This book provides an analytical overview of the rise and development of nationalism in various regions of Asia. R. S. Chavan examines the historical roots, political dynamics, and socio-cultural forces that shaped nationalist movements across the continent. The work highlights key events, ideological influences, and regional variations that contributed to the formation of modern Asian nation-s…
Tradition and Identity in Changing Africa examines the dynamics of social and cultural change in various African societies in the 20th century. Using ethnological approaches and case studies, authors Mark A. Tessler, William M. O’Barr, and David H. Spain explore how traditions, social structures, and cultural identities transformed in the context of modernization and political change. This bo…
This book provides a comprehensive historical and analytical account of Madagascar from 1947 to 2002, tracing the country’s political, social, and cultural transformations across five decades. Written by Jacques Tiersonnier, S.J., with contributions from Céline Mathon, the work examines key events such as the 1947 uprising, the post-colonial political restructuring, the rise and fall of vari…
Gandhi Today examines the enduring relevance of Mahatma Gandhi’s ideas on nonviolence, social justice, and political transformation in contemporary society. J. D. Sethi discusses how Gandhian philosophy continues to influence modern political movements, social reform initiatives, and grassroots activism in India and beyond. The book highlights Gandhi’s perspectives on truth, moral leadershi…
This book tracks the phases of Singapore's economic and political development, arguing that its success was always dependent upon the territories links with the surrounding region and the wider global system, and suggests that managing these links today will be the key to the country's future. Singapore has followed a distinctive historical development trajectory. It was one of a number of citi…
Across the developed world, public confidence in politics and politicians has slumped Solutions that once worked in tackling acute problems like unemployment, crime or low educational standards are no longer producing results, and the grand ideologies that dominated the twentieth century seem bankrupt, empty of relevance and popular appeal, Yet thought has not ceased, and the last few years hav…
Peter Drucker focuses with great clarity and perception on the forces of change that are transforming the economic landscape and creating tomorrow's society. Peter Drucker brings to this work an intimate knowledge and objective view of the particular and general. The Age of Discontinuity is a fascinating and important blueprint for shapping a future already very much with us.
Brings together seventeen essays on the dynamics of social change published in a wide array of journals over the course of Amitai Etzioni's long and distinguished career. Applying sociological methods of study to seemingly disparate disciplines from ethics to economics, politics to genetics, Etzioni uncovers important interrelationships between these fields.
This newly updated fourth edition re-examines the plight of Third World countries in light of the recent events and trends of the post-cold war world. As market forces become increasingly more influential, allowing for unprecedented growth and the accumulation of great wealth, many of the promises of the twentieth century continue to be transformed and abandoned. The vulnerability of developing…
This book begins by identifying a global problematique, a coin- cidence of four sustained factors: war, insecurity and militarisation; the persistence of poverty; the denial of human rights; environmental destruction. The conventional policy approaches to these problems are analysed through a rigorous critique of the three main United Nations reports of the 1980s, those of the Brandt, Palme and…