Mounira (Maya) Charrad received her Ph.D. from Harvard University and her undergraduate degree from the Sorbonne in Paris. Her research has centered on state formation, colonialism, law, citizenship, kinship and women’s rights. More specifically, she has considered strategies of state building in kin-based societies and how struggles over state power shaped the expansion or cur...(展开全部)

At a time when the situation of women in the Islamic world is of global interest, here is a study that unlocks the mystery of why women's fates vary so greatly from one country to another. Mounira M. Charrad analyzes the distinctive nature of Islamic legal codes by placing them in the larger context of state power in various societies. Charrad argues that many analysts miss wh...(展开全部)

Review "This book traces the processes that resulted in military strategies in 17 cases, ranging from ancient Greece and Rome to American nuclear strategy...Each essay is self-contained, and academics searching for brief but expert analyses of strategic case studies for teaching purposes will welcome this book." Foreign Affairs "...the essays, including those on Israel and the ...(展开全部)

[德] 科尔纳利·厄斯本（Cornelie Usborne），德国现代社会史博士，现为英国罗汉普顿大学历史系荣誉教授，兼伦敦历史研究所高级研究员、德国历史学会会员。长期从事魏玛德国文化、社会与性别史研究。著有《现代欧洲的性别与犯罪》（Gender & Crime in Modern Europe, Routledge: Taylor & Francis Group, 1999）、《魏玛德国的堕胎文化》（Cultures of Abortion in Weimar Germany, Berghahn, 2007）等专著，主持研究项目“想象的快乐，矛盾的实践：魏玛和纳粹德国浪漫爱情和女性性叙事的文化史”。 李尚蓉，德国波恩大学（University of Bonn）哲学系博士候选人，主要研究方向为德国古典哲学、浪漫派哲学。 施田琪，英国伦敦大学学院（Un...(展开全部)

Conventional wisdom argues that welfare state builders in the US and Sweden in the 1930s took their cues from labor and labor movements. "Capitalists Against Markets" makes the startling argument that pragmatic social reformers looked for support not only from below but also from above, taking into account capitalist interests and preferences. Juxtaposing two widely recognized ...(展开全部)

雅克·马里旦，20世纪最重要的托马斯主义哲学家。其著述涉及形而上学、认识论、道德哲学、政治哲学、美学等思想领域。极大地推动了托马斯主义在20世纪的复兴，其影响波及欧洲、美国以及拉丁美洲。著有《知识诸维度》《形而上学导论》《整体人本主义》《人权与自然法》等。 吴彦，同济大学法学院副教授，牛津大学访问学者，主要研究领域为法哲学、政治哲学与宪法理论。

In The Economics of Rights, Co-operation and Welfare, Robert Sugden sets out to answer a question that lies at the heart of economics and politics: how can individuals coordinate their behaviour in the absence of central law-enforcing agencies? Using the tools of evolutionary game theory, Sugden shows how self-enforcing conventions of property and reciprocity can evolve sponta...(展开全部)

John Leslie Mackie (1917-1981) was one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. His published works spanned many areas, but he is not well known as a political philosopher. In the late 1970s, however, Mackie turned his attention to issues concerning justice. In a series of writings, Mackie built a case for a unique right-based approach to political philoso...(展开全部)