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This wide ranging book provides readers with a reliable and lively guide to contemporary American political practices, processes and institutions. Essays in the proposed volume will cover phenomena such as the Tea Party upsurge in the Republican Party, Obama's health care reforms, recent changes to campaign funding emanating from the key Citizens' United Supreme Court decision, US foreign policy after the War on Terror, Obama's presidential strategy and issues relating to polarisation and partisanship in US politics. This work is essential reading for all students of American P.

Written in an accessible, journalistic style, Jihad in Paradise focuses on Southeast Asia's struggle to deal with Islamic extremists and terrorism at the hands of Jemah Islamiyah, al Qaeda's Southeast Asian arm. Although the book gives particular attention to Singapore's attempts to deal with these issues, the story extends into Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines. All of these countries have significant Muslim populations, and recent violent events have affected the business environment, tourism, and the region's tradition of religious tolerance. The author draws on personal interviews w

This book addresses the current concern that ballistic missile technologies are spreading throughout the world. It examines the missile and missile-armament programs and technologies, and the ability of countries to acquire such technologies. The concluding chapter investigates international efforts to control ballistic missile proliferation. ; https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/politicalscience_geography_books/1022/thumbnail.jpg

"This title was first published in 2003. Social welfare is the focus of much discussion and there is a broad spectrum of political opinion that agrees on the need for urgent reform. The literature informing these policy debates draws on a diversity of theoretical traditions and discourses concerned with remaking community, yet there has been no in-depth, coherent political analysis of these various positions. This captivating volume provides such an analysis, enabling the diverse discourses informing current social policy debates to be identified and understood in broader perspective. The book frames the debates within the context of globalization and the accompanying shift in focus of social policy from issues of social justice to questions of social order. It identifies 'the community' as both the site of today's social problems and the main tool that governments have at their disposal to address these problems. This portrayal of 'the community' is both theorized and illustrated with empirical material drawn from the Australian experience of community action."--Provided by publisher.

"Women's rights and economic development are highly correlated. Today, the discrepancy between the legal rights of women and men is much larger in developing compared to developed countries. Historically, even in countries that are now rich women had few rights before economic development took off. Is development the cause of expanding women's rights, or conversely, do women's rights facilitate development? We argue that there is truth to both hypotheses. The literature on the economic consequences of women's rights documents that more rights for women lead to more spending on health and children, which should benefit development. The political-economy literature on the evolution of women's rights finds that technological change increased the costs of patriarchy for men, and thus contributed to expanding women's rights. Combining these perspectives, we discuss the theory of Doepke and Tertilt (2009), where an increase in the return to human capital induces men to vote for women's rights, which in turn promotes growth in human capital and income per capita"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site

Since it first appeared in Fantastic Four Annual #2 (1964), Doctor Doom's homeland Latveria has gone through many changes, having experienced various invasions, revolutions, obliterations and magical reconstruction. The way it has been portrayed within the Marvel comics universe has also changed, from initially appearing as a medieval land under the yoke of an evil King to its current complex status as an emergent Eastern European superpower. This paper will examine these changes as reflections of Western attitudes to Eastern European nations during the Cold War and beyond through a series of examples including Doom's revolutionary seizure of power, the Fantastic Four's recurring interventions, and Nick Fury's disastrous attempt at regime change in 'Secret War' (2005). Drawing on the work of Jason Dittmer around national superheroes and 'popular geopolitics', the paper will conclude that Doctor Doom's rule over Latveria represents a potent symbol of the nationalist 'other' in American popular culture - and perhaps offers a glimpse of future possibilities in the new world order of Trump and Putin.

Occupied Greece suffered a serious famine and food crisis in the years 1941–4. This article focuses on the relief structures set up in occupied Greece and the political implications of their presence there. It is argued that the relief structures in Athens, where their presence was felt the most, constituted a 'state within a state' and that they became extremely powerful bearing little relation to the International Committee of the Red Cross and its principles, which in theory they represented. The article outlines how all other significant power players – the Greek occupation government, the British and the main resistance group, the National Liberation Front (EAM) – sought to utilize the relief structures in order to gain power, each to a different degree. Last but not least, it is argued that the Greek Occupation Government of Athens in the final year of the Occupation was the one that used relief food most aggressively and effectively to regain much of its lost power.

