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Enter the Aardvark
by Jessica AnthonyA young congressman discovers a mysterious stuffed aardvark on his doorstep and sets out on a journey to find out what it means in this "weird, wonderful" novel about the secrets we keep from ourselves and their history-shaping consequences (Esquire). It's early one morning on a hot day in August, and millennial congressman Alexander Paine Wilson (R), planning his first reelection campaign and in deep denial about his sexuality, receives a mysterious, over-sized FedEx delivery on his front stoop. Inside is a gigantic taxidermied aardvark. This outrageous, edge-of-your-seat novel hurtles between contemporary Washington, D.C., where Wilson tries to get rid of the unsightly beast before it destroys his career, and Victorian England--where we meet Titus Downing, the taxidermist who stuffed the aardvark, and Richard Ostlet, the naturalist who hunted her. Our present world, we begin to see, has been shaped in profound and disturbing ways by the secret that binds these men. At once a ghost story, a love story, and a stunningly prescient political satire, Enter the Aardvark confronts the consequences of repressed male love meeting oppressive male power, and is a searing condemnation of our current American blindness. It is also that rarest of creatures: a work of art so utterly original and masterfully built that it seems to have spring fully formed from its visionary maker's head.
Enter the Dragon: China in the International Financial System
by Domenico Lombardi Hongying WangChina has experienced a remarkable transformation since the 1990s. It now boasts the second-largest -- some would argue the largest -- economy in the world, having evolved from a closed economy into the leading goods-trading nation. China's economic rise has given it increasing prominence in international monetary and financial governance, but it also exposes China to new risks associated with its integration into the global financial system. Drawing insights from economics and political science, Enter the Dragon: China in the International Financial System takes a broad conceptual approach and tackles the questions that accompany China's ascendance in international finance: What are the motivations and consequences of China's effort to internationalize the renminbi? What is the political logic underlying China's foreign financial policy? What forces have shaped China's preferences and capacities in global financial governance? Enter the Dragon contributes to the ongoing debate over China's political interests, its agenda for economic and financial cooperation, and the domestic and international implications of its economic rise. Bringing together experts from both inside and outside of China, this volume argues that China's rise in the international financial system is a highly complex and political process, and can only be understood by incorporating analysis of domestic and international political economy.
Enter the Dragon: China in the International Financial System
China has experienced a remarkable transformation since the 1990s. It now boasts the second-largest — some would argue the largest — economy in the world, having evolved from a closed economy into the leading goods-trading nation. China’s economic rise has given it increasing prominence in international monetary and financial governance, but it also exposes China to new risks associated with its integration into the global financial system. Drawing insights from economics and political science, Enter the Dragon: China in the International Financial System takes a broad conceptual approach and tackles the questions that accompany China’s ascendance in international finance: What are the motivations and consequences of China’s effort to internationalize the renminbi? What is the political logic underlying China’s foreign financial policy? What forces have shaped China’s preferences and capacities in global financial governance? Enter the Dragon contributes to the ongoing debate over China’s political interests, its agenda for economic and financial cooperation, and the domestic and international implications of its economic rise. Bringing together experts from both inside and outside of China, this volume argues that China’s rise in the international financial system is a highly complex and political process, and can only be understood by incorporating analysis of domestic and international political economy.
Entering Religious Minds: The Social Study of Worldviews
by Mark Juergensmeyer Mona Kanwal SheikhLed by Mona Kanwal Sheikh and Mark Juergensmeyer, nine authors journey into the worlds of unusual, sometimes violent religious groups. Together, these original first-person contributions provide an integrated, problem-solving approach to field research in religious extremism, illustrating ground-breaking methods in gaining access to their subjects’ worldviews. In a narrative style that is at once both conversational and rigorous, the book demonstrates for students, researchers, and journalists the relevance of religious studies to political science, sociology, and anthropology. It is particularly well suited to upper-level courses at the intersection of religion and the social sciences.
