.... The fragmentation resulting from the rise of the new social media as well as the spread of some of the more insular forms of identity politics have done serious damage to the cultivation of enlarged mentality among the citizens and to their capacity and willingness to take the standpoint of the others. However...

...This chapter defines the three main economic challenges of the members of the single currency. The first is to deal better with balance-of-payments crises — both finish the job of fixing the financial fragmentation from 2010–11 and safeguard against future ones. This is a financial and monetary...

... to pollinators and to pollination services including: habitat degradation and destruction; habitat fragmentation; intensive agriculture; increasing prevalence of fires in areas where human impacts are substantial; introduced animal species and pollinators; invasive plant species and changing floras; diseases...

... fragmentation that occurs as members wrangle over a shared urbanized base. Looking carefully at how political Islam is lived, expressed, and understood by young people, the book moves beyond the top-down focus of current research. Instead, it makes the compelling case that Islamist actors are shaped more...

... in France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States, the chapter asks whether institutional fragmentation of accounting governance in Europe impedes the effective aggregation of European interests and their projection onto the international stage, while the close institutional fit between...

... severe ideological pressure from communist regimes between 1917 and 1989, only to emerge into the post-Soviet era remarkably intact. Perhaps the most striking feature of Orthodox history during the century is the extent of the global diffusion—yet at the same time tendency to ethnic fragmentation...

...This chapter details how the state's use of media to disseminate law and report on certain local problems, paired with political fragmentation and the marketization of the press, provided conditions for certain media and legal professionals to build networks and collaborate. Such collaboration...

... later be theorised as irony. Indeed, imitation is a key component of his register throughout his works, as he himself acknowledged—the ambiguous persona a hallmark of his satirical office. Another component is fragmentation, both on a prosodic level and on a semantic level...

... of emergence.” Finally, the chapter also sheds light on the relationship between the state's fragmentation and adaptability and the public sphere. contentious public sphere Habermas Jürgen A History of the Press and Public Opinion in China Lin Internet portals Lin Yutang online discussion forums public...

... and fragmentation alike. Although in the course of imperial history the quest for unity had to be qualified to accommodate domestic and foreign political realities, it was never essentially compromised. Indeed, it may be argued that this belief remains the single most important legacy of the traditional political...