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Kashmir Under the Sultans

Kashmir Under the Sultans

Kashmir Under Sultans introduces the reader to a subject that begins with the foundation of the Sultanate and ends with the conquest of Kashmir by Akbar. During the Sultanate period Kashmir had achieved a high standard of culture but with the disappearance of her independence her culture gradually declined. Poets painters and scholars had to leave the Valley and seek their livelihood elsewhere owing to the absence of local patronage. They then entered the service of the Mughal emperors and were added to the court thereby lessening the cultural impoverishment of Kashmir. The book encloses political social economic and cultural activities that had a lasting influence on the Kashmir Valley in that period. It is of considerable value to social historians as Professor Mohibbul Hasan offers insights into political and cultural currents and crosscurrents in Kashmir. This title is co-published with Aakar Books. Print editions not for sale in South Asia (India Sri Lanka Nepal Bangladesh Pakistan and Bhutan) | Kashmir Under the Sultans

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A History of Ireland Under the Union 1801-1922

A History of Ireland Under the Union 1801-1922

Originally published in 1952 A History of Ireland Under the Union was written by an historian who played an active part in the political events of the later part of the period. In Ireland there are two national traditions: that of the Kingdom of the Gael established at the end of the 4th Century A. D. and the other colonial tradition evolved by the descendants of various generations of Planters from England. The book provides a full account of 19th Century Irish history and shows how the colonial nationalists discarded their nationalism after 1801 and how the emerging Gael under Daniel O’ Connell adopted and fused the two traditions into an Irish national tradition which was vitalised by Irish literature and culture. Containing much original source material the book throws light on aspects of Irish history whose significance is often overlooked such as the part played by the RIC and the Secret Societies in Ireland and the USA. | A History of Ireland Under the Union 1801-1922

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Policymaking under Adversity

Policymaking under Adversity

This groundbreaking study systematically treats recent policymaking trends starting with a reconsideration of salient theoretical issues of policymaking and its study and culminating with a survey of current policy-related predicaments in various countries. Dror proposes that the task for social science research is to uncover underlying causes of policymaking inadequacies. Standard research methods Dror states have been unable to uncover the realities of important decisions made inside governments. In order to gain an understanding of pressing predicaments he believes that policymakers need to examine the foundations of contemporary practices of present assumptions and that they need a multiplicity of approaches to policymaking. After prescribing a set of requirements that policymaking must satisfy in order to adequately respond to challenges Dror posits several improvements needed in education and in policy decision making. The book concludes with an extensive bibliography including numerous important German works not found in other English-language studies. This book supplements the earlier basic theory and models propounded in Dror's Public Policymaking Reexamined by dealing with current trends. As a guide to public policy literature and related works it will be invaluable to students and practitioners. | Policymaking under Adversity

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Soviet And Postsoviet Telecommunications An Industry Under Reform

Soviet And Postsoviet Telecommunications An Industry Under Reform

THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS SECTOR constitutes a vital infrastructure for a modern society. It is part of the working mechanism of a decentralized flexible and dynamic market economy. It also serves as the foundation for a pluralistic political system with a government accountable to the public. The crucial role of communications is increased by synergistic interaction between globalization of economic processes and the continuing technical revolution in information processing and communication. One of the most revealing indicators of the inability of the old Soviet system to attain its goal of matching the performance of the advanced market economies was its neglect of telecommunications. The sector was always treated as an orphan devalued because in line with a peculiar Marxian notion it was not considered part of material production 1 and was starved of attention and resources. | Soviet And Postsoviet Telecommunications An Industry Under Reform

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Rural India Land Power and Society Under British Rule

Rural India Land Power and Society Under British Rule

First published in 1983 Rural India intends to provide pictures of Indian rural society in the past from the standpoint of relationships and exchanges between the countryside and the more general physical and cultural context of which it is a part. A predominant theme is control over land and people. Others are the impact of British rule the political role of local networks and ties and the response to and internalising of external stimuli. Attempts are made to examine the concepts employed by scholars in relation to the perceptions of the villagers and similarly to interpret economic and social data in radical ways. This book will be of interest to student of South Asian studies history economics and agriculture. | Rural India Land Power and Society Under British Rule

