The Precarious Balance

Author : Donald Rothchild,Naomi Chazan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000304947

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The Precarious Balance by Donald Rothchild,Naomi Chazan Pdf

Since independence, the political institutions of many African states have undergone a process of consolidation and subsequent deterioration. Constrained by external economic dependency and an acute scarcity of economic and technical resources, state officials have demonstrated a diminished capacity to regulate their societies. Public policies are agreed upon but ineffectively implemented by the weak institutions of the state. Although scholars have analyzed the various facets of state-building in detail, little systematic attention has been given to the issue of the decline of the state and mechanisms to cope with state ineffectiveness in Africa. This book focuses especially on the character of the postcolonial state in Africa, the nature of and reasons for state deterioration, and the mechanisms and policies for coping with state malfunction. Scholars from Africa, the United States, Europe, and the Middle East combine a broad understanding of African political processes with expertise on specific regions. Their analytic and comparative perspective provides a comprehensive and timely treatment of this vital and heretofore neglected theme in African politics.

Author : Ming K. Chan,John D. Young
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317462224

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Precarious Balance by Ming K. Chan,John D. Young Pdf

This work closely considers the history and political importance of Hong Kong in the period 1842 to 1992.

Author : Bardwell L. Smith
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780813945392

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Precarious Balance by Bardwell L. Smith Pdf

Since the third century BCE, when the king of Sri Lanka converted to Buddhism, the island nation off the southern coast of India has represented a central interest of Buddhist scholarship. The association between its politics and religious life has not always remained harmonious, however, and has contributed to the contemporary turmoil that threatens to tear it apart. In this valuable book, renowned religious scholar Bardwell Smith elucidates the history of Buddhism in Sri Lanka from the time of one of its earliest rulers through to its present-day strife. The essays collected here for the first time explore various themes of Sri Lanka’s long history in novel and constructive ways. Topics include Sinhala Buddhists’ sense of manifest destiny arising from Sri Lanka’s oldest historical chronicles, the Mahavamsa and the Dipavamsa; the nationalist implications of the chronicles’ depiction of the third-century Mahavihara monastery as the site of "original Buddhism"; and concepts of order and legitimation of power in ancient Ceylon. With a new introduction and final chapter, Smith sheds fresh light on today’s Sri Lanka, connecting historical studies with contemporary issues.

Author : Walter Jule
Publisher : University of Alberta
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Art
ISBN : 0888641478

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Precarious Balance by Walter Jule Pdf

Precarious Balance reports on the best new work in printmaking by artists from Canada and abroad. This collection includes articles on printmaking by printmakers and art historians from Poland, Iceland, Austria, the United States, Canada, Japan, Yugoslavia, and Great Britain. Precarious Balance is the second in Walter Jule's PRINT VOICE series.

Author : Ludwig Dehio
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Balance of power
ISBN : UVA:X000036926

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The Precarious Balance by Ludwig Dehio Pdf

"In this book, Professor Dehio surveys the four and a half centuries that lie between Charles VIII's invasion of Italy and the end of the Second World War, and contrasts the drive for hegemony by successive aggressors (Spanish, French, German) with the opposing principle of balance which repeatedly called coalitions into being to save the continent from becoming subjected to a single political will. This pattern in Europe's history has become obsolete because as Professor Dehio shows, the states of Europe found it more and more difficult to thwart the ambitions of a Kaiser or a Hitler without calling upon outside help, so that by now power in Europe has passed from its own people to the greater peripheral empires."--Jacket

Author : Rosemary Townsend
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466994218

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Precarious Balance by Rosemary Townsend Pdf

This novel traces a year in the life of Clare MacMillan, who is happily married and lives in Cape Town. Largely through the consciousness of Clare, the story is told of the ups and downs, the joys and sorrows that occur over the period of a year in the life of her family. This eventful year encompasses momentous family events, during which Clare needs to hold her nerve and maintain her balance. Her Christian faith is at the centre of her life, and sustains her, alongside the love of her husband and two sons. It is the permutations in the lives of these four family members that give the novel its drama and intensity. The narrative weaves easily through the different seasons of the year, keeping and engaging our interest all the way through. While the ending of the novel may not be conventional, it is ultimately life-affirming, and we are left with a positive feeling. We are moved by the love felt and shown between the characters, and by their courage and generosity of spirit, especially that of Clare as she consistently holds her family together. The young men Jerome and Matthew have their own narratives which are interwoven with those of their parents. The reader is drawn to all the characters with their dramas and melodramas. Ultimately faith triumphs over the events that challenge it, and hope helps overcome loss. It is a positive story of love and courage, faith and hope.

Author : Arthur Joseph Slavin
Publisher : Random House (NY)
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : England
ISBN : UOM:39076005422220

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The Precarious Balance: English Government and Society, 1450-1640 by Arthur Joseph Slavin Pdf

Author : Joan Marie Nelson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:716369928

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A Precarious Balance by Joan Marie Nelson Pdf

Author : George Quasha
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2006-07-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781556435751

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Axial Stones by George Quasha Pdf

George Quasha’s extraordinary sculptures unite natural stones in a state of breathtakingly improbable balance. The stones are not altered physically or bonded in any way; rather, Quasha discovers an unknown axis that brings them into radical alignment. The stones "learn" this state of levity in contrast to their ordinary state of gravity, resulting in a new art form that feels alive with its own individual energy and personality. Here, 37 axial stones are displayed in dazzling full-page color photos. The accompanying text explains not only how the stones were found and eventually came together, but explores the aesthetic, philosophical, spiritual, and practical implications of an art of danger and impermanence. "Action pages" document the process—the repeated setting up, balancing, losing balance, and falling—until the full axial stone is born: a whole being greater and more real than the sum of its parts.

Author : B. M. S. Campbell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521195881

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The Great Transition by B. M. S. Campbell Pdf

Major account of the fourteenth-century crisis which saw a series of famines, revolts and epidemics transform the medieval world.

Author : Elizabeth J. Church
Publisher : Fourth Estate
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-20
Category : Interpersonal relations
ISBN : 0008209294

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The Atomic Weight of Love by Elizabeth J. Church Pdf

A luminous and enthralling story of birds and science, ambition and sacrifice, revolutions - both big and small - and the late blooming of an unforgettable woman. I first loved him because he taught me the flight of a bird. I was too young to realise that what I really yearned to know was why birds take flight - and why, sometimes, they refuse. Meridian Wallace has lived through the Second World War, the atomic age, the Vietnam War and the dawn of the new millennium - yet she has always been torn between who she is and who circumstances demand her to be. In 1941, spirited, ambitious and determined to prove worthy of the sacrifices her mother made for her, Meridian won a place at the University of Chicago to study ornithology. The last thing she expected was to fall in love with a man two decades older: her brilliant physics professor, Alden Whetstone - or for him to be recruited to Los Alamos, New Mexico, to take part in a mysterious wartime project. When Meridian defers her plans to join him, she agrees to give Alden a year of her life. But this is a world, and a time, in which a wife cannot be a scientist and a woman cannot choose her own destiny. What begins as an electrifying intellectual partnership soon evolves into something quite different. As the decades pass, Meridian strives to resist the clipping of her wings. It is a choice that will make her enemies and bring her heartache, but it also opens up unexpected possibilities: of freedom, and friendship and transformation...

Author : Arthur Joseph Slavin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : England
ISBN : 0394311191

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The Precarious Balance: English Government and Society, 1450-1640 by Arthur Joseph Slavin Pdf

Author : Donald Rothchild,Naomi Chazan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1989-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0813309689

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The Precarious Balance by Donald Rothchild,Naomi Chazan Pdf

Author : Mady A. Thung
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110801774

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The Precarious Organisation by Mady A. Thung Pdf

The series Religion and Society (RS) contributes to the exploration of religions as social systems – both in Western and non-Western societies; in particular, it examines religions in their differentiation from, and intersection with, other cultural systems, such as art, economy, law and politics. Due attention is given to paradigmatic case or comparative studies that exhibit a clear theoretical orientation with the empirical and historical data of religion and such aspects of religion as ritual, the religious imagination, constructions of tradition, iconography, or media. In addition, the formation of religious communities, their construction of identity, and their relation to society and the wider public are key issues of this series.

Author : Frank Baldwin,Anne Allison
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781479889389

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Japan by Frank Baldwin,Anne Allison Pdf

"A joint publication of the Social Science Research Council and New York University Press."