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In one form or another, slavery has existed throughout the world for millennia. It helped to change the world, and the world transformed the institution. In the 1450s, when Europeans from the small corner of the globe least enmeshed in the institution first interacted with peoples of other continents, they created, in the Americas, the most dynamic, productive, and exploitative system of coerced labor in human history. Three centuries later these same intercontinental actions produced a movement that successfully challenged the institution at the peak of its dynamism. Within another century a new surge of European expansion constructed Old World empires under the banner of antislavery. However, twentieth-century Europe itself was inundated by a new system of slavery, larger and more deadly than its earlier system of New World slavery. This book examines these dramatic expansions and contractions of the institution of slavery and the impact of violence, economics, and civil society in the ebb and flow of slavery and antislavery during the last five centuries

Hard choices: security, democracy, and regionalism in Southeast Asia -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Acronyms and note on references to the ASEAN charter -- Forewordsurin pitsuwan -- Introduction -- Critical terms: security, democracy, and regionalism in southeast Asia by Donald K. Emmerson -- Assessments -- Sovereignty rules: human security, civil society, and the limits of liberal reform by Jörn Dosch -- Institutional reform: one charter, three communities, many challenges by Termsak Chalermpalanupap -- Issues -- Political development: a democracy agenda for ASEAN? by Rizal Sukma -- ASEAN's pariah: insecurity and autocracy in Myanmar (Burma) by kyaw Yin Hlaing -- Challenging change: nontraditional security, democracy, and regionalism by Mely Caballero-Anthony -- Blowing smoke: regional cooperation, Indonesian democracy, and the haze by Simon SC Tay -- Bypassing regionalism? Domestic politics and nuclear energy security by Michael S. Malley -- Arguments -- Toward relative decency: the case for prudence by David Martin Jones -- Toward responsible sovereignty: the case for intervention by Erik Martinez Kuhonta -- Appendix: text of the charter of the association of Southeast ASIAN nations -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the contributors.

Strategies beyond followership / Davis B. Bobrow -- Modes of Iraqi response to American occupation / Jeremy Pressman -- The reluctant ally : German domestic politics and the war against Saddam Hussein / Siegmar Schmidt -- Soft deterrence, passive resistance : American lenses, Chinese lessons / Steve Chan -- The United States and Turkey : limiting unilateralism / Ilter Turan -- Resistance to hegemony within the core : domestic politics, terrorism, and policy divergence in the G-7 / Thomas J. Volgy [and others] -- Thwarting U.S. missile defense from within the missile technology control regime / Dennis M. Gormley -- Europa riding the hegemon? Transatlantic climate policy / Alexander Ochs and Detlef F. Sprinz -- Developmental opposition in international trade regimes : regional groupings and state and civil society coalitions / Diana Tussie -- U.S. defection from the OECD "harmful tax competition" project : rhetoric and reality / Robert T. Kudrle -- Saving the world from big tobacco : the real coalition of the willing / Judith P. Wilkenfeld -- International public opinion : incentives and options to comply and challenge / Davis B. Bobrow -- The implications of constrained hegemony / Davis B. Bobrow.

"In Public Freedom, renowned political theorist Dana Villa argues that political freedom is essential to both the preservation of constitutional government and the very substance of American democracy itself. Through intense close readings of theorists such as Hegel, Tocqueville, Mill, Adorno, Arendt, and Foucault, Villa diagnoses the key causes of our democratic discontent and offers solutions to preserve at least some of our democratic hopes. He demonstrates how Americans' preoccupation with a market-based conception of freedom - that is, the personal freedom to choose among different material, moral, and vocational goods - has led to the gradual erosion of meaningful public participation in politics as well as diminished interest in the health of the public realm itself. Villa critically examines, among other topics, the promise and limits of civil society and associational life as sources of democratic renewal; the effects of mass media on the public arena; and the problematic but still necessary ideas of civic competence and democratic maturity."--Jacket

