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  • Democratic Transformation and Obstruction

    EU, US, and Russia in the South Caucasus

    by Nelli Babayan ...
    Series series Democratization and Autocratization Studies
    Although "democracy promotion" has become a popular term for policy makers and scholars, democratization is rarely a smooth or linear transition. While some countries quickly democratize, others lag behind despite a long period of democracy promotion activities. Furthermore, while democracy promotion itself has been widely studied, there is a paucity of literature available assessing the outcome ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Democracy Promotion and the Challenges of Illiberal Regional Powers

    Edited by Nelli Babayan, Thomas Risse ...
    Series series Democratization Special Issues
    This book examines Western efforts at democracy promotion, reactions by illiberal challengers and regional powers, and political and societal conditions in target states. It is argued that Western powers are not unequivocally committed to the promotion of democracy and human rights, while non-democratic regional powers cannot simply be described as "autocracy supporters". This volume examines in ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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  • Costly Democracy

    Peacebuilding and Democratization After War

    by Christoph Zürcher, Carrie Manning, Kristie D. Evenson, Rachel Hayman, Nora Roehner, Sarah Riese ...
    Peacebuilding is an interactive process that involves collaboration between peacebuilders and the victorious elites of a postwar society. While one of the most prominent assumptions of the peacebuilding literature asserts that the interests of domestic elites and peacebuilders coincide, Costly Democracy contends that they rarely align.It reveals that, while domestic elites in postwar societies may ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • International Multiparty Mediation and Conflict Management

    Challenges of Cooperation and Coordination

    by Sinisa Vukovic ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Security and Conflict Management
    This volume aims to provide a detailed explanation of the effects of cooperation and coordination on international multiparty mediation in conflicts.Contemporary scholarship stresses that the crucial ingredients for a successful multiparty mediation are ‘consistency in interests’ and ‘cooperation and coordination’ between mediators. This book seeks to supplement that understanding by investigating ... Read more

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  • Defeating Authoritarian Leaders in Postcommunist Countries

    by Valerie J. Bunce, Sharon L. Wolchik ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics
    From 1998 to 2005, six elections took place in postcommunist Europe that had the surprising outcome of empowering the opposition and defeating authoritarian incumbents or their designated successors. Valerie J. Bunce and Sharon L. Wolchik compare these unexpected electoral breakthroughs. They draw three conclusions. First, the opposition was victorious because of the hard and creative work of a ... Read more

    $33.69 USD

  • Institutional Reform in Central Asia

    Politico-Economic Challenges

    Edited by Joachim Ahrens, Herman W. Hoen ...
    Series series Central Asian Studies
    The countries of Central Asia are increasingly the focus of intense international attention due to their geopolitical and economic importance as well as their unsettled transition processes. The region faced enormous challenges when the Soviet Union disintegrated, and this book focuses on the reforms of the institutional environment that have been largely neglected.Through an interdisciplinary ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Chinese Investment in Africa

    How African Countries Can Position Themselves to Benefit from China’s Foray into Africa

    by David N. Abdulai ...
    China leads the world when it comes to investment and influence on the African continent. The extent of Chinese investment in Africa is well known and much has been written about China’s foray into Africa. However, most of the available material has approached this issue by looking at China as the ’New Colonialist’ – more interested in Africa’s vast natural resources than working in partnership ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • International Actors, Democratization and the Rule of Law

    Anchoring Democracy?

    Edited by Amichai Magen, Leonardo Morlino ...
    Series series Routledge/UACES Contemporary European Studies
    Do external factors facilitate or hamper domestic democratic development? Do international actors influence the development of greater civil and political freedom, democratic accountability, equality, responsiveness and the rule of law in domestic systems? How should we conceptualize, identify and evaluate the extent and nature of international influence?These are some of the complex questions ... Read more

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  • The Foreign Policy of the European Union

    Assessing Europe's Role in the World

    Edited by Federiga Bindi, Irina Angelescu ...
    In a relatively short time, the EU has become one of the most important actors on the world stage. This updated second edition of The Foreign Policy of the European Union explores the goals and effectiveness of the EU's external actions after adoption of the Lisbon Treaty. The book brings together prominent scholars and policymakers who provide an up-to-date view of the EU's foreign policy merits ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • The State as Investment Market

    Kyrgyzstan in Comparative Perspective

    by Johan Engvall ...
    Series Book 24 - Central Eurasia in Context
    Based on a detailed examination of Kyrgyzstan, Johan Engvall goes well beyond the case of this single country to elaborate a broad theory of economic corruption in developing post-Soviet states regionally—as a rational form of investment market for political elites. He reveals how would-be officials invest in offices to obtain access to income streams associated with those offices. Drawing on ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • From Mediation to Nation-Building

    Third Parties and the Management of Communal Conflict

    by Mohammad Ashraf, Elham Atashi, Linda Bishai, Steven L. Burg, Stephen D. Collins, Neil A. Cruickshank, Caroline A. Hartzell, Matthew Hoddie, Daniela Irrera, Dijon Jones, David D. Laitin, Paul T. McCartney, Cdr. Brigid Myers Pavilonis, Victor Peskin, Mateja Peter, Molly S. Wallace, Sam Whitt, Donald R. Zoufal, I.M. Lobo de Souza, David Forsythe, Mieczyslaw P. Boduszynski, James DeShaw Rae ...
    The eruption in the early 1990s of highly visible humanitarian crises and exceedingly bloody civil wars in the Horn of Africa, imploding Yugoslavia, and Rwanda, set in motion a trend towards third party intervention in communal conflict in areas as far apart as the Balkans and East Timor. However haltingly and selectively, that trend towards extra-systemic means of managing ethnic and national ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Insincere Commitments

    Human Rights Treaties, Abusive States, and Citizen Activism

    by Heather Smith-Cannoy ...
    Paradoxically, many governments that persistently violate human rights have also ratified international human rights treaties that empower their citizens to file grievances against them at the United Nations. Therefore, citizens in rights-repressing regimes find themselves with the potentially invaluable opportunity to challenge their government’s abuses. Why would rights-violating governments ... Read more

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