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Abstract: This introduction to a special section of Demokratizatsiya describes the European University at St. Petersburg/Georgetown University project on 'New Approaches to Russian Politics and Security.' The guest editor reviews [...]

Abstract This article examines proposals for the reform of the relationship between internal security and state-society relations in Northern Ireland and finds a divergence from the usual liberal package of [...]

Abstract This article focuses on the voices of protest by Uganda women writers against age-old discriminative habits, and on the rebuttal made by women on questions of social and political [...]

1. Introduction (1) Kant argues that 'all politics must bend its knee before right' (PP 8:380), and this means that 'right must never be accommodated to politics, but politics must [...]

Abstract: Modernity believed that processes of secularization and rationalization are universally applicable. What is taking place in the 21st century, however, suggests that the reverse, a process of de-secularization, is [...]

POETICS, PLAYS, AND PERFORMANCE: THE POLITICS OF MODERN INDIAN THEATRE. By Vasudha Dalmia. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. 2006. xiv, 366 p., 11 photographs. Hardcover Rs 1,080.00 ($27.00). Vasudha Dalimia [...]

Freedom from Want: American Liberalism and the Global Economy Edward Gresser Brooklyn, N.Y.: Soft Skull Press, 2007, 230 pp. Trade policy has become a partisan affair in Washington. Major trade [...]

The Many Faces of Political Islam: Religion and Politics in the Muslim World, by Mohammed Ayoob. University of Michigan Press, 2008. 232 pages. $22.95, paperback. Although explicitly aimed at students [...]

Abstract Women have traditionally occupied a perilous position in Northern Irish politics, ultimately constrained from participating on their own terms by its dominant discourses of nationalism, conflict and realism. Alienated [...]

This article revisits the electoral emphasis of hybrid regime studies, arguing instead that the impact of elections is structured by variations in prior political institutions, particularly the dismantlement or maintenance [...]

INTRODUCTION THREE MAIN ECONOMIC PRESUPPOSITIONS underlie the view that in March 2003 Iraq's economy was in need of extensive and rapid liberalization and privatization. The first is an assumption that [...]

Temples provide sanctuary, a home for the gods, a place to worship, a stage for ceremonies, a depository for offerings, and a place to redistribute goods. Finally, temples provide an [...]

Abstract This research paper discusses two groups of professional women who had a distinct place in the sexual economy of the period under review. By analyzing the actions and situations [...]

IN terms of 'plot', it is no more than a party given to celebrate what looks like an Australian Labor Party election victory, and the play traces the collapse of [...]

The Parliament of Man: The Past, Present, and Future of the United Nations, Paul Kennedy (New York: Random House, 2006), 384 pp., $26.95 cloth, $15.95 paper. Secretary or General? The [...]

When then European Union Trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy returned from the 1999 World Trade Organization (WTO) ministerial in Seattle, where gas-choked streets overflowing with tens of thousands of protesters had [...]

A stable and effective party system depends on consistent and enduring support from social groups. Using the Lipset-Rokkan paradigm as a point of departure, this article tests the relationship between [...]

Joan B. Wolf, Harnessing the Holocaust: The Politics of Memory in France (Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2004). Established in France in the 1980s and 90s by scholars such as [...]

Introduction Since the end of the Cold War, the major Western powers and political commentators in them have argued that national sovereignty is a dead letter. The pressures of economic [...]

Abstract: Oddly but tellingly, anthropology has largely treated religion and education separately. Anthropological studies of education have tended to focus on reason and rationality, while those of religion have focused [...]

The history of coercive measures to control population growth in India is often reduced to a few politicians caught up in a domestic crisis. In fact, the practices thought to [...]

Abstract: In this paper we explore the changing relationship between Aboriginal peoples and the Australian state within the context of Australian federalism. Our particular focus is on the relationship between [...]

Paul G. Woodford, Democracy and Music Education: Liberalism, Ethics, and the Politics of Practice (Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 2005) Paul G. Woodford's Democracy and Music Education needs to be warmly [...]

David Art, The Politics of the Nazi Past in Germany and Austria (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006). Public deliberation matters. Not only does it change political culture but it also [...]

