Political control and freedoms Books

This collection of essays explores the transformations of the political landscapes within which black social movements in Latin America have been operating since the end of the 1970s. Evaluating black social movements in their various national contexts,...

This is the first volume in the trilogy "Many Peaces" on transrational peace and elicitive conflict transformation. It proposes an innovative analysis of peace interpretations in global history and contemporary cultures of peace, the so-called five...

This book examines Foucault's political framework for connecting political authority with practices of freedom. It starts from the older Foucault's claim that where there is obedience there cannot be government by truth. Then it shows how this claim runs...

Considering the question of how levels of security allow state power to be increased to the point at which it infringes essential civil liberties, this book explores the creeping power of the executive and the unfeasibility of widespread use of the Human...

With the ethnic, cultural and religious diversity that is a feature of European societies today, pluralism is experienced in new and challenging ways. In many places, an urban cosmopolitan mix sits side by side with group-based expressions of faith and...

As a result of the impact of neo-liberal economics and the financial crisis on policy development and implementation, economic and social divides are widening and deepening globally. As the causes and consequences of austerity continue to emerge across...

Transformative democratic politics are necessary to the advance of substantive democratization. They are vital to the improvement of popular control over public affairs and for promoting economic growth and social welfare. In this diverse collection, the...

This distinctive empirical account analyses security cooperation in the domain of inter-regionalism, identifying the emergence of the African Union (AU) as a regional actor and its implications for contemporary EU-Africa relations.The book considers the...

Cultural and historical accounts of the public intellectual and French feminism have been remiss in their failure to recognise an important group of major women intellectuals in France. In particular, studies of French feminism and public intellectuals...

Like many other Western democracies, the Nordic countries have vigorously debated whether it is necessary to find new ways of incorporating ethnic minorities into the larger society, leading to the need to decide whether to enter into experiments in...

Twenty years after the end of communism, the history of Central and Eastern Europe still sparks intense discussions in the former Soviet bloc, as contested memories, primarily about communist repression and WWII, are relived. This volume goes beyond the...

Increasing numbers of people from the developed West are deciding to live and work in the rapidly developing economies of Asia. Transnational Lives in China: Expatriates in a Globalizing City is one of the first book length studies of a contemporary...

Civil society and governance have become central concepts in policy practice and academia in China along with the development of decentralization, marketization, and divergent interests. This wide-ranging collection of essays on civil society and...

Through a detailed study of Mayy Ziyadah's literary salon, Boutheina Khaldi sheds light on salon and epistolary culture in early twentieth-century Egypt and its role in Egypt's Nahdah (Awakening). Bringing together history, women's studies, Arabic...

Traditional understandings of the genesis of the separation of church and state rest on assumptions about "Enlightenment" and the republican ethos of citizenship. In The Religious Roots of the First Amendment, Nicholas P. Miller does not seek...

The current economic crisis is causing large impact on the behavior of financial markets and institutions. Crisis, Risk and Stability in Modern Banking presents an indepth insight into key topics related to the behavior of financial institutions in the...

As tension between Americans and their government grows to unprecedented levels, Citizen Satisfaction provides a timely investigation into the topic of satisfaction with government services from a variety of perspectives. Morgeson covers growing interest...

1948 Palestinians (Israeli Arabs)-Israel's significant non-Jewish minority-are an invisible force and presence in the Palestine conflict. This book presents fresh insights into their political behavior. Using social movement theory and original field...

What happened then to the intellectuals who spent their life working and writing about the Cold War when the conflict ended in 1991? Looking at one of the most emblematic American think tanks in recent history, the RAND Corporation, Samaan provides key...

Political Extremism in Democracies: Combating Intolerance is a theoretically inspired, empirically rich study of political parties that have been branded as untouchable pariahs. Democracy's painful paradox seems to require tolerance of the intolerant,...

A Critical Pedagogy of Embodied Education outlines the pedagogy of activism and the process of learning to become an activist. Based on empirical research conducted in Australia, it explores the embodied learning of activists as they learn to be and...

Botswana is widely regarded as a model African democracy. Since independence in 1966, the country has enjoyed unparalleled peace and stability within the African continent. It has also experienced unprecedented changes from being one of the ten poorest...

