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Asia's Regional Architecture
written by Andrew Yeo, fl. 2008 (Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2019), 264 page(s)
During the Cold War, the U.S. built a series of alliances with Asian nations to erect a bulwark against the spread of communism and provide security to the region. Despite pressure to end bilateral alliances in the post-Cold War world, they persist to this day, even as new multilateral institutions have sprung up...
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written by Andrew Yeo, fl. 2008 (Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2019), 264 page(s)
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During the Cold War, the U.S. built a series of alliances with Asian nations to erect a bulwark against the spread of communism and provide security to the region. Despite pressure to end bilateral alliances in the post-Cold War world, they persist to this day, even as new multilateral institutions have sprung up around them. The resulting architecture may aggravate rivalries as the U.S., China, and others compete for influence. However, Andrew Y...
During the Cold War, the U.S. built a series of alliances with Asian nations to erect a bulwark against the spread of communism and provide security to the region. Despite pressure to end bilateral alliances in the post-Cold War world, they persist to this day, even as new multilateral institutions have sprung up around them. The resulting architecture may aggravate rivalries as the U.S., China, and others compete for influence. However, Andrew Yeo demonstrates how Asia's complex array of bilateral and multilateral agreements may ultimately bring greater stability and order to a region fraught with underlying tensions. Asia's Regional Architecture transcends traditional international relations models. It investigates change and continuity in Asia through the lens of historical institutionalism. Refuting claims regarding the demise of the liberal international order, Yeo reveals how overlapping institutions can promote regional governance and reduce uncertainty in a global context. In addition to considering established institutions such as the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, he discusses newer regional arrangements including the East Asia Summit, Trans-Pacific Partnership, and the Belt and Road Initiative. This book has important implications for how policymakers think about institutional design and regionalism in Asia and beyond.
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Politics & Current Affairs
Content Type
Book
Author / Creator
Andrew Yeo, fl. 2008
Date Published / Released
2019
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Topic / Theme
Asia-Pacific Security, NATO, Diplomacy, Geography, International trade, International relations, Cold War, 1945-1989, Asians
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Copyright © 2019 Stanford University Press
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Big Picture Realities:Canada and Mexico at the Crossroads
edited by Daniel Drache, fl. 1980 (Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2008), 309 page(s)
In the post-NAFTA era, Canada and Mexico face dramatic and irreversible changes from the Bush revolution in foreign public policy, the rising economic power of China and India, new concerns about border security and human rights, and the trends of economic integration. The essays in Big Picture Realities: Canada a...
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edited by Daniel Drache, fl. 1980 (Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2008), 309 page(s)
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In the post-NAFTA era, Canada and Mexico face dramatic and irreversible changes from the Bush revolution in foreign public policy, the rising economic power of China and India, new concerns about border security and human rights, and the trends of economic integration. The essays in Big Picture Realities: Canada and Mexico at the Crossroads address the sea change in the political economic order of North America and chronicle the attempts of Canad...
In the post-NAFTA era, Canada and Mexico face dramatic and irreversible changes from the Bush revolution in foreign public policy, the rising economic power of China and India, new concerns about border security and human rights, and the trends of economic integration. The essays in Big Picture Realities: Canada and Mexico at the Crossroads address the sea change in the political economic order of North America and chronicle the attempts of Canada and Mexico, two very different societies, to come to terms with the accumulated and often contradictory effects of micro and macro changes.Contributors are Canadian and Mexican scholars and leading authorities in security, immigration, human rights, foreign policy, Canada-Mexico relations, and market integration. This book is particularly valuable for public policy experts and scholars and students in international relations.
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Business & Economics
Content Type
Book
Contributor
Daniel Drache, fl. 1980
Date Published / Released
2008
Publisher
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Topic / Theme
General Context: Security Issues, Human rights, International trade, International relations, Politics & Policy, Diplomacy
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Copyright © 2008 Wilfrid Laurier University Press
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Canada and the Middle East:In Theory and Practice
written by Center for International Governance Innovation (CIGI); edited by Bessma Momani, fl. 2015 and Paul Heinbecker, 1941- (Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2007), 243 page(s)
Canada and the Middle East: In Theory and Practice provides a unique perspective on one of the world’s most geopolitically important regions. From the perspective of Canada’s diplomats, academics, and former policy practitioners involved in the region, the book offers an overview of Canada’s relationship wit...
