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Book Between Opposition and Collaboration

Download or read book Between Opposition and Collaboration written by Richard Ninness and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-09-09 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of the Catholic Prince-Bishopric of Bamberg and its largely Protestant aristocracy tells the complicated story of Lutheran nobles and their relatives in the Catholic Church and their struggle to cooperate in the Reformation era.

Book The Dynamics of Opposition Cooperation in the Arab World

Download or read book The Dynamics of Opposition Cooperation in the Arab World written by Hendrik Jan Kraetzschmar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-02 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within the democratisation literature, opposition unity is widely seen as an important requisite to successfully pressure authoritarian rulers into liberalising reforms and in bringing about democratic change. Taking up on this theme, this book examines the myriad ways in which opposition groups across the Arab world have sought to coalesce into broader reform coalitions at the local, national and transnational levels to challenge authoritarian incumbents and their policies. Drawing on original case studies from the region, it sheds light on the diverse nature and objectives of these reform coalitions, and explores the challenges opposition groups face in Arab states in uniting behind a common reform agenda and in driving this agenda forward. Be they electoral pacts, local government coalitions, broader opposition alliances or networks of resistance, this book demonstrates that, although widespread, the record of collective opposition activism in the Arab world is mixed, with many reform coalitions lacking the necessary cohesion and mass appeal to effectively mobilise for change. This book was originally published as a special issue of British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies

Book Between Uncritical Collaboration and Outright Opposition

Download or read book Between Uncritical Collaboration and Outright Opposition written by Jennifer Conroy Franco and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Collaborating with the Enemy

Download or read book Collaborating with the Enemy written by Adam Kahane and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Offers practical guidance for how to work with diverse others, which is a precondition for confronting many of the complex challenges we face.” —Morris Rosenberg, President, Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Collaboration is increasingly difficult and increasingly necessary. Often, to get something done that really matters to us, we need to work with people we don’t agree with or like or trust. Adam Kahane has faced this challenge many times, working on big issues like democracy and jobs and climate change and on everyday issues in organizations and families. He has learned that our conventional understanding of collaboration—that it requires a harmonious team that agrees on where it’s going, how it’s going to get there, and who needs to do what—is wrong. Instead, we need a new approach to collaboration that embraces discord, experimentation, and genuine cocreation—which is exactly what Kahane provides in this groundbreaking and timely book. “Kahane shows that people who don’t see eye-to-eye really can come together to solve big challenges. Whether in our businesses, our governments, our communities, or our personal lives, we can all benefit from this smart and timely book.” —Mark Tercek, former President, The Nature Conservancy and coauthor of Nature’s Fortune “Shows us how thinking and seeing differently can help us navigate this challenging landscape. Kahane abandons orthodoxy in taking on the most intransigent problems, showing us the path to effective action in a complex world.” —James Gimian, coauthor of The Rules of Victory “Collaborating with the Enemy belongs on the same shelf as Sun Tzu’s The Art of War and Machiavelli’s The Prince.” —Stephen Huddart, President, The J.W. McConnell Family Foundation

Book From Opposition to Power

Download or read book From Opposition to Power written by Shelley Rigger and published by Lynne Rienner Publishers. This book was released on 2001 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title provides an overview of the Democratic Progressive Party of Taiwan, its history, policies, and structure. It traces the party's origins in opposition movements of the 1960s and 1970s and recounts how it was founded in defiance of martial law in 1986.

Book The New Food Activism

Download or read book The New Food Activism written by Alison Alkon and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2017-06-27 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "New and exciting forms of food activism are emerging as supporters of sustainable agriculture increasingly recognize the need for a broader, more strategic and more politicized food politics that engages with questions of social, racial, and economic justice. This book highlights examples of campaigns to restrict industrial agriculture's use of pesticides and other harmful technologies, struggles to improve the pay and conditions of workers throughout the food system, and alternative projects that seek to de-emphasize notions of individualism and private ownership. Grounded in over a decade of scholarly critique of food activism, this volume seeks to answer the question of "what next," inspiring scholars, students, and activists toward collective, cooperative, and oppositional struggles for change."--Provided by publisher.

