Political Science - General

Migration and Political Behavior is an account of the impact migration has on the political behavior of individual migrants both abroad and in their society of origin. It analyzes how migrants adapt to a political system that may be distinct and which may result...

Decentralized Relief: How Cryptocurrency is Transforming International Aid MissionsIn a world where crises are becoming more frequent and complex, the traditional systems of delivering humanitarian aid are struggling to keep up. Bureaucratic delays, corruption, and inefficiencies often prevent life-saving resources from reaching those who...

Strategic Justice: Military and ICC's Dance with GeopoliticsIn "Strategic Justice: Military and ICC's Dance with Geopolitics," dive into the intricate and often tumultuous relationship between the military, international justice, and the geopolitical landscape. This book unravels the complex dynamics that shape the International Criminal...

Regional tourism development is no more an isolated process. It encompasses the whole system and its subsystems in which it functions. Therefore, tourism development planning needs an integrated planning approach encompassing all the subsystems of the system, such as, socio-economic, physical, infrastructure, institution, ecology...

The Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), created in 1968, has assumed a significant status in the formulation of India's foreign policies and strategies. Working directly under the Prime Minister, it has over the years become and effective instrument of India's national power. In consonance...

This book analyze China's changing foreign policy towards the United Nations Peacekeeping Operation (UNPKO). In 1950s, China rejected any forms of intervention towards internal affairs of one country. In 1949-1971, China even condemned the establishment of the UNPKO. But in the subsequent years, China...

Ongoing developments in the Arctic have attracted the attention of the five Arctic coastal states; Canada, the U.S., Russia, Denmark and Norway. However, they have also caught the attention of external stakeholders such as China, South Korea, Japan, NATO and the European Union. Considering...

The U.S. Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (TVPA) was the first piece of legislation designed to combat human trafficking on all fronts, both domestically and internationally, and was upheld as a model worldwide. Although human trafficking as an issue seemed to appear out...

This book presents a comparative view of two powerful political leaders of our time, former President of the United States, George W. Bush and former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Tony Blair. Although the two leaders held different office positions in two culturally...

This monograph studies the implications that institutions of direct democracy have on the happiness of a society, in a framework where the authority is interested both in implementing its ideal policy and in its re-election. It is shown that, in cases where authorities have...

Although Australia is a constitutional monarchy, the move to a republic is gathering momentum. Such momentum requires conceptual clarity. Peter Nugus maps the ideological and discursive contours of the contemporary Australian debate to their ancient lineage of Aristotle, Cicero, Plato, Polybius, Harrington, Montesquieu, Machiavelli...

In the last two decades the concept of citizenship and the increase in cases of dual nationality have gained significant importance. Therefore the objective of this book is to put citizenship and contemporary problematic of dual nationality cases in the center of political and...

2001, in Southern Lebanese village of Rashaya, at one of two last potteries there, the old man stumped the mould of clay with his bare feet ahead of the manual formation process on the rotator. His wife spoke about a forgotten history and a...

Jeremiah John Rawlings, Ghanaian air force pilot and populist politician ruled Ghana for almost two decades between December 1981 and September 2000. Rawlings, who began his leadership career as a military ruler, later went on to become a democratically elected president through a successful...

Seventeen years after the Taef Summit, which was held in Saudi Arabia in October 1989, the reconciliation agreement remains a debatable issue among the Lebanese people, basically among the major Lebanese political parties. Some have opposed this agreement and others, particularly the Lebanese Forces,...

The present inquiry has two dimensions: first it is concerned with the changing concept of citizenship in the liberal polities with respect to increasing diversity within these societies -with special reference to the impact of immigration on diversity. Second, it tries to explore the...

The challenge in early warning of displacement crises comes not in predicting individual behavior, but in predicting the collective behavior of thousands of people fleeing from violence, oppression, and disaster, while each retains individual autonomy and social identity. This book is intended to reorient...

This book is a compendium of various papers, studies, and essays on subjects ranging from the politics of ethnicity and specific country profiles, cultural studies with regard to minority issues in the United States of America (primarily black politics), and analyses of research in...

This book deals with political institutions and their effect on democracy in the Dominican Republic since 1966. It provides a new analysis of the Dominican democracy, and uses case-study methods to generate new and improve existing theories and concepts. The book develops new measurements...

Trafficking in people is often approached as an issue of crime or immigration control, with international bodies taking a state centered approach. Internationally, legislation finds unsanctioned migration to be a security threat to national borders. In practice, this not only criminalises traffickers, but trafficked...

In the last decades across many parts of Europe a regional level of governance has been emerging, a trend which has not been observed in Turkey despite its extreme regional disparities. Since the Helsinki summit of the EU leaders in 1999 when Turkey was...

Since the early 1980s, there has been a drastic increase in commemorative activities dedicated to the memory of the Holocaust and its victims. This book investigates the influence of the history of the Holocaust and the politics of memory on German democracy and national...

This work presents the case of the American economy as a repudiation of the two-stage theory of capitalist development advanced by theorists like Hilferding, Steindl and Baran and Sweezy. Various cases from the American economy are presented to contradict the argument that with the...

The number of regional organizations in Africa has increased substantially over the past thirty years even though their success has been dismal. In addition to poor performance, traditional theories of economics cooperation are no longer relevant in explaining the existence of these organizations because...

