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The Outbreak of the First World War: Structure, Politics, and Decision-MakingThe First World War had profound consequences both for the evolution of the international system and for domestic political systems. How and why did the war start? Offering a unique interdisciplinary perspective, this volume brings together a distinguished group of diplomatic historians and international...
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Patterns of Empire: The British and American Empires, 1688 to the PresentPatterns of Empire comprehensively examines the two most powerful empires in modern history: the United States and Britain. Challenging the popular theory that the American empire is unique, Patterns of Empire shows how the policies, practices, forms, and historical dynamics of the American empire...
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The Sleeping Sovereign: The Invention of Modern DemocracyRichard Tuck traces the history of the distinction between sovereignty and government and its relevance to the development of democratic thought. Tuck shows that this was a central issue in the political debates of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and provides a new interpretation...
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The Quest for Good Governance: How Societies Develop Control of CorruptionWhy do some societies manage to control corruption so that it manifests itself only occasionally, while other societies remain systemically corrupt? This book is about how societies reach that point when integrity becomes the norm and corruption the exception