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Currency and Coercion: The Political Economy of International Monetary Power
by Jonathan KirshnerJonathan Kirshner here examines how states can and have used international currency relationships and arrangements as instruments of coercive power for the advancement of state security. Kirshner lays the groundwork for the study of what he calls monetary power by providing a taxonomy of the forms that such power can take and of the conditions under which it can have effect. He then establishes the actual existence of monetary power by showing how the taxonomy is supported by the historical record, including cases from nations from all over the globe and throughout the twentieth century. He uncovers how monetary power is affected by different monetary regimes, the sources of its success and failure, and the factors that lead states to turn to its use. Kirshner thus succeeds in developing a generalized framework for the analysis of an important yet neglected form of state power that is likely to be of increasing importance in the post-Cold War era. Although some distinguished scholars have touched on the issue of monetary power, there has been until now no standard text on the subject. Integrating security studies and international political economy, this book is a timely synthesis that will be important to the entire discipline of international relations.
Daisy Bates In The Desert: A Woman's Life Among The Aborigines
by Julia BlackburnIn 1913, when she was 54 years old, Daisy Bates went to live in the deserts of South Australia. And there she stayed, with occasional interruptions, for almost 30 years. In Daisy Bates in the Desert Julia Blackburn explores the ancient and desolate landscape where Ms Bates says she was most happy. She fuses her own imagination and experience with that of Daisy Bates, unitl she seems to be recalling this other life as it it were her own.
Debating Development Discourse: Institutional and Popular Perspectives (International Political Economy Series)
by David B. Moore Gerald J. SchmitzThis book combines critical historical analysis and case studies of the theory and practice of post-1945 international development. Beginning with a Gramscian analysis of institutional and academic development discourse, continuing with critiques of international institutions' current neo-liberal economic and 'governance' practices, and followed by studies of African moral opposition to structural adjustment's 'scientific capitalism', South African housing struggles, Zimbabwean development strategies, Costa Rican agrarian NGO's, and northern Albertan public environmental hearings, it advocates deepening radical and popular participatory democracy.
Decision-making in Deng's China: Perspectives from Insiders
by A. Doak Barnett Suisheng Zhao Carol Lee HamrinConsiders the politics of central decision-making by focusing on senior policy makers and implementing bureaucracies on the one hand, and actors in economic and non-economic arenas on the other. The contributors held significant party and government positions in China up to 1989.
Decision-making in Deng's China: Perspectives from Insiders (Studies On Contemporary China)
by A. Doak Barnett Suisheng Zhao Carol Lee HamrinConsiders the politics of central decision-making by focusing on senior policy makers and implementing bureaucracies on the one hand, and actors in economic and non-economic arenas on the other. The contributors held significant party and government positions in China up to 1989.
Defiant Desire: Gay and Lesbian Lives in South Africa
by Mark Gevisser Edwin CameronDefiant Desire records the lives of lesbian and gay South Africans of all races as they have lived in the face of censure, denial and oppression. The history of gay identity in South Africa is here in its past and present aspects: from a drag salon in Woodstock to a gay "shebeen" in kwaThema; from a church in a Pretoria nightclub to Johannesburg's lesbian and gay pride march; from Afrikaans love poetry to new activism. The book is a document of lesbian and gay struggle, and indispensable for those interested in the sexual politics coursing beneath the country's troubled passage to democracy.
Defiant Desire: Gay and Lesbian Lives in South Africa
by Edwin Cameron Mark GevisserDefiant Desire records the lives of lesbian and gay South Africans of all races as they have lived in the face of censure, denial and oppression. The history of gay identity in South Africa is here in its past and present aspects: from a drag salon in Woodstock to a gay "shebeen" in kwaThema; from a church in a Pretoria nightclub to Johannesburg's lesbian and gay pride march; from Afrikaans love poetry to new activism. The book is a document of lesbian and gay struggle, and indispensable for those interested in the sexual politics coursing beneath the country's troubled passage to democracy.
Democracy and Development (International Economic Association Series)
by A. BagchiThe relationship between economic development and political systems is of major importance in today's rapidly changing world. This is the issue addressed in this volume by an international team of academics drawn from the social sciences. The chapters range from a theoretical exploration of the measurement of development and collective well-being under both democracy and dictatorship to case studies of the workings of different political regimes around the world. Of particular interest are models of political and economic equilibrium in procedural democracies and the detailed exploration of the working of economic systems that have operated as formal democracies for some time. Specialists in comparative analysis will find the chapters on the prospects for democracy and development in countries such as China, South Africa and eastern Europe of special interest.
