This volume explores the transition from the old regime tomodern forms of sovereignty in the Middle East. By rereading Tocqueville's classic, "The Old Rigime and the French Revolution, through an Ottoman prism this study probes the unresolved paradoxes in his analysis of institu…
Based on archival research, this work examines the Ottoman ancien regime. The author argues that the success of the regime was due to the articulation of a complex financial network revolving around central state elite investments and an Istanbul-based and supervised banking sys…
Based on three years of archival research, this work adopts a comparative framework in its examination of one of the least understood and more paradoxical polities of modern European and Middle Eastern history: the Ottoman ancien regime. Despite a profoundly decentralized state …
Stati murati, sovranità in declino
by Brown, Wendy, Giardini, Federica, (Law professor)
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Discusses the spate of wall-building by countries around the world and considers the reasons why walls are being built in an increasingly globalized world in which threats to security come from sources that cannot be contained by brick and barbed wire.
Culture can be a significant contributor to, or hindrance to, a team's success. Research has clearly established that failing to have a cohesive team culture creates a severe challenge to any team effort. Culture is also something that everyone brings with them to the team. Yet,…
"Cultural Nationhood and Political Statehood explores the development of the idea that every nation-most commonly understood as a linguistic community-is entitled to its own state. Following several contemporary studies of nationalism, this book provides a critical examination o…
"Cultural Nationhood and Political Statehood explores the development of the idea that every nation-most commonly understood as a linguistic community-is entitled to its own state. Following several contemporary studies of nationalism, this book provides a critical examination o…
"Cultural Nationhood and Political Statehood explores the development of the idea that every nation-most commonly understood as a linguistic community-is entitled to its own state. Following several contemporary studies of nationalism, this book provides a critical examination o…
"Cultural Nationhood and Political Statehood explores the development of the idea that every nation-most commonly understood as a linguistic community-is entitled to its own state. Following several contemporary studies of nationalism, this book provides a critical examination o…
States of water / Filippo Menga and Erik Swyngedouw -- The ocean bountiful? : de-salination, de-politicisation, and binational water governance on the Colorado River / Joe Williams -- Piercing the Pyrenees, connecting Catalonia to Europe : the ascendancy and dismissal of the Rhô…
"Just as space, territory and society can be socially and politically co-constructed, so can water, and thus the construction of hydraulic infrastructures can be mobilised by politicians to consolidate their grip on power while nurturing their own vision of what the nation is or…
