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Australia as an Asia Pacific Regional Power
Taylor and Francis 2007; US$ 49.95During recent years, in its traditional role as an important Asia-Pacific regional power, Australia has had to cope with a rapidly changing external security environment and a series of new challenges, including a rising China, an increasingly assertive United States, and most notably the Global War against Terror. This book considers the changing... more...
Electoral Processes and Governance in South Asia
SAGE India 2007; US$ 69.00Most South Asian countriesfollowing independence from British rule in the. late nineteen forties, and in the case of Nepal, liberation from the autocracy. of one family group in 1950have enjoyed democratic systems of governance. at least at some time or the other, often for extended periods of time, and, in. a few cases, over the course... more...
Reconstructing the Third Wave of Democracy
University Press of America 2008; US$ 40.99Since the 1990s, trends in African politics require the realization that the public policy practice and the theoretical analysis of 'democracy and democratization' are becoming increasingly important tenets for understanding the contemporary political science of the region. Reconstructing the Third Wave of Democracy explains these new political processes... more...
Towards a Democratic Nepal
SAGE India 2005; US$ 29.95Providing a comprehensive critique of the Constitution adopted in 1990, this book identifies it as an important factor in the exclusion of various ethnic and minority groups. It examines the causes for the lack of democratic consolidation in Nepal and outlines alternative institutions that can give voice to the various socio-cultural groups in the... more...
Choosing the Republic
University of NSW Press 2009; US$ 31.95It has been ten years since the 1999 Republican referendum failed. Whilst it was ultimately unsuccessful, it has engaged people in a debate that has spanned a decade. Australians seem to want a republic, but there is uncertainty about what kind of republic we want. If we wish to understand the implications and future of republicanism, we need to know... more...
South Africa
SAGE Publications 1996; US$ 57.00South Africa held its first fully democratic elections in April 1994. The process was an archetypal case of a negotiated transition of a regime, and as such it is of great interest to students of constitutional mechanisms. The contributors to this book discuss the process, the difficulties and the achievements in the transformation of the South Africa's... more...
Guarding the Guardians
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2010; US$ 99.95This book reviews the intrusion of the armed forces in African politics by examining contemporary armies and their impact on society. It revisits the various explanations of military takeovers in Africa and disentangles the notion of the military as a progressive force. The study argues the necessity of new civil-military relations in Africa, calling... more...
The Route to Power in Nigeria
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2009; US$ 85.00Proceeding from a longitudinal analysis of Nigeria's governorship history, this book shows how personalities have overwhelmed institutions, to the detriment of the country's democratic consolidation. more...
Liberia and Sierra Leone
Cambridge University Press 1976; US$ 27.00Very similar in some ways, but strikingly different in others, Sierra Leone and Liberia have an obvious appeal for comparative analysis. more...
From Subject to Citizen
Cambridge University Press 1997; US$ 34.00This important, theoretically sophisticated work explores the concepts of liberal democracy, citizenship and rights. more...