Entering the Global Arena: Emerging States, Soft Power Strategies and Sports Mega-Events (Mega Event Planning)
by Jonathan Grix Paul Michael Brannagan Donna LeeSet against a backdrop of concerns about the potential break-up or radical change to the global world order, this volume sets out to investigate the use of sports mega-events by a number of emerging states.Sports mega-events, it is argued, can be understood as a key component in states’ ‘soft power’ strategies, that is, their attempts to showcase their nations on the international stage, increase their power relative to others via non-coercive means and to increase trade and tourism. Many studies on soft power simply cite the concept’s founder (Joseph Nye) and make little attempt at unpicking the mechanisms behind its creation. This volume does this by shining a light on emerging economies and by putting forward a soft power ‘ideal type’ to aid researchers in understanding the strategies employed by states in advancing their interests.
Enterprise Cybersecurity
by Scott E. Donaldson Stanley G. Siegel Chris K. Williams Abdul AslamUnify your organization''s people, budgets, technologies, and processes into a cost-efficient cybersecurity program capable of countering advanced cyberattacks and containing damage in the event of a breach. Enterprise Cybersecurity empowers organizations of all sizes to defend themselves with next-generation cybersecurity programs against the escalating threat of modern targeted cyberattacks. Enterprise Cybersecurity presents a comprehensive framework for managing all aspects of an enterprise cybersecurity program. It enables an enterprise to architect, design, implement, and operate a coherent cybersecurity program that is seamlessly coordinated with policy, programmatics, IT life cycle, and assessment. Fail-safe cyberdefense is a pipe dream. Given sufficient time, an intelligent attacker can eventually defeat defensive measures protecting an enterprise''s computer systems and IT networks. To prevail, an enterprise cybersecurity program must manage risk by detecting attacks early enough and delaying them long enough that the defenders have time to respond effectively. The authors of Enterprise Cybersecurity explain at both strategic and tactical levels how to accomplish the mission of leading, designing, deploying, operating, managing, and supporting cybersecurity capabilities in an enterprise environment. The authors are recognized experts and thought leaders in this rapidly evolving field, drawing on decades of collective experience in cybersecurity and IT. In capacities ranging from executive strategist to systems architect to cybercombatant, Scott E. Donaldson, Stanley G. Siegel, Chris K. Williams, and Abdul Aslam have fought on the front lines of cybersecurity against advanced persistent threats to government, military, and business entities. What you''ll learn Executives, managers, architects, IT professionals, customers and vendors of cybersecurity services, and engineering students will learn from this book How to create a data-driven and objectively-managed cybersecurity program optimally tailored to your organization How to organize, assess, and score cybersecurity programs using the authors'' enterprise cybersecurity architecture scheme The methodology of targeted attacks and why they succeed The processes of cybersecurity risk management, capability assessment, scope selection, operations, and supporting information systems How to audit and report your cybersecurity program in compliance with regulatory frameworks How cybersecurity is evolving and projected to evolve Who this book is for Enterprise Cybersecurity is for people and organizations interested in modern cybersecurity and who are responsible for leading, designing, deploying, operating, managing, and supporting cybersecurity capabilities in an enterprise environment. Table of Contents Part I: The Cybersecurity Challenge Chapter 1: Defining the Cybersecurity Challenge Chapter 2: Meeting the Cybersecurity Challenge Part II: A New Enterprise Cybersecurity Architecture Chapter 3: Enterprise Cybersecurity Architecture Chapter 4: Implementing Enterprise Cybersecurity Chapter 5: Operating Enterprise Cybersecurity Chapter 6: Enterprise Cybersecurity and the Cloud Chapter 7: Enterprise Cybersecurity for Mobile and BYOD Part III: The Art of Cyberdefense Chapter 8: Building an Effective Defense Chapter 9: Responding to Incidents Chapter 10: Managing a Cybersecurity Crisis Part IV: Enterprise Cyberdefense Assessment Chapter 11: Assessing Enterprise Cybersecurity Chapter 12: Measuring a Cybersecurity Program Chapter 13: Mapping Against Cybersecurity Frameworks Part V: Enterprise Cybersecurity Program Chapter 14: Managing an Enterprise Cybersecurity Program Chapter 15: Looking to the Future Appendices: Appendix A: Common Cyberattacks Appendix B: Cybersecurity Frameworks Appendix C: Enterprise Cybersecurity Capabilities Appendix D: Sample Cybersecurity Policy Appendix E: Cybersecurity Operational Processes Appendix F: Object Measurement Appendix G: Cybersecurity Capability Value Scales Appendix H: Cybersecurity Sample Assessment Appendix I: Net...
