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Supranational Horrors

Author : Rui M. Trindade Oliveira
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781793654359

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This book examines the parallels between Italian and Spanish horror cinemas including the cultural features they share, their ability to define distinct identities within the genre, and what the author terms ‘Italian-Spanishness.’

The ECHR and Human Rights Theory

Author : Alain Zysset
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317248132

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The ECHR and Human Rights Theory by Alain Zysset Pdf

The European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) has been relatively neglected in the field of normative human rights theory. This book aims to bridge the gap between human rights theory and the practice of the ECHR. In order to do so, it tests the two overarching approaches in human rights theory literature: the ethical and the political, against the practice of the ECHR ‘system’. The book also addresses the history of the ECHR and the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) as an international legal and political institution. The book offers a democratic defence of the authority of the ECtHR. It illustrates how a conception of democracy – more specifically, the egalitarian argument for democracy developed by Thomas Christiano on the domestic level – can illuminate the reasoning of the Court, including the allocation of the margin of appreciation on a significant number of issues. Alain Zysset argues that the justification of the authority of the ECtHR – its prominent status in the domestic legal orders – reinforces the democratic process within States Parties, thereby consolidating our status as political equals in those legal and political orders.

Disney Gothic

Author : Lorna Piatti-Farnell,Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2024-04-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781666907216

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Disney Gothic by Lorna Piatti-Farnell,Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock Pdf

In this edited collection exploring Disney’s dark side, attention to Disney’s Gothic reveals the ways through which Disney productions construct and reinforce conceptions of normalcy and deviance in relation to shifting understandings of morality, social roles, and identity categories.

The Palgrave Handbook of the Vampire

Author : Simon Bacon
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 1746 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031362538

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Dissecting Cannibal Holocaust

Author : Nathan Wardinski
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2024-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781666914030

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Dissecting Cannibal Holocaust by Nathan Wardinski Pdf

Since its 1980 release, the Italian horror film Cannibal Holocaust has shocked viewers and provoked censors with its graphic imagery and unrelenting nihilism. Following a summary of the story and the controversy over its release, Dissecting Cannibal Holocaust examines the film’s relevance to cinematic and literary history, anthropology, nature studies, ethics and censorship, media and journalism, documentary filmmaking, representations of cannibalism and post-colonialism, and genre cinema. The book also addresses some of the most frequent criticisms of Cannibal Holocaust including its depictions of native people and the inclusion of real-life animal killings. Matching the audacity of the film itself, Dissecting Cannibal Holocaust makes provocative arguments about the influence of corporate media, the purpose of art, the relationship between industrialized and indigenous people, the amorality of nature, and the roots of violence.

Living Archetypes

Author : Anthony Stevens
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-26
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317595625

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Anthony Stevens has devoted a lifetime to modernizing our understanding of the archetypes within us, relating them to conceptual developments in a variety of scientific disciplines, such as the patterns of behaviour of behavioural ecology, the species-specific behavioural systems of Bowlby’s attachment theory, the deep structures of Chomskian linguistics, and the modules of evolutionary psychology, to name but a few. This selection of papers and chapters from the course of Stevens’ career, all lucidly written and argued, highlight episodes in the progress of his quest to place archetypal theory on a sound scientific foundation. As a whole, Living Archetypes examines how archetypes are activated in the life history of all of us, how archetypal imperatives may be fulfilled or thwarted by our living circumstances, how they manifest in our dreams, symbols, fantasies and symptoms, and how appreciating their dynamics can generate insights of enormous therapeutic power. Living Archetypes: The Selected Works of Anthony Stevens provides an invaluable resource for Jungian psychotherapists, psychologists, academics and students committed to extending the evolutionary approach to psychology and psychiatry and understanding the dynamic significance of archetypes.

Prevention and Crisis Management

Author : Steven Rosefielde
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789814374149

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This book highlights the future threat to Asia from a broader perspective that takes account of the Japanese and Asian financial crises during the 1990s as well as the global crisis of 2008. It reveals that Asian crises take many diverse forms, and that the solutions devised to date have only been locally and not universally effective. Policymakers are accordingly advised to always plan for the element of surprise.

Democracy and its Elected Enemies

Author : Steven Rosefielde,Daniel Quinn Mills
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107653252

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Democracy and its Elected Enemies by Steven Rosefielde,Daniel Quinn Mills Pdf

Democracy and its Elected Enemies reveals that American politicians have usurped their constitutional authority, substituting their economic and political sovereignty for the people's. This has been accomplished by creating an enormous public service sector operating in the material interest of politicians themselves and of their big business and big social advocacy confederates to the detriment of workers, the middle class and the non-political rich, jeopardizing the nation's security in the process. Steven Rosefielde and Daniel Quinn Mills contend that this usurpation is the source of America's economic decline and fading international power, and provide an action plan for restoring 'true' democracy in which politicians only provide the services people vote for within the civil and property rights protections set forth in the constitution.

