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• Introduction
• Soft power: theoretical, conceptual and methodological perspectives
• Classical realism and soft power
• The West African context
• Interrogating Nigeria's soft power potential
• Nigeria's foreign policy behaviour in West Africa
• Elite attitudes towards Nigeria in Liberia and Ghana
• Foreign policy outcomes as a measure of soft power capability
• Conclusion.

"This interdisciplinary book offers a new analysis of the concepts, spaces and practices of activism that emerge under diverse authoritarian modes of governance in Asia. Demonstrating the limitations of existing conceptual approaches in accounting for activism in Asia, the book also offers new understandings of authoritarian governance practices and how these shape state-civil society relations. In conjunction with its tripartite theoretical framework, the book presents regional knowledge from an array of countries in Asia, with empirically rich contributions from both scholars and activists. Through in-depth case studies, the book offers new scholarly insights that highlight the ways in which activism emerges and is contested across Asia. As such, it will be of interest to students and scholars of Asian politics, law and sociology"-- Provided by publisher

• Should the practise of democracy in Africa be decolonised or interrogated?
• Africa's sense of democracy : pitfalls and prospects / Bernard Matolino
• The struggles of democracy in Africa : interrogating the challenges of mass ignorance and poverty / Jonathan O. Chimakonam
• Emenyere : a pluri-versal principle of justice studies in African political philosophy / Christiana Idika
• Towards democratic participation as a human rights foundation in Africa / Munamato Chemhuru
• Individuals as citizens : an ontological resolution of a paradox of democracy / Joseph N. Agbo
• Democracy and Africa's development challenges in the 21st century / Enyimba Maduka
• Democratic governance and the digital media in contemporary Africa / Aribiah Attoe and Jonathan Chimakonam
• African migration : trends, patterns, drivers / Marie-Laurence Flahaux and Hein de De Haas
• The rise of neo-nationalism in Africa / Isaiah Negedu
• Democracy and the challenges of religious diversity in postcolonial Africa / Adeolu Oluwaseyi Oyekan
• Freedom of speech, the phobia of conversation and political development in Africa / Tosin Adeate
• Equity / equality with regard to the distribution of resources in the context of Sub-Saharan African democracies / Emerson Abraham Jackson and Sona Jackson
• Environmental governance in Africa : epistemic reflection, democractic participation and complementarity principles / Akinpelu Ayokunnu Oyekunle
• Secession, failed state syndrome and democratic dictatorships in Africa / Peter Echewija Sule
• A conversation on the cost of democratic governance in Africa vis-a-vis LGBTIQ and women's rights / Oluwaseun T. Babatuyi
• The interconnection of poverty and pandemics in African democracies : an argument from the perspective of the human minimum / Amara Esther Chimakonam
• Covid-19, politics, economy, governance in Africa through the lens of electoral democracy / Chris Isike and Martin Ihembe
• Education against racism and sexism : lessons in the leadership of Charlotte Mannya Maxeke / Sesanti Simphiwe.

• Chapter 1. Introduction: The Problem with African Development
• Chapter 2. Contextualizing African Global Engagements: Theoretical, Methodological and Conceptual Analyses
• Chapter 3. Africa in the World
• Chapter 4. Colonial Undercurrents and African Integration
• Chapter 5. Culture and Development in Africa
• Chapter 6. Leadership, Followership and Development in Africa
• Chapter 7. Decolonization of knowledge production in Africa
• Chapter 8. Brain Drain or Brain Gain in Africa
• Chapter 9. African Demographic Dividend
• Chapter 10. Migration Management in Africa
• Chapter 11. Crises of Development Planning in Africa: Internal and External Factors
• Chapter 12. Educational Planning in Africa: Internal and External Factors
• Chapter 13. Research, Innovation and Development in Africa: Why the stagnation? - Chapter 14. Interrogating the Roles of International Organizations (IOs) in African Emancipation
• Chapter 15. Covid-19, Vaccine Nationalism and Africa: Lesson Learnt
• Chapter 16. Africa in the Context of UN Conference of Parties (COP) on Climate Change, etc.

• al-Juzʼ al-awwal. Muḥāfaẓat al-Qāhirah, 1829 M-2020 M.

