Afghanistan has been in the headlines for many years – but tragically for all the wrong reasons. First invaded by the Soviets in 1979, the country then experienced the trauma of civil war followed by yet another intervention, this time by the United States and allies, which ended with the West’s ignominious withdrawal in August 2021. Afghanistan: Long War, Forgotten Peace examines multiple dimensions of what happened and why, and what the future holds for the country now the Taliban are back in power.
Multidisciplinary in approach, this book features analysts from a variety of academic disciplines, including policy-makers and public intellectuals – many with direct experience of having lived and worked in Afghanistan. It explains why the Taliban finally triumphed, what this means for Afghan society, and how competing actors in the international system have reacted to the Taliban takeover. Questions include whether the West’s withdrawal represented a major or only a temporary setback for NATO and the United States, and whether and how there can be any amelioration of the situation in Afghanistan itself. The country and its people face multiple interrelated challenges, including those of women’s rights, the drugs economies and human trafficking and exploitation.
This volume is essential reading for all those concerned with what happens in Afghanistan over the coming months and years, the consequences for the Afghan people – and for the rest of the world.
“In this superb volume, Michael Cox has brought together a distinguished and interdisciplinary group of scholars to reflect on Afghanistan’s troubled recent past. Chapters range widely, probing the social challenges and religious upheavals within Afghan society as well as the regional geopolitical struggles and military interventions that have left the country so desperately in need of a better future. The book is essential reading for both scholars and policy-makers.”
Professor G.J. Ikenberry, Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University in the Department of Politics and the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
“Published in the midst of ‘Putin's Afghanistan’ in Ukraine, this bracing, salutary collection of essays reminds us that the original Afghanistan continues to suffer from decades of misconceived, sometimes disastrous, foreign adventurism and internal misrule. Written by a group of expert and thoughtful authors – knowledgeable, and adept at teasing out the broader implications of the war – the volume never forgets to put Afghanistan and the Afghan people back at the centre of their own story.”
Professor Gerry Simpson, FBA, Professor of International Public International Law, LSE Law School
“Afghanistan Long War, Forgotten Peace provides a unique, multidisciplinary approach employing different perspectives to explain how the West first became involved in Afghanistan, why in the end it left, and with what consequences. A brilliant volume that makes it possible to fully understand why NATO’s intervention failed and why the Taliban have returned.”
Professor Vittorio Emanuele Parsi, Professor of International Relations and Director of ASERI at Università Cattolica, Milan. Author of ‘Inevitable Alliance: Europe and the United States Beyond Iraq’ and ‘The Wrecking of the Liberal World Order’
“The Afghan tragedy still has a long way to go, writes Professor Michael Cox in his introductory essay to this excellent volume with contribution by leading experts in the field. Collectively, they draw critical lessons from an over 20-year long failure, showing that many of the mistakes made could have been avoided, and many of the opportunities lost, realized. What better advice could there be for students of international relations and politicians alike to ensure that such a tragedy will not repeat itself!”
