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Full-Text Articles in Comparative Politics
Syria: Not Libya, But Let’S Treat It Like It Is Anyway, Eric A. Heinze
Syria: Not Libya, But Let’S Treat It Like It Is Anyway, Eric A. Heinze
Human Rights & Human Welfare
The articles by Condoleezza Rice and Simon Adams advance a series of disquieting possibilities for the future of Syria if the US and other states fail to act. While I am sympathetic to the urgency with which both writers advance their claims, there is much strained and stretched logic—as well as outright naiveté—in both authors' arguments, especially Rice's.
Spectacle, Sacrifice And The State: The Legacy Of European Fascism And The Revival Of Martyrdom In The Modern World, Gerald Robert Pace
Spectacle, Sacrifice And The State: The Legacy Of European Fascism And The Revival Of Martyrdom In The Modern World, Gerald Robert Pace
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
The rise of political martyrdom in the contemporary world is not a new phenomenon but can be traced back to at least the early Twentieth Century with the rise of European Fascist movements. Both they, and the fascist-like movements of today, share a cluster of characteristics that allow for fruitful comparisons of the ways in which martyrdom spectacles are used to communicate with constituent populations, facilitate a culture of violence, perpetuate their revolutionary zeal and demonstrate the characteristics of the ideal citizen. Examining four major movements; Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, the Palestinian Hamas and the modern Iran, this dissertation argues …
Feminism And Democracy, Louis Edgar Esparza
Feminism And Democracy, Louis Edgar Esparza
Human Rights & Human Welfare
After work on December 1, 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks walked onto a bus that was to take her home that night. She ended up on a trip to jail instead, for refusing to give her seat to a white passenger. The event triggered resistance to bus segregation, the founding of the Montgomery Improvement Association, and the election of the then-unknown Dr. Martin Luther King as its leader. The success of the campaign is an integral battle in our historical retellings of the US African American Civil Rights Movement. Fewer recount the sexual harassment against black women by white …
Abeyance And Spontaneity In Tunisia, Louis Edgar Esparza
Abeyance And Spontaneity In Tunisia, Louis Edgar Esparza
Human Rights & Human Welfare
On August 16, 1819, tens of thousands of workers gathered in what is now St. Peter’s Square in Manchester to demand suffrage. Entire families, parishes, and townships assembled, fueled by increasing commodity prices and political disenfranchisement. They had spread the word from town to town, and from church to church, that this previously banned meeting was indeed to occur. It was the culmination of months of agitation on the part of common people to achieve economic and political reform. The government responded violently to the challenge of its authority, as governments so often do, leading to a score of deaths …
February Roundtable: The Arab Revolutions And Human Rights, Introduction
February Roundtable: The Arab Revolutions And Human Rights, Introduction
Human Rights & Human Welfare
An annotation of:
“The Failure of Governance in the Arab World” by Simon Tisdall. The Guardian. January 11 2011.
He's Our Son Of A Bitch, Robert Funk
He's Our Son Of A Bitch, Robert Funk
Human Rights & Human Welfare
It is said that Franklin Delano Roosevelt defended the US tendency to support dictators by remarking, “He may be a son of a bitch, but he's our son of a bitch.” The recent events in Tunisia and Egypt indicate that almost seventy years later, this unfortunate phrase seems to continue to guide US foreign policy.
Prospects For Democracy, Nick Stokes
Prospects For Democracy, Nick Stokes
Human Rights & Human Welfare
Upon the disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991, the countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia that had hitherto lived behind the Iron Curtain inherited new independence and uncertain political futures. Since then, the world has watched a political entity that once covered 8.6 million square miles shatter into 15 new nation-states, each with the potential to throw off the shackles of the past and forge new democracies. Fifteen years after the fall, we see elections at state and local levels, multi-party systems, and constitutions touting freedoms of press and religion. While these elements are vital to the survival …
Margot Morgan On The Politics Of Justice And Human Rights: Southeast Asia And Universalist Theory By Anthony J. Langlois. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. 214 Pp., Margot Morgan
Human Rights & Human Welfare
A review of:
The Politics of Justice and Human Rights: Southeast Asia and Universalist Theory by Anthony J. Langlois. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. 214 pp.