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Comparative matters

the renaissance of comparative constitutional Law

Comparative study has emerged as the new frontier of constitutional law scholarship as well as an important aspect of constitutional adjudication. Increasingly, jurists, scholars, and constitution drafters worldwide are accepting that 'we are all comparativists now'. And yet, despite this tremendous renaissance, the 'comparative' aspect ...

Explaining norms

Norms are a pervasive yet mysterious feature of social life. In Explaining Norms, four philosophers and social scientists team up to grapple with some of the many mysteries, offering a comprehensive account of norms: what they are; how and why they emerge, persist and change ...

Leveling the playing field

transnational regulatory integration and development

Emerging market countries are currently facing a dual challenge. How to incorporate transnational regulations into their societies, while building their own versions of regulatory capitalism. This raises a multitude questions and challenges. Will the diffusion of international public and private regulations of developed countries, benefit ...

On war and democracy

On War and Democracy provides a richly nuanced examination of the moral justifications democracies often invoke to wage war. In this compelling and provocative book, Christopher Kutz argues that democratic principles can be both fertile and toxic ground for the project of limiting war's ...

The frontiers of Human Rights

extraterritoriality and its challenges

In an epoch of transnational armed conflict, global environmental harm, and rising inequality, the extraterritorial application of human rights law has become a pressing and controversial legal issue. Human rights are invoked to address a number of global-scale problems, such as trans-border environmental harm, social ...

Popular sovereignty in early Mmdern constitutional thought

Popular sovereignty - the doctrine that the public powers of state originate in a concessive grant of power from 'the people' - is perhaps the cardinal doctrine of modern constitutional theory, placing full constitutional authority in the people at large, rather than in the hands of judges ...

The origins of capitalism in England 1400-1600

Drawing on an impressive array of original archival research and a series of critiques of recent accounts of economic development in pre-modern England, The Origin of Capitalism in England 1400-1600 offers a rich and multi-layered account of the historical rupture in English feudal society that ...

Revolutionary marxism in Spain 1930-1937

Revolutionary Marxism in Spain, 1930-1937 examines the impact of Trotsky’s politics upon those Spanish communists who dissented from the ‘general line’ of Moscow in the midst of the Spanish Civil War. Exploring the ideas of leading POUM figures, and their complex relationship with Trotsky ...

Crisis and contradiction

marxist perspectives on Latin America in the global political economy

Since the late 1990s Latin America has experienced a turn to the Left, in the electoral arena, and with a rejuvenation of Marxist critiques of political economy. Drawing on the expertise of scholars from around the world this volume offers cutting-edge theoretical explorations of trends ...

Crowds and party

Crowds and Party extends the energies of the riotous crowds of the last five years into an argument for the political party. Rejecting emphases on individuals and multitudes, Jodi Dean argues that we rethink the collective subject of politics. When crowds appear in spaces unauthorized ...

The political economy of international trade

This volume includes many of Edward D Mansfield's contributions to research on the political economy of trade. Among the topics addressed are the effects of power relations and international economic institutions on trade flows, the influence of domestic politics on trade policy, the factors ...

A guide to probate wills and the Law

the easyway

A Guide to Probate, Wills and The Law, Revised Edition, is a concise and informative guide to all the processes that underpin the practice of formulating a last will and testament and to the law and practice of probate and applying for probate in the ...

Shadows of revolution

reflections on France, past and present

David Bell wrote the essays in this collection over the course of more than fifteen years, each in response to a new book or political event and published in the New Republic, New York Review of Books, or London Review of Books. Their common thread ...

El camino a Ítaca

Moscú, 31 de mayo de 1941. Hitler está a punto de invadir la Unión Soviética, pero aún está vigente el Pacto Germano-Soviético. Se respira ambigüedad y doble juego. En este ambiente viciado, el capitán Martin Bora recibe un encargo un tanto pintoresco: desplazarse a Creta ...

Playing to the edge

american intelligence in the Age of Terror

For General Michael Hayden, playing to the edge means playing so close to the line that you get chalk dust on your cleats. Otherwise, by playing back, you may protect yourself, but you will be less successful in protecting America. "Play to the edge" was ...

The end of the Cold War

1985-1991

On 26 December, 1991, the hammer-and-sickle flag was lowered over the Kremlin for the last time. Yet, just six years earlier, when Mikhail Gorbachëv became general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and chose Eduard Shevardnadze as his foreign minister, the Cold ...

The collapse

the accidental opening of the Berlin Wall

On the night of November 9, 1989, massive crowds surged toward the Berlin Wall, drawn by an announcement that caught the world by surprise: East Germans could now move freely to the West. The Wall--infamous symbol of divided Cold War Europe--seemed to be falling. But ...

The German War

a nation under arms, 1939-1945: citezen and soldiers

As early as 1941, Allied victory in World War II seemed all but assured. How and why, then, did the Germans prolong the barbaric conflict for three and a half more years? In "The German War," acclaimed historian Nicholas Stargardt draws on an extraordinary range ...

¡Liberad a Mussolini!

desmontando el mito de Skorzeny en el Gran Sasso

La operación para liberar a Mussolini, prisionero en un hotel de alta montaña en la cima del Gran Sasso, es sin lugar a dudas una de las acciones más espectaculares no solo de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, sino también de toda la historia militar. Los ...

La utopía de los libros

política y filosofía en Miguel Abensour

Esta obra contiene doce capítulos configurados como libros abiertos y líneas de fuga del entreconocimiento. Se trata de una apuesta por la rehabilitación política del imaginario, del s. XIX, del heroísmo, de las potencias del despertar y de la amenaza siempre acechante del mito. Dice ...