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Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics, Activists, Alliances, and Anti-U.S. Base Protests

written by Andrew Yeo, fl. 2008, in Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2011, originally published 2011), 242 page(s)

This book examines the impact of anti-base movements on politics, and the role bilateral alliance relationships play in shaping movement outcomes. The author's findings are drawn from field research and interviews with activists, politicians, policy makers and US base officials in the Philippines, Japan (Okinawa),...

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Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics, Contesting Citizenship in Latin America: The Rise of Indigenous Movements and the Postliberal Cha...

written by Deborah J. Yashar, fl. 1996, in Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2005, originally published 2005), 389 page(s)

In the twentieth century, indigenous people in Latin America started to speak out, mobilize, and organize in unprecedented ways. This book asks: why are indigenous people mobilizing now and why only in specific places? This book answers these questions with insight into their advancement and reform of democracy.

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Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics, Rightful Resistance in Rural China

written by Kevin J. O'Brien, 1957- and Lianjiang Li, fl. 2011, in Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2006), 201 page(s)

How can the poor and weak 'work' a political system to their advantage? Drawing mainly on interviews and surveys in rural China, Kevin O'Brien and Lianjiang Li show that popular action often hinges on locating and exploiting divisions within the state. Otherwise powerless people use the rhetoric and commitments of...

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Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics, The Marketing of Rebellion: Insurgents, Media, and International Activism

written by Clifford Bob, 1958-, in Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2005, originally published 2005), 255 page(s)

How do a few Third World political movements become global causes célèbres, while most remain isolated? This book rejects dominant views that needy groups readily gain help from selfless nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). Instead, they face a Darwinian struggle for scarce resources where support goes to the s...

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Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics, The New Transnational Activism

written by Sidney Tarrow, fl. 2005, in Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2005, originally published 2005), 278 page(s)

The New Transnational Activism, first published in 2005, shows how even the most prosaic activities can assume broader political meanings when they provide ordinary people with the experience of crossing transnational space. This means that we cannot be satisfied with defining transnational activists through the w...

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edited by James P. Lynch, fl. 2011, Jack Greene, fl. 2011 and Brian Forst, fl. 1985; in Criminologists on Terrorism and Homeland Security, Cambridge Studies in Criminology (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2011, originally published 2011)

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Cambridge Studies in Environment and History, Mao's War against Nature: Politics and the Environment in Revolutionary China

written by Judith Shapiro, fl. 2001, in Cambridge Studies in Environment and History (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2001, originally published 2001), 331 page(s)

Under Mao, the traditional Chinese ideal of 'harmony between heaven and humans' was abrogated in favor of Mao's insistence that 'people will conquer nature'. Mao and the Chinese Communist Party's 'war' to bend the physical world to human will often had disastrous consequences both for human beings and the natural...

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Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law, Armed Conflict and Displacement: The Protection of Refugees and Displaced Persons un...

written by Mélanie Jacques, fl. 2008; edited by John S. Bell, fl. 2007 and James Crawford, fl. 2007, in Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2012, originally published 2012), 296 page(s)

The issue of the protection of refugees and displaced persons caught up in war has rarely been examined from the standpoint of international humanitarian law. This study not only addresses the topical issue of displacement in war, but also analyses the international humanitarian law regime and its shortcomings.

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written by Jorge E. Viñuales, 1976-; in Foreign Investment and the Environment in International Law, Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2012, originally published 2012)

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Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law, International Refugee Law and Socio-Economic Rights: Refuge from Deprivation

written by Michelle Foster, fl. 2009; edited by John S. Bell, fl. 2007 and James Crawford, fl. 2007, in Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2007, originally published 2007), 443 page(s)

Michelle Foster assesses the ability of the Refugee Convention to encompass refugee claims based on the violation of socio-economic rights, arguing that despite the traditional dichotomy between 'economic migrants' and 'political refugees', the Refugee Convention can include many claims with a socio-economic eleme...

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