How to achieve favorable integration outcomes has become a pressing and contentious issue in Germany. Some see cultural distance as the main impediment to integration. The more immigrants' culture and value systems differ from those of the host society, they contend, the more immigrants...

There has been renewed interest in the history of second wave feminism, as it is forty years since the political upheavals of 1968 which prompted this new movement for women's liberation. A key feature of that move-ment was its challenge to liberal democracy, tackling...

The research on relations between Turkey and the European Union usually focuses on the Turkish state's relations with European institutions. As the boundaries between international and domestic politics blur, there is need for a new approach. Based on the transnational model in international relations...

Nations must often take stock of their achievements and forge ahead with new directions to confront the changing realities in economics and politics. This imposes new demands and burdens on leadership. What should be the approach and the new role of leadership in fostering...

Dr. Yayla presents that terrorism is a social phenomenon with criminal consequences which needs to be dealt by means of two dimensional approaches, the social dimension of terrorism and the criminal dimension of terrorism. This book offers a conceptual model which addresses both of...

The main objective of this work is to examine how the free markets' superior agent, the transnational corporation (TNC) affects economic development and human rights' conditions in the developing world. The book expands on an emerging tradition that highlights the importance of context and...

The issue of honour crime is much debated in contemporary Turkey as well as in the Middle East. Honour crime can be perceived as the murder of a woman by one of her family members in the name of 'redeeming honour of the family.'...

This book examines the factors that affect work performance of Ghanaian bureaucrats. Three decades ago Robert Price (1975) examined the impact that kinship ties had on the motivation of Ghanaian bureaucrats. This study followed the work of Price by replicating his mix of interviews...

Author: Katalin FüzérISBN-10: 3639094743ISBN-13: 9783639094749Publisher: VDM VerlagLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/12/2008Pages: 184Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.56lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.39d

This book analyzes the formal and the informal structures of the Yemeni political system, in their constitutional, legal, and practical manifestations. The underpinning goal of such an endeavor is to assess the extent to which the system guarantees, and allows citizens to exercise and...

Lack of participation, political and otherwise, has been a case in point in Latin American countries in their struggle to develop, Mexico not being the exception. Political democracy is not enough for the implementation of both a better distribution of wealth and social justice....

This study analyzes liberalization and democratization in Egypt, Jordan, and Yemen. The initiation and the reverse of these processes are ex-plained by focusing on the role of the ruling elites in the three countries and the choices they made at different historical junctures. The...

Since the 1980s, the Brazilian Workers' Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores - PT) received attention due to its heterogeneous composition of social activists and innovative governing practices. By making a discourse analysis of the PT, Pessoa examines the trajectory of its political dis-course, as the...

In post-Mao China, when Chinese debate on how to reorient their modernization, political neo- conservatism has risen rapidly against liberal democracy since the early 1990s. This work analyzes its origins, development, arguments, and political consequence. The political neo-conservatism includes various thoughts: neo-authoritarianism, statism, nationalism,...

This pioneering book provides a new interpretation of the Anglo-American special relationship's fundamental nature, its strengths and weaknesses, and the heart of its operational dynamic. Revealing the powerful influence of cultural affinity, Hendershot explains why no disagreement, however large, has been able to divide...

This book dwells into the construction of new regional identities in post-Soviet Russia. Brought into being by a particular ideological practice, they constitute a particular response to the situation of social dis-identification generated by the dissolution of the USSR and the disappearance of the...

Although recent decades have shown much interest in the possibility of democratizing China, Chinese understandings of democracy remain understudied. Considering that these domestic understandings shape the Chinese polity now and in the future, this book examines the Chinese theory of democratic centralism that perceives...

Hailed as the event that 'removed the last brick of the Wall' (J. Fischer), Serbia's democratic revolution marked the end of an era in the country's recent history. This book is devoted to the student movement Otpor (Resistance) that was instrumental in ousting Slobodan...

Author: Joseph B. GitariISBN-10: 3639087631ISBN-13: 9783639087635Publisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Language: EnglishPublished: 10/02/2008Pages: 196Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.59lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.42d

Author: Kai KoddenbrockISBN-10: 3639084527ISBN-13: 9783639084528Publisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Language: EnglishPublished: 09/26/2008Pages: 140Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.43lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.30d

This book explores the phenomenological realities of violence and trauma, resiliency and healing among the internally displaced persons (IDPs) in central Mindanao and the Karen refugees on the Thai-Burmese border. They came as a result of constant fighting between government military and minority armed...

How much influence does the regime type of a country have on its ability to win an international war? Upon closer inspection, very little. A careful study of the process by which peaceful citizens are converted into instruments of state-sponsored destruction shows that countries...

Author: Anita KocicISBN-10: 3639081617ISBN-13: 9783639081619Publisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Language: EnglishPublished: 09/08/2008Pages: 84Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.27lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.17d

Author: Fredrik DoeserISBN-10: 3639078489ISBN-13: 9783639078480Publisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Language: EnglishPublished: 09/05/2008Pages: 328Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.97lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d

This tome deals with the democratic transitions in Africa, drawing on the Ghanaian experience of re-democratization in 1992. Ghanaian politics underwent a most rapid process of transformation between 1992 and 2000. Two developments, elites and mass struggles for political and economic incorporation respectively and...

Author: Anders HellströmISBN-10: 3639078098ISBN-13: 9783639078091Publisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Language: EnglishPublished: 09/03/2008Pages: 284Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.84lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.60d