Sovereignty, Democracy, and Global Civil Society

Sovereignty, Democracy, and Global Civil SocietyExamines the growing power of nongovernmental organizations by looking at UN World Conferences. Sovereignty, Democracy, and Global Civil Society explores the growing power of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) by analyzing a microcosm of contemporary global state society relations at UN World Conferences. The intense interactions between states and NGOs at conferences on the environment, human rights, women's issues, and other topics confirm the

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Gender equality

it examines the efforts of Jews in this major center of Jewish life to secure its existence and advance its interests in the late 1930s

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The Commissar is unquestionably one of the most important and compelling films of the Soviet era

film studies

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and we explore the possibility of biofortifying rice to carry nutritional properties of benefit to those at risk of or suffering from chronic disease

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The final section looks at economic change and its impact and includes chapters on demography

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The focus is on fragmentary texts from Islamic religious sources