Democracy And Development In Southeast Asia: The Winds Of Change
by Clark NeherExploring the remarkable political and economic changes sweeping Southeast Asia, the authors take as their starting point the trend,albeit uneven,toward democratization. They focus specifically on Asian democracy,'" a form that has been adapted by Southeast Asians to suit their own particular needs.This book begins by building a framework for understanding democracy in its broadest sense. The authors investigate the uniquely Asian style of democracy, which borrows democratic political institutions and meshes them with the cultural patterns specific to each country. In separate chapters, the authors trace the evolutionary historical processes within each country, as well as citizen participation, electoral practices, and civil liberties. The chapters end with an assessment of the prospects for democracy in that nation as well as an evaluation of whether democratic regimes are necessary for developing successful economies and societies in the new international era.
Democracy And The Global Order: From The Modern State To Cosmopolitan Governance (PDF)
by David HeldDemocracy is the most potent political idea in the world today, yet it is increasingly moribund in its traditional form. Key assumptions of democratic thinking and practice are being undermined by diverse sites of social and economic power, on the one hand, and by dense networks of regional and global interconnectedness, on the other. Distant localities are now interlinked as never before, as states and societies are more tightly enmeshed in webs of international conditions and processes.
Democracy and International Trade: Britain, France, and the United States, 1860-1990 (PDF)
by Daniel VerdierIn this ambitious exploration of how foreign trade policy is made in democratic regimes, Daniel Verdier shows that special interests, party ideologues, and state officials and diplomats act as agents of the voters. Constructing a general theory in which existing theories (rent-seeking, median voting, state autonomy) function as partial explanations, he shows that trade institutions are not fixed entities but products of political competition.
Democracy and International Trade: Britain, France, and the United States, 1860-1990
by Daniel VerdierIn this ambitious exploration of how foreign trade policy is made in democratic regimes, Daniel Verdier shows that special interests, party ideologues, and state officials and diplomats act as agents of the voters. Constructing a general theory in which existing theories (rent-seeking, median voting, state autonomy) function as partial explanations, he shows that trade institutions are not fixed entities but products of political competition.
Democracy and the Global Order: From the Modern State to Cosmopolitan Governance
by David HeldThis book provides a highly original account of the changing meaning of democracy in the contemporary world, offering both an historical and philosophical analysis of the nature and prospects of democracy today.
Democracy and the Global Order: From the Modern State to Cosmopolitan Governance
by David HeldThis book provides a highly original account of the changing meaning of democracy in the contemporary world, offering both an historical and philosophical analysis of the nature and prospects of democracy today.
Democratic Legislative Institutions: A Comparative View
by David M. OlsonThis text summarizes the research on, and experiences of, democratic legislatures around the world. It focuses on what legislatures are and what they do - as both consequence of and contributor to democratic self-government.
Democratic Legislative Institutions: A Comparative View
by David M. OlsonThis text summarizes the research on, and experiences of, democratic legislatures around the world. It focuses on what legislatures are and what they do - as both consequence of and contributor to democratic self-government.
Democratic Spain: Reshaping External Relations in a Changing World (Routledge Research in European Public Policy)
by Richard Gillespie Fernando Rodrigo Jonathan StorySince the death of General Franco in 1975, Spain has emerged from relative isolation to play an active role in international affairs. Membership of the European Union and Nato have been keys to Spain's new prominence, although the country has also tried to build on its traditional "special relationships" with Latin America and the Arab world. This is the first thorough study of democratic Spain's re-emergence on the international scene.By focusing on the relationship between external relations and domestic policy the book makes an important contribution to the literature on democratisation, as well as showing how Spanish foreign policy evolved between the mid-1970s and mid-1990s.While the book focuses on democratic Spain, its revisionist view of democratic transitions is of more general relevance. Democratization is seen as an integral process involving related, though not simultaneous changes in domestic policy and external relations. Only with the transformation of her external relations did Spain's new democracy finally become consolidated.This book will be required reading for students of Spanish politics and will also be useful to those interested in the process of democratization.
