Political Science
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Thailand's Far South: Engaging the Difficult Realities in a Recurring ConflictIn Thailand's Far South, Kee Howe Yong sheds light on the Malay Muslims in Thailand's far south. The book focuses on the relationship between the construction of minorities - and thus majority - and issues of engaging with the difficulties of their realities: loss,...
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Technology and the Rise of Great Powers: How Diffusion Shapes Economic CompetitionA novel theory of how technological revolutions affect the rise and fall of great powers When scholars and policymakers consider how technological advances affect the rise and fall of great powers, they draw on theories that center the moment of innovation--the eureka moment that...
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Sustainable Capitalism: Essential Work for the AnthropoceneCapitalism has been linked to climate change, racism and slavery, wealth inequality, and the decline of democracy. At the same time, capitalism may have been instrumental in lifting hundreds of millions of people out of poverty, facilitating vast technological innovations, and improving standards of...
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Spying on Students: The Fbi, Red Squads, and Student Activists in the 1960s SouthGregg L. Michel's Spying on Students focuses on the law enforcement campaign against New Left and progressive student activists in the South during the 1960s. Often overlooked by scholars, white southern students worked alongside their Black peers in the civil rights struggle, drove opposition...
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Spinning History: Politics and Propaganda in World War IIIn this fascinating book, more relevant than ever in today's political climate of "alternative facts," bestselling author and historian Nathaniel Lande explores the Great War at the heart of the twentieth century through the prism of theater. He presents the war as a drama...
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Sovereignty and Extortion: A New State Form in MexicoOver the past fifteen years in Mexico, more than 450,000 people have been murdered and 110,000 more have been disappeared. In Sovereignty and Extortion, Claudio Lomnitz examines the Mexican state in relation to this extreme violence, uncovering a reality that challenges the familiar narratives...
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Someone Has to Fail: The Zero-Sum Game of Public SchoolingWhat do we really want from schools? Only everything, in all its contradictions. Most of all, we want access and opportunity for all children--but all possible advantages for our own. So argues historian David Labaree in this provocative look at the way "this archetype...
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Solidarity Is the Political Version of Love: Lessons from Jewish Anti-Zionist OrganizingWhat does the politics of solidarity look like in practice, and how can left-wing organizations grow--in numbers and power--while remaining accountable to the broader movements of which they are a part?Against enormous odds and in the face of fierce pushback, the Palestine solidarity movement...
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Small-Unit Leaders' Guide to Counterinsurgency: The Official U.S. Marine Corps ManualFrom the introduction: "This handbook provides the tactics, techniques, and procedures that may be applied by small unit leaders engaged in counterinsurgency. It is principally focused at the company and below. It describes the nature of insurgency and counterinsurgency, common insurgent approaches, preparation for...
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Slow and Sudden Violence: Why and When Uprisings OccurExposing the roots of racial unrest that consistently harm Black communities In Slow and Sudden Violence, Derek Hyra links police violence to an ongoing cycle of racial and spatial urban redevelopment repression. By delving into the real estate histories of St. Louis and Baltimore,...
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Silent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew DemocracyAs European empires crumbled in the 20th century, the power structures that had dominated the world for centuries were up for renegotiation. Yet instead of a rebirth for democracy, what emerged was a silent coup - namely, the unstoppable rise of global corporate power....
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Security, with Care: Restorative Justice and Healthy Societies"I learned that the problems were much deeper than a flawed criminal justice system, and that our work needed to begin in our relationships with each other and the natural world, and most importantly, with ourselves." (from the preface) Restorative justice, as it exists...
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Saving Our Kids: An ER Doc's Common-Sense Solution to the Gun CrisisIf someone were to ask you what the leading cause of death is among American children today, what would you say? Cancer? Car accidents? Obesity? The answer is firearms. Guns kill more children in our country than anything else. It's a shocking statistic, no...
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Rust Belt Union Blues: Why Working-Class Voters Are Turning Away from the Democratic PartyIn the heyday of American labor, the influence of local unions extended far beyond the workplace. Unions were embedded in tight-knit communities, touching nearly every aspect of the lives of members--mostly men--and their families and neighbors. They conveyed fundamental worldviews, making blue-collar unionists into...
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Researching National Security Intelligence: Multidisciplinary ApproachesResearchers in the rapidly growing field of intelligence studies face unique and difficult challenges ranging from finding and accessing data on secret activities, to sorting through the politics of intelligence successes and failures, to making sense of complex socio-organizational or psychological phenomena. The contributing...
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Repugnant Laws: Judicial Review of Acts of Congress from the Founding to the PresentWinner: Thomas M. Cooley Book Prize Thomas M. Cooley Book Prize Choice Outstanding Academic Title When the Supreme Court strikes down favored legislation, politicians cry judicial activism. When the law is one politicians oppose, the court is heroically righting a wrong. In our polarized...
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Rebuilding Community after Katrina: Transformative Education in the New Orleans Planning InitiativeRebuilding Community after Katrina chronicles the innovative and ambitious partnership between Cornell University's City and Regional Planning department and ACORN Housing, an affiliate of what was the nation's largest low-income community organization. These unlikely allies came together to begin to rebuild devastated neighborhoods in...
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Raising Them Right: The Untold Story of America's Ultraconservative Youth Movement and Its Plot for PowerA riveting behind-the-scenes account of the new stars of the far right--and how they've partnered with billionaire donors, idealogues, and political insiders to build the most powerful youth movement the American right has ever seen In the wake of the Obama presidency, a group...
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Public Philosophy and Patriotism: Essays on the Declaration and UsPaul Seaton's Public Philosophy and Patriotism: The Declaration and Us is a very countercultural book. It advances the provocative thesis that not only is the Declaration worthy of our study today, but its principles and way of thinking about politics can and should be...
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Proximity Politics: How Distance Shapes Public Opinion and Political BehaviorsRepublicans who live closer to the U.S.-Mexico border are less likely to support constructing a wall than those who live farther away. After a mass shooting, gun sales and permit applications skyrocket in nearby communities. Experiencing an extreme weather event like a hurricane or...
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