Author: Tek Nath Rizal
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bhutan
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Articles with reference to Nepalese people living mostly in southern Bhutan.
Ethnic Cleansing and Political Repression in Bhutan
Author: Tek Nath Rizal
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bhutan
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Articles with reference to Nepalese people living mostly in southern Bhutan.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bhutan
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Articles with reference to Nepalese people living mostly in southern Bhutan.
Ethnic Conflict in Bhutan
Author: Mathew Joseph C.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Last Hope
Author: Katinka Ridderbos
Publisher: Human Rights Watch
ISBN:
Category : Human rights
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Publisher: Human Rights Watch
ISBN:
Category : Human rights
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
The Ecosystem of Exile Politics
Author: Susan Banki
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501778226
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
The Ecosystem of Exile Politics relays the events in Bhutan that led to the exodus of one-sixth of the population, and then recounts the activism by Bhutan's refugee diaspora that followed in response. Susan Banki asserts that activism functions like a physical ecosystem, in which hubs of activism in different locations interact to pressure the home country. For Bhutan's refugee mobilizers, physical proximity offers advantages in Nepal and India, where organizing protests, lobbying, and collecting information about government abuse in Bhutan is aided by being close to the homeland. But in an ecosystem of exile politics, proximity is both a boon and a bane. Sites proximate to Bhutan can be spaces of risk and disempowerment, and refugee activists rarely secure legal, political, and social protection. While distant diasporas in the Global North may not be in precarious situations, they cannot tap into the advantages of proximity. In examining these phenomena, The Ecosystem of Exile Politics adds to theoretical understandings of exile politics and to empirical research on Bhutan and its refugee population.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501778226
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
The Ecosystem of Exile Politics relays the events in Bhutan that led to the exodus of one-sixth of the population, and then recounts the activism by Bhutan's refugee diaspora that followed in response. Susan Banki asserts that activism functions like a physical ecosystem, in which hubs of activism in different locations interact to pressure the home country. For Bhutan's refugee mobilizers, physical proximity offers advantages in Nepal and India, where organizing protests, lobbying, and collecting information about government abuse in Bhutan is aided by being close to the homeland. But in an ecosystem of exile politics, proximity is both a boon and a bane. Sites proximate to Bhutan can be spaces of risk and disempowerment, and refugee activists rarely secure legal, political, and social protection. While distant diasporas in the Global North may not be in precarious situations, they cannot tap into the advantages of proximity. In examining these phenomena, The Ecosystem of Exile Politics adds to theoretical understandings of exile politics and to empirical research on Bhutan and its refugee population.
The Royal Semi-Authoritarian Democracy of Bhutan
Author: Dhurba Rizal
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 1498507484
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 437
Book Description
The book puts into plain words a changing dimension of politics in a traditional regime and offers an insight into the emerging transition to royal, semi-authoritarian democracy in Bhutan. Bhutan represents a political system which coalesces the rhetorical acquiescence of democracy with illiberal authoritarian attributes under the former royalist shadow. Royal democracy is a myth and only paints the frontage of democracy. The smokescreen of this kind of authoritarian regime is not yet democracy but is instead a new form of semi-authoritarian rule. The political reforms in Bhutan were orchestrated by the “traditional regime and elites in a traditional society” as a tightly controlled, top-down process without devolution of power outside the regime. Royal Democracy can best be understood as an attempt to construct a political regime that impersonates democratic institutions but works outside the logic of political representation and seeks to repress any vestige of genuine political pluralism. Exploring the authoritarian logic behind the democratic rhetoric is especially important for Bhutan, which is today glorified by the UN as “The Mecca of Gross National Happiness” and depicted by many as a model of top down democracy on popular media and in academia. Holding State controlled elections alone does not create a cure for deeper political, economic, and social predicaments besetting Bhutan and does not create a solid foundation for democratic transition. The glitter of royal, semi-authoritarian democracy is a “Jigmecracy,” an old Jigme’s system with new labels, a classic case of transition from a traditional regime in a traditional society.
