African Political Elites looks at the five African countries that acted as the vanguards in
creating the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) initiative: Nigeria, South Africa, Senegal, Egypt and Algeria. The leadership structures, trends in political democratisation, and prospects ...
This far-ranging volume offers both a broad overview of the role of the military in
contemporary Asia and a close look at the state of civil-military relations in sixteen Asian countries. It provides in-depth discussion of civil-military relations in countries ...
The Department of Government has fostered research and taught political science to students under various
names since two lecturers were appointed to teach Public Administration in 1917. It is recognized as the first school of politics in Australia and has ...
Emperor Hirohito reigned for more than sixty years, yet we know little about him or
the part he really played in the turbulent history of Showa Japan.Stephen Large draws on a wide range of Japanese and Western sources in his ...
Robert Taylor, one of the most prominent scholars in Myanmar studies, has written an illuminating
study of Ne Win, the most enigmatic and controversial of the first generation of post-independence Southeast Asian leaders, and how he steered a then largely ...
In the first biography of U.S. House Speaker John W. McCormack, author Garrison Nelson uncovers
previously forgotten FBI files, birth and death records, and correspondence long thought lost or buried. For such an influential figure, McCormack tried to dismiss the ...
This book offers a comprehensive political biography of Kingsley Ozuomba Mbadiwe, (1915-1990), a central figure
in Nigerian political history for more than forty years. Starting in 1936 as a protégé of Nnamdi Azikiwe, then Nigeria's most renowned nationalist, Mbadiwe himself ...
This 1972 work explains how Mapai governed Israel from 1948 to 1969 when it gave
up its independent identity to become a major partner to the newly formed Israeli Labour Party. It analyses how Mapai's dominant role in Israeli society ...