This book examines the cultural heritage of Inner Eurasia (Central Asia) through the arts, from prehistoric times to the ancient and medieval golden ages. The manuscript features extensive analysis of multiple Inner Eurasian cultural groups, their artistic traditions, and the development thereof throughout the region's history.
Thirty years have passed since the emergence of the first conflicts in the Soviet Union. Some of them have been successfully resolved, but those that persist promise no peace for Russia and its neighbors.
Democracy in Its Essence analyzes Hans Kelsen's political theory as a pluralist, relativist, constitutional, proceduralist, and liberal theory of representative democracy, characterized by its strong recall to the values of tolerance, responsibility, and respect toward "the other" as well as to the idea of politics as space for compromise.
This book offers a vivid portrait of place and identity as it exists in today's US rural landscape and uses the interstate Tug Fest festival in the Midwest to explore the complex interactions of humans and environment.
The author examines the many takings of Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area to consider the contested legal and personal meanings and valuations of property, place, and memory. The book suggests personal and systemic approaches to reframe place and reconcile public development with personal and community loss.
Transnational Organizing for Lgbti Rights in Uganda
The Economies of Queer Inclusion explores the formation of relationships between US-based transnational human rights actors and grassroots LGBTI activists in Kampala, Uganda. In doing so, it exposes the unintended consequences of finance-based connections and proposes alternative forms of transnational activism.
The author argues that peace operations have a precise function in the international scenario - the maintenance of a neoliberal order in the international society. The author, analyzing the United Nations' engagement with Timor-Leste, evinces that this function is developed through the will to normalize the Timorese state and population.
International relations of Asia are evolving rapidly due to economic growth, diverse political systems, vibrant societies, modernizing militaries, cutting-edge technologies, and strategic competition among major powers. In this fully updated volume, leading scholars offer the most current analysis available of Asia's regional relationships.