• Introduction: The Remaking of the Political in the Arab World since 2010,
• 1. State-crafting and Modes of Governance in the United Arab Emirates,
• 2. Community Organizing and the Limits of Participatory Democracy in Lebanon,
• 3. Archiving in an Age of (Counter)Revolutions,
• 4. Class Power, the State and Contentious Politics in the age of Globalization: The case of Egypt,
• 5. Same Different? A Comparative Study of Kurdish-Led Rojava and Opposition-Held Syria,
• 6. Postcolonial State-ness and the Case of Rawabi,
• 7. Lebanon's Wadi Khaled and Challenge of Sovereignty,
• 8. Egyptian State and Culture,
• 9. How Diplomatic Practices Make the Fuzzy State of Palestine Visible,
• 10. Daesh and the "Effect of the State",
• 11. Conclusion: The Westphalian State Effect.
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Building on Timothy Mitchell's seminal 1991 exploration of the "Limits of the State, " this book brings together contributions on the state in the Arab world from the past and present in an edited volume. Altered States views the state less as a matter of people and institutions and more as sets of practices, regimes of truth, and capabilities of power, and the effects they have on those under their control. Through analysing case studies - including Tunisia, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Palestine, UAE, Rojova, and the Islamic State - the concept of the state is applied and questioned. This book examines the roots of policies that led to the uprisings, focusing on how the "authoritarian bargain", which helped define Arab politics, broke down with the rise of neoliberalism. It also assesses how boundaries between state and society have been redrawn, as various dynamics have brought state forces into more open conflict with citizens and each other. The rapid pace of change in the Arab world has necessitated constant modification of themes and theoretical lens of analysis. This book will, therefore, be of interest to practitioners, graduate students and academics of the Arab world, statehood, and political science.
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• Premise, Introduction,
• 1. Between Organization and Spontaneity of Protests,
• 2. Variety of Groups and Protests in Repressive Contexts,
• 3. Protest Demobilization in Post-Revolutionary Settings,
• 4. The Gendered Effects of the War: Poverty and Displacement of Syrian Women In Lebanon,
• 5. LGBT Activism in Repressive Contexts: The Struggle For (In)Visibility in Egypt, Tunisia, and Turkey,
• 6. The Kurds of Syria: From Popular Committees to Fighting Units, Conclusion.
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This book investigates the role of social groups in mobilizing resources for protests in repressive contexts. In particular, it examines the impact of organizations and informal groups on individual engagement in the protests developed in 2010-2011 in Tunisia, Egypt, and Syria. Empirical analysis draws on a wave of events and protests that took place between 2010 and 2021. It explores how, in repressive contexts, spontaneous groups and more established and formal organizations continuously switch from one form to another, transforming themselves faster than they would do in democratic contexts.
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• Genèse et "mentors" du délit d'aliénation
• L'étrange victoire
• 1. Portraits d'aliénés
• Accusé, levez-vous !
• Yambo Ouologuem et l'afropessimisme
• Sophistication épistémologique de l'accusation
• La littérature, champ par excellence de l'accusation
• Le défaut d'engagement et la langue, autres expressions de l'accusation
• 2. La fabrique des nouveaux rebelles
• Résidence blanche, vacances noires
• "Je vous ai compris"
• L'héritage et les légataires du combat panafricain
• L'aliénation réelle du contre-discours
• 3. Généalogie du sentiment anti-français et anti-occidental
• Un sentiment légitime
• Interventions militaires, locomotive nouvelle du rejet
• L'islam, fédérateur de la colère anticoloniale
• 4. Extension du domaine de la Françafrique
• Dans le champ institutionnel
• Dans la médiasphère et sa pépinière
• Dans le sport
• Dans la diaspora : immigration, recolonisation ?
• Bal des fiertés et pays intermédiaire
• 5. L'incolonisable plus que le décolonial
• L'incolonisable des peuples
• L'indépendance de la pensée, un antidote
• Perspective personnelle.

"Léopold Sédar Senghor, Yambo Ouologuem ou Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, le prix Goncourt 2021, sont-ils des aliénés ? Méritent-ils cet opprobre originel jeté sur certains intellectuels africains conduisant à leur disqualification ? Dans le contexte actuel de promotion des pensées décoloniale et postcoloniale, entre querelles fratricides et surenchère identitaire, un long malaise persiste dans les relations entre les écrivains et artistes africains et l'ancienne puissance coloniale, notamment française. À rebours des thèses les plus établies, l'auteur balaye plus d'un demi-siècle d'histoire des idées et de textes fondateurs en Afrique, pointant les excommunications, dénonçant la confiscation de tout débat pluriel et le dévoiement du processus de décolonisation. Il souligne la nature profonde de la blessure : la présence au cœur même de la prétention décoloniale actuelle du système colonial, et une relégation perpétuelle à la réaction plaintive. Un essai roboratif pour assumer l'histoire commune, sans absolution ni obsession, et pour se défaire du poids mortifère du ressassement."--Page 4 of cover.

