Politics & Social Sciences
epub |eng | 2013-01-15 | Author:Gideon Calder & Catriona McKinnon [Calder, Gideon & McKinnon, Catriona]

A ‘right’ to pollute? Having dismissed the moral ‘excuses’, above, now consider another way in which members of the global elite might protest against the coercive enforcement of environmental duties, ...
( Category: Politics & Government August 7,2022 )
epub |eng | 2015-11-30 | Author:Vipul Mudgal [Mudgal, Vipul]

References Baiocchi, G. (2005), Militants and Citizens: The Politics of Participatory Democracy in Porto Alegre. Stanford: Stanford University Press. (Quoted in Ibid. p. 175.) Baiocchi, G., Heller, P. and Silva, ...
( Category: Politics & Government August 7,2022 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-30 | Author:Will Guzman [Guzman, Will]

Southern Conference for Human Welfare The SCHW had its formal beginnings in 1938 when a group of white southern liberals convened a meeting in Birmingham, Alabama, to discuss the wretched ...
( Category: Campaigns & Elections August 7,2022 )
epub |eng | 2012-11-30 | Author:William Smith [Smith, William]

Conclusion This chapter has augmented the account of the justification and role of civil disobedience developed in the previous chapter. Let us now summarize the position that has emerged. The ...
( Category: Political Science August 7,2022 )
epub |eng | 2015-05-11 | Author:Alvin Z. Rubinstein [Rubinstein, Alvin Z.]

4-5 Troublesome Times; Staying the Course Speech at the United States Institute of Peace Washington DC April 7, 1999 In February I gave a speech in San Francisco about America’s ...
( Category: Leadership August 7,2022 )
epub |eng | 2019-03-04 | Author:Thomas J Kerr [Kerr, Thomas J]

The proposed program appears, in retrospect, to be quite impressive, but several formidable barriers blocked the path of its implementation. The first was money. Although this was hardly a new ...
( Category: Politics & Social Sciences August 7,2022 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2015-01-15 | Author:Richard Youngs [Youngs, Richard]

6 CLIMATE AND EUROPEAN DEFENCE STRATEGIES Moving from the general set of European Union (EU) commitments into more specific policy domains, a first and vital consideration relates to how European ...
( Category: Politics & Social Sciences August 7,2022 )
epub |eng | 1999-04-15 | Author:Jamie Swift [Swift, Jamie]

In 1995 U.S. political scientist Robert Putnam reported to the Trilateral Commission on the state of democracy in the nations of North America, Europe, and Japan. He cited “substantial evidence ...
( Category: Politics & Social Sciences August 7,2022 )
epub |eng | 2009-09-22 | Author:Helene Sjursen [Sjursen, Helene]

The Eu – a cosmopolitan polity? Erik Oddvar Eriksen INTRODUCTION The European Union (EU) has for a long time been described as a ‘civilian power’ (Duchêne 1972).1 It has been ...
( Category: Politics & Social Sciences August 7,2022 )
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Douglas Jones [Jones, Douglas]

CONCLUSION The record of the party’s engagement with the national question between 1950 and 1969 was chequered. While the party had begun and finished the period giving some prominence to ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism August 7,2022 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-02 | Author:Francesco Cavatorta [Cavatorta, Francesco]

Civil society While most commentators acknowledge that a particular conception of civil society, as connoting voluntary organizations that operate in a nebulous zone between those of the family and the ...
( Category: Politics & Government August 7,2022 )
epub |eng | 2017-04-14 | Author:Denis Makarov [Makarov, Denis]

Deliberation (even as a theory) wakes up one’s civic consciousness, providing a bridge from interest to action: “The concept seems ‘better something than nothing’ to me. At least I am ...
( Category: Politics & Social Sciences August 7,2022 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-01 | Author:Scott Jasper [Jasper, Scott]

REGIONAL COLLABORATION The second case examines efforts to reduce piracy in the critical passages in Southeast Asia between the Indian and Pacific Oceans through the waters of Malaysia, Singapore, and ...
( Category: Politics & Government August 7,2022 )
epub |eng | 2022-01-01 | Author:Oliver Boyd-Barrett [Boyd-Barrett, Oliver]

Van Wagenen cited Syrian political writer Camille Otrakji in May 2011: While most protests were genuinely peaceful, many were confrontational and violent. Syria’s police and security personnel are not used ...
( Category: Politics & Social Sciences August 7,2022 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-28 | Author:Laurie Nathan [Nathan, Laurie]

1 On repression and state-sponsored violence in Zimbabwe since 2000, see Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum (2001a, 2001b); International Crisis Group (2001a, 2003, 2005, 2007a, 2008a, 2008b); Human Rights Watch ...
( Category: Politics & Social Sciences August 7,2022 )