Democracy in the South

Participation the State and the Peoples

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This is the first truly international collaboration drawing attention to the problems of democratic consolidation across the Southern regions of the world. Nine case studies-three each from Africa, Latin America, and Asia-shed light on the contemporary challenges faced by democratizing nations, mostly from the perspective of emerging theorists working in their home countries. "In this valuable new book, scholars from the regions concerned explain the theory and practice of democracy away from the familiar Western world. As such, the book will be useful to students and scholars of comparative as much as international politics for presenting voices from the South about the challenges of consolidating democracy in developing countries."-Ramesh Thakur, director, Balsillie School of International Affairs "The authors provide us with insightful and critical analyses of the strengths and weaknesses of democracies in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. They show that there are neither Northern, nor Southern, nor African, Latin American, nor Asian 'models' of democracy, ready to be replicated elsewhere."-Albrecht Schnabel, senior fellow, Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. September 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9789280811780
• ISBN-10: 9280811789
• Artikelnr.: 29213778

Autorenporträt

Brendan Howe is associate professor of international relations at the Ewha Graduate School of International Studies, Seoul. Vesselin Popovski is senior academic officer and head of section for the Peace and Security Program in the Institute for Sustainability and Peace at the United Nations University (UNU-ISP). Mark Notaras is a researcher for the Peace and Security Program, UNU-ISP.