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Sadistic Pleasures: Silent Crimes of AzerbaijanIn Sadistic Pleasures, an independent journalist documents the true stories of torture, pain, and merciless psychological abuse endured by 14 Armenian soldiers and civilians who became prisoners of war in Azerbaijan during the Forty-Four Day War in 2020 for control of the autonomous Republic...
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On the Horizon: The Rise and Fall of the Political ElementThroughout mankind's existence, there has always been a political element. Yet modern politics has evolved to a point of fanatical unrealistic expectations and ideals. Technology, entertainment, and social media have created a delusional yet extravagant world where many are hoodwinked into believing that the...
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Civil Remedies and Human Rights in Flux: Key Legal Developments in Selected JurisdictionsWhat private law avenues are open to victims of human rights violations? This innovative new collection explores this question across sixteen jurisdictions in the Global South and Global North. It examines existing mechanisms in domestic law for bringing civil claims in relation to the...
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Dictatorship: It's Easier Than You Think!Co-hosts of the popular podcast Gaslit Nation outline the authoritarian's playbook, illuminating five steps every dictator needs to take to successfully amass and maintain power.Do you crave the power to shape the world in your image? Can you tell lies without blinking an eye?...
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The Practice and Problems of Transnational Counter-TerrorismAuthor: Fiona de LondrasPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 02/24/2022Pages: 240Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.08lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56dISBN: 9781107022737About the Authorde Londras, Fiona: - Fiona de Londras is Professor of Global Legal Studies in the Birmingham Law School, University of Birmingham and Honorary Professor in...
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Reforming UK Public Policy Through Elected Regional GovernmentThis book takes an in-depth look at the enormous challenges facing UK public services and considers what might be done to resolve them. The authors are confident that more of the same over-centralised approaches to public policy and so-called "levelling-up" policies will just not...
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Ghosts in the Neighborhood: Why Japan Is Haunted by Its Past and Germany Is NotGermany, which brutalized its neighbors in Europe for centuries, has mostly escaped the ghosts of the past, while Japan remains haunted in Asia. The most common explanation for this difference is that Germany knows better how to apologize; Japan is viewed as "impenitent." Walter...
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Religion and Broken Solidarities: Feminism, Race, and TransnationalismThe contributors to this original volume provide a new and nuanced approach to studying how discourses of religion shape public domains in sites of political contestation and "broken solidarities."Our public discourse is saturated with intractable debates about religion, race, gender, and nationalism. Examples range...
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Religion and Broken Solidarities: Feminism, Race, and TransnationalismThe contributors to this original volume provide a new and nuanced approach to studying how discourses of religion shape public domains in sites of political contestation and "broken solidarities."Our public discourse is saturated with intractable debates about religion, race, gender, and nationalism. Examples range...
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Das Öl Und Der Kampf Um Eine Neue Weltwirtschaftsordnung: Die Bedeutung Der Ölkrisen Der 1970er Jahre Für Die Nord-Süd-BeziehungenDie beiden "Ölschocks" von 1973/74 und 1979/80 waren nicht nur zentrale wirtschaftliche Ereignisse, sondern übten entscheidenden Einfluss auf die zeitgenössischen Debatten um eine grundlegende Reform, wenn nicht gar Revolution, der Weltwirtschaftsordnung aus. Das vorliegende Buch untersucht die Ölkrisen erstmals nicht allein mit Blick auf...
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Stolen Youth: How Radicals Are Erasing Innocence and Indoctrinating a GenerationAmerican children are facing a crisis unlike any in human history: their very extinction. Every day, thousands of American kids are being robbed of their youth as they are converted into foot soldiers for an aggressive agenda of woke politics while parents watch in...
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A War On My Body: A War On My RightsA riveting, educational, and powerful assemblage from a multitude of global leaders, entertainers, educators, medical and legal professionals spanning several generations and walks of life. A War on My Body; A War on My Rights chronicles the history of abortion rights, its role in...
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Sweet Years of Protest: 1990 - 2021, A chronicle of actions, ideas, and eventsSéamas Cain, a poet and performance-artist, was one of the individuals denounced by President Donald Trump on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, 10, 11, and 12 June 2020 as being "an ugly Anarchist." Mr. Trump insisted "They want to destroy our history!" Now Séamas Cain,...
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Global Identities in Transit: The Ethics and Politics of Representation in World Literatures and CulturesGlobal Identities in Transit: The Ethics and Politics of Representation in World Literatures and Cultures explores the myriad aspects of identity formation and identity representation in an increasingly globalized world. Covering a variety of cultural and historical experiences in addition to several texts of...
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Communist Planning versus Rationality: Mathematical Economics and the Central Plan in Eastern Europe and ChinaThis volume examines concepts of central planning, a cornerstone of political economy in Soviet-type societies. It revolves around the theory of "optimal planning" which promised a profound modernization of Stalinist-style verbal planning. Encouraged by cybernetic dreams in the 1950s and supporting the strategic goals...
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Pepetela and the MPLA: The Ethical Evolution of a Revolutionary WriterAngola's most acclaimed author, Pepetela (b. 1941), has been publishing fiction for over half a century. His work bears witness to the birth and monumental transformations of one of Africa's most resource-rich nations. A former guerrilla and member of the ruling MPLA (the Popular...
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American Apocalypse: Some Thoughts on the Rise of Fascism and the Betrayal of Democracy 1971-2020AMERICAN APOCALYPSE is a reflective commentary on the fifty-year Republican Assault on America from the 1971 Powell Republican political "dark money" offensive to save "Capitalism from Democracy" to the 2021 Republican violent Capitol Insurrection of January 6, 2021, to overturn the United States Constitution...
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Rights of ManWritten by political activist and revolutionary Thomas Paine, Rights of Man defends the French Revolution and argued for written constitutions, welfare, and widespread education for all. Published in two parts in 1791 and 1792, it was a direct response to Edmund Burke's attack in...
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Latin America Since Independence: Two Centuries of Continuity and ChangeThis book offers an innovative, thematic approach to the history of Latin America since independence. It traces continuity and change in colonial legacies that became central political issues following independence: authoritarian governance; a rigid social hierarchy based on race, color, and gender; the powerful...
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Spectacles and Specters: A Performative Theory of Political TrialsSpectacles and Specters draws on theories of performativity to conceptualize the entanglements of law and political violence, offering a radical departure from accounts that consider political trials as instrumental in exercising or containing political violence. Legal scholar Başak Ertür argues instead that making sense...
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