Addressing Integration and Exclusion:

Democracy, Human Rights and Humanitarian Intervention

Edited by Yannis A. Stivachtis & Stefanie Georgakis Abbott

ISBN: 978-618-5065-27-0, 274 pages

First published in 2014 by ATINER

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Electronic copy: 30€

Table of Contents

List of Contributors About ATINER About the Editors Acknowledgments
Addressing Integration and Exclusion: Democracy, Human Rights and the Politics of Culture Yannis A. Stivachtis & Stefanie Georgakis Abbott		i
Part I: Human Rights and Humanitarian Intervention
1.	Sustaining Human Rights and Responsibility: The United Nations Global Compact and Myanmar Kenneth Christie & Robert James Hanlon	3
2.	Libya and the Qaddafi Regime: The Quandary of Humanitarian Intervention Binoy Kampmark	17
3.	The Prohibition of Persecution: A Regime-based Analytical Framework Deon Geldenhuys	31
4.	Globalization, Human Rights and Cultural Diversity Yannis A. Stivachtis	49
5.	Hannah Arendt, Political Judgment and Reconciliation in the Wake of an Abyss of Violence and Injustice Masa Mrovlje	75
PART II: Democracy and Democratization
6.	Representative vs. Direct Democracy Chrysoula Gitsoulis	91
7.	Democracy and the Modern State: The Case of Turkey Fatih Duman & Ismail Seyrek	107
8.	The Subterranean Politics Blues: Contesting Third Wave Democracy Consolidation in Portugal and Greece Christianna Nichols Leahy	123
9.	Men and Media: Friends or Enemy of Women Parliamentarians? Under-representation of Women in Politics Dorota Urszula Opyd	137
PART III: Religion and Politics
10.	Religion, Democracy and Human Rights: Thoughts since Latin American Theology Kathlen Luana de Oliveira	153
11.	The Ecumenical Constitution of Liberation Theology and Its Reflection in the Construction of Human Rights in Brazil Helio Aparedico Teixeira	165
12.	Religion and Masculinity in Southern Brazil Ezequiel de Souza	177
13.	Religious Leaders in Politics: The Evolution of the Senegalese Social Contract Sebastiano D’Angelo	189
14.	The State-Religious Networks Relationship: The Case of Senegal’s Relationship with Religious Networks in the Field of Education Sarah Croché	201
PART IV: Cases of Integration and Exclusion
15.	Family Reunification: The Case of the Muslim Migrant Children in Europe Rita Duca	217
16.	Enclosing Insecurity: Migration in the Mediterranean as the State of Exception: The Case of Lampedusa Stefanie Georgakis Abbott	229
17.	Racial Context and the 2008 and 2012 US Presidential Elections Baodong Liu	245
18.	‘Ballots and/or Bullets’: Strategies of the White Power Movement in the United States Betty A. Dobratz & Lisa K. Waldner	259