International & World Politics
epub |eng | 2014-10-07 | Author:Michael Buckley [Buckley, Michael]

LHASA, SEPTEMBER 2010: ACROSS FROM THE YAK HOTEL AT THE SHANGRI-LA Restaurant, a nightly dinner-dance show for Chinese tourists is staged. Here, nomads have been reduced to a curiosity. Performers ...
( Category: Asian March 23,2020 )
epub |eng | 2009-04-27 | Author:Mahbubani, Kishore [Mahbubani, Kishore]

There may have been a time when Muslims idealized the West. The last great leader of any Muslim society to believe in the West with great fervor was probably Kemal ...
( Category: Asian March 23,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-06-02 | Author:Immanuel Wallerstein

DEMOCRACY AS RHETORIC Why did the term “democracy” evolve from being the expression of revolutionary aspiration to a universal platitude? Originally, in Western political philosophy, from the Greeks through the ...
( Category: Canadian March 23,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-08-01 | Author:Codevilla, Angelo [Codevilla, Angelo]

Thucydides shows that because none of the belligerents aimed at a peace with which all could live, this great war had only losers. The Hellenic world had civilized itself during ...
( Category: National & International Security March 23,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-18 | Author:Scott Mainwaring & Aníbal Pérez-Liñán [Mainwaring and Pérez-Liñán]

Modernization and Structural Explanations of Persistent Authoritarianism Many works have argued that economic backwardness and poverty are unfavorable to democracy and foster authoritarianism. This approach could potentially explain persistent authoritarianism ...
( Category: Caribbean & Latin American March 23,2020 )
mobi |eng | 2011-11-29 | Author:Nigel Worden [Worden, Nigel]

In the Free State and South African (Transvaal) Republics, Afrikaners controlled the state. Attack from outside, such as the British annexation of the Transvaal in 1877 and the rebellion of ...
( Category: Democracy March 23,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Juan Cole

The right-wing religious Renaissance Party, despite having been virtually uprooted by Ben Ali, surprised many observers by reorganizing and establishing a nationwide campaign apparatus in less than a year; it ...
( Category: Ethnic Studies March 23,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-12-17 | Author:Richard Sakwa [Sakwa, Richard]

The unemployed, moreover, would not enjoy visa-free travel for work purposes to the EU, while it would become more difficult to join the Russian labour market. Carden argues that the ...
( Category: Russian & Former Soviet Union March 23,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-14 | Author:Randall L. Schweller

Hybrid Responses to a Hybrid World In a constantly shifting world steered by networked arrangements for specific tasks, where states share the international arena with a wide range of multilateral ...
( Category: History & Theory March 23,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Aaron Sheedy

Editor’s Note: Corporal George Voelk is still a dog handler in Toronto, Ontario. Nash, a bomb detection dog, served through several elections, the “Toronto 18” investigation, the Olympics, and the ...
( Category: Canadian March 23,2020 )
epub |eng | 1991-03-28 | Author:Headrick, Daniel R. [Headrick, Daniel R.]

Propaganda World War I was the first war in which propaganda played a major role. All belligerents used it to keep up the fighting spirit of their own people, to ...
( Category: History & Theory March 23,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-02-24 | Author:Taylor, Charles, Stepan, Alfred

NOTES I would like to thank the participants of the seminar on toleration at Columbia University with whom I discussed prior versions of this chapter. Moreover, I would like to ...
( Category: Cultural Policy March 23,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Richard Cockett

The ghost town of Hpa-An – and the catastrophe of drugs If the Karen civil war fatally wounded the early post-independence Burmese state, it eventually did far more damage to ...
( Category: Asian March 23,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Smith, Sebastian [Smith, Sebastian]

3. PHONY WAR Negotiations to get Dudayev to sign the federation treaty, which would put Chechnya within the Russian Federation, collapsed every time. President Yeltsin was still refusing to meet ...
( Category: Asian March 23,2020 )
epub |eng | 2006-03-30 | Author:Niccolò Machiavelli [Machiavelli, Niccolò]

CHAPTER II Death of Giovanni II.—René of Anjou and Alfonso of Aragon aspire to the kingdom—Alfonso is routed and taken by the Genoese—Alfonso being a prisoner of the duke of ...
( Category: International & World Politics March 23,2020 )