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Youngs argues that the challenges facing Europe’s role in the world appear to be in its retreat from liberal internationalism through a series of case studies on policy areas: trade, multilateral diplomacy, security, development cooperation, democracy and human rights, and energy security.

Rejecting the centre is examined as an act of resistance to neoliberal spatial practises that enhances ‘the Right to the City’. Retreat from the Centre is empowering: utopian, rather than a surrender to prevailing conditions, despite Lefebvre's association of ‘centrality’ with ‘the right to the city' (Lefebvre 1991; 1996).

We show how Douglas makes space for a treatment of institutions that avoids the usual retreat to methodological individualism that characterises these debates. This holds out the promise of reinvigorating organisational analysis in a manner that is in step with calls for focusing on organization as a way of life and with calls for revisiting the classics.

It also gave rise to a residents’ group, the Friends of Fenham Pocket Park (FFPP), who became custodians of the space and committed to developing it further. Six years on, the area has suffered further from the impact of austerity and retreat of public services, and the FFPP group has experienced setbacks and a lull in participation.

We discuss how geological and observational data can be used to constrain ice sheet models, and how models, in turn, inform our interpretations of ice sheet reconstructions. Recognizing that humans have fundamentally altered Earth's climate system, we describe the observed human impacts in Antarctica in the Anthropocene, including ice shelf thinning and col…

Modern Western culture—built on neoliberal utility and technocratic engineering—frequently pathologizes voluntary retreat, mistaking the sanctuary of chosen solitude for clinical depression, apathy, or social defect.

Inside you will discover: Why geopolitical interdependence has turned into national vulnerability How technological and economic competition now rivals military power What America must do to restore industrial sovereignty and strategic deterrence Why citizen formation, practical education, and subsidiarity matter for national strength A step-by-step renewal…

Such a response is not about life escaping power or a retreat from life, but rather involves critical work on the conditions of production of population life (becoming collective).

In the last few decades, the importance of consultation has been elevated by two main trends: the decline in trade union membership and the retreat from collective bargaining in the private sector on the one hand, with the result that consultation may be the only form of collective employee voice available; and the programme of legislative support for consu…

The half-century following the Glorious Revolution has been viewed as a time of retreat and withdrawal for English Catholics: the response to tightening penal laws, periods in exile and the failures of the Jacobite cause.

Recent years have seen extensive discussion about the continuing retreat from marriage, the increasing demand for the right to marry from previously excluded groups, and the need to protect those who do not wish to marry from being forced to do so.

This ambitious book investigates a major yet underexplored nexus of themes in Roman cultural history: the evolving tropes of enclosure, retreat and compressed space within expanding, potentially borderless empire.