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“Regional cooperation exists, but looks different in the global South than in the European Union,” claim the contributors to South American Policy Regionalism, which offers novel theory, methods, and Latin American case studies of joint governance efforts in nine international policy arenas, ranging from illegal drugs to artificial intelligence.Contrasting three major schools of thought in international relations (highlighting power, institutions, and ideas), this book introduces the idea of international policy regionalism as a framework for informed debate about international policy-sector interactions in a regional space. Beginning with a conceptual approach applicable to any world region, it includes a brief history of Western Hemisphere regionalism to aid in future cross-regional comparisons. An international group of contributors constructs rich narratives of the politics of Latin American policy sector evolution since the Cold War. Besides the aforementioned, included sectors span regional development banking, infrastructure planning, electricity distribution, migration governance, climate action, neglected tropical diseases, and food policies.This volume equips readers from various academic disciplines and the policy world to understand the relevance of core international relations theory for the analysis of policy sectors that cross national borders, both within Latin America and elsewhere, and especially throughout the global South.

Civilização e liberdade: diálogos entre França e Minas Gerais na arquitetura e no urbanismo explora três séculos de intercâmbio cultural, arquitetônico e urbanístico entre Minas Gerais e França. Organizado por Flavio de Lemos Carsalade, o livro traz uma série de estudos sobre como as ideias de liberdade, inspiradas pelo Iluminismo francês, e os conceitos de civilização moldaram profundamente a capitania de Minas do Ouro e, posteriormente, o estado de Minas Gerais. A obra detalha o impacto francês na arquitetura mineira desde o período colonial à contemporaneidade, passando pelo barroco, o neoclássico, o eclético e o art déco até chegar ao modernismo. Através do olhar de renomados pesquisadores, são exploradas as nuances da rica troca entre o estado brasileiro e o país europeu, que transcende a mera transferência de estilos e se embrenha nas aspirações de construir uma sociedade mais justa e igualitária. Um testemunho da incessante transformação impulsionada pela liberdade de criar e pela vontade de civilizar, características que definem o espírito mineiro e a influência francesa ao longo dos séculos. Participam desta coletânea: Danilo Matoso Macedo, Angelo Oswaldo de Araújo Santos, Jean-Pierre Blay, Celina Borges Lemos, Esther Aparecida Cervini de Melo, Carlos Alberto Maciel, Roberto Luís Monte-Mór e Carlos Antônio Leite Brandão.

Este livro autoral representa a divulgação científica da pesquisa intitulada'Educação e Justiça Ambientais no fomento da cidadania voltada à sustentabilidade', de Raquel Torres de Brito Silva. O objetivo traçado consistirá em analisar as contribuições da Educação e Justiça Ambientais na formação de cidadãos críticos e praticantes da sustentabilidade, sobretudo considerando o atual cenário de externalidades negativas e injustiças socioambientais que repercutem em aspectos globais. Nessa ótica, será enfatizado o papel dúplice da Educação Ambiental no fomento da sensibilização e conscientização social/individual em prol da proteção ambiental para as gerações atuais e vindouras, consoante os ensinamentos provenientes do paradigma da Dimensão Ambiental Freiriana. Que esta produção intelectual possa contribuir para a promoção do robustecimento da temática aos leitores interessados.

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Democracy is often described in two opposite ways, as either wonderfully resilient or dangerously fragile. Both characterizations can be correct, depending on the context. When Democracy Breaks aims to deepen our understanding of what separates democratic resilience from democratic fragility by focusing on the latter. The volume's collaborators--experts in the history and politics of the societies covered in their chapters--explore eleven episodes of democratic breakdown, from ancient Athens to Weimar Germany to present-day Russia, Turkey, and Venezuela. Strikingly, in every case, various forms of democratic erosion long preceded the final democratic breakdown. Although no single causal factor emerges as decisive, linking together all of the episodes, some important commonalities--including extreme political polarization, explicitly anti-democratic political actors, and significant political violence--stand out across the cases. Moreover, the notion of democratic culture, while admittedly difficult to define and even more difficult to measure, may play a role in all of them. Throughout the volume, the contributors show again and again that the written rules of democracy are insufficient to protect against tyranny. While each case of democratic decay is unique, the patterns that emerge shed much light on the continuing struggle to sustain modern democracies and to assess and respond to the threats they face.

