Civics and citizenship

The history of Mexican and Mexican-American working classes has been segregated by the political boundary that separates the United States of America from the United States of Mexico.

For over forty years, Cold War concerns about the threat of communism shaped the contours of refugee and asylum policy in the United States, and the majority of those admitted as refugees came from communist countries.

Seit der Wiedervereinigung ringen im öffentlichen Diskurs unterschiedliche Geschichten und Deutungen der DDR-Vergangenheit um Anerkennung.

This book follows and complements the previous volume Biotechnology and International Law (Hart 2006) bringing a specific focus on human rights.

With respect to the countries of the world, this work addresses two basic questions: "e;How does religion affect politics in this country?

An internationally-renowned scholar in the fields of international and transitional justice, Diane Orentlicher provides an unparalleled account of an international tribunal's impact in societies that have the greatest stake in its work.

As far as immigration theory is concerned, the attempt to reconcile concern for all persons with the reality of state boundaries and exclusionary policies has proved difficult within the limits of normative liberal political philosophy.

This book examines the failure of Islamic politics in becoming a hegemonic force in Indonesia and the far-reaching consequences for current practices of democracy and of Islam itself.

When we think of Catholicism, we think of Europe and the United States as the seats of its power.

In Liberal Rights and Responsibilities, Christopher Heath Wellman offers original theories of political legitimacy and our obligation to obey the law, and then, building upon these accounts, defends a number of distinctive positions concerning the rights and responsibilities individual citizens, separatist groups, and political states have regarding one another.

Canada has been giving foreign aid now for about fifteen years, and this book is the first to show what Canada has done in this new area of international diplomacy.

What explains the United States' persistent use of torture over the past hundred-plus years?

Die qualitative Studie untersucht die Vorstellungen von Lehrpersonen und Schüler*innen an zwei verschiedenen Schultypen und bietet damit einen bisweilen raren empirischen Einblick in den Status quo des Politikunterrichts in Österreich.

A comprehensive legal inquiry into children''s rights and business, drawing on insights from various disciplines, enriched by in-depth case studies.

Lockheed has been one of American's largest corporations and most important defense contractors from World War II to the present day (since 1995 as part of Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company).

Palestinians in Israel considers a key issue ignored by the official 'peace process' and most mainstream commentators: that of the growing Palestinian minority within Israel itself.

This book provides the only comprehensive analysis of concordats, the international treaties of the Apostolic See in Rome.

Patrolling the Homeland explores the tension surrounding the militarization of national borders through the perspective of US militia volunteers.

Providing an interdisciplinary and global perspective on immigration to the United States, this collection of essays brings together the work of leading scholars in the field--including the work of such distinguished historians, sociologists, and political scientists as Charles Tilly, Philip Curtin, Kirby Miller, Sucheng Chan, Alejandro Portes, Lawrence Fuchs, and Aristide Zolberg--and represents an important step forward in the development of immigration studies.

This book examines the understudied role of the interfaith movement in institutionalizing religious pluralism in the public life of contemporary societies through the case study of Interfaith Scotland.

Der Sammelband bietet intersektionale Denkanstöße für eine klassismuskritische außerschulische politische Bildung.

This absorbing book explores the tensions within the Roman Catholic church and between the church and royal authority in France in the crucial period 1290-1321.

This book explores the experience of immigration enforcement for women who have been detained in immigration detention in the UK.

Argues that indigenous and non-indigenous individuals in southern Mexico have been united by socioeconomic and land tenure institution variables as well as by ethnic identity.

Today's 'surveillance society' emerged from a complex of military and corporate priorities that were nourished through the active and 'cold' wars that marked the twentieth century.

Martín Lutero (1483-1546) desarrolló la faceta de polemista a lo largo de toda su vida.

Most studies of ancient Greek politics focus on formal institutions such as the political assembly and the law courts, and overlook the role that informal social practices played in the regulation of the political order.

Freedom of speech is central to the liberal democratic tradition.

This Companion presents new perspectives on Malcolm X''s life and legacy for students of American history.

Sehr zu Recht lautet der Untertitel »Ein Beitrag zur Diskussion um die menschliche Zukunft«.

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The path toward modern Jewish politics, a process that required a dramatic reconstruction of Jewish life, may have emerged during a far earlier time frame and in a different geographic and cultural context than has previously been thought.

This absorbing book explores the tensions within the Roman Catholic church and between the church and royal authority in France in the crucial period 1290-1321.

This book addresses the hidden dynamics of race within the European Union.

On March 27, 1933, representatives from across the American religious spectrum came to Madison Square Garden, united in a shared purpose to speak out against the rise of fascism in Germany and Adolph Hitler's seizure of power.

This study examines and compares the important work on global human rights advocacy done by religious NGOs and by secular NGOs.

Explores the complex relationships between privacy, governance, and the production and sharing of knowledge.

The days of "e;revolutionary"e; campaign strategies are gone.

About 55 million Europeans migrated to the New World between 1850 and 1914, landing in North and South America and in Australia.

This book addresses the issue of Christianity in public life in China through methodological and constructive approaches.

John Yochelson was seventeen when he first heard President Kennedy’s call, “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.

When the states ratified the Bill of Rights in the eighteenth century, the Fourth Amendment seemed straightforward.

Published ten years after the first edition, this new Handbook offers topical, and comprehensive information on the welfare systems of all 28 EU member states and their recent reforms, giving the reader an invaluable introduction and basis for comparative welfare research.

This book is one of the first to use citizenship as a lens through which to understand German history in the twentieth century.

The essays in Free Speech and Intellectual Diversity in Higher Education reflect diverse perspectives on one of the most pressing issues in higher education--the controversies over freedom of speech and its relation to intellectual diversity.

Procedural review is increasingly a means of deciding European fundamental rights cases; this book explores its practical potential and limitations.

“A noted authority on architectural history and American cities .