Presenting detailed portraits by leading authorities of the politics of human rights across the major regions of the globe, A Force Profonde: The Power, Politics, and Promise of Human Rights reveals human rights to be a force as powerful as capitalist markets and technological innovation in shaping global governance.
The World Bank is the largest lender to developing countries, making loans worth over $20 billion per year to finance development projects around the globe.
Although media coverage often portrays young people in urban areas as politically apathetic or disruptive, this book provides an antidote to such views through narratives of dedicated youth civic engagement and leadership in Chicago, Mexico City, and Rio de Janeiro.
Social change triggered by the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s sent the American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE) on a fifty-year mission to dismantle an exclusionary professional standard that envisioned the ideal journalist as white, straight, and male.
American Evangelicals have long considered Africa a welcoming place for joining faith with social action, but their work overseas is often ambivalently received.
Multinational Corporations and Global Justice: Human Rights Obligations of a Quasi-Governmental Institution addresses the changing role and responsibilities of large multinational companies in the global political economy.
Preventing Catastrophe is written by two authors who are experienced "e;Washington hands"e; and who understand the interplay between intelligence and policymaking.
Original oral and ethnographic sources inform this conceptual history of power in central Africa, imagined through the lens of Kitawala religious practices.
Original oral and ethnographic sources inform this conceptual history of power in central Africa, imagined through the lens of Kitawala religious practices.
This book offers the first sustained analysis of the interactions between British writers, propaganda and culture from the Second World War to the Cold War.
This book is an exciting exploratory journey that sheds light on the pioneering role that Friedrich Engels played in the formation of Marxism, that philosophical and political movement that changed the course of modern history.
Inside one of the nations most important works on raceTwo Societies: The Rioting of 1967 and the Writing of the Kerner Report studies the 150 riots that occurred throughout the country in 1967 and how this infamous report was written in only seven months and unanimously adopted by both Republicans and Democrats.
Sports have historically been part of a broader quest of regimes for prestige on the world stage, but also to project hegemony and power in an anarchic international system.
A groundbreaking history of the wars of the Ottoman Expansion, a truly global conflagration that crisscrossed three continents and ultimately defined the borders and future of modern Europe.
Take a ride-along with Sergeant Mark Tappan and his amazing K9 partner Mattis, whose heroic actions will inspire you to live courageously, serve selflessly, and love passionately because every human (and dog) has a purpose.
In 'The Pictures of Slavery in Church and State (Complete Edition)' by John Dixon Long, readers are taken on a thought-provoking journey delving into the complex relationship between slavery, religion, and government.
In these hard times for liberty, On Freedom makes the case that freedom, once explored and understood, is the way forward PRESIDENT ZELENSKY'Visionary .
This book explains the aspirations and concerns of Islamist actors in the aftermath of the Arab Uprisings by looking at two sets of relationships between Turkey's ruling AKP and the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, and the AKP and Tunisia's Ennahda.
This book explains the aspirations and concerns of Islamist actors in the aftermath of the Arab Uprisings by looking at two sets of relationships between Turkey's ruling AKP and the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, and the AKP and Tunisia's Ennahda.
Beyond the Voting Rights Act movingly recounts over 30 years of contemporary voting rights battles in the United States from the 1980s to the present day.
Versammlungen waren im frühmittelalterlichen Lateineuropa wichtige Institutionen: Hier handelten die Entscheidungsträger ihre Hierarchie aus, hier machten sie Politik, hier tauschten sie Informationen aus.
This book defends the thesis that Kant's normative ethics and his practical ethics of sex and marriage can be valuable resources for people engaged in the contemporary debate over same-sex marriage.
This book describes how a program of values deliberations--sustained group reflections on local values, aspirations, beliefs and experiences, blending with discussions of how to understand and to realize human rights--led to individual and collective empowerment in communities in rural Senegal.
Towards A New Christian Political Realism presents a new theoretical approach to understanding the role of religion in international relations, considering the strengths of Christian realism, classical realism, and neorealism, as well as the literature about the relevance of religion for IR.
This book addresses the challenge of providing for the free exercise of religion without allowing religious exercise by some individuals and groups to impinge upon the conscientious convictions of others.
This book is the first to connect global labor history and the history of human rights: By focusing on democratic labor oppositions in Spain and Poland between 1960 and 1990, it shows how workers in authoritarian regimes addressed repression and whether they developed a language of rights in the light of a globally dynamic human rights discourse.
Max Weber hat um 1900 das Verhältnis von Religion und Wirtschaft auf eine klassische Weise zur Sprache gebracht und religiöse Wurzeln des modernen Kapitalismus identifiziert.
