Sociology
Alter(n) bewegt: Perspektiven der Sozialen Arbeit auf Lebenslagen und Lebenswelten (German Edition)
„Lebenslage“ und „Lebenswelt“ nehmen in der Diskussion zu theoretischen Verortungen Sozialer Arbeit seit Jahren eine herausragende Position ein. In dem Buch wird auf der Folie dieser theoretischen Konzepte das Alter(n) in den Blick genommen. Dabei geht es – am Beispiel unterschiedlicher Lebenslage- und Lebensweltdimensionen – um die Betrachtung von Partizipations- und Teilhabechancen einerseits und Gefahrenpotentiale [...]
Handbuch des Meeresnaturschutzrechts in der Nord- und Ostsee: Nationales Recht unter Einbezug internationaler und europäischer Vorgaben (Schriftenreihe Natur und Recht) (German Edition)
Das Werk dient der systematischen Aufbereitung der in der deutschen AWZ und in den Küstengewässern der Nord- und Ostsee geltenden Regelungen des Meeresnaturschutzes. Unter Einbezug internationaler und europäischer Vorgaben erläutert die Schrift die einschlägigen nationalen Bestimmungen und bietet praktische Hilfestellung zur Bewältigung von Konflikten zwischen Schutz- und Nutzungsinteressen. Neben den Mechanismen des Habitat-, Biotop- und [...]
Mikropolitik politischer Organisationen: Das Beispiel Ortsbeirat (VS College) (German Edition)
Wie ist zwischen autonomen Akteuren einer Organisation kooperatives, kollektives und organisiertes Handeln möglich und welche Strukturen, Strategien und Regeln bestehen, die das Handeln in Organisationen beeinflussen? Dies ist die Ausgangsfrage von Simone Kurz, die am Beispiel eines Ortsbeirats beantwortet wird. Mittels strategischer Organisationsanalyse zeigt sie anhand von fünf Dimensionen, wie die Organisation Ortsbeirat funktioniert, wie [...]
Inside Clubbing: Sensual Experiments in the Art of Being Human
Inside Clubbing puts the spotlight on club culture–in all its sweaty, visceral, and seductive glory. Jackson guides us through the huge spectrum of the club experience, moving from hip-hop clubs to fetish events via queer, trance, Asian, techno, drum 'n' bass, and sex clubs. Drawing on interviews with clubbers from a variety of backgrounds, he [...]
Definitions for the Law of the Sea (PDF)
Definitions for the Law of the Sea elucidates undefined terms and phrases used in The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) itself, as well as terms used in its analysis. Based on nearly a decade of work by the American Branch of the International Law Association's Law of the Sea Committee, [...]
Electronic Whistle-Stops: The Impact of the Internet on American Politics(PDF)
Fifty years ago, the political whistle-stop tour was thus named because trains blew their whistles twice when making unscheduled stops in backwater towns. Like its distant cousin, the electronic whistle-stop brings the candidate's message directly to the people, but with one outstanding difference: the new whistle-stop offers politicians an accuracy, efficiency, and success at voter [...]
The Black Hole of Public Administration (Governance Series)(PDF)
Public administration in Canada needs to change. A handful of scholars across Canada have been sounding the alarm for years but to no avail. Talented young bureaucrats have been joining the public service with fresh ideas capable of creating real change, but the black hole consumes all. In The Black Hole of Public Administration, experienced [...]
The Secular Contract: The Politics of Enlightenment(PDF)
"With grace and considerable erudition, Alex Schulman has reconstructed what was the most significant political concept of the Enlightenment: that social and political life could only be grounded upon an agreement between all citizens, which excluded any consideration of religious belief not matter what the basis of its claims. The great democratic revolutions which we [...]
The European Union at the United Nations: Intersecting Multilateralisms(PDF)
This is the first book to examine in depth the European Union's relationship with the United Nations and to analyze critically the EU's contribution to "effective multilateralism". The contributors show that the EU most often fails to make the UN as effective as it should be in addressing global challenges: the EU is failing to [...]
National Security under the Obama Administration (PDF )
An initial assessment of President Obama's foreign and national security policy, this volume brings together a unique collection of American and non-American scholars to examine various institutional, regional, and major policy dimensions of contemporary US engagement with the world. All contributors have been associated with a series of US foreign and national security policy institutes [...]