Britain and Africa in the Twenty-First Century: Between Ambition and Pragmatism,
Автор: Ohberg Patrik Название: Ambitious Politicians: The Implications of Career Ambition in Representative Democracy ISBN: 0700624236 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780700624232 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 25070.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Focusing first on the party-centered politics of European democracies, where career ambitions are necessarily different than those in the United States, Patrik ?hberg looks closely at what motivates those aiming at the highest level of the political hierarchy, how these motivators differ between more and less equalitarian societies, and how such ambitions play out. His book, which draws upon a uniquely extensive survey conducted by the Swedish National Election Study Program, is the first thorough study of elite politicians who aspire to the top echelons of the parliamentary system. Politicians with career ambitions have a distinct idea of representation, ?hberg finds; they display a higher degree of political self-regard and are more responsive to the wishes of the party elite in developing strategies. These findings vary among European democracies, and they differ from the traits and trajectories of political ambition in the United States. By identifying the subtleties and charting the differences, ?hberg offers a valuable lesson on whether and how representative democracies are served by politicians driven by personal ambition, or by those subverting such ambitions to the needs of party or state.
Автор: Yordanov Radoslav A. Название: The Soviet Union and the Horn of Africa During the Cold War: Between Ideology and Pragmatism ISBN: 1498529097 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781498529099 Издательство: Bloomsbury Рейтинг: Цена: 98010.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Based on original research and previously unpublished material, this study reevaluates the Soviet Union`s involvement in the Horn of Africa and traces the evolution of Moscow`s foreign policy toward Somalia and Ethiopia during the Cold War.
Автор: Parkinson S Название: Arena Of Ambition : Hist Cam Unio ISBN: 1848310617 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781848310612 Издательство: TBS/GBS Рейтинг: Цена: 33000.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Older than fourteen colleges and the Boat Race, the Cambridge Union has been an important part of university life at Cambridge since its foundation in 1815. This work charts the history of the Union from its nineteenth-century origins, focusing on the turbulent Second World War and post-war years.
Автор: Richard A. Nielsen Название: Deadly Clerics: Blocked Ambition and the Paths to Jihad ISBN: 1108416683 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108416689 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 82370.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Deadly Clerics explains why some Muslim clerics adopt the ideology of militant jihadism while most do not. The book explores multiple pathways of cleric radicalization and shows that the interplay of academic, religious, and political institutions has influenced the rise of modern jihadism through a mechanism of blocked ambition.
Название: Sword of Ambition ISBN: 147982478X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781479824786 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 15890.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
The Sword of Ambition belongs to a genre of religious polemic written for the rulers of Egypt and Syria between the twelfth and the fourteenth centuries. Unlike most medieval Muslim polemic, the concerns of this genre were more social and political than theological. Leaving no rhetorical stone unturned, the book’s author, an unemployed Egyptian scholar and former bureaucrat named 'Uthman ibn Ibrahim al-Nabulusi (d. 660/1262), poured his deep knowledge of history, law, and literature into the work. Now edited in full and translated for the first time, The Sword of Ambition opens a new window onto the fascinating culture of elite rivalry in the late-medieval Islamic Middle East. It contains a wealth of little-known historical anecdotes, unusual religious opinions, obscure and witty poetry, and humorous cultural satire. Above all, it reveals that much of the inter-communal animosity of the era was conditioned by fierce competition for scarce resources that were increasingly mediated by an ideologically committed Sunni Muslim state. This insight reminds us that seemingly timeless and inevitable “religious” conflict must be considered in its broader historical perspective. The Sword of Ambition is both the earliest and most eclectic of several independent works composed in medieval Egypt against the employment of Coptic and Jewish officials, and is vivid testimony to the gradual integration of Islamic scholarship and state administration that was well underway in its day. A bilingual Arabic-English edition.
Автор: Patrik Ohberg Название: Ambitious Politicians: The Implications of Career Ambition in Representative Democracy ISBN: 0700624228 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780700624225 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 55440.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: The first thorough study of elite politicians who aspire to the top echelons of the parliamentary system.
