Political Science - General

The BiblioGov Project is an effort to expand awareness of the public documents and records of the U.S. Government via print publications. In broadening the public understanding of government and its work, an enlightened democracy can grow and prosper. Ranging from historic Congressional Bills...

This book explores state-religion relations under a populist authoritarian ruling party in Turkey. In doing so, it investigates how the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) instrumentalizes state-controlled religion to further, defend, legitimatize and propagate its authoritarian populist political agenda in a constitutionally secular...

It is the toiling masses and the rest of the people who fight for national liberation, democracy and socialism against imperialism and all reaction who let us hope for a bright future of world peace and common prosperity. They are now waging anti-imperialist and...

This 4th edition of Bill Barry's New Union Officer's Handbook couldn't come at a better time. His revised training manual for union leaders is supercharged with lessons learned from the Covid pandemic.Covid has presented labor with obstacles...and opportunities for organizing. I Just Got Elected,...

These are the memoirs of the great mystic and teacher who inspired a generation of disciples and followers before, during and briefing after the Second World War. In Meetings With Remarkable Men Gurdjieff introduces us to some of the companions he encountered in his...

Natural Law in the Spiritual World is a collection of essays not originally intended for publication but rather to help the writer get things clear in his own mind. Although written from the point of view of someone in the pay of a Scottish...

Natural Law in the Spiritual World is a collection of essays not originally intended for publication but rather to help the writer get things clear in his own mind. Although written from the point of view of someone in the pay of a Scottish...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...

Author: Tobias CremerISBN-10: 1009262165ISBN-13: 9781009262163Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/30/2023Pages: 284Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.40lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81dReview Citation(s): Choice 11/01/2023

I want to introduce you to my third book of photographs, Farewell to Valparaiso, that describes my feelings at the time to say good-bye to a loved city where I lived in my adolescence and young adult life. This book is intended to reach...

Lord Ashley (later the Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury), the 'Poor Man's Earl', is widely remembered as a leading aristocratic philanthropist whose concern for suffering and the oppressed victims of Victorian 'progress' saw him champion a range of social, industrial, educational, and health reforms. A...

This edited book presents case-studies and reflections on the role of languages and their analytic study in development practices across four regions: Africa, Asia, Australia, and the Pacific. The authors highlight the importance of conceptual studies of languages and cultures, as well as language...

Since its founding in 1971, the World Economic Forum, based in the Swiss canton of Geneva, has managed to become a control center of global power. For more than 50 years, it has brought together the top leaders of politics, business, academia, the media,...

It appears that ethics has never been more important in politics that it is now. Abazovic's critique of globaliyation aspires to make the current world that is marked bz globaliyation more moral. It is interesting and aludable that someone who is involved in politics...

Written by experts, this long-established and definitive guide to the workings of the European Union provides comprehensive, straightforward and readable coverage of this sometimes misunderstood and complex institution. It explains not only what happens but also why, and analyses the EU's strengths and weaknesses,...

Current standard narratives of Ottoman, Balkan, and Middle East history overemphasize the role of nationalism in the transformation of the region. Challenging these accounts, this book argues that religious affiliation was in fact the most influential shaper of communal identity in the Ottoman era,...

The commentary on Plato's Republic by Proclus (d. 485 CE), which takes the form of a series of essays, is the only sustained treatment of the dialogue to survive from antiquity. This three-volume edition presents the first complete English translation of Proclus' text, together...

The "muckraker" Lincoln Steffens dug deep into business criminality and political corruption in a powerful series of articles written for McClure's magazine. Establishment newspapers and "System" politicians dismissed his work as just another example of the decrepit modern journalism that could never pass for...

Climate change happens all the time. Is current change natural or influenced by humans? The answer may not be what you think. Reisman exposes that the hoax is itself a hoax. No matter what you think now, this book provides insights into how the...

After he fled Austria, Ludwig von Mises arrived in the United States and continued to write essays on economics. Among those included in this volume are: Guiding Principles for the Reconstruction of Austria (1940) An Eastern Democratic Union: A Proposal for the Establishment of...

This collection contains twenty-one thought-provoking essays on the controversies surrounding the moral and legal distinctions between euthanasia and "letting die." Since public awareness of this issue has increased this second edition includes nine entirely new essays which bring the treatment of the subject up-to-date....

Liberalism: The Basics is an engaging and accessible introduction to liberalism. The author provides a comprehensive overview of liberal practices, liberal values and critically analyses liberal theories, allowing for a richer understanding of liberalism as a whole. The book is divided into three parts:...

In Rhetorics of Insecurity, Zeynep Gambetti and Marcial Godoy-Anativia bring together a select group of scholars to investigate the societal ramifications of the present-day concern with security in diverse contexts and geographies. The essays claim that discourses and practices of security actually breed insecurity,...

"Bolton is admirably focused, centering broader ventures around precise turning points in the documents and incidents she has selected.... The book crosses generic boundaries... in the spirit of an other who transcends any single history or discipline." -- Religion and LiteratureLinda Bolton uses six...

In July 1980, two weeks before the Gdansk shipyard strikes, Roman Laba arrived in Poland as an American graduate student. He stayed there for almost two and a half years before he was arrested and expelled from the country for "activities noxious to the...

Are sex scandals simply trivial distractions from serious issues or can they help democratize politics? In 1820, George IV's "royal gambols" with his mistresses endangered the Old Oak of the constitution. When he tried to divorce Queen Caroline for adultery, the resulting scandal enabled...