Nationalism in a nation-state reflects its emergent structural, cultural, and personal properties at a given time. In the politico-historical context of South Korea and the globe, the fruits of the 1968 Revolution in France could not reach Korean society under its military regime and exploitative economic structure. This continued to frustrate the grassroots and especially social actors in South Korea, which eventually brought about the June Struggle in 1987 and the 2016-2017 Candlelight Revolution. Calculated Nationalism in Contemporary South Korea sketches Korean grassroots' perception of their nation-state, national identities, and what they desire regarding the future direction of their nation-state. The grassroots have openly spoken out about their frustrations through political rallies and media. This book attempts to reflect the minds of Korean progressives regarding, in particular, the forcibly recruited Japanese military "comfort women," Abe's trade provocation against South Korea in 2019, reunification, the 2016-2017 Candlelight Revolution, National Flag-carriers' struggles, and bullying at work.

• Comparing civil service systems: bureaucratization, professionalization, politicization, and marketization / Chong-Min Park Yousueng Han Yongjin Chang
• Part I: Civil service systems with the Confucian tradition. 1 Japan / Motomichi Otani
• 2 South Korea / Juhyun Nam
• 3 Taiwan / Bennis Wai Yip So
• 4 Singapore / James Low
• 5 Hong Kong / Wilson Wong Raymond Hau-yin Yuen
• 6 Vietnam / Ngo Thanh Can
• Part II: Civil service systems with non-Confucian traditions. 7 Indonesia / Eko Prasojo Defny Holidin Fajar Wardani Wijayanti
• 8 Thailand / Amporn Tamronglak
• 9 Malaysia / Khadijah Md Khalid Nur Hairani Abd Rahman
• 10 The Philippines / Maria Fe Villamejor-Mendoza Minerva Sanvictores Baylon
• Conclusion / Chong-Min Park Yongjin Chang Yousueng Han

This book compares contemporary civil service systems across East and Southeast Asia, a dynamic region of greater diversity in local administrative tradition, imported models of modern administration, and the character of prevailing political institutions. Featuring chapters on Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, and the Philippines, this book provides a detailed analysis of key aspects of the civil service system, including centralization, recruitment, classification, openness of positions, performance assessment, promotion, training, and senior civil service. It distinguishes four modes of public employment, namely, bureaucratization, professionalization, politicization, and marketization, to develop a conceptual framework for comparing the civil service system at the operational level. The region's contemporary civil service systems appear to be hybrid systems that combine, at varying degree, these modes of public employment, responding to administrative reform pressures. The patterns of public employment across East and Southeast Asia reflect local administrative traditions, imported Western models of administration, and the relative timing of democratization and bureaucratization. With contributions from leading local experts across the region, this book will be invaluable to students, scholars, and practitioners interested in Asian public administration, especially civil service systems.
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• Introduction
• The Military and Society in the Middle East
• The Civil-Military Relations of Middle East Political Transitions
• The Political Economy of Middle East Civil-Military Relations
• Middle East Civil-Military Relations : The Military Dimensions
• Conclusions and Projections

"Civil-Military Relations in the Modern Middle East explores the political and economic interactions between civilians and the armed forces in the post-World War II Middle East, emphasizing four themes: military and society, the role of the military in political transitions, the military's part in national economies, and the relations between soldiers and civilians in wartime. Covering the greater Middle East-including the Arab States, Israel, Turkey, and Iran-the book establishes how militaries in many Middle Eastern countries influence the national political and economic systems and how, in turn, politics influences the national militaries"-- Provided by publisher

