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  • Climate Change and National Security

    A Country-Level Analysis

    by Daniel Moran, Joanna I. Lewis, Carlyle A. Thayer, Paul D. Hutchcroft, Michael S. Malley, T.V. Paul, Daniel Markey, Ali Riaz, Celeste A. Wallander, Edward Schatz0, Chad Briggs1, Stacy D. VanDeveer2, Ibrahim Al-Marashi3, James A. Russell4, Gregory White5, Linda J. Beck6, E. Mark Pires7, Dennis Galvan8, Brian Guy9, Ngonidzashe Munemo0, Kent Eaton1, Jeffrey Cason2 ...
    In this unique and innovative contribution to environmental security, an international team of scholars explore and estimate the intermediate-term security risks that climate change may pose for the United States, its allies and partners, and for regional and global order through the year 2030. In profiles of forty-two key countries and regions, each contributor considers the problems that climate ... Read more

    $53.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • How Autocrats Rise

    Sequences of Democratic Backsliding

    by Ali Riaz, Md Sohel Rana ...
    Series series Global Political Transitions
    For the past decade and a half, the world has witnessed a precipitous decline of democratic countries and the consequent rise of autocrats. How Autocrats Rise: Sequences of Democratic Backsliding challenges the conventional wisdom and offers an institutional-ideological approach to understand the phenomenon, examines the steps of emergent autocrats, and analyzes the methods of legitimizing their ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • Bangladesh

    A Political History since Independence

    by Ali Riaz ...
    Bangladesh is a country of paradoxes. The eighth most populous country of the world, it has attracted considerable attention from the international media and western policy-makers in recent years, often for the wrong reasons: corruption, natural disasters caused by its precarious geographical location, and volatile political situations with several military coups, following its independence from ... Read more

    $153.99 USD

  • Islam and identity politics among British-Bangladeshis

    A leap of faith

    by Ali Riaz ...
    This book probes the causes of and conditions for the preference of the members of the British-Bangladeshi community for a religion-based identity vis-à-vis ethnicity-based identity, and the influence of Islamists in shaping the discourse. The first book-length study to examine identity politics among the Bangladeshi diaspora delves into the micro-level dynamics, the internal and external factors ... Read more

    $93.59 USD

  • Religion and Politics in South Asia

    Edited by Ali Riaz ...
    This revised edition of Religion and Politics in South Asia presents a comprehensive analysis of the interaction of religion and politics in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.The book highlights that in recent decades, religion, religio-political parties, and religious rhetoric have become dominant features of the political scenes in all seven countries. ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Voting in a Hybrid Regime

    Explaining the 2018 Bangladeshi Election

    by Ali Riaz ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This Pivot explores the mechanism of election manipulation in ostensibly democratic but essentially authoritarian systems called the hybrid regime, using the 2018 parliamentary elections in Bangladesh as an example. The 2018 election has delivered an unprecedented victory to the incumbent Bangladesh Awami League. Elections pose serious dilemmas for the leaders of hybrid regimes. While contested ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Bangladesh

    Edited by Ali Riaz, Mohammad Sajjadur Rahman ...
    In the past decade, Bangladesh has achieved significant social and economic progress. Despite high population density, a limited natural-resource base, underdeveloped infrastructure, frequent natural disasters and political uncertainty, the country has recorded positive developments in terms of broad economic and social indicators. This Handbook presents a comprehensive and interdisciplinary ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Political Violence in South Asia

    Edited by Ali Riaz, Zobaida Nasreen, Fahmida Zaman ...
    Political violence has remained an integral part of South Asian society for decades. The region has witnessed and continued to encounter violence for achieving political objectives from above and from below. Violence is perpetrated by the state, by non-state actors, and used by the citizens as a form of resistance. Ethnic insurgency, religion-inspired extremism, and ideology-driven hostility are ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Pathways of Autocratization

    The Tumultuous Journey of Bangladeshi Politics

    by Ali Riaz ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in South Asian Studies
    Pathways of Autocratization addresses one of the most important questions in contemporary global politics: how does a country regress from a democracy to an autocracy?This book offers a novel framework for understanding the processes that erode democracy and lead to autocracy and explains a specific instance of democratic backsliding in Bangladesh: the world’s eighth most populous country. With ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Islamist Militancy in Bangladesh

    A Complex Web

    by Ali Riaz ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
    In an unprecedented show of force, organization and skill, two proscribed Islamist militant organizations exploded more than 450 bombs within a span of less than an hour throughout Bangladesh on 17 August 2005 sending a strong message that they were a force to be reckoned with. This catastrophic event, followed by a number of suicide attacks, forced the then reluctant Bangladeshi government, a ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Political Islam and Governance in Bangladesh

    Edited by Ali Riaz, C. Christine Fair ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
    The past decade has seen a marked policy focus upon Bangladesh, home to nearly 150 million Muslims; it has attracted the attention of the world due to weak governance and the rising tide of Islamist violence. This book provides a broad-ranging analysis of the growth and impact of "political Islam" in Bangladesh, and reactions to it. Grounded in empirical data, experts on Bangladesh examine the ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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  • Africa Uprising

    Popular Protest and Political Change

    by Adam Branch, Zachariah Mampilly ...
    Series series African Arguments
    From Egypt to South Africa, Nigeria to Ethiopia, a new force for political change is emerging across Africa: popular protest. Widespread urban uprisings by youth, the unemployed, trade unions, activists, writers, artists, and religious groups are challenging injustice and inequality. What is driving this new wave of protest? Is it the key to substantive political change?Drawing on interviews and ... Read more

    $22.99 USD