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In this book social scientists scrutinize the middle decades of the nineteenth century in Japan. That scrutiny is important and overdue, for the period from the 1850s to the 1880s has usually been treated in terms of politics and foreign relations. Yet those decades were also of pivotal importance in Japan's institutional modernization. As the Japanese entered the world order, they experienced a massive introduction of Western-style organizations. Sweeping reforms, without the class violence or the Utopian appeal of revolution, created the foundation for a modern society. The Meiji...

Shortly after the book's protagonists moved into their apartment complex in Sarajevo, they, like many others, were overcome by the 1992-1995 war and the disintegration of socialist Yugoslavia More than a decade later, in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina, they felt they were collectively stuck in a time warp where nothing seemed to be as it should be. Starting from everyday concerns, this book paints a compassionate yet critical portrait of people's sense that they were in limbo, trapped in a seemingly endless "Meantime." Ethnographically investigating yearnings for "normal lives" in the...

Die Autorin nimmt das Politische als Existentielles im menschlichen Dasein in den Blick. Sie analysiert, wie die Politik von ihren Akteuren selbst um der eigenen Machtvorteile willen preisgegeben wird und damit einen unerklarten allgemeinen politischen Wandel einleitet. Der Mensch wird dabei in Politik, Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft und Kultur entwertet und zur Rechnungsgrosse degradiert. Mensch und Gesellschaft verstehen sich nicht mehr und geraten in eine gefahrliche Lage. In einer Neuerfindung der Politik durch das Individuum liegt ein moglicher Ausweg. Der Mensch ist Akteur, Ausgangs- und...

Although the Genocide Convention was already adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1945, it was only in the late 1990s that groups of activists emerged calling for military interventions to halt mass atrocities. The question of who these anti-genocide activists are and what motivates them to call for the use of violence to end violence is undoubtedly worthy of exploration.

Based on extensive field research, Anti-genocide Activists and the Responsibility to Protect analyses the ideological convictions that motivate two groups of anti-genocide activists: East...