Enterprise Level Security 2: Advanced Techniques for Information Technology in an Uncertain World
by William R. Simpson Kevin E. Foltz Institute for Defense AnalysesEnterprise Level Security 2: Advanced Topics in an Uncertain World follows on from the authors&’ first book on Enterprise Level Security (ELS), which covered the basic concepts of ELS and the discoveries made during the first eight years of its development. This book follows on from this to give a discussion of advanced topics and solutions, derived from 16 years of research, pilots, and operational trials in putting an enterprise system together. The chapters cover specific advanced topics derived from painful mistakes and numerous revisions of processes. This book covers many of the topics omitted from the first book including multi-factor authentication, cloud key management, enterprise change management, entity veracity, homomorphic computing, device management, mobile ad hoc, big data, mediation, and several other topics. The ELS model of enterprise security is endorsed by the Secretary of the Air Force for Air Force computing systems and is a candidate for DoD systems under the Joint Information Environment Program. The book is intended for enterprise IT architecture developers, application developers, and IT security professionals. This is a unique approach to end-to-end security and fills a niche in the market.
Enterprise Level Security: Securing Information Systems in an Uncertain World
by William R. SimpsonEnterprise Level Security: Securing Information Systems in an Uncertain World provides a modern alternative to the fortress approach to security. The new approach is more distributed and has no need for passwords or accounts. Global attacks become much more difficult, and losses are localized, should they occur. The security approach is derived fro
Enterprise Risk Management
by Allen Runnels Karen HardyPractical guide to implementing Enterprise Risk Management processes and procedures in government organizationsEnterprise Risk Management: A Guide for Government Professionals is a practical guide to all aspects of risk management in government organizations at the federal, state, and local levels. Written by Dr. Karen Hardy, one of the leading ERM practitioners in the Federal government, the book features a no-nonsense approach to establishing and sustaining a formalized risk management approach, aligned with the ISO 31000 risk management framework. International Organization for Standardization guidelines are explored and clarified, and case studies illustrate their real-world application and implementation in US government agencies. Tools, including a sample 90-day action plan, sample risk management policy, and a comprehensive implementation checklist allow readers to immediately begin applying the information presented.The book also includes results of Hardy's ERM Core Competency Survey for the Public Sector; which offers an original in-depth analysis of the Core Competency Skills recommended by federal, state and local government risk professionals. It also provides a side-by-side comparison of how federal government risk professionals view ERM versus their state and local government counterparts.Enterprise Risk Management provides actionable guidance toward creating a solid risk management plan for agencies at any risk level. The book begins with a basic overview of risk management, and then delves into government-specific topics including:U.S. Federal Government Policy on Risk ManagementFederal Manager's Financial Integrity ActGAO Standards for internal controlGovernment Performance Results Modernization ActThe book also provides a comparative analysis of ERM frameworks and standards, and applies rank-specific advice to employees including Budget Analysts, Program Analysts, Management Analysts, and more. The demand for effective risk management specialists is growing as quickly as the risk potential. Government employees looking to implement a formalized risk management approach or in need of increasing their general understanding of this subject matter will find Enterprise Risk Management a strategically advantageous starting point.
