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Hasbara (explaining), the Israeli variant of public diplomacy, is
the subject of endless domestic debate. Israel in the 1960s and
1970s saw many changes in its political and military international
stage. This was a period of unusually intensive attention to the
problems of hasbara, beginning with the appointment of Yisrael
Galili as minister with responsibility for government
communications and ending with the dismantling of the Ministry of
Information in 1974, less than a year after it had been created.
Israel had only been able to "muddle through," and, at the end,
there was no greater sophistication in Israeli thinking and no
stronger administrative structure in spite of many organizational
changes. Accessible to anyone interested in the history of Israel
as well as political history and diplomacy, the book serves as a
case study of how entrenched political culture can limit policy
options and casts light on the emergence of public diplomacy as a
feature of foreign policy.
During the twentieth century, witnessing grew to be not just a
widespread solution for coping with political atrocities but also
an intricate problem. As the personal experience of victims,
soldiers, and aid workers acquired unparalleled authority as a
source of moral and political truth, the capacity to generate
adequate testimonies based on this experience was repeatedly called
into question. Michal Givoni's book follows the trail of the
problems, torments, and crises that became commingled with
witnessing to genocide, disaster, and war over the course of the
twentieth century. By juxtaposing episodes of reflexive witnessing
to the Great War, the Jewish Holocaust, and third world
emergencies, The Care of the Witness explores the shifting roles
and responsibilities of witnesses in history and the contribution
that the troubles of witnessing made to the ethical consolidation
of the witness as the leading figure of nongovernmental politics.
When we discuss constitutional law, we usually focus on the
constitutional rules that apply to what the government does. Far
less clear are the constitutional rules that apply to what the
government says. When does the speech of this unusually powerful
speaker violate our constitutional rights and liberties? More
specifically, when does the government's expression threaten
liberty or equality? And under what circumstances does the
Constitution prohibit our government from lying to us? In The
Government's Speech and the Constitution, Professor Helen Norton
investigates the variety and abundance of the government's speech,
from early proclamations and simple pamphlets, to the electronic
media of radio and television, and ultimately to today's digital
age. This enables us to understand how the government's speech has
changed the world for better and for worse, and why the
government's speech deserves our attention, and at times our
concern.
What virtues are necessary for democracy to succeed? This book
turns to John Dewey and Reinhold Niebuhr, two of America's most
influential theorists of democracy, to answer this question. Dewey
and Niebuhr both implied-although for very different reasons-that
humility and mutuality are important virtues for the success of
people rule. Not only do these virtues allow people to participate
well in their own governance, they also equip us to meet challenges
to democracy generated by free-market economic policy and
practices. Ironically, though, Dewey and Niebuhr quarreled with
each other for twenty years and missed the opportunity to achieve
political consensus. In their discourse with each other they failed
to become "one out of many," a task that is distilled in the
democratic rallying cry "e pluribus unum." This failure itself
reflects a deficiency in democratic virtue. Thus, exploring the
Dewey/Niebuhr debate with attention to their discursive failures
reveals the importance of a third virtue: democratic tolerance. If
democracy is to succeed, we must cultivate a deeper hospitality
toward difference than Dewey and Niebuhr were able to extend to
each other.
In 2008, Barack Obama's presidential campaign used an innovative
combination of social media, big data, and micro-targeting to win
the White House. In 2012, the campaign did it again, further honing
those marketing tools and demonstrating that political marketing is
on the cutting edge when it comes to effective branding,
advertising, and relationship-building. The challenges facing a
presidential campaign may be unique to the political arena, but the
creative solutions are not. The Marketing Revolution in Politics
shows how recent US presidential campaigns have adopted the latest
marketing techniques and how organizations in the for-profit and
non-profit sectors can benefit from their example. Distilling the
marketing practices of successful political campaigns down into
seven key lessons, Bruce I. Newman shows how organizations of any
size can apply the same innovative, creative, and cost-effective
marketing tactics as today's presidential hopefuls. A compelling
study of marketing in the make-or-break world of American politics,
this book should be a must-read for managers, students of marketing
and political marketing, and anyone interested in learning more
about how presidential campaigns operate. Winner of the 2016
International Book Award in the "Business: Marketing &
Advertising" category.
