Comparative politics Books
Ibidem Press Problems of Democratic Transitions in Multi-Ethnic States. Comparison Between the Former Yugoslavia and Present Days Myanmar
Book SynopsisSaw Myat Sandy's study deals with theoretical and empirical analysis of the political transitions in former Yugoslavia and Burma, the present day Myanmar. It covers the transition period of both states from the late 1980s until present. The author examines the democratic transition in both states, where the process has been unsuccessfully accomplished', i.e. after a very promising beginning sooner or later undermined by the challenges of the transition, which threatened to reverse, what was gained by democratisation. In this dissertation, Saw Myat Sandy argues that the democratic transition in both states became an extended process of transition' because of its multi-ethnic societies. The democratisation in former Yugoslavia led to disintegration, and in Myanmar it is proving to be an intractable one and has become almost un-resolvable to anyone's satisfaction. Myanmar today suffers from on-going political instabilities that cause political and social fragmentations but does not demonstrate that it will fall into conventional Balkan scenarios. This dissertation analyses if Myanmar's political transition will follow the former Yugoslavian fate by using the transition theoretical framework and highlighting the empirical facts on the problems of ethnicity and other political factors that relate to these democratisation processes. The theoretical approaches are based on the democratic transition and consolidation theories' argued by Juan J. Linz, Alfred Stepan and Samuel Huntington. As opposed to many quantitative studies, relevant dimensions will gradually appear in this qualitative case study. The theoretical perspectives that apply are equally significant and supplement each other and relate to its national experience. The study contributes to the conventional theoretical debate and aims to offer the understanding for the need to expand the link between ethnicity and political transitions in transition theories. It proposes a heuristic method to integrate the dynamic of ethnicity in political transition theories.
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V&R Unipress Power-Sharing in the Divided Asian Societies
Book SynopsisAn Analysis of the Current Situation of Power-sharing in Selected Asian Countries
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Verlag Barbara Budrich Europeanised Defiance – Czech Euroscepticism
Book SynopsisWhy is there so much reservation and scepticism among the Czech public as well as politicians towards the European Union? Has the experience of the Czech Republic as a member of the EU changed Czech Euroscepticism since 2004? The authors provide a detailed analysis of the dynamics of Euroscepticism using the concept of Europeanisation. The unique connection of the concepts of Euroscepticism and Europeanisation creates an innovative research framework.
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Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Policy-Timing Nach 9/11: Die Strategische Nutzung
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Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Global Funds and Networks: Narrowing the Gap
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Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Europaische Integration: Beitrage Zur
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Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Eu's Policy of Democracy Promotion: Strategies
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Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Transformation, Politics and Implementation:
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Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Bilateral Diplomacy and Eu Membership: Case Study
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Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Grenzforschung: Handbuch Fur Wissenschaft Und
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Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Osce-Yearbook 2018: Yearbook on the Organization
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Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft New Realities in Foreign Affairs: Diplomacy in
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Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft The Visegrad Four and the Western Balkans:
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Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Die Rechte Indigener Volker Im
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Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Still a Century of Corporatism?: Models of
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Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Energy Regionalism in Ecowas and the Eu: A
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Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft The Diffusion of Morality Policies: State-Level
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Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Opposition Party Behavior and Minority Government
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Verlag Barbara Budrich Doing Democracy Differently: Political Practices
Book SynopsisTransnational civil society networks have become increasingly important democratizing actors in global politics. Still, the exploration of democracy in such networks remains conceptually and methodologically challenging. Practice theory provides a framework to study democracy as routinized performances even in contexts of fluid boundaries, temporal relations and a diffuse constituency. The author attempts to understand how new forms of democratic practice emerge in the interaction between political actors and their structural environments.Table of ContentsFigures Tables Abbreviations Abstract Introduction Part I Conceptual Foundations of Democratic Practice in Transnational Civil Society Networks 1 Participatory Democracy 1.1 The Theoretical Foundations of Participatory Democracy 1.2 The Triad of Participation, Equality and Freedom 1.3 From System Change to Integration: Participatory Democracy vis-a-vis State and Society 1.4 The Prospects of Participatory Democracy for Transnational Civil Society Networks 1.4.1 A Model for Participatory Transnational Democracy: Global Stakeholder Democracy 1.4.2 Internal Democracy in Civil Society Groups 2 Democratic Representation 2.1 The Roots of Democratic Representation 2.2 Democratic Norms and Forms of Representation 2.2.1 Representation as Description 2.2.2 The Representative's Freedom 2.3 The Prospects of Non-electoral Representation for Transnational Civil Society Networks 2.3.1 Holding Representatives