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Democracy: The Challenges Ahead

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 The bottom-line message of this book is democracy resurgent - but not triumphant. There are any number of conceivable anti-democratic threats and no prospect of ever achieving either a satisfactory or a permanent level of democracy in all countries and societies. Any lowering of the guard by democracy''s defenders in academia or real-world politics risks the danger of democracy once again falling upon hard times or even regressing.
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Hong Kong'S Transitions, 1842-1997

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 The reversion of Hong Kong to China on 1 July 1997 is an event of major historical significance. This volume examines this dramatic event from a long-term perspective against the background of earlier turning points in Hong Kong''s political, economic and social history. It also explores Hong Kong''s links with China and Britain in this troubled last decade of colonial rule, and offers a basis for assessing the territory''s possible future as a part of the Chinese state.
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Classical Theories Of International Relations

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 Drawing on a tripartite taxonomy first suggested by the so-called English School of International Relations of a Hobbesian tradition of power politics, a Grotian tradition of concern with the rules that govern relations between states; and a Kantian tradition of thinking which transcends the existence of the states system, this book discusses the thinking of central political theorists about the modern states system. Thinkers covered are Hobbes, Grotius, Kant, Vitoria, Rousseau, Smith, Burke, Hegel, Gentz and Vattel.
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State And Society In Francophone Africa Since Independence

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 This book presents a series of essays by leading English and French scholas examining the politics, economics, international relations and defects of the literary scene of France and the former territories of francophone West Africa since 1965. The approach is emphatically a thematic one rather than a country-by-country analysis.
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Concept Of Political Culture

by Stephen Welch

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 '...erudite, thought-provoking and well-written.'Archie Brown, Professor of Politics, Oxford University. Political culture, instead of being a token in the sterile debate between interest- and culture-based explanation, offers the means of transcending that debate.
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Intellectuals In Twentieth-Century France - Mandarins And Samurais

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 This book examines the role and place of the intellectual in twentieth-century French society.
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Anti-Apartheid And The Emergence Of A Global Civil Society

by H. Thorn

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 Looking at anti-apartheid as part of the history of present global politics, this book provides the first comparative analysis of different sections of the transnational anti-apartheid movement. The author emphasizes the importance of a historical perspective on political cultures, social movements, and global civil society.
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Globalization, Self-Determination And Violent Conflict

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 The authors show that with violent conflict in the developing world as the critical issue for the twenty-first century, and conflict prevention a central security problem for the developed and developing world, self-determination movements can only be understood, and conflict prevented, in the context of global economic and cultural forces
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Legitimacy In International Society - Japan’S Reaction To Global Wildlife Preservation

by I. Miyaoka

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 Legitimacy in International Society addresses collective legitimization of emergent norms at international meetings and its effect on state behaviour.
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Nicaragua'S Conservative Republic, 1858-93

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 This text focuses on a 30-year period in Nicaraguan history when an oligraphic democracy protected the country from it more usual extremes of anarchy and tyranny. It provides a case study illustrating the relationship between legitimate government and economic development in a developing country.
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After 1989 - Morals, Revolution And Civil Society

by Ralf Dahrendorf

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 The essays assembled in this volume are a thoughtful and lively commentary on Europe after the revolution of 1989. Certainly, the open society has its own problems, not least that of citizens in search of meaning. All this raises questions for Europe which extend far beyond the all too narrow confines of the European Union.
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Culture, History And Ideology In The Formation Of Ba'Thist Iraq,1968-89

by Amatzia Baram

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 In this book, an innovative approach to the study of ideology in the Arab world explores how, through culture and the re-interpretation of history, a powerful totalitarian regime has endeavoured to cement internal unity among Iraq's diverse ethnic and religious communities.
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Political Leadership In The Soviet Union

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 The central leadership of the Soviet political system in Moscow is analyzed by a group of Western political researchers. The text covers the entire Soviet period from 1917 to the present day, but special emphasis is placed on the post-Stalin years and new developments of the 1980s.
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Essays In Argentine Labour History, 1870-1930

by Jeremy Adelman

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 From 1870 to 1930 Argentina underwent massive changes. The development of the working classes shaped the direction of those changes by promoting democratization and economic redistribution. This text looks at the formation and weaknesses of the Argentine working classes during this period.
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Europe Observed

by John Campbelld e João Pina-Cabral

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 Examining the problems faced by social anthropologists in the study of European communities, this book provides a critical examination of the method of participant observation in a period of post-structuralist theories which question the possibility of objectivity in social research.
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Anatomy Of The Amazon Gold Rush

by David Cleary

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 In 1979 this century''s largest gold rush began in the Brazilian Amazon and has continued ever since. This book looks at the Amazon gold rush without sensationalizing it, at the politics and economics of gold in Brazil, and at the implications of the gold rush for Amazonia and its people.
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Studies In The Economics Of Central America

by V. Bulmer-Thomas

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 A study explaining how the social upheavals which led to the Nicaraguan revolution and the civil wars in El Salvador and Guatemala were rooted in the export-led model followed in the region. The author also explores their efforts to achieve regional co-operation in the economic sphere.
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Military Rule And Transition In Ecuador, 1972-92

by Anita Isaacs

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 Interprets the Ecuadorian transition to civilian rule following a prolonged period of military dictatorship (1972-79), and assesses the difficulties posed by efforts to consolidate democracy during the decade that followed. It focuses on civilian opposition to the policies of the regime.
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Cross-Taiwan Strait Relations In An Era Of Technological Change - Security, Economic And Cultural Dimensions

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 This book explores how technological change is influencing the dynamics of relations between mainland China and Taiwan. Using the latest research, it examines the acceleration of technology-led and how it shapes three key dimensions of the cross-Strait relationship: the overarching security context; the economic context; and the cultural context.
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Britain And The Maastricht Negotiations

by A. Forster

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 This book examines the British government's negotiation of the Treaty on European Union which took place between December 1990 and December 1991.
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Presidency Of The European Commission Under Jacques Delors - The Politics Of Shared Leadership

by K. Endo

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 Drawing upon cases of attempted leadership by Jacques Delors, the Commission President from 1985-95, it examines the leadership capacity of the office-holder. This points to the inherently shared and contingent nature of Commission President's leadership in a Union where the leadership sources are widely dispersed.
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Economic History Of Twentieth-Century Latin America - Volume I: The Export Age

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 This text explores the impact on Latin America of the transformation of the international economy that took place in the half century or so that preceded the world depression of the 1930s. It shows the interplay of economics with political and social structures had varied effects on policy making.
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Pluralist Thought And The State In Britain And France, 1900-25

by Cecile Laborde

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 This is the first comparative study of early twentieth-century French and British schools of political pluralism. A wide-ranging survey of the works of thinkers such as JN Figgis, GDH Cole, Harold Laski, Edouard Berth, Maxime Leroy and Leon Duguit, Pluralist Thought and the State in Britain and France, 1900-25 is a major contribution both to the study of national tradition of political thought and to the understanding of relationships between state, groups and individuals in democratic societies.
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Japan'S Quest For A Permanent Security-Council Seat - A Matter Of Pride Or Justice?

by R. Drifte

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 Japan has consistently been pursuing the goal of a permanent UN Security Council seat for 30 years. This book investigates the motives for this ambition, and how it has been pursued domestically and internationally.
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