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ABSTRACT & RÉSUMÉ & ZUSAMMENFASSUNG: Ghana's 2008 elections have been hailed by national and international observers as a model for Africa. This perception has prevailed despite persistent concerns about "ethnic block voting" and electoral fraud. Electoral malpractice and vote rigging along ethnic lines in Ghana's virtual two-party system could regain decisive importance as a "third force" that could tip the balance in future, possibly coming to represent an even more important factor than the smaller opposition parties. Unfortunate diplomatic and technocratic biases in election monitoring, combined with a reluctance on the part of the responsible authorities to investigate irregularities in what appears to be a long history of fraudulent "ethnic block voting", amounts to a dangerous time bomb of unresolved conflict which could explode in future elections. [GIGA-WP, Nr. 109, 2009] --- RÉSUMÉ : [ Le succès de l'élection du Ghana de 2008: un mythe commode? ] - L'élection 2008 du Ghana a été salué par les observateurs nationaux et internationaux comme un modèle pour l'Afrique. La perception de la réussite a prévalu malgré les inquiétudes persistantes sur le registre des électeurs gonflés et la fraude électorale perpétrée par les deux principaux partis, le NPP et le NDC, dans leurs fiefs dans les régions Ashanti et Volta, respectivement. La fraude électorale dans le système bipartite virtuel du Ghana pourrait acquérir une importance décisive en tant que « troisième force », ce qui représente un facteur encore plus important que les petits parties d'opposition. Les biais diplomatiques et technocratiques dans la surveillance des élections, combinées avec une réticence de la part des autorités chargées d'enquêter sur ce qui semble être une longue histoire de fraude électorale, équivalent à une bombe à retardement dangereuse de conflits non résolus qui pourrait faire exploser lors d'élections futures. [version révisée du GIGA-WP, Nr. 109, 2009] --- ZUSAMMENFASSUNG: [ Der Erfolg der Wahlen von 2008 in Ghana: Ein ...

La necesidad de crecimiento que tienen las economías de la Región Andina y del Cono Sur en Sudamérica, así como los requerimientos de desarrollo de los países, implican mayor demanda de energéticos. En este artículo se abordan aspectos relacionados con las potencialidades que se tienen en un uso más eficiente de la utilización del gas, reservas probadas y los requerimientos de este componente, así como los proyectos de intercomunicación gasífera que se han proyectado. El argumento que se sostiene es que la demanda y capacidad productora de gas en Sudamérica, ofrece notables oportunidades para conformar efectivos tratados de integración energética en el área. Iniciativas que vayan más allá de las coyunturas políticas inmediatas, tan tentadoras para los políticos, en cuanto a hacer de ellas eventos para mantenimiento o ampliación de cuotas de poder. El gas puede dar base a operativos procesos de integración, de sostenidos resultados favorables, tanto en lo inmediato, como para el futuro predecible. Un primer dato es la demanda proyectada y las reservas que tienen los principales países del área. Los datos de superávit o déficit deben ser considerados tomando en cuenta que no existe una disponibilidad inmediata de las reservas. Precisamente las líneas de interconexión y la capacidad de transformación del gas, previo a su consumo final, es lo que permite fortalecer líneas de cooperación, integración y complementariedad económica (véase Cuadro 1 ; The need for growth in the economies of the Andean Region and the Southern Cone in South America, as well as the development requirements of the countries, imply greater demand for energy. This article addresses aspects related to the potentialities of a more efficient use of gas, proven reserves and the requirements of this component, as well as the gas intercommunication projects that have been projected. The argument that is upheld is that the demand and production capacity of gas in South America offers notable opportunities to form effective energy integration agreements in the area. Initiatives that go beyond the immediate political conjunctures, so tempting for politicians, in terms of making them events for the maintenance or expansion of power quotas. Gas can give basis to operational integration processes, with sustained favorable results, both in the immediate and for the foreseeable future. A first piece of information is the projected demand and the reserves that the main countries in the area have. The surplus or deficit data must be considered taking into account that there is no immediate availability of reserves. Precisely the interconnection lines and the gas transformation capacity, prior to its final consumption, is what allows strengthening lines of cooperation, integration and economic complementarity (see Table 1