Professor Helmut Anheier. President of the Hertie School Berlin (2009 to 2018) and Adjunct Professor of Social Welfare, Luskin School of Public Affairs, UCLA. Author of ‘Nonprofit Organizations: Theory Management, Policy’ and ‘The Future of the Liberal Order: The Key Questions'
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Introduction: Conflict, war, revolution and the character of politics2. Thucydides: The naturalness of war3. Augustine: The problem of peace in a violent world4. Machiavelli: Politics and the use of violence5. Hobbes: Solving the problem of conflict6. Locke: Liberalism and the externalisation of conflict7. Rousseau: The threat of the international order8. Clausewitz: The professionalisation of war9. Lenin and Mao: Revolution, violence and war10. Schmitt: The danger of the international liberal order11. Conclusion: Realisms in international political theory =506 0\$aOpen Access$fUnrestricted online access$2star =520 \\$aViolence and war were ubiquitous features of politics long before the emergence of the modern state system. Since the late 18th century major revolutions across the world have further challenged the idea of the state as a final arbiter of international order. This book discusses ten major thinkers who have questioned and re-shaped how we think about politics, violence and relations between states – Thucydides, Augustine, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Clausewitz, Lenin and Mao, and Schmitt.Conflict, war and revolution have generally been seen in political thought as problems to be managed by stable domestic political communities. In different ways, all the paradigmatic thinkers here acknowledge them instead as inevitable dimensions of human experience, manifested through different ways of acting politically – while yet offering radically distinct answers about how they can be handled. This book dramatically broadens the canon of political thought by considering perspectives on the international system that challenge its historical inevitability and triumph.Drawing on history, theology, and law as well as philosophy, Paul Kelly introduces thinkers who challenge fundamentally the ways in which we should think about the nature and scope of political institutions and agents. He illuminates many troubling contemporary conflicts with a critical and historical perspective.This book is primarily intended for second year and upwards undergraduate students in general political theory and international theory, and advanced international relations students. 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Introduction: Insights for a post-pandemic world2. The urbanisation of spatial inequalities and a new model of urban development3. Digital transformation, education, and adult learning in Malaysia4. Data privacy, security, and the future of data governance in Malaysia5. Economic crisis and the panopticon of the digital virus in Cambodia6. Property development, capital growth, and housing affordability in Malaysia7. Business process outsourcing industry in the Philippines8. Global precarity chains and the economic impact on Cambodia’s garment workers9. The dual structure of Vietnam’s labour relations10. Southeast Asian haze and socio-environmental–epidemiological feedback11. Logistical virulence, migrant exposure, and the underside of Singapore’s model pandemic response12. The new normal, or the same old? The experiences of domestic workers in Singapore13. Questioning the ‘hero’s welcome’ for repatriated overseas Filipino workers14. Exposing the transnational precarity of Filipino workers, healthcare regimes, and nation states15. The economic case against the marginalisation of migrant workers in Malaysia16. Emergent bordering tactics, logics of injustice, and the new hierarchies of mobility deservingness17. The impacts of crisis on the conflict-prone Myanmar–China borderland18. Rethinking urbanisation, development, and collective action in Indonesia19. Community struggles and the challenges of solidarity in Myanmar20. Gotong royong and the role of community in Indonesia21. Rewriting food insecurity narratives in Singapore22. Happiness-sharing pantries and the ‘easing of hunger for the needy’ in Thailand23. Being-in-common and food relief networks in Metro Manila, the Philippines24. Community responses to gendered issues in Malaysia25. Building rainbow community resilience among the queer community in Southeast Asia26. Postscript: in-pandemic academia, scholarly practices, and an ethics of care =506 0\$aOpen Access$fUnrestricted online access$2star =520 \\$aCOVID-19 has presented huge challenges to governments, businesses, civil societies, and people from all walks of life, but its impact has been highly variegated, affecting society in multiple negative ways, with uneven geographical and socioeconomic patterns. The crisis revealed existing contradictions and inequalities in society, compelling us to question what it means to return to “normal” and what insights can be gleaned from Southeast Asia for thinking about a post-pandemic world. In this regard, this edited volume collects the informed views of an ensemble of social scientists – area studies, development studies, and legal scholars; anthropologists, architects, economists, geographers, planners, sociologists, and urbanists; representing