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Britain after the Five Crises : Financial Collapse, Migration, Brexit, Covid and the Ukraine
| Britain after the Five Crises : Financial Collapse, Migration, Brexit, Covid and the Ukraine |
| Autore | Preston P. W |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing AG, , 2023 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (275 pages) |
| Disciplina | 320.9410905 |
| ISBN | 3-031-43650-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1 Britain: A Decade of Crises, Particular and General, 2008-2022 -- Crisis in the Recent Decades -- Particular Crises Interlinked -- Provisionally, Firstly, Political Failings -- Provisionally, Secondly, Institutional -- Provisionally, Third Organizationally -- Provisionally, Fourth, Failing to Grasp Social Impacts -- General Crisis: The Wheel of History -- The End of Ideas About Neo-liberal Globalization -- The End of Ideas of Western Pre-eminence -- Finessing the Crises -- An agenda for Enquiry -- 2 The British Empire: Finessing the Collapse, 1942-1956 -- Shaping Post-War British Politics: A Road Not Taken -- The State-Empire: Geographically Extensive, Multi-ethnic and Loosely Ordered -- Metropolitan Conflict, Peripheral Revolt and the Progressive Collapse of Empire -- Metropolitan Critics -- Peripheral Voices -- Aspirant Players -- World War and Empire Collapse -- Major Conflicts -- The State-Empire System Overwhelmed -- Reworking the Empire: Change and Understanding in Core and Periphery -- First, Which People -- Boundaries and Territorial Definition -- Second, What Type of Economy -- Conflict and Argument (Classes/Theories) -- Third, What Sort of Identity -- Dynamics of Political-Cultural Redefinition -- Social/Cultural Legacies of Empire: Nostalgia, Race and Racism -- Post-War: Some Reforms, Disappointments -- The Empire: Collapse, but Elite Continuity -- 3 European Union: Particular Anxieties, Deeper Issues, 2008-2022 -- Europe: The Broad Historical Trajectory -- European Union in Summary -- Europe: The Disasters of Early Twentieth Century -- The Crisis, Cold War and the Division of Europe -- The End of the Bloc System -- EU/NATO Linkage -- Membership of NATO and the Union -- Europe: Recent Anxieties, Deeper Issues -- Particular Anxieties: Euro Crisis, Migration and Brexit.
Deeper Issues: The Machinery, the Role of Law and the Core Commitments -- The British: Enduring Doubts, Transactional Arrangements and the Accident of Brexit -- Europe: Futures -- 4 Britain's Financial Crisis: Debts, Bail-Outs and Austerity, 2008-2010 -- The Reassertion of Market Liberalism -- Britain and the Rise and Fall of Neo-Liberalism -- The Run-Up to the Financial Crisis, 2008-2010 -- The Crisis Breaks -- Subsequent Diagnoses of the Crisis Offered -- Unfolding Reactions to the Crisis: Popular Doubts -- The Long-Term Costs of the Crisis: Austerity -- Reform Proposals in Britain -- 5 European Union: The Migration Crisis: 1999-2015 -- Human Migration: From Pre-History to the Beginnings of the Contemporary Era -- The Shift to the Modern World and the Early Modern Era of State-Empires -- Movement in the Contemporary Era: Constrained and Monitored Flows of People -- From State-Empires to States: Institutional Change and Population Movements -- International Institutions: Ordering the Post-War World, Grasping Flows of People -- The European Union's Situation -- Migration and the European Union: Long-Term Trends and Current Problems -- Migration and Law -- Migration in Practice -- The Slow Rise of Populist Right-Wing Political Parties -- Merkel's Error and the Downstream Consequences -- Migration as Crisis: Current Political Problems in Europe -- The Failed Constitution -- The Ukraine Crisis -- The Financial Crisis -- And the Issue of Migrants -- Migration: One More Problem for the Union -- Afterword -- 6 Brexit Crisis: Unpacking Some of the Lessons, 2016-2022 -- Brexit: The 2016 Referendum -- The 2014 Scottish Independence Referendum and the 2016 EU Referendum -- Politics as Advertising -- Subsequent Events I: The General Public -- Subsequent Events II: The Political Classes, Shock and Confusion. Subsequent Events III: The Failure of Prime Minister May's Deal -- An Unhappy Sequence Unfolds -- Trying to Make Sense of the Episode -- Prime Minister May's January 2019 -- Towards the Fall of Prime Minister May -- Parliamentary Manoeuvres, Party Splits and Lawfare -- Subsequent Events IV: The Work of Remain Groups -- Overturning the Result: Re-vote, Elide or Disregard -- Melancholia: Looking Backwards -- Brexit: Some Interim Lessons? -- General: The End-Time of Neo-Liberalism -- Narrowly: A Revival of 'Real