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 1498507484
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 437
Book Description
The book puts into plain words a changing dimension of politics in a traditional regime and offers an insight into the emerging transition to royal, semi-authoritarian democracy in Bhutan. Bhutan represents a political system which coalesces the rhetorical acquiescence of democracy with illiberal authoritarian attributes under the former royalist shadow. Royal democracy is a myth and only paints the frontage of democracy. The smokescreen of this kind of authoritarian regime is not yet democracy but is instead a new form of semi-authoritarian rule. The political reforms in Bhutan were orchestrated by the “traditional regime and elites in a traditional society” as a tightly controlled, top-down process without devolution of power outside the regime. Royal Democracy can best be understood as an attempt to construct a political regime that impersonates democratic institutions but works outside the logic of political representation and seeks to repress any vestige of genuine political pluralism. Exploring the authoritarian logic behind the democratic rhetoric is especially important for Bhutan, which is today glorified by the UN as “The Mecca of Gross National Happiness” and depicted by many as a model of top down democracy on popular media and in academia. Holding State controlled elections alone does not create a cure for deeper political, economic, and social predicaments besetting Bhutan and does not create a solid foundation for democratic transition. The glitter of royal, semi-authoritarian democracy is a “Jigmecracy,” an old Jigme’s system with new labels, a classic case of transition from a traditional regime in a traditional society.
Bhutan Recent Economic and Political Developments Yearbook Volume 1 Strategic Information and Developments
Author: IBP, Inc.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1433060310
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
2011 Updated Reprint. Updated Annually. Bhutan Recent Economic and Political Developments Yearbook
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1433060310
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
2011 Updated Reprint. Updated Annually. Bhutan Recent Economic and Political Developments Yearbook
Asian Studies
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil rights
Languages : en
Pages : 1090
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil rights
Languages : en
Pages : 1090
Book Description
The Years of Great Silence
Author: Jonathan Otto Pohl
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 383821630X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
This monograph provides a detailed yet concise narrative of the history of the ethnic Germans in the Russian Empire and USSR. It starts with the settlement in the Russian Empire by German colonists in the Volga, Black Sea, and other regions in 1764, tracing their development and Tsarist state policies towards them up until 1917. After the Bolshevik Revolution, Soviet policy towards its ethnic Germans varied. It shifted from a generally favorable policy in the 1920s to a much more oppressive one in the 1930s, i.e. already before the Soviet-German war. J. Otto Pohl traces the development of Soviet repression of ethnic Germans. In particular, he focuses on the years 1941 to 1955 during which this oppression reached its peak. These years became known as “the Years of Great Silence” (“die Jahre des grossen Schweigens”). In fact, until the era of glasnost (transparency) and perestroika (rebuilding) in the late 1980s, the events that defined these years for the Soviet Germans could not be legally researched, written about, or even publicly spoken about, within the USSR.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 383821630X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
This monograph provides a detailed yet concise narrative of the history of the ethnic Germans in the Russian Empire and USSR. It starts with the settlement in the Russian Empire by German colonists in the Volga, Black Sea, and other regions in 1764, tracing their development and Tsarist state policies towards them up until 1917. After the Bolshevik Revolution, Soviet policy towards its ethnic Germans varied. It shifted from a generally favorable policy in the 1920s to a much more oppressive one in the 1930s, i.e. already before the Soviet-German war. J. Otto Pohl traces the development of Soviet repression of ethnic Germans. In particular, he focuses on the years 1941 to 1955 during which this oppression reached its peak. These years became known as “the Years of Great Silence” (“die Jahre des grossen Schweigens”). In fact, until the era of glasnost (transparency) and perestroika (rebuilding) in the late 1980s, the events that defined these years for the Soviet Germans could not be legally researched, written about, or even publicly spoken about, within the USSR.
In Defence of Democracy
Author: Ram Sharan Mahat
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description