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This book aspires to contribute to greater understanding of three major perspectives on marine policy: developed states' perspectives, developing states' perspectives, and interaction between first and second perspectives or North-South perspectives.

Because Brazil's emergence as a major power is paralleled by its emergence as an ocean power, the country is a particularly important example of the ocean policies of developing states. Ocean affairs have become increasingly important for Brazilian foreign policy, and Brazil, in turn, has come to occupy a distinctive position in bilateral, regional, and global negotiations for a new ocean order. This book surveys all aspects of Brazilian ocean policy: domestic influences, naval affairs, offshore petroleum exploration, shipping, and fishing. National ocean policy is related to international politics through analysis of Brazil's participation at international maritime conferences and its maritime relations with other states. The final chapter compares Brazil's ocean policy with policies of other states, both developing and developed.

Ideology critique generally seeks to undermine selected theories and beliefs by demonstrating their partisan origins and their insidious social functions. This approach rightly reveals the socially implicated nature of much purported knowledge, but also brackets or bypasses its cognitive properties. In contrast, Michael Morris argues that it is possible to integrate the social and epistemic dimensions of belief in a way that preserves the cognitive and adjudicatory capacities of reason, while acknowledging that reason itself is inevitably social, historical, and interested. Drawing upon insights from Hegel, Lukacs, Mannheim, and Habermas, he interprets and reconstructs Marx's critique of ideology as a positive theory of knowledge, one that reconciles the inherently interested and inextricably situated nature of thought with more traditional conceptions of rational adjudication, normativity, and truth. His wide-ranging examination of the social and epistemic dimensions of ideology will interest readers in political philosophy and political theory

Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figure and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Comparative Language Politics -- 2 Language Politics and Integration in the Americas: Propositions and Framework -- 3 Language Politics in Canada and the United States -- 4 Middle American Language Politics -- 5 Caribbean Language Politics -- 6 Superpower Linguistic Competition in Cuba -- 7 Conclusion -- Notes -- Index

Introduction: Scotland and the Caribbean, c. 1740-1833 -- Theoretical orientations: transnationalism in the Atlantic world -- Archipelagic poetics: pastoral, georgic, and the Scoto-British imperial vision, c.1740-1785 -- Robert Burns: slavery, freedom and abolition, 1786-1800 -- Not immediate but gradual: abolition to emancipation, 1800-1833 -- Recovering Scottish Creoles from the Caribbean -- Joseph Knight: history, fiction, memory.

The one thing that looms largest in South Africa's future is South Africa's past - most especially the nearly five decades of division and conflict at the heart of one of the twentieth century's most infamous social experiments. Apartheid, An Illustrated History is a portrait of the defining experience of modern South Africa's transition from colonial state to democracy. What began in May 1948 as a vague, grimly ambitious project to interrupt history and engineer white supremacy at the expense of the country's black majority spawned forty-six years of repressive authoritarianism and bitter r

chapter INTRODUCTION -- chapter 1 THE NATURE OF THE WORLD -- chapter 2 THE LEGACY OF FREGE AND RUSSELL -- chapter 3 THE GENERAL THEORY OF REPRESENTATION -- chapter 4 SENTENCES AS MODELS -- chapter 5 LOGIC AND COMPOUND SENTENCES -- chapter 6 SOLIPSISM, IDEALISM, AND REALISM -- chapter 7 METAPHYSICS, ETHICS, AND THE LIMITS OF PHILOSOPHY.

The international straits of the world have generated intense demands and claims since the advent of seafaring and the early development of the Law of the Sea. Demands of access and control over these intense spaces continues to implicate the power and wealth of nations and all oceans users. The contemporary normative straits regime is a product of customary law, and specialized and general conventions. The regime regulates the rights and duties of coastal states and vessels over these potential chokepoints and, owing to new demands, it is under enhanced stress. The post-9-11 security environment and the resurgence of piracy have elevated the defense demands of maritime powers and coastal States. Non-state actors, including private armies, have acquired an enhanced capability to limit access to straits. Environmental concerns have created an added dimension of complexity to these narrow shipping lanes where coastal States increasingly demand additional regulatory measures such as mandatory pilotage and designation of PSSAs. The emergence from the current global financial crisis depends upon global trade including petroleum shipping. Most of that trade moves through the restricted ship operating areas of densely trafficked straits. Thus the public order of the oceans depends upon international straits for navigation, power and wealth. At no point in history has the erosion or reinforcement of straits norms been more critical for the world community. This is the key moment to re-launch the series, The International Straits of the World . Books in the series will present (1) studies of individual geographic straits, and (2) studies of straits grouped by shared functions and problems. The re-launched series will revise or rewrite certain previously published books that merit more contemporary appraisal and add new straits studies