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The contestation of international decision-making is one of the most pressing problems affecting both national institutions and international organizations. As the main arenas of communal decision-making, the involvement of parliaments may be a solution to the legitimacy shortages of international decisions and the institutional paralysis that this may ensue. This dissertation examines two distinct processes that reveal the current place of parliaments in international politics. In the first part of my dissertation, I focus on the role of national parliaments in the politicisation of European integration. Using original data on parliamentary debates and a large corpus of newspaper articles, I show that parliaments are channels for the politicisation of EU decision-making. I find that parliamentary debates on the EU have media attention, especially debates over EU institutions, and that news related to the EU in general are more likely to mention parliament than news unrelated to the EU. In the second part of my dissertation, I study international parliamentary institutions (IPIs). I present the first large n study on the parliamentarization of international organizations (IOs) and propose that IOs utilise IPIs to increase their democratic legitimacy. Specifically, IOs with a region-building objective seek to associate with an institutional design from a more legitimate example: national representative democracy. I support the conclusions of my quantitative analysis with a small n study of the creation of the Andean Parliament. Using original qualitative data, I argue that the transformation of the Andean institutions into a region-building project and the democratic transitions of military regimes at the time were conducive to parliamentarization. My results support the idea that parliaments can help to resolve the inherent tensions between national polities and international decision-making. At the national level, parliaments debating international decisions regain their democratic function of communicating policy alternatives. For IOs, empowerment of existing IPIs following the example of the European Parliament would alleviate the democratic deficit in which they operate.

"This book explores environments where art, imagination, and creative practice meet urban spaces at the point where they connect to the digital world. It investigates relationships between urban visualizations, aesthetics, and politics in the context of new technologies, and social and urban challenges toward the Sustainable Development Goals. Responding to questions stemming from critical theory, the book focuses on an interdisciplinary actualization of technological developments and social challenges. It demonstrates how art, architecture, and design can transform culture, society, and nature through artistic and cultural achievements, integration, and new developments. The book begins with the theoretical framework of social aesthetics theories before discussing global contemporary visual culture and technological evolution. Across the twelve chapters, it looks at how architecture and design play significant roles in causing and solving complex environmental transformations in the digital turn. By fostering transdisciplinary encounters between architecture, design, visual arts, and cinematography, this book presents different theoretical approaches to how the arts' interplay with the environment responds to the logic of the constructions of reality. This book will appeal to scholars, researchers, and upper-level students in aesthetics, philosophy, visual cultural studies, communication studies, and media studies with a particular interest in socio-political and environmental discussions"--

Under what conditions can courts produce political and social change? My claim is that courts can be most consequential when they act in concert with other actors to create political spaces for ongoing discussion and engagement with regard to rights. In explaining judicial impact, I focus on the novel and understudied oversight mechanisms-like follow-up committees and public hearings-That some assertive high courts deploy to monitor adherence to some of their rulings. The analysis is based on comparative case studies of two landmark socioeconomic rights cases handed down by the Argentine Supreme Court. I show that the deployment of oversight mechanisms can create institutional spaces where the court, elected leaders, and private and civil society actors converge to generate change, resulting in greater impact. © 2018 City University of New York. All rights reserved.

Taking stock of contemporary social, cultural, and political currents, Timothy Brennan explores key turning points in the recent history of American intellectual life. Wars of Position documents how alternative views were chased from the public stage by strategic acts of censorship, including within supposedly dissident wings of the humanities. He explores how the humanities entered the cultural and political mainstream and settled into an awkward secular religion of the ""middle way."" In a series of interrelated chapters, he considers narratives of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Clinto

Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword by Anne-Marie Hilsdon -- Series Editor's Preface -- Editor's Preface -- The Cover Illustrations -- 1 Politics in Southeast Asia: Where are the Women? -- 2 "The Triple Burden": Politics and the Competing Realities of Singaporean Women -- 3 Political Spouse-hood for "Dummies": An Insider's View -- 4 How Islam Affects the Political Participation of Indonesian Women -- 5 The Glass Ceiling and Sticky Floor: Filipino Women's Participation in Politics and Governance -- 6 Winds of Change for Women Politicians in Myanmar? A Case Study of Aung San Suu Kyi -- The Editor and Contributors -- Index -- Back Cover

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Everyday encounters -- Locating disgust -- A snapshot of current disgust research -- What does disgust do? Towards an understanding of disgust as meaning-making -- Wayfinding through the text -- A method for reading-invoking disgust -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 1: Mapping the terrain: Approaches to disgust in Western psychology and thought -- Locating the embodied experience of disgust: a personal narrative -- Early research efforts: psychology's conception of disgust as a food-rejection mechanism -- Beyond disgust as a food-rejection mechanism: a thematic account of disgust research -- A state of alarm: disgust as a signal of threat -- The moral stakes of disgust -- The pull of disgust: fascination -- Forgotten terrain: gaps in existing approaches to disgust -- The disgust that is mine: a lack of relational disgust accounts -- The curse of fascination: the minimization of fascination in disgust accounts -- Incomplete questions and answers: current approaches to the ethical demands of disgust -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2: Towards a feminist politics of disgust: Exposing the social, cultural, and theoretical "lenses" of disgust discourse -- The lens of Cartesian dualism: a destructive legacy of conflating the feminine, the body, and irrationality -- Vacuous, false, and worthless: the Cartesian understanding of the body -- Controlling the emotions through the prescription of reason -- Cartesian dualism and its "masculinization of thought" -- Locating Descartes in theories of disgust -- The Cartesian "body" in disgust accounts -- Descartes' bifurcation of emotion and reason: disgust as irrational -- The lens of Western individualism: valorizing separation and disengagement.

In his recent book L'uso dei corpi, Giorgio Agamben investigates the philosophical genealogy of his central concept of inoperosità through a reconsideration of the classical notion of chresis or 'use'. According to Agamben, the latter points to an alternative constitution of human nature, one that would not be guided by a principle of necessary actualisation (energeia), would not exhaust itself in the realisation of an end (ergon), but would rather preserve its potentiality in a thoroughly non-subjective ('contemplative') relation of the body to itself. For Agamben, it is only through the recognition and mobilisation of this alternative foundation of the human, that the pervasive division of life (between natural and political, 'bare' and 'autarchic', zoe and bios) upon which modern politics is premised, can be overcome. In this article, I propose to read in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein an instructive rehearsal of these fundamental concepts, focusing on the possible meanings that the notion of monstrosity may acquire when placed against the backdrop of modernity's commitment to energeia and its associated biopolitical mechanisms.

"This exciting new edition of the successful textbook for students of Middle Eastern politics provides a highly relevant and comprehensive introduction to the complexities of a region in constant flux. Combining a thematic framework for examining patterns of politics with individual chapters dedicated to specific countries, the book places the very latest developments and long-standing issues within an historical context. This third edition extends its analysis to post-2015 developments in the region, as well as expanding the range of pedagogical features on offer. Presenting information in an accessible and inclusive format, the book offers: - Coverage of the historical influence of colonialism and major world powers on the shaping of the modern Middle East - A detailed examination of the legacy of Islam - Analysis of the political and social aspects of Middle Eastern life, including alienation between the state and society, poverty and social inequality, and ideological crisis and renewal - Case studies on countries in the Fertile Crescent (Iraq, Syria and Lebanon, and Israel/Palestine); the Northern Belt (Turkey and Iran); and those West and East of the Red Sea (Egypt and the members of the Gulf Cooperation Council) A key introductory text for students of Middle Eastern politics and history at advanced undergraduate and postgraduate levels, this new edition has been extensively updated to also become a timely and significant reference for policy-makers and any motivated reader"--