The sheer scale and brutality of the hostilities between Russia and Chechnya stand out as an exception in the mostly peaceful breakup of the Soviet Union.
An investigation into how indigenous rights are conceived in legal language and doctrineIn the twenty-first century, it is politically and legally commonplace that indigenous communities go to court to assert their rights against the postcolonial nation-state in which they reside.
The 1948 war that led to the creation of the State of Israel also resulted in the destruction of Palestinian society when some 80 per cent of the Palestinians who lived in the major part of Palestine upon which Israel was established became refugees.
In 2012, on the eve of Vladimir Putin's inauguration for a controversial third term as president, mass protests ended in violent clashes between demonstrators and the police.
America's preeminent First Amendment lawyer speaks out on the most controversial free-speech issues of our time Since 1971, when the Pentagon Papers were leaked to the New York Times and furious debate over First Amendment rights ensued, free-speech cases have emerged in rapid succession.
About sixty thousand Jews from Wilno (Vilnius, Jewish Vilna) and surrounding townships in present-day Lithuania were murdered by the Nazis and their Lithuanian collaborators in huge pits on the outskirts of Ponary.
Una de las discusiones que perdura desde el fin de la última dictadura militar en la Argentina es la que se refiere a la naturaleza criminal de los actos perpetrados desde el Estado en aquel período.
Investigates the psychological factors that led to the election of Donald Trump and the accompanying escalation of hate violence and intolerance in the United States.
'Ground-breaking' - Daily Mail'In explaining the rise to power of Kim Yo Jong, Lee displays his deep knowledge and understanding of North Korea's extreme, ruthless and self-obsessed dynastic autocracy, the creators and rulers of a de-facto nuclear weapon state.
POLITICIAN * PRISONER * PARENTA portrait of one of the most charismatic, but unknown, world leadersAung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and crusader for democracyin Myanmar, is once again behind bars.
A partir de las voces de las y los periodistas, Periodismo Zoom indaga el rol de la prensa peruana durante la pandemia y cuestiona como, pese a tener mas audiencia, eso no repercutio necesariamente en una mejora en los contenidos y las practicas.
¿Pueden ser considerados los motines como movimientos de emancipación, de independencia local o regional, concebida esta por los indios de una manera propia y particular?
In 1631, at the epicenter of the worst excesses of the European witch-hunts, Friedrich Spee, a Jesuit priest, published the Cautio Criminalis, a book speaking out against the trials that were sending thousands of innocent people to gruesome deaths.
From Jail to Jail is the political autobiography of Sutan Ibrahim gelar Tan Malaka, an enigmatic and colorful political thinker of twentieth-century Asia, who was one of the most influential figures of the Indonesian Revolution.
A new and chilling study of lethal human exploitation in the Soviet forced labor camps, one of the pillars of Stalinist terror In a shocking new study of life and death in Stalin’s Gulag, historian Golfo Alexopoulos suggests that Soviet forced labor camps were driven by brutal exploitation and often administered as death camps.
Arrested in 1960 for being philosophically and religiously opposed to communism, Armando Valladares was interned at Cubas infamous Isla de Pinos Prison (from whose barred windows he watched the failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion).
The 1948 war that led to the creation of the State of Israel also resulted in the destruction of Palestinian society when some 80 per cent of the Palestinians who lived in the major part of Palestine upon which Israel was established became refugees.
**A Telegraph Best History Book 2023 and Spectator Book of the Year**The inspirational story of the ordinary people who forged the documents that saved thousands of Jewish lives in World War Two.
A Uyghur poet's piercing memoir of life under the most coercive surveillance regime in history*WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE'S JOHN LEONARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST BOOK**WINNER OF THE CHRISTOPHER G.
Doing Harm pries open the black box on a critical chapter in the recent history of psychology: the field's enmeshment in the so-called war on terror and the ensuing reckoning over do-no-harm ethics during times of threat.
La Constitución Nacional reconoce el derecho de las autoridades indígenas para ejercer funciones jurisdiccionales dentro de su ámbito territorial, de conformidad con sus propias normas y procedimientos.
This book is the first major study of England's biggest and best-known witch trial which took place in 1612, when ten witches were arraigned and hung in the village of Pendle in Lancashire.
Mass Protests in Iran: From Resistance to Overthrow explores the various waves of protests in Iran over the past 44 years, surveying their causes, consequences, and outcomes.
The Cameroon Condition brings together three seminal essays by George Ngwane, one of the most renowned, committed and daring Anglophone Cameroon writers.
En muchos países de América Latina los ciudadanos de a pie sienten que el poder político está en manos de una minoría y que el voto periódico no alcanza como mecanismo de control.
Constituye un motivo de especial satisfacción presentar a la comunidad académica esta nueva obra colectiva, titulada La acción popular: análisis evolutivo de algunas temáticas en los 20 años de vigencia de la Ley 472 de 1998, que reúne seis disertaciones jurídicas con serias y profundas reflexiones sobre aspectos trascendentales para la comprensión de los derechos colectivos y del mecanismo procesal constitucional que los protege por excelencia en Colombia: la acción popular.
En Reforma y desmembramiento constitucional, Richard Albert, profesor de la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad de Texas en Austin, aborda el problema que plantean las enmiendas que modifican los pilares estructurales de las constituciones.
El doctor Castaño Peña presenta aquí una notable contribución que, con ligeras modificaciones, reproduce su tesis doctoral, defendida el pasado curso académico 2018-2019 en la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
La Reforma -junto con el "descubrimiento" de América- significa para muchos historiadores el final de la Edad Media y el comienzo de los tiempos modernos -hasta hoy-o Las innovaciones de la época en los campos de la teología, la filosofía, la educación y la sociedad se explican en las diversas contribuciones de esta antología, tanto para los países que permanecieron fieles a la vieja doctrina como para los que aceptaron la nueva.
Las Lecciones de Derecho Constitucional presentan una serie de reflexiones en torno a las principales caracteristicas del constitucionalismo colombiano y, en particular, aquellas que defienden las caracteristicas de nuestro Estado social de derecho.
