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Community Works: The Revival of Civil Society in America
by E. J. Dionne Jr. 161 pgs.

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Acknowledgments

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Introduction Why Civil Society? Why Now?

Part One: An Idea and Its Consequences

2: Is Civil Society Obsolete? Revisiting Predictions of the Decline of Civil Society in Whose Keeper?

3: Not a Cure-All

4: America's Civic Condition a Glance at the Evidence

5: Don't Blame Big Government America's Voluntary Groups Thrive in a National Network

6: All Community is Local the Key to America's Civic Renewal

7: The Lord's Work the Church and Civil Society

9: Give Community Institutions a Fighting Chance

10: Recreating the Civil Society One Child at a Time

11: No Paintbrushes, No Paint

12: Beyond Theory Civil Society in Action

13: Poverty 101 What Liberals and Conservatives Can Learn from Each Other

14: Where Have All the Followers Gone?

Part Two: Political Responses

15: Civil Society and the Humble Role of Government

16: America's Challenge Revitalizing Our National Community

Part Three: Philosophical Responses

17: Second Thoughts on Civil Society

18: The Idea of Civil Society a Path to Social Reconstruction

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Social Pathology in Comparative Perspective: The Nature and Psychology of Civil Society
by Jerome Braun. 298 pgs.

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This book builds on the notion that social pathology differs from society to society and that the sense of character that develops in each society is specific to different perceptions of interpersonal obligations and responsibilities in that society. The book deals with the cultural and psychological effects of social change relevant to the study of modernity and postmodernity. It deals with particular social issues such as war and conflict, juvenile delinquency, problems of social ecology and religious revivalism, all reflecting the stresses of modern life and social change within very concrete, particular environments. Braun and his contributors show how individual character and civil society evolve together to create culturally specific trajectories of social change.

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Introduction

Conclusion

Part I Character in Modern Society

1: Personality, Pathology, and Modernism in Max Weber

2: Is Character Any Longer a Meaningful Concept?

3: The Natural Ecology of Personal Relationships

4: Social Pathology and Social Ecology

Part II Social Pathology in Comparative Perspective

5: Juvenile Delinquency in Germany, South Africa, and America: Explorations in National Character

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6: Schizophrenia: A Transcultural View

7: Social Isolation in Chinese and American Culture

8: Complicated Mourning and Mobilization for Nationalism

9: The Psychology of War: A Study in Antirelationships

Part III Civil Society

10: Responses to Nihilism: Religious Revivals and Political Activism in the United States, Japan, India, and Germany

Notes

11: Modernity and Politics

12: Social Disorder and Revival Movements: Some Opinions

Appendix A: Why Doing Social Science is So Hard

Appendix B: Social Cohesion in Democratic and Authoritarian Societies

Appendix C: the Sense of Self

Selected Bibliography

Index

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Toward a Global Civil Society
by Michael Walzer. 341 pgs.

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Foreword

Introduction

Part I: The Concept of Civil Society

2. Private and Public Roles in Civil Society

3. Interpreting the Notion of Civil Society

4. Reconceptualizing Civil Society for Now: Some Somewhat Gramscian Turnings

5. Civil Society, Hard Cases and the End of the Cold War

Part II: The Communitarian Approach

7. Too Many Rights, Too Few Responsibilities

8. Progressive Politics and Communitarian Culture

9. Neo-Hegelian Reflections on the Communitarian Debate

10. from Socialism to Communitarianism

11. on Labels and Reasons: the Communitarian Approach--Some European Comments

Part III: Economic Policy and Social Justice

13. Industrial Policy--Will Clinton Find the High Wage Path?

14. Redefining the Role of the State to Facilitate Reform in East and West

15. Between Social Darwinism and the Overprotective State -- Some Reflections on A Modern Concept of Social Welfare Policy

16. Civil Society and Social Justice

17. American Social Reform and A New Kind of Modernity

Part IV the Internationalization of Politics and Economics and the Challenge of Nationalism, Immigration, and Minority Conflict

19. Rooted Cosmopolitanism

20. Ethnicity, Migration, and the Validity of the Nation-State

21. Neither Politics Nor Economics

22. the Left in the Process of Democratization in Central and Eastern European Countries

Part V: European Socialism and American Social Reform\

24. Pluralism and the Left Identity

25. What's Left After Socialism

26. Some Reflections on the New World Order and Disorder

Notes on Contributors

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From Civil Strife to Civil Society: Civil and Military Responsibilities in Disrupted States
by William Maley, Charles Sampford, Ramesh Thakur. 369 pgs.

