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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “david bourchier”
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  • Indonesian Politics and Society

    A Reader

    Edited by David Bourchier, Vedi Hadiz ...
    Using an exhaustive selection of primary sources, this book presents a rich and textured picture of Indonesian politics and society from 1965 to the dramatic changes which have taken place in recent years. Providing a complete portrait of the Indonesian political landscape, this authoritative reader is an essential resource in understanding the history and contradictions of the New Order, current ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Illiberal Democracy in Indonesia

    The Ideology of the Family State

    by David Bourchier ...
    Series series Politics in Asia
    Illiberal Democracy in Indonesia charts the origins and development of organicist ideologies in Indonesia from the early 20th century to the present. In doing so, it provides a background to the theories and ideology that informed organicist thought, traces key themes in Indonesian history, examines the Soeharto regime and his ‘New Order’ in detail, and looks at contemporary Indonesia to question ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Masters of Terror

    Indonesia's Military and Violence in East Timor

    by David Bourchier, KPP Ham, Douglas Kammen, Gerry Van Klinken, Hamish McDonald ...
    Series series World Social Change
    The terror campaign by pro-Indonesian armed groups before, during, and after East Timor's independence referendum in 1999 was a blatant challenge to the international community as many of the acts of murder, political intimidation, destruction, and mass deportation took place before the eyes of the world. Yet still the ultimate responsibility has been denied and obscured. Masters of Terror ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

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  • India, Pakistan, and Democracy

    Solving the Puzzle of Divergent Paths

    by Philip Oldenburg ...
    The question of why some countries have democratic regimes and others do not is a significant issue in comparative politics. This book looks at India and Pakistan, two countries with clearly contrasting political regime histories, and presents an argument on why India is a democracy and Pakistan is not. Focusing on the specificities and the nuances of each state system, the author examines in ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Peace and Democratic Society

    by Amartya Sen (Editor) ...
    Series Book 1 - Open Reports Series
    Recent acts of terrorism and the current unrest in the Middle East remind us how important it is to understand the relationship between violence, peace and democracy. In a challenging and insightful essay, Amartya Sen explores ideas around 'organised violence' (such as war, genocide and terrorism) and violence against the individual. Highlighting the inadequacies of some of the widely accepted ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Politics in Deeply Divided Societies

    by Adrian Guelke ...
    The establishment of durable, democratic institutions constitutes one of the major challenges of our age. As countless contemporary examples have shown, it requires far more than simply the holding of free elections. The consolidation of a legitimate constitutional order is difficult to achieve in any society, but it is especially problematic in societies with deep social cleavages.This book ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • Issues In International Relations

    Edited by Trevor C. Salmon, Mark F. Imber ...
    Students come to study International Relations at university driven by a variety of motives and active concern to study great contemporary issues, such as the causes and persistence of war, threats of nuclear proliferation and terrorism, the persistence of global poverty amid globalization’s riches and longer term threats to sustainable development.Building on the success of the first edition, ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Humanitarianism Contested

    Where Angels Fear to Tread

    by Michael Barnett, Thomas G. Weiss ...
    Series series Global Institutions
    This book provides a succinct but sophisticated understanding of humanitarianism and insight into the on-going dilemmas and tensions that have accompanied it since its origins in the early nineteenth century. Combining theoretical and historical exposition with a broad range of contemporary case studies, the book:provides a brief survey of the history of humanitarianism, beginning with the anti ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The Real World of Democratic Theory

    by Ian Shapiro ...
    In this book Ian Shapiro develops and extends arguments that have established him as one of today's leading democratic theorists. Shapiro is hardheaded about the realities of politics and power, and the difficulties of fighting injustice and oppression. Yet he makes a compelling case that democracy's legitimacy depends on pressing it into the service of resisting domination, and that democratic ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Understanding Modern Nigeria

    Ethnicity, Democracy, and Development

    by Toyin Falola ...
    Since its independence from Britain in 1960, Nigeria has emerged as Africa's second largest economy and one of the biggest producers of oil in the world. Despite its economic success, however, there are deep divisions among its two hundred and fifty ethnic groups. Centered around three of the dominant themes of Nigeria's post-colonial narrative - ethnicity, democracy and governance, this is an ... Read more

    $50.09 USD

  • The Promise of Power

    The Origins of Democracy in India and Autocracy in Pakistan

    by Maya Tudor ...
    Under what conditions are some developing countries able to create stable democracies while others have slid into instability and authoritarianism? To address this classic question at the center of policy and academic debates, The Promise of Power investigates a striking puzzle: why, upon the 1947 Partition of British India, was India able to establish a stable democracy while Pakistan created an ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Fictions of Justice

    The International Criminal Court and the Challenge of Legal Pluralism in Sub-Saharan Africa

    by Kamari Maxine Clarke ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
    By taking up the challenge of documenting how human rights values are embedded in rule of law movements to produce a new language of international justice that competes with a range of other formations, this book explores how notions of justice are negotiated through everyday micropractices and grassroots contestations of those practices. These micropractices include speech acts that revere the ... Read more

    $39.39 USD