The Applicability of the Law of Self-Defense to the Combating of International Terrorism -- Elements of International Humanitarian Law Applied to the War Against Terrorism; Acknowledgements

Interrogating the civil society agenda, reassessing uncivic political activism -- Interrogating the civil society agenda, reflections on Brazil -- A century of councils: participatory budgeting and the long history of participation in Brazil -- Civil society in Brazil: from state autonomy to political interdependency -- The making and unmaking of a new democratic space -- Uncivil subjects, uncivil women: civic participation, ambivalence, and political subjectivity among grassroots community leaders in Porto Alegre, Brazil -- Mapping movement fields -- Mapping the field of Afro-Latin American politics: in and out of the civil society agenda -- Social movement demands in Argentina and the constitution of a "feminist people" -- Politics by other means: resistance to neoliberal biopolitics -- The "gray zone" between movements and markets: Brazilian feminists and the international aid chain -- The nexus of civic and uncivic politics -- This is no longer a democracy . . . Thoughts on the local referendums on mining on Peru's Northern frontier -- From Afro-Colombians to Afro-descendants: the trajectory of black social movements in Colombia, 1990/2010 -- In the streets and in the institutions: movements-in-democracy and the rural women's movement in Rio Grande do Sul -- Refounding the political: the struggle for provincialization in Santa Elena, Ecuador -- Movements, regimes, and refoundations -- The counterpoint between contention and civic collective action in Venezuela's recent democracy -- Brazil: back to the streets? -- Monuments of (de) colonization: violence, democracy, and gray zones in Bolivia after January 11, 2007 -- Beyond the civil society agenda. Participation and practices of governance, governability, and governmentality in Latin America -- Conclusion: Uncontained activism

Modernity and Foundations -- Modernity and Secular Culture -- Modernity and Religion -- Modernity and the Post-Colonial Condition -- Islam and Modernity

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Could this be 1648? -- Political economy : world-making stories -- Struggle : toward a cartography of engagement -- World-making ideas : imagining a world to govern and resist -- Expertise : the machinery of global reason -- Expertise in action : rule by articulation -- Law and the global dynamics of distribution -- International legal expertise : innovation, avoidance and professional faith -- Legal expertise in war

Democracy, free thought and expression, religious tolerance, individual liberty, political self-determination of peoples, sexual and racial equality—these values have firmly entered the mainstream in the decades since they were enshrined in the 1948 U.N. Declaration of Human Rights. But if these ideals no longer seem radical today, their origin was very radical indeed—far more so than most historians have been willing to recognize. In A Revolution of the Mind, Jonathan Israel, one of the world’s leading historians of the Enlightenment, traces the philosophical roots of these ideas to what were the least respectable strata of Enlightenment thought—what he calls the Radical Enlightenment.

Introduction : thinking about Madison's mind -- "How indeed could it be otherwise?" : rethinking the problem of federalism -- "The principal task of modern legislation" : the locus of republican governance -- "Wherever the real power lies" : public opinion and the protection of rights -- "The experiments are of too ticklish a nature to be unnecessarily multiplied" : the problem of thinking like a constitution -- Epilogue : "I may be thought to have outlived myself."

Introduction and Framework of the Study -- Economic Growth and Structural Change -- Political Regimes -- The Impact of Demographic Change -- Human Capital: Health, Education, and Labor Markets -- Water and Food Security -- Rise and Fall of State-Led Development -- Structural Adjustment and the Rise of Crony Capitalism -- Political Economy of the Gulf -- The Military -- Solidarism and Its Enemies: Civil Society and Social Movements in the Middle East -- Is Islam the Solution? -- Regional and Global Economic Integration

'An excellent example of the growing number of complexity inspired works that challenge the fundamentals of International Relations. The book is a stimulating theoretical review of complexity, as well as a critique of traditional IR and a demonstration of what complexity can do when it is applied to recent policy challenges.' Robert Geyer, Lancaster University, UK 'A New Science of International Relations is an interesting study

A new politics of knowledge -- The new politics in practice -- From cells to transitions

Introduction : the default position -- Moments in time : getting things right and wrong -- What is left internationalism? -- In defense of humanitarian intervention -- Is there an American empire? -- Global and domestic justice -- World government and the politics of pretending -- The left and religion : the case of Islam -- The complex formation of our battles -- Postscript : can there be a decent left?

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When Poetry Met Prose -- Son of Immigrant Parents -- A Can of Worms -- Like a Meeting of the Supreme Soviet -- In a Lofty Place -- The Great Gerrymander -- Lobbyists and Legislators Gone Wild -- The Overcoat Development Corporation -- Other People's Money -- The Road to Reforming a Failed State

Human rights, politics, and development -- Development and human rights in India -- The United Nations Development Programme -- The United Nations Children's Fund -- Other UN agencies involved in rights-based approaches -- Strategies and outcomes of rights-based approaches -- Conclusion: new ways of pursuing human rights promotion