Bücher von Claire Wright

There is nothing deadlier than ancient immortals and buried secrets.As matriarch to an unyielding clan, Maebh deals with it the only way she knows how: fighting against a magical curse and sarcasm; not necessarily in that order. When Fair Ones shatter her world, she is thrust into a whirlwind of Irish mythology. A quest set out by the High King of Ireland grants an opportunity to lead her people, and find answers that may save them all.The duty of both Aisling's and Setanta's warrior clans entangles with an undeniable attraction for one another, and amidst the web of court politics and dangerous trials, they find themselves navigating a precarious relationship that threatens to consume them both.As the walls of his cursed prison close in around his mind, Tiernan loses himself further. Perhaps succumbing to the stone guardians is the only option.When ancient immortals awaken, will the four misfits find each other, or their own destruction?

Emergency Politics in the Third Wave of Democracy aims to make an important contribution to the study of emergency politics by offering an up-to-date study of how it works in practice. Specifically, it studies the uses given to the ';regime of exception' mechanism in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru in the first decade of the 21st century and analyzes potential incompatibilities with the two pillars of democratic governability: efficiency and legitimacy.This book offers a thorough review of existing literature on emergency politics, offering conceptual clarification, identifying three types or paradigms of emergency politics (repressive, administrative, and disaster) and pointing to regimes of exception as a useful route to their study. It also provides an overview of emergency politics in Latin America throughout history, pointing to the predominance of regimes of exception and the repressive paradigm. The book describes the continuity of the repressive paradigm in Peruvian emergency politics to deal with both social protest and the apparent threat of organized crime and terrorism, as well as how Bolivia has shifted from a repressive to a disaster paradigm in the face of pressure to deal with climate change. It also analyzes the predominance of an administrative paradigm in Ecuadorian emergency politics in the context of weak institutions and difficulties in implementing policy as well as a populist style of leadership. Ultimately, the book offers some ';best practices' in relation to the design and use of regimes of exception in democratic contexts.Other studies on emergency politics tend to focus on legal or formal issues in the context of the United States War on Terror. This study is decidedly political and empirical in focus, offering analysis and interpretation as a result of intensive fieldwork carried out by the author in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru. Consequently, this volume offers important contributions to our understanding of emergency politics in general (with evidence from the periphery) as well as to our understanding of democratization processes in the Third Wave.