Accountable by a Blurred Constituency 2.3.2 Trust as a Basis for Unelected Representatives 2.3.3 The Substantive Practice of Representation 3 Deliberative Democracy 3.1 The Epistemic Perspective on Deliberation 3.1.1 Valid Norms and Enlightened Decisions i- the Goals of Deliberation 3.1.2 Beyond Expert Rationality in Deliberation 3.2 The Participatory Claims of Deliberative Democracy 3.2.1 Shared Notions and Differences between Participatory and Deliberative Democracy 3.2.2 Pluralism and Impartiality in Deliberative Processes 3.3 The Prospects of Deliberative Democracy for Transnational Civil Society Networks 4 Democracy as Practice 4.1 Social Practices 4.2 Conceptualizing Democracy as Practice 4.3 Evaluation Criteria for Democratic Practice 4.3.1 Participation Practices 4.3.2 Deliberation Practices 4.3.3 Representation Practices Part II Democratic Practice in Two Transnational Civil Society Networks 5 Research Design 5.1 Methodological Assumptions of a Reconstructive Analysis 5.2 Case Selection 5.3 Qualitative Semi-structured Interviews 5.4 The Method of Reconstructive Analysis 6 Political Practices in Transnational Civil Society Networks i- An Exploration 6.1 A Campaign for Better Working Conditions in the Garment Industry: the CCC 6.2 A Network for Environmental Protection Worldwide: FoE 6.3 The Political Practices of Representation, Participation and Deliberation 6.3.1 Inside the transnational civil society networks: general perceptions 6.3.2 Participation Practices 6.3.3 Deliberation Practices 6.3.4 Representation Practices 6.3.5 Conclusions 7 How Democratic are the Political Practices Explored? 7.1 Participation Practices 7.2 Deliberation Practices 7.3 Representation Practices 8 Conclusions: Democracy in Contexts of Dissolving Boundaries References Annex
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Verlag Barbara Budrich European Neighbourhood Policy: Challenges for the
Book SynopsisThe enlarged European Union needs new instruments for exporting stability and change into the fragile regions and countries beyond its borders. That is why the EU is developing and implementing the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP): a strategic concept which is to enhance the Union’s capability to be a driver of reform – without automatically promising the “golden carrot” of membership to the neighbours. This book provides the reader with information on what ENP wants, how it works and what the prospects of the Union’s cooperation with neighbouring countries are.Trade ReviewDen Herausgebern ist es gelungen, eine Reihe renommierter Autoren zu gewinnen, die sich in drei großen Abschnitten aus verschiedenen Blickwinkeln der ENP nähern. Neue Politische Literatur 3/2008
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V&R Unipress Storfall fur die gute Nachbarschaft?: Deutsche
Book SynopsisText in German. The oil crisis in autumn 1973 is considered to be the decisive turning point in the 1970s. It painfully demonstrated the dependence of the western industrialized countries on Arab oil. Using the example of Franco-German relations, the author asks whether there was cooperation in energy policy and how this was actually structured. On the one hand, using historical primary sources, she examines the behavior and political strategies of the German and French governments. On the other hand, the search for multilateral solutions is presented. Case studies provide insights into the civil society level. This first systematic analysis of Franco-German relations in the field of energy policy shows that energy policy was of great importance for the bilateral relationship, even if the results of Franco-German cooperation remained extremely low.
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Science Factory Die Zukunft der SPD: Erfolge und Misserfolge
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Planeta Publishing La Tercera Guerra Mundial YA Está Aquí
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Planeta Publishing La Pareja del Número 9
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Oceano La Guerra Improvisada: Los Años de Calderón Y Sus
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Silkworm Books / Trasvin Publications LP The Ninth Panchen Lama (1883-1937): A Life at the
Book SynopsisThis biography of the Ninth Panchen Lama, the second highest spiritual authority in Tibetan Buddhism, offers new insights into the tumultuous history of the relations between China and Tibet at the start of the twentieth century. It demonstrates how the Panchen Lama's flight from his monastery on the night of December 22, 1923, remains an essential characterizing event of Tibet's modern history. His flight from his country set the stage for Chinese Republican, and later Communist, control over the selection of his successors, with repercussions even today for Sino-Tibetan relations. This is the first publication in an innovative new series of research work on Asia, a collaboration between the École Française d'Extrême-Orient (EFEO) and Silkworm Books to translate French publications for an English-language readership.
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LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing Europe as an Imagined Community
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China National Publications Import & Export C Peering into China
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Sterling Publishers Pvt.Ltd Comparative Politics
Book SynopsisThe study of comparative politics is as old as Aristotle -- the celebrated 'father of politics'. In recent times, it has assumed a significance of its own owing to remarkable developments in the spheres of national and international politics. The decline of the authoritarian and totalitarian systems and, instead, the spread of democracy around the world in several forms, transformation of the Westphalian model of the nation-state noticeable in the emergence of a vigorous civil society, and the establishment of a transnational state in Western Europe may be referred to in particular. Global comparisons have become the fashion of the day which reveal astonishing facts about the existence and role of many political and para-political institutions. Non-state actors demand proper attention to their role in the operation of politics of the developed as well as the developing countries. Comparing political institutions, as done by the old writers, is not so important now. What is needed is that the scope of such a venture should be widened so as to investigate and analyse the working of the states in the present age of democratisation, modernisation, liberalisation and globalisation. The changes in the domain of this subject are at once momentous and profound. One era of comparative politics has gone, and the other one has ushered in with it a new agenda of its own.
