A Brookings Institution Press and the Computer Ethics Institute publicationCan we safeguard our nation's security without weakening cherished liberties?
Corruption, fake news, and the "e;informational autocracy"e; sustaining Putin in powerAfter fading into the background for many years following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia suddenly has emerged as a new threat-at least in the minds of many Westerners.
The forms, policies, and practices of citizenship are changing rapidly around the globe, and the meaning of these changes is the subject of deep dispute.
The rapid emergence and explosive growth of China's middle class have enormous consequences for that nation's domestic future, for the global economy, and for the whole world.
In the late 1970s when Mao's Cultural Revolution ushered in China's reform era, religion played a small role in the changes the country was undergoing.
In 1994 genocide in Rwanda claimed the lives of at least 500,000 Tutsisome three-quarters of their populationwhile UN peacekeepers were withdrawn and the rest of the world stood aside.
For the past decade, humanitarian actors have increasingly sought not only to assist people affected by conflicts and natural disasters, but also to protect them.
In the great tradition of moral argument about the nature of the economic market, Rebecca Blank and William McGurn join to debate the fundamental questionsequality and efficiency, productivity and social justice, individual achievement and personal rights in the workplace, and the costs and benefits of corporate and entrepreneurial capitalism.
Of all the issues presented by Chinas ongoing economic and sociopolitical transformation, none may ultimately prove as consequential as the development of the Chinese legal system.
Step back in time and experience the powerful story of one man's journey from slavery to freedom with the Kindle edition of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.
An in-depth exploration of social media and emergent technology that details the inner workings of modern propaganda Until recently, propaganda was a top-down, elite-only system of communication control used largely by state actors.
The COVID-19 pandemic has reshaped life across the world, placing people at risk as our responses to it alter not only health and wellbeing but also governance, economies, social relations, and our interaction with the natural environment.
Between Systems and Violence offers a compilation and analysis of state-level statutes targeting intimate partner violence (IPV) in immigrant and/or refugee (IMR) lives.
Between Systems and Violence offers a compilation and analysis of state-level statutes targeting intimate partner violence (IPV) in immigrant and/or refugee (IMR) lives.
Many people are familiar with the story of Jewish support for the American civil rights movement, but this history has another side-one that has not been fully told until now.
The inspirational saga of one man's fight for civil rights for African Americans in LouisianaWitness to the Truth tells the extraordinary life story of a grassroots human rights leader and his courageous campaign to win the right to vote for the African Americans of Lake Providence, Louisiana.
Partizipationsbereite Bürgerinnen und Bürger, die zum Beispiel wählen gehen oder sich an politischen Diskussionen beteiligen, sind zentral für die Demokratie.
This book explores the range of meanings attributed to the terms 'judicial activism' and 'populism' in contemporary times and examines the potential interplay between these two phenomena.
This book explores the range of meanings attributed to the terms 'judicial activism' and 'populism' in contemporary times and examines the potential interplay between these two phenomena.
The progress towards women's equality has been hard-won, but the capitalist system has been able to absorb, even incorporate many of these gains to its own advantage, as is shown in Yassamine Mather's essays in this book.
"Procesos de la noche" narra la odisea judicial que la familia de Julio César Mondragón tuvo que emprender para poder esclarecer la verdad sobre su asesinato.
Los trabajos reunidos en «Las crisis de la República», pertenecientes a la última etapa de la producción de Hannah Arendt, son genuinos ensayos de comprensión.
Decolonizing Time: Work, Leisure, and Freedom demonstrates the importance of time as a central category for political theory, providing not only a history of the fight for time through political, feminist, and critical theory, but also assessing this tradition in the context of the United States.
