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Translating human rights in education : the influence of Article 24 UN CRPD i…
The 2006 United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UN CRPD) is the first human rights treaty to explicitly acknowledge the right to education for persons with disabilities. In order to realize this right, the convention’s Article 24 mandates state parties to ensure inclusive education systems that overcome outright exclusion as well as segregation in special educat…
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- 2
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780472902705
- Collation
- xv, 206p.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 371.909669 TRA b
Becoming a European Homegrown Jihadist : A Multilevel Analysis of Involvement…
How and why do people become involved in European homegrown jihadism? This book addresses this question through an in-depth study of the Dutch Hofstadgroup, infamous for containing the murderer of filmmaker Theo van Gogh, who was killed in November 2004 in Amsterdam, and for plotting numerous other terrorist attacks. The Hofstadgroup offers a window into the broader phenomenon of homegrown jiha…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789462986930
- Collation
- 287 p.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 363.3 BEC B
The advisory roles of political scientists in Europe : comparing engagements …
This open access book centres on the advisory roles of political scientists in Europe. Based on a cross-national survey, the book offers a comparative analysis of the viewpoints and activities of university-based political scientists on external engagement. Political scientists in Europe appear more extrovert as academics than sometimes thought. In their professional functioning they engage in …
- Edition
- 9
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030860059
- Collation
- xxx; 421p;
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 320.6094 ADV M
Circular Migration and the Rights of Migrant Workers in Central and Eastern E…
By adopting a rights-based approach, this open access book sheds light on the different legal and policy instruments that have been adopted to implement circular migration policies in the EU and their consequences for the rights of migrant workers. It contributes to the understanding of the meaning of this concept in general, in the EU, as well as more specifically with regard to its Eastern ne…
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- 10
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030526894
- Collation
- xi; 261p;
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 325.24 CIR Z
Engines of truth : producing veracity in the Victorian courtroom
During the Victorian era, new laws allowed more witnesses to testify in court cases. At the same time, an emerging cultural emphasis on truth-telling drove the development of new ways of inhibiting perjury. Strikingly original and drawing on a broad array of archival research, Wendie Schneider's examination of the Victorian courtroom charts this period of experimentation and how its innovations…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780300125665
- Collation
- ix, 265p.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 347.009034 SCH e
Social enterprise in Central and Eastern Europe : theory, models and practice
In the last two decades, the quest for a widely accepted definition of social enterprise has been a central issue in a great number of publications. The main objective of the ICSEM Project (on which this book is based) was to show that the social enterprise field would benefit much more from linking conceptualisation efforts to the huge diversity of social enterprises than from an additional an…
- Edition
- 10
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780429324529
- Collation
- ix, 326p.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 338 SOC n
Resurgent Asia : diversity in development
Resurgent Asia analyses the phenomenal transformation of Asia, which would have been difficult to imagine, let alone predict, fifty years ago, when Gunnar Myrdal published Asian Drama. In doing so, it provides an analytical narrative of this remarkable story of economic development, situated in its wider context of historical, political, and social factors, and an economic analysis of the under…
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- 9
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780198849513
- Collation
- xix, 320p.; ill.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 338.95 RES n
Paternalism to partnership : the administration of Indian affairs, 1786-2021
Paternalism to Partnership examines the administration of Indian affairs from 1786, when the first federal administrator was appointed, through 2021. David H. DeJong examines each administrator through a biographical sketch and excerpts of policy statements defining the administrator’s political philosophy, drawn from official reports or the administrator’s own writings. The Indian Offic…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781496230584
- Collation
- xvii, 476 p.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 323.1197 DEJ p
The Arab Spring abroad : diaspora activism against authoritarian regimes
The Arab Spring revolutions of 2011 sent shockwaves across the globe, mobilizing diaspora communities to organize forcefully against authoritarian regimes. Despite the important role that diasporas can play in influencing affairs in their countries of origin, little is known about when diaspora actors mobilize, how they intervene, or what makes them effective. This book addresses these question…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781009272148
- Collation
- xvii, 270p.
- Series Title
- Cambridge studies in contentious politics
- Call Number
- 909.097492708312 MOS t
Island Fantasia
The Matsu archipelago between China and Taiwan, for long an isolated outpost off southeast China, was suddenly transformed into a military frontline in 1949 by the Cold War and the Communist-Nationalist conflict. The army occupied the islands, commencing more than 40 long years of military rule. With the lifting of martial law in 1992, the people were confronted with the question of how to move…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781009023481
- Collation
- xvii, 330p, ill
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 951.249 WEI
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