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Kontekst forlag USA
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Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Wydawnictwo Constitutional Developments of the Habsburg
Book SynopsisIn the aftermath of the Polish-Hungarian Conference held in Cracow in 2007 there has been published the present volume. It is exponential of the cooperation between the legal historians of the Cracow and Pecs Universities. The participants of the Conference discussed at length the topics concerned with the constitutional developments in the Austro-Hungarian empire in the final era of its existence. A series of articles published in the volume are illustrative of the Rechtsstaat tendencies as detectable in the functioning of the Austro-Hungarian administration and the judiciary, and also in the field of Church-State relationships. Against that background there is also discussed the liberalism of the Austro-Hungarian regime in the area of emigration as well as the grass-roots initiative of the Poles in laying the foundations of Polonia restituta at the time when World War I had not yet come to its end. Last but not least, some authors present fairly individual topics such as the role of the fidei-comissuni in promoting the preservation of cultural legacy in the Hungarian part of the empire, or the survival of Hungarian serfdom tradition in the area of Poland controlled post-war Spisz and Orawa.Trade ReviewNoteworthy analytical presentation by Istvan Kajtara eminent Hungarian historian figure Andorra Czizmadii. -- Dr. Andrzej Bryk, Jagiellonian University
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Espaa el federalismo necesario
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Faery Whisper Press Los lenguajes de la república
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Brill Disputing the Floodplains: Institutional Change and the Politics of Resource Management in African Wetlands
Book SynopsisAfrican Floodplains in semi-arid areas are important for local livelihoods as they harbor many common-pool resources such as fisheries, pasture, wildlife, veldt products, water and land for irrigation. However, in many of these areas resources are under pressure. This book is presenting seven case studies from Mali, Cameroon, Tanzania, Zambia and Botswana based on anthropological fieldwork (2002-08) and explores how these common-pool resources have been managed in pre-colonial, colonial and postcolonial times. The major focus of the study is how institutional change has contributed to resource management problems and offers a comparative analysis based on the New Institutionalist approach (Jean Ensminger, Elinor Ostrom), which is combined with a special focus on ideology, discourse and narratives while focusing on conflict and power issues. With a foreword by Elinor Ostrom. This book has received the Environmental Research Award 2011 of the University of Bern, Switzerland.Trade Review'Anthropologists and historians have written individual case studies that are of considerable value. Without serious efforts to compare historical case studies, however, it is difficult to obtain theoretical results that then can be tested by other scholars. The collection of papers in this book helps us understand resource management processes over time within multiple settings in five African countries. The focus is primarily on floodplain resources, but includes parallel resource problems related to fisheries and open pastures. Each of the chapters is well worth a serious read. Chapter Nine is a particularly valuable contribution to the study of institutional change. Haller provides an excellent synthesis of the work of the eight scholars who have contributed chapters in this book.' Elinor Ostrom, Indiana University and Arizona State University 'This book is a useful addition to any African studies library because it lays out a rigorously detailed and persuasively argued model for environmental history and anthropology, [....] It is a very dry book about very wet places, but it establishes an analytical framework that will undoubtedly be useful for understanding the historical dynamics of African socialecological systems far beyond the wetlands'. Michael Sheridan, Middlebury College In: IJAHS Vol. 45, No. 1 (2012)
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Brill Political Trust and Disenchantment with Politics: International Perspectives
Book SynopsisThat the publics of Western democracies are becoming increasingly disenchanted with their political institutions is part of the conventional wisdom in Political Science. This trend is often equated with the expectation that all forms of political attachment and participation show similar patterns of decline. Based on empirical underpinnings derived from a range of original and sophisticated comparative analyses from Europe and beyond, this collection shows that no such universal pattern of decline exists. Nor should it be expected, given the diversity of reasons that citizens have to place or withdraw trust, and to engage in conventional political participation or in protest. Contributers are: Christoph Arndt, Wiebke Breustedt, Christina Eder, Manfred te Grotenhuis, Alexia Katsanidou, Rik Linssen, Michael P. McDonald, Ingvill C. Mochmann, Kenneth Newton, Maria Oskarson, Suzanne L. Parker, Glenn R. Parker, Markus Quandt, Peer Scheepers, Hans Schmeets, Thoralf Stark, and Terri L. Towner.Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Acknowledgements Note on Contributors 1. Editors’ Introduction: Political Trust and Political Disenchantment in Comparative Perspective Markus Quandt, Christina Eder, and Ingvill C. Mochmann 2. Trust and Political Disenchantment. An Overview Kenneth Newton 3. Trends in Conventional and Unconventional Political Participation in Europe 1981-2008 Rik Linssen, Hans Schmeets, Peer Scheepers, and Manfred te Grotenhuis 4. Rethinking the Meaning and Measurement of Political Trust Suzanne L. Parker, Glenn R. Parker and Terri L. Towner 5. When Citizens Lose Faith: Political Trust and Political Participation Christina Eder and Alexia Katsanidou 6. The Role of Electoral Systems for the Translation of Political Trust into Electoral Participation Christoph Arndt 7. Social risk, Political Detachment and Welfare state De-commodification Maria Oskarson 8. Contextual Income Inequality and Political Behavior Michael P. McDonald 9. Thinking Outside the Democratic Box: Political Values, Performance and Political Support in Authoritarian Regimes Wiebke Breustedt and Toralf Stark Index
