• 1. Introduction: A Battle of Ideas 1.1. The Intertwining of Movement and Democracy1.2. South Africa's Landscape of Participatory Traditions1.3. Approaching the Study of Ideas1.4. The Role of Theory in Shaping Democracy1.5. Currents of Participation and their Intellectual Origins1.6. The ANC's Theory of Participatory Democracy
• 2. Participation in the History of ANC Democratic Thought2.1. From Conservative Liberalism to African Nationalism2.2. Participation through Mass Movement Politics 2.3. Revolutionary Theory and the Popular Role2.4. Conclusion
• 3. Discourses of 'People's Power'3.1. The Context for a Popular Movement3.2. Themes and Ideas in the Conception of 'People's Power'3.3. Ideologues and Influences 3.4. Implications for Participatory Democracy
• 3.5. Conclusion
• 4. The People Shall Govern: The Codification of Ideas4.1 Participation and Constitutionalism4.2. Participation and the Local4.3. Conclusion
• 5. Post-1994 Policy and Movement Discourse5.1. Participatory Policy in New Local Government5.2 Participation in Movement Discourse5.3. Conceptual Tensions and Parallels5.4 Conclusion
• 6. Conclusion: The Power of Ideas6.1. Vanguardism and Democracy.
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This book examines the development of democratic thought in the African National Congress (ANC) of South Africa, with a focus on the movement's ideas about participatory democracy. It makes particular reference to two key periods: the 1980s 'people's power' movement and the subsequent years of policy formulation from 1990 when the ANC began to design and implement a system of participatory democracy alongside a representative government. Through the examination of historic documents and in-depth interviews with former ANC activists, government officials and those involved in policy development, the author explores the inspiration for the party's commitment to establishing participatory democracy. The book combines democratic theory and political and intellectual history to look at the role of popular participation as part of a broader trajectory of the ANC's democratic thought. It critically engages with concepts used in the party's participatory discourse with a view to deepening our understanding of how ideas have shaped the construction of South Africa's democracy.
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• Table of Contents
• Chapter 1: Arab Spring: Modernity, Identity and Change, Dalia Fahmy, Long Island University & Eid Mohamed, Doha Institute
• Part One: Rethinking Islamism and the State after the Arab Spring
• Chapter 2: Whither Post-Islamism: Revisiting the Discourse/Movement After the Arab Spring, Motjaba Mahdavi, University of Alberta
• Chapter 3: Islamists and Politics Today in Tunisia: The Foundation of a Democratic Islamic Party Possible? Mouldi Lahmar, Doha Institute.
• Chapter 4: The 'Arab Spring' and the End of Turkish Democracy. Pierre Hecker, Universitat Marburg
• Chapter 5: Re-examining Hasan al-Banna's Model of Da'wah in the Post Arab Spring Era. Khalidah Ali, University of Toronto
• Part Two: People, Media, Power and the State: Civil Society in post-revolutionary states
• Chapter 6: Democracy Promotion 2.0: Barack Obama and the 'Arab Spring' Conundrum, Aziz Douai, University of Ontario Institute of Technology Oshawa, ON Canada.
• Chapter 7: The Struggle for Revolutionary Memory: Historiography and documentation of the January 25 Revolution, Abdou Moussa, The Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies
• Chapter 8: Affective Encounters: Women, Hope, and Activism in Egypt. Nermin Allam, Rutgers University
• Chapter 9: On Samir Murqus, the Narrative of Crisis and the Triumph of Tahrir. Isaac Friesen, University of Waterloo
• Chapter 10: Arab Spring and the issue of democracy: Where does Middle Eastern studies stand? Ahmed Abd Rabou, University of Denver
• Part Three: Polarization, Transition and Justice in Post-Revolutionary States
• Chapter 11: Seeking New Metaphors: Gender Identities in Tunisia and Lebanon. Arnaud Kurze, Montclair State University
• Chapter 12: Unity - Consensus - Reconciliation: The Substance of Tunisia's Elite Compromise-- An Analysis of Post-revolutionary Metaphors, Julius Dihstelhoff Philipps-Universitat Marburg
• Chapter 13: Constructing Civic Space: Civil Resistance, Sustainable Citizen Empowerment, and Transitional Justice as Pathways of Change in Contemporary Arab Politics, Nathan Funk, University of Waterloo
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This book provides systematic, integrated analyses of emergent social and cultural dynamics in the wake of the so-called Arab Spring, and looks closely at the narratives and experiences of a people as they confront crisis during a critical moment of transition. Providing an interdisciplinary approach to interconnections across regional and communal boundaries, this volume situates itself at the intersection of political science, cultural studies, media and film studies, and Middle Eastern studies, while offering some key critical revisions to dominant approaches in social and political theory. Through the unique contributions of each of its authors, this book will offer a much-needed addition to the study of Middle East politics and the Arab Spring. Moreover, although its specific focus is on the Arab context, its analysis will be of issues of significant relevance to a changing world order. .
