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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Democracy in Turkey -- Chapter 2 Capitalism and Democracy: Theorizing the Role of State-Business Relations -- Chapter 3 Turkey's Capitalists and the State in the World Economy -- Chapter 4 Awakenings: the Making of the Business Elite From 1960 to 1980 -- Chapter 5 Prometheus Unbound: Economic Power from 1980 to 2002 -- Chapter 6 The Capitalist Spirit: Sources of Power and Democracy -- Chapter 7 New Authoritarianism, Conflict, and the Business Elite's Commitment to Democracy -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Acknowledgements Hicham Safieddine Note on Translation -- Hicham Safieddine and Angela Giordani -- Part I: Remembering Amel -- 1 Introduction: The Anti-Colonial Intellectual -- Hicham Safieddine 2 Biographical Note: The Martyr Intellectual -- Hicham Safieddine -- Part II: Selected Writings -- 3 Colonialism and Underdevelopment I: An Attempt to Understand the Colonial Relation -- 4 Colonialism and Underdevelopment II: On the Colonial Mode of Production -- 5 On the Sectarian State -- 6 Marx in the Orientalism of Edward Said -- 7 The Islamised Bourgeois Trend -- 8 The Problem of Cultural Heritage -- List of Published Works by Amel -- Bibliography.

Based on the author's first-hand experience in Afghanistan, this essay looks at the Afghani peoples' attitudes toward Taliban rule. It argues that the peoples' views were based more on myth than reality, a mistake that likewise guided US Afghan policies. These myths are particularly evident in the legend of the Taliban movement, the "ethnic stew" of Pashtuns who became involved in the Taliban movement, the role played by Osama bin Laden, & Pakistani-Afghani relations. To truly rectify the situation in Afghanistan, the US must focus not only on ousting the Taliban, but also on establishing a broad-based coalition government that represents all of Afghanistan's ethnic groups. Only then will true order be imposed on a post-Taliban Afghanistan. K. A. Larsen

Since 2001, state governments have adopted 287(g) cooperative immigration enforcement agreements with the federal government that authorize their law enforcement personnel to assist in detaining violators of civil federal immigration law. Employing a theoretical framework drawn from theories of policy adoption, intergovernmental relations, and immigration research, we test which state‐level political, sociodemographic, geographic, and economic determinants influence states to enter into such a cooperative agreement. In addition to finding that the partisanship of a state's governor, a state's effort on public welfare, and an increase in a state's percentage of Hispanics are related to the adoption of a cooperative immigration enforcement policy, we found evidence of "steam valve federalism" working not at the state level as Spiro (1997) first theorized but at the local level. When a state's localities adopt immigration enforcement agreements with the federal government, the state itself is far less likely to adopt their own. Understanding the reasons states would adopt this type of policy sheds light on current trends in state immigration policy and their effect on future state/federal intergovernmental relations.

Unlike some Western nations during the last two decades, Canada has witnessed little overt conflict over neoconservative politics, & within the government, a lack of neoconservative rhetoric & action has been noteworthy. Canada's mode of federal governing, "managing consent," is described, including its methods of transforming controversy into technicobureaucratic problems, & the manipulation of federal-provincial relations. Fiscal neoconservatism is described, & four areas of economic policy that are uniquely Canadian-neoconservative are outlined: (1) decentralization, (2) privatization, (3) increased consumer fees, & (4) weakened organized labor. It is concluded that with a federal government engaged in "managing consent," the provincial governments are left to manage crises. 21 References. C. Grindle

Struggles over what a region receives, or should receive, from the budget of the central government are common to many countries. This book shows just how these flows are computed then interpreted and clarifies the often misunderstood economic and political motives that explain why some regions receive more monies than others

Examines Australia's international and domestic human rights obligations and how they are being addressed in relation to controversial and challenging issues including asylum seeker detention, racial discrimination, free speech, indigenous advancement, juvenile incarceration, disability rights, gender equality and same-sex marriage. Also includes: worksheets and activities, fast facts, glossary, web links, index.

Since its inception the United States has sent envoys to advance American interests abroad, both across oceans and to areas that later became part of the country. Little has been known about these first envoys until now. From China to Chile, Tripoli to Tahiti, Mexico to Muscat, Peter D. Eicher chronicles the experience of the first American envoys in foreign lands. Their stories, often stranger than fiction, are replete with intrigues, revolutions, riots, war, shipwrecks, swashbucklers, desperadoes, and bootleggers. The circumstances the diplomats faced were precursors to today's headlines: Americans at war in the Middle East, intervention in Latin America, pirates off Africa, trade deficits with China. Early envoys abroad faced hostile governments, physical privations, disease, isolation, and the daunting challenge of explaining American democracy to foreign rulers. Many suffered threats from tyrannical despots, some were held as slaves or hostages, and others led foreign armies into battle. Some were heroes, some were scoundrels, and many perished far from home. From the American Revolution to the Civil War, Eicher profiles the characters who influenced the formative period of American diplomacy and the first steps the United States took as a world power. Their experiences combine to chart key trends in the development of early U.S. foreign policy that continue to affect us today. Raising the Flag illuminates how American ideas, values, and power helped shape the modern world. -- Amazon.com.