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1 online resource. |
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Nijhoff law specials ; v. 84
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Nijhoff law specials ; v. 84.
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Includes index. |
| Summary |
Taking a historical and comparative perspective, the book analyses current attempts of regime change in various parts of the world, their intended and unintended consequences, as well as moral, legal and political aspects of external interference in internal processes. |
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Regime Change; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Introduction; I. From an African Village to a Global Village; 1. Ex Uno Plures in the Evolution of Humankind; 2. Is E Pluribus Unum Replacing Ex Uno Plures?; 3. Homogenisation of the World and Heterogenisation of Individual Societies; 4. 'Oh, East is East, and West is West, and Never the Twain shall Meet, Till Earth and Sky Stand Presently at God's great Judgment Seat'?; II. Whither goest thou, the World?; 1. Universal History and Historical Determinism; 2. Current Regime Changes: Socioeconomic and Political Problems. |
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3. Problems of Liberal Democracy and Democratic Capitalism4. Limits of Social Democratic Choice in a Globalised World; 5. Any Viable Alternatives?; III. On the Futility and Danger of External Attempts to 'Democratise' China; 1. China's Rise and the Changing Balance of Power; 2. Modernising China -- a Democratic China?; 3. A Small Diversion to Illustrate the Point: The Kyrgyz Tragedy of 2010; 4. Back to China: Reforms, not Revolution; 5. The World's Reaction to China's rise; 6. From Westernisation to Sinification?; IV. Regime Changes in Russia: Gorbachev, Yeltsin and Putin. |
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1. Understanding Russia or Believing in Russia2. Collapse of the USSR and the Emergence of Yeltsin's Russia; 3. On Putin's Authoritarianism; 4. Russia -- Not Lost to Democracy; 5. Russia -- Too Big to Practice Bandwaggoning; 6. Russia and its Close Neighbours; 7. Russia -- Part of Europe?; V. Democratic Peace Theories and Regime change; 1. Theory and Politics of Democratic Peace; 2. Problems with Democratic Peace Theories; 3. Immanuel Kant and the XXI Century World; 4. On the War-Proneness of Some Democratising States; VI. Humanitarian Intervention, Civil Wars and Regime Change. |
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1. Use of Force and Humanitarian Concerns in 'Modern' and 'Post-Modern' International Societies2. The Kosovo Case Revisited; 3. Recognition of Kosovo, Abkhazia and South Ossetia; 4. The Libya Case; 5. The Syria Tragedy; 6. Humanitarian Intervention and Regime Change: Some Generalisations; 7. From Humanitarian Intervention to R2P or 'Old Wine in New Bottles'?; 8. Intervention in Civil Wars or Internal Disturbances and Regime Change; 9. Determinants of Success of External Interference: Efforts of Interveners or Characteristics of theTarget Society?; Conclusions; Index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Regime change.
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Regime change. |
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Democratization.
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Democratization. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9789004232303 9004232303 (DLC) 2012046836 |
| ISBN |
9004232311 (electronic book) |
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9789004232310 (electronic book) |
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9789004232303 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9004232303 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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