The Dilemma Of Popular Sovereignty In The Middle East Power From Or To The People

Author : Mr Kingshuk Chatterjee,Ms Priya Singh
Publisher : KW Publishers Pvt Ltd
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789385714450

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The Dilemma of Popular Sovereignty in the Middle East: Power from or to the People? by Mr Kingshuk Chatterjee,Ms Priya Singh Pdf

The ongoing political turmoil in the Middle East as a whole would seem to be essentially a contest between the minimalist and maximalist positions on popular sovereignty: should power merely come from, and be exercised in the name of, the people? Or, should those in power be fully accountable to the people? The dilemma warrants a closer look. The present volume comes out of an international conference held in Calcutta, India organised by the Institute of Foreign Policy Studies and the Centre for Pakistan and West Asian Studies, University of Calcutta in March 2013. This volume aims not at a definitive analysis of why what happened did happen; it aims instead at getting a sense of what was actually happening, and what is at issue.

Author : Kingshuk Chatterjee
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000897951

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Political Faultlines in the Middle East by Kingshuk Chatterjee Pdf

The region of the Middle East is beset with a structural crisis of which particular crises confronting the component countries happen to be merely subsets. The real questions revolve round the issue of how long can the present dispensations of power and social structures in the region forged in the twentieth century (first half or second) can last in the twenty-first, when they no longer reflect the realities on the ground. This volume aims to look at some of the issues to see how the faultlines in the region appear in 2020 to both those in the region, and those outside it. The volume limits itself to only Levant and the Gulf and looks at the tensions within and policies (both foreign and domestic) of some of the key regional players which have regional repercussions. It also looks at the policies of some of the global players operating in the region that have bearing on the regional faultlines. Print edition not for sale in South Asia (India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Bhutan)

Author : Stefanie Ullmann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000398984

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Discourses of the Arab Revolutions in Media and Politics by Stefanie Ullmann Pdf

Drawing on approaches from critical discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, and cognitive linguistics, this book critically examines metaphorical language used in global media coverage and political statements on the events of the Arab Spring. The volume begins by summarising key events of the Arab Spring, tracing the development of protests from Tunisia and Egypt to Libya and Syria as well as the wider impact on the region. Ullmann builds on this foundation to lay out the theoretical frameworks to be applied to an extensive corpus of natural language and actual discourse highlighting Western, Middle Eastern, and North African perspectives which integrate theoretical work on metaphor, blending theory, and semantic prosodies. Methodological considerations on corpus selection and different conceptualisations of politics and mass media, generally and across countries, are discussed, with the final chapters outlining the overarching themes across metaphors in the corpus and how these metaphors were ultimately framed in the mass media and political landscape. This book will be of particular interest to students and scholars interested in critical discourse analysis, language and politics, and corpus linguistics.

Author : Allan Hassaniyan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781316516430

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Kurdish Politics in Iran by Allan Hassaniyan Pdf

A history of the development of the Kurdish national movement in Iran which reflects on seven decades of the movement from 1947.

Author : Navras J. Aafreedi,Priya Singh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000381313

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Conceptualizing Mass Violence by Navras J. Aafreedi,Priya Singh Pdf

Conceptualizing Mass Violence draws attention to the conspicuous inability to inhibit mass violence in myriads forms and considers the plausible reasons for doing so. Focusing on a postcolonial perspective, the volume seeks to popularize and institutionalize the study of mass violence in South Asia. The essays explore and deliberate upon the varied aspects of mass violence, namely revisionism, reconstruction, atrocities, trauma, memorialization and literature, the need for Holocaust education, and the criticality of dialogue and reconciliation. The language, content, and characteristics of mass violence/genocide explicitly reinforce its aggressive, transmuting, and multifaceted character and the consequent necessity to understand the same in a nuanced manner. The book is an attempt to do so as it takes episodes of mass violence for case study from all inhabited continents, from the twentieth century to the present. The volume studies ‘consciously enforced mass violence’ through an interdisciplinary approach and suggests that dialogue aimed at reconciliation is perhaps the singular agency via which a solution could be achieved from mass violence in the global context. The volume is essential reading for postgraduate students and scholars from the interdisciplinary fields of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, History, Political Science, Sociology, World History, Human Rights, and Global Studies.

