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34 produkter
Counting Islam
Religion, Class, and Elections in Egypt
Av Tarek Masoud
Häftad, 2014
455 kr
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Why does Islam seem to dominate Egyptian politics, especially when the country's endemic poverty and deep economic inequality would seem to render it promising terrain for a politics of radical redistribution rather than one of religious conservativism? This book argues that the answer lies not in …
Competitive Authoritarianism
Hybrid Regimes after the Cold War
Av Steven Levitsky, Lucan A. Way
Häftad, 2010
422 kr
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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 …
Competitive Authoritarianism
Hybrid Regimes after the Cold War
Av Steven Levitsky, Lucan A. Way
Inbunden, 2010
1710 kr
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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 …
Rioting for Representation
Local Ethnic Mobilization in Democratizing Countries
Av Risa J. Toha
Häftad, 2024
455 kr
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Ethnic riots are a costly and all too common occurrence during political transitions in multi-ethnic settings. Why do ethnic riots occur in certain parts of a country and not others? How does violence eventually decline? Drawing on rich case studies and quantitative evidence from Indonesia between …
Counting Islam
Religion, Class, and Elections in Egypt
Av Tarek Masoud
Inbunden, 2014
1274 kr
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Why does Islam seem to dominate Egyptian politics, especially when the country's endemic poverty and deep economic inequality would seem to render it promising terrain for a politics of radical redistribution rather than one of religious conservativism? This book argues that the answer lies not in …
The Politics of Nation-Building
Making Co-Nationals, Refugees, and Minorities
Inbunden, 2013
1131 kr
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What drives a state's choice to assimilate, accommodate or exclude ethnic groups within its territory? In this innovative work on the international politics of nation-building, Harris Mylonas argues that a state's nation-building policies toward non-core groups - individuals perceived as an ethnic …
Regimes of Ethnicity and Nationhood in Germany, Russia, and Turkey
Inbunden, 2012
1302 kr
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Akturk discusses how the definition of being German, Soviet, Russian and Turkish radically changed at the turn of the twenty-first century. Germany's ethnic citizenship law, the Soviet Union's inscription of ethnic origins in personal identification documents and Turkey's prohibition on the public …
Constitutional Change and Democracy in Indonesia
Inbunden, 2013
1302 kr
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How did democracy became entrenched in the world's largest Muslim-majority country? After the fall of its authoritarian regime in 1998, Indonesia pursued an unusual course of democratization. It was insider-dominated and gradualist and it involved free elections before a lengthy process of …
Imperial Rule and the Politics of Nationalism
Anti-Colonial Protest in the French Empire
Inbunden, 2013
1351 kr
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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 …
Understanding Shiite Leadership
The Art of the Middle Ground in Iran and Lebanon
Inbunden, 2014
1563 kr
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In this book, Shaul Mishal and Ori Goldberg explore the ways in which Shiite leaderships in Iran and Lebanon approach themselves and their world. Contrary to the violent and radical image of religious leaderships in the Islamic Republic of Iran and Lebanese Hizballah, the political vision and …
Peaceland
Conflict Resolution and the Everyday Politics of International Intervention
Inbunden, 2014
1465 kr
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This book suggests a new explanation for why international peace interventions often fail to reach their full potential. Based on several years of ethnographic research in conflict zones around the world, it demonstrates that everyday elements - such as the expatriates' social habits and usual …
Defying Convention
US Resistance to the UN Treaty on Women's Rights
Av Lisa Baldez
Inbunden, 2014
1302 kr
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The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) articulates what has now become a global norm. CEDAW establishes the moral, civic, and political equality of women; women's right to be free from discrimination and violence; and the responsibility of governments …
Patronal Politics
Eurasian Regime Dynamics in Comparative Perspective
Inbunden, 2014
1306 kr
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This book proposes a new way of understanding events throughout the world that are usually interpreted as democratization, rising authoritarianism, or revolution. Where the rule of law is weak and corruption pervasive, what may appear to be democratic or authoritarian breakthroughs are often just …
Compliant Rebels
Rebel Groups and International Law in World Politics
Av Hyeran Jo
Inbunden, 2015
1769 kr
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Seventeen million people have died in civil wars and rebel violence has disrupted the lives of millions more. In a fascinating contribution to the active literature on civil wars, this book finds that some contemporary rebel groups actually comply with international law amid the brutality of civil …
The Roots of Ethnic Cleansing in Europe
Inbunden, 2016
1641 kr
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Using a new approach to ethnicity that underscores its relative territoriality, H. Zeynep Bulutgil brings together previously separate arguments that focus on domestic and international factors to offer a coherent theory of what causes ethnic cleansing. The author argues that domestic obstacles …
The Wartime Origins of Democratization
Civil War, Rebel Governance, and Political Regimes
Av Reyko Huang
Inbunden, 2016
1051 kr
