of specialist departments distributed in regional centres adopted by the National Health Service; and the interplay of neurology and culture.

Based on the only surviving copy of the Hexagon Club minutes and other previously unknown archival material, the book is written by a specialist able to summarise complex topics in neurology. It will attract general readers with an interest in medical history, neurologists and neurosurgeons interested in the evolution of their professional work, and historians of the medical profession in society during the middle decades of the twentieth century.

Long established as a leading introduction to the American presidency, Presidential Leadership, Fourteenth Edition, provides students with a comprehensive survey that addresses the capacity of chief executives to fulfill their tasks, exercise their powers, and utilize their organizational structures to affect the output of government. The authors examine all aspects of the presidency in rich detail, including presidential powers, presidential history, and the institution of the presidency.
Edwards, Mayer, and Wayne analyze the institution and the presidents who hold the office through the key lens of leadership. The authors explain the leadership dilemma presidents face and their institutional, political, and personal capacities to meet it. Two models of presidential leadership help students understand the institution: one in which a strong president dominates the political environment as a director of change, and another in which the president performs a more limited role as facilitator of change. Each model provides an insightful perspectives to better understand leadership in the modern presidency and to evaluate the performance of individual presidents. With no simple formula for presidential success, and no partisan perspective driving the analysis, the authors help us understand that presidents and citizens alike must understand the nature of presidential leadership in a pluralistic system in which separate institutions share powers.
The fourteenth edition is fully updated through the start of Trump's second administration, with recent policy developments, the 2024 elections, changes to the media environment, and the latest data. In addition, material from the prior edition's chapter on domestic and economic policy has been incorporated into other chapters for an overall briefer text.

Requests can sometimes create reasons for action, and sometimes obligations. Request norms explain their reason-giving force, as being able to create reasons for others is valuable for us.

In this book, Peter Schaber explores the normative force of requests. The epistemic view holds that by informing the requestees of what the requester desires, the requester may draw the requestee's attention to an already existing reason to comply with the request. In contrast, Schaber argues that requests themselves possess normative force if certain conditions are met. Requests create reasons for the requestee to honor if and only if the requested act is good or at least not sufficiently bad, and if it is good to take the request as a reason for action.

In some cases, requests do not merely create reasons but impose obligations. Requests can create obligations even though the requester does not intend to impose an obligation on the requestee, unlike in the case of an order, where the prescriber communicates the intention to impose an obligation on the addressee of the order. Whether a request creates reasons or obligations is determined by request norms, which can be framed as follows: "If and because A asks B to do x, B has a reason to do x". The request might trigger an obligation, thus imposing an obligation on B to honor the request. Alternatively, the reason might not trigger an obligation, and thus B is not obliged to honor the request.

Request norms hold if and because it is valuable to follow. Certain requests are not reason-giving because it would not be valuable for us if they were, but the practice of making requests is essential for living respectfully with others.

This book examines the international standards relating to information exchange, identifying its importance in relation to combatting money laundering, terrorist financing and fraud.

Its timely publication follows the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) rating the UK's anti-money laundering and counterterrorism financing regimes as amongst the best in the world in its fourth Mutual Evaluation Report.
The book features an alternative review via three case studies - money laundering, terrorism financing and general fraud. These illustrate the importance of information exchange and highlight flaws in the UK's legal framework, challenging the conclusions of the FATF. Considering this comprehensive analysis, the book then provides recommendations for reform.

The Linguistic Carnival of Thought: Comparative Philosophy and the Dynamics of Language argues that the practice of philosophizing is significantly influenced by linguistic structures. Against the widespread view that all languages are reducible to the same matrix on a deep-structural level, Rein Raud presents ample evidence to the contrary, demonstrating how different strategies of predication, postulation, negation, individuation, and so on vary greatly and present incompatible combinations in natural languages, which are nonetheless suitable for precise and rational argumentation.
This book compares the views of language presented by Plato, Kongzi/Xunzi, and Bhartrhari; discusses "pansemioticism," or the view that reality itself is significant (addressing Yijing, East Asian Buddhism, the Kabbalah, the philosophies of Peirce, Derrida, and others); juxtaposes the set-theoretical ontology of Badiou and the mereological worldview of Huayan Buddhism; and discusses various critiques of the idea of "truth" (Wittgenstein, Deleuze, Foucault) and a way to accommodate them through the logic of Dignaga, among other topics. With examples from languages and philosophical traditions across the world, the book is an ideal introduction to the problematic for monolingual speakers of English and a scintillating exploration for polyglots.

This introduction to philosophy guides students through great philosophical problems, such as the existence of God, the nature of the mind, human freedom, the limits of knowledge, and the truth about ethics.

The book begins by reflecting on the life of the first great philosopher, Socrates. Then it takes up the fundamental question of whether God exists. Next comes a discussion of death and the soul, which leads to a chapter about persons. The later chapters consider whether objective knowledge is possible in science and ethics.
Problems from Philosophy represents the final work of philosopher James Rachels. In it, he brings the same liveliness and clarity to the introduction of philosophy present in his other best-selling books. Problems from Philosophy has been revised by James Rachels' son Stuart, who has carefully refined his father's work to further strengthen its clarity and accessibility.
The fifth edition features a new chapter on government and new content on AI and large language models in the chapter "Can a Machine Think?"

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