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written by Center for International Governance Innovation (CIGI); edited by Bessma Momani, fl. 2015 and Paul Heinbecker, 1941- (Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2007), 243 page(s)
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Canada and the Middle East: In Theory and Practice provides a unique perspective on one of the world’s most geopolitically important regions. From the perspective of Canada’s diplomats, academics, and former policy practitioners involved in the region, the book offers an overview of Canada’s relationship with the Middle East and the challenges Canada faces there. The contributors examine Canada’s efforts to promote its interests and value...
Canada and the Middle East: In Theory and Practice provides a unique perspective on one of the world’s most geopolitically important regions. From the perspective of Canada’s diplomats, academics, and former policy practitioners involved in the region, the book offers an overview of Canada’s relationship with the Middle East and the challenges Canada faces there. The contributors examine Canada’s efforts to promote its interests and values—peace building, peacekeeping, multiculturalism, and multilateralism, for example—and investigate the views of interested communities on Canada’s relations with countries of the Middle East.Canada and the Middle East will be useful to academics and students studying the Middle East, Canadian foreign policy, and international relations. It will also serve as a primer for Canadian companies investing in the Middle East and a helpful reference for Canada’s foreign service and journalists stationed abroad by providing a background to Canadas interestsand role in the region.Co-published with the Centre for International Governance Innovation
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Field of Study
Global Issues
Content Type
Book
Contributor
Bessma Momani, fl. 2015, Paul Heinbecker, 1941-
Author / Creator
Center for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)
Date Published / Released
2007
Publisher
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Topic / Theme
General Context: Security Issues, Peace processes, International trade, Diplomacy, International relations, Politics & Policy
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Copyright © 2007 Wilfrid Laurier University Press
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Youth Reject Roosevelt Program
edited by Max Weiss, fl. 1940; in Clarity, Vol. 1 no. 1, April-May, 1940, Clarity, Vol. 1 no. 1, April-May, 1940 (New York, NY: New Age Publishers, 1940), 2-7
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edited by Max Weiss, fl. 1940; in Clarity, Vol. 1 no. 1, April-May, 1940, Clarity, Vol. 1 no. 1, April-May, 1940 (New York, NY: New Age Publishers, 1940), 2-7
Field of Study
Politics & Current Affairs
Content Type
Speech/Address
Contributor
Max Weiss, fl. 1940
Date Published / Released
1940
Publisher
New Age Publishers
Series
Clarity
Person Discussed
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882-1945
Topic / Theme
Social activism and activists, Youth, Communism, Government policy, World War II, 1939-1945, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Negro Rights and the Anti-Hitler War
written by Henry Winston, fl. 1940; in Clarity, Vol. 3 no. 1, Winter Issue, 1942, Clarity, Vol. 3 no. 1, Winter Issue, 1942 (New York, NY: United States. Young Communist League, 1942), 22-34
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written by Henry Winston, fl. 1940; in Clarity, Vol. 3 no. 1, Winter Issue, 1942, Clarity, Vol. 3 no. 1, Winter Issue, 1942 (New York, NY: United States. Young Communist League, 1942), 22-34
Field of Study
Politics & Current Affairs
Content Type
Periodical article
Author / Creator
Henry Winston, fl. 1940
Date Published / Released
1942
Publisher
United States. Young Communist League
Series
Clarity
Topic / Theme
Social activism and activists, Black community, Nazism, Civil rights, Americans, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Democracy from Above?: The Unfulfilled Promise of Nationally Mandated Participatory Reforms
written by Stephanie L. McNutty (Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2019), 250 page(s)
People are increasingly unhappy with their governments in democracies around the world. In countries as diverse as India, Ecuador, and Uganda, governments are responding to frustrations by mandating greater citizen participation at the local and state level. Officials embrace participatory reforms, believing that...
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written by Stephanie L. McNutty (Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2019), 250 page(s)
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People are increasingly unhappy with their governments in democracies around the world. In countries as diverse as India, Ecuador, and Uganda, governments are responding to frustrations by mandating greater citizen participation at the local and state level. Officials embrace participatory reforms, believing that citizen councils and committees lead to improved accountability and more informed communities. Yet there's been little research on the...
