0
Your cart

Your cart is empty

Browse All Departments
  • All Departments
Price
  • R500 - R1,000 (2)
  • R1,000 - R2,500 (2)
  • R2,500 - R5,000 (3)
  • -
Status
Brand

Showing 1 - 7 of 7 matches in All Departments

Middle East Authoritarianisms - Governance, Contestation, and Regime Resilience in Syria and Iran (Paperback): Steven... Middle East Authoritarianisms - Governance, Contestation, and Regime Resilience in Syria and Iran (Paperback)
Steven Heydemann, Reinoud Leenders
R725 Discovery Miles 7 250 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The developments of early 2011 changes the political landscape of the Middle East. But even as urgent struggles continue, it remains clear that authoritarianism will survive this transformational moment. The study of authoritarian governance, therefore, remains essential for our understanding of the political dynamics and inner workings of regimes across the region. This volume considers the Syrian and Iranian regimes-what they share in common and what distinguishes them. Too frequently, authoritarianism has been assumed to be a generic descriptor of the region and differences among regimes have been overlooked. But as the political trajectories of Middle Eastern states diverge in years ahead, with some perhaps consolidating democratic gains while others remaining under distinct and resilient forms of authoritarian rule, understanding variations in modes of authoritarian governance and the attributes that promote regime resilience becomes an increasingly urgent priority.

Middle East Authoritarianisms - Governance, Contestation, and Regime Resilience in Syria and Iran (Hardcover): Steven... Middle East Authoritarianisms - Governance, Contestation, and Regime Resilience in Syria and Iran (Hardcover)
Steven Heydemann, Reinoud Leenders
R2,753 Discovery Miles 27 530 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The developments of early 2011 changes the political landscape of the Middle East. But even as urgent struggles continue, it remains clear that authoritarianism will survive this transformational moment. The study of authoritarian governance, therefore, remains essential for our understanding of the political dynamics and inner workings of regimes across the region.
This volume considers the Syrian and Iranian regimes--what they share in common and what distinguishes them. Too frequently, authoritarianism has been assumed to be a generic descriptor of the region and differences among regimes have been overlooked. But as the political trajectories of Middle Eastern states diverge in years ahead, with some perhaps consolidating democratic gains while others remaining under distinct and resilient forms of authoritarian rule, understanding variations in modes of authoritarian governance and the attributes that promote regime resilience becomes an increasingly urgent priority.

The Begin Era - Issues In Contemporary Israel (Paperback): Jean Newsom, Steven Heydemann The Begin Era - Issues In Contemporary Israel (Paperback)
Jean Newsom, Steven Heydemann
R1,003 Discovery Miles 10 030 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The years of Menachem Begin's leadership were among the most turbulent in Israeli history. Domestically, the preeminence of the Labor Alignment was successfully challenged, the Likud government failed to reduce Israel's high inflation rate, military and security expenditures reached new highs, and the politicization of economic policy increased. Internationally, although Israel's policy toward the occupied territories and its regional strategy were the focus of domestic and international debate, Begin's policies--departures from earlier norms--did successfully define Israel's foreign policy agenda, and his outlook is likely to continue to influence policy considerations. The contributors to this volume explore how Israel changed under Begin, the source of those changes, and how Israel is likely to evolve in a post-Begin era.

The Begin Era - Issues In Contemporary Israel (Hardcover): Jean Newsom, Steven Heydemann The Begin Era - Issues In Contemporary Israel (Hardcover)
Jean Newsom, Steven Heydemann
R2,817 Discovery Miles 28 170 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The years of Menachem Begin's leadership were among the most turbulent in Israeli history. Domestically, the preeminence of the Labor Alignment was successfully challenged, the Likud government failed to reduce Israel's high inflation rate, military and security expenditures reached new highs, and the politicization of economic policy increased. Internationally, although Israel's policy toward the occupied territories and its regional strategy were the focus of domestic and international debate, Begin's policies--departures from earlier norms--did successfully define Israel's foreign policy agenda, and his outlook is likely to continue to influence policy considerations. The contributors to this volume explore how Israel changed under Begin, the source of those changes, and how Israel is likely to evolve in a post-Begin era.