Introduction: embedded activism and political change in a semi-authoritarian context / Peter Ho -- Self-imposed censorship and de-politicized politics in China: green activism, or a color revolution? / Peter Ho -- Corporatist control of environmental non-governmental organizations: a state perspective / Jiang Ru and Leonard Ortolano -- "Of seven mouths and eight tongues": media, civil society, and the rise of a green public sphere / Craig Calhoun and Guobin Yang -- Grassland campaigns during the collective era: socialist politics and local strategies in Uxin Ju / Hong Jiang -- Channeling dissent: the institutionalization of environmental complaint resolution / Anna Brettell -- Not against the state, just protecting residents' interests: an urban movement in a Shanghai neighborhood / Jiangang Zhu and Peter Ho -- Caged by boundaries: NGO cooperation at the Sino-Russian border / Yanfei Sun and Maria Tysiachniouk -- Transnational advocacy at the grassroots: benefits and risks of international cooperation / Katherine Morton -- Perspectives of time and change: rethinking embedded green activism in China / Peter Ho and Richard Louis Edmonds

Title Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: purpose and design of the study -- Introduction -- A review of the literature -- The origins of the 'bottom-up approach' in the planning literature -- Models for institutions that support people-centred planning -- Decentralisation, participation and democracy -- Research question -- Research methods -- Context of metropolitan planning in Kolkata -- Political context -- Socio-economic context -- Planning institutions in India -- Decentralisation of Kolkata's metropolitan planning -- The 'official story' -- Decentralisation in West Bengal -- Partisan politics and urban planning -- Three-tier metropolitan planning -- Agents of change in the decentralisation process -- Actors in planning at the ward level -- Comparative urban politics -- Why study comparative urban politics? -- What is the framework for comparison? -- A comparison with Mumbai, revisited -- Political space for non-partisan grassroots organising -- Politically independent bureaucracy -- Lessons in decentralised planning -- Theoretical implications -- Lesson drawing -- Policy implications -- Lessons and policies for civil society organisations -- Lessons and policies for the political class -- Lessons and policies for planners and bureaucrats -- Lessons for civic activists, NGOs and international agencies -- Future direction of research -- Abstract -- Abbreviations and acronyms -- References -- Curriculum Vitae.

"In Public Freedom, renowned political theorist Dana Villa argues that political freedom is essential to both the preservation of constitutional government and the very substance of American democracy itself. Through intense close readings of theorists such as Hegel, Tocqueville, Mill, Adorno, Arendt, and Foucault, Villa diagnoses the key causes of our democratic discontent and offers solutions to preserve at least some of our democratic hopes. He demonstrates how Americans' preoccupation with a market-based conception of freedom - that is, the personal freedom to choose among different material, moral, and vocational goods - has led to the gradual erosion of meaningful public participation in politics as well as diminished interest in the health of the public realm itself. Villa critically examines, among other topics, the promise and limits of civil society and associational life as sources of democratic renewal; the effects of mass media on the public arena; and the problematic but still necessary ideas of civic competence and democratic maturity."--Jacket

Language policies in Southeast Asia have been shaped by the process of nation-building on the one hand and by political and economic considerations on the other. The early years of nation-building in Southeast Asia generated intensive language conflicts precisely because state policies privileged the idea of a monolingual nation and thus endeavoured to co-opt or even do away with troublesome ethnic identities. In recent years, language policies are increasingly influenced by pragmatic considerations, especially globalization and the awareness of a linkage between language and economic development, such that Southeast Asian states in varying degrees have become less insistent on promoting monolingual nationalism.This book evaluates the successes and drawbacks of language policies in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam and Myanmar, especially the ways in which these policies have often been resisted or contested. It is an invaluable primer on this linguistically complex region and a resource for scholars, policy-makers, civil society activists and NGOs in various parts of the world facing equally challenging ethnic/language issues

