Hurst co jul 2016 (5 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - HISTORY / Africa / General.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Marie Lall's book seeks to uncover and explain the recent political and economic reforms implemented in post-military Myanmar, focusing on key turning-points that ushered in the current transformation program, particularly those affecting education, NGOs and social justice. She maps the main reform priorities, explaining how they are interconnected, and what has been achieved, in the first tentative steps towards 'democratization', under the umbrella of President Thein Sein's controlled but more inclusive governance. Beyond the building site that is now Yangon, burgeoning urban car ownership and ubiquitous mobile phone use, there remains a widening gap, sharpened by inflation, between rural and urban Myanmar, at social, economic and political levels. Peasants are losing their livelihoods to development schemes that are being created to bring in foreign investment, and social justice is largely absent from the country's reform agenda. While the country has changed significantly, has the West been gulled into mistaking 'discipline-flourishing democracy' for true participatory democracy Will the hopes of Aung San Suu Kyi coming to power in Yangon at the head of the NLD through an open and fair ballot ever be realized These and other questions are scrutinized in this shrewd analysis of post-military Myanmar.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A finely tuned investigation of why the Tamils of Sri Lanka and of India took such divergent paths in their respective political evolution.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This volume offers a comprehensive and original analysis and reconceptualisation of the compendium of struggles that wracked the collapsing Tsarist empire and the emergent USSR, profoundly affecting the history of the twentieth century. Indeed, the reverberations of those decade-long wars echo to the present day -- not despite, but because of the collapse of the Soviet Union, which re-opened many old wounds, from the Baltic to the Caucasus. Contemporary memorialising and ''de-memorialising'' of these wars, therefore form part of the book''s focus, but at its heart lie the struggles between various Russian political and military forces which sought to inherit and preserve, or even expand, the territory of the tsars, overlain with examinations of the attempts of many non- Russian national and religious groups to divide the former empire. The reasons why some of the latter were successful (Poland and Finland, for example), while others (Ukraine, Georgia and the Muslim Basmachi) were not, are as much the author''s concern as are explanations as to why the chief victors of the ''Russian'' Civil Wars were the Bolsheviks.Tellingly, the work begins and ends with battles in Central Asia - a theatre of the ''Russian'' Civil Wars that was closer to Mumbai than it was to Moscow.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A cautionary investigation of the global futures business - political risk, investment funding, think tanks - and how its predictions distort our understanding of the world we live in.