To many in the West, the name 'Cambodia' still conjures up indelible images of destruction and death, the legacy of the brutal Khmer Rouge regime and the terror it inflicted in its attempt to create a communist utopia in the 1970s. Sebastian Strangio, a journalist based in the c…
"Since September 11, 2001, much has been said about the difficult balancing act between freedom and security, but few have made specific proposals for how to strike that balance. As the scandals over the abuse of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib and the "torture memos" written by l…
This title argues that in contemporary Indonesia, Muslim politics have worked with, rather than against, democratic principles. It illustrates that debates on the subject do not only allude to Muslim politics, but often relate to other central issues of politics and identity.
In a probing biography of her native land, Ayesha Jalal provides a unique insider's assessment of how the nuclear-armed Muslim nation of Pakistan evolved into a country besieged by military domination and militant religious extremism, and explains why its dilemmas weigh so heavi…
In 2002, as Sierra Leone prepared to announce the end of its brutal civil war, the anthropologist, poet, and novelist Michael Jackson returned to the country where he had intermittently lived and worked as an ethnographer since 1969. While his initial concern was to help his old…
Scholarship of multi-level governance has developed into one of the most innovative themes of research in political science and public policy. This book presents a review of the wide-ranging literature, encompassing various theoretical and conceptual approaches to multi-level g…
"This is a comparative analysis of the dominant ideologies and modes of legitimization in communist and post-Communist Serbia and Croatia. The aim of the book is to identify and explain dominant normative and operative ideologies and principal modes of legitimization in these th…
"The book is the product of an oral history project involving senior and young researchers from Yogyakarta ... This ... provides a valuable window into why the past remains contested today and some of the obstacles to reconciliation and full rehabilitation of survivors"--Publish…
Policy Paradox develops a powerful and original theory that makes sense of politics in the real world. Unlike most texts, which treat policy analysis and policy making as distinct from one another, this books shows that the very categories behind policy analysis, such as equity,…
The term 'militant democracy' was coined by Karl Loewenstein in the 1930s. He argued that attempts to establish democracy in the Weimar Republic failed due to the lack of militancy against subversive movements. The concept of militant democracy was introduced to legal scholarshi…
"Under what conditions would authoritarian rulers be interested in the rule of law? What type of rule of law exists in authoritarian regimes? How do authoritarian rulers promote the rule of law without threatening their grip on power? Tying the Autocrat's Hands answers these que…
"Early in his career, Adolf Hitler took inspiration from Benito Mussolini, his senior colleague in fascism -- this fact is widely known. But an equally important role model for Hitler and the Nazis has almost been entirely neglected: Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of modern …
"The key to improving health services in many countries today is the capacity to develop strategy and think actively about policy. The Health Care Policy Process considers the relationship between planning and policy, taking as its starting point an analysis of health care and t…
The Horn of Africa - principally Somalia, Sudan and Ethiopia - is the stage on which Africa's tragedy is being played out in its most stark and violent form. In this comprehensive history of the region, Peter Woodward argues that while the principal conflicts have arisen from do…
This text answers readers' questions about the history and current state of the Arab world and addresses all aspects of the uprisings of 2010 to 2011, including their causes, the role of social media, the diverse paths they have taken, the role of the United States and the upris…
by Claessen, H.J.M., (Henri Joannes Maria), Skalník, Petr, (Peter)
fromNew Babylon
A collection of writings and speeches by the current president of Uganda.
