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  • Russia, the Council of Europe and the European Convention on Human Rights

    A Troubled Membership and Its Legacy

    by Ed Bates, Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou, Andrew Forde ...
    In March 2022, following the invasion of Ukraine, Russia was expelled from the Council of Europe after 26 years as a member.This timely and in-depth analysis explores Russia's tumultuous relationship with the Council of Europe and European Court of Human Rights. It examines Russia’s membership record and the profound impacts of its expulsion for Europe’s human rights system. The authors provide ... Read more

    $37.99 USD

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  • Don't Mourn, Balkanize!

    Essays after Yugoslavia

    by Andrej Grubačić ...
    Don’t Mourn, Balkanize! is the first book written from the radical left perspective on the topic of Yugoslav space after the dismantling of the country. In this collection of essays, commentaries, and interviews, written between 2002 and 2010, Andrej Grubačić speaks about the politics of balkanization—about the trial of Slobodan Milosevic, the assassination of Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic, ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Same-Sex Marriages in the European Union: A Guidebook

    by Emmett M. Hogan ...
    Series series Law, LGBTQ Rights
    In Chapter 1, this book looks at all 27 member states of the European Union. Each section describes the country's recent history, and its form of government. Then: each section looks into i) whether each member state allows same-sex marriage, and ii) whether each member state recognizes such marriages done abroad.In Chapter 2, this book looks at EU directives and the judgments from the European ... Read more

    $3.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Parties as Governments in Eurasia, 1913–1991

    Nationalism, Socialism, and Development

    Edited by Ivan Sablin, Egas Moniz Bandeira ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
    This book examines the political parties which emerged on the territories of the former Ottoman, Qing, Russian, and Habsburg empires and not only took over government power but merged with government itself. It discusses how these parties, disillusioned with previous constitutional and parliamentary reforms, justified their takeovers with programs of controlled or supervised economic and social ... Read more

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  • China in Disintegration

    by James E. Sheridan ...
    After the 1911 fall of the Manchus came the most hideous breakdown in Chinese history. Sheridan, a Northwestern University scholar, concentrates on the Kuomintang movement of Chiang Kai-shek, insisting that we judge a political force by whether it solves the problems posed to it, not, as Chiang's partisans prefer, by means of what-if's. Sheridan's focus on the KMT brings more to light than do many ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Good Immigrants

    How the Yellow Peril Became the Model Minority

    by Madeline Y. Hsu ...
    Series series Politics and Society in Modern America
    Conventionally, US immigration history has been understood through the lens of restriction and those who have been barred from getting in. In contrast, The Good Immigrants considers immigration from the perspective of Chinese elites—intellectuals, businessmen, and students—who gained entrance because of immigration exemptions. Exploring a century of Chinese migrations, Madeline Hsu looks at how ... Read more

    $23.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Human Rights in Russia

    Citizens and the State from Perestroika to Putin

    by Professor Mary McAuley ...
    Series series Library of Modern Russia
    Today Russia and human rights are both high on the international agenda. Since Putin returned to the presidency in 2012, domestic developments (from Pussy Riot to the release of Khodorkovsky) and Russia's global role (especially in relation to Ukraine) have captured world-wide attention. It is therefore an appropriate moment to see how human rights activism functions inside Russia. Since 1991, ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Chinese Democracy

    by Andrew J. Nathan ...
    A highly original and convincing book by one of our best-informed China specialists, offering an entirely new perspective on the nature of democracy as the Chinese practice it—and, incidentally, as we practice it too.What do the Chinese mean by the word “democracy”? When they say that their political system is “democratic,” does this mean that they share our ideas about liberty, civil rights, and ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Slovenian Democratic Evolution and Praxis

    by Miro Haček, Marjan Brezovšek, Simona Kukovič ...
    According to the Nations in transit and HDI measurements, Slovenia isregarded as a democratic country yet with some measurements it can alsobe found lower down the scale (problems with corruption). Although suchmeasurements are not completely accurate, most of them rank Sloveniaamong the most successful countries in democratic transition. Since gainingindependence in 1991, Slovenia has completely ... Read more

    $13.58 USD

  • Freedom of expression and defamation

    by Tarlach McGonagle, Onur Andreotti ...
    Freedom of expression and defamation: where do we draw the line? Freedom of expression is a fundamental freedom, one of the cornerstones of democracy in Europe, enshrined in various key texts, including the European Convention on Human Rights. But the boundaries between freedom to criticise and damaging a person’s honour or reputation are not always very clear. By defining public insults and ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Belarus in Crisis

    From Domestic Unrest to the Russia-Ukraine War

    by Paul Hansbury ...
    In 2020, mass anti-government protests erupted across Belarus. The brutal crackdown that followed shocked the international community: the authorities arrested tens of thousands of citizens, shut down independent media and NGOs, and fomented a migrant crisis on the European Union's border. But where many thought Belarus's dictator, Alyaksandr Lukashenka, would fall, he instead turned to Moscow for ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • The Making of Modern Korea

    by Adrian Buzo ...
    Series series Asia's Transformations
    This fully updated fourth edition of The Making of Modern Korea provides a thorough, balanced, and engaging history of Korea from 1876 to the present day. The text is unique in analysing domestic developments in the two Koreas in the wider context of regional and international affairs.Key features of the book include:comprehensive coverage of modern Korean history since 1876expanded coverage of ... Read more

    $54.99 USD