This volume collects essays from academics and practitioners from a diversity of areas and perspectives in order to discuss water security at various levels and to illuminate the central idea of water security: its focus on the individual.
In den vergangenen Jahrzehnten hat die religiöse und kulturelle Vielfalt in Deutschland zugenommen und als gesellschaftspolitisches Thema an Gewicht gewonnen.
This handbook presents the roots of symbolic racism as partly in both anti-black antagonism and non-racial conservative attitudes and values, representing a new form of racism independent of older racial and political attitudes.
Wenn politisches Engagement und Einsatz für Menschenrechte nicht zu blindem Aktionismus führen sollen, ist es nötig, gelegentlich innezuhalten und sich auf die Theorie der Menschenrechte zu besinnen.
Hören wir das Wort Propaganda, denken wir an die Gleichschaltung der Medien in der NS-Zeit und vielleicht auch an ›fake news‹ oder Verschwörungstheorien im Internet.
Wie tief die Weltreligion des Islam gespalten ist in verschiedene Glaubensrichtungen oder ›Bekenntnisse‹, steht der ganzen Welt aktuell im Irak besonders eindrücklich vor Augen, wenn sich in Bürgerkriegen oder zwischenstaatlichen Kriegen im Nahen Osten die Fronten allzu oft nach diesen konfessionellen Gräben ausrichten.
Die Forderung nach einer auf der Achtung der Menschenrechte gegründeten Welt ist leicht erhoben; doch die Bemühungen um einen Konsens hinsichtlich ihrer uneingeschränkten Achtung ist ein nicht endender Prozess, denn zu den Menschenrechten gehört u.
This handbook makes a major contribution to the growing international research and policy interest in children's experienced well-being or quality of life in childhood, linking it to ongoing research on children's risk and vulnerability.
Multicultural Citizenship: Legacy and Critique allows the philosopher an opportunity to consider the evolution and transformation of Will Kymlicka's theories from Multicultural Citizenship: A Liberal Theory of Minority Rights.
This book presents a comprehensive study of the influence of Immanuel Kant's Critical Philosophy in the Russian Empire, spanning the period from the late 19th century to the Bolshevik Revolution.
This book provides an insightful analysis of the looming refugee and mixed migration crisis in the context of four major, contemporary flows: two in west and east Europe, and one each in the Americas and Asia.
"e;Given their ethnic diversity, to what extent, and at what cost and benefit to human dignity, can European countries adopt and adapt plural democracy?
This book presents an important discussion on soil and sustainable agriculture from a range of perspectives, addressing key topics such as sustainable intensification, the FAO Voluntary Guidelines, and the crucial role of appropriate tenure rights.
This book examines the paradoxical relationship between the religious and political behaviors of American and British Evangelicals, who exhibit nearly identical religious canon and practice, but sharply divergent political beliefs and action.
This book explores the resilience of constitutional government in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, connecting and comparing perspectives from ten countries in sub-Saharan Africa to global trends.
Contributing to the literature on comparative criminal procedure and Latin American law, this book examines the effects of adversarial criminal justice reforms on victim's rights by specifically analyzing the Colombian criminal justice reform of the early 2000s.
This book offers a nuanced and muti-layered approach towards comprehending the possibilities of democratization or likelihood of authoritarian resilience in the Muslim world.
This book stems from the CyberBRICS project, which is the first major attempt to produce a comparative analysis of Internet regulations in the BRICS countries - namely, Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.
This volume provides an overview of selected major areas of legal and institutional development in Lithuania since the Restoration of Independence in 1990.
This book offers a comparison of the differences between the 'public' and 'private' spheres, and questions the need for law enforcement to intrude upon both.
Do Member States of the EU have a free hand in drafting Accession Treaties, or are there legal constraints on their primary law-making powers in this regard?