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This book demonstrates how government bureaucracy is portrayed in the top ten box office grossing films from 20002015. Perhaps unsurprisingly, government is generally portrayed poorly, but individual government bureaucrats are typically depicted positively.

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Argues that the civil service system, which was devised to create a uniform process for recruiting high-quality workers to government, is no longer uniform or a system. This short, lively, and bipartisan volume describes what the government of the future will look like, what it will need to work well, and how in particular the nation can build the next generation of workers required to lead it.

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This book makes important contributions to research on the role of civil society in global and regional governance with an innovative analytical framework covering civil society activism across Southeast Asia and in-depth analysis of civil society attempts to influence the Asian Development Bank and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.

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This book makes important contributions to research on the role of civil society in global and regional governance with an innovative analytical framework covering civil society activism across Southeast Asia and in-depth analysis of civil society attempts to influence the Asian Development Bank and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.

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Civil Society and World Regions contributes to the agenda of new regionalism by providing an up-to-date overview of the contributions of civil society to regions across Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas.

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Drawing on research and experience in Bangladesh, this work pulls together economics, sociology and anthropology to explain an emerging social structure in the Third World. These structures bring together international donor agencies with various domestic community and private organizations.

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Based on civil society perspectives, Chenai G. Matshaka captures how narratives of violence based on particular norms and values have impacted the transitional justice trajectory and agenda in Zimbabwe.

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Based on the findings of the CIVICUS Civil Society Index Programme, this volume looks at the role that civil society organizations play in generating or alleviating conflict and violence and at how situations of conflict and violence impact on the state of civil society in various settings.

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The case studies in this volume show the growth of civil society involvement in national, regional, and international peacebuilding policy. The focus is on multi-stakeholder, systems-based approaches to peacebuilding and security that involve diverse civil society groups, government agencies, intergovernmental organizations, and security forces.

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The case studies in this volume show the growth of civil society involvement in national, regional, and international peacebuilding policy. The focus is on multi-stakeholder, systems-based approaches to peacebuilding and security that involve diverse civil society groups, government agencies, intergovernmental organizations, and security forces.

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A revealing compilation of essays documenting the effects of the Civil War and its aftermath on Americans-young and old, black and white, northern and southern.

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Although a great deal has been written concerning every important aspect of the Civil War itself, with a few notable exceptions little attention has been given to the personal lives of the 961 generals who commanded the Union and Confederate armies.

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This study of Civil War command focuses solely and directly on the problems and methods of operational command, dealing with the tactical and strategical problems that threatened to overwhelm untried Civil War generals at the onset of hostilities.

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Castellano argues that indirect interventions by external states into civil wars are the product of elite control over security making and that those interventions return few public goods to the general public they represent.

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Castellano argues that indirect interventions by external states into civil wars are the product of elite control over security making and that those interventions return few public goods to the general public they represent.

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This book examines newspapers, magazines, photographs, illustrations, and editorial cartoons to tell the important story of journalism, documenting its role during the Civil War as well as the impact of the war on the press.

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During the course of the Civil War, Northern daily newspapers printed over 2,000 separate maps depicting campaigns and military operations. The book lists all known Civil War maps published in eighteen daily newspapers in Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Columbus, New York, Philadelphia, and St. Louis.

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This timely addition to Civil War history shares the stories of 25 unique military organizations, showing how past and future collided in the first modern war.

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This volume offers a social historian's view of the Civil War, shifting the focus away from political and military leaders to look at how the war affected, and was affected by, ordinary citizens of all kinds.