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  • Understanding the Politics of Pandemic Emergencies in the time of COVID-19
    Mika Aaltola
    This book reviews the political significance of COVID-19 in the context of earlier pandemic encounters in order to understand the ways in which it challenges the existing individual health, domestic order, international health governance actors and, more fundamentally, the circulation-based modus operandi of the present world order. ...
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    74,43 €

  • Democratic Vulnerability and Autocratic Meddling
    Mika Aaltola
    This book investigates complex regressive dynamics in contemporary Western democracies. They include not only severe polarization in domestic politics, but also efforts by external autocratic powers to co-opt the increasingly digitalized political processes in the West. The discussion on democratic vulnerability and regression has rarely been historically and theoretically refl...
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    66,82 €

  • Varieties of Empathy
    Elisa Aaltola
    Empathy is a term used increasingly both in moral theory and animal ethics. Yet, its precise meaning is often left unexplored. The book aims to tackle this by clarifying the different and even contradictory ways in which “empathy” can be defined. ...
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    56,50 €

  • The Challenge of Global Commons and Flows for US Power
    Juha Käpylä / Mika Aaltola
    Global commons are domains that fall outside the direct jurisdiction of sovereign states - the high seas, air, space, and most recently man-made cyberspace - and thus should be usable by anyone. These domains, even if outside the direct responsibility and governance of sovereign entities, are of crucial interest for the contemporary world order. This book elaborates a practice-...
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    97,91 €

  • Animal Ethics and Philosophy
    Aaltola
    Bringing together new theory and critical perspectives on a broad range of topics in animal ethics, this book examines the implications of recent developments in the various fields that bear upon animal ethics. Showcasing a new generation of thinkers, it exposes some important shortcomings in existing animal rights theory. ...
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    74,86 €

  • Animal Suffering
    E. Aaltola
    Exploring how animal suffering is made meaningful within Western ramifications, the book investigates themes such as skepticism concerning non-human experience, cultural roots of compassion, and contemporary approaches to animal ethics. At its center is the pivotal question: What is the moral significance of animal suffering? ...
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    47,98 €

  • Animal Suffering
    E. Aaltola
    Exploring how animal suffering is made meaningful within Western ramifications, the book investigates themes such as skepticism concerning non-human experience, cultural roots of compassion, and contemporary approaches to animal ethics. At its center is the pivotal question: What is the moral significance of animal suffering? ...
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    134,07 €