Irredentism developed into an anomaly in post-World War II Europe and — contradicting the dire predictions of the 1990s — has remained an anomaly even since the end of the Cold War. Focusing on the renunciation of the FRG's and the Republic of Ireland's irredentist claims, I propose a novel route to analyse dispute settlement. I contend that nations justify their stance in a conflict. In the case of irredentism, they do not merely assert that a disputed territory is their land but justify to themselves and others why the disputed territory is rightfully theirs and why pursuing the irredentist stance is worthwhile. The disruption of this justification — what I call dejustification — constitutes a pathway to dispute settlement. Dejustification occurs through a change of the ideational environment that serves as the resource for justifying the claim and an advocacy that constructs a mismatch between environment and claim.

THIS PAPER DESCIBES THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT'S TRAINING AND ENTERPRISE COUNCILS (TECS) INITIATIVE, DRAWING OUT SOME OF THE POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC IMPLICATIONS OF ITS INTRODUCTION AND SPECULATING UPON ITS FUTURE DEVELOPMENT. THROUGH THE TEC INITIATIVE, CLOSE TO 3 BILLION (POUNDS STERLING) OF PUBLIC FUNDS AND OVER 5000 CIVIL SERVICE JOBS HAVE BEEN TRANSFERRED FROM THE PUBLIC TO THE PRIVATE SPHERE, AS THE GOVERNMENT HANDS OVER "OWNERSHIP" OF THE TRAINING AND ENTERPRISE SYSTEM TO EMPLOYERS. TECS, AS PRIVATE COMPANIES CHARGED WITH THE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE DELIVERY OF PUBLICLY-FUNDED EMPLOYMENT PROGRAMS, ARE CHARACTERIZED AS "POST-CORPORATIST" POLITICAL STRUCTURES--STATE-CAPITAL COALITIONS IN WHICH THE LABOR MOVEMENT HAS BEEN PURPOSEFULLY MARGINALIZED. THIS IS A STRATEGY NOT WITHOUT RISK FOR THE CONSERVATIVE GOVERNMENT, BECAUSE IN THE EMPLOYER-DOMINATED TECS IT HAS CREATED A POWERFUL AND TO A CERTAIN EXTENT UNPREDICTABLE POLITICAL LOBBY. THE PAPER ARGUES THAT THE POTENTIAL POLITICAL VOLATILITY OF TECS IS ROOTED IN PART TO THEIR SUSCEPTIBILITY TO LOCAL POLITICAL INFLUENCES.

After setting out the main analytical approaches to evaluating women's status, the article assesses the situation of women under the Palestinian Authority (PA) in two main areas: representation in "state" institutions and the law (formal, customary, and shari'a). The work of the women's nongovernmental organizations is surveyed, particularly their campaigns for legal literacy and women's electoral participation. The article concludes that the situation of women has advanced little, because of a number of structural impediments, including a general conservatism in society (including among women's groups) and the characteristics of the PA.

Icelandic and Indian language notes -- Introduction: adventures and misadventures in comparison -- The suffering Indian nun and the wandering (drunken) Irish priest: orientalism and Celticism unplugged -- Arguing equal access to an earthly sacred: Christian and Hindu theologies of liberation -- Making and staking sacred terrain: Rajneeshee and diaspora Hindu settlers and unsettlers -- Embodying the extraordinary in Iceland and India and the difference spirits make -- Postscript: unanticipated adventures in ritualized ethnography

Critical minerals have become a buzz-word in contemporary foreign and domestic policy for all states. Likely because it has emerged as a major geopolitical issue wedged between the realist power struggles of US-China hyper-competition. At best this promotes dispersed and uncoordinated strategies across national economies and, at worst, could be the undoing of global efforts […]