This book brings together world-renowned experts and rising scholars to provide a collection of chapters examining the long-term impact of historical events on modern-day economic and political developments in Latin America.
For Frederick Douglass, the iconic nineteenth-century slave and abolitionist, the foundations for his arguments in support of racial equality rested on natural rights and natural law-and the bold proclamation of the Declaration of Independence that all men are created equal.
Research into Kurdishness touches on many of the important global issues within contemporary social and political psychology - questions about the rigors of methodology, the importance of reflexivity, issues of replicability, and the role of decolonization in research on actors in intractable conflicts.
A Theory of De Facto States offers a new perspective on the phenomenon of de facto states - political communities that manifest forms of statehood in international politics but lack international legal recognition - zooming in on two prominent examples, Somaliland and Kosovo.
Des dizaines de millions de Kurdes vivent en Turquie, en Iran, en Syrie et en Irak et, depuis un siècle, se mobilisent régulièrement pour obtenir des droits culturels, une autonomie régionale, voire l’indépendance.
This book explores the modes of European Union (EU) contestation which are mobilized by radical parties and seeks to unearth the relationship of such contestation with populist discourses.
This book describes the ethnic identity construction involved in 'being', 'feeling' and 'doing' Chinese for multi-generation Australian-born Chinese, who were born and raised in a different social environment.
Research into Kurdishness touches on many of the important global issues within contemporary social and political psychology - questions about the rigors of methodology, the importance of reflexivity, issues of replicability, and the role of decolonization in research on actors in intractable conflicts.
This book presents an original exploration of philosophical questions pertaining to the ways we grasp the Absolute by bringing together the Buddhist notion of interpermeation of all phenomena into contemporary strains of thought in continental philosophy.
Dieses Buch diskutiert auf verständliche Weise, wie aufkommende globalisierende Prozesse die Bühne für neue Formen sozialer und politischer Kämpfe in Lateinamerika bereiten, mit einer verstärkten Beteiligung multilateraler und ausländischer Akteure sowie Auswirkungen des globalen politischen Populismus und populistischer sozialer Medien.
Das Buch geht der Frage nach, wie die Schweiz – genauer: das politische System, die materielle und formelle Verfassung – in den Werken einiger prominenter, klassischer wie moderner, Staatstheorien vom 18.
This book presents an original exploration of philosophical questions pertaining to the ways we grasp the Absolute by bringing together the Buddhist notion of interpermeation of all phenomena into contemporary strains of thought in continental philosophy.
This book argues for a twofold transformation to mitigate environmental catastrophe, avert war and overcome poverty and authoritarianism: a struggle for democratic, peace-oriented, social and ecological changes within the framework of a post-neoliberal, but still bourgeois-capitalist society, and a drive towards entry-level projects aimed at a great transformation beyond capitalism.
Fort de son travail de terrain au Mali, notamment auprès des réseaux vétérinaires, l'auteur jette une lumière très originale sur le conflit armé qui déchire le pays et, au-delà, le Sahel.
This book examines the Nixon presidency, reviews the events surrounding Watergate and the President' resignation, and unpacks the effects of Watergate on our politics and public attitudes about the political process.
