This book is one of the first to systematically examine the debate about global order in International Relations from an ecological perspective.

Bringing together an international team of expert contributors, chapters offer a well-rounded exploration of the ecological view on world order from a diverse mix of cultural and theoretical backgrounds. The book provides a nuanced understanding of the social structures underlying specific world political challenges and offers valuable insights into the complex interplay of various global orders and their implications for international affairs.

This book offers a new interpretation of Wittgenstein's Tractatus and connects it with the early development of analytic philosophy in Cambridge and Jena.

In this book, Wittgenstein's method is presented as an epitome of analytic philosophy. It considers how Wittgenstein adopted and deepened the method of Moore and Russell and how he fused it with that of Frege. The book also explores the attempts to adopt Wittgenstein's method by the Vienna Circle, the Cambridge school of therapeutic analysis, and the Oxford school of ordinary language philosophy, as well as how it relates to some leading figures in the history of philosophy including Kant and Spinoza.

The Tractatus, Wittgenstein's Method and Analytic Philosophy is essential reading for all scholars, researchers and advanced students of the thought of Ludwig Wittgenstein and of the history of analytic philosophy.

This book offers a timely intervention in the discourses around transhumanism, posthumanism, and phenomenology, aspiring to inaugurate a turning in Western thought in the direction of a more phenomenologically oriented consideration of what it means to be human and of what it might mean to be "posthuman." It gathers important contributions from both established and new scholarly voices to each of the literatures on phenomenology, humanism, and posthumanism, as well as to the much scantier literature on phenomenology and posthumanism.

The book treats "posthumanism(s)" primarily in terms of transhumanism and critical posthumanism but also includes consideration of alternative posthumanisms either extant or conceivable, including forms of "phenomenological posthumanism." By "phenomenology" is primarily meant the tradition of transcendental methodology forged by Edmund Husserl and further developed by such figures as Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Emmanuel Levinas, among others. In relation to each of the movements of phenomenology, humanism(s), and posthumanism(s), the chapters in this volume propose new understandings of long-discussed topics, offer alternatives to standard accounts, introduce and explicate neglected figures and movements, provide case studies of exemplary issues, and more.

The book is divided into four main parts: "Part I: Humanism(s)," "Part II: Posthumanism(s)," "Part III: Transhumanism," and "Part IV: Humans, Nonhumans, and Posthumans."

This edited collection illuminates what the concept of a specifically epistemic type of injustice has to offer socio-legal analysts. The epistemic aspects of injustice comprise more than knowledges, meaning and understanding, to include the supporting material and discursive (infra)structures for their production and dissemination arising in space/place/time. This book focuses on legal and regulatory arrangements, and the forms of knowledge and meaning they carry and with which they interact, in order to bring to light their spatial and place-relatedness or boundedness, which includes their temporal dimensions at various scales.

These highly innovative studies of epistemic injustice encompass the responsibilisation of patients in the North of England and Northern Ireland, housing, the systemic operations of law, the construction of digital spaces by algorithms, hospital discharges, case law affecting Indigenous communities in Kenya, the experience of mining disaster in Brazil, and the perspectives of rare diseases patients in Austria during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The book contributes towards law and geography, in particular through the emphasis on temporality as part of space and place. By highlighting the importance of author positionality and reflexivity, and pausing so as to bolster the development of humility and sensitivity for more fully informed studies on epistemic injustice and its ameliorations, the book also advances methodology for future studies.

This book offers a comprehensive assessment of Mauritius's engagement with the African human rights system. Based on the premise that Mauritius has not fully leveraged this relationship, it first outlines the opportunities the system presents for promoting and protecting human rights within the country. It then examines the rationale, role, and effectiveness of regional human rights mechanisms in the Mauritian context. The book assesses the extent to which Mauritius has implemented African Union human rights treaties it has ratified, analyzing the country's constitutional, legal, and institutional frameworks, relevant jurisprudence, and its participation in the procedures of the African human rights system.

Drawing on these insights, the book provides practical recommendations to strengthen Mauritius's interaction with the African human rights system.

