This edited volume marks a further step toward responding to the challenge of providing a moderately broad but sensibly detailed and advanced treatment of human rights and foreign policy in ...comparative perception and the trend of democracy and the rule of law in the United States under Trumpism. In other words, the volume is responding to the general challenge (faced by others) of "providing a moderately broad but sensibly detailed and advanced treatment" of two things: (1) "human rights and foreign policy in comparative perception" and (2) "the trend of democracy and the rule of law in the United States under Trumpism." This edited volume discusses the state of democracy, human rights, freedom of speech, rule of law and foreign policy in the United States under the US 45th President, Donald J. Trump, through the perspective of the authors - from different backgrounds such as the United States, Europe, Egypt, Brasil, Mexico - and their response to these policies, along with Trump's degrading concepts of human rights in Islam (Sharie'a). In other words, the volume underscores the concept of democracy, human rights, freedom of speech, rule of law, and foreign policy in the United States under Trump, and Trump's degrading opinion of Islamic conceptions of human rights.
The sudden emergence of the Trump nation surprised nearly everyone, including journalists, pundits, political consultants, and academics. When Trump won in 2016, his ascendancy was widely viewed as a ...fluke. Yet time showed it was instead the rise of a movement--angry, militant, revanchist, and unabashedly authoritarian. How did this happen? Twilight of the American State offers a sweeping exploration of how law and legal institutions helped prepare the grounds for this rebellious movement. The controversial argument is that, viewed as a legal matter, the American state is not just a liberal democracy, as most Americans believe. Rather, the American state is composed of an uneasy and unstable combination of different versions of the state--liberal democratic, administered, neoliberal, and dissociative. Each of these versions arose through its own law and legal institutions. Each emerged at different times historically. Each was prompted by deficits in the prior versions. Each has survived displacement by succeeding versions. All remain active in the contemporary moment--creating the political-legal dysfunction America confronts today. Pierre Schlag maps out a big picture view of the tribulations of the American state. The book abjures conventional academic frameworks, sets aside prescriptions for quick fixes, dispenses with lamentations about polarization, and bypasses historical celebrations of the American Spirit.
This book determines what can legitimately be regarded as the legacy of the Obama presidency and investigates how far the Trump administration has reversed it.
After years of uneasy interactions between successive administrations of the United States and the International Criminal Court (ICC) - ranging from apathy to indifference to tacit utilitarian ...engagement behind the scenes - the administration of President Donald Trump unleashed the most intense aggression against the Court, marked by direct coercive measures against the Court's officials. This followed relentless prior threats of such actions and promises to do more harm. Since other international institutions including the World Health Organization, the World Trade Organization, and the Human Rights Council have also been on the receiving end of rough treatment from Mr Trump, it is evident that the experience of the ICC under his administration was not entirely unique, although the particular circumstances may have been so. The new administration of Mr Biden has signalled an intention to reset US foreign policy - and has started this process - by reversing the more aggressive aspects of Mr Trump's stance. In relation to the ICC, this change should go beyond merely reversing Mr Trump's coercive measures. It should include positive support for the Court, given America's leading role in inspiring its creation and the Court's raison d'etre which remains the cause of all humanity.
C-SPAN is the network of record for US political affairs,
broadcasting live gavel-to-gavel proceedings of the House of
Representatives and the Senate, and to other forums where public
policy is ...discussed, debated, and decided--without editing,
commentary, or analysis and with a balanced presentation of points
of view.
C-SPAN Video Library, adjacent to Purdue University, archives
copies of all broadcast content, including policymaking
proceedings, events, discussion, and debate, aired on the C-SPAN
network since 1987. Extensive indexing, captioning, and other
enhanced online features provide researchers, policy analysts,
students, teachers, and public officials with an unparalleled
chronological and internally cross-referenced record for deeper
study.
C-SPAN Insights presents the finest interdisciplinary research
utilizing tools of the C-SPAN Video Library. Each volume highlights
recent scholarship and comprises leading experts and emerging
voices in political science, journalism, psychology, computer
science, communication, and a variety of other disciplines. Each
section within each volume includes responses from expert
discussants. Developed in partnership with the Brian Lamb School of
Communication and with support from the C-SPAN Education
Foundation, C-SPAN Insights is guided by the ideal that all
experimental outcomes, including those from our American
experiment, can be best improved by directed study driving richer
engagement and better understanding.
C-SPAN Insights-Volume 4, edited by Robert X. Browning, advances
our understanding of the framing of mental health, HIV/AIDS,
policing, and public health, and explores subjects such as audience
reactions in C-SPAN covered debates, the Twitter presidency of
Donald Trump, and collaborative learning using the C-SPAN Video
Library.
