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""The Global Commonwealth of Citizens" is not a book of dreams. It
is a serious, learned, but nevertheless accessible effort to
grapple with some of the most important issues of the twenty-first
century. Is it possible to be cosmopolitans--citizens of a world of
more than six billion people--and to find ways that allow us all to
govern ourselves? The debate that this book engages is "the" debate
of our time. Daniele Archibugi has made an important
contribution."--Anne-Marie Slaughter, dean of the Woodrow Wilson
School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University
"Daniele Archibugi provides a bold and innovative approach to
thinking about democracy within and beyond the borders. At a
stroke, he helps consolidate a new political discourse to meet the
challenges of our global age. Modern political theory has thought
of the political good as limited within the boundaries of
nation-states. Archibugi demonstrates why this no longer works, and
shows how to move on."--David Held, London School of Economics and
Political Science
"This is the first theoretically sophisticated and conceptually
innovative effort to build an overall case for the total
democratization of political life at all levels of human
interaction. This is a truly groundbreaking book that will arouse
widespread interest, commentary, and debate about both the
desirable approach to global governance and the proper relationship
between domestic and foreign policy in liberal
democracies."--Richard A. Falk, author of "The Declining World
Order"
"Substantial and important. Archibugi has written a provocative
book that imagines an alternative political world to the one we
currently inhabit, and he describes anddefends this alternative
with tremendous verve and imagination. He forces us to rethink some
of our assumptions about the possibilities of democracy in a global
society. This is a book from which we can all learn."--Glyn Morgan,
author of "The Idea of a European Superstate"
"Daniele Archibugi is one of the world's leading exponents of
cosmopolitan democracy, and this book admirably consolidates his
own position and provides one of the most systematic and searching
statements in the genre. His arguments are thoroughly researched,
erudite, engaging, accessible, important, and inspiring."--Jan Aart
Scholte, author of "Globalization"
Journalists have often put themselves in danger to convey crucial
information to the public. Many journalists have even died doing
their jobs, investigating crimes or traveling to battle zones-and
sometimes documenting events in their own communities. Recently,
reporters have been assaulted, mocked and silenced, their reports
dubbed "fake news" and them, "enemies of the people." A free press
is one of the country's most reliable foundations for ensuring a
democracy for current and future generations. With a focus on
American journalism, this book tackles issues affecting today's
news through profiling journalists killed on the job, whether from
violent conspiracy, terrorism or mass shootings.
This volume examines the careers and intellectual positions of
three prominent Japanese "dissidents" in the later Imperial period
- Minobe Tatsukichi, Sakai Toshihiko and Saito Takao - as
individual responses to the new forms of authority that appeared
after the Meiji Restoration of 1868. The principles to which each
adhered - the rule of law, socialist egalitarianism, and
representative government - contributed to the new ideas about
authority and the individual in post-Restoration Japan. They also
remain fundamental (at least in theory) in today's Japanese polity
and society. The study reaffirms the serious limitations of the
pre-war Japanese political system, its structural and institutional
problems, and deep-rooted ambivalence about democratic change. But
it also confirms the birth of an alternative tradition in which
individuals began to define and sponsor the processes of national
self-regulation. The book traces the perspectives of three such
individuals who chose to contest the new power arrangements through
their writings and political activities.
Sexual rules and regulations are among society's oldest yet it is
only in recent decades that this once-stigmatized field has become
the focus of scholarly attention. This volume, which includes some
of the most thought-provoking and hard-to-find essays in the field,
covers a diverse range of topics from sexual orientation and gender
identity to intersexuality and commercial sex, and from HIV/AIDS
and trafficking to polygamy. Through historical, political and
critical-theoretical lenses, and through a global focus, the
selections ask how we conceptualize the groups and acts subjected
to sexual regulation and how regulations in the field implicate and
produce understandings of sexuality and identity. By placing this
variety of works together, Sexuality and Equality Law invites fresh
insights into commonalities and synergies across regulatory arenas
that are often isolated from one another. The volume's introduction
situates all of these works in the broader field and offers readers
an extensive bibliography.
For courses in police administration, management, and supervision.
The oft-cited "bible of police supervision" Longtime best-selling
Supervision of Police Personnel addresses the essential knowledge,
skills, and characteristics every professional law enforcement
supervisor and manager should have. This authority in the field
examines what it takes to move from officer to supervisor; key
supervisory responsibilities such as training, coaching, and
counseling; and dealing with citizen complaints, problem employees,
and tactical deployment of field forces in critical situations. The
9th edition features extensive revisions, including two new
chapters: "Legal Knowledge Every Supervisor and Manager Should
Have" (Chapter 14) and "Other Important Supervisory and Management
Topics" (Chapter 15).
Power is classically understood as the playing out of relations
between the ruler and the ruled. Political impasse is often viewed
as a moment in which no clear-cut delineation of power exists,
resulting in an overwhelming sense of frustration or feeling stuck
in a no-win situation. The new globalised world has produced a real
shift in how power works: not only has power been concentrated in
the hands of very few while many millions become more oppressed by
radical shortages and growing costs, but we also have a new
category of political subjectivity in which many find themselves
neither rulers nor radically oppressed. Those who live the
neither/nor of contemporary power live the new global impasse. For
those of us who are stuck and compelled to wait for dominant power
to break, this book uncovers possibilities in thought, imagination,
and self-appropriation through oikeiosis, that is, making oneself
at home in oneself, and constancy.
Why has communism's humanist quest for freedom and social justice
without exception resulted in the reign of terror and lies? The
authors of this collective volume address this urgent question
covering the one hundred years since Lenin's coup brought the first
communist regime to power in St. Petersburg, Russia in November
1917. The first part of the volume is dedicated to the varieties of
communist fantasies of salvation, and the remaining three consider
how communist experiments over many different times and regions
attempted to manage economics, politics, as well as society and
culture. Although each communist project was adapted to the
situation of the country where it operated, the studies in this
volume find that because of its ideological nature, communism had a
consistent penchant for totalitarianism in all of its
manifestations. This book is also concerned with the future. As the
world witnesses a new wave of ideological authoritarianism and
collectivistic projects, the authors of the nineteen essays suggest
lessons from their analyses of communism's past to help better
resist totalitarian projects in the future.
While the 'New Taliban' looms large in the global media, little is
known about how it functions as an organisation. How united is it?
Are its structures relatively strong, or surprisingly brittle? Are
personal relations and networking based on traditional ties of kin
and ethnicity the sum total of its organisational capabilities, or
are efforts underway to build more institutionalised chains of
command? How united is the New Taliban, and how does it maintain
whatever degree of unity it has, given the attrition it has
suffered in the field? And to what extent is its leadership able to
impose switches in strategy among the rank-andfile, given
Afghanistan's difficult geography and poor communications? These
are among the questions answered in this book by a renowned cast of
practitioners, journalists and academics, all of whom have long
field experience of the latest phase of the New Taliban's
insurgency in Afghanistan. Decoding the New Taliban includes a
number of detailed studies of specific regions or provinces, which
for different reasons are especially significant for the Taliban
and for understanding their expansion. Alongside these regional
studies, the volume includes thematic analyses of negotiating with
the Taliban, the Taliban's propaganda effort and its strategic
vision
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