Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- 9 elements (fragments) for the philosophical foundation of a theory of public administration -- 10 the search for consistencyresearching and teaching philosophy for public administration -- Postscript to the second edition: Philosophy in and of public administration today, global-western and non-western by Wolfgang Drechsler postscript: philosophy in and of public administration today by Wolfgang Drechsler -- References -- Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Technocrats and their critics ; Eastern minds take on the Western juggernaut ; Artistic appropriations from Morris to The Matrix -- Machines and knowledge in action. …”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction -- The world up to 1919: the making of modern international relations -- IR up to 1919: laying the foundations -- The world 1919-1945: still version 1.0 gis -- IR 1919-1945: the first founding of the discipline -- The world after 1945: the era of the Cold War and decolonization -- IR 1945-1989: the second founding of the discipline -- The world after 1989: "unipolarity", globalization and the rise of the rest -- IR after 1989 -- The post-Western world order: deep pluralism -- Towards global IR…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The British 'VAD' --9. Epic romance on Western and Eastern Fronts --Conclusion --Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction : the political and socio-economic emergence of the Arabian Gulf -- The global expansion of higher education : alternative perspectives -- Globalization of education and the GCC -- The multi-model approach to privatization : questions of sustainability -- GCC public universities : growing pains -- Assessing quality : adopting western standards of accreditation -- Reforming higher education in Saudi Arabia : reasons for optimism -- Arabic in higher education : questions of national identity and pragmatism -- Higher education revolutions : short term success vs long term viability…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Foreign Aid: Abiding Issues -- VI. Western Guilt and Third World Poverty -- VII. The Liberal Death Wish -- VIII. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Isaias Hellman and the creation of California / A twice-told journey : Sarah Newmark in the Russian Polish shtetl : how a Jewish California matron confronted her European heritage / The Western states Jewish history archives / From civic defense to civil rights : the growth of Jewish American interracial civil rights activism in Los Angeles / The third temple : Iranian Jews and the blessings of exile : a personal memoir / Jewish homegrown history : in the golden state and beyond…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Vassals, Traders, and Kings : Economic and Political Networks in the Western Mediterranean -- 6. Resistance and Assimilation after the Almohad Conquest -- 7. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…a lost opportunity -- The 2008 crisis and the beginnings of a post-Western international order -- Crisis as an ending -- Crisis of the international role of the EU -- The conditions of the EU's survival as a world power…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Prologue : matters of perspective -- Gate of the gods : archaic and global patterns of cosmic kingship -- Royal saviors and shepherds : Hellenistic, Roman, biblical, and Islamic views of kingship -- The Eusebian accommodation : Christian rulership in imperial Rome, Byzantium, and Russia -- The Carolingian accommodation : Christian rulership in the Germanic successor kingdoms of Western Europe -- The sacrality of kingship in medieval and early modern Europe : papal, imperial, national -- The fading nimbus : modern kingship and its fate in a disenchanted world -- Epilogue : survivals and revivals…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The Hittites and the Eastern Mediterranean -- 8. The fall of the Western Roman Empire -- 9. Collapse and revolution in Mesoamerica -- 10. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Shambhala, Kalachakra Tantra, and avenging gods of Tibetan Buddhism -- Power for the powerless : the Mongol-Tibetan world and its prophecies -- Alexander Barchenko : budding red Merlin and his ancient science -- Engineer of human souls : Bolshevik cryptographer Gleb Bokii -- Prophecies draped in red : blood and soil in the heart of Asia -- Red prophecy on the march : Mongolia to Tibet -- The great plan : Nicholas and Helena Roerich -- Shambhala warrior in a Western body : Nicholas Roerich's Asian ventures -- Epilogue: The end of red Shambhala…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The United States at the dawn of the "American century" -- Hegemony qualified : the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and the deepening Cold War -- Hegemony qualified : the Chinese revolution and the war in Korea -- Hegemony qualified : anti-colonial revolt in South and Southeast Asia -- Hegemony transferred and hierarchy reorganized : western Europe, Japan, and the British dominions -- Hegemony expanded : the Middle East and Africa -- Hemispheric bedrock : Latin America and the Caribbean -- Bringing it all back home -- From world war to postwar : some conclusions…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intercultural Aesthetics: An Introduction -- An Intercultural Approach to a World Aesthetics -- Living – in between – Cultures -- Living (with) Art: The African Aesthetic Worldview as an Inspiration for the Western Philosophy of Art -- The Origins of Landscape Painting: An Intercultural Perspective -- Nishida, Aesthetics, and the Limits of Cultural Synthesis -- Identity and Hybridity – Chinese Culture and Aesthetics in the Age of Globalization -- The Rasa Theory: A Challenge for Intercultural Aesthetics -- Presenting the Unpresentable. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Philosophy of Religion as Border Control: Globalization and the Decolonization of the “Love of Wisdom” (philosophia) -- The Third Eye and Two Ways of (Un)knowing: Gnosis, Alternative Modernities, and Postcolonial Futures -- “India” -- Mispredicated Identity and Postcolonial Discourse -- On the Death of the Pilgrim: The Postcolonial Hermeneutics of Jarava Lal Mehta -- Western Idealism Through Indian Eyes: A Cittamatra Reading of Berkeley, Kant and Schopenhauer -- An Approximate Difference: Proximity and Oppression in the West's Encounter with Sikhism -- Max Müller and Textual Management: A Postcolonial Perspective -- Auto-immunity in the Study of Religion(s): Ontotheology, Historicism and the Theorization of Indic Phenomena -- “America” -- The Meaning and Function of Religion in an Imperial World -- Cultural Participation and Postcoloniality: A U.S. …”

“…This book aims to re-conceptualise the framework in a way that suits non-Western contexts better, notably by re-conceptualising the securitization-neopatrimonialism nexus in Africa, which gives us significant new insights into non-Western political contexts. …”

“…"The Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 jeopardizes the country's independence and its chances for Western-style development. However, the heroic attitude of the Ukrainian people, combined with a solidifying national identity, makes the domestic foundations for a western turn stronger than ever. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…: some reflections on coastal and inland societies in the Bothnian area during the epi-neolithic and early metal age / Lars Forsberg -- Expressing identity through ritual in the early Bronze Age / Mette Roesgaard Hansen -- Large-scale "grand narratives" and small-scale local studies in the Bronze Age discourse : the animal perspective / Kristin Armstrong Oma -- Reconsidering a periphery : scenarios of copper production in southern Norway / Anne Lene Melheim -- On the bronze trail : short-cuts, byways, transformation and displacement / ¢rjan Engedal -- North-western Russia at the periphery of the North-European and Volga-Uralic Bronze Age / Maria Yushkova -- Local centres in the periphery : discussing the late neolithic, Bronze Age and early metal age Finland / Mika Lavento -- The Nordic Bronze Age and the Lüneburg culture : two different responses to social change / Sophie Bergerbrant -- Pottery, transmission and innovation in Malerdalen / Thomas Erikson -- Social landscapes of Bronze Age Scandinavia / Peter Skoglund -- The origin of a Bronze Age in Norway : structure, regional process and localised history / Christopher Prescott -- Social response or resistance to the introduction of metal : western Norway at the edge of the "globalised" world / Nils Anfinset…”
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“…This study sketches some of the various trajectories of digital games in modern Western societies, looking at the growth and persistence of the moral panic that continues to accompany massive public interest in digital games. …”