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Irregular Armed Forces and their Role in Politics and State Formation

Diane E. Davis, Anthony W. Pereira - Political Science - 2003 - 431 pages
Existing models of state formation are derived primarily from early Western European experience, and are misleading when applied to nation-states struggling to consolidate ...
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Radical Evil on Trial

Carlos Santiago Nino - History - 1996 - 236 pages
Does an emergent democracy have an obligation to prosecute its former dictators for crimes against humanity—for what Arendt and Kant called "radical evil"? What impact will ...
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The Justice Cascade: How Human Rights Prosecutions Are Changing World ...

Kathryn Sikkink - Political Science - 2011 - 352 pages
Acclaimed scholar Kathryn Sikkink examines the important and controversial new trend of holding political leaders criminally accountable for human rights violations. Grawemeyer ...
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Power, Patronage, and Political Violence: State Building on a Brazilian ...

Judy Bieber - Political Science - 1999 - 270 pages
Judy Bieber explores the relationship between state centralization and municipal politics in Minas Gerais, Brazil, during the Imperial Period, 1822?89. She charts the ...
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The Brazil Reader: History, Culture, Politics

Robert M. Levine, John J. Crocitti - Business & Economics - 1999 - 548 pages
Capturing the scope of this country's rich diversity--with over 100 entries from a wealth of perspectives--"The Brazil Reader" offers a fascinating guide to Brazilian life ...
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Racial Politics in Contemporary Brazil

Michael George Hanchard, Michael Hanchard - History - 1999 - 236 pages
DIVThis is an edited volume which discusses the racial politics of Brazil and the basis and understanding of labor-market and residential segregation in Brazilian society./div
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Nightwatch: The Politics of Protest in the Andes

Orin Starn - History - 1999 - 348 pages
DIVAn innovative ethnography of peasant communities in Peru caught between the government and the Shining Path./div
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