Enterprise Sustainability: Enhancing the Military's Ability to Perform its Mission (Sustaining the Military Enterprise)
by Dennis F.X. Mathaisel Joel M. Manary Clare L. CommMilitary supply chains are unique because what is supplied to the end user is routinely returned to the supply chain for maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO). Offering a blueprint for transforming military depot workload and processes into those of high-performance commercial facilities, Enterprise Sustainability: Enhancing the Military‘s Abilit
Enterprise and Welfare Reform in Communist Asia
by Peter Ferdinand Martin GainsboroughFeaturing a wide geographical scope, this collection of essays surveys enterprise and welfare reforms in all the remaining four Asian communist states: China, Vietnam, Laos and North Korea. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union they can no longer place major reliance upon assistance from other 'fraternal' states and have to devise their own strategies for survival. All have shown a trend towards greater reliance on market forces, though in different ways and to varying degrees. Enterprise management has to adapt to this. In some of them entrepreneurs have become politically and socially acceptable. They may even begin to set trends for social evolution. Yet since state entreprises used to be responsible for all welfare payments to employees and their families, management reforms cannot be separated from those of welfare arrangements. Reducing an enterprise's non-commerical obligations for the sake of greater market efficiency is bound to affect welfare provision. It also reopens the role of official trade unions. How these regimes cope with these conflicting pressures are vital factors in their long-term viability.
Enterprises, Industry and Innovation in the People's Republic of China: Questioning Socialism from Deng to the Trade and Tech War
by Alberto GabrieleThis book analyses and critically evaluates the development of two key components of China’s economy: the network of productive enterprises, and the national innovation system, from the inception of market-oriented reforms to the present day. The approach is a partly novel one, albeit inspired to classical political economy, rooted in the structure and evolution of social relations of production and exchange and of the institutional setting in these two crucial domains. The main findings are twofold: First, the role of planning and public ownership, far from withering, has being upheld and qualitatively enhanced, especially throughout the most recent stages of industrial reforms. Second, enterprises are increasingly participating - along with universities and research centers - in a concerted and historically unparalleled effort to dramatically upgrade China’s capacity to engage in indigenous innovation. As a result, China’s National Innovation System has been growing and strengthening at a pace much faster than that of the national economy as a whole. The book also presents a speculative and provisional perspective on the validity, and meaning, of the claim that the country’s socioeconomic system is indeed a form of socialism with Chinese characteristics. It will be on interest to students and scholars researching China, politics, and development economics.
Enterprises, Localities, People, and Policy in the South China Sea
by Jonathan Spangler Dean Karalekas Moises Lopes de SouzaThis volume takes readers beneath the surface of the South China Sea by exploring critical but under-researched issues related to the maritime territorial disputes. It draws attention to the importance of private sector, civil society, and subnational actors' roles in the disputes and sheds light on key policy issues that are addressed less often in the literature. By going beyond mainstream analyses focused solely on issues of traditional security, resource economics, and international law, it offers a fresh and engaging look at the South China Sea disputes. The book is divided into five parts - historical foundations, enterprises, localities, people, and policy - and its chapters investigate historiography in the region, the global defense industry's role as beneficiary of the disputes, tourism as a territorial strategy, the roles of provinces and local governments, disaster management, confidence-building measures, environmental and science diplomacy, and other topics seldom discussed in other analyses of the South China Sea disputes. The book's diverse content and fresh perspectives make it an essential read not only for policymakers and those in the international relations community but also for all others interested in gaining a more well-rounded understanding of the many issues at stake in the South China Sea maritime territorial disputes.
Entertainment and Politics in Contemporary China
by Jingsi Christina WuAs the rest of the world continues to pay keen attention to developments in China's politics, economy, and culture, this book advances research about China by providing an updated narrative of its entertainment life in the beginning of China's 21st century. Readers will gain insights about fascinating new developments in contemporary Chinese popular culture, including its reality television, family dramas centered around younger generations' life struggles, and social media. Furthermore, it will be the first book to apply the theoretical innovation of an aesthetic public sphere in examining closely the linkages between China's political life and activities in the country's culture sphere. As the concepts of public sphere and democracy largely took root in the West, this book argues that the case study of China promises valuable insights about entertainment's role in the formation of citizenship and building of a civil society, which remains a site of great contention in Western theories and empirical efforts.
