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100 Mandela Moments

How do you retell the well-worn life story of a national icon? One way is this: a palimpsest of a hundred memories of the great man, revolutionary, world leader, and family figure, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of his birth. Kate Sidley offers renewed and touching insight into Mandela by retelling humorous, heart-warming and momentous moments from his life, roughly chronologically, drawing from his own writing and the memories of contemporaries, historians and ordinary people. The reading experience is multi-varied and complex, touching and inspiring, like Madiba himself.100 Mandela Moments is divided into sections, according to the many roles Mandela played in his lifetime: the school boy, the student, the lawyer, the outlaw, the prisoner, the negotiator, the statesman, the elder. Each story or “moment” is short and encapsulates something about the man behind the legend, and the book can be read cover to cover or dipped into.

Reforms and Innovation in Education: Implications for the Quality of Human Capital (Science, Technology and Innovation Studies)

This book investigates the interrelationship between educational reforms and pedagogical and technological innovations, as well as the implications of this relationship for the quality of human capital. By analyzing recent educational reforms in Russia and the US, the authors shed new light on how these reforms may help or hinder innovations, such as the introduction of computer technologies into classrooms, new methods of teacher evaluation, constructivist teaching methods, and governance in public schools. Taking labor economics as a useful lens for conceptualizing the diffusion of innovation, in the first part of the book the authors analyze book how certain power arrangements can block educational innovations in schools. In the second part they examine recent educational reforms in the US and Russia. The final part presents a vision of the next generation of educational reforms, which may enable innovation diffusion, rather than hamper it.

Maritime Security in East and West Africa: A Tale of Two Regions

This book examines the nexus between maritime security and the ‘blue economy’ in sub-Saharan Africa. In recent years, maritime security issues have received increasing attention, but academic and policy-related discussions are largely limited to counter-piracy operations and, to a smaller extent, problems related to illegal fishing. This project offers an essential addition to the current academic and political discourse, combining a broad range of statistics with primary research and findings from more than 40 interviews with key stakeholders. It provides a unique analysis, recognizing that maritime security is not an end in itself but rather linked to economic and immaterial benefits of a more secure environment at sea.

China's Use of Armed Coercion: To Win Without Fighting (Asian Security Studies)

This book analyzes when, how, why, and to what effect China has used its armed forces in recent decades to coerce other actors in the international system. Over the past 20 years, China’s international status as a “great power” has become undeniable. China’s “peaceful rise” has included substantial investments in military modernization and an increasingly assertive regional posture. While China has not waged war since 1979, it has frequently resorted to what the U.S. State Department has referred to as “gangster tactics” – threats, intimidation, and armed confrontation – to advance its strategic aims. This volume illuminates the ways in which China has employed its military and paramilitary tools to coerce other states, and examines the motivations and specific foreign policy objectives that China has pursued using force short of war. The study presents new analysis of an original dataset on coercive actions undertaken by China’s armed forces, taking into account the political objectives pursued and the environmental contexts in which these operations occurred. It also presents a series of expert case studies addressing the most consequential examples of China using force to coerce in recent decades. The volume contributes to a more historically informed, empirically based understanding of great power competition. This book will be of much interest to students of Chinese security and foreign policy, strategic studies, Asian politics and International Relations.

China's Use of Armed Coercion: To Win Without Fighting (Asian Security Studies)

This book analyzes when, how, why, and to what effect China has used its armed forces in recent decades to coerce other actors in the international system. Over the past 20 years, China’s international status as a “great power” has become undeniable. China’s “peaceful rise” has included substantial investments in military modernization and an increasingly assertive regional posture. While China has not waged war since 1979, it has frequently resorted to what the U.S. State Department has referred to as “gangster tactics” – threats, intimidation, and armed confrontation – to advance its strategic aims. This volume illuminates the ways in which China has employed its military and paramilitary tools to coerce other states, and examines the motivations and specific foreign policy objectives that China has pursued using force short of war. The study presents new analysis of an original dataset on coercive actions undertaken by China’s armed forces, taking into account the political objectives pursued and the environmental contexts in which these operations occurred. It also presents a series of expert case studies addressing the most consequential examples of China using force to coerce in recent decades. The volume contributes to a more historically informed, empirically based understanding of great power competition. This book will be of much interest to students of Chinese security and foreign policy, strategic studies, Asian politics and International Relations.

