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With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law Is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the PowerfulFrom "the most important voice to have entered the political discourse in years" (Bill Moyers), a scathing critique of the two-tiered system of justice that has emerged in AmericaFrom the nation's beginnings, the law was to be the great equalizer in American life, the...
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Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet: The New Geopolitics of EnergyFrom the author of the now-classic Resource Wars, an indispensable account of how the world's diminishing sources of energy are radically changing the international balance of power Recently, an unprecedented Chinese attempt to acquire the major American energy firm Unocal was blocked by Congress...
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Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable CatastropheAllison's comprehensive but accessible treatment of this vital subject is a major contribution to public understanding. -The New York Times Book Review Americans in the twenty-first century are keenly aware of the many forms of terrorism: hijackings, biological attacks, chemical weapons. But the deadliest...
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The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the RepublicFrom the author of the prophetic national bestseller Blowback, a startling look at militarism, American style, and its consequences abroad and at home In the years after the Soviet Union imploded, the United States was described first as the globe's lone superpower, then as...
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Out of the Blue: The Story of September 11, 2001, from Jihad to Ground ZeroRichard Bernstein's Out of the Blue provides a gripping and authoritative account of the September 11, 2001 attack, its historical roots, and its aftermath. Few news stories in recent memory have commanded as much attention as the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center...
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Losing Afghanistan: An Obituary for the InterventionThe U.S.-led intervention in Afghanistan mobilized troops, funds, and people on an international level not seen since World War II. Hundreds of thousands of individuals and tens of billions of dollars flowed into the country. But what was gained for Afghanistan--or for the international...
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The Supply Side of Security: A Market Theory of Military AlliancesThe Supply Side of Security conceptualizes military alliances as contracts for exchanging goods and services. At the international level, the market for these contracts is shaped by how many countries can supply security. Tongfi Kim identifies the supply of policy concessions and military commitments...
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From Frontier Policy to Foreign Policy: The Question of India and the Transformation of Geopolitics in Qing ChinaBetween the mid-eighteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries, Qing rulers, officials, and scholars fused diverse, fragmented perceptions of foreign territory into one integrated worldview. In the same period, a single foreign policy emerged as an alternative to the many localized frontier policies hitherto pursued on the...
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Foucault and the Politics of RightsThis book focuses on Michel Foucault's late work on rights in order to address broader questions about the politics of rights in the contemporary era. As several commentators have observed, something quite remarkable happens in this late work. In his early career, Foucault had...
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Digging for the Disappeared: Forensic Science After AtrocityThe mass graves from our long human history of genocide, massacres, and violent conflict form an underground map of atrocity that stretches across the planet's surface. In the past few decades, due to rapidly developing technologies and a powerful global human rights movement, the...
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Strategy in Asia: The Past, Present, and Future of Regional SecuritySome of the United States' greatest challenges over the coming decades are likely to emanate from the Asia-Pacific region. China and India are rising and Militant Islam continues to take root in Pakistan, while nuclear proliferation threatens to continue in fits and starts. If...
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Sectarian Gulf: Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and the Arab Spring That Wasn'tThis books shows that mass protests erupted in the Gulf states in the wake of the Arab Spring and explains how Gulf regimes survived by dividing protesters along sectarian lines.Author: Toby MatthiesenPublisher: Stanford BriefsPublished: 07/03/2013Pages: 208Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.40dISBN:...
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Battleground Africa: Cold War in the Congo, 1960a 1965Winner of the 2013 Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title Battleground Africa traces the Congo Crisis from post-World War II decolonization efforts through Mobutu's second coup in 1965 from a radically new vantage point. Drawing on recently opened archives in Russia and the United...
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Diversionary War: Domestic Unrest and International ConflictDiversionary War investigates whether leaders use military adventure to distract the public from domestic problems and, if so, whether such gambles pay off.Author: Amy OakesPublisher: Stanford Security StudiesPublished: 10/03/2012Pages: 279Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.60dISBN: 9780804782463Review Citation(s): Choice 06/01/2013About the AuthorAmy...
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Flourishing: A Frank Conversation about SustainabilityOver the course of a thoughtful conversation, authors John R. Ehrenfeld and Andrew J. Hoffman discuss how to leave our wasteful, consumption-addicted culture behind, revealing a new and necessary path to flourishing through sustainability.Author: John R. Ehrenfeld, Andrew J. HoffmanPublisher: Stanford Business BooksPublished: 05/15/2013Pages:...
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Post-Postmodernism: Or, the Cultural Logic of Just-In-Time CapitalismPost-Postmodernism begins with a simple premise: we no longer live in the world of "postmodernism," famously dubbed "the cultural logic of late capitalism" by Fredric Jameson in 1984. Far from charting any simple move "beyond" postmodernism since the 1980s, though, this book argues that...
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The Not-So-Special Interests: Interest Groups, Public Representation, and American Governance"Lobbyist" tends to be used as a dirty word in politics. Indeed, during the 2008 presidential primary campaign, Hillary Clinton was derided for even suggesting that some lobbyists represent "real Americans." But although many popular commentators position interest groups as representatives of special-not "public"-interests,...
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Time in the Shadows: Confinement in CounterinsurgenciesTime in the Shadows examines the counterinsurgencies of our time, tracing their ancestry, to offer a critical reading of the mechanisms by which today's counterinsurgents-foremost the United States and Israel-reproduce illiberal regimes of domination while noisily declaring their liberal intent to liberate and improve.Author:...
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Illicit Flirtations: Labor, Migration, and Sex Trafficking in TokyoIn 2004, the U.S. State Department declared Filipina hostesses in Japan the largest group of sex trafficked persons in the world. Since receiving this global attention, the number of hostesses entering Japan has dropped by nearly 90 percent--from more than 80,000 in 2004 to...
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U.S. Presidents and Foreign Policy MistakesMistakes, in the form of bad decisions, are a common feature of every presidential administration, and their consequences run the gamut from unnecessary military spending, to missed opportunities for foreign policy advantage, to needless bloodshed. This book analyzes a range of presidential decisions made...
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