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What does China's rise mean for transnational civil society? What
happens when global activist networks engage a powerful and
norm-resistant new hegemon? This book combines detailed
ethnographic research with cross-case comparisons to identify key
factors underpinning variation in the results and processes of
advocacy on a range of issues affecting both China and the world,
including global warming, intellectual property rights, HIV/AIDS
treatment, the use of capital punishment, suppression of the Falun
Gong religious movement, and Tibetan independence. Built on a
unique blend of comparative and international theory, it advances
the notion of "advocacy drift"-a process whereby the objectives and
principled beliefs of activists are transformed through interaction
with the Chinese state. The book offers a timely reassessment of
transnational civil society, including its power to persuade and to
leverage the policies of national governments. -- .
Compare any two political maps, one from the early twentieth
century and one from the present, and you will notice that the
world now contains more democracies than it used to. How and why
did democracy spread around the world? How do we recognize
democracies when we see them? And what does the future of democracy
look like? This book shows you how to define and measure democracy,
and to identify what democracies have in common. It evaluates
important recent trends in democratization and the challenges that
face it including: - Democratic decay - Populism, authoritarianism
and the far right - Threats posed by global terrorism and sectarian
violence - The rise of 'illiberal democracies' - Declining civic
participation. Analysing economic development, education,
industrialization and other factors, Democratization shows you the
internal political, economic and social conditions that help or
hinder democratization. Looking at globalization, political aid,
military intervention and the 'neighbourhood'-effect, it also
explains how external factors put pressure on democratic reform.
Covering key theories, such as modernization and democratic peace
theory, and with case studies from Indonesia to the Zapatista
movement, this is the ideal text for those studying democratization
for the first time.
Compare any two political maps, one from the early twentieth
century and one from the present, and you will notice that the
world now contains more democracies than it used to. How and why
did democracy spread around the world? How do we recognize
democracies when we see them? And what does the future of democracy
look like? This book shows you how to define and measure democracy,
and to identify what democracies have in common. It evaluates
important recent trends in democratization and the challenges that
face it including: - Democratic decay - Populism, authoritarianism
and the far right - Threats posed by global terrorism and sectarian
violence - The rise of 'illiberal democracies' - Declining civic
participation. Analysing economic development, education,
industrialization and other factors, Democratization shows you the
internal political, economic and social conditions that help or
hinder democratization. Looking at globalization, political aid,
military intervention and the 'neighbourhood'-effect, it also
explains how external factors put pressure on democratic reform.
Covering key theories, such as modernization and democratic peace
theory, and with case studies from Indonesia to the Zapatista
movement, this is the ideal text for those studying democratization
for the first time.
Fueled by its surging economic strength, China has been
increasingly utilizing economic tools such as trade, foreign aid,
foreign direct investment, and sanctions to pursue strategic and
security interests on the world stage. This approach, known as
economic statecraft, has thus far received mixed policy results and
ambivalent reactions from the international community. This book
presents a collection of global assessments of China's economic
statecraft. The contributors to this volume answer three key
questions: What are the challenges faced by China’s economic
statecraft? Why is China sometimes able to achieve its foreign
policy objectives via economic statecraft and sometimes not? How do
foreign countries, particularly the targets of China’s economic
statecraft, respond to China's strategies? This comprehensive study
examines economic statecraft in the context of more than a dozen
nations and international organizations across four continents,
thus providing a truly global perspective.
The rise of Asia in global affairs has forced western thinkers to
rethink their assumptions, theories, and conclusions about the
region. Eric Voegelin's Asian Political Thought brings together a
mixture of established and rising scholars from both Asia and the
West to reflect upon the political philosopher's thought about
China, Japan, Korea, Central Asia, and India. From Voegelin's
writings, readers will not only understand how Voegelin's approach
can illuminate the fundamental principles and issues about Asia but
also what are the challenges and possibilities that Asia offers in
the twentieth-first century. For those who want to move past the
superficial commentary and cliches about Asia, Eric Voegelin's
Asian Political Thought is the book for you.
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