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Author : Robé, Jean-Philippe
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781529213188

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Property, Power and Politics by Robé, Jean-Philippe Pdf

Globalization is an extraordinary phenomenon affecting virtually everything in our lives. And it is imperative that we understand the operation of economic power in a globalized world if we are to address the most challenging issues our world is facing today, from climate change to world hunger and poverty. This revolutionary work rethinks globalization as a power system feeding from, and in competition with, the state system. Cutting across disciplines of law, politics and economics, it explores how multinational enterprises morphed into world political organisations with global reach and power, but without the corresponding responsibilities. In illuminating how the concentration of property rights within corporations has led to the rejection of democracy as an ineffective system of government and to the rise in inequality, Robé offers a clear pathway to a fairer and more sustainable power system.

Author : Shona Hunter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781136004322

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Power, Politics and the Emotions by Shona Hunter Pdf

How can we rethink ideas of policy failure to consider its paradoxes and contradictions as a starting point for more hopeful democratic encounters? Offering a provocative and innovative theorisation of governance as relational politics, the central argument of Power, Politics and the Emotions is that there are sets of affective dynamics which complicate the already materially and symbolically contested terrain of policy-making. This relational politics is Shona Hunter’s starting point for a more hopeful, but realistic understanding of the limits and possibilities enacted through contemporary governing processes. Through this idea Hunter prioritises the everyday lived enactments of policy as a means to understand the state as a more differentiated and changeable entity than is often allowed for in current critiques of neoliberalism. But Hunter reminds us that focusing on lived realities demands a melancholic confrontation with pain, and the risks of social and physical death and violence lived through the contemporary neoliberal state. This is a state characterised by the ascendency of neoliberal whiteness; a state where no one is innocent and we are all responsible for the multiple intersecting exclusionary practices creating its unequal social orderings. The only way to struggle through the central paradox of governance to produce something different is to accept this troubling interdependence between resistance and reproduction and between hope and loss. Analysing the everyday processes of this relational politics through original empirical studies in health, social care and education the book develops an innovative interdisciplinary theoretical synthesis which engages with and extends work in political science, cultural theory, critical race and feminist analysis, critical psychoanalysis and post-material sociology.

Author : Tony Dundon,Miguel Martínez Lucio,Emma Hughes,Arjan Keizer,Debra Howcroft,Roger Walden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 152614641X

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Power, Politics and Influence at Work by Tony Dundon,Miguel Martínez Lucio,Emma Hughes,Arjan Keizer,Debra Howcroft,Roger Walden Pdf

This book explores how power operates in workplace settings at local, national and transnational levels. It argues that how people are valued in and out of work is a political dynamic, which reflects and shapes how societies treat their citizens. Offering vital resources for activists and students on labour rights, employment issues and trade unions, this book argues that the influence workers can exert is changing dramatically and future challenges for change can be positive and progressive.

Author : Adèle Garnier,Liliana Lyra Jubilut,Kristin Bergtora Sandvik
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1785339443

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Refugee Resettlement by Adèle Garnier,Liliana Lyra Jubilut,Kristin Bergtora Sandvik Pdf

Examining resettlement practices worldwide and drawing on contributions from anthropology, law, international relations, social work, political science, and numerous other disciplines, this ground-breaking volume highlights the conflicts between refugees’ needs and state practices, and assesses international, regional and national perspectives on resettlement, as well as the bureaucracies and ideologies involved. It offers a detailed understanding of resettlement, from the selection of refugees to their long-term integration in resettling states, and highlights the relevance of a lifespan approach to resettlement analysis.

Author : Tamir Moustafa
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2007-06-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781139465113

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The Struggle for Constitutional Power by Tamir Moustafa Pdf

For nearly three decades, scholars and policymakers have placed considerable stock in judicial reform as a panacea for the political and economic turmoil plaguing developing countries. Courts are charged with spurring economic development, safeguarding human rights, and even facilitating transitions to democracy. How realistic are these expectations, and in what political contexts can judicial reforms deliver their expected benefits? This book addresses these issues through an examination of the politics of the Egyptian Supreme Constitutional Court, the most important experiment in constitutionalism in the Arab world. The Egyptian regime established a surprisingly independent constitutional court to address a series of economic and administrative pathologies that lie at the heart of authoritarian political systems. Although the Court helped the regime to institutionalize state functions and attract investment, it simultaneously opened new avenues through which rights advocates and opposition parties could challenge the regime. The book challenges conventional wisdom and provides insights into perennial questions concerning the barriers to institutional development, economic growth, and democracy in the developing world.

Author : David Burnham
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-13
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781497696860

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A Law unto Itself by David Burnham Pdf

This is a fully documented inside examination of the Internal Revenue Service, in many ways the largest and most powerful of all federal agencies, and also the agency whose competent function is most essential to our democracy. The book’s appearance in 1989 sparked a public furor and major legislation attempting to redress the IRS’ many abuses of power, both political and bureaucratic. The book will be a relevant handbook as long as the agency remains a towering presence in American life.

Author : Martin Wight
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2002-06-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0826461743

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Power Politics by Martin Wight Pdf

This account of state-systems, which derives not from theoretical models but from the study of state-systems that have actually existed, emphasizes their moral or normative bases. It argues that a system of states presupposes a common culture. The essays deal with the concept of systems of states: the state-systems of Hellas; Hellas and Persia; the geographical and chronological boundaries of the modern states-system; international legitimacy; and triangles and duels. An introductory chapter by Hedley Bull draws the essays together and provides an account of Martin Wright's life and thought.

