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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1. Hindrances to Modernity : Max Weber on Islam; 2. The Institutionalization of Early Islamic Societies; 3. Aspects of Islamization: Weber's Observations on Islam Reconsidered; 4. Islamization in Late Medieval Bengal: The Relevance of Max Weber; 5. Max Weber and the Patrimonial Empire in Islam: The Mughal Case; 6. Paradise or Hell? The Religious Doctrine of Election in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Islamic Fundamentalism and Protestant Calvinism; 7. Weber and Islamic Reform

Delineating implications for administrative ethics from other fields such as sociology, psychology, and philosophy, this reference provides a comprehensive review of administrative ethics in the public sector. Detailing the context within which contemporary ethics training has developed, the book examines the effectiveness of ethics training, legal and organizational devices for encouraging desired conduct, and other topics of particular relevance to the political and social contexts of public administration. Written by over 25 leading scholars in public administration ethics, the book creates a taxonomy for administrative ethics using the categories of modern philosophy.

First published in 1998, this second edition includes the 10 published essays and 3 working papers collected in the first edition, as well as additional writings on sustainable development penned by Saeed and his students over the subsequent six years. Two of the original working papers were revised and published between editions and their published versions now appear. Lastly, the conclusion has been reformulated and the introduction contains insights from extended research. Part I comprises the first 7 chapters and deals with modelling generic issues concerning sustainable development. Part II comprises chapters 8 to 10 and extends the concepts from part I to the controversies on poverty and hunger, technological development, and entrepreneurship. Part III relates six case studies covering a variety of local issues in selected developing countries, including agricultural development policy in Pakistan, the impact of the rural credit system on Thailand's agricultural economy, the problem of food self-sufficiency in Vietnam and water resources management in Saudi Arabia.

Published in 1999. This book provides a detailed analysis of the positions and strategies adopted by Britain during the 1990-91 Intergovernmental Conference which concluded in the Maastricht Treaty on European Union. The main focus is on the questions of British policy coordination and the factors which determined the government's position during the negotiations on European Political Union and European Monetary Union. This is the first major study which reconstructs the mechanisms of British policy making and notes the internal and external factors which shaped the construction of the government's position on the major points of the negotiations. The hypothesis of the book is that domestic politics, primarily through the Prime Minister's aim to maintain the unity of the Conservative Party, was the determining factor in shaping government policy. This view is based upon micro-level empirical analysis undertaken through a methodological approach of historical interpretation.

Introduction -- The responsibility to protect at 15 -- High-level panels -- Rwanda, Kosovo and the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty -- From the right to persecute to the responsibility to protect : feuerbachian inversions of rights and responsibilities in state-citizen relations -- From humanitarian intervention to R2P : cosmetic or consequential? -- R2P after Libya and Syria : engaging emerging powers -- R2P's structural problems : a response to Roland Paris -- The UN Secretary-General and the forgotten third R2P responsibility -- Protection gaps for civilian victims of political violence -- Atrocity crimes and global governance -- Retrospect and prospect.