Why Nicaragua Vanished
Title | Why Nicaragua Vanished PDF eBook |
Author | Robert S. Leiken |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | 316 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780742523425 |
This book takes a closer look at the perceptions that Americans develop about foreign countries and the role the press plays in creating those perceptions.
Sandinista Nicaragua's Resistance to US Coercion
Title | Sandinista Nicaragua's Resistance to US Coercion PDF eBook |
Author | Héctor Perla, Jr |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 265 |
Release | 2017-02-17 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1316578070 |
How was the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) of Nicaragua able to resist the Reagan Administration's coercive efforts to rollback their revolution? Héctor Perla challenges conventional understandings of this conflict by tracing the process through which Nicaraguans, both at home and in the diaspora, defeated US aggression in a highly unequal confrontation. He argues that beyond traditional diplomatic, military, and domestic state policies a crucial element of the FSLN's defensive strategy was the mobilization of a transnational social movement to build public opposition to Reagan's policy within the United States, thus preventing further escalation of the conflict. Using a contentious politics approach, the author reveals how the extant scholarly assumptions of international relations theory have obscured some of the most consequential dynamics of the case. This is a fascinating study illustrating how supposedly powerless actors were able to constrain the policies of the most powerful nation on earth.
Transitions and Non-Transitions from Communism
Title | Transitions and Non-Transitions from Communism PDF eBook |
Author | Steven Saxonberg |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 363 |
Release | 2013-02-14 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1107023882 |
A unique comparative study examining why some communist regimes remain in power, whilst others have fallen.
The Media In Latin America
Title | The Media In Latin America PDF eBook |
Author | Lugo, Jairo |
Publisher | McGraw-Hill Education (UK) |
Total Pages | 291 |
Release | 2008-04-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0335222013 |
Looks at important media systems in Central and Latin America. This book includes media history, organization, structure, the interrelationship of media and state and the relationship between media, culture and society. It focuses on an aspect of the media specific to each country, eg soap opera in Brazil and violence against journalists in Chile.
Europe's Angry Muslims
Title | Europe's Angry Muslims PDF eBook |
Author | Robert S. Leiken |
Publisher | OUP USA |
Total Pages | 369 |
Release | 2012-03-29 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0195328973 |
This authoritative and engaging account of how Islam came to twentieth-century Europe and altered the continent's cultural, political, and security landscape is revealed in a study that looks at the emerging Islamic threat in Europe.
Historical Dictionary of Journalism
Title | Historical Dictionary of Journalism PDF eBook |
Author | Ross Eaman |
Publisher | Scarecrow Press |
Total Pages | 433 |
Release | 2009-03-02 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0810862891 |
Journalism is the discipline of gathering, writing, and reporting news, and it includes the process of editing and presenting news articles. Journalism applies to various media, including but not limited to newspapers, magazines, radio, television, and the internet. The word 'journalist' started to become common in the early 18th century to designate a new kind of writer, about a century before 'journalism' made its appearance to describe what those writers produced. Though varying in form from one age and society to another, it gradually distinguished itself from other forms of writing through its focus on the present, its eye-witness perspective, and its reliance on everyday language. The Historical Dictionary of Journalism relates how journalism has evolved over the centuries. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on the different styles of journalism, the different types of media, and important writers and editors.
Competitive Authoritarianism
Title | Competitive Authoritarianism PDF eBook |
Author | Steven Levitsky |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | |
Release | 2010-08-16 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1139491482 |
Based on a detailed study of 35 cases in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and post-communist Eurasia, this book explores the fate of competitive authoritarian regimes between 1990 and 2008. It finds that where social, economic, and technocratic ties to the West were extensive, as in Eastern Europe and the Americas, the external cost of abuse led incumbents to cede power rather than crack down, which led to democratization. Where ties to the West were limited, external democratizing pressure was weaker and countries rarely democratized. In these cases, regime outcomes hinged on the character of state and ruling party organizations. Where incumbents possessed developed and cohesive coercive party structures, they could thwart opposition challenges, and competitive authoritarian regimes survived; where incumbents lacked such organizational tools, regimes were unstable but rarely democratized.