Promoting Polyarchy
Author: William I. Robinson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1996-08-22
Total Pages: 492
ISBN-13: 9780521566919
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContoversial exposé of US policy towards democracy in the Third World.
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Critical Globalization Studies
Author: Richard P. Appelbaum
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 534
ISBN-13: 9780415949620
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
American Politics
Author: Samuel P. Huntington
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780674030213
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHuntington examines the persistent gap between the promise of American ideals and the performance of American politics. He shows how Americans have always been united by the democratic creed of liberty, equality, and hostility to authority, but how these ideals have been frustrated through institutions and hierarchies needed to govern a democracy.
American Democracy Promotion
Author: Michael Cox
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2000-08-31
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 0191522775
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhy does the United States promote democracy? How successful has it been? And why do critics often attack it for doing so? These are at least three of the questions examined in this wide-ranging discussion of American efforts to recast the international order in its own political image. The answers provided by a distinguished group of analysts are as diverse as they are challenging to traditional ways of thinking about US democracy promotion in terms of either a misconstrued moralism or an ideological facade masking some deeper, more sinister purpose. As we enter into the Twenty First century with American hegemony intact, it is vital to understand what drives the world's last remaining superpower. And this original study helps us do precisely that by exploring in detail and depth one of the more contentious, least analysed and most misunderstood aspects of American foreign policy.
Undermining American Hegemony
Author: Morten Skumsrud Andersen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-06-03
Total Pages: 253
ISBN-13: 1108957404
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAdvancing a new approach to the study of international order, this book highlights the stakes disguised by traditional theoretical languages of power transitions and hegemonic wars. Rather than direct challenges to US military power, the most consequential undermining of hegemony is routine, bottom-up processes of international goods substitution: a slow hollowing out of the existing order through competition to seek or offer alternative sources for economic, military, or social goods. Studying how actors gain access to alternative suppliers of these public goods, this volume shows how states consequently move away from the liberal international order. Examining unfamiliar – but crucial – cases, it takes the reader on a journey from local Faroese politics, to Russian election observers in Central Asia, to South American drug lords. Broadening the debate about the role of public goods in international politics, this book offers a new perspective of one of the key issues of our time.
Promoting Democracy, Reinforcing Authoritarianism
Author: Benjamin Schuetze
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-11-07
Total Pages: 293
ISBN-13: 1108493386
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA detailed examination of the role of US and European 'democracy promoters' in Jordan based on a diverse range of original source material.
Capitalist Development and Democracy
Author: Dietrich Rueschemeyer
Publisher:
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 387
ISBN-13: 9780226731421
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe authors offer a fresh and persuasive resolution to the controversy arising out of these contrasting traditions. Focusing on advanced industrial countries, Latin America, and the Caribbean, they find that the rise and persistence of democracy cannot be explained either by an overall structural correspondence between capitalism and democracy or by the role of the bourgeoisie as the agent of democratic reform. Rather, capitalist development is associated with democracy because it transforms the class structure, enlarging the working and middle classes, facilitating their self-organization, and thus making it more difficult for elites to exclude them. Simultaneously, development weakens the landed upper class, democracy's most consistent opponent.
Governance Without Government
Author: James N. Rosenau
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1992-03-26
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780521405782
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA world government capable of controlling nation-states has never evolved, but governance does underlie order among states and gives direction to problems arising from global interdependence. This book examines the ideological bases and behavioural patterns of this governance without government.
Global Capitalism and the Crisis of Humanity
Author: William I. Robinson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-07-28
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 1107067472
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book discusses the nature of the new global capitalism, the rise of a globalized production and financial system, a transnational capitalist class, and a transnational state and warns of the rise of a global police state to contain the explosive contradictions of a global capitalist system that is crisis-ridden and out of control.
Globalization and Postmodern Politics
Author: Roger Burbach
Publisher: Pluto Press
Published: 2001-01-20
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9780745316499
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this critique of globalization, Burbach (director of the Center for the Study of the Americas) asserts that institutions such as the World Trade Organization and the International Monetary Fund, and the transnational corporations are intent upon exercising a new hegemony over our lives while the role of the traditional nation state is transformed. He builds his case by showing how a group of high-tech robber barons at the center of this power shift dominate the information age and exploit the technologies of globalization for their own narrow interests. Drawing on contemporary historical experiences, he discusses the emergence of an array of movements comprising the marginalized, the dispossessed, and those who refuse to accept the rule of the transnational elites. Distributed by Stylus. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
