Paradox of Partition: The partition plan : a destiny's judgement
Author : Raj Pruthi
Publisher :
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 33,40 MB
Release : 2008
Category : India
ISBN :
Author : Raj Pruthi
Publisher :
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 33,40 MB
Release : 2008
Category : India
ISBN :
Author : Venkat Dhulipala
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 21,79 MB
Release : 2015-02-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1107052122
This book challenges the fundamental assumptions regarding the foundations of Pakistani nationalism during colonial rule in India.
Author : Gyanesh Kudaisya
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 24,52 MB
Release : 2004-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1134440480
The Aftermath of Partition in South Asia draws upon new theoretical insights and fresh bodies of data to historically reappraise partition in the light of its long aftermath.
Author : Alan Baker
Publisher : Jerusalem Ctr Public Affairs
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 25,21 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Administered Territories (Israel)
ISBN : 9652181005
A collection of articles about Israel's right of establishment as a Jewish homeland and as an independent country.
Author : Andrei Lankov
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 48,92 MB
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 0199390037
In The Real North Korea, Lankov substitutes cold, clear analysis for the overheated rhetoric surrounding this opaque police state. Based on vast expertise, this book reveals how average North Koreans live, how their leaders rule, and how both survive
Author : Clifford Adelman
Publisher :
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 22,17 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Education
ISBN :
The Toolbox Revisited is a data essay that follows a nationally representative cohort of students from high school into postsecondary education, and asks what aspects of their formal schooling contribute to completing a bachelor's degree by their mid-20s. The universe of students is confined to those who attended a four-year college at any time, thus including students who started out in other types of institutions, particularly community colleges.
Author : Samuel Moyn
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 34,88 MB
Release : 2012-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0674256522
Human rights offer a vision of international justice that today’s idealistic millions hold dear. Yet the very concept on which the movement is based became familiar only a few decades ago when it profoundly reshaped our hopes for an improved humanity. In this pioneering book, Samuel Moyn elevates that extraordinary transformation to center stage and asks what it reveals about the ideal’s troubled present and uncertain future. For some, human rights stretch back to the dawn of Western civilization, the age of the American and French Revolutions, or the post–World War II moment when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was framed. Revisiting these episodes in a dramatic tour of humanity’s moral history, The Last Utopia shows that it was in the decade after 1968 that human rights began to make sense to broad communities of people as the proper cause of justice. Across eastern and western Europe, as well as throughout the United States and Latin America, human rights crystallized in a few short years as social activism and political rhetoric moved it from the hallways of the United Nations to the global forefront. It was on the ruins of earlier political utopias, Moyn argues, that human rights achieved contemporary prominence. The morality of individual rights substituted for the soiled political dreams of revolutionary communism and nationalism as international law became an alternative to popular struggle and bloody violence. But as the ideal of human rights enters into rival political agendas, it requires more vigilance and scrutiny than when it became the watchword of our hopes.
Author : Stephen Vertigans
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 29,88 MB
Release : 2008-10-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1134126395
Militant Islam provides a sociological framework for understanding the rise and character of recent Islamic militancy. It takes a systematic approach to the phenomenon and includes analysis of cases from around the world, comparisons with militancy in other religions, and their causes and consequences. The sociological concepts and theories examined in the book include those associated with social closure, social movements, nationalism, risk, fear and ‘de-civilising’. These are applied within three main themes; characteristics of militant Islam, multi-layered causes and the consequences of militancy, in particular Western reactions within the ‘war on terror’. Interrelationships between religious and secular behaviour, ‘terrorism’ and ‘counter-terrorism’, popular support and opposition are explored. Through the examination of examples from across Muslim societies and communities, the analysis challenges the popular tendency to concentrate upon ‘al-Qa’ida’ and the Middle East. This book will be of interest to students of Sociology, Political Science and International Relations, in particular those taking courses on Islam, religion, terrorism, political violence and related regional studies.
Author : Baruch Kimmerling
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 47,1 MB
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674039599
In a timely reminder of how the past informs the present, Baruch Kimmerling and Joel Migdal offer an authoritative account of the history of the Palestinian people from their modern origins to the Oslo peace process and beyond. Palestinians struggled to create themselves as a people from the first revolt of the Arabs in Palestine in 1834 through the British Mandate to the impact of Zionism and the founding of Israel. Their relationship with the Jewish people and the State of Israel has been fundamental in shaping that identity, and today Palestinians find themselves again at a critical juncture. In the 1990s cornerstones for peace were laid for eventual Palestinian-Israeli coexistence, including mutual acceptance, the renunciation of violence as a permanent strategy, and the establishment for the first time of Palestinian self-government. But the dawn of the twenty-first century saw a reversion to unmitigated hatred and mutual demonization. By mid-2002 the brutal violence of the Intifada had crippled Palestine's fledgling political institutions and threatened the fragile social cohesion painstakingly constructed after 1967. Kimmerling and Migdal unravel what went right--and what went wrong--in the Oslo peace process, and what lessons we can draw about the forces that help to shape a people. The authors present a balanced, insightful, and sobering look at the realities of creating peace in the Middle East.
Author : Barry Buzan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 35,95 MB
Release : 2003-12-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780521891110
This book develops the idea that since decolonisation, regional patterns of security have become more prominent in international politics. The authors combine an operational theory of regional security with an empirical application across the whole of the international system. Individual chapters cover Africa, the Balkans, CIS Europe, East Asia, EU Europe, the Middle East, North America, South America, and South Asia. The main focus is on the post-Cold War period, but the history of each regional security complex is traced back to its beginnings. By relating the regional dynamics of security to current debates about the global power structure, the authors unfold a distinctive interpretation of post-Cold War international security, avoiding both the extreme oversimplifications of the unipolar view, and the extreme deterritorialisations of many globalist visions of a new world disorder. Their framework brings out the radical diversity of security dynamics in different parts of the world.