Entice (Need #3)
by Carrie JonesZara and Nick are soul mates, meant to be together forever. But that's not exactly how things have worked out. Nick is dead-supposedly taken to some mythic place for warriors called Valhalla, where Zara and her friends might be able to get him back. Bedford needs its warriors more than ever, since a group of evil pixies is devastating the place. But even if Zara and her friends can reach Valhalla, there's that other small problem: Zara's been pixie kissed. Will Nick even want to return with her? Especially since she's not just any pixie . . . She's Astley's queen.
Entities and Structures in the Embedding Process: A Sociological Analysis of Changes in the Government-enterprise Relations (Social Development Experiences in China)
by Qingong Wei Hanlin LiThis book provides a rare integrative interpretation of government-enterprise relations in China, offering readers a comprehensive understanding of the topic. Focusing on the government and its principal goals, it describes the transition of government-enterprise relations and highlights the embedding of the entities of government and enterprises in specific political, economic and social environments. Further, it analyzes how the government’s institutional arrangement regulates the behavior of various types of enterprises with different structures, and the logic mechanisms such institutional arrangements use to change and shape government-enterprise relations. Based on these issues and logic mechanisms, the book points out the complexity of government-enterprise relations and the diversity of their transition path, thus reflecting some typical features in the overall reform of China and discussing specific factors related to China’s social development experience.
Entitled: A Critical History of the British Aristocracy
by Chris Bryant"A proudly partisan history of the British aristocracy - which scores some shrewd hits against the upper class themselves, and the nostalgia of the rest of us for their less endearing eccentricities. A great antidote to Downton Abbey." (Mary Beard)Exploring the extraordinary social and political dominance enjoyed by the British aristocracy over the centuries, Entitled seeks to explain how a tiny number of noble families rose to such a position in the first place. It reveals the often nefarious means they have employed to maintain their wealth, power and prestige and examines the greed, ambition, jealousy and rivalry which drove aristocratic families to guard their interests with such determination. In telling their history, Entitled introduces a cast of extraordinary characters: fierce warriors, rakish dandies, political dilettantes, charming eccentrics, arrogant snobs and criminals who quite literally got away with murder.
Entitlement Spending: Our Coming Fiscal Tsunami
by David KoitzDavid Koitz clarifies misconceptions and presents the facts on the impending fiscal crisis driven by spending on Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. Although these programs are idolized as pillars of the nation's safety net, he shows how they are in fact the largest drivers of our looming fiscal problem. Koitz explains that, if an effective remedy is to emerge, those three programs must contribute heavily to the changes lawmakers consider and offers some policy directions for dealing with them.
Entkoppelung von Arbeit und Einkommen: Das Grundeinkommen In Der Arbeitsgesellschaft
by Georg VobrubaFür die Entkoppelung von Arbeit und Einkommen zu argumentieren, erübrigt sich. Dieser Prozess findet ohnehin statt, er wird aber kaum verstanden und keineswegs angemessen politisch reguliert.
