Emerging in the late 1970s, the Amsterdam School's (AS) most distinctive contribution to international political economy was the systematic incorporation of the Marxian concept of capital fractions into the study of international politics.
From nonviolent protests in Cairo and Manama to the ousting of Libya's Gaddafi and the beginning of the Syrian Civil War, the series of uprisings which swept through the Middle East and North Africa from late 2010 have been burdened with the collective hopes and expectations of the world.
In April 1947, a group of right-leaning intellectuals met in the Swiss Alps for a ten-day conference with the aim of establishing a permanent organization.
'Antony Alcock's A Short History of Europe offers a straightforward, meticulously researched account; one which provides the student with clear and detailed analysis.
Changing relations between science and democracy - and controversies over issues such as climate change, energy transitions, genetically modified organisms and smart technologies - have led to a rapid rise in new forms of public participation and citizen engagement.
Warum weisen Länder mit muslimischer Bevölkerungsmehrheit im Vergleich zum Weltdurchschnitt ein niedriges Maß an Demokratie und sozioökonomischer Entwicklung auf?
Although much prized in daily conversation, good listening has been almost completely ignored in that form of political conversation we know as democracy.
This volume provides a multidisciplinary perspective on a set of transformations in social practices that modify the meaning of everyday interactions, and especially those that affect the world of labour.
This book provides an analysis of the latest research findings in the field of world history, and includes terse articulations of modernity vis-a-vis empire.
Die Hoffnung, dass die Globalisierung und Demokratisierung der osteuropäischen Staaten in Europa zu einer Verringerung kultureller Unterschiede und der damit verbundenen Probleme führt, hat sich bislang nicht bewahrheitet.
These essays reexamine European forts in West Africa as hubs where different peoples interacted, negotiated and transformed each other socially, politically, culturally, and economically.
Dieser interdisziplinäre Sammelband stellt aus verschiedenen Forschungsrichtungen aktuelle Krisen- und Diskursphänomene in Griechenland und in Europa vor.
Focusing on the development of justificatory discourse on global governance, Steffek examines how differing conceptions of distributive and social justice have played a role in negotiations in the domains of security, economics, and protecting the environment.
This edited volume covers new ground by bringing together perspectives from symbolic legislation theory on the one hand, and from biolaw and bioethics on the other hand.
Friedrich Meinecke and German Politics in the Twentieth Century examines the evolution of Friedrich Meinecke's political thought against the backdrop of two world wars and the social and political upheavals in Germany.
This book contributes to the increasing interest in John Adams and his political and legal thought by examining his work on the medieval British Empire.
This book discusses the interrelationship between practices of collective self-interpretation, in this case national identity construction, and integration policies, using the example of Denmark and Sweden.
Psychoanalysis and Euripides' Suppliant Women applies the "e;tragic"e; reading of politics, presented by Euripides in his play, The Suppliant Women, to the contemporary world.
This book invites people to think more deeply about human rights in an attempt to overcome many of the traditional arguments in the human rights literature.
Public administration and policy analysis education have long emphasized tidiness, stages, and rationality, but practitioners frequently must deal with a world where objectivity is buffeted by, repressed by, and sometimes defeated by value conflict.
Revealing how the quest for independence and challenges of democratization created a contest between nationalists and Europeanists, two powerful forces in domestic politics, after the collapse of communism, Fisher sheds light on the nationalism and post-communist transitions.
In recent years, political and social theory has been transformed by the heterogeneous approaches to feeling and emotion jointly referred to as affect theory .
