María Eugenia D'Aubeterre Buznego, "Class, Gender and Migration: Return Flows between Mexico and the United States in Times of Crisis "
English | ISBN: 1138318949 | 2020 | 180 pages | EPUB | 892 KB
Using a gender-sensitive political economy approach, this book analyzes the emergence of new migration patterns between Central Mexico and the East Coast of the United States in the last decades of the twentieth century, and return migration during and after the global economic crisis of 2007.

Jonatan Rudolph, "Civil-military Relationship: Now and Then"
English | ISBN: 9386367521 | 2017 | 322 pages | EPUB | 334 KB
A Civil-military relation describes the relationship between civil society as a whole and the military organization established to protect it. More narrowly, it describes the relationship between the civil authority of a given society and its military authority. Studies of civil-military relations often rest on a normative assumption that civilian control of the military is preferable to military control of the state. The principal problem they examine, however, is empirical: to explain how civilian control over the military is established and maintained. Civil-military relations are those interactions between the military and civilian actors that in some way relate to the power to make political decisions. Traditionally, the study of civil-military relations levitated around questions of who is master and who is servant in civil-military relations and who "guards the guardians" of the nation. In other words: the question of civilian control is at the heart of civil-military relations. Even though in recent years, especially with the fall of the Berlin Wall, democratization processes in eastern Europe, the enlargement of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the proliferation of peace-building missions and programs in so-called post-conflict societies, the concept of security sector governance or security sector reform has gained prominence in the academic and policy-oriented literature, civilian control remains the central issue in civil-military relations in emerging democracies. The book deeply highlights the civil-military relation and its strategies.

Civil Wars in the Democratic Republic of Congo, 1960-2010 By Emizet Francois Kisangani
2012 | 252 Pages | ISBN: 1588268276 | PDF | 2 MB
Wars of secession, ethnic wars, rebellions, mutinies, and Congolese-led invasions have been part of the political landscape of the Democratic Republic of Congo since the country became independent in 1960. Why? And what can we learn from this seemingly unending series of internal conflicts? Emizet Francois Kisangani explores these fundamental questions within a rigourously systematic and uniquely comprehensive framework. Looking closely at five decades of civil wars in the DRC, Kisangani finds ample evidence to challenge popular paradigms. His focus on the politics of exclusion and his attention to both the micro- and macro processes of the wars provides an analytical lens through which not only the nature of civil wars, but also Congo's politics more broadly, are brought into clearer focus.

Civil Society, Democracy and Democratization (Warsaw Studies in Philosophy and Social Sciences) By Dorota Pietrzyk-Reeves
2016 | 208 Pages | ISBN: 3631665261 | PDF | 2 MB
The book contributes to the ongoing discussion and research on civil society in the context of democracy and democratization. It provides a theoretical analysis of civil society, participation, the public sphere and democratic consolidation in light of normative democratic theory and the challenges of democratic transformation in Central and Eastern Europe. It also offers a novel approach to some of the key issues in that debate including corruption and democratic consolidation, active citizenship, civic unity and the rule of law as well as theories of democratization. Finally, it asks the question as to whether a properly functioning democracy must be complemented with civil society and the numerous roles it plays in a political community of free citizens.

Natalia Shapovalova, "Civil Society in Post-Euromaidan Ukraine: From Revolution to Consolidation "
English | ISBN: 3838212169 | 2018 | 400 pages | EPUB | 812 KB
This book is among the first comprehensive efforts to collectively and academically investigate the legacy of the Euromaidan in conflict-torn Ukraine within the domain of civil society broadly understood. The contributions to this book identify, describe, conceptualize, and explain various developments in Ukrainian civil society and its role in Ukraine's democratization, state-building, and conflict resolution by looking at specific understudied sectors and by tracing the situation before, during, and after the Euromaidan. In doing so, this trailblazing collection highlights a number of new themes, challenges, and opportunities related to Ukrainian civil society. They include volunteerism, grassroots community-based activism, social activism of churches, civic efforts of building peace and reconciliation, civic activism of journalists and digital activism, activism of think tanks, diaspora networks and the LGBT movement, challenges of civil society relations with the state, uncivil society, and the closing of civic space.

Bernard Nwosu, "Civil Society and Democracy in Nigeria: A Theoretical Approach "
English | ISBN: 0367638088 | 2021 | 226 pages | EPUB | 362 KB
This book examines the complex relationship between the state and civil society and the impact that this has had on democratization processes in Nigeria from colonial times to the present.

Rohan Gunaratna, "Civil Society Organizations Against Terrorism "
English | ISBN: 0367712792 | 2021 | 214 pages | EPUB | 986 KB
With recent changes in social and political landscapes around the world the focus of preventive counter-terrorism has shifted in many places from government to civil society.

Steven Frankel, "Civil Religion in Modern Political Philosophy: Machiavelli to Tocqueville"
English | ISBN: 0271086157 | 2020 | 256 pages | EPUB | 564 KB
Inspired by Machiavelli, modern philosophers held that the tension between the goals of biblical piety and the goals of political life needed to be resolved in favor of the political, and they attempted to recast and delimit traditional Christian teaching to serve and stabilize political life accordingly. This volume examines the arguments of those thinkers who worked to remake Christianity into a civil religion in the early modern and modern periods.

City and Power - Postmodern Urban Spaces in Contemporary Poland (Warsaw Studies in Philosophy and Social Sciences) By Katarzyna Kajdanek (editor), Igor Pietraszewski (editor), Jacek Pluta (editor)
2018 | 160 Pages | ISBN: 3631664907 | PDF | 5 MB
This book is an empirical study of a central European city focused on the political process. The authors use the example of the city of Wroclaw to present a condition of the urban public sphere in the context of local governance. Contemporary specificity of the public sphere is a result of a long process of system transformation in this part of Europe as well as of the impact new global challenges have had on the political process in self-governmental institutions. The book presents the practice of governance as a form of the political in both institutional and civic spheres of the city. The cases provided (related to politics of memory, the symbolic, sports, subcultures and urban movements) show how circulations of governance practices are created and how they influence the institutional borders of the political.

Peter Gumbel, "Citizens of Everywhere: Searching for Identity in the Age of Brexit"
English | ISBN: 1913368076 | 2021 | 78 pages | EPUB | 180 KB
In 1939, as war loomed, Peter Gumbel's Jewish-born grandparents fled Nazi Germany for England. But within a matter of decades, their grandson, appalled by the Brexit referendum, had become a citizen of the country they fled eighty years ago. How had it come to this?