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THE POLITICS OF THE BATTERED WOMEN'S MOVEMENT BRINGS TOGETHER A NUMBER OF VITAL CONCERNS: THE ROLE OF THE STATE IN INTIMATE RELATIONS, FEMINIST ANALYSES OF MALE VIOLENCE AND POWER, AND THE WAYS POLITICAL ACTIVISTS AND PROFESSIONAL "SOCIAL SERVICE PROVIDERS" VARIOUSLY DEFINE AND INTERVENE IN SOCIAL PROBLEMS.

"The following address was given by Massachusetts Senate President William M. Bulger at the McCormack Institute's Moakley Award Ceremony at the University of Massachusetts Boston on April 23, 1993."

There has been an avalanche of publications on Southeast Asia in recent years, but no one volume provides an accurate and up-to-date account of political institutions and practices in the region. This book fills that gap.Each country chapter provides a broad overview of the historical, social and economic setting. It then analyses in detail the political "institutions" of that country -- the constitution, head of state, executive (cabinet and both military and civilian bureaucracies), the legislature, elections, the judiciary, political parties, ideology, civil society and human rights. Finally, it examines major traditional concerns of political scientists -- who rules, who benefits, and the extent of legitimacy -- before addressing the more modern preoccupation with governance

ABSTRACT: I challenge the "presupposition strain" in political theology—the thesis that politics needs religion, that politics presupposes religion, and that we cannot make sense of politics without an appeal to transcendent theological concepts. I do this by critically examining Simon Critchley's claim that politics is not practicable with religion. Critchley shares a common framework with Carl Schmitt; it is this framework of political theology that needs to be exposed, questioned, and criticized.

Colonial rule : shaping the destiny of a region -- Nationalism : the quest for identity and power -- A very political economy -- Conflict and lack of peace -- Past, present and future politics : Islam -- The ephemerals of democracy in the Middle East -- Women : the invisible population -- Endangered species : ethnicity and minorities -- Them and us : the United States, EU, and Russia in the Middle East -- The Arab Spring and the new era of uncertainty

Addresses the implications of broad shifts in environmental politics for environmentalism & progressive politics. An updated summary of the themes & contentions in the author's Environmentalism and the Future of Progressive Politics (1989) is offered before reflecting on the ideological & political relevance of the Cold War's end & the fall of the far Left. Attention turns to globalization & the retrogressive impacts of capitalism. The implications of globalization for the politics of wealthier nations are considered, addressing the increasingly closed nature of current global decision making & the politics of deregulation. A look at the development of 1990s environmental politics focuses on the potential for new perspectives & postregulatory environmental policy tools, noting that many pro-sustainability public policies are nonregulatory & can be structured in a manner that benefits the socioeconomic condition of disadvantaged North American groups. J. Zendejas