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This book explores how the partnerships between big businesses and civil society organizations are influencing the development and rights landscape in India. Can these collaborations lead to win-win solutions for marginalized groups or will they destroy civil societys resistance to market forces

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Gobeyn presents the first book-length treatment of the declining significance of corporatist governance in advanced capitalism, linking that decline to international political economic forces.

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Explores the affinities between Socratic philosophy and Athenian democratic culture as a way to think about issues of politics and education, both ancient and modern. Drawing on Aristophanes' "Clouds", Sophocles' "Antigone and Oedipus Tyrannos", and Plato's "Apology of Socrates", this work develops a view of democratic political education.

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The book provides an accessible account of the significance of political corruption, its causes, consequences and remedies. -- .

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Cosmopolitan Dystopia evaluates cosmopolitan liberalism and shows In their effort to avoid the terrible fate of twentieth century utopias, cosmopolitan liberals have nonetheless created a new global dystopia of permanent war and authoritarian power embodied in 'sovereignty as responsibility'. -- .

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Cosmopolitan Dystopia evaluates cosmopolitan liberalism and shows In their effort to avoid the terrible fate of twentieth century utopias, cosmopolitan liberals have nonetheless created a new global dystopia of permanent war and authoritarian power embodied in 'sovereignty as responsibility'. -- .

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With this translation, one of the classics of German historical literature becomes available in English. In Weltburgertum und Nationalstaat the eminent historian Friedrich Meinecke attempted to trace the transition in Germany from eighteenth-century cosmopolitanism to nineteenth-century nationalism, and to clarify the genetic history of the German

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Offering an innovative account of Britain's counter-radicalisation policy, Prevent, this book provides a timely analysis of the UK's response to the threat of 'homegrown' terrorism. -- .

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This book examines the intersection between national and international counter-terrorism policies and civil society in national and regional contexts in the post-9/11 era. It serves as a critical discussion accounting for the experiences of civil society in the enforcement of global security measures by governments in the Americas, Africa, Asia-Pacific, Central Asia, Europe and the Middle East.

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Offers an analysis of al Qaeda and its associated networks, with a particular focus on ideology and culture. This book details the challenges that big powers face when they prosecute counterinsurgencies, using examples from Russian, American, and British counterinsurgent wars during and before the twentieth century.

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An up-to-date analysis of the wave of terrorism in the post-Cold War era and the ways in which states and societies are responding.

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Benton has written the first scholarly treatment of county governments as providers of all three of these types of services, dispelling the notion that counties are mere providers of services they are mandated to perform by their state governments.

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This easy-to-use handbook presents a fascinating and fresh take on American presidential elections and makes a wide range of statistics available to serious researchers and political fanatics alike.

Counting the Votes: A New Way to Analyze America's Presidential Elections isn't your typical history book about presidential elections.

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The manager plan in Union County can serve as a model for counties without an elected executive, much the same way the Lakewood plan in California symbolizes county and municipal cooperation.

Although Coppa provides a guide to efficient and accountable county government, the book goes beyond its subtitle.

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Five chapters assess in turn how counties provide full-service government, the characteristics of metropolitan counties and urbanization, the special problems of rural county governments, shifting roles in county-state relations, and county policy objectives at the national level.

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Donald Horowitz presents a case study of an attempted military coup in Sri Lanka. On the basis of interviews with twenty-three participants in this attempted coup--a mine of information rarely available for a study like this--he provides first-hand evidence of the way officers' motives interact with social and political conditions to foster coup at

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Intends to bring insights from the Jewish political tradition into political and legal debates about rights and to bring rights discourse into Jewish thought. This book presents a theory of rights founded on the covenant between God and the Jewish people as that covenant is constituted by Scripture and the rabbinic tradition.

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Examines an enduring tension within liberal theory: that between many liberals' professed commitment to universal equality on the one hand, and their historic support for the politics of hierarchy and empire on the other.

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