Foreign Legal Systems category: 1801 books
Adam Smith's Pluralism
Rationality, Education, and the Moral Sentiments
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Direct Action, Deliberation, and Diffusion
Collective Action after the WTO Protests in Seattle
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
What are the micro-level interactions and conversations that underlie successful and failed diffusion? By comparing the spread of direct action tactics from the 1999 Global Justice Movement protests against the World Trade Organization in Seattle to grassroots activists in Toronto and New York, Lesley...
by John F. McCauley
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
This book explains why conflicts in Africa are sometimes ethnic and sometimes religious, and why a conflict might change from ethnic to religious even as the opponents remain fixed. Conflicts in the region are often viewed as either 'tribal' or 'Muslim-Christian', seemingly rooted in deep-seated ethnic...
When Norms Collide
Local Responses to Activism against Female Genital Mutilation and Early Marriage
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Many transnational campaigns, and particularly the transnational campaign on violence against women, promote international norms that target the behavior of local nonstate actors. But these international norms are often at odds with local practices. What happens when the international and local norms...
by Group Captain Ranbir Singh (Retd)
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Through this twelve chaptered book the author highlights the evolution of the Armed Forces through the wars fought and, more importantly, the lessons which have not been learnt.The book covers the four major wars with Pakistan besides the operations taken for integration of states—Hyderabad Police...
Very British Rebels?
The Culture and Politics of Ulster Loyalism
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Challenging traditional narrow views, this unique work proposes to rethink and reinterpret Ulster loyalism from the beginning of the "Troubles" to the present day, by tracing its religious, paramilitary, political, and community influences.
The work examines the core values of loyalist...
Environmental Policy Change in Emerging Market Democracies
Eastern Europe and Latin America Compared
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
This book examines environmental policy change in twenty-eight Central and Eastern European and Latin American countries against a background of significant political and economic transformation over the past two decades. Through cross-regional comparison and a multi-methods approach, Jale Tosun investigates...
Good Government
Democracy beyond Elections
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
Few would disagree that Western democracies are experiencing a crisis of representation. In the United States, gerrymandering and concentrated political geographies have placed the Congress and state legislatures in a stranglehold that is often at odds with public opinion. Campaign financing ensures...
Systemic and Non-Systemic Opposition in the Russian Federation
Civil Society Awakens?
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Over the period December 2011-July 2013 a tidal wave of mass protests swept through the Russian Capital and engulfed scores of cities and regions. Civil society, it appeared, had at last woken up. This fascinating book examines the rise and fall of the non-systemic opposition and the role of the systemic...
An Uncanny Era
Conversations between Václav Havel and Adam Michnik
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
Czech playwright and dissident Vaclav Havel first encountered Polish historian and dissident Adam Michnik in 1978 at a clandestine meeting on a mountaintop along the Polish-Czechoslovak border. This initial meeting of two extraordinary thinkers who “plotted” democracy, and designed an effective peaceful...
The new politics of Russia
Interpreting change
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2017
From the conflict in Syria to the crisis in Ukraine, Russia continues to dominate the headlines. Yet the political realities of contemporary Russia are poorly understood by Western observers and policy-makers. In this highly engaging book, Andrew Monaghan explains why we tend to misunderstand Russia...
Modern Middle East Authoritarianism
Roots, Ramifications, and Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
While the Arab uprisings have overturned the idea of Arab "exceptionalism," or the acceptance of authoritarianism, better analysis of authoritarianism’s resilience in pre- and post-uprising scenarios is still needed. Modern Middle East Authoritarianism: Roots, Ramifications, and Crisis...
by Graeme Gill
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
During the Soviet period, political symbolism developed into a coherent narrative that underpinned Soviet political development. Following the collapse of the Soviet regime and its widespread rejection by the Russian people, a new form of narrative was needed, one which both explained the state of...
Moderate or Militant
Images of India’s Muslims
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2008
In this book Mushirul Hasan articulates a vision of Islam or rather the many different kinds of Islam, instead of the frightening monolith of popular perception, living in harmony with other faiths, and of Indian Muslims, inheritors of the great Indian civilization, living in a plural society. Engaging...