Democratic Spain: Reshaping External Relations in a Changing World (Routledge Research in European Public Policy)
by Richard Gillespie Fernando Rodrigo Jonathan StorySince the death of General Franco in 1975, Spain has emerged from relative isolation to play an active role in international affairs. Membership of the European Union and Nato have been keys to Spain's new prominence, although the country has also tried to build on its traditional "special relationships" with Latin America and the Arab world. This is the first thorough study of democratic Spain's re-emergence on the international scene.By focusing on the relationship between external relations and domestic policy the book makes an important contribution to the literature on democratisation, as well as showing how Spanish foreign policy evolved between the mid-1970s and mid-1990s.While the book focuses on democratic Spain, its revisionist view of democratic transitions is of more general relevance. Democratization is seen as an integral process involving related, though not simultaneous changes in domestic policy and external relations. Only with the transformation of her external relations did Spain's new democracy finally become consolidated.This book will be required reading for students of Spanish politics and will also be useful to those interested in the process of democratization.
Democratization and the Protection of Human Rights in Africa: Problems and Prospects (Non-ser.)
by Brendalyn P. AmbroseDevelopment was achieved in the West by capitalism and industrialization before liberal democracy was introduced as a viable form of government. Africa is grappling with the problems of underdevelopment. Yet, the West insists on liberal democracy for Africa, a form of government which has no economic and social foundations in Africa. The West now faults the African people for not being able to establish and sustain democratic institutions. Ambrose, an African development practitioner who, recently returning from the continent after three intense years of fact-finding, research, and consultation, argues that the solution to Africa's problems does not lie in externally imposed liberal institutions shored up by top-down bureaucracy that most often is ignorant, unresponsive, or outright hostile to the needs of the impoverished majority. Her investigations lead her to believe that the solution for Africa lies in a collective approach based on empowerment of the masses and economic reforms.
Democratizing Oriental Despotism: China from 4 May 1919 to 4 June 1989 and Taiwan from 28 February 1947 to 28 June 1990
by C. ChiouChina and Taiwan have similar political cultures. However, Chinese intellectual and political elite have failed to democratize the Middle Kingdom since the 4 May 1919 Movement: whilst their Taiwanese counterpart succeeded in making the island state fairly democratic in just over four decades since the 28 February 1947 Uprising. After an examination of the approaches they applied, the author finds that the former have pursued a culturalist road by trying to change the psycho-cultural make-up of the Chinese people: whilst the latter followed an institutionalist one in which they tried to win elections and to set up political organizations, such as parties.
Demography And Empire: A Guide To The Population History Of Spanish Central America, 1500-1821
by W. George LovellResearch on the Central American colonial experience-long overshadowed by the scholarly focus on Mexico and Peru-has begun to blossom, greatly expanding our knowledge of land and life in the region under Spanish rule. The first bibliography of its kind, Demography and Empire offers a comprehensive survey of recent literature in Spanish and i
Demography And Empire: A Guide To The Population History Of Spanish Central America, 1500-1821
by W. George LovellResearch on the Central American colonial experience-long overshadowed by the scholarly focus on Mexico and Peru-has begun to blossom, greatly expanding our knowledge of land and life in the region under Spanish rule. The first bibliography of its kind, Demography and Empire offers a comprehensive survey of recent literature in Spanish and i
Demokratie in Europa: Zur Rolle der Parlamente (ZParl-Sonderbände)
by Kristin BergmannDieser Band dokumentiert überblicksartig die Entwicklungen europäischer Regierungssysteme seit dem Epochenjahr 1989/90. Im Zentrum der Berichte und Analysen stehen Wahlen und Parlamente, die Mittel und Institutionen zur Gewährleistung von Demokratie im Wandel. Fortschritte der europäischen Integration haben die Sache der Demokratie in Europa keineswegs einfacher gemacht. Der Vertrag von Maastricht (Maastricht I) verstärkte die Forderung nach Abbau von Demokratie-Defiziten der Europäischen Union, das Urteil des Bundesverfassungsgerichts verweist auf tieferliegende Dilemmata der Demokratisierung in Europa. Wer Demokratie, gar mehr Demokratie in Europa will, der wird sich diesen Spannungsfeldern - ernsthafter, als bislang zumeist geschehen - zuwenden müssen. Aus der Sicht ihrer 25 Jahre primär verfolgten Themen will die Redaktion der Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen mit diesem Sonderheft einen Beitrag leisten. Mit ihrer Entscheidung zugunsten internationaler und komparativer Perspektiven will sie zugleich ihr Zeichen gegen alle Spielarten nationalistischer Abgrenzungen setzen.
