Political Science
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The Sahel Crisis and the Need for International SupportThe crisis in the Sahel is serious and multidimensional, and if it continues unabated it could have consequences far beyond the region. As the states of the region are too poor and weak to deal with this on their own, international support is needed....
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Finding Allies and Making Revolution: The Early Years of the Chinese Communist PartyIn Finding Allies and Making Revolution, Tony Saich shows how a Dutchman helped launch the Chinese Communist Party and devised the key strategy of the united front to work with the nationalists to promote revolution.Author: SaichPublisher: BrillPublished: 02/20/2020Pages: 238Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 9.40h x...
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Africa Matters: Cultural Politics, Political Economies, and Grammars of ProtestAfrica Matters: Cultural politics, political economies, & grammars of protest provides a sampling of insightful articles from the first five issues of Nokoko, journal of the Institute of African Studies, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. It brings together pieces that the journal's editorial board felt...
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Comparative Government and Politics: Everything you always wanted to know about...Why different countries have different forms of government and political institutions? Why some countries exist as democracies and others are authoritarian regimes? Why are some revolutions successful and others fail? This clearly explained text is a perfect guide for anyone who wants to be...
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Promise Theory: Principles and Applications (Second edition)Promise Theory bridges the worlds of semantics and dynamics to describe scalable interactions between autonomous agents that form clusters and groups. It provides a broadly developed and semi-formal language, which builds on the mathematics of sets and graphs, and models intent and outcome in...
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Black, Blind, & in Charge: A Story of Visionary Leadership and Overcoming Adversity"I have had this desire my whole life to prove people wrong, to show them I could do things they didn't think I could do."--David Paterson A title that hits you between the eyes is second only to a Governor put in office by...
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Genocide in the Carpathians: War, Social Breakdown, and Mass Violence, 1914-1945Genocide in the Carpathians presents the history of Subcarpathian Rus', a multiethnic and multireligious borderland in the heart of Europe. This society of Carpatho-Ruthenians, Jews, Magyars, and Roma disintegrated under pressure of state building in interwar Czechoslovakia and, during World War II, from the...
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Reproductive Citizens: Gender, Immigration, and the State in Modern France, 1880-1945In the familiar tale of mass migration to France from 1880 onward, we know very little about the hundreds of thousands of women who formed a critical part of those migration waves. In Reproductive Citizens, Nimisha Barton argues that their relative absence in the...
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Canadian Politics, Seventh EditionFor this new edition, James Bickerton and Alain-G. Gagnon have organized the book into six parts. Part I covers the origins and foundations of Canada as a political entity while Part II focuses on Government, Parliament, and the Courts. Part III examines matters pertaining...
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Clowns to the Left of Me, Jokers to the Right: American Life in ColumnsOpinionated talk show host and columnist Michael Smerconish has been chronicling local, state, and national events for the Philadelphia Daily News and the Philadelphia Inquirer for more than 15 years. He has sounded off on topics as diverse as the hunt for Osama bin...
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Colonialism and Male Domestic Service Across the Asia PacificExamining the role of Asian and indigenous male servants across the Asia Pacific from the late-19th century to the 1930s, this study shows how their ubiquitous presence in these purportedly 'humble' jobs gave them a degree of cultural influence that has been largely overlooked...
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¡No Se Vende! Water as a Right of the CommonsCustom and tradition within the acequia (irrigation ditches) agricultural communities of New Mexico, despite the law that assigns a priority date and implies ownership of water, still govern the use of the water by mayordomos and commissions, and repartimiento, or water distribution and sharing,...
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Stories from the Field: A Guide to Navigating Fieldwork in Political ScienceWhat do you do if you get stuck in an elevator in Mogadishu? How worried should you be about being followed after an interview with a ring of human traffickers in Lebanon? What happens to your research if you get placed on a government...
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Kurdish Culture and IdentityThe more than 20 million Kurds in the Middle East are the largest nation in the world without their own independent state. Their struggles for international recognition may ultimately depend on their ability to convince the world that they have their own valid and...
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Life Expectancy in Africa: Improving Public Health PolicyLife Expectancy in Africa: Improving Public Health Policy provides readers with a comprehensive analysis of life expectancy in Africa and proposes avenues for improving public health policy on the African continent. The book studies the period between 1960 and 2015. To a large extent,...
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Global Tesol for the 21st Century: Teaching English in a Changing WorldThis book explores the impact of the global spread of English on English language teaching and learning. It argues for the need for change in the way in which English is taught in order to reflect global realities and the latest research findings. The...
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Planetary Health: Protecting Nature to Protect OurselvesHuman health depends on the health of the planet. Earth's natural systems--the air, the water, the biodiversity, the climate--are our life support systems. Yet climate change, biodiversity loss, scarcity of land and freshwater, pollution and other threats are degrading these systems. The emerging field...
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The Politics of Transitional Justice in Latin America: Power, Norms, and Capacity BuildingHow has Latin America pioneered the field of transitional justice (TJ)? Do approaches vary across the region? This Element describes Latin American innovations in trials and truth commissions, and evaluates two influential models that explain variation in TJ outcomes: the Huntingtonian and Justice Cascade...
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Envy in PoliticsHow envy, spite, and the pursuit of admiration influence politics Why do governments underspend on policies that would make their constituents better off? Why do people participate in contentious politics when they could reap benefits if they were to abstain? In Envy in Politics,...
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Small Wars, Big Data: The Information Revolution in Modern ConflictHow a new understanding of warfare can help the military fight today's conflicts more effectively The way wars are fought has changed starkly over the past sixty years. International military campaigns used to play out between armies at central fronts. Today's conflicts find major...
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