Political Science
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Kofi Annan and Global Leadership at the United NationsKofi Annan was the most significant and influential Secretary-General of the United Nations. Kofi Annan and Global Leadership at the United Nations is a study of how Annan conceived his role as Secretary-General and exercised global leadership at a turbulent period in world affairs....
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Insurgent Ecologies: Between Environmental Struggles and Postcapitalist TransformationsWe are living through a world-rattling ecological inflection point, with an unprecedented consensus that capitalism is leading humanity into a social and ecological catastrophe and that everything needs to change, and fast. Thankfully, radical environmental movements have forced the question of "system change" to...
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Indigenous Health and JusticeColonial oppression, systemic racism, discrimination, and poor access to a wide range of resources detract from Indigenous health and contribute to continuing health inequities and injustices. These factors have led to structural inadequacies that contribute to circular challenges such as chronic underfunding, understaffing, and...
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Imperial Grunts: On the Ground with the American Military, from Mongolia to the Philippines to Iraq and BeyondA fascinating, unprecedented first-hand look at the soldiers on the front lines on the Global War on Terror. Plunging deep into midst of some of the hottest conflicts on the globe, Robert D. Kaplan takes us through mud and jungle, desert and dirt to...
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Imagining the Future: Science and American DemocracyFrom stem cell research to global warming, human cloning, evolution, and beyond, political debates about science have raged in recent years - and, to the chagrin of most observers, have increasingly fallen into the familiar categories of America's culture wars. In Imagining the Future:...
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How to Become a Big Man in Africa: Subalternity, Elites, and Ethnic Politics in Contemporary NigeriaCan subalterns transform themselves into members of the elite, and what does it take to do so? And how do those efforts reveal the nature of ethnic politics in postcolonial Africa? How to Become a Big Man in Africa: Subalternity, Elites, and Ethnic Politics...
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Hope and Struggle in the Policed City: Black Criminalization and Resistance in PhiladelphiaExplores how concerns about poverty-induced Black crime cultivated by police, journalists, and city officials sparked a rise in tough-on-crime policing in Philadelphia During the Great Migration of African Americans to the North, Philadelphia's police department, journalists, and city officials used news media to create...
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Health Policy in the United States: Access, Cost and QualityWritten by a well-respected health and public policy expert, this book provides a comprehensive exploration of the under-appreciated role of public health policy in the United States' medical care industry. The book offers students: - an introduction to the fundamentals of health policy, with...
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Gutter PoliticsMy dad is shining a spotlight on a much larger national problem-the dominance of big money in our elections. Campaign spending in 2024 will likely top $14 billion, and more than half that money will be deployed by PACs of various kinds spewing falsehoods...
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Greed to Do Good: The Untold Story of CDC's Disastrous War on Opioids: A CDC Physician's Personal AccountWhen the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that overdose deaths had quadrupled in ten years, hitting a record high of 90,000 in 2020, opioid researchers around the country expressed shock with terms such as "huge" and "unprecedented." They might have reserved...
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God and the StateGod and the State by Michael Bakunin. God and the State was translated multiple times by other anarchists, such as Benjamin Tucker, Marie Le Compte, and Emma Goldman. Bakunin's political beliefs rejected statist and hierarchical systems of power in every name and shape, from...
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Genesis: Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human SpiritAs Artificial Intelligence (AI) becomes more dynamic and ubiquitous, it is dramatically empowering people in all walks of life while also giving rise to urgent questions about the future of humanity--a historic challenge whose contours and consequences are revealed by three eminent thinkers in...
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Freedumb's Calling: 365 Daily Meditations on The Art Of Living A Great Again American LifeFreedumb's Calling is satire of the highest order: a book that takes on a the most urgent issue in America today with wit, humor, and insight. It is a book about the meaning of American greatness, and in the end, what it means to...
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Forsaken Causes: Liberal Democracy and Anticommunism in Cold War LaosIn the wake of anticolonial struggles and amid the two world wars, twentieth-century Southeast Asia churned with new political, cultural, and intellectual realities. Liberal democracies flourished briefly, only to be discarded for dictatorships and other authoritarian regimes as the disorder and inefficiencies inherent to...
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Foreigners' Rights in Japan: Boundaries Between Stayers and DeporteesDo foreigners really have ' human rights' in Japan? This book sheds light on the way Japan views foreigners by examining court cases initiated in the wake of the issuance of deportation orders. ' Special permission to stay' is issued to foreigners who have...
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Fiscal Follies: A Little Fun with Economics (and Economists)The High Priests of the Economics profession are a privileged and highly-compensated group. Their speeches are endlessly analyzed, their every public utterance transcribed and disseminated world-wide.Yet they're often wrong. How can this be? How can a profession that sends one of these high priests...
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Fifteen Colonial Thefts: A Guide to Looted African Heritage in Museums'Eloquent and powerful ... an invaluable collection of forgotten histories. The authors show that colonial conquest was not only about erasing, expropriating, dispossessing, extracting, exploiting, but also looting and trafficking. They make the case for unconditional restitutions and returns' Fran?oise Verg?s, author of A...
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Families Belong Together: A Call to Replace the Child Welfare SystemFamilies Belong Together: A Call to Replace the Child Welfare System is a compelling collection that brings to light the real-life experiences of individuals subjected to the child welfare system. Originally featured in the Family Integrity & Justice Quarterly, this book combines powerful narratives...
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Facebook Friendship Groups as a Space for Peace: A Case Study of Relations between Libyan and American Citizens"Facebook Friendship Groups as a Space for Peace" provides new ways of thinking about the concept of friendship in international relations by drawing upon Aristotle's ancient insights on sociability and reconceptualizing them for modern international relations. This book explores how citizens can be engaged...
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Enduring Enmity: The Story of Otto Kirchheimer and Carl SchmittTo date, the relationship between Otto Kirchheimer and Carl Schmitt has invariably been described as friendly, despite their political differences. Kirchheimer has even been attributed the role of the godfather of today's left-Schmittianism. With reference to previously unknown archival materials, conversations with personal contacts,...
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