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Institutional Engineering and Hybrid Power-sharing in Divided Societies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 395

Institutional Engineering and Hybrid Power-sharing in Divided Societies

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2024-08-12
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  • Publisher: V&R Unipress

Many societies are strongly divided, especially in ethnic, religious, racial, and ideological terms. Such divisions are usually related to the existence of divergent interests that may lead to serious conflicts between groups and/or between them and state authorities. In order to limit them, participation in decision-making processes by members of different groups is needed. However, it is extremely difficult to establish and maintain effective power-sharing arrangements. This book examines the cases of Indonesia, Nigeria, Kenya, and Burundi, where hybrid models of power-sharing have emerged, combining specific elements of consociational and centripetal types. It also explains the specificity, life cycle, and performance of different hybrid systems.

Krakowskie Studia Międzynarodowe 2012/1
  • Language: pl
  • Pages: 6
مجلة دراسات شرق اوسطية العدد 96
  • Language: ar

مجلة دراسات شرق اوسطية العدد 96

المقـال الافتتاحـي مئوية الأردن وآفاق المستقبل 1921-2021 التحرير البحوث والدراسات متاهة مسار السلام مع إسرائيل: تداعيات تحول موقف النظام العربي على الأمن القومي والقضية الفلسطينية عبد السلام معلا فرص وتحديات التموضع الداخلي الأردني خالد الدباس ملف العدد العدوان الإسرائيلي على القدس والمواجهة الفلسطينية- الإسرائيلية 2021 دراسة: "المتغير الأمريكي" في ظلال معركة "سيف القدس": تغير في الموا...

The Shi'ites of Lebanon
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 392

The Shi'ites of Lebanon

The complex history of Lebanese Shi‘ites has traditionally been portrayed as rooted in religious and sectarian forces. The Abisaabs uncover a more nuanced account in which colonialism, the modern state, social class, and provincial politics profoundly shaped Shi‘i society. The authors trace the sociopolitical, economic, and intellectual transformation of the Shi‘ites of Lebanon from 1920 during the French colonial period until the late twentieth century. They shed light on the relationship of contemporary Islamic militancy with traditions of religious modernism and leftism in both Lebanon and Iraq. Analyzing the interaction between sacred and secular features of modern Shi‘ite society, the authors clearly follow the group’s turn toward religious revolution and away from secular activism. This book transforms our understanding of twentieth-century Lebanese history and demonstrates how the rise of Hizbullah was conditioned by Shi‘ites’ consistent marginalization and neglect by the Lebanese state.

Power Sharing in Lebanon
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 377

Power Sharing in Lebanon

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-01-15
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This book studies the origins and evolution of power sharing in Lebanon. The author has established a relationship between mobilization, ethnurgy (ethnic identification), memory and trauma, and how they impact power sharing provisions. The book starts with the events in the 1820s, when communities began to politicize their identities, and which led to the first major outbreak of civil violence between the Druze and the Maronites. Consequently, these troubled four decades in Lebanon led to the introduction of various forms of power-sharing arrangements to establish peace. The political systems introduced in Lebanon are: the Kaim-Makamiya (dual sub-governorship), a quasi-federal arrangement; t...

Everything as One
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 400

Everything as One

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-03-31
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  • Publisher: Harrassowitz

Everything as One is an important scholarly monograph on the concept of the Creator god as expressed in the oldest surviving Egyptian texts, the Pyramid Texts of the 5th and 6th Dynasties (24th-22nd centuries BC), which were inscribed in stone inside the pyramids of that epoch. Joanna Popielska-Grzybowska, through intensive and specialist linguistic analysis, is able to elucidate the central idea of the texts. These innovative findings are enriched by the author's thorough analysis of ancient Egyptian religion and culture and include also scrutiny of the astronomical references occurring in the texts. This is the first systematic and thorough study of the notion of the Creator as expressed i...

The Routledge Research Companion to Heritage and Identity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 529

The Routledge Research Companion to Heritage and Identity

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-03-16
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Heritage represents the meanings and representations conveyed in the present day upon artifacts, landscapes, mythologies, memories and traditions from the past. It is a key element in the shaping of identities, particularly in the context of increasingly multicultural societies. This Research Companion brings together an international team of authors to discuss the concepts, ideas and practices that inform the entwining of heritage and identity. They have assembled a wide geographical range of examples and interpret them through a number of disciplinary lenses that include geography, history, museum and heritage studies, archaeology, art history, history, anthropology and media studies. This outstanding companion offers scholars and graduate students a thoroughly up-to-date guide to current thinking and a comprehensive reference to this growing field.

Alexandria
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 202

Alexandria

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-12-31
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  • Publisher: Unknown

This book is an academic monograph about Alexandria in Egypt - its history, archaeology, and monuments. The book is divided into 4 parts. Part I (preceded with a short introduction 'Alexandria-by-Egypt') entitled 'From Alexander to Amr' describes a history of Alexandria from the time it was settled, to the time it had been conquered by Arabs. Part II 'Sleeping Beauty Awakens' describes the long (and sometimes picturesque) history of research of the topography and architecture of ancient Alexandria, with a strong emphasis on Polish contribution to this research. Part III 'Alexandrian archaeology - a comedy of errors' describes what sort of traps were in store for archaeologists (both professi...

Ancient Egypt 2017
  • Language: en

Ancient Egypt 2017

Provides an overview of current research covering various spheres of interest in present-day Egyptology and a scholarly discussion on various approaches to studies of ancient Egypt. 26 papers, including on pottery, sculpture, language, history, architecture, religion and religious texts, views on empire creation, loyalism and more detailed pieces on amulets, museum collections, household religion and the concept of sin, children's magical protection, religion mirrored in twenty-first dynasty personal correspondence, Esna, the group-statue of Pendua and Nefertari Kushite architectural programmes, the settlement at Tell Nabasha, the Saite-Persian cemetery at Abusir, project presentation and aegyptiaca in Portugal. Many of the issues were discussed during the Eighth European Conference of Egyptologists. Egypt 2017: Research Perspectives that was hosted by the New University of Lisbon and collaborator institutions in Portugal.