This book explains the prevalence of electoral authoritarianism (or multi-party autocracy) in the politics of sub-Saharan Africa and examines why repeated elections have not deepened democracy.
Most countries on the African continent have ratified or acceded to several human rights treaties, including the Torture Convention and the African Charter on Human and People's Rights.
As developments in the European Union and elsewhere make the re-examination of citizenship a pressing issue, this book reflects on the persisting "e;masculine"e; character of contemporary democracy and the measures taken in the EU to combat it.
Perspectives in Criticism offers a comprehensive exploration of the philosophy of literary criticism, providing a framework for understanding the relationship between critical analysis and value evaluation.
Geneva and the Drift to War (1938) is based on the work of the 1937 session of the Geneva Institute of International Relations, which brought together men and women from all parts of the world to pool the results of their studies in international affairs, their experience of international administration, or their personal knowledge of international politics.
This long overdue English translation of Karl Lowith's magisterial study is a major event in Nietzsche scholarship in the Anglo-American intellectual world.
First published in 1994, in The Crisis of the Self in the Age of Information Raymond Barglow shows how contemporary technological environment furnish the unconscious with internal objects that hark back to a time in our lives prior to personal boundary formation and identity.
This textbook brings together a collection of the most important primary sources in the study of Palestinian nationalism, from the late 19th century through to the present day.
Due in large part to the increased personalization of various aspects of the Internet, many people have become insulated from the epistemic influence of people with views different from their own.
Walter Benjamin is one of the most influential authors in contemporary humanities, exerting a deep fascination for students and garnering scholarly interest in a variety of fields, such as history of philosophy, literature, film and media studies, political science, religion, architecture, art and history.
To the age-old debate over what it means to be human, the relatively new fields of sociobiology and artificial intelligence bring new, if not necessarily compatible, insights.
This book, spanning the years 1965-1967 - the years leading up to and culminating in the June 1967 Six-Day War - is the fourth in a four-volume collection of documents from the Russian Federation and the Israeli State Archive portraying relations between the Soviet Union and the State of Israel.
Vier namhafte Philosophinnen und Philosophen (ergänzt durch zwei Beiträge der Herausgeber) erörtern in diesem Band eines der Leitprinzipien des philosophischen Diskurses der Moderne.
This book introduces readers to the rich and diverse experiences of women across the African continent, covering their socio-cultural, political, and economic realities from the precolonial era right up to the modern day.
From the fashion label Dior being accused of cultural appropriation after using American Indian imagery in an ad campaign for its "e;Sauvage"e; fragrance, to the backlash against Kendall Jenner's afro-esque hairstyle in Vogue, debates about cultural appropriation have reached a fever pitch.
This book, spanning the years 1957-1961, is the second in a four-part collection of documents from the archives of the Russian Federation's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Israel State Archives portraying relations between the Soviet Union and the State of Israel.
Drawing upon a range of resources of critique (including critical realist social theory, realist international relations theory, the sociology of globalization, the Marxist critique of imperialism, and dependency theory), this book is an essential contribution to the critical understanding of nationalism and imperialism in the global age.
This thoroughly revised and updated edition of Henry Tam's Communitarianism brings different strands of communitarian thought together into a critical synthesis, at the centre of which is the ideal of inclusive communities based on the three principles of mutual responsibility, cooperative enquiry, and citizen participation.
This book shows how antiliberal discourse, thought, and mobilization have, in defiance of nationalist aims, been significantly shaped and determined in the international sphere, as new collaborations position themselves against the liberal order established after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Bringing together experts from across the social sciences, this volume examines the consolidation of authoritarianism in Venezuela under the government of Nicolas Maduro.
The revolutionary upheaval currently sweeping across Western democracies on parade under the banner term woke calls for rethinking the foundations of ethics and politics.