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Brill Scaling the Balkans: Essays on Eastern European Entanglements
Book SynopsisScaling the Balkans puts in conversation several fields that have been traditionally treated as discrete: Balkan studies, Ottoman studies, East European studies, and Habsburg and Russian studies. By looking at the complex interrelationship between countries and regions, demonstrating how different perspectives and different methodological approaches inflect interpretations and conclusions, it insists on the heuristic value of scales. The volume is a collection of published and unpublished essays, dealing with issues of modernism, backwardness, historical legacy, balkanism, post-colonialism and orientalism, nationalism, identity and alterity, society-and nation-building, historical demography and social structure, socialism and communism in memory, and historiography.Trade Review"This anthology will be of interest to those who want to follow in the footsteps laid by Todorova in Imagining the Balkans, but it will also be an asset to teachers, as the volume includes a number of key texts that form an excellent basis for lectures and seminars. Finally, all those who try to protect themselves in their own work from essentializing their image of the Balkans should reach for this volume to find sufficient information for the development and expansion of self-immunization strategies." Karl Kaser, Graz, in Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas (JGO 68) "Dieser Sammelband wird für jene interessant sein, die die von Todorova in Imagining the Balkans gelegten Spuren weiterverfolgen wollen, er wird aber auch für Lehrende eine Bereicherung sein, da der Band eine Reihe von Schlüsseltexten umfasst, die als Grundlage für Vorlesungen und Seminare hervorragend zu verwenden sind, darunter auch die beiden hier näher besprochenen. Schließlich sollten auch all jene zu diesem Band greifen, die sich in ihren eigenen Arbeiten vor Essentialisierungen ihres Balkanbildes zu schützen versuchen. Sie werden in dem beinahe 700 Seiten umfassenden Band ausreichend Hinweise für den Auf- und Ausbau von Selbstimmunisierungsstrategien vorfinden." Karl Kaser, Graz, in Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas (JGO 68)Table of ContentsList of Illustrations, Tables, Figures and Maps Introduction Part 1: Concepts Section 1: Modernism, Backwardness and Legacy 1 The Trap of Backwardness: Modernity, Temporality and the Study of Eastern European Nationalism 2 Modernism 3 Historical Legacies between Europe and the Near East Section 2: Balkanism, Postcolonialism and Orientalism 4 Balkan 5 Balkanism and Postcolonialism or On the Beauty of the Airplane View 6 The Balkans: from Discovery to Invention 7 The Balkans: from Invention to Intervention 8 Does Russian Orientalism Have a Russian Soul? A Contribution to the Debate between Nathaniel Knight and Adeeb Khalid Section 3: Nationalism, Identity and Alterity 9 Is There Weak Nationalism and Is It a Useful Category? 10 Is “the Other” a Useful Cross-cultural Concept? Some Thoughts on Its Implementation to the Balkan Region 11 Isn’t Central Europe Dead? Comments on Iver Neumann’s “Forgetting the Central Europe of the 1980s” 12 What Is or Is There a Balkan Culture, and Do or Should the Balkans Have a Regional Identity? Part 2: Structures, Processes and Events Section 1: Demography and Social Structure 13 European Population History: the Balkans 14 Situating the Family of Ottoman Bulgaria within the European Pattern 15 On the Epistemological Value of Family Models: the Balkans within the European Pattern 16 Historical Tradition and Transformation in Bulgaria: Women’s Issues, Feminist Issues Section 2: Nation- and Society-Building 17 The Course and Discourses of Bulgarian Nationalism 18 Language as a Cultural Unifier in a Multilingual Setting: the Bulgarian Case during the Nineteenth Century 19 Identity (Trans)formation among Bulgarian Muslims 20 Midhat Pasha and the Bulgarians 21 Improbable Maverick or Typical Conformist? Seven Thoughts on the New Bulgaria Section 3: Historiography and Memory 22 East European Studies in the US: Thematic and Methodological Problems 23 The Ottoman Menace in Post-Habsburg Historiography 24 Conversion to Islam as a Trope in Bulgarian Historiography, Fiction and Film 25 The Balkan Wars in Memory: the Carnegie Report and Trotsky’s War Correspondence Section 4: Socialism and Communism in Memory 26 Shared or Contested Heritage? Commemorating Socialism and Communism in Europe 27 1917 in the Balkans: Divergent “Horizons of Expectation” 28 Was there Civil Society and a Public Sphere under Socialism? The Debates around Vasil Levski’s Alleged Reburial in Bulgaria 29 Blowing Up the Past: the Mausoleum of Georgi Dimitrov as Lieu de Mémoire 30 Remembering Communism: Similar Trajectories, Different Memories Index
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Brill Political Economy of Globalization and China's Options
Book SynopsisPolitical Economy of Globalization and China's Options offers the political economy of globalization and China’s options in response to globalization’s retrogression, and the construction of world order. What are the strategies for upgrading the competitiveness of an emerging major power? Why does world need a new concept of openness? What are the four major challenges for the world economy? How do Chinese scholars think of in an “Anti-Globalization” environment? What are the five major objectives of global politics? Besides answering these basic questions, we will also consider other issues: the triangular relationship among China, the United States, and Russia; Rise of China and transformation of international order; understanding nuclear security and safety issues from the perspective of global governance.Table of ContentsSeries Advisor’s Foreward List of Contributors Journal Information (第六辑) 1 The Political Economy of Globalization and China’s Options in Response to Globalization’s Retrogression Cai Fang 2 Strategies for Upgrading the Competitiveness of an Emerging Major Power Long Guoqiang 3 The World Needs a New Vision of Openness Ye He 4 The Costs and Benefits to China in Leading Economic Globalization within an “Anti-Globalization” Environment Li Xiangyang 5 Four Major Challenges for the World Economy Yao Zhizhong 6 China’s Industrialization Process and Its Influence on Globalization Huang Qunhui 7 China’s Industrial Transformation and Upgrading in Globalization’s New Era Jin Bei 8 Inclusive Globalization: An Investigative Analysis Xie Danyang and Cheng Kun 9 The Five Major Objectives of Global Politics Wang Jisi 10 The Current Triangular Relationship between China, the United States, and Russia Zou Zhibo 11 The Restructuring of Global Value Chains and Vitalization of China’s Manufacturing Sector in the Context of the “One Belt One Road” Initiative Liu Zhibiao 12 China’s Rise and the Transformation of International Order (1985–2015) Men Honghua 13 Understanding Nuclear Security and Safety Issues from the Perspective of Global Governance Fu Xiaoqiang 14 China’s Trade and Investment Promotion Measures in the Context of Economic Globalization Cui Xiaomin and Yu Miaojie 15 State Governance, Global Governance, and the Construction of World Order Chen Zhimin