Author : Adam Lupel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781135969318

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Globalization and Popular Sovereignty by Adam Lupel Pdf

This volume analyzes the impact of globalization on the concept of popular sovereignty, seeking to better understand the emerging structures of global governance and their potential for democratic legitimacy.

Author : B. S. Kesavan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : India
ISBN : UIUC:30112108961332

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The Indian National Bibliography by B. S. Kesavan Pdf

Author : Majid Sharifi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000258714

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Insecurity Communities of South Asia and the Middle East by Majid Sharifi Pdf

This book critically examines how US foreign policy has produced a regional regime of instability and insecurity in South Asia and the Middle East. It focuses on three interconnected zones of conflict—Afghanistan and Pakistan in South Asia, Iran and the Persian Gulf states, and Iraq and its neighbours. In a comprehensive historical survey, this work compares the governing behaviour of these states with that of the West, where the American foreign policy establishment has, in contrast, pushed for investing in collective security. The author studies various events throughout history such as the Taliban regime; the US-led war in Afghanistan; the Obama administration and Pakistan; the first and second Gulf wars; the Arab Spring, and the rise of ISIS to present a theoretical analysis of Washington’s consistent pursuit of multibalancing and regime change wars in the region. An important critical assessment of Western foreign policies, this book will be indispensable for students and researchers of US foreign policy, defense and security studies, strategic affairs, politics and international relations, political economy, nation-state building, identity studies, globalization studies, Middle East studies, and South Asian studies.

Author : Sally N. Cummings
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780748647545

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Sovereignty After Empire by Sally N. Cummings Pdf

How does empire affect the route to successor sovereign state systems and the features of the sovereignty of these systems? This unique systematic comparison of empires and of their consequences for sovereignty in the Middle East and Central Asia brings theory on empire and sovereignty to bear on empirical variation across the two regions. The novel approach to understanding the political structures of states in two significant areas of the non-European world offers an important comparative discussion of post-imperial development and sovereignty. It raises a clear set of research questions about variations of imperial practice and puts forward an attractive and persuasive case that imperial legacy has been an important variable in the post-independence period.

Author : Robert J. Jackson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 583 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780521767453

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Global Politics in the 21st Century by Robert J. Jackson Pdf

Objective, critical, optimistic, and with a global focus, this textbook combines international relations theory, history, up-to-date research, and current affairs to give the student a comprehensive, unbiased understanding of international politics. It integrates theory and traditional approaches with globalization and research on newer topics such as terrorism, the rise of new economic superpowers, and the impact of global communications and social networking to offer the ideal breadth and depth of coverage for a one-semester undergraduate course. Student learning is supported and enhanced by box features and "Close Up" sections with context and further information, "Critical Case Studies" that highlight controversial and complex current affairs topics and show how the world works in practice, and questions to stimulate discussion, review key concepts, and encourage further study. It brilliantly demonstrates the significance and interconnectiveness of globalization and new security challenges in the 21st century and illuminates the role of leadership in transnational crises.

Author : Jeffrey Haynes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317696995

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Religion and Political Change in the Modern World by Jeffrey Haynes Pdf

The purpose of the book is to ascertain whether there is a generic impact that ‘religion’ brings to bear on recent political changes in the modern world. Over the last two decades or so, there have been increasing numbers of political issues with which various manifestations of religion engage. This impact is not restricted exclusively to countries in the ‘developed’ or ‘developing’ world. Instead, we seem to be seeing a widespread impact of religion on politics which defies earlier assumptions about secularisation. This presumed that the more ‘modern’ a country is then the less likely it is that religion will play a significant political role. Recent evidence is, however, firmly to the contrary: the degree of ‘modernity’ in a country does not correspond well with the amount of ‘religiosity’ in a country, nor with the role that religion can play in politics. The book focuses on the recent return of religion to politics. It assesses how religion is involved in recent examples of political change in various countries, including the impact of religion on democratization. The book features both theoretical chapters and case studies. The case studies examine different countries (Israel, Egypt, Morocco, and Iran) and regions (Sub-Saharan Africa), with a focus on Islam, Judaism and Protestantism and Catholicism. The overall aim is to get a sense of what is happening when religion and politics interact. The chapters in this book were originally published in Democratization.

Author : Richard A. Falk,Robert C. Johansen,Samuel S. Kim,Teacher of Korean Foreign Relations and Korean Politics Department of Political Science Associate Director of the Center for Korean Research East Asia Institute Samuel S Kim
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0791413438

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The Constitutional Foundations of World Peace by Richard A. Falk,Robert C. Johansen,Samuel S. Kim,Teacher of Korean Foreign Relations and Korean Politics Department of Political Science Associate Director of the Center for Korean Research East Asia Institute Samuel S Kim Pdf

This book shows how significant a worldwide constitutional framework can be, both analytically and politically, in efforts to achieve a just and lasting peace. The authors are careful to avoid the pitfalls of legalism and moralism that have often afflicted discussion of world governance in the past, and their analyses are rooted directly within contemporary human struggles for peace, justice, prosperity, and environmentally sustainable societies. The authors demonstrate that when these struggles are examined in light of the planet's changing constitutional framework, their origins and future trajectories are more fathomable intellectually. By examining alternative images of world order, these authors uncover an abundance of practical yet bold policy recommendations for addressing and solving global problems. They also demonstrate that implementing desirable policies can indeed become politically feasible. This book is a compendium of new ideas for managing threats to peace, enhancing U. N. peacekeeping, establishing an effective global environmental authority, aiding the faltering global economy, nurturing the growth of democracy both locally and globally, protecting human rights and ethnic diversity, holding governments and intergovernmental organizations accountable to those they govern, and nurturing humanitarian values among all people.

Author : Benjamin Miller
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317285557

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International and Regional Security by Benjamin Miller Pdf

This volume is a collection of the best essays of Professor Benjamin Miller on the subjects of international and regional security. The book analyses the interrelationships between international politics and regional and national security, with a special focus on the sources of international conflict and collaboration and the causes of war and peace. More specifically, it explains the sources of intended and unintended great-power conflict and collaboration. The book also accounts for the sources of regional war and peace by developing the concept of the state-to-nation balance. Thus the volume is able to explain the variations in the outcomes of great power interventions and the differences in the level and type of war and peace in different eras and various parts of the world. For example, the book’s model can account for recent outcomes such as the effects of the 2003 American intervention in Iraq, the post-2011 Arab Spring and the conflicts between Russia and Ukraine. The book also provides a model for explaining the changes in American grand strategy with a special focus on accounting for the causes of the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Finally, the book addresses the debate on the future of war and peace in the 21st century. This book will be essential reading for students of international security, regional security, Middle Eastern politics, foreign policy and IR.

Author : Amin Saikal,Albrecht Schnabel
Publisher : Changing Nature of Democracy
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : UCSD:31822033119561

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Democratization in the Middle East by Amin Saikal,Albrecht Schnabel Pdf

Part I. Democratic peace, conflict prevention, and the United Nations. Part II. Secularization and democracy. Part III. National and regional experiences.

Author : Tony Smith
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691154923

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America's Mission by Tony Smith Pdf

America's Mission argues that the global strength and prestige of democracy today are due in large part to America's impact on international affairs. Tony Smith documents the extraordinary history of how American foreign policy has been used to try to promote democracy worldwide, an effort that enjoyed its greatest triumphs in the occupations of Japan and Germany but suffered huge setbacks in Latin America, Vietnam, and elsewhere. With new chapters and a new introduction and epilogue, this expanded edition also traces U.S. attempts to spread democracy more recently, under presidents Clinton, Bush, and Obama, and assesses America's role in the Arab Spring.