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Book Review: The Politics of Global Regulation

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The process of neoliberal globalization underway since the 1980s has had destabilizing impacts on nation-states and their institutions. BY DR. EVREN TOK | 22 OCTOBER 2012 State capacity and national policy-making...

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Book Review: Ottomania: The Romantics and the Myth of the Islamic Orient

CESRAN Int.28 March 201430 March 2014

Since Edward Said’s Orientalism modern scholarship has developed an ever-intensifying awareness toward Eurocentric notions that have been long imbedded in the Western narrations of the East, or Orient. BY YASIR YILMAZ | MAY...

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Book Review: An Island in Europe: The EU and the Transformation of Cyprus

CESRAN Int.28 March 201430 March 2014

When the Republic of Cyprus (RoC) applied for EU membership on behalf of the entire island, the prospect increased the hopes that it would act as a catalyst for Turkey...

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Book Reviews: The Long Divergence: How Islamic Law Held Back the Middle East; Islamic Finance and Law: Theory and Practice in a Globalized World

CESRAN Int.28 March 201430 March 2014

The relative economic decline of the Middle Eastern Moslem world after 1500 requires some explanation. Comparing Istanbul, or Cairo, and London or Paris at the turn of the 16th century would...

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Book Review:Thucydides on Strategy Athenian and Spartan Grand Strategies in the Peloponnesian War and Their Relevance Today

CESRAN Int.28 March 201430 March 2014

It is a common vice of some IR pundits to willingly imprison themselves in a safe so-called ‘conceptual framework’, thinking that they can then express what they want relevantly. Thus...

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Book Review: Handbook of Politics – State and Society in a Global Perspective

CESRAN Int.28 March 201430 March 2014

The end of the Cold War marked not only the end of a fairly predictable model of politics, but equally importantly it also unsettled the accepted ways in which politics...

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Book Review: Statebuilding and Justice Reform: Post-Conflict Reconstruction in Afghanistan

CESRAN Int.28 March 201430 March 2014

As the author clearly sets out, this book analyses the justice sector reform (JSR) in Afghanistan undertaken since the United States’ military intervention in 2001 by focusing on the rule...

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Book Review: New Perspectives on Human Security

CESRAN Int.28 March 201430 March 2014

Arguably, security is a contested concept. Conventionally, national security that is state-centred and military-oriented has been predominant in the discourse on security. BY JUICHIRO TANABE | APRIL 24, 2012 However,...

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Book Review: International Organizations and Civilian Protection: Power, Ideas and Humanitarian Aid

CESRAN Int.28 March 201430 March 2014

By examining the case studies of Sri Lanka and the Philippines, this book investigates and analyses the major factors that affect the characteristics of the humanitarian intervention and relief activities...

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Book Review: Corruption and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding

CESRAN Int.28 March 201430 March 2014

Since the end of the Cold War in the late 20th century, the number of interstate wars has decreased dramatically, while internal conflicts have claimed the main stage. It might...

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Book Review: Conflict Management in Divided Societies: Theories and Practice

CESRAN Int.28 March 201430 March 2014

Conflict management in Divided Societies: Theories and Practice is an innovative book that gives a multi-perspective view of conflict management in divided societies in three parts and fourteen chapters. BY KIVEN...

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Book Review: Democracy’s Prisoner: Eugene V. Debs, the Great War, and the Right to Dissent by ERNEST FREEBERG, Harvard University Press, 2008, ISBN-13: 978-0-674

CESRAN Int.28 March 201430 March 2014

Written by DR. JEAN-PAUL GAGNON Thursday, 27 October 2011 02:19 Wilson’s crusade for democracy had been a cruel illusion, a growing number now believed. The administration had lied about the...

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Book Review: Power: A Radical View

CESRAN Int.28 March 201430 March 2014

By Steven Lukes, (Second Edition Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, 192 pp. $US 18.71 paperback (0-333-42092-6), $ US 64.00 hardcover (0-333-42091-8) By Ali Onur Ozcelik | 11 October 2010 Writing a short book in 1974,...

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Book Review: Democratic Governance

CESRAN Int.28 March 201430 March 2014

By Mark Bevir (New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2010, ISBN 978-0-691-14539-6, 320 pp., £20.95) By Simon McMahon | 11 October 2010 Democrati c Governance is concerned with the challenge to democracy posed...

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Book Review: Faith and Politics in Nigeria: Nigeria as a Pivotal State in the Muslim World

CESRAN Int.28 March 201430 March 2014

By John N. Paden, (Washington, D.C.: United States Institute of Peace Press, 2008, ISBN: 978-1-60127-029-0, ix-140 pp., $12.00 pbk.) By Chris, M. A. Kwaja | 11 October 2010 The book under review...