People are increasingly unhappy with their governments in democracies around the world. In countries as diverse as India, Ecuador, and Uganda, governments are responding to frustrations by mandating greater citizen participation at the local and state level. Officials embrace participatory reforms, believing that citizen councils and committees lead to improved accountability and more informed communities. Yet there's been little research on the efficacy of these efforts to improve democracy, despite an explosion in their popularity since the mid-1980s. Democracy from Above? tests the hypothesis that top-down reforms strengthen democracies and evaluates the conditions that affect their success.S tephanie L. McNulty addresses the global context of participatory reforms in developing nations. She observes and interprets what happens after greater citizen involvement is mandated in seventeen countries, with close case studies of Guatemala, Bolivia, and Peru. The first cross-national comparison on this issue, Democracy from Above? explores whether the reforms effectively redress the persistent problems of discrimination, elite capture, clientelism, and corruption in the countries that adopt them. As officials and reformers around the world and at every level of government look to strengthen citizen involvement and confidence in the political process, McNulty provides a clear understanding of the possibilities and limitations of nationally mandated participatory reforms.
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Politics & Current Affairs
Content Type
Book
Author / Creator
Stephanie L. McNutty
Date Published / Released
2019
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Topic / Theme
General Context: Security Issues, Political reforms, Democracy, Politics & Policy, Sociology
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The Indonesian Way: ASEAN, Europeanization, and Foreign Policy Debates in a New Democracy
written by Jürgen Rüland, 1953- (Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2017), 309 page(s)
On December 31, 2015, the ten-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) ushered in a new era with the founding of the ASEAN Community (AC). The culmination of 12 years of intensive preparation, the AC was both a historic initiative and an unprecedented step toward the area's regional integration. Polit...
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written by Jürgen Rüland, 1953- (Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2017), 309 page(s)
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On December 31, 2015, the ten-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) ushered in a new era with the founding of the ASEAN Community (AC). The culmination of 12 years of intensive preparation, the AC was both a historic initiative and an unprecedented step toward the area's regional integration. Political commentators and media outlets, however, greeted its establishment with little fanfare. Implicitly and explicitly, they suggested...
On December 31, 2015, the ten-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) ushered in a new era with the founding of the ASEAN Community (AC). The culmination of 12 years of intensive preparation, the AC was both a historic initiative and an unprecedented step toward the area's regional integration. Political commentators and media outlets, however, greeted its establishment with little fanfare. Implicitly and explicitly, they suggested that the AC was only the beginning: Southeast Asia, they seemed to say, was taking its first steps on a linear process of unification that would converge on the model of the European Union.In The Indonesian Way, Jürgen Rüland challenges this previously unquestioned diffusion of European norms. Focusing on the reception of ASEAN in Indonesia, Rüland traces how foreign policy stakeholders in government, civil society, the legislature, academe, the press, and the business sector have responded to calls for ASEAN's Europeanization, ultimately fusing them with their own distinctly Indonesian form of regionalism. His analysis reframes the nature of ASEAN as well as the discipline of international relations more broadly, writing a narrative of regional integration and norm diffusion that breaks free of Eurocentric thought.
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Field of Study
Politics & Current Affairs
Content Type
Book
Author / Creator
Jürgen Rüland, 1953-
Date Published / Released
2017
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Topic / Theme
General Context: Security Issues, International relations, Government policy, Politics & Policy
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Paradoxes of the Popular: Crowd Politics in Bangladesh
written by Nusrat Sabina Chowdhury; edited by Thomas Blom Hansen, 1958- (Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2019), 265 page(s)
Few places are as politically precarious as Bangladesh, even fewer as crowded. Its 57,000 or so square miles are some of the world's most inhabited. Often described as a definitive case of the bankruptcy of postcolonial governance, it is also one of the poorest among the most densely populated nations. In spite of...
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written by Nusrat Sabina Chowdhury; edited by Thomas Blom Hansen, 1958- (Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2019), 265 page(s)
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Few places are as politically precarious as Bangladesh, even fewer as crowded. Its 57,000 or so square miles are some of the world's most inhabited. Often described as a definitive case of the bankruptcy of postcolonial governance, it is also one of the poorest among the most densely populated nations. In spite of an overriding anxiety of exhaustion, there are a few important caveats to the familiar feelings of despair—a growing economy, and an...
