Aid Imperium

Aid Imperium

Author: Salvador Santino Fulo Regilme

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 2023-01-10

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 047203927X

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How US foreign policy affects state repression


The United States and China in the Era of Global Transformations

The United States and China in the Era of Global Transformations

Author: Salvador Santino F. Regilme Jr

Publisher: Policy Press

Published: 2023-11-23

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 1529228441

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Over the last two decades, China has emerged as one of the most powerful state actors in the post-Cold War international system. This book provides a multifaceted and spatially oriented analysis of how China's re-emergence as a global power impacts the dominance of the United States as well as domestic state and non-state actors in various world-regions, including the Asia-Pacific, Africa, South America and the Caribbean, the Middle East, Europe and the Arctic. Chapters reflect on how and under which conditions competition (and cooperation) between the United States and China vary across these regions and what such variations mean for the prospects of war and peace, universal human dignity and global cooperation.


Striking a Balance

Striking a Balance

Author: Alan Fowler

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-11

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 1134172508

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At a time of rapid global change, development NGOs are having to scale up their impact, diversify their activities, respond to long-term crises and improve their performance on all fronts. Striking a Balance offers both analysis and a practical guide to how NGDOs can fulfil these demanding expectations. Written for all those involved with NGDO work, the book describes the objectives of sustainablepeople-centred development and the process required to achieve it, focusing on the five factors which determine effectiveness: suitable organisational design; competent leadership and human resources; appropriate external relationships; mobilisation of high quality finance; and the measurement of performance coupled to 'learning for leverage'. In each are the book explains the capacities needed and how they can be assessed and improved. Effectiveness calls for NGDOs which retain their non-profit values, establish the right type of Professionalism, manage dilemmas and balance choices to continually reflect the priorities, rights and needs of those who give them legitimacy: people who are poor and marginalised. This book provides a reference of current and future practices which will help NGDOs to do so.


Empire and Aftermath

Empire and Aftermath

Author: J.W. Dower

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2020-03-31

Total Pages: 648

ISBN-13: 1684172152

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This is a detailed biography of Japan's Postwar prime minister. John Dower is one of the preminent historians of modern Japan.


The Destruction of the Greek Empire and the Story of the Capture of Constantinople by the Turks

The Destruction of the Greek Empire and the Story of the Capture of Constantinople by the Turks

Author: Sir Edwin Pears

Publisher:

Published: 1903

Total Pages: 526

ISBN-13:

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1908. With maps and illustrations. Pears writes: My object in writing this book is to give an account of the capture of Constantinople and the destruction of the Greek empire. In order to make the story intelligible and to explain its significance I have given a summary of the history of the empire between the Latin conquest in 1204 and the capture of the city in 1453, and have traced the progress during the same period of the race which succeeded in destroying the empire and in replacing the Greeks as possessors of New Rome.


Commanders and Command in the Roman Republic and Early Empire

Commanders and Command in the Roman Republic and Early Empire

Author: Fred K. Drogula

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2015-04-13

Total Pages: 433

ISBN-13: 1469621274

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In this work, Fred Drogula studies the development of Roman provincial command using the terms and concepts of the Romans themselves as reference points. Beginning in the earliest years of the republic, Drogula argues, provincial command was not a uniform concept fixed in positive law but rather a dynamic set of ideas shaped by traditional practice. Therefore, as the Roman state grew, concepts of authority, control over territory, and military power underwent continual transformation. This adaptability was a tremendous resource for the Romans since it enabled them to respond to new military challenges in effective ways. But it was also a source of conflict over the roles and definitions of power. The rise of popular politics in the late republic enabled men like Pompey and Caesar to use their considerable influence to manipulate the flexible traditions of military command for their own advantage. Later, Augustus used nominal provincial commands to appease the senate even as he concentrated military and governing power under his own control by claiming supreme rule. In doing so, he laid the groundwork for the early empire's rules of command.


The Oxford Handbook of the Ends of Empire

The Oxford Handbook of the Ends of Empire

Author: Martin Thomas

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2018-12-06

Total Pages: 801

ISBN-13: 0191022144

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The Oxford Handbook of the Ends of Empire offers the most comprehensive treatment of the causes, course, and consequences of the ends of empire in the twentieth century. The volume's contributors convey the global reach of decolonization, with chapters analysing the empires of Western Europe, Eastern Europe, China and Japan. The Handbook combines broad, regional treatments of decolonization with chapter contributions constructed around particular themes or social issues. It considers how the history of decolonization is being rethought as a result of the rise of the 'new' imperial history, and its emphasis on race, gender, and culture, as well as the more recent growth of interest in histories of globalization, transnational history, and histories of migration and diaspora, humanitarianism and development, and human rights. The Handbook, in other words, seeks to identify the processes and commonalities of experience that make decolonization a unique historical phenomenon with a lasting resonance. In light of decades of historical and social scientific scholarship on modernization, dependency, neo-colonialism, 'failed state' architectures and post-colonial conflict, the obvious question that begs itself is 'when did empires actually end?' In seeking to unravel this most basic dilemma the Handbook explores the relationship between the study of decolonization and the study of globalization. It connects histories of the late-colonial and post-colonial worlds, and considers the legacies of empire in European and formerly colonised societies.