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 Nadine Ansorg, "Co-operation, Contestation and Complexity in Peacebuilding: Post-Conflict Security Sector Reform" English | ISBN: 0367637561 | 2020 | 134 pages | EPUB | 881 KB Security Sector Reform (SSR) remains a key feature of peacebuilding interventions and is usually undertaken by a state alongside national and international partners. External actors engaged in SSR tend to follow a normative agenda that often has little regard for the context in post-conflict societies. Despite recurrent criticism, SSR practices of international organisations and bilateral donors often remain focused on state institutions, and often do not sufficiently attend to alternative providers of security or existing normative frameworks of security.
 Cloud Native Microservices with Spring and Kubernetes: Design and Build Modern Cloud Native Applications English | 2021 | ISBN: 9390684315 | 393 pages | True EPUB | 7.54 MB Build and deploy scalable cloud native microservices using the Spring framework and Kubernetes.  Hans A. Baer, "Climate Change and Capitalism in Australia" English | ISBN: 1032064889 | 2021 | 240 pages | EPUB | 657 KB Recognizing that climate politics has been an increasingly contentious and heated topic in Australia over the past two decades, this book examines Australian capitalism as a driver of climate change and the nexus between the corporations and Coalition and Australian Labor parties.  Clean Craftsmanship: Disciplines, Standards, and Ethics English | 2022 | ISBN: 013691571X | 416 Pages | MOBI EPUB (True) | 46 MB ". . . [A] timely and humble reminder of the ever-increasing complexity of our programmatic world and how we owe it to the legacy of humankind-and to ourselves-to practice ethical development. Take your time reading Clean Craftsmanship. . . . Keep this book on your go-to bookshelf. Let this book be your old friend-your Uncle Bob, your guide-as you make your way through this world with curiosity and courage."  Classic Computer Science Problems in: computer science by Ruby Graham English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0B8F2LBW8 | 330 pages | EPUB | 0.32 Mb Classic Computer Science Problems in Python sharpens your CS problem-solving skills with time-tested scenarios, exercises, and algorithms, using Python. You'll tackle dozens of coding challenges, ranging from simple tasks like binary search algorithms to clustering data using k-means. You'll especially enjoy the feeling of satisfaction as you crack problems that connect compute...  Kevin Anderson, "Class, gender, race and colonialism: The 'intersectionality' of Marx" English | ISBN: 1988832632 | 2020 | 33 pages | EPUB | 274 KB It is important to see both Marx's brilliant generalisations about capitalist society and the very concrete ways in which he examined not only class, but also gender, race, and colonialism, and what today would be called the intersectionality of all of these. His underlying revolutionary humanism was the enemy of all forms of abstraction that denied the variety and multiplicity of human experience, especially as his vision extended outward from Western Europe. For these reasons, no thinker speaks to us today with such force and clarity. It is clear today that the emancipation of labour from capitalist alienation and exploitation is a task that still confronts us. Marx's concept of the worker is not limited to European white males, but includes Irish and Black super-exploited and therefore doubly revolutionary workers, as well as women of all races and nations. But, his research and his concept of revolution go further, incorporating a wide range of agrarian non-capitalist societies of his time, from India to Russia and from Algeria to the Indigenous peoples of the Americas, often emphasising their gender relations. In his last, still partially unpublished writings, he turns his gaze Eastward and Southward. In these regions outside Western Europe, he finds important revolutionary possibilities among peasants and their ancient communistic social structures, even as these are being undermined by their formal subsumption under the rule of capital. In his last published text, he envisions an alliance between these non-working-class strata and the Western European working class.
 María Eugenia D'Aubeterre Buznego, "Class, Gender and Migration: Return Flows between Mexico and the United States in Times of Crisis " English | ISBN: 1138318949 | 2020 | 180 pages | EPUB | 892 KB Using a gender-sensitive political economy approach, this book analyzes the emergence of new migration patterns between Central Mexico and the East Coast of the United States in the last decades of the twentieth century, and return migration during and after the global economic crisis of 2007.  Jonatan Rudolph, "Civil-military Relationship: Now and Then" English | ISBN: 9386367521 | 2017 | 322 pages | EPUB | 334 KB A Civil-military relation describes the relationship between civil society as a whole and the military organization established to protect it. More narrowly, it describes the relationship between the civil authority of a given society and its military authority. Studies of civil-military relations often rest on a normative assumption that civilian control of the military is preferable to military control of the state. The principal problem they examine, however, is empirical: to explain how civilian control over the military is established and maintained. Civil-military relations are those interactions between the military and civilian actors that in some way relate to the power to make political decisions. Traditionally, the study of civil-military relations levitated around questions of who is master and who is servant in civil-military relations and who "guards the guardians" of the nation. In other words: the question of civilian control is at the heart of civil-military relations. Even though in recent years, especially with the fall of the Berlin Wall, democratization processes in eastern Europe, the enlargement of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the proliferation of peace-building missions and programs in so-called post-conflict societies, the concept of security sector governance or security sector reform has gained prominence in the academic and policy-oriented literature, civilian control remains the central issue in civil-military relations in emerging democracies. The book deeply highlights the civil-military relation and its strategies.  Civil Wars in the Democratic Republic of Congo, 1960-2010 By Emizet Francois Kisangani 2012 | 252 Pages | ISBN: 1588268276 | PDF | 2 MB Wars of secession, ethnic wars, rebellions, mutinies, and Congolese-led invasions have been part of the political landscape of the Democratic Republic of Congo since the country became independent in 1960. Why? And what can we learn from this seemingly unending series of internal conflicts? Emizet Francois Kisangani explores these fundamental questions within a rigourously systematic and uniquely comprehensive framework. Looking closely at five decades of civil wars in the DRC, Kisangani finds ample evidence to challenge popular paradigms. His focus on the politics of exclusion and his attention to both the micro- and macro processes of the wars provides an analytical lens through which not only the nature of civil wars, but also Congo's politics more broadly, are brought into clearer focus.
 Civil Society, Democracy and Democratization (Warsaw Studies in Philosophy and Social Sciences) By Dorota Pietrzyk-Reeves 2016 | 208 Pages | ISBN: 3631665261 | PDF | 2 MB The book contributes to the ongoing discussion and research on civil society in the context of democracy and democratization. It provides a theoretical analysis of civil society, participation, the public sphere and democratic consolidation in light of normative democratic theory and the challenges of democratic transformation in Central and Eastern Europe. It also offers a novel approach to some of the key issues in that debate including corruption and democratic consolidation, active citizenship, civic unity and the rule of law as well as theories of democratization. Finally, it asks the question as to whether a properly functioning democracy must be complemented with civil society and the numerous roles it plays in a political community of free citizens. |
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