Politics and government

In Cold War historiography, the 1960s are often described as a decade of mounting diplomatic tensions and international social unrest.

The tools of American statecraft-defense, diplomacy, foreign and security assistance, homeland security and intelligence-are rarely examined together.

A salient feature of modern poetics is its direct connection with cultural history and politics.

A foundational resource for readers investigating religiously motivated environmentalism, this book provides both a global overview of the subject and a detailed discussion of key figures, concepts, organizations, events, and documents.

Human information and communication technology (ICT) implants have developed for many years in a medical context.

This book explores the activities of the Nazi regime's vast leisure programme.

Volume XIII of The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers covers the twelve months between the UNIA's second international convention in New York in August 1921 and the third convention in August 1922.

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Offers an instructive look at the role modern telecommunications infrastructures play in promoting vibrant rural economies.

Based on award-winning research, Love and revolution brings classical and contemporary anarchist thought into a mutually beneficial dialogue with a global cross-section of ecological, anti-capitalist, feminist and anti-racist activists - discussing real-life examples of the loving-caring relations that underpin many contemporary struggles.

Christianity Today 2020 Book Award (Award of Merit, Theology/Ethics)Outreach 2020 Recommended Resource of the Year (Theology and Biblical Studies)The question of what makes life worth living is more vital now than ever.

Guild and State examines the values of social solidarity and fraternity that emerged from medieval guilds and city-communes, and the effect of traditional corporate organization of labor on socioeconomic attitudes and theories of the state.

Der Zusammenhang zwischen "Menschenrechten und Revolutionen" steht auf der politischen Tagesordnung: In jüngster Zeit wurden wir Zeugen von Massenprotesten, Aufständen, Rebellionen und Revolutionen in der Ukraine, in Tunesien, Ägypten, Libyen oder Syrien, in denen der Bezug auf Menschenrechte mitunter eine zentrale, manchmal eine eher nebensächliche und – erstaunlich genug – gelegentlich auch gar keine Rolle spielte.

This book examines the social construction and representation of 'youth on the move' in the context of the migration process, using El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras as a case study to reinterpret the immigration process under the frameworks of coloniality and epistemologies of the South.

This book offers an original and insightful analysis of the human rights inadequacies that arise in the practice of UN territorial administration by analysing and assessing the practice of UNMIK.

This book analyses the gendered nature of patent law and the knowledge governance system it supports.

Rana Siu Inboden analyses China''s role in the international human rights regime from the early 1980s until 2017.

This book offers a unique and timely political analysis of war, international law and human rights, and the important interconnections among them.

The invocation of 'the market' has been omnipresent in media discussions of 'crisis Europe'.

This volume examines significant social transformations engendered by the ongoing Syrian conflict in the lives of Syrian Armenians.

This book provides a clear, systematic and up-to-date picture of the vast and dynamic industry of lobbying and Public Affairs in Europe, not only at EU level, but specifically in each of the 28 EU Member States.

This volume explores the complexities of governance, law, and politics in India's Scheduled Areas.

This book contributes to an ongoing debate about the EU as a global actor, the organization's ability to speak with one voice in energy affairs, and the external dimension of the regulatory state.

Andreas Friedel lokalisiert die Ursachen der Funktionsschwächen des mit der Kontrolle der Nachrichtendienste des Bundes (BND, BfV und MAD) beauftragten Parlamentarischen Kontrollgremiums (PKGr) des Deutschen Bundestages.

Investigates implications of domestic debt on consumption and growth, and studies separation of debt and monetary management.

This book presents a comprehensive reassessment of Europe in the Cold War period, 1945-91.

This book argues that an active memory of and grief over structural wrongs yields positive agency.

From Vision to Reality takes the reader past the fixation with political decision-making by focusing on the process of implementation that follows important policy decisions.

This book is a practical and thoughtful guide for the forensic interview of children, presenting a synthesis of the empirical and theoretical knowledge necessary to understand the account of child victims of abuse or witnesses of crime.

How politics in America works today, how it got that way, and how it's likely to change through reform-these are the themes that pervade every chapter of Cal Jillson's highly lauded American Government: Political Development and Institutional Change.

The tenth edition of this acclaimed text continues to provide a lively, comprehensive and up-to-date account of British political institutions, of the way in which they operate, and of the society in which they developed.

This edited volume discusses digital transformation in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.

In recent years human rights have assumed a central position in the discourse surrounding international development, while human rights agencies have begun to more systematically address economic and social rights.

As the global economy seeks to recover from the financial crisis and warnings about the consequences of climate change abound, it is clear that we need a fundamentally new approach to tackle these issues.

Gandhi was humanistic, but he would not tolerate laziness, idleness, greed and hypocracy in the name of humanity.

This book uses Sweden as a test case to analyze how parliament and elected representatives function in a representative democracy.

Tyrant, psychopath, and implementer of a ruthless programme of racial extermination, Adolf Hitler was also the charismatic Fuhrer of millions of dedicated followers.

This book deploys an original comparative framework, as well as archival and pattern-matching research methodologies, to analyze whistleblowing cases from Peru, South Korea, Thailand and the United States of America and to ascertain factors that make for effective whistleblowing.

Export restrictions represent an economic phenomenon that has existed for millenia.

The post-Cold War has witnessed enormous levels of western peacekeeping, peacemaking and reconstruction intervention in societies emerging from war.

The paradox of 'globalization' is that it both weakens and activates social forces of resistance.

Scholars and lay persons alike routinely express concern about the capacity of democratic publics to respond rationally to emotionally charged issues such as crime, particularly when race and class biases are invoked.

This study provides a comprehensive analysis of the questions pertaining to the powers of the Security Council under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations.

The EU antitrust enforcement system for several decades has been one of the most mature antitrust enforcement systems in the world.

“Now, more than ever, Americans are realizing that their votes count.