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The Leading Man: Hollywood and the Presidential Image
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The Leading Man: Hollywood and the Presidential Image

American presidents and Hollywood have interacted since the 1920s. This relationship has made our entertainment more political and our political leadership more aligned with the world of movies and movie stars.
 
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Tags: Hollywood, political, movie, movies, world
Political Authority and Obligation in Aristotle
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Political Authority and Obligation in Aristotle

It is commonly held that Aristotle's views on politics have little relevance to the preoccupations of modern political theory with authority and obligation. Andres Rosler's original study argues that, on the contrary, Aristotle does examine the question of political obligation and its limits, and that contemporary political theorists have much to learn from him. Rosler takes his exploration further, considering the ethical underpinning of Aristotle's political thought, the normativity of his ethical and political theory, and the concepts of political authority and obligation themselves.
 
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Tags: political, Aristotle, obligation, theory, ethical
The Moral Force of Indigenous Politics: Critical Liberalism and the Zapatistas
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The Moral Force of Indigenous Politics: Critical Liberalism and the Zapatistas

Tracing the political origins of the Mexican indigenous rights movement, from the colonial encounter to the Zapatista uprising, and from Chiapas to Geneva, Courtney Jung locates indigenous identity in the history of Mexican state formation. She argues that indigenous identity is not an accident of birth but a political achievement that offers a new voice to many of the world's poorest and most dispossessed. The moral force of indigenous claims rests not on the existence of cultural differences, or identity, but on the history of exclusion and selective inclusion that constitutes indigenous identity.
 
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Tags: indigenous, identity, history, Mexican, political
International Justice in Rwanda and the Balkans: Virtual Trials and the Struggle for State Cooperation
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International Justice in Rwanda and the Balkans: Virtual Trials and the Struggle for State Cooperation

Today’s international war crimes tribunals lack police powers, and therefore must prod and persuade defiant states to co-operate in the arrest and prosecution of their own political and military leaders. Victor Peskin’s comparative study traces the development of the capacity to build the political authority necessary to exact compliance from states implicated in war crimes and genocide in the cases of the International War Crimes Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda.
 
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Tags: states, political, Rwanda, International, crimes
The Politics of Moral Capital
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The Politics of Moral Capital

"[John Kane's] thoughtful and well-written book....stands as a refreshing effort to come to terms with the inescapably moral character of political life. It is also an important contribution to the academic study of statesmanship. It succeeds in its stated goal of helping to recover a truly capacious sense of political reality, and successfully demonstrates that moral capital is a fact with which any science of politics must come to terms if it is to do justice to the true efficacy of moral prestige and personal character in human affairs." Journal of Democracy.
 
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Tags: moral, terms, character, political, politics