Corporate Business Responsibility

Author : Justin O'Brien
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351948616

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Corporate Business Responsibility by Justin O'Brien Pdf

The 2008/9 crisis in global commercial debt markets exposed glaring deficiencies in corporate and regulatory operational and strategic risk management systems. This collection provides an overview of how narrow conceptions of responsibility in corporate law, organizational practice and regulatory dynamics facilitated the crisis. The first section revisits the debates about the role of the corporation prompted by the publication of The Modern Corporation and Private Property (1932). The second section explores why the conception of enlightened shareholder interest gained and retained potency despite demonstrable failure. The third section explores how the interaction between the foundational assumptions of corporate law and the (questionable) efficacy of shareholder control framed regulatory responses to the growth of financial capitalism. The fourth section examines ways in which excess can be restrained by the interaction between hard law, softer governance arrangements such as principles and, crucially, norms.

Morality and the Bomb

Author : David Fisher
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000047547

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Morality and the Bomb by David Fisher Pdf

Originally published in 1985, this book surveys how NATO policy sought to come to terms with the revolution in thinking about war which was brought about by the advent of nuclear weapons. It also examines the logic of deterrence. The book assesses the ethical issues involved, using as a framework the tradition of the idea of the Just War. A detailed modern version of the theory is elaborated and defended from an ethical viewpoint that gives due weight both to the mental states of the agent and to the consequences of his agency. The principle of non-combatant immunity is also examined for its clear relevance to the debate. Further considerations involve the effectiveness of deterrence and its morality, and the question whether deterrence can be effective even if its use is prohibited. The book also discusses the implications of various possible changes in NATO policy.

Unwinding Of The Globalist Dream, The: Eu, Russia And China

Author : Rosefielde Steven,Kuboniwa Masaaki,Mizobata Satoshi
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789813222083

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Unwinding Of The Globalist Dream, The: Eu, Russia And China by Rosefielde Steven,Kuboniwa Masaaki,Mizobata Satoshi Pdf

This collection of essays documents and investigates the conflicts in Europe, Russia and China that sparked populist revolts against the established globalist order in the European Union. It shows that the populist surge was not an anomaly. It was a reflection of the internal contradictions of globalism that sparked nationalist resentment inside the EU, and backlashes against Western "soft power" aspirations in Russia and China. The idealist rhetoric of the globalist dream was persuasive. It lulled many into believing that the movement should not, and could not be stopped until the 2008 global financial crisis started the dream to unwind. The essays in this volume show that globalism is not dead, but will have to reinvent itself to revive. Contents: About the AuthorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction (Steven Rosefielde)Western Secular Stagnation and Social Strife: Overreach and Discord (Steven Rosefielde)Europhoria (Bruno Dallago)European Union after Brexit (Steven Rosefielde) Balkans (Yoji Koyama)Immigrants, Xenophobia, and Terroism (Kumiko Haba)Russia: Great Power Resurgence (Steven Rosefielde)Military Industrial Potential (Masaaki Kuboniwa)Macroeconomic Challenges (Torbjörn Becker)Sanctions (Iikka Korhonen)Finance (Victor Gorshkov)Industry and Transport (Olga Bobrova)Innovation (Anna Kovaleva)China: Rising Red Star (Steven Rosefielde)Belt and Road Strategy (Zhikai Wang)Public–Private Partnerships (Yiyi Liu)Housing (Wenting Ma)Budget Cycles (Pi-Han Tsai)Asian Power Shift (Kumiko Haba and Steven Rosefielde)Conclusion (Steven Rosefielde) Readership: Academics, policymakers, professionals, graduate and undergraduate students insterested in populist revolts against the globalization, new trends of international economics and political economy. Keywords: Globalism;Globalization;Populism;European Union;Russia;China;Secular Economic Stagnation;Political Disintegration;Cold War;Economic SanctionsReview: Key Features: Documents the unraveling of globalizationShows why the globalist dream triggered the populist revolt that catapulted Donald Trump into the White HouseExplains why and how globalism must be reinvented to cope with insurgent populism