Автор: Panagiotis Dimitrakis Название: Failed Alliances of the Cold War: Britain`s Strategy and Ambitions in Asia and the Middle East ISBN: 1350163449 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350163447 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 34840.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The Cold War was a period of intense geopolitical rivalry, in which diplomacy and international relations in Asia and the Middle East acquired huge global significance. In this study, Panagiotis Dimitrakis explores British policy towards SEATO (South East Asia Treaty Organisation) and CENTO (Central Treaty Organisation). Designed in the 1950s to counter the Soviet Union's attempts to expand its global influence, these alliances with Asian and Middle Eastern powers were the focus of Western efforts to maintain their regional presence. Yet they failed to bring together the differing aims and ambitions of their regional members, and were dissolved in 1977 and 1979 respectively. This study, based on recently declassified documents, examines the Cold War policies of the United States, Iran and Turkey as well as Pakistan's relations with India and the effects of British diplomacy on the war in Vietnam. Charting the repeated failures of Britain and the United States to come to the defence of their allies in Asia and the Middle East, Failed Alliances of the Cold War will be a crucial point of reference for scholars of the Cold War.
Автор: Press Steven Название: Blood and Diamonds: Germany`s Imperial Ambitions in Africa ISBN: 0674916492 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780674916494 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 32680.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: The history of mass-market diamonds goes back to German imperialism in Southwest Africa. Corporate power and state violence combined in the genocide of the Herero and Nama peoples, whose mineral-rich land supplied budding consumer demand in the United States. Steven Press makes clear that mass luxury has always come at a huge price.
For the past twenty years, Scottish death culture has emerged as a focus of scholars drawn from a wide variety of disciplines. Death comes to us all but too often we treat it as a private or personal matter. The former taboo about death is slowly lifting and contemporary research is playing an increasing part. Accordingly, the fifteen essays gathered in this book probe the multi-facetted role of death in Scottish history and culture. They explore personal fears of death, anxieties about Predestination, prayers for the dead and the appeal of Spiritualism. They analyse the public face of death in law, economics and medicine: changes in capital punishment, funeral poverty, the teaching of anatomy and prevention of stillbirths. Within the worlds of religion and ritual, they consider the making of saints, burial practice following the Scottish Reformation and the tradition of keening within the G?idhealtachd. With an Introduction by Professor Jane Dawson, these essays by specialists in the field not only highlight the richness of the primary sources for studying death in Scotland but reveal how death studies identify key features of Scottish life and society across ten centuries.
Автор: Bekele Gashawbeza, Oyebade Adebayo Название: Africa in the Twenty-First Century: The Promise of Development and Democratization ISBN: 1498564518 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781498564519 Издательство: Bloomsbury Рейтинг: Цена: 89100.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book, written by African scholars on both sides of the Atlantic, explores contemporary debates, controversies, achievements, challenges, and future prospects of African development and democratization from diverse theoretical perspectives.
Автор: Zeleza Paul Tiyambe Название: Africa and the Disruptions of the Twenty-first Century ISBN: 2869789971 ISBN-13(EAN): 9782869789975 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 67980.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
This collection of essays interrogates the repositioning of Africa and its diasporas in the unfolding disruptive transformations of the early twenty-first century. It is divided into five parts focusing on America's racial dysfunctions, navigating global turbulence, Africa's political dramas, the continent's persistent mythologisation and disruptions in higher education. It closes with tributes to two towering African public intellectuals, Ali Mazrui and Thandika Mkandawire, who have since joined the ancestors.
Автор: Abegunrin Olayiwola Название: Africa in Global Politics in the Twenty-First Century ISBN: 1137306378 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137306371 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 60550.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: In the twenty-first century, Africa has become an important source of US energy imports and the world`s natural resources. It has also become the epicentre of the world`s deadly health epidemic, HIV/AIDS, and one of the battlegrounds in the fight against terrorism. Africa is now a major player in global affairs.
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