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Democracy is in crisis because voices of the people are ignored due to a politics of mass society. After demonstrating how the French Fourth Republic failed, wherein Singapore's totalitarianism is a dangerous model, Washington is enmeshed in gridlock, and there is a global democracy deficit, solutions are offered to revitalize democracy as the best form of government. The book demonstrates how mass society politics operates, with intermediate institutions of civil society (media, pressure groups, political parties) no longer transmitting the will of the people to government but instead are concerned with corporate interests and have developed oligarchical mindsets. Rather than micro-remedy bandaids, the author focuses on the need to transform governing philosophies from pragmatic to humanistic solutions. Michael Haas is a Nobel Peace Prize Nominee and political scientist who has taught at several universities--London, Northwestern, Purdue, the University of California (Riverside), the University of Hawaiʻi, and multiple campuses of California State University. The author of more than 50 books, including Asian and Pacific Cooperation, International Relations Theory, and Political Science Revitalized, he now gives public lecturers around the world.--

This book argues against the traditional understanding of international relations through the study of ideology and introduces four new major paradigms in the study of international relations theory: Marxian, mass society, community building, and rational choice

This book explains how racist rule ended in Hawai'i through innovative reforms including cultural transformation, adoption of social market capitalism, environmental reforms, affirmative action, and recognition of the rights of indigenous Native Hawaiians. The book explores how developments in Hawai'i can be enacted in other states and countries.

With National Socialism's arrival in Germany in 1933, Jews dominated music more than virtually any other sector, making it the most important cultural front in the Nazi fight for German identity. This groundbreaking book looks at the Jewish composers and musicians banned by the Third Reich and the consequences for music throughout the rest of the twentieth century. Because Jewish musicians and composers were, by 1933, the principal conveyors of Germany's historic traditions and the ideals of German culture, the isolation, exile and persecution of Jewish musicians by the Nazis became an act of musical self-mutilation. Michael Haas looks at the actual contribution of Jewish composers in Germany and Austria before 1933, at their increasingly precarious position in Nazi Europe, their forced emigration before and during the war, their ambivalent relationships with their countries of refuge, such as Britain and the United States and their contributions within the radically changed post-war music environment. -- Jacket

With a foreword written by former presidential candidate Michael Dukakis, this book portrays President Barack Obama as a true child of Hawaiì and explains why he believes that America can achieve even more greatness by learning from the multicultural customs of the 50th state.

Hauptbeschreibung: Dieses Handbuch stellt das Verfassungsprozessrecht im Freistaat Sachsen systematisch und unter Berücksichtigung der veröffentlichten Urteile des Verfassungsgerichtshofes dar. Es ermöglicht sowohl dem Praktiker einen schnellen Zugriff auf die Probleme des Verfassungsprozessrechts, als auch Lehre, Forschung und Ausbildung die vertiefte Auseinandersetzung mit dem Verfassungsgerichtshof des Freistaates Sachsen. Dr. Michael Haas ist Sozius der Rechtsanwaltskanzlei in Dresden. Er war als parlamentarischer Berater an der Erarbeitung der Sächsischen Verfassung und des

"Operational Codes in Foreign Policy: A Deconstruction" published on by Oxford University Press.

In this Strategic Trends chapter, Michael Haas examines the advantage Western nations have enjoyed in military technology since the 1970s. He argues that this state of affairs is rapidly changing, as competitors embrace new technologies and duplicate or offset Western strengths – a problem to which there are no easy solutions. In his view, Western policymakers should act on several fronts to slow the process, while also adapting to a world in which they no longer enjoy substantial military-technological superiority. ; Westliche Nationen geniessen seit den 70er Jahren Vorteile im Bereich Militärtechnologie. Michael Haas argumentiert in diesem Strategic Trends Kapitel, dass sich dieser Zustand rasch verändert, da die Wettbewerber neue Technologien nutzen und westliche Stärken nachahmen. Dies, so Haas, führt zu Problemen, für die es keine einfachen Lösungen gibt. Seiner Ansicht nach sollte die Politik des Westens an mehreren Fronten tätig werden, um den Prozess zu verlangsamen und sich gleichzeitig an eine Welt anzupassen, in der der Westen militärtechnisch nicht mehr überlegen ist. ; ISSN:1664-0667

This dissertation examines the long-term military competition between the U.S. and Soviet navies during 1946-81. It investigates the dynamics of naval posture change by integrating insights from military innovation theory with in-depth process tracing, thus providing a much-improved understanding of the Cold War at sea during the most decisive phases of the 'Third Battle of the Atlantic'.