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Great Power Competition, Proxy War and Special Operations Forces
Authors: Henningsen Troels Burchall 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
Proxy wars play a prominent role in great power competition. During both the Cold War and the recentGlobal War on Terror, Special Operations Forces (SOF) have been pivotal in these proxy engagements. This chapter explores how SOF can achieve strategic effects in three scenarios of proxy wars: alliances to fight a common enemy, contests for influence, and indirect confrontations. It finds that the less conspicuous qualities of SOF—such as the ability to conduct informal diplomacy, to influence local security institutions discreetly, to expose the activities of rival great powers, and to offer strategic advice to local partners—provide unique advantages to the sponsoring state. These activities may bring about pragmatic, ad hoc alliances among rivals against a common enemy, and a sustainable long-term presence in states subject to influence by rival powers. Thus, SOF allows for an expansion of choices available to policymakers and the economy of force in less critical geographical areas of competition, although broader political effects ultimately depend on the legitimacy of the proxy relationship.
Special Operations as an Integrating Function
Authors: Gans Ben , Blanken Leo , Stelmack Robert 
Published: January 2025

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This chapter explores the transformation of special operations required to meet the challenges and exploit opportunities presented by the changing character of warfare. Drawing on the current debate around multi-domain operations it is argued that coping effectively with a collapsed operational environment, that increasingly compresses time, space, and force, requires new alignments between organizational capabilities and environmental opportunities. This chapter therefore contributes to developing special operations in modern warfare by introducing a framework for merging capabilities as a source of competitive advantage in strategic competition. The framework illustrates the proposed transformation of special operation into an integrating function capable of synergistically maneuvering resources across all domains with merged capabilities used to generate cross-dimensional effects along the spectrum of integrated deterrence, crisis, and conflict.
Special Powers, Desperate Acts
Authors: Paliwal Avinash 
Published: January 2025

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This chapter shows that India prioritized security over constitutionalism during 1955-62. Such a shift meant investment in the political, territorial, and administrative unity of the republic at the cost of citizenship rights. Imposition of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (1958) in Assam to counter the Naga insurgency marked the first step towards militarism. Near simultaneous military coups in Pakistan and Burma by Generals Ayub Khan and Ne Win respectively impacted India’s security in its northeastern states. New Delhi accepted these coups as fait accompli. Lastly, instead of uniting it, Chinese aggression at the India, Pakistan, and Burma borders, ended up dividing the subcontinent. It paved the way for long-term strategic alignment between China and Pakistan, led to the resolution of the Sino-Burmese boundary dispute, and condemned India and China into an enduring rivalry.
Enabling Democracy
Authors: Paliwal Avinash 
Published: January 2025

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This chapter focuses on the links that bound India’s regional geopolitics to its state-building processes during the 1980s and 1990s. It explains why India supported democracy movements in Bangladesh and Burma, after having attempted engagement and rapprochement with the military leadership of both countries. In 1988, India intervened in Burma in support of the pro-democracy movement. New Delhi preferred Aung San Suu Kyi over the generals. The chapter unearths the secret history of India’s arming of the Kachin, Chin, and Rakhine groups in Myanmar, and growing preference for Mujib’s daughter Sheikh Hasina as a political ally in a turbulent Bangladesh. Unfortunately for India, neither Hasina nor Suu Kyi gained power. In Bangladesh, the rise of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) under Khaleda Zia’s leadership, and the endurance of the junta in Myanmar undermined India’s geopolitical calculus in its near east.
Dancing in the Rain
Authors: Gustafson Thane 
Published: January 2025

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This chapter reviews Russia’s responses to the Western sanctions, which have been vigorous, creative, and on the whole effective in restabilizing the economy and restoring growth after the initial disarray of the first few months after the invasion. It shows how the financial team, in particular, led by the RCB and the Ministry of Finance, has used a combination of interest rates and occasional capital controls to prevent a meltdown of the ruble and to limit capital flight. The chapter then shows how Russian energy companies have reoriented the country’s oil trade away from Europe, while acquiring a large fleet of “shadow tankers” and promoting what the chapter calls creative reporting for coping with the price cap. Finally, it concludes that these responses have enabled the Putin regime to continue to prosecute its war in Ukraine while insulating the population and the economy from its direct effects. All in all, it has been a successful effort—for the near term.
(Post-)Colonial (West) Germany
Authors: Melber Henning 
Published: January 2025

