Provides a fascinating and scrupulously research account of the Chanak crisis, when an invasion, a leaked media story and a Prime Minister's decision divided the Australian public, and brought Commonwealth relations to their knees.
Utterly corrupt corporate and government elites bankrupted Greece twice over. First, by profligate deficit spending benefitting only themselves; second, by agreeing to an IMF bailout of the Greek economy, devastating ordinary Greek citizens who were already enduring government-induced poverty, unemployment, and hunger. Finally, in response to dire ......
Are political parties the weak link in Indonesia's young democracy? More pointedly, do they form a giant cartel to suck patronage resources from the state? Indonesian commentators almost invariably brand the country's parties as corrupt, self-absorbed, and elitist, while most scholars argue that they are poorly institutionalised. This book tests ......
Ideology, Statebuilding, and Power After Civil Wars
In When Rebels Win, Kai M. Thaler explores why victorious rebel groups govern in strikingly different ways. Many assume civil wars destroy state capacity. In the Democratic Republic of Congo and Libya, for instance, victorious rebels perpetuated state weakness. Yet elsewhere, like in China and Rwanda, they built strong, capable states. Kai ......
Ideology, Statebuilding, and Power After Civil Wars
In When Rebels Win, Kai M. Thaler explores why victorious rebel groups govern in strikingly different ways. Many assume civil wars destroy state capacity. In the Democratic Republic of Congo and Libya, for instance, victorious rebels perpetuated state weakness. Yet elsewhere, like in China and Rwanda, they built strong, capable states. Kai ......
The Rise and Fall of Poland's Illiberal Revolution
Few countries serve as a more useful case study for understanding the global tension between liberal and illiberal conceptions of democracy than Poland. Under the populist Law and Justice (PiS) -led government, a large part of the Polish electorate welcomed the party's "Good Change"-as it described its program-despite accusations of democratic ......
The Rise and Fall of Poland's Illiberal Revolution
Few countries serve as a more useful case study for understanding the global tension between liberal and illiberal conceptions of democracy than Poland. Under the populist Law and Justice (PiS) -led government, a large part of the Polish electorate welcomed the party's "Good Change"-as it described its program-despite accusations of democratic ......
