This book offers a historical presentation of how international criminal law has evolved from a national setting to embodying a truly international outlook. As a growing part of international law this is an area that has attracted growing attention as a result of the mass atrocities and heinous crimes committed in different parts of the world. Çakmak pays particular attention to how the first …
This book carries out a comparative study of the US response to popular uprisings in the Middle East as an evaluation of President Barack Obama’s foreign policy commitments. In 2009, Obama publicly pledged “a new beginning in US-Muslim relations,” causing eager expectation of a clear shift in US foreign policy after the election of the 44th president of the United States. However, the ach…
1. Friedrich Ratzel and Geopolitics -- 2. F. Ratzel’s State as a “social organism” -- 3. Living space (Lebensraum): Bio-geographical signifier with political-geographical signified? -- 4. Social / cultural aspects as factors of power contibutors in Ratzel’s state analysis and the issue of racism -- 5. Ratzel’s worldview (Weltanschauung) and the “Positivist Circle of Leipzig”. The …
Are women equal? Do women have equal rights? Have women's campaigns for justice, access to law, property ownership and child custody rights, and rights to bodily and psychic integrity, won women advances? When women fought for the right to vote, to be on juries, to be independent beings entitled to jobs, income, equal pay and the right to industrial action, did Magna Carta mean anything? Albeit…
Chapter 1. Introduction: Translations in Times of Disruption; David Hook and Graciela Iglesias-Rogers -- Chapter 2. Can constitutions be translated?: The case of the Cadiz Constitution in German; Horst Dippel -- Chapter 3. From Philos Hispaniae to Karl Marx: The first English translation of a Liberal Codex; Graciela Iglesias-Rogers -- Chapter 4. Distant disruption: Some Italian editions of the …
1. Imagining a Future of Crisis, Terror and Anxiety -- 2. Anxiety, Violence and the Social World -- 3. Precarious Futures: Young People and the Global Financial Crisis -- 4. Guerrilla Selfhood: Imagining Entrepreneurial Futures -- 5. Responsiveness and Re-imagining the Future with Occupy and Black Lives Matter -- 6. The Global Financial Crisis in Pop-culture -- 7. Iraqi Women’s Stories of Anx…
hal. 559-562
hal. 559-562