Kategoria BISAC: Political Science >> Political Ideologies - General

In a world riven with conflict, violence and war, this book proposes a philosophical defense of pacifism. It argues that there is a moral presumption against war and unless that presumption is defeated, war is unjustified. Leading philosopher of non-violence Robert Holmes contends that neither just war theory nor the rationales for recent wars (Vietnam, the Gulf War, the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars) defeat that presumption, hence that war in the modern world is morally unjustified.

A detailed, comprehensive and elegantly argued text which guides both students and scholars through the...

A recent trend in contemporary western political theory is to criticize it for implicitly trying to "conquer," "displace" or "moralize" politics. James Wiley s book takes the "next step," from criticizing contemporary political theory, to showing what a more "politics-centered" political theory would look like by exploring the meaning and value of politics in the writings of Max Weber, Carl Schmitt, Paul Ricoeur, Hannah Arendt, Sheldon Wolin, Claude Lefort, and Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe. These political theorists all use the concept of "the political" to explain the value of...

Upon publication in 1791-92, the two parts of Thomas Paine's Rights of Man proved to be both wildly popular and extremely controversial. This immediate bestseller not only defended the French revolution, but also challenged hereditary government, advocated democratic principles, and introduced a blueprint for the modern welfare state. As a result, Rights of Man outsold nearly every other book published over the century before Paine himself was sentenced in absentia for seditious libel and forced into permanent exile from his native England. More than 200 years later, this...

Upon publication in 1791-92, the two parts of Thomas Paine s Rights of Man proved to be both wildly popular and extremely controversial. This immediate bestseller not only defended the French revolution, but also challenged hereditary government, advocated democratic principles, and introduced a blueprint for the modern welfare state. As a result, Rights of Man outsold nearly every other book published over the century before Paine himself was sentenced in absentia for seditious libel and forced into permanent exile from his native England. More than 200 years later, this...

As President, Barack Obama has conducted U.S. foreign policy by exclusively adopting the dictates and direction of the United Nations worldview of Multi-National global governance - however, to the detriment of optimally advancing and protecting the best National Security interests of the American People. Specifically, there exists a stark divergence between the competing geo-political philosophies of 1) the United States as the dominant player in world affairs and "an indispensable force for good" (i.e. American Exceptionalism) which President Barack Obama rejects, in favor of 2) Obama's...

Anthony L. Hall takes aim at the global events of 2015 with a unique and refreshing perspective. Here are some topics in this eleventh volume of his writings:
Migrants dying in Mediterranean Sea

"Admonishing migrants not to flee conditions so dire is like telling occupants not to flee a house on fire."
Narcissism of tweeting condolences

"The expression of such sentiments these days is intended more to draw attention to the person tweeting them than to comfort the person (who should be) receiving them."
Only authoritarian regimes can govern Arab countries

"Show me an...

Anthony L. Hall takes aim at the global events of 2015 with a unique and refreshing perspective. Here are some topics in this eleventh volume of his writings:
Migrants dying in Mediterranean Sea

"Admonishing migrants not to flee conditions so dire is like telling occupants not to flee a house on fire."
Narcissism of tweeting condolences

"The expression of such sentiments these days is intended more to draw attention to the person tweeting them than to comfort the person (who should be) receiving them."
Only authoritarian regimes can govern Arab countries

"Show me an...

Comparing the liberal Jewish ethics of the German-Jewish philosophers Ernst Cassirer and Hannah Arendt, this book argues that both espoused a diasporic, worldly conception of Jewish identity that was anchored in a pluralist and politically engaged interpretation of Jewish history and an abiding interest in the complex lived reality of modern Jews. Arendt's indebtedness to liberal Jewish thinkers such as Moses Mendelssohn, Abraham Geiger, Hermann Cohen, and Ernst Cassirer has been obscured by her modernist posture and caustic critique of the assimilationism of her German-Jewish forebears....

Wheels-down in Iowa--that most important of primary states--Pacewicz looks to two cities, one traditionally Democratic, the other traditionally Republican, and finds that younger voters are rejecting older-timers' strict political affiliations. A paradox is emerging--as the dividing lines between America's political parties have sharpened, Americans are at the same...