Few places are as politically precarious as Bangladesh, even fewer as crowded. Its 57,000 or so square miles are some of the world's most inhabited. Often described as a definitive case of the bankruptcy of postcolonial governance, it is also one of the poorest among the most densely populated nations. In spite of an overriding anxiety of exhaustion, there are a few important caveats to the familiar feelings of despair—a growing economy, and an uneven, yet robust, nationalist sentiment—which, together, generate revealing paradoxes. In this book, Nusrat Sabina Chowdhury offers insight into what she calls "the paradoxes of the popular," or the constitutive contradictions of popular politics. The focus here is on mass protests, long considered the primary medium of meaningful change in this part of the world. Chowdhury writes provocatively about political life in Bangladesh in a rich ethnography that studies some of the most consequential protests of the last decade, spanning both rural and urban Bangladesh. By making the crowd its starting point and analytical locus, this book tacks between multiple sites of public political gatherings and pays attention to the ephemeral and often accidental configurations of the crowd. Ultimately, Chowdhury makes an original case for the crowd as a defining feature and a foundational force of democratic practices in South Asia and beyond.
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Field of Study
Politics & Current Affairs
Content Type
Book
Contributor
Thomas Blom Hansen, 1958-
Author / Creator
Nusrat Sabina Chowdhury
Date Published / Released
2019
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Topic / Theme
General Context: Security Issues, Democracy, Political demonstrations, Politics & Policy, Sociology
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Rebranding China: Contested Status Signaling in the Changing Global Order
written by Xiaoyu Pu (Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2019, originally published 2019), 171 page(s)
China is intensely conscious of its status, both at home and abroad. This concern is often interpreted as an undivided desire for higher standing as a global leader. Yet, Chinese political elites heatedly debate the nation's role as it becomes an increasingly important player in international affairs. At times, Ch...
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written by Xiaoyu Pu (Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2019, originally published 2019), 171 page(s)
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China is intensely conscious of its status, both at home and abroad. This concern is often interpreted as an undivided desire for higher standing as a global leader. Yet, Chinese political elites heatedly debate the nation's role as it becomes an increasingly important player in international affairs. At times, China positions itself not as a nascent global power but as a fragile developing country. Contradictory posturing makes decoding China's...
China is intensely conscious of its status, both at home and abroad. This concern is often interpreted as an undivided desire for higher standing as a global leader. Yet, Chinese political elites heatedly debate the nation's role as it becomes an increasingly important player in international affairs. At times, China positions itself not as a nascent global power but as a fragile developing country. Contradictory posturing makes decoding China's foreign policy a challenge, generating anxiety and uncertainty in many parts of the world. Using the metaphor of rebranding to understand China's varying displays of status, Xiaoyu Pu analyzes a rising China's challenges and dilemmas on the global stage. As competing pressures mount across domestic, regional, and international audiences, China must pivot between different representational tactics. Rebranding China demystifies how the state represents its global position by analyzing recent military transformations, regional diplomacy, and international financial negotiations. Drawing on a sweeping body of research, including original Chinese sources and interdisciplinary ideas from sociology, psychology, and international relations, this book puts forward an innovative framework for interpreting China's foreign policy.
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Field of Study
Business & Economics
Content Type
Book
Author / Creator
Xiaoyu Pu
Date Published / Released
2019
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Topic / Theme
China and International Relations, Economic development, Nationalism, International trade, International relations, Diplomacy, Politics & Policy, Sociology
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Working Paper (Australian National University. Peace Research Centre), No. 52, Denuclearisation in Australia and New Zealand: Issues and Pro...
written by Andrew Mack, Australian National University. Peace Research Centre (1988), in Working Paper (Australian National University. Peace Research Centre), No. 52 (Canberra, Australian Capital Territory: Australian National University. Peace Research Centre, 1988), 38 page(s)
Denuclearisation in Australia is a Working paper by Andrew Mack under Australia National University institution.
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written by Andrew Mack, Australian National University. Peace Research Centre (1988), in Working Paper (Australian National University. Peace Research Centre), No. 52 (Canberra, Australian Capital Territory: Australian National University. Peace Research Centre, 1988), 38 page(s)
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Denuclearisation in Australia is a Working paper by Andrew Mack under Australia National University institution.
Date Written / Recorded
1988
Field of Study
Politics & Current Affairs
Content Type
Government/institutional document
Author / Creator
Andrew Mack, Australian National University. Peace Research Centre
Date Published / Released
1988
Publisher
Australian National University. Peace Research Centre
Series
Working Paper (Australian National University. Peace Research Centre)
Topic / Theme
Post WWII Nuclear Policies, Disarmament, Nuclear warfare, Government policy
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Copyright © 1988 The Australian National University, Peace Research Centre.
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