This book evaluates the national implementation of the United
Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
(CRPD) in ASEAN. Working with country-specific research teams, the
contributors compiled detailed case-studies of CRPD implementation
in each country in ASEAN. This book presents a detailed overview of
the problem, the relevant literature, and the conceptual framework,
and then it explores the implementation of the CRPD in each of the
ten countries in Southeast Asia. Details include the factors that
influenced each country to ratify the CRPD, the focal point
structure of implementation, the independent mechanism established
to monitor the implementation, and the civil society organizations
involved. This book also evaluates the implications of CRPD
implementation for human rights and development in ASEAN, including
the degree of institutionalized support for persons with
disabilities, the development objectives of the CRPD against the
strategic objectives of the ASEAN economic community and the
broader ASEAN community, and the way these developments compare
with those in other countries and regions. Working with
country-specific research teams, the editors compiled detailed
case-studies of CRPD implementation on each country in ASEAN. This
book presents a detailed overview of the problem and the relevant
literature. The contributors also offer conclusions on the research
and national and ASEAN-level recommendations for moving forward.
This book examines how 'citizen art' practices perform new kinds of
politics, as distinct from normative (status, participatory and
cosmopolitan) models. It contends that at a time in which the
conditions of citizenship have been radically altered (e.g., by the
increased securitization and individuation of bodies etc.), there
is an urgent drive for 'citizen art' to be enacted as a tool for
assessing the 'hollowed out' conditions of citizenship. 'Citizen
art', it shows, stands apart from other forms of Art by performing
'acts of citizenship' that reveal and transgress the limitations of
state-centred citizenship regimes, whilst simultaneously enacting
genuinely alternative modes of (non-statist) citizenship. This book
explains how 'citizen art' can make citizenship manifest in ways
that do not reify or valorize the nation-state, status rights, or
cosmopolitan imaginaries. It shows instead that the outcomes of
'citizen art', such as the institutions of solidarity, assembly and
interventions, reconfigure the 'tools' of politics in the act of
'doing politics' that, in turn, perform new and nascent modes of
(non-statist) citizenship. This book offers a new formulation of
'citizen art' - one that is interrogated on both critical and
material levels, and as such, that remodels the foundations on
which citizenship is conceived, performed and instituted.
This is both a history book and a book on public opinion. George
Gallup, who pioneered survey sampling methods and whose name in
fact became synonymous with public opinion polls, conducted his
first survey in 1936. The main part of this book starts there as
well. Dedicating a chapter to each decade from the 1930s to the
present, Seltzer discusses historical events of the period and what
the U.S. public thought of those events according to Gallup polls
and other public opinion surveys. Each chapter is divided into the
following categories: world events; U.S. politics; race; sex and
gender; the economy; science, technology and the environment; and
popular trends. Within each chapter, approximately 40 survey
questions were chosen for more extended analysis: breaking down the
results by race, age, gender, education, region, and political
party.
Women's Human Rights and the 'Muslim Question' shows how Muslim
women have made meaningful contributions to the development of the
international framework on gender equality and women's rights. Her
investigation into the women's movement of Iran offers a practical
grounding for this argument, and presents unprecedented findings on
how ideological divisions along secular and religious lines have
been worked in favour of a rights-based framework for change The
book presents a comprehensive synthesis and analysis of the
campaign material of the women's movement 'Change for Equality
Campaign' - one of the most progressive and sophisticated movements
in the Middle East/Central Asia.
