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Actors and Dynamics in the Syrian Conflict's Middle Phase: Between Contentious Politics, Militarization and Regime ResilienceThis volume covers the "middle" time period of the Syrian uprising, roughly from 2012 when Syria's peaceful protest began to mutate into a violent insurgency and civil war until roughly 2018 when the conflict took on features of a "frozen conflict". The middle period...
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Dalit Theology, Boundary Crossings and Liberation in India: A Biblical and Postcolonial StudyJobymon Skaria, an Indian St Thomas Christian Scholar, offers a critique of Indian Christian theology and suggests that constructive dialogues between Biblical and dissenting Dalit voices - such as Chokhamela, Karmamela, Ravidas, Kabir, Nandanar and Narayana Guru - could set right the imbalance within...
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Human Capital Versus Basic Income: Ideology and Models for Anti-Poverty Programs in Latin AmericaLatin America underwent two major transformations during the 2000s: the widespread election of left-leaning presidents (the so-called left turn) and the diffusion of conditional cash transfer programs (CCTs)--innovative social programs that award regular stipends to poor families on the condition that their children attend...
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Understanding Humanitarian ProtectionThis new textbook provides an introduction to humanitarian protection, a field of study concerned with international responses to armed conflict, political violence, and humanitarian crisis.The book engages with a wide range of empirical and normative questions, providing an overview of the academic literature whilst...
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Grassroots: A Field Guide for Feminist ActivismFrom the authors of Manifesta, an activism handbook that illustrates how to truly make the personal political. Grassroots is an activism handbook for social justice. Aimed at everyone from students to professionals, stay-at-home moms to artists, Grassroots answers the perennial question: What can I...
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Public Sector Strategy: Concepts, Cases and ToolsPublic Sector Strategy explores how strategic decisions are developed and implemented in the public sector, and examines the psychology underpinning strategic decision-making. Combining knowledge from traditional perspectives with contemporary insights on strategic management, this book considers how managers make their decisions and provides key...
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Minha especialidade é matarNo final de 2017, publiquei no Youtube meu primeiro vídeo sobre Jair Messias Bolsonaro, na época apenas um dos muitos nomes possíveis para uma eventual candidatura à presidência.Naquele momento, a vitória de Bolsonaro parecia inconcebível e muitos analistas políticos, habituados a um processo eleitoral...
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Political HeatGraham Kruse is an extraordinary politician with one major flaw: he's a touchy/feely elected official who likes to kiss women, and likes to be seduced by women. When not so tempted, he is quite an amazing mayor of New York City, and later, as...
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The Prince (Warbler Classics)The Prince is widely thought to be one of the first works of modern political philosophy. Machiavelli was the first to decisively divorce politics from ethics. His political realism influenced many important figures in the developing field of materialist philosophy, including Francis Bacon, John...
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Between Empire and Republic: America in the Colonial Canadian ImaginationIn 1837, a small group of rebels proclaimed the short-lived Republic of Canada. Between then and the Act of Confederation of 1867, colonial Canadians tried to imagine the future of their communities in North America. The choice between monarchy and republicanism shaped both colonial...
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Hungary's Cold War: International Relations from the End of World War II to the Fall of the Soviet UnionIn this magisterial and pathbreaking work, Csaba Bekes shares decades of his research to provide a sweeping examination of Hungary's international relations with both the Soviet Bloc and the West from the end of World War II to the dissolution of the Soviet Union...
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Citizens and Rulers of the World: The American Child and the Cartographic Pedagogies of EmpireBy delving into the complex, cross-generational exchanges that characterize any political project as rampant as empire, this thought-provoking study focuses on children and their ambivalent, intimate relationships with maps and practices of mapping at the dawn of the "American Century." Considering children as students,...
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The Law and Practice of the Ireland-Northern Ireland ProtocolThe Ireland-Northern Ireland Protocol, part of the Withdrawal Agreement concluded between the European Union and the United Kingdom, is intended to address the difficult and complex impact of Brexit on the island of Ireland, North and South, and between Ireland and Great Britain. It...
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Architects of Repression: How Israel and Its Lobby Put Racism, Violence and Injustice at the Center of US Middle East PolicyWalter L. Hixson since 2019 serves as columnist and contributing editor at the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs. This is his second book on the Israel lobby following Israel's Armor: The Israel Lobby and the First Generation of the Palestine Conflict. (Cambridge University...
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Kurds and Yezidis in the Middle East: Shifting Identities, Borders, and the Experience of Minority CommunitiesThe diversity of Kurdish communities across the Middle East is now recognized as central to understanding both the challenges and opportunities for their representation and politics. Yet little scholarship has focused on the complexities within these different groups and the range of their experiences....
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Contested Waters: Sub-National Scale Water and Conflict in PakistanContested Waters provides an in-depth analysis of trans-boundary water conflict involving the Indus Basin in Pakistan. The book focuses on both national scale and local scale case studies to illustrate how these water conflicts are both discursively and materially driven by human institutions and...
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Co-Crafting the Just City: Tales from the Field by a Planning Scholar Turned MayorThe 2016 election in Iowa City would provide an opportunity that planning faculty have long desired: the opportunity for one of their own to serve as mayor. In this new book, former Iowa City Mayor and Professor Emeritus James A. Throgmorton provides readers a...
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Persuasion in SocietyThis fully-updated fourth edition introduces readers to the rich tapestry of persuasive technique and scholarship, interweaving perspectives from rhetoric, critical theory, and social science and applying their insights to practical political, social, and business contexts. This text examines current and classical theory through the...
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Desastre: Historia Y Política de Las Catástrofes / The Politics of CatastropheUna historia de las catástrofes deslumbrante, original y repleta de ideas para el futuro que pone en perspectiva el ya conocido como annus horribilis.Los desastres son difíciles de prever, pero en la actualidad deberíamos estar mejor preparados contra las catástrofes que los romanos cuando...
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Versailles: Das Wagnis Eines Demokratischen Friedens 1919-1923Paris 1919. Politiker und Diplomaten stehen vor einer Aufgabe, der sich noch keine Generation zuvor stellen musste: die Schaffung einer globalen Friedensordnung nach dem Ende eines Krieges, der erstmals die ganze Welt erfasste. Für die Liberalen am Verhandlungstisch war das Ziel ein Frieden im...
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