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  • Rethinking Legitimacy and Illegitimacy

    A New Approach to Assessing Support and Opposition across Disciplines

    by Robert D. Lamb ...
    Series series CSIS Reports
    This report introduces a new assessment framework for legitimacy and illegitimacy that governments, businesses, and other organizations can use to better understand the sources and dynamics of support or opposition for any entity, policy, or program. It includes an intellectual history of the concept of legitimacy, summarizes the literature, introduces a new conceptualization of illegitimacy, and ... Read more

    $48.59 USD

  • Colombia

    Peace and Stability in the Post-Conflict Era

    by Carl Meacham, Douglas Farah, Robert D. Lamb ...
    Series series CSIS Reports
    This report from the CSIS Americas Program provides a detailed look at the challenges the Colombian government confronts as it moves from providing security to developing rural areas that were previously conflict zones. In particular, the report examines such issues as remaining security needs; land tenure; needed infrastructure improvements; and better governance. In addition, the report offers ... Read more

    $48.59 USD

  • Rethinking Civilian Stabilization and Reconstruction

    by Robert D. Lamb, Kathryn Mixon, Joy Aoun ...
    Series series CSIS Reports
    Can the United States prevent or end conflicts and protect its interests without using military force? Do U.S. civilian institutions have the right mix of support, funding, and capabilities to respond to major crises and political transitions? In July 2013, CSIS raised these questions before more than 200 policymakers and experts, with 22 speakers offering perspectives from donors, implementers, ... Read more

    $48.59 USD

  • The Uncertain Transition from Stability to Peace

    by Robert D. Lamb, Kathryn Mixon, Sarah Minot ...
    Series series CSIS Reports
    Most violent conflicts since the turn of this century were in countries that had experienced an earlier violent conflict. How can we tell when a country is likely to remain stuck in a cycle of violence? What factors suggest it might be “ripe” for stabilizing and peace building? The authors studied four cases: Chad is stuck in a cycle of violence, while El Salvador, Laos, and Mozambique have had ... Read more

    $38.09 USD

  • Advances and Challenges in Political Transitions

    What Will the Future of Conflict Look Like?

    Edited by Robert D. Lamb, Johanna Mendelson Forman ...
    Series series CSIS Reports
    The United States has provided support to political transitions worldwide for many years. But it was just twenty years ago that the US government established an office specifically to respond when regimes or conflicts ended and to maintain momentum toward positive change. Today’s conflicts, however, are more complex, usually involving half a dozen or scores of armed groups—and their alliances and ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • Rethinking Absorptive Capacity

    A New Framework, Applied to Afghanistan's Police Training Program

    by Robert D. Lamb, Kathryn Mixon ...
    Series series CSIS Reports
    When recipients cannot absorb the aid and attention they are offered, the common response is “capacity building”—as if the source of the problem is the recipient’s implementation capacity. In this report, Robert D. Lamb and Kathryn Mixon present the results of their research on the sources of absorptive capacity. They find that this sort of “blaming the victim” mentality, while common, is not ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Absorptive Capacity in the Security and Justice Sectors

    Assessing Obstacles to Success in the Donor-Recipient Relationship

    by Robert D. Lamb, Kathryn Mixon, Andrew Halterman ...
    Series series CSIS Reports
    In development, stabilization, and peace building, donors increasingly recognize the importance of being sensitive to the local contexts of their efforts. Yet the use of “blueprints” remains widespread. Even when standard approaches are modified for particular aid partners, there often remains a poor fit between donor efforts and local conditions. When recipients cannot absorb the aid and ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

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  • Consent of the Networked

    The Worldwide Struggle For Internet Freedom

    by Rebecca MacKinnon ...
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  • Disruptive Power

    The Crisis of the State in the Digital Age

    by Taylor Owen ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Digital Politics
    Anonymous. WikiLeaks. The Syrian Electronic Army. Edward Snowden. Bitcoin. The Arab Spring. Digital communication technologies have thrust the calculus of global political power into a period of unprecedented complexity. In every aspect of international affairs, digitally enabled actors are changing the way the world works and disrupting the institutions that once held a monopoly on power. No area ... Read more

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  • Controlling Knowledge: Freedom of Information and Privacy Protection in a Networked World

    Freedom of Information and Privacy Protection in a Networked World

    by Lorna Stefanick ...
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  • The Logic of Connective Action

    Digital Media and the Personalization of Contentious Politics

    by W. Lance Bennett, Alexandra Segerberg ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics
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