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The Presidential Election of 2020: Donald Trump and the Crisis of
Democracy places the election of 2020 within the context of the
Trump presidency, a chaotic and tense time in American politics and
a dangerous one. The election is analyzed in depth and its meaning
for the state of American society is made clear. A major theme in
the book is a critique of Donald Trump's leadership, his
incompetence in office, his appeal to followers and the danger this
has proven to represent. Among other things, he was accused of
mental instability during his presidency. Yet he received the
second highest vote total in American history, exceeded only by
winning candidate Joe Biden's. Trump was impeached twice for his
actions in office but both times not held responsible for what he
had done by a Republican-controlled Senate. The election is placed
in an on-going context. It was followed by strenuous attempts by
Trump and associates to have states reverse their results and
declare him the winner and by the Trump-organized seditious assault
on the Capitol in which five people died. The objective was to
force Vice President Mike Pence, who was chairing a Joint Session
of Congress, normally a formality, to instead reject the Electoral
College vote outcome. Pence would not do it. His life and that of
Speaker Nancy Pelosi were threatened by the rioters. The threat of
a coup, a new development in American politics, and one led by
Trump and others who share his views, remains. Meanwhile President
Joe Biden in his efforts to reconstruct America has introduced the
most ambitious policy agenda since the New Deal.
Pink Hats and Ballots contributes to ecofeminist scholarship and
provides an analysis of women's political activism in the age of
Trump, COVID-19, and the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020. The
book presents a socio-historical overview of ecofeminism and then
explores the increase in political involvement of women beginning
with the 2017 Women's March, following into the 2018 Midterm
Elections, and ends with the 2020 election of the first Black
female Vice-President, Kamala Harris. The core themes addressed in
this book are as follows: ecofeminism, the women's movement,
resistance and political action, and public leadership. In
addition, the issues of social justice and environmental justice
are addressed through an examination of the socio-political
policies involving the denigration of women, the elimination of
rights of the disenfranchised, and the exploitation of the
environment. The major contribution of this book is in the
application of current ecofeminism to the major social movements
currently taking place in the United States. This book links
current events to the extant ecofeminist literature and follows the
path from anti-ecofeminist rhetoric and policy to resistance (the
Women's March --the largest single-day protest in U.S. history) to
active political participation.
Ideology is a ubiquitous, continuously innovating dimension of
human experience, but its character and impact are notoriously
difficult to pinpoint within political and social life. Political
Ideology in Parties, Policy, and Civil Society demonstrates that
the reach and significance of political ideology can be most
effectively understood by employing a multidisciplinary approach.
Offering analyses that are simultaneously empirical and
interpretive - in fields as diverse as development assistance
policy and game theory - the contributors to this volume reveal
ideology's penetration in varied spheres, including government
activity, party competition, agricultural and working-class
communities, and academic life.
`Human rights and environmental sustainability have virtually
unassailable legitimacy as objectives in the contemporary world.
But do they work with or against each other? In this forensic
dissection of the relationship between the two concepts, Kerri
Woods raises the analytical bar to new heights. The result is a
striking combination of intellectual sophistication and political
sensitivity - not to be missed.' - Andrew Dobson, Keele University,
UK Human Rights and Environmental Sustainability challenges the
assumed harmony between human rights norms and the demands of
environmental sustainability, by addressing conceptual, normative,
and political questions surrounding the interaction between the
two. What is gained and lost by environmental theorists and
activists adopting the language and institutions of human rights?
Is there coherence or tension between the values of human rights
and environmental sustainability? Is the idea of environmental
human rights plausible, and defensible? Whereas previous studies
have considered the interface between human rights and
environmental sustainability on an empirical level, this pioneering
book engages the theoretical and philosophical issues at stake.
Given the significant environmental challenges we face, and the
dominance of human rights as a normative framework, these concerns
demand our attention. This timely work will appeal to scholars in
the fields of environmental politics, philosophy, human rights
theory and global or international ethics, as well as postgraduate
students in environmental politics, and philosophy. Postgraduate
students in human rights - particularly human rights theory -
global or international ethics, and scholars working in
environmental law or human rights law will also find this book
invaluable.
Migration, participation, and citizenship, are central political
and social concerns, are deeply affected by money. The role of
money - tangible, intangible, conceptual, and as a policy tool - is
understudied, overlooked, and analytically underdeveloped. For
sending and receiving societies, migrants, their families,
employers, NGOs, or private institutions, money defines the border,
inclusion or exclusion, opportunity structures, and equality or the
lack thereof. Through the analytical lens of money, the chapters in
this book expose hidden and sometimes contradictory policy
objectives, unwanted consequences, and inconsistent regulatory
structures. The authors from a range of fields provide multiple
perspectives on how money shapes decisions from all actors in
migration trajectories, from micro to macro level. Taking an
interdisciplinary approach, the book draws on case studies from
Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Africa. This comprehensive overview
brings to light the deep global impacts money has on migration and
citizenship.
