für 71.10€ kaufen ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray THE PATRIMONIAL STATE AND GRASSROOTS DEMOCRACY IN NIGERIA. Patrimonialism combines congrously with other modes of state-society relations, particularly ethnicity and incorporation to influence virtually every political process in Nigeria irrespective of the regime in power. This powerful combination engenders political ills such as personalization of political institutions, distribution of patronage in exchange for political support,tempestuous struggle to control state power, and corruption generally. The result is political instability, which hampers democracy generally and grassroots democracy in particular. ····· 10361115393
für 44.10€ kaufen ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray In recent years the EU has been emerging as a significant diplomatic actor on the international scene. However, in spite of its treaty-based aspirations to act coherently and effectively in external action, the EU has remained a rather confusing actor for third parties throughout its development. In times of a `transformational diplomacy,` an `interpolar world,` and profound global challenges, the Lisbon Treaty has laid the groundwork for further development of an even wider system of EU diplomacy, which has helped to provide new momentum for the architectural diplomatic actorness of the EU in the world. On the other hand, there have been doubts expressed about its potential to deliver coherent and effective policies in order to meet the demands of an increasingly complex world. This book investigates whether this new system of EU diplomacy will provide the EU with the institutional capabilities that will enable it to perform a more coherent and effective diplomatic role in the world arena. The book is intended for readers who have a specific interest, among others, in EU diplomacy and foreign policy as well as its institutions. ····· 10361115345
für 44.10€ kaufen ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray The greatest enlargement of the European Union on May 1, 2004 reshaped the borders of the European Union and stirred up the EU to redefine and reinvent its policy towards its new neighbors and their place in its pyramid of privileges. As a result, the European Neighborhood Policy was born. The book aims at understanding the nature of the ENP with a particular emphasis on the South Caucasus region, a part of the ENP Eastern Dimension. The notion of empire serves as the theoretical frame of analysis. The work provides a new conceptualization of the ENP as a soft empire`s policy of security creation through periphery stabilization. The ENP dynamics inspires parallels with empire organized in concentric circles, where core protects itself by stabilizing the periphery through exporting its values, norms, laws and modes of governance beyond its immediate borders, which can no longer be understood through a linear concept of border. The analysis should be helpful to scholars interested in International/European Studies as well as any professional working on European integration related issues in national, European or international agencies. ····· 10361115332
für 44.10€ kaufen ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray Religious forces and authoritarian regime have collaborated throughout history. If religion is about morality, ethics and high human values, politics is generally about manipulation, lie and the art of possible. Yet whenever unpopular, illegitimate regimes needed support, the clergy extended help, rarely challenging the regimes, thus strengthening clergy-ruling elite nexus. The ruling regimes in both Pakistan and Malaysia have had strong nexus with the religious groups viewing Islamic politics more as an opportunity than a challenge. Pakistan and Malaysia provide us an insight to understand that the use of religion can produce different results in different types of regimes. In Pakistan, military dictatorship used religion to gain legitimacy as well as divert the attention of the people from real economic issues by engaging them in issues like Muslim solidarity, in Malaysia, Islamic principles were used to reform the Malaysian society with equal importance to modernization but the policy also created opponents among the liberal as well as the Muslim parties both complaining about not having enough of any system. ····· 10361115252
für 44.10€ kaufen ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray Since 1991 Somalia has become the paradigm of the state collapse. More recently interest in state weakness has increased in a relevant manner: state failure has become one of the most important security threats in Sub-Saharian Africa. After September 11 mainstream interpretations began to assess the impact of state collapse on the global stability, but very few analyses recognise that the international capitalist system has generated, amplified, and intensified state fragility. This book provides an alternative way to conceptualize state instability: it analyzes the Somali case in a global perspective. The Quasi-state theory, elaborated by Jackson, is adopted by this book in order to investigate the sovereignty evolution between the Westphalian and the post-colonial state. The case-study of the Ogaden war should help to explain to what extent the international system has determined the collapse of the Somali state. This book is oriented towards all those who want to know the trajectory of the Somali state or are interested in exploring questions that originate from the sovereignty crisis in contemporary era. ····· 10361115213
für 71.10€ kaufen ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray The study reinforces the belief of geo-politicians that competition over, and control of, vital resources be they oil, materials for warfare, water and sea lanes or minerals is the main cause of conflict between states, and adds substance to that belief by attributing equal significance to the territorial control of freshwater resources as an issue of high-politics in international relations. To highlight theoretical and policy relevance it formulates a theoretical model befittingly explaining linkages between war and peace over vital water resources and explains when the rival riparian compromise on vital concerns and put political issues on the backburner. With this backdrop the book addresses the question: Is water a cause of conflict or catalyst for peace and establishes linkage between the Indus waters resource and the Kashmir dispute. While highlighting role of Indus waters in political thinking, strategic planning and warfare between India and Pakistan the study projects its future implications for war and peace in the region and highlights emerging scenarios in the wake of growing water scarcity and environmental degradation. ····· 10361115017