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Brill The Fundamental Dynamic Effect on Reform and Opening in China
Book SynopsisThe Fundamental Dynamic Effect on Reform and Opening in China is the seventh volume of the series China in the World. The year 2018 marks the fortieth year of China’s reform and opening. China’s reform and opening has involved many areas. This volume focuses on reform and opening’s dynamic mechanisms, but it also touches on how to look at some of the problems that these dynamic mechanisms face today. The articles in this volume explore the driving force of China’s reform and opening up from the perspective of institutional changes, such as the political economy of globalization and China’s options in response to globalization’s retrogression and the (re)construction of world order. What are the strategies for upgrading the competitiveness of an emerging major power? Why does world need a new concept of openness? What are the four major challenges for the world economy? How do Chinese scholars think in an “Anti-Globalization” environment?Table of ContentsSeries Advisor’s Foreword List of Contributors List of Journals 1 Introduction: the Cultural Value Drivers of the Economic Achievements of China’s Reform and Opening Shao Binhong and He Huaihong 2 The Cost of Systemic Institutions and the Chinese Economy Zhou Qiren 3 Historical Moments and Salient Facts: an Update on China’s Urbanization Cai Fang 4 Land Issues in China’s Urban-Rural Stage of Development Liu Shouying 5 A Trade War That is Unwarranted Yu Yongding 6 Sino-US Trade: Multilateral and Bilateral Perspectives Zhu Min and Miao Yanliang 7 Forty Years of China’s Development as an Open Economy: Retrospect and Prospects Hong Junjie and Shang Hui 8 China’s Opening Up after 40 Years: Standing at a Historic Turning Point Ju Jiandong and Yu Xinding 9 The Great Opening Up and the Roadmap for the Future: the Story of China’s International Trade Du Yan and Lu Yi 10 Opening Up in the Upper Middle-Income Phase: Lessons from International Experience Zou Jingxian and Zhang Bin 11 What Is “New” in China’s New Open Economy System? Sheng Bin and Li Feng 12 Opening to the Outside World in the New Era Should Respond to Declining Demographic and Globalization Dividends Xu Qiyuan 13 Actively and Prudently Open Up China’s Financial Sector Huang Yiping 14 On Appropriately Sequencing in China’s Financial Opening Up around the “Three-in-One” Guan Tao, Zhang Antian, and Liu Lipin Index
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Brill Cuba Was Different: Views of the Cuban Communist Party on the Collapse of Soviet and Eastern European Socialism
Book SynopsisIn Cuba Was Different, Even Sandvik Underlid explores the views of Cuban authorities, official press, and Party members as they reflect back on the collapse of Soviet and Eastern European socialism. In so doing, he contributes to a better understanding as to why the Cuban system – often associated with Fidel Castro’s leadership – did not itself collapse. Despite the loss of its most important allies, key ideological referents, and even most of its foreign trade, Cuba did not embrace capitalism. The author critically examines and analyzes the collapse of the USSR and Eastern Europe as reported in the Cuban Communist Party newspaper Granma, both as they unfolded and subsequently through the lens of additional interviews with individual Party members. This focus on Cuba’s Communist Party provides new perspectives on how these events were seen from Cuba and on the notable resilience of many party members.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Figures List of Abbreviations Introduction Part 1 : The Collapse According to Granma 1 Written Sources on the Collapse 2 Granma and the Written News as a Method 3 Analyzing the News Accounts 4 Reflections on the Written News Part 2 : 5 Contextualizing the Testimonies 6 Oral Source Methodologies 7 Analysis of the Interviews 8 Insights from the Oral Testimonies Conclusion: Viewing the Collapse through the PCC Lens Afterword Appendix 1: Information for the Interviewees Appendix 2: Interview Guide Appendix 3 : Core Sources Appendix 4: Example Table for Data Visualization Bibliography Index
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Brill The Impact of Innovation on Globalization
Book SynopsisThe Impact of Innovation on Globalization is the eighth volume of the series China in the World. Like other volumes in the series, this volume includes views of leading Chinese scholars on China’s relations with other countries and regions in the world. In view of the theme of “globalization” in this volume, the contributors in this volume pay attention to how the Covid-19 pandemic impacts and challenges globalization, especially how it affects China, the United States, and their mutual relations. However, this is not to say that some issues surrounding globalization—the orientation and interrelationship of political and economic decision-making in China and the United States—have emerged only after the outbreak of the pandemic. The volume focuses on some long-term trends and innovations, from the past to the future. Chapter 2, “Globalization, Convergence, and China’s Economic Development,” describes the patterns of globalization. Chapter 3, “The Rejuvenation of the Chinese Nation is Unstoppable,” talks about views on current economic and financial issues. Chapter 4, “Reconstructing Global Industrial Chains under the Pandemic, and China’s Response,” discusses China’s pivotal position in global supply chains. Besides answering these basic questions, the book investigates other important issues, such as Global Value Chains, Changes in the International Order, Changes in the International Economic Landscape, WTO Reform, China’s Foreign Economic and Trade Strategies, Towards a Climate Resilience Society, Identity Politics, and the AI “Revolution”.