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Iran under Ahmadinejad The Politics of Confrontation

Iran under Ahmadinejad The Politics of Confrontation

The election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to the presidency of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the summer of 2005 thrust Iran into the international limelight in a way that few would have predicted. Robust confrontational and given to bombastic rhetoric Ahmadinejad has drawn condemnation from the West and praise from the Middle Eastern street in almost equal measure. This Paper looks at the details of his political rise and assesses his presidency to date within the context of the dynamics of Iranian politics. Examining the key themes of his presidency it assesses the effectiveness of his policies and analyzes his populist approach in particular his use of nationalism and the cult of the Twelfth Imam. The author argues that Ahmadinejad far from retrenching the conservative values of the early revolution is very much a product of the social and political changes which have occurred since the end of the Iran Iraq War; that his populism in both politics and economics along with the maintenance of a confrontational posture abroad represents an ad hoc and somewhat incoherent attempt to disguise the growing contradictions which afflict the Islamic Republic and the conservative vision of an unaccountable Islamic autocracy in the face of growing dissatisfaction especially among key sections of thete. | Iran under Ahmadinejad The Politics of Confrontation

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Secularism Under Siege Revisiting the Indian Secular State

Secularism Under Siege Revisiting the Indian Secular State

This anthology makes a discerning attempt to bring into focus myriad dimensions of secularism and the foremost impediments to its attainment. The scholars who contributed to this volume have underscored that the disconnect between a modern-secular state and a conservative society is detrimental to recognizing an ideal secular-democratic polity. Then there is the burden of the past centuries that independent India has to carry on its young shoulders. The political factions in India invent their own historical narratives to advance their political agenda coupled with political and economic arguments leading to social dissensions and communal hatred the ugliest manifestation of which is communal violence that occasionally takes on the form of anti-minority pogroms. The academic critiques of the concept of secularism and its correlated premises belted in this volume shall be of assistance not only to the scholars but also to the students of social sciences and the conscientious readers interested in knowing about the current socio-political milieu. This title is co-published with Aakar Books. Print editions not for sale in South Asia (India Sri Lanka Nepal Bangladesh Pakistan and Bhutan) | Secularism Under Siege Revisiting the Indian Secular State

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Grouplised Schools in China Teacher Agency under Neoliberal Influences

Grouplised Schools in China Teacher Agency under Neoliberal Influences

This book presents how neoliberal trends as reflected in the grouplised school structure affect teachers’ professional learning and daily practice and discusses how teacher agency is enabled and constrained at both individual and collective levels. The author interviewed teachers and administrators from eight different grouplised schools. He argues that the neoliberal trends in high-stakes accountability largely constrained teacher agency. School grouplisation was generally top-down and a bottom-up structure is needed to support teachers' professional growth. Collective agency and administrator support could protect students against the neoliberal trends in education by enabling teachers to make conscious moral decisions and take actions in their daily practice. He further identifies principles of invoking collective agency among teachers and proposes suggestions for educational reform implementation in neoliberal contexts. Policymakers school administrators and teachers interested in grouplised schools and collective agency may find this book insightful. | Grouplised Schools in China Teacher Agency under Neoliberal Influences

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China’s Evolving Policy Processes under the Comparative Lenses Theories and Evidence

China’s Evolving Policy Processes under the Comparative Lenses Theories and Evidence

