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Russian Political War: Moving Beyond the HybridThis book cuts through the misunderstandings about Russia's geopolitical challenge to the West, presenting this not as 'hybrid war' but 'political war.'Russia seeks to antagonise: its diplomats castigate Western 'Russophobia' and cultivate populist sentiment abroad, while its media sells Russia as a peaceable neighbour...
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The Right to the Truth in International Law: Victims' Rights in Human Rights and International Criminal LawThe United Nations has established a right to the truth to be enjoyed by victims of gross violations of human rights. The origins of the right stem from the need to provide victims and relatives of the missing with a right to know what...
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Radical Right Populism in Germany: AfD, Pegida, and the Identitarian MovementThis book provides a comprehensive analysis of radical right populism in Germany. It gives an overview of historical developments of the phenomenon and its current appearance. It examines three of the main far-right organizations in Germany: the radical right populist party AfD (Alternative for...
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The Development of Political Institutions: Power, Legitimacy, DemocracyWhile the literature on "new institutionalism" explains the stability of institutional arrangements within countries and the divergence of paths of institutional development between countries, Federico Ferrara takes a "historical institutionalist" approach to theorize dynamic processes of institutional reproduction, institutional decay, and institutional change in...
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Fade to Black: The Passing of a Great RaceAt a time of rapid change, the best-informed competitor has the most significant advantage. As a social, ethnic, or racial group, WE, Africans born anywhere in the world, have an absolute right to exist as a group. As individuals within the larger body, members...
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Thai Cinema UncensoredIn this first full-length study on the topic, Matthew Hunt--with access to rare and controversial films--provides a history of film censorship in Thailand. Hunt outlines its beginnings in the country, when films were censored by the police for political and ideological reasons, rather than...
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Raging Waters in the South China Sea: What the Battle for Supremacy Means for Southeast AsiaPacked with more than a hundred color illustrations, maps, and timelines, this enlightening and provocative book on the South China Sea conflict is a treasure trove of information written in an engaging and compelling way. While there are hundreds of footnotes to lead readers...
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Backstop Land"Funny, wise, entertaining and illuminating, this book is one of the best things to come out of the Brexit saga." --Fintan O'Toole"Read this absorbing book to understand why, since 2016, we have been playing with fire. There is no longer any excuse for ignorance."...
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Californication: The Rise of the American TechnocracyCalifornication: The Rise of the American Technocracy is a comprehensive analysis of the motivations and consequences of the burdensome regulatory environment that currently plagues the United States. The US is currently experiencing a new-age Communist revolution, and most of its citizenry are entirely unaware....
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When White Supremacy Knocks, Fight Back! How White People Can Use Their Privilege and How Black People Can Use Their Power.When White Supremacy Knocks, Fight Back: How White People Can Use their Privilege and How Black People Can Use their Power explores the use of privilege and power by people who identify as White or Black to address the perennial challenge of our time....
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The Truth About GunsGuns. Should the people of a civilized society have guns? Why, exactly, do Americans need guns? Should they have some kinds of guns but not other kinds? What is a semiautomatic pistol or rifle? How do they work? What is the difference between a...
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Politics and Climate Change: A HistoryThis book is a brief history of the human-caused climate change debate from its origins in the 19th century until today. The goal is to put the political drama of the debate into a proper scientific context. The drama is widely reported, but the...
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Test Positive: Surviving COVID-19 in the Reign of TrumpTest Positive: Surviving COVID-19 in the Reign of Trump is the true account of how the author survived COVID-19 after testing positive in March 2020. The manuscript also analyzes the historical and the political contexts within which this pandemic has raged in our country....
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Mobilizing Japanese Youth: The Cold War and the Making of the Sixties GenerationIn Mobilizing Japanese Youth, Christopher Gerteis examines how non-state institutions in Japan--left-wing radicals and right-wing activists--attempted to mold the political consciousness of the nation's first postwar generation, which by the late 1960s were the demographic majority of voting-age adults. Gerteis argues that socially constructed...
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Evaluating Police Uses of ForceProvides a critical understanding and evaluation of police tactics and the use of force Police violence has historically played an important role in shaping public attitudes toward the government. Community trust and confidence in policing have been undermined by the perception that officers are...
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The Partisan Gap: Why Democratic Women Get Elected But Republican Women Don'tWINNER OF THE 2022 VICTORIA SCHUCK AWARD, GIVEN BY THE AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION Why Democratic women far outnumber Republican women in elective offices From Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren to Stacey Abrams and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, women around the country are running in--and winning--elections...
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Neoliberalism and Political Theology: From Kant to Identity PoliticsNeoliberalism has become the operative buzzword among pundits and academics to characterise an increasingly dysfunctional global political economy. It is often - wrongly - identified exclusively with free market fundamentalism and illiberal types of cultural conservatism. Combining penetrating argument and broad-ranging scholarship, Carl Raschke...
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Armenia and Azerbaijan: Anatomy of a RivalryThe Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict for control of the mountainous territory of Nagorny Karabakh is the longest-running dispute in post-Soviet Eurasia. Laurence Broers shows how more than 20 years of dynamic territorial politics, shifting power relations, international diffusion and unsuccessful mediation efforts have contributed to the...
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Shock to the System: Coups, Elections, and War on the Road to DemocratizationHow violent events and autocratic parties trigger democratic change How do democracies emerge? Shock to the System presents a novel theory of democratization that focuses on how events like coups, wars, and elections disrupt autocratic regimes and trigger democratic change. Employing the broadest qualitative...
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Darkness by Design: The Hidden Power in Global Capital MarketsAn exposé of fragmented trading platforms, poor governance, and exploitative practices in today's capital markets Capital markets have undergone a dramatic transformation in the past two decades. Algorithmic high-speed supercomputing has replaced traditional floor trading and human market makers, while centralized exchanges that once...
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