When God is dead and governments themselves are increasingly subject to the power of global corporations, massive movements of peoples, transnational political upheavals, and ecological disasters, what does sovereignty mean for the 21st century?
This book presents the legislative networks in charge of drafting democratic reforms as gatekeepers to the actual adoption, implementation and internalisation of democratic norms in selected post-Soviet countries.
Using George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four as a guide for interpreting the role of the American state in the twenty-first century - paying particular attention to how the government responded to the life and death issues of terrorism, COVID-19, and climate change - this book presents eye-opening and compelling documentary evidence that suggests Orwellian policies have already been implemented by Republicans and Democrats.
With the rise of populist governments and corresponding popular protests, this book turns renewed focus on Baruch Spinoza's idea of the political multitude.
In the USA, politically conservative and right-wing apocalyptic evangelicals hold that climate change science and Covid-19 are fabrications governed by manifest evil.
How does a regime, whose members have been actively involved in the previous one, appropriate and deploy religious ideas and rhetoric to cast itself as 'born-again' and attractive?
Italia oculta reconstruye con rigor y haciendo uso de una documentación exhaustiva, que incluye fuentes judiciales, el complejo rompecabezas de las terribles vicisitudes italianas de los años 1978-1980: la logia masónica Propaganda 2, el secuestro y asesinato de Aldo Moro, la masacre de la estación de Bolonia, los complots e intentos de golpe de estado… Una historia negra cuyo protagonista es un país moribundo, hundido en la ciénaga de la alianza entre política y criminalidad.
This book takes a hermeneutic approach toward reading the writings of Jamal al-Banna and Tariq al-Bishri across several decades in order to explore contemporary Islamic political thought under authoritarianism.
En este libro Delfina Rossi recorre las grandes acciones del gobierno de Néstor Kirchner y de los dos de Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, acompañándolos por los discursos de la propia Cristina en muchas ocasiones y señalando el correlato con los propios discursos de Perón y de Evita.
"e;KORZENIE ZŁA"e; to ciekawa lektura dla tych, którzy chcieliby poznać kulisy władzy rodzącej się nowej klasy rządzącej w Polsce, pokazanej na tle lokalnego konfliktu.
Future Faith: Public and Practical Theologies for the Contemporary World explores what is needed for theology to survive and thrive in the next generation.
This book takes a hermeneutic approach toward reading the writings of Jamal al-Banna and Tariq al-Bishri across several decades in order to explore contemporary Islamic political thought under authoritarianism.
