In the first book of this series, "Breaking Boundaries in Literature: The Nobel Prize and Korea's Untold Stories", the left-wing bias in modern literature was critically examined, shedding light on the often ignored narratives of Korean experience. Now, in "Breaking Boundaries in Ideologies", we delve deeper into the ideological heart of the matter—exploring the shifting and volatile world between left and right, where the boundaries are not only blurred but threatened with collapse. What happens when the world as we know it is flipped on its head? What if the political ideologies we've spent centuries trying to reconcile—left and right—were forced into a volatile coexistence? In "Breaking Boundaries in Ideologies: The Shifting World Between Left and Right", the second book in this captivating series, we are plunged into a world where the principles of left and right clash, bend, and ultimately dissolve into a new reality. With fierce political power, philosophical revelations, and morally complex characters at its core, this is a story that will keep you questioning everything you thought you knew about governance, freedom, and justice. Imagine a South Korea where the left rises to power, but not in the way you might expect. Choi Jun, once a simple man of conviction, finds himself caught in a world where ideologies are no longer clear-cut. In a bizarre alternate history, the South is not just left-wing—it's a world where leftist ideals of equality and human rights rule the roost, but at the cost of a fragile peace. And, in turn, those ideals begin to give birth to contradictions that no one could predict.

Breaking Boundaries in Ideologies: The Shifting World Between Left and Right In the first book of this series, "Breaking Boundaries in Literature: The Nobel Prize and Korea's Untold Stories", the left-wing bias in modern literature was critically examined, shedding light on the often ignored narratives of Korean experience. Now, in "Breaking Boundaries in Ideologies", we delve deeper into the ideological heart of the matter—exploring the shifting and volatile world between left and right, where the boundaries are not only blurred but threatened with collapse. What happens when the world as we know it is flipped on its head? What if the political ideologies we've spent centuries trying to reconcile—left and right—were forced into a volatile coexistence? In "Breaking Boundaries in Ideologies: The Shifting World Between Left and Right", the second book in this captivating series, we are plunged into a world where the principles of left and right clash, bend, and ultimately dissolve into a new reality. With fierce political power, philosophical revelations, and morally complex characters at its core, this is a story that will keep you questioning everything you thought you knew about governance, freedom, and justice. Imagine a South Korea where the left rises to power, but not in the way you might expect. Choi Jun, once a simple man of conviction, finds himself caught in a world where ideologies are no longer clear-cut. In a bizarre alternate history, the South is not just left-wing—it's a world where leftist ideals of equality and human rights rule the roost, but at the cost of a fragile peace. And, in turn, those ideals begin to give birth to contradictions that no one could predict. In this chaotic landscape, Choi must navigate a shifting world of political factions, military power, and a society teetering on the edge of revolution. Can a society built on contradiction survive? Will the tension between competing ideologies lead to self-destruction—or rebirth? In a narrative that is both intellectually exhilarating and emotionally gripping, "Breaking Boundaries in Ideologies" confronts the most challenging questions of our time. The left and right, often seen as two sides of the same coin, are brought into sharp focus—unveiling their shared flaws and examining the human cost of ideological purity. The book asks: Can one survive without the other? How long can a world teeter between extremes before it shatters? As Choi's journey takes him deeper into the political undercurrents that threaten to tear apart his world, he is forced to confront an unsettling truth: the very ideologies that promise a better future may also hold the key to his downfall. "Breaking Boundaries in Ideologies" is a brutal, yet fascinating examination of the tensions between progress and destruction, the individual and the collective, freedom and control. This is not just a novel; it is a mirror held up to the present. It's a reflection on the state of our own political divisions and an invitation to examine the principles that drive us. In a world where the lines between left and right blur and merge, "Breaking Boundaries" forces us to ask: what will emerge when the dust settles?

Hybridity and Ideology analyzes the structure, development, and significance of political perspectives that mix or fuse the distinct beliefs, practices, and identities found in other ideologies—for example, hybrid worldviews such as liberal nationalism, ecosocialism, and anarchafeminism. Employing concepts and methods drawn from ideology studies, discourse theory, and cultural studies, Leonard Williams and Benjamin Franks explore the meaning of hybridity, the processes by which ideologies hybridize, and the political implications of the blended ideologies that result. Their hybrid inquiry fashions a theoretical vocabulary and framework for understanding and studying ideological hybridization. Using examples from a broad spectrum of ideologies, the book discusses the characteristic patterns by which hybrids are constructed from parent ideologies. It explores the operations and processes that enable hybrids to emerge from other ideologies and develop within social and political contexts. Lastly, it addresses how ideologies provide resources for political action and discusses the criteria for judging the success of hybrid ideologies. Hybridity and Ideology offers insight into the dynamic processes of hybridization central to ideological transformation and political change. It provides a helpful resource for students and researchers in political theory, cultural studies, and philosophy.

In this new book, a group of distinguished scholars from a range of disciplines and geographical backgrounds reflect on the centrality of the recent European experience to the global community today. They look at the new Europe that is emerging in the wake of the dramatic geopolitical changes that occurred on the continent at the end of the 1980s. The contributors seek to open a variety of perspectives, including those of culture and history, on today's rapidly changing European scene. They examine in detail the process of transition and internal realities confronting post-communist governments in Eastern and Central Europe. Their provocative essays also look at the role of Europe in the new global economy, the new regional alignments that are emerging, and other key questions about the continent in the emerging world order. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Samir Amin, Third World Forum, Dakar, Senegal; Carlos Blanco, Minister for the Reform of the State of Venezuela; Gianni Bonvicini, Istituto Affari Internazionali, Rome; Albert Bressand, PROMETHEE Transnational Networks, Paris; Charles Cooper, United Nations University Institute for New Technologies in Maastricht, Netherlands; Robert Cox, York University, Toronto; Arpad Goncz, president of the Hungarian Republic; Bjorn Hettne, University of Gothenburg, Sweden; Lal Jayawardena, National Development Council; Domokos Kosary, Hungarian Academy of Sciences; Vladislav Kotchetkov, UNESCO; Tibor Palankai, Budapest University of Economics; George Schopflin, University of London; and Mihaly Simai, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest.

