Costly Democracy. Peacebuilding and Democratization After War, Paperback - Nora Roehner

This book examines under what conditions peacebuilding can bring not only peace but also democracy to war-torn countries.

Examines the redesign of state institutions in post-war African countries arguing for a more consociational approach to peacebuilding and democracy...

Reducere. DescriptionOver the past five years, Jess Ruliffson has traveled across the country interviewing veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars, from ki...

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Shopkeeper's wife Kate and her family face an uncertain future in the years after the Great War in this unputdownable Liverpool saga from the bests...

How violent events and autocratic parties trigger democratic change How do democracies emerge? Shock to the System presents a novel theory of democ...

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"Crouch's provocative argument in Post-Democracy has in many ways been vindicated by recent events, but these have also highlighted some weaknesses...

DescriptionClassical Athens perfected direct democracy. The plays of this ancient Greek state are still staged today. These achievements are rightl...

Reducere. From Schirch's decades of experience as a peacebuilding consultant in Africa, Asia, and Latin America comes a bold plan for a peaceful world. Inclu...

Reducere. A grassroots movement for economic democracy based on cooperatives and local economies is quickly growing throughout the planet. After Capitalism, ...

DescriptionFor four hundred years, Virginia's politicians have preached a "Virginia Way" of honor, gentility and democracy. In reality, this ideolo...

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What do ordinary citizens really want from their governments? Democracy has long been considered an ideal state of governance. What if it's not? Pe...

Offers a lively military history and overview of Reconstruction that illuminates the new war fought immediately after the American Civil War. This ...

Reducere. World War II created enemies and friends among nations. When it ended, how did the involved parties rise up from the rubles? This history book will...

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Originally published in 1985, this book provides an important insight into the principal aspects of the history of the policy and practice of polit...

On April 2, 1917, Woodrow Wilson thrust the United States into World War I by declaring, "The world must be made safe for democracy." For the 380, ...

Reducere. Many Americans believe that their own government is guilty of shocking crimes. Government agents shot the president. They faked the moon landing. T...

Reducere. How it happened that technological prowess and national glory (or "radiance, " which also means "radiation" in French) became synonymous in France ...

Reducere. Description*Includes pictures *Includes contemporary records *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "There were, I suppo...

These spine-tingling short stories start off innocent enough but quickly turn into a bed of unearthed secrets, many of which you will cheer for unt...

Reducere. See E.B. Sledge's story in the HBO miniseries The Pacific China Marine is the extraordinary sequel to E.B. Sledge's memoir, With the Old Breed, whi...

Explores Jewish emigration from Palestine and Israel during the critical period between 1945 and the late 1950s by weaving together the perspective...

Edited by one of the most renowned scholars in the field, this reader assembles classic and contemporary readings on enduring problems of internati...

The thrilling new fantasy adventure from the world of Adrian Tchaikovsky's Redemption's Blade The Tzarkomen necromancers sacrificed a thousand wome...

Reducere. The 1676 killing of Metacomet, the tribal leader dubbed "King Philip" by colonists, is commonly seen as a watershed event, marking the end of a blo...

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It's snapshot of the time between the austerity at the end of the Second World War and the beginning of the Swinging Sixties, a bit of social histo...

A maverick thinker who's drawn the applause of both the left and right offers a bold new framework for understanding the turmoil in the West

DescriptionDemocratization is the most comprehensive volume on this critical field of contemporary politics, with insightful coverage of the key th...

This volume explores the issues and debates surrounding the ongoing processes of democratization in sub-Saharan Africa, illuminating the central dy...

In Citizenship after Trump, political theorists Bradley S. Klein and Scott G. Nelson explore the meaning of community in the context of intense pol...

From Conflict Resolution to Peacebuilding will introduce the varied ways people address and resolve conflicts at all levels from the interpersonal ...

Reducere. There is extensive discussion in current Just War literature about the normative principles which should govern the initiation of war (jus ad bellu...

Contributor(s): Author: Mary L. DudziakIn 1958, an African-American handyman named Jimmy Wilson was sentenced to die in Alabama for stealing two do...

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This thorough account of the postwar search for 150 suspected Nazi collaborators in the United States explains how they immigrated into the United ...

Reducere. "CITIZENSHIP 1928" is a review of the War Department Technical Manual 2000-25, Citizenship. This manual was originally authorized on 30 November 19...

DescriptionAn international team of scholars address the theology and practice of peacebuilding. "Peacebuilding" refers to a range of topics, rangi...

Reducere. Stories of Elke McKee's WWII German soldier father who was captured and spent ten years as a Russian prisoner, his impression of the kind Russian p...

Examines core Confucian legacies and their impacts on civic and political orientations in six Confucian countries: China, Japan, South Korea, Singa...