Drinking cultures : sites and practices in the production and expression of identity / Thomas M. Wilson -- Drinking country : flows of exchange in a Japanese valley / Brian Moeran -- Cold beer, warm hearts : community, belonging, and desire in Irish pubs in Berlin / Cliona O'Carroll -- Pivo at the heart of Europe : beer drinking and Czech identities / Timothy M. Hall -- Drunk and (dis)orderly : Norwegian drinking parties in the home / Pauline Garvey -- Cognac, beer, red wine, or soft drinks? : Hong Kong identity and wedding banquets / Josephine Smart -- Consuming wine in France : the "wandering" drinker and the vin-anomie / Marion Demossier -- Romantic moods : food, beer, music, and the Yucatecan soul / Steffan Igor Ayora-Diaz and Gabriela Vargas-Cetina -- Cheers and booze : football and festa drinking in Malta / Jon P. Mitchell and Gary Armstrong -- Drinking rituals, identity, and politics in a Basque town / Sharryn Kasmir -- Alcohol and masculinity : the case of ethnic youth gangs / Geoffrey P. Hunt, Kathleen MacKenzie, and Karen Joe-Laidler -- Drinking politics : alcohol, drugs, and the problem of US civil society / Anthony Marcus.

Southeast Asian responses to globalization : restructuring governance and deepening democracy -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Globalization, Development and Democratization in Southeast Asia -- Part One: Restructuring Governance -- Chapter 2: Liberalization without Democratization: Singapore in the Next Decade -- Chapter 3: Capital Controls and Reformasi: Crises and Contestations over Governance -- Chapter 4: Human Rights in Malaysia: Globalization, National Governance and Local Responses -- Chapter 5: Global Civil Society in One Country? Class Formation and Business Activism in the Philippines -- Chapter 6: Globalization, Inequitable Development and Disenfranchisement in Sarawak -- Chapter 7: The Fall of Suharto: Understanding the Politics of the Global -- Part II: Deepening Democracy -- Chapter 8: Filling the Democratic Deficit: Deliberative Forums and Political Organizing in Indonesia -- Chapter 9: Democracy and the Mainstreaming of Localism in Thailand -- Chapter 10: A New Local State in Cambodia? Decentralization as a Political Commodity -- Chapter 11: Democracy among the Grassroots Local Responses to Democratic Reforms in Vietnam -- Conclusion -- Chapter 12: Democratization amidst Globalization in Southeast Asia Empirical Findings and Theoretical Reflections -- Index.

Introduction :Coherence and contestation /Matthew J. Hoffmann and Alice D. Ba --Realist global governance : revisiting cave! hic dragones and beyond /Jennifer Sterling-Folker --Global governance, class, hegemony : a historical materialist perspective /Henk Overbeek --Global governance and hegemony in the modern world system /Giovanni Arrighi --Global governance : an English school perspective /Tim Dunne --Regime theory and the quest for global governance /Oran R. Young --What's global about global governance? : a constructivist account /Matthew J. Hoffmann --Global governance as disaggregated complexity /James N. Rosenau --The European human-rights regime as a case study in the emergence of global governance /Leslie Friedman Goldstein and Cornel Ban --A private-authority perspective on global governance /Timothy J. Sinclair --Contested spaces : the politics of regional and global governance /Alice D. Ba --Global civil society and global governance /Robert O'Brien --Liberal imperialism as global-governance perspective /Daniel Green --Contending perspectives on global governance : dialogue and debate /Matthew J. Hoffmann and Alice D. Ba.

