The unique political history of the Southern United States is rooted in the fact that it is the only region to have ever taken up arms against the national government.
This book is an examination of minority government performance in conjunction with the territorial distribution of state power and the territorial interests of political parties.
The pandemic has brought into sharp relief the fundamental relationship between institution and human life: at the very moment when the virus was threatening to destroy life, human beings called upon institutions on governments, on health systems, on new norms of behavior to combat the virus and preserve life.
The Guardian of Every Other Right chronicles the pivotal role of property rights in fashioning the American constitutional order from the colonial era to the current controversies over eminent domain and land use controls.
This book argues that during the Cuban Revolution (1952-1958), Fidel Castro, his allies, and members of the Movimiento 26 de Julio tapped into a larger network of transnational revolutionaries who sought to overthrow the region's dictatorships.
In the mid-1970s, the Italian Communist Party (PCI) almost succeeded in entering the national government; however, by the end of the decade its popularity had dramatically declined.
In den Jahren, bevor die Covid19-Krise die Welt vor ungekannte Herausforderungen stellte, zeigte sich die EU von zwei Seiten: Einerseits gab sie Anlass zu Hoffnung, hatte sie doch mehrere Krisen gemeistert und stellte sie sich in der Welt als Verteidigerin von Multilateralismus und Festung der Demokratie dar.
This collective book offers a panorama of the history of tax evasion, tax avoidance and tax havens from the nineteenth century to the present day, based on the latest research in contemporary history.
In Nostalgia and Political Theory, Lawrence Quill advocates the central importance of nostalgia as a theoretical response to the 'historic' past and a vertiginous present.
Informed by witness testimonies, Eurafrican Migration details how the perilous journeys undertaken by irregular migrants are enabled by complex networks of guides during the Sahara phase, and explores the relationship between migrants and the criminal groups who arrange for them to be transported across the sea to southern Europe.
Eine längst überfällige Betrachtung rassistischen Denkens in DeutschlandDie Journalistin und Politikwissenschaftlerin Gilda Sahebi zeigt in ihrer klaren Analyse: Wir alle denken rassistisch.
The Oxford Handbook of the History of Terrorism presents a revaluation of the major narratives in the history of terrorism, exploring the emergence and the use of terrorism in world history from antiquity up to the twenty-first century.
Racial preference policies first came on the national scene as a response to black poverty and alienation in America as dramatically revealed in the destructive urban riots of the late 1960s.
This collection of essays examines a wide range of topics relating to deconstruction, which emerged in France as a reaction to structuralism but has found its greatest response in America, where literary critics have built on its basic assumptions to create a new critical movement.
When Barack Obama praised the writings of philosopher theologian Reinhold Niebuhr in the run up to the 2008 US Presidential Elections, he joined a long line of top politicians who closely engaged with Niebuhr's ideas, including Tony Benn, Jimmy Carter, Martin Luther King Jr.
A comprehensive introduction to public policy and the policy cycle, the fully revised second edition of this popular textbook offers a practical guide to the topic while remaining underpinned by cutting-edge research.
This book provides a critical analysis of the European Union's approach to 'governance', focusing on the way in which civil society is incorporated within the EU decision-making process and arguing that it is not conducive to the democratisation of EU governance.
This book critically examines the institutional curation of traumatic memory at the 9/11 Memorial Museum and its evocative power as a cultural storyteller.
This book uses a critical political economy approach to develop an historically and politically grounded set of strategies for states to move toward a post-growth, decarbonised global economy.
Der Zusammenhang zwischen "Menschenrechten und Revolutionen" steht auf der politischen Tagesordnung: In jüngster Zeit wurden wir Zeugen von Massenprotesten, Aufständen, Rebellionen und Revolutionen in der Ukraine, in Tunesien, Ägypten, Libyen oder Syrien, in denen der Bezug auf Menschenrechte mitunter eine zentrale, manchmal eine eher nebensächliche und – erstaunlich genug – gelegentlich auch gar keine Rolle spielte.
Der Band bietet den Leserinnen und Lesern eine aktuelle und umfassende Bestandsaufnahme aller Aspekte, die für das Verständnis der Piratenpartei, ihrer bisherigen Erfolge und ihrer Zukunftsaussichten wichtig sind.
Scholars and lay persons alike routinely express concern about the capacity of democratic publics to respond rationally to emotionally charged issues such as crime, particularly when race and class biases are invoked.