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"This critically-acclaimed treatise provides both newcomers and experts with clear, accessible, and comprehensive materials and critical comparative analyses for the study of Islamic Law. It embraces the entire history, religion, and law of Islam, both Sunni and Shī'a, and covers all pertinent fields: banking and finance, constitutional law, contracts, criminal law, family law, inheritance, international law, and property. The book includes a user-friendly Glossary of Arabic terms, in English, with diacritical marks to assist in pronunciation. Balanced, logically organized, and well-written, the text can be used without supplementation in a one-semester Islamic Law course, and it has been used in law schools and graduate programs around the world and in programs for United States Special Operations Forces. Every chapter is thoroughly updated to incorporate recent developments and scholarship, with new chapters on the Constitution of Iran, the Taliban, and the Afghanistan War"--

"This book rejects the fundamental ideas of hidden administrative practices and helps the policy maker to strengthen the right to information Act in India. Finally this book is an attempt to ensure accountability and how the grievance redressal mechanism related to work culture in India"--

"A thorough examination of the debates over abolition and African American citizenship in the emancipated British Caribbean colonies from the 1830s through the 1860s. An important intervention, Jubilee's Experiment will interest scholars of transatlantic slavery and abolition"--

"An unbeholden case for Friedrich Hayek, twenty-first-century political influencer. The publication of The Road to Serfdom in 1944 was both an intellectual watershed and, forever after, a source of blistering political division. The book's championing of individualism and classical liberalism-and its derision of government interference in the free-market economy-made it, and its author Friedrich Hayek, lightning rods for evergreen political feuds around the nature of capitalism and the role of the welfare state. Lost in the ongoing bluster-readings of The Road to Serfdom was Hayek's political message: liberalism is a thing to be protected, and its alternatives are perilous. In Liberalism's Last Man, political scientist Vikash Yadav exhumes the political core of Hayek's most famous work to map today's core political anxiety: the tenuous state of liberal-capitalist societies-the United States and other Western powers-in the face of planned political-capitalist powers like China. As free-market capitalist powers struggle to match the economic productivity of planned economies, the promises of meritocracy in countries like the US continue to fade; Yadav channels Hayek to articulate how the moral backbone of liberalism is its greatest defense against insurgent, and repressive, social structures. Erudite and deeply critical, Liberalism's Last Man subverts traditional political partisanship, embodying the principles of liberalism while defending it. Its clear-eyed mining of one of our most brilliant political philosophers is not to be missed."

"Given the increasing presence of non-Western nations in global affairs, Hiroki Kusano and Hiro Katsumata explore responses to the backlash taking place in the West against the global spread of liberalism - to the global spread of free trade, multilateral institutions, and liberal-democratic politics"--

"This book reflects on the reasons for the decline of international cooperation in world politics and studies ways to restore legitimacy in the international order. It engages with the concept of legitimacy in international relations theories and practice to examine the discussions around power shifts, the decline of liberalism, demands for inclusive international architectures and challenges to multilateralism, as well as established norms by leaders and nationalisms. It studies the impact of the post-COVID-19 world order on the nature of power in the international system and changes in normative concerns of security. The volume also interrogates political legitimacy through an area studies lens by examining the concept of legitimacy separately in the USA, Europe, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Latin America and Africa. An important and timely text featuring contributions from eminent scholars, this book will be of use to students and researchers of modern history, political science, and international relations. It will also be of interest to think-tanks and policy-making bodies concerned with international affairs and foreign policy"--

"Political scandals have become an indelible feature of the American political system since the creation of the republic more than two centuries ago. This book surveys both the most infamous scandals as well as more obscure episodes in an effort to understand how these incidents have altered the course of American political history"--

An examination of the divergent developmental legacies of forced settlement and colonial occupation on both sides of the Black Atlantic world. The European powers that colonized much of the world over the last few hundred years created a variety of social systems in their various colonies. In Ruling Emancipated Slaves and Indigenous Subjects, Olukunle P. Owolabi explores the divergent developmental trajectories of Global South nations that were shaped by forced settlement, where European colonists imported African slaves to establish large-scale agricultural plantations, or by colonial occupation, which resulted in theexploitation of indigenous non-white populations. Owolabi shows that most forced settlement colonies emerged from European domination with higher levels of education attainment, greater postcolonial democratization, and favorable human development outcomes relative to Global South countries that emerged fromcolonial occupation after 1945. To explain this paradox, he examines the distinctive legal-administrative institutions that were used to control indigenous colonial subjects and highlights the impact of liberal reforms that expanded the legal rights and political agency of former slaves following abolition. Spanning three centuries of colonial history and postcolonial development, this is the first book to systematically examine the distinctive patterns of state-building that resulted fromforced settlement and colonial occupation in the Black Atlantic world

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Civil-Military Relations and Uprisings -- How to Achieve Civilian Control of the Military? -- The Military Power in the Middle East and North Africa -- Military Coups: From the 1950s to the 1980s -- Coup Proofing: From the 1980s to the 2000s -- Ruling But Not Governing: The New Age of Military Forces -- Protest Movements and Military Powers -- Military Involvement in the Arab Uprisings: Pro-state and Pro-regime Behaviour -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2: Methodology: Comparative Case Study -- Case Selection: Depth or Breadth? -- Why Tunisia and Libya? -- Why Not Egypt and Syria? -- Why Not Any Case from the Gulf States, Yemen, Algeria, or Morocco? -- Research Period and the July 2013 Military Coup in Egypt -- Sources: Elite/Expert Interviews and Secondary References -- Outcomes: Defection and Split -- Contributing Factors -- Why Not Any Other Variable(s)? -- Energy Resources -- Military Structure -- Strength of Protests -- Notes -- References -- Part I: Tunisia -- Chapter 3: The Genesis of the Tunisian Uprisings -- Tunisia: Politics and Military -- The Politics of Tunisia -- Executive Branch -- Legislative Branch -- Judicial Branch -- Military Balance -- The Prominent Causes of the Tunisian Uprisings -- Exclusive Social-Economic Growth: The Problem of Effectiveness -- Anti-democratic Political Structure: The Problem of Legitimacy -- Globalization -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4: Actors and Factors in Tunisia -- Actors -- First Protestor Mohammed Bouazizi -- President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali -- Prime Minister Mohammed Ghannouchi -- General Rachid Ammar -- Samir Tarhouni -- General Union of Tunisian Workers -- Sami Sik Selim.

"This book explores the growing attention that sociology has started to give to environmental issues in terms of peace and social justice. With a focus on sociological theory and its development, it reconstructs the long journey made by the social sciences towards the reconstruction, in a single theoretical paradigm, of the problems associated with the implementation of conditions of peace and sustainability. Beginning from the premise that environmental issues are never purely environmental, but entail political, economic and social implications, Sustainable Development and Peace offers an understanding of where we are heading, and how, reflecting on present challenges and possible directions for the future. It will therefore appeal to scholars of sociology, social theory, development studies, politics and environmental studies"--

"By digging through the stratigraphy of the history of ideas we can find within and beyond Marxism an 'aleatory current' that values the role of chance in history. Using this perspective, the book builds a case for a historical materialism that is stripped of all teleology. Starting in the ancient Mediterranean with Epicurus, it traces the history of conceiving history as plural up to Marxism and modern science. It shows that concrete historical 'worlds' such as ancient Mesoamerica and Eurasia cannot be reduced to a single template. Affirming the potentiality of a future non-capitalist 'world', it invalidates any 'end of history' thesis"--