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Democracies At War Against Terrorism: A Comparative Perspective (CERI Series in International Relations and Political Economy (PDF))
by Samy CohenThis book deals with the difficulty democracies face in conducting asymmetric warfare in highly populated areas without violating international humanitarian law. On numerous occasions, democratic nations have been singled out by human rights NGOs for the brutality of their modus operandi, for their inadequate attention to the protection of civilian populations, or for acts of abuse or torture on prisoners. Why do they perpetrate these violations? Do they do so intentionally or unintentionally? Can democracies combat irregular armed groups without violating international law? When their population is under threat, do they behave as non-democracies would? Does this type of war inevitably produce war crimes on a more or less massive scale?
The Cost of Institutions: Information and Freedom in Expanding Economies
by J. Rodriguez S. Loomis J. WeeresContesting prior assumptions that institutions simplify the world for the sake of efficiency, this book argues that rather than institution expansion indicating the movement of markets to optimal states, expanding institutions generate information costs.
Amartya Sen's Capability Approach and Social Justice in Education
by Melanie Walker Elaine UnterhalterThis compelling book introduces Nobel laureate Amartya Sen's capability approach and explores its significance for theory, policy and practice in education. The book looks particularly at questions concerning the education of children, gender equality, and higher education. Contributors hail from the UK, USA, Australia, Italy and Mexico.
Race, Neighborhoods, and the Misuse of Social Capital
by J. JenningsThis anthology tackles three key issues: how social capital is discussed within the contexts of racial inequality, how this dialogue informs public policy regarding neighbourhood revitalization and economic development, and how effective a strategy utilization of social capital is for improving inner city living conditions.
Hardball Lobbying for Nonprofits: Real Advocacy for Nonprofits in the New Century
by B. HesseniusThis is a no-holds-barred, comprehensive, real-world guide to building political power and successfully lobbying for nonprofits in the 21st century, written by an insider who has been in the trenches as both a lobbyist and a government official.
Franklin Roosevelt’s Foreign Policy and the Welles Mission (The World of the Roosevelts)
by J. RofeA new and original analysis of the mission undertaken by FDR's Secretary of State during the Phoney War, Rofe's work explains the motivations and goals of Roosevelt through an analysis of the president's foreign policy and of the nature of the Anglo-American relationship of the time.
Cinema, Law, and the State in Asia
by C. Creekmur M. SidelThis book explores the intersections of film, justice, and the state in comparative perspective across a range of major Asian countries, including India, China, Japan, Korea, the Philippines, and Vietnam. The contributing authors cross the conventional border between the analysis of on-screen and off-screen intersections of law and cinema.
NGOs and the Millennium Development Goals: Citizen Action to Reduce Poverty
by J. Brinkerhoff S. Smith H. TeegenThis book examines general Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) roles and comparative advantages in the broad fight to end global poverty, as well as roles and opportunities specific to particular Millennium Development Goals sectors.
The Public Sphere: Liberal Modernity, Catholicism, Islam (Culture and Religion in International Relations)
by A. SalvatoreThis book explores conceptual and institutional developments of the notion of the public sphere in the West and in the Islamic world, tackling historic ruptures spanning the formation and transformation of the Euro-Mediterranean world. Set against an imploding grammar of socio-political life, the modern liberal public sphere appears in a new light.
Truth, Politics, and Universal Human Rights
by J. MadiganThis book uses the concept of universal human rights to explore the relationship between the individual, society, and truth. To answer the question of how we say something universally true about human beings while lacking the philosophical means to do so, the author explores the changing relationship between truth and politics from Plato to Locke.
Teaching Transformation: Transcultural Classroom Dialogues
by A. KeatingDrawing on indigenous belief systems and recent work in critical 'race' studies and multicultural-feminist theory, Keating provides detailed step-by-step suggestions, based on her own teaching experiences, designed to anticipate and change students' resistance to social-justice issues. It offers a holistic approach to theory and practice.
Media Pressure on Foreign Policy: The Evolving Theoretical Framework (The Palgrave Macmillan Series in International Political Communication)
by Derek MillerThis study offers an explicit theory of media pressure - what it is, how it works, how it can be measured - based in part on the 'positioning theory' in discursive psychology. This offers the first independent and comparative history and analysis of media pressure vs. coverage, through the lens of the insurrection against Saddam Hussein in 1991.
Power, Interest, and Identity in Military Alliances
by J. SuhThis book looks at U.S.-Korea relations and argues that military alliances depend upon a combination of power distribution, material assets, and identities. The author asserts that beyond being mere tools of power balancing, alliances are also impacted by material and institutional practices that constitute the identity of allies and adversaries.
