Kategoria BISAC: Political Science >> World - General

While China's economic rise is being watched closely around the world, the country's changing political landscape is intriguing, as well. Forces unleashed by market reforms are profoundly recasting state-society relations. Will the Middle Kingdom transition rapidly, slowly, or not at all to political democracy? In China's Changing Political Landscape, leading experts examine the prospects for democracy in the world's most populous nation. China's political transformation is unlikely to follow a linear path. Possible scenarios include development of democracy as we understand it; democracy...

To clearly position global democracy as a new and realistic choice, the author contrasts it with four existing approaches to foreign policy:

--benevolent...

To clearly position global democracy as a new and realistic choice, the author contrasts it with four existing approaches to foreign policy:

--benevolent...

Russian history is first and foremost a history of personalized power. As Russia startles the international community with its assertiveness and faces both parliamentary and presidential elections, Lilia Shevtsova searches the histories of the Yeltsin and Putin regimes. She explores within them conventional truths and myths about Russia, paradoxes of Russian political development, and Russia's role in the world. Russia --Lost in Transition discovers a logic of government in Russia --a political regime and the type of capitalism that were formulated during the Yeltsin and Putin presidencies...

• An exploration of the environmental challenge posed by China's phenomenal economic growth.
  
• Written by a multi-disciplinary team of experts from around the world.
  
• Argues that China's development poses the greatest ever challenge for the modern world in terms of speed, size and resource scarcity.
  
• Discusses issues such as cleaner production, green car technology, resettlement...

• Approaches public authority 'from below', exploring a variety of concrete encounters between forms of public authority and the more or less mundane practices of ordinary people