The German Political Foundations as Actors in Democracy Assistance

by Alexander Mohr

In Germany, political foundations (Stiftungen) play an important role in shaping civil society through political democracy education. The foundations, however, have also committed themselves to strengthening democratic political and societal structures abroad. Their joint mission abroad is the contribution to ...

A Comparative Policy Study of Social Security and Tax-Deferred ...

Redundancy, Harmony, or Conflict

by Susan D. Ferrell

This research is a comparative policy study of Social Security legislation, including Medicare, and tax-deferred retirement savings plan legislation. Specifically, the study sought evidence that would indicate whether the systems are independent, work together, reinforce one another, conflict with one another, or work ...

Dictators and Dictatorships: Artistic Expressions of the Political in ...

No paso nada...?

by Caterina Preda

The comparison of the relations between arts and politics during the regimes of Nicolae Ceausescu and Augusto Pinochet in the period 1974-1989 represents the privileged object of study. These two cases of study are considered as extreme cases on an axis of the study of the relation between art and politics in modern ...

Winning the Peace

The Pursuit of Real Victory after the Government Won the War in Sri Lanka

by Marco S. McAllister

The military defeat of the LTTE by the Government of Sri Lanka in May 2009 ended twenty-six years of war which have caused the displacement of more than 1.1 million Sri Lankans and claimed more than 150,000 lives. Winning the war represented a great achievement for the Government, and allowed Colombo to lay the ...

The Politics of Neighborhood Governance in China

by Jianfeng Wang

For the nearly three decades of coexistence between economic liberalization and political authoritarianism, China remains as an anomaly to the liberal mantra of our time. This book explores a segment of the China Paradox, the state-society interaction channeled by the Residents Committee. Being the largest urban ...

Tokyo Phantasmagoria

An Analysis of Politics and Commodity Capitalism in Modern Japan Through the Eyes of ...

by Kenny Loui

As the sun set on the 20th century, a new age dawned in Japan. This new era, symbolized by the postmodern city of Tokyo, has ushered in not only technological innovation and economic prowess, but changing attitudes and values among Japanese young people. This transformation is not an uncommon or even new phenomenon, ...

State Sovereignty versus Individual Human Rights in the Case of the ...

by Kayumba P. David

This study entitled ‘State sovereignty versus individual human rights’ is a critical reflection of the relationship between sovereignty and (individual) human rights especially as it related to the Rwandan genocide in which about a million people perished in only 100 days. The fact that Rwanda government conducted a ...

Good Military Wives Stay in the Closet

Obstacles to Openly Opposing Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF)

by Monica K. Henry

Women and men are socialized to accept and perform certain gendered roles – generally man as warrior/protector and woman as caretaker/protected. The United States Military depends on the wives of servicemen to embrace these gendered roles in order to carry out military operations such as Operation Iraqi Freedom ...