Tag: Western

Free Download Mark Simpson, "Donors, Democracy and Development in Africa: Western Aid and Political Repression"
English | ISBN: 3031749162 | 2024 | 369 pages | EPUB | 640 KB
Uganda, Ethiopia and Rwanda have figured prominently in the post- Cold War relations between Western donors and Sub-Saharan Africa. Their ‘new leaders’ were embraced by Western countries as the antithesis of former Cold War-era African strongmen, and their countries became ‘donor darlings’, benefitting from regular and significant inflows of Western development assistance. To the dismay of African democracy activists and human rights defenders, such aid enabled the regimes in these countries to strengthen the repressive political and economic governance systems over which they preside.

Free Download Roman Army Units in the Western Provinces (3): 4th-5th Centuries AD
by Raffaele D’Amato and Raffaele Ruggeri
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1472862686 | 51 Pages | True PDF | 12.6 MB

Free Download Astrid M. Eckert, "The Struggle for the Files: The Western Allies and the Return of German Archives after the Second World War "
English | ISBN: 1107629209 | 2014 | 444 pages | PDF | 3 MB
When American and British troops swept through the German Reich in the spring of 1945, they confiscated a broad range of government papers and archives. These records were subsequently used in war crimes trials and published under Allied auspices to document the German road to war. In 1949, the West Germans asked for their return, considering the request one of the benchmarks of their new state sovereignty. This book traces the tangled history of the captured German records and the extended negotiations for their return into German custody. Based on meticulous research in British, American, and German archives, The Struggle for the Files highlights an overlooked aspect of early West German diplomacy and international relations. All participants were aware that the files constituted historical material essential to write German history and at stake was nothing less than the power to interpret the recent German past.

Free Download Dr K S Kannan, Sowmya Krishnapur, Subhodeep Mukhopadhyay, "ŚĀSTRA-S THROUGH THE LENS OF WESTERN INDOLOGY: A Response"
English | 2018 | ASIN: B07DDM7L85 | EPUB | pages: 262 | 1.8 mb
Infinity Foundation India conducted two conferences in the recent past (in July 2016 and February 2017) which examined the impact of some of the writings of Prof. Sheldon Pollock of Columbia University. While the first conference had four themes, the second had six more; and all these ten topics pertained to the interpretations proffered by Pollock.

Free Download Charlotte B. Becker, "A History of Western Ethics"
English | 2003 | pages: 214 | ISBN: 0415968259 | PDF | 1,2 mb
This newly revised and updated edition of A History ofWestern Ethics is a coherent and accessible overview of the most important figures and influential ideas of the history of ethics in the Western philosophical tradition.

Free Download The Icarus Curse: How Western Democracies Derailed and How to Get Back on Track by Johan Van Overtveldt
English | December 10th, 2024 | ISBN: 1572843438 | 376 pages | True EPUB | 1.01 MB
Economic anxiety and loss of trust in civic institutions are driving more and more people to political extremes. How did we get here, and how do we get our economic policies back on track before the democracies of the world derail?

Free Download Sally Rohan, "The Western European Union: International Politics Between Alliance and Integration "
English | ISBN: 0714656135 | 2014 | 408 pages | EPUB | 821 KB
This full-term study of the Western European Union (WEU) brings to life the history of Europe’s search for a co-operative security and defence order, from its post World War II origins to the present day. Establishing the WEU as a support organization, designed to promote the two security "ideas" of collective defence and integration through the primary organizations of Alliance and Community, this book offers a window onto the challenges faced in the development and management of NATO and the evolving EC/EU over time. As the WEU’s historical journey unfolds, the frequently competing visions of the future organization of the European security space are exposed in the fluctuating nature of its own functional evolution and devolution. A hybrid organization driven by its dual support role, the constructively ambiguous and conveniently autonomous WEU was to provide a mechanism through which divergent interests could converge and inherent tensions be relieved, preventing NATO and EC/EU stagnation. This book offers fresh insight into the means by which the gradual transformation of the institutional framework of European security was enabled, and stakes the WEU’s claim as a fundamental and life-long contributor to the stability of the European security system.

Free Download Anita C. Galuschek, "Selfhood and Recognition: Melanesian and Western Accounts of Relationality "
English | ISBN: 1785336495 | 2017 | 198 pages | PDF | 1377 KB
The disciplines of philosophy and cultural anthropology have one thing in common: human behavior. Yet surprisingly, dialogue between the two fields has remained largely silent until now. Selfhood and Recognition combines philosophical and cultural anthropological accounts of the perception of individual action, exploring the processes through which a person recognizes the self and the other. Touching on humanity as porous, fractal, dividual, and relational, the author sheds new light on the nature of selfhood, recognition, relationality, and human life.

Free Download Nocturnalia: Nature in the Western Night by Charles Hood, José Gabriel Martínez-Fonseca
English | October 31, 2023 | ISBN: 1597146242 | 240 pages | EPUB | 51 Mb
Don’t be afraid of the dark: grab a flashlight and rediscover your sense of adventure!

Free Download Ian Fowler, "Encounter, Transformation, and Identity: Peoples of the Western Cameroon Borderlands, 1891-2000 "
English | ISBN: 1845453360 | 2009 | 254 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Bringing together key historical and innovative ethnographic materials on the peoples of the South-West Province of Cameroon and the Nigerian borderlands, this volume presents critical and analytical approaches to the production of ethnic, political, religious, and gendered identities in the region. The contributors examine a range of issues relating to identity, including first encounters and conflict as well as global networking, trans-national families, enculturation, gender, resistance, and death. In addition to a number of very striking illustrations of ethnographic and material culture, this volume contains key maps from early German sources and other original cartographical materials.