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This book examines some of the most pressing issues facing the Turkish political establishment, in particular the issues of political Islam, and Kurdish and Turkish nationalisms. The authors explore the rationales of the main political actors in Turkey in order to increase our understanding of the ongoing debates over the secularist character of the Turkish Republic and over Turkey's longstanding Kurdish issue. The book contains contributions on the social and political fabric of Turkey, exploring Turkey's secularist establishment, the ruling AKP government, the Kurdistan Workers' Party and the Institutions of the European Union. While the focus of concern in this book is with the social agents of contemporary politics in Turkey, the convictions they have and the strategies they employ, historical dimensions are also integrated in their analyses.

The story of a modern radical who took seriously the idea that inner liberation is the first business of social revolution. Her politics, from beginning to end, was based on resistance to that which thwarted the free development of the inner self. The right to stay alive in one's senses, to enjoy freedom of thought and speech, to reject the arbitrary use of power--these were key demands in the many public protest movements she helped mount. Anarchist par excellence, Goldman is one of the memorable political figures of our time, not because of her gift for theory or analysis or even strategy, but because some extraordinary force of life in her burned, without rest or respite, on behalf of human integrity--and she was able to make the thousands of people who, for decades on end, flocked to her lectures, feel intimately connected to the pain inherent in the abuse of that integrity. --From publisher description.

In this volume of the Explaining Modern History Series, Nick Shepley explores the roots of American anti Communism and how a strong and independent left wing movement in the USA was broken during and immediately after World War One. Essential reading for anyone trying to make sense of America in the 1920s and beyond.

The Reformation of the sixteenth-century is commonly seen as the transitional period between the medieval and the modern worlds. This study examines the political thought of England during its period of religious reform from the reign of Edward VI to the death of Elizabeth I. The political thought of Tudor ecclesiastics was heavily informed by the institutional and intellectual upheavals in England and on the continent, producing tensions between traditional ways of conceptualising politics and new religious and political realities. This book offers a study of natural law, providentialism, cos.

Argues that the current levels of public welfare in the United States are too high for a functioning society, and explores the roots and consequences of a welfare state

Die Sprache der totalitären Herrschaft in der SBZ und der DDR diente als Instrument eines unerbittlichen Unterdrückungsapparates und wurde zum großen Teil aus der Sowjetideologie entnommen. Viele Begriffe verwendeten die Repräsentanten der SED-Herrschaft einheitlich einerseits als Ausweis der Zugehörigkeit zum System und andererseits zur Diffamierung angeblicher Feinde und Oppositioneller. Das Buch zeigt, wie die SED-Führung aus Gründen der Machtausübung und Ausgrenzung den Wert von Einzelworten veränderte oder neue Formulierungen ersann, also wie sie Worte vergiftete. Es zeigt gleichzeitig, wie die Staatspartei permanent Menschenrechte verletzte.

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"This book contains three independent essays, available in English for the first time, as well as a postscript written for this English edition. The common theme of the three essays is the uses and abuses of the Holocaust as an ideological arm in anti-Zionist campaigns." "The first essay examines a French group of left-wing Holocaust deniers. The second essay deals with a number of Israeli academics and intellectuals, the so-called post-Zionists, and tries to follow their use of the Holocaust in their different attempts to demonize and delegitimize Israel. The third deals with Hannah Arendt and her relations with Zionism and the State of Israel as reflected in her general work and in Eichmann in Jerusalem; the views that she formulates are used systematically and extensively by anti- and post-Zionists. Elhanan Yakira argues that each of these is a particular expression of an outrage: anti-Zionism and a wholesale delegitimation of Israel."--Jacket

Deals with the relationship between nationalism and liberal thought in the Arab East during the first half of the twentieth century. This title examines this formative period through reformist Islam, Arab secularism and Arab literature and shows that liberal ideas were not entirely eclipsed by nationalism with the outbreak of the Second World War.

Democracy, free thought and expression, religious tolerance, individual liberty, political self-determination of peoples, sexual and racial equality--these values have firmly entered the mainstream in the decades since they were enshrined in the 1948 U.N. Declaration of Human Rights. But if these ideals no longer seem radical today, their origin was very radical indeed--far more so than most historians have been willing to recognize. In A Revolution of the Mind, Jonathan Israel, one of the world's leading historians of the Enlightenment, traces the philosophical roots of these ideas to what we.

In order to properly understand the nature of the conflicts that currently plague the Middle East-and have for so many decades-it is essential to grasp the fundamental differences between Muslim autocracies, radical Islamist movements, and democracies. Recognizing how the countries and governments involved differ in terms of their political, social, and military organization, and with regard to how their past histories influence the way they approach conflicts, is the first step towards achieving a more stable and peaceful environment for the groups involved. Instead of examining causes o.

Hauptbeschreibung Die kommunistischen Bewegungen und Staatsgründungen im 20. Jahrhundert, ihre ursprüngliche Dynamik und ihr rascher Zerfall, stellen sich als eines der schwierigsten Kapitel dieses "Jahrhunderts der Extreme" (Eric Hobsbawm) dar. Gerd Koenen versteht den Kommunismus als ein konstitutives Element der großen Tendenzen dieses Zeitalters und versucht ihn in diesem Sinne zu "historisieren". Wie und warum waren Kommunisten in der Lage, inmitten ihres epochalen Scheiterns dennoch ihrer Welt und Zeit einen so prägenden Stempel aufzudrücken? Und wie bilanziert sich ihr histor.