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• Part I Overview,
• 1. The Chinese Communist Party: An Interpretation - Zheng Yongnian,
• 2. China's Communist Party: From Mass to Elite Party - Kjeld Erik Brodsgaard Part II Organizational and Ideological Integration,
• 3. Managing Human Resources to Sustain One-Party Rule - Lance L P Gore,
• 4. Party Chiefs, Formal and Informal Rules and Institutions - Wang Zhengxu and Dragan Pavlicevic,
• 5. Party Spirit: Producing Communist Belief in Contemporary China - Frank N. Pieke, Part III Elite Politics in the Reform Era,
• 6. What is a Faction? - Joseph Fewsmith,
• 7. Politics of Anti-corruption Campaign - Chen Gang, Part IV The Party in State, Society and Economy,
• 8. The Party/Army-State in Great Transformation - You Ji,
• 9. The Party in the Legislature and the Judiciary - Wang Jiangyu,
• 10. The Party in Grassroots Governance - Zhao Litao,
• 11. China's Central State Corporatism: the Party and the Governance of Centrally Controlled Businesses - Li Chen, Part V The Party and Foreign Policy,
• 12. International Department and China's Foreign Policy - Lye Liang Fook,
• 13. The Chinese Communist Party and Restructuring National Security Policymaking - Hu Weixing.
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Much is written about China and the role of the Chinese Communist Party, but without exploring in detail the nature of the party and how it operates. This book provides an in-depth assessment of the current state of the Chinese Communist Party. It outlines the huge size of the party - 88 million members with 4.3 million organizations at the grassroots level. It sets out how the party has developed over time, how the party is organized and how its ideology is formed and transmitted. It discusses how the party acts in the different areas of China's economy, society and government, at local, regional and national levels. It explores the party's role in the formation of policy, including foreign policy, and assesses the impact of different factions and of the current anti-corruption campaign. Overall, the book demonstrates how embedded the Communist Party is in all aspects of Chinese economy, society and politics, and how its position continues to be consolidated.
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• Introduction
• Section I
• 1. Corruption: the battle for its definition
• 2. Corruption as a cultural and social process
• Section II Introduction to
• section II
• 3. Systemic corruption: limits and dilemmas of anti-corruption agencies.
• 4. The Mexican National Anti-corruption System: white elephant or world-class innovation?
• 5. Brazil: The success and crisis of a decentralized mechanism for controlling corruption
• 6. The International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala.
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In Corruption in Latin America the reader is presented with an alternative starting point for understanding corruption in this key region. The author asserts that corruption is a stable and rational social and organizational mechanism. Seen through this lens, we can begin to understand why it persists, and how to implement strategies to control corruption effectively. Beginning with an in-depth, nuanced examination of the concept of corruption, the author establishes the theoretical basis for viewing corruption as a social construct. An analysis of the experiences of four countries in the region - Argentina, Brazil, Guatemala and Mexico - provides the reader with concrete data from which they can understand how and why these behaviors are reproduced, validated, and tolerated in everyday settings between governments and citizens, governments and firms, and firms and clients. Once we see corruption as the socially sanctioned norm for getting business done, we can begin to produce and propose effective solutions to reduce corruption in Latin America by designing and implementing instruments that transform this dynamic. This rigorous and original approach will challenge the reader's assumptions about corruption, and will appeal to students of corporate governance, international business, public management, and business ethics.
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• 1. Introduction
• 2. Conceptual Framework: Dimensions of Statehood
• 3. Introducing Bukavu
• 4. Managing Waste: "The Political class does not take care of garbage here"
• 5. "We need to live but the leaders are killing us": Water and Hydroelectricity
• 6. State Persistence: Perspectives from the Roads
• 7. Governance, Citizenship and the Dimensions of Statehood
• 8. Conclusion.