academic institutions, activist and charitable organisations, policy and research institutes, and areas of professional practice – who recognise the necessity of critical commentary and engaged scholarship. These contributions represent a wide-ranging set of views, collectively producing a compilation of reflections on the following three themes in particular: (1) Urbanisation, digital infrastructures, economies, and the environment; (2) Migrants, (im)mobilities, and borders; and (3) Collective action, communities, and mutual action. Overall, this edited volume first aims to speak from a situated position in relevant debates to challenge knowledge about the pandemic that has assigned selective and inequitable visibility to issues, people, or places, or which through its inferential or interpretive capacity has worked to set social expectations or assign validity to certain interventions with a bearing on the pandemic’s course and the future it has foretold. Second, it aims to advance or renew understandings of social challenges, risks, or inequities that were already in place, and which, without further or better action, are to be features of our “post-pandemic world” as well. This volume also contributes to the ongoing efforts to de-centre and decolonise knowledge production. It endeavours to help secure a place within these debates for a region that was among the first outside of East Asia to be forced to contend with COVID-19 in a substantial way and which has evinced a marked and instructive diversity and dynamism in its fortunes. =538 \\$aMode of access: World Wide Web. =540 \\$aThe text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0). 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Decentralised governance: crafting effective democracies around the world2. Understanding decentralisation: theory, evidence, and practice3. Decentralised targeting of transfer programmes: a reassessment4. Realising the promise of partial decentralisation5. Devolution under autocracy: evidence from Pakistan6. Social fragmentation, public goods, and local elections: evidence from China7. How does fiscal decentralisation affect local polities? Evidence from local communities in Indonesia8. Can parliamentary sanctions strengthen local political accountability? Evidence from Kenya9. Centralised versus decentralised monitoring in developing countries: a survey of recent research10. Subnational governance in Ghana: a comparative assessment of data and performance11. Birth registration, child rights, and local governance in Bangladesh12. Administrative decentralisation and its impacts on educational expenditure and student outcomes: evidence from Colombia =506 0\$aOpen Access$fUnrestricted online access$2star =520 \\$aFor developing countries, decentralising power from central government to local authorities holds the promise of deepening democracy, empowering citizens, improving public services and boosting economic growth. But the evidence on when and how decentralisation can bring these benefits has been mixed. Under the wrong conditions, decentralised power can be captured by unrepresentative elites or undermined by corruption and the clientelistic distribution of public resources. The picture is complex, and we still do not understand enough about what factors can contribute to creating better local government, and to what effect. Decentralised Governance brings together a new generation of political economy studies that explore these questions analytically, blending theoretical insights with empirical innovation. Individual chapters provide fresh evidence from around the world, including broad cross-country data as well as detailed studies of Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, China, Indonesia, Ghana, Kenya and Colombia. They investigate the pros and cons of decentralisation in both democratic and autocratic regimes, and the effects of critical factors such as advances in technology, citizen-based data systems, political entrepreneurship in ethnically diverse societies, and reforms aimed at improving transparency and monitoring.This wide-ranging volume examines the conditions under which devolving power can intensify democratic competition, boost transparency, and improve local governance, providing examples of good and bad practice in both. It is essential reading for researchers investigating decentralised governance, development and democratisation, and for policymakers and practitioners drawing lessons for future reforms. =538 \\$aMode of access: World Wide Web. =540 \\$aThe text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0). 