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"This book provides a comprehensive overview and explanation of the substance of the European Union's (EU) democracy promotion policy. With the promotion of democracy becoming an increasingly important element of European Union foreign policy, the contributors argue that the question of what is actually being promoted by the EU in third countries must come to the fore of academic and practical discussions. Dealing with the democratic agenda promoted by the EU, this collection focuses on elections, civil and political rights, horizontal accountability, effective power to govern, stateness, state administrative capacity, civil society, and socio-economic development as components of embedded liberal democracy. The conceptual part of the book includes an analytical framework and critical discussions from law, political economy, critical social theory and governance perspectives. The empirical part contains 11 chapters where the common analytical framework is applied to 22 country cases"--

"Why do some societies manage to control corruption so that it manifests itself only occasionally, while other societies remain systemically corrupt? This book is about how societies reach that point when integrity becomes the norm and corruption the exception in regard to how public affairs are run and public resources are allocated. It primarily asks what lessons we have learned from historical and contemporary experiences in developing corruption control, which can aid policymakers and civil societies in steering and expediting this process. Few states now remain without either an anti-corruption agency or an Ombudsman, yet no statistical evidence can be found that they actually induce progress. Using both historical and contemporary studies and easy-to-understand statistics, Alina Mungiu-Pippidi looks at how to diagnose, measure and change governance so that those entrusted with power and authority manage to defend public resources"--

"This book presents a new perspective on adaptation to climate change. It considers climate change as more than a problem that can be addressed solely through technical expertise. Instead, it approaches climate change as an adaptive challenge that is fundamentally linked to beliefs, values and worldviews, as well as to power, politics, identities and interests. Drawing on case studies from high-income countries, the book argues that it is time to consider adaptation to climate change as a challenge of social, personal and political transformations. The authors represent a variety of fields and perspectives, illustrating the importance of interdisciplinary approaches to the problem. The book will be of interest to researchers, policy makers and advanced students in the environmental sciences, social sciences and humanities, as well as to decision makers and practitioners interested in new ideas about adapting to climate change"--

Einleitung: Legitimacy beyond Normative Orders. - Cengiz Günay, Jan Pospisil 7. - China's Legitimate Rule in East Asia? Hierarchy in Sino-Korean Relations during the Ming Dynasty. - Philipp Olbrich 11. - Legitimacy on the Move: Contentious Movements in Global Politics. - Astrid Reinprecht 25. - Mortgaged Childhood: Protagonism and legitimacy in the defence of children's and young people's rights . - Sabine Hattinger-Allende, Ivan Molina Allende 41. - Blaise Compaorés Glück und Ende: Möglichkeiten und Grenzen einer Herrschaft im Schnittpunkt internationaler und traditioneller Legitimität. - Jan Pospisil 55. - Die Vervielfältigung religiöser Akteure und die Auswirkungen auf die Legitimierung von politischer Herrschaft. - Cengiz Günay 69. - Der Weg zur Erlösung: Gush Emunims Beitrag zur Legitimierung des israelischen Siedlungsbaus. - Linda Unterrainer 83. - Local Peace Committees and Issues of Legitimacy. - Zhanar Yerimbetova 103. - Blurry Pictures, Clear Evidence? Non-Governmental Satellite Imagery Analysts as an Epistemic Community in Security Discourses. - Nina Witjes, Philipp Olbrich 115. - INDECT: The Legitimising Power of Transnational Research Funding in European Security Politics. - Rita Korunka 129. - "Cyberterrorismus" und die Versicherheitlichung des Cyberspace. - Barbara Gruber 147

1. Encountering the city -- 2. The foundations of urban theory : Weber, Simmel, Benjamin and Lefebvre -- 3. The city described : social reform and the empirical tradition in classic urban studies -- 4. Visions of utopia : from the garden city to the new urbanism -- 5. Between the suburb and the ghetto : urban studies and the search for community in Britain and the United States after the Second World War -- 6. Urban fortunes : making sense of the capitalist city -- 7. The contested city : politics, people and power -- 8. From pillar to post : culture, representation and difference in the urban world -- 9. The majority urban world : the growth and development of cities in the global south -- 10. Cities under stress : the uneven geographies of urban vulnerability -- 11. The information city : linking the virtual and material urban worlds -- 12. Putting the city in its place : urban futures and the future of urban theory.

