Political Science - General

This book is concerned with how the pursuit of national economic competitiveness by states has come to be intertwined with a globalised gender agenda--one in which women and the household economy are seen as 'untapped' resources.In many East and Southeast Asian economies, competitiveness and...

Osiris the king, was slain by his brother Set, dismembered, scattered, then gathered up and reconstituted by his wife Isis and finally placed in the underworld as lord and judge of the dead. He was worshipped in Egypt from archaic, pre-dynastic times right through...

"The Sunrise in the West" is a metaphysical political treatise, falling under a constellation of Divine, scholarly, classical, cultural, and oral traditions, charting African American global futures for generations to come. The text calls for a grand unification of Black American Fraternal and Street...

Henry Spenser Wilkinson (1 May 1853 in Hulme, Manchester - 31 January 1937 in Oxford) was the first Chichele Professor of Military History at Oxford University. While he was an English writer known primarily for his work on military subjects, he had wide interests....

The Sportsman Guide to UFOs around the World.Updated February 2020. This book is for hunters and anglers who want to read stories of UFOs near the water. We have brought together stories from ordinary people witnessing UFOs at fishing spots and boats or near...

On the eve of March 24, 1999, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) began bombing the sovereign nation of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, a poorly developed nation the size of Kentucky with a population of eleven million. Led by the United States, NATO...

Narrative, Political Violence and Social Change is a call for engaging actively and critically with the ontological, epistemological, and methodological implications of narrative in the study of political violence and terrorism. Building on a basic framework of three modes of narrative - as lens,...

The Heritage Foundation has so far documented 1,328 proven cases of voter fraud since America's founding. Nonetheless, these numbers are miniscule compared to the millions of legal votes cast. Even if they likely represent the tip of an iceberg of voter fraud-there are not...

This collection examines how the loss of state socialism as a world-making project and the subsequent failures of postsocialist "civil society building" have impacted new generations of progressive, antinationalist, anarchist, and social-justice oriented activists. How do the histories of state socialism come to shape...

First published in 1979. Elis馥 Reclus was an important anarchist theorist whose contribution to the radical direction which the European anarchist movement assumed in the late nineteenth century, has been largely neglected by scholars. This study of his thought provides a basis for a...

Jefferson Finis Davis (June 3, 1808 - December 6, 1889) was an American politician who served as the president of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865. As a member of the Democratic Party, he represented Mississippi in the United States Senate and the...

This book is a short, hard stare into our perspectives on some of society's most controversial topics. Its goal is to challenge your perspectives on politics, war, religion, socio-economics, the environment, addiction, honesty, community and spirituality. If we could all find a way to...

This book is coming from Project I Asia Vision in U.S. Foreign Policy of IKUPD PROJECT: U.S. Security Strategy to Asia. This project focuses on how the U.S. should strategically recover its influence and power in this area. Nuclear and security issues and the...

'A truly exceptional book.' - Michael W. Apple, University of Wisconsin, Madison 'A gripping insight into the local struggles facing disadvantaged schools and a compelling account of the injustice of their place in the bigger picture.' - Professor Geoff Whitty, Director, Institute of Education,...

Benjamin Franklin Shambaugh (29 January 1871 in Elvira, Iowa - 7 April 1948 in Iowa City) was a US historian and political scientist. He was a professor at the State University of Iowa, later the University of Iowa, and served as president of the...

"It will be convenient for me to describe the Florida Seminole as they present themselves, first as individuals, and next as members of a society. I know it is impossible to separate, really, the individual as such from the individual as a member of...

The Bayonets of the Republic challenges the view of the French revolutionary army as an unskilled but fiercely patriotic fighting force that won simply by overwhelming its enemies with bayonet assaults. Skillfully combining traditional and new military history, Lynn demonstrates that French combat effectiveness...

President of the United States, Robert LePage, is amid his bid for re-election when he is faced with the greatest challenge in the history of this nation; the fulfillment of the prophecy by the great Shawnee Warrior and Prophet, Tecumseh, that will return their...

Despite the reversal of America's fortune from the triumphalism of the Roaring Nineties to the gloom of the lost decade and the Great Depression, theoretical conceptions of US capitalism have remained surprisingly unchanged. This book departs from the American political economy literature to identify...

The analysis and interpretation of conflicts can be a dangerously simplistic exercise. A western, developed socio-economic perspective can simplify conflicts in the so-called 'Third World' as the inevitable struggles of people who cannot coexist because of ethnic, religious or cultural differences. While acknowledging that...

The School of Salamanca in the Affairs of the Indies explores the significance of Salamancans, such as Vitoria and Soto, and related thinkers, such as Las Casas and Sep伃veda, in the formation of the early modern political order. It also analyses early modern understandings...

Authoritarian Neoliberalism explores how neoliberal forms of managing capitalism are challenging democratic governance at local, national and international levels. Identifying a spectrum of policies and practices that seek to reproduce neoliberalism and shield it from popular and democratic contestation, contributors provide original case studies...

Sir Horace Curzon Plunkett KCVO PC (Ire) JP DL FRS (24 October 1854 - 26 March 1932), was an Anglo-Irish agricultural reformer, pioneer of agricultural cooperatives, Unionist MP, supporter of Home Rule, Irish Senator and author. Plunkett, a younger brother of John Plunkett, 17th...

This book interrogates the idea of equity in the context of India's Northeast region. The region comprises of diverse ethnicities heralding different socio-political and historical contexts. The present volume attempts to bring to the fore, the ever-widening socio-economic gap between dominant and marginalized groups...

The human condition is one of perpetually seeking fulfillment. There is a constant and continual hole we try to fill with what we believe is missing, whether it be a relationship, a career, a new possession, knowledge, or interaction with a force beyond us....