This book takes a broad approach to studying China’s policy processes. It aims to shed new light on the characteristics of China’s political systems and to adapt theoretical frameworks of policy processes developed in Western democracies to China. In 2021 Xi Jinping introduced the concept of “whole-process people’s democracy”. This new discourse calls for a deeper understanding of both traditional and new mechanisms and institutions functioning in China’s policy processes. Bringing together scholars with extensive fieldwork experience in mainland China and Taiwan this edited volume investigates governance mechanisms and institutions of policy processes in China from different perspectives such as mass line Tiao–Kuai coordination and People’s Congress. The book focuses not only on traditional topics such as agenda setting and policy change but also on political-administrative relations policy mix design and delivering service contracts in communities. A comparative analysis of three social enterprises in Taiwan is provided as a case study of non-governmental actors’ (lack of) influence on policies in a context that is different from mainland China. This book will appeal to scholars students and practitioners interested in policy processes in mainland China and Taiwan and in comparative theories about policy processes around the world. | China’s Evolving Policy Processes under the Comparative Lenses Theories and Evidence

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Towards Freedom in Pondicherry Society Economy and Politics under French Rule (1816-1962)

Towards Freedom in Pondicherry Society Economy and Politics under French Rule (1816-1962)

Pondicherry had its own history due to its connection with the French. After delving deeply into social cultural economic aspects of the Pondicherry society the study focuses on politics and the freedom movement as it developed there using sources written in Tamil English and French. But when the freedom movement gathered steam in British India Pondicherry and its dependencies were caught between the ideas of joining the French Union or the Indian Union. Goubert’s Socialist Party’s strategy had always been to safeguard French India’s special identity and interests. He and his party associates and supporters turned against the French offer to hold a referendum on the question of independence and decided to join the Indian Union because Jawaharlal Nehru provided him a better guarantee to safeguard French Indian and Pondicherry interests. It was rather a very well planned move that took all his political adversaries including the French by surprise. Goubert actually won his battle without bloodshed by accepting to bear a certain dishonor for that among the French. The French government finally chose to set aside the constitutional provisions of Article 27 of the French Constitution which stipulated that no cession or exchange or addition to the territories was valid without the consent of the concerned population. Thus they disregarded the population of French India deliberately and scuttled out of French India. Earlier they had given away the loges to India even without consulting the parliament or the people concerned but now they threw overboard the French constitutional provision to disengage themselves from India permanently after obtaining some weak guarantees for their cultural presence. | Towards Freedom in Pondicherry Society Economy and Politics under French Rule (1816-1962)

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Sovereignty and the Limits of International Law Regulating Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction

Sovereignty and the Limits of International Law Regulating Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction

The inspiration for this book comes from negotiations that are taking place under the auspices of the United Nations by an intergovernmental conference for a new International Legally Binding Instrument (ILBI) under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction (ABNJ). The proposed ILBI is attempting to fill existing gaps under international law over marine biodiversity and Marine Genetic Resources (MGR) in ABNJ. One way it is attempting to do this is by having an Access and Benefit-Sharing (ABS) schema over these resources in ABNJ that the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and its Nagoya Protocol (NP) do not currently cover. These existing frameworks that regulate genetic resources are grounded in the notion of sovereignty. Effectively States have sovereign rights over their biological resources. The ILBI however is attempting to regulate marine biodiversity and MGR in ABNJ. Thus the notion that negotiators representing nation States under the auspices of the United Nations can regulate ABNJ is paradoxical – are these areas beyond nation States’ jurisdiction or not? Implicitly the negotiators are acting as though they have sovereignty over resources located in what has been historically a sovereign-free space. Thus the purpose of this book is to investigate this paradox. Essentially this book critiques the notion that ABNJ can actually be regulated under the auspices of the United Nations by nation-State negotiators. | Sovereignty and the Limits of International Law Regulating Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction

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The Cold War and its Legacy in Indonesia Literary Representation of the Red Scare

The Cold War and its Legacy in Indonesia Literary Representation of the Red Scare

