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"This book examines the crucial issues affecting human rights education in contexts of culture, religious and societal diversity. This book considers a variety of connected content and methodological issues in three major sections : philosophical and policy perspectives, gender discourses, and discourses on narratives as safe spaces. The focus of the various chapters succeeds in establishing both a foundation and platform for dialogue surrounding human rights and human rights education in modern policy and governance. Aptly named “Safe spaces”, the edition offers in-depth and credible (“safe”) nuances (“spaces”), in terms of the somewhat reified concept of human rights, at a time when human rights remains a highly topical and contested international issue. "

"This work throws new light on the origins of the English civil war and on the radical nature of the English revolution. The book challenges the discrete categories of high and popular politics and the presumed boundaries between national and local history. It offers the first full study of the Protestation, the first state oath to be issued under parliamentary authority. The politics behind its introduction into parliament challenges the idea that the drift to civil war was unintended or accidental. Used as a loyalty oath to swear the nation, it required those who took it to defend king, church, parliament, and Englands liberties. Despite these political commonplaces, the Protestation had radical intentions and radical consequences. It envisaged armed resistance against the king, and possibly more. It became a charter by which Parliament felt able to fight a civil war and it was used to raise men, money, and political support. Requiring resistance against enemies that might include a king contemplating the use of political violence, the Protestation offered a radical extension of membership of the political nation to those hitherto excluded by class, age, or gender. In envisaging new forms of political mobilization, the Protestation promoted the development of a parliamentary popular political culture and ideas of active citizenry. The book demonstrates how the Protestation was popularly appropriated to legitimize an agency expressed in street politics, new forms of mass petitioning, and popular political violence."

"In Ethnic Identity and Minority Protection: From Designation to Brutalization, Thomas W. Simon examines a new framework for considering ethnic conflicts. In contrast to the more traditional theories of justice, Simon?s theory of injustice shifts focus away from group identity toward group harms, effectively making many problems, such as how to define minorities in international law, dramatically more manageable"Machine generated contents note: Preface -- Part I : Stories of Designation -- Chapter One : Balkan Tales -- Part II : A Theory of Injustice -- Chapter Two : Injustice Trumps Justice -- Part III : Group Types -- Chapter Three : The Problems of Race -- Chapter Four : Ethnicity, An Outsider?s View -- Chapter Five : Minorities Defined -- Chapter Six : Citizenship as a Weapon -- Part Four : Institutions and Solutions -- Chapter Seven : The Judiciary versus the Legislature -- Chapter Eight : The United Nations on Minorities -- Chapter Nine : Remedial Secession -- Part Five : Case Studies -- Chapter Ten : Malays in Malaysia, South Africa, and the Philippines -- Part Six : Stories of Brutalization -- Chapter Eleven : Hate Debates -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author."

"This introductory textbook examines contemporary Chinese foreign policy. It explores the patterns of engagement with various domestic and international actors which have shaped Beijing's foreign policy thinking since the end of the Cold War, and offers a combination of ongoing questions and trends in China's foreign policy"

"This book analyzes, first part describes the soft threats to human rights, derived from the devaluation of the politics and the productive economy with regard to the finance. It entails the concealment of the reality in the shape of exploitation as the tax havens and in the shape of marginalization of the persons with different abilities. The second part include a study of hard threats to human rights and examines two cases of failed states, Afghanistan and Somalia, in which the violence has supplanted the politics and the economy. In view of these situations it is necessary to rethink the force of classic ius gentium and the humanitarian right. The third part presents the European Union as a legal and political space in which conditions of a worthy life are better defended by means of the primacy of practical reason and social state of law, and by the requirement of peace as the main rule of international relations. "

"Do States, through their military forces, have legal obligations under human rights treaties towards the local civilian population during UN-mandated peace operations? It is frequently claimed that it is unrealistic to require compliance with human rights treaties in peace operations and this has led to an unwillingness to hold States accountable for human rights violations. In this book, Kjetil Larsen criticises this position by addressing the arguments against the applicability of human rights treaties and demonstrating that compliance with the treaties is unrealistic only if one takes an 'all or nothing' approach to them. He outlines a coherent and more flexible approach which distinguishes clearly between positive and negative obligations and makes treaty compliance more realistic. His proposals for the application of human rights treaties would also strengthen the legal framework for human rights protection in peace operations without posing any unrealistic obligations on the military forces"-- Provided by publisher"