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  • Purges

    How Dictators Fight to Survive

    by Edward Goldring ...
    Purges delves into one of the key tactics that autocrats deploy to maintain power: the removal of individuals from within the regime.From Kim Jong Un's execution of his uncle to Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's removal of over a hundred Turkish generals, purges bear significant consequences for the survival and endurance of autocrats. Yet much remains unknown about why dictators use purges and whether they ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Authoritarian Survival and Leadership Succession in North Korea and Beyond

    by Edward Goldring, Peter Ward ...
    Series series Elements in Politics and Society in East Asia
    Authoritarian Survival and Leadership Succession in North Korea and Beyond examines how dictators manage elites to facilitate succession. Theoretically, it argues that personalistic incumbents facilitate the construction of a power base of elites from outside of their inner circle to help the successor govern once he comes to power. Then, once in office, successors consolidate power by initially ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Teaching Autocracy and Autocratic Politics

    Edited by Edward Goldring ...
    Series series Elgar Guides to Teaching
    This insightful book evaluates how to teach autocracy and authoritarian politics, providing actionable strategies for instructors regarding course content and design, teaching tools, and ethical questions. Expert contributors present practical templates and in-class exercises, examining questions that are commonly discussed, as well as those that often fall under the radar.Chapters discuss ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

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  • China's Forgotten People

    Xinjiang, Terror and the Chinese State

    by Nick Holdstock ...
    One of the few Western commentators to have lived in the region, journalist Nick Holdstock travels into the heart of the province reveals the Uyghur story as one of repression and hardship. With Islamic terrorism in China likely to increase over the next decade, how the Party responds will have global repercussions. China's Forgotten People explains why terrorism is on the rise in the world's most ... Read more

    $26.49 USD

  • Post-Liberal Statebuilding in Central Asia

    Imaginaries, Discourses and Practices of Social Ordering

    by Philipp Lottholz ...
    Series series Spaces of Peace, Security and Development
    EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.Drawing on decolonial perspectives on peace, statehood and development, this illuminating book examines post-liberal statebuilding in Central Asia. It argues that, despite its emancipatory appearance, post-liberal statebuilding is best understood as a set of social ordering mechanisms that lead to new forms of exclusion, marginalization ... Read more

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  • The Uyghurs

    Strangers in Their Own Land

    by Gardner Bovingdon ...
    For more than half a century many Uyghurs, members of a Muslim minority in northwestern China, have sought to achieve greater autonomy or outright independence. Yet the Chinese government has consistently resisted these efforts, countering with repression and a sophisticated strategy of state-sanctioned propaganda emphasizing interethnic harmony and Chinese nationalism. After decades of struggle, ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Learning Activism

    The Intellectual Life of Contemporary Social Movements

    by Aziz Choudry ...
    What do activists know? Learning Activism is designed to encourage a deeper engagement with the intellectual life of activists who organize for social, political, and ecological justice. Combining experiential knowledge from his own activism and a variety of social movements, Choudry suggests that such organizations are best understood if we engage with the learning, knowledge, debates, and ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • The Good Project

    Humanitarian Relief NGOs and the Fragmentation of Reason

    by Monika Krause ...
    NGOs set out to save lives, relieve suffering, and service basic human needs. They are committed to serving people across national borders and without regard to race, ethnicity, gender, or religion, and they offer crucial help during earthquakes, tsunamis, wars, and pandemics. But with so many ailing areas in need of assistance, how do these organizations decide where to go—and who gets the aid?In ... Read more

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  • The Myth of Ethnic War

    Serbia and Croatia in the 1990s

    by V. P. Gagnon ...
    "The wars in Bosnia-Herzegovina and in neighboring Croatia and Kosovo grabbed the attention of the western world not only because of their ferocity and their geographic location, but also because of their timing. This violence erupted at the exact moment when the cold war confrontation was drawing to a close, when westerners were claiming their liberal values as triumphant, in a country that had ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • An Analysis of Geert Hofstede's Culture's Consequences

    Comparing Values, Behaviors, Institutes and Organizations across Nations

    by Katherine Erdman ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    The Dutch anthropologist Geert Hofstede is recognized as a pioneer in the fields of international management and social psychology – and his work is a perfect example of the ways in which interpretative skills can help solve problems and provide the foundation for strong thinking and understanding both in business and beyond.Hofstede’s central achievement was setting up an efficient interpretative ... Read more

    $8.95 USD

  • Hunger and Fury

    The Crisis of Democracy in the Balkans

    by Jasmin Mujanovic ...
    Less than two decades after the Yugoslav Wars ended, the edifice of parliamentary government in the Western Balkans is crumbling. This collapse sets into sharp relief the unreformed authoritarian tendencies of the region's entrenched elites, many of whom have held power since the early 1990s, and the hollowness of the West's "democratization" agenda. There is a widely held assumption that ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • Sociology

    by Anthony Giddens, Philip W. Sutton ...
    The indispensable guide to understanding the world we make and the lives we leadThis thoroughly revised and fully updated tenth edition remains unrivalled in its vibrant, engaging and authoritative introduction to sociology. The authors provide a commanding overview of the sociological approach to contemporary global challenges and the latest conceptual developments in this fascinating subject ... Read more

    $40.00 USD