Mayasari-Hoffert examines the depiction of the Left in Indonesian literature since the anti-leftist purge in 1965. With close textual analysis of Indonesian literary texts and their political context this book investigates how the New Order regime under Suharto was able to build a metanarrative of liberation while purging the Left in Indonesia. Even after the regime’s end in 1998 many Indonesians still have an ingrained fear of the prospect of Communism with the result being that literary representation of the Left is still seen as problematic. Through reviewing Indonesia’s institution of literature the use and abuse of universal humanism under the New Order regime is examined and the ways in which power intersects with literature is explored. An informative read for scholars and students of Indonesian politics literature and the cultural cold war. | The Cold War and its Legacy in Indonesia Literary Representation of the Red Scare

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Japanese Colonialism In Taiwan Land Tenure Development And Dependency 1895-1945

Japanese Colonialism In Taiwan Land Tenure Development And Dependency 1895-1945

Exploring the dynamics of development and dependency this book traces the experience of Taiwan under Japanese colonial rule. Chih-ming Ka shows how unlike in other sugar-producing colonies Taiwan was able to sustain its indigenous family farms and small-scale rice millers who not only survived but thrived in competition with Japanese sugar capi | Japanese Colonialism In Taiwan Land Tenure Development And Dependency 1895-1945

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Managing to Survive Managerial practice in not-for-profit organisations

Managing to Survive Managerial practice in not-for-profit organisations

Most small not-for-profit organisations are under-resourced and under-skilled. Many are barely keeping their heads above water now the emphasis is on contracting out work in both the public and private sectors. Most are looking for help to cope with new demands for accountability and performance assessment. Managing to Survive outlines key strategies managers can take to not only survive but improve the service their organisation provides. Managing to Survive offers a broad introduction to the management issues faced by human service organisations particularly small ones. It covers the basics of managing different roles and skills staff and volunteer recruitment training maximising people's contribution managing financial and physical resources and managing change. The approach is practical and the text is illustrated with real examples. Managing to Survive is an essential reference for students Board members managers and others working in the human services sector. | Managing to Survive Managerial practice in not-for-profit organisations

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Governing Singapore Democracy and national development

Governing Singapore Democracy and national development

Singapore has its critics but the city-state has achieved remarkable successes as a result of the voluntary trade-off of certain political rights for economic and social progress. In Governing Singapore Raj Vasil supports this national bargain. He argues that in Asian new states like Singapore economic and social under-development as well as ethnic diversity and divisions make it impossible for Western liberal democracy to function effectively as an instrument of popular rule. The problems of under-development faced by Asian new states since decolonisation and independence continue to prove that democracy alone is not enough - national development and the need to adapt democracy to economic and social realities are equally important. Through reconciling democracy with national development Singapore has transformed from a poor backward Third World island into a prosperous and dynamic First World nation. Today Singapore is far better prepared for greater democratisation and increased popular participation. | Governing Singapore Democracy and national development

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A History of Czechoslovakia Since 1945

A History of Czechoslovakia Since 1945

First published in 1989 A History of Czechoslovakia Since 1945 is a comprehensive account of Czechoslovakia under Communist rule tracing events from 1945 to 1990. The author focuses on the last twenty years in particular when the Prague Spring offered a brief period of liberalization but was followed by harder times with the hope of change fading and society becoming paralyzed. Dr. Renner describes vividly the country’s fortunes under the Soviet rule of Stalin and Brezhnev and how it pioneered the policy of glasnost during the Prague Spring of 1968. The book concludes with a special look at the influence of Gorbachev’s glasnost on the regime of Czechoslovakia. Dr. Renner combines a chronological overview with a passionate yet scholarly discussion of underlying political economic and cultural issues and developments making this book invaluable as an authoritative and lucid account of Czechoslovak history as well as an explanation of the role this country and in events played in the shaping of modern Europe.

