Legal History category: 1513 books
Afghanistan
The Mirage of Peace
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Widely portrayed as the 'success of the war on terror', Afghanistan is now in crisis. Increasingly detached from the people it is meant to serve, and unable to manage the massive amounts of aid that it has sought, the administration in Kabul struggles to govern even the diminishing areas of the country...
Competitive Authoritarianism
Hybrid Regimes after the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2010
Based on a detailed study of 35 cases in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and post-communist Eurasia, this book explores the fate of competitive authoritarian regimes between 1990 and 2008. It finds that where social, economic, and technocratic ties to the West were extensive, as in Eastern Europe and...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Latin America experienced an unprecedented wave of left-leaning governments between 1998 and 2010. This volume examines the causes of this leftward turn and the consequences it carries for the region in the twenty-first century.
The Resurgence of the Latin American Left asks three central questions:...
Like Cattle and Horses
Nationalism and Labor in Shanghai, 1895–1927
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2002
In Like Cattle and Horses Steve Smith connects the rise of Chinese nationalism to the growth of a Chinese working class. Moving from the late nineteenth century, when foreign companies first set up factories on Chinese soil, to 1927, when the labor movement created by the Chinese Communist Party was...
by Marc Morjé Howard
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2009
In this book, Howard addresses immigrant integration, one of the most critical challenges facing European countries, the resolution of which will in large part depend on how foreigners can become citizens. Howard's research shows that despite remarkable convergence in their economic, judicial, and...
by Wang Ning, Anthony D. King, Abidin Kusno
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2000
Few countries have been so transformed in recent decades as China. With a dynamically growing economy and a rapidly changing social structure, China challenges the West to understand the nature of its modernization. Using postmodernism as both a global frame of periodization and a way to break free...
Turkey
What Everyone Needs to Know®
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2012
Turkey occupies a strategic position in today's world: the only predominantly Muslim nation to be a member of NATO and an ally of Israel, it straddles both Europe and Asia. Turkey is the link between Islam and Western democracy, between Europe and the Middle East. In this concise introduction, Andrew...
by Ozan O. Varol
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
The term coup d'état--French for stroke of the state--brings to mind coups staged by power-hungry generals who overthrow the existing regime, not to democratize, but to concentrate power in their own hands as dictators. We assume all coups look the same, smell the same, and present the same threats...
Lions and Lambs
Conflict in Weimar and the Creation of Post-Nazi Germany
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
A bold new interpretation of Germany’s democratic transformation in the twentieth century, focusing on the generation that shaped the post-Nazi reconstruction Not long after the horrors of World War II and the Holocaust, Germans rebuilt their shattered country and emerged as one of the leading nations...
Globalizing de Gaulle
International Perspectives on French Foreign Policies, 1958–1969
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
French President Charles de Gaulle (1958-1969) has consistently fascinated contemporaries and historians. His vision_conceived out of national interest_of uniting Europe under French leadership and overcoming the Cold War still remains relevant and appealing. De Gaulle's towering personality and his...
Explaining Institutional Change
Ambiguity, Agency, and Power
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2009
This book contributes to emerging debates in political science and sociology on institutional change. Its introductory essay proposes a new framework for analyzing incremental change that is grounded in a power-distributional view of institutions and that emphasizes ongoing struggles within but also...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Since the late 1990s, when Latin American countries began making a "turn to the left," political parties and candidates on the right end of the partisan spectrum have had a difficult time achieving electoral success. Although the left turn can be seen as a natural reaction to the public’s...
Building Transnational Networks
Civil Society and the Politics of Trade in the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Building Transnational Networks tells the story of how a broad group of civil society organizations came together to contest free trade negotiations in the Americas. Based on research in Brazil, Chile, Mexico, the United States, and Canada, it offers a full hemispheric analysis of the creation of...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2010
Federalism has experienced a remarkable renaissance in recent decades – as an alternative way to accommodate ethnic differences; as a tool to combat remote, undemocratic and ineffective central governments; and lastly, as a means to promote economic performance in the developing world through decentralisation.
This...