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This important new study focusing on the ultranationalist regimes in Germany and Japan during the 1930s and 1940s examines in biographical format the roles played by individuals significantly involved in the drive for global hegemony. It employing a considerable range of new source materials and eyewitness testimony

"This important new study focuses on the ultranationalist regimes in Germany and Japan during the 1930s and 1940s and examines in biographical format the roles played by a number of individuals significantly involved in the drive for global hegemony."--P. [4] of cover

A state-of-the-art meditation on relations, theoretical and practical, among a familiar triad of themes: comunitarianism, liberalism, and democracy. -- American Political Science Review. A collection of distinguished contributors, from a wide range of disciplines, examine the implications of the resurgence of interest in community. The chapters in Democratic Community consider the fundamental issues that divide liberals and communitarians, as well as the structure of communities, the roles of freedom and democratic institutions in sustaining one another, the place of a democratic civil society

A state-of-the-art meditation on relations, theoretical and practical, among a familiar triad of themes: comunitarianism, liberalism, and democracy. -- American Political Science Review. A collection of distinguished contributors, from a wide range of disciplines, examine the implications of the resurgence of interest in community. The chapters in Democratic Community consider the fundamental issues that divide liberals and communitarians, as well as the structure of communities, the roles of freedom and democratic institutions in sustaining one another, the place of a democratic civil society.

In the United States, increasing uneasiness exists about the predominance of self-interest in both public and private life, growing fear about the fragmentation and privatization of American society, mounting concerns about the effects of institutions--ranging from families to schools to the media--on the character of young people, and a renewed tendency to believe that without certain traditional virtues neither public leaders nor public policies are likely to succeed. In this thirty-fourth volume in The American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy series, a distinguished group of international scholars from a range of disciplines examines what is meant by "virtue," analyzing various historical and analytical meanings of virtue, notions of liberal virtue, civic virtue, and judicial virtue, and the nature of secular and theological virtue.

In this thirty-second annual volume in the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy's NOMOS series, entitled Majorities and Minorities , thirteen distinguished contributors consider a diverse selection of topics. Included are essays on legitimacy of the majority, the utilitarian view of majoritarianism, majorities and elections, pluralism and equality, democratic theory, and American democracy and majority rules. Of Interest to political scientists, philosophers, and legal scholars, this collection brings together a variety of viewpoints. Each author is a leading voice within his or

In this thirty-second annual volume in the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy's NOMOS series, entitled Majorities and Minorities, thirteen distinguished contributors consider a diverse selection of topics. Included are essays on legitimacy of the majority, the utilitarian view of majoritarianism, majorities and elections, pluralism and equality, democratic theory, and American democracy and majority rules. Of Interest to political scientists, philosophers, and legal scholars, this collection brings together a variety of viewpoints. Each author is a leading voice within his or.

This, the twenty-seventh volume in the annual series of publications by the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy, features a number of distinguised contributors addressing the topic of criminal justice. Part I considers "The Moral and Metaphysical Sources of the Criminal Law," with contributions by Michael S. Moore, Lawrence Rosen, and Martin Shapiro. The four chapters in Part II all relate, more or less directly, to the issue of retribution, with papers by Hugo Adam Bedau, Michael Davis, Jeffrie G. Murphy, and R. B. Brandt. In the following part, Dennis F. Thompson, C

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- CONTRIBUTORS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. THE MORAL AND METAPHYSICAL SOURCES OF THE CRIMINAL LAW -- 2. INTENTIONALITY AND THE CONCEPT OF THE PERSON -- 3. THE DECONSTRUCTION AND RECONSTRUCTION OF INTENT -- 4. CLASSIFICATION-BASED SENTENCING: SOME CONCEPTUAL AND ETHICAL PROBLEMS -- 5. HOW TO MAKE THE PUNISHMENT FIT THE CRIME -- 6. RETRIBUTIVISM AND THE STATE'S INTEREST IN PUNISHMENT -- 7. A MOTIVATIONAL THEORY OF EXCUSES IN THE CRIMINAL LAW -- 8. CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY IN GOVERNMENT -- 9. A COMMENT ON "CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY IN GOVERNMENT" -- 10. THE LEGAL AND MORAL RESPONSIBILITY OF ORGANIZATIONS -- 11. ON THE ECONOMIC THEORY OF CRIME -- 12. COMMENT ON "ON THE ECONOMIC THEORY OF CRIME" -- 13. CRIME, KICKERS, AND TRANSACTION STRUCTURES -- 14. IS THERE AN ECONOMIC THEORY OF CRIME? -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- 1 Coercion: an Overview J. ROLAND PENNOCK -- 2 A Concept Coercion MICHAEL D. BAYLES -- 3 Coercion and Freedom BERNARD GERT -- 4 Coercion and Coercive Offers VIRGINIA HELD -- 5 Coercion, Space, and the Modes of Human Domination MICHAEL A. WEINSTEIN -- 6 Spontaneity, Justice, and Coercion: On Nicomachean Ethics, Books III and V ROBERT K. FAULKNER -- 7 Coercion and Social Change SAMUEL DUBOIS COOK -- 8 Is Coercion "Ethically Neutral"? ROBERT PAUL WOLFF -- 9 The Need for Coercion J. HOWARD SOBEL -- 10 Noncoercive Society: Some Doubts, Leninist and Contemporary WILLIAM LEON MCBRIDE -- 11 Trust as an Alternative to Coercion WILLIAM H. RIKER -- 12 Political Coercion and Political Obligation ALAN P. WERTHEIMER -- 13 Coercion and International Politics: A Theoretical Analysis DONALD MCINTOSH -- 14 Bargaining and Bargaining Tactics ROBERT JERVIS -- 15 Coercion in Politics and Strategy JOHN W. CHAPMAN -- Index