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This book argues that the way in which we use the concept of "state" in many African countries must involve a deeper engagement of the complex workings of state-society relations, rather than a master narrative of European state formation. Dimensions of African Statehood explores the concept of "statehood" as a set of daily practices that govern and generate effects through the voices of those performing and living the state. The book is based on extensive, firsthand research on the delivery of and access to public goods as expressions of statehood in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. A public good, a field long dominated by economic models, can be seen as a power relation rather than a universal, positive good. By unpacking the meaning of "whose public, " the book offers an avenue for a dynamic and multilayered understanding of practices that express and shape statehood. The assessment of statehood as presented in this book is an invitation to contribute to the new era of what statehood entails in regions different from the Global North. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of politics, African studies, and governance.
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• Introduction / By Katharina Coleman, Markus Kornprobst, and Annette Seegers
• Where Local and Global Orders Interface: An Analysis of How Civil Society Actors Contextualise Human Rights Norms in South Africa / By Maxine Rubin and Masana Ndinga-Kanga
• Human Rights in South Africa's Identity: The Interplay of International and Domestic Mechanisms in South Africa's Identity in Global Politics / By Annette Seegers
• Zaire's Exile-Diplomats: African Agency in Overlapping Orders / By Colin Hendrickx
• The Borderlands of Order in the Borderlands of Africa: Katanga and the Caprivi Strip / By Jan Erk
• Establishment of a New Regional Order in the Horn of Africa / By Sonia Le Gouriellec
• The ECOWAS Commission and the Making of Regional Order in West Africa: Intersecting Logics in International Public Administration / By Stefan Gänzle, Jarle Trondal, and Nadja Kühn
• Overlaps and Distinctiveness: Africa's Nuclear Order / By Markus Kornprobst
• African Diplomacy in United Nations Peacekeeping Operations / By Katharina P. Coleman
• Non-Impunity, the International Criminal Court and the African Union: Exploring the Borderland of the International Orders Related to Non-Impunity / By Martin Welz
• Stirring the Pot: The African Union and the International Order / By Thomas Kwasi Tieku
• Africa in the Throes of Global Pushes and Pulls / By Eghosa E. Osaghae
• Conclusion / By Katharina Coleman, Markus Kornprobst, and Annette Seegers.

"This book examines Africa's internal and external relations by focusing on three core concepts: orders, diplomacy and borderlands. The contributors examine traditional and non-traditional diplomatic actors, and domestic, regional, continental and global orders. They argue that African diplomats profoundly shape these orders by situating themselves within in-between-spaces of geographical and functional orders. It is in these borderlands that agency, despite all kinds of constraints, flourishes. Chapters in the book compare domestic orders to regional ones, and then continental African orders to global ones. They deal with a range of functional orders, including development, international trade, human rights, migration, nuclear arms control, peacekeeping, public administration and territorial change. By focusing on these topics, the volume contributes to a better understanding of African international relations, sharpens analyses of ordering processes in world politics, and adds to our comprehension of how diplomacy shapes orders and vice versa. The studies collected here show a much more nuanced picture of African agency in African and international affairs and suggest that African diplomacy is far more extensive than is often assumed. This book will be of much interest to students of diplomacy studies, African politics and International Relations"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction
• King and cosmos in Herodotus
• Monarchy on the democratic stage
• The discourse of kingship in classical Athenian thought
• Kingship and Socratic thought
• Virtue and monarchy
• Kingship in Plato's later political thought
• 'Total kingship' and the rule of law
• Conclusion: the imaginary king and the metaphysics of political unity.

"This book examines how ancient authors explored ideas of kingship as a political role fundamental to the construction of civic unity, the use of kingship stories to explain the past and present unity of the polis, and the distinctive function or status attributed to kings in such accounts. It explores the notion of kingship offered by historians such as Herodotus, as well as dramatists writing for the Athenian stage, paying particular attention to dramatic depictions of the unique capabilities of Theseus in uniting the city in the figure of the 'democratic king'. It also discusses kingship in Greek philosophy: the Socratics' identification of an 'art of kingship', and Xenophon and Isocrates' model of 'virtue monarchy'. In turn, these allow a re-reading of explorations of kingship and excellence in Plato's later political thought, seen as a critique of these models, and also in Aristotle's account of total kingship or pambasileia, treated here as a counterfactual device developed to explore the epistemic benefits of democracy. This book offers a fascinating insight into the institution of monarchy in classical Greek thought and society, both for those working on Greek philosophy and politics, and also for students of the history of political thought"-- Provided by publisher.

