Sovereignty and the limits of the liberal imagination by Nelson, Scott G.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: sovereignty, liberalism, imagination -- Liberalism, enlightenment, and the ethos of modernity -- Political liberalism and international relations -- Critical Enlightenment: the liberalism of Immanuel Kant -- Political economy and valorization: Hume, Smith, Ricardo, and James and J.S. …”
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Political pluralism and the state beyond sovereignty / by Wissenburg, M. L. J. (Marcel L. J.)

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Sovereignty and the state -- Replies to political pluralization -- From politics to policy -- Citizen and citizenship -- The environment -- The undiscovered polis -- Political pluralization -- New polities, new problems -- Internationalization -- The treaty culture -- Dehierarchization -- The challenges of political pluralization -- Other directions -- The need to interfere -- Authoritative interference -- Politics versus economy: the green battlefield -- Green production -- Payoffs and incentives -- The need for political incentives -- A summary -- Conclusion -- Principles, discord and concord -- Principles and politics -- Objective truth -- The principle of popularity -- Controlled deliberation -- Philosophical and political liberalism -- Conclusion -- Sustainability as a policy telos -- Policy teloi -- Sustainable development: ecology versus environment -- Same telos, different place: liberal versus non-liberal societies -- Perspectives -- Beyond political principles -- Foundational principles -- Beyond the original position: the archpoint -- The restraint principle -- Beyond the archpoint -- Conclusion -- Alexandrism -- Cutting a knot -- Swords, axes and tweezers -- Murder as a political tool -- Torture, threats and the reign of terror -- The enlightened despot -- Proceduralism -- Lottery -- Conclusion -- The new polis -- The peppermill -- The myth of the state -- Conceptions of the polis -- Metropolis -- Conclusion -- Citizenship in the metropolis -- Introduction -- The rise and fall of mass democracy -- The complex concept of representation -- Mass democracy and representation -- Unequal and equal access -- Two futures for substantive representation -- The princes of industry -- Two kinds of proactive citizen -- A political history of the economy -- Social responsibility: fields and questions -- The impossibility of responsibility -- The civic role of enterprise -- Conclusion -- Harmony and political pluralization -- A political history -- Legitimate political pluralization -- Justice.…”
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Driven by growth political change in the Asia-Pacific region

Table of Contents: “…Steinberg -- Vietnam: Sectors, Classes, and the Transformation of a Leninist State / Thaveeporn Vasavakul -- China: Growth without Political Liberalization / Thomas P. Bernstein -- pt.II. The Middle-Income Economies -- Indonesia: Economic Growth and Depoliticization / Jamie Mackie -- The Philippines: Still an Exceptional Case? …”

Governing women women's political effectiveness in contexts of democratization and governance reform /

Table of Contents: “…Bouvier -- Consequences of political liberalization and sociocultural mobilization for women in Algeria, Egypt and Jordan / Marnia Lazreg -- Transnational feminism and women's human rights : successes and challenges of a political strategy / Brooke A. …”
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Internal security services in liberalizing states transitions, turmoil, and (in)security by Derdzinski, Joseph L.

Civil society in the Middle East