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Contributors List of Journals 1 Introduction: How Will Globalization Continue? Shao Binhong and He Huaihong 2 Globalization, Convergence, and China’s Economic Development Cai Fang 3 The Rejuvenation of the Chinese Nation Is Unstoppable Guo Shuqing 4 Reconstructing Global Industrial Chains under the Pandemic, and China’s Response Huang Qifan 5 Global Value Chains, National Value Chains, and Economic Growth: Substitutional or Complementary? Sheng Bin, Su Danni, and Shao Chaodui 6 Change in the International Order—and China’s Options Tang Shiping 7 Changes in the International Economic Landscape and China’s Strategic Options in the Next Fifteen Years: Research Group for “Changes in the International Economic Landscape and China’s Strategic Options” Development Research Center of the State Council 8 wto Reform: The Global Approach and China’s Position Liao Fan 9 Adjusting China’s Foreign Economic and Trade Strategies Is in Line with Its Own Strategic Interests Yu Zhi 10 Towards a Climate Resilience Society: Challenges and Prospects Sun Shao 11 What Kind of Globalism Does the Trump Administration Want? Li Xiangyang 12 Identity Politics and the Evolution of World Order Kong Yuan 13 The “Proximate Sorrows” and “Distant Worries” of the AI “Revolution”: An Ethical and Ontological Analysis Zhao Tingyang Index
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Brill The Radical Right: Politics of Hate on the Margins of Global Capital
Book SynopsisThis book discusses five cases of hatred politics on the margins of global capital: Turkey under Erdogan (assumed office in 2003), Hungary under Orbán (assumed office in 2010), India under Modi (assumed office in 2014); the Philippines under Duterte (assumed office in 2016) and Brazil under Bolsonaro (assumed office in 2019). How did they come to power? What strategies of legitimation do they employ? What resistances do they face? Country case studies lay the foundation for a systematic comparison that illuminates the key dynamics of this novel political form. Analyses of their responses to the Covid-19 pandemic further shed light on their methods in a time of crisis and a chapter that considers the Trump presidency indicates how we can understand these leaderships given their pronounced counterpart in the Global North – and vice-versa. This is not a mere collection of texts commissioned from specialists, but the result of a two-year-long collective endeavor: an international taskforce to respond to a global phenomenon. Contributors are: Fabio Luis Barbosa dos Santos, Daniel Feldmann, Ágnes Gagyi, Daniel Geary, Tamás Gerőcs, Sefika Kumral, Cecilia Lero, Devika Misra, Ilhan Can Ozen and Aparna Sundar.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction The Radical Right: Politics of Hate on the Margins of Global Capital Cecilia Lero 2 Right-Wing Authoritarianism in Turkey Sefika Kumral 3 Global Crisis and the Realignment of Eastern European Capitalist Class Alliances The Case of Hungarian Illiberalism Tamás Gerőcs and Ágnes Gagyi 4 Modi’s New India Hatred, Dispossession, Desperation Aparna Sundar 5 Can Democracies Die Democratically? Rodrigo Duterte in the Philippines Cecilia Lero 6 Understanding the Myth Bolsonaro’s Brazil Fabio Luis Barbosa dos Santos 7 Comparisons Fabio Luis Barbosa dos Santos 8 The Pandemic as an Opportunity Daniel Feldmann, Cecilia Lero, Devika Misra, Ágnes Gagyi, Tamás Gerőcs and Ilhan Can Ozen 9 It Can’t Happen Here Trump Viewed from the Margins Daniel Geary Index
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Brill Brazilian Bourgeoisie and Foreign Policy
Book SynopsisWhat were the changes in the international position of the Brazilian state during the Lula and Cardoso administrations? How were the classes and class fractions represented? These are the questions that Tatiana Berringer's work seeks to answer. Using the theoretical instruments of the Marxist Nicos Poulantzas, the book identifies the class interests that directed the international action of the Brazilian state. With notable originality, the text presents, theoretically and empirically, a truly consistent Marxist analysis of Brazilian foreign policy, as well as a rich interpretation of the class struggle in current Brazilian politics. The author offers the reader her reflections on the political crisis of 2016 and the foreign policy of the Dilma, Temer, and Bolsonaro governments.Table of ContentsForeword Preface Acknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Abbreviations and Acronyms Introduction 1 Power Bloc: Brazilian Theory and Policy 1 Theory: The Power Bloc and International Relations 2 Theory: Power Bloc and Foreign Policy Analysis 2 The fhc Governments: Neoliberalism, Power Bloc and Foreign Policy 1 Neoliberalism 2 Neoliberalism and the Power Bloc in Brazil 3 Foreign Policy in the fhc Governments 3.1 Adherence to the Missile Technology Control Regime (mtcr) 3.2 The Efforts to Reactivate the InterAmerican Treaty for Reciprocal Assistance (itra) 3.3 ftaa, mercosur and the Internal Bourgeoisie 3.4 Regional Politics between 1998 and 2000: The mercosur Crisis and the Launching of the irsa i 3.5 The Lafer Administration and the Brazilian State’s Passive Subordination to Imperialism 3.6 The 2002 Elections 3.7 The ftaa and the 2002 Elections 3.8 The Internal Bourgeoisie and the 2002 Election 3.9 The pt and the 2002 Elections 3 The Lula Governments: Neo-developmentalism, Power Bloc and Foreign Policy 1 Neo-developmentalism and Power Bloc 1.1 A Brief Review of Some of the Analytical Literature on the Lula Governments’ Social and Economic Policies 2 Foreign Policy during the Lula Governments 2.1 South-South Coalitions 2.2 Haiti 2.3 Regional Integration 2.4 Africa 2.5 The Middle East 2.6 China 2.7 European Union 2.8 The imf 2.9 The United States 2.10 Defense Policy 2.11 The Lula Governments’ Foreign Policy and the Neo-developmentalist Front 2.12 The Brazilian State’s Position in Regard to Imperialism 2.13 The Political Organization of the Neo-developmentalist Front 2.14 The Internal Bourgeoisie and the South-South Foreign Policy 2.15 Contradictions among Sectors Composing the Internal Bourgeoisie 2.16 The Unstable Equilibrium of Compromises and Foreign Policy 2.17 The Party-Political Dispute and Foreign Policy 4 Brazil and South America 1 Brazilian State and South America: Imperialism, Sub-imperialism and Neo-developmentalism 