Politics? -- Specific-Some Casualties? -- Ongoing Questions -- Sketching a Possible Future -- Available Work -- 7 The Covid-19 Pandemic, Spring 2020 -- The Early Phase: Recognition of Disease Emergence in Wuhan -- First Response Phase: Test, Isolate and Contact Trace -- Second Response Phase: Herd Immunity -- Third Response Phase: Lockdown -- Fourth Response Phase: Starting to Lift the Lockdown -- Popular Reactions to Disease, Government and Fellow Citizens -- Some Occasional Issues Were Aired in the Press -- Unpacking the Data: First Cuts -- The Lockdown Statistics: March 23 to May 10, 2020 -- Total Covid-19 Cases -- The Statistics: Counting, Analyzing and Presenting -- Problems of Estimating Excess Deaths in Britain -- The UK Record: Comparisons with Mainland Europe -- The Data Unpacked-Age, Gender, Ethnicity and Etcetera -- Critical Public Debates to May 10, 2020 -- The Post-Lockdown Phase: From May 10 Into Summer and Autumn -- State/Government Failure -- Looking to the Present Concerns -- Looking to Future Issues -- More Remote Matters Arising -- State/Government Failures in Retrospect -- 8 The Disaster in Ukraine: Tracking the Failures of Political Elites, 1991-2022 -- Lines of Available Argument -- Roots of Crisis-A Timeline -- Gorbachev's Reforms and His Opening to the West. The Ordered Dissolution of the Eastern Bloc and the Collapse of the USSR -- Ukraine Independence in Context, 1991 -- Outside Involvement -- USA/NATO Expansion and the Misreading of Russian Anxieties -- The EU's Neighbourhood Policy in the Balkans and Ukraine -- China and Global South -- The British Involvement -- Unfolding Consequences -- How Might the Fighting End? -- 9 Re-imagining Britain: Crises, Identity and Representation, 1973-1998 -- Insurgencies: Formal/Polite and Informal/Impolite -- Ireland: A Violent Struggle to Independence -- Scotland: A Civic and Political Route to Devolution -- Wales: A Civic and Political Route to Devolution -- Britain: Forging the Nation -- Britain and the Idea of England -- Collective Memory and the National Past -- The Idea of England -- An Anglo-British Official England -- A Rural England: Land, Place and People -- A Commercial/Industrial England: Innovative, Entrepreneurial and Expedient -- A Radical England: The Common Man, Progress and Democracy -- A Multicultural England: Empire, Migration and Diversity -- England-No Settled Image-Future Is Open -- 10 On Living in a Rich Country -- The Failure of Globalization and the End of Claims to Western Pre-eminence -- Globalization Falters -- The End of Claims to Western Pre-eminence -- Interlinked Crises: The Domestic Scene -- Political Ideas: Elite Complacency and the Market Ideology -- Institutional Forms: Conventional Wisdom and Organizational Rigidity -- Social Impacts: Differential Effects, Rich Ok, Rest Not So Good -- Europe, Britain and Unfolding Trajectories -- Resilience: State Action for Security -- Britain: Formal Withdrawal from the European Region -- Contemporary Britain: Sketching a Possible Future-Democracy, Modernity and Europe -- Democracy and Democratization -- Modernity and Modernization -- Europe and Europeanization. Principle, Pragmatism and Opportunism -- Afterword -- ********* -- ********* -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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| Cham : , : Springer International Publishing AG, , 2023 | ||
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Political Cultural Developments in East Asia : Interpreting Logics of Change / / by P. W. Preston
| Political Cultural Developments in East Asia : Interpreting Logics of Change / / by P. W. Preston |
| Autore | Preston P. W |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2017.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XX, 287 p.) |
| Disciplina | 320.95 |
| Soggetto topico |
Asia—Politics and government
Imperialism China—History Asian Politics Imperialism and Colonialism History of China |
| ISBN | 1-137-57221-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 1 Social Science: Making Sense of Change -- 2 Sitting on the Dock of the Bay -- 3 The Historical Development Experience of East Asia -- 4 The Surprising Costs of Success -- 5 The Enduring Costs of Forgetfulness -- 6 Singapore and the Pursuit of National Development -- 7 Contemporary Thailand -- 8 China: A State Socialist Route to the Modern World -- 9 Hong Kong: Living with Distant Masters. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910150188303321 |
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| London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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