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11. The Legacies of Caribbean Radical Politics

    Edited by Shalini Puri

    The year 2009 marked the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution and the thirtieth anniversary of the Grenadian and Nicaraguan Revolutions, and as such offered an occasion to assess the complex legacies of revolutionary politics in the Caribbean. This volume considers what we might learn from such...

    Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
12. The Liberal Peace and Post-War Reconstruction

    Myth or reality?

    Edited by Roger MacGinty, Oliver Richmond

    The post-Cold War has witnessed enormous levels of western peacekeeping, peacemaking and reconstruction intervention in societies emerging from war. These western-led interventions are often called ‘liberal peacebuilding’ or ‘liberal interventionism’, or statebuilding, and have attracted...

    Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
13. The European Union, Russia and the Shared Neighbourhood

    Edited by Jackie Gower, Graham Timmins

    Series: Routledge Europe-Asia Studies

    The conflict in South Ossetia in the summer of 2008 and the Ukrainian energy crisis in early 2009 served to highlight the tensions that continue to influence EU-Russia relations in regard to the region comprising the former republics of the Soviet Union or the ‘shared neighbourhood’. This book...

    Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
14. The English Face of Machiavelli (Routledge Library Editions: Political Science Volume 32)

    By Felix Raab

    This is an important work of scholarship with regard to Machiavelli and the development of political thought in England. It charts the reactions of successive English thinkers to Machiavelli’s challenge, and the different aspects of Machiavelli’s thought which were perceived in the changing context...

    Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
15. The Case for Multinational Federalism

    Beyond the all-encompassing nation

    By Alain-G. Gagnon

    Series: Routledge Series in Federal Studies

    Throughout the world, liberal-democracies are grappling with increasing claims made in the name of minority national, socio-cultural and ethno-cultural identities that seek greater recognition in the institutions of the nation-state. This work inserts itself into debates centred on diversity...

    Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
16. Africa's Contemporary Challenges

    The Legacy of Amilcar Cabral

    Edited by Carlos Lopes

    This book reviews Cabral’s intellectual contribution to current debates on race, identity, nation building, democracy, leadership and ethics. The key leader of the national liberation movements of former Portuguese African colonies is considered to be one of their foremost intellectuals...

    Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
17. Grassroots Elections in China

    Edited by Kevin O'Brien, Suisheng Zhao

    Twenty years after the launch of village elections, the time is ripe to assess the progress and impact of China’s most notable political reform. Where have elections been conducted well and where have they been conducted poorly? How have procedures changed over the years and have elections truly...

    Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
18. Perpetrators, Accomplices and Victims in Twentieth-Century Politics

    Reckoning with the Past

    Edited by Anatoly M. Khazanov, Stanley Payne

    Series: Totalitarianism Movements and Political Religions

    These studies examine the ways in which succeeding democratic regimes have dealt with, or have ignored (and in several cases sugar-coated) an authoritarian or totalitarian past from 1943 to the present. They treat the relationship with democratization and the different ways in which collective...

    Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
19. Europe and the Management of Globalization

    Edited by Wade Jacoby, Sophie Meunier

    Series: Journal of European Public Policy Special Issues as Books

    European politicians often speak of their efforts to 'manage globalization.' At one level, this is merely a rhetorical device to make globalization more palatable to citizens and prove that policy-makers are still firmly in control of their country’s fate. This volume argues that the advocacy of...

    Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
20. The European Union's Democratization Agenda in the Mediterranean

    Edited by Michelle Pace, Peter Seeberg

    Democracy promotion in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) remains a central pillar of the foreign policy of the European Union (EU). Rather than concentrating on the relations between the incumbent authoritarian regimes and the opposition in the relevant countries, and on the degree to which...

    Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge