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  • Spatializing Practices of Regional Organizations during Conflict Intervention

    The Politics of ECOWAS and the African Union

    by Jens Herpolsheimer ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in African Politics and International Relations
    This book studies relevant actors and practices of conflict intervention by African regional organizations and their intimate connection to space-making, addressing a major gap regarding what actually happens within and around these organizations.Based on extensive empirical research, it argues that those intervention practices are essentially spatializing practices, based on particular spatial ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Political Instability in Guinea-Bissau

    Edited by Ricardo Real P. de Sousa, Jens Herpolsheimer, Jara Cuadrado ...
    Series series African Governance
    How can we make sense of the persistent political instability in Guinea-Bissau, a small country that has hosted extensive international interventions and made world news headlines over several decades? This book tackles this question, arguing for the need to understand politics in Guinea-Bissau as intricately linked to and deeply embedded in transnational, regional and trans-regional dynamics ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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    How Canada and Mexico Construct US Power

    by Stephen Clarkson, Matto Mildenberger ...
    Following the acclaimed Uncle Sam and Us and the influential Does North America Exist? Stephen Clarkson — the preeminent analyst of North America's political economy — and Matto Mildenberger turn continental scholarship on its head by showing how Canada and Mexico contribute to the United States' wealth, security, and global power.This provocative work documents how Canada and Mexico offer the ... Read more

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  • The Backsliders

    Why Leaders Undermine Their Own Democracies

    by Susan C. Stokes ...
    Why democracy is under assault across the globe by the leaders entrusted to preserve itDemocracies around the world are getting swept up in a wave of democratic erosion. Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, two dozen presidents and prime ministers have attacked their countries’ democratic institutions, violating political norms, aggrandizing their own powers, and often trying to ... Read more

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  • Presidents, Parties, and Prime Ministers

    How the Separation of Powers Affects Party Organization and Behavior

    by David J. Samuels, Matthew S. Shugart ...
    This book provides a framework for analyzing the impact of the separation of powers on party politics. Conventional political science wisdom assumes that democracy is impossible without political parties, because parties fulfil all the key functions of democratic governance. They nominate candidates, coordinate campaigns, aggregate interests, formulate and implement policy, and manage government ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • Mozambique’s foreign policy towards South Africa

    managing asymmetrical economic diplomacy

    by Paulo Mateus Wache ...
    This Book discusses the Mozambique’s foreign policy framework in general, and towards South Africa, in particular, searching to understand why it has been characterized by the hostility-friendship dichotomy. The Book argues that asymmetry alone cannot explain the occurrence of the dichotomy as suggested by Womack’s asymmetry theory. In the case of Mozambique’s foreign policy, the dichotomy is ... Read more

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  • Research and International Trade Policy Negotiations

    Knowledge and Power in Latin America

    Edited by Mercedes Botto ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Latin American Politics
    The international trade negotiations that were launched throughout Latin America in the 1990s created significant challenges for developing countries because of their complexity. In order to make informed decisions and successfully legitimize negotiating positions, governments and stakeholders required research, evidence and data from knowledgeable sources such as local technicians and academics ... Read more

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  • Democratization and Authoritarian Party Survival

    Mexico's PRI

    by Joy K. Langston ...
    When Mexico's authoritarian Party of the Institutional Revolution (PRI) was defeated in the 2000 presidential election after seventy-one years of uninterrupted rule, many analysts believed the party would inevitably splinter and collapse. An authoritarian party without control over government resources and without a strong national executive creates both opportunity and incentive for ambitious ... Read more

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  • Direct Democracy Worldwide

    by David Altman ...
    Challenging the common assumption that models of direct democracy and representative democracy are necessarily at odds, Direct Democracy Worldwide demonstrates how practices of direct and representative democracy interact under different institutional settings and uncovers the conditions that allow them to coexist in a mutually reinforcing manner. Whereas citizen-initiated mechanisms of direct ... Read more

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  • Latin America in Times of Turbulence

    Presidentialism under Stress

    Edited by Mariana Llanos, Leiv Marsteintredet ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Latin American Politics
    The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com/doi/view/10.4324/9781003324249**, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.**This book accounts for and analyses the latest developments in Latin American presidential democracies, with a special focus on political institutions.The stellar line-up of renowned ... Read more

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  • Resisting Backsliding

    Opposition Strategies against the Erosion of Democracy

    by Laura Gamboa ...
    In the past two decades, democratically elected executives across the world have used their popularity to push for legislation that, over time, destroys systems of checks and balances, hinders free and fair elections, and undermines political rights and civil liberties. Using and abusing institutions and institutional reform, some executives have transformed their countries' democracies into ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Dispute Settlement at the WTO

    The Developing Country Experience

    Edited by Gregory C. Shaffer, Ricardo Meléndez-Ortiz ...
    This examination of the law in action of WTO dispute settlement takes a developing-country perspective. Providing a bottom-up assessment of the challenges, experiences and strategies of individual developing countries, it assesses what these countries have done and can do to build the capacity to deploy and shape the WTO legal system, as well as the daunting challenges that they face. Chapters ... Read more

    $54.19 USD