Why does the academic study of international relations have limited impact on the policy community? When research results are inconsistent, inconclusive, and contradictory, a lack of scholarly consensus discourages policy makers, the business community, and other citizens from trusting findings and conclusions from IR research. In New Directions for International Relations, Alex Mintz and Bruce Russett identify differences in methods of analysis as one cause of these problematic r...

Werner Kriesi, geboren 1932, lernt zuerst Schreiner, wird zum evangelikalen Prediger ausgebildet und arbeitet nach einem Theologiestudium dreissig Jahre als reformierter Pfarrer. Kurz vor seiner Pensionierung bittet ein Gemeindemitglied: «Nächste Woche will ich sterben. Wenn Sie kein Feigling sind, Herr Pfarrer …» Werner Kriesi sagt zu, und bald wird er Freitodbegleiter bei der Sterbehilfeorganisation Exit. Seither hat Werner Kriesi hunderte Menschen beim Sterben begleitet. Unheilbar Krank...

This open access book is looking into ways to achieve just climate policy within a country. The authors of this monograph share a unique, timely and original vision: continuous support for climate policy is more likely to emerge when citizens find that the distribution of the bill for climate costs is fair. But what is a fair distribution of climate costs? This is an important question because financial costs of mitigation (reducing greenhouse gases), adaptation (adapting to climate change...