Rebecca Strating 
Post-Colonial Security Dilemma [PDF ebook] 
Timor-Leste and the International Community

A distinguished selection of contributors provide the theoretical background to the restructuring of Europe that is currently underway. It attempts to situate the ethical debates in a historical, leg …

This edited volume brings together critical insights that address the multifaceted problems of governance and democracy in the developing regions with specific reference to Africa. It explores both t …

Many books on performance management or evaluation are about the public sector in general or specifically about some programs or organizations. Only a few of them target the public institutions. This …

This title was first published in 2003. Mexico”s presidential election in 2000 marked the end of 71 years of one-party rule, after a slow process of emergence of democratic institutions and viable s …

Nationalism is once again rising and spreading. Nationlist movements are active throughout the world, demanding political recognition of their nations” identity. Yet the current revival of nationali …

This monograph provides a coherent and systematic explanation of China’s regional economic development from the perspective of regional government competition. It gives an almost unknown exposition o …

Through a discourse analysis of Japanese parliamentary debates, this book explores how different understandings of Japan’s history have led to sharply divergent security policies in the postwar perio …

This book deals with a variety of issues of history, of national security, and of political economy, and focuses on the need for a dynamic perspective. It emphasizes the development of ideas as the m …

This book assesses the evolution of the Soviet approach toward European security policy since the mid-1980s, as seen from the prism of assessments of and policy toward the Federal Republic of Germany …

There is now an appointed world of local governance sitting alongside elected government. this publication seeks to develop understanding of the changing world of local governance and thus contribute …