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The treatment of the colonial era in post-World War 2 West Germany compared with East Germany highlights forms of colonial amnesia and colonial apologetic romanticism. This contrasts with the emergence of first civil society initiatives in demand of colonial-critical memory culture since the late 1960s. Remnants of colonial mentality and perspectives are presented for Germany since unification in 1990, including popular literature and the Humboldt Forum. The emergence of a pro-active Black German movement (Afro Germans) and the creation of awareness by post-colonial initiatives are contrasted with the reactionary revisionism by the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) as a right-wing political party gaining support for its colonial-apologetic racist views. Efforts to rehabilitate victims of colonial injustice such as the execution of Manga Bell and Ngoso Din, debates on the colonial legacy in the German Bundestag and the role of colonialism as regards the notion of internal liberation conclude the chapter.
Red Lights
Authors: Connell Kieran 
Published: January 2025

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The chapter examines the experiences of Irish immigrant groups in inner-city Birmingham alongside South Asian and other racialized communities. Using the photography of Janet Mendelsohn, the chapter traces the changing topographical landscape of the neighborhood in the context of the collapse of what was left of the British Empire. It shows how cafes, cinemas, and other establishments performed important roles in the transition immigrant groups made towards a permanent presence in Britain. The chapter ends by examining the prominent sex industry in the area, and seeks to understand the significance of the complicated nature of one particular relationship between a local mixed-race couple.
Epilogue
Authors: Connell Kieran 
Published: January 2025

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The epilogue provides readers with more information about the author’s own family history, which came to light as he was finishing the book. The author argues that Britain’s “drift” towards the multicultural is only going to become more pronounced in the years to come, and that hybridized identities will continue to become an increasingly commonplace feature of British life. He suggests that the ongoing story of multicultural Britain will remain an often contradictory process, however, with racism in myriad forms a central issue.
Personal observations and reflections on my right anterior cortical stroke and (partial) recovery: impaired and preserved function
Authors: Moscovitch M. 
Published: January 2025

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This chapter presents a series of 12 articles reflecting different types of stroke. Article 1 discusses a cognitive neuropsychologist’s right anterior cortical stroke. Article 2 explores a general practitioner’s right hemisphere stroke. Article 3 narrates a nurse’s experience following a left frontal stroke, whereas Article 4 reflects on a late professor and classical pianist’s experience with a right parietal stroke. Article 5 describes a radiologist’s encounter with an acute right hemisphere stroke. Article 6 provides insight into a neuropsychologist’s life after a ruptured left frontal arteriovenous malformation that occurred at the age of 19 years. Article 7 details a psychiatrist’s episode of transient global amnesia. Article 8 recounts a nephrologist who suffered a cerebellar infarct. Article 9 examines an aphasiologist’s stroke affecting the brainstem. Article 10 reports on a cardiologist’s embolic stroke involving the cerebellum. Article 11 outlines the consequences of a neuroscientist’s brainstem infarct. Finally, Article 12 shares a nurse’s perspective on a right parietal lobe stroke.
A bolt from the blue
Authors: Sue  
Published: January 2025

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This chapter presents a series of 12 articles reflecting different types of stroke. Article 1 discusses a cognitive neuropsychologist’s right anterior cortical stroke. Article 2 explores a general practitioner’s right hemisphere stroke. Article 3 narrates a nurse’s experience following a left frontal stroke, whereas Article 4 reflects on a late professor and classical pianist’s experience with a right parietal stroke. Article 5 describes a radiologist’s encounter with an acute right hemisphere stroke. Article 6 provides insight into a neuropsychologist’s life after a ruptured left frontal arteriovenous malformation that occurred at the age of 19 years. Article 7 details a psychiatrist’s episode of transient global amnesia. Article 8 recounts a nephrologist who suffered a cerebellar infarct. Article 9 examines an aphasiologist’s stroke affecting the brainstem. Article 10 reports on a cardiologist’s embolic stroke involving the cerebellum. Article 11 outlines the consequences of a neuroscientist’s brainstem infarct. Finally, Article 12 shares a nurse’s perspective on a right parietal lobe stroke.
Summary of ‘Sleep and dream suppression following a lateral medullary infarct: a first-person account’ *
Authors: Hobson J. A. 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
This chapter presents a series of 12 articles reflecting different types of stroke. Article 1 discusses a cognitive neuropsychologist’s right anterior cortical stroke. Article 2 explores a general practitioner’s right hemisphere stroke. Article 3 narrates a nurse’s experience following a left frontal stroke, whereas Article 4 reflects on a late professor and classical pianist’s experience with a right parietal stroke. Article 5 describes a radiologist’s encounter with an acute right hemisphere stroke. Article 6 provides insight into a neuropsychologist’s life after a ruptured left frontal arteriovenous malformation that occurred at the age of 19 years. Article 7 details a psychiatrist’s episode of transient global amnesia. Article 8 recounts a nephrologist who suffered a cerebellar infarct. Article 9 examines an aphasiologist’s stroke affecting the brainstem. Article 10 reports on a cardiologist’s embolic stroke involving the cerebellum. Article 11 outlines the consequences of a neuroscientist’s brainstem infarct. Finally, Article 12 shares a nurse’s perspective on a right parietal lobe stroke.
Living with a benign brain tumour
Authors: McDonald A. 
Published: January 2025