This Handbook provides the first in-depth analysis of non-violent extremism across different ideologies and geographic centres, a topic overshadowed until now by the political and academic focus on violent and jihadi extremism in the Global North. Whilst acknowledging the potentiality of non-violent extremism as a precursor to terrorism, this Handbook argues that non-violent extremism ought to be considered a stand-alone area of study. Focusing on Islamist, Buddhist, Hindu, far-right, far-left, environmentalist and feminist manifestations, the Handbook discusses the ideological foundation of their ‘war on ideas’ against the prevailing socio-political and cultural systems in which they operate, and provides an empirical examination of their main claims and perspectives. This is supplemented by a truly global overview of non-violent extremist groups not only in Europe and the United States, but also in Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Middle East. The Handbook thus answers a call to decolonise knowledge that is especially prescient given both the complicity of non-violent extremists with authoritarian states and the dynamic of oppression towards more progressive groups in the Global South. The Handbook will appeal to those studying extremism, radicalisation and terrorism. It intersects several relevant disciplines, including social movement studies, political science, criminology, Islamic studies and anthropology.

This book is a provocative new study of global feminist activism that opposes neoliberal regimes across several sites including Asia, Australia, Canada, Europe, Latin America and the United States. The feminist performative acts featured in the book contest the aggressive unravelling of collectively won gains in gender, sexual and racial equality, the appearance of new planes of discrimination, and the social consequences of political economies based on free market ideology. The investigations of affect theory follow the circulation of intensities – of political impingements on bodies, subjective and symbolic violence, and the shock of dispossession – within and beyond individuals to the social and political sphere. Affect is a helpful matrix for discussing the volatile interactivity between performer and spectator, whether live or technologically mediated. Contending that there is no activism without affect, the collection brings back to the table the activist and hopeful potential of feminism.

This brief edition of a groundbreaking textbook addresses the need for college students to develop critical reading, writing, and thinking skills for self-defense in the contentious arena of American civic rhetoric. Designed for first-year or more advanced composition and critical thinking courses, it is one-third shorter than the original edition, more affordable for students, and easier for teachers to cover in a semester or quarter. It incorporates up-to-date new readings and analysis of controversies like the growing inequality of wealth in America and the debates in the 2008 presidential campaign, expressed in opposing viewpoints from the political left and right. Exercises help students understand the ideological positions and rhetorical patterns that underlie such opposing views. Widely debated issues of whether objectivity is possible and whether there is a liberal or conservative bias in news and entertainment media, as well as in education itself, are foregrounded as topics for rhetorical analysis.

The Concise Encyclopedia of Democracy is a single-volume version of the award-winning Encyclopedia of Democracy. Not a condensation, the new Concise was created to address the special needs of smaller libraries. The more than 300 articles include concepts, countries, and individuals, emphasizing the historical and practical, rather than the strictly theoretical. While the coverage is international in scope, special emphasis, in the Concise, is given to the democracies of the West. As well as including the most important entries from the four-volume original work, the Concise Encyclopedia of Democracy also includes new entries on the Constitution of the United States, general government practices in the democracies, etc. The 150 maps, photographs, charts, and timelines are designed to present the researcher with information in a concise, visual form.

In Border and Rule, one of North America’s foremost thinkers and immigrant rights organizers delivers an unflinching examination of migration as a pillar of global governance and gendered racial class formation. Harsha Walia disrupts easy explanations for the migrant and refugee crises, instead showing them to be the inevitable outcomes of the conquest, capitalist globalization, and climate change that are generating mass dispossession worldwide. Border and Rule explores a number of seemingly disparate global geographies with shared logics of border rule that displace, immobilize, criminalize, exploit, and expel migrants and refugees. With her keen ability to connect the dots, Walia demonstrates how borders divide the international working class and consolidate imperial, capitalist, and racist nationalist rule. Ambitious in scope and internationalist in orientation, Border and Rule breaks through American exceptionalist and liberal responses to the migration crisis and cogently maps the lucrative connections between state violence, capitalism, and right-wing nationalism around the world. Illuminating the brutal mechanics of state formation, Walia exposes US border policy as a product of violent territorial expansion, settler-colonialism, enslavement, and gendered racial ideology. Further, she compellingly details how Fortress Europe and White Australia are using immigration diplomacy and externalized borders to maintain a colonial present, how temporary labor migration in the Arab Gulf states and Canada is central to citizenship regulation and labor control, and how racial violence is escalating deadly nationalism in the US, Israel, India, the Philippines, Brazil, and across Europe, while producing a disaster of statelessness for millions elsewhere. A must-read in these difficult times of war, inequality, climate change, and global health crisis, Border and Rule is a clarion call for revolution. The book includes a foreword from renowned scholar Robin D. G. Kelley and an afterword from acclaimed activist-academic Nick Estes.

The break up of countries, the end of the current planetary economic model, the regionalization of economies, the birth of global supra national projects. Change of the cosmic energy of Atlanticism (NATO, USA, North Atlantic) to the Eastern and Pacific zone (Silk Road, China, Eurasia) with Latin America as its second node. The book explains what the new economic model will need to constructed and agreed on after the global collapse of our world in 2 or 3 years.