Power and Culture challenges existing assumptions about the war in the Pacific. By focusing on the interplay between culture and international relations, one of the world's most distinguished scholars of United States-Japanese affairs offers a startling reassessment of what the war really meant to...

Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France was the first sustained theoretical critique of the French Revolution; and is now recognised as the classic statement of modern conservatism. Reflections surveys the British political culture of traditionalism, gradualism and deference, and contrasts it with the...

First published in 1988, this study of international capital movements looks at their historical role in the financing of trade and their dramatically increased role in the world economy in recent years. It examines the current economic theory and the policy implications of these...

"White-collar criminals continue to pick our pockets to the tune of$300 billion every year. These 'socially acceptable' criminals robmore from companies and individuals with a pen or key stroke than astreet thug can plunder with a high-powered pistol." --from theIntroduction In Masters of Deception,...

This book explores the political struggle to interpret and define the meaning, the scope and the implications of human rights norms in general and freedom of expression in particular. From the Rushdie affair and the Danish cartoon affair to the Charlie Hebdo massacre and...

Food sovereignty has been a fundamentally contested concept in global agrarian discourse over the last two decades, as a political project and campaign, an alternative, a social movement, and an analytical framework. It has inspired and mobilized diverse publics: workers, scholars and public intellectuals,...

Pandemic Response and the Cost of Lockdowns brings the vast analytical apparatus of the humanities and social sciences to the task of critically analysing the political decisions taken in 2020-21. The global response to the COVID-19 pandemic left little time for critical debate about...

The notion of 'silence' in Politics and International Relations has come to imply the absence of voice in political life and, as such, tends to be scholastically prescribed as the antithesis of political power and political agency. However, from Emma Gonz疝es's three minutes of...

Master's Thesis from the year 2019 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Miscellaneous, grade: 10, University of Marburg (Faculty of Business Administration and Economics Economics & Institutions), language: English, abstract: Since both food security and energy security are countries' strategic objective,...

Author: Konstantin S. SharovISBN-10: 9811906947ISBN-13: 9789811906947Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/20/2022Pages: 226Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.15lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.63d

This book critically reflects on the responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) by exploring the impact and possible future outcomes in a region already struggling with the effects of a decade of uprisings, failed or difficult political...

Calls for redress of historical wrongs regularly make headlines around the world. People dispute the degree to which justice should be concerned with righting past wrongs, with some arguing that justice should be primarily focused on claims arising from present disadvantage. Proponents and sceptics...

Since gaining independence in 1956, Sudan has endured a troubled history, including the longest civil war in African history in Southern Sudan and more recent conflicts including the crisis in Darfur. This book explores this history of ensuing conflict and analyses the different attempts...

It is almost impossible to summarise the extraordinary life of Mariella Novotny in a few paragraphs. In 1961 she was an underage hooker engaging in sexual relations with President John F. Kennedy, the most powerful man in the world. She was believed to be...

Generations X, Y, and Z have been denied many sapient ideals and values as a result of free speech suppression and multi-media illiberalism. Lacking in viewpoint diversity, intellectual humility, and critical thinking skills, impressionable young minds are being imprinted by progressive 'regressive' indoctrination.The intellectual...

WITH A FOREWORD BY DR FAROOQ ABDULLAHSRINAGAR IN THE WINTER OF 1989 was an eerie ghost town witnessing the beginnings of a war dance. The dam burst the night boys from the separatist JKLF group were freed in exchange for the release of Rubaiya...

Seminar paper from the year 2021 in the subject Politics - Environmental Policy, grade: 1,0, language: English, abstract: The following paper examines the implementation of indigenous rights in international climate policy to date. First it will show why the climate crisis is a component...

Essay from the year 2021 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Region: Africa, language: English, abstract: This assignment is supposed to provide a portrait of Mandelas leadership and to break down leadership lessons for Africa. Good leadership and governance are key to...

As detailed in Oligarchic Cartelization in Post-Suharto Indonesia, a few ruling individuals from party organizations overpowered Indonesia's post-authoritarian, representative democracy. The legislative process of the 2017 Election Act was the case study employed to examine this assumption. The underlying thinking was that there was...

Author: Virginia C. LiISBN-10: 1591020816ISBN-13: 9781591020813Publisher: Prometheus BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/01/2003Pages: 325Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.51lbsSize: 9.24h x 6.34w x 1.18dReview Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 06/30/2003 pg. 72

Today's California represents, by far, when compared to the rest of the United States, the worst that "so-called" progressivism has to offer-and if liberal, leftist, and Democratic Party pundits are correct with their declarations that "California is the wave of America's future"-the decline of...

The author, Charles Ray Jones, provides a simplified decision-making and problem resolution process using the high-reliability factors and processes demanded of those, for example, who ensure the safe operation of nuclear power plants. This work parallels and expands on the principles and management expectations...

Seminar paper from the year 2020 in the subject Politics - Environmental Policy, grade: 1,0, University of Bamberg, language: English, abstract: This research paper deals with the current issue of the global climate crisis and the personal responsibility to act against it. Theoretically, it...

This edited volume increases knowledge about children and young people living in borderlands, passing through borders and (de)constructing borders, as well as highlights the potential of studying how children and young people imagine, act, cross, and inhabit symbolic and material borders. The study of...