Author : Christopher Rudolph
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781501708411

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Power and Principle by Christopher Rudolph Pdf

On August 21, 2013, chemical weapons were unleashed on the civilian population in Syria, killing another 1,400 people in a civil war that had already claimed the lives of more than 140,000. As is all too often the case, the innocent found themselves victims of a violent struggle for political power. Such events are why human rights activists have long pressed for institutions such as the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate and prosecute some of the world’s most severe crimes: genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. While proponents extol the creation of the ICC as a transformative victory for principles of international humanitarian law, critics have often characterized it as either irrelevant or dangerous in a world dominated by power politics. Christopher Rudolph argues in Power and Principle that both perspectives are extreme. In contrast to prevailing scholarship, he shows how the interplay between power politics and international humanitarian law have shaped the institutional development of international criminal courts from Nuremberg to the ICC. Rudolph identifies the factors that drove the creation of international criminal courts, explains the politics behind their institutional design, and investigates the behavior of the ICC. Through the development and empirical testing of several theoretical frameworks, Power and Principle helps us better understand the factors that resulted in the emergence of international criminal courts and helps us determine the broader implications of their presence in society.

Author : John A. Vasquez
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015020683036

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The Power of Power Politics by John A. Vasquez Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-19
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004461802

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Politics and the Histories of International Law by Anonim Pdf

This book brings together 18 contributions by authors from different legal systems and backgrounds. They address the political implications of the writing of the history of legal issues ranging from slavery over the use of force and extraterritorial jurisdiction to Eurocentrism.

Author : Jack L. Goldsmith,Eric A. Posner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2005-02-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199883370

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The Limits of International Law by Jack L. Goldsmith,Eric A. Posner Pdf

International law is much debated and discussed, but poorly understood. Does international law matter, or do states regularly violate it with impunity? If international law is of no importance, then why do states devote so much energy to negotiating treaties and providing legal defenses for their actions? In turn, if international law does matter, why does it reflect the interests of powerful states, why does it change so often, and why are violations of international law usually not punished? In this book, Jack Goldsmith and Eric Posner argue that international law matters but that it is less powerful and less significant than public officials, legal experts, and the media believe. International law, they contend, is simply a product of states pursuing their interests on the international stage. It does not pull states towards compliance contrary to their interests, and the possibilities for what it can achieve are limited. It follows that many global problems are simply unsolvable. The book has important implications for debates about the role of international law in the foreign policy of the United States and other nations. The authors see international law as an instrument for advancing national policy, but one that is precarious and delicate, constantly changing in unpredictable ways based on non-legal changes in international politics. They believe that efforts to replace international politics with international law rest on unjustified optimism about international law's past accomplishments and present capacities.

Author : Julius Stone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Law
ISBN : STANFORD:36105044428246

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Of Law and Nations by Julius Stone Pdf

Examines the major current and future problems of inter-national legal order. Main theme is the unraveling of theperpetual conflict between law and power politics as themeans towards world order and universal peace.

Author : Jan-Willem van Prooijen,Paul A. M. van Lange
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107035805

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Power, Politics, and Paranoia by Jan-Willem van Prooijen,Paul A. M. van Lange Pdf

Why are people frequently suspicious of their political and corporate leaders? This book examines the psychological roots of political paranoia.

Author : Catharine A. MacKinnon
Publisher : Belknap Press
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780674237667

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Butterfly Politics by Catharine A. MacKinnon Pdf

“Sometimes ideas change the world. This astonishing, miraculous, shattering, inspiring book captures the origins and the arc of the movement for sex equality. It’s a book whose time has come—always, but perhaps now more than ever.” —Cass Sunstein, coauthor of Nudge Under certain conditions, small simple actions can produce large and complex “butterfly effects.” Butterfly Politics shows how Catharine A. MacKinnon turned discrimination law into an effective tool against sexual abuse—grounding and predicting the worldwide #MeToo movement—and proposes concrete steps that could have further butterfly effects on women’s rights. Thirty years after she won the U.S. Supreme Court case establishing sexual harassment as illegal, this timely collection of her previously unpublished interventions on consent, rape, and the politics of gender equality captures in action the creative and transformative activism of an icon. “MacKinnon adapts a concept from chaos theory in which the tiny motion of a butterfly’s wings can trigger a tornado half a world away. Under the right conditions, she posits, small actions can produce major social transformations.” —New York Times “MacKinnon [is] radical, passionate, incorruptible and a beautiful literary stylist... Butterfly Politics is a devastating salvo fired in the gender wars... This book has a single overriding aim: to effect global change in the pursuit of equality.” —The Australian “Sexual Harassment of Working Women was a revelation. It showed how this anti-discrimination law—Title VII—could be used as a tool... It was the beginning of a field that didn’t exist until then.” —U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Author : Emily Grabham,Davina Cooper,Jane Krishnadas,Didi Herman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2008-08-21
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781134082216

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Intersectionality and Beyond by Emily Grabham,Davina Cooper,Jane Krishnadas,Didi Herman Pdf

This collection addresses the present and the future of the concept of intersectionality within socio-legal studies. Intersectionality provides a metaphorical schema for understanding the interaction of different forms of disadvantage, including race, sexuality, and gender. But it also goes further to provide a particular model of how these aspects of social identity and location converge – whether at the level of subjectivity, everyday life, in culture or in the institutional practices of state and other bodies. Including contributions from a range of international scholars, this book interrogates what has become a key organizing concept across a range of disciplines, most particularly law, political theory, and cultural studies.