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This publication contains 18 papers which explore the challenges, posed by states involved in civil conflict, for the UN, individual countries and non-governmental organisations, whether acting as providers of humanitarian assistance or agents of political and social reconstruction. Issues discussed include: the dimensions of state disruption and the roles of the international community in responding to it; military doctrine for dealing with disorder and humanitarian emergencies; mechanisms for ending violence and delivering justice in post-conflict times; problems of rebuilding trust and promoting democracy; reconstitution of the rule of law; and the re-establishment of social and civil order.

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Preface and Acknowledgements

Introduction

Notes

Part 1: The Problem of Disrupted States

1: The Dimensions of State Disruption

Notes

2: The International Community and Disrupted States

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3: The Prevention—intervention Dichotomy: Two Sides of the Same Coin?

Notes

Part 2: Challenges for the Military in Disrupted States

4: Managing Future Chaos: the United States Marine Corps in the Twenty-First Century

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5: Complex Emergencies and Military Capabilities

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Part 3: Ending Violence

6: Violence, Sovereignty and Conflict Resolution

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7: Waging Peace and Ending Violence in the Twenty-First Century

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8: Mercy and Justice in the Transition Period

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Part 4: Reconstituting Political Order

9: Institutional Design and the Rebuilding of Trust

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10: Democracy and Democratisation

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Part 5: Reconstituting Legal Order

11: Rebuilding the Rule of Law

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12: Military Force and Justice

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Part 6: Reconstituting Social Order

13: The United Nations and Social Reconstruction in Disrupted States

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14: Reconstituting Whose Social Order? Ngos in Disrupted States

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15: Comprehensive Security Partnerships for Refugees

Part 7: Transition to Civil Order

16: Disarmament and Reintegration of Combatants

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17: Policing Civil Order

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18: Afterword: Rebuilding the Rule of Law in the Horn of Africa

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Paradoxes of Civil Society: New Perspectives on Modern German and British History
by Frank Trentmann. 380 pgs.

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Civil society has been experiencing a global renaissance among social movements and political thinkers. This collection of papers offers a comparative-historical dimension to the debate by examining the roots of civil society in Germany and Britain.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

PREFACE

PART I: INTRODUCTORY PERSPECTIVES

INTRODUCTION: Paradoxes of Civil Society

1: REFLECTIONS ON THE MAKING OF CIVILITY IN SOCIETY

PART II: CONCEPTUAL ORIGINS

2: "THE COMMERCE OF THE SEXES" Gender and the Social Sphere in Scottish Enlightenment Accounts of Civil Society

3: KANT, SMITH, AND HEGEL The Market and the Categorical Imperative

4: IMMANUEL KANT'S TWO THEORIES OF CIVIL SOCIETY

PART III: ASSOCIATIONAL LIFE AND THE EDUCATION OF CITIZENS

5: THE INTELLIGENCE GAZETTE (INTELLIGENZBLATT) AS A ROAD MAP TO CIVIL SOCIETY Information Networks and Local Dynamism in Germany, 1770s-1840s

6 CLUB CULTURE AND SOCIAL AUTHORITY: Freemasonry in Leipzig, 1741-1830

7: ENERGY, WILLPOWER, AND HARMONY On the Problematic Relationship between State and Civil Society in Nineteenth-Century Germany

PART IV: THE LIMITS OF INCLUSION

8: CIVIC CULTURE, WOMEN'S FOREIGN MISSIONS, AND THE BRITISH IMPERIAL IMAGINATION, 1860-1914

9: THE VILLAGE GOES PUBLIC Peasants and Press in Nineteenth-Century Altbayern

10: RELIGION AND CIVIL SOCIETY Catholics, Jesuits, and Protestants in Imperial Germany

11: PROSTITUTES, CIVIL SOCIETY, AND THE STATE IN WEIMAR GERMANY

PART V: POLITICAL CULTURE AND SOCIAL CITIZENSHIP

-- 12 --: OLIGARCHS, LIBERALS, AND MITTELSTAND Defining Civil Society in Hamburg, 1858-1862

