This open access book addresses the discourse that creates, modifies, and reshapes the law, as well as discourse participants. The book focuses on the actors operating in legal regimes and their subtly, bluntly, or even outright aggressive impact on the formation of laws. As the book examines the intersection of domestic, European, international, and even transnational, legal regimes where new …
A common perception of global resource scarcity holds that it is inevitably a catalyst for conflict among nations; yet, paradoxically, incidents of such scarcity underlie some of the most important examples of international cooperation. This volume examines the wider potential for the experience of scarcity to promote cooperation in international relations and diplomacy beyond the traditional b…
This book examines the mobilization, role, and trajectory of women rescuers and perpetrators during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. While much has been written about the victimization of women during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, very little has been said about women who rescued targeted victims or perpetrated crimes against humanity. This book explores and analyzes the role played by women who exe…
Democracy -- What were the 1850s constitutions and electoral laws? -- The ideas that formed these new Australian colonial democracies -- The Colonial leaders that fought for and opposed democracy -- Obstructive Legislative Councils (upper houses) -- New South Wales -- The 18th century colony -- Victoria -- The colony of the goldfields and Eureka stockade -- South Australia -- The democracy colo…
IntroductionMichael ButterPart I: Case Studies1. Makers versus Getters: Productivism in Henry Ford⁰́₉s The International JewAdam John Koper 2. Anticommunism and Conspiracy Myths in Brazil: From the 1937 ⁰́₋Cohen Plan⁰́₊ to the Bolsonarist ⁰́₋Red Menace⁰́₊Rodrigo Patto S©Ł Motta3. The Weaponization of Conspiracy TheoriesEirikur Bergmann4. Populism and Conspiracism in C…
Part 1. The state of democracy -- Part 2. Elections, parties and candidates -- Part 3. Campaigning.
Representation of the people : the making of the State Duma, 1905-1907 -- Legislative chambers : the State Duma and the State Council, 1907-1917 -- A parliamentary revolution : postimperial assemblies, 1917-1918 -- An antiparliamentary revolution : the RSFSR Congress of Soviets and the Central Executive Committee, 1918-1922 -- An alternative to parliament : the USSR Congress of Soviets and the …