für 53.10€ kaufen ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray In December 2005, the United Nations established its Peacebuilding Commission (PBC), whose purpose was to bring together all relevant peacebuilding actors (international and regional organisations, local authorities and civil society, and UN organs) in order to increase the coordination between them, to marshal resources, and to establish integrated strategies. The creation of the PBC was based on the UN recognition of its lack of capacity to help post-conflict states to build a sustainable peace. Since 2006, four cases have been included in the PBC`s agenda Burundi, Sierra Leone, Guinea-Bissau, and the Central African Republic. Furthermore, the organ created a Working Groups On Lessons Learned to develop best practices on peacebuilding. Therefore, this MA dissertation submitted to the London Metropolitan University: (1) reviews the UN`s peacebuilding historical record (2) analyses the PBC`s structure (3) discusses the PBC`s engagements in the four cases (4) explores the PBC`s lessons learned on peacebuilding and finally (5) evaluates whether or not the PBC has improved UN peacebuilding capacity. ····· 10361114997
für 53.10€ kaufen ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray In the post-cold war era military superiority alone is insufficient to determine global primacy. Energy has acquired unexpectedly vast significance. Access to and ownership over primary energy reserves such as of oil, natural gas are equally important in order to safeguard the continental functioning of a state`s own society, economy, and elite structure. Growing economic interdepency, and supply induced energy scarcity have come to compromise a state`s ability to freely use its military power as a leverage for accessing foreign energy resource. Global fossile fuel reserves are being heavily concentrated in some geographical instable regions such as the Caspian region and the Persian Gulf. As a result oil exporting countries situated in there have attained the leverage to wield disproportionate geopolitical power. These developments highlight the importance of diplomacy and various (new) forms of cooperation to secure the steady and reliable trade of oil at reliable prices. China`s oil supply security in the Persian Gulf is being challenged given it`s growing imports from that region. A case study on Saudi Arabia and Iran to measure China`s succes. ····· 10361114963
für 44.10€ kaufen ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray Even though the flow of foreign aid has increased, poverty is still spreading in certain recipient countries. This research is an investigation on the rationale behind Japanese Official Development Assistance (ODA) to Morocco. Regardless of the fact that Japan is the second largest donor to Morocco, the overall image about the history of Japanese assistance is negative and characterized by economic self-interest. I argue that Japanese government has pursued and still does pursue aid relations with developing countries seeking political and economic benefits for Japan, benefits for others are a secondary concern. Based on this research, the maritime resource of Morocco is the main motive driving Japan to allocate aid. This project will contribute to future research on similar topics. ····· 10361114959
für 71.10€ kaufen ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray This book interrogates the relationship between a number of factors and the emergence and sustenance of terrorism in the world. We argue that terrorism is a product of inherent contradictions in the Great Power oppression and illegal exploitation of the Weak that has defied all legitimate or conventional solution. it is not all about religion, Israel, the United States or the Taliban.It is a threat to humanity and must receive the positive attention of all in this age of neuclear technology. Anti-Terrorist wars are not the appropriate solution. Find out the scientific opinion of contributors to this book on how to abolish terrorism. ····· 10361114903
für 44.10€ kaufen ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray Africa has long been a forgotten continent, suffering the brutality of slavery and slave trade, colonialism, and consequences of the Cold-War between two blocs.This book raises the question: Why are the three major players in Africa are competing at this particular time after a long period of neglect The Clash of the Major Powers in Africa is presented in the context of historical and modern events. The author analyzes the main reasons behind their engagement beyond routine and normal involvement, external and internal factors, how they view Africa and how Africa views them, the reaction of Africans toward each of them, and the expectation of African people from their policies. Africa, with huge natural resources, triggered the current competition among three major players in Africa: the U.S., the EU, and China. This book attempts to address these issues by identifying one of the policies which could have a chance to succeed in Africa. The research is intended to help inform researchers who are interested in the Africa`s relationships with these major powers and foreign policy makers in Africa, the United States, the European Union and China. ····· 10361114875
für 44.10€ kaufen ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray A Free Lunch or Lunch for Free is a bachelor thesis regarding European Community`s (EC) foeign aid policy to many of the least developed countrise in the world. EC is not a traditional state and there is an ongoing debate if it is possible for a non-state actor to present a foreig policy. In the lack of a military army, EC has during the last decade increased the annual amount of foreign aid to be the second largest in the world and has, by that, received an instrument that has been considered powerful in foreign policy for long time. In the same time EC is founded on liberal assumptions about democracy, human rights and rule of law, but is it possible to see these values in the practical foreign aid policy What are the purposes for EC to give away nearly $30 billion in five years to the worlds poorest and least developed countries Is it to assist them in their escape from poverty or is it a way to make Europe more influent ····· 10361114779