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This chapter collects seven personal accounts of those who suffered a brain tumour. Article 1 is by a rheumatology professor who observed changes in speech and writing due to a left parietal glioma. Article 2 features a clinical neuropsychologist’s journey following multiple treatment for a right parietal glioma. Article 3 recounts a social work student’s battle with a right temporal ependymoma at the age of 15 years. Article 4 offers insights from a general practitioner who had a benign fourth ventricle subependymoma. Article 5 details a medical student’s confrontation with a golf ball-sized meningioma adjacent to her brainstem. Article 6 describes an oncology physician’s symptoms leading to an ependymoma diagnosis, involving the fourth ventricle and brainstem. Article 7 presents a cardiologist’s narrative on living with a left frontal astrocytoma, and the accompanying uncertainty and perpetual fear of recurrence.
Books by doctors/scientists recounting their personal experience of infectious and inflammatory conditions
Authors: Kapur Narinder , Bell Vaughan , Friedland Daniel , Kemp Steven 
Published: January 2025

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In this chapter, there are seven articles dealing with serious infectious and inflammatory diseases. Article 1 provides a cardiologist’s detailed account of limbic encephalitis, emphasizing the fluctuating cognitive and emotional symptoms due to hippocampal and amygdala involvement. Article 2 offers insights from a neurologist on a unique presentation of autoimmune limbic encephalitis that affected him. Article 3 shares a physician’s personal journey with autoimmune encephalitis, highlighting the condition’s significant impact on mental well-being. Article 4 focuses on a psychiatrist’s challenging experience with COVID-19-related delirium and the lingering effects of long COVID. Article 5 discusses a doctor’s delirium episode following COVID-19, which included a period in intensive care. Article 6 reports another doctor’s experience with delirium, which followed a presumed meningitis infection. Finally, Article 7 is a gripping story of survival from a psychiatrist who battled streptococcal toxic shock syndrome.
Summary of ‘Physician as patient: lessons to learn’ *
Authors: Beatty P. A. 
Published: January 2025

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This chapter compiles six articles that provide a window into the varied experiences of those with multiple sclerosis (MS). Article 1 discusses a young postgraduate student in psychology grappling with the progressive form of MS, a variant less common than the typical relapsing–remitting type. Article 2 tells the story of a doctor who works as both an oncologist and a haematologist, and whose long history with MS intersects poignantly with personal loss. Article 3 is about a young lady who has a master’s in public health and works in a university setting. She describes the unique challenges in facing MS as a Pakistani-American, providing insights into the challenges of having a condition more prevalent in Western countries. Article 4 reveals how an obstetrician and gynaecologist navigates her professional duties while managing MS symptoms. Article 5 presents a physician’s account of living with MS and the complexities of treatment. Finally, Article 6 features a medical researcher’s reflections on the profound impact of good communication, or the lack thereof, in the journey with MS.
Conclusion
Authors: Jubb Robert 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
This Conclusion summarizes the arguments of the four main chapters and responds to some more explicitly radical critiques of liberal democracy in contemporary political theory. Rawlsian theorists typically do not realize the radicalism which leaves them unable to account for the authority of liberal democracy. Other contemporary political theorists, however, are typically much clearer about their dissatisfaction with the stability and protection liberal democratic regimes provide. These radical theorists do not appreciate the goods liberal democratic rule provides. Political rule involves working with the materials presented by the political divisions and conflicts a society actually has, using them to somehow provide a political order that does well enough for enough of its members, enough of the time, to gain their basic acceptance. Too many existing critiques of liberal democracy depend on an implausible political sociology and demand more than any political order could expect to provide.
William C. Kirby, Empires of Ideas: Creating the Modern University from Germany to America to China (Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2022), pp. 491
Authors: Palfreyman David 
Published: January 2025

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This chapter presents a review of William C. Kirby’s Empires of Ideas: Creating the Modern University from Germany to America to China (2022). Kirby is an academic at Harvard University and he seeks to explore the rise and fall of ‘empires’ as in the ranking of global universities by looking in detail at representative institutions from each of the three nations. These are the University of Berlin and the Free University of Berlin; Harvard, Berkeley, and Duke; Tsinghua, Nanjing, and the University of Hong Kong. The book begins by tracing the rise, fall, and recent revival of the German universities. Turning to US research universities, Kirby asks whether American universities can continue to lead the world in the coming decades. Finally, the book considers the success of the Chinese Excellence Initiative in driving certain Chinese universities up the global rankings.
DJing as “Phonographic Work(ing)”
Authors: Gilli Lorenz 
Published: January 2025