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Trade and investment flows and a perspective for analysing trade policy in AfricaJamie MacLeod & David Luke2. The AfCFTA and regional tradeJamie MacLeod et al.3. Africa’s trade arrangements with the European Union and ChinaDavid Luke et al.4. Africa’s trade arrangements with the United States, the United Kingdom, and other prominent partnersDavid Luke et al.5. Africa in the World Trade OrganizationColette van der Ven & David Luke6. How the Covid-19 crisis affected formal tradeJamie MacLeod & Geoffroy Guepie7. How the Covid-19 crisis affected informal and digital tradeKulani McCartan-Demie & Jamie MacLeod8. Conclusion: it’s in the world’s interest to give Africa a new trade dealDavid Luke =506 0\$aOpen Access$fUnrestricted online access$2star =520 \\$aTrade is an essential driver of economic transformation, growth, and prosperity. At a time of global uncertainty and policy fluidity, this comprehensive volume demystifies African trade and trade policy to provide a deeper understanding of how trade impacts the lives of all Africans and the continent’s development aspirations.Featuring a wealth of data-driven evaluations of trade negotiations and policy choices, How Africa Trades is an invaluable open access resource for making sense of the continent’s major trade challenges, including commodity dependence, competitiveness, and how African countries engage with often unconducive international trade rules that distort global markets.In-depth analysis focuses on intra-African trade initiatives, including the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), trade between African countries and their major trading partners, and how the short-term shocks of Covid-19 restrictions brought about longer-term changes in informal and formal trade patterns, and sped-up shifts in digital trade.Edited by Professor David Luke, and featuring vital contributions on trade economics, international law and sustainable development, How Africa Trades draws on the research expertise of LSE’s Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa. This volume provides information, expertise and tools for policymakers, stakeholders and scholars with an interest in understanding the dynamics of trade and in making effective policy decisions that centre development and inclusivity for Africa and its people. =538 \\$aMode of access: World Wide Web. =540 \\$aThe text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC 4.0). 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Why governance matters – analysing systemic failures in the NHS2. Economic and geographical fault lines3. The interwar period and the Attlee settlement4. The Attlee settlement’s failures: stagflation, slums in the sky and educational geography5. Neoliberalism and the new Thatcher settlement6. The ‘make or buy’ decision: the UK’s ‘parastate’ after privatisation and outsourcing7. Marketisation in education8. Healthcare: to marketise or not to marketise?9. Playing the opening and middle games against Covid-1910 Afterword: re-engaging with public governance =506 0\$aOpen Access$fUnrestricted online access$2star =520 \\$aIf every system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets, what is wrong with the design of the systems that govern Britain? And how have they resulted in failures in housing, privatisation, outsourcing, education and healthcare? In How Did Britain Come to This? Gwyn Bevan examines a century of varieties of systemic failures in the British state. The book begins and ends by showing how systems of governance explain scandals in NHS hospitals, and the failures and successes of the UK and Germany in responding to Covid-19 before and after vaccines became available. The book compares geographical fault lines and inequalities in Britain with those that have developed in other European countries and argues that the causes of Britain’s entrenched inequalities are consequences of shifts in systems of governance over the past century. Clement Attlee’s postwar government aimed to remedy the failings of the prewar minimal state, while Margaret Thatcher’s governments in the 1980s in turn sought to remedy the failings of Attlee’s planned state by developing the marketised state, which morphed into the financialised state we see today. This analysis highlights the urgent need for a new political settlement of an enabling state that tackles current systemic weaknesses from market failures and over-centralisation. This book offers an accessible, analytic account of government failures of the past century, and is essential reading for anyone who wants to make an informed contribution to what an innovative, capable state might look like in a post-pandemic world. =538 \\$aMode of access: World Wide Web. =540 \\$aThe text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC 4.0). 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Introduction – ethics, inequality and executive pay 2. Executive pay and distributive justice 3. What do business executives think about distributive justice? 4. Welfare liberals 5. Relational egalitarians 6. Meritocrats 7. Free marketeers 8. If executives are so ethical, why are they so highly paid? 9. What is to be done? 10. Afterword and postscript =506 0\$aOpen Access$fUnrestricted online access$2star =520 \\$a
In the past 30 years, senior executive pay has increased dramatically in the UK, US and other developed countries, causing much debate and, at times, public outrage. In this book, Alexander (‘Sandy’) Pepper argues that this soaring inflation in high pay is the result of a market failure, leading to inefficient pay practices that are replicated across industries. Individual company’s renumeration committees face a prisoner’s dilemma, and so recommend over-the-odds payments in the vain hope of obtaining superior talent. For institutional investors, these developments have created a collective action problem, with many historically unwilling or unable to intervene to curtail excessive corporate pay.