• List of Figures and Tables
• Abbreviations and Acronyms
• Acknowledgements
• Contributors
• 1. Contentious Emotions: An Introduction
• Amelie Blom and Stephanie Tawa Lama-Rewal
• PART I: Bringing Emotions Back into South Asian Political Mobilisations: Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives
• 2. The Processes and Contexts of Emotional Involvement
• Christophe Traini
• 3. Participatory and Adversarial Politics: Representing Speech Action, Collective Action and Emotion
• Lisa Mitchell
• 4. Remembering and Accessing the `Emotion of Things': A Methodological Journey with a Jihadist Militant in Pakistan
• Amelie Blom
• PART II: Major Historical Shifts in the Public Expression of Emotions
• 5. Anger, Hurt and Enthusiasm: Mobilising for Violence, 1870-1920
• Margrit Pernau
• 6. From Court to Public Sphere: How Urdu Poetry's Language of Romance Shaped the Language of Protest
• Carla Petievich
• PART III: Subverting and Cementing Power Relations with Emotions
• 7. Emotions as Fuel: The Passage of Anti-Sexual Harassment Legislation in Pakistan
• Sadaf Ahmad
• 8. It's Effective Because It's Affective: The Dynamics and Significance of Emotions in a Delhi Jan Sunwai
• Stephanie Tawa Lama-Rewal
• 9. The Deployment of Resentment in Counterinsurgency: The Case of Chhattisgarh
• Nandini Sundar
• PART IV: Directing Affects Across the Elusive Boundaries of the Political
• 10. Mobilising Anger in Andhra Pradesh: The Emotional Politics of the Angry Young Man and Popular Telugu Cinema
• Imke Rajamani
• 11. Hope and Nostalgia in Bengal: The Longing for Netaji in a Contemporary Millennial Movement
• Raphael Voix
• 12. Dialectics of (De)Mobilisation: Humour in Islamic Sermons of Contemporary Bangladesh
• Max Stille
• PART V: The Emotional Dynamics of Public Controversies
• 13. Hurt and Censorship in India Today: On Communities of Sentiments, Competing Vulnerabilities and Cultural Wars
• Laetitia Zecchini
• 14. Death, Despair, and Democracy in Bangladesh
• Nusrat Sabina Chowdhury
• Glossary
• Index.
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This book highlights the role of emotions in the contentious politics of modern South Asia. It brings new methodological, theoretical and empirical insights to the mutual constitution of emotions and mobilisations in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. As such, it addresses three distinct but related questions: what do emotions do to mobilisations? What do mobilisations do to emotions? Further, what does studying emotions in mobilisations reveal about the political culture of protest in South Asia? The chapters in this volume emphasise that emotions are significant in politics because they have the power to mobilise. They explore a variety of emotions including anger, resentment, humiliation, hurt, despair, and nostalgia, and also enchantment, humour, pleasure, hope and enthusiasm. The interdisciplinary research presented here shows that integrating emotions improves our understanding of South Asian politics while, conversely, focusing on South Asia helps retool current thinking on the emotional dynamics of political mobilisations. The book offers contextual analyses of how emotions are publicly represented, expressed and felt, thus shedding light on the complex nature of protests, power relations, identity politics, and the political culture of South Asia. This cutting-edge research volume intersects South Asian studies, emotion studies and social movement studies, and will greatly interest scholars and students of political science, anthropology, sociology, history and cultural studies, and the informed general reader interested in South Asian politics.
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• Chapter 1. Introduction: Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom?.
• Chapter 2. Undocumented Families and Political Communities: Parents Fighting Deportations.
• Chapter 3. From Indicting the Law to Conquering Rights: A Case Study of Gay Movements in Switzerland, Spain, and Belgium. Chapter 4.Fighting for Homeless People: Activism Supervised By the State.
• Chapter 5. The Plural Logics of Anti-Capitalist Economic Movements.
• Chapter 6. The Free Software Community: A Contemporary Space for Reconfiguring Struggles?.
• Chapter 7. Associations for the Preservation of Peasant Agriculture and Related Organizations.
• Chapter 8. Ordinary Resistance to Masculine Domination in a Civil Disobedience Movement.
• Chapter 9. A Zone to Defend: The Utopian Territorial Experiment of Notre Dame des Landes.
• Chapter 10: "Politics Without Politics": Towards a Libertarian Grammar of Solidarity Economy and Anti-globalisation Movements.
