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Introduction: the view from Silicon Valley -- Religion and politics in the new global paradigm -- A new paradigm for world politics? -- A political perspective on religion and politics -- A religious perspective on religion and politics -- The religions of the book, meditative experience, and public life -- Religion in contemporary world politics -- The west : Christianity, secularization, and immigration -- East Asia : modernization and ideology -- South and central Asia : the legacies of Gandhi and Khomeini and the bomb -- The Middle East and North Africa : Jewish and Islamic politics -- Latin America : indigenous religions, Christianity, and globalization -- Religion and politics for the next millennium -- Appendix I: Thirty years of Nobel Peace prize winners, 1975-2004 -- Appendix II: Paradigm chart and category questions.

This volume is concerned with examining the histories of freed slaves in a variety of slave societies in the ancient and modern world, ranging from ancient Rome to the southern states of the US, the Caribbean, and Brazil to Africa in the aftermath of emancipation in the twentieth century. The aim of this work is to present a comparative forum for the study of freedpeople. By identifying what is separate and what is universal about freedpeople it hopes to add to a better understanding of the role and impact of manumission and emancipation in different slave societies. Contributors include: Valentina Arena, Steeve Buckridge, Mariana Dantas, Marc Kleijwegt, Martin Klein, Rita Reynolds, Chandima Wickramasinghe, Swithin Wilmot, and Nigel Worden

This volume contains the full Qadi Records of Brava (1893 - 1900). The importance of these records for those studying Southern Somalia and the Swahili coast cannot be overestimated. The register is like a daily journal of events in a typical Swahili town. The information in the records covers a wide range of issues: Slavery, the role of women and their usage of the court system in the 19th century, the role of the Ulama, trade, inheritance, et cetera. The register is signed and stamped by the Italian Commander/governor in Asmara, Eritrea where it was taken and authenticated and bears the Official Stamp of the Royal Italian Government. This volume contains both the Arabic original and a translation into English

The English East India Company was one of the most powerful commercial companies ever to have existed. It laid thefoundations of the British Empire in South Asia and thus lies at the very heart of the interlinked histories of Britain and Asia. This first multi-disciplinary history of the Company to be published commemorates the four-hundredth anniversary of the founding of this unique and extraordinary institution. Historians of art, culture, cartography, empire, politics, the sea, and trade, explore the origins, operation, and influence of the Company as an organisation that remained firmly engaged in maritime commercial activity in many different spheres, even as it acted as a powerful agent of territorial expansion on the Indian subcontinent.

The Doha development agenda : ambitions and achievements / Pitou van Dijck and Gerrit Faber -- Global trade reform and the Doha development agenda / Kym Anderson, Will Martin, and Dominique van der Mensbrugghe -- Modelling global trade reform : some reflections / Michiel Keyzer -- Market access and the modelling of global trade reform : a comment / Joe Francois -- Services and the Doha development agenda : southern perspectives / Pierre Sauvé -- Improving special and differential treatment : some proposals / Bernard Hoekman, Constantine Michalopoulos, and L. Alan Winters -- The role of the G-20 / Jolanda E. Ygosse Battisti, Julia von Maltzan Pacheco, and Fabiana D'Atri -- Minimum conditions for a package deal : an African perspective / Dominique Njinkeu and Nicola Loffler -- Towards a development round / Pitou van Dijck and Gerrit Faber.

"Lela in Bali tells the story of an annual festival of eighteenth-century kingdoms in Northern Cameroon that was swept up in the migrations of marauding slave-raiders during the nineteenth century and carried south towards the coast. Lela was transformed first into a mounted durbar, like those of the Muslim states, before evolving in tandem with the German colonial project into a festival of arms. Reinterpreted by missionaries and post-colonial Cameroonians, Lela has become one of the most important of Cameroonian festivals and a crucial marker of identity within the state. Richard Fardon's recuperation of two hundred years of history is an essential contribution not only to Cameroonian studies but also to the broader understanding of the evolution of African cultures."--

This comprehensive, up to date and theoretically informed text examines the full range of the European Union's external relations including the Common Foreign and Security Policy. It look at the increasingly important part the EU plays in global politics. The authors argue that the EU's significance cannot be grasped by making comparisons with traditional states. Issues covered include:· the status, coherence, consistency and roles of the EU as an actor, and what being an actor means in practice.· how the field of trade relations forms the basis of the EUs activities · the EU in global environmental diplomacy, North-South relations and in relation to the Mediterranean and East/Central Europe· the EUs controversial relationship to the Common Foreign and Security Policy and defence.

