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This book expands the idea of practical liberalism by exploring how a theory of civil association premised upon prudential argument can remain stable through time. The work explores the relation between politics and morality and crafts a theory of social justice that can command the attention of all groups present in a pluralist polity.

The article is based on the hypothesis about the transition of the development of international processes from the stage of uncertainty to the stage of the negative certainty – the increase and synergy of the impact of negative factors in the environmental, climatic, epidemiological, socio-economic, technological, and security spheres against the background of worsening geopolitical contradictions and confirmed by the crisis caused by the COVID19 pandemic. The article examines the dynamics of socio-economic and political development and the changing role of the Central-Eastern European region. Having strengthened their positions in the European Union through adaptation to EU policies and norms, by the mid-2010s the CEE countries began to pursue an increasingly independent course. By 2020 their policy became one of the factors hindering the further deepening of the EU integration, primarily in the foreign policy sphere, and the process of federalization of the Union. The analysis of the state of public opinion conducted in the article testifies to the dualism of the perception of citizens of the CEE countries of the EU membership. High support for the EU is combined with frustration at the partial loss of national sovereignty, which is actively used by nationalist political forces in the region. During the early months of COVID-19 pandemics the countries of the region performed better than the EU as a whole, which created prerequisites for reformatting the position of the CEE countries in the EU. The enormous resources provided by the EU to Central-Eastern Europe to overcome the crisis and move towards sustainable development serve as a tool for even deeper economic and political integration of the CEE into the EU. Conditionality of support for the implementation of the EU strategies could have an impact on the CEE countries that is very similar to the period of their accession to the integration grouping and lead to the next stage of desovereignization. Meanwhile, for the European Union closer binding of the CEE countries allows not only to take another step towards federalization, but also to strengthen its actorness in world politics and the global economy.

Origins, extent, and nature of the sale of public industrial assets to private individuals or groups; studies of 8 countries; 9 articles.

Langston Hughes is a black American poet who strived to express the experiences of Black in the United States. One of his poem is Fredom Plow which utilized through lots symbols that refered to the problem of discrimination and the vision of American as a nation. This study is aimed to analyze the expression of Black American expression in Freedom's Plow poem. This study used semiotics approach in analyzing research data by adopting model proposed by C.S Pierce. There are three types of signs based on the relationship between the sign and the signified, namely; Icons, Index, and symbols. Based on the semiotics frameworks, this study found that Langston Hughes harneses the signs to express (1) preserverance of black to get freedom, (2) expossing the contradiction of American democracy, and (3) the expression of togetherness and unity

Chapter 1. Introduction: The Nexus Between Gender, Religion and the Media in Zimbabwean Electoral politics -- Section A: Gender and electoral politics in Zimbabwe. Chapter 2. Electoral Participation as a fundamental right for women with disabilities in Zimbabwe -- Chapter 3. Unpacking the issue of gender and electoral violence in Christopher Mlalazi's They Are Coming -- Chapter 4. Shona Women and Grassroots Politics in Zimbabwe: Prospects for the 2023 General Elections -- Chapter 5. Critical thinking, Gender and Electoral politics in Zimbabwe -- Chapter 6. Of pains, regrets and suppressed desires: Gendered Politics and Women Activism in Zimbabwean Electoral Politics -- Chapter 7. Rhetoric or reality? Assessing the efficacy of Policy and legislative interventions in enhancing women political participation in Zimbabwe -- Chapter 8.Post-independence election violence: Re-thinking the marginalisation of Women in Zimbabwean politics -- Chapter 9. Voter Rights and Gender: An Analysis of the Importance of Voter Education in Zimbabwe. Section B: Media and electoral politics in Zimbabwe. Chapter 10. Pollytricking or political contestation? The digital space as alternative public sphere in the run up to the 2023 public election in Zimbabwe -- Chapter 11. Zimbabwean Press and electoral violence: a framing analysis of the March 2022 by-elections -- Chapter 12. Melancholia and polysemanticism in Winky D's sonic retentions: Subverting expressive barricades and voicing the electoral process through performance -- Chapter 13. The morbidity of Zimbabwe's transformational politics: Hope or doom in the post-coup era? -- Chapter 14. The rhetoric of Onoma and the intersection of memory and power dynamics in naming and name-calling in Zimbabwe's electoral politics -- Chapter 15. The Effectiveness of social media in mitigating unfair Mainstream media electoral coverage in Zimbabwe -- Section C: Traditional Leaders and electoral politics in Zimbabwe. Chapter 16. Traditional leaders as vote brokers and king makers in Zimbabwe's Elections -- Chapter 17.The institution of Traditional leadership and partisan politics in Zimbabwe -- Chapter 18. The Role of Traditional Leaders and Culture in Zimbabwean Elections -- Chapter 19. A critique of the responsibility of traditional leaders in the electoral process: A Zimbabwean experience -- Chapter 20. Abusing the traditional sceptre: Chiefs and electoral collusion in Zimbabwe -- Chapter 21. Traditional Leaders, Electoral Politics and Impregnability of the Rural Constituency in Zimbabwe.

How do reputations form in international politics? What influence do these reputations have on the conduct of international affairs? In Reputation for Resolve, Danielle L. Lupton takes a new approach to answering these enduring and hotly debated questions by shifting the focus away from the reputations of countries and instead examining the reputations of individual leaders. Lupton argues that new leaders establish personal reputations for resolve that are separate from the reputations of their predecessors and from the reputations of their states. Using innovative survey experiments and in-depth archival research, she finds that leaders acquire personal reputations for resolve based on their foreign policy statements and behavior. Reputation for Resolve shows that statements create expectations of how leaders will react to foreign policy crises in the future and that leaders who fail to meet expectations of resolute action face harsh reputational consequences. Reputation for Resolve challenges the view that reputations do not matter in international politics. In sharp contrast, Lupton shows that the reputations for resolve of individual leaders influence the strategies statesmen pursue during diplomatic interactions and crises, and she delineates specific steps policymakers can take to avoid developing reputations for irresolute action. Lupton demonstrates that reputations for resolve do exist and can influence the conduct of international security. Thus, Reputation for Resolve reframes our understanding of the influence of leaders and their rhetoric on crisis bargaining and the role reputations play in international politics.

"In Inside Knowledge incarcerated people step forth as the primary witnesses and documentarians of the American prison's historical and ongoing defeat of the four cardinal rationales for the legal caging of human beings: rehabilitations, deterrence, containment, and retribution"--