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Child Custody and Visitation Disputes in Sweden and the United States
What are the social and cultural features that have the most impact on the interpretation of the legal standard, “best interest of the child”? One method for answering this question is through a comparison of two societies, Sweden and the United States, both of which apply the same legal standard to similar contested custody and visitation cases. This study views love, law, and knowledge as separate discourses. Love encompasses the interpretations of the actors whose claims arise from the emotions associated with care, concern, and relationships, namely parents, the children who are the subject of a case, and other family members. Justice encompasses the interpretations and claims which ...
The Future of International Relations
This book presents the state of the art of international relations theory through an analysis of the work of twelve key contemporary thinkers; John Vincent, Kenneth Waltz, Robert O. Keohane, Robert Gilpin, Bertrand Badie, John Ruggie, Hayward Alker, Nicholas G. Onuf, Alexander Wendt, Jean Bethke Elshtain, R.B.J. Walker and James Der Derian. The authors aim to break with the usual procedure in the field which juxtaposes aspects of the work of contemporary theorists with others, presenting them as part of a desembodied school of thought or paradigm. A more individual focus can demonstrate instead, the well-rounded character of some of the leading oeuvres and can thus offer a more representative view of the discipline. This book is designed to cover the work of theorists whom students of international relations will read and sometimes stuggle with. The essays can be read either as introductions to the work of these theorists or as companions to it. Each chapter attempts to place the thinker in the landscape of the discipine, to identify how they go about studying International Relations, and to discuss what others can learn from them.
A Blogger's Manifesto
There was never such a thing as true freedom of speech. In the past, in order to speak freely you had to have access to a printing press, a newspaper, a radio or a TV station. Until now. The age of blogging has begun. The internet revolution has given us all a chance to be irreverent, blasphemous and ungrammatical in public. We can reveal secrets, blow whistles, spill beans or just make stuff up. The old elites don't like it. In fact, they really hate it. Should we fall silent? Absolutely not! Let's demand that modern liberal society lives by the principles it claims to embrace. Bloggers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your gags.
Identity, Interest and Action
This book offers an original combination of cultural and narrative theory with an empirical study of identity and political action. It is at once a powerful critique of rational choice theories of action and a solution to the historiographical puzzle of why Sweden went to war in 1630. Erik Ringmar argues that people act not only for reasons of interest, but also for reasons of identity, and that the latter are, in fact, more fundamental. Deploying his alternative, non-rational theory of action in his account of the Swedish intervention in the Thirty Years War, he shows it to have been an attempt on behalf of the Swedish leaders to gain recognition for themselves and their country. Further to this, he demonstrates the importance of questions of identity to the study of war and of narrative theories of action to the social sciences in general.
History of International Relations
Existing textbooks on international relations treat history in a cursory fashion and perpetuate a Euro-centric perspective. This textbook pioneers a new approach by historicizing the material traditionally taught in International Relations courses, and by explicitly focusing on non-European cases, debates and issues. The volume is divided into three parts. The first part focuses on the international systems that traditionally existed in Europe, East Asia, pre-Columbian Central and South America, Africa and Polynesia. The second part discusses the ways in which these international systems were brought into contact with each other through the agency of Mongols in Central Asia, Arabs in the Med...
Moving Bodies
Increasingly we have come to live in our heads, leaving our bodies behind. The consequences have been far-reaching, of which cognitive theory has warned us, advocating a 'return to the body.' This book employs several case studies-kings performing in ballets, sea captains dancing with natives, nationalists engaged in gymnastics exercises-to demonstrate what has been lost and what could be gained by a more embodied approach to living, to history. These curious movements were ways to be, to think, to know, to imagine, and to will. They highlight the limits of historical explanations focusing on cultural factors and question currently fashionable 'cultural' and 'post-modern' perspectives. Bodies, cognitive theory tells us, are the same regardless of historical context, and they engage in the same intentional activities. Returning to our bodies and their movements enables us not only to explain historical actions anew, but also to understand ourselves better.
International Politics of Recognition
The origins of international conflict are often explained by security dilemmas, power-rivalries or profits for political or economic elites. Common to these approaches is the idea that human behaviour is mostly governed by material interests which principally involve the quest for power or wealth. The authors question this truncated image of human rationality. Borrowing the concept of recognition from models developed in philosophy and sociology, this book provides a unique set of applications to the problems of international conflict, and argues that human actions are often not motivated by a pursuit of utility maximisation as much as they are by a quest to gain recognition. This unique approach will be a welcome alternative to the traditional models of international conflict.
The Lonely Hearts Club
Penny Lane è stufa dei ragazzi e stufa di uscire con loro, quindi ha deciso: basta. Infiniti appuntamenti noiosi e troppi inutili fidanzamenti le hanno fatto collezionare una delusione dopo l’altra. Ben presto, però, molte delle sue compagne sono incuriosite dalla sua scelta personale: sembra infatti che Penny non sia l’unica a non volerne più sapere dei ragazzi. Nella sua scuola la voglia di smettere di fare qualunque cosa per piacere al ragazzo dei propri sogni si sta diffondendo a macchia d’olio. Di qui, la decisione di dare una forma e uno statuto a questa ritrovata indipendenza dagli affari di cuore: le ragazze “liberate” dai condizionamenti dell’amore decidono così di fondare il Lonely Hearts Club. Penny Lane, la prima ad aver lanciato l’orgogliosa “moda del cuore solitario”, ne sarà la leader. Peccato, però, che un giorno incontra un ragazzo che ne mette a dura prova le convinzioni...
Solo se avrai coraggio
Ogni giorno, nel dormitorio deserto del collegio, Tom solleva il coperchio del suo baule di legno e parla col cowboy Flint, il suo unico amico. È il 1959, Tommy Bedford ha otto anni, e quando l'adorata sorella Diane viene a prenderlo ad Ashlawn, nel cuore dell'Inghilterra, decisa a portarlo con sé a Hollywood, per lui si avvera un sogno che nemmeno aveva osato sognare. Perché Diane, astro nascente di quella stagione dorata del cinema, sta per sposarsi con Ray Montane, uno dei cowboy del piccolo schermo per cui Tom stravede. Ma nella vita pazza e vacua delle stelle del Sunset Boulevard basta poco perché un'esplosione di brutalità trasformi il sogno in tragedia: e quando il cowboy Ray si ...