In Moral Boundaries Joan C. Tronto provides one of the most original responses to the controversial questions surrounding women and caring. Tronto demonstrates that feminist thinkers have failed to realise the political context which has shaped their debates about care. It is her belief that care cannot be a useful moral and political concept until its traditional and ideological associations as a "women's morality" are challenged.Moral Boundaries contests the association of care with women as empirically and historically inaccurate, as well as politically unwise. In our society, members of unprivileged groups such as the working classes and people of color also do disproportionate amounts of caring. Tronto presents care as one of the central activites of human life and illustrates the ways in which society degrades the importance of caring in order to maintain the power of those who are privileged.

"Youth, Heroism and War Propaganda explores how the young maritime hero became a major new figure of war propaganda in the second half of the long 18th century. At that time, Britain was searching for a new national identity, and the young maritime hero and his exploits conjured images of vigour, energy, enthusiasm and courage. Adopted as centrepiece in a campaign of concerted war propaganda leading up to the Battle of Trafalgar, the young hero came to represent much that was quintessentially British at this major turning point in the nation's history. By drawing on a wide range of sources, this study shows how the young hero gave maritime youth a symbolic power which it had never before had in Britain. It offers a valuable contribution to the field of British military and naval history, as well as the study of British identity, youth, heroism and propaganda."--Bloomsbury Publishing

Anarchy, State, and Utopia: An Advanced Guidepresents a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the ideas expressed in Robert Nozick's highly influential 1974 work on free-market libertarianism-considered one of the most important and influential works of political philosophy published in the latter half of the 20th-century. Makes accessible all the major ideas and arguments presented in Nozick's complex masterpieceExplains, as well as critiques, Robert Nozick's theory of free market libertarianismEnables a new generation of readers to draw their own conclusions about the wealth of timely ideas on individualism and libertarian philosophyIndicates where Nozick's theory has explanatory power, where it is implausible, and where there are loose ends with further work to be done Lester H. Huntis Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is the author of Nietzsche and the Origins of Virtue(1991) and Character and Culture(1997).

Thoroughly revised according to classroom feedback, Industrial Organization: Markets and Strategies offers an up-to-date and rigorous presentation of modern industrial organization that blends theory with real-world applications and derives implications for firm strategy and competition policy. This comprehensive textbook acquaints readers with the most important models for understanding strategies chosen by firms with market power and shows how such firms adapt to different market environments. The second edition includes new and revised formal models and case studies. Formal models are presented in detail, and analyses are summarized in 'lessons' which highlight the main insights. Theories are complemented by numerous real-world cases that engage students and lead them to connect theories to real situations. Chapters include review questions, exercises, and suggestions for further reading to enhance the learning experience, and an accompanying website offers additional student exercises, as well as teaching slides.

"This examination of the formally autonomous state of Hyderabad in a global comparative framework challenges the idea of the dominant British Raj as the sole sovereign power in the late colonial period. Beverley argues that Hyderabad's position as a subordinate yet sovereign 'minor state' was not just a legal formality, but that in exercising the right to internal self-government and acting as a conduit for the regeneration of transnational Muslim intellectual and political networks, Hyderabad was indicative of the fragmentation of sovereignty between multiple political entities amidst empires. By exploring connections with the Muslim world beyond South Asia, law and policy administration along frontiers with the colonial state and urban planning in expanding Hyderabad City, Beverley presents Hyderabad as a locus for experimentation in global and regional forms of political modernity. This book recasts the political geography of late imperialism and historicises Muslim political modernity in South Asia and beyond"--

