Heirs in UK Law
- Heirs to a Heritage Dear Sirs
- A Political Testament for Stalin's Heirs
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HEIRS OF PILFERED WELFENSCHATZ PERSIST IN BATTLE AGAINST GERMAN FOUNDATION.
...Heirs of German Jewish dealers who seek restitution of a collection of Christian reliquaries known as the Welfenschatz (or Guelph Treasure) have received a stinging dismissal of their suit from a Washington DC District Court. The case made headlines ......
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Dominium in Thirteenth and Fourteenth-Century Political Thought and its Seventeenth-Century Heirs: John of Paris and Locke
Dominium, the notion of lordship, underwent important changes during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. An examination of the de potestate regia et papali genre, especially the tract by the D...
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The Political Thought of Richard Cumberland: Sovereignty and the Escape from the Search for Origins
Much of what seventeenth-century writers and preachers had to say about allegiance was framed in terms of deference to the past: subjects owed obedience now because they were heirs to some ancient ...... ... to say about allegiance was framed in terms of deference to the past: subjects owed obedience now because they were heirs to some ancient obedience rightfully exacted. Patriachalists and contractualists alike supposed that questions of legitimacy were best ... ...
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Book Reviews
Book reviewed in this article: HIRSCHON, R. Heirs of the Greek Catastrophe. The Social Life of Asia Minor Refugees in Piraeus. BETTS, K. Ideology and Immigration Australia 1976–1987. FOSTER, L. and...... ... Book Reviews HIRSCHON,R.Heirs of the Greek Catastrophe. The Social Lge of Asia Minor Refigees in Piraeus. Oxford: Clarendon, 1989, 280 pp., E 35.00 ... ...
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Machiavelli and the Double Politics of Ambition
This article explores the early modern political science of vice by setting out Machiavelli’s treatment of ambition, which can be harnessed but never finally tamed. Even though ambition always aspi...... ... Machiavelli not only agrees with his liberal heirs that political institutions defuse the threat and capture the energies of ambition in the short run but also adds that the most stable solution ... ...
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Introducing Regular Turnover Details, 1960–2015: A dataset on world leaders’ legal removal from office
The premier data on leader survival focus on the violent, dramatic means by which leaders ‘exit’ office. This information, vital for many research questions, constitutes a valuable public good for ...... ... and those that don’t, identify non-political leaders (such as interim and technocratic executives), and determine whether leaders constitute heirs to power or challengers thereto. Keywords comparative politics, data, domestic politics, international relations, leader survival Introduction The ... ...
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The analytical–Continental divide: Styles of dealing with problems
What today divides analytical from Continental philosophy? This paper argues that the present divide is not what it once was. Today, the divide concerns the styles in which philosophers deal with i...... ... that between those analytical philosophers who tend to solveproblems and those Continental philosophers who tend to press problems (roughly,the heirs of Derrida). It is among these subgroups that there is a real philosophicaldivide today. So the analyticalContinental divide is more a matter of ... ...
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Postcolonial Theory and the Critique of International Relations
This article in three parts offers the beginnings of a postcolonial critique of mainstream International Relations (IR). The first part argues that IR, where it has been interested in history at al...... ... The human sciences are heirs to a tradition of knowledge which defines knowledge as a relation between a cognising, representing subject and an object, such that knowledge is ... ...
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