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Carbon Capture and Storage: Efficient Legal Policies for Risk Governance and CompensationA theoretical and practical analysis of the complex liability issues raised by carbon capture and storage systems for containing greenhouse gases.Carbon capture and storage (CCS) systems inject highly compressed carbon dioxide gas deep into geological formations in order to contain the gas, and its...
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Experimental Politics: Work, Welfare, and Creativity in the Neoliberal AgeA celebrated theorist examines the conditions of work, employment, and unemployment in neoliberalism's flexible and precarious labor market.In Experimental Politics, Maurizio Lazzarato examines the conditions of work, employment, and unemployment in neoliberalism's flexible and precarious labor market. This is the first book of Lazzarato's...
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The Economics and Political Economy of Energy SubsidiesThe economic and political aspects of energy subsidies, viewed both theoretically and empirically, with a focus on fossil fuel subsidies in developing nations.Government subsidies to energy are widespread and represent a heavy burden on public budgets in many countries. Both producers and consumers may...
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The Green Paradox: A Supply-Side Approach to Global WarmingA leading economist develops a supply-side approach to fighting climate change that encourages resource owners to leave more of their fossil carbon underground.The Earth is getting warmer. Yet, as Hans-Werner Sinn points out in this provocative book, the dominant policy approach--which aims to curb...
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A Case for Climate EngineeringA leading scientist argues that we must consider deploying climate engineering technology to slow the pace of global warming. Climate engineering--which could slow the pace of global warming by injecting reflective particles into the upper atmosphere--has emerged in recent years as an extremely controversial...
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Robert F. Kennedy and the 1968 Indiana PrimaryOn April 4, 1968, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., arrived in Indiana to campaign for the Indiana Democratic presidential primary. As Kennedy prepared to fly from an appearance in Muncie to Indianapolis, he learned that civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., had...
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The Other Heading: Reflections on Today's EuropePrompted by the unification of Europe in 1992 and by recent events in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, Jacques Derrida begins this compelling essay on contemporary world politics with the issue of European identity. What, he asks, is Europe? How has Europe traditionally...
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Colonialism and Violence in NigeriaColonialism and Violence in Nigeria looks closely at the conditions that created a legacy of violence in Nigeria. Toyin Falola examines violence as a tool of domination and resistance, however unequally applied, to get to the heart of why Nigeria has not built a...
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The Bolsheviks in Power: The First Year of Soviet Rule in PetrogradA major contribution to the historiography of the world in the 20th century, The Bolsheviks in Power focuses on the fateful first year of Soviet rule in Petrograd. It examines events that profoundly shaped the Soviet political system that endured through most of the...
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Human Security and the UN: A Critical HistoryHow did the individual human being become the focus of the contemporary discourse on security? What was the role of the United Nations in "securing" the individual? What are the payoffs and costs of this extension of the concept? Neil MacFarlane and Yuen Foong...
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A Great Civil War: A Military and Political History, 1861-1865"The crowning achievement of one of America's most distinguished military historians." --Lincoln Prize jury"Readers will find much to debate in this book--including . . . its affirmation that, because of emancipation, 'the Civil War calls for a rethinking of the attitude . . ....
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Palestinian Women of Gaza and the West Bank" . . . takes a new look at the situation in one of the hottest spots on the globe and asks what impact the politicization of women will have on the lives of people in the emerging Palestinian state." --NWSA JournalThis volume introduces...
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Russia's Orient: Imperial Borderlands and Peoples, 1700-1917" . . . the first study of the Russian Empire in English which attempts in a sophisticated way, using the latest developments in colonial studies, to deal not only with imperial rule but with the mutual encounter with the non-Russian peoples. . ....
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Pan-Turkism: From Irredentism to Cooperation"Landau's book is important in several respects. . . it provides exhaustive information on almost every pan-Turk publication and all of its authors and publicists. Landau appears to have consulted every conceivable source, including archives and collections . . . In addition, the book...
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The Media World of IsisFrom efficient instructions on how to kill civilians to horrifying videos of beheadings, no terrorist organization has more comprehensively weaponized social media than ISIS. Its strategic, multiplatformed campaign is so effective that it has ensured global news coverage and inspired hundreds of young people...
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Volatile State: Iran in the Nuclear AgeIn an age of nuclear experimentation, military conflicts, and ISIS, the Middle East is unstable, and the Iranian nuclear deal is shrouded in controversy and mistrust. How will this agreement impact US relations and strengths, not only in the region, but around the world?...
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Essential Israel: Essays for the 21st CenturyMost Americans are ill-prepared to engage thoughtfully in the increasingly serious debate about Israel, its place in the Middle East, and its relations with the United States. Essential Israel examines a wide variety of complex issues and current concerns in historical and contemporary contexts...
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Youth Politics in Putin's Russia: Producing Patriots and EntrepreneursJulie Hemment provides a fresh perspective on the controversial nationalist youth projects that have proliferated in Russia in the Putin era, examining them from the point of view of their participants and offering provocative insights into their origins and significance. The pro-Kremlin organization Nashi...
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Defending the Filibuster, Revised and Updated Edition: The Soul of the SenateMany argue that the Senate filibuster is undemocratic or even unconstitutional. Recent legislative disputes have brought criticism of Senate rules into sharp relief, and demands for abolition or reform of the filibuster have increased. In Defending the Filibuster, a veteran Senate aide and a...
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Identity, Citizenship, and Political Conflict in AfricaReflecting on the processes of nation-building and citizenship formation in Africa, Edmond J. Keller believes that although some deep parochial identities have eroded, they have not disappeared and may be more assertive than previously thought, especially in instances of political conflict. Keller reconsiders how...
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