Entre Este y Oeste: Un viaje por las fronteras de Europa
by Anne ApplebaumUna lectura imprescindible para descifrar los orígenes de la guerra en Ucrania y la frágil situación de Europa del Este. En el otoño de 1991, en plena desintegración del imperio soviético, Anne Applebaum -ganadora del Premio Pulitzer por Gulag. Historia de los campos de concentración soviéticos- emprendió un viaje desde el Báltico hasta el mar Negro, pasando por Lituania, Bielorrusia, Los Cárpatos y Ucrania, con la intención de comprender la nueva configuración de unos territorios en constante conflicto. Por el camino descubrió un amplio abanico de culturas identitarias, religiones y aspiraciones nacionalistas que competían entre sí. Si bien han transcurrido más de treinta años, las vidas aquí narradas se leen hoy como un registro documental de un mundo que ya no existe. Applebaum, una excelente observadora, teje con granhabilidad la desgarradora historia de una región incomprendida a través de los relatos de personas corrientes, que describen el modo en que los acontecimientos históricos influyen y marcan la vida de la gente. Ubicado entre la crónica periodística, la literatura de viajes y el ensayo histórico, Entre Este y Oeste ilumina con brillantez los orígenes de la crisis geopolítica entre Rusia y Europa y nos ofrece algunas claves para entender el alma de estas tierras fronterizas. La crítica ha dicho:«En su implacable búsqueda de la comprensión, Anne Applebaum ilumina mundos relegados al olvido de esperanza, sufrimiento y dignidad humana».The Washington Post «Sus investigaciones la han llevado a revalorizar de manera radical algunos de los supuestos históricos más básicos de Occidente».The Evening Standard «El carácter receptivo de Applebaum anima a los fronterizos a contarle la infinidad de formas en que la división política ha subyugado sus vidas personales, sus tradiciones culturales y sus lenguas».Publishers Weekly
Entre el barrio y el mundo
by Nicolas AlbertoniCuando los socios regionales alternan entre la defensa del Mercosur y elproteccionismo de sus economías o incluso la desconfianza, examinar lasopciones que tiene el país en este marco ya no es solo recomendable,sino necesario. En medio de un debate que vuelve a plantearse en la escena públicaacerca de si el Mercosur es el camino más indicado para la inserción internacional de Uruguay, Entre el barrio y el mundo, del joveninvestigador Nicolás Albertoni Gómez, explora caminos diferentes.Con prólogos de los ex presidentes Julio María Sanguinetti, de Uruguay,y Eduardo Frei-Ruiz Tagle, de Chile, este libro sebasa en una investigación de casi dos años que Albertoni realizó tantoen el país trasandino como en Uruguay, recogiendo la opinión de más de50 expertos en el tema.¿Es el Mercosur un trampolín o un palo en la rueda para Uruguay? ¿Sepuede seguir un modelo de apertura económica con un arancel externo común dictado por lasnecesidades coyunturales de Argentina y Brasil? ¿No llegó la hora de buscar otras opciones?Una de ellas es el modelo chileno. Albertoni lo explora en profundidad ylogra desentrañar así mitose interrogantes de los procesos económicos de ambos países, y los cuentacon rigor y claridad. Este libro es un aporte clave a lahora de decidir qué camino queremos para nuestra insercióninternacional.
Entre la extinción y el rescate: Las resistencias de los pueblos contra el modelo neoliberal
by Carlos LavorePrólogo de Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas «Es crucial para nuestros países recuperar el control de los bienes y recursos naturales para su aprovechamiento, no explotación, en beneficio de las regiones y su población.» Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas El planeta atraviesa un estado de emergencia climática. La región latinoamericana padece los efectos del despojo. Pueblos, comunidades y sociedad organizada ofrecen una terca resistencia. Carlos Lavore, autor de diversos trabajos sobre participación, planeación y comunicación, da cuenta en este libro de lo que está ocurriendo a escala global con los bosques, hielos, suelos y agua, cuya brutal explotación se traduce en desastres “naturales” y colapsos parciales con severas afectaciones a la vida. A partir del recuento de los saqueos de bienes y recursos naturales en los últimos 40 años en América Latina, Lavore explica el proceso de extinción de la vida planetaria, o de buena parte de ella; reflexiona sobre los efectos negativos que ha producido la concentración del poder financiero, político y mediático; y pone el acento en las posibilidades de rescate. Si bien no existe un proyecto de liberación asumido colectivamente, este libro visibiliza las múltiples resistencias y consigna la potencialidad transformadora de distintas alternativas políticas y sociales a lo largo de América Latina, con un énfasis particular en México; como la experiencia del pueblo boliviano, el movimiento de los sin tierra, los zapatistas en el sureste mexicano, las fogatas populares en Cherán, el pueblo yaqui en Sonora, los movimientos de mujeres en las grandes ciudades y una notable cantidad de resistencias locales. Entre la extinción y el rescate ofrece una interpretación que resultará útil para la articulación política de quienes sueñan con reinventar el mundo, reinventar América Latina,reinventarnos.
