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Maria Patrin's Collegiality in the European Commission offers a critically needed examination of collegiality - the core legal principle governing the Commission's internal decision-making process. The novel study combines theory and empirical practice to advance an innovative framework for assessing the Commission's institutional role and power.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: The Challenge -- Part 1: Fundamentals -- 1: Signs of War -- 2: The Americans -- 3: The Russians -- Dominance -- Cultural Limitation -- Western Influence -- Autocracy and Revolution -- Achievement and Failure -- Conclusion -- 4: The West Europeans -- 5: Economic Débâcle and Nuclear Danger -- Unemployment -- The Third World Chimera -- Marx and the Future -- Part 2: Threats, Risks and Prospects -- 6: Helsinki, Afghanistan, Poland and Morality -- 7: Soviet Contraction -- 8: The Worst Case -- 9: The Risks: an Assessment -- 10: The End, or a Beginning? -- Notes -- Index.

Presenting in-depth accounts of North Korean women defectors living in the UK, this book examines how the harrowing experiences they endured and their utopian dream of a better future for fellow North Korean women have become an impetus for their activism.

Das Massaker der Hamas am 7. Oktober 2023 in Israel verschärft die Situation im Nahen Osten und befeuert den Judenhass weltweit. Die Anschläge in Brüssel und Paris, der Synagogenanschlag in Halle, die aggressive Gewalt gegen alles Jüdische in der islamischen Welt und die antisemitischen Ausschreitungen in Europa, nicht zuletzt in Deutschland, sind weitere Beispiele der letzten Jahre dafür. Der Judenhass ist alt, groß, stark und geht oft von der Mitte der Gesellschaft aus. Der Hass beginnt vor 2.500 Jahren. Der christliche Antijudaismus und der Ausschluss der Juden im Mittelalter spitzen sich zu mit dem bürgerlich-politischen Antisemitismus im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert. Er kulminiert ideologisch in der Wannsee-konferenz, wird mörderisch in Auschwitz. Der Historiker Sebastian Voigt entwickelt mit diesem Buch eine dichte Geschichte des Judenhasses und verbindet sie mit einem leidenschaftlichen Aufruf zum couragierten Widerstand gegen den heutigen Antisemitismus

"Neighbourhood open space ranks highly as a key component in suburban liveability assessments, originating from the development of urban planning as a profession and the proliferation of the garden suburb. Community Green uniquely connects the past, present and future of planning for small open spaces around the narrative of internal reserves. The distinctive planned spaces are typically enclosed on every side, hidden within residential blocks, serving as local pocket parks and reflecting the evolving values of community life from the garden city movement to contemporary new urbanism. This book resuscitates the enclosed, almost secretive reserve from history as a distinctive form of local open space whose problems and potentialities are relevant to many other green community spaces. In so doing, it opens up even wider connections between localism and globalism, the past and the future, and for connecting community initiatives to broader global challenges of cohesion, health, food, and climate change. This fully illustrated book charts the outcomes and implications of this evolution across several continents, injecting human stories of civic initiatives, struggles and triumphs along the way. Community Green will be of interest to a wide readership interested in studying, managing and improving the quality of all small open spaces in the urban landscape"--

In international law the definition of refugee is widely seen as unclear. This book systematically analyses the interpretation, ordering, and interrelationship of the definition's components as well as the disputes that have arisen around it. The volume seeks to clarify propositions and demonstrate there is progress toward a working definition.