Historical context in brief -- Multinational corporations in the economic development of Black Africa : some problems that affect an equitable relationship -- Issues in North-South relations and the new world order -- MNC-Third World relations : a comparative study of policymakers' attitudes and perceptions -- Multinationals in the Third World : reciprocity, conflict resolution and economic policy formulation -- Multinationals, the North and the new world order : objectives and opportunities -- Internationalization decision making and the global interdependency sensitivity thesis -- Multinationals and the Caribbean : a post-colonial perspective -- Third World investment strategy : the African predicament -- Whose wealth to maximize : the Third World as stakeholder -- Gist and profit satisficing : toward more user-friendly shareholder wealth maximization -- User-friendly shareholder wealth maximization and B-school pedagogy

Introduction: A brief world tour 1. - 1. Many revolutions 14. - 2. Bloodless wars, the failed revolution 30. - 3. The media as a combatant 48. - 4. The enemy within 65. - 5. The wars we will fight 76. - 6. Bureaucracy versus Intelligence 99. - 7. The devil's diplomats 117. - 8. Democracy and demons 133. - 9. Atlantis, the ideological superpower 144. - 10. The blood cult of terror 155. - 11. Digital demons 167. - 12. The cancer of corruption 174. - 13. The longest war 183. - 14. How the east was won 195. - 15. The frozen civilization of the desert 206. - 16. Wha Iraq matters 218. - 17. The goddess of the southern seas 227. - 18. Not-so-dark continents 239. - 19. Many Europes 252. - 20. Expanding America's global supremacy 266

European constitutionalism is not merely an intra-European phenomenon but it can also be compared to other major forms of constitutionalism. Over the past decade or so issues have emerged which seem to indicate that European constitutional theory and practice is becoming aware that it has developed certain rules and possesses certain characteristics which distinguish it from US constitutionalism and vice versa. This book explores whether such differences can be found in the five areas of 'freedom of speech', 'human dignity', 'duty to protect', 'adjudication' and 'democracy and international influences'. The authors of this book are constitutional scholars from Europe and the United States as well as from other constitutional states, such as Canada, Israel, Japan, Peru and South Africa

This thoroughly revised and updated edition of Asian Security Handbook focuses on the new challenges to security in the Asia-Pacific region presented by international terrorism. It reviews old security realities covered in previous editions, and highlights more recent security issues in the region, including the North Korean threat, weapons of mass destruction proliferation, the South China Sea dispute, and the future U.S.-China rivalry. Featuring contributions by a distinguished group of international security and Asia experts, this new edition has been reformatted and restructured. A new introductory chapter on terrorism sets the stage for the country-by-country profiles and assessments of the political-security situations in twenty-three individual nations. A new appendix on foreign terrorist organizations is also included.

"Democratic Development in East Asia explores an important but neglected topic in the literature on democratization in East Asia: the international dimension of democratization. It presents a coherent and comprehensive analysis of the impact of external political, economic and cultural factors on China, South Korea and Taiwan's political development since Wold War II. The author analyzes the circumstances under which the international context affects domestic actors' choice of political institutions and actions and concentrates on a selection of key international structures and actors that make up this complex picture. Shelley also examines the international political economy, aspects of the United Nations system, diffuse cultural factors and processes, democracy movements, and a number of international non-government organizations."--Jacket

Liberation Ecologies brings together some of the most exciting theorists in the field to explore the impact of political ecology in today's developing world. The book casts new light on the crucial interrelations of development, social movements and the environment in the South - the 'bigger' half of our planet - and raises questions and hopes about change on the global scale. The in-depth case material is drawn from across the Developing World, from Latin America, Africa and Asia. The issues raised in contemporary political, economic and social theory are illustrated through these case studies. Ultimately, Liberation Ecologies questions what we understand by 'development', be it mainstream or alternative, and seeks to renew our sense of nature's range of possibilities.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 States of Former Yugoslavia -- Chapter 2 India: The Achievements of Federalism and the Two Cases of Continuing Dissidence, the Vale of Kashmir and the Naga Hills -- Chapter 3 The Tamils in Sri Lanka -- Chapter 4 The Union of Myanmar: The Karens -- Chapter 5 The Kurdish Areas in Turkey, Iran and Iraq -- Chapter 6 The Turkish Areas in the Republic of Cyprus -- Chapter 7 The Basque Provinces in Spain -- Chapter 8 Chechnya in the Russian Republic -- Chapter 9 The Case of the Sudan: North and South -- Chapter 10 Taiwan and the People's Republic of Mainland China -- Chapter 11 Dealing with Marginal Cases -- Chapter 12 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index

The escalating political, economic, and cultural colonization of indigenous peoples over the past few centuries has spawned a multitude of revitalization movements. These movements promise liberation from domination by outsiders and incorporate and rework elements of traditional culture. Reassessing Revitalization Movements is the first book to discuss and compare in detail the origins, structure, and development of religious and political revitalization movements in North America and the Pacific Islands (known as Oceania). The essays cover the twentieth-century Cargo Cults of the South Pacific, the 1870 and 1890 Ghost Dance movements in western North America, the Tuka Movement on Fiji in 1885, as well as the revitalistic aspects of contemporary social movements in North American and Oceania