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Henry Cabot Lodge became United States ambassador to South Vietnam in August 1963, a critical period in the evolution of American policy there. During the first of Lodge's two embassies in Saigon, a …

geschrieben von Anne Blair (Autor)

Gyanendra Pandey is Professor of Anthropology and History at Johns Hopkins University. He was a founder member of the Subaltern Studies group, and is the author of many publications including Hindus …

A compelling and harrowing examination of the violence …

Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 1. By way of introduction; 2. The three partitions of 1947; 3. Historians' history; 4. The evidence of the historian; 5. Folding the local into the national: …

geschrieben von Gyanendra Pandey (Autor) und Jan Breman (Herausgeber) und G. P. Hawthorn (Herausgeber)

The author examines how awkward, how ambiguous, how unsatisfactory, and often how tragic the …

Acknowledgements; List of acronyms and abbreviations; Part I. African States and Global Politics: 1. Fragile states and the international system; 2. The creation of an African international order; 3. …

geschrieben von Christopher Clapham (Autor) und Steve Smith (Herausgeber) und Thomas J. Biersteker (Herausgeber)

Jonathan W. Daly, author of Autocracy under Siege, is Associate Professor …

geschrieben von Jonathan W. Daly (Autor)

This book examines the emergence, role and future of …

1. Theorizing Actorness 2. The EU as Economic Power and Trade Actor 3. International Environmental Policy 4. Development Co-operation and Humanitarian Assistance 5. Relations with 'Near-Abroad' 6. …

geschrieben von Charlotte Bretherton (Autor) und John Vogler (Autor)

Domestic economic and ideological concerns during the Cold War drove many national leaders to promote U.S. international activism. This study presents the domestic sources and goals underlying the …

geschrieben von Daniel L. Lykins (Autor)

In this volume, a range of case studies that identify good and sustainable practices in administrative reform in India are offered. The book examines three distinct areas: urban governance; energy and …

Urban Local Governance Reforms
Decentralizing Experiment - Mohit Bhattacharya
A Case Study of Kolkata Municipal Corporation
Good Practices in Public Sector Reform - Jennifer Jalal

geschrieben von Amita Singh (Autor) und Amita Singh (Herausgeber)

This book emphasizes change over continuity in Japanese policymaking. It argues that Japan's Big Bang financial reforms emerged out of a policymaking process that deviated radically from past …

Foreword; Preface; 1. Did Japanese politics change in the 1990s?; ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK; 2. A rational actor approach; 3. How do systems change? Actors, preferences, strategies, and institutions in …

geschrieben von Tetsuro Toya (Autor) und Jennifer Amyx (Herausgeber)

ROBERT PAHRE is Associate Professor of Political Science and Associate Director of the …

Leading scholars from the United States and the European Union examine how democracies make foreign policy when their citizens disagree. The authors focus in particular on differences of opinion …

Divided Government and International Cooperation: An Overview; R.Pahre
Domestic Veto Institutions, Divided Government, and the Status Quo: A Spatial Model of Two-Level Games with …

'The so-called Schelling conjecture, named after Nobel laureate Thomas Schelling, is a key proposition in the applied bargaining literature. This 'paradox of weakness' suggests that the weak …

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geschrieben von Robert Pahre (Herausgeber)

While it has been pointed to time and again by governments and pundits promoting laissez-faire economics, the Wealth of Nations actually shows that Adam Smith viewed capitalism with a deep suspicion, …

geschrieben von Adam Smith (Autor) und Kathryn Sunderland (Herausgeber)