13: CIVIL SOCIETY, COMMERCE, AND THE "CITIZEN-CONSUMER" Popular Meanings of Free Trade in Modern Britain

14: SOCIALISM, CIVIL SOCIETY, AND THE STATE IN MODERN BRITAIN

15: CIVIL SOCIETY IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE GREAT WAR The Care of Disabled Veterans in Britain and Germany

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A Civil Republic: Beyond Capitalism and Nationalism (Chap. 2 "Civil Society: What's This Central Idea?" and Chap. 3 "The Decline of Civil Society: Where Are We Going?")
by Severyn T. Bruyn. 292 pgs.

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List of Boxes

Abbreviations/Acronyms

Introduction

1: Capitalism and Globalization: What's the Problem?

2: Civil Society: What's This Central Idea?

3: The Decline of Civil Society: Where Are We Going?

4: Two Models: Could a New Market Develop?

5: A Theory of Development: How Is the New Model Applied?

6: The Process of Development: What Are the Guidelines?

7: The Mass Media: Who Owns It?

8: The Market Struggle: Who Are the Agents of Change?

9: A Global Political Order: How Does a Civil Society Develop?

10: A Civil Republic: How Do We Get There?

Glossary of Key Terms

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Political Culture and Civil Society in Russia and the New States of Eurasia
by Vladimir Tismaneanu. 386 pgs.

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Preface

1: Understanding Post-Sovietism Between Residual Leninism and Uncertain Pluralism

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I: Russia

2: Revolutionary Ideas, State Interests, and Russian Foreign Policy

Conclusion

3: The Resilience of Mass Support for Democratic Institutions and Processes in the Nascent Russian and Ukrainian Democracies

4: Changes in Contemporary Russian Political Culture

5: Russian Political Parties and Foreign Policy

II: The Western Newly Independent States

6: Ukraine The Temptation of the Nationalizing State

Conclusion

7: Russocentrism, Regionalism, and the Political Culture of Ukraine

8: Political Culture and Foreign Policy: Elections in Ukraine 1994

9: Political Culture in Estonia The Impact of Two Traditions on Political Development

III: The Southern Newly Independent States

10: State Building and Civil Society in Central Asia

11: The Legacy of the Soviet Political System and the Prospects for Developing Civil Society in Central Asia

12: Political Culture and Foreign Policy in Kyrgyzstan

13: Post-Soviet Crisis and Disorder in Transcaucasia The Search for Regional Stability and Security

Appendix: Project Participants

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Civil Society in China
by Timothy Brook, B. Michael Frolic. 244 pgs.

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The concept of "civil society" was borrowed from eighteenth-century Europe to provide a framework for understanding the transition to post-authoritarian regimes in Latin America and postcommunist regimes elsewhere. In China, the Democracy Movement forced the concept onto the intellectual agenda during the struggle to come to terms with the growth of dissent and the failure of student activism to find a secure foothold. The question that drives this book is whether this concept is useful for analyzing China, and if so, in what ways and within what limits.

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Acknowledgments

List of Contributors

Introduction

Larger Perspectives

1: Auto-Organization in Chinese Society

2: State-Led Civil Society

3: States, Societies, and Civil Societies in Chinese History

Particular Studies

4: University Autonomy and Civil Society

5: From State Corporatism to Social Representation

6: Chinese Youth and Civil Society the Emergence of Critical Citizenship

7: Ritual and Space Civil Society or Popular Religion?

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

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Civility: Manners, Morals, and the Etiquette of Democracy
by Stephen L. Carter. 340 pgs.

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Preface

I: The Collapse of the Three-Legged Stool

I: Barbarians Running Late

2: Do Manners Matter?

3: The Death of the Golden Age

4: Welcoming the Stranger

5: The Embarrassment of Free Will

6: Sacrifice and Neighbor-Love

II: Incivility's Instruments

7: The Demon on the Other Side

8: The Varieties of (not) Listening

9: Fighting Words

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II: Some Technologies of Incivility

12: Law, Tolerance, and Civility's Illusions

III: Civilizing the Twenty-First Century

13: Where Civility Begins

14: Uncivil Religion

15: Civility and the Challenge of Christendom

16: The Etiquette of Democracy

17: Coda: the Civility of Silence

Notes

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Global Civil Society?
by John Keane. 220 pgs.

