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• 1 Introduction: The 2018 and 2019 Indonesian Elections: Identity Politics and Regional Perspectives [Leonard C Sebastian And Alexander R Arifianto] 2 Indonesia's 2019 Presidential Election: Does Policy Still Matter? [James Guild] 3 The 2018 Simultaneous Regional Elections and 2019 Simultaneous National Elections in West Java Province 4 The 2018 Simultaneous Regional Elections and 2019 Simultaneous National Elections in East Java Province [Alexander R Arifianto] 5 Aliran Politics, Political Jihad, and Disappointment: Notes for Muslim Javanese in the Pre- and Post-2019 General Election in Central Java [Syafiq Hasyim] 6 The 2018 Simultaneous Regional Elections and 2019 Simultaneous National Elections in North Sumatera: Different Facades of Identity Politics [Tiola And Adhi Primarizki] 7 West Sumatera in the 2019 General Election: The Past in Shaping the Region's Identity [Adri Wanto And Leonard C Sebastian] 8 2018 and 2019 Elections in South Sulawesi: Jusuf Kalla's Decline and the Return of Islamists [Dedi Dinarto And Andar Nubowo] 9 The 2018/19 Simultaneous Elections in West Kalimantan Province and its Aftermath: Historical Legacies, Identity Politics and the Politics of Partition [Jonathan Chen Jieyang] 10 Electoral Politics in Sumba: The Persistence of Tradition [Chris Lundry] 11 Conclusion - What Have We Learned? [Leonard C Sebastian And Alexander R Arifianto].
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The 2018/2019 Indonesian elections were among the most divisive elections in Indonesian history, where identity politics and ethno-religious sentiments were prevalent not just during the 2019 presidential election, but also during the 2018 regional executive elections as well. Contributors to this edited volume analysed the dynamics between identity politics, national and local politics and produce findings and insights that will inform prospective readers regarding the future of identity politics and how it may affect Indonesian politics for the intermediate future. This book is an up-to-date study addressing contemporary Indonesian politics that should be read by Indonesian Studies and more broadly Southeast Asian Studies specialists. It is also a useful reference for those studying Electoral Politics, Religion and Politics, and Comparative Politics.
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• The problem with voting in America
• Measuring accessible elections
• Why studying voting laws is not enough
• Accessible elections and voter turnout
• Accessible elections to help poor people
• Voting rights, election administration and turnout for racial minorities
• Accessible elections and campaign mobilization
• Conclusion: how the states can help Americans vote

Recent years have witnessed widespread changes in state voting and registration laws. These include same day registration, automatic voter registration, early voting, mail voting, and no-excuse absentee voting where people mail in their ballots. Most research on these voting reforms has downplayed their effects, showing that they generally benefit educated, older, and more affluent people. This book shows the positive effects that these reforms have on overall voter turnout, and among voters of disadvantaged groups. Specifically, it emphasizes the ways that state governments are making it easier to participate in elections in an effort to strengthen democratic government. In Accessible Elections, Michael Ritter and Caroline J. Tolbert explore the wide variation from state to state in convenience voting methods and provide new empirical analysis of the beneficial effects of these policies, not only in boosting participation rates overall, but in increasing voter turnout for disadvantaged groups. The authors measure both convenience methods and implementation of the laws, and explore how elections are conducted across the fifty states, where average turnout has varied more than 25 percentage points over the past four decades. The authors also draw on national voter files with millions of cases and vote histories of the same individuals over time in order to show the real effects of election reform and to make a case for how state governments can modernize their electoral practices, increase voter turnout, and make the experience of voting more accessible and equitable. Ritter and Tolbert assert that in the wake of covid-19 and efforts to maintain social distancing, early voting and absentee/mail voting are of particular importance to avoid election-day crowds and ensure equitable elections in states with large populations. With important implications for the 2020 general election and beyond, Accessible Elections underscores how state governments can modernize their electoral procedures to increase voter turnout, address inequalities, and influence campaign and party mobilization strategies.
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• The problem with voting in America
• Measuring accessible elections
• Why studying voting laws in not enough
• Accessible elections and voter turnout
• Accessible elections to help poor people
• Voting rights, election administration, and turnout for racial minorities
• Accessible elections and campaign mobilization
• Conclusion: how the states can help Americans vote