Scripture : Old Testament / Walter Brueggemann -- Scripture : New Testament / Christopher Rowland -- Augustine / Jean Bethke Elshtain -- Aquinas / Frederick Christian Bauerschmidt -- The Reformation / Andrew Bradstock -- Liturgy / Bernd Wannenwetsch -- Eastern Orthodox thought / Michael Plekon -- Carl Schmitt / Michael Hollerich -- Karl Barth / Haddon Willmer -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer / Stanley Hauerwas -- John Courtney Murray / Michael J. Baxter -- William Temple / Alan M. Suggate -- Reinhold Niebuhr / William Werlpehowski -- Feminist theology, Southern / Kwok Pui-lan -- Feminist theology, Northern / Elaine Graham -- Jürgen Moltmann / Nicholas Adams -- Johann Baptist Metz / J. Matthew Ashley -- Political theologies in Asia / Aloysius Pieris -- Black political theologies / M. Shawn Copeland -- Gustavo Gutiérrez / Roberto S. Goizueta -- Stanley Hauerwas / R.R. Reno -- Trinity / Kathryn Tanner -- Creation / Peter Scott -- Christology / Raymund Schwager -- Atonement / Timothy J. Gorringe -- Spirit / Mark Lewis Taylor -- Church / William T. Cavanaugh -- Eschatology / Robert W. Jenson -- State and civil society / Daniel M. Bell, Jr. -- Democracy / John W. de Gruchy -- Critical theory / Marsha Aileen Hewitt -- Postmodernism / Catherine Pickstock -- Globalization / Peter Sedgwick -- The Islamic quest for sociopolitical justice / Bustami Mohamed Khir -- Abrahamic theo-politics : a Jewish view / Peter Ochs

Introduction / Gabriel Badescu and Eric M. Uslaner -- Trust networks and democratic transition : Yugoslavia in the mid-1980s / Hajdeja Iglic -- Communist societies, the velvet revolution, and weak ties : the case of East Germany / Henk Flap and Beate V"olker -- Social networks in Russian politics / Nicolas Hayoz and Victor Sergeyev -- Social networks, civil society, and the prospects for consolidating Russia's democratic transition / James L. Gibson -- Trust and civic engagement in East and West / Eric M. Uslaner -- Social capital and support for democracy in the post-communist states / Kathleen M. Dowley and Brian D. Silver -- Social trust and democratization in the post-communist societies / Gabriel Badescu -- Civic engagement in a post-communist state / Jeffery J. Mondak and Adam F. Gearing -- Why post-communist citizens do not join voluntary organizations? / Marc Morj Howard -- Social capital in Poland / Jerzy Bartkowski -- What does social capital add to democratic values? / Richard Rose and Craig Weller -- Legacies and conflicts : the challenges to social capital in the democratic transition / Eric M. Uslaner and Gabriel Badescu

APEC is an experimental multilateralism, relying not on a large bureaucracy but rather upon national government agencies, semi-autonomous inter-governmental committees and "virtual" associations. Organized around the principles of consensus, voluntarism and unilateralism, APEC has eschewed binding agreements enforced through monitoring and robust compliance mechanisms. This volume assesses the strengths and weaknesses of APEC's "soft" institutionalism, and its capstone policy report, "Remaking APEC", identifies reforms that would close the credibility gap between APEC's promises and accomplishments. Chapters by leading scholars at APEC Study Centres investigate APEC's core agenda -- trade and investment liberalization and capacity-building -- delve into the inner workings of APEC's bureaucracy, and explore APEC's interactions with civil society, including the private sector and NGOs.This volume contains both the policy report and in-depth specialized studies. It is the product of the APEC International Assessment Network (APIAN), a collaborative, independent project among participating APEC Study Centres. APIAN's first major study, Assessing APEC's Progress: Trade, Ecotech and Institutions was also published by ISEAS (2001)

The volume, intended to function as an academic debate-book, began as a workshop on Human Rights and the Police in Transitional Countries held in March 2001 in Hillerød, Denmark. The workshop, which was funded by the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, brought together practitioners and academics from Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America to discuss common experience from the context of transition, which characterises all of them. These discussions take place along four themes, i.e. the transitional context, governance and rule of law; police and civil society; education and training; and the police organisation and reform, international intervention and aid. In addition to a number of key papers on general and theoretical aspects, each section contains a number of illustrative examples of how these issues express themselves in a large number of countries. Finally, the book sums up a catalogue of findings and recommendations in relation to the promotion of human rights in transitional countries and the role of the police in this work