Criminal Dilemmas: Understanding and Preventing Crime (Studies in Economic Theory #12)

An analysis of criminal behavior from the perspectives of rational choice theory leading to suggestions for a criminal policy. Previous edition sold 900 copies world wide since its release in June 2001.

Democracy and Globalization: Legal and Political Analysis on the Eve of the 4th Industrial Revolution (Economic Analysis of Law in European Legal Scholarship #10)

This book offers in-depth legal and political analysis concerning the compatibility of the Westphalian state model with globalization and the digital revolution. It explores the concept of democracy in a globalized world, discusses the legitimacy of economic integration in the global market, and presents three case studies (from Brazil, Taiwan and Spain) on the impact of social media on elections. It further entails novel perspectives on the impact of digitalization on national borders, and the role of citizens and experts in the shaping of globalization. A final chapter addresses the extent to which insights gained from the analysis of the abovementioned aspects will need to be considered in efforts to recover from the current global health and economic crisis.

Bautechnische Regeln und Grundsätze: Zum Gebrauche bei Prüfung von Bauanträgen und Überwachung von Bauten in polizeilicher hinsicht zusammengestellt

Reforming Capital Income Taxation

This book surveys the theoretical issues that characterize the problem of reforming capital income taxes in an open economy. It explores the tax incentives and disincentives to investment in an open economy framework allowing cross-border portfolio and direct investment.

Reforming Capital Income Taxation

This book surveys the theoretical issues that characterize the problem of reforming capital income taxes in an open economy. It explores the tax incentives and disincentives to investment in an open economy framework allowing cross-border portfolio and direct investment.

The World Economy

As globalization continues apace, lines of communications are shortening and the boundaries between nations are becoming increasingly blurred. A global perspective is adopted on an increasing range of issues and this is particularly true of economics - no single nation can truly exist in isolation. The second edition of Horst Siebert's The World Economy treats the world as a single entity, considering issues of a global economy, rather than approaching international economics from the viewpoint of any one country. The key issues that have a affected the world trade system since the turn of the millennium are very much to the fore.

The World Economy: A Global Analysis (Routledge Studies In The Modern World Economy Ser. #63)

As globalization continues apace, lines of communications are shortening and the boundaries between nations are becoming increasingly blurred. A global perspective is adopted on an increasing range of issues and this is particularly true of economics - no single nation can truly exist in isolation. The second edition of Horst Siebert's The World Economy treats the world as a single entity, considering issues of a global economy, rather than approaching international economics from the viewpoint of any one country. The key issues that have a affected the world trade system since the turn of the millennium are very much to the fore.

Rules for the Global Economy

Rules for the Global Economy is a timely examination of the conditions under which international rules of globalization come into existence, enabling world economic and financial systems to function and stabilize. Horst Siebert, a leading figure in international economics, explains that these institutional arrangements, such as the ones that govern banking, emerge when countries fail to solve economic problems on their own and cede part of their sovereignty to an international order. Siebert demonstrates that the rules result from a trial-and-error process--and usually after a crisis--in order to prevent pointless transaction costs and risks. Using an accessible and nonmathematical approach, Siebert links the rules to four areas: international trade relations, factor movements, financial flows, and the environment. He looks at the international division of labor in the trade of goods and services; flow of capital; diffusion of technology; migration of people, including labor and human capital; protection of the global environment; and stability of the monetary-financial system. He discusses the role of ethical norms and human rights in defining international regulations, and argues that the benefits of any rules system should be direct and visible. Comprehensively supporting rules-based interactions among international players, the book considers future issues of the global rules system.

Democracy in Europe

If the European Union applied to become a member of the European Union it would be rejected as undemocratic. Can the European Union foster greater democracy in Europe, and so protect the dispersal of power, personal freedom and the rule of law? Willit improve our shared lives and increase sense of being useful citizens? Rejecting both nostalgia for the nation state and thoughtless optimism, Larry Siedentop sets out to explore the practical implications of government on a continental scale. He draws on his expertise as an historian of liberal theory to produce an analysis of Europe's various political economies. In creating a framework for thought, this is sure to be a key work in the long deferred debate on Europe.