But are executives themselves really the greedy, self-interested, fat cats of popular culture? Based on a thought experiment and survey of beliefs of over a thousand senior executives from around the world, Pepper and his colleagues found that business executives in fact tend not to justify their pay levels as if they were ethical egoists entitled to act entirely in their own self-interest. Instead, they expressed support for a range of ethical beliefs on inequality and distributive justice. They can be categorised as either welfare liberals, relational egalitarians, meritocrats or free marketeers. Many believe that in a civilised society everyone has the right to an income that is sufficient for a dignified life, and that companies, not just governments, have responsibilities in this respect. So, Pepper argues, it is the market failure in executive pay that has created such wage inflation at the top, and this ultimately requires an ethical response from investors, companies and executives.
This is a book for anyone who wishes to understand and tackle business’s role in the growing social inequality of advanced economies in an informed, fair and feasible way.
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Introduction2. Manufacturing compliance with ‘rule by design’3. Who gets what and how: governance based on subpopulations4. Who deserves benefits and why – constructing fairness, pension expectations, and subjectivity5. Maximising support for pension reform using policy experimentation, and the potential to backfire6. Falsification of ‘manufactured compliance’ and wider legitimation and governmentality issues7. Pension issues, state governmentality, and falsified compliance in a comparative perspective =506 0\$aOpen Access$fUnrestricted online access$2star =520 \\$aRapid economic growth is often a disruptive social process threatening the social relations and ideologies of incumbent regimes. Yet far from acting defensively, the Chinese Communist Party has lead a major social and economic transformation over forty years, without yet encountering fundamental challenges subverting its rule. A key question for political sociology is thus - how have the logics of China’s governmentality been able to help maintain compliance from the governed while acting so radically to advance the state’s growth priorities? This book explores the issue by analysing the detailed trajectories, rationale, and effects of China’s pension reforms. It uses strong methods, including institutional analysis of resource allocation in the multiple pension schemes and programmes, and quantitative text analysis of the knowledge construction in official discourse along with the reforms. Causal identification estimates the effects of key policy instruments on public opinion about pension responsibility and political trust. Moving beyond the pension issues, the analysis discusses with qualitative evidence why falsified compliance might exist in China’s society and the mechanisms that may lie behind it. Where active counter-conduct (such as resistance) is confined, individuals may choose cognitive rebellion and falsify their public compliance.The Chinese state’s strategy to generate public compliance is hybrid, organic, and dynamic. The state rules society by its customised governance design and constant adjustments. Public compliance is not only acquired through ‘buying off’ the public with governmental performance and transfer benefits, but is also manufactured through achieving cultural changes and new ideological foundations for general legitimation. =538 \\$aMode of access: World Wide Web. =540 \\$aThe text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0). 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IntroductionAndrés Velasco and Irene Bucelli2. Populism and Identity PoliticsAndrés Velasco3. Democracy Versus Democracy: The Populist Challenge to Liberal DemocracyMichael Ignatieff4. Challenger Parties and PopulismCatherine E. De Vries and Sara B. Hobolt5. The Rise of Populism and the Revenge of the Places That Don’t MatterAndrés Rodríguez-Pose6. Social Media and Political PolarisationGilat Levy and Ronny Razin7. The Technological Revolution, Segregation, and Populism – A Long-Term Strategic ResponseDavid Soskice =506 0\$aOpen Access$fUnrestricted online access$2star =520 \\$aPopulist movements, parties and leaders have gained influence in many countries, disrupting long-established patterns of party competition, impugning the legitimacy of representative institutions and sometimes actively weakening or coarsening government capabilities. By positing an acute contrast between the will of the people and established elites, and advocating simplistic policy solutions careless of minority rights, populists have challenged the development and even the maintenance of liberal democracy on many fronts.Social scientists’ attention to populism has grown rapidly, although it remains somewhat fragmented across disciplines. Many questions remain. Are populism’s causes economic or cultural? National or local? Is populism a threat to liberal democracy? If so, what kind of threat? And what can be done about it? Employing a range of conceptual toolkits and methods, this interdisciplinary book addresses in a critical and evidence-based way the most common diagnoses of populism’s causes, consequences and policy antidotes. =538 \\$aMode of access: World Wide Web. =540 \\$aThe text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0). 