The Republic of China on Taiwan has long reserved legislative seats for its indigenous minority, the yuanzhumin.

This book originated in a conference on "Liberation Technology in Authoritarian Regimes" held at Stanford University in Oct.

The battle for accountability and good governance-and thus sustainable democracy and development-will not be won by foreign actors or pressures.

Thoroughly updated to keep pace with the many new developments in international law, the Fifth Edition of this popular casebook covers the core topics, basic doctrines, and a broad range of foreign...

Is there a human right to democracy? My answer, in brief, is ‘no’. Five interconnected claims will play a role in my argument for this conclusion: Justice requires democracy.

Comparative educational research has influenced the development of the world society perspective as surely as the world society perspective has shaped research directions in comparative education....

In a world of rivalrous states whose peoples are connected ever more directly by globalization, Thomas Nagel has forcefully reasserted a classical thesis of early modern political thought: outside...

The authors examine the global expansion of higher educational enrollments over the 20th century. Rates of growth accelerated in virtually all countries after 1960.

Poverty reduction on a large scale depends on empowering those who are most motivated to move out of poverty - poor people themselves.

Morally and analytically, there is no more vexing phenomenon than the persistence of mass poverty.