Inventing the Individual: The Origins of Western Liberalism

Here, in a grand narrative spanning 1,800 years of European history, a distinguished political philosopher firmly rejects Western liberalism’s usual account of itself: its emergence in opposition to religion in the early modern era. Larry Siedentop argues instead that liberal thought is, in its underlying assumptions, the offspring of the Church.

Inventing the Individual: The Origins of Western Liberalism

Here, in a grand narrative spanning 1,800 years of European history, a distinguished political philosopher firmly rejects Western liberalism’s usual account of itself: its emergence in opposition to religion in the early modern era. Larry Siedentop argues instead that liberal thought is, in its underlying assumptions, the offspring of the Church.

Inventing the Individual: The Origins of Western Liberalism

From Larry Siedentop, acclaimed author of Democracy in Europe, Inventing the Individual is a highly original rethinking of how our moral beliefs were formed and their impact on western society today'Magisterial, timeless, beautifully written ... Siedentop has achieved something quite extraordinary. He has explained us to ourselves' SpectatorThis ambitious and stimulating book describes how a moral revolution in the first centuries AD - the discovery of human freedom and its universal potential - led to a social revolution in the west. The invention of a new, equal social role, the individual, gradually displaced the claims of family, tribe and caste as the basis of social organisation. Larry Siedentop asks us to rethink the evolution of the ideas on which modern societies and government are built, and argues that the core of what is now our system of beliefs emerged much earlier than we think. The roots of liberalism - belief in individual liberty, in the fundamental moral equality of individuals, that equality should be the basis of a legal system and that only a representative form of government is fitting for such a society - all these, Siedentop argues, were pioneered by Christian thinkers of the Middle Ages, who drew on the moral revolution carried out by the early church. It was the arguments of canon lawyers, theologians and philosophers from the eleventh to the fourteenth century, rather than the Renaissance, that laid the foundation for liberal democracy.There are large parts of the world where other beliefs flourish - fundamentalist Islam, which denies the equality of women and is often ambiguous about individual rights and representative institutions; quasi-capitalist China, where a form of utilitarianism enshrines state interests even at the expense of justice and liberty. Such beliefs may foster populist forms of democracy. But they are not liberal. In the face of these challenges, Siedentop urges that understanding the origins of our own liberal ideas is more than ever an important part of knowing who we are.'One of the most stimulating books of political theory to have appeared in many years ... a refreshingly unorthodox account of the roots of modern liberalism in medieval Christian thinking' John Gray, Literary Review'A brave, brilliant and beautifully written defence of the western tradition' Paul Lay, History Today'An engrossing book of ideas ... illuminating, beautifully written and rigorously argued' Kenan Malik, Independent'A most impressive work of philosophical history' Robert Skidelsky

Multiculturalism in Latin America: Indigenous Rights, Diversity and Democracy (Institute of Latin American Studies)

During the last fifteen years Latin American governments reformed their constitutions to recognize indigenous rights. The contributors to this book argue that these changes post fundamental challenges to accepted notions of democracy, citizenship and development in the region. Using case studies from Mexico, Guatemala, Bolivia and Peru, they analyze the ways in which new legal frameworks have been implemented, appropriated and contested within a wider context of accelerating economic and legal globalization, highlighting the key implications for social policy, human rights and social justice.

Central America: Fragile Transition (Latin American Studies Series)

This collection explores the distinct features of post-conflict reconstruction and democratic consolidation in Central America. Three sections cover actors; political parties and party systems, the Military and returning refugees; institutions; executive-congressional relations and the judicial system; and the international context; the shifting global/regional dynamic and the impact of the United Nations on the Central American peace process.

Routledge Handbook of Law and Society in Latin America

An understanding of law and its efficacy in Latin America demands concepts distinct from the hegemonic notions of "rule of law" which have dominated debates on law, politics and society, and that recognize the diversity of situations and contexts characterizing the region. The Routledge Handbook of Law and Society in Latin America presents cutting-edge analysis of the central theoretical and applied areas of enquiry in socio-legal studies in the region by leading figures in the study of law and society from Latin America, North America and Europe. Contributors argue that scholarship about Latin America has made vital contributions to longstanding and emerging theoretical and methodological debates on the relationship between law and society. Key topics examined include: The gap between law-on-the-books and law in action The implications of legal pluralism and legal globalization The legacies of experiences of transitional justice Emerging forms of socio-legal and political mobilization Debates concerning the relationship between the legal and the illegal. The Routledge Handbook of Law and Society in Latin America sets out new research agendas for cross-disciplinary socio-legal studies and will be of interest to those studying law, sociology of law, comparative Latin American politics, legal anthropology and development studies.

