Search Results - law and order (politics)

Understanding international conflicts : an introduction to theory and history / by Nye, Joseph S.

Two Sides of a Barricade : (Dis)order and Summit Protest in Europe / by Scholl, Christian, 1980-

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Two Sides of a Barricade : (Dis)order and Summit Protest in Europe / by Scholl, Christian, 1980-

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State building in Putin's Russia policing and coercion after communism / by Taylor, Brian D., 1964-

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Russia in 2020 : scenarios for the future /

Table of Contents: “…Russia and the world / Thomas Graham ; Russia in world-systems perspective / Georgi Derluguian and Immanuel Wallerstein ; Russia's foreign policy outlook / Dmitri Trenin ; Russia's place in the world of unintended consequences, or Murphy's Law and order / Fyodor Lukyanov ; Russia and the new "transitional Europe" / Arkady Moshes ; The South Caucasus in 2020 / Tom de Waal -- Political economy and economics. …”
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Aid paradoxes in Afghanistan : building and undermining the state / by Bizhan, Nematullah

Table of Contents: “…-- Tax states -- Aid-dependent states -- The effects of oil revenue -- Distinction between aid and oil-revenue rentier effects -- Conclusion -- Reliance on external revenue : Afghanistan from 1747 to 2000 -- The society : an inheritance of history -- Relying on tribute for state building : the importance of external revenue to the Durrani empire (1747-1824) -- The Durrani empire ineffective tax system -- Subsidies and state building : the loss of tribute and search for alternative revenue (1824-1879) -- Institution building -- Consolidation of a modern buffer state (1880-1919) : the significance of subsidies and external military support -- And military administration -- State-society relations -- Amanullah Khan's reforms : the loss of subsidies, budget surplus and fiscal decline (1919-1929) -- Foreign aid and state building : reshaping the state building process (1929-1978) -- The rise of a weak aid-based rentier state -- Decline in foreign aid -- The state and the Mujahidin Tanzims (organizations) and sources of revenue : conflict in state-society relations (1978-2000) -- The Mujahidin government financial crises and Pakistani aid to the Taliban -- Conclusion -- Rebuilding an aid-based rentier state -- Establishing a new political order -- Building the state institutions -- Responding to the flow of aid -- Chaotic aid coordination : a challenge for state building -- Access to foreign aid : a prime focus -- Improving fiscal management -- Aid modality : undermining institution building -- Government preoccupation with foreign donors -- Relations at the administration level -- Relations in regard to senior appointments -- Conclusion -- Reforms and setbacks : rebuilding the revenue system -- State revenue sources -- Aiding the revenue reforms -- Reforming revenue policy and laws -- Reforming revenue administration -- Improving revenue infrastructure -- Confrontation and consultation -- Failing to enforce tax compliance -- Failing to prevent illegal taxation and extortion -- Ambiguity to end aid-dependency -- Fragmenting the tax system -- Conclusion -- Budget spending : fiscal fragmentation and patronage -- Some improvements in government budget transparency -- The citizen's role -- Underreported on-budget items -- Poor off-budget transparency -- Secret cash payments -- Conclusion -- Interactions between the state and society -- Reinforcing the state-society inherited gap -- Commanders -- Traditional actors -- Urban intelligentsia -- Reshaping the state-society relations -- Building and undermining the state -- Conclusion -- Conclusion : findings and implications -- Path dependency : Afghan state reliance on external revenue -- Building and undermining the state : Afghanistan after 9/11 -- Upward accountability to donors -- Creating a parallel public sector -- Paradoxical tax outcomes -- Divergence in state-society fiscal relations -- The future -- Implications fo externally aided state building.…”
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The Arab Revolution of 2011 : A Comparative Perspective /

Table of Contents: “…State Survival and Constitutional Revolution and Counterrevolution in Egypt State Revival and the Law and Order Counterrevolution in Egypt -- State Collapse and Deepening Revolutionary Power Struggle in Libya -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 2. …”
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The Arab Revolution of 2011 : A Comparative Perspective /

Table of Contents: “…State Survival and Constitutional Revolution and Counterrevolution in Egypt State Revival and the Law and Order Counterrevolution in Egypt -- State Collapse and Deepening Revolutionary Power Struggle in Libya -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 2. …”
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