“…Bringing together an international team of contributors, including Barbara Stallings, Alicia Giron and J. …”

“…But while its proponents see it as a means of promoting selfesteem among marginalized groups, its critics see it as a dangerous form of relativism that culminates, paradoxically, in a new form of intolerance.The fourteen essays in this volume address the pros and cons of multiculturalism and explore its relationship with liberal democracy. A team of stellar contributors—C. Vann Woodward, Linda Chavez, Stanley Fish, and others—offers viewpoints on multiculturalism from the perspectives of political theory, history, philosophy, and fiction.The editors first help explain multiculturalism by contrasting it with the Sixties counterculture. …”

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“…Against the backdrop of the international education-policy and planning-theory debates about municipal education landscapes, the potential of institutions and regions for innovative learning processes at a university that is opening itself up to society are explored and illustrated on the basis of reference examples with the intention of then outlining the multifaceted activities carried out by the project team in Neu Marx: social spaces were analysed, space-appropriation options tested, short films produced, furniture built, games developed, stories told and much more in conjunction with students, further lecturers and refugees. …”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover; Contents; List of Tables; Preface and Acknowledgments; 1 A Post-American Foreign Policy for the Post-American World; Introduction; Audacious No Longer: From the Fierce Urgency of Now to the Timidity of ""Hope""; Contextualizing Obama; Plan of the Book; 2 The ""Human Ink-Blot"": Obama, Foreign Policy and the 2008 Election; Introduction; ""I''ve Got a Confusion on Obama"": Cosmopolitan, Liberal Internationalist, Realist, Reaganite, Leftist?…”

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“…Going beyond state-centric analysis, the contributors present a multi-layered account of the 'migration governance complex.' …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction -- Catholic action : a twentieth-century social movement, 1920s--1930s -- Theology and philosophy in the age of fascism, communism, and World War -- The politics of left Catholicism in the 1940s -- The Mouvement populaire des familles -- A working-class apostolate beyond Catholic action : team building, base communities, and worker priests -- Conclusion…”

“…Examines the diverse experiences of Reformed Protestant religious refugees fleeing war and persecution in the Netherlands for cities and towns in the Holy Roman Empire in the late sixteenth century.Starting in the mid-sixteenth century, widespread persecution and war forced tens of thousands of Reformed Protestants in the Netherlands to flee their homes for new communities in England and the Holy Roman Empire. …”