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  | | Sustaining Human Rights in the Twenty-First Century Strategies from Latin America by Katherine Hite, Mark Ungar, Cynthia J. Arnson Hardcover, 424 Pages, Published 2013 by Woodrow Wilson Center Press / Johns Hopkins University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4214-1012-8, ISBN: 1-4214-1012-5 "These essays take a much-needed look at the course of human rights strategies rooted in the last century’s struggles against brutally repressive dictators. Those struggles continue today across Latin America. Augmented by the pursuit of broader political, cultural, labor, and environmental rights, they hold accountable a much wider cast of national governments, local governments, international agencies, and multinational corporations. I ..." |
 | | Policing Democracy(1st Edition) Overcoming Obstacles to Citizen Security in Latin America by Mark Ungar Paperback, 416 Pages, Published 2011 by Johns Hopkins University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8018-9858-7, ISBN: 0-8018-9858-7 "2011 Winner of the Charles H. Levine Memorial Book Prize of the International Political Science AssociationLatin America’s crime rates are astonishing by any standard―the region’s homicide rate is the world’s highest. This crisis continually traps governments between the need for comprehensive reform and the public demand for immediate action, usually meaning iron-fisted police tactics harking back to the repressive pre-1980s dictatorsh ..." |
 | | Elusive Reform Democracy and the Rule of Law in Latin America by Mark Ungar Hardcover, 273 Pages, Published 2001 by Lynne Rienner Pub ISBN-13: 978-1-58826-035-2, ISBN: 1-58826-035-6 "Democracy cannot exist, proclaims Ungar (political science, City U. of New York-Brooklyn College) without the rule of law, which he defines as comprising an independent effective judiciary, state accountability to the law, and citizen accessibility to conflict-resolution mechanisms. He looks to Latin American countries to illustrate how stable democracies are undermined by executive power and judicial disarray that prevent the rule of l ..." |
 | | Violence and Politics(1st Edition) Globalization's Paradox (New Political Science Reader) by Kenton Worcester, Sally Avery Bermanzohn, Mark Ungar, And Unger Mark, Avery Bernamzohn Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2001 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-415-93111-3, ISBN: 0-415-93111-8 "Violence and Politics points out a paradox of contemporary political violence: it appears to be growing in scope and complexity even in this era of unprecedented democratic and economic growth. These essays cover a number of timely issues including pro-life terrorism, hate crimes, Islam's connection (or stereotyped connection) to violence, rape as a war crime, ethnic conflicts, and violence against those protesting for civil rights for ..." |
 | | Policing Democracy Overcoming Obstacles to Citizen Security in Latin America (Woodrow Wilson Center Press) by Mark Ungar Hardcover, 336 Pages, Published 2010 by The Johns Hopkins University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8018-9802-0, ISBN: 0-8018-9802-1 "Finally, Policing Democracy probes democratic politics, power relations, and regional disparities of security and reform to establish a framework for understanding the crisis and moving beyond it." |
 | | New Political Science Reader Violence and Politics : Globalization's Paradox by Mark Ungar, Sally Avery Bermanzohn, Kenton Worcester 256 Pages, Published 2013 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-136-70125-2, ISBN: 1-136-70125-7 "Weak generalizations concerning effects of boundary construction and uncertainty provide no substitute for close analysis of social processes on local ground. NOTES 1. Chesnais, Histoire de la violence en Occident; Rummel, Death by Government; Tilly et al., “State-Incited Violence, 1900—1999,” pp. 161—225. 2 . Van Creveld, Technology and War from 200 B. C. to the Present; van Creveld, The Trans— formation of War; Kaldor, New and Old ..." |
 | | Policing Democracy Overcoming Obstacles to Citizen Security in Latin America by Mark Ungar 416 Pages, Published 2020 by Jhu Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4214-2940-3, ISBN: 1-4214-2940-3 "Meetings were frequently canceled, and those that did take place involved little more than police officers updating residents on the programs future plans. ... Despite annual macroeconomic growth of about 3 percent since 1998, which has helped Hondurans at all income levels, 59 percent ... Ernesto Bardales, director, Jóvenes Hondureños Adelante–Juntos Avancemos (JHA-JA), interview 164 Honduras." |