The American Civil Rights Movement 1865-1950 is a history of the
African American struggle for freedom and equality from the end of
the Civil War to the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement in the
1950s and 1960s. It synthesizes the disparate black movements,
explaining consistent themes and controversies during those years.
The main focus is on the black activists who led the movement and
the white people who supported them. The principal theme is that
African American agency propelled the progress and that whites
often helped. Even whites who were not sympathetic to black demands
were useful, often because it was to their advantage to act as
black allies. Even white opponents could be coerced into
cooperation or, at least, non-opposition. White people of good will
with shallow understanding were frustrating, but they were
sometimes useful. Even if they did not work for black rights, they
did not work against them, and sometimes helped because they had no
better options. Until now, the history of the African American
movement from 1865 to 1950 has not been covered as one coherent
story. There have been many histories of African Americans that
have treated the subject in one chapter or part of a chapter, and
several excellent books have concentrated on a specific time
period, such as Reconstruction or World War II. Other books have
focused on one aspect of the time, such as lynching or the nature
of Jim Crow. This is the first book to synthesize the history of
the movement in a coherent whole.
During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Caribbean was
known as the 'grave of Europeans'. At the apex of British
colonialism in the region between 1764 and 1834, the rapid spread
of disease amongst colonist, enslaved and indigenous populations
made the Caribbean notorious as one of the deadliest places on
earth. Drawing on historical accounts from physicians, surgeons and
travellers alongside literary works, Emily Senior traces the
cultural impact of such widespread disease and death during the
Romantic age of exploration and medical and scientific discovery.
Focusing on new fields of knowledge such as dermatology, medical
geography and anatomy, Senior shows how literature was crucial to
the development and circulation of new medical ideas, and that the
Caribbean as the hub of empire played a significant role in the
changing disciplines and literary forms associated with the
transition to modernity.
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.
South Africa is the most industrialized power in Africa. It was
rated the continent's largest economy in 2016 and is the only
African member of the G20. It is also the only strategic partner of
the EU in Africa. Yet despite being so strategically and
economically significant, there is little scholarship that focuses
on South Africa as a regional hegemon. This book provides the first
comprehensive assessment of South Africa's post-Apartheid foreign
policy. Over its 23 chapters - -and with contributions from
established Africa, Western, Asian and American scholars, as well
as diplomats and analysts - the book examines the current pattern
of the country's foreign relations in impressive detail. The
geographic and thematic coverage is extensive, including chapters
on: the domestic imperatives of South Africa's foreign policy;
peace-making; defence and security; bilateral relations in
Southern, Central, West, Eastern and North Africa; bilateral
relations with the US, China, Britain, France and Japan; the
country's key external multilateral relations with the UN; the
BRICS economic grouping; the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group
(ACP); as well as the EU and the World Trade Organization (WTO). An
essential resource for researchers, the book will be relevant to
the fields of area studies, foreign policy, history, international
relations, international law, security studies, political economy
and development studies.
The United States was founded on principles enshrined in the
Constitution. One of the foremost of these principles is religious
freedom. Unfortunately, this freedom has not been shared by all
equally. The place of Islam in the United States has always been
controversial. This controversy expanded following the attacks on
9/11 and the rise of nationalist movements that aimed to narrowly
define American identity. The hatred of Islam, otherwise known as
Islamophobia, has risen to new heights fueled by recurring events
and various anti-Muslim hate groups. This has manifested in
anti-mosque protests, hate crimes and prejudicial legislation. This
book is focused on one form of this legislation, the anti-Sharia
laws, otherwise known as the foreign law bans. Sharia is also known
as Islamic law and as the physical manifestation of Islam in
practice. Several states have passed these laws with many other
states introducing them several times with the intention of banning
the use of Sharia in civil courts. This book is a study of the
factors most closely associated with whether a state has this law
and how many times this bill has been introduced in the
legislature. These include political, demographic, religious and
ideological factors.
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