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NGOs, the UN, and Global GovernanceThomas G. Weiss and Leon Gordenker, editors A comprehensive exploration of the role of nongovernmental organizations in the international arena, this collection examines the full range of NGO relationships and actions.
The authors first outline the aims and scope of NGOs and suggest a systematic way of thinking about their activities. These conceptual notions underlie Part 2 of the book, five case studies focusing on NGOs vis-a-vis More > | |
Nicaragua: Navigating the Politics of DemocracyDavid Close Since the 1970s, Nicaragua has experienced four major regime changes—shifts in its fundamental logic, structure, and operational code of governance. What accounts for such instability? Have other states that transitioned to democracy followed a similar path? Considering these questions, David Close explores the dynamics of Nicaragua's movements toward and away from democracy since More > | ![]() |
Nicaragua: The Chamorro YearsDavid Close In 1990, Nicaraguans voted out the revolutionary Sandinista regime and replaced it with the conservative government of President Violeta Chamorro. Chamorro's term of office was marked by constitutional, economic, partisan, and social conflict, as her administration attempted to replace the revolutionary system with representative government and market economics.
Close examines these conflicts More > | ![]() |
Nikolai Bukharin and the Transition from Capitalism to SocialismMichael Haynes Much of the recent discussion about this important Marxist thinker seeks to define his role as a major theorist during Stalin's rise to power and in subsequent Soviet history. Michael Haynes's study approaches Nicolai Bukharin from a different focus, concentrating primarily on Bukharin's thought itself.
Beginning with Bukharin's disuccsion of capitalism, Haynes examines how the More > | ![]() |
Nixon’s FBI: Hoover, Watergate, and a Bureau in CrisisMelissa Graves Polly Corrigan Book Prize Finalist!
In 1974, Richard Nixon resigned in disgrace. In 2020, Donald Trump was impeached. Both were investigated by the FBI, an agency under their control. How is it that the bureau is responsible for investigating the president it serves? How can it do so effectively? Nixon's FBI confronts these questions.
Melissa Graves draws on groundbreaking research and More > | ![]() |
No-Party Democracy? Ugandan Politics in Comparative PerspectiveGiovanni Carbone Are political parties an essential element of democracy? Or can a no-party system constitute a viable democratic alternative? Giovanni Carbone examines the politics of Museveni’s Uganda to illustrate the achievements, contradictions, and limitations of participatory politics in the absence of partisan organizations.
At a time when multiparty reforms were sweeping the globe, Uganda opted More > | ![]() |
Noel Chabani Manganyi: Being-While-Black-and-Alienated in Apartheid South AfricaMabogo Percy More This is fundamentally a book about race, antiblack racism, and the related problem of the alienation of human beings from one another, from their bodies, and from themselves, all within the context of apartheid and postapartheid South Africa.
Mabogo More critically engages with the work of Noel Chabani Manganyi (1940–), a prolific author and South Africa's first Black clinical More > | ![]() |
Non-State Actors in the Human Rights UniverseGeorge Andreopoulos, Zehra Kabasakal Arat, and Peter Juviler, editors Departing from analyses that focus on the role of the state in the arena of human rights, the authors of this original collection offer conceptually sophisticated, but accessible, discussions of the role and responsibility of nonstate actors with regard to the violation, promotion, and protection of human rights. More > | ![]() |
Nongovernments: NGOs and the Political Development of the Third WorldJulie Fisher This definitive work on nongovernmental organizations provides a complete overview of the composition and the types of NGOs that have emerged in recent years. Julie Fisher describes in detail the influence these organizations have had on political systems throughout the world and the hope their existence holds for the realization of sustainable development. More > | ![]() |
Nontraditional Security Challenges in Southeast Asia: The Transnational DimensionAmy L. Freedman and Ann Marie Murphy With the countries of Southeast Asia increasingly challenged by a plethora of nontraditional security issues—climate change, food and water security, infectious diseases, and migration key among them—a number of important questions have emerged: What national and regional efforts are being made to address these issues? Why have some approaches proven more successful than others? How do More > | ![]() |