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  • Atlanta's Olympic Resurgence

    How the 1996 Games Revived a Struggling City

    de Michael Dobbins, Leon S. Eplan, Randal Roark ...
    The summer of 1996. In nineteen days, six million visitors jostled about in a southern city grappling with white flight, urban decay and the stifling legacy of Jim Crow. Six years earlier, a bold, audacious partnership of a strong mayor, enlightened business leaders and Atlanta's Black political leadership dared to bid on hosting the 1996 Olympic Games. Unexpectedly, the city won, an achievement ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Adding Flesh to Bones

    Kiyozawa Manshi’s Seishinshugi in Modern Japanese Buddhist Thought

    de Richard K. Payne, Professor Mami Iwata, Dr. Setsuo Miura, Fumihiko Sueki, Dr. Yusetsu Nishimoto, Dr. Nobuhiro Yamamoto, Dr. Eiju Fukushima, Michihiro Ama, Professor Micah Auerback, Robert F. Rhodes, Dr. Shoto Hase, James C. Dobbins, Melissa Anne-Marie Curley, Paul B. Watt, Dr. Takeshi Kaku ...
    Traducido por Professor Dylan Toda, Dr. Wayne S. Yokoyama ...
    Series series Pure Land Buddhist Studies
    This collection of seventeen essays situates modern Shin Buddhist thinker Kiyozawa Manshi (1863–1903) and his new form of spirituality, Seishinshugi, in the broader context of Buddhism and religious thought in modern Japan. The work highlights several factors that led to the development of Kiyozawa’s ideas and demonstrates the broad influence that he and his disciples had, putting in relief both ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • Exploring Ukrainian Politics

    Institutions, Actors, and Policy Areas

    Edición de Michael Dobbins, Eduard Klein ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This textbook, written by respected experts on social science and political science research concerning Eastern Europe, offers a comprehensive overview of the political history of and contemporary domestic politics in Ukraine. The authors analyze the tense relationship between (re)democratization and (re)authoritarization, as well as the driving forces behind the remarkable political and economic ... Leer más

    $125.99 USD

  • Das politische System der Ukraine

    Institutionen, Akteure, Politikfelder

    Edición de Michael Dobbins ...
    Series series Social Sciences, Humanities and Law (excluding publishing partner content) (German language)
    Die Beiträge dieses Sammelbandes sind von ausgewiesenen ExpertInnen der politikwissenschaftlichen Osteuropaforschung formuliert und bieten einen umfassenden Überblick über die politische Geschichte der Ukraine. Die AutorInnen analysieren dabei das Spannungsverhältnis zwischen (Re-)Demokratisierung und (Re-)Autoritarisierung sowie die markanten politischen und wirtschaftlichen Fortschritte seit der ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD

  • Exploring Organized Interests in Post-Communist Policy-Making

    The "Missing Link"

    Edición de Michael Dobbins, Rafał Riedel ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Comparative Politics
    This book examines organized interests in post-communist Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), providing incisive analyses in three critically important policy areas - healthcare, higher education and energy.The four countries surveyed – Poland, Hungary, Slovenia and the Czech Republic – afford rich diversity offering broad empirical material available for cross-country and cross-policy comparative ... Leer más

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  • Taking Stock of Shock

    Social Consequences of the 1989 Revolutions

    de Kristen Ghodsee, Mitchell Orenstein ...
    Kristen Ghodsee and Mitchell A. Orenstein blend empirical data with lived experiences to produce a robust picture of who won and who lost in post-communist transition, contextualizing the rise of populism in Eastern Europe. After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, more than 400 million people suddenly found themselves in a new reality, a dramatic transition from state socialist and centrally ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Authoritarian Modernization in Russia

    Ideas, Institutions, and Policies

    Edición de Vladimir Gel'man ...
    Series series Studies in Contemporary Russia
    Post-Communist Russia is an instance of the phenomenon of authoritarian modernization project, which is perceived as a set of policies intended to achieve a high level of economic development, while political freedoms remain beyond the current modernization agenda or are postponed to a distant future. Why did Russia (unlike many countries of post-Communist Europe) pursue authoritarian ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

  • Presidents, Oligarchs and Bureaucrats

    Forms of Rule in the Post-Soviet Space

    de Margarete Klein, Hans-Henning Schröder ...
    Over the last decade the "transition paradigm", which is based on the conviction that authoritarian political systems would over time necessarily develop into democracies, has been subjected to serious criticism. The complex political and societal developments in the post-Soviet region in particular have exposed flaws in the claim that a shift from authoritarianism to democracy is inevitable. ... Leer más

    $72.99 USD

  • Buddhism

    A Concise Introduction

    de Huston Smith, Philip Novak ...

    $9.49 USD

  • After Buddhism

    Rethinking the Dharma for a Secular Age

    de Stephen Batchelor ...
    Some twenty-five centuries after the Buddha started teaching, his message continues to inspire people across the globe, including those living in predominantly secular societies. What does it mean to adapt religious practices to secular contexts?   Stephen Batchelor, an internationally known author and teacher, is committed to a secularized version of the Buddha’s teachings. The time has come, he ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • Authoritarian Russia

    Analyzing Post-Soviet Regime Changes

    de Vladimir Gel'man ...
    Series Libro 233 - Russian and East European Studies
    Russia today represents one of the major examples of the phenomenon of "electoral authoritarianism" which is characterized by adopting the trappings of democratic institutions (such as elections, political parties, and a legislature) and enlisting the service of the country's essentially authoritarian rulers. Why and how has the electoral authoritarian regime been consolidated in Russia? What are ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • The Return of Bipolarity in World Politics

    China, the United States, and Geostructural Realism

    de Øystein Tunsjø ...
    Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the international system has been unipolar, centered on the United States. But the rise of China foreshadows a change in the distribution of power. Øystein Tunsjø shows that the international system is moving toward a U.S.-China standoff, bringing us back to bipolarity—a system in which no third power can challenge the top two.The Return of Bipolarity in ... Leer más

    $67.99 USD