This book examines Africa-China interactions, which over the last two decades have deepened across a range of areas notably politics, economics, trade, diplomacy, culture, construction, security, and ICT. The setting up of the Forum on China-Africa Co-operation (FOCAC) in 2000 has provided the main institutional and organizational ballast for Africa-China interactions. This book seeks to critically (re)examine, extend and add to the literature by taking a fresh look at Africa-China entanglements in the light of emergent and new realities in the international political economy such as the impact of COVID 19 on national economies and indeed the global economy , rising debt defaults in Africa and elsewhere, the Russo-Ukrainian War, the Artificial Intelligence (AI) race, the re-emergence of big power rivalry, and the Belt and Road Initiative. The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in particular must be seen as an added layer of the mode and concerns of Africa-China relations which is specifically the matter of infrastructure. The BRI seems to have triggered as well an emergent strident courting of Africa by its hitherto uninterested traditional and older partners, the EU and the US, in an attempt to respond to and counteract China's growing presence and influence on the continent. This book should be of interest to scholars of international relations, Africa-Asia studies, researchers, policymakers, activists and indeed the curious non-specialist reader.

This book introduces the Peace System Analysis, a new framework for unpacking the complexity of peace and conflict processes. Drawing on ethnographic research in Kosovo and Medellin, it illustrates how mapping the links between different parts of a peace process helps uncover existing capacities that can reinforce long-term peace. The book argues that many peacebuilding models fail to capture the realities of conflict-affected contexts, before introducing the Peace System Analysis as a tool for examining four key components: 1) local understandings of peace, 2) obstacles to peace, 3) capacities for peace, and 4) trans-scalarity of peace. It then demonstrates its application in both Kosovo and Medellin, revealing hidden dynamics, interconnections, and opportunities for transformation. Bridging theory and practice, this book connects debates on complexity theory, critical peace studies, and peace policy, offering scholars, policymakers, and practitioners fresh insights and strategies for building peace.

The Bar has a long-standing reputation for being the preserve of public-school educated, white men. Power and privilege can create abuses of power, from discrimination and disadvantage in entering the profession, to toxic work practices, sexual harassment, judicial bullying and more.

In her trademark outspoken style, Jo Delahunty K.C. reveals what life at the legal aid Bar involves and identifies what can be done to change its culture and image for the better, reshaping the traditional image of a barrister in terms of the diverse profession it should be.

By celebrating the highs, but not concealing the lows, of a life in law, Jo's love letter to her profession 'sets the bar' for action: what we can learn from the past and what needs to be done in future to galvanise it into a united, egalitarian, healthy environment for all.

This book offers the first comprehensive and systematic study of Charles Peirce's theory of abduction, tracing its evolution across five distinct periods from 1864 to 1914. It reconstructs Peirce's shifting treatment of hypothesis-from its early separation from induction, to its redefinition as an "induction of characters," its association with Aristotle's apagoge, and its eventual reformulation as "retroduction." Bridging historical scholarship and logical analysis, it clarifies abduction's justification, validity, and its formal, epistemic, and methodological characteristics that distinguish it from Peircean induction and deduction, while also analyzing the place of pragmatism within these inferential forms. It further examines how Peirce's ideas have been interpreted and adapted in contemporary debates in philosophy of science, logic, and cognitive science, including inference to the best explanation, artificial intelligence, practical logic, and eco-cognitive approaches. The concluding chapter introduces the Agentive Semiotics framework, showing how Peirce's insights illuminate abduction as a dynamic, agent-driven process for restoring cognitive manageability when the available and activated information becomes disrupted.

This book examines how algorithms are reshaping security and criminal justice, revealing their profound social and political implications. From intelligence agencies and police forces to courtrooms, tools like facial recognition are redefining how security is imagined and enacted worldwide. Yet, alongside promises of efficiency and objectivity, these systems frequently fail-exposing tensions around their epistemic authority and legitimacy. Focusing on biometric data and cases like Clearview AI in the United States, the book unpacks the entanglements between security professionals, legal actors, and algorithmic systems, showing how these technologies gain stability even amid errors and disputes. Drawing on Critical Security Studies, Science and Technology Studies, and feminist critiques of technoscience, it offers a multidimensional analysis of "algorithmic reason," its narratives of "better justice" or "enhanced security," and the ethical and political challenges they generate. A vital resource for scholars, practitioners, policymakers, and anyone concerned with the societal impacts of emerging technologies.

