The Strong State in Russia: Development and Crisis
ISBN: 9780199336203 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Russian state presents a mystery to outside observers. Although Russia was the site of some of the last century's most radical upheavals, and although Russian governments are usually characterized by autocracy, corruption, and political decay, the central government has retained a remarkable hold on the vast country. Does its historical progress represent change, or continuity? How has the political culture molded the expectations and behavior of the Russian people over time? What features of the Russian state are the keys to understanding it? The Strong State in Russia...
The Russian state presents a mystery to outside observers. Although Russia was the site of some of the last century's most radical upheavals, and alth...
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634,06 zł |
American Democracy: Selected Essays on Theory, Practice, and Critique
ISBN: 9781137382870 / Angielski / Twarda / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book examines the problems that plague contemporary American democracy. Written from the standpoint of democratic theory, and from a progressive point of view, the book explores different facets of American democratic culture and its various deficits deficits that can lead to the crippling of democratic politics."
The book examines the problems that plague contemporary American democracy. Written from the standpoint of democratic theory, and from a progressive p...
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194,97 zł |
African Postcolonial Modernity: Informal Subjectivities and the Democratic Consensus
ISBN: 9781137446923 / Angielski / Twarda / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. African cultures and politics remain significantly affected by precolonial and postcolonial configurations of modernity, as well as hegemonic global systems. This project explores Africa's conversation with itself and the rest of the world, critiquing universalist notions of democratization.
African cultures and politics remain significantly affected by precolonial and postcolonial configurations of modernity, as well as hegemonic global s...
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389,98 zł |
Intellectual Agent, Mediator and Interlocutor: A.B. Assensoh and African Politics in Transition
ISBN: 9781443860468 / Angielski / Twarda / 365 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Encompassing the time period from the colonial era to the present day, this book critically examines the changing nature of African politics and the factors that underpin such changes. We argue in the volume that many of the problems that plague contemporary politics (ethnicity, governance, conflict, bad economic policies, the absence of dialogue and other social issues) have their roots in the fifteen years after the Second World War, just prior to independence (1945-1960). Because these issues had been grossly mismanaged by the colonial enterprise, those fifteen years could arguably be...
Encompassing the time period from the colonial era to the present day, this book critically examines the changing nature of African politics and the f...
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270,10 zł |
Making War, Thinking History: Munich, Vietnam, and Presidential Uses of Force from Korea to Kosovo
ISBN: 9781612515823 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In examining the influence of historical analogies on decisions to use--or not use--force, military strategist Jeffrey Record assesses every major application of U.S. force from the Korean War to the NATO war on Serbia. Specifically, he looks at the influence of two analogies: the democracies? appeasement of Hitler at Munich and America's defeat in the Vietnam War. His book judges the utility of these two analogies on presidential decision-making and finds considerable misuse of them in situations where force was optional. He points to the Johnson administration's application of the Munich...
In examining the influence of historical analogies on decisions to use--or not use--force, military strategist Jeffrey Record assesses every major app...
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111,45 zł |
The Cowboy and the Canal
ISBN: 9780990441915 / Angielski / Miękka / 338 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Within a richly layered context, The Cowboy and the Canal probes the intrigue behind Roosevelt's decision to purchase the expiring concession, rotting machinery, and dilapidated buildings from the bankrupt French Panama Canal Company and dig the interoceanic canal in Panama instead of the favored site, Nicaragua. Drawing from primary sources-newspaper stories, editorials, political cartoons, the Congressional record, books, magazines, journals, and letters-The Cowboy and the Canal reintroduces the voices who criticized Roosevelt's actions and questioned his motives, that through time and...
Within a richly layered context, The Cowboy and the Canal probes the intrigue behind Roosevelt's decision to purchase the expiring concession, rotting...