From the fourth millennium BCE to the early second millennium CE the world became a world of cities. This volume explores this critical transformation, from the appearance of the earliest cities in Mesopotamia and Egypt to the rise of cities in Asia and the Mediterranean world, Africa, and the Americas. Through case studies and comparative accounts of key cities across the world, leading scholars chart the ways in which these cities grew as nodal points of pilgrimages and ceremonies, exchange, storage and redistribution, and centres for defence and warfare. They show how in these cities, along with their associated and restructured countrysides, new rituals and ceremonies connected leaders with citizens and the gods, new identities as citizens were created, and new forms of power and sovereignty emerged. They also examine how this unprecedented concentration of people led to disease, violence, slavery and subjugations of unprecedented kinds and scales

The political philosophy of liberalism was first formulated during the Enlightenment in response to the growth of the modern nation-state and its authority and power over the individuals living within its boundaries. Liberalism is now the dominant ideology in the Western world, but it covers a broad swathe of different (and sometimes rival) ideas and traditions and its essential features can be hard to define. The Cambridge Companion to Liberalism offers a rich and accessible exploration of liberalism as a tradition of political thought. It includes chapters on the historical development of liberalism, its normative foundations, and its core philosophical concepts, as well as a survey of liberal approaches and responses to a range of important topics including freedom, equality, toleration, religion, and nationalism. The volume will be valuable for students and scholars in political philosophy, political theory, and the history of political thought.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- I The Scene Revolution and Intervention in South East Asia -- Communist Revolts: 1948 -- Sino-Soviet Dispute: (People's) War and Peace -- us Reaction: the Vietnam Commitment -- Indonesian Reversal: New Balance of Power? -- Domino-Land -- II The Model China: Conditions for Success -- Peasant Revolt: Mao's Separate Course -- Protracted War: -- (1) Contradictions -- (2) Mass Support -- (3) Base Area -- (4) Guerrilla Warfare -- National Appeal: -- (1) Resistance to the Enemy -- (2) United Front Tactics -- Downfall of the Régime: -- (1) America's Dilemma -- (2) The Débâcle -- III Success Struggle for Vietnam -- August Insurrection -- Resistance War -- Unity and Organization -- Vietminh-Vietcong -- IV Failure -- China in Maphilindo -- Lessons from Malaya and the Philippines -- Indonesian Exception -- United States in Indo-China -- Post-War Policy -- Confusion in Laos -- Backing into Vietnam: -- (1) Commitment and … -- (2) Credibility -- Peace-and the Tet Offensive -- Annotated Bibliography -- Index

The introduction of consociational power sharing as a post-war political system has become one of the international community's preferred post-conflict devices. In situations where warring polities are internally divided by ethnic, religious, linguistic, or national identity, consociationalism guarantees the inclusion of all groups in the political process and prevents a 'tyranny' of the majority over one or more minorities. However, if international actors keep intervening in the political process, the advantages of consociationalism are turned upside down.In this exceptional book, Adis Merdzanovic develops a theoretical and empirical approach to understanding consociational democracies that include external intervention. Using the case of Bosnia and Herzegovina, where the consociational Dayton Peace Agreement ended the three-year war between Serbs, Croats, and Bosniaks twenty years ago, it elaborates on the different approaches used in the past and gives practical recommendations for future state-building exercises by the international community

Conventions are fundamental to the constitutional systems of parliamentary democracies. Unlike the United States which adopted a republican form of government, with a full separation of powers, codified constitutional structures and limitations for executive and legislative institutions and actors, Britain and subsequently Canada, Australia and New Zealand have relied on conventions to perform similar functions. The rise of new political actors has disrupted the stability of the two-party system, and in seeking power the new players are challenging existing practices. Conventions that govern constitutional arrangements in Britain and New Zealand, and the executive in Canada and Australia, are changing to accommodate these and other challenges of modern governance. In Westminster democracies, constitutional conventions provide the rules for forming government; they precede law and make law-making possible. This prior and more fundamental realm of government formation and law making is shaped and structured by conventions