 | | Violence and Politics Globalization's Paradox by Kenton Worcester, Sally Avery Bermanzohn, Mark Ungar 256 Pages, Published 2013 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-136-70132-0, ISBN: 1-136-70132-X "apertura petrolera en Venezuela: De la nacionalización a la privatización. ̄ In Revista Venezolana de ... que Bajaron los Cerros, 33¥35. Caracas: Editora El Nacional-Ateneo de Caracas, 1989. ¦¦. ®Entre lluvia y basura. ̄ In AA.W., El Día que." |
 | | Policing Insecurity Police Reform, Security, and Human Rights in Latin America by Niels A. Uildriks, Contributor-Anthony Harriott, Contributor-Saima Husain, Contributor-Mark Ungar, Contributor-Lucia Dammert, Marie-Louise Glebbeek, Contributor-Hugo Frühling, Hugo Fruhling Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 2009 by Lexington Books ISBN-13: 978-0-7391-3228-9, ISBN: 0-7391-3228-8 "Profound distrust commonly characterizes not only the relationship between citizens and state institutions, but also social, as well as inter- and intra-state relations. This impacts the effectiveness and quality of the service provided by state institutions. The degree to which police and judicial reforms are able to generate trust on these fronts is therefore an important yardstick to judge their relevance under varying circumstances ..." |
 | | Human Diet(1st Edition) Its Origin and Evolution by Peter S. Ungar, Mark Franklyn Teaford Textbook Binding, 192 Pages, Published 2002 by Praeger ISBN-13: 978-0-89789-736-5, ISBN: 0-89789-736-6 |
 | | The Criminalization of States The Relationship between States and Organized Crime (Security in the Americas in the Twenty-First Century) by Jonathan D. Rosen, Jorge Chabat, Bruce Bagley, Sigrid Arzt, Adriana Beltrán, Marten W. Brienen, Nashira Chávez, Sebastián Antonino Cutrona, Amanda M. Gurecki, Victor J. Hinojosa, Adam Isacson, Nathan Jones, Pryanka Peñafiel, John Polga-Hecimovich, David Rocha, Fernando Cepeda Ulloa, Mark Ungar, Christine J. Wade, Michael Jerome Wolff, Roberto Zepeda Hardcover, 390 Pages, Published 2019 by Lexington Books ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-9300-7, ISBN: 1-4985-9300-3 "This volume examines the relationship between states and organized crime. It seeks to add to the theoretical literature for analyzing the criminalization of the state. The volume also explores the nature of organized crime in countries throughout the Americas from Central America to the Southern Cone. " |
 | | Criminality, Public Security, and the Challenge to Democracy in Latin America(1st Edition) (Kellogg Institute Series on Democracy and Development) by Marcelo Bergman, Laurence Whitehead, Claudio Chaves Beato, Frederico Couto Marinho, Lucia Dammert, Mark Ungar, Hugo Fruhling, Elena Azaola Paperback, 360 Pages, Published 2009 by University Of Notre Dame Press ISBN-13: 978-0-268-02213-6, ISBN: 0-268-02213-5 "As new democratic regimes take root in Latin America, two of the most striking developments have been a dramatic rise in crime rates and increased perception of insecurity among its citizens. The contributors to this book offer a collective assessment of some of the causes for the alarming rise in criminal activity in the region. They also explore the institutional obstacles that states confront in the effort to curb criminality and bui ..." |
 | | Latin America After Neoliberalism(Updated) Turning the Tide in the 21st Century? by Eric Hershberg, Fred Rosen, Paul W. Drake, Lars Schoultz, Coletta A. Youngers, William I. Robinson, Luis Reygadas, Mark Ungar, Katherine Hite, Judith Adler Hellman, Carlos M. Vilas, Norma Chinchilla Paperback, 372 Pages, Published 2007 by The New Press ISBN-13: 978-1-59558-106-8, ISBN: 1-59558-106-5 "A primer on the social and economic changes sweeping across contemporary Latin America. ""Where have the economic policies succeeded? This is not a matter of ideology, it is political, technical, a matter of practical judgment.""--Manuel Lopez Obrador, Mexican presidential election front-runner Beginning in the 1980s, Latin America became a laboratory for the ideas and policies of neoliberalism. Now the region is an epicenter of dissent ..." |
