Ours is an era of big companies, multinational brands and global business power, but also of seemingly unending conflict. Corporate Peace examines how corporations respond to the life-and-death business of war and peace. What happens when they come up against Mexican drug cartels, or the Ebola...

Recent years have seen a striking proliferation of the term quot;globalquot; in public and political discourse. The popularity of the term is a manifestation of the fact that there is a widespread notion that contemporary social reality is quot;globalquot;. The acknowledgment of this notion has...

This paper is about the scholarly imagination of Europe. It addresses scholars who are involved in the analysis of contemporary politics within Europe and is concerned with the way in which they imagine their object of study because it is this imagination that preconfigures, which problems are...

In our chapter we will make an argument about studying ideas through focusing on their (re)presentation in public discourses. We begin from the position that the media play an important political role as a broker and interpreter of ideas. We are also contributing to existing analyses of the...