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Preface2. Introducing spectrum auctions3. Understanding the radio spectrum, auctions, and the UK case4. Market design, economic efficiency, and game theory for spectrum auctions5. Regulation, public value, and policymaking6. Applying expertise in decision-making processes7. Laying foundations before the auction8. Auction design objectives and baseline decisions9. Choosing an auction format10. Promoting downstream competition11. Harnessing auctions for better-informed public policy decisions12. Auction bidding and outcomes13. Afterword: Reflections for future auctions14. Annex A: Further details of the UK’s spectrum auctions, 2000–2115. Annex B: Further explanation of the Combinatorial Clock Auction (CCA) format and bidding in the UK’s 2013 auction16. Annex C: Additional explanation of the cost-benefit role of auctions =506 0\$aOpen Access$fUnrestricted online access$2star =520 \\$aAccess to the radio spectrum is vital for modern digital communication. It is an essential component for smartphone capabilities, the Cloud, the Internet of Things, autonomous vehicles, and multiple other new technologies. Governments use spectrum auctions to decide which companies should use what parts of the radio spectrum. Successful auctions can fuel rapid innovation in products and services, unlock substantial economic benefits, build comparative advantage across all regions, and create billions of dollars of government revenues. Poor auction strategies can leave bandwidth unsold and delay innovation, sell national assets to firms too cheaply, or create uncompetitive markets with high mobile prices and patchy coverage that stifles economic growth. Corporate bidders regularly complain that auctions raise their costs, while government critics argue that insufficient revenues are raised. The cross-national record shows many examples of both highly successful auctions and miserable failures.Drawing on experience from the UK and other countries, senior regulator Geoffrey Myers explains how to optimise the regulatory design of auctions, from initial planning to final implementation. Spectrum Auctions offers unrivalled expertise for regulators and economists engaged in practical auction design or company executives planning bidding strategies. For applied economists, teachers, and advanced students this book provides unrivalled insights in market design and public management. Providing clear analytical frameworks, case studies of auctions, and stage-by-stage advice, it is essential reading for anyone interested in designing public-interested and successful spectrum auctions. =538 \\$aMode of access: World Wide Web. =540 \\$aThe text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). 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In the previous two decades, the country had undergone a series of democratic reforms, during which it seemed to evolve into a more typical European liberal democracy.The establishment of a Supreme Court, adoption of the Human Rights Act, Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish devolution, proportional electoral systems, executive mayors and the growth in multi-party competition all marked profound changes to the British political tradition.Brexit may now bring some of these developments to a juddering halt. The UK’s previous ‘exceptionalism’ from European patterns looks certain to continue indefinitely. ‘Taking back control’ of regulations, trade, immigration and much more is the biggest change in UK governance for half a century. It has already produced enduring crises for the party system, Parliament and the core executive, with uniquely contested governance over critical issues, and a rapidly changing political landscape. Other recent trends are no less fast-moving, such as the revival of two-party dominance in England, the re-creation of some mass membership parties and the disruptive challenges of social media.In this context, an in-depth assessment of the quality of the UK’s democracy is essential. Each of the 2018 Democratic Audit’s 37 short chapters starts with clear criteria for what democracy requires in that part of the nation’s political life and outlines key recent developments before a SWOT analysis (of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats) crystallises the current situation. 