1.1 Brazilian Imperialism 1.2 Brazilian Sub-imperialism 1.3 Neo-developmentalism and Regional Politics 2 People’s Movements and Unionism in Relation to Regional Integration Processes in South America 2.1 Brazilian People’s Movements and Unionism and Regional Integration in the 1980s and 1990s 2.2 The People’s Classes and Regional Integration during the pt Governments 5 Brazil under fhc and Lula 6 Power Bloc and Foreign Policy in the Dilma, Temer and Bolsonaro Governments 1 The Dilma Government: Foreign Policy, Political Crisis and Power Bloc 1.1 Foreign Policy in the Dilma Governments 1.2 The Power Bloc, the Political Crisis and Foreign Policy 2 The Temer Government and the Return to Passive Subordination 2.1 Brazil’s Trade and Production Structures Compared with the World 2.2 The Brazilian State’s Re-embracing of Passive Subordination 2.3 Decadent External Insertion and Dependent Productive Structure 2.4 ‘Weak Meat’ 3 The Bolsonaro Government and Its Explicit Passive Subordination to Imperialism: The Neofascist Alliance 3.1 Foreign Policies of the Bolsonaro Government and the Trump Government: The Neofascist Alliance 3.2 A New Stage in Brazil-USA Relations: The Biden Government References Index
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Brill Global Labour in the Fourth Industrial Revolution: How COVID-19 Accelerated Humanity's Degradation
Book SynopsisIn this latest work by the prolific Mexican theorist Adrián Sotelo Valencia, the COVID-19 pandemic is shown to have merely exacerbated the profound world capitalist crisis rooted in the 1970s structural exhaustion of the third industrial revolution. Sotelo explains how the current 4.0 revolution whose articulating axis is the development and expansion of artificial intelligence, Big Data, algorithms, 3D printing, the Internet of Things, and digital platforms constitutes a global strategy of capital and the state aimed at detaining the global capitalist crisis. The Digital Revolution heralds a new international division of labour with severe repercussions for labour, especially in dependent countries like Mexico. The foreword by Andrés Piqueras of the Universidad Jaume I de Castellón underlines the urgency to heed this insightful analysis.Table of ContentsList of Tables, Figures, Graphs and Diagrams Foreword Introduction Part 1 Capitalism and the Human Hecatomb 1 The Coronavirus Pandemic Demolishes the “End of Work” Fallacy 1 Introduction 1.1 Debates and the Re-articulation of the World of Work 2 Conclusion 2 Precarious Labor and the Extension of the Super-Exploitation of Labor 1 Introduction 1.1 Globalization of the Law of Value and the Super-Exploitation of Labor 1.2 The Extension of the Super-Exploitation of Labor Does Not Cancel the Dependency: It Only Redefines It 2 Conclusion Part 2 Expansion, Crisis, and the Deterioration of Capitalism 3 The Crisis of World Capitalism 1 Introduction 1.1 Coronavirus-Accelerated System Decline 1.2 The End of the “Long Expansion” in the United States: The Locomotive Slows Down 1.2.1 The Hegemonic Crisis of U.S. Imperialism 2 Conclusion Part 3 The Sociology of Digitalization: The World of Dehumanized Labor in the Vicissitudes of the Global Hecatomb of Post-Pandemic Capitalism 4 The Pandemic Accelerates and Deepens the Crisis of Capitalism and Enriches the Multibillionaires 1 Introduction 1.1 The World of Work in the Post-pandemic Period 1.2 covid-Cide, Precariousness, and Death in Transnational Maquilas in Mexico 2 Conclusion 5 Remote Work, the Home Office, Digital Platforms, and the Super-Exploitation of Labor 1 Introduction 1.1 Platform Capitalism 1.1.1 Remote Work 1.1.2 The Home Office in the Fashion of the House 1.1.3 Regulating Remote Work and the Home Office 1.2 The Factory of the Future as a Builder of Skills and Talents 2 Conclusion 6 The Vicissitudes of the Fourth Industrial Revolution 1 Introduction 1.1 Marx’s Theory of Value and the Fourth Industrial Revolution 1.2 Three Industrial Revolutions 1.3 The Fourth Industrial Revolution in the Making 1.3.1 Revolution 4.0: Variable or Constant Capital? 1.3.2 Productive and Unproductive Work in the Fourth Industrial Revolution 1.3.3 The Digital Factory and the Law of Value 2 Conclusion Conclusion Bibliography Index
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Brill Henryk Grossman Works, Volume 4: Writings on Economic and Social History
Book SynopsisThe pioneering and still relevant Marxist studies of the transition from feudalism to capitalism in this collection are, with one exception, published in English here for the first time. Before his better-known work on Marx’s theories, Henryk Grossman wrote about the economic history of Galicia, the Polish province annexed by the Habsburgs, drawing on very extensive primary research. His later, devastating critique of Weber argument about Protestantism and the rise of capitalism is also included in this volume.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Rick Kuhn 1 The Area of Galicia After Its Occupation by Austria 2 The Industry and Trade Policies for Galicia of Maria Theresia’s and Joseph II’s Governments, 1772–90 (A Lecture at the Fifth Congress of Polish Lawyers and Economists) 3 Official Statistics of Galicia’s Foreign Trade to 1792 Austria’s Trade Policy, with Reference to Galicia during the Reform Period 1772 to 1790 Preface Introduction Part 1 The Relationship with the German-Slav Hereditary Lands of the Monarchy, 1772–76 1 The Provisional Form of the Customs System, 1772–73 2 The Reform of Old Polish Legislation, 1774 3 Special Privileges Granted to Improve Galician Trade, 1773–75 4 Plans for a New System of Regulating Galicia’s Relationship with the Hereditary Lands, 1775–76 Part 2 Galicia’s Relationship with Poland, 1772–90 5 The Significance of the Vistula Trade Route to Gdańsk for Galicia 6 Attempts to Conclude a Trade Treaty with Poland 7 The Trade Treaty of 15 March 1775. Its Ratification. The Tariff of 1 October 1776 8 Supplementary Provisions 9 The Implementation of the Treaty. An episode of Tariff War. The Extent of Austrian-Polish Trade Relations Part 3 Galicia’s Relationship with the Hereditary Lands and Hungary, 1776–84 10 The ‘Provisional’ Tariff of 28 December 1776 11 The Galician Tariff of 3 January 1778 12 The Struggle over Brody’s Privileges, 1778–79 13 Livestock Export Policy and the Organisation of the Cattle Trade 1772–90 Part 4 The Austro-Prussian Relationship and the Struggle for Supremacy in Germany between 1772 and 1790 14 The Economic Background to the Antagonism between Austria and Prussia 15 Prussian