für 44.10€ kaufen ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray China comes to Africa with pure trade and economical intentions, offloading Chinese products in the markets of host countries in exchange for oil and other resources. African states traditionally relied on western colonial powers for economic aid and political influence. However, with the rise of China and its increasing involvement in Africa, the situation is slowly changing. Petroleum producing states endeavor to establish relations based on the supply of oil in return for investments and other economical incentives. The US interests in Sub-Saharan Africa includes promoting democracy, good governance and transparency in economies of petroleum producing states, along with establishing a strong military command to protect its oil interests and monitor the actions of militant groups. ····· 10361114756
für 61.20€ kaufen ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray International broadcasting has traditionally responded to changes in geopolitics and telecommunication technologies. Italy, Germany, the United Kingdom and Russia were the first to start this genre of operations targeting foreign audiences in the late 1920s. Although having taken on many different formats and interpretations around the world ever since, international broadcasting has, from its onset, been traditionally linked to the way a state wishes to portray itself and its interests to other countries. Over the last decades, most of them, specially in the European context, have become foreign policy instruments through soft power techniques, using the internet as their mode of transmission. Within this scenario, this book investigates how international broadcasters have had to adapt in order to address the web`s specificities as a news medium, having the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and Deutsche Welle`s (DW) online services to Brazil as case studies. In performing a comparative analysis, this book interconnects public diplomacy, webjournalism and mass communication studies, and should be specially interesting for journalists and students of the related fields. ····· 10361114723
····· lezzter Preis 53.10€ ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray The recent COIN experiences manifest the prevalentcounterinsurgency apparatus contains devastatingdrawbacks. It is difficult to counter insurgencieswith conventional mechanism. Advanced defense budgetsalone, cannot eliminate national security threats.Direct use of force will always have a role inCOIN efforts but in long term you cannot always killeveryone for your conquest. No doubt the measures forlegitimacy, credibility and development should betaken but along with something else. This somethingelse is other than good governance, more thaneconomic development and above than the efforts toaddress the grievances among the discontented thatencourage the terrorist recruitments. Winning of hearts and minds should not be rhetoric or atactic. In this book, the means for actual victory are explored for definite and everlasting winning of hearts but repairing of minds . That how, the focus of insurgents can be shifted from destruction to development Can Insurgent areas produce leaders for the nation Why conventional counterinsurgency has been failed to combat this challenge Is there a need to revise or chalk out a new strategy ····· 10361114643
für 44.10€ kaufen ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray EU enlargements have revealed that balancing between EU`s accession criteria for new member countries and safeguarding EU`s interests is complex. This book argues that EU is compromising on its conditionality policy due to geo-political interests and that an ambiguous approach to conditionality can be useful for EU. A key case of this is Serbia, where the geo- political and historical issues reveal a complexity important to understand in future accession processes for candidate countries. This book discusses why EU is compromising due to political, economic and security-related interests in Serbia and the Balkan region. Russia has strong interests in Serbia making this a complicated geo-political issue involving Kosovo`s independency process and Russian energy supplies. Also Serbia is using its potential turning towards Russia as a political tool to make the EU compromise on its conditionality policy towards Serbia. This book is of key interest for readers wanting to understand the complexity of EU enlargement processes, the geo-political situation on the outskirts of EU and the policies of a country courting and using its position to serve own interests. ····· 10361114498
für 71.10€ kaufen ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray This book is a critical analysis of the conduct of post-1995 elections in Uganda. Using an environmental approach, the book argues that elections management is strongly affected by the sociopolitical and legal environment within which elections are held. While the country is treading the path to democratic electioneering, and has, since the 2005 referendum, shifted to multiparty/multi-organisational political dispensation, improvement in the management of elections and ensuring a conducive socio-political, lego-constitutional and institutional environment within which elections are held are critical to the mitigation of extra-institutional elections fraud. ····· 10361114495
für 53.10€ kaufen ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray One of the major problems facing African countries today is that of underdevelopment and dependency. The expectations that political independence of African countries will engender development soon became a mirage as disease, famine, lack of good accommodation and health care facilities became the lot of ordinary Africans. This informed the resurgence towards regional integration in Africa especially in the 1990s. The research therefore sets out to examine the newly formed African Union (AU) and its potentials towards the transformation of Africa. In a bid to achieve this, a background preceding the formation of AU is provided, the state of African economies which is rural in nature is established and the documentary method is used to gather data used for analyzing the problem. The research unveils the fact that virtually all African States are still heavily dependent on the export of a narrow range of primary commodities leading to weak linkages among various sectors that makes it difficult to build dynamic, self-reliant and socio-sustaining economies. ····· 10361114364