On Election Day in 2016, it seemed unthinkable to many Americans that Donald Trump could become president of the United States. But the victories of the Obama administration hid from view fundamental ...problems deeply rooted in American social institutions and history. The election's consequences drastically changed how Americans experience their country, especially for those threatened by the public outburst of bigotry and repression. Amid the deluge of tweets and breaking news stories that turn each day into a political soap opera, it can be difficult to take a step back and see the big picture. To confront the threats we face, we must recognize that the Trump presidency is a symptom, not the malady. Antidemocracy in America is a collective effort to understand how we got to this point and what can be done about it. Assembled by the sociologist Eric Klinenberg as well as the editors of the online magazinePublic Books, Caitlin Zaloom and Sharon Marcus, it offers essays from many of the nation's leading scholars, experts on topics including race, religion, gender, civil liberties, protest, inequality, immigration, climate change, national security, and the role of the media.Antidemocracy in America places our present in international and historical context, considering the worldwide turn toward authoritarianism and its varied precursors. Each essay seeks to inform our understanding of the fragility of American democracy and suggests how to protect it from the buried contradictions that Trump's victory brought into public view.
Unprecedented Azari, Sara
2020, 20200301, 2020-03-01
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The Trump administration's attempted and actual violations of the Constitution and the law have surpassed our worst expectations again and again. Add to that the legal morass surrounding members of ...the Trump campaign staff, and the United States finds itself led by the most corrupt administration in modern American history. The investigation by Special Counsel Robert Mueller on 2016 election interference and obstruction of justice led to multiple indictments that boggle even the brightest legal minds. So how can the rest of us make sense of it all? Sara Azari breaks down the investigations, evidence, criminal charges, and defenses involving an ever-expanding rogues' gallery of Trump associates and campaign members, as well as the president's own criminal conduct. Her docket also includes a comprehensive summary and expert analysis of the Mueller Report. Azari addresses the consequences of President Trump's conduct and considers whether the president of the United States is ever above the law. An essential nonpartisan guide, Unprecedented gives readers the tools they need to understand the legal issues engulfing Trump's campaign and presidency.
Trump Studies Tara Brabazon, Steve Redhead, Runyararo S. Chivaura
2018, 2018-11-24
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Why do citizens vote against their own best interest? Trump Studies addresses this key question; probing the value of thinking, reading, writing and interpretation during times of economic, social ...and political uncertainty. With a compelling voice and academic rigour, the authors explore how and why xenophobia and sexism are the grammar of contemporary popular culture and politics. The Brexit result and the Trump victory cannot be studied in a laboratory; the silent majority will not sit in a petri dish, waiting to be researched. The theories and methodologies developed into this book not only explain these two mega and meta events, they create space for ideas that challenge and dissent, and make the case for the role and value of universities in a time when evidence, expertise and facts often dissolve into opinion, emotion and fake news. Donald Trump does not matter. Trump Studies does matter - and this is a siren call to all intellectuals to intervene and transform the currency of theory in empiricist times.
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Working beyond latently Durkheimian figurations of moral panic which depict a dialectic between ‘right-thinkers’ and folk devils, this article integrates charismatic entrepreneurs into a ...tripartite model that sheds light on two new pathways of interaction that are relevant for the sociology of morality. First, charismatic leaders can outflank traditional leaders’ aspersions of folk devils, taking the principle of ‘one-upmanship’ to an extraordinary (and therewith charismatic) extreme. Second, charismatic leaders cancreatively subvert traditional mores, overturning value tables to ‘bedevil’ traditional leaders. Because moral panic and charismatic enthusiasm implicate distinct, complementary, and unitary social processes, I argue that, taken together, the work of Max Weber and Stanley Cohen offer a more theoretically profitable vision of moral denaturation and reformulation than either would alone. Donald Trump’s charismatic ascension during his 2015–16 US Presidential campaign is used to illustrate the theoretical contribution.
Faking the News Skinnell, Ryan
2018, 2018-05-29, 2018-05-01, Letnik:
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Donald J. Trump's speaking and writing invite passionate reactions -- maybe he's a bluecollar, billionaire hero who speaks the language of the common man or maybe he's a gleefully illiterate, ...tremendously unqualified idiot. Whatever the case, he was persuasive enough to get himself elected President of the United States and he's been persuasive enough to keep a majority of his supporters behind him. In Faking the News: What Rhetoric Can Teach Us About Donald J. Trump, eleven prominent rhetoric experts explain how Trump's persuasive language works. Specifically the authors explain Trump's persuasive uses of demagoguery, anti-Semitism, alternative facts, populism, charismatic leadership, social media, television, political slogans, visual identity/image, comedy and humor, and shame and humiliation. Faking the News is written for readers who may not know anything about rhetoric, so each chapter explains a feature of rhetoric and uses that lens to illuminate Trump's rhetorical accomplis.
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