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  • Democratization in EU Foreign Policy

    New member states as drivers of democracy promotion

    Series series Democratization and Autocratization Studies
    New democracies are uniquely positioned to promote democratic values and have a competitive advantage in the global democracy assistance industry.This book examines the attempts of one group of young democracies, from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), to channel this pro-democracy agenda into both national and European foreign policy and development support. It looks at how CEE is ‘upstream’ ... Read more

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  • Armed Political Organizations

    From Conflict to Integration

    How do armed groups operate simultaneously as violent actors with bullets and political candidates with ballots?Many armed-political movements such as Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Irish Republican Army (IRA) have their roots in insurrection and rebellion. In Armed Political Organizations, Benedetta Berti seeks to understand when and why violent actors in a political organization choose to vote rather ... Read more

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  • Hezbollah and Hamas

    A Comparative Study

    A concise yet comprehensive overview of Hamas and Hezbollah.Hezbollah and Hamas are major players in Middle Eastern politics and have a growing involvement in global events. Despite their strikingly different beginnings, they share a common denominator—an adversary in Israel. Hezbollah and Hamas draws from primary interviews and documents coupled with a thorough review of current scholarship. This ... Read more

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    Since the founding of the People’s Republic of China over 70 years ago, five paramount leaders have shaped the fates and fortunes of the nation and the ruling Chinese Communist Party: Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao, and Xi Jinping. Under their leaderships, China has undergone an extraordinary transformation from an undeveloped and insular country to a comprehensive world power ... Read more

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  • Never Turn Back

    China and the Forbidden History of the 1980s

    A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the YearA BBC History Magazine Best Book of the Year“Excellent…A fascinating, authoritative account of the paths for China’s future explored during a decade long buried by official, state-sponsored history.”—Julia Lovell, Foreign Policy“A vivid and readable account…Exceptionally well-researched.” —Andrew Nathan, Foreign Affairs"The definitive book on China in the ... Read more

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  • Changing Transatlantic Security Relations

    Do the U.S, the EU and Russia Form a New Strategic Triangle?

    Series series Contemporary Security Studies
    This new book shows how the idea of a strategic triangle can illuminate the security relationships among the United States, the European Union and Russia in the greater transatlantic sphere.This concept highlights how the relationships among these three actors may, on some issues, be closely related. A central question also follows directly from the use of the notion of the triangle: does the EU ... Read more

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  • Hunger and Fury

    The Crisis of Democracy in the Balkans

    Less than two decades after the Yugoslav Wars ended, the edifice of parliamentary government in the Western Balkans is crumbling. This collapse sets into sharp relief the unreformed authoritarian tendencies of the region's entrenched elites, many of whom have held power since the early 1990s, and the hollowness of the West's "democratization" agenda. There is a widely held assumption that ... Read more

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  • Russia–EU Relations and the Common Neighborhood

    Coercion vs. Authority

    Series series Post-Soviet Politics
    Examining Russia–EU relations in terms of the forms and types of power tools they use, this book argues that the deteriorating relations between Russia and the EU lie in the deep differences in their preferences for the international status quo. These different approaches, combined with economic interdependence and geographic proximity, means both parties experience significant difficulties in ... Read more

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  • The Dragon Roars Back

    Transformational Leaders and Dynamics of Chinese Foreign Policy

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    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

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  • Russia's Changing Economic and Political Regimes

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    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy
    The book reveals the interconnection between social, cultural and political protest movements and social and economic changes in a post-communist country like Russia still dominated by bureaucratic rulers and "oligarchs" controlling all basic industries and mining activities. Those interests are also dominating Russia’s foreign policy and explain why Russia did not succeed in becoming an integral ... Read more

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  • Civil Society under Authoritarianism

    The China Model

    Despite the dominant narrative of the repression of civil society in China, Civil Society under Authoritarianism: The China Model argues that interactions between local officials and civil society facilitate a learning process, whereby each actor learns about the intentions and work processes of the other. Over the past two decades, often facilitated by foreign donors and problems within the ... Read more

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  • 25 Years of Transformations of Higher Education Systems in Post-Soviet Countries

    Reform and Continuity

    Series series Palgrave Studies in Global Higher Education
    This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This open access book is a result of the first ever study of the transformations of the higher education institutional landscape in fifteen former USSR countries after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. It explores how the single Soviet model that developed across the vast and diverse territory of the Soviet Union over several decades ... Read more

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