This book explains how leaders in the Caribbean and Pacific regions balance the autonomy-viability dilemma of postcolonial statehood - that political self-determination is a hollow achievement unless it is accompanied by economic development - by practising statehood à la carte. Previous research has focused on the pursuit of decolonial self-determination through and above the nation state, via regionalism and internationalism, or by creating non-sovereign alternatives to it. This book looks at how communities have sought the same goals below the state, including via secession and devolution. Downsizing is typically portrayed as the antithesis of progressive, cosmopolitan internationalism and employed as evidence for the claim that the age of anticolonial self-determination has ended. In this book, Jack Corbett shows how these movements are animated by similar ideas and motivations that are rendered viable by the simultaneous pursuit of regional integration and forms of non-sovereignty. He argues that the à la carte pursuit of political and economic independence through, above, and below the state, and via non-sovereign alternatives to it, is a pragmatic response to the contradictions inherent to coloniality.

Statehood à la Carte in the Caribbean and the Pacific: Secession, Regionalism, and Postcolonial Politics

Politics & Social Sciences

Corbett, Jack

Social Sciences

Oxford University Press

Populism and the personalization of politics appears to be threatening the existence of democracy as we know it all over the world. It is now more important than ever to understand the history of this form of regime: why it has thrives and fails. But, existing studies are limited by their focus on a few large and predominately rich states. This book takes the opposite approach: it investigates how politics is practiced in the smallest states wherehyper-personalization has always been a ubiquitous feature of political life. It optimistically finds that hyper-personalized democracy can actually persist against all odds, but also cautions that political practicesin small states are often markedly different to larger states.

Democracy in Small States: Persisting Against All Odds (Oxford Studies in Democratization)

Veenendaal, Wouter

Legal Theory & Systems

Australia's Foreign Aid Dilemma: Humanitarian aspirations confront democratic legitimacy (Routledge Humanitarian Studies)

Reference

Routledge

Politicians everywhere tend to attract cynicism and inspire disillusionment. They are supposed to epitomize the promise of democratic government and yet invariably find themselves cast as the enemy of every virtue that system seeks to uphold. In the Pacific, "politician" has become a byword for corruption, graft, and misconduct. This was not always the case―the independence generation is still remembered as strong leaders―but today's leaders are commonly associated with malaise and despair. Once heroes of self-determination, politicians are now the targets of donor attempts to institute "good governance," while Fiji's 2006 coup was partly justified on the grounds that they needed "cleaning up." But who are these much-maligned figures? How did they come to arrive in politics? What is it like to be a politician? Why do they enter, stay, and leave? Drawing on more than 110 interviews and other published sources, including autobiographies and biographies, Being Political provides a collective portrait of the region's political elite. This is an insider account of political life in the Pacific as seen through the eyes of those who have done the job. We learn that politics is a messy, unpredictable, and, at times, dirty business that nonetheless inspires service and sacrifice. We come to understand how being a politician has changed since independence and consider what this means for how we think about issues of corruption and misconduct. We find that politics is deeply embedded in the lives of individuals, families, and communities; an account that belies the common characterization of democracy in the Pacific as a "façade" or "foreign flower." Ultimately, this is a sympathetic counter-narrative to the populist critique. We come to know politicians as people with hopes and fears, pains and pleasures, vices and virtues. A reminder that politicians are human―neither saints nor sinners―is timely given the wave of cynicism and disaffection. As such, this book is a must read for all those who believe in the promise of representative government.

Being Political: Leadership and Democracy in the Pacific Islands (Topics in the Contemporary Pacific)

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

University of Hawaii Press

Migracion Y Etnicidad En Oaxaca (VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY PUBLICATIONS IN ANTHROPOLOGY) (Spanish and English Edition)

Business & Money

Merhy, Murad A. Musalem

Economics

Vanderbilt Univ

The setting is the wild anything goes topless dancing world of the St. LouisMetro East in which Frank Harring and top stripper Lori Mellon fall in love. Meanwhile Frankruns afoul of a judicial system bent on ruining him. The affair between the individualistic andrebellious Frank with the cynical yet childlike dancer is tempestuous to the very end when Frankunleashes his own brand of violence and destruction upon a world he no longer believes in.

Death on the Wild Side

Literature & Fiction

Erotica

Nirvana Publishing

Herman the German gives huge discounts to prospective buyers of his condos, but there's a catch. To buy from him they must meet his bizarre standards and having the purchase price in hand is not enough to satisfy the eccentric German. The offers are almost impossible to refuse as Herman looks for the perfect candidates for his upscale Bahthaus condominiums. But Herman's condo project is in Pattaya, Thailand, the most hedonistic city on earth The residents carouse their way from one bar to the next as the Bahthaus becomes the Fun House where hardly anyone acts responsibly. "The Fun House" has a hopelessly inept Thai manager who can't get anything done unless he can get a commission from overcharging the Fun House condo owners. It's Only when one of the residents falls off his balcony and the police conveniently rule it an accident that the immature residents must decide between giving up their childish ways and taking the law into their own hands.

Welcome to the Fun House

Action & Adventure

Alpha Productions

Nirvana Publishing Company

Dick Fitswell: the Man in Quest of the Perfect Fit

Borrowing a white tiger just to take the best pictures of a topless dancer posing with a German World War II Mauser might seem to be a little extreme for getting the reader's attention until you consider that author photographer Jack Corbett and his friends turned the White Tiger loose in a topless club afterwards. But "Extreme Guns and Babes for an Adult World" is not your average run of the mill book about guns. It is a collection of 26 articles the writer-photographer produced while writing for "Xtreme Magazine". This second edition of the book is printed in full color whereas the 3rd edition is in black and white and the first edition was published in Kindle. Each edition contains over 100 photos. There's over 26 models posing with the 26 weapons (or the Tiger), and all of them are feature entertainers and strippers. Jack Corbett's mission was one nearly every red blooded American male would envy which was he got to select his own models for his articles while getting to write about any gun he chose. And since Xtreme Magazine is a small East Coast adult magazine there was no bureaucracy to put up with. There's a lot of good stuff about guns here for all of you gun lovers out there. For instance, did you know why the Colt Python was the best .357 magnum revolver on the market or why Vietnam era M-16's are better man stoppers than the "improved models" being used today? Or why the underpowered, inaccurate (according to its detractors) M-1 carbine was the favorite weapon of Audie Murphy, America's most decorated World War II hero or how the German M42 machine gun outclassed the 30 caliber Browning used by American World War II soldiers? The book is labeled "adult" but this might be a misnomer. If you are looking for porn you will not find it here. If you are looking for complete nudity, there's been a coverup, as even though a large number of the pictures appearing in this book were shot in the nude, bare nipples and the most private portions of the models have disappeared into the dark recesses of Photoshop.

Extreme Guns and Babes for an adult world: Full Color Edition

Sports & Outdoors

Hunting & Fishing

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