Without nation-states Covid-19, climate change, international cyberattacks, and other threats would go unchecked. In The World of States, John L. Campbell and John A. Hall challenge the view that nation-states have lost their relevance in the context of globalization and rising nationalism. The book...

In the bleak and bitter cold of a copper mine in northern Japan, U.S. Marine Sergeant Major Charles Jackson was allowed to send a postcard his wife. He was allowed ten words-he used three: "I AM ALIVE!" This message, classic in its poignancy of...

"The essence of America that which really unites us, is not ethnicity, or nationality, or religion. It is an idea, and what an idea it is- that you can come from humble circumstances and do great things. That it doesn't matter where you come...

How many of us, at least once in our life, has not dreamed of stopping time, of pausing it? To take a breather, to better face a critical situation, reflect on the meaning of one's life or even dedicate oneself a little more to...

Due to its strategic position, Argentina is a pole of attraction for the illicit drug trade. As part of the globalized world, the situation has increased at an accelerated pace. The lack of policies in terms of control and prevention, the lack of national...

Public deliberation, highly valued by many African societies, becomes the cornerstone of a new system of African political philosophy in this brilliant, highly original study. In Deliberative Agency, philosopher Uchenna Okeja offers a way to construct a new political center by building it around...

This book takes a feminist approach to analyse the lives of well-educated urban Chinese women, who were raised to embody the ideals of a modern Chinese nation and are largely the beneficiaries of the policy changes of the post-Mao era. It explores young women's...

The professionalization of anthropology through practical engagement is a major force underpinning the reformulations of the nature of the anthropological project. It is therefore imperative that anthropologists critically explore the conditions of their practices, to determine the difficulties and limitations to their ethical practice....

Archibald McKellar MacMechan FRSC (June 21, 1862 - 7 August 1933) was a Canadian academic at Dalhousie University and writer. His works deal mainly with Nova Scotia and its history. The Halifax Disaster (Explosion) was an official history of the Halifax Explosion. Born in...

This book charts the new phase of global struggles around gender equality and sexual democracy: the ultraconservative mobilization against "gender ideology" and feminist efforts to counteract it. It argues that anti-gender campaigns, which emerged around 2010 in Europe, are not a simple continuation of...

The adoption of a baby by a couple unable to have children is the point of departure for The Past is an Imperfect Tense, in which B. Kucinski tells the story of a father-son relationship that begins intense and loving and ends up in...

Note: Some sample pages are blocked by Amazon. They are loaded on: https: //mewe.com/p/thebellcurveplus ( censored.docx ).Intelligence is associated with everything created by human beings. We are in an unrestricted war now with the pandemic as the first wave. This war is caused by...

The phrase "solidarity of the shaken" was introduced into the today's political vocabulary by Jan Patočka, one of the last students of the philosopher Edmund Husserl and undoubtedly the most important Czech philosopher of the twentieth century. In January 1977, Patočka became - together...

Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), besides writing famous novels such as War and Peace, also wrote on political issues, especially later in his life, putting forward a political philosophy which might be termed 'Christian anarchism'. This book provides a comprehensive overview of Tolstoy's political thought. It...

The law is a well-known tool in fighting gender inequality, but which laws actually advance women's rights? This book unpacks the complex nuances behind gender-responsive domestic legislation, from several of the world's leading experts on gender equality. Drawing on domestic examples and international law,...

Seminar paper from the year 2019 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: International Organisations, grade: 2,0, University of Bamberg, course: International Relations, language: English, abstract: This work deals with the bureaucratic organization of UN peacekeeping missions. It is tested whether bureaucratic...

Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson (1862-1932), known as Goldie, was a British political scientist and philosopher. He lived most of his life at Cambridge, where he wrote a dissertation on Neoplatonism before becoming a fellow. He was closely associated with the Bloomsbury Group. Dickinson was deeply...

لقد قامت الدول القومية الأوروبية إثر انهيار الإمبراطوريات، في التاريخ الحديث، على فكرة الاستقلال في جميع الميادين الجغرافية والاقتصادية والسياسية والثقافية. حيث تجسّد الاستقلال الجغرافي في حدود واضحة بين الدول الأوروبية، وتجسد الاستقلال الاقتصادي بالتنافس بين هذه الدول على تحقيق التقدم داخل حدودها، والهيمنة...

Burton Egbert Stevenson (1872-1962) was an American author, anthologist, and librarian. He was born in Chillicothe, Ohio, and attended Princeton University 1890-1893. While at Princeton, Stevenson was a correspondent for United Press and for the New York Tribune. He was city editor for the...

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Seminar paper from the year 2020 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Region: Western Europe, grade: 2,0, University of Twente, language: English, abstract: The aim of this paper is to investigate to what extent the EU's strategy for securing its borders aligns...

Explore the moments of 2020 as we remember the first half of the year together. Kassie paints the world as it happens through poetry and provides a perfectly biased view into some of the impacts across America and beyond. The wide spread effects of...

Most America citizens have views on what our leaders need to do to unite this country. Fran Walker, the author, A United States Citizens Opinion views United States as a controversial country due to an unfair and dysfunctional government system. Her opinion is that...

In 1806 an anonymous Greek book called for a republican government, patterned upon that of the young United States, to be established in Greece, then long the rule of the Ottoman Empire. The "Americanization" of Greece presupposed independence. The book's author, Count John Capo...

This riveting memoir tells of the fate of a Soviet dissident, Alexander Shatravka, who tried to escape from the Soviet Union in the 1974, only to be caught and returned to nine years of imprisonment in Soviet psychiatric hospitals and labor camps. Released in...