für 44.10€ kaufen ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray The study has attempted to respond one central question: how has India-Pakistan relationship been transformed It argues that the relationship between India and Pakistan has undergone transformation since India and Pakistan`s nuclear tests in 1998. This has led to the shift in traditional stands on Kashmir dispute between two rivals. It also averted war between India and Pakistan in 2001-2002 and after Mumbai blasts. Moreover, non-traditional security issues such as energy security and food security as well as widespread poverty which both countries face necessitate conflict transformation between the both states.Borrowing from conflict transformation theories, the study further argues that transformation in rules, actors, and structure would bring about conflict transformation thus breaking down the adversarial relationship between India and Pakistan. ····· 10361114319
für 71.10€ kaufen ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray Shorttitle The book is devoted to the exploration of one of the most fundamental prob-lems of human life the rights and freedoms of the man being an expression of human dignity. The monograph examines processes of birth of the first submis-sions on human rights and freedoms, of their development and transformation into an integral part of the modern philosophy of life. Leitmotif of the monographs: without human rights and freedoms there can be no democracy, and without de-mocracy, there can be no law-abiding society with a free person. The author shows the landmarks of the modern Institute of human rights and freedoms, and considers the rights of specific groups of people of modern societies, and high-lights features of their realization and protection in different situations. Through the entire book is the idea that only the people are capable to defend their rights and freedoms and their protection become especially effective only when, if they know about them and how to protect them. The book aims to help the widest range of people in the modern world better know their rights and freedoms and effectively protect them. ····· 10361114308
für 53.10€ kaufen ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray Climate has been the major concern in the present century. The outliers of Climate raised several issues in the fields of geography, economics and politics. Several political conventions and conferences had been carried on to combat the effect of climate change. Kyoto protocol is one such convention where the geography of climate change entered the field of economics and Clean Development Mechanism, a part of Kyoto, invited politics into it. The Study is comparative between the projects of India and Brazil, both of whom had been serious players in the field of the umbrella of Clean Development Mechanism.The Book tries to illustrate and compare between the projects taken up by both the countries in this regard, and analyses the developmental factor lying behind the Mechanism. ····· 10361114159
für 44.10€ kaufen ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray Central Asia has emerged on the global stage after spending decades in isolation. As part of the Soviet Union, it was largely secluded from the region and the greater Muslim world. After a period of adjustment, the countries have more or less crystallized into what they are ultimately going to be. What is in the region`s favor are the large untapped natural resources. Things would seem to be in the region`s favor. There are, however, a few events that could derail the region but only three are examind at length. ····· 10361114104
für 44.10€ kaufen ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) is the first international mechanism controlling proliferation of missiles and related technology. The core limitation imposed by MTCR is on proliferation of high propulsion ballistic missiles and related technology. It strictly limits the export of missiles capable of delivering a 500 kilogram payload to a 300-kilometer distance, otherwise known as 500kg/300km standard. MTCR also sets clear rules regarding the export behaviour of its member countries. The export limits guiding interaction among non-member countries apply equally to MTCR members. However, little attention has been paid to whether or not MTCR members indeed abide by MTCR rules.Taking into consideration the fact that missile defense uses the same technology as offensive missiles, this work is dedicated to understanding whether joint missile defense development programs between the United States and her allies might undermine the principles and rules of MTCR and therefore potentially contribute to the proliferation of ballistic missiles and related technology. ····· 10361113998
für 44.10€ kaufen ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray The concept of transparency has in recent years become increasingly relevant in a world characterized by its ever-growing complexity. Within a variety of spheres, calls for greater levels of transparency have become common-place, leading to the implementation of a number of transparency mechanisms aimed at promoting a higher degree of information disclosure. The Western European conventional arms sector - conceptualized here as a regime comprised of a particular set of principles, norms and procedures - is one such sphere which in the post-Cold War era has come to be regulated by a variety of transparency mechanisms that seek to control, monitor and evaluate transparency-related matters. The most recent of these mechanisms and the subject of this thesis, is the European Union (EU) Council Common Position 944 on Arms Exports. The object of this thesis will be to conduct an evaluation of the appropriateness of the Common Position`s transparency provisions for the specific framework of norms, principles and procedures governing the conventional European arms regime. ····· 10361113968· 1 · ::::: · 5 ·· 6 ·· 7 ·· 8 ·· 9 ·· 10 ·· 11 · ::::: · 30 ·
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