Policy on Trade between Galicia and Silesia 16 Prussian Policy on Trade between Galicia and Gdańsk 17 Austria’s Attitude to Prussia. The Period under Maria Theresia, 1773–80 18 Continuation. The Period of Joseph II, 1780–90 Part 5 Galicia’s Relationship with the Hereditary Lands and Hungary, 1784–90 19 The Tariff Reform of 1784 20 The Extension of the Reform Part 6 Galicia’s Trade Relations with the South and the South-East, 1772–90 21 The Effort to Open New Export Routes through Trieste 22 Trade with Turkey and to the Black Sea. The Trade Treaty of 1 November 1785 with Russia Final Observations Appendices Appendix 1, to page 102: Some Remarks on the Relationship between the State and the Nobility Appendix 2, to page 111: Joseph II’s Economic Policy in Hungary Appendix 3, to page 282: The Tariff of 2 January 1778 Appendix 4, to page 289: The Promotion of Linen Exports Appendix 5, to page 295: The Official Language The Beginnings of Capitalism and the New Mass Morality References Index
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European Interuniversity Press International Terrorism: A European Response to a
Book SynopsisIs there a specifically European response' to international terrorism? Bringing together practitioners and academic experts this volume analyses the international context, threat perceptions and multi-dimensional nature of EU counter-terrorism measures. These cover legislative and operational measures, internal and international action and cut across all areas of EU responsibility and activity. A cooperative and coordinated system of national policies and anti-terrorism capabilities has been set up. However, the EU finds it easier to agree on objectives than on implementing them effectively. Of use and interest to students of European and international politics, to academics, journalists, civil servants and the general reader alike, the book critically evaluates the efforts of the European Union to protect European citizens against terrorism and to maintain a balance between the protection of its citizens and the protection of the rights and freedoms of the individual.
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Presses Interuniversitaires Europeennes Canadian Federalism and Treaty Powers: Organic
Book SynopsisWith the increased mobility and interdependence brought on by globalisation, governments can no longer deal effectively with what were traditionally regarded as domestic issues unless they cooperate among themselves. International law may once have been a sort of inter-state law concerned mostly with relations between states, but it now looks increasingly inside state borders and has become, to a large degree, a trans-governmental law. While this creates significant challenges even for highly-unified nation-states, the challenges are even greater for federations in which powers have been divided up between the central government and federated states. What roles should central governments and federated states play in creating and implementing this new form of governance? Using the Canadian federation as its starting point, this case study illustrates a range of factors to be considered in the appropriate distribution of treaty powers within a federation. Professor Cyr also shows how because it has no specific provisions dealing with the distribution of treaty powers the Canadian constitution has organically developed a tight-knit set of rules and principles responding to these distributional factors. This book is therefore both about the role of federated states in the current world order and an illustration of how organic constitutionalism works.
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Presses Interuniversitaires Europeennes Quelle(s) Europe(s) ? / Which Europe(s)?:
Book SynopsisTout au long du XXe siècle, divers schémas d'Europe ont été imaginés ou mis en œuvre. Ce recueil de 25 contributions de jeunes chercheurs issus de dix pays différents illustre cette diversité. Ils ont été réunis à l'occasion du premier colloque de l'association RICHIE (Réseau international de jeunes chercheurs en histoire de l'intégration européenne) qui s'est tenu à Paris en 2005. À l'heure où la Constitution européenne et les frontières de l'Europe suscitent de profondes interrogations, cet ouvrage collectif contribue à une meilleure compréhension des contradictions de l'Europe actuelle. C'est un outil de travail indispensable pour tous ceux qui s'intéressent à l'état actuel de la recherche historique sur l'intégration européenne. Over the course of the 20th century, Europeans devised, and at times even implemented, various visions of Europe. This book, with contributions from 25 young researchers from 10 different countries, illustrates this diversity. They participated in the first RICHIE conference, held in Paris in 2005 (RICHIE: Réseau international de jeunes chercheurs en histoire de l'intégration européenne or International Network of Young Researchers in European Integration History). At a time when the European constitution and Europe's borders are raising many questions, this book will help readers understand the origins of its current contradictions. It is a necessary tool for all those who want to know the present state of historical research on European Integration.
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Presses Interuniversitaires Europeennes The Road to a United Europe: Interpretations of
Book SynopsisHistorical scholarship has for a long time focused on the foreign policy and commercial dimensions of European integration. At a time when the European Union has become increasingly multidimensional, it is appropriate for historians to follow suit in their approach to studying Europe. This book draws upon traditional areas of research, but crucially also breaks new ground, demonstrating the innovative approaches of a new generation of historians. In the book, twenty-two young scholars explore five different interpretative strands of the study of the history of European integration. The contributors participated in the second RICHIE conference (Réseau international de jeunes chercheurs en histoire de l'intégration européenne, or International Network of Young Researchers in European Integration History), held in Copenhagen in December 2006. Their work is based on extensive new research into a number of governmental and international archives, as well the archives of several non-governmental organisations and various personal archives.
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