Dopo interi decenni di crollo delle ideologie, crisi dei partiti e «morte della politica», ecco che finalmente la politica è tornata. O almeno così sembra: in effetti, mai come oggi la società sembra spaccarsi in due su tutte le questioni di attualità, dai vaccini alla guerra in Ucraina, dall'Unione Europea a Gaza. Eppure, nonostante i dibattiti infuocati e il continuo clima di scontro tra opinioni contrapposte, nulla sembra cambiare. Le organizzazioni politiche sono sempre più deboli, i sindacati inesistenti, i partiti evaporati, e a votare non va ormai (quasi) più nessuno. Dalla post-politica siamo insomma passati all'iperpolitica: un fenomeno, grandemente alimentato dai continui litigi online, in cui a dominare sono moralismo dilagante, apparenza senza sostanza e incapacità di immaginare dimensioni di lotta collettiva. In questo polemico quanto brillante saggio, Anton Jäger ci fornisce la chiave per capire un presente in cui il dibattito su qualsiasi istanza riguardante la società, la cultura o l'economia si esaurisce perlopiù in controversie ideologiche buone per le piattaforme social, senza che a tanta animosità corrisponda alcun effetto sui processi decisionali.

Climate change has an impact on the ability of transboundary water management institutions to deliver on their respective mandates. The starting point for the book is that actors within transboundary water management institutions develop responses to the climate change debate, as distinct from the physical phenomenon of climate change. Actors respond to this debate broadly in three distinct ways – adapt, resist (as in avoiding the issue) and subvert (as in using the debate to fulfil their own agenda).

The book charts approaches which have been taken over the past two decades to promote more effective water management institutions, covering issues of conflict, cooperation, power and law. A new framework for a better understanding of the interaction between transboundary water management institutional resilience and global change is developed through analysis of the way these institutions respond to the climate change debate. This framework is applied to five river case studies from Africa, Asia and the Middle East (Ganges-Brahmaputra, Jordan, Mekong, Nile, Orange-Senqu) from which learning conclusions and policy recommendations are developed.

For some years now, psychoanalysts have been trying to understand the implications of neuroscientific findings for psychoanalytic theory and practice. In On Psychoanalysis, Disillusion, and Death: Dead certainties Antonie Ladan looks at how findings from neuroscience and memory research can inform our understanding of some of the most important psychoanalytic concepts, such as transference and unconscious fantasy.

Central to the book are the 'dead certainties' that, to a great extent, determine how we lead our lives. Antonie Ladan argues that these certainties are too self-evident to be seen, as invisible as the air we breathe. He shows how in our associations with others, we are in large measure 'guided' by 'dead certain' relational patterns of which we are not conscious, but that remain implicit. Using clinical examples, Ladan illustrates how a specific form of observation, where the analysand and the analyst pay careful attention to their relationship over an extended period of time, makes it possible to gradually recognise these automatic expectations and behaviours in relational situations.

On Psychoanalysis, Disillusion, and Death explores how the psychoanalyst can bring the implicit patterns, within which analysands find themselves trapped, to their attention enabling them to look at the world from a 'disillusioning' perspective in order to accept life and the prospect of death for what they are. This book will be of interest to psychotherapists, analytical psychologists, psychoanalysts, therapists and students.

`It is essential that the international community support [these] efforts by strengthening all facets of institutional capacity for effective water management. This volume represents a tangible contribution to this effort by placing the current knowledge and experience of water management professionals and researchers within reach of a broad audience.' From the Foreword by Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO

`This remarkable book provides an essential overview of the topic for researchers and water resource managers. At the same time, as water rises higher on the political agenda in many regions of the world, and more and more people's lives are affected in various ways - either by too much or too little water - this book will provide vital insights for politicians and government negotiators concerned with issues of water security.' Ania Grobicki, Executive Secretary, Global Water Partnership, Sweden

`It is stimulating to find a book that considers transboundary waters as a challenge that can be dealt with to the benefit of the different riparians through negotiations, cooperation and institutional capacity, rather than stressing the irrelevant argument of water wars.' Cecilia Tortajada, Vice President, Third World Centre for Water Management, Mexico

The management of water resources across boundaries, whether sub-national or international, is one of the most difficult challenges facing water managers today. This book is the first to bring together in a concise and accessible way all of the main topics to be considered when managing transboundary waters. It will raise the awareness of practitioners of the various issues needed to be taken into account when making management decisions and provide an overview for advanced students. The authors show how vital it is to cooperate effectively over the management of shared waters to unlock their contribution to regional sustainable development. The book is largely based on a long-running international training programme, run by the Stockholm International Water Institute and Ramboll Natura, and supported by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency.

Introduces the history and people of West Papua, tracing the origins of the international conflict surrounding their struggle for self-determination following WW2. Based on three decades of exhaustive research and focusing particular attention on the sham referendum of 1969 - which Indonesia dubbed 'The Act of Free Choice', an election rigged to legitimize Indonesian control over West Papua - Drooglever highlights the continuing impact of this injustice on Indonesia's most underdeveloped and poverty-stricken province.