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This chapter presents a methodological framework for analyzing EDM DJ sets. The concept of “phonographies,” introduced by Alexander G. Weheliye, is used to discuss DJing as a socio-aesthetic practice of modernity, originating from Black and African American culture. Rolf Großmann’s concept of “phonographic work(ing)” is employed to further illuminate the material foundations and practices of DJing. The chapter discusses Mark J. Butler’s three elements of a DJ performance, namely “tracks,” “third record,” and “DJ set,” and distinguishes between third records as transition and third records as entity. Additionally, three fundamental aesthetic principles are introduced: modulation, repetition, and combination. This analytical framework is then applied to analyze a house DJ set by Solomun and an EDM pop DJ set by Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, revealing distinctive aesthetic approaches across EDM genres in terms of sonic time and space, liveness, authority, and the creation of third records.
Nonlyrical Dimensions of Protest Music
Authors: Roy William G. , Gromis Ashley 
Published: January 2025

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The overwhelming preponderance of scholarship about protest music focuses on the political meanings of lyrics. This chapter focuses on how music shapes relationships among activists rather than the message contained in lyrics—what movements do with music. The main factors that affect why movements use music in the way they do include continuity from past practices, the institutional setting they occupy, and the agency of their leadership. Protest music also constitutes a distinctive art world with organizations, practices, technologies, and cultures. The organization of genres affects how protest music operates, including how it constitutes its own genre. The new media of the twenty-first century is changing how protest music operates and promises unexpected changes in the future.
Riddle, Interpretation, and Dialectical Image
Authors: Paddison Max 
Published: January 2025

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This chapter examines Adorno’s concepts of riddle-character and dialectical image in relation to the development of his “interpretive philosophy” (later known as negative dialectics) and his theory of musical interpretation as performance. It draws on the early essay “Die Aktualität der Philosophie” (“The Actuality of Philosophy,” delivered as a lecture to the Kantgesellschaft in Frankfurt in 1931 and published posthumously in 1973), as well as his two most important late works, Negative Dialectics (1966) and the unfinished Aesthetic Theory (1970). His conception of interpretive philosophy is also considered in relation to the case of musical performance, drawing on the fragmentary notes collected by Henri Lonitz from Adorno’s unfinished project, Zu einer Theorie der musikalischen Reproduktion (Towards a Theory of Musical Reproduction), which was published posthumously in 2001. In brief, the intention is to show that it is musical interpretation as performance that provides the model for Adorno’s conception of philosophical interpretation as the construction of “interpretive images.” At the same time, it becomes clear that this also carries with it implications for musical listening as a mode of interpretive experience.
The Logicality of Language, Meaning-Driven Unacceptability, and Modulated Logical Forms
Authors: Del Pinal Guillermo 
Published: January 2025

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According to the ‘logicality of language’ hypothesis, the human language system includes not just a recursive syntax and compositional semantics but also a computational system that identifies and filters out expressions that are informationally trivial. This view is motivated by the discovery of a class of trivial expressions which are syntactically well formed, have no semantic type mismatches, and are not complex in ways that should affect processing, yet feel unacceptable in ways that are indistinguishable from typical ungrammaticality judgments. This class of informationally trivial expressions restricts the distribution of major kinds of logical/functional terms. A challenge for proponents of logicality is to implement this hypothesis in a way that doesn’t over-generate strict unacceptability assignments for various kinds of superficial contradictions and tautologies. This chapter presents a solution to this problem based on the proposal that, at the level of logical form, content-based/open-class terms—but not logical/functional terms—are subject to systematic meaning modulation operations.
Semantic Non-Reductionism
Authors: Verheggen Claudine 
Published: January 2025

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It is argued that the foundational or metasemantic question of what it is for words to mean what they do cannot be answered in reductive terms, that is, in terms that do not presuppose meaning; yet a constructive, non-quietist answer can be provided. Specifically, a non-reductionist account of meaning can meet the demand, articulated by Saul Kripke, that two distinctions be accounted, or at least made room, for: the distinction between correct and incorrect uses of expressions and the distinction between intelligent and robotic linguistic behavior. Building on Donald Davidson’s work on triangulation, a non-reductionist account is developed that meets the demand and reveals meaning to be normative in two important ways. Thus, the widely accepted connection between non-reductionism and normativity is acknowledged but, contra the received view, it is because meaning cannot be reduced to anything non-semantic that it is essentially normative, not the other way around.
Indefinites
Authors: Collins John 
Published: January 2025

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This chapter does not offer a complete survey of indefinites (determiner phrases (DPs) such as a boy, some girls, three women, etc.). Rather, it offers a selective discussion pivoted on the peculiar wide-scope properties of indefinites and also a seminal proposal for the explanation of such idiosyncrasy, which is that a choice function is essentially involved in the interpretation of the indefinite. The chapter will argue that the choice function analysis is not only empirically adequate but also fits with general theoretical demands on the relation between syntax and semantics and the role of context in determining the content expressed.