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Why do some countries emerge from civil war more democratic than when they entered into it, while others remain staunchly autocratic? Observers widely depict internal conflict as a pathway to autocracy or state failure, but in fact there is variation in post-civil war regimes. Conventional accounts …
The Politics of Borders
Sovereignty, Security, and the Citizen after 9/11
Inbunden, 2017
1338 kr
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Borders sit at the center of global politics. Yet they are too often understood as thin lines, as they appear on maps, rather than as political institutions in their own right. This book takes a detailed look at the evolution of border security in the United States after 9/11. Far from the walls …
Defying Convention
US Resistance to the UN Treaty on Women's Rights
Av Lisa Baldez
Häftad, 2014
455 kr
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The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) articulates what has now become a global norm. CEDAW establishes the moral, civic, and political equality of women; women's right to be free from discrimination and violence; and the responsibility of governments …
Patronal Politics
Eurasian Regime Dynamics in Comparative Perspective
Häftad, 2014
667 kr
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This book proposes a new way of understanding events throughout the world that are usually interpreted as democratization, rising authoritarianism, or revolution. Where the rule of law is weak and corruption pervasive, what may appear to be democratic or authoritarian breakthroughs are often just …
Compliant Rebels
Rebel Groups and International Law in World Politics
Av Hyeran Jo
Häftad, 2017
667 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Seventeen million people have died in civil wars and rebel violence has disrupted the lives of millions more. In a fascinating contribution to the active literature on civil wars, this book finds that some contemporary rebel groups actually comply with international law amid the brutality of civil …
Regimes of Ethnicity and Nationhood in Germany, Russia, and Turkey
Häftad, 2012
477 kr
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Akturk discusses how the definition of being German, Soviet, Russian and Turkish radically changed at the turn of the twenty-first century. Germany's ethnic citizenship law, the Soviet Union's inscription of ethnic origins in personal identification documents and Turkey's prohibition on the public …
Peaceland
Conflict Resolution and the Everyday Politics of International Intervention
Häftad, 2014
487 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book suggests a new explanation for why international peace interventions often fail to reach their full potential. Based on several years of ethnographic research in conflict zones around the world, it demonstrates that everyday elements - such as the expatriates' social habits and usual …
Understanding Shiite Leadership
The Art of the Middle Ground in Iran and Lebanon
Häftad, 2015
413 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In this book, Shaul Mishal and Ori Goldberg explore the ways in which Shiite leaderships in Iran and Lebanon approach themselves and their world. Contrary to the violent and radical image of religious leaderships in the Islamic Republic of Iran and Lebanese Hizballah, the political vision and …
Imperial Rule and the Politics of Nationalism
Anti-Colonial Protest in the French Empire
Häftad, 2013
461 kr
Lägg i varukorg
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 …
Constitutional Change and Democracy in Indonesia
Häftad, 2013
487 kr
Lägg i varukorg
How did democracy became entrenched in the world's largest Muslim-majority country? After the fall of its authoritarian regime in 1998, Indonesia pursued an unusual course of democratization. It was insider-dominated and gradualist and it involved free elections before a lengthy process of …
The Politics of Nation-Building
Making Co-Nationals, Refugees, and Minorities
Häftad, 2013
422 kr
Lägg i varukorg
What drives a state's choice to assimilate, accommodate or exclude ethnic groups within its territory? In this innovative work on the international politics of nation-building, Harris Mylonas argues that a state's nation-building policies toward non-core groups - individuals perceived as an ethnic …
Civil War in Syria
Mobilization and Competing Social Orders
Av Adam Baczko, Gilles Dorronsoro m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
1351 kr
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In 2011, hundreds of thousands of Syrians marched peacefully to demand democratic reforms. Within months, repression forced them to take arms and set up their own institutions. Two years later, the inclusive nature of the opposition had collapsed, and the PKK and radical jihadist groups rose to …
Civil War in Syria
Mobilization and Competing Social Orders
Av Adam Baczko, Gilles Dorronsoro m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
455 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In 2011, hundreds of thousands of Syrians marched peacefully to demand democratic reforms. Within months, repression forced them to take arms and set up their own institutions. Two years later, the inclusive nature of the opposition had collapsed, and the PKK and radical jihadist groups rose to …
The Roots of Ethnic Cleansing in Europe
Häftad, 2018
569 kr
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Using a new approach to ethnicity that underscores its relative territoriality, H. Zeynep Bulutgil brings together previously separate arguments that focus on domestic and international factors to offer a coherent theory of what causes ethnic cleansing. The author argues that domestic obstacles …
Rioting for Representation
Local Ethnic Mobilization in Democratizing Countries
Av Risa J. Toha
Inbunden, 2021
1628 kr
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Ethnic riots are a costly and all too common occurrence during political transitions in multi-ethnic settings. Why do ethnic riots occur in certain parts of a country and not others? How does violence eventually decline? Drawing on rich case studies and quantitative evidence from Indonesia between …