• Chapter 11. Is The "New Activism" Really New?. Conclusion.
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This book studies those who, in various domains of life, are resisting the increasingly harsh day-to-day pressures of "late capitalism, " centering mainly on French examples. Far from the global euphoria of the sixties and seventies, everyday people are trying to loosen the grip of injustice in very concrete ways: people experiencing homelessness try to occupy and live in empty buildings; collectives of small farmers and consumers avoid long (and costly) commercial supply chains to defend their common interests; students and teachers organize to prevent the expulsion of undocumented migrants; and activists in the free software movement fight for the "common ownership" of software and of the Internet. Through civil disobedience in the midst of daily life, people are trying to resist, work against, and change laws that protect the interests of firms and corporations considered socially or ecologically unfair.
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• PART I. Overview and Evolution of Foreign Policy Analysis
• 1. Introduction: The Situation and Evolution of Foreign Policy Analysis: A Road Map PART II. Levels of Analysis
• 2. The Individual Decisionmaker: The Political Psychology of World Leaders
• 3. Group Decisionmaking: Small Group Dynamics, Organizational Process, and Bureaucratic Politics
• 4. Culture and National Identity
• 5. Domestic Politics and Opposition
• 6. The Levels of National Attributes and International System: Effects on Foreign Policy PART III. Putting It All Together, or Not
• 7. Theoretical Integration in Foreign Policy Analysis
• 8. The Future of Foreign Policy Analysis.
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This succinct yet comprehensive introduction to Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA) is geared toward advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students. Cogently written, clearly organized, and filled with illuminating examples, the third edition has been thoroughly revised and updated. Beginning with an overview of this broad field of study, Hudson and Day consider theory and research at multiple levels of analysis, including personality and psychology of foreign policy decision makers, small group dynamics, the organizational process, bureaucratic politics, domestic politics, cultural and societal influences, national attributes, and system-level effects on foreign policy. The authors also examine the promise and frustration of theoretical integration in FPA and overview promising new work by non-North American scholars.
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• Preface to the Fourth Edition Acknowledgments Introduction
• 1 What Is Culture? Nation and Culture Culture Sprawl Disentangling Threads of Culture
• 2 Globalization: Consensus and Controversies Consensus Controversies Twenty-First-Century Globalization
• 3 Globalization and Human Integration: We Are All Migrants Globalization as a Deep Historical Process Utopian Visions: Human Unity as a Theme Uneven Globalization We Are All Migrants: Migration and Human Integration
• 4 Globalization and Culture: Three Paradigms Clash of Civilizations McDonaldization Hybridization: Rhizomes of Culture Futures
• 5 Globalization as Hybridization Globalization and Modernity Structural Hybridization Global Melange Politics of Hybridity Post-hybridity? Forward Moves
• 6 Hybridity, So What? The Anti-hybridity Backlash Varieties of Hybridity The Anti-hybridity Backlash Hybridity and the longue duree Different Cultural Takes on Hybridity Patterns of Hybridity So What?
• 7 Globalization Is Braided: East-West Osmosis East-West Islam-West Easternization, Westernization, and Back Again
• 8 Hybrid China Silk Roads New Silk Roads Hybridity with Chinese Characteristics Globalized, Globalizing
• 9 Populism, Globalization, and Culture Meridians of Populism Populism and Globalization Populism and Culture
• 10 Global Melange Bibliography Index About the Author.
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Now updated with new chapters on culture and populism, Globalization and Culture argues that we are witnessing the formation of a global melange culture through processes of cultural mixing. Its historically deep and geographically wide approach to globalization is essential reading as we face the increasing spread of conflicts bred by cultural misunderstanding.
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"Political parties with activists are in decline due to various external shocks. The emergence of new technologies of communication diminished the role of activists and their numbers. Party elites increasingly can make do without grassroots activists, however, recent scholarship concerning different democracies has highlighted the fact that activism still matters for representation. This book contributes to that literature by analyzing a unique case: the Uruguayan Frente Amplio, (FA) the only mass-organic institutionalized leftist party in Latin America. This case study highlights the value of an organization-centered approach for understanding party role in democracy in the twenty-first century. Within the FA, organizational rules grant activists a significant voice, which imbues activists' participation with a strong sense of efficacy. This explains activists' willingness to invest time and effort in the party. The book offers a case study based on mixed methods, including thick description, a systematic process tracing, and a survey research"-- Provided by publisher.

