5 Politics, Sociology eBooks

Wen Zha, "Individual Choice and State-Led Nationalist Mobilization in China: Self-interested Patriots"
Representing Communities: Discourse and Contexts by Ruth Sanz Sabido
Progressivism and US Foreign Policy between the World Wars By Molly Cochran, Cornelia Navari
Guy Carcassonne, Marc Guillaume, "La Constitution", 14e édition
National Security, Statecentricity, and Governance in East Asia By Brendan Howe

Wen Zha, "Individual Choice and State-Led Nationalist Mobilization in China: Self-interested Patriots"
2015 | pages: 168 | ISBN: 366246859X | PDF | 1,8 mb
This book presents a comparative historical analysis of state-led nationalist movements in Chinese history, which counters current claims that popular nationalism in present-day China is strong enough to sustain costly expansionist wars. Popular nationalism in China has been on the rise since the early 1990s to the concern of many observers. Some have even asked whether China will become another Germany. A comparative historical analysis of pre-war and wartime nationalist mobilization helps us better understand how individuals formulate their opinions under extreme conditions. It concludes that the public's weak perception of foreign threats, taken together with pro-minority domestic institutions, may significantly undermine the state’s efforts at nationalist mobilization and thus limit its capability to pursue external expansion or other strategic goals.

Representing Communities: Discourse and Contexts by Ruth Sanz Sabido
English | 21 Nov. 2017 | ISBN: 3319650297 | 258 Pages | PDF | 2.45 MB
This edited collection offers the latest research into the reproduction of ‘hegemonic’ discourse and the ways in which the description and evaluation of social groups affects their ability to exercise cultural and political autonomy. The book examines the representations of a number of communities and social groups, both within their ‘micro-contexts’, and with reference to the economic, political, social, cultural and technological ‘macro-contexts’ in which they are embedded. The analysis highlights the connections between discourse, power, dominance and social inequality, focusing on patriarchal, capitalist and postcolonial representations and power imbalances. Based on a combination of theoretical and empirical analyses, the collection offers an array of macro-social critiques based on the analysis and critical understanding of contemporary contexts and representations, and how they contribute to political, social, economic and cultural practices.

Progressivism and US Foreign Policy between the World Wars By Molly Cochran, Cornelia Navari
English | PDF,EPUB | 2017 | 327 Pages | ISBN : 1137584335 | 4.69 MB
This book considers eleven twelve key thinkers on American foreign policy during the inter-war period. All put forward systematic proposals for the direction, aims and instruments of American foreign policy; all were listened to, in varying degrees, by the policy makers of the day; all were influential in policy terms, as well as setting the terms of contemporary debate. The focus of the volume is the progressive agenda as it was formulated by Herbert Croly and The New Republic in the run-up to the First World War.
An interest in the inter-war period has been sparked by America’s part in international politics since 9/11. The neo-conservative ideology behind recent US foreign policy, its democratic idealism backed with force, is likened to a new-Wilsonianism. However, the progressives were more wary of the use of force than contemporary neo-conservatives. The unique focus of this volume and its contextual, Skinnerian approach provides a more nuanced understanding of US foreign policy debates of the long Progressive era than we presently have and provides an important intellectual background to current debates.

Guy Carcassonne, Marc Guillaume, "La Constitution", 14e édition

Points | 2017 | ISBN: 2757868985 | French | EPUB | 496 pages | 0.7 MB
La France connaît, avec les institutions de la Ve République, une démocratie stable depuis six décennies - fait rarissime dans notre histoire. Chacun doit connaître notre Constitution, pour comprendre comment le pouvoir est attribué et exercé, et pour se saisir des droits et libertés que chacun peut désormais invoquer.
Loin des idées reçues, ce livre commente notre texte fondamental, article par article, avec un mélange exceptionnel de rigueur et d'humour, de précision et d'esprt critique. Ainsi est-il devenu la bible des étudiants, des journalistes, des élus et, de plus en plus, des citoyens.
Guy Carcassonne a écrit ses onze premières éditions. Marc Guillaume a ensuite pris le relais pour faire vivre cette oeuvre fondamentale.
Guy Carcassonne (1951-2013)
Professeur de droit public à l'université de Paris Ouest-Nanterre-La Défense.
Marc Guillaume
Conseiller d'État et secrétaire général du Gouvernement, il est aussi codirecteur de la revue Pouvoirs.

National Security, Statecentricity, and Governance in East Asia By Brendan Howe
English | PDF | 2017 (2018 Edition) | 167 Pages | ISBN : 3319589733 | 1.86 MB
This book assesses the extent to which an emphasis on national security and prioritization of state interests has dominated governance policy-making in Northeast and Southeast Asia, at the expense of human security, human development, and human rights. The findings are that in many cases, there are embedded structural obstacles to achieving human-centered governance objectives in the region.
These relate to the role of the military, historical authoritarian legacies, and new authoritarian trends. Contributors examine not only the most obvious instances of military domination of governance in the region (North Korea with its “Military First” philosophy, Thailand since the 2014 coup, and Myanmar with its long history of military rule), but also less well known examples of the influence of conflict legacies upon governance in Cambodia, Timor-Leste, and Laos, as well as the emergence of new reservoirs of power and resources for the forces of authoritarianism.