Recent years have witnessed widespread changes in state voting and registration laws. These include same day registration, automatic voter registration, early voting, mail voting, and no-excuse absentee voting where people mail in their ballots. Most research on these voting reforms has downplayed their effects, showing that they generally benefit educated, older, and more affluent people. This book shows the positive effects that these reforms have on overall voter turnout, and among voters of disadvantaged groups. Specifically, it emphasizes the ways that state governments are making it easier to participate in elections in an effort to strengthen democratic government. In Accessible Elections, Michael Ritter and Caroline J. Tolbert explore the wide variation from state to state in convenience voting methods and provide new empirical analysis of the beneficial effects of these policies, not only in boosting participation rates overall, but in increasing voter turnout for disadvantaged groups. The authors measure both convenience methods and implementation of the laws, and explore how elections are conducted across the fifty states, where average turnout has varied more than 25 percentage points over the past four decades. The authors also draw on national voter files with millions of cases and vote histories of the same individuals over time in order to show the real effects of election reform and to make a case for how state governments can modernize their electoral practices, increase voter turnout, and make the experience of voting more accessible and equitable. Ritter and Tolbert assert that in the wake of covid-19 and efforts to maintain social distancing, early voting and absentee/mail voting are of particular importance to avoid election-day crowds and ensure equitable elections in states with large populations. With important implications for the 2020 general election and beyond, Accessible Elections underscores how state governments can modernize their electoral procedures to increase voter turnout, address inequalities, and influence campaign and party mobilization strategies.
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• The problem with voting in America
• Measuring accessible elections
• Why studying voting laws in not enough
• Accessible elections and voter turnout
• Accessible elections to help poor people
• Voting rights, election administration, and turnout for racial minorities
• Accessible elections and campaign mobilization
• Conclusion: How the states can help Americans vote

Recent years have witnessed widespread changes in state voting and registration laws. These include same day registration, automatic voter registration, early voting, mail voting, and no-excuse absentee voting where people mail in their ballots. Most research on these voting reforms has downplayed their effects, showing that they generally benefit educated, older, and more affluent people. This book shows the positive effects that these reforms have on overall voter turnout, and among voters of disadvantaged groups. Specifically, it emphasizes the ways that state governments are making it easier to participate in elections in an effort to strengthen democratic government. In Accessible Elections, Michael Ritter and Caroline J. Tolbert explore the wide variation from state to state in convenience voting methods and provide new empirical analysis of the beneficial effects of these policies, not only in boosting participation rates overall, but in increasing voter turnout for disadvantaged groups. The authors measure both convenience methods and implementation of the laws, and explore how elections are conducted across the fifty states, where average turnout has varied more than 25 percentage points over the past four decades. The authors also draw on national voter files with millions of cases and vote histories of the same individuals over time in order to show the real effects of election reform and to make a case for how state governments can modernize their electoral practices, increase voter turnout, and make the experience of voting more accessible and equitable. Ritter and Tolbert assert that in the wake of covid-19 and efforts to maintain social distancing, early voting and absentee/mail voting are of particular importance to avoid election-day crowds and ensure equitable elections in states with large populations. With important implications for the 2020 general election and beyond, Accessible Elections underscores how state governments can modernize their electoral procedures to increase voter turnout, address inequalities, and influence campaign and party mobilization strategies.
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• Introduction: The army and ideology in Indonesia
• Tentara rakyat and dwifungsi : from Nasution to Suharto
• NKRI harga mati, ketahanan nasional, and MOOTW
• 'Proxy war' and 'bela negara' : the historical and political trajectory
• Conclusion: Ideology and democratic setback.