In an era defined by shifting global dynamics, this book explores the transformative partnership between two of Asia's most influential democracies. This volume delves into the strategic convergence of India and Japan, examining their collaborative efforts to address pressing geopolitical, technological, and societal challenges in the Indo-Pacific and beyond. From the bustling connectivity corridors of Northeast India to the sustainable energy initiatives driving net-zero ambitions, this book unpacks the multifaceted India-Japan relationship. It highlights their shared vision for a Free and Open Indo-Pacific, bolstered by robust defense collaborations, cutting-edge technology transfers, and innovative approaches to sustainable development. Chapters explore critical topics such as infrastructure development, renewable energy partnerships, artificial intelligence cooperation, and the Blue Economy, while addressing societal challenges like rural revitalization, healthcare infrastructure, and waste management. The book also examines how cultural and business exchanges, alongside feminist foreign policies, strengthen bilateral ties and foster regional stability.Through rigorous analysis and case studies, this book reveals how India and Japan are not only navigating their own national priorities but also shaping a resilient, multipolar world order. This book showcases the power of strategic alliances in building a sustainable and inclusive future.

Not so long ago, Russia under Putin appeared to be a corrupt state run by an elite mainly interested in their own privileges and wealth: authoritarian but not fundamentally expansionist.

The 2022 invasion of Ukraine made it clear that Putin is driven by far more than simply greed. Putin's Russia is, Andrei Kolesnikov argues, in the grip of intense ideological radicalization, seeking to mobilize its population in support of a form of chauvinistic neo-imperialism using increasingly totalitarian methods. This march towards "hybrid totalitarianism" is driven by a messianic view of Russia as a superior, "spiritual" form of "state-civilization" underpinned by its Orthodox faith and hatred of Western "decadence." Based upon a falsified version of history and a profound hostility to modernization, this ideology is making Russia an international pariah and condemning its citizens to endless war and economic stagnation. The only hope for redemption is a profound moral regeneration which redefines the nation's place in the world and embraces the spirit of democracy.

This incisive analysis of the ideological dynamics of late Putinism, written by a leading Russian scholar and journalist, is an indispensable guide to understanding the country's recent descent into war-mongering barbarism.

Prompt Thinking explores how artificial intelligence is fundamentally transforming the nature of thought. In the age of generative AI, prompting becomes more than a technical instruction: it emerges as a philosophical practice.

This book arises from an experiment with AI in which the fictional philosopher Jianwei Xun sparked global debate by publishing a book about power and perception in the digital age. That book, Hypnocracy: Trump, Musk, and the New Architecture of Reality, was written with the assistance of AI. Rather than casting AI as either savior or threat, Prompt Thinking proposes a third way: conscious dialogue with artificial intelligence as a means to expand critical awareness. The book shows how critical philosophical engagement with AI can produce unexpected insights while preserving intellectual autonomy.

Part theoretical framework, part methodological provocation, Prompt Thinking offers tools for navigating cognitive transformation. It proposes an ethics of the threshold, neither rejecting technological change nor surrendering to it.

In an era of complex global challenges, traditional state-to-state negotiations often fall short. Track 1.5 Diplomacy- combining official and unofficial dialogue- has become essential for building trust, fostering cooperation, and generating innovative solutions. This book offers the first in-depth study of Track 1.5 Diplomacy in the US and Europe, blending theory and practice. It examines how governments, think tanks, academics, and civil society collaborate in semi-official settings to influence policy and manage conflicts. Covering theoretical foundations, regional case studies, and emerging challenges, this volume is a vital resource for students, scholars, diplomats, and policymakers seeking to understand and leverage Track 1.5 Diplomacy.

