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Clarendon Press Public Moralists
Book SynopsisThis imaginative and unusual book explores the moral sensibilities and cultural assumptions that were at the heart of political debate in Victorian and early twentieth-century Britain. It focuses on the role of intellectuals as public moralists, and suggests ways in which their more formal political theory rested upon habits of response and evaluation that were deeply embedded in wider social attitudes and aesthetic judgements. Stefan Collini examines the characteristic idioms and strategies of argument employed in periodical and polemical writing, and reconstructs the sense of identity and of relation to an audience exhibited by social critics from John Stuart Mill and Matthew Arnold to J. M. Keynes and F. R. Leavis.Dr Collini begins by situating the leading intellectuals in the social and political world of the Victorian governing classes. He explores fundamental values like `altruism'', `character'', and `manliness'', which are revealed as the animating dynamic of much of the politiTrade ReviewStefan Collini is a sophisticated, witty and thoughtful historian of ideas ... Collini is a fertile and gifted author ... His book on Matthew Arnold ... is a marvel of a compression and trenchant good sense ... [Public Moralists is] a superior book ... sets the mind spinning. * Sheldon Rothblatt, The Higher *Table of ContentsIntroduction; Part One: Governing Values: Leading minds: The world of the Victorian intellectual; The culture of altruism: Selfishness and the decay of motive; The idea of character: private habits and public virtues; Part Two: Public Voices: Their master's voice: John Stuart Mill as a public moralist; Manly fellows: Fawcett, Stephen, and the liberal temper; Part Three: Moral Sciences: Their title to be heard: professionalization and its discontents; An exclusively professional subject: the jurist as public moralist; Part Four: English Geneologies: From dangerous partisan to national possession: John Stuart Mill in English culture 1873-1933; The Whig interpretation of English literature: literary history and national identity; Index
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Oxford University Press, USA Democratization Theory and Experience Oxford Studies in Democratization
Book SynopsisThis interpretation of democratization by one of the leading scholars in the field, examines the process of democratization. It aims to equip those caught up in democratization and democracy promotion with a more realistic understanding of the tensions and turbulence involved.Trade ReviewFor the postgraduate and the academic, Professor Whitehead's original perspectives will certainly provide ample food for thought. * Democratization *The chapters cover most of the issues one would expect in such a book, together with less expected ones such as corruption and monetary authority. * Democratization *... a valuable contribution for the understanding of this academic discussion. sWhitehead writes in a thoughtful and often illuminating way. * Times Higher Education Supplement *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; 1. On 'Democracy' and 'Democratization' ; 2. The Drama of Democratic Transitions ; 3. On Civil Society ; 4. On Accountability and Institutional Design ; 5. On Political Corruption ; 6. On Monetary Authority ; 7. On Citizen Security ; 8. On Comparing Democratization Processes ; 9. The Place of Chile in Comparative Democratisation Studies ; 10. On Theory and Experience in Democratization Studies
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Oxford University Press, USA Feminism the Family and the Politics of the Closet
Book SynopsisFeminism, the Family, and the Politics of the Closet is about placing sexual orientation politics within feminist theorizing. It is also about defining the central political issues confronting lesbians and gay men. The book brings the study of lesbians from the margins of feminist theory to the center by critiquing the analytic frameworks employed within feminist theory that renders invisible lesbians'' difference from heterosexual women. This book also outlines the basic features of lesbian and gay subordination by exploring the differences between heterosexual dominance and gender and race relations. Throughout, Calhoun aims to re-center lesbian and gay politics away from concerns with sexual regulations and toward concern with the displacement of gays and lesbians from the public sphere of visible citizenship and from the private sphere of romance, marriage, and family.Trade ReviewAre romantic love and sexual attraction the essence of lesbianism? Is legal recognition for same-sex marriage and parenting essential to justice for lesbians and gay men? Cheshire Calhoun answers YES to both questions, and she defends both conclusions subtly and rigorously. Feminism, the Family, and the Politics of the Closet has ignited productive controversy. This, I think, is the highest praise anyone can give a work of social theory. * Professor Diana T Meyers, University of Connecticut *This book offers new insights into such major philosophical issues as the relationship of lesbian to feminist theory and such major practical ones as the case for same-sex marriage. An excellent text for LGBT studies, Women's Studies, and Contemporary Moral Issues courses. Equally accessible to LGBT activists and other interested ethical or political theorists. Beautifully written, scrupulously argued, certain to become a classic! * Professor Claudia Card, University of Wisconsin *In this book, Cheshire Calhoun, one of the pre-eminent ethical theorists of our day, turns her careful, creative and analytical mind to a set of questions concerning lesbian and gay rights. Calhoun boldly challenges several central and widely-accepted theoretical and practical claims, most significantly, the applicability of feminist theory to theorizing lesbians and gay men and their social and legal positions and struggles. * Professor Edward Stein, Cardozo School of Law *Table of Contents1. Introduction: Centering Sexual Orientation Politics ; 2. Separating Lesbian Theory from Feminist Theory ; 3. The Gender Closet ; 4. The Shape of Lesbian and Gay Subordination ; 5. Defending Marriage ; 6. Constructing Lesbians and Gay Men and Family's Outlaws
