Bøger af Lisa Wegener

Moving through the 12 Astrological Houses, or the 12 domains of life (and death), a story of love and loss and hope unfolds.

Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Development Politics, grade: 1,7, University of Applied Sciences Bremen, language: English, abstract: In 2010, the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development is equipped with approximately six billion euros ¿ the highest budget it has ever had on its disposal. But still, the choirof critics is growing louder. One group is unsatisfied with the amount of money provided. They claim that the poverty of more than two billion people in the world cannot be overcome with 104 billiondollars ¿ the worldwide amount of development aid in 2006, which is only one third higher than the budget of North Rhine-Westphalia. The other group of critics points to the fact that more than 500 billion dollars of development aid have been spent since the 1960s ¿ whereas poverty, public debts and violent conflicts in the Global South3 have not at all diminished. They plead for a renewal of development policy concepts. One of those more progressive concepts is the idea of empowerment, which I am going to examine in this paper.

Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject Politics - Political Theory and the History of Ideas Journal, University of Applied Sciences Bremen, course: Democracy: Theory and Practice, language: English, abstract: The fascination that springs from the first democratic polity of history, the ancient polis ofAttica, remains undaunted right up to now and the examination of this alluring topic willcertainly occupy future scientists as well. The main questions are: How ¿ and most of all why¿ did democracy develop at this time and at this place? How was this political systemorganised? And what lessons can we draw from the rise and fall of the Athenian democracy?In the following, I am going to touch some of these issues while analysing what the basicideas of Athenian democracy looked like, comparing the ancient with the modernunderstanding and investigating to what extent they might be relevant to current theories ofdemocracy. Thus, I am going to concentrate more on the abstract, intellectual foundations ofthe political system than on concrete manifestations like institutions and procedures. Frommy point of view, this approach appears to be more advantageous anyway because the formalframe could only be applied much harder to modern states than general ideas might be.As the basic ideas which led to the genesis and shaped the form of democracy may beconsidered the power of the people (commonly known as the rule of the people but I amgoing to show why this is not the appropriate translation), equality, liberty and the rule oflaw. After having examined the nature and consequences of these concepts, I am going tosummarise my results.