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126,24 zł |
Magyars and Political Discourses in the New Millennium: Changing Meanings in Hungary at the Start of the Twenty-First Century
ISBN: 9780739179468 / Angielski / Twarda / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this book, Melinda Kovacs analyzes various areas of Hungarian political discourse: newspapers, party websites, informational books on the EU, and government-produced brochures sent to all households in Hungary. The inquiry is supported by an understanding of politics as achieving and negotiating change in discourse, which is not to be equated with simple language use. In addition to language, discourse also encompasses the meanings shared by members of a political community, along with the conventions of what is possible or plausible in politics. In the case of Hungary at the start of the...
In this book, Melinda Kovacs analyzes various areas of Hungarian political discourse: newspapers, party websites, informational books on the EU, and g...
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472,16 zł |
Resurgent: How Constitutional Conservatism Can Save America
ISBN: 9781451629279 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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111,62 zł |
Africa Uprising: Popular Protest and Political Change
ISBN: 9781780329970 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For a long time now, Africa s political landscape has been wracked by violence. In recent years, however, a more positive force has risen in response to that violence: popular protest. Countries throughout the continent, from Tunisia and Egypt to Uganda and Senegal, have witnessed uprisings by a wide variety of peoplethe young, the unemployed, organized laborers, civil society activists, writers, artists, and religious groups. What is driving this massive wave of popular protest in Africa?
Drawing on interviews with activists across a number of countries, Adam Branch and Zachariah... For a long time now, Africa s political landscape has been wracked by violence. In recent years, however, a more positive force has risen in response ...
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91,70 zł |
Africa Uprising: Popular Protest and Political Change
ISBN: 9781780329987 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For a long time now, Africa s political landscape has been wracked by violence. In recent years, however, a more positive force has risen in response to that violence: popular protest. Countries throughout the continent, from Tunisia and Egypt to Uganda and Senegal, have witnessed uprisings by a wide variety of peoplethe young, the unemployed, organized laborers, civil society activists, writers, artists, and religious groups. What is driving this massive wave of popular protest in Africa?
Drawing on interviews with activists across a number of countries, Adam Branch and Zachariah... For a long time now, Africa s political landscape has been wracked by violence. In recent years, however, a more positive force has risen in response ...
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433,26 zł |
Political Science and Chinese Political Studies: The State of the Field
ISBN: 9783642445057 / Angielski / Miękka / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. We have witnessed the substantial transformation of China studies, particularly Chinese political studies, in the past 30 years due to changes in China and its rising status in the world as well as changes in our ways of conducting research. As area studies specialists, we are no longer "isolated" from the larger disciplines of Political Science and International Relations (IR) but an integral part of them. This book contains theoretically innovative contributions by distinguished political scientists from inside and outside China, who together offer up-to-date overviews of the state of the...
We have witnessed the substantial transformation of China studies, particularly Chinese political studies, in the past 30 years due to changes in Chin...
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585,00 zł |
Inside India Today (Routledge Revivals)
ISBN: 9780415835046 / Angielski / Miękka / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Events in the Indian sub-continent during the 1970s, where, in the summer of 1975, the ruling party engineered a 'constitutional' coup by declaring a national emergency, re-emphasised the need for a fuller understanding of India's social system and people. First published the following year, in 1976, Inside India Today attempted to fulfil that need. Drawing on personal interviews, conducted during his two years' travels throughout the country collecting a mass of first hand evidence, and on various surveys and studies published in the press, the author sketches a broad portrait of Indian life...
Events in the Indian sub-continent during the 1970s, where, in the summer of 1975, the ruling party engineered a 'constitutional' coup by declaring a ...
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Patronal Politics: Eurasian Regime Dynamics in Comparative Perspective
ISBN: 9781107423138 / Angielski / Miękka / 558 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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 regular, predictable phases in longer-term cyclic dynamics patronal politics. This is shown through in-depth narratives of the post-1991 political history of all post-Soviet polities that are not in the European Union. This book also includes chapters on czarist and Soviet history and on global...
This book proposes a new way of understanding events throughout the world that are usually interpreted as democratization, rising authoritarianism, or...
