Proxy warfare will shape the conflicts of the twenty-first century for the foreseeable future. Yet the popular understanding of proxy wars remains largely shaped by the experience of the Cold War. In reality, in the Greater Middle East and its periphery today, the growing power of regional states and non-state actors, combined with the proliferation of new technology, has reshaped proxy conflicts, in an increasingly multipolar and interconnected environment. In this collected volume, a ran...

Drones are the iconic military technology of many of today's most pressing conflicts. Drones have captured the public imagination, partly because they project lethal force in a manner that challenges accepted norms and moral understandings. Drone Wars presents a series of essays by legal scholars, journalists, government officials, military analysts, social scientists, and foreign policy experts. It addresses drones' impact on the ground, how their use adheres to and challenges the laws of...

Edited by members of the Department of Italian Studies at the University of Birmingham, and bringing together academics in Britain, Ireland, the US and Italy, this volume takes an international perspective on Italian events. It investigates how resistance to the new conservative culture has been articulated, and how this has been expressed and explained by those involved.The volume is divided into four areas: 1. The Economic and Media Landscapes, which sets the scene for the rest o...

Dieses Handbuch bietet einen perspektivenreichen Überblick über das umfangreiche Wissen zur ADHS. Dabei werden die Grundlagen der Klassifikation und Epidemiologie, aktuelle Forschungsbefunde zu den Ursachen sowie den vielfältigen Aspekten von Klinik, Untersuchung, Therapie und Verlauf der ADHS vermittelt. Die verschiedenen Beiträge basieren auf den Kenntnissen und Erfahrungen führender Expertinnen und Experten in Forschung, klinischer Praxis und evidenzbasierter Medizin. Die 3. Auflage wur...

"What have I in common with Jews? I hardly have anything in common with myself!"--Franz KafkaKafka's quip--paradoxical, self-questioning, ironic--highlights vividly some of the key issues of identity and self-representation for Jewish writers in the 20th century. No group of writers better represents the problems of Jewish identity than Jewish poets writing in the American modernist tradition--specifically secular Jews: those disdainful or suspicious of organized re...