This leading text provides a comprehensive and balanced introduction to Chinese foreign relations. Robert G. Sutter assesses Chinas growing international political and economic assertiveness and considers the causes and grave consequences of tensions with the United States.
This book offers an innovative, thematic approach to the history of Latin America since independence. It traces continuity and change in colonial legacies, showing how crucial they have been in shaping contemporary political systems, economies, societies, and religious institutions in a richly diverse region.
Power & Choice offers an in-depth look into the nuances of politics through the analysis of collective choices for a group or state through the use of power. Using extended case examples from around the world, Power & Choice provides undergraduate students with a clear and engaging introduction to political science and comparative politics.
The rise of populism in new democracies, especially in Latin America, has brought renewed urgency to the question of how liberal democracy deals with issues of poverty and inequality. Citizens who feel that democracy failed to improve their economic condition are often vulnerable to the appeal of political leaders with authoritarian tendencies. To ......
In this book noted political sociologist Larry Diamond sets forth a distinctive theoretical perspective on democratic evolution and consolidation in the late twentieth century. Rejecting theories that posit preconditions for democracyand thus dismiss its prospects in poor countriesDiamond argues instead for a ''developmental'' theory of ......
Venezuela enjoyed periods of democratically elected governments in the latter half of the twentieth century but in the past two decades has increasingly descended into autocratic rule, coupled with economic collapse. Venezuela's Transition to Authoritarianism explores how and why this happened.
This book expertly traces the long, erratic, and incomplete path of Latin Americas political and socioeconomic democratization, from a group of colonies lacking democratic practice and culture up to the present.
This book expertly traces the long, erratic, and incomplete path of Latin Americas political and socioeconomic democratization, from a group of colonies lacking democratic practice and culture up to the present.
Justice and harmony typically stand as opposing ideals of liberal and communitarian philosophies. Joshua Mason argues that engaging their Chinese counterparts, zhengyi and hexie, through cross-cultural hermeneutics reveals a pattern of interrelated concerns that can overcome this binary opposition and reconcile these global values.