• Contents
• Notes on Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Adluri Subramanyam Raju
• Part I: Human Security in South Asia: Conceptual Issues
• 1. Human Security: A Conceptual Framework
• Adluri Subramanyam Raju
• 2. Measurements of Human Security: A Conceptual Analysis
• Swaran Singh and Archana R.
• 3. Human Security and Beyond
• Santishree D. Pandit
• 4. Human Security in South Asia: The Locus of a Cooperative Context
• I.P. Khosla
• 5. Is the Region Ready? Can the State Deliver? Essay from India
• D. Suba Chandran
• 6. Is the Region Ready? Can the State Deliver? Essay from Pakistan
• Salma Malik
• Part II: Environmental Issues and Human Security
• 7. Water Insecurity in South Asia: Challenges of Human Development
• Vandana Asthana
• 8. Climate Change and Human Security: A Case Study of Maldives
• Rabindra Sen
• 9. Dangers of Electronic Waste in India: A Concern for Human Security
• Gopalji Malviya
• Part III: State, Development & Displacement in South Asia
• 10. Correcting Anomalies of a Dysfunctional State through Civil Society: Initiatives to Complement Global Attempts for Human Security
• C.K. Lal
• 11. Human Development vis-a-vis Gross National Happiness in Bhutan: Challenges and Achievements
• Maitreyee Choudhury
• 12. Linkages between Migration and Poverty in Nepal
• Amrita Limbu
• 13. Sustainable Development Model: Experience from India
• Rashmi Bhure
• 14. Reintegrating India's Maoists: Surrender and Rehabilitation
• P.V. Ramana
• 15. Development Induced Displacement: Case Studies from India
• Apoorva R. Heroor and Praveen Tiwari.
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This book delves into the theory and praxis of human security in South Asia. Home to almost a quarter of the world's population and fast emerging markets, South Asia holds social, geopolitical and economic significance in the current global context. The chapters in the volume: examine the challenges to human security through an exploration of environmental issues including water availability, electric waste, environmental governance and climate change; explore key themes such as development, displacement and migration, the role of civil society, sustainable development and poverty; and discuss developmental issues in South Asia and provide a holistic picture of non-military security issues. Bringing together scholars from varied disciplines, this comprehensive volume will be useful for researchers, teachers and students of international relations, human rights, political science, development studies, human geography and demography, defense and strategic studies, migration and diaspora studies, and South Asian studies.
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• Acknowledgments Introduction: Locally Led Peacebuilding Matters by Stacey L. Connaughton & Jessica Berns
• Section 1: What is Local?
• Chapter 1: Peace Drivers: Local Agency, Relational Responsibility, and the Future of Peacebuilding by Bridget Moix
• Chapter 2: Crossing Lines to Build Peace: Deescalating Gang Conflict in Cite Soleil, Haiti by Louino Robillard and Sabina Carlson Robillard
• Section 2: Locally Led Peacebuilding around the World
• Chapter 3: Now we sleep without our shoes...The Story of the Laikipia Peace Caravan by Gail M. Ervin
• Chapter 4: Local Peacebuilding in East Africa: The Role of Customary Norms and Institutions in Addressing Pastoralist Conflict in Kenya and Uganda by Emily Welty, Matthew Bolton and William Kiptoo
• Chapter 5: Magnanimity in Victory: Somaliland's peace building and DDR through indigenous traditional system by Abdishakur Hassan-kayd
• Chapter 6: Liberia at a Crossroads: How Local Peace Committees are Working to Consolidate and Promote Peace in Liberia by Nat B. Walker
• Chapter 7: Nigeria: Peace Drives Security by Michael Sodipo
• Chapter 8: Peacebuilding in Guatemala: The Local Peace Network Methodology by Jose David Pineda Ruano
• Chapter 9: University to University Partnership: Building a Network of Effective Peacebuilders in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq by Thomas Hill, Alexander Munoz, and Katerina Siira
• Chapter 10: Teaching and Learning Participatory Action Research as Approach for Locally Led Peacebuilding in Kampala, Uganda by Felix Bivens, Illana Lancaster, Nanfuka Zulaika & Ndugwa Hassan
• Chapter 11: The Women Peace and Security Collective: An organic process of empowerment by Kristian Herbolzheimer & Rosa Emilia Salamanca
• Chapter 12: Encountering Faiths and Beliefs: Locally led peacebuilding in the UK by Phil Champain
• Chapter 13: The Cure Violence Model for Violence Prevention by Charles L. Ransford, Karen Volker & Gary Slutkin
• Section 3: Locally Led Peacebuilding: Understanding What Works
• Chapter 14: Youth and Elections in Peacebuilding: Experience from Ghana and Liberia by Robert Groelsema, Maureen Herman, Michelle Marland, and Muminu Mutaru
• Chapter 15: Participatory approaches to monitoring and evaluating locally led peacebuilding in Ghana by Jasmine R. Linabary
• Chapter 16: Community peacebuilding on a national scale: the work of the CPBR in Sri Lanka by Nilanjana Premaratria & Ruairi Nolan
• Chapter 17: Community Healing, from the inside-out - Systems lessons from Fambul Tok in Sierra Leone by Libby Hoffman
• Chapter 18: Madaris and Peace Education in Pakistan: A Case Study of Peace and Education Foundation by Zahid Shahab Ahmed & Rashad Bukhari
• Section 4: Reflections and Paths Forward
• Chapter 19: Locally-driven 'Track 11/2 and Track 2' Diplomacy by Peter Dixon Conclusion: Reflections and Paths Forward for Locally Led Peacebuilding around the World by Stacey Connaughton & Jessica Berns About the Authors.
