Examines momentous changes over the last century which have advanced women's status around the globe. Momentous changes in the relation between women and the state have advanced women's status around the globe. Women were barred from public affairs a century ago, yet almost eve…
"After 15 years of military interventions since 2003, the current situation in Afghanistan is highly ambivalent and partially contradictory - especially regarding the interplay of development, peace, security, education, and economics. Despite numerous development initiatives, A…
A study of Nozick's work and the debates to which it has given rise. It locates Nozick's work in the complex of current philosophical and political debates, and explores the influences on his work. It then goes on to a more detailed, and somewhat critical, analysis of "Anarchy, …
Legal Personality and the Role of Non-Governmental Organizations and Non-State Political Entities in the United Nations System - Ruth Wedgwood The Emergence of Non-Governmental Organizations and Transnational Enterprises in International Law and the Changing Role of the State…
The anthropology of the state: a reader
Brings together classic theoretical texts and cutting-edge ethnographic analyses of specific state institutions, practices, and processes and outlines an anthropological framework for rethinking future study of “the state”. Focuses on the institutions, spaces, ideas, practices, …
"A masterly analysis of how and why power must be used in a market society to preserve peace and prosperity."--Provided by publisher.
Three chapters on aspects of state theory. The themes covered are different forms of corporatism and their implications for capital accumulation, the representation of business in the the capitalist type of state, and the class nature of the dem ocratic state.
Three central themes define the scope of this book: the basis of the operational autonomy of the state; the need to develop state theory as a more general social theory; and a notion that the economy is not the ultimate determinant of societal dynamics in the capitalist state.
If Westerners know a single Islamic term, it is likely to be jihad, the Arabic word for "holy war." The image of Islam as an inherently aggressive and xenophobic religion has long prevailed in the West and can at times appear to be substantiated by current events. L. Carl Brown …