Este artículo estudia las consecuencias, para América latina, del ascenso de China como la segunda (y pronto la primera) economía del mundo, y como un gran inversor en la región. También pasa revista a las percepciones de amenaza de la superpotencia en descenso, Estados Unidos, tanto debido a la penetración china en su ?patio trasero? como por su competencia económica y geopolítica más general. La conclusión principal es que el ascenso al estatus de superpotencia económica de un país cuya economía se complementa con la de algunos de los principales países sudamericanos, es una buena noticia para la región. El mayor riesgo es el de perder una buena oportunidad debido a incompetencia o corrupción. La experiencia demuestra que los países sudamericanos se pueden defender del peligro de desindustrialización representado por algunas políticas chinas. Respecto de las percepciones de amenaza de los Estados Unidos, el artículo llega a la conclusión de que no se justifican, ya que militarmente el sistema interestatal seguirá siendo unipolar. Por eso, por mucho tiempo, el crecimiento del poder chino no amenazará a países que no sean sus vecinos. La experiencia histórica demuestra que Estados Unidos es una amenaza de seguridad mayor, para América latina, que China. ; This paper reviews the consequences, for Latin America, of the rise of China as the world's second (and soon to be first) economy, and as the most important trading partner of the main South American economies, as well as a very major investor therein. It also documents perceptions of threat in the declining superpower, the United States, both because of China's penetration of its "back yard," and of wider economic and geopolitical competition. The main conclusion is that the rise to economic superpower status of a country whose economy complements those of major South American countries is good news for this region. The greatest risk lies in jeopardizing the opportunity due to incompetence or corruption. Experience shows that large South American countries can defend themselves from the risk of deindustrialization posed by Chinese policies. Regarding U.S. threat perceptions, the paper concludes that they are not warranted, especially inasmuch as, militarily, the interstate system will remain unipolar. Hence, for a long time to come, the growth of Chinese power will not threaten countries that are not its neighbors. Historical experience shows that the United States poses a greater security threat to Latin America than China. ; Fil: Escudé, Carlos Andrés. Seminario Rabinico Latinoamericano "Marshall T. Meyer". Centro de Estudios de Religion, Estado y Sociedad; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina

This book stories social movements on the margins. Foregrounding historically silenced, dismissed and ignored Aboriginal, young, voiceless, and intersex Australian activists, the book theorizes how movement away from exclusionary praxis at the margins can offer renewed hope. Using diverse and creative forms of research underpinned by storying, social movement and critical race theoretical knowledge with a commitment to social justice, this book will be of interest and value to scholars of cultural studies, Indigenous studies, education, human geography, political sciences, and sociology. Louise Gwenneth Phillips is an Associate Professor in Education at Southern Cross University, Australia. Tracey Bunda is Academic Director of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit, University of Queensland, Australia.

Chapter 1. Innovative technology as a pretreatment for high turbid seawater desalination (Y. Al-Wazzan) -- Chapter 2. Geochemical characteristics of surface water in Miri Region, East Malaysia (M.V. Prasanna) -- Chapter 3. Development of groundwater utilization of the Dibdibba transboundary Aquifer by simulation of water quality and geochemical characterization (A.S. Alieiwi) -- Chapter 4.Bioconversion of cassava processing waste into biofuels and chemicals: new avenues for biobased products (Srinivasan) -- Chapter 5. Groundwater quality and management in arid environment, Saudi Arabia (N. Rajmohan) -- Chapter 6. Hydroclimatic impact on coastal groundwater vulnerability in Sundarban region (Soham Halder) -- Chapter 7. Variations in Temperature, Ultraviolet Aerosol Index, Cloud Pressure and Total Ozone over five South African Cities (J. Ogunniyi).

The last few decades have seen an increase in the migration of ageing people from richer Northern and Western countries to poorer Southern and Eastern countries. This book seeks to understand the motivation behind retirement migration and how precarity in later life contributes to this trend. Drawing on accounts of retirees from different nations, the book examines how welfare policies in their home country versus their country of migration shape their experiences of migration. It shows how ageism impacts social precarity across different social classes, and across economic, social and health dimensions. It also evaluates how local and global systems of inequalities influence retirement migrants' experience, providing both opportunities and constraints that differ across countries

As Europe underwent extraordinary changes in 1989-1990, the continent's south-eastern region - the Balkans - began once again to draw attention for its ethnic rivalries, its political turmoil and its interstate disputes. Continuing tensions and instability have fostered images of a Balkan imbroglio where regional instability could affect all of Europe. This study offers country-specific and comparative assessments of political trends during this transitional era, placing emphasis on matters of international security, socioeconomic policy and political leadership. Also considered are the requisite conditions for democracy in the role of the military in a civil society, and the manner in which security can be achieved without overarching, hegemonic alliances.

