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France in World Politics
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France in World Politics

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Originally published in 1989, this book analyses France's distinctive role in international affairs and examines the characteristics of French foreign policy in the Fifth Republic. The introduction provides an overview of France's role in international relations, then specific chapters look at topics such as French military strategy.
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Additional ISBN/GTIN9781040115305
Product TypeE-book
BindingE-book
FormatPDF
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Publishing date02/09/2024
LanguageEnglish
File size173594 Kbytes
Article no.14422768
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Data source no.5559118
Product groupBU730
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This book has had something of a miraculous resurrection. A few months ago, it looked like it could well be pulped and its author sued for libel after one of his subjects took offence at a less than flattering portrait. British libel laws are such that a writer facing an oligarch in court is not felt to stand much of a chance and there was a strong feeling in the publishing world that Tom Burgis would be required to cough up a considerable sum of cash. For once however, the British courts sided with the little guy and dismissed the case, allowing this excellent book to continue its life out in the wild. Although technical and at times a bit opaque on financial detail, it is an extremely well put together account of how dodgy money (very often channelled through London) can be moved around the world and continuing enriching both its very questionable owners and their willing accessories.
Ein Freund sagte einmal, nachdem er sich durch einen Text von Zizek gearbeitet hatte, dass es doch erstaunlich sei, in welchen Regionen sich manche Menschen bewegen und trotzdem noch in der Lage seien, feste Nahrung zu sich zu nehmen: Zizek-Lektüre ist harte Arbeit. Zizek ist Psychoanalytiker, Philosoph, Filmtheoretiker und Kommunist. Er macht es einem wahrlich nicht leicht, schreibt komplex, meinungsfreudig und erfreut sich an der Provokation. Sein neuestes Buch lässt jedoch kaum Raum für Missverständnisse zu und ist ausgesprochen klar und pointiert. Er fordert eine tatkräftigere Linke, die sich neu formieren muss, um den drängenden Problemen der Zeit zu begegnen. Von der kapitalistischen Weltordnung seien angesichts der globalen Bedrohungen keine Lösungen zu erwarten, von den diversen populistischen Bewegungen schon gar nicht. Ohne eine neue Wirtschaftsordnung sei die Zukunft nicht zu bewältigen. Keine neuen Töne von Zizek, aber selten mit einer solchen Klarheit formuliert.
When the draft to her first novel gets stolen in a robbery, Lasley impulsively upends her life in London and moves to Aberdeen to talk to men in Scotland, who work on oil rigs. Her long year of pub interviews with these workers is shot through by the story of her obssessive affair with Caden, the first oil rig worker she interviews.
The strongest part by far are the snippets of insights into life on the oil rig, the specific lingo and rythm of life offshore in an all male environment. In her own words, Lasley wanted to find out what men are like with no women around. This query gives the book, especially in the passages about the affair, a curiously misogynist angle. At times I found myself reminded of Lisa Taddeo's chronicles of love lives of three American women. Books like these are often heralded for showing 'female desire' when in fact it more often depicts are certain type of needy, unhealthy attachment style. Personally, less pining and more reporting would have pleased me.
There are a number of books one could read to try and make sense of the current situation but this one is definitely a good place to start. Originally published seven years ago, it chronicles Pomerantsev's experiences in the early noughties, when he was pursuing a career in Russian TV production. His highly readable account focuses on several cultural phenomena, such as the gangster turned film producer, the rise of Russia Today and the deeply ingrained corruption. I suspect this was once a more light-hearted read but in the light of recent events, it is almost scarily prescient and underlines once again the argument, that the war on Ukraine shouldn't really be a surprise but is rather the result of a development that someone could already knowledgably write about in 2014.

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Robert Aldrich is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Sydney and specialises in the history of European colonialism and its legacy. Among his publications are Vestiges of the Colonial Empire in France: Monuments, Museums and Colonial Memories (2005), Banished Potentates: Dethroning and Exiling Indigenous Monarchs under British and French Colonial Rule, 1815-1955 (2018) and The Colonial World: A History of European Empires, 1780s to the Present (with Andreas Stucki, 2023). With John Connell, he has co-authored The Ends of Empire: The Last Colonies Revisited (2020). His current research projects focus on relations between France and Asia in the long nineteenth century and on the global history of modern monarchy. Forthcoming works include co-edited volumes on Global Royal Families: Cultures of Transnational Monarchy in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century and a volume on the cultural history of monarchy in the twentieth century and beyond.

John Connell is a Professor of Human Geography at the University of Sydney. His main research focus centres on development issues in island states, especially migration and health, and mainly in the Pacific, and especially Melanesia. His recent books include Islands at Risk (2013), Change and Continuity in the Pacific (2018, edited with Helen Lee), COVID in the Islands, A comparative perspective on the Caribbean and the Pacific (2021, edited with Yonique Campbell), and Pacific Island Guestworkers in Australia (2023, with Kirstie Petrou). He is presently engaged in writing a book on Islands and Health and working on resolving issues related to the migration of health workers in the Pacific islands.