Political control and freedoms

German policy in occupied France during the Second World War was in many ways a story of bitter internal conflict between the various German agencies in charge of the occupation.

This book examines the constitutional principles governing the relationship between legislatures and courts at that critical crossroads of their power where legislatures may seek to intervene in the judicial process, or to interfere with judicial functions, to secure outcomes consistent with their policy objectives or interests.

Autonomy, Refusal, and the Black Bloc reinterprets the positioning of critical and radical theory by focusing squarely on the role of class analysis.

This book explores the reactions to Europeanization and globalization in times of economic distress, including the transformation of European values in national legal cultures.

What corporate corruption, sexual abuse by clergy, and schoolyard bullying all have in common In the on-going attempts to overcome racism and sexism in North America today, we are overlooking another kind of discrimination that is no less damaging and equally unjustifiable.

This volume discusses the impact of human rights law on other fields of international law.

This Handbook compiles leading international research on the regulation of the sharing economy from a range of academic disciplines.

Once the capital of the Confederacy and the industrial hub of slave-based tobacco production, Richmond, Virginia has been largely overlooked in the context of twentieth century urban and political history.

By the time of his death in 1988, Romare Bearden was most widely celebrated for his large-scale public murals and collages, which were reproduced in such places as Time and Esquire to symbolize and evoke the black experience in America.

This book explores how digital authoritarianism operates in India, Pakistan, Turkey, Indonesia, and Malaysia, and how religion can be used to legitimize digital authoritarianism within democracies.

An unprecedented look at the evolution of American police, from filling their intended role as peacekeepers and guardians of citizen rights to calling themselves-and acting primarily as-"e;law enforcement officers.

This book explores the journey of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) as it is interpreted and translated from International Human Rights Law into domestic law and policy in different cultural contexts.

This book studies children's and young adult literature of genocide since 1945, considering issues of representation and using postcolonial theory to provide both literary analysis and implications for educating the young.

Seit dem Ende des Mittelalters reagierten die Obrigkeiten in ganz Europa zunehmend mit Restriktionen auf Bettler und Vaganten.

In the steamy summer of 1787, as America's founding fathers fashioned their Constitution, they told the most powerful institution in their new nation what it must not do: "e;Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.

This book provides a conceptual framework for children's rights as well as specific strategies and opportunities for social workers to apply in their work.

Prisons and imprisonment have become a commonplace topic in popular culture as the setting and rationale for fiction and documentaries and most people seem to have a clear notion of what it is like in prison, ranging from the idea of the prison cell as a cosy nook with fast internet access to that of a dungeon with a hard bed and a diet of bread and water.

In this innovative volume, experts from international relations, anthropology, sociology, global public health, postcolonial African literature, and gender studies, take up Ngugi wa Thiong'o's challenge to see how Africa gives to the west instead of the reverse.

This is a disturbing account of the campaign to promote fear and hatred of Muslims in the United States and Europe, from the 'War on Terror' to Trump's travel ban.

The United States is the world's leading foreign aid donor.

D'où vient la violence qui déchire aujourd'hui l'Algérie ?

In The Syndicate of Twenty-two Natives, Lindiwe Sangweni-Siddo offers an elegy to her father, the late Professor Stan Sangweni, which explores the personal saga of a family's lineage rooted in Zuka on Suspence Farm, Newcastle, in what is now northern KwaZulu-Natal.

A powerful re-reading of modern South African history following apartheid that examines the violent transformation during the transition era and how this was enacted in the African townships of the Witwatersrand.

Do we have moral duties to people in distant parts of the world?

The fourth edition of Centuries of Genocide: Essays and Eyewitness Accounts addresses examples of genocides perpetrated in the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries.

A long neglected concept in the field of international relations and political theory, hospitality provides a new framework for analysing many of the challenges in world politics today, from the search for peaceable relations between states to asylum and refugee crises.

Across the world, 2 billion people experience menstruation, yet menstruation is seen as a mark of shame.

The first volume in a valuable oral history of the struggle for civil and human rights in South Carolina, as told by those who experienced it.

How the Chinese Communist Party maintains its power by both repressing and responding to its peopleSince 1949, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has maintained unrivaled control over the country, persisting even in the face of economic calamity, widespread social upheaval, and violence against its own people.

This edited collection sheds light on an under-researched and often misconceived form of prison life, that of prisoner leadership.

A revelatory and wide-ranging series of interviews with award-winning writer Arundhati Roy, touching on US empire, Indian nationalism, a writer's work, and more.

An eyewitness account of the first major international war-crimes tribunal since the Nuremberg trials, Twilight of Impunity is a gripping guide to the prosecution of Slobodan Milosevic for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide.

Citizenship under Fire examines the relationship among civic education, the culture of war, and the quest for peace.

Inspired by the current political moment around the globe in which uprisings, protests, revolutions, and movements are on the rise, this book examines the intersections between the Bible and activism.

When United Nations sponsored elections were held in 1993, there were high hopes that Cambodia would finally be able to escape the nightmare of war, the killing fields, famine, and economic turmoil that its people had endured since 1970.

Die klassischen Begriffe der Politikwissenschaften unterliegen im Zuge des Wandels der Staatlichkeit semantischen Aktualisierungen.

The presidency of George W.

In the wake of same-sex marriage legalization, most religious conservatives realize that they now share a minority viewpoint on many social issues.

Her story is similar to those of the thousands of illegal immigrants who cross the border into America every day in search of political or economic refuge.

The last two years have seen a huge amount of academic, policy-making and media interest in the increasingly contentious issue of land grabbing - the large-scale acquisition of land in the global South.

Many view civil wars as violent contests between armed combatants.

Der Spiegel-Bestseller der bekannten ZDF-Korrespondentin für die Ukraine Katrin EigendorfSeit vielen Jahren berichtet Katrin Eigendorf regelmäßig aus der Ukraine.

In the battles over religion and politics in America, both liberals and conservatives often appeal to history.

In Bezug auf die Diagnose der postsäkularen Gesellschaft werden zwei Grundfragen adressiert: Inwiefern kann die christlich-religiöse Kommunikationspraxis Ressourcen für den gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt generieren?

Identifying himself as both an Indian and a Canadian but first and foremost a Sikh, Tara Singh has shuttled back and forth between Canada and India for most of his life, finding personal harmony while incorporating two very different countries and cultures into his life.

This book addresses age-based persecution of children as a crime against humanity in connection with genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes (persecution - with some variation in the elements of the crime - is an existing offence under the Rome Statute of the permanent International Criminal Court, the statutes of various international criminal tribunals i.

These original essays focus on fundamental issues and practical implications of the relationship between disability and the good human life.

This book presents a novel framework to reconceptualize internet governance and better manage cyber attacks.