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People, States and Fear: An Agenda for International Security Studies in the Post-Cold War EraThis widely acclaimed book examines how states and societies pursue freedom from threat in an environment in which competitive relations are inescapable across the political, economic, military, societal and environmental landscapes. Throughout, attention is placed on the interplay of threats and vulnerabilities, the policy...
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Capitalism vs. Freedom: The Toll Road to SerfdomFor years, we've been taught that capitalism is good for freedom. Dominant right-wing talk radio hosts to this day recommend "libertarian" classics like Hayek's Road to Serfdom and Friedman's Capitalism and Freedom that claim markets free us, and this picture still dominates the schools...
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Continuity and Rupture: Philosophy in the Maoist TerrainA philosophical examination of the theoretical terrain of contemporary Maoism premised on the counter-intuitive assumption that Maoism did not emerge as a coherent theory until the end of the 1980s.Author: J. Moufawad-PaulPublisher: Zero BooksPublished: 12/09/2016Pages: 312Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.70dISBN:...
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The Spirit of the Laws: The Plunder of Wealth in the Armenian GenocidePertinent to contemporary demands for reparations from Turkey is the relationship between law and property in connection with the Armenian Genocide. This book examines the confiscation of Armenian properties during the genocide and subsequent attempts to retain seized Armenian wealth. Through the close analysis...
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Comrades of Color: East Germany in the Cold War WorldIn keeping with the tenets of socialist internationalism, the political culture of the German Democratic Republic strongly emphasized solidarity with the non-white world: children sent telegrams to Angela Davis in prison, workers made contributions from their wages to relief efforts in Vietnam and Angola,...
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Blood and Fire: Toward a Global Anthropology of LaborBased on long-term fieldwork, six vivid ethnographies from Colombia, India, Poland, Spain and the southern and northern U.S. address the dwindling importance of labor throughout the world. The contributors to this volume highlight the growing disconnect between labor struggles and the advancement of the...
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The Unmaking of Arab SocialismConditions of malnutrition, conflict, or a combination of both characterize many Arab countries, but this was not always so. As in much of the developing world, the immediate post-independence period represented an age of hope and relative prosperity. But imperialism did not sleep while...
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Debt as PowerDebt as Power is a timely and innovative contribution to our understanding of one of the most prescient issues of our time: the explosion of debt across the global economy and related requirement of political leaders to pursue exponential growth to meet the demands...
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Scotland: The New State of an Old NationAn academic analysis of the foundations and structures of modern-day Scotland that provides insight into Scottish politics, society and culture.Author: Murray Stewart Leith, Duncan SimPublisher: Manchester University PressPublished: 03/31/2020Pages: 304Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.30lbsSize: 9.40h x 6.20w x 1.30dISBN: 9781784992552Review Citation(s): Choice 10/01/2021About the AuthorMurray...
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Futures of Black RadicalismWith racial justice struggles on the rise, a probing collection considers the past and future of Black radicalismBlack rebellion has returned. Dramatic protests have risen up in scores of cities and campuses; there is renewed engagement with the history of Black radical movements and...
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Empire of Borders: The Expansion of the Us Border Around the WorldThe United States is outsourcing its border patrol abroad--and essentially expanding its borders in the process The twenty-first century has witnessed the rapid hardening of international borders. Security, surveillance, and militarization are widening the chasm between those who travel where they please and those...
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Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure SpaceExtrastatecraft is the operating system of the modern world: the skyline of Dubai, the subterranean pipes and cables sustaining urban life, free-trade zones, the standardized dimensions of credit cards, and hyper-consumerist shopping malls. It is all this and more. Infrastructure sets the invisible rules...
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Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives MatterHow policing became the major political issue of our time Combining firsthand accounts from activists with the research of scholars and reflections from artists, Policing the Planet traces the global spread of the broken-windows policing strategy, first established in New York City under Police...
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The Idea of Israel: A History of Power and KnowledgeSince its foundation in 1948, Israel has drawn on Zionism, the movement behind its creation, to provide a sense of self and political direction. In this groundbreaking new work, Ilan Pappe looks at the continued role of Zionist ideology. The Idea of Israel considers...
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The Politics of Football in Yugoslavia: Sport, Nationalism and the StateEven before Tito's Communist Party established control over the war-ravaged territories which became socialist Yugoslavia, his partisan forces were using football as a revolutionary tool. In 1944 a team representing the incipient state was dispatched to play matches around the liberated Mediterranean. This consummated...
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Frontline Turkey: The Conflict at the Heart of the Middle EastTurkey is on the front line of the war which is consuming Syria and the Middle East. Its role is complicated by the long-running conflict with the Kurds on the Syrian border - a war that has killed as many as 80,000 people over...
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Propaganda, Power and Persuasion: From World War I to WikileaksPropaganda came of age in the Twentieth Century. The development of mass- and multi-media offered a fertile ground for propaganda while global conflict provided the impetus needed for its growth. Propaganda has however become a portmanteau word, which can be interpreted in a number...
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The State and Revolution: Russian-English EditionThe State and Revolution (1917), by Vladimir Lenin, describes the role of the State in society, the necessity of proletarian revolution, and the theoretic inadequacies of social democracy in achieving revolution to establish the dictatorship of the proletariat. It is considered to be Lenin's...
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Democracy and Power: The Delhi Lectures (author-approved edition)Noam Chomsky visited India in 1996 and 2001 and spoke on a wide range of subjects, from democracy and corporate propaganda to the nature of the world order and the role of intellectuals in society. He captivated audiences with his lucid challenge of dominant...
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Beasts and Gods: How Democracy Changed Its Meaning and Lost Its PurposeDemocracy does not deliver on the things we have assumed are its natural outcomes. This, coupled with a growing sense of malaise in both new and established democracies forms the basis to the assertion made by some, that these are not democracies at all....
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