Author: Marc F. Plattner
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801865688
Size: 76.12 MB
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 164
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Though the year 2000 marks the turn of the century and of the millennium, the great turn in the realm of international politics occurred a decade earlier, with the Revolutions of 1989-91. The breakup of the Soviet Union's external empire in Eastern Europe, soon followed by the demise of the USSR itself, destroyed the bipolar structure that had characterized world politics for almost half a century. But while the dramatic collapse of communism left no room for doubt that the era of the Cold War had come to an end, there was very little agreement about the nature of the new international order being born. This book explores the emerging post-Cold War international system and its implications for the future expansion and consolidation of democracy. Bringing together both experts on international relations and scholars of democracy from Europe, North America, and Asia, it examines the link between these two subjects in a way that is rarely done. While a large literature has emerged in recent years on the effects of democracy on international relations (the debate over what is often called the theory of "democratic peace"), the authors of the present volume instead examine the other side of this relationship -- the impact of the international system on the prospects for democracy. Contributors: Zbigniew Brzezinski, Center for Strategic and International Studies • Robert Cooper, Defence and Overseas Secretariat in the Cabinet Office, London • Jean-Marie Guéhenno, Institut des Hautes Etudes de Défense Nationale, Paris • Samuel P. Huntington, Harvard University • Robert Kagan, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace • Ethan B. Kapstein, University of Minnesota • Kyung Won Kim, Institute of Social Sciences • Jacques Rupnik, Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, Paris • Dimitri Landa, University of Minnesota • Adam Daniel Rotfeld, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, Stockholm • Philippe C. Schmitter, European University Institute, Florence
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Author: Peter J. Burnell
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN:
Size: 39.90 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 226
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Explores the intersection of two major themes: globalization, and the contribution that both domestic party politics and international party support make to democratization. This volume shows what globalization means for domestic and international efforts to build effective political parties and competitive party systems in emerging democracies.
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Author: Clancy Hughes
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781949193022
Size: 37.70 MB
Format: PDF
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Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Micha Fiedlschuster
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319707396
Size: 61.53 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 307
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Seeking to extend the debate on the diversity of democracy, this book provides the reader with a comprehensive account of how two different global actors, the European Union and the World Social Forum respond to the challenges of globalization with various models of democracy and modes of cooperation at the transnational level. Analysing EU democracy assistance in the EU’s neighbourhood, Fiedlschuster sheds light on the complex relationship between the EU and civil society. Although the EU perceives a vital civil society as crucial for democracy, its mix of a governance approach with deliberative and participatory democracy will unlikely result in a citizen-centred democracy. The book also provides a compelling account of the World Social Forum and its participants interviewed for this work attempt to answer one of the challenges of contemporary globalization: How can civil society pursue democratically global social change? Fiedlschuster skilfully deploys various sociological approaches not only to analyse concepts and practices of democracy by transnational activists but also to throw light on the tensions between democratic idealism and anti-democratic tendencies in the Forum. This book will be of wide interest to students and academics, including those working within political sociology, European Union politics, and globalization.
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Author: Otfried Höffe
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1402056621
Size: 27.54 MB
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 351
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In this book, the author develops a comprehensive analysis of the demands which the process of globalization exerts on the political organisations of humanity. The author starts from a diagnosis of the process of globalisation. The question central to the book can be formulated as follows: "How can the social, moral and legal achievements of the nation-state be retained while its structure is reshaped to satisfy the requirements of a globalised world?"
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Author: Joseph S. Jr. Nye
Publisher: العبيكان للنشر
ISBN: 9960400972
Size: 65.55 MB
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Category : Political Science
Languages : ar
Pages : 528
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العولمة نضجت من مجرد كلمة طنانة مثيرة للجدل حول كيف تغير شبكات الاتصال الثقافة والاقتصاد والأمن والبيئة - ومعها التحديات الرئيسية للحكم . يهدف هذا الكتاب إلى تعميق ذلك النقاش على ثلاث جبهات : كيف تطورت أشكال العولمة ؟ كيف تؤثر هذه الأشكال في الحكم ضمن دولة الأمة ؟ وكيف يمكن أن تحكم العالمية ذاتها ؟ يحاول المؤلفون المساهمون تقديم إجابات في هذا الكتاب ذي الأقسام الثلاثة مع مراجعات عامة كما يهدف الكتاب إلى تقديم مجموعة من وجهات النظر المستقبلية والأفكار والرؤى لإثارة حماسة المثقفين والمهتمين كما تقوم بإعلام الممارسين والمحتكين بتفاصيل هذه الظاهرة كما توضح موضوعات تهم الديمقراطية العبيكان للنشر 2002
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Author: Parkland Institute
Publisher: University of Alberta
ISBN: 9780888643155
Size: 35.78 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 191
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Education has become a battlefield, the classroom the arena where the contest is fought. The 1997 Ontario teachers' strike, the federal government's Millennium Scholarship, and a wave of protests across the country are among the signals that the war is heating up. Alberta stands as a Canadian model of radical education reform, propelled by economic necessity. But is all reform necessarily right or good?-and who decides? A range of commentators-teachers, scholars, parents, and others-discuss the conflict in Alberta's schools.
