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"What happens when we vote? What are we counting when we count ballots? Who decides what an election should look like and what it should mean? And why do so many people believe that some or all elections are rigged? Moving between intellectual history, literary criticism, and political theory, The Electoral Imagination offers a critical account of the decisions before the decision, of the aesthetic and imaginative choices that inform and, in some cases, determine the nature and course of democratic elections. Drawing on original interpretations of George Eliot and Ralph Ellison, Lewis Carroll and Kenneth Arrow, Anthony Trollope and Arthur Koestler, Richard Nixon and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the Palm Beach Butterfly Ballot and the Single Transferable Vote, The Electoral Imagination works both to understand the systems we use to move between the one and the many and to offer an alternative to the "myth of rigging."--

Western academics, politicians, and military leaders alike have labelled Russia's actions in Crimea and its follow-on operations in Eastern Ukraine as a new form of "Hybrid Warfare." In this book, Kent DeBenedictis argues that, despite these claims, the 2014 Crimean operation is more accurately to be seen as the Russian Federation's modern application of historic Soviet political warfare practices-the overt and covert informational, political, and military tools used to influence the actions of foreign governments and foreign populations. DeBenedictis links the use of Soviet practices, such as the use of propaganda, disinformation, front organizations, and forged political processes, in the Crimea in 2014 to the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 (the "Prague Spring") and the earliest stages of the invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. Through an in-depth case study analysis of these conflicts, featuring original interviews, government documents and Russian and Ukrainian sources, this book demonstrates that the operation, which inspired discussions about Russian "Hybrid Warfare," is in fact the modern adaptation of Soviet political warfare tools and not the invention of a new type of warfare.

Kent Zetterberg har länge forskat om svensk politik och denna bok består av en sammanställning av sex uppsatser med fokus på Sverige och Tyskland under andra världskriget. Frågan om den svenska neutraliteten och säkerhetspolitiken behandlas, liksom frågan om den svenska politiken mot Nazityskland under det andra världskriget och debatten efter kriget

An innovative book that provides fresh insights into the neglected field of remedies in both international and domestic human rights law. Providing an overarching two-track theory, it combines remedies to compensate and prevent irreparable harm to litigants with a more dialogic approach to systemic remedies. It breaks new ground by demonstrating how proportionality principles can improve remedial decision-making and avoid reliance on either strong discretion or inflexible rules. It draws on the latest jurisprudence from the European and Inter-American Courts of Human Rights and domestic courts in Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, Hong Kong, South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States. Separate chapters are devoted to interim remedies, remedies for laws that violate human rights, damages, remedies in the criminal process, declarations and injunctions in institutional cases, remedies for violations of social and economic rights and remedies for violations of Indigenous rights

Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Preface -- Preface -- One: A Happy Childhood in Lodz -- Two: Golden Summers -- Three: Winds of War -- Four: My Dog Lala -- Five: Moving to the Ghetto -- Six: Ghetto Life -- Seven: Working in the Ghetto -- Eight: The Beginning of the End -- Nine: Auschwitz-Children of the Holocaust -- Ten: Horrendous Life in Auschwitz -- Eleven: Gross-Rosen Concentration Camp -- Twelve: Flossenburg Concentration Camp -- Thirteen: Germany After Liberation -- Fourteen: Reunion At Last -- Fifteen: Coming to America -- Sixteen: Living Through Ballyhoo -- Seventeen: My Brother Leon -- Eighteen: The Business World -- Nineteen: Big Business in The Big Apple -- Twenty: The Birth of Namor -- Twenty-one: The Dreyfus Affair (David vs. Goliath) -- Twenty-two: Starting a Family -- Twenty-three: Communal Involvement -- Twenty-four: United Nations Commemoration-Sixtieth Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz -- Postscript.

From treaty to "the white man governs" -- Racialized and politicalized rural crime and self-defence -- The investigation, polarization and preliminaries -- Jury selection -- Hang fire? -- Indigenous witnesses on trial -- Murder, manslaughter and phantom self-defence -- Acquittals, decision not to appeal and aftermath -- Can we do better?

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- PART 1 FISH AND NUTRITION -- 1 Introduction -- Background -- Scope -- Notes -- 2 Fish in the World Food System -- Patterns of Fish Consumption -- Fish Trade -- The Edibility Question -- The Problems -- Remedies -- Notes -- 3 The Nutritive Value of Fish -- Nutrients -- Other Values -- World Malnutrition -- The Potential of Fish -- Notes -- 4 Using Fish to Alleviate Malnutrition -- Production -- Processing -- Distribution -- Notes -- PART 2 NATIONAL AND REGIONAL CASE STUDIES -- 5 The Philippines -- Nutrition -- Fisheries -- Action Program -- Notes -- 6 Thailand -- Nutrition -- Fisheries -- Action Program -- Notes -- 7 India -- Production and Disposition -- Nutrition -- Policy Options -- Action Program -- Notes -- 8 Southern Africa -- SADCC -- Country Profiles -- Nutrition Situation -- Options -- Action -- Notes -- 9 The Pacific Islands -- Malnutrition -- Food Trade -- The Fisheries Situation -- Conflicting Interests -- Potentials -- Notes -- PART 3 GUIDELINES -- 10 Fisheries Project Evaluation and Design -- Value of Alleviating Malnutrition -- Relationships to Other Values -- Costs -- Fisheries Project Design -- Notes -- 11 Fisheries Policy -- Policy Interactions -- Exports -- Liaison -- National Action -- International Action -- Motivating the Action -- Notes -- Bibliography.

A revealing portrait of Richard Oakes, the brilliant, charismatic Native American leader who was instrumental in the takeovers of Alcatraz, Fort Lawton, and Pit River and whose assassination in 1972 galvanized the Trail of Broken Treaties march on Washington, DC. The life of this pivotal Akwesasne Mohawk activist is explored in an important new biography based on extensive archival research and key interviews with activists and family members. Historian Kent Blansett offers a transformative and new perspective on the Red Power movement of the turbulent 1960s and the dynamic figure who helped to organize and champion it, telling the full story of Oakes's life, his fight for Native American self-determination, and his tragic, untimely death. This invaluable history chronicles the mid-twentieth century rise of Intertribalism, Indian Cities, and a national political awakening that continues to shape Indigenous politics and activism to this day

The first book-length biography of Richard Oakes, a Red Power activist of the 1960s who was a leader in the Alcatraz takeover and the Red Power Indigenous rights movement. A revealing portrait of Richard Oakes, the brilliant, charismatic Native American leader who was instrumental in the takeovers of Alcatraz, Fort Lawton, and Pit River and whose assassination in 1972 galvanized the Trail of Broken Treaties march on Washington, DC. The life of this pivotal Akwesasne Mohawk activist is explored in an important new biography based on extensive archival research and key interviews with activists and family members. Historian Kent Blansett offers a transformative and new perspective on the Red Power movement of the turbulent 1960s and the dynamic figure who helped to organize and champion it, telling the full story of Oakes's life, his fight for Native American self-determination, and his tragic, untimely death. This invaluable history chronicles the mid-twentieth century rise of Intertribalism, Indian Cities, and a national political awakening that continues to shape Indigenous politics and activism to this day.