Politics/Current Affairs

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Examines the social, cultural, economic, and political effects of modern demographic change in the United States. This book analyzes a range of issues pertaining to the diversity of American society.

Transitional administrations represents the complex operations of the United Nations. This book provides the history of UN state-building operations and a treatment of the five key issues confronting such an operation: peace and security, the role of the UN as government, judicial reconstruction, economic reconstruction, and exit strategies.

Over the last three decades, large-scale economic developments, such as technological change, the decline in unionization, and changing skill requirements, have exacted their biggest toll on low-wage workers. These workers often possess few marketable skills and few resources with which to support themselves ...

Includes stories of people who have been trafficked, smuggled or duped into the UK to find themselves stripped of their passports and money, locked in cramped rooms, shackled involuntarily to work as domestic servants, brothel workers, fruit pickers or construction workers, beaten, raped and psychologically abused.

Examines Israel as a colonial society, making comparisons with South Africa, French Algeria and Australia.

A study of human rights in an international context. The book focuses especially on the interaction between human rights as a value and norm in international relations, and Islam as a constituent of political culture in particular societies.

Bush's War for Reelection is a compelling expose of current conflict with Iraq, the moral questions raised by one nation declaring war against another, and the political effort to help George W. Bush win a second term in office through this war.

Presenting a comparative analysis of the political development of Southern Europe, this book is divided into two sections. It provides a historical overview of the politics and social structure of Italy, Spain, Portugal and Greece, focusing on the relationships between economic transformation, social conflict and political change since the 1970s.

As part of the "Nationalism and Internationalism" series, this volume examines such areas as: civil war, community and state in the Middle East; the impasse of liberalizing Arab authoritarianism; the rehabilitation and reconstruction of Lebanon; and Iran's foreign policy since the Gulf war.

All over the world, financial and economic development institutions are considering how best to give women access to credit. This book explores the ways and means of achieving this goal through a close examination of programmes, placing women's economic roles in a broad historical perspective.

In the post-1945 years, German women played a major role in post-war economic and social reconstruction. These changes preceded other shifts in values and gender relations by 20 years. The author examines these developments and provides an updated survey of women in German society.

Explores the global character and effects of contemporary culture and politics. This work also explores what is cultural about politics and what is political about culture. It analyses how cultural identities, agencies and actors, political issues and conflicts, and global media are linked, characterized, examined and resolved.

What is a just target? Is it a matter of ethics, of the law or simply something which deserves to be hit? This issue examines the rhetoric and performance of targeting and the ways in which these are justified. It includes essays that range across high-tech weaponry, disease management control, Vietnam War policy, and the banalization of politics.

Allegations of fraud have marred recent elections around the world, from Russia and Italy to Mexico and the United States. Such charges raise fundamental questions about the quality of democracy in each country.

Considers how and why a variety of foreigners act strategically to avoid, delay, or change American policy with respect to a broad range of issues in world affairs. This book contains chapters which analyze topics such as: the Kurds and Shia in Iraq; the governments of China, Japan, Turkey, and Germany; the G-7; and, coping with global warming.

The book concludes that the organisational and psychological pressures within terrorist groups and the changing nature of political violence combined with the heightened danger of nuclear micro-proliferation have made mass-destructive terrorism the greatest non-traditional threat to international security in the world today.

This book examines the likely implications of the CTB for nuclear modernization programmes and the non-proliferation regime. The key considerations affecting decisions by states to join the CTB are reviewed and the likely impact of these decisions on the treaty's non-proliferation goals is assessed.

In 1995, the budget standoff between Democrats and Republicans forced the federal government to shut down. Two years later, the parties joined forces to pass the first balanced budget in a generation.

In time for the 2008 US presidential elections and following on the heels of Michael Moore's Sicko, 10 Excellent Reasons for National Health Care offers powerful ammunition in favour of a fundamental change to American health care