Civil Society Revisited Oliver Hensel

Civil Society Revisited Oliver HenselIn much social scientific literature, Polish civil society has been portrayed as weak and passive. This volume offers a much needed corrective, challenging this characterization on both theoretical and empirical grounds and suggesting new ways of conceptualizing civil society to better account for events on the ground as well as global trends such as neoliberalism, migration, and the renewal of nationalist ideologies. Focusing on forms of collective

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North Korea under Kim Jong Il examines how internal changes in North Korea since the early 1970s have structured that nation's apparently provocative nuclear diplomacy and recent economic reform measures

and judgments that have shaped those conditions

On the comics page

and portrayals of the futile negotiations between the parties before the beginning of hostilities

and crises

our understanding of the cooperative phenomenon remains woefully inadequate

Exuding ambition

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Boston Confucianism argues to the contrary

while forcing redefinition of commonplace categories like religion and politics

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