"A useful text and reference book. These essays are at their best in serving both area study and political sociology."--Slavic Review. "Wolchik and Curry have assembled an all-star cast of experts for an authoritative assessment of the progress the region has made toward libera…
Finanz- und Umweltkrisen haben gezeigt: Die Welt braucht eine neue politische Ordnung. In ihrer Streitschrift entwerfen Michael Hardt und Antonio Negri den Weg dorthin. Inspiriert von den weltweiten Protestbewegungen beschreiben sie das Projekt einer Demokratie von unten: Wenn w…
Finanz- und Umweltkrisen haben gezeigt: Die Welt braucht eine neue politische Ordnung. In ihrer Streitschrift entwerfen Michael Hardt und Antonio Negri den Weg dorthin. Inspiriert von den weltweiten Protestbewegungen beschreiben sie das Projekt einer Demokratie von unten: Wenn w…
The analyses in this collection provide a basis for a debate that is becoming increasingly necessary: has the politics of liberation in southern Africa run its course. With chapters on Zimbabwe, Namibia, Lesotho, Botswana and South Africa, the contributors pose a number of criti…
The Internet was going to liberate us, but in truth it has not. For every story about the web's empowering role in events such as the Arab Spring, there are many more about the quiet corrosion of civil liberties by companies and governments using the same digital technologies we…
"Peacebuilding is an interactive process that involves collaboration between peacebuilders and the victorious elites of a postwar society. While one of the most prominent assumptions of the peacebuilding literature asserts that the interests of domestic elites and peacebuilders …
