EGIPTO

Otros libros del autor

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  HISTORY OF THE PRESENT

  DAVID ROBERTS

  This book explores the demise of the grand narrative of European modernity. That once commanding narrative located the meaning of the past in the present and the meaning of the present in an ever-receding future. Today, instead, the present defines both the past and the future. The ‘contemporary’ has replaced ‘modern’ and ‘post-modern’ self-understandings. The times of the past...

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  PATERNALISM IN EARLY VICTORIAN ENGLAND

  DAVID ROBERTS

  First published in 1979. This book studies the social outlook which historians today call paternalism. It was an ideology which informed social attitudes at all levels of society and expressed itself in countless ways. In this work, David Roberts provides a comprehensive examination of the revival, amplification, and transformation of the ideals of paternalism as a social remed...

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  POLITICAL TRANSITION IN CAMBODIA 1991-99

  DAVID ROBERTS

  This book illustrates the limits to the 1990s UNTAC peacekeeping intervention in Cambodia and raises a critical challenge to the assumptions underpinning key tenets of the 'Liberal Project' as a mechanism for resolving complex, severe struggles for elite political power in developing countries. The book highlights the limitations of externally imposed power-sharing. In the case...

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  LIBERAL PEACEBUILDING AND THE LOCUS OF LEGITIMACY

  DAVID ROBERTS

  Liberal peacebuilding too often builds neither peace nor Liberalism. In a growing number of cases, people aren’t rejecting and relegating democracy because it’s bad; they’re challenging it because it isn’t relevant to their priorities and needs. The peacebuilding ‘moment’ – when consent for intervention is present and the opportunity to build a sustainable social contract betwe...

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  THE BA'TH AND THE CREATION OF MODERN SYRIA (RLE SYRIA)

  DAVID ROBERTS

  This book traces the development of modern Syria focusing on the contribution of the Ba’th party and Ba’thist ideology. It examines the roots of the Ba’th in the intellectual ferment of the 1940s and charts its growing influence on Syrian politics. Special attention is devoted to the crucial Sixth Congress of the Ba’th Party in 1963 and the key ideological document, the Muntala...

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  LIBERAL PEACEBUILDING AND GLOBAL GOVERNANCE

  DAVID ROBERTS

  This book examines the limits to cosmopolitan liberal peacebuilding caused by its preoccupation with the values and assumptions of neoliberal global governance. The peace people experience is determined by the processes privileged in peacebuilding. This book is about four things that shape the processes involved. First, it is a critique of orthodox postconflict peacebuilding. I...

  $1,179.00