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Weaponizing Civilizationalism for Authoritarianism
This book, based on a systematic analysis of leaders' speeches, examines how regimes in Turkey, India, Russia, and China strategically weaponize the concept of 'civilization' along with emotional appeals, such as pride, fear, and nostalgia, to challenge global liberal democratic norms. As the influence of liberal democracy wanes, these nations increasingly declare themselves ‘civilization-states’. By redefining national identity to include peoples living in foreign countries, justifying belligerence abroad, and reinforcing anti-democratic practices domestically, these regimes position themselves as guardians of transnational peoples with distinctive civilizational values. This is the first book to systematically explore how and why these states leverage civilization and emotional manipulation to reshape both domestic politics and international relations.
Government Secrecy
Divided into six sections, this title examines Government secrecy (GS) in a variety of contexts, including comparative examination of government control of information, new definitions, categories, censorship, ethics, and secrecy's relationship with freedom of information and transparency.
Peace or Democracy?
Contrary to the common belief that peace and democracy go hand in hand after a civil war, Pereira Watts argues they are, in fact, at a crossroads. Offering an innovative framework based on Philosophical, Actors, and Tactical considerations, Pereira Watts identifies 14 dynamic dilemmas in democratic peacebuilding, with respective trade-offs. She focuses on explaining the contradictions in modern post-conflict recovery, the challenges facing interim governments, and the international community’s role. Based on an analysis of more than 40 countries between 1989 and 2022 and more than 60 UN peace operations, she presents critical issues that commonly need to be addressed in such scenarios: Ele...
South Africa’s Democracy at the Crossroads
South Africa's democracy faces increasing challenges from within, whether from protest, bad governance or general public dissatisfaction. South Africa ́s Democracy at the Crossroads explores the question; what are the challenges to future democratization in South Africa?
Why do democratic states not fight each other? A systemic approach to the democratic peace
Bachelor Thesis from the year 2006 in the subject Politics - Political Theory and the History of Ideas Journal, grade: 1,0, Manchester Metropolitan University Business School (Department of Politics), course: BA Thesis, language: English, abstract: Abstract There is no regularity in international relations that is as imperturbable as the democratic peace. From the beginning of the statistical research in 1816 until today, no clear-cut case of war between two democratic states has been recorded. The democratic peace has obstinately kept the secret of its causal mechanism. No convincing theory as to its cause has been widely accepted. It is the aim of this dissertation to provide an alternativ...
City Life-- a Perspective from Baltimore, 1968-1978
What format did I use in chronicling ten years of social and political transition, which had broad racial and class implications, objectively? Could it be done within the parameters of my experiences throughout the time involved? Was Baltimore ready for such a work? There were other questions and other doubts. Eventually they became less important. City Life offers one perspective from Baltimore on the period 1968-1978. It has been written by a native Baltimorean for Baltimoreans--and anyone else--who needs, and wants, to know something about what took place here during the 4,000--odd days that comprised the time under study. This book does not tell the complete story. No one person can achieve that. But, it is the nearest we have come thus far to providing as comprehensive a picture as possible, from one person, about a segment of the municipal past. -- Foreword.