Entre la mentida i l'oblit: El laberint de la memòria col·lectiva
by Francesc-Marc ÁlvaroL'autor recorre en aquest llibre diversos casos concrets vinculats a la memòria col·lectiva mundial, europea, espanyola i catalana que s'incrusten en el nostre present amb dolor i amb polèmica, amb el regust agredolç de les ombres i els noms esborrats. ota memòria és una elaboració subtil, molt fràgil i complexa, que combina record i oblit, en la qual impacten els traumes que vivim i també la mentida, la desfiguració i la propaganda. Som memòria o no som res. L’autor recorre en aquest llibre diversos casos concrets vinculats a la memòria col·lectiva mundial, europea, espanyola i catalana que s’incrusten en el nostre present amb dolor i amb polèmica, amb el regust agredolç de les ombres i els noms esborrats. I ho fa combinant exemples de la política, de la literatura, del cinema, de l’art i de la vida quotidiana en escenaris tan diversos com Buenos Aires, Berlín, Nova York, París, Mauthausen, Varsòvia, les trinxeres de la batalla de l’Ebre, Madrid o Barcelona. Amb l’estil característic de Francesc-Marc Álvaro, contundent i expressiu, Entre la mentida i l’oblit és un llibre agosarat que convida a pensar en la matèria primera de la nostra identitat personal i col·lectiva, allò que queda dins les nostres ments i els nostres cors un cop el sedàs del temps ha fet la seva feina.
Entre le Savoir et le Culte: Activisme et mouvements religieux dans les universités du Sahel
by Leonardo A. Villalón« Entre le Savoir et le Culte présente des études et documents originaux qui mettent à jour l’évolution de l’islam et du christianisme parmi les étudiants d’universités des pays du Sahel. Il révèle les fissures et les conflits entre les groupes, et analyse leurs modes oraux, écrits et vestimentaires d’affichage et de performance. Cet ouvrage apporte ainsi un puissant éclairage sur l’emprise du religieux sur l’élite en formation, et examine les deux interrogations qui alimentent l’activisme religieux universitaire : la signification de la revendication d’une identité musulmane ou chrétienne, et comment celle-ci façonne la modernité des deux religions et vice-versa. A lire pour comprendre le dynamisme des terribles crises qui amènent la région sahélienne à se tourner sur elle-même. » – Mamadou Diouf, Leitner Family Professor of African Studies, Columbia University, États-Unis. « Quelquefois négligées ou mal comprises par les analystes étrangers, les universités sahéliennes sont le théâtre de débats profonds sur l’identité nationale, et d’importantes négociations autour de la religiosité et de l’ethnicité. Cette collection rassemble les travaux d’éminents spécialistes dans ce domaine, et propose une perspective riche et comparative de leur travail collectif, ancrée dans leur recherche sur le terrain. L’ouvrage sera indispensable à tous les chercheurs, analystes, et décideurs politiques qui travaillent sur le Sahel. Ces chapitres contribueront beaucoup à la compréhension des expériences et priorités d’une génération d’activistes et de leaders qui marqueront la région dans les années à venir. » – Alex Thurston, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Université de Cincinnati, États-Unis
Entrenchment: Wealth, Power, and the Constitution of Democratic Societies
by Paul StarrAn investigation into the foundations of democratic societies and the ongoing struggle over the power of concentrated wealthMuch of our politics today, Paul Starr writes, is a struggle over entrenchment—efforts to bring about change in ways that opponents will find difficult to undo. That is why the stakes of contemporary politics are so high. In this wide-ranging book, Starr examines how changes at the foundations of society become hard to reverse—yet sometimes are overturned. Overcoming aristocratic power was the formative problem for eighteenth-century revolutions. Overcoming slavery was the central problem for early American democracy. Controlling the power of concentrated wealth has been an ongoing struggle in the world&’s capitalist democracies. The battles continue today in the troubled democracies of our time, with the rise of both oligarchy and populist nationalism and the danger that illiberal forces will entrench themselves in power. Entrenchment raises fundamental questions about the origins of our institutions and urgent questions about the future.