Globalization, Philanthropy, and Civil Society - Projecting Institutional Logics Abroad (Hardcover): David C. Hammack, Steven... Globalization, Philanthropy, and Civil Society - Projecting Institutional Logics Abroad (Hardcover)
David C. Hammack, Steven Heydemann
R1,169 R1,064 Discovery Miles 10 640 Save R105 (9%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The essays in this book reflect pioneering efforts to study the global movement of ideas and institutions. They deal with topics of significant contemporary importance: initiatives to address the AIDS epidemic in East Africa; to protect the peoples and ecosystems of the Amazon; to advance the "truth and reconciliation" process in South Africa and in other areas of great conflict; to promote "civil society" in Eastern Europe and Central Asia; to advocate for environmental protection in the United States, Great Britain, Germany, and Japan; and to spread Rotary Clubs and encourage "social entrepreneurship" throughout the world. These essays highlight a wide range of research, paying close attention to the realities of particular situations and to current thinking about general processes.

Authoritarianism in Syria - Institutions and Social Conflict, 1946-1970 (Hardcover): Steven Heydemann Authoritarianism in Syria - Institutions and Social Conflict, 1946-1970 (Hardcover)
Steven Heydemann
R2,543 Discovery Miles 25 430 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

For almost forty years Syria has been ruled by a populist authoritarian regime under the Ba'th Party, led since 1970 by President Hafiz al-Asad. The durability and resilience of this regime is a striking contrast to the instability and intense social conflict that preceded the Ba'th's seizure of power, when Syria was seen as among the least stable of Arab states. This dramatic transition raises questions about how the Ba'th succeeded in constructing the institutions needed to consolidate a radically populist and authoritarian system of rule. The Ba'th's accomplishment also poses a significant theoretical challenge to the widely held view that populist strategies of state building are inherently unstable.

Drawing on evidence from Syrian, American, and British archives as well as from published French and Arabic sources, Steven Heydemann explains the capacity of the Ba'th to overcome the obstacles that typically undermine the consolidation of radical populist regimes. He links the Ba'th's adoption of a radical populist strategy of state building, and its capacity to implement this strategy, to the dynamics of social conflict, state expansion, and structural change in the political economy of post-independence Syria. Arguing that conventional accounts of Syrian politics neglect the centrality of institutions and institutional change, Heydemann shows how shifts in the pattern of state intervention after 1946 transformed Syria's poetical arena.

War, Institutions, and Social Change in the Middle East (Paperback): Steven Heydemann War, Institutions, and Social Change in the Middle East (Paperback)
Steven Heydemann
R1,142 Discovery Miles 11 420 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Few areas of the world have been as profoundly shaped by war as the Middle East in the twentieth century. Despite the prominence of war making in this region, there has been surprisingly little research investigating the effects of war as a social and political process in the Middle East. To fill this gap, War, Institutions, and Social Change in the Middle East brings together an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars who explore the role of war preparation and war making on the formation and transformation of states and societies in the contemporary Middle East. Their findings pose significant challenges to widely accepted theoretical assumptions about the relationship between war making and state formation based on the historical experience of early modern Europe, and present new theoretical starting points for the study of war and the state in the contemporary developing world.

Heydemann's collaborators include political scientists, historians, anthropologists, and sociologists from the Middle East, Europe, and the United States. Their essays are both theoretically sophisticated and empirically rich, covering topics such as the effects of World War II on state-market relations in Syria and Egypt, the role of war in the rise of the Palestine Liberation Organization, the political economy of Lebanese militias, the effects of the 1967 war on state and social institutions in Israel, and the role of militarization as a strategy of governance in Syria and Iraq. The volume originated as a research planning project of the Joint Committee on the Near and Middle East of the Social Science Research Council.

Free Delivery
Pinterest Twitter Facebook Google+
You may like...
Time Issues in Strategy and Organization
T.K. Das Hardcover R3,016 Discovery Miles 30 160
Captain America
Jack Kirby, Joe Simon, … Paperback R610 R319 Discovery Miles 3 190
Organisational Change - Theory And…
C.L. van Tonder Paperback R646 Discovery Miles 6 460
The Library
Andrew Lang Paperback R491 Discovery Miles 4 910
Environmental Studies And Disaster…
Ranjeeta Soni Hardcover R4,797 Discovery Miles 47 970
Charles Fox Parham - The Unlikely Father…
Larry Martin Paperback R426 R400 Discovery Miles 4 000
Natural Disaster Risk Management…
Ulrich Ranke Hardcover R4,227 Discovery Miles 42 270
Rainbow Spirit Theology
The Rainbow Spirit Elders Hardcover R583 Discovery Miles 5 830
William Wordsworth - 21st-Century Oxford…
Stephen Gill Hardcover R6,732 Discovery Miles 67 320
The Land of Lost Things
Andy Griffiths Paperback R220 R200 Discovery Miles 2 000

 

Partners