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163,07 zł |
Becoming a Borderland: The Politics of Space and Identity in Colonial Northeastern India
ISBN: 9781138847453 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book discusses the politics of space and identity in the borderlands of northeastern India between the early 1800s and the 1930s. Critiquing contemporary post-colonial histories where this region emerges as fragments, this book sees these perspectives as continuing to be entrapped in a civilizational approach to history writing. Beginning in the pre-colonial period where it focuses on the negotiated character of state-formation during the Mughal imperium, the book then enters the space of the colonial where it looks at some of the early interventions of the East India Company. The... This book discusses the politics of space and identity in the borderlands of northeastern India between the early 1800s and the 1930s. Critiquing c... |
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Leadership and Policy Innovation - From Clinton to Bush: Countering the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction
ISBN: 9781138849082 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Throughout the Cold War there were longstanding efforts to control the spread of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) through extensive arms control, deterrence, and defense programs. Since then counterproliferation efforts by the U.S. and international community have accelerated. Given the attention to counterproliferation in the last decade, how effective was the leadership provided by President Clinton and his Secretaries of Defense, Aspin, Perry and Cohen, in providing innovative and effective policies for countering the proliferation of WMD? Comparing the cases of... Throughout the Cold War there were longstanding efforts to control the spread of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) through extensive arms control, ... |
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188,55 zł |
Japan's Multilayered Democracy
ISBN: 9781498502221 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book introduces a multilayered approach to the study of democracy, combining specific knowledge of Japan with theoretical insights from the literature on democratization. It examines different aspects of Japanese democracy--historical, institutional, and sociocultural--to provide a conscious understanding of the nature and practice of democracy, both in Japan and beyond. The book's chapters give testimony to the dynamic nature and continuity of Japanese democracy and analyze its strengths and weaknesses. The central argument of this book is that Japan's democratization should be seen as...
This book introduces a multilayered approach to the study of democracy, combining specific knowledge of Japan with theoretical insights from the liter...
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520,45 zł |
Politische Streitfragen: Band 4: Weltpolitische Herausforderungen
ISBN: 9783658050337 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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182,22 zł |
Malta in the European Union
ISBN: 9781472436665 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Malta has bucked the trend of its EU Mediterranean neighbours in many ways. This smallest of EU states barely dipped into recession during the global financial crisis and remains a stable member of the Eurozone whilst also having one of the lowest infringement rates and highest transposition of EU law records amongst the 28 member states. Providing the first comprehensive study of Malta's complex road to EU membership this book looks at the impact of membership on the country's political structures and processes and explains the principal factors that have conditioned the country's...
Malta has bucked the trend of its EU Mediterranean neighbours in many ways. This smallest of EU states barely dipped into recession during the global ...
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739,10 zł |
Roasting Chestnuts: The Mythology of Maritime Political Culture
ISBN: 9780774804981 / Angielski / Twarda / 203 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Roasting Chestnuts" is a book about outdated political stereotypes. The Maritime Provinces of New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia are often regarded as a pre-modern hinterland in which corrupt practices and traditional loyalties continue to predominate. While this depiction of Maritime political life may, at one time, have been largely accurate, this is no longer the case. Employing a variety of indicators, this book argues that a new set of political images are needed to capture Maritime political reality today. What emerges from the analysis is a picture of maritime...
"Roasting Chestnuts" is a book about outdated political stereotypes. The Maritime Provinces of New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia are...
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280,35 zł |
Imperfect Democracies: The Democratic Deficit in Canada and the United States
ISBN: 9780774823760 / Angielski / Twarda / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Imperfect Democracies brings together Canadian and American scholars to compare and contrast the democratic deficit in the two nations. They evaluate the ways in which the institutions in both countries do or do not live up to democratic ideals of popular sovereignty and political equality, focusing on these key questions: What can be done to remedy the deficit? And what can each country learn from the experiences of the other? Imperfect Democracies brings together Canadian and American scholars to compare and contrast the democratic deficit in the two nations. They... |
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453,65 zł |