Book Modernist Literary Collaborations Between Women and Men

Download or read book Modernist Literary Collaborations Between Women and Men written by Russell McDonald and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-10-31 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines literary collaborations between women and men, revealing how deeply imbued and valuable gender conflict was in modernism.

Book Nationalism and the State

Download or read book Nationalism and the State written by John Breuilly and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its publication this important study has become established as a central work on the vast and contested subject of modern nationalism. Placing historical evidence within a general theoretical framework, John Breuilly argues that nationalism should be understood as a form of politics that arises in opposition to the modern state. In this updated and revised edition, he extends his analysis to the most recent developments in central Europe and the former Soviet Union. He also addresses the current debates over the meaning of nationalism and their implications for his position. Breuilly challenges the conventional view that nationalism emerges from a sense of cultural identity. Rather, he shows how elites, social groups, and foreign governments use nationalist appeals to mobilize popular support against the state. Nationalism, then, is a means of creating a sense of identity. This provocative argument is supported with a wide-ranging analysis of pertinent examples-national opposition in early modern Europe; the unification movement in Germany, Italy, and Poland; separatism under the Hapsburg and Ottoman empires; fascism in Germany, Italy, and Romania; post-war anti-colonialism and the nationalist resurgence following the breakdown of Soviet power. Still the most comprehensive and systematic historical comparison of nationalist politics, Nationalism and the State is an indispensable book for anyone seeking to understand modern politics.--

Book When Opponents Cooperate

    Book Details:
  • Author : Benjamin Miller
  • Publisher : University of Michigan Press
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 9780472088720
  • Pages : 388 pages

Download or read book When Opponents Cooperate written by Benjamin Miller and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A multilevel theory of international relations that accounts for intended and unintended outcomes of cooperation and conflict

Book Opposition Politics in Japan

Download or read book Opposition Politics in Japan written by Stephen Johnson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Liberal Democratic Party in Japan remained in power continuously between 1955 and 1993. In this groundbreaking study of the dominance of the LDP in Japanese politics over the last forty years, Opposition Politics in Japan examines the challenges which were mounted against this regime and explores why they failed. The subjects covered include opportunities for a united opposition during the 1970s, ideological, organisational and electoral aspects of the opposition's lack of response to such opportunities and the causes of opposition fragmentation. The book also looks at attempts at coalition, the influence of the trade unions, the importance of organisational factors and the influence, if any, of the oppositions's Marxist tendencies. A highly original and thorough exploration of the issues, Opposition Politics in Japan is essential reading for all those interested in Japanese politics.

Book Political Opposition in Theory and Central European Practice

Download or read book Political Opposition in Theory and Central European Practice written by Michal Kubát and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2010 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers interpretations of different forms of political opposition in political theory and also in the contemporary development of politics and government in Central Europe. The problem is analyzed through a comparative approach. The first part of the book targets the question of definitions and typologies of political opposition, above all, in democratic, but partly also in non-democratic regimes. The second part deals with the question of models of political opposition in Central Europe after the fall of communism in the late twentieth century and in the present.

Book Proceedings

Download or read book Proceedings written by Council on Social Work Education and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Wikinomics

Download or read book Wikinomics written by Don Tapscott and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-04-17 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed bestseller that's teaching the world about the power of mass collaboration. Translated into more than twenty languages and named one of the best business books of the year by reviewers around the world, Wikinomics has become essential reading for business people everywhere. It explains how mass collaboration is happening not just at Web sites like Wikipedia and YouTube, but at traditional companies that have embraced technology to breathe new life into their enterprises. This national bestseller reveals the nuances that drive wikinomics, and share fascinating stories of how masses of people (both paid and volunteer) are now creating TV news stories, sequencing the human gnome, remixing their favorite music, designing software, finding cures for diseases, editing school texts, inventing new cosmetics, and even building motorcycles.

