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G. John Ikenberry, Nicholas J. Wheeler

Introduction Humanitarian Intervention and International Society India as Rescuer? Order versus Justice in the Bangladesh War of 1971 Vietnam's Intervention in Cambodia: The triumph of realism over common humanity? Good or bad precedent? Tanzania's Intervention in Uganda A Solidarist Movement in Int...

Benjamin De Cleen, Yannis Stavrakakis

The close empirical connections between populism and nationalism have naturalised a rather misleading overlap between the concepts of populism and nationalism in academic and public debates. As a result, the relation between the two has not received much systematic attention. Drawing on the poststru...

Richard Crook, James Manor

This book is an in-depth empirical study of four Asian and African attempts to create democratic, decentralised local governments in the late 1980s and 1990s. The case studies of Ghana, Cote d'Ivoire, Karnataka (India) and Bangladesh focus upon the enhancement of participation; accountability betwee...

Jonathan S. Addleton

Lawrence Lifschultz's Taher's Last Testament: Bangladesh the Unfinished Revolution gives as detailed an account as we are ever likely to have of the unsuccessful Bangladesh uprising of November 1975. The text, first published in Bombay in The Economic and Political Weekly, revolves around Abu Taher,...

Richard Crook, James Manor

This book is an in-depth empirical study of four Asian and African attempts to create democratic, decentralised local governments in the late 1980s and 1990s. The case studies of Ghana, Cote d'Ivoire, Karnataka (India) and Bangladesh focus upon the enhancement of participation; accountability betwee...

Ayesha Jalal

In a comparative and historical study of the interplay between democratic politics and authoritarian states in South Asia, Ayesha Jalal explains how a shared colonial legacy led to apparently contrasting patterns of political development - democracy in India and authoritarianism in Pakistan and Bang...

Farhana Sultana

This article seeks to contribute to the emerging debates in gender–water and gender–nature literatures by looking at the ways that gendered subjectivities are simultaneously (re)produced by societal, spatial and natural/ecological factors, as well as materialities of the body and of heterogeneous wa...

Abu Elias Sarker

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore and analyse the factors influencing the relative success and failure of new public management (NPM) initiatives in the developing world, with particular reference to Singapore and Bangladesh. Design/methodology/approach Secondary materials have been ex...

M. Sirajul Islam

Samuel Y. Johnson, ABU MD. NUR ALAM

Research Article| November 01, 1991 Sedimentation and tectonics of the Sylhet trough, Bangladesh SAMUEL Y. JOHNSON; SAMUEL Y. JOHNSON 1U.S. Geological Survey, M.S. 939, Box 25046, Denver Federal Center, Denver, Colorado 80225 Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar ABU MD. NUR A...

World Bank

Twelfth in a series of annual reports comparing business regulation in 189 economies, Doing Business 2015 measures regulations affecting 10 areas of everyday business activity: 
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\n•\tStarting a business; 
\n•\tDealing with construction permits;
\n•\tGetting electricity;
\n•\tR...

David Brady, Jason Beckfield, Martin Seeleib‐Kaiser

Previous scholarship is sharply divided over how or if globalization influences welfare states. The effects of globalization may be positive causing expansion, negative triggering crisis and reduction, curvilinear contributing to convergence, or insignificant. We bring new evidence to bear on this d...

Katy Gardner

Abstract Long-term migration is one of the most important factors in the formation of cultural identities in the modern world. Immigrant communities are usually studied in the context of the country people have migrated to; Katy Gardner, however, looks at the neglected `sending' side of the equation...

Willem van Schendel

Bangladesh is a new name for an old land whose history is little known to the wider world. A country chiefly famous in the West for media images of poverty, underdevelopment, and natural disasters, Bangladesh did not exist as an independent state until 1971. Willem van Schendel's history reveals the...