Intro -- Praise Page -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: New Movement in Philosophy: Philosophy of Disability -- Part I: Desegregating the Discipline(s) -- Chapter 1: Disaster Ableism, Epistemologies of Crisis, and the Mystique Of Bioethics -- Chapter 2: Would You Kill the Fat Man Hypothetical? Fat Stigma in Philosophy -- Chapter 3: Pruriently Feared: Theoretical Erasure of the Disabled Black Male -- Chapter 4: Disability, Dissonance, and Resistance: A Musical Dialogue -- Chapter 5: Neurodiversity, Anti-Psychiatry, and the Politics of Mental Health -- Chapter 6: Disability and African Philosophy -- Part II: Mechanisms of Oppression -- Chapter 7: The Apparatus of Addiction: Substance Use at the Crossroads of Colonial Ableism and Migration -- Chapter 8: Disability, Ableism, Class, and Chronic Fatigue -- Chapter 9: Algorithms as Ableist Orientation Devices: The Technosocial Inheritance of Colonialism and Ableism -- Chapter 10: The ART of Kinship: An Intersectional Reading of Assisted Reproductive Practices -- Chapter 11: Epistemic Injustice and Epistemic Authority on Autism -- Part III: Phenomenologies of Access and Exclusion -- Chapter 12: Disability, Access, and the Promise of Inclusion: Returning to Institutional Language through a Phenomenological Lens -- Chapter 13: Stuttering and Ableism: A Study of Eventfulness -- Chapter 14: Frantz Fanon and Disability: Frictions and Solidarities -- Chapter 15: Exemption, Self-Exemption, and Compassionate Self-Excuse -- Chapter 16: Pathologizing Disabled and Trans Identities: How Emotions Become Marginalized -- Part IV: Disabling Normativities -- Chapter 17: A Crip Reading of Filipino Philosophy -- Chapter 18: Recognizing Human Flourishing in the Context of Disability -- Chapter 19: Neurodiversity and the Ethics of Access.

"The City Aroused is a lively history of urban development and its influence on queer political identity in postwar San Francisco. By reconstructing the planning and queer history of waterfront drinking establishments, Damon Scott shows that urban renewal was a catalyst for community organizing among racially diverse operators and patrons with far-reaching implications for the national gay rights movement. Following the exclusion of suspected homosexuals from the maritime trades in West Coast ports in the early 1950s, seamen's hangouts in the city came to resemble gay bars. Local officials responded by containing the influx of gay men to a strip of bars on the central waterfront while also making plans to raze and rebuild the area. This practice ended when city redevelopment officials began acquiring land in the early 1960s. Aided by law enforcement, they put these queer social clubs out of business, replacing them with heteronormative, desexualized land uses that served larger postwar urban development goals. Scott argues that this shift from queer containment to displacement aroused a collective response among gay and transgender drinking publics who united in solidarity to secure a place in the rapidly changing urban landscape"--

'Life 24x a Second' highlights the life-sustaining and life-affirming power of cinema. Author Elsie Walker pays particular attention to pedagogical practice and students' reflections on what the study of cinema has given to their lives. This book provides multiple perspectives on cinema that matters for the deepest personal and social reasons-from films that represent psychological healing in the face of individual losses to films that represent humanitarian hope in the face of global crises. Ultimately, Walker shows how cinema that moves us emotionally can move us toward a better world.

"This book is divided into three parts-one on the Good Life, another on Doing the Right Thing, and the last on the Status of Morality. You can read these parts in any order. Many will want to begin at the end, for instance, with a discussion of whether morality is a human invention, or is in some way objective. Some will prefer to start in the middle, asking about the supreme principle of morality (and whether there is any such thing). And others may want to begin at the beginning, by thinking about human well-being and the quality of life. Each part can be understood independently of the others, though there are of course many points of connection across the three main branches of moral philosophy. No matter where you begin, there are footnotes in most chapters that provide cross-references to relevant discussions elsewhere in the book. When beginning a new area of study, you're bound to encounter some unfamiliar jargon. I've tried to keep this to a minimum, and I suppose that you can be thankful that we're doing ethics here, rather than physics or anatomy. I define each technical term when I first use it, and have also put together a glossary, which appears at the end of the book. Each specialized term that appears in boldface has an entry there. You may be interested enough in what you read here that you'll want to continue your studies in moral philosophy. There is a natural place to begin-the companion volume to this book, The Ethical Life, described later in this preface. I have also compiled a list of Suggestions for Further Reading for each chapter or pair of chapters. This list appears at the end of the book, just before the glossary. I have selected the readings with an eye to what might be accessible and interesting to those just beginning their study of moral philosophy"--