...This chapter reviews the major developments which led to the recovery of Austrians full sovereignty after World War II by virtue of the State Treaty of May, 1955, and notably to the enactment of Austria's permanent neutrality by constitutional law on 26 October of that year. The various options...

... of constitution in seventeenth-century England to the concept of neutrality in twentieth-century Austria. This storied career brought him in the 1950s from the University of Vienna to the University of Chicago—of which he draws a brilliant picture—and later took him to Berlin and eventually back to Austria. One...

... sympathetic legal advice. With the Neutrality Proclamation, he asserted control of foreign policy within the limits of existing treaties and statutes. He interpreted treaties, entered executive agreements, and established executive power to recognize foreign nations. He did not use the Senate to advise...

... profound implications for everything from surveying and war to national territory and everyday life. The chapter ends by confronting common reactions to GPS, arguing that it should not be seen in moral terms as either good or bad – or even as neutral. Instead, its impact is largely about facilitating new...

... John Hart Greene Jamal originalism and Bowers Scalia Antonin Justice Bork Robert H Judge cont Court Brennan William Justice deliberative democracy Douglas William O Justice Equal Protection Clause of Fourteenth Amendment status quo neutrality Stone Harlan Fiske Justice Sunstein Cass R Brown...

...-to-one correspondence between words or images and the world, we might also be able to achieve the neutral place to stand. If, however, we cannot escape context, neutrality may be unattainable. Anna Freud presents her definition of neutrality by stating: “He (the analyst) directs his attention equally...

...In the summer of 1914 war erupted in Europe. President Woodrow Wilson immediately issued a Proclamation of Neutrality. Two weeks later, in a message to the Senate, Wilson elaborated: “Every man who really loves America will act and speak in the true spirit of neutrality.” He cautioned Americans...

... different practices in demonstrating and displaying the scientific credentials of the host venue and the status of the science. This chapter discusses the BAAS' promotion of science a public good, a unifying, moral vision under the banner of scientific and political neutrality. audiences in the British...

... in his court-packing plan. He did not entrench his constitutional vision by seeking amendments. He did not adequately protect civil liberties, notably in the Japanese-American internment in World War II. In foreign policy, he guided the nation to abandon neutrality in favor of international involvement...

...This essay documents the wide variety of forms that “toleration” has assumed in an array of historical and geographic contexts. In the act of definition, certain historical arrangements with respect to toleration, intolerance, persecution, religious freedom, and neutrality are privileged while...

... facts distinction Galileo Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change IPCC neutrality scientific ozone depletion Paris Agreement United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change UNFCCC West Antarctic Ice Sheet WAIS Bethe Hans Bohr Niels Carson Rachel Commoner Barry Ehrlich Paul Einstein...

... Bigo A fallacies International Association of Chiefs of Police National Association of Security Companies techno fallacies Mannheim Karl utopia beliefs fallacious Hammett Dashiell human analytics determinism techno fallacies of neutrality techno fallacies of perfection fallacies...

...Proponents of both value-neutrality and ethical relativism have argued that norms are incompatible with scholarly inquiry and in so doing have effectively forced positive values underground. This chapter argues that rather than suppressing our values, what we need is to bring them to the surface...

..., in a context of war, could any college reconcile “neutrality” with nationalism? Second, in a competitive transatlantic market for ideas, could the cosmopolitan exchange of ideas that once drove the republican dream of doux commerce ultimately weaken prospects for an “international republic of letters” when...

...The early Red Cross movement promoted a controversial idea: establishing a sector of nongovernmental and impartial volunteer societies, which would be considered neutral parties on the battlefield. What convinced the Red Cross founders that this is an appropriate model for relief work? This chapter...

...Taking as an example the courts of the modern Egyptian state, this essay challenges the assumption that the modern state can be a neutral arbiter between competing systems of beliefs. Agrama argues that in any polity the values of the minority are always more subject to the hermeneutics...

... education; the real disagreement mostly resides at the level of means. Evidence shows that AOUME is pedagogically ineffective, but the debate is not one between facts (on the progressive side) and values (on the traditional side); even for liberals, neutrality is not a viable aim. For example, homophobia...

...This chapter explores Woodrow Wilson's neutrality policy. More than anything except the events of the Great War itself, pragmatist internationalism determined the course of Wilson's presidency, dovetailing with his domestic thinking, clarifying the lessons of his early diplomacy, and providing both...

... of gender-neutral interpretations of sexual offenses. The question posed in this chapter is the extent to which gender ought to be a factor in criminal proceedings. The chapter argues that the Ellis case, and others like it, is indicative not of the need for rigid adherence to the principle of gender...