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J.W. Parker
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
John Stuart Mill (1806–1873) was an English philosopher, political economist, Member of Parliament (MP) and civil servant. One of the most influential thinkers in the history of classical liberalism, he contributed widely to social theory, political theory, and political economy. This volume, published in 1844, includes five essays on the subject of political and sociological philosophy, including 'Of the Laws of Interchange between Nations', 'On...
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Publisher
Motivational Press
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Little Secret Big Dreams is the real-life story of Moe Vela’s upbringing in a Hispanic, Catholic home in deep south Texas as the son of a pioneer family. Moe’s story is that of perseverance and survival when everything you know and love tells you that who you are is wrong. Join Moe on his journey as he comes to own his “little secret,” and launch himself on a journey to become the first Hispanic American and first Gay American to serve two...
Publisher
Duke University Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
In What's Left of the Left, distinguished scholars of European and U.S. politics consider how center-left political parties have fared since the 1970s. They explore the left's responses to the end of the postwar economic boom, the collapse of the Soviet Union, the erosion of traditional party politics, the expansion of market globalization, and the shift to a knowledge-based economy. Their comparative studies of center-left politics in Scandinavia,...
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Manchester University Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Mobilising the concept of strategic culture, this study develops a sophisticated and innovative framework to understand developments in German security policy between 1990 and 2003. Germany's contemporary security policies are characterised by a peculiar mix of continuity and change. From abstention in the first Gulf war, to early peacekeeping missions in Bosnia in the early 1990s and a full combat role in Kosovo in 1999, the pace of change in German...
Publisher
ANU Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
While political parties remain an indispensable institutional framework for representation and governance in a democracy, the democracies of many Pacific Islands nations are undermined by the weakness and inefficacy of their local political parties. Addressing the implications of the lack of established party systems across the Pacific, this collection seeks to illuminate the underlying assumptions and suppositions behind the importance of coherent...
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University of Michigan Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people face the same family issues as their heterosexual counterparts, but that is only the beginning of their struggle. The LGBT community also encounters legal barriers to government recognition of their same-sex relationships and relationships to their own children. Policy Issues Affecting Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Families addresses partner recognition, parenting, issues affecting children...
Publisher
Anthem Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Water Security in the Middle East argues that, while conflicts over transboundary water systems in the Middle East do occur, they tend not to be violent nor are they the primary cause of a war in this region. The contributors in this collection of essays place water disputes in larger political, historical and scientific contexts and discuss how the humanities and social sciences contribute towards this understanding. The authors contend that international...
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Cornell University Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Why do great powers accommodate the rise of some challengers but contain and confront others, even at the risk of war? When Right Makes Might proposes that the ways in which a rising power legitimizes its expansionist aims significantly shapes great power responses. Stacie E. Goddard theorizes that when faced with a new challenger, great powers will attempt to divine the challenger’s intentions: does it pose a revolutionary threat to the system...
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transcript Verlag
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Since 2008, foreign land acquisitions have attracted international attention under the term »land grabbing.« Illustrated by rich and nuanced empirical accounts of forty Chinese and British investment projects in Sub-Saharan Africa, Ariane Goetz explains the phenomenon of »land grabbing« from the perspective of two investor countries. She reflects on Chinese and British public policy, state-society relations, national developmental contexts, ideologies,...
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Amsterdam University Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Policies intended to bring stability to fragile states tend to focus almost exclusively on building institutions and systems to get governance right. Simply building the state is often seen as sufficient for making it stable and legitimate. But policies like these, René Grotenhuis shows in this book, ignore the question of what makes people belong to a nation-state, arguing that issues of identity, culture, and religion are crucial to creating the...
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University of New Orleans Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"After the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, Austria transformed itself from an empire to a small Central European country. Formerly an important player in international affairs, the new republic was quickly sidelined by the European concert of powers. The enormous losses of territory and population in Austria’s post-Habsburg state of existence, however, did not result in a political, economic, cultural, and intellectual black hole....
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Springer Open
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Socio-legal studies; Law; Criminology; Criminal justice; Action research; Scandinavia; Welfare state; Norway; Demark; Finland; Sweden; Iceland
From table of contents:
Legal Aid in the Nordic Countries
Legal Aid in Norway
Legal Aid in Sweden
Legal Aid in Finland
Legal Aid in Denmark
Legal Aid in Iceland
Juss-Buss [Law Bus]: A Student-run Legal Aid Clinic
Gadejuristen [The Street Lawyers]: Offering Legal Aid to Socially Marginalised People
Ex-prisoners’...
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Publisher
Hutchinson & Company
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
This work by Thomas F. A. Smith is a fascinating exploration of the German mindset during World War I. Through a detailed analysis of German literature, philosophy, and political rhetoric, Smith sheds light on the beliefs and values that drove the country's military aggression. This book provides a unique perspective on one of the most pivotal moments in modern history and is essential for anyone interested in understanding the roots of German nationalism....
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Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Swiss citizens approve of their government and the way democracy is practiced; they trust the authorities and are satisfied with the range of services Swiss governments provide. This is quite unusual when compared to other countries. This open access book provides insight into the organization and the functioning of the Swiss state. It claims that, beyond politics, institutions and public administration, there are other factors which make a country...
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IntechOpen
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
In several major nuclear powers, such as the USA, the UK, and France, multiple social groups have also become involved in making nuclear waste storage a social and political problem. What has been the case in Sweden? Answering this question calls for multifarious inquiry to detect how concerned groups have coalesced around KBS-3, how they have influenced its development, as well as how they are influenced by being involved in a technoscientific controversy.
Accordingly,...
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Scandinavian Military Studies
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) shocked the world when it entered the world stage in 2014. By seizing large territories in Syria and Iraq, its expansion within the Middle East seemed unrestrainable as the Iraqi Army fell apart and in Syria, various actors were caught up in a bloody civil war in the wake of the Arab spring.
With US support, the Syrian and Iraqi Kurds became the main stand against ISIS acting as boots on the ground. The...
Publisher
ANU Press
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Collaboration has emerged as a central concept in public policy circles in Australia and a panacea to the complex challenges facing Australia. But is this really the cure-all it seems to be? In this edited collection we present scholarly and practitioner perspectives on the drivers, challenges, prospects and promise of collaboration. The papers, first presented at the 2007 ANZSOG Conference, draw on the extensive experience of the contributors in...
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Publisher
ANU Press
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
The latter years of the first decade of the twenty-first century were characterised by an enormous amount of challenge and change to Australia and Australians. Australia’s part in these challenges and changes is borne of our domestic and global ties, our orientation towards ourselves and others, and an ever increasing awareness of the interdependency of our world. Challenges and changes such as terrorism, climate change, human rights, community...
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Amsterdam University Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Is the end of the nation-state approaching, now that the international economy takes less and less notice of borders between countries and the European Union has already acquired so much political power? What does national autonomy mean when governments delegate any number of powers to international organizations? Internationalization leads to political change, and the position of the nation-state appears to be undergoing a radical process of erosion....
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