Book Literatures of War

    Book Details:
  • Author : Eve Patten
  • Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • Release : 2020-11-09
  • ISBN : 1527561836
  • Pages : 470 pages

Download or read book Literatures of War written by Eve Patten and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-11-09 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The most terrible disaster that one group of human beings can inflict on another is war. Wars cause misery on an indescribable scale. Yet we go on doing it to one another, generation after generation. Why? Warfare is a recurrent and universal characteristic of human existence. The mythologies of practically all peoples abound in wars and the superhuman deeds of warriors, and pre-literate communities apparently delighted in the recital of stories about battles. Since our species became literate a mere 5,000 years ago, written history has mostly been the history of wars. Thousands who knew war evidently sickened of it and dreamt of lasting peace, expressing their vision in literature and art, in philosophy and religion. They imagined Utopias freed of martial ambition and bloodshed which harked back to the Golden Age of classical antiquity, to the Christian vision of a paradise lost, and to the Arcadia of Greek and Latin poetry, so richly celebrated in the canvases of Claude and Poussin. All these things bear eloquent testimony to the human longing for peace, but they have not triumphed over our dreadfully powerful propensity to war.” —from the Introduction by Anthony Stevens In this multi-disciplinary collection of essays on the manifestations of war in poetry, fiction, drama, music and documentaries, scholars and practitioners from an international context describe the transformation of the war experience into chronicles of hope and despair, from Herodotus up to the present day.

Book Dharma in Political Leadership  Insights from the Bhagavad Gita

Download or read book Dharma in Political Leadership Insights from the Bhagavad Gita written by Arindam Bhattacharya and published by Transcendence Times. This book was released on 2024-04-01 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Dharma in Political Leadership: Insights from the Bhagavad Gita" offers a profound exploration into the application of ancient wisdom to modern governance. Authored by Arindam Bhattacharya, this e-book delves into the timeless teachings of the Bhagavad Gita and their relevance in shaping ethical leadership practices in today's political landscape. Through a comprehensive analysis, Bhattacharya uncovers the intricate interplay between dharma, or righteous duty, and effective leadership, drawing upon the rich tapestry of Hindu philosophy to illuminate key principles and strategies for aspiring leaders. Grounded in the teachings of the Bhagavad Gita, this e-book provides valuable insights and practical guidance for leaders seeking to navigate complex ethical dilemmas, foster inclusive governance, and promote the greater welfare of society. Whether you're a seasoned politician, a budding leader, or an avid student of philosophy, "Dharma in Political Leadership" offers a thought-provoking exploration into the transformative power of ethical leadership informed by timeless wisdom.

Book Society  Resistance and Civil Nuclear Policy in India

Download or read book Society Resistance and Civil Nuclear Policy in India written by Varigonda Kesava Chandra and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-29 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how anti-nuclear social movements impact the state’s civil nuclear policy and its implementation by presenting a historical-comparative case study of anti-nuclear movements in India. Drawing on social movement theory and empirical methods, the book demonstrates that the ability for anti-nuclear movements to impede the inception of nuclear plants – a key element of India’s civil nuclear policy – is determined by the movement’s collective action repertoires, the politicisation of nuclear power and the state’s larger developmental paradigm, and the openness of state input structures. The case studies of anti-nuclear movements in Haripur, Kudankulam and Kovvada demonstrate how the implementation of civil nuclear policy is also determined by the state’s technical and financial capacity and effective international collaboration. With a focus on theorisation of social movements and their impact, combined with empirical studies of anti-nuclear movements, as well as the historical trajectory of civil nuclear development, the book adds a new prism to the study of India’s civil nuclear policy and anti-nuclear opposition. It will be of interest to researchers working on social movements, state-society relations, energy studies and civil nuclear energy in the context of South Asia and the Global South.

Book Englishmen  Frenchmen  Spaniards

Download or read book Englishmen Frenchmen Spaniards written by Salvador de Madariaga and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: