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  • Civil Protection Cooperation in the European Union

    How Trust and Administrative Culture Matter for Crisis Management

    by Sten Widmalm, Charles F. Parker, Thomas Persson ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    “This fine team of academics moves beyond mere descriptions of capacities, structures and processes to explain the effectiveness of Civil Protection in the EU. With their exploration of trust as a key factor, they deliver the best book so far on this critical topic.”—Arjen Boin, Leiden University, the Netherlands“Grounded in unique and voluminous fieldwork within the EU’s nascent community of ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Political Tolerance in the Global South

    Images of India, Pakistan and Uganda

    by Sten Widmalm ...
    What makes people agree to the extension of political rights to those they clearly dislike? This book moves beyond the extensive research on this question in western contexts to focus on the global south, offering unique empirical studies of political tolerance in plural societies where poverty is prevalent and democratic institutions can often be fragile. Based on extensive data gathered in India ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

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    Virtues and Vices

    by Katarina Barrling, David Butterfield, Pär Cassel, Marie Kawthar Daouda, Torbjörn Elensky, Jessica Frazier, Peter Haldén, Thomas Idergard, Anthony Pagden, Ritchie Robertson, Hans Ruin, Malise Ruthven, Mateusz Strózynski, Fredrik Svenaeus, Sten Widmalm ...
    Narrated by Justine Harris ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 13 min

    What is a virtue and what is a sin? Is it possible to say that our actions are evil or good? Every age and culture have their own answers to these timeless questions. For example, in the Western Protestant tradition, the human body and its desire have been considered to be inherently evil, but that is not a position taken for granted in other cultures. Virtue and sin seem to represent a duality ... Read more

    $13.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Routledge Handbook of Autocratization in South Asia

    Edited by Sten Widmalm ...
    This handbook offers a comprehensive analysis of the processes and actors contributing to autocratization in South Asia. It provides an enhanced understanding of the interconnectedness of the different states in the region, and how that may be related to autocratization.The book analyzes issues of state power, the support for political parties, questions relating to economic actors and sustainable ... Read more

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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

  • Does the Elephant Dance?

    Contemporary Indian Foreign Policy

    by David M. Malone ...
    India today looms large globally, where it hardly loomed at all twenty years ago. It is likely to be a key global actor throughout the twenty-first century and could well emerge soon as one of the top five global powers. Does the Elephant Dance? seeks to survey the main features of Indian foreign policy. It identifies elements of Indian history relevant to the topic; examines the role therein of ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Bangladesh

    Politics, Economy and Civil Society

    by David Lewis ...
    Since its hard-won independence from Pakistan, Bangladesh has been ravaged by economic and environmental disasters. Only recently has the country begun to emerge as a fragile, but functioning, parliamentary democracy. The story of Bangladesh, told through the pages of this concise and readable book, is a truly remarkable one. By delving into its past, and through an analysis of the economic, ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Indian Foreign Policy

    Edited by David M. Malone, C. Raja Mohan, Srinath Raghavan ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Following the end of the Cold War, the economic reforms in the early 1990s, and ensuing impressive growth rates, India has emerged as a leading voice in global affairs, particularly on international economic issues. Its domestic market is fast-growing and India is becoming increasingly important to global geo-strategic calculations, at a time when it has been outperforming many other growing ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • Non Traditional Security : State, Society and Democracy in South Asia

    by Lok Raj Baral ...
    This book is the product of a regional seminar on Non-Traditional Security: State, Society and Democracy in South Asia organized by Nepal Centre for Contemporary Studies (NCCS). It has tried to reconceptualize security from a democratic perspective because democracy is being interpreted as an overall empowerment of people. Democracy is also a way of life providing psychological, economic, social, ... Read more

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  • Contemporary India: The Basics

    by Rekha Datta ...
    Series series The Basics
    Contemporary India: The Basics provides readers with a clear and accessible guide through the richness, diversity and complexity of twenty-first century India. It explores the reality of the country’s cultural diversity which creates both harmony and tension. Covering issues the country faces both domestically and on the global stage, this book analyzes the political, social, cultural and economic ... Read more

    $31.99 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

  • Indian Foreign Policy

    by Chris Ogden ...
    India is becoming an increasingly visible, powerful and influential state within the global system. As this rise to prominence continues, better appreciating the interests and principles that structure the international interactions of South Asia’s largest state has never been so important. Keen to embrace an expectant future as a great power, India’s transitional journey has been characterised by ... Read more

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