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Examing political events in Malaysia in the 1970s and 1980s, this study focuses on political 'elites, their interactions, their leadership styles, and the public policies emerging from their responses to the problems and demands generated by an ethnically divided society. The author traces the major events and policy initiatives of three "second-generation" administrations: Abdul Razak, Hussein Onn, and Mahathir Mohamad. Changing patterns of politics...
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A comprehensive analysis of the political and security implications for southeastern Europe - indeed for the whole of Europe - resulting from the collapse of communism. This second edition has been significantly revised to include an assessment of the consequences of the disintegration of Yugoslavia and the ensuing war in Bosnia.
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Declining religiosity, waning class values, rising postmaterialism, along with green values, postmodernism, feminism, are indicative of profound and widespread change in the values of citizens. This volume tracks these changes and analyses their impact on political efficacy, interest, activity, trust, voting, and involvement in new social movements.
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Americans are disenchanted with politics, their government, and their leaders. But before Americans climb again on a new bandwagon of government restructuring, they would do well to listen to Cal Mackenzie's admonitions in The Irony of Reform. The trouble with contemporary government, he explains, is not a lack of change or "restructuring" over the years, but rather the disjointed, inadvertent, and unpredictable pattern of reform we have followed...
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"Andrzej Szczypiorski (Polish pronunciation: [ande tprski]; February 3, 1928? - May 16, 2000) was a Polish novelist and politician; member of the Polish legislature, Solidarity activist interned during the military crackdown of 1981. He was a secret police agent in the 1950s."--Wikipedia.
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Representing some of the best of the innovative work in Middle East studies, Theory, Politics and the Arab World is a comprehensive, multidisciplinary effort to reconstruct the field. The contributors utilize a new criticism, largely fashioned by the concepts and vocabularies of postmodern paradigms--Continental theory, neo-Marxism, structuralism, poststructuralism, and feminist theory.
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"This book aims to examine the effects of globalization and economic and political transformations in those parts of the world which are now regularly referred to as 'emerging regions'. These are Latin America and the Caribbean, East Central Europe and the former Soviet Union and East Asia. This book breaks new ground in three areas. First of all it develops a critique of the use of the term 'emerging regions' for geographers and social scientists...
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Charles Tilly's newest book tackles fundamental questions about the nature of personal, political, and national identities and their linkage to big events-- revolutions, social movements, democratization, and other processes of political and social change. In this book, Tilly focuses on the role of stories as a means of creating personal identity and also as explanations-- true or false-- of political tensions and realities. He uses well-known examples...
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The Middle East is frequently portrayed as a collection of stubbornly authoritarian states, whose behaviour can only be changed by the table-thumping or even the military intervention of the US government. But as Jeremy Jones uncovers in this fascinating book, the region is in fact engaged in a profound and tumultuous process of political change. The movements seeking democracy and reform that have emerged are rooted in local cultures and political...
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With coverage of recent events in Israeli politics from the Rabin assassination through the May 1996 elections, this book conveys a sense of life in Israel, the nuances and contradictions of Israeli identity, and the ethnic composition and institutionsl structure of israeli society, as well as israeli foreign political cutlure and the issues that dominate the country's domestic and foreign policy.
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As a rising regional power in the critical borderland between Europe and Asia, Turkey has been more challenged than its neighbors by the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the break-up of Yugoslavia. A secular Muslim nation with a history of involvement in European affairs and some with Western international structures, Turkey is positioned to play an influential role in areas with which it shares both ethnic and religious affinities. Building...
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"Law and Order offers a valuable new study of the political and social history of the 1960s. It presents a sophisticated account of how the issues of street crime and civil unrest enhanced the popularity of conservatives, eroded the credibility of liberals, and transformed the landscape of American politics. Ultimately, the legacy of law and order was a political world in which the grand ambitions of the Great Society gave way to grim expectations."--Jacket....
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