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The North Korean Army History Structure Daily Life

The North Korean Army History Structure Daily Life

This book focuses on the Korean People’s Army (KPA) - the armed forces of North Korea - covering its history structural organisation and lives of the soldiers and officers within its ranks. Utilising extensive Korean English Russian and Chinese language sources as well as multiple interviews with people who have served in the KPA this book provides an illuminating insight into the experience of KPA personnel. It presents fascinating and detailed examples of everyday life in the KPA such as the systems of discipline and reprimands the experience of women in the army typical salaries and daily food allowances. The book also succinctly traces the history of the KPA from its foundation under the guidance of the Soviet Union and the experiences of the Korean War through to the current iteration under Kim Jong-un. This pioneering work will be of huge interest to students and scholars of North Korea the Cold War Military Studies and Communism. | The North Korean Army History Structure Daily Life

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Act Approach:Artful Use/Sugges

Act Approach:Artful Use/Sugges

This edition represents a thorough reworking expansion and updating of an earlier work distributed in manuscript from under the title Acquisition through Creative Teaching (ACT). This book is written for teachers that is for a wide range of professional communicators and facilitators of learning. It is designed as a practical guide for teachers who wish to learn how to use the art of suggestion to help students tap remarkable brain capacities. | Act Approach:Artful Use/Sugges

GBP 175.00
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Regulating the Private Security Industry

Regulating the Private Security Industry

The under-regulation of the private security industry has increasingly become a topic of media and academic interest. This Adelphi Paper enters the debate by explaining why the industry requires further regulation and what is wrong with the current system. It begins by briefly defining the industry and explaining the need for more effective regulation before analysing three types of regulation: domestic international and informal (including self-regulation). | Regulating the Private Security Industry

GBP 160.00
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Crime Justice and Society in Colonial Sri Lanka

Crime Justice and Society in Colonial Sri Lanka

Crime Justice and Society in Colonial Sri Lanka (1987) examines Sri Lanka’s justice system under British rule and concentrates on two of its aspects: the effectiveness of the administration of law and order and the relationship between crime and social change. It argues that the colonial judicial system did penetrate rural areas but did not operate in the way the British intended. Instead Sri Lankans adapted the state institutions so that they functioned more effectively within indigenous culture.

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Culture and Civilization Volume 2 Beyond Positivism and Historicism

Culture and Civilization Volume 2 Beyond Positivism and Historicism

This second volume in this new series aims to anchor the 21st century in the tradition of the new to raise methodology into historiography. As the new millennium develops it is becoming evident that science and society are critical pivots in the formation of a larger mosaic of culture and civilization. A tradition has developed and refuses to dissolve under the withering aspect of analysis. Whether flying under the banner of Arthur Lovejoy George F. Kennan Pitirim Sorokin Arnold Toynbee Alexander Solzhenitsyn T. S. Eliot Thorstein Veblen and countless others it has become clear that making sense of the whole and not resting easy with bits and pieces has become the mission of Culture & Civilization. This second volume expands upon the initial efforts to deepen the sense of tradition with outstanding contributions ranging from Charles Murray The Happiness of the People; Peter Watson Ideas: A History of Thought from Fire to Freud; Evan Selinger Ethics and Poverty Tours; Walter A. McDougall American Policy Traditions in the Middle East; Raymond Ibrahim Violence in Judaism Christianity and Islam; Michael Curtis Israel: Land Law and Legitimacy; Marian Tupy Persistent Poverty in Africa; David Ronfeldt and Danielle Varda Cyberocracy Revisited; a retrospective by Leo Alexander on Medical Science under Dictatorship; and a series of brilliant new essays on Wyndham Lewis Jonathan Swift Max Scheler and Thurman Arnold. Culture and Civilization does not embrace idiosyncratic visions of the apocalypse or the end of Western empires. It does attempt to bring together immediate issues and ideas that are substantial and challenging. The essential polarity between democracy and autocracy has now taken on historical dimensions that has now taken on larger deeper dimensions in different political economic and ecological terrain of our day is civilization versus barbarism. This second volume is a sober deeper response to such a challenge. | Culture and Civilization Volume 2 Beyond Positivism and Historicism

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