Civil Wars in the Democratic Republic of Congo, 1960-2010 By Emizet Francois Kisangani
2012 | 252 Pages | ISBN: 1588268276 | PDF | 2 MB
Wars of secession, ethnic wars, rebellions, mutinies, and Congolese-led invasions have been part of the political landscape of the Democratic Republic of Congo since the country became independent in 1960. Why? And what can we learn from this seemingly unending series of internal conflicts? Emizet Francois Kisangani explores these fundamental questions within a rigourously systematic and uniquely comprehensive framework. Looking closely at five decades of civil wars in the DRC, Kisangani finds ample evidence to challenge popular paradigms. His focus on the politics of exclusion and his attention to both the micro- and macro processes of the wars provides an analytical lens through which not only the nature of civil wars, but also Congo's politics more broadly, are brought into clearer focus.

Civil Society, Democracy and Democratization (Warsaw Studies in Philosophy and Social Sciences) By Dorota Pietrzyk-Reeves
2016 | 208 Pages | ISBN: 3631665261 | PDF | 2 MB
The book contributes to the ongoing discussion and research on civil society in the context of democracy and democratization. It provides a theoretical analysis of civil society, participation, the public sphere and democratic consolidation in light of normative democratic theory and the challenges of democratic transformation in Central and Eastern Europe. It also offers a novel approach to some of the key issues in that debate including corruption and democratic consolidation, active citizenship, civic unity and the rule of law as well as theories of democratization. Finally, it asks the question as to whether a properly functioning democracy must be complemented with civil society and the numerous roles it plays in a political community of free citizens.

Natalia Shapovalova, "Civil Society in Post-Euromaidan Ukraine: From Revolution to Consolidation "
English | ISBN: 3838212169 | 2018 | 400 pages | EPUB | 812 KB
This book is among the first comprehensive efforts to collectively and academically investigate the legacy of the Euromaidan in conflict-torn Ukraine within the domain of civil society broadly understood. The contributions to this book identify, describe, conceptualize, and explain various developments in Ukrainian civil society and its role in Ukraine's democratization, state-building, and conflict resolution by looking at specific understudied sectors and by tracing the situation before, during, and after the Euromaidan. In doing so, this trailblazing collection highlights a number of new themes, challenges, and opportunities related to Ukrainian civil society. They include volunteerism, grassroots community-based activism, social activism of churches, civic efforts of building peace and reconciliation, civic activism of journalists and digital activism, activism of think tanks, diaspora networks and the LGBT movement, challenges of civil society relations with the state, uncivil society, and the closing of civic space.

Bernard Nwosu, "Civil Society and Democracy in Nigeria: A Theoretical Approach "
English | ISBN: 0367638088 | 2021 | 226 pages | EPUB | 362 KB
This book examines the complex relationship between the state and civil society and the impact that this has had on democratization processes in Nigeria from colonial times to the present.

Rohan Gunaratna, "Civil Society Organizations Against Terrorism "
English | ISBN: 0367712792 | 2021 | 214 pages | EPUB | 986 KB
With recent changes in social and political landscapes around the world the focus of preventive counter-terrorism has shifted in many places from government to civil society.

Steven Frankel, "Civil Religion in Modern Political Philosophy: Machiavelli to Tocqueville"
English | ISBN: 0271086157 | 2020 | 256 pages | EPUB | 564 KB
Inspired by Machiavelli, modern philosophers held that the tension between the goals of biblical piety and the goals of political life needed to be resolved in favor of the political, and they attempted to recast and delimit traditional Christian teaching to serve and stabilize political life accordingly. This volume examines the arguments of those thinkers who worked to remake Christianity into a civil religion in the early modern and modern periods.

City and Power - Postmodern Urban Spaces in Contemporary Poland (Warsaw Studies in Philosophy and Social Sciences) By Katarzyna Kajdanek (editor), Igor Pietraszewski (editor), Jacek Pluta (editor)
2018 | 160 Pages | ISBN: 3631664907 | PDF | 5 MB
This book is an empirical study of a central European city focused on the political process. The authors use the example of the city of Wroclaw to present a condition of the urban public sphere in the context of local governance. Contemporary specificity of the public sphere is a result of a long process of system transformation in this part of Europe as well as of the impact new global challenges have had on the political process in self-governmental institutions. The book presents the practice of governance as a form of the political in both institutional and civic spheres of the city. The cases provided (related to politics of memory, the symbolic, sports, subcultures and urban movements) show how circulations of governance practices are created and how they influence the institutional borders of the political.

Peter Gumbel, "Citizens of Everywhere: Searching for Identity in the Age of Brexit"
English | ISBN: 1913368076 | 2021 | 78 pages | EPUB | 180 KB
In 1939, as war loomed, Peter Gumbel's Jewish-born grandparents fled Nazi Germany for England. But within a matter of decades, their grandson, appalled by the Brexit referendum, had become a citizen of the country they fled eighty years ago. How had it come to this?

Claus Offe, "Citizens in Europe: Essays on Democracy, Constitutionalism and European Integration"
English | ISBN: 1785522388 | 2016 | 512 pages | EPUB | 891 KB
This interdisciplinary collection of essays by a constitutionalist and a political sociologist examines how fragmented societies can be held together by appropriate and effective constitutional arrangements providing for bonds of democratic citizenship. Exploring the political order dilemmas of capitalist democracies, the authors address moral and institutional prerequisites on which the deepening of European integration depends. The desirability of such deepening is currently contested, with the membership of some states (and their compliance with the spirit of the Union's treaties) at stake. The authors do not consider the 'renationalisation' of Europe to be a feasible (and even less so a desirable) way out of Europe's current malaise. Yet whatever the way out, charting it calls not just for the vision and imagination of political elites but also for the intellectual efforts of social scientists. With this book, Preuß and Offe contribute to those efforts. Key Features:* original insights on the nature of the European crisis* analysis of how fragmented societies can be held together by appropriate constitutional arrangements * how state sovereignty and federal structures can be merged* account of the moral prerequisites and resources of democratic polities* dilemmas of political order under democratic capitalism

Citizen Empowerment Through Digital Transformation in Government
by Neeta Verma
English | 2022 | ISBN: 0367628929 | 296 Pages | True ePUB | 8 MB