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The debate between cosmopolitans and non-cosmopolitans flourishes. Contributors continue to disagree over at least fourteen core issues analyzed in this work, including these questions: What is distinctive about a cosmopolitan approach to matters of justice? What does...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-07-11
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Memories of the Second World War play an important role in contemporary politics and society across Eastern Europe. One of the most controversial yet least studied pages of Ukraine’s wartime history is that of the Waffen SS ‘Galicia’ Division, whose members are usually...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-07-08
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Are animals worthy recipients of justice? If so, what do we owe them, and what is to be gained by using the language of justice when considering our duties toward them? This innovative book argues that not only are animals worthy recipients of justice, but that the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-06-20
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"In Russian and French prisons is a 1887 essay by Piotr Kropotkin. It is more than a crude and detailed description of the Russian prison system and its comparison to Western European jails. It is also a very personal document by the famous Anarchist Prince, a...
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Les Editions de Londres
Parution :
2013-06-15
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Although the idea that politics is influenced by its cultural setting is so plausible as to be almost irresistible, political culture has remained a contested and controversial concept. Just what the cultural setting consists of and how its influence on politics is...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-06-13
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This book offers a concise history of US policy in Iraq since 1990 and how it has evolved over two decades. Examines US relations with Iraq from both a regional and international perspective Argues that the only way to clearly understand US policy toward Iraq is to see...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-06-11
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The "Magna Carta" is one of the most famous constitutional documents in the world. To the Americans, it has a sacrosanct bearing and it is seen as a major source of inspiration for the US Constitution. To the British, it is a 1215 charter which twenty-five feisty...
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Les Editions de Londres
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2013-06-10
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Die meisten Länder des Commonwealth sind vom Common Law geprägt. Dieses unterscheidet sich durch seine starre Präjudizienbindung auf den ersten Blick erheblich von dem kontinentalen System des kodifizierten Rechts. In der Praxis sorgt dies aufgrund des erheblichen...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-06-04
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This volume offers an incisive overview of central issues and controversies in political thought and analysis. It includes major discussions of the idea of the modern state, contemporary theories of the state, problems of power and legitimation, new forms of democratic...
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Polity
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2013-05-28
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This volume explores bilateral relations between Romania and Hungary and examines the entangled history of their two peoples. Going beyond traditional nation-centred narratives, the contributors approach the shared pasts of Romanians and Hungarians within a...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-05-17
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The problem of value pluralism permeates modern political philosophy. Its presence can be felt even when it is not explicitly the central topic under investigation. Political thinkers such as Max Weber, Isaiah Berlin and Stuart Hampshire derive pessimistic, sometimes...
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Polity
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2013-04-26
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Inventing the Market: Smith, Hegel, and Political Theory analyses the constructions of the market in the thought of Adam Smith and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and discusses their relevance for contemporary political philosophy. Combining the history of ideas with...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-04-25
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'Taxpayers are complicit in the illegal wars waged by their governments.' 'Corporations are complicit in human rights abuses perpetrated by their suppliers.' 'Aid workers who compromise with militias are complicit in their reign of terror.' We hear such allegations all...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-04-25
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Exploitation and Economic Justice in the Liberal Capitalist State develops the first new, liberal theory of economic justice to appear since John Rawls and Ronald Dworkin proposed their respective theories back in the 1970s and early 1980s. It does this by presenting a...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-02-28
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History of Political Theory: An Introduction not only explores the great works of Western political theory but demonstrates their continuing relevance. Volume II traces the origin and development of liberal political theory, and so the foundations for contemporary...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-02-08
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This book presents a definition of terrorism that is broad and descriptive and much needed to prevent misunderstanding. The book identifies the features that make terrorism ‘wrong’, including coerciveness, the violation of rights and undermining of trust. Next, it...
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Springer
Parution :
2013-01-17
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There is extraordinary diversity, depth, and complexity in the encounter between theatre, performance, and human rights. Through an examination of a rich repertoire of plays and performance practices from and about countries across six continents, the contributors open...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-12-27
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Der im Jahre 2004 in Kopenhagen entdeckte Entwurf einer Gesamtverfassung für das Königreich Dänemark und die Herzogtümer Schleswig und Holstein aus den ersten Monaten des Jahres 1848 wird hier in einer textkritischen Edition vorgelegt. Neben ihm werden die Verfassungen...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-11-20
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Although the field of deliberative civic engagement is growing rapidly around the world, our knowledge and understanding of its practice and impacts remain highly fragmented. Democracy in Motion represents the first comprehensive attempt to assess the practice and...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2012-11-01
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"Liberal democracy" is the name given to a regime that much of the world lives in or aspires to, and both liberal and deliberative theorists focus much of their intellectual energy on working to reshape and perfect this regime. But what if "liberal democracy" were a...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2012-10-25
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