Cambridge University Press, 2001. — 170 p. — ISBN13: 9780521004251 From military despots to democratic presidents, rulers spend much time convincing themselves of their right to be in charge. This important and original new survey draws on a growing body of research in political science, history, and sociology to reveal how governments devote time, resources, and energy to...
London: Routledge, 2012. — 256 p. — ISBN10: 0415677769; ISBN13: 978-0415677769. This book sheds new light on the continuing debate within political thought as to what constitutes power, and what distinguishes legitimate from illegitimate power. It does so by considering the experience of Russia, a polity where experiences of the legitimacy of power and the collapse of power...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019. — 304 p. — ISBN: 978-1-635573-79-3. From the Samuel Johnson Prize-winning author of Mao's Great Famine, a sweeping and timely study of twentieth-century dictators and the development of the modern cult of personality. No dictator can rule through fear and violence alone. Naked power can be grabbed and held temporarily, but it never suffices in the...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 389 p. The central role that good, effective and capable governance plays in the economic and social development of a country is now widely recognised. Using the Commonwealth countries of eastern and southern Africa (the ESA states) as the basis for discussion, this book analyses some of the key constitutional issues in the process of...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 226 p. In this major contribution to the power debate, Clarissa Rile Hayward challenges the prevailing view which treats power as something powerful people have and use. Rather than seeing it as having a “face,” she considers power as a complex network of social boundaries – norms, identities, institutions – which define both the field of...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 289 p. It is often said that politics is an amoral realm of power and interest in which moral judgment is irrelevant. In this book, by contrast, John Kane argues that people’s positive moral judgments of political actors and institutions provide leaders with an important resource, which he christens ‘‘moral capital.’’ Negative judgments cause...
Oxford University Press, UK, 2007. — 179 p. Nations, States, and Violence presents a revisionist view of the sources of nationalism, the relationship of the nation to culture, and the implications of nationalism and cultural heterogeneity for the future of the nation-state. It accepts the now-standard view that national identities are not inherited traits but constructed...
Introductions by Jean-Paul Sartre and Nadine Gordimer. — London: Earthscan Publications, 2003. — 200 p. — ISBN: 1-84407-040-9; l-84407-060-3. The Colonizer and the Colonized (French: Portrait du colonisé, précédé par Portrait du colonisateur) is a well-known nonfiction book of Albert Memmi, published in French in 1957 and in English at first in 1965. This work explores and...
USA: N.Y.: Cambridge University Press, 1987. — 440 p. — ISBN10: 0521348900. Based on the comprehensive study of life in the USSR the book is designed to illustrate how the Soviet social system really works and how the Soviet people cope with it. Taken as a whole, the book describes the sources of support and alienation in the Soviet urban population during the late 1970s,...
Basic Books/a member of Perseus Books Group, 2013. — 386 p. Preface: How This Book Came About The Decay of Power Have You Heard of James Black Jr.? From the Chess Board...to Everything Around Us What Changed? The Decay of Power: Is It New? Is It True? So What? But What Is Power? The Decay of Power: What’s at Stake? Making Sense of Power: How It Works and How To Keep It How to...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 303 p. All fourteen major peacebuilding missions launched between 1989 and 1999 shared a common strategy for consolidating peace after internal conflicts: immediate democratization and marketization. This volume argues that transforming war-shattered states into market democracies is a basically sound idea, but that pushing the process too...
London: Routledge, 2004. — 307 p. — ISBN: 0-203-40826-8 How could powerful executive authority be reconciled with the development of democracy, pluralism and federalism? The country was far from being a blank slate on which Putin could write at will, but at the same time his choices had the potential to determine the pattern for the rest of the century. It is these choices and...
4th edition. London: Routledge, 2008. — 585 p. — ISBN10: 0-415-41527-6 This book provides a balanced and informative analysis of post-communist Russian institutional, political and social development. The structure of this version substantially follows that of the third edition, published in 2002, although there have been some changes.
Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 426 p. This book looks at why it is so difficult to create “the rule of law” in postconflict societies such as Iraq and Afghanistan and offers critical insights into how policymakers and field-workers can improve future rule of law efforts. Aimed at policymakers, field-workers, journalists, and students trying to make sense of the...
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