This book analyses US and UK efforts to shut down Pakistan's nuclear programme in the 1970s, between the catalytic Indian nuclear test of May 1974 and the decline of sustained non-proliferation activity from mid-1979 onwards.
Originally published in 1988, this is the first systematic account of the writings of Hungarian dissidents and former students of George Lukacs, collectively known as the 'Budapest School'.
The evidence presented in the recently released Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) suggests strongly that continued failure to make meaningful cuts to greenhouse gas emissions could bring about disastrous results for the human community, especially for future generations.
This book offers a nuanced and muti-layered approach towards comprehending the possibilities of democratization or likelihood of authoritarian resilience in the Muslim world.
Shows that networks in European integration governance were not a phenomenon that developed in the 1980s out of a 'hollowing out' of the nation-states in the 1970s.
Unter Schlagworten wie "Armutszuwanderung aus Südosteuropa" entwickelte sich verstärkt seit 2013 ein politischer Abwehrdiskurs in Bezug auf die EU-Binnenmigration aus Rumänien und Bulgarien in deutsche Großstädte.
Edited by two preeminent scholars, this book provides coverage of the policy issues related to the increasingly diverse treatments, practices, and applications of psychedelics.
This book offers a broad and diverse reflection of the ways in which child poverty could be conceptualised, and the ways in which it is intertwined with childhood as a specific social condition.
This book introduces a new perspective on risk seeking behaviour, developing a framework based on various cognitive theories, and applying it to the specific case-study of Turkey's foreign policy toward Syria.
This fifth volume of The Papers of James Monroe presents many important and never-before published documents relating to the critical years 1803-1811, providing a documentary record of the early American Republic as well as of a future president of the United States.
International justice has become a crucial part of the ongoing political debates about the future of shattered societies like Bosnia, Kosovo, Rwanda, Cambodia, and Chile.
This book examines the rapid expansion of urban areas worldwide, especially within the previous 50 years, identifying the factors that have contributed to this phenomenon and exploring its many consequences.
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.
This monograph traces the history of the dissident as a transnational phenomenon, exploring Soviet dissidents in Communist Central Europe from the mid-1960s until 1989.
Die Demokratie in Deutschland steht vor vielfältigen Herausforderungen: Die Infragestellung des Primats der Politik durch Globalisierung und Wirtschafts- und Finanzkrise, der zu beobachtende Vertrauensverlust in die Problemlösungskompetenzen der Politik, die nachlassende Bereitschaft zu klassischem politischen Engagement, der Mitgliederschwund der Volksparteien, die sinkende Wahlbeteiligung etc.
A comprehensive study of Mill's theory of liberty, uncovering Mill's solution to the problem of democracy, the tyranny of the majorityAlexis de Tocqueville famously identified the problem of democracy as the "e;tyranny of the majority,"e; where the rule of the majority oppresses or marginalizes minorities and individuals.
First published in Italian in 1977, Mario Mieli's groundbreaking book is an early landmark of revolutionary queer theory - now available for the first time in a complete and unabridged English translation.
Poverty still persists in today's low-income countries despite decades of international aid, and extensive research on the determinants of growth and development.
Revolutionary Hope in a Time of Crisis takes up the question of how to theorize and revive revolutionary hope in the present era of political disillusion.
To revitalize politics we need to abandon the idea that ideologies evolve from "e;right"e; to "e;left"e;, from conservatism to socialism, and look at our political differences in terms of the distinction, more familiar in the arts, between classicism and romanticism.
The book ambitiously seeks to shape our understanding of terrorism by offering a more systematic interpretation of terrorism-activism through the Stakeholders of Terrorism concept.
How should liberal democratic governments respond to citizens as religious believers whose values, norms and practices might lie outside the cultural mainstream?
This book is a detailed and comprehensive work which reviews the origins of Israel's Mediterranean identity, starting with its Zionist ideological origins and tracing the path up to the present, as Israel struggles with what it means to be a post-ideological Mediterranean country.
In 22 Kapiteln wird eine strukturierte Einführung in das für Europastudien relevante historische, kultur-, rechts-, sozial- und politikwissenschaftliche Grund-, Vertiefungs- und (optionale) Spezialwissen zum Komplex Europa geboten.
Für das Verständnis des Phänomens Populismus bieten verschiedene Disziplinen hilfreiche Ansätze und Zugänge – darunter sind die Politikwissenschaft, die Kommunikationswissenschaft, die Wahlforschung, aber auch der Journalismus.