The Routledge Handbook of East Asian Gender Studies presents up-to-date theoretical and conceptual developments in key areas of the field, taking a multi-disciplinary and comparative approach. Featuring contributions by leading scholars of Gender Studies to provide a cutting-edge overview of the field, this handbook includes examples from China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong and covers the following themes: theorising gender relations; women's and feminist movements; work, care and migration; family and intergenerational relationships; cultural representation; masculinity; and state, militarism and gender. Thishandbook is essential reading for scholars and students of Gender and Women's Studies, as well as East Asian societies, social policy and culture

Between 2009 and 2014, an anti-homosexuality law circulating in the Ugandan parliament attracted global attention for the draconian nature of its provisions and for the involvement of US anti-gay evangelical Christians who were reported to have lobbied for its passage. This book makes three contributions to our understanding of these developments. First, it offers an account of the international relations that anticipated and followed the Anti Homosexuality Act. Journeying through encounters between the kingdom of Buganda and British colonialism, between the Ugandan state and its international donors, and between LGBTI activists in the global South and North, the book illuminates the frictional collaborations across geopolitical divides that produce and contest contemporary queerphobias.

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Between 2009 and 2014, an anti-homosexuality law circulating in the Ugandan parliament attracted global attention for the draconian nature of its provisions and for the involvement of US anti-gay evangelical Christians who were reported to have lobbied for its passage. This book makes three contributions to our understanding of these developments. First, it offers an account of the international relations that anticipated and followed the Anti Homosexuality Act. Journeying through encounters between the kingdom of Buganda and British colonialism, between the Ugandan state and its international donors, and between LGBTI activists in the global South and North, the book illuminates the frictional collaborations across geopolitical divides that produce and contest contemporary queerphobias.

INTRODUCTION Must We Say What We Learned? Parsing the Personal and the Philosophical ( David LaRocca, Cornell University, USA) I. STANDARD CONSIDERATIONS 1. Must We Mean What We Say? On the Life and Thought of Stanley Cavell (Marshall Cohen, University of Southern California, USA) 2. Cavell at Film Criticism: "An Unreadiness to Become Explicit" (Andrew Klevan, University of Oxford, UK) 3. Cavell as Educator (Mark Greif, Stanford University, USA) 4. What Cavell Made Possible for Philosophy ( Susan Neiman, Einstein Forum, Germany) 5. Cavell Reading Cavell ( William Rothman, University of Miami, USA) II. FEATS OF ORDINARY LANGUAGE 6. Cavell's Redemptive Reading ( Edward T. Duffy, Marquette University, USA) 7. Staging Praise -- .

Intro -- Editorial -- Menschenrechte im Ausnahmezustand -- Gerd Oberleitner -- Das bedrohte Leben der Nation -- Christine Binder -- Human Rights in Times of Emergency -- Claudia Zilla und David Keseberg -- Venezuela: Menschenrechte im Ausnahmezustand -- Thomas Demmelhuber -- Ausnahmezustand als Herrschaftstechnik? -- Radley Henrico and Sarah Fick -- The State of Emergency under the South African Apartheid System of Government: Reflections and Criticisms -- M. Ehteshamul Bari -- The Impact of Declarations of Emergency on Human Rights -- Hintergrund -- Jörg Maywald -- Menschenrechte für Kinder -- Michael Krennerich -- Straight 18 - und die menschenrechtliche Kritik an Minderjährigen in der Bundeswehr -- Forum -- Heiner Bielefeldt -- Moyn's World -- Buchbesprechungen -- Cécile Laborde (2017): Liberalism's Religion, Cambridge/Ma., London, Harvard University Press, 344 S., 36.00 , 28.95 £, 32.50 € -- Philipp Gisbertz (2018): Menschenwürde in der angloamerikanischen Rechtsphilosophie, Baden-Baden, Nomos, 408 Seiten, 104,00 € -- Autorinnen und Autoren.

Interreligious Dialogue: From Religion to Geopolitics' discusses how interreligious dialogue takes place within, and is influenced by, important sociological categories and theories, such as modernity, secularization, deprivatization, social movements, and pluralism. Starting from the study of interreligious coexistence, sacred spaces, and multi-religious rituals, the book explores the patterns of interreligious governance and politics and forms of interreligious social action in European, North American, and West and South Asian contexts. The contributors to this volume apply broader theories of organizational change and planning, communication, urban neighborhood and community studies, functionalist perspectives, and symbolic interactionism, thus presenting a wide range of possibilities for sociological engagement with studies on interreligious dialogue

Interreligious Dialogue: From Religion to Geopolitics discusses how interreligious dialogue takes place within, and is influenced by, important sociological categories and theories, such as modernity, secularization, deprivatization, social movements, and pluralism. Starting from the study of interreligious coexistence, sacred spaces, and multi-religious rituals, the book explores the patterns of interreligious governance and politics and forms of interreligious social action in European, North American, and West and South Asian contexts. The contributors to this volume apply broader theories of organizational change and planning, communication, urban neighborhood and community studies, functionalist perspectives, and symbolic interactionism, thus presenting a wide range of possibilities for sociological engagement with studies on interreligious dialogue.