This book widens the current debate on security privatization by examining how and why an increasing number of private actors beyond private military and security companies (PMSCs) have come to perform various security related functions.
This lively and sophisticated study describes the opinions and attitudes of the electors in one electoral district (Vancouver-Burrard) during the federal and provincial elections held from 1963 to 1965.
Die Bedingungen beschleunigter gesellschaftlicher Wandlungsprozesse in einer multikulturellen Gesellschaft mit steigender Zuwanderung, der Zunahme des politischen Populismus in und außerhalb Europas, des Extremismus sowie der Gefahr durch den Terrorismus, stellen immense Herausforderungen für die Politikdidaktik und die Praxis der politischen Bildung dar.
Compares those active resistance movements which burst into public view in China and "e;cultural resistance"e;, which instead lies unspoken in everyday action.
The first comprehensive discussion of all the main philosophical issues raised by terrorism against the background of its past and recent developments.
Peter Hall and David Soskice's Varieties of Capitalism has become a seminal text and reference point across the social sciences, generating debate and research around political-economic models.
The end of the Cold War and the discussions concerning the process of globalization have brought the study of international politics face to face with new issues such as human rights, humanitarian interventions, environmental concerns, global social movements and health issues like HIV/AIDS.
The first study of the Churchill government of 1951-55 based on the Prime Minister's political papers (including his correspondence with President Eisenhower) and diaries and letters of Eden, Butler and other ministers.
This Companion provides scholars and graduates, serving and retired military professionals, members of the diplomatic and policy communities concerned with security affairs and legal professionals who deal with military law and with international law on armed conflicts, with a comprehensive and authoritative state-of-the-art review of current research in the area of military ethics.
This study presents intriguing analysis of the impact of private security companies' practices upon the fields of security and politics in the Czech Republic.
Sybille De La Rosa arbeitet eine auf dem Begriff der kreativen Aneignung basierende Repräsentationstheorie aus und zeigt deren Relevanz im Bereich der Menschenrechtspolitik auf.
How the works of Jane Austen show that game theory is present in all human behaviorGame theory-the study of how people make choices while interacting with others-is one of the most popular technical approaches in social science today.
A collection of papers presented at Boston University by leading Sovietologists evaluating the meaning of developments in the USSR and their impact since Gorbachev became head of government.
Western critical theory, Marxism included, has largely been based on a view of historical materialism that Gramsci, among others, developed in his prison notebooks.
Since the mid-twentieth century, the United States has seen a striking shift in the gender dynamics of higher educational attainment as women have come to earn college degrees at higher rates than men.
Poses of the World develops a theory of the pluralistic coexistence of politics with aesthetic, scientific, ethical and economic procedures that have sought to influence, dominate or even replace politics.