Caribbean Land and Development Revisited (Studies of the Americas)
by J. Besson J. MomsenThe book is an interdisciplinary collection of fifteen essays, with an editorial introduction, on a range of territories in the Commonwealth, Francophone, and Hispanic Caribbean. The authors focus on land and development, providing fresh perspectives through a collection of international contributing authors.
Sisterhood, Interrupted: From Radical Women to Grrls Gone Wild
by D. SiegelContrary to clichés about the end of feminism, Deborah Siegel argues that younger women are not abandoning the movement but reinventing it. After forty years, is feminism today a culture, or a cause? A movement for personal empowerment, or broad-scale social change? Have women achieved equality, or do we still have a long way to go?
Understanding Homeland Security: Policy, Perspectives, and Paradoxes
by J. Noftsinger K. Newbold J. WheelerThis book provides the first comprehensive analysis of the historical, social, psychological, technological, and political aspects that form the broad arena of homeland defence and security. The text provides a view of past events and their evolution, allowing the audience to gain a detailed knowledge of government response and policy implications.
The Empire's New Clothes: Cultural Particularism and Universal Value in China's Quest for Global Status
by J. PaltielThis book assesses the challenge to the dominance of Euro-American political and economic liberalism from China's emergence as a global presence. China presents the most significant present-day example of the dual process of participation and resistance. Paltiel's offers intriguing insights into the prospect of equality in a system of global power.
Geopolitics Reframed: Security and Identity in Europe’s Eastern Enlargement (New Visions in Security)
by M. KuusThis book traces the shifting meanings of security and geopolitics in Central European states that acceded into the EU or NATO in 2004. The author examines assumptions that shaped these debates and influenced policy-making, combining fresh theoretical approaches from international relations and political geography with rich empirical material from Central Europe. This book provides the first in-depth analysis of security discourse in the region.
Fragile States and Insecure People?: Violence, Security, and Statehood in the Twenty-First Century (Governance, Security and Development)
by L. Andersen B. Møller F. StepputatThis book provides a unique account of the pursuit of security at the edge of the global order. It sheds light on reform of state police and armed forces, and analyses the alternative security structures that emerge in the absence of the state. This book remains open-minded as to which 'model' for security is better.
Gender, Race, and Nationalism in Contemporary Black Politics (Comparative Feminist Studies)
by N. Alexander-FloydAn examination of the interrelationship between gender, race, narrative, and nationalism in black politics specifically within American politics as a whole. The author not only highlights the critical role of race and gender, she goes further to show how they operate to define political discourse and to determine public policy.
New Media and the New Middle East (The Palgrave Macmillan Series in International Political Communication)
by Philip SeibIn this book, leading international scholars examine the way new media is reshaping lives and politics. Covering topics from women's rights to terrorism, and countries from Israel to Saudi Arabia, these authors explore the global and regional ramifications of the proliferation of communication technologies and the information they disseminate.
Medical Tourism in Developing Countries
by M. BookmanWestern patients are increasingly travelling to developing countries for health care and developing countries are increasingly offering their skills and facilities to paying foreign customers. The potential and implications of this international trade in medical services is explored in this book through analysis of the market.
Political Parties in Post-Communist Societies: Formation, Persistence, and Change
by M. SpirovaThis is a study of party development in the post-communist world. Based on extensive fieldwork in Bulgaria and Hungary, as well as aggregate data from twelve post-communist states, this study provides an explanation of the behaviour of parties since 1990, and offer new insights into the party behaviour in the future.
Social Identity and Conflict: Structures, Dynamics, and Implications
by K. KorostelinaLooking at a variety of countries, this book explores the influence of cultural dimensions on the interrelations between personal and social identity, and the impact of identity salience on attitudes, stereotypes, and the structures of consciousness.
Biotechnology Policy across National Boundaries: The Science-Industrial Complex
by D. WestA globalization of innovation has produced the most massive spurt in biotechnology in world history. Businesses, universities, and non-governmental organizations are collaborating to produce a "science-industrial complex" in biotechnology. Using case studies of stem cell research, cloning, genetically modified food, in-vitro fertilization, and chimeras in a number of Eastern and Western countries around the world, I argue that much of this biotech activity is global in nature and independent of state control. This shift in the relative influence of state and non-state actors has led to the virtual deregulation of biotechnology and the liberation of innovation from geo-political constraints. These trends post a number of interesting social, political, and ethical issues for the contemporary period and suggest the need to rethink how controversial moral issues are handled by the science-industrial complex.