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Democratic Transitions
Thirteen former presidents and prime ministers discuss how they helped their countries end authoritarian rule and achieve democracy. National leaders who played key roles in transitions to democratic governance reveal how these were accomplished in Brazil, Chile, Ghana, Indonesia, Mexico, the Philippines, Poland, South Africa, and Spain. Commissioned by the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA), these interviews shed fascinating light on how repressive regimes were ended and democracy took hold. In probing conversations with Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Patricio Aylwin, Ricardo Lagos, John Kufuor, Jerry Rawlings, B. J. Habibie, Ernesto Zedillo, Fid...
Research Handbook on International Law and Cities
This groundbreaking Research Handbook provides a comprehensive analysis and assessment of the impact of international law on cities. It sheds light on the growing global role of cities and makes the case for a renewed understanding of international law in the light of the urban turn.
De tovenaar van de Nijl
De jacht op Afrikas meest gevreesde rebel Ergens in de binnenlanden van Noord-Oeganda houdt één van Afrikas meest gevreesde rebellen zich schuil: Joseph Kony. Deze zelfbenoemde profeet van God voert een leger aan van hoofdzakelijk ontvoerde kinderen dat al meer dan twee decennia dood en verderf zaait onder de eigen bevolking. Hoewel Kony inmiddels wereldwijd een gezocht oorlogsmisdadiger is, weet niemand precies wie hij is en wat het doel is van zijn oorlog. Geïntrigeerd door de mythen die Kony omgeven, reisde correspondent Matthew Green af naar het oorlogsgebied. In zijn zoektocht naar de gevreesde leider schept Green middels getuigenissen van slachtoffers, voormalige kindsoldaten en regionale machthebbers een huiveringwekkend beeld van een oorlog die niemand begrijpt. Uiteindelijk gebeurt er wat Green voor onmogelijk hield: een ontmoeting met Kony zelf. Naast een portret van deze nietsontziende massamoordenaar schetst De tovenaar van de Nijl nog een veel gruwelijker realiteit: de Oegandese regering onder leiding van president Museveni en de even schaamteloze Sudanese regering hebben zo hun eigen belangen om dit conflict in stand te houden.
Transições Democráticas: ensinamentos dos líderes políticos
Como países tão diversos fizeram a transição de regimes autoritários para democráticos? Este livro apresenta uma série de entrevistas com lideranças políticas que desempenharam papel de destaque nessas transições em seus países, entre as décadas de 1980 e 1990: Fernando Henrique Cardoso, no Brasil; Patricio Aylwin e Ricardo Lagos, no Chile; Ernesto Zedillo, no México; Aleksander Kwasniewski e Tadeusz Mazowiecki, na Polônia; F. W. de Klerk e Thabo Mbeki, na África do Sul; Felipe González, na Espanha. Esses líderes compartilham suas experiências sobre os bastidores dos processos históricos que culminaram no estabelecimento dos regimes democráticos em suas nações, com as peculiaridades de cada uma. As entrevistas são acompanhadas de uma análise dos respectivos países feita por especialistas, além de uma resenha biográfica dos entrevistados e uma cronologia. A obra traz também um capítulo sobre a contribuição dos movimentos de mulheres nesses momentos de transição e um ensaio dos organizadores. As lições desta obra são muito úteis para prevenir regressões da democracia para o autoritarismo.
Fabricando al enemigo
Los enemigos pueden fabricarse. No nacemos con enemigos, aprendemos a tenerlos por motivos y estrategias diferentes. La construcción del enemigo suele ser ideológica y política. Siempre ha habido formas de dominio que han requerido la presencia de supuestos enemigos, a los hay que odiar e incluso eliminar cuando se acentúa esa hostilidad. Y si no existen de veras, los enemigos se crean artificialmente, se fabrican porque es instrumental, incluso para medir nuestra capacidad grupal, identitaria o de simple patrioterismo. La redacción de este libro ha coincidido con la crisis política catalana. Si bien esta última no ha llegado al punto de deshumanizar, matar o crear enemigos, sí es ci...
Sozialen Zusammenhalt stärken
Wie entstehen demokratieferne Einstellungen in einer Kommune? Diese Studie stellt heraus, dass Menschen sich von der Demokratie abwenden, wenn diese ihr Versprechen auf soziale Gleichheit nicht erfüllt. Der Bereitschaft, sich zu engagieren, steht die schwere Erreichbarkeit der etablierten Politik gegenüber. Von diesen Beobachtungen ausgehend entwickeln die Autor*innen Ansätze, wie auf kommunaler Ebene die repräsentative Demokratie durch direktere Formen der Mitwirkung gestärkt werden könnte.
Multilingual Acquisition and Learning
The volume espouses an ecosystemic standpoint on multilingual acquisition and learning, viewing language development and use as both ontogenesis and phylogenesis. Multilingualism is inclusively used to refer to sociolinguistic diversity and pluralism. Whether speech, writing, gesture, or body movement, language is a conduit that carries meaning within a complex, fluid, and context-dependent framework that engages different aspects of the individual, the communicative interaction, communicative acts, and social parameters. Continually modified over the years to better represent its multidisciplinary scope, the sociobiological notion of language has found steady and productive ground within ma...
Second Language Pronunciation Assessment
This book is open access under a CC BY licence. It spans the areas of assessment, second language acquisition (SLA) and pronunciation and examines topical issues and challenges that relate to formal and informal assessments of second language (L2) speech in classroom, research and real-world contexts. It showcases insights from assessing other skills (e.g. listening and writing) and highlights perspectives from research in speech sciences, SLA, psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics, including lingua franca communication, with concrete implications for pronunciation assessment. This collection will help to establish commonalities across research areas and facilitate greater consensus about key issues, terminology and best practice in L2 pronunciation research and assessment. Due to its interdisciplinary nature, this book will appeal to a mixed audience of researchers, graduate students, teacher-educators and exam board staff with varying levels of expertise in pronunciation and assessment and wide-ranging interests in applied linguistics.
