The Failure of Democratic Nation Building: Ideology Meets Evolution - 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 Failure of Democratic Nation Building: Ideology Meets Evolution write by A. Somit. This book was released on 2015-12-29. The Failure of Democratic Nation Building: Ideology Meets Evolution available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Throughout history authoritarian governments have outnumbered democratic ones to an overwhelming degree. Even today, true democracies are an exception. In this book, Somit and Peterson argue that the main reason for this pattern is that humans are social primates with an innate tendency for hierarchical and authoritarian social and political structures. Democracy requires very special 'enabling conditions' before it can be supported by a state, conditions that require decades to evolve. As a result, attempts to export democracy through nation-building to states without these enabling conditions are doomed to failure. The authors argue that money and energy devoted to nation-building around the globe by the U.S. would be better spent on problems facing the country domestically.
US Nation-Building in Afghanistan
US Nation-Building in Afghanistan - 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 US Nation-Building in Afghanistan write by Conor Keane. This book was released on 2016-03-31. US Nation-Building in Afghanistan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Why has the US so dramatically failed in Afghanistan since 2001? Dominant explanations have ignored the bureaucratic divisions and personality conflicts inside the US state. This book rectifies this weakness in commentary on Afghanistan by exploring the significant role of these divisions in the US’s difficulties in the country that meant the battle was virtually lost before it even began. The main objective of the book is to deepen readers understanding of the impact of bureaucratic politics on nation-building in Afghanistan, focusing primarily on the Bush Administration. It rejects the ’rational actor’ model, according to which the US functions as a coherent, monolithic agent. Instead, internal divisions within the foreign policy bureaucracy are explored, to build up a picture of the internal tensions and contradictions that bedevilled US nation-building efforts. The book also contributes to the vexed issue of whether or not the US should engage in nation-building at all, and if so under what conditions.
Afghanistan, Iraq, and Post-conflict Governance: Damoclean Democracy?
Afghanistan, Iraq, and Post-conflict Governance: Damoclean Democracy? - 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 Afghanistan, Iraq, and Post-conflict Governance: Damoclean Democracy? write by Imtiaz Hussain. This book was released on 2010-01-11. Afghanistan, Iraq, and Post-conflict Governance: Damoclean Democracy? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A comparative study is made of how conflict-terminating negotiations led to maiden democratic elections in Afghanistan and Iraq, pointing various thresholds out through specific chapters, invoking negotiations theories/stages to deepen interpretations, and prospecting the Bush Doctrine's future mileage in democratizing the Middle East.
Western Military Interventions After The Cold War
Western Military Interventions After The Cold War - 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 Western Military Interventions After The Cold War write by Marek Madej. This book was released on 2018-10-25. Western Military Interventions After The Cold War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book offers an examination of the effectiveness of Western military interventions in the post-Cold War era. It constitutes a comprehensive, interdisciplinary analysis of the conditions, conduct and consequences of post-Cold War armed conflicts, in which Western states, acting as a multinational coalition, were engaged in a combat role as an intervening force, not as an impartial peacekeeper. The volume identifies and analyses the causes, justifications and goals of the interventions, as well as the results of such engagements. The main objective is to assess the effectiveness of the military actions of Western states in these armed conflicts. Apart from the chapters devoted to particular conflicts – such as the Gulf War, the Balkans, Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya – it also includes chapters in which experts summarise the legal, political, military and economic implications of all such Western-led interventions. As a result, the book helps us to understand why these military interventions happened, how they were executed and what the results were. Taking into account the impact of these military expeditions on global security, the book offers an explanation for some of the central questions concerning the current shape of international order and power distribution on a global scale. This book will be of much interest to students of military and strategic studies, conflict studies, foreign policy and International Relations.
Handbook on Evolution and Society
Handbook on Evolution and Society - 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 Handbook on Evolution and Society write by Alexandra Maryanski. This book was released on 2015-11-17. Handbook on Evolution and Society available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Handbook on Evolution and Society" brings together original chapters by prominent scholars who have been instrumental in the revival of evolutionary theorizing and research in the social sciences over the last twenty-five years. Previously unpublished essays provide up-to-date, critical surveys of recent research and key debates. The contributors discuss early challenges posed by sociobiology, the rise of evolutionary psychology, the more conflicted response of evolutionary sociology to sociobiology, and evolutionary psychology. Chapters address the application and limitations of Darwinian ideas in the social sciences. Prominent authors come from a variety of disciplines in ecology, biology, primatology, psychology, sociology, and the humanities. The most comprehensive resource available, this vital collection demonstrates to scholars and students the new ways in which evolutionary approaches, ultimately derived from biology, are influencing the diverse social sciences and humanities.