A presente obra se destina a todos aqueles que pretendem se embrenhar na fascinante tarefa de compreender a obra de Dom Paulo Evaristo Cardeal Arns (1921-2016), arcebispo de São Paulo no período correspondente ao Regime Militar, ao processo de redemocratização e consolidação da democracia. Face a tantas abordagens referentes ao legado de Dom Paulo, este estudo se reveste de originalidade à medida que estabelece uma interface com a bioética, perpassando um viés teológico-antropológico cujo âmago se assenta numa fé cristã encarnada na história e no cotidiano concreto das pessoas chamadas a viver numa fraternidade comunitária. Insta considerar que a Bioética se apresenta como proposta para se refletir de modo interdisciplinar sobre os novos paradigmas da contemporaneidade. A consciência dos limites éticos diante dos avanços da ciência descortinou um novo campo de discussão que envolve várias áreas do saber para a construção de uma sociedade mais justa, humana e solidária. Nesta obra, o autor apresenta os pressupostos que interligam a Bioética aos Direitos Humanos, em diálogo com a reflexão do líder religioso no tocante à categoria de solidariedade para, em um segundo momento, identificar os postulados bioéticos na obra de Paulo Evaristo Arns.

The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) aims to construct a Sino-centric transcontinental infrastructure network in Asia, Europe, Africa and beyond. Within this initiative, the China–Myanmar Economic Corridor (CMEC) is a vital strategic component. The shortcut to the Indian Ocean seeks to improve China's energy security and facilitate trade. Defying Beijing: Societal Resistance to the Belt and Road in Myanmar shows how Myanmar was able to capitalise on Chinese BRI ambitions to achieve its own desired outcomes during the country's political liberalisation in the 2010s. Belying the asymmetrical relationship between these two nations, the Myitsone hydropower dam was suspended, the Letpadaung copper mine's contract was renegotiated, and the Kyaukphyu deep seaport project was downsized. China offered concessions to Myanmar instead of pressuring it to honour those signed agreements. Contrasting a common proposition that US-Myanmar rapprochement disrupted the BRI projects in Myanmar, Defying Beijing argues that the rise of new foreign policy actors – citizens – made project continuation costlier for Naypyidaw in the course of political liberalisation in the 2010s. Naypyidaw was pressured to renegotiate terms with Beijing in the wake of social outcry in the country. Defying Beijing advances our understanding of Chinese–Myanmar BRI relations and demonstrates how citizens can change the course of events of BRI cooperation despite oppressive political environments and an imbalanced bargaining structure. In post-coup Myanmar, Naypyidaw's policy options were not conditioned by public opinion or protests; nonetheless, armed resistance has posed new domestic constraints in the CMEC's implementation. Clearly, bilateral economic agreements without citizens'endorsement are fraught with legitimacy problems and instabilities.

The Elgar Encyclopedia of Climate Policy provides a comprehensive and compelling account of the causes and potential solutions to one of the most pressing global challenges of the 21st century: climate change. With deep intellectual rigour, this Encyclopedia adeptly surveys the nature and application of various international climate change policies.Expertly analysing central topics such as carbon budgets and pricing, net-zero carbon, loss and damage, international trade policy, and digital climate solutions, contributors explore diverse policy approaches, policies, and technologies using case studies at both national and sub-national levels. Key concepts featured in climate debates, the roles of actors and institutions in problem-solving, the technology and policy solutions that are being used or should be considered, and the applications of proposed policies are all examined in an authoritative and pragmatic manner.This innovative Encyclopedia is an essential read for academics and students interested in politics and public policy, environmental studies, the sustainable development goals, law, and regulation and governance.Key Features:Accessible explanations of key concepts and debatesIn-depth coverage of case studies from across the globeOver 90 entries from international and interdisciplinary contributorsClearly organised into six thematic sections addressing theories and methods, evidence and impacts, concepts, actors, institutions and agreements, solutions, and case studies

This book examines how micro contextual issues inspire collective social action forms against everyday situations of crises and crimes through an inter-disciplinary, ethnographic, and comparative research conducted among Bishnois and Indian South Africans.Exploring the role of the publics that practise and mobilise their social movement imaginations, the work delves into peoples'ability to move beyond their immediate contexts and politicise multiple social spaces and discursive spheres around them to project their causes. Mapping an anti-poaching movement spearheaded by the Bishnois of Western Rajasthan in India and an anti-substance abuse movement led by the historical Indian diaspora of South Africa, the author argues that such contemporary forms of organised social action replete with alternative frames, symbols, and repertoires possess key requisites to be understood as the ‘Newer Social Movements'of the Global South.The volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of social and protest movements, migration and diaspora studies, political science, social anthropology, and ethnography.