...Paul Kingsnorth © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 --> Politics Political science Non-governmental organizations Laws and legislation United Kingdom Europe Could it happen here? Charles Secrett thinks it could. Secrett, director of Friends of the Earth for ten years...

...Dmitry Shlapentokh © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 --> Politics Russia Democracy Social control Imperialism in reverse It has also been assumed, at least by some pundits, that the nationalistic approach radiates from the top and pleases the majority...

...Aidan Rankin © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 --> Politics United Kingdom Liberal fundamentalism? Purpose – To present a summary – and an interpretation– of a new collection of essays seeking to redefine Liberalism in Britain. Design/methodology/approach...

...Aidan Rankin © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 --> Politics Environmental management A new approach to green politics Keywords: Politics, Environmental management When ecological or green parties entered the electoral arena, they pointed towards a new...

...Corinne McLaughlin © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 --> Politics Political theory Democracy Is there a genuine new politics beyond left and right? Abstract For the past ten years at least, the ideological formulas of “left” and “right” have failed...

... Politics Sidney Du Broff Sidney Du Broff is a Chicago-born writer and filmmaker who now lives in London. Keywords: Israel, Politics Abstract It has become commonplace in Europe, and the West more generally, to think of the State of Israel as a powerful nation, secure...

... to name these days. In this atmosphere, increasingly redolent of 1984, the "proles" are kept down by power hungry bureaucrats, who police their everyday conversations for political incorrectness but will not give them basic economic security or protect them from crime. Friedrich Hayek...

...Kenneth Wynne-Brown © MCB UP Limited 2003 --> Religion Politics Confucianism Kenneth Wynne-Brown Kenneth Wynne-Brown is a retired Engineer. Keywords: Religion, Politics, Confucianism Abstract The relationship between religion and secular...

... and the ultimate bogeyman for the French political establishment. And yet it has proven unable to get rid of him. In the political system for more than 50 years, since the time he entered the French Parliament as France's youngest MP at the age of 23 (for Emile Poujade's populist party), Le Pen's individualistic...

...: Economics, Politics During the mid-1980s, the point at which Thatcherism had reached its boiling point, a number of libertarian voices piped up from the free-market firmament to argue that "the economic revolution" born of Hayek had not gone far enough – that in taking up this economic creed, the Tory...

... --> Keywords History Politics War There is, it seems, a market for short books on complex subjects. The contemporary historian Joanna Bourke has written on both the world wars: her volume on the Great War, An Intimate History of Killing (l999) won both the Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History...

...Nigel Holden These are questions that Russians cannot escape if they wish to continue as a political nation. It is rather to be hoped that Suraska’s fine volume will be translated into Russian, for the book raises issues for Russians who are prepared to confront “the moral question [which...

...John Coleman © MCB UP Limited 2001 --> Europe Politics History A nineteenth century view of Europe – is it still the same? John Coleman Keywords: Europe, Politics, History The controversial historian, James Anthony Froude, saw the scene in continental...

...Jennifer Taylor Hella   Pick . Guilty Victim – Austria from the Holocaust to Haider . London, New York : I.B. Tauris   2000 . 246 pp. , ISBN: 1‐86064‐6182   £24.50 © MCB UP Limited 2001 --> Austria History Politics Government Austria, a member...

...Aidan Rankin Political correctness arose out of a confusion in liberal thought during the 1960s between freedom for individuals and rights for groups. It was a time of expanded higher education and emphasis on qualifications at the expense of personal qualities, when intellectual life...

...David Wells I had better add at this point that I regard myself – and I hope that I am not merely flattering myself – as a moderate in every mainstream political party: a moderate Conservative, because I believe that history has created much that should be preserved, but not at the expense...

.... The Waldheim affair, she considered, enabled the Second Republic to come of age and to admit the mistakes of the past, a process that will stand Austria in good stead when dealing with the new challenge of Jo¨rg Haider. Sonja Puntscher Rieckmann, the author of The Politics of Ausgrenzung, offers...

...Judith Ryser © MCB UP Limited 2001 --> Hungary Politics Eastern Europe 46th Assembly of the Atlantic Treaty Association in Budapest, Hungary Judith Ryser Judith Ryser is a Journalist for CityScope Europe, London. Keywords: Hungary, Politics...

...Aidan Ranking © MCB UP Limited 2001 --> Labour Politics Book reviews Tony Blair: Making Labour Liberal David WellsRain PressBeckenham2000ISBN 0-907944-05-1 Keywords: Labour, Politics This lively, refreshingly readable book is the first political...

...Yorick Blumenfeld © MCB UP Limited 2001 --> Politics Philosophy 2099: A Eutopia: Prospects for Tomorrow Yorick Blumenfeld Yorick Blumenfeld is very widely travelled having been a foreign correspondent in over 90 countries. The last two decades he has been...