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Home Style Opinion: How Local Newspapers Can Slow PolarizationLocal newspapers can hold back the rising tide of political division in America by turning away from the partisan battles in Washington and focusing their opinion page on local issues. When a local newspaper in California dropped national politics from its opinion page, the...
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Rethinking Chinese PoliticsUnderstanding Chinese politics has become more important than ever. Some argue that China's political system is 'institutionalized' or that 'win all/lose all' struggles are a thing of the past, but, Joseph Fewsmith argues, as in all Leninist systems, political power is difficult to pass...
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The Rights of Refugees Under International LawDo states have a duty to assimilate refugees to their own citizens? Are refugees entitled to freedom of movement, to be allowed to work, to have access to public welfare programs, or to be reunited with family members? Indeed, is there even a duty...
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Revolution in Syria: Identity, Networks, and RepressionHow does protest advancing diverse claims turn into violent conflict occurring primarily along ethnic lines? This book examines that question in the context of Syria, drawing insight from the evolution of conflict at the local level. Kevin Mazur shows that the challenge to the...
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The Climate Planner: Overcoming Pushback Against Local Mitigation and Adaptation PlansThe Climate Planner is about overcoming the objections to climate change mitigation and adaption that urban planners face at a local level. It shows how to draft climate plans that encounter less resistance because they involve the public, stakeholders, and decisionmakers in a way...
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Fragmenting Globalization: The Politics of Preferential Trade Liberalization in China and the United StatesGlobal supply chain integration is not only a rapidly growing feature of international trade, it is responsible for fundamentally changing trade policy at international and domestic levels. Given that final goods are produced with both domestic and foreign suppliers, Ka Zeng and Xiaojun Li...
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Routledge Handbook of U.S. Counterterrorism and Irregular Warfare OperationsThis handbook comprises essays by leading scholars and practitioners on the topic of U.S. counterterrorism and irregular warfare campaigns and operations around the globe. Terrorist groups have evolved substantially since 9/11, with the Islamic State often described as a pseudo-state, a terrorist group, and...
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Transitions in Post-Soviet Eurasia: Identity, Polity and Strategic ChoicesThis book discusses the ideological and historical relevance of the term 'Eurasia' as a concept in the global geopolitical and ethno-cultural discourse. It focuses on the contested meanings attached to the idea and traces its historical evolution and interpretations. The volume examines the contours...
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Civil Religion in Modern Political Philosophy: Machiavelli to TocquevilleInspired by Machiavelli, modern philosophers held that the tension between the goals of biblical piety and the goals of political life needed to be resolved in favor of the political, and they attempted to recast and delimit traditional Christian teaching to serve and stabilize...
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The Lies of Marjorie Taylor GreeneA Real History Comix following the statements and actions of the Congresswoman elected to Georgia's 14th Congressional District.Author: Scott NorrisPublisher: Independently PublishedPublished: 02/07/2021Pages: 26Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.21lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.99w x 0.07dISBN: 9798705767250This title is not returnable
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The Right To Be Lazy: Easy to Read Layout"In capitalist society work is the cause of all intellectual degeneracy, of all organic deformity."This essay raises interesting questions: is work really a virtue? Isn't work the source of many social imbalances? These are all questions that lend themselves to an exciting and topical...
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Great Bales of Fire: More Tales of a Country FiremanMore tales of a country fireman, from the author of ALL FIRED UP. Perfect for fans of HEARTBEAT or the brand new TV series ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL. It's the early 1980s and rookie fireman Malcolm Castle is set to take on the...
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AWAKE to RacismA young nun shocked by the Birmingham church bombing in 1963 begins to wake up to the horrors of racism on her first teaching assignment in the deep South. Joann's journey as a Civil Rights and anti-war activist took her to jails, trials, and...
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Diplomacy and the Future of World OrderThree scenarios for future approaches to peace and conflict diplomacy, explored through the lens of regional perspectives and security threatsDiplomacy in pursuit of peace and security faces severe challenges not seen in decades. The reemergence of strong states, discord in the UN Security Council,...
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Israel's Failed Response to the Armenian Genocide: Denial, State Deception, Truth Versus Politicization of HistoryWhen the Turkish government demanded the cancellation of all lectures on the Armenian Genocide at Israel's First International Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide, and that Armenian lecturers not be allowed to participate, the Israeli government followed suit. This book follows the author's gutsy...
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From Family to Police Force: Security and Belonging on a South Asian BorderFrom Family to Police Force illuminates the production and contestation of social, familial, and national order on a South Asian borderland. In the borderland that divides Kutch, a district in the western Indian state of Gujarat, from Sindh, a southern province in Pakistan, there...
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A Region of Regimes: Prosperity and Plunder in the Asia-PacificA Region of Regimes traces the relationship between politics and economics--power and prosperity--in the Asia-Pacific in the decades since the Second World War. This book complicates familiar and incomplete narratives of the "Asian economic miracle" to show radically different paths leading to high growth...
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To Kill Nations: American Strategy in the Air-Atomic Age and the Rise of Mutually Assured DestructionIn To Kill Nations, Edward Kaplan traces the evolution of American strategic airpower and preparation for nuclear war from this early air-atomic era to a later period (1950-1965) in which the Soviet Union's atomic capability, accelerated by thermonuclear weapons and ballistic missiles, made American...
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Pack the Court!: A Defense of Supreme Court ExpansionThe United States Supreme Court has numbered nine justices for the past 150 years. But that number is not fixed. With the Democrats controlling the House and Senate during the Biden presidency, they could add justices to the Supreme Court. But would court packing...
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Nazi Buildings, Cold War Traces and Governmentality in Post-Unification BerlinBringing together approaches from cultural and urban history, as well as German studies and political theory, Clare Copley's probing study reflects on post-unification responses to iconic Nazi architecture to reveal insights into power, legitimacy and memory politics in the Berlin Republic. Analysing public debates,...
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