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Maritime Power in the Black Sea provides the first comprehensive assessment and evaluation of the comparative maritime power of the six littoral states in the Black Sea - Turkey, Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, Romania and Bulgaria. This book examines the maritime capabilities and assets of each of these states and also considers the implications of the distribution of maritime power on both regional and international security.

Drawing on original empirical data with men who buy sex, this book takes a fresh look at the relationships clients have with female sex workers. The core questions that form the backbone of the research are not only the expected inquiry into 'why men buy sex', but also into the sociological and psychological processes that men encounter in order to enter an assumed 'deviant' sexual behaviour as part of their everyday lives. These sociological processes of finding, negotiating and buying sexual services are complicated by the stigma directed towards men who buy sex. Exactly how do me

Zeitschriftender Politikwissenschaft [Political Science Journals] gives an overview and comparison of major political science journals, both national and international.Itprovides students and researchers with an introduction to the history and emphasis of the various journals, both to define research interests and to locate the right journal for a publication. This well-informed reference work is rounded off by descriptions of evidence systems and relevant research institutions

"It is a truism that history is written by the victors, and perhaps doubly so of military history, where the tendency is to relate the biggest battles, the most victorious and heroic deeds, the very best (or worst) of men. This book stands as a corrective to this belief. Scraping the Barrel covers ten cases of how armies have used sub-standard manpower in wars from 1860 to the 1960s. Dennis Showalter and Andre Lambelet look at the changing standards in Germany and France leading up to World War I, while Peter Simkins chronicles what happened with the 'Bantams, ' special units of short men used by Britain in WWI. Often the use of substandard men was to answer the sheer need for manpower in brutal, lasting conflicts, as Paul A. Cimbala writes of the U.S. Veteran Reserve Corps in the Civil War, or to keep war-damaged men active; sometimes this ethos was used to include men who wanted to fight but who otherwise would have been excluded, as Steven W. Short writes of the U.S. Colored troops in WWI. In WWII it was to answer more dire exigencies, as David Glantz relates how the USSR, having suffered enormous losses, threw away many pre-war standards, reaching for women, ethnic/national minorities, and political prisoners alike to fill units. Likewise, Nazi Germany, facing many fronts and a finite manpower pool, was compelled to relax both physical and racial standards, and Walter Dunn and Valdis Lumans look at these changing policies as well as the battlefield performance of these men. In relating the stories of the sub-standard (for the military), Scraping the Barrel is also a humanist history of the military, of the more average men who have served their country and how they were put to use. It throws light on how militaries' ideas of fitness reflect the underlying views of their societies. The idea of "disability" has been constructed based on a variety of physical, yes, but also social standards: as a value judgment on groups viewed as lesserthe aged, the lower classes, and those of different races and ethnic identities. From the American Civil War, through World Wars I and II, through the U.S. Project 100,000 in the Cold War, sub-standard men have been mobilized, served, and fought for their countries. These men are the inverse of the elites that get the lion's share of our attention. This is their untold history."--Project Muse

This volume studies the levels and evolution of EU citizens' attitudes toward the EU by answering 3 key questions: How widespread is the sense of European citizenship? What are its core drivers? And what consequences does citizenship have, if any, for EU support and for active political participation in EU politics?

DasKompendium Zeitschriften der Politikwissenschaftbieteteinen detaillierten Überblick zu denunzähligen Zeitschriften der Politikwissenschaft aus Ländern wie Großbritannien, Deutschland und denUSA. Luise Sandersgibt Studenten und Wissenschaftlern die nötige Einführung inGeschichte, Schwerpunkte und politische Ausrichtungaller relevanten Fachorgane, nicht nur um Forschungsinteressen zu definieren, sondern auch die richtige Zeitschrift für eigene Publikationen zu finden. Kurzbeschreibungen der wichtigsten Nachweissysteme zur Recherche in Bibliotheken, Erläuterungen zu Volltextarchiven und die Darstellung politikwissenschaftlicher Institutionenergänzen das Bild eines fundiertenNachschlagewerkes, das über einen bloßen Zeitschriftenindex hinausgeht.

"Examines the political and social influences behind the creation of the postrevolutionary Mexican welfare state in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s"--Provided by publisher

Presents the Vermont Senator's speech from December 10, 2010, in which he spoke for eight and a half hours to call to action the middle class in an effort to save themselves by becoming informed, organized, and prepared to take on the special interests in Washington