"This book is an analysis of Indonesia's civil-military relations in the post-1998 reform era. It focuses on the political thinking of the Indonesian Army during the time of democratic consolidation. The book examines the army (Tentara Nasional Indonesia Angkatan Darat, TNI AD), a pivotal player in the political scene of Indonesian state, and the aspect of military ideology development. Based on in-depth interviews with civilian and military figures and applying the methodology of utilised process tracing and empirical analysis surrounding the appearance of military thinking, the book argues that the Indonesian military pursues to sustain its political power by propagating a set of values construed as moral compass for all members of society. Specifically, the book discusses the origins and impacts of 'proxy war' and 'bela negara' ('defend the state'), which was promoted by former TNI Commander Gatot Nurmantyo (2015-2017) and former Defence Minister Ryamizard Ryacudu (2014-2019). The authors demonstrate that both ideologies facilitate expansion of the military's influence in all aspects of life and protection of its corporate interests in the age of democracy. Offering insights for theoretical discussion on the influence of military ideology to civil-military relations, particularly in the post-authoritarian period, this book will be of interest to academics and policy makers in the fields of Southeast Asian Politics, Asian Politics and Civil-Military Relations"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction ASEAN after
• 50: Historical, Theoretical, and Regional Perspectives (Ceren Ergenc) PART I: International and Regional Regimes
• Chapter 1: ASEAN in Regional Environmental Governance: Bright Prospects or Hazy Future? (Helena Varkkey, Serif Onur Bahcecik, Mohd Talib Latif)
• Chapter 2: Financial Cooperation in ASEAN: An Inquiry into Its Place in East Asian Financial Regionalism (Burcu Ermeydan)
• Chapter 3: The Confluence of the Two Seas: The Rise of Indo-Pacific Region and ASEAN Centrality (Shofwan Al Banna Choiruzzad) Part II: Regional Relations
• Chapter 4: ASEAN, India, and the Indo-Pacific: Evolving Regional Maritime Environment (Rajeev Ranjan Chaturvedy, Ankush Ajay Wagle)
• Chapter 5: Socio-Cultural Relations Between ASEAN and South Korea (Hatice Celik)
• Chapter 6: Rethinking Indonesia's Role in ASEAN: From Leadership to Cooptation? (Eren Irfanoglu)
• Chapter 7: Malaysian Foreign Policy in the Context of ASEAN (Kerem Kilicdaroglu).
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This edited volume proposes that an understanding of ASEAN - its development and institutionalization - is invaluable to our conception of international relations theory in the Asian context. Southeast Asia and ASEAN host peoples, ideas, institutions, and relations that contribute to a critical reassessment of theories in social sciences. In the field of IR, studies on transnational networks, diasporas, small states, middle powers, the role of history, and identity learn from Southeast Asian practices. ASEAN has long been established as an authoritative example of alternative ways of regional institutionalization. Besides empirical analysis, these fields can also benefit from their interactions with regional scholarly communities. This edited book offers an opportunity for a dialogue among scholarly communities on a variety of issues of which Southeast Asia and ASEAN provide ample opportunities for a critical analysis. This book will be of great interest to scholars of ASEAN, the broader Asian region, and for scholars of regionalism in general.
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• Introduction: The country without a Quisling?
• "There are many Cains among us"
• Crowdsourcing genocide
• Hearts grown brutal
• The special courts
• Rewriting the narrative of the past
• Between politics and retribution
• The district courts
• Cold War considerations
• The principles of socialist humanism
• The math of amnesty
• Conclusion: The conspiracy of memory.

"When six years of resistance to Nazi occupation came to an end in 1945, a devastated Poland could agree with its new, Soviet-imposed rulers on little else beyond the need to punish German war criminals and their collaborators. But as the process of postwar retribution began to unearth evidence of enthusiastic local participation in the Holocaust, the hated government, traumatized populace, and fiercely independent judiciary found themselves struggling to salvage a sanitized vision of the past that could serve as the basis for national unity. Long dismissed as Stalinist farce, Poland's 32,000 trials for collaboration were in fact a scrupulous, complex search for the truth. Making use of unpublished memoirs, interviews, ministerial archives, and hundreds of individual case files, The August Trials documents how trials became the crucible in which the communist state and an unyielding society hammered out the foundational myth of modern Poland"-- Provided by publisher.

• The autocratic middle class
• State dependence and middle class demand for democracy
• The post-communist middle classes, the state, and democratization
• Rethinking the middle class protest paradigm
• Choosing to work for the state
• Revolution, democratic retrenchment, and the middle class
• Aligning the middle class with autocracy : rhetoric and practice

How middle-class economic dependence on the state impedes democratization and contributes to authoritarian resilience Conventional wisdom holds that the rising middle classes are a force for democracy. Yet in post-Soviet countries like Russia, where the middle class has grown rapidly, authoritarianism is deepening. Challenging a basic tenet of democratization theory, Bryn Rosenfeld shows how the middle classes can actually be a source of support for autocracy and authoritarian resilience, and reveals why development and economic growth do not necessarily lead to greater democracy. In pursuit of development, authoritarian states often employ large swaths of the middle class in state administration, the government budget sector, and state enterprises. Drawing on attitudinal surveys, unique data on protest behavior, and extensive fieldwork in the post-Soviet region, Rosenfeld documents how the failure of the middle class to gain economic autonomy from the state stymies support for political change, and how state economic engagement reduces middle-class demands for democracy and weakens prodemocratic coalitions. The Autocratic Middle Class makes a vital contribution to the study of democratization, showing how dependence on the state weakens the incentives of key societal actors to prefer and pursue democracy.
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• The autocratic middle class
• State dependence and middle class demand for democracy
• The post-communist middle classes, the state, and democratization
• Rethinking the middle class protest paradigm
• Choosing to work for the state
• Revolution, democratic retrenchment, and the middle class
• Aligning the middle class with autocracy : rhetoric and practice.

"The conventional wisdom is that a growing middle class will give rise to democracy. Yet the middle classes of the developing world have grown at a remarkable pace over the past two decades, and much of this growth has taken place in countries that remain nondemocratic. Rosenfeld explains this phenomenon by showing how modern autocracies secure support from key middle-class constituencies. Drawing on original surveys, interviews, archival documents, and secondary sources collected from nine months in the field, she compares the experiences of recent post-communist countries, including Russia, the Ukraine, and Kazakhstan, to show that under autocracy, state efforts weaken support for democracy, especially among the middle class. When autocratic states engage extensively in their economies - by offering state employment, offering perks to those to those who are loyal, and threatening dismissal to those who are disloyal - the middle classes become dependent on the state for economic opportunities and career advancement, and, ultimately, do not support a shift toward democratization. Her argument explains why popular support for Ukraine's Orange Revolution unraveled or why Russians did not protest evidence of massive electoral fraud. The author's research questions the assumption that a rising share of educated, white-collar workers always makes the conditions for democracy more favorable, and why dependence on the state has such pernicious consequences for democratization"-- Provided by publisher.

