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When Hitler marched into Austria in March 1938, the country's Jewish population numbered nearly 200,000. Those Jews who were able to find refuge in neutral countries were safe; those who fled to countries subsequently overrun by the Nazis were eventually hunted down. Between 193…
Annotation Examines the impact of female policymakers in 22 industrialized countries. Annotation Valerie O'Regan examines the relationship between female policymakers and policy outputs. She provides two separate cross-sectional time-series analyses of the relationship between …
Religion, Law and Freedom: a Global Perspective
Annotation Provides a framework for analyzing the relationship between the religious ideology, legal system, and communications freedom of several nations.
Annotation Explores the impact of biomedical ethics on moral education and on ethics in general. Annotation The current development of biomedical ethics is a source of radical critique not only in the clinic, but also in the classroom. This volume argues that today's moral educ…
Why would a journalist who was an ardent socialist and an anti-Nazi during the waning years of the Weimar Republic decide to go to work for the Gestapo abroad? Hans Wesemann, a veteran of World War I and a successful journalist, fled his native Germany in 1933 after writing a nu…
Annotation Examines the secret files of the East German Ministry of State Security, documents that reveal early warnings about the collapse of the Communist regime.
Annotation Demonstrates that pleasure has been more effective than pain in defending and advancing the long-term interests of states in foreign affairs. Annotation Breslin demonstrates that, for two millennia, pleasure has been more effective than pain in defending and advancin…