• Introduction: the spectacle of independence and the specter of bureaucracy
• Part I. Hybrid Bureaucracy: How Race and Emergency Shaped the Organization of Colonial Rule: 1. The effective disorder of hybrid bureaucracy
• Part II. The Axis of Suspicion: Classifications of Identity and Mobility in Crises: 2. Forms of suspicion: mobility as threat, census as battleground
• 3. The Bureaucratic toolkit of emergency
• Part III. Administrative Memory and the Legacies of Emergency: 4. Loyalty and Suspicion: making the Civil Service after Independence
• 5. How hybrid bureaucracy and permit regimes Made Citizenship
• Conclusion: the file and the checkpoint - colonial bureaucracy and the making of contemporary citizenship.
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Colonial Bureaucracy and Contemporary Citizenship examines how the legacies of colonial bureaucracy continue to shape political life after empire. Focusing on the former British colonies of India, Cyprus, and Israel/Palestine, the book explores how post-colonial states use their inherited administrative legacies to classify and distinguish between loyal and suspicious subjects and manage the movement of populations, thus shaping the practical meaning of citizenship and belonging within their new boundaries. The book offers a novel institutional theory of 'hybrid bureaucracy' to explain how racialized bureaucratic practices were used by powerful administrators in state organizations to shape the making of political identity and belonging in the new states. Combining sociology and anthropology of the state with the study of institutions, this book offers new knowledge to overturn conventional understandings of bureaucracy, demonstrating that routine bureaucratic practices and persistent colonial logics continue to shape unequal political status to this day.
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"Pan’gye surok was written by the Korean scholar and social critic Yu Hyŏngwŏn (1622-1673), who proposed to reform the Joseon dynasty and realise an ideal Confucian society. It was recognised as a leading work of political science by Yu’s contemporaries and continues to be a key text in understanding the intellectual culture of the late Chosŏn period. Yu describes the problems of the political and social realities of 17th Century Korea, reporting on his attempts to solve these problems using a Confucian philosophical approach. In doing so, he establishes most of the key terminology relating to politics and society in Korea in the late Chosŏn period. His writings were used as a model for reforms within Korea over the following centuries, inspiring social pioneers like Yi Ik and Chŏng Yakyong. Pan’gye surok demonstrates how Confucian thought spread outside China and how it was modified to fit the situation on the Korean peninsula. Providing both the first English translation of the full Pan’gyesurok text as well as glossaries, notes and research papers on the importance of the text, this four volume set is an essential resource for international scholars of Korean and East Asian history."--Page i.

This book assesses democratic resilience and challenges in (relatively) newly emerging democracies in the Asia-Pacific, which are simultaneously important case studies as newly emerging middle powers. Across all dimensions and measurements, South Korea and Indonesia are consistently the most salient case studies to consider. The two case studies are compared across three sections. First, the relationship between economic development and democratic resilience in Indonesia and South Korea. Second, nature of political culture and societal constructs in the two case studies. The final section looks at the potential peculiarities of the two case studies, which are seen as uniquely challenged: Indonesia by religious persecution and South Korea by political populism. Certainly, democratization is a long and difficult process. This book provides insight into how the two countries have embarked on similar democratization projects. It also delineates the successes and failures from which valuable lessons on democratization can be drawn

• Chapter 1. Africa and the Scourge of Conflict and Insecurity
• Chapter 2. African Conflict and the 'Post-colonial' State
• Chapter 3. Climate Change and Emerging Conflict between Herdsmen and Farmers in Nasarawa and Plateau States, Nigeria
• Chapter 4. Grassroots conflict over ecosystem services provided by the Inner Niger Delta: The case of Mali
• Chapter 5. Conflict, Police impunity and the governance question in Nigeria: Reflecting on the #EndSARS protest
• Chapter 6. Trapped in the Ivory Tower: Using social movement theory to analyse a 'movement in distress'
• Chapter 7. Terrorism in Sub-Sahara Africa: Assessing its Economic and Social Implications
• Chapter 8. Violent Conflict in the Sahel: Causes, Dynamics, and Actors
• Chapter 9. The Resurgence of Military Coups in Africa: The Case of West Africa and the Sahel
• Chapter 10. Media and Election Disputes in Nigeria
• Chapter 11. Governance, Security and Development Nexus in Galkayo, Somalia: A New Approach to Explaining Somalia's Chronic Instability
• Chapter 12. Ceasefire arrangements as pre-conditions for independence in Southern Africa: implications for land conflicts in Zimbabwe and South Africa
• Chapter 13. The Security Sector in Zimbabwe's Diamond Governance (2006-2015)
• Chapter 14. Ethnic Federalism, Exclusionary Self-Determination Rights, and Conflicts in Ethiopia: Consociational Democracy as an Alternative Approach to Peace and security
• Chapter 15. Somaliland's Plural Justice System and its Influence on Peacebuilding and Development
• Chapter 16. Exploring the impact of women's organizations in peacebuilding in South Sudan: Post-independence progress
• Chapter 17. Gender-based violence in South Africa: The second pandemic?
• Chapter 18. A Reflection on Gender-Based Violence in Nigeria
• Chapter 19. Food security as a new frontier of war: A geo-historical perspective of food security and armed conflict in sub-Saharan Africa
• Chapter 20. IGAD and the Quest for Economic and Security Regionalism
• Chapter 21. Ethnic Federalism, Exclusionary Self-Determination Rights, and Conflict in Ethiopia: Consociational Democracy as an Alternative Approach to Peace and Security