This book is not just an update to studies of Middle Eastern policy and diplomacy, but an in-depth analysis that covers the United States' foreign and strategic policy from the days of President Roosevelt to President Obama and Pakistan's security and strategic planning since its inception to 2011, under the shadow of India and Afghanistan.
An analysis of the global climate talks and the key human systems threatened by increased greenhouse gas emissions including health, refugee management, energy production, carbon markets and local government.
By presenting a series of intricate analyses of educational phenomena through the theoretical lenses offered by Immanuel Wallerstein and Istvan Meszaros, the book engages readers and helps them to critically analyze their own participation in the global economy, as citizens, policy-makers, and academics or teachers.
The essays in this volume examine United States-East Asian relations in the framework of global history, incorporating fresh insights that have been offered by scholars on such topics as globalization, human rights, historical memory, and trans-cultural relations.
West Germany and the Portuguese Dictatorship 1968-1974 examines West Germany's ambiguous policy towards the Portuguese dictatorship of Marcelo Caetano.
This book provides evidence that Labour in Trinidad and Tobago played a vital role in undermining British colonialism and advocating for federation and self-government.
China has achieved significant socio-economic progress and has become a key player on the international stage after several decades of open-door and reform policy.
With the rush of calamitous events in recent yearsthe September 11 terror attacks, the Iraq imbroglio, and hurricanes Katrina and RitaAmericans feel themselves to be living in dark times.
Drawing on Husserl's concepts of communalization and intersubjectivity, this book aspires to an orientation in which human beings are understood in the context of their full-blooded, concrete existence - the life-world.
Drawing on Husserl's concepts of communalization and intersubjectivity, this book aspires to an orientation in which human beings are understood in the context of their full-blooded, concrete existence - the life-world.
Jean Bodin, homme aux talents multiples ; tour à tour philosophe, économiste, jurisconsulte, historien, théoricien politique, livre avec Les Six livres de la République sa maîtresse œuvre.
Homme aux talents divers, esprit fécond, auteur en bien des genres : poète, journaliste, apologiste, essayiste, romancier, Chesterton brilla également dans le genre policier, au point, encore aujourd’hui, d’être un précurseur évident de la littérature policière.
This textbook offers an essential introduction to survey research and quantitative methods with clear instructions on how to conduct statistical tests with R.
This book examines how, in response to crises, law tends to construct singular 'events' that obscure the underlying structural causes that any adequate response needs to acknowledge and address.
This book provides a critical account of federal asymmetry in India - its origins, context, forms and functioning - by taking into account the institutional effectiveness of asymmetric institutions in the regions for identity fulfillment, development and governance.
La ola de restauración democrática que avanzó sobre América Latina en la década de 1980 volvió a dar a los partidos políticos el papel protagónico de la actividad política en los países de la región.
La revolución como horizonte que quedó atrás, el actual populismo, los violentos años setenta, las derechas políticas, el papel del intelectual y lo religioso, son algunas de las cuestiones que Nicolás Casullo analiza en este volumen.
"Todo intento de reconstrucción histórica parte de las necesidades, las dudas y los interrogantes del presente", escribe Luis Alberto Romero en su Breve historia contemporánea de la Argentina.
Este texto tiene, sin duda, aspectos académicos, porque Ottone y Walker son intelectuales y formadores universitarios: en la conversación aparecen libros, autores y citas que ninguna persona que intente comprender el complejo mundo de hoy debería pasar por alto.
En octubre de 1978, la conducción de Montoneros decidió iniciar la llamada Contraofensiva Estratégica frente al temor de que la organización armada dejara de representar una alternativa política para la sociedad argentina, luego de dos años de exilio orgánico y represión dictatorial.
Un mundo libre, globalizado, sin izquierda ni derecha, sin enemigos; una democracia absoluta, cosmopolita, libre de conflictos partisanos: tal es la optimista visión pospolítica difundida en la mayoría de las sociedades occidentales.
*Shortlisted for the 2024 Wolfson History Prize*'Gripping and profoundly moving' DAMON GALGUT'Deft and operatic' OBSERVERFrom one of South Africa's foremost nonfiction writers, a deeply researched, shattering new account of Nelson Mandela's relationship with Winnie Madikizela-Mandela.
This book examines how the contemporary Indian situation poses a strict theoretical challenge to Habermas's theorization of the public sphere and employs the method of samvada to critically analyse and dissect its universalist claims.
Modern Politics (1969) is an introductory study of politics, with an emphasis on politics as a study in which the work particularly of sociologists and psychologists is increasingly relevant.