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Global Civil Society?

Global Civil Society?

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Preface

Unfamiliar Words

Catalysts

Cosmocracy

Paradise on Earth?

Ethics Beyond Borders

Further Reading

Index
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The Cultural Diversity of European Unity: Findings, Explanations and Reflections from the European Values Study
by Wil Arts, Wim Van De Donk, Jacques Hagenaars, Loek Halman, Ton Van Schaik. 492 pgs.

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This volume deals with the values of the people in contemporary Europe. Using the survey data from the European Values Study, a number of basic values and the dynamics of value change are explored from an economic, political, social, and religious-moral point of view.
Part 1 focuses on Europe's values from an empirical-analytical, and a historical point of view, and also presents the views of three eminent Europeans.
Part 2 deals with in-depths analyses of European values, based on the empirical data set covering basic orientations in most of the domains of human life.
Part 3 contains reflections on the empirical findings, the value of value research, the hidden assumptions behind it, and the deeper layers of Europe's position and developments.

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Figures and Tables

Dedication

Series Editors' Preface

Acknowledgements

European Values Studies: Issn 1568 5926

Chapter One: The Cultural Diversity of European Unity: an Introduction

Part One: European Values in a Broad Perspective

Intermezzo: Godfried Danneels on Individual Autonomy: 'this Extreme Individualism and Hedonism Has No Future'

Chapter Two: Exploring Europe's Basic Values Map

Appendix: The Items Included in the Analyses

Intermezzo: Ruud Lubbers on European Pride and Presidents: 'A United Europe is an Antidote to Globalization'

Chapter Three: Europe and Its Values in an Historical Perspective

Intermezzo: Herman Wijffels on the Vocation of Europe: 'We Are Giving Birth to the Organically Ordered Society'

Part Two: European Values in Depth

Chapter Four: Opening the Black-Box of Regional Culture. Entrepreneurial Attitude and Economic Growth in 54 European Regions

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Chapter Five: Participation in Civil Society and European Regional Economic Growth

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Chapter Six: Bridging and Bonding Social Capital: Which Type is Good for Economic Growth?

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Appendix: A Static and a Dynamic Model

Chapter Seven: Shall the Twain Ever Meet? Differences and Changes in Socio-Economic Justice Norms and Beliefs in Eastern and Western Europe at the Turn of the Millennium

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Chapter Eight: Civil Society, Social Trust and Democratic Involvement

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Appendix: Indicators (%) in 20 Countries

Chapter Nine: Missing Links? Consensus Democracy, Voluntary Association and European Values

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Chapter Ten: The Welfare State: Villain or Hero of the Piece?

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Chapter Eleven: Country Differences in Sex-Role Attitudes: Cultural and Economic Explanations

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Chapter Twelve: Cross-National Differences in Public Consent to Divorce: Effects of Cultural, Structural and Compositional Factors

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Chapter Thirteen: Religious and Moral Pluralism in Contemporary Europe

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Part Three: European Values in Reflection

Chapter Fourteen: Unity Produces Diversity: the Economics of Europe's Social Capital

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Chapter Fifteen: European Identity and Interreligious Dialogue

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Chapter Sixteen: One European World of Welfare or Many: the Role of Values, Behavior and Institutions

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Chapter Seventeen: European Surrogate

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Chapter Eighteen: He Who Tears Down Also Builds Up. Literature and the Debate on Norms and Values

Chapter Nineteen: Europe: a Question onto Itself?

About the Authors

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Subject Index
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The Health of Nations: Society and Law beyond the State
by Philip Allott. 436 pgs.

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Globalization has become so familiar that it's the target even of street demonstrations from Seattle to Genoa. It challenges traditional social structures, as international systems (such as the European Union, the WTO or the global capital markets) become more powerful than states and governments. This book recalls the traditional social structures to study and develop ways to meet the current urgent global challenges.

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Preface

Acknowledgements

Part I: What is Society? What is Law?

