Is there Space for "Genuine Autonomy" for Tibetan Areas in the PRC's System of Nationalities Regional Autonomy? [PDF]
, 2010 This article considers whether room exists within the current system of nationalities regional autonomy (NRA) in China to accommodate Tibetan aspirations for "genuine autonomy" under the People's Republic of China (PRC) sovereignty. It examines the legal
Ghai, Y., Loper, Kelley, Woodman, Sophia
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Terrorism as Ritual Process and Cultural Trauma: a Performative Analysis of ISIS\u2019s Attacks in Europe [PDF]
, 2017 Sociological reflection on Islamist terrorism focussed itself almost exclusively on the religious aspect of radicalisation of Islam, spending little efforts to widen the analytic perspective to the effects of ISIS actions on the (re)definition of the ...
Romania, Vincenzo, Tozzo, Serena
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Understanding non-governmental organizations in world politics: the promise and pitfalls of the early ‘science of internationalism’ [PDF]
, 2016 The years immediately preceding the First World War witnessed the development of a significant body of literature claiming to establish a ‘science of internationalism’.
Ahmed S +57 more
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The Secular and the Sacred: Complementary And/or Conflictual? [PDF]
, 2017 The issue of the relation of the sacred to the secular has become paramount in virtually every country in the world. From church-state relations in the US, with the debates around abortion and same-sex marriage, to the vitriolic discussions in France ...
Akhlaq, Sayed Hassan Hussaini +1 more
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EU at the UN: The Effects of its New Rights Agenda on International Social Structures [PDF]
, 2007 This study seeks to determine the effect of the EU’s human rights agenda on the international institution of human rights, and the resulting effect on interstate society.
Sylva, Douglas., Yoshihara, Susan,
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Consensus social movements and their significance in a globalizing world - the example of the Focolare movement [PDF]
, 2013 The importance of consensus social movements consists in the creation of new cultural orientations based on the principles of humanism and universal values, and the way they catalyse the process of a new state of ‘social aggregation’ and strive to gain ...
Wielecka, Natalia
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Writers' Bloc: reading into late Soviet experience through Latvian artists' books. [PDF]
, 2008 Previously in the University eprints HAIRST pilot service at http://eprints.st-andrews.ac.uk/archive/00000364/Article 1 of 6 in an issue devoted to Scandinavian and Baltic visual cultureThis article focuses on book works by Latvian artists during the ...
Svede, Mark Allen.
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Legislator-Led Legislative Prayer and the Search for Religious Neutrality [PDF]
, 2019 Leading a group in prayer in a public setting blurs the line between public and private. Such blurring implicates a constitutional tension between the Establishment Clause and the Free Exercise Clause. This tension is magnified when the constitutionality
Masrani, Aishwarya
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Toward a Jurisprudence of the Civil Rights Acts [PDF]
, 2014 What is the nature of the “rights,” jurisprudentially, that the 1964 Civil Rights Act legally prescribed? And, more generally, what is a “civil right”?
West, Robin
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Religion and Globalization: Crossroads and Opportunities
, 2018 A conversation between the First Vice-President of the Russian Philosophical Society, Doctor of Philosophy, Professor of Moscow State University, Alexander Chumakov and the editor of the special series Contemporary Russian Philosophy at Brill, the ...
Chumakov, Alexander, Sergeev, Mikhail
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