Political control and freedoms

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.

Moore argues that there is a fundamental incompatibility between race and governance.

The problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color-line.

The African American struggle for advancement since the late 19th century has had an enormous impact on American society in general.

Today, all industrialized states are multinational.

Jacoby provides a comprehensive social history of the abortion abolition campaign from its beginnings following Roe v.

Van Belle provides the first systematic analysis of the effects that press freedom has on the conduct of international politics.

Without succumbing to utopian fantasies or realistic pessimism, Riemer and his contributors call for strengthening the key institutions of a global human rights regime, developing an effective policy of prudent prevention of genocide, working out a sagacious strategy of keenly targeted sanctions-political, economic, military, judicial-and adopting a guiding philosophy of just humanitarian intervention.

Mississippi is a unique case study as a result of its long-standing defiance of federal civil rights legislation and the fact that nearly half its population was black and relegated to second-class citizenship.

Throughout the nation's history, from before the Civil War through Reconstruction, across the years of lynchings and segregation to the Brown v.

A steel town daughter's search for truth and beauty in Birmingham, Alabama "e;As Birmingham goes, so goes the nation,"e; Fred Shuttlesworth observed when he invited Martin Luther King Jr.

You Can Make a Global Impact-One Girl at a TimeIn Strong Girls, Strong World, Dale Hanson Bourke draws on her international leadership and reporting experience to offer personal insights we can all use as a road map to understanding the issues girls face-and the tangible ways we can each make a difference.

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 outstanding, comprehensive, and up-to-date encyclopedia on human rights issues from 1945 to 1998 features more than 400 entries on incidents and violations, instruments and initiatives, countries and human rights activists.