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Institutional Reforms and Peacebuilding
This book deals with the question how institutional reform can contribute to peacebuilding in post-war and divided societies. In the context of armed conflict and widespread violence, two important questions shape political agendas inside and outside the affected societies: How can we stop the violence? And how can we prevent its recurrence? Comprehensive negotiated war terminations and peace accords recommend a set of mechanisms to bring an end to war and establish peace, including institutional reforms that promote democratization and state building. Although the role of institutions is widely recognized, their specific effects are highly contested in research as well as in practice. This ...
The Politics of Presidential Term Limits
This book examines the politics of presidential term limits. It looks at the theory and practice of term limits, the experience of term-limit avoidance worldwide, and the consequences of presidential term limits in all forms of regimes.
Paces desde abajo
Las paces construidas desde los territorios son resultado de la interacción entre los procesos de reconocimiento/alineamiento estatal, de la presencia de los actores violentos y de las dinámicas de autonomía local. Los capítulos que componen este libro amplían, profundizan y problematizan estos ejes. Cada capítulo aborda y ofrece un panorama muy rico de los modos como se construyen las paces locales. Con especial énfasis en el departamento del Tolima, este libro pretende contribuir a crear una narrativa frente a los discursos dominantes de la paz en Colombia y analiza los diversos modos en que las comunidades locales vienen creando otras concepciones y prácticas de paz. El recorrido ...
The Radical Right During Crisis
While the COVID-19 pandemic overshadowed all else and would quickly have a lasting impact on our daily lives, other events related to the radical right in 2020 soon surfaced. From terrorist attacks in Germany and India to anti-mask protests across the U.S. and Europe, radical right violence escalated in the midst of circulating conspiracy theories and disinformation. The yearbook draws upon insightful analyses from an international network of scholars, policymakers, and practitioners who explore the dynamics and impact of the radical right. It explores a wide range of topics including reflections on authoritarianism and fascism, the role of ideology and (counter-)intellectuals, and radical-right responses to the pandemic and calls for police reform in the height of the Black Lives Matter protests. It ends with important assessments on best approaches towards countering the radical right, both online and offline. This timely overview provides a broad examination of the global radical right in 2020, which will be useful for scholars, students, policymakers, journalists, and the public.
Transformation Index 2010
Der friedliche Wandel autoritärer Staaten zu Demokratie und Marktwirtschaft stellt Bürger und Politiker vor gewaltige Herausforderungen. Überall auf der Welt ringen reformorientierte Gruppen um Demokratisierung und die Verbesserung der Wirtschaftskraft - unter verschiedenen Ausgangsbedingungen und mit unterschiedlichem Erfolg. Eine kluge politische Steuerung trägt maßgeblich zum Gelingen oder Scheitern solcher Prozesse bei. Zum vierten Mal legt die Bertelsmann Stiftung ihren Transformation Index (BTI) vor. Das globale Ranking bewertet und vergleicht Transformationsprozesse weltweit auf der Grundlage von detaillierten Ländergutachten. Der BTI informiert über den Stand von Demokratie und Marktwirtschaft und bietet umfassende und systematische Vergleichsdaten über die Qualität der politischen Gestaltungsleistung in 128 Transformationsländern im Zeitraum von 2007 bis 2009.
Race, Class, and Nationalism in the Twenty-First-Century Caribbean
This collection of more than a dozen essays focuses on the political dynamics of race, class, and nationalism in the contemporary Caribbean. Despite the plethora of studies on nationalism in the Caribbean, few have attempted to look at the phenomenon as a political invention that does not—and cannot—serve the interests of all: how essentialist, reductive, overdetermining nationalism is a political and conceptual confusion that forever stalls the project of universal human emancipation. Editors Scott Timcke and Shelene Gomes gather and frame chapters that, in their collective expression, help trace the process of race, class, and nationalism through the contours of a broader political, economic, and social geography. These chapters argue that notions of racial identity have changed over time, but those reformations are not independent of class rule or nationalism. By using several case studies that span the Anglo, Dutch, French, and Spanish Caribbean and focus on the development of political organizations, hardships, and ideology, each of these essays continues the struggle for liberation against elite entrenchment.
Sinn Fein and the IRA
Scrutinises the political strategies and ideological evolution of Islamist actors and forces following the Arab uprisings
The Politics of Fear in South Sudan
When asked in 2016 if he would step down as President of South Sudan, Salva Kiir replied 'my exit could spark genocide.' Kiir's words exemplify how fear and the threat of mass violence have become central to the politics of South Sudan. As South Sudanese analyst Daniel Akech Thiong shows, it is this politics that lies at the heart of the country's seemingly intractable civil war. In this book, Akech Thiong explores the origins of South Sudan's politics of fear. Weaving together social, economic and cultural factors into a comprehensive framework, he reveal how the country's elites have exploited ethnic divisions as a means of mobilising support and securing their grip on power, in the process triggering violent conflict. He also considers the ways in which this politics of fear takes root among the wider populace, exploring the role of corruption, social media, and state coercion in spreading hatred and fostering mass violence. As regimes across Africa and around the world become increasingly reliant on their own politics of fear, Akech Thiong's book offers novel insight into a growing phenomenon with implications far beyond South Sudan.
The Dynamics of Emerging De-Facto States
What are the causes and consequences of the crisis in Ukraine, and what has been the nature of local, national, and external actors’ involvement in it? These are the questions that the authors examine in this comprehensive analysis of the situation in Ukraine. The crisis evolved from peaceful protests to full-scale military conflict and to an unstable ceasefire frequently interrupted by, at times, intense clashes between government forces and separatist rebels. Tracing the emergence of two new de-facto state entities in the post-Soviet space—the self-declared Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics—from the chaos of the early days after Russia’s annexation of Crimea in Spring 2014 t...
