Het liberalisme drukt een groot stempel op onze samenleving. Tegelijk krijgt het veel kritiek, zowel van links als van rechts. De vraag rijst: wat kan er voor in de plaats komen? Een alternatief dat zich momenteel vanuit ‘het radicale midden’ aandient is het ‘postliberalisme’. Geïnspireerd door christelijk-sociaal denken hekelen vooral Britse en Amerikaanse postliberalen zowel de vermarkting als de verstatelijking van belangrijke levenssferen. Ze hechten veel belang aan lokale gemeen...

Welke Nederlanders hebben invloed in het Brusselse moeras? Wie zijn de Nederlandse topdiplomaten, lobbyisten, waterdragers en gewone ambtenaren die het beleid bepalen in Europa? Wat drijft de stille krachten achter de macht, hoe ziet hun werkdag eruit, op welke knoppen drukken ze, wat is hun invloed? Van Angelina Eichhorst, de rechterhand van buitenlandbaas Borrell, tot de Brusselse top-fixer Gert Jan Koopman. Van de onbekende topambtenaar bij de afdeling Trade – Laura van Kampen – tot de...

Gerechtelijke vervolging van religie-kritiek en vreemdelingenhaat

Wat hebben de filmster Brigitte Bardot, de journaliste Oriana Fallaci, de schrijver Michel Houellebecq en de politicus Geert Wilders gemeen? Dat is dat zij alle vier geconfronteerd zijn met juridische processen waarin zij werden aangeklaagd vanwege vreemdelingenhaat, belediging van moslims en islamkritiek.

De rechtsgeleerde en filosoof Paul Cliteur, hoogleraar encyclopedie van de rechtswetenschap een universiteit van Leiden, ga...

This major new text on the theory and practice of public management moves away from descriptive accounts of its evolution to provide a systematic treatment of the key paradigms of public management today. It examines their competing outlooks, values, tools and assumptions and - using a wide range of examples from different areas of management around the world - their implications for practice. The text sets out three contrasting 'logics' for management - performance, professionalism and polit...

With unrivalled coverage of a wide range of issues - from terrorism, inter-state conflict and nuclear deterrence, to environmental security, health, and transnational crime - Contemporary Security Studies is the definitive introduction to Security Studies. Bringing together contributions from leading scholars, it provides a student-friendly guide to traditional and critical theoretical approaches, as well as the most important contemporary issues that dominate the modern security field. The s...

Introduction to International Relations and Global Politics provides students with a complete understanding of theory and how it applies to the real world. With comprehensive coverage of all major classical and contemporary theories and approaches, the text focuses on the connections between theory and current issues in international relations.

Welfare states vary across nations and change over time. And the balance between markets and government; free enterprise and social protection is perennially in question. But all developed societies have welfare states of one kind or another - they are a fundamental dimension of modern government.

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This is a practical guide to the historical study of international politics. The focus is on the nuts and bolts of historical research--that is, on how to use original sources, analyze and interpret historical works, and actually write a work of history. Two appendixes provide sources sure to be indispensable for anyone doing research in this area.

The book does not simply lay down precepts. It presents examples drawn from the author's more than forty years' experience as a working historian....

Based on a detailed study of 35 cases in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and post-communist Eurasia, this book explores the fate of competitive authoritarian regimes between 1990 and 2008. It finds that where social, economic, and technocratic ties to the West were extensive, as in Eastern Europe and the Americas, the external cost of abuse led incumbents to cede power rather than crack down, which led to democratization. Where ties to the West were limited, external democratizing pressure was w...

This best-selling textbook continues to lead the way in providing an approachable and wide-ranging introduction to politics. It covers the key concepts, theories and debates, actors and institutions that drive politics, exploring their application and relevance to contemporary political developments. This sixth edition's new co-author, Matthew Laing, builds on previous editions and provides significant revisions to chapters covering populism, elections, global policing, security and governanc...