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A substantial group of Central American immigrants have been filing asylum cases in the USA based on fears of gang-based persecution. Adapted from the source document.

Este artículo tiene como objetivo dilucidar la función que cumple el temor reverencial en el Leviatán de Thomas Hobbes y en la Scienza Nuova de Giambattista Vico como principio del mundo civil. Se centra la atención en la imaginación y en la religión como elementos fundantes de las instituciones humanas, analizando sus implicanciones. ; This article aims to elucidate the role of 'awe' in Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan and in Giambattista Vico's Scienza Nuova as a principle of civilian world. The focus is on imagination and religion as foundational elements of human institutions, analyzing its implications. ; Instituto de Investigaciones en Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales

British Muslims are citizens of the United Kingdom and also part of a worldwide community, the Umma, the Muslim community of the faithful. British Muslims have both national and transnational allegiances and on the part of the British state this has necessitated new ways of governing its Muslim citizens. Concerns over both terrorist violence and societal security questions regarding Muslims in the UK are both internal and external to the state. The government has had difficulties in finding transnational policy responses that go beyond the old division of internal and external security. After the terrorist attacks of 9/11, security was the main reason why the British state sought to engage Muslims, but this has been transformed into the wider agenda of 'community cohesion'. In tracing the Muslim groups that the government has engaged with since 2001, I show how the issue of governing Muslims has gone beyond concerns just about terrorism and violence to a wider agenda that accepts British Muslims as citizens, yet at the same time still reflects the fears of Muslim 'otherness'. I consider how this otherness is seen as a threat to societal security, and how the government's attempt to create policies to deal with such threats is best understood as the 'politics of unease'.

This short piece provides a biographical insight into both the author's high expectations for (now President) Barack Obama and the fears, if not disappointments early into his Administration. The author explains why he was biographically attracted to Obama's persona and wonders how his deceased parents and grandmother would have voted.

After the shootings at Columbine High School, many public schools increased their visible security measures, such as use of security cameras and guards. This study assesses this policy response. Particular attention is given to the fear that prompted changes in school security, the types of visible security measures adopted by schools after Columbine, and the positive and negative consequences of these measures. Synthesizing the relevant literature highlights the lack of evaluative work regarding the effectiveness of school security and how little is known about the impact of security measures on students' civil liberty and privacy interests. Gaining a better understanding of school security can help officials make more informed decisions in response to rare, but highly publicized, violent crimes such as Columbine.