The present article analyses the Lomborg case of environmental conflicts in the Agora of the mass media by viewing science, politics, economics, religion and the big news media as differentiated systems using what Luhmann calls symbolic generalized media. Each has its own simplified code and interest that make it easier and faster to canalize messages. But the problem for the public good then becomes that they cannot communicate directly with each other. Each system is closed around its own code and specialists. There are no rules of engagement for the benefit of the greater system of society. Is that a good thing or could the public knowledge generation processes be improved? This article analyses the Lomborg case viewed as a problem of public knowledge management in democratic societies with free presses. Keywords Agora; science communication; mode two; knowledge society; Lomborg case, INTRODUCTION TO THE PROBLEM In 1962, the ecologist Rachel Carson (1) published the book Silent Springs in which she challenged the practices of agricultural scientists and the government. She was [...]

From its beginning in the 1960s to the present, Black Studies has developed as an academic discipline attempting to dismantle the cultural hegemony of the existing order and to motivate Black political resistance. Throughout this period, Black Studies advocates have consistently looked to African culture as a source of pride, enlightenment, and inspiration. However, they have overlooked the value of Christianity as a anti-colonial ideology created and employed by Africans in their struggle against European imperialism. I address this omission by examining Kwame Nkrumah's and the Convention People's Party's use of the Judeo/Christian faith as an anti-colonial philosophy between 1948 and 1966. I present this study as a single example of how Africans have used Christianity effectively as a libratory ideology against European colonialism during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries., Black Studies, as a self-defined academic discipline, has its origin in the sociopolitical struggle of the 1960s when scholarly activists fought to establish the study of the Black experience in [...]

Herman Lebovics, Bringing the Empire Back Home: France in the Global Age (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004). Bringing the Empire Back Home is Herman Lebovics's third book on French [...]

In December 1861, six young women armed with hatchets and axes marched into a saloon in Mound City, Kansas, and proceeded to smash all the bottles and kegs they could [...]

France and the United States are commonly portrayed as proceeding from diametrically opposed presumptions in their approaches to race policy. (1) The United States, this line of argument goes, has [...]

Dennis Ross, Statecraft: And How to Restore America's Standing in the World (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007), 384 pp., $26.00. Amitai Etzioni, Security First: For a Muscular; Moral [...]

The Institutional Imperative: The Politics of Equitable Development in Southeast Asia. By Erik Martinez Kuhonta. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2011. Hardcover: 352pp. Southeast Asia's 'miracle' growth was both rapid and [...]

Colin Leys Total Capitalism: Market Politics, Market State, Merlin Press: London, 2008; 144 pp.: 9780850365900, 10.95 [pounds sterling] (pbk) The three essays in this volume are drawn from Colin Leys's [...]

David E. Wilkins, ed. Documents of Native American Political Development: 1500s to 1933. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. 560 pp. Cloth, $99.00. David Wilkins has compiled a diverse and [...]

The Politics of Uneven Development: Thailand's Economic Growth in Comparative Perspective. By Richard F. Doner. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009.351 pp. $80.00 (cloth); $24.99 (paper). Richard Doner's new book [...]

William D. Irvine, Between Justice and Politics: The Ligue des Droits de l'Homme, 1898-1945 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007). In 2002, more than 500 cartons containing the confiscated pre-World War [...]

Multicultural Odysseys: Navigating the New International Politics of Diversity, Will Kymlicka (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007), 320 pp., $50 cloth, $28 paper. In Multicultural Odysseys, Will Kymlicka skillfully accomplishes [...]

The Moral Force of Indigenous Politics: Critical Liberalism and the Zapatistas, Courtney Jung (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008), 350 pp., $85 cloth, $29.99 paper. The scholarship on identity politics tends [...]

James Wolfinger, Philadelphia Divided: Race and Politics in the City of Brotherly Love. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2007. Pp. 336. Cloth $49.95. Most commentators agree that [...]

Platt, Harold. Shock Cities: The Environmental Transformation and Reform of Manchester and Chicago. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Alexis de Tocqueville saw it as a 'monstrosity': a city where [...]

Faith in Moderation: Islamist Parties in Jordan and Yemen, by Jillian Schwedler. Cambridge University Press, 2006. 252 pages. $80, hardcover. Does political participation lead Islamist parties to be more moderate? [...]

Embedded Politics: Industrial Networks and Institutional Change in Postcommunism Gerald A. McDermott, University of Michigan Press: Ann Arbor, 2003, pp. 295. Describing how the former Communist countries of East-Central Europe [...]

William A. Link, Roots of Secession: Slavery and Politics in Antebellum Virginia. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. Pp. 387. Cloth $45.00, paper $22.50. Thomas Jefferson, although a [...]

Frederick J. Blue, No Taint of Compromise: Crusaders in Antislavery Politics. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005. Pp. 301. Cloth $54.95. Though more a work of political history on [...]