Against the backdrop of rising authoritarianism, this open access edited volume investigates how states-small and large, strong and weak-silence critics across borders. This focus on transnational authoritarianism is underexplored in scholarship, and even more so for states in South and Southeast Asia-which many of our cases draw from. While NGO reports, including those by Freedom House, have exposed physical attacks, they rarely address subtler methods used to target exiles. Drawing on analyses and interviews with those directly familiar with these dynamics, the collection examines tactics such as digital surveillance, emotional blackmail, enforced family isolation, psychological harassment, imprisonment of relatives on fabricated charges, and harassment of family businesses through surprise audits. These non-physical measures can be as effective as physical attacks, yet often evade media attention. The goal of transnational authoritarianism is clear: silence exiled critics, restrict alternative information, and shape global opinion. This collection reveals the long reach of strongmen regimes and their determination to control narratives at home and abroad.

This edited volume attempts to reimagine South Asia through narratives proffered by Indian scholars. Averse to mono-causal explanations of the implications of South Asia's protean issues and insoluble paradoxes upon India's national security, it incentivises inter-disciplinary and inter-perspectival analyses. It is a single-volume treatment of geopolitics and counterhegemony in South Asia, aimed at exploring dynamic interactions for understanding the provenance of narratives, as the drivers of peace and conflict. Authored by specialists in the field, the volume is divided into three thematic sections. The first two deal with cl-assical geopolitical interpretations and diverse security perspectives from nuclearisation to human security. These highlight hegemonic constructions, cross-border movements of people, the ramifications of the rise of China, the region's maritimity and cooperative endeavours. The last thematic section comprises counterhegemonic narratives, presenting studies of citizenship, gender, disability activism, as well as the issues of specific identities formation and histories of resistance articulated through popular culture, mad studies and discourse analysis. Beneficial for specialists in International Relations and Strategic Studies, policymakers, activists, scholars and postgraduate students, this comprehensive volume offers insights into the intricate dynamics of hegemony and counterhegemony in the turbulent theatre.

This volume brings together a number of scholars globally - from Africa and Asia to the Americas and Europe - to examine Africa's global engagements. It approaches its subject matter theoretically and conceptually as well as empirically asking deeper questions like what is the ideal unit for cooperation and engagement? Is it the state or can one go beyond the state or possibly below the African state and internationalize given the context of the failed African state? Whilst focused very much on the contemporary nature and forms of engagement, the volume recognizes the enduring historical, and especially colonial, legacy on the contemporary African state and how it continues to shape patterns of regional and international cooperation. The book covers its subject matter in two thematic manners. First, it covers the "who" of engagement - Africa-European Relations, Africa-India relations, Africa's relations with China and Africa's relations with the Global South. Second, the volume explores the "what" of cooperation. This includes: agriculture and climate change, the digital revolution, energy resources, security considerations and trade. Whilst theoretically anchored, the volume seeks to also examine the implications of the empirical study for policy makers.

This edited volume provides a forum for critical debate on the concept of reglobalization from different political science perspectives. Using an innovative multifaceted approach, the volume opens a pluralistic dialogue on the concept of increased international cooperation and its implications for the major challenges facing the global economy.

This book is organized into four parts. Chapters in Part I explore the conceptualization and scope of reglobalization within political science and its subfields. Chapters in Part II approach reglobalization from the perspective of international relations; questioning the rules based international order, regional approaches, and challenges for democratization and security. Chapters in Part III discuss technology, development, and futures issues. The last Part focuses on the human aspect of reglobalization, addressing human rights, climate change, security, migration, and citizenship.

An inclusive gathering of scholars of politics and international relations, this volume will be of use to researchers and students broadly interested in human rights, regional and comparative studies, governance, democracy, gender, political communication, development, geopolitics, security, migration and citizenship, climate security, and planetary politics.

