This work provides the basis for a reconceptualization of key features in Southeast Asia's history. It examines evolutionary patterns of Europe's and Japan's Southeast Asian empires from the late 19th century through World War II, and offer insights into the events of the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s.
From the legendary New York City mayoral race of 1977 to his twenty-year efforts to modernize Israeli politics to Bill Clinton's 1996 reelection campaign, Schoen takes you on a fascinating, eye-opening ride across the international political landscape of the past three decades. Demonstrating how politics has evolved and how he has utilized the latest technology to help candidates win the hearts…
Men in White is the inside story of one of the world's most successful political parties the ruling People's Action Party of Singapore. With its victory in the 2006 polls, PAP has won 12 successive general elections since it assumed power in 1959. Narrated in three parts, Men in White chronicles the rise, fall, capture, split, and rise of a political party which has become synonymous with th…
For thirty years, Hezbollah has played a pivotal role in Lebanese and global politics. That visibility has invited Hezbollah’s lionization and vilification by outside observers, and at the same time has prevented a clear-eyed view of Hezbollah’s place in the history of the Middle East and its future course of action. Now part of the Lebanese government, Hezbollah nevertheless remains in…
Divine Violence is a major contribution to our understanding of the process by which the State's discourses can elaborate the enemy and thus 'reason' a practice of torture and ritualized destruction of the 'other.' Graziano explains how and why denial underlines this nexus of religious, sexual, and violent impulses in the politics of atrocity. A chilling account.
This study is executed from the above perspective. It focuses on the manifestations of the striving for a constitutional state in the debates of the Konstituante, as reported in the minutes, and on the obstacles which this endeavour encountered. The two fundamental elements of constitutionalism are legal limits to arbitrary power and a complete political responsibility of the government to the …
The author hopes through this book to inform the readers of some of the activities of the Politburo, Party Central Committee, the Central Army Party Committee and Strategic Staff Office of the Party during the last years of the war, 1973 to 1975
This study examines a number of themes underlying the struggle to identify the character and causes of the violence engulfing suthern Thailand's border provinces since 2004. It begins by outlining key representations of the southern problem in Thailand.
An account of the party systems that have evolved in Eastern Europe since the revolutions of the late 1980s. The new political systems of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Bulgaria are analyzed and compared, along with the most recent developments in East Germany
This book offers a critical insight into four decades of the Indian constitution. It charts the course of constitutional reform in India from the euphoric idealism of the post-independence period, through the crisis-ridden years of the emergency, and up to Rajiv Gandhi’s brief stay in power. Written with transparent affection towards the Indian people, Working a Democratic Constitution repres…