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Les grands enjeux du monde contemporain
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ISBN: 2729846808 Year: 1996 Publisher: Paris Ellipses

Antiportraits
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ISBN: 207074258X 9782070742585 Year: 1996 Publisher: Paris Gallimard

Global civil society and global environmental governance : the politics of nature from place to planet
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ISBN: 0791431185 Year: 1996 Volume: *3 Publisher: Albany State University of New York Press


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International politics.
ISSN: 17403898 Year: 1996 Publisher: [Dordrecht] : Kluwer Academic Publishers


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Radical democracy
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ISBN: 1501712993 1501712985 9781501712982 9781501712999 0801431697 9780801431692 0801484510 9780801484513 Year: 1996 Publisher: Ithaca Cornell University Press

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C. Douglas Lummis writes as if he were talking with intelligent friends rather than articulating political theory. He reminds us that democracy literally means a political state in which the people (demos) have the power (kratia). The people referred to are not people of a certain class or gender or color. They are, in fact, the poorest and largest body of citizens. Democracy is and always has been the most radical proposal, and constitutes a critique of every sort of centralized power. Lummis distinguishes true democracy from the inequitable incarnations referred to in contemporary liberal usage. He weaves commentary on classic texts with personal anecdotes and reflections on current events. Writing from Japan and drawing on his own experience in the Philippines at the height of People's Power, Lummis brings a cross-cultural perspective to issues such as economic development and popular mobilization. He warns against the fallacy of associating free markets or the current world economic order with democracy and argues for transborder democratic action.Rejecting the ways in which technology imposes its own needs, Lummis asks what work would look like in a truly democratic society. He urges us to remember that democracy should mean a fundamental stance toward the world and toward one's fellow human beings. So understood, it offers an effective cure for what he terms "the social disease called political cynicism." Feisty and provocative, Radical Democracy is sure to inspire debate.

From revolution to war : state relations in a world of change
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ISBN: 0472106473 0472085786 Year: 1996 Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Nations without states : a historical dictionary of contemporary national movements
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ISBN: 0313283540 0313034788 9780313034787 9780313283543 Year: 1996 Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press,

La volonte d'impuissance : La fin des ambitions internationales et stratégiques ?
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ISBN: 202024716X 9782020247160 Year: 1996 Publisher: Paris : Editions du Seuil,

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