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Between Fault Lines and Front Lines: Shifting Power in an Unequal WorldInequality is one of today's greatest challenges, obstructing poverty reduction and sustainable development. As the power of elites grows and societal gaps widen, institutions representing the public good and universal values are increasingly disempowered or co-opted, and visions of social justice and equity side-lined....
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Decency And Deception: Encouragement for a Struggling NationDecency and Deception: Encouragement for a Struggling Nation, takes the reader on an information pack journey looking at the events that transpired leading up to and during the Trump Presidency. Describing those elements that defined, and haunted the one term President. Facing a very...
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Essai sur l'inégalité des races humaines - Volume ILa race ? Elle n'existe plus. Les gens du Nord ? Si vous saviez combien l'on s'ennuie à Stockholm. Les Allemands ? Ils gâtent tout bonnement les Anglo-Saxons d'Amérique: c'est une race métissée à l'extrême. D'ailleurs, Gobineau sait de toute évidence que l'Autriche sera...
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Best Year Ever: Thought and Inaction Through a Long 2020Best Year Ever is a collection that addresses American exceptionalism and decline; the development of a multipolar geopolitical order; debt, law, and redemption; and the long-term and largely positive (if complex) effects of the events of 2020 and beyond. Equally caustic and humorous, the...
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Rediscovering Republicanism: Renewing America with Our Founding Vision and ValuesWhen well-designed institutions function properly, people thrive. Few institutions have been more ingeniously designed than the U.S. federal government via the Constitution in 1787. This auspicious beginning more than two centuries ago helps explain why the U.S. remains a magnet for opportunity seekers, students,...
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Gender Politics in Turkey and Russia: From State Feminism to Authoritarian RuleBoth Russia and Turkey were pioneering examples of feminism in the early 20th Century, when the Bolshevik and Republican states embraced an ideology of women's equality. Yet now these countries have drifted towards authoritarianism and the concept of gender is being invoked to reinforce...
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Critique of Philippine Economy and PoliticsCritique of Philippine Economy and Politics seeks to explain comprehensively the basic character of Philippine society and the basic problems that afflict the Filipino people, especially the toiling masses of workers and peasants. Since 1946, the US has granted nominal independence to the Philippines...
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Furthering the Frontiers of International Law: Sovereignty, Human Rights, Sustainable Development: Liber Amicorum Nico SchrijverThis rich collection focuses on the broad research interests of Professor Nico Schrijver, in whose honour it was created. Written by a wide range of international scholars affiliated with Leiden University's Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies, the essays reflect Professor Schrijver's important contribution...
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Hubris and Concern: Could Distributed Ledger Technology Replace Modern States?Hubris and ConcernCould Distributed Ledger Technology Replace Modern States?Bitcoin, Venezuela's Petro and Facebook's Libra. Accused of enabling drug dealing, circumventing sanctions and undermining monetary policy, cryptocurrencies make headlines. Tech enthusiasts even predict a future entirely governed by cryptocurrencies, Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT)....
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The Chinese Question in Central Asia: Domestic Order, Social Change, and the Chinese FactorSince the start of the 2000s, the People's Republic of China has become an increasingly important player on the Central Asian scene, both diplomatically and strategically, in particular through the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. At the economic level, China has positioned itself among the largest...
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The Rise and Fall of the National Atlas in the Twentieth Century: Power, State and TerritoryThe publication of the National Atlas of Finland in 1899 marks the beginning of the era of the modern national atlas. It is a period that coincides neatly with the twentieth century. The modern national atlas mirrors and embodies some of the important themes...
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On War (Three Volumes in One)"War is not merely a political act, but also a real political instrument, a continuation of political commerce, a carrying out of the same by other means." -Carl von Clausewitz, On War, 1832On War is Carl von Clausewitz' masterpiece on war and military strategy,...
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What Went Right: Sustainability Versus Dependence in Nepal's Hydropower DevelopmentThis book explores why Nepal's hydropower sector is one of its few development success stories. Unlike most other 'developing' countries, in Nepal local firms design and build hydropower facilities using Nepali engineers, builders and labor. Nepal has largely avoided the trap whereby most poor...
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Night on Earth: A History of International Humanitarianism in the Near East, 1918-1930Night on Earth is a broad-ranging account of international humanitarian programs in Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans and the Near East from 1918 to 1930. Davide Rodogno shows that international 'relief' and 'development' were intertwined long before the birth of the United Nations...
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Night on Earth: A History of International Humanitarianism in the Near East, 1918-1930Night on Earth is a broad-ranging account of international humanitarian programs in Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans and the Near East from 1918 to 1930. Davide Rodogno shows that international 'relief' and 'development' were intertwined long before the birth of the United Nations...
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Diplomacy and Capitalism: The Political Economy of U.S. Foreign RelationsAt the same time as modern capitalism became an engine of progress and a source of inequality, the United States rose to global power. Hence diplomacy and the forces of capitalism have continually evolved together and shaped each other at different levels of international,...
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India and the Changing Geopolitics of OilThe global energy scenario has transformed in the past 20 years. Oil demand, earlier driven by the West, is now shifting to the East, more specifically to Asia. New oil supplies from North America have challenged the hegemony of the traditional oil exporters from...
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The Wealth of a Nation: A History of Trade Politics in AmericaThe United States is entering a period of profound uncertainty in the world political economy--an uncertainty which is threatening the liberal economic order that its own statesmen created at the end of the Second World War. The storm surrounding this threat has been ignited...
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Immigration and DemocracyHow should we think about immigration and what policies should democratic societies pursue? Sarah Song offers a political theory of immigration that takes seriously both the claims of receiving countries and the claims of prospective migrants. Immigration is one of the most polarizing issues...
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The 2020 Presidential Election: Key Issues and Regional DynamicsChapter 1. Introduction (Luke Perry).- Chapter 2. How Biden Rebuilt the Blue Wall (Luke Perry, Quinlyn Beaver and Jamie Nelson) .- Chapter 3. Pennsylvania: A New Bellwether? (Kevan M. Yenerall) .- Chapter 4. The Sun Belt Beginning to Shine for Democrat (Lawrence Becker and...
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