Kashmir in Comparative Perspective - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Kashmir in Comparative Perspective write by Sten Widmalm. This book was released on 2014-04-08. Kashmir in Comparative Perspective available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book investigates the factors that led to the breakdown of democracy and the rise of violent separatism in Jammu and Kashmir in the 1980s, and how the risk of a large-scale war has grown in South Asia in the 1990s. Solutions to this conflict need to be based on knowledge about what caused it as well as perspectives on why this conflict is so particularly dangerous. Widmalm offers answers in this book, with systematic comparisons over time to establish the causes of the conflict. He refutes the contention that ethnic factors are the main cause, while acknowledging that ethnic dividing lines are salient features of the conflict today. Interviews with representatives of the Indian government, the ISI in Pakistan and separatist leaders in Jammu and Kashmir are also incorporated.
Democracy and Violent Separatism in India
Democracy and Violent Separatism in India - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Democracy and Violent Separatism in India write by Sten Widmalm. This book was released on 1997. Democracy and Violent Separatism in India available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Political Tolerance in the Global South
Political Tolerance in the Global South - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Political Tolerance in the Global South write by Sten Widmalm. This book was released on 2016-05-05. Political Tolerance in the Global South available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What makes people agree to the extension of political rights to those they clearly dislike? This book moves beyond the extensive research on this question in western contexts to focus on the global south, offering unique empirical studies of political tolerance in plural societies where poverty is prevalent and democratic institutions can often be fragile. Based on extensive data gathered in India, Pakistan and Uganda, this volume offers an account of the factors that shape the foundations of a society and its capacity to be democratic, but where the need for the protection of human rights is great and where the state is either weak or even constitutes a counter-force against the rights of individuals and groups. Combining large scale survey data with in-depth interviews in each national setting, the author exemplifies the great variation of factors which are related to political tolerance, shedding light on the fundamental patterns existing in the organisation of state-society relations and the ways in which they produce certain results owing to the manner in which the forces of modernisation operate. A broad and empirically informed study of what shapes the foundations of a democratic society in modernising nations, Political Tolerance in the Global South will appeal to scholars of sociology and political science with interests in democracy, human rights, diversity and tolerance.
Violent Conjunctures in Democratic India
Violent Conjunctures in Democratic India - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Violent Conjunctures in Democratic India write by Amrita Basu. This book was released on 2015-06-30. Violent Conjunctures in Democratic India available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is a pioneering study of when and why Hindu Nationalists have engaged in discrimination and violence against minorities in contemporary India. Amrita Basu asks why the incidence and severity of violence differs significantly across Indian states, within states, and through time. Contrary to many predictions, the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has neither consistently engaged in anti-minority violence nor been compelled by the centrifugal pressures of democracy to become a centrist party. Rather, the national BJP has alternated between moderation and militancy. Hindu nationalist violence has been conjunctural, determined by relations among its own party, social movement organization, and state governments, and on the character of opposition states, parties and movements. This study accords particular importance to the role of social movements in precipitating anti-minority violence. It calls for a broader understanding of social movements and a greater appreciation of their relationship to political parties.
The Democratic Experience and Political Violence
The Democratic Experience and Political Violence - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Democratic Experience and Political Violence write by David C. Rapoport. This book was released on 2013-04-03. The Democratic Experience and Political Violence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An incisive analysis of the connections between democracy and violence by acknowledged experts in the field. The connection between the two activities has often been largely ignored because of a widespread reluctance among democrats to consider the possibility that democratic forms perhaps encourage violence. This challenging volume opens up the debate.