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: Big Data and Other Big Changes
• Chapter 3: The Elusive Persuadable Voter
• Chapter 4: Switching Gears: Changing Voter Contact Strategies in Presidential Elections
• Chapter 5: Priming the Party
• Chapter 6: Turning Out or Tuning Out?
• Chapter 7: Why in America so Polarized?
• Chapter 8: Conclusion Appendix References.
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Presidential campaigns in recent years have shifted their strategy to focus increasingly on base partisans, a shift that has had significant consequences for democracy in America. Over the past few decades, political campaign strategy in US elections has experienced a fundamental shift. Campaigns conducted by both Republicans and Democrats have gradually refocused their attention increasingly toward their respective partisan bases. In Bases Loaded, Costas Panagopoulos documents this shift toward base mobilization and away from voter persuasion in presidential elections between 1956 and 2016. His analyses show that this phenomenon is linked to several developments, including advances in campaign technology and voter targeting capabilities as well as insights from behavioral social science focusing on voter mobilization. Demonstrating the broader implications of the shift toward base mobilization, he links the phenomenon to growing turnout rates among strong partisans and rising partisan polarization. A novel, data-rich account of how presidential campaigns have evolved in the past quarter century, Bases Loaded argues that what campaigns do matters-not only for election outcomes, but also for political processes in the US and for American democracy.
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• List of Maps and Table Notes on Contributors
• Introduction Maurits Ebben and Louis Sicking
• PART 1 Theoretical Challenges
• 1 Premodern Non-State Agency: the Theoretical, Historical, and Legal Challenge John Watkins
• 2 Plurality of Diplomatic Agents in Premodern Literature on the Ambassador Dante Fedele
• PART 2 Consuls
• 3 Space, Agency, and Conflict Management in the Late Medieval Baltic: Urban Colonies and Representatives of Hanse Towns at Scania Louis Sicking
• 4 Your High and Mighty Lordships' Most Humble Servants: Dutch Consuls and the States General's Diplomacy in Spain, 1648-1661 Maurits Ebben
• PART 3 Missionaries
• 5 The Mendicant Friars: Actors in Diplomatic Encounters with the Mongols Jacques Paviot
• 6 The New Indies, the Desired Indies: Antonio Possevino and the Jesuits between Diplomacy and Missionarism in Northeastern Europe, 1577-1587 Felicia Ro?u
• PART 4 Spies
• 7 Secrets, Diplomatics, and Spies in Late Medieval France and in the Burgundian State: Parallel Practices and Undercover Operations Jean-Baptiste Santamaria
• 8 'Secret Wheeles': Clandestine Information, Espionage, and European Intelligence Alan Marshall
• Index of Names Index of Names.
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Because of the overarching shadow of 'the state' in all things diplomatic, traditional diplomatic history has neglected the study of any actors in foreign relations other than state diplomats, such as ambassadors. This volume focuses on the question of how and why consuls, missionaries, and spies not formally tied to the state or a prince could play a role in premodern diplomatic relations. It highlights their multiple loyalties, their volatility, and the porous boundaries of diplomatic activity. Historical research on non-state actors - in the context of the so-called new diplomatic history - is all the more urgent as it demonstrates their undeniably significant contributions to the formation of Europe's international relations. Contributors are: Maurits Ebben, Dante Fedele, Alan Marshall, Jacques Paviot, Felicia Rosu, Jean-Baptiste Santamaria, Louis Sicking, and John Watkins.
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• The question of ethnography
• At the crossroads : Africa on the map of human migrations
• Colony, monarchy, Muslim democracy : Morocco as the new "destination" for African migrants
• Vulnerability and the gendering of political status
• Burning yesterday for tomorrow : images from the in between
• "Le peril noir" : the racialization of political status
• Where the story ends

Burning at Europe's Borders: An Ethnography on the African Migrant Experience in Morocco draws a close lens on our global migrant and refugee crisis and the world's largest population of migrants and refuges. The author examines the process of "the burning" among those who have fled violent conflict and extreme poverty across the African continent and now find themselves trapped under brutal conditions at Europe's southernmost borders in North Africa. "Hrig, " the Arabic term for "illegal immigration, " translates to "burning." It signifies migrants' physical burning of identification papers, in order to avoid repatriation if arrested on their long journeys north, but also the symbolic burning of their past lives in hopes of reaching a better future on European shores. This book exposes the political agreements that have led to Europe's control over African borders and the illicit practices that continue to mold Morocco, Algeria, and Libya into holding cells for the world's most vulnerable. The creative mixed-methods project design included over three years of ethnographic research in African smuggling rings, hidden migrant camps, and EU-funded detention centers; a large-scale demographic survey of the region; oral history and what the author terms "oral future" collection; and community filmmaking practices. Burning at Europe's Borders introduces new ways of engaging in anthropological research in the modern era, weaving individual human stories and images into the analysis of global migration flows at our world's most critical border crossings. Burning at Europe's Borders is a volume in the series ISSUES OF GLOBALIZATION: CASE STUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY ANTHROPOLOGY, which examines the experiences of individual communities in our contemporary world. Each volume offers a brief and engaging exploration of a particular issue arising from globalization and its cultural, political, and economic effects on certain peoples or groups.
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• Une triple énigme
• "Je suis le Président de tous les Français. Les riches, ils n'ont pas besoin d'un Président, ils se débrouillent très bien seuls"
• Actions collectives, actions individuelles des entrepreneurs économiques
• "L'État a... intérêt à sa propre conservation. Qui est l'État ? Anthropomorphisme"
• [De quelques définitions du capital et du capitalisme]
• Avoir enquêté sur les patrons
• Les patrons en politique
• Enquêter sur les patrons en politique
• Les registres de l'action individuelle patronale
• Requérir auprès du Président
• "Pardonnez-moi de ne pas avoir pu sauver l'entreprise"
• [Quand un philosophe s'en mêle]
• Savoir jouer des légalités
• Évitements et contournements fiscaux
• La gestion des salariés
• [Palmarès et portraits dans l'hebdomadaire Challenges]
• Fausser les concurrences
• Protester en patronat
• "Une action virile, dite de rue"
• [Les bilans des "poujadismes"]
• [Les mobilisations du CID-UNATI vues par les maoïstes]
• Dans la rue mais...
• La stigmatisation néo-poujadiste
• Canaliser le mécontentement
• [Bonnets rouges et Gilets jaunes]
• Protester autrement
• Manifestations apprêtées
• Une manifestation digitale
• La couleur des entreprises
• Patrons de gauche, patrons de droite
• [Patrons verts et patrons écologistes]
• "L'entreprise est un objet politique"
• L'entreprise objet de politique
• L'entreprise en débats
• L'entreprise chrétienne
• La richesse comme enjeu politique
• Des questions qui fâchent ?
• [Capital investissement, fonds activistes et private equity]
• Intervenir dans la vie publique
• Des militantismes patronaux
• [Quelques exemples de distances par rapport aux organisations (syndicales) patronales]
• Être visible
• [Publicités et interpellations des Leclerc]
• ["S'offrir un media"]
• Littératures patronales
• Philanthropies et sponsoring
• [Le rugby et le football des chefs d'entreprise]
• Des rapports des patrons à la politique
• Comment votent les patrons ?
• Des formes de militantisme politique patronal
• [Un grand entrepreneur filloniste prend goût à la politique]
• Les faire parler des hommes politiques
• Parler de politique
• Changer de politique(s) ?
• [Power elite, corporate community et inner circles]
• Défendre l'économie
• Des patrons en politique
• [Antoine Pinay (1891-1994), industriel en politique]
• [Bernard Tapie la politique en plus]
• "Il faut plus d'élus issus de l'entreprise"
• Les voies patronales en politique
• L'exception grand-patronale
• [Les Dassault en politique]
• Militants et patrons
• Les formes de la notabilité
• Les cooptations par les politiques
• [De quelques manières de se présenter parmi des chefs d'entreprise candidats à la candidature En Marche]
• Capital entrepreneurial et capital politique
• Les formes de dépendance des politiques à l'égard des milieux économiques
• La cooptation par les chefs, d'entreprise
• Visiteurs du matin et du soir
• [Faire, et faire faire, du lobbying]
• Epilogue. Le cens des affaires
• [La pandémie vue d'un salon de coiffure].

"Michel Offerlé pose la question, plus complexe qu'il n'y paraît, de ce qu'un patron peut faire. De quelle manière les chefs d'entreprise contribuent-ils, par leurs pratiques économiques et politiques, à la pérennisation et à la transformation d'un système qu'ils habitent et qu'ils servent ? Il est question ici des patrons dans toutes les acceptions du terme (les petits, les grands, les moyens, les hauts), les artisans, les chefs d'entreprise, les entrepreneurs, les managers, les dirigeants. Il est question ici de politique dans tous les sens du terme. Car les patrons, directement ou indirectement, interviennent en politique : ils contribuent à la construction des problèmes publies, concourent à la "vie de la Cité", votent, agissent par leurs défections et par leurs mobilisations - feutrées ou sonores -, ou imaginent d'autres manières de produire ou de diriger (1' "entrepreneuriat engagé") ; voire, pour certains d'entre eux, participent à la conquête et à l'exercice du pouvoir avec leur culture de "manager". Pour comprendre ce qu'un patron peut faire, ce qu'il peut faire faire ou peut laisser faire, voire ce qu'il ne veut pas faire, Michel Offerlé s'est appuyé sur plusieurs centaines d'entretiens réalisés en atelier de recherche ces dix dernières années et sur soixante-dix entretiens originaux qui ont toujours porté sur le parcours biographique de l'interviewé, la direction de son entreprise, son rapport à la politique et aux hommes politiques et ses pratiques de l'engagement. 'A partir de cet éclairage original l'auteur met aussi en perspective les stratégies patronales durant l'actuelle pandémie."--Page 4 of cover.

• List of Contributors Preface Introduction (Lee Lai To)
• 1. The Gap between China's People-to-People Exchange and Its Aim to Promote Understanding Among Peoples In the World (Zhuang Liwei)
• 2. Chinese Outbound Tourists, Policy Reforms and Mobility Regime (Aranya Siriphon and Zhu Jinsheng)
• 3. Toward An "Asian Century", Can China and Japan Cooperate? (Masaya Sakuragawa)
• 4. Cooperation in the Transboundary Rivers between North Korea & China: the Yalu & the Tumen Rivers (Seungho Lee)
• 5. China-ASEAN Natural Rubber Trade Relationship: Policy Redesign for Mutual Competitive Advantage (Montchai Pinitjitsamut)
• 6. 40 Years' Reform and Opening-up of Yunnan and Its Implications for the Mekong Region (Lei Zhuning and Chen Tiejun)
• 7. Rethinking Diplomatic Discourse with Chinese Characteristics: The Brotherhood Discourse (Kornphanat Tungkeunkunt and Kanya Phuphakdi)
• 8. Disturbing the Balance of Inequality, PRC Influence on The Position of the Ethnic Chinese in Thailand in the 'New Era' (Wasana Wongsurawat)
• Index.
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As China takes up the mantle of a global power, its diplomatic policy has changed significantly as it assumes a role of regional leadership. Until recently, China has not tended to talk about its developmental strategy as a model for others to follow. Since the rise of Xi Jinping this has changed, and the state has become more open in sharing its developmental experiences with its neighbours. This has become an important part of China's diplomatic relations with other countries in East Asia. Beijing has also emphasized people-to-people diplomacy, with outward tourism and other exchanges of peoples seen as an important part of building stronger relations with its neighbours. The chapters in this book all address different elements of this strategy, looking at China's bilateral relationships with other East Asian countries in terms of developmental relations and the increasing mutual exposure of their citizens. This book will be of great interest to scholars of Chinese diplomacy, especially those with a particular interest in soft power.
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• Postwar Left
• CIA
• Coups
• Moscow Gold
• Divisions
• Transitions
• Populism
• Dissension
• Everyday Forms of Organization
• Communist Threats
• Resurgent Left
• 1959

In The CIA in Ecuador Marc Becker draws on recently released US government surveillance documents on the Ecuadorian left to chart social movement organizing efforts during the 1950s. Emphasizing the competing roles of the domestic ruling class and grassroots social movements, Becker details the struggles and difficulties that activists, organizers, and political parties confronted. He shows how leftist groups, including the Communist Party of Ecuador, navigated disagreements over tactics and ideology, and how these influenced shifting strategies in support of rural Indigenous communities and urban labor movements. He outlines the CIA's failure to understand that the Ecuadorian left was rooted in local social struggles rather than bankrolled by the Soviet Union. By decentering US-Soviet power struggles, Becker shows that the local patterns and dynamics that shaped the development of the Ecuadorian left could be found throughout Latin America during the cold war.
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• 1. Introduction--
• 2. Citizenship in a federated framework--
• 3. National and state citizenship in the American context--
• 4. State citizenship for blacks--
• 5. Worst to first: California's evolution from regressive to progressive state citizenship--
• 6. State citizenship and immigration federalism--
• 7. Enabling progress on state citizenship.
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The United States is entering a new era of progressive state citizenship, with California leading the way. A growing number of states are providing expanded rights to undocumented immigrants that challenge conventional understandings of citizenship as binary, unidimensional, and exclusively national. In Citizenship Reimagined, Allan Colbern and S. Karthick Ramakrishnan develop a precise framework for understanding and measuring citizenship as expansive, multi-dimensional, and federated - broader than legal status and firmly grounded in the provision of rights. Placing today's immigration battles in historical context, they show that today's progressive state citizenship is not unprecedented: US states have been leaders in rights expansion since America's founding, including over the fight for black citizenship and women's suffrage. The book invites readers to rethink how American federalism relates to minority rights and how state laws regulating undocumented residents can coexist with federal exclusivity over immigration law.
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