This book analyses the origins of security dilemmas in the South China Sea (SCS) and the significance of China's actions in asserting its claim from the perspective of defensive realist theory.
This book investigates the changing meanings of power and politics in the Internet age and questions whether the political category of the citizen still has a meaningful role to play in the highly-mediated dynamics of an increasingly networked world.
This book analyzes the 'intellectual political culture' of post-Tiananmen China in comparison to and in conflict with liberalism inside and outside the P.
Discourse on fundamentalism has gained much attention in recent years, particularly in a post-9/11 context where extremist or terrorist threats are more prominent, perilous, and pervasive.
This book discusses various dynamic facets of the life of Rashid al-Ghannushi, a distinguished Islamic thinker and activist not only in Tunisia and North Africa, but in the entire Muslim world.
This book focuses on the formal and informal reconciliation processes during conflict and post-conflict periods in various locations in the Asia-Pacific, and includes cases studies based on primary research conducted in countries such as Cambodia, Timor-Leste, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, India, South Thailand, Bougainville and the Solomon Islands.
This book provides a ground breaking interdisciplinary study of the Catholic Church in Taiwan, focusing on the post 1949 Civil War in China through to the present day, and discusses the role played by the Catholic Church in contemporary Taiwanese society.
With North Atlantic post-World War II transatlantic dynamics as the subject, this volume inquires if its theoretical tenets hold in other epochs and Atlantic arenas.
'Destined Statecraft enriches our understanding of global affairs by presenting a perspective where small powers are no longer in the periphery, but take up the main narrative.
This book presents numerous discussions of specific aspects of democratic politics, showing how 'democracy' can be projected as a model of deliberate imperfection - a model that tolerates various loose ends in the system - and how democracy recognizes a multiplicity of possible courses open to the system at any point in time.
This book draws on the extensive literature on populism, democracy, and emerging markets as well as interviews with senior government officials, experts, and journalists in the Philippines and beyond, This book is the first to analyze the significance and implications of the rise of Filipino president Rodrigo Duterte within a rapidly-changing Asia Pacific region.
This book questions the common understanding of party political behaviour, explaining some of the sharp differences in political behaviour through a focused case study-drawing systematically on primary and archival research-of the Australian Labor Party's political and policy directions during select periods in which it was out of office at the federal level: from 1967-72, 1975-83, and 1996-2001.
This book explores the institutionalization process with regard to the Parliament in Bangladesh, and seeks to identify the main constrains that hinder the Parliament from serving as the uppermost representative body for all segments of society.
This pivot chronicles the life of Charles McCarthy, a San Francisco native and Jesuit missionary to China, and tells the unique and compelling story of a young man who experienced confinement under the Japanese occupation, followed shortly by imprisonment by the Chinese Communists in the 1950's.
This book, part of a series, seeks to re-conceptualize Asian geographies; rather than a static East Asia core, this volume analyzes Asia's southern fringe, as symbolized in the trading group ASEAN and its role in Asia's evolving international relations.
This book is about the 100 years of World Wars and Regional Collaboration in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, investigating and considering how to foster Good Governance and New World Order.
Este libro recoge artículos publicados desde los años noventa que dan cuenta de dos de las grandes pasiones de su autor: el fútbol y la ciencia política, en un ejercicio desafiante para indagar en la realidad política y futbolera de Colombia, de la selección de fútbol de Colombia y aquellos factores que forjan de diversas maneras la identidad nacional.
**A Sunday Times Bestseller****An Economist Best Book of the Year**The celebrated historian and journalist uncovers the networks trying to destroy the democratic worldAll of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man at the top.
El fenómeno de las crisis cambiarias constituye un hecho de primera magnitud en la vida económica actual y en el funcionamiento de la economía internacional.
"En este libro propone una relectura de la obras de autores clásicos desde las áreas de investigación del colectivo de profesores del grupo de investigación Democracia, Estado e integración social (DEIS), del Departamento de Ciencia Jurídica y Política en el marco del proyecto de investigación "La acción pública: una mirada desde la experiencia de los problemas públicos" (020100645), nanciado por la Ponticia Universidad Javeriana Cali (2019-2020).
Finnish Theosophist Pekka Ervast shows us in a consistent way how a person seeking truth can get a personal experience of Gods existence and how God loves him or her and all people with constant and unalterable love.
Berensztein y Buscaglia presentaron este libro con el título "Los beneficios de la libertad" en 2016, cuando se abría un período de gran esperanza para la Argentina.
This timely and innovative book analyses the lives of new female migrants in the EU with a focus on the labour market, domestic work, care work and prostitution in particular.
