by Tina Rosenberg (1996)
Profiles the struggles of the people and leaders of Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia as their nations endure the transition from dictatorship to democracy.
Esdras Kambale Bahekwa
Que s'est-il réellement passé les 11 et 12 mai 1990 au campus de l'Université de Lubumbashi, au Katanga ? L'auteur rassemble minutieusement toutes les pièces du puzzle pour reconstituer la trame de l'histoire mouvementée de cette province congolaise. Son récit donne un éclairage d'un intérêt historique certain sur le Katanga des années 1990 et permet de comprendre quelque peu le Katanga d'aujourd'hui.
Young-Sun Hong
This is the first comprehensive study of the turbulent relationship among state, society, and church in the making of the modern German welfare system during the Weimar Republic. Young-Sun Hong examines the competing conceptions of poverty, citizenship, family, and authority held by the state bureaucracy, socialists, bourgeois feminists, and the major religious and humanitarian welfare-organizations. She shows how these conceptions reflected and generated bitter conflict in German society. And she argues that this conflict undermined parliamentary government within the welfare sector in a way that paralleled the crisis of the entire Weimar political system and created a situation in which the Nazi critique of republican "welfare" could acquire broad political resonance.
Paul Hainsworth & Stephen McCloskey
"Originally colonized by the Portuguese, East Timor was brutally invaded and occupied by Indonesian military forces in 1975. According to the UN, this resulted in the death of about a third of the population through massacres, starvation and disease. Subsequent events in Indonesia, however, have given rise to expectations of a fundamental change in its position on East Timor. Considering the potential for change against a backdrop of growing popular and political support for the Timorese cause, this book addresses its emergence as an issue of global importance. The authors set out to show how local, grassroots, individual, organizational and campaign initiatives have contributed to this state of affairs, in the context of an increased international-relations emphasis on ethics, international morality and human rights."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Silvère Ngoundos Idourah
La substitution brutale des conceptions politiques et juridictionnelles locales par des institutions étrangères fut pour beaucoup dans les multiples crises politiques et économiques des colonies. Le rejet systématique de la culture traditionnelle, la toute puissance des administrateurs coloniaux, ne pouvaient que transformer l' "assimilation progressive" proclamée en malentendus presque indissolubles. Il faut attendre la fin de l'épopée coloniale pour que les autochtones soient associés à l'administration de leur justice...