Politikk

This book tracks the progress of maternal and child health (MNCH) - part of SDG 3 - in Empowered Action Group of states in India.

Indian Politics and Political Processes explores the key ideas, foundations, continuities, major shifts and challenges to the state and democracy in modern India.

The book brings together papers that employ postfoundational theory to critically investigate the social, political, economic and ecological dynamics and power structures that shaped Western democracies, non-Western societies and international politics during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The book examines how major powers in the Indo-Pacific region cope with and respond to the potential order transition against the background of the strategic competition between the US and China. It provides a fresh perspective to graduate students, scholars and policy experts.

This book assesses the larger influences that government termination by parliaments has on executive-legislative relations, claiming that the way in which the governments may be challenged or dismissed has far greater impact than previously understood. The chapters in this book were originally published in West European Politics.

This collection presents a critical and comparative analysis on the memory of the colonial and liberation wars that led to a regime change in Portugal and to the independence of five new African countries: Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde and São Tomé and Príncipe.

This book analyzes the process by which Mussolini built the world's first Fascist regime, describes how the Duce's heirs have adapted to current political conditions, and how they have gone mainstream.

The chapters in this volume explore the major cultural markers, by which an ethnic community defines its cultural identity and cultural affiliation. These markers can differ when perceived as coming from within or from outside of a group and can be re-defined according to inner or outer circumstances. Their importance can increase when a community feels endangered in their cultural existence, or diminish when perceived cultural identity of a group and its members is not questioned. This collective monograph thus not only applies the term "cultural security" exclusively to state- or institution-implemented processes, but also considers the indigenous, bottom-up, and inside-out mechanisms of establishing and maintaining communal cultural security of an ethnic group. The dynamics shaping cultural security are illustrated in examples of ethnic communities in the People's Republic of China and in Mongolia.

Everyday Prison Governance in Myanmar analyses prison life in Myanmar during a short-lived period of democratic transition. The accounts of former prisoners reveal the realities of everyday life illuminating survival strategies, landscapes of emotion, and power dynamics.

In Stories Are Weapons, best-selling author Annalee Newitz traces the way disinformation, propaganda, and violent threats-the essential tool kit for psychological warfare-have evolved from military weapons deployed against foreign adversaries into tools in domestic culture wars. Newitz delves into America's deep-rooted history with psychological operations, beginning with Benjamin Franklin's Revolutionary War-era fake newspaper and nineteenth-century wars on Indigenous nations, and reaching its apotheosis with the Cold War and twenty-first-century influence campaigns online. America's secret weapon has long been coercive storytelling. And there's a reason for that: operatives who shaped modern psychological warfare drew on their experiences as science fiction writers and in the advertising industry.Now, through a weapons-transfer program long unacknowledged, psyops have found their way into the hands of culture warriors, transforming democratic debates into toxic wars over American identity. Newitz zeroes in on conflicts over race and intelligence, school board fights over LGBT students, and campaigns against feminist viewpoints, revealing how, in each case, specific groups of Americans are singled out and treated as enemies of the state. Crucially, Newitz delivers a powerful counternarrative, speaking with the researchers and activists who are outlining a pathway to achieving psychological disarmament and cultural peace.Incisive and essential, Stories are Weapons reveals how our minds have been turned into blood-soaked battlegrounds-and how we can put down our weapons to build something better.

"Howard French's The Second Emancipation stands the second half of the last century on its geopolitical head." --David Levering Lewis, winner of the Pulitzer Prize

The little-known story of the man who sparked a groundswell of gay activism with a wrongly decided Supreme Court decision.

This volume was originally published in 1931 and revised for the third edition in 1937. The critical events since that date necessitated a further revision, with a large amount of re-writing and the addition of new chapters which brought the book to the opening of the Second World War.

Originally published as a third edition in 1951, this volume discusses the development of Europe and its component states by focussing on events and institutions such as the monarchy, religious wars, the development of agriculture, feudalism, legal systems, chivalry and warfare, education and the arts and literature of the Middle Ages.

This report provides a social science lens on eight contemporary UK policy challenges, to equip political parties and broader civil society with an understanding of the breadth of evidence that the social sciences can bring.

Originally published in 1982, this book provides a concise and stimulating guide to the historical development of the concept of 'class' and the different ways in which it has been applied in social and political theory. In conclusion, Dr Calvert suggests that class is an 'essentially contested concept'.

First published in 1969, Modernization in Ghana and the U.S.S.R. examines the aspects of politics of modernisation in two states-the U.S.S.R. and Ghana. One of the major contentions of the volume is that they faced a variety of similar problems and their responses to these had a great deal in common.

This book explores the discursive construction of national identities in diplomatic political discourse, focusing on translation's pivotal role. It examines diplomatic exchanges between China and the West from 1792 to 1867, a period marked by China's national identity crisis.