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A fresh understanding of Henry Adams' political career is offered with this book. The author argues that Adams sought influence and power, not office, and shows how the young republican sabotaged his career as a journalist and lobbyist by offending the people he sought to influence.

Pour les personnes "amoureuses de la nature", mais néanmoins soucieuses d'une conservation "rationnelle" de cette nature en aires protégées, la décision du gouvernement bolivien, en mai 2015, d'ouvrir ses parcs nationaux, aires de gestion intégrée et autres réservoirs de la biosphère à l'exploration et à l'exploitation des hydrocarbures, fut considérée comme une régression face aux efforts de conservation consentis jusque là pour protéger les 15% du territoire abritant une des plus grandes biodiversités au monde. L'État plurinational de Bolivie présente depuis plusieurs années, au niveau international, un discours engagé sur les droits de la "Terre-Mère", et a d'ailleurs élaboré à cet égard, en 2009, une Constitution modèle de protection de la "Terre-Mère" -mais également de défense des droits des peuples autochtones. Au niveau national, des politiques de conservation ont été mises en œuvre pour assurer la protection d'une biodiversité unique au monde, au sein de 22 aires protégées. Mais un autre discours suit également son chemin, celui du développement. Et, dans un pays au long passé exportateur de matières premières comme la Bolivie, il semble que la voie d'un renouveau développementiste soit contrainte de s'appuyer, pour répondre à la demande croissante de l'économie mondiale, sur un sol qui se dérobe de plus en plus -duquel on extrait toujours plus, depuis une décennie. L'extractivisme, véritable cancer de la Terre, ronge petit à petit les entrailles de la Bolivie -de son environnement, de son peuple. L'économie prime enfin sur toute idéologie. Comment en est-on arrivé là? Quels sont les représentations, les discours qui justifient cette évolution ?Quels en sont les impacts socio-environnementaux? Cette évolution est-elle inéluctable? Voilà autant de questions auxquelles nous essayons de répondre dans le présent travail. Pour cette approche politique de la conservation en Bolivie confrontée à l'expansion de la frontière hydrocarburifère, nous mobilisons, comme théorie principale, la political ecology. Nous ...

Discourse ethics and the liberal political culture reciprocally presuppose each other as laws need to be legitimized through discourse in a democracy. Habermas' discourse ethics attempts to provide a practical solution to the problems of the legitimation of normative claims in pluralistc societies. It does this by understanding deliberative democracy as being situated within the life-world of its participants. through which the consensus of validity claims can be carried out. This understanding of the role of discourse ethics will be applied to the situation in Indonesia and the Philippines.

This article shows linkages between a broadened transaction-cost theory of politics and prior studies analyzing governmental behavior such as agenda control, strategic use of information, cost concealment and cost dispersion. It develops a model of government manipulation of politically relevant transaction costs in order to facilitate both more comprehensive specification of the determinants of such political behavior and more accurate assessment of the likelihood and consequences of institutional change. The article presents a taxonomy that classifies conceptually various observed and potential forms of governmental transaction-cost manipulation.

THE SCALE OF THE AFRICAN TRANSFORMATION RIVALS THAT OF THE REVOLUTIONARY UPHEAVALS OF 1989 IN EASTERN EUROPE. THIS PAPER OFFERS PRELIMINARY ANSWERS TO THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS: WHAT HAS CAUSED THESE MASSIVE CHANGES? WHAT NEW MODELS OF POLITICAL ORGANIZATION HAVE EMERGED? WHO ARE THE AGENTS OF CHANGE? WHAT DIFFICULTIES HAVE THEY ALREADY ENCOUNTERED, AND WHAT GREAT CHALLENGES LIE AHEAD? IT CONCLUDES THAT ABOVE ALL, AFRICA NEEDS PEACE. IF PEACE IS SHOWN TO BE ONE OF THE FIRST FRUITS OF THE DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT, MANY OTHERS WILL FOLLOW IN TIME.

Many believe that the ""new historians"" represent a revolution in Israeli intellectual life. However, the exclusion of Arab voices and sources of evidence, especially in the work of Benny Morris, limited the extent of that revolution and situates some of the new history close to traditional Zionist categories of knowledge. This historical exclusion partly explains Morris's retreat to the Israeli political center since the outbreak of the second intifada. Meron Benvenisti's outlook and ""relational"" approaches to the history of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict are intellectual methods with a more promising political perspective.

Located on the shore of Lake Superior near the Iron Range of Minnesota and, for much of its history, the site of vast steel, lumber, and shipping industries, Duluth has been home to people who worked tirelessly in the rail yards, grain elevators, and harbor. Here, for the first time, By the Ore Docks presents a compelling, full-length history of the people who built this port city and struggled for both the growth of the city and the rights of their fellow workers. In By the Ore Docks, Richard Hudelson and Carl Ross trace seventy years in the lives of Duluths multi-ethnic working classScandi.