The Judicialization of Politics in Latin America (Studies of the Americas)

During the last two decades the judiciary has come to play an increasingly important political role in Latin America. Constitutional courts and supreme courts are more active in counterbalancing executive and legislative power than ever before. At the same time, the lack of effective citizenship rights has prompted ordinary people to press their claims and secure their rights through the courts. This collection of essays analyzes the diverse manifestations of the judicialization of politics in contemporary Latin America, assessing their positive and negative consequences for state-society relations, the rule of law, and democratic governance in the region. With individual chapters exploring Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Peru and Venezuela, it advances a comparative framework for thinking about the nature of the judicialization of politics within contemporary Latin American democracies.

Methoden der sicherheitspolitischen Analyse: Eine Einführung

In der zweiten Auflage dieses Sammelbands werden aktuelle sicherheitspolitische Analysemethoden verständlich beschrieben und jeweils an einem aktuellen Fallbeispiel illustriert. Die Beiträge sind interdisziplinär ausgerichtet. Sie reichen von Frühwarn- und Zukunftsanalyse über Bürokratie- und Organisationsanalyse, Diskursanalyse, kulturtheoretische Analyse und vergleichende Außenpolitikanalyse bis hin zum umfassenden Ansatz im Krisenmanagement und zur Katastrophenforschung. Die Fallbeispiele erstrecken sich von der Transformation der NATO und der sicherheitspolitischen Identität Europas über die Fälle Irak, Kosovo und Bosnien bis zur Nationalen Sicherheitsstrategie der USA. Das Buch repräsentiert einerseits den aktuellen Forschungsstand. Andererseits ist es ein praxisbezogener an Beispielen orientierter Leitfaden für die Analyse internationaler Sicherheitspolitik sowie für die Sicherheitsforschung entlang des Kontinuums von „innerer“ und „äußerer“ Sicherheit.

Methoden der sicherheitspolitischen Analyse: Eine Einführung

In diesem Sammelband werden aktuelle sicherheitspolitische Analysemethoden verständlich beschrieben und auf Fallbeispiele angewendet. Die Beiträge sind auch interdisziplinär ausgerichtet. Sie reichen von Szenarien-, Frühwarn- und Zukunftsanalysen über Bürokratie- und Organisationsanalyse bis hin zu Diskursanalyse, kulturtheoretischer Analyse und vergleichender Außenpolitikanalyse. Die Fallbeispiele erstrecken sich von der Transformation der NATO und der sicherheitspolitischen Identität Europas über die Fälle Irak und Kosovo bis hin zur Nationalen Sicherheitsstrategie der USA. Das Buch repräsentiert den aktuellen Forschungsstand und ist gleichzeitig ein praxisbezogenes Methodenlehrbuch für das Fach "Internationale Politik und Sicherheit".

Kursbuch Internet und Politik: Schwerpunkt: Elektronische Demokratie im internationalen Vergleich (Kursbuch Internet und Politik #2)

Politik und ihr öffentliches Umfeld kann durch die Internet-Möglichkeiten revolutioniert werden. Das Kursbuch Internet und Politik widmet sich nunmehr bereits seit einem Jahr den Wechselbeziehungen zwischen Politik, öffentlicher Verwaltung und Internet. Experten aus Wissenschaft und Praxis bedienen in fundiert recherchierten und abwechslungsreich geschriebenen Beiträgen den Informationsbedarf eines breiten Publikums aus Fachleuten und interessierter Öffentlichkeit.

Kursbuch Internet und Politik 2003: Politische Kommunikation im Netz (Kursbuch Internet und Politik)

Im Kursbuch Internet und Politik schreiben Experten aus Wissenschaft, Politik und Gesellschaft zu Themen aus diesem Spannungsfeld, z.B. e-Government, Wahlkampf im Netz, Netzkommunikation, virtuelle Demokratisierung, Außenpolitik digital, Fundamentalismus und Rassismus im Netz.