1: Theory and Moral Responsibility

2: The Phenomenon of Law

3: Actualising the Ideal Through Law

4: The Making of the Public Mind

5: The Public Mind of All-Humanity

Part II: Can Nations and States Transcend Themselves Through Law?

6: European Governance and the Re-Branding of Democracy

7: Reflections on a Half-Revolution

8: Imagining the Unimagined

9: The Seven Lamps of European Unity

Part III: Can Humanity Think of Itself as a Society Under Law?

10: The Concept of International Law

11: International Law and the Idea of History

12: Intergovernmental Societies and the Idea of Constitutionalism

13: Towards a Sociology of Diplomacy

14: Reconceiving the World

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Index of Subjects
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Processes of Community Change and Social Action
by Allen M. Omoto. 203 pgs.

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The Claremont Symposium on Applied Social Psychology

Processes of Community Change and Social Action

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Understanding Social Change: Introduction to the Volume

1: Some Things Social Surveys Don't Tell Us About Volunteering

2: Feeling Good by Doing Good: Health Consequences of Social Service

3: Public Health, Race, and the Aids Movement: the Profile and Consequences of Latino Gay Men's Community Involvement

4: Becoming (And Remaining) a Community Volunteer: Does Personality Matter?

5: Psychological Sense of Community: Conceptual Issues and Connections to Volunteerism-Related Activism

6: A Benefit-And-Cost Approach to Understanding Social Participation and Volunteerism in Multilevel Organizations

7: Social Capital in Democratic Transition: Civil Society in South Africa

8: Social Participation and Social Trust in Adolescence: the Importance of Heterogeneous Encounters

9: Designing Interventions to Promote Civic Engagement

About the Contributors

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Subject Index
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Korean Society: Civil Society, Democracy, and the State
by Charles K. Armstrong. 214 pgs.

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Written by an interdisciplinary and international team of Korean scholars, this textbook provides an up-to-date and comprehensive account of rapidly changing Korean society.

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Introduction

1: Civil Society in West and East

2: The Problematic Modernity of Confucianism

3: The Genealogy of Confucian Moralpolitik and Its Implications for Modern Civil Society

4: Civil Society and Democratization

5: Engendering Civil Society

6: The South Korean Student Movement

7: Commemorating Kwangju

8: Protestant Christianity and the State

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Common Security and Civil Society in Africa
by Samantha Gibson, Stephan Klasen, Emma Rothschild, Lennart Wohlgemuth. 216 pgs.

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This book is the outcome of a conference on common security and civil society in Africa. The contributions seek to go beyond the "war of images" to imagine a different and more secure future. They are concerned with five different themes: economic and social change; prevention of violent conflicts; the causes of conflict; political security, and the international politics of development partnership.

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Preface

Beyond the War of Images: towards Common Security and New Partnership with Africa

Shifting Commitments and National Cohesion in African Countries

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Poverty, Inequality and Security in South Africa

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Health and Security in Sub-Saharan Africa

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Meeting the Goals of the 1990 World Summit on Children: Health and Nutritional Status of Children in Sub-Saharan Africa

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Conflict Prevention and Early-Warning Systems

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The Structure of Conflict

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Arms and Conflicts in Africa: Myths and Realities of Proliferation and Disarmament

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Promoting the Rule of Law in Post-Conflict Societies

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Aid and Politics in Malawi and Kenya: Political Conditionality and Donor Support to the ‘Human Rights, Democracy and Governance’ Sector

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The Interaction between State and Civil Society in Southern Africa: Prospects for Peace and Security

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Cosmopolitan Patriots

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List of Participants
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Constituting Human Rights: Global Civil Society and the Society of Democratic States
by Mervyn Frost. 162 pgs.

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Global civil society and the society of democratic states are the two most inclusive and powerful global practices of our time. In this book, Frost claims that, without an understanding of the role that individual human rights play in these practices, no adequate understanding of any major feature of contemporary world politics from 'globalisation' to 'new wars' is possible. Constituting Human Rights , therefore argues that a concern with human rights is essential to the study of International Relations.

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1: Introduction

2: Individual Rights in World Politics

3: Foundational Practices

4: Individual Rights in Conflict?

5: Civil Society

6: Rights in the System of Democratic and Democratizing States

7: Civilians and Citizens

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