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Oxford University Press, USA The Global Covenant Human Conduct in a World of States
Book SynopsisThe Global Covernant is a ground-breaking work by one of the leading scholars in international relations that rejuvenates the classical international society approach, and brings it into contact with the new era of world politics. It investigates the most important international issues of our time, including peace and security, war and intervention, human rights, failed states, territories and boundaries, and democracy. It draws on a family of closely related disciplines: diplomatic and military history, international legal studies, and international political theory. It addresses basic methodological questions and presents the elements of a human sciences approach to the study of world politics. It contemplates the future of international society in the 21st century. The Global Covenant concludes by justifying the pluralist society of sovereign states as one that respects human diversity and upholds human freedom.Trade ReviewJackson makes an important argument with many thoughtful implications for world politics today. * American Political Science Review *Sprinkled with sharp insights about the practice and the study of international relations ... One of Jackson's virtues is that he is not afraid to explore the extremes of the pluralist position. * Millennium: Journal of International Studies *This is the major treatise since Bull on international society, written with force and coherence ... Jackson also provides one of the most illuminating commentaries on the major events of the post-cold war era ... I consider Jackson's investigation of public virtues in world politics to be a major achievement ... The Global Covenant is an outstanding defense of the normative discourse in international theory and is at its best as a treatise on the principles and ethics of international conduct. * International Studies Review *Impressive not only in scope but also for the manner in which the author sustains his defence of the current international order ... There is a great deal to admire in the book. The impression the reader gets is of being in the presence of a genuine scholar who brings to his subject immense depth and clarity of thought ... Ihe Global Covenant is a very important book - particularly for its unparalleled discussion of an interpretative method ... an eloquent vindication of the pluralist rules of international society. * International Affairs *Table of ContentsPreface ; 1. The Normative Dialogue of International Society ; PART I. THEORY AND HISTORY OF INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY ; 2. International Human Relations ; 3. Recovering the Classical Approach ; 4. The Classical Approach as a Craft Discipline ; 5. The Political Theory of International Societas ; 6. The Situational Ethics of Independent Statecraft ; 7. The Pluralist Architecture of World Politics ; PART II. PASSAGES OF CONTEMPORARY INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY ; 8. Security in a Pluralist World ; 9. Justifying Conventional War ; 10. Armed Intervention for Humanity ; 11. Failed States and International Trusteeship ; 12. International Boundaries as a Planetary Institution ; 13. Democracy and International Community ; PART III. VALUE AND FUTURE OF INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY ; 14. Alternatives to International Societas? ; 15. Justifying the Global Covenant
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Oxford University Press Realpolitik
Book SynopsisA concise book on Realpolitik: its origins as an idea; its practical application to statecraft in the recent past; and its relevance to contemporary foreign policy.Trade ReviewJohn Bew has done a great service in writing this concise, readable and informative history * Douglas Alexander, New Statesman *A heavily researched, readable, and comprehensive review of political and diplomatic history ... A sweeping array of political actors and earthshaking events. * Wall Street Journal *scholarly * Jonathan Powell, Prospect *brilliant new study * Niccolo Machiavelli, Standpoint *a well-researched account and a superb introduction to a concept that still has relevance to today's foreign policy questions. * Peter Whitewood, Times Higher Education *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; Part I: Real Realpolitik ; 1. The origins of Realpolitik ; 2. Foundations of Realpolitik ; 3. Realpolitik and Bismarck: a fatal compromise? ; 4. Realpolitik after Rochau ; Part II: Anti-realpolitik and the Anglo-American Worldview ; 5. The English Discovery of Realpolitik ; 6. American Realpolitik ; 7. The Coming Peace and the Eradication of Realpolitik ; Part III: Inter-war Realpolitik ; 8. The Ingestion of Realpolitik ; 9. Germany and the New Realpolitik ; 10. Machiavelli's Return? Realpolitik, Fascism and Appeasement ; Part IV: The Americanisation of Realpolitik ; 11. America's Awakening: Geopolitics and the Ethics of American Statecraft ; 12. Realpolitik through the Back Door? The Role of the Emigres ; 13. Bismarckism and Anti-Bismarckism ; Part V: Practical Realpolitik ; 14. Reluctant Realpolitik in the Cold War Era ; 15. Realpolitik in the Nixon-Carter Era ; 16. Wither Realpolitik? The End of the Cold War and Beyond ; Conclusion: Why we need a Renaissance of Realpolitik
