Political control and freedoms

The Spratly Islands have represented a potential political and military flashpoint in the South China Sea for years, involving as they do various claims by China, the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, and Taiwan.

Although many people consider excessive police violence disconcerting, if, when, and how they voice their opinion or respond by taking some sort of action has generally remained empirically unknown.

This book provides innovative thinking from a variety of perspectives on the important human rights, human security, and national security policy issues of today-and how these issues intersect.

Desert Dreams chronicles seventy-five years of Mexican American efforts to attain educational equality in Arizona, from its territorial period in the nineteenth century to the post-World War II era.

This edited volume brings together innovative research in the field of Science Education, fostering scientific citizenship in an uncertain world.

This book offers a comprehensive summary of extant international law scholarship on the topics of self-determination and secession and positions the concepts among present-day theory and relevant practice, illustrated through various ongoing cases and historical examples.

This book critically examines why a human rights framework would improve the wellbeing and status of young people.

Addressing a dearth of literature in this area, this book provides a comprehensive overview and framework of study of the politics of religious tourism.

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From its roots in early English rules to its practice today, this work covers the evolution, expansion, and ongoing debates regarding "e;the first liberty"e; in America.

Addressing a dearth of literature in this area, this book provides a comprehensive overview and framework of study of the politics of religious tourism.

This book analyses the role of religion during the COVID- 19 pandemic and vaccination rollout in Zimbabwe.

This book analyses the role of religion during the COVID- 19 pandemic and vaccination rollout in Zimbabwe.

A thorough exploration of an individual's right to bodily autonomy versus the state's power to regulate and control the bodies of its citizens.

Uncovers judicial approaches to refugee law across the European Union in the cases of refugees fleeing armed conflicts.

Conventional research suggests that news coverage of terrorism is a tool of the terrorist to gain public support and recognition.

George Luther Stearns became John Brown's single most important financial backer.

This book critically examines why a human rights framework would improve the wellbeing and status of young people.

Uncovers judicial approaches to refugee law across the European Union in the cases of refugees fleeing armed conflicts.

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Both Truman and Eisenhower combined bully pulpit activity with presidentially directed messages voiced by surrogates whose words were as orchestrated by the administration as those delivered by the presidents themselves.

The human right to survive and develop, a fundamental premise of the U.

Capitalism is dead.

Examining a series of court decisions made during the 1980s regarding the legal claims of several Native American tribes who attempted to protect ancestrally revered lands from development schemes by the federal government, this book looks at important questions raised about the religious status of land.

Breastfeeding Rights in the United States shows that the right to breastfeed in this country exists only in a negative sense: you can do it unless someone takes you to court.

In diesem Sammelband werden die historischen, politischen und gesellschaftlichen Facetten der politischen Systeme der einzelnen Länder des Mittleren Ostens analysiert.

Kelley provides an examination of Hillary Rodham Clinton's rhetorical responses to mediated versions of crises in the Clinton Administration.

Facing the threats posed by dedicated suicide bombers who have access to modern technology for mass destruction and who intend to cause maximum human suffering and casualties, democratic governments have hard choices to make.

This three-volume set is a rich resource for readers in any discipline interested in understanding the global, regional, and domestic experiences of LGB people.

During the early 1990s the Department of Justice used its Voting Rights Act power to object to racially unfair redistricting laws to force states to maximize minority congressional districts.

Russians are suppressing the Chechen; Ibo nationalism may yet tear Nigeria apart.

Since the 1970s, the international community of states has demonstrated increasing willingness to invest UN institutions with politico-ethical authority to act on its behalf in addressing human rights abuses.

Das Zweite Vatikanische Konzil hat in Erinnerung gerufen, wie groß die Gemeinsamkeiten zwischen orthodoxer und katholischer Kirche sind.

Comprehensive and accessible, this one-stop resource examines the history, development, and present state of free speech issues on college campuses, including a range of political perspectives and viewpoints.

This volume examines the causes, consequences, and dynamics of that style of governance by force that has come to be known as state terror.

For peoples whose legal agreements, treaties, and other accords and conventions with the United States have been violated, multiculturalism as a pedagogical tool often becomes suspect of reinforcing the continued reification and abstraction of their cultures and nations with little if any real meaning for educational and social transformation.

Society has always been fixated on looks and celebrities, but how we look has deep ramifications for ordinary people too.

This book provides the first comprehensive, region-wide, long-term, and accessible study of Native Americans in New England.

This book offers the first empirical and holistic analysis of the design, implementation and effects of the new naturalisation regimes in the United Kingdom and Germany introduced in the 2000s.

This edited collection situates the migration of children and young people into Europe within a global framework of analysis and provides a holistic perspective that encompasses cultural media, ethnographic research and policy analysis.

Recognizing that the quality of governance is a crucial factor in the overall development of a country, experts on government ethics and law enforcement examine the principles that need to be applied to create more effective and efficient governments.

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This study adds to the small but growing literature on Black health history--the rise of hospital care and hospital services provided to Blacks from the antebellum era to the integration era, a period of some 150 years.

The end of the 1990s saw increasing criticism of the media's treatment of the scandals in Washington.

Black conservatism is no oxymoron.

Using an innovative history of the constitutional right to privacy, and inspired by Emersonian Justices like Brandeis and Douglas, this book rescues the meaning of privacy from prevalent liberal thinking by proposing a general theory of rights based on a spiritual-ecological jurisprudence tradition at the heart of American law.