First published by the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute, this revised edition remains a rare study of criminology in the African context, considered from a pan-African perspective. The paucity of information and analysis...

In October 1996, one hundred and thirty nine girls were abducted from St Mary's College, in northern Uganda. In an act of extraordinary courage, Sister Rachele, the Italian deputy headmistress, followed the abductors. Her journey took her to the Lord's...

A former head of the Ghana National Council of Women and Development here explains, from her experience in Ghana and other parts of Africa during the UN Decade for Women, what she believes women's emancipation means to women in Africa. Although...

Con el enfoque de un jurista experto en derecho internacional, así como en seguridad y defensa, este libro devela el modelo de opresión diseñado por la dictadura que asola a Venezuela, abordando detalladamente cada una de las líneas del malévolo plan...

Defence and national security in Africa are relatively neglected areas of study, especially by Nigerian scholars, although research in these areas appears to be on the increase in some Nigerian universities. This study aims to make available the...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2006 im Fachbereich Politik - Internationale Politik - Thema: Völkerrecht und Menschenrechte, Note: 2,0, Universität Regensburg (Politikwissenschaft), Veranstaltung: Übung: Nuklearwaffen im 21. Jahrhundert, Sprache: Deutsch,...

Seminar paper from the year 2014 in the subject Politics - Topic: Public International Law and Human Rights, grade: 1,0, University of Geneva, language: English, abstract: Ten years after the establishment of the African Court of Human and Peoples'...

Right after the Gezi Resistance, a new tendency of authoritarianism rapidly emerged in Turkey and AKP government started targeting anyone it perceives as a threat to its rule, especially academics, journalists, politicians, actors, directors, i.e. the...

Ce livre examine l'approche aÌ la fois inclusive et répressive de la lutte antiterroriste, l'injonction étonnante aÌ la collaboration entre acteurs institutionnels et civils dans ce domaine et les résultats ambivalents de la répression et de la...

In CHALLENGING MOSCOW'S MESSAGE, Ilan Berman examines the strategic logic underpinning Russia's extensive use of propaganda and disinformation, and evaluates the effectiveness of the institutions erected by a range of Western governments over the past...

Una habitación propia se estableció desde su publicación como uno de los libros fundamentales del feminismo. Basado en dos conferencias pronunciadas por Virginia Woolf en colleges para mujeres y ampliado luego por la autora, el texto es un testamento...

Una habitación propia se estableció desde su publicación como uno de los libros fundamentales del feminismo. Basado en dos conferencias pronunciadas por Virginia Woolf en colleges para mujeres y ampliado luego por la autora, el texto es un testamento...

Jane Sherwin’s collection reflects the long life of a woman passionately committed to humanity, in particular the needs of refugees, political prisoners and the homeless. And through her nature poems, Jane also voices deep anxiety about the...

In April of 2005 Shell sought an injunction in a Dublin court against residents of Erris in northwestern Republic of Ireland who were obstructing the laying of pipelines across their lands. On June 29, 2005 the court convicted and jailed five people for...

Recent acts of terrorism and the pro-democracy unrest in the Middle East remind us how important it is to understand the relationship between violence, peace and democracy. In a challenging and insightful essay, Amartya Sen explores ideas around...

Shows the historical importance of challenges to the state and powerful groups. Demonstrates how rights we take for granted have been acquired and set into law over time thanks to the actions of committed men and women.A key historical text. A certain...

My purpose for writing this book is to educate people about the history and the dangers of abortion. To also awaken the church to its responsibility to defend the helpless, which are our per-born babies in the womb. The church can no longer be a...

Environmental citizenship is a concept that implies a set of rights and responsibilities arising from the environmental impacts of human actions. It consists of a series of rights and duties, which exist alongside civil, political and social rights...

The right of a person to be respected and valued, and to be treated ethnically for their own sake is termed as human dignity. Violations of human dignity takes place when an individual is humiliated, instrumentalized or objectified, degraded, and...

The safeguarding of children from exploitation, abuse and neglect is termed as child protection. There exists a set of laws and policies which focuses on education, social welfare, health, security and justice in order to protect children. These policies...

Recognition of the U.S. Constitution's importance increased dramatically in 1826 due to the deaths of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, the election of President Andrew Jackson and the jubilee celebration of the Declaration of Independence. At this time,...