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Introduction: The International System in the shadow of the Russian war in Ukraine 2. The War in Ukraine and the Return of History 3. Who Supports the War? And Who Protests? The Legacies of Tzarist Social Divide in Russia 4. Rewriting History and ‘Gathering the Russian Lands’: Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian Nationhood5. The Securitised ‘Others’ of Russian Nationalism in Ukraine and Russia 6. The Making of Independent Ukraine7. Russia’s Networked Authoritarianism in Ukraine’s Occupied Territories During the Full-Scale Invasion: Control and Resilience 8. Ukraine’s Decentralisation Reforms and the Path to Reconstruction, Recovery and European Integration9. Uprooting and Borders: The Digital Architecture of the Ukrainian Refugee Crisis10. Weaponised Energy and Climate Change: Assessing Europe’s Response to the Ukraine War11. New Dynamics, New Opportunities: Trends in Organised Crime in Ukraine After Russia’s Invasion12. War in Ukraine in a Polarised America13. Europe and Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine: Where Does the EU Stand?14. After Merkel: Germany from Peace to War 15. Comrades? Xi, Putin and the Challenge to the West 16. The Global South and Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine 17. Mr Putin and the Chronicle of a Normalisation Foretold18. Reconstructing and Reforming Ukraine 19. Annex A: Ukraine’s Timeline: From Independence to War20. Annex B: The Geography of War =506 0\$aOpen Access$fUnrestricted online access$2star =520 \\$aThe full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia in 2022 has not only caused immense suffering inside the country, and among its people, it has shifted the political landscape in Russia for the worse, altered the strategic map of Europe, and created division and economic pain in the rest of the world. In this volume, a group of internationally acclaimed academics – many originally from Ukraine or Russia – examine the deep causes of Putin’s war, the role played by other actors such as China and the United States, the severe consequences for the many millions of Ukrainians displaced from their home and country, the impact on the West and the Global South and the challenges confronting Ukraine when the war finally comes to an end. Part of the LSE Public Policy Review Series, Ukraine: Russia’s War and the Future of the Global Order offers a rigorous intellectual response to this extreme humanitarian crisis and considers the implications for the future of Ukraine and the transformed global order. =538 \\$aMode of access: World Wide Web. =540 \\$aThe text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0). 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Introduction: Making Wellbeing Policies EffectiveTimothy Besley and Irene Bucelli2. Wellbeing as the Goal of PolicyRichard Layard3. Accounting for Consequences and Claims in PolicyPaul Dolan4. Weighing the Costs and Benefits of Public Policy: On the Dangers of Single Metric AccountingJohanna Thoma5. Wellbeing in Public Policy: Contributions Based on Sen’s Capability ApproachPaul Anand6. Incorporating Wellbeing and Mental Health Research to Improve Pandemic ResponseMichael Daly and Liam Delaney7. COVID-19 and Mental Health and Wellbeing Research: Informing Targeted, Integrated, and Long-Term Responses to Health EmergenciesAnnette Bauer8. Health, Wellbeing, and Democratic Citizenship: A Review and Research AgendaChristopher J. Anderson, Sara Hagemann, and Robert Klemmensen9. Health and Disability Gaps in Political Engagement: A Short ReviewMikko Mattila =506 0\$aOpen Access$fUnrestricted online access$2star =520 \\$aGovernments in liberal democracies pursue social welfare, but in many different ways. The wellbeing approach instead asks: Why not focus directly on increasing measured human happiness? Why not try to improve people’s overall quality of life, as it is subjectively seen by citizens themselves?The radical implications of this stance include shifting attention to previously neglected areas (such as mental health and ‘social infrastructure’ services) and developing defensible measures of overall wellbeing or quality of life indicators. Can one ‘master’ concept of wellbeing work to create more holism in policy-making? Or should we stick with multiple metrics? These debates have been live in relation to an alternative ‘capacities’ approaches, and they are well-developed in health policymaking. Most recently, the connections between wellbeing and political participation have come into sharper focus.Wellbeing remains a contested concept, one that can be interpreted and used differently, with consequences for how it is incorporated into policy decisions. By bringing together scholars from economics, psychology and behavioural science, philosophy and political science, the authors explore how different disciplinary approaches can contribute to the study of wellbeing and how this can shape policy priorities. =538 \\$aMode of access: World Wide Web. =540 \\$aThe text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0). 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