...Chapter 11 examines the role that international politics and international relations play in how the US approaches national security and military space policy. Drawing from the theories of realism, liberalism, and constructivism, it highlights the varying conceptions of how the space domain should...

... context as well. This introductory first chapter also outlines the methodology of the analysis of the countries of Cuba and Venezuela and gives some background on their political revolutions. Following social science research questions, the understanding of “contentious politics” in the two countries...

...Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof examines the Cuban and Puerto Rican diasporas and analyzes of the multiracial origins of the club Las Dos Antillas in Harlem by focusing on race, space, and politics in early Antillean New York. As the author notes, Las Dos Antillas was one of several revolutionary exile...

... novels which investigate the regional, economical, and environmental history of the state. The central point of these stories revolves around culture, land usage, and politics in Costa Rica. Calypso Lobo Costa Rica Costa Rican authors Costa Rican literature Ecofeminism La loca de Gandoca Rossi...

... agriculture in Bolivia Otavaleños and Otovalos On Line Quechua language hailli Quichua peoples Racism or racially charged perspective Tourism Vessels aquilla precious metal Bolivia access to education Historical analogues of chicha direct approach and “lo Andino ” Music Politics Bolivia populists...

...This chapter examines the president's efforts to clean up corruption and to rebuild civic institutions in support of democracy and human rights, important goals of the Toledo administration. The continuing influence of Fujimori and Montesinos on Peruvian politics, together with the widespread...

... acrimonious. In the process, domestic and foreign policies often interacted to an unusual degree as competing ideologies repeatedly impacted on Andean politics. Ecuador García Sayán Larrabure Diego as foreign minister Mahuad Witt Jorge Jamil Noboa Bejarano Gustavo Paniagua Corazao Valentín Arms control...

...This chapter discusses the complex and intricate political relationship between the U.S. and the Cuban exile community. It demonstrates how the Cuban exile leaders and their organizations became increasingly influential over the decades, first exhibiting a supportive role and then as an important...

...This book contains observations about belief in God and religious communities. It examines the atheist African American writers who challenged the God concept as a breeding ground for racism and oppression and who consider the death of God as offering personal and political hope among the often...

...This chapter concludes that while Cuba was perceived to be subjected under radical change after the dictator Batista was ousted from his political seat, it has been shown that the Cuban system of government remained in a static position and unchanged from the crisis of the early 1990s. The Cuban...

...This chapter examines international alliances, regime security and inter-Arab politics. It proposes the regime security perspective as an alternative to the Neorealist approach to alignment and alliance politics. It explains that this alternative approach emphasizes the different empirical...

...This chapter examines the security dilemmas involved in Arab politics. It explains that security dilemma refers to an external dynamic of arms racing and spiralling regional insecurity and suggests that Arab states face two specific security dilemmas. The analysis reveals that the traditional focus...

...There is a method to the apparent madness of Arab politics. In a region where friends can become enemies and enemies become friends seemingly at the drop of the hat, this book argues that there is logic to be found. Through fourteen years of field research and interviews with key policy makers...

..., it argues that melodrama tends to be monopathic, that is, to insist upon intense but unmixed emotion, and also to give precedence to politics and action within the world. Heilman's attachment of melodrama to politics, social action, and right and wrong gives us considerable purchase on the melodramatic...

...This chapter discusses the lowest point and darkest period in Atlanta politics. During the period from 1909 to the New Deal, Atlanta politics, and black political interest and influence plummeted to their lowest point. In 1908, the Georgia legislature passed a statewide act that disfranchised...

...This chapter discusses the growth and the intensification of political influence by African American voters on the politics, the public sphere, and the social constructs of Atlanta. In the fall of 1961, following the peaceful desegregation of public schools, the people of Atlanta for the first time...

... religious practices and racial identity, the book aims to bring equilibrium to an otherwise polarized and opposing stand on Brazilian racial politics. Antiracism Attacks on terreiros Bahia Candomblé Racism Terreiros temples Brazil anti racism in Identity Identity Afro Brazilian Matory J Lorand...

..., emphasis on Candomblé shows a rather religious pluralism within African communities. This chapter discusses the political underpinnings that can be found in the relationship between Candomblé and Catholicism. More than just a religious rivalry, the constrained relationship between these two relationships...

... manhood. This task proved challenging for Prince Hall Masons. They struggled to define what constituted respectable manhood amid the perceived threat of rival factions within their ranks, the growing calls for fraternity men to embrace a more militant politics, and, most notably, conflicts with women...

...This book analyzes the reasons behind the meager representation of Palestinian women in Israeli politics. During the past sixty years, only one Arab woman has headed a local council (in the 1970s), two have become Knesset members (in 1999 and 2006), and seventeen women have become local council...