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A Thousand Steps to Parliament: Constructing Electable Women in MongoliaA Thousand Steps to Parliament traces how the complicated, contradictory paths to political representation that women in Mongolia must walk mirror those the world over. Mongolia has often been deemed an "island of democracy," commended for its rapid adoption of free democratic elections in...
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How Democracies Live: Power, Statecraft, and Freedom in Modern SocietiesTimes have not been kind to democracy. This book is in its defense. In the new century, the triumph of democracy at the end of the Cold War turned to retrenchment. The core democracies, in America and Britain, succumbed to polarization and misrule. Dictatorships,...
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The Foreign Office's War, 1939-41: British Strategic Foreign Policy and the Major Neutral PowersProvides a forceful corrective to the idea that Britain 'stood alone' until the invasion of the Soviet Union and the attack on Pearl Harbor brought about 'the Grand Alliance'. Based on extensive archival research, the book demonstrates that 1939 to 1941 was a period...
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Religion in Rebellions, Revolutions, and Social MovementsReligion in Rebellions, Revolutions, and Social Movements demonstrates that, while religion is often a social force that maintains, if not legitimates, the sociopolitical order, it is also a decisive factor in economic, social, and political conflict. The book explores how and under what conditions...
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The Money To Control: How the Elite Conspire Against YouThe Money to Control examines how elites use economics and their control of industries and capital investment to conspire against the average citizen in order to transfer wealth from working and middle-class pockets into the bank accounts of the ultra-rich. This book is the...
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¿Qué es una revolución?: Y otros ensayos reunidosLa pregunta que titula este libro es un tópico central del programa intelectual de Álvaro García Linera. La revolución -la palabra más reivindicada y satanizada del siglo XX- se configura como hecho político-militar de las masas que toman por asalto el poder para demoler...
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Winning Hearts and Minds: Public Diplomacy in ASEANWhen we think of diplomacy, we often envisage Heads of State at formal settings or official meetings. In reality though, everyone can play a positive role in diplomacy.Public diplomacy, also referred to as people diplomacy, is about building friendships and understanding between peoples of...
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Ethnoreligiosity in the Contemporary Societies of the Former Yugoslavia: The Veils of Christian DelusionUsing Christian communities in the former Yugoslavia as a case study, Branko Sekulic introduces the concept of ethnoreligiosity to the theological discussion in order to resolve the confusion that occurs when scholars talk about the concepts of ethno-religion or ethnoreligion. Ethno-religion/ethnoreligion came to describe...
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Zambia: Pathways to ExcellencePathways to Excellence suggests ways in which Zambia could liberate herself from mediocrity and become the world class economy it is meant to be. In addition to sensible prescriptions such as maximizing the efficacy of public spending, and creating conditions that support Zambian entrepreneurship,...
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Uncertainty Bands: A Guide to Predicting and Regulating Economic ProcessesThis book explores the philosophy of economic forecasting under uncertainty. In economics the extreme events are difficult and often impossible to predict, especially when leaning upon the past only. Events can be approximately evaluated, as they may be sudden and erratic. The presentation of...
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The Theatre of Fake NewsThis book begins by defining the term 'fake news', a term which has come to great public prominence since the start of our current millennium. Fake news, broadly defined, is used to describe 'false, often sensational, information disseminated under the guise of news reporting'....
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The Ethics of Personal Data Collection in International Relations: Inclusionism in the Time of Covid-19This volume's relevance may be explained, first and foremost, during a time of unprecedented loss of life around the world each day. The data, which is oftentimes incomplete and misleading, nonetheless reveals the state as deficient as well as negligent in its response to...
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Fighting the Last War: Confusion, Partisanship, and Alarmism in the Literature on the Radical RightThe authors argue that the potential threat of a resurgence of "fascism" has been consistently exaggerated from 1945 until present day; that the ongoing lack of conceptual and definitional clarity with respect to terms like "fascism," the "radical right," the "alt right," "white supremacism,"...
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The Treaty: The Gripping Story of the Negotiations That Brought about Irish Independence and Led to the Civil WarOn the morning of 11 October 1921, the world's media watched as the most wanted man in Ireland bounded through the door of 10 Downing Street. Moments later, the 'head of the murder gang' grasped the hands of the Prime Minister.Such was the mind-bending...
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Illegitimate Sun: How a Naval Cryptologist Cracked the Code of Life LessonsKenneth Earl might have never left Cherry Street, an impoverished neighborhood in Columbia, South Carolina- if it weren't for a mother's inspiration. Determined to make his mother proud, he embarked on a worldwide journey of military service, secret communications, and espionage.Achieve your own greatest...
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Out to Lead: Shaping Queer Leadership"Leaders are emerging within the LGBTQ+ community at an unprecedented rate. Not because we are some sort of a novelty making our first appearance onto the scene, but because we are finally harnessing the power of our resilience."We're CEOs, actors, policymakers, media influencers, and...
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The Future of Policing: 200 Recommendations to Enhance Policing and Community SafetyPolicing does not happen in a vacuum. The mood, viewpoints, and stresses of society impact how policing occurs and how it is perceived. Starting in June and July 2020, the nation saw weeks of protests, civil disturbances, and riots that were specifically directed against...
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Principles of Maritime PowerMaritime powers dominate the planet, from the British empire of the 19th century, to the American post-World War II domination of global affairs. To a large degree their control of the globe is based on control of the seas. This book seeks to examine...
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UtopiaUtopia (1516) is a work of political satire by Thomas More. Published in Latin while More was serving as Privy Counsellor under King Henry VIII, the text is stylized as a true account of a new civilization discovered in the New World by traveler...
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The Future We Need: Organizing for a Better Democracy in the Twenty-First CenturyIn The Future We Need, Erica Smiley and Sarita Gupta bring a novel perspective to building worker power and what labor organizing could look like in the future, suggesting ways to evolve collective bargaining to match the needs of modern people--not only changing their...
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