 | | Forging Radical Alliances across Difference Coalition Politics for the New Millennium by Jill M. Bystydzienski, Christopher Bickel, Maria Bevacqua, Steven P. Schacht, J. Rick Altemose, Nancy Barta-Smith, Cynthia Burack, Pauline Cullen, Corey Dolgon, Zoltan Grossman, Paul Haber, Sasha Khokha, Eithine Luibheid, Lenore Lyons, Sofia Quintero, John Stoltenberg, Edwina Barvosa-Carter, Sandra J. Bell, Mary E. Delaney, Doris W. Ewing, Dawn A. Mccarty, Jerold M. Starr, Mark Ungar, Stoltenberg/Burack/B Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2001 by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers ISBN-13: 978-0-7425-1057-9, ISBN: 0-7425-1057-3 "As we enter the twenty-first century, scholars, activists and others concerned with social change increasingly realize that in order to transform society effective coalitions among different groups working for social justice need to be created and maintained. However, most of the research and writing about coalitions provide rather limited approaches to the study and understanding of radical alliances; i.e.: coalitions whose goals are t ..." |
 | | Violence and Politics(1st Edition) Globalization's Paradox (New Political Science Reader) [Hardcover] Worcester, Kenton; Bermanzohn, Sally Avery and Ungar, Mark by Editor-Kenton Worcester, Editor-Mark Ungar, Sally Avery Bermanzohn, Avery Bernamzohn, Kenton Worcestor Hardcover, 262 Pages, Published 2001 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-415-93110-6, ISBN: 0-415-93110-X |
 | | C2D1 An Examination of the Extreme Haunting and How the "Ghost Boy" of Geneseo Came to Be by Christopher Dicesare, John Jeff Ungar, Dale Kaczmarek, Mara Katria, Mark Allan Keyes, Alan Lewis, Charlie Manning Paperback, 299 Pages, Published 2019 by Cita Productions ISBN-13: 978-0-9885541-4-6, ISBN: 0-9885541-4-3 |
 | | Your Employee Stock Options(1st Edition) by Alan B. Ungar, Mark T. Sakanashi Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2001 by Harperbusiness ISBN-13: 978-0-06-662097-8, ISBN: 0-06-662097-X |
 | | Forging Radical Alliances across Difference(Updated) Coalition Politics for the New Millennium by Jill M. Bystydzienski, Steven P. Schacht, Contributor-Christopher Bickel, Contributor-Maria Bevacqua, Contributor-Cynthia Burack, Contributor-Pauline Cullen, Contributor-Paul Haber, Contributor-Sasha Khokha, Contributor-Eithine Luibheid, Contributor-Lenore Lyons, Contributor-Sofia Quintero, Contributor-John Stoltenberg, Contributor-Zoltan Grossman, Contributor-Corey Dolgon, Mark Ungar, J. Rick Altemose, Nancy Barta-Smith, Edwina Barvosa-Carter, Sandra J. Bell, Mary E. Delaney, Doris W. Ewing, Dawn A. Mccarty, Jerold M. Starr, Dr Corey Dolgon, Stoltenberg/Burack/B Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2001 by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers ISBN-13: 978-0-7425-1058-6, ISBN: 0-7425-1058-1 "As we enter the twenty-first century, scholars, activists and others concerned with social change increasingly realize that in order to transform society effective coalitions among different groups working for social justice need to be created and maintained. However, most of the research and writing about coalitions provide rather limited approaches to the study and understanding of radical alliances; i.e.: coalitions whose goals are t ..." |
 | | The 21st Century Fight for the Amazon(1st Edition) Environmental Enforcement in the World’s Biggest Rainforest by Mark Ungar, Palgrave Macmillan Hardcover, 177 Pages, Published 2017 by Palgrave Macmillan ISBN-13: 978-3-319-56551-4, ISBN: 3-319-56551-6 "This book is the most updated and comprehensive look at efforts to protect the Amazon, home to half of the world’s remaining tropical forests. In the past five years, the Basin’s countries have become the cutting edge of environmental enforcement through formation of constitutional protections, military operations, stringent laws, police forces, judicial procedures and societal efforts that together break through barriers that have long ..." |
 | | The 21st Century Fight for the Amazon Environmental Enforcement in the World’s Biggest Rainforest by Mark Ungar 177 Pages, Published 2017 by Springer ISBN-13: 978-3-319-56552-1, ISBN: 3-319-56552-4 "Enforcing all these environmental regulations (as well as all other laws) is Suriname's Ministry of Police and Justice. ... control and immigration functions—a critical role, given the levels of smuggling around the region discussed in this book. ... Most significantly for the environment, police stations in all ten of the country's districts serve as potential control points. ... international conventions and agreements to which S ..." |
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