Political Science
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Cultural Capitalism: Literature and the Market After SocialismCultural Capitalism explores Russian literature's eager embrace of capitalism in the post-Soviet era. When the Soviet Union fell, books were suddenly bought and sold as commodities. Russia's first bestseller lists brought attention and prestige. Even literary prizes turned to the market for legitimacy. The...
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Crisis and Crossfire: The United States and the Middle East Since 1945Crisis and Crossfire traces the origins of the contemporary challenges facing the United States in the Middle East by analyzing the broad contours of U.S. policy in the region since the government's first involvement there in the 1940s. Peter L. Hahn evaluates U.S. policy...
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Countdown to Terror: The Top-Secret Information That Could Prevent the Next Terrorist Attack on America--And How the CIA Has Ignored It"Congressman Curt Weldon provides a rare--indeed unique--insight on what is going on in the war on terrorism through his 'Ali' missives. The book is a case study of an intelligence failure in the process of happening, with potentially catastophic consequences for the United States....
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Cooperative ComplexityAuthor: Richard ClarkPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 02/13/2025Pages: 195Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.02lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63dISBN: 9781009563895
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Contesting the PhilippinesThe Duterte administration (2016-22) marked the return of an authoritarian style of rule in the Philippines. It was also accompanied by an economic recovery that was better than many expected, at least until the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Both during and following the...
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Congress and the Politics of U.S. Foreign PolicyHave we entered an era of the "Imperial Congress"? How and why do members of Congress wield power over foreign policy? DOes Congress undermine the national interest when it asserts itself in foreign affairs? Congress is more active in foreign policy than at any...
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Common Prosperity: A Chinese Approach to Inclusive GrowthAuthor: Yongnian ZhengPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublished: 12/13/2024Pages: 205Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.92lbsSize: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.56dISBN: 9789819786152About the AuthorZheng Yongnian is a renowned Chinese political scientist and political commentator who has written widely on contemporary China and especially Chinese politics. He currently serves as Presidential...
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Colonial Congo: A History in QuestionsColonialism tends to arouse emotional debate, often based on incomplete knowledge of the facts and context. Colonial Congo fills this gap by introducing the general reader to the latest academic thinking and research. Answering concrete questions, pre-eminent historians offer a unique insight into the...
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Climate Hope: Stories of Action in an Age of Global CrisisThrough extensive research and reporting, this boundary-crossing and highly readable survey of efforts to tackle climate change aims to replace our paralyzing fears with a restored sense of hope and determination. Climate change is a problem so enormous and complex--with threats so frightening in...
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Censorship is a Drag: LGBTQ Materials and Programming Under Siege in LibrariesLibraries, long tasked with defending intellectual freedom, find themselves under siege with threats of censorship for carrying gender/sexuality-related materials or holding LGBTQ-related events. Efforts to censor materials and control programming arguably threaten to have a chilling effect on libraries' ability to carry out their...
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Call and Response"Rob Carney is tuned to some amazing frequency-it comes from 500 North and Morton, it comes from beyond, it comes from when we were wooded slopes-but he listens and returns with these poems, thrumming with 'lifeblood, ' these songs which throw down and call...
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Borders of Care: Immigrants, Migrants, and the Fight for Health Care in the United StatesProbes the relationship between the immigration and health care systems in the United States. For the roughly ten million undocumented immigrants living in the United States, federal health care coverage is out of reach. Barred from Medicare, Medicaid, and the Affordable Care Act, most...
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Bodies in the Middle: Black Women, Sexual Violence, and Complex Imaginings of JusticeA probing analysis of Black women's attempts to pursue justice for sexual-violence victims within often hostile social and legal systems In Bodies in the Middle: Black Women, Sexual Violence, and Complex Imaginings of Justice, Maya Hislop examines the lack of place that Black women...
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Beyond Mimicry: The Potential of African Endogenous Governance SystemsBeyond Mimicry offers critical analysis of the main characteristics of African endogenous approaches to governance, investigating the potential of these systems in response to the crises many of today's societies in Africa are facing. The book reflects on these studies and develops policy recommendations...
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Being Ecological, with a New Preface by the AuthorFrom "our most popular guide to the new epoch" (Guardian), a new edition of the book about ecology without information dumping, guilt inducing, or preaching to the choir. Ecology books can be confusing information dumps that are out of date by the time they...
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Bad Faith: Race and the Rise of the Religious RightWhat really gave rise to the Religious Right? There is a commonly accepted story about the rise of the Religious Right in the United States. It goes like this: with righteous fury, American evangelicals entered the political arena as a unified front to fight...
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A Theory of Complex Democracy: Governing in the Twenty-First CenturyDo our political systems and democracies really reflect the complex reality of the 21st century? Or does politics seem to be legislating about yesterday's world? In his latest book, Daniel Innerarity warns of the gap between the political concepts that serve as our guide...
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Art Against Authoritarianism in Southwest Asia and North AfricaOver the past decade, there has been a burgeoning interest in the realm of art activism within the Southwest Asia and North Africa region, shedding light on the political implications of aesthetic representation. Nevertheless, a critical inquiry into how political aesthetics can formulate both...
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Arctic Passages: Ice, Exploration, and the Battle for Power at the Top of the WorldAlmost two centuries after British explorer Sir John Franklin and his men died amid paralyzing cold and ice in pursuit of the mythical Northwest Passage, the Arctic--in response to temperatures greater than at any time in the last ten thousand years--is melting at an...
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Apocalyptic Crimes: Why Nuclear Weapons Are Illegal and Must Be AbolishedIn 2023, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists set the iconic Doomsday Clock to ninety seconds to midnight--the closest to midnight, or civilization-ending apocalypse, it has ever been. Designed at the onset of the Cold War amid new fears of atomic weapons, the Doomsday...
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