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Reoccupying the Political Transforming and
Book SynopsisFocusing on the increasing refusal and transgression of politics as normal across the globe, this book examines new forms of democratisation, democratic life and political subjectivity, as people seek to gain control over the decisions and processes affecting their lives. The contributors to this volume challenge the hegemonic truth regimes of political science by bringing to our attention practices and discussions on the margins of political theorisation and conceptualisation. They offer a pluridiveristy of theorisations and engagements that mirror the very practises of democratic life of which they speak. They demonstrate how research on the margins enables us to develop and deepen our conceptualisation and engagement with these new forms of democratic thought and practice, and hence our understanding of the political and the transformation of political science.These new forms of politics call into question the epistemological authority of political science, and thisTable of ContentsIntroduction – Reoccupying the political: transforming political science 1. Mining, social contestation and the reclaiming of voice in Australia’s democracy 2. The transformation of the Occusphere 3. Monitoring social media and protest movements: ensuring political order through surveillance and surveillance discourse 4. Latin America as political science’s other 5. ‘A brutal blow against the democratic normality’: unlearning the epistemology of the political 6. The gift of the political 7. On ‘outsourcing’ the political in political science
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Taylor & Francis Urban Change and Citizenship in Times of Crisis
Book SynopsisUrban Change and Citizenship in Times of Crisis addresses the fact that in the beginning of the twenty-first century the majority of the worldâs population is urbanised, a social fact that has turned cities more than ever into focal sites of social change. Multiple economic and political strategies, employed by a variety of individual and collective actors, on a number of scales, constitute cities as contested spaces that hold opportunities as well as restrictions for their inhabitants. While cities and urban spaces have long been of central concern for the social sciences, today, classical sociological questions about the city acquire new meaning: Can cities be spaces of emancipation, or does life in the modern city entail a corrosion of citizenship rights? Is the city the focus of societal transformation processes, or do urban environments lose importance in shaping social reality and economic relationships? Furthermore, new questions urgently need to be asked: What is the impact Trade Review"What makes a ‘good’ city? How may the quality of cities be characterized and defined? For years I’ve been wondering why these questions are not on the agenda. This volume covers, for the first time, theoretical, historical and political aspects in an attempt to scrutinize the basis of a successful city. Innovative approaches combine issues of quality with the concern for collectivity under conditions of social change. This book is an essential read for sociologists, and students and scholars with a focus on urban studies, urban policies, planning or design studies."Martina Löw, Professor of Planning and Architecture, Institute of Sociology, Technical University Berlin, Germany"Never has it been more important to explore the nature of urban change and related issues of social and environmental justice. [...] Through the lens of multiple identities, social fragmentation, and fragile institutions the authors, individually and collectively, demonstrate that urbanisation may advance certain freedoms while simultaneously impinging adversely on established civil and political rights. [...] Urbanisation is essentially an uneven process, spatially and temporally, and the chapters capture these divergent trajectories across different cultures. Whether these 'Times of Crisis' are greater than other times the reader must be the judge. Either way, these are stimulating, challenging essays anchored in original research."Richard Rodger, Emeritus Professor of Economic and Social History, University of Edinburgh, and Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, UKTable of ContentsIntroduction: Cities between Success and Failure Part 1: Philosophical and Historical Trajectories 1. The Good City and Its True Costs: Planetary Urbanisation Through an Aristotelian Lens 2. Sacred Cities: Ancient and Early Modern Religious Diversity 3. On Immigration and the Meanings of Urban Social Justice in Queens, NY 4. Successful Societies and Policy Discourse: A Meta-Political Engagement with Joan C. Williams’s White Working Class Part 2: Urban Political Collectivities 5. Global Urbanism and the Crisis of Emancipation 6. Changing Political Collectivities in Times of Crisis: Tenant Protest in Berlin and New York 7. Urban Citizenship in Times of Gentrification Part 3: Towards Urban Complexity and Social Quality 8. Urban Complexity and Urban Change : Co-Irritation, Co-Evolution and Co-Design with the Potsdam Lodestar Approach 9. ‘Social Quality’ and the City : A Qualitative Exploratory Comparison in the Cities of Lausanne and Zurich
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