Unconfessed by definition, hypocrisy is one of the most used and abused polemical categories, even today, to denounce the "e;masked cynicism"e; of certain social actors, especially when they hold public office.
This book attempts to explain why despite widespread popular support (the "e;Greek Fire"e;) in the United States of America for the Greek Revolution, the promulgation in 1823 of the Monroe Doctrine led to Washington D.
In diesem Sammelband werden die historischen, politischen und gesellschaftlichen Facetten der politischen Systeme der einzelnen Länder des Mittleren Ostens analysiert.
Feldman, Valenty, and their contributors present state-of-the-art evaluations of linkages between personality, motivation, decision making, leadership style, and behavior among political leaders across divergent cultures.
From its very inception Australia has been a derivative society: First as part of the British Empire and then, soon after World War II, what Mosler considers the American Empire and the new end-of-century Americanized global culture.
Many analysts initially believed that the process of Soviet disintegration would inevitably open a Pandora's box of ethnic nationalism and regional self-determination.
This book offers a completely new approach to the complex social phenomenon of the Mafia: In addition to the origins, organization and actions of the Mafia, the author Anita Bestler examines above all the close connection between organized crime and politics.
With the Iranian revolution as her focal point, Seliktar offers a systematic analysis of predictive failure in foreign policy at the paradigmatic, policy, and intelligence levels.
It is a commonplace of Schmitt scholarship that the controversial thinker sought to recapture some of the elan of the pre-Weimar state through his advocacy of effectively almost unlimited presidential government.
Hoy establishes a basis for a naturalistic political theory that can be sustained as a continuity from Aristotle through the Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment contributions of David Hume, John Dewey, Evolutionary Biology, and Deep Ecology.
James and Goetze bring together contributors of varied backgrounds, ranging from evolutionary theorists to game theorists to analysts of specific ethnic conflict.
The characteristics, nature, and content of the language used in the public sphere of various Western and non-Western societies are examined in this collection of essays.
This book extends the approach that Murray and Schuler develop in their companion volume, False Moves in Philosophy and Social Theory: Losing Public Purpose.
Le 15 octobre 2014, un nouveau collectif transnational, Tournons La Page, lance un appel : « En Afrique comme ailleurs, pas de démocratie sans alternance ».
After exposing in Part I the continuous violations of the Constitution and human rights for a year, the author takes a flashback on the facts that led to the present totalitarian grab of power.
Desde 2003 al 2023, cuatro presidentes marcaron las dos décadas posteriores al colapso del año 2001, cuando el sistema de representación tradicional del país entró en crisis.
The Cold War roots of liberalism's present crisis By the middle of the twentieth century, many liberals looked glumly at the world modernity had brought about, with its devastating wars, rising totalitarianism, and permanent nuclear terror.
This short and simple introduction to European politics, which includes Western and Eastern Europe as well as Russia, demonstrates how European nations have attempted to cope with division within Europe and in international politics.
Critical Theory, Poststructuralism and 'Nietzsche's Paradox' addresses a fundamental question in the exchange between Critical Theory and poststructuralism: is poststructuralism justified in its critique of dialectical thinking and in the conclusion of this critique that we need to leave dialectics behind us to properly understand the social world?