Liberalism: The Classical Tradition

Author : Ludwig von Mises
Publisher : VM eBooks
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The social order created by the philosophy of the Enlightenment assigned supremacy to the common man. In his capacity as a consumer, the “regular fellow” was called upon to determine ultimately what should be produced, in what quantity and of what quality, by whom, how, and where; in his capacity as a voter, he was sovereign in directing his nation’s policies. In the precapitalistic society those had been paramount who had the strength to beat their weaker fellows into submission. The much decried “mechanism” of the free market leaves only one way open to the acquisition of wealth, viz., to succeed in serving the consumers in the best possible and cheapest way. To this “democracy” of the market corresponds, in the sphere of the conduct of affairs of state, the system of representative government. The greatness of the period between the Napoleonic Wars and the first World War consisted precisely in the fact that the social ideal after the realization of which the most eminent men were striving was free trade in a peaceful world of free nations. It was an age of unprecedented improvement in the standard of living for a rapidly increasing population. It was the age of liberalism.

Liberalism

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Ludwig von Mises Institute
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781610164085

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This is Mises's classic statement in defense of a free society, one of the last statements of the old liberal school and a text from which we can continue to learn. It has been the conscience of a global movement for liberty for 80 years. This edition, from the Mises Institute, features a new foreword by Thomas Woods. It first appeared in 1927, as a followup to both his devastating 1922 book showing that socialism would fail, and his 1926 book on interventionism. It was written to address the burning question: if not socialism, and if not fascism or interventionism, what form of social arrangements are most conducive to human flourishing? Mises's answer is summed up in the title, by which he meant classical liberalism. Mises did more than restate classical doctrine. He gave a thoroughly modern defense of freedom, one that corrected the errors of the old liberal school by rooting the idea of liberty in the institution of private property (a subject on which the classical school was sometimes unclear). Here is the grand contribution of this volume. "The program of liberalism, therefore, if condensed into a single word, would have to read: property, that is, private ownership of the means of production... All the other demands of liberalism result from this fundamental demand." But there are other insights too. He shows that political decentralization and secession are the best means to peace and political liberty. As for religion, he recommends the complete separation of church and state. On immigration, he favors the freedom of movement. On culture, he praised the political virtue of tolerance. On education: state involvement must end, and completely. He deals frankly with the nationalities problem, and provides a stirring defense of rationalism as the essential foundation of liberal political order. He discusses political strategy, and the relationship of liberalism to special-interest politics. In some ways, this is the most political of Mises's treatises, and also one of the most inspiring books ever written on the idea of liberty. It remains the book that can set the world on fire for freedom, which is probably why it has been translated into more than a dozen languages.

Power and Legitimacy

Author : Peter L. Lindseth
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780195390148

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The implications of European integration for national democracy and constitutionalism are well known. Nevertheless, as the events of the last decade made clear, the EU's complex system of governance has been unable to achieve a democratic or constitutional legitimacy in its own right. In Power and Legitimacy: Reconciling Europe and the Nation-State, Peter L. Lindseth traces the roots of this paradox to integration's dependence on the postwar constitutional settlement of administrative governance on the national level. Supranational policymaking has relied on various forms of oversight from national constitutional bodies, following models that were first developed in the administrative state and then translated into the European context. These national oversight mechanisms (executive, legislative, and judicial) have over the last half-century developed to address the central disconnect in the integration process: between the need for supranational regulatory power, on the one hand, and the persistence of national constitutional legitimacy, on the other. In defining the ways European public law has sought to reconcile these two conflicting demands, Professor Lindseth lays the foundation for a better understanding of the "administrative, not constitutional" nature of European governance going forward.

The Legitimacy of EU Criminal Law

Author : Irene Wieczorek
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781509919765

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The Legitimacy of EU Criminal Law by Irene Wieczorek Pdf

This book traces the history of the EU competence, EU policy discourse and EU legislation in the field of criminalisation from Maastricht until the present day. It asks 'Why EU Criminal Law?' looking at what rationales the Treaty, policy document and legislation put forth when deciding whether a certain behaviour should be a criminal offence. To interpret the EU approach to criminalisation, it relies on both modern and post-modern theoretical frameworks on the legitimacy of criminal law, read jointly with the theories on the functions of EU harmonisation of national law. The book demonstrates that while EU constitutional law leans towards an effectiveness-based, enforcement-driven, understanding of criminal law, the EU has in fact in more than one instance adopted symbolic EU criminal law, ie criminal law aimed at highlighting what values are important to the EU, but which is not fit to actually deter individuals from harming such values. The book then questions whether this approach is consistent or in contradiction with the values-based constitutional identity the EU has set for itself.