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The authors of this edited volume present a case for why locally led peacebuilding matters and how it can have measurable and meaningful impact, even beyond preventing political violence. This book contributes a set of local voices to a global problem - how to prevent armed conflict and lead to lasting peace. The authors argue that locally led peacebuilding by community based organizations (both formal and informal) plays a crucial role in preventing violence and cultivating peace, one that is complementary to peacebuilding work done by local, state, and national governments within countries and between nation-states. Through the case studies presented, Locally Led Peacebuilding presents evidence for how and why locally led peacebuilding can prevent violence, and invites practitioners and scholars to critically examine the implications of locally led initiatives. From these examples, we all have an opportunity to learn about creating, implementing, researching, and funding locally led peacebuilding.
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• 1. Introduction: State Creation and Democratization in Four American States: The Nature of the Problem
• 2. Theories of State Creation and Democratization
• 3. The Processes of State Creation and Democratization in the United States
• 4. The Processes of State Creation and Democratization in Chile, Peru, and Argentina
• 5. Exploratory Hypotheses: Chile, Peru, and Argentina
• 6. An Exploratory Theory of State Creation and Democratization in the United States, Chile, Peru, and Argentina.
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This book strives to answer two interrelated questions: Why have certain states in the Americas been more successful than others at creating stable democratic regimes? Why have certain states in the Americas failed to create stable democratic regimes? To answer both questions, the author focuses on four states - the United States, Argentina, Chile, and Peru. Throughout the analysis, he isolates and evaluates the conditions that helped or hindered the development of each state and of its political regime. He presents his conclusions in the form of time-related explanatory hypotheses. By identifying and examining the conditions that brought about the transformation of each states and of its political regimes, this study ultimately facilitates a discussion of the future of democracy in each of these countries as well as in the world.
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• Preface
• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: Mapping Populism
• Chapter 3: Should We Stay or Should We Go? European Immigration, Globalization, and Brexit
• Chapter 4: Reality Bites: The Unexpected Victory of Donald Trump
• Chapter 5: Two Steps Forward and One Step Back? Marine Le Pen and the National Front in France
• Chapter 6: When in Rome . . . Populism and the Five Star Movement in Italy
• Chapter 7: Conclusion References.
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Brexit. Trump. LePen. The Five Star Movement. The recent success of populist movements and politicians is extraordinary, though the rise of populism is understandable in light of increasing political polarization, disappointing politicians, and exhausting election campaigns. With the future trajectory of democracy uncertain, two important questions remain unanswered. How did we get here? And why did we get here? Exploring how and why populism succeeded, John Agnew and Michael Shin consider the reasons for the Brexit vote, who voted-and who did not vote -for Donald Trump and Marine Le Pen, and the rise of an Italian populist government, Through comparative geographical analyses, the authors literally and figuratively map the rise of populism across the United Kingdom, the United States, France, and Italy. Geography tells us who the people are who have supported populism and the limits and possibilities of its claim to represent all of "the people, " wherever they are. Organized around recurring central themes of turnout, leadership, and media, and using compelling maps, their book encourages thought and discussion on an increasingly important topic-and on the future of democracy itself.
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