Foreign Legal Systems category: 1801 books
by Peri Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2007
Political Constructivism is concerned with the justification of principles of political justice in the face of pluralism. Contemporary accounts of multiculturalism, pluralism and diversity have challenged the capacity of political theory to impartially justify principles of justice beyond the boundaries...
by Dr Danielle Resnick
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
When and why do the urban poor vote for opposition parties in Africa's electoral democracies? The strategies used by political parties to incorporate the urban poor into the political arena provide a key answer to this question. This book explores and defines the role of populism in Africa's urban...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2018
The Oxford Handbook of Nigerian Politics offers a comprehensive analysis of Nigeria's very rich history and ever changing politics to its readers. It provides a deep understanding of Nigeria's socio-political evolution and experience by covering broad range of political issues and historical eras....
From Armed Struggle to Political Struggle
Republican Tradition and Transformation in Northern Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2015
This is the first book to comprehensively examine the shifts that have informed republican tradition and transformation from the beginning of the "Troubles" in Northern Ireland until the final stages of the peace process. Using a combination of empirical research and literature, the book...
Globalization and Mass Politics
Retaining the Room to Maneuver
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
This book analyzes how increases in international trade, finance, and production have altered voter decisions, political party positions, and the types of public issues that parties focus on in postindustrial democracies. Although many studies interrogate whether internationalization matters in regard...
Forging Military Identity in Culturally Pluralistic Societies
Quasi-Ethnicity
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Ethno-politics has become a major force in the post-Cold War era. The fundamental challenge to military establishments in deeply plural societies is the formation of institutional unity from diverse ethnic groups. This edited volume examines seven case studies of countries that have attempted, with...
Defect or Defend
Military Responses to Popular Protests in Authoritarian Asia
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2014
Although social movements and media can help destabilize authoritarian governments, not all social protest is effective or culminates in the toppling of dictatorships. Frequently, the military’s response determines the outcome.
In Defect or Defend, Terence Lee uses four case studies from...
by Raghuveer Singh
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The present work is a collection of essays/articles, mainly on political theory written by Professor Raghuveer Singh, who was an eminent scholar of political philosophy, well-known in India and abroad. A highly original thinker and a mighty stalwart of classical political thought, his articles cover...
Imperial Rule and the Politics of Nationalism
Anti-Colonial Protest in the French Empire
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2013
During the first half of the twentieth century, movements seeking political equality emerged in France's overseas territories. Within twenty years, they were replaced by movements for national independence in the majority of French colonies, protectorates, and mandates. In this pathbreaking study...
Italy Today
The Sick Man of Europe
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
Italy Today represents one of the most comprehensive examinations of contemporary Italy. It is a provocative and an innovative collection that aims to highlight the current ‘crisis’ of the country through an analysis of several different ‘dark shadows’ of contemporary Italian society.
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by Dr Sanju Gupta, Dr Chanchal Kumar, Prof Lungthuiyang Riamei
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Understanding Global Politics is a pioneering work, which analyses contemporary issues such as climate change, migration, nuclear proliferation, terrorism as well as feminist perspective on International Relations. It covers the various dimensions of globalisation which affects on the accelerating...
The Political Theory of a Compound Republic
Designing the American Experiment
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2007
The Political Theory of a Compound Republic examines the foundation of American constitutional design expressed in theFederalist. Through meticulous textual analysis, the logical principles of federalism_the extended and compound republic envisioned by James Madison and Alexander Hamilton_are revealed...
Política y desborde
Más allá de la democracia liberal
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 26, 2012
Este libro reflexiona sobre varias de las transformaciones políticas vinculadas al "kirchnerismo"; reúne artículos no sólo acerca de las transformaciones en relación a los derechos humanos, la política internacional y el sistema de medios de comunicación, sino también sobre las rupturas...
Latin American Revolutionaries and the Arab World
From the Suez Canal to the Arab Spring
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Recounting recent encounters between Latin American and Arab countries this unique volume explores how, despite both geographical and cultural distances, Latin American revolutionaries constructed an image of the Arab World as one sharing their own political views and interests. From the nationalization...