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by Phil Ryan
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2010
Official multiculturalism, established as Canadian government policy in 1971, has drawn criticism from many scholars and journalists who view it as a potential threat to a strong, unified Canadian society. In this timely and original book, Phil Ryan examines the emergence and influence of these criticisms,...
An American Summer
Love and Death in Chicago
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
From the bestselling author of There Are No Children Here, a richly textured, heartrending portrait of love and death in Chicago's most turbulent neighborhoods.
The numbers are staggering: over the past twenty years in Chicago, 14,033 people have been killed and another roughly 60,000 wounded...
Global Politics and Its Violent Care for Indigeneity
Sequels to Colonialism
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
This book challenges the common perception that global politics is making progress on indigenous issues and argues that the current global care for indigeneity is, in effect, violent in nature. Examining the inclusion of indigenous peoples in the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues...
Greening China
The Benefits of Trade and Foreign Direct Investment
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2011
“The authors make some very critical interventions in this debate and scholars engaged in the environmental ‘pollution haven’ and ‘race to the bottom’ debates will need to take the arguments made here seriously, re-evaluating their own preferred theories to respond to the insightful theorizing...
Immigration Policymaking in the Global Era
In Pursuit of Global Talent
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2012
Through a comparative case study analysis of the United Kingdom and Germany, with references to the United States, this study examines the impetuses for and processes by which governments came to choose the points system for immigration control.
Canada and the Changing Arctic
Sovereignty, Security, and Stewardship
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2011
Global warming has had a dramatic impact on the Arctic environment, including the ice melt that has opened previously ice-covered waterways. State and non-state actors who look to the region and its resources with varied agendas have started to pay attention. Do new geopolitical dynamics point to...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
This edited volume considers the ways in which European states and the European Union can and should organize themselves economically and socially in order to address the challenges of sustainable development. It will interest students and researchers of environmental policy and European politics.
by Thomas Haliburton
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1973
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1973
The Season-Ticket, published in 1860, is made up of a series of articles previously contributed during 1859 and 1860 to the Dublin University Magazine.
Its quality of interest lies in its major purpose: the programme of a thorough going British imperialist who advocates “a three-fold policy...
Exploring the EU’s Legitimacy Crisis
The Dark Heart of Europe
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
Exploring the EU’s Legitimacy Crisis provides a profound analysis of the causes and the consequences of the EU's growing legitimacy problem. The prior permissive consensus in the EU has been markedly declining under persistent crisis conditions. Since the onset of the eurozone crisis the EU's governance...
Promoting Canadian Studies Abroad
Soft Power and Cultural Diplomacy
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018
This volume examines the history and current state of Canadian studies in a number of countries and regions across the world, including Canada's major trading partners. From the mid-1980s until 2012, Canadian studies was seen as an important tool of soft power, increasing awareness of Canadian culture,...
Near Abroad
Putin, the West and the Contest over Ukraine and the Caucasus
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
Before Russia invaded Ukraine, it invaded Georgia. Both states are part of Russia's "near abroad" - newly independent states that were once part of the Soviet Union and are now Russia's neighbors. While the Russia-Georgia war of 2008 faded from the headlines in the wake of the global recession, the...
Behind the Backlash
White Working-Class Politics in Baltimore, 1940-1980
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2003
In this nuanced look at white working-class life and politics in twentieth-century America, Kenneth Durr takes readers into the neighborhoods, workplaces, and community institutions of blue-collar Baltimore in the decades after World War II.
Challenging notions that the "white backlash"...
The War Power in an Age of Terrorism
Debating Presidential Power
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
This book features a lively debate between two prominent scholars—Michael A. Genovese and David Gray Adler—on the critical issue of whether the Constitution, written in the 18th Century, remains adequate to the national security challenges of our time. The question of the scope of the president’s...
by I. Hudson, M. Fridell
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
The authors critically evaluate the fair trade movement's role in pursuing a more just and environmentally sustainable society. Using fair trade as a case study of the shift toward non-state forms of governance, they focus on its role not only as a regulatory tool, but as a catalyst for broader social and political transformation.