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  • Diffusion of Democracy

    The Past and Future of Global Democracy

    by Barbara Wejnert ...
    This book explores the course and causes of the worldwide diffusion of democracy through an assessment of the political and economic development of individual countries from the year 1800 to 2005. Using this extended range of data and examining multiple variables, Barbara Wejnert creates a conceptual model for the diffusion of democracy and to measure national democratization. The author ... Read more

    $48.79 CAD

  • Politics and Public Policy

    by Barbara Wejnert ...
    Series Book 20 - Research in Political Sociology
    This volume highlights the ways in which scholarly analysis has contributed to a rich understanding of the links between spreading democracy, gender equality, and environmental protection. Combining theoretical, empirical, and policy perspectives, the volume includes cutting-edge debates on the meaning of democracy and the processes of its development, as well as the response of democracies to ... Read more

    $182.49 CAD

  • The Global Rise of Autocracy

    Its Threat to a Sustainable Future

    Edited by Barbara Wejnert ...
    Series series Democratization and Autocratization Studies
    This book revitalizes the discourse on backsliding democracy and the global rise of autocracy, extending the consequences of their changes to a sustainable future.In three sections, the book systematically examines diverse pathways leading autocracies to rise and spread worldwide and debates the future consequences. Using a multidisciplinary approach, the book conceptualizes the rise of autocracy ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Democracy in Retreat and the Climate Crisis

    Challenges and Strategies for Adaptation in an Evolving Political Landscape

    Edited by Barbara Wejnert ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This volume sheds light on the complex global landscape of democracy weakening and autocracy strengthening, along with their profound impact on the response to the climate crisis. The book is divided into three sections and adopts a multidisciplinary approach. The first section examines various pathways of global democracy erosion and autocracy growth, including challenges posed by voters, ... Read more

    $179.39 CAD

  • Safe Motherhood in a Globalized World

    Edited by Barbara Wejnert, Suzanne K. Steinmetz, Nirupama Prakash ...
    This book provides cutting edge information on safe motherhood in a global context. The chapters focus on research, program development and implementation, and policy dealing with various aspects of pregnancy, labor and delivery. Safe motherhood is a critical issue since healthy, safe motherhood is the prerequisite for a healthy, productive society. Writing about the situation in their countries, ... Read more

    $114.04 CAD

  • Systemic Inequality, Sustainability and COVID-19

    Edited by Seela Aladuwaka, Barbara Wejnert, Ram Alagan ...
    Series Book 29 - Research in Political Sociology
    The global spread of COVID-19 has led to devastating effects on countries worldwide in terms of population health, economy, politics, and sustainable development. Systemic Inequality, Sustainability and COVID-19 provides an opportunity to engage in a critical dialog on the consequences and interactions of COVID-19 with social inequalities and environment management.The pandemic has shattered ... Read more

    $144.09 CAD

  • Enabling Gender Equality

    Future Generations of the Global World

    Edited by Barbara Wejnert, Eunice Rodriguez ...
    Series Book 23 - Research in Political Sociology
    To challenge gender discrimination and to secure the world's prosperity and peace, we urgently need pro-girls and pro-women policies in the contemporary, globally developing world. Such policies could mark an era of building greater gender equality across the world by sheltering domains of women's well-being that are shown to decline. These needs can be best summarized by Kofi Annan, Secretary ... Read more

    $173.69 CAD

  • On the Cross Road of Polity, Political Elites and Mobilization

    Edited by Barbara Wejnert, Paolo Parigi ...
    Series Book 24 - Research in Political Sociology
    This volume discusses the various interrelations that exist within and between social and political phenomena. This includes exploring the underlying social roots or origins of politics and power; the organisation, management, and process of political power structure; and the effects of political decision-making and power structures on the surrounding society and culture. ... Read more

    $178.09 CAD

  • Many Faces of Populism

    Current Perspectives

    Edited by Dwayne Woods, Barbara Wejnert ...
    Series Book 22 - Research in Political Sociology
    Populism comes in many guises. Both Berlusconi's personalization of politics and the Northern League's antiimmigrant regionalist movement are viewed as examples of the phenomenon of populism. A type of leftwing populism embodied by Hugo Chavez swept across Latin America. Insurgent and antisystem movements and parties in places as different as the Netherlands, India, Norway, Thailand, Russia and ... Read more

    $182.49 CAD

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  • After Europe

    by Ivan Krastev ...
    In this provocative book, renowned public intellectual Ivan Krastev reflects on the future of the European Union—and its potential lack of a future. With far-right nationalist parties on the rise across the continent and the United Kingdom planning for Brexit, the European Union is in disarray and plagued by doubts as never before. Krastev includes chapters devoted to Europe's major problems ... Read more

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  • Bound to Lead

    The Changing Nature of American Power

    by Joseph S Nye Jr. ...
    **A pre-eminent scholar challenges the notion of inevitable American decline, arguing that the nation can still lead in a rapidly shifting world order“Nye marshals his wide grasp of history, politics, and economics to produce a compelling book.” —The Economist**In this pioneering work, Joseph S. Nye, Jr., reckons with the enduring claim that American decline is inevitable. He argues that the ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Changing Transatlantic Security Relations

    Do the U.S, the EU and Russia Form a New Strategic Triangle?

    Edited by Jan Hallenberg, Håkan Karlsson ...
    Series series Contemporary Security Studies
    This new book shows how the idea of a strategic triangle can illuminate the security relationships among the United States, the European Union and Russia in the greater transatlantic sphere.This concept highlights how the relationships among these three actors may, on some issues, be closely related. A central question also follows directly from the use of the notion of the triangle: does the EU ... Read more

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