Transforming Global Governance with Middle Power Diplomacy

Transforming Global Governance with Middle Power Diplomacy: South Korea’s Role in the 21st Century
Palgrave Macmillan US | Diplomacy | July 2 2016 | ISBN-10: 1137596597 | 170 pages | pdf | 2 mb

Editors: Lee, Sook Jong (Ed.)

This book examines South Korea’s recent strategic turn to middle power diplomacy, evaluating its performance so far in key areas of security, maritime governance, trade, finance, development assistance, climate change, and cyber space. In particular, the authors pay special attention to how South Korea’s middle power diplomacy can contribute to making the U.S.-China competition in East Asia benefit Korea.

The contributors discuss the opportunities and limits of this middle power diplomacy role, exploring how Korea can serve as a middleman in Sino-Japanese relations, rather than as a US ally against China; use its rich trade networks to negotiate beneficial free trade agreements; and embracing its role as a leader in climate change policy, along with other topics. This book is a must read for foreign policy officials and experts who engage in the Asia-Pacific region, rekindling the academic study of middle powers whose influence is only augmenting in our increasingly networked twenty-first century world.

Topics

Diplomacy

Asian Politics

Globalization

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Towards Cognitive Cities: Advances in Cognitive Computing and its Application to the Governance of Large Urban Systems

Towards Cognitive Cities: Advances in Cognitive Computing and its Application to the Governance of Large Urban Systems
Springer | Systems, Decision & Control | July 11, 2016 | ISBN-10: 3319337971 | 256 pages | pdf | 3.98 mb

Editors: Portmann, Edy, Finger, Matthias (Eds.)

Offers a concise introduction to the new concept of cognitive cities
Argues why cities need to become cognitive and why therefore the concept of cognitive city is needed
Highlights the main building blocks of cognitive cities and illustrates the concept by various cases
Presents a comprehensive view of the different research endeavours about cognitive cities and paves the way for this innovative approach to governing cities

This book introduces the readers to the new concept of cognitive cities. It demonstrates why cities need to become cognitive and why therefore a concept of cognitive city is needed. It highlights the main building blocks of cognitive cities and illustrates the concept by various cases. Following a concise introductory chapter the book features nine chapters illustrating various aspects and dimensions of cognitive cities. The logic of its structure proceeds from more general considerations to more specific illustrations. All chapters offer a comprehensive view of the different research endeavours about cognitive cities and will help pave the way for this new and innovative approach to governing cities in the future.

Number of Illustrations and Tables

15 b/w illustrations, 34 illustrations in colour

Topics

Computational Intelligence

Urban Geography/Urbanism

Engineering Design

Sustainable Development

Urban Economics

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SOA Governance [Repost]

SOA Governance by Todd Biske
English | 10 Oct. 2008 | ISBN: 1847195865 | 228 Pages | PDF | 6 MB

This book is for enterprise architects, technical leaders, and senior IT managers who wish to implement SOA Governance into their companies. This book assumes that the reader has a basic familiarity with service-oriented architecture and software development lifecycle methodologies. The reader does not need detailed knowledge of web services technologies.

Local Government in Europe: The "Fourth Level" in the EU Multi-Layered System of Governance

Local Government in Europe: The ‘Fourth Level’ in the EU Multi-Layered System of Governance by Carlo Panara and Michael R. Varney
English | 2013 | ISBN: 0415580005 | 448 pages | PDF | 2 MB

This work considers the role of local government in 13 EU Member States (Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom. The book aims to provide an account of the system of local government in each of the countries studied along with a critical and contextual approach to the level of autonomy that local government enjoys. The approach is comparative, based on a questionnaire which all of the authors considered. There is then a detailed conclusion to the book which offers a detailed summary and comparative analysis of the responses in order to better consider the role of local authorities as the ‘fourth level’ of governance in the EU. The book aims to offer a detailed introduction to and account of each system of local government which may appeal to those seeking an overview of the area, but also a critical and contextual approach that will be of interest to those actively researching in the areas of local and regional government or EU-central-local government relations. The book contains details of reform in local government up to November 2012, including an analysis of the impact of austerity measures on local autonomy where these have become significant.