This book, a eight-year interdisciplinary collaboration involving experts in international politics, law, economics, and history from six countries, meticulously analyzes the San Francisco Peace Treaty System and its profound implications. It critically examines how this system reflected the victim-centric approach of the United Nations while offering a crucial counter perspective from colonial and semi-colonial nations such as Korea and China, notably excluded from its initial formulation. The study specifically re-evaluates the treaty's impact through the crucial lens of human rights, addressing issues such as Japanese military sexual slavery and the Okinawa problem. In addition, the book meticulously tracks the subsequent 72-year evolution of this system in direct relation to the significant economic development and dynamic growth of civil society across East Asian regions. It compellingly argues that the ongoing Indo-Pacific collective security regime, strategically encircling China, represents a contemporary iteration, referred to as San Francisco System 2.0, drawing a clear distinction from its predecessor, San Francisco System 1.0. Ultimately, the focus is on an extensive exploration of the essential conditions required for establishing a truly genuine and lasting system of peace in the region.

This book explores why state violence has proliferated across Latin America despite the adoption of extensive political and legal reforms intended to deter such violence. The authors argue that legacy conditions (uneven state capacity, weak rule of law, and socioeconomic inequalities) are met with what they term "public order violence," which results in weakened democratic institutions and a cycle of violence that is difficult to escape. Combining in-depth case studies with new cross-national data, the book provides a comprehensive analysis of the history, evolution, and contemporary architecture of state violence in the region. Individual chapters explain how public order violence permeates everyday policing, border security, and economic growth. The conclusion outlines the legal foundations of state violence and pathways toward a more peaceful future. This book is essential reading for scholars of Latin American politics, political violence, transitional justice, civil-military relations, democratization, international relations and security studies.

This book aims to provide nuanced understanding of the British Empire with reference to history, literature, and migration studies. It demonstrates subtle intersection of subaltern, diaspora, ecological, and gender perspectives, making it a scholarly yet engaging read. It features original and well researched essays, with contributions from global scholars, exploring previously unknown literary texts. This book unfolds fascinating historical insights and discussions that shed light on the complexities of twenty-first century's global cultural landscape. This book is ideal for students, research scholars, and academicians from disciplines such as Literature, Cultural, Postcolonial, Ecological, Migration, and Interdisciplinary studies. Additionally, it also appeals to history enthusiasts eager to deepen their understanding of Indian migration under the British Empire. The intersection of narrative and theoretical frameworks offers a comprehensive and insightful exploration of this significant historical period.

Despite its wide reception and productive applications in various regions across the world, the Sociology of Sport has only recently begun to gain scholarly attention in the field of Southeast Asian Studies. Recognizing that the role of sport in the region merits thorough and comprehensive analysis, the studies in this volume shed light on the socio-cultural dynamics within Southeast Asia's sporting sphere.

Demonstrating how Southeast Asian sporting games, during both the precolonial and (early) modern-state eras, have played a key role in broader social processes and social change, and how, in turn, they themselves have transformed in content and meaning, the chapters in this collection reveal how people construct their group, national, economic, and social identities to negotiate with each other in sporting settings across the region and the world during each epoch. This volume covers the long-term development of sport in Southeast Asia, affirming the importance of sport in every era. It opens with discussions of the colonial and early modern eras, before guiding readers through the landscape of sport in postcolonial and Cold War settings. Additionally, the volume highlights several vital contemporary issues in sport, including lucrative international sporting events, the participation of refugees in sports, and sports policy.

Addressing the plethora of aspects of sporting cultures in Southeast Asia which remain relatively, or completely, unresearched by scholars, this volume offers research that is key to understanding the sporting culture of a vast, densely populated, globally significant, and sports-obsessed region.

This book applies notions from C.S. Peirce's philosophy, such as semiosis, mind, diagrammatic reasoning, abduction, and habits, to contemporary problems in distributed cognitive science. These problems include distributed cognitive systems, cognitive niche construction, external representations, cognitive artifacts, agency, and emergence. In this movement, Peirce's approach provides a philosophical framework that reconceptualizes fundamental notions in distributed cognitive science. Among the founders of pragmatism, Charles S. Peirce remains one of the least influential within the pragmatic turn in cognitive science. Nevertheless, Peirce's theory of mind is processist and externalist, placing it at the center of cognition and the action of external signs. This book is therefore of interest to philosophers of science as well as cognitive scientists and cognitive linguists.