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En samling af de historiske documenter mellem 1827-2000
Decolonising Europe? Popular Responses to the End of Empire offers a new paradigm to understand decolonisation in Europe by showing how it was fundamentally a fluid process of fluxes and refluxes involving not only transfers of populations, ideas, and sociocultural practices across continents but also complex intra-European dynamics at a time of political convergence following the Treaty of Rome. Decolonisation was neither a process of sudden, rapid changes to European cultures nor one of cultural inertia, but a development marked by fluidity, movement, and dynamism. Rather than being a static process where Europe’s (former) metropoles and their peoples ‘at home’ reacted to the end of ...
På baggrund af forfatterens personlige erindringer fortælles Somalias historie igennem 50 år
Can ‘traditional’ leaders and institutions help to build more legitimate, accountable and effective governments in polities or ‘states’ under (re)construction? This book investigates the case of “Somaliland”, the 20-year old non-recognized state which emerged from Somalia’s conflict and state collapse. A careful analysis of Somaliland’s political history, it outlines the complex and evolving institutional and power dynamics involving clan elders, militia leaders, guerrilla movements, as well as politicians and civil servants in its emerging state structures. While showing the great potential of endogenous processes, it clearly demonstrates the complexity and the politics of those processes and the necessity to think beyond one-size-fits-all state-building formulas.
This book does what it 'says on the tin' - stating the corpus of tort law as a body of principles. Undertaken for the first time in English tort law, this book describes the law of tort concisely, accessibly, and accurately, and with both depth and detail.
Somalia, por su situación geoestratégica y su naturaleza peculiar —al ser cruce de distintas culturas— ha vivido una trayectoria particular. A pesar de que sobre todo se conoce su historia reciente, señalada por la inestabilidad y la lucha entre facciones, el país cuenta con un rico pasado marcado por las redes comerciales, el desarrollo de sultanatos, que tuvieron una influencia y un poder destacados, y por las relaciones internacionales con otras potencias. El mérito de esta obra es que aborda de forma completa la historia de Somalia desde la prehistoria hasta nuestros días. A lo largo de diez capítulos se desgranan los principales procesos y acontecimientos de esta región desd...
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