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  • Handbook on Policing in Central and Eastern Europe

    Edited by Charles B. Fields, Branko Lobnikar, Andrej Sotlar, Gorazd Meško ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Policing in Central and Eastern Europe has changed greatly since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Some Central and Eastern European countries are constituent members of the European Union, while others have been trying to harmonize with the EU and international requirements for a more democratic policing and developments in accordance with Western European and international policing standards, ... Read more

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  • From Rebel to Ruler

    One Hundred Years of the Chinese Communist Party

    by Tony Saich ...
    A Project Syndicate Best Read of the YearOn the centennial of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party, the definitive history of how Mao and his successors overcame incredible odds to gain and keep power.Mao Zedong and the twelve other young men who founded the Chinese Communist Party in 1921 could hardly have imagined that less than thirty years later they would be rulers. On its hundredth ... Read more

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  • Party of One

    The Rise of Xi Jinping and China's Superpower Future

    by Chun Han Wong ...
    From one of the most admired reporters covering China today, a vital new account of the life and political vision of Xi Jinping, the authoritarian leader of the People’s Republic whose hard-edged tactics have set the rising superpower on a collision with Western liberal democracies.Party of One shatters the many myths that shroud one of the world’s most secretive political organizations and its ... Read more

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  • The Dragon Roars Back

    Transformational Leaders and Dynamics of Chinese Foreign Policy

    by Suisheng Zhao ...
    Selected among Foreign Affairs's "Best of Books 2024"China is unique in modern world history. No other rising power has experienced China's turbulent history in its relations with neighbors and Western countries. Its sheer size dominates the region. With leader Xi Jinping's political authority unmatched, Xi's sense of mission to restore what he believes is China's natural position as a great power ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Spying for the People

    Mao's Secret Agents, 1949–1967

    by Michael Schoenhals ...
    Since the end of the Cold War, the operations of secret police informers have come under the media spotlight and it is now common knowledge that vast internal networks of spies in the Soviet Union and East Germany were directed by the Communist Party. By contrast, very little historical information has been available on the covert operations of the security services in Mao Zedong's China. However, ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Human Trafficking and Human Security

    Edited by Anna Jonsson ...
    Series series Routledge Transnational Crime and Corruption
    Human trafficking, and the related problems of organised crime and prostitution, has become a serious problem for post-Soviet countries since the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Human trafficking has a major impact on the countries of origin, the destination countries and the countries of transit, and is a concern for those studying population and migration, economics, politics, international ... Read more

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  • Policing in Taiwan

    From authoritarianism to democracy

    by Liqun Cao, Lanying Huang, Ivan Y. Sun ...
    Series series Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice
    The police in Taiwan played a critical role in the largely peaceful transition from an authoritarian regime to a democracy. While the temptation to intervene in domestic politics was great, the top-down pressure to maintain a neutral standing facilitated an orderly regime change. This is the first monograph to examine the role of the police as a linkage between the state and civil society during ... Read more

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  • Power and Control of the Chinese Communist Party

    An introduction to China's cadre management

    by Julia Marinaccio ...
    The ebook is an introduction into China's cadre management focusing on the institutional mechanisms and organizational processes that allow the CCP to exert control and power over its state apparatus. By means of selection and appointment, the Party continues to influence career mobility of its agents. Mobility patterns reflect first and foremost the political priorities of the party-state, but ... Read more

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  • Revenge of the Forbidden City

    The Suppression of the Falungong in China, 1999-2005

    by James W. Tong ...
    The Falungong movement originated in 1992 as a system of breathing exercises designed to promote health and well-being. Riding on the coattails of the qigong fever that swept through China, it attracted an extensive following until 1994, when the Chinese government suppressed the qigong movement. A series of protest rallies by Falungong organizations against local government repression set in ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • The Chinese Mafia

    Organized Crime, Corruption, and Extra-Legal Protection

    by Peng Wang ...
    Series series Clarendon Studies in Criminology
    Utilising individual interviews and focus group discussions, primarily from two Chinese cities, The Chinese Mafia: Organized Crime, Corruption, and Extra-Legal Protection contributes to the understanding of organized crime and corruption in the Chinese context, filing a significant gap in criminological literature, by investigating how extra-legal protectors-corrupt public officials and street ... Read more

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  • The State as Investment Market

    Kyrgyzstan in Comparative Perspective

    by Johan Engvall ...
    Series Book 24 - Central Eurasia in Context
    Based on a detailed examination of Kyrgyzstan, Johan Engvall goes well beyond the case of this single country to elaborate a broad theory of economic corruption in developing post-Soviet states regionally—as a rational form of investment market for political elites. He reveals how would-be officials invest in offices to obtain access to income streams associated with those offices. Drawing on ... Read more

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  • Limits to the European Union’s Normative Power in a Post-conflict Society

    EULEX and Peacebuilding in Kosovo

    by Rok Zupančič, Nina Pejič ...
    Series series SpringerBriefs in Population Studies
    By shedding light on EULEX - the EU mission to Kosovo – this open access book investigates the EU’s peacebuilding activities in that country, in the light of the normative power theory in the post-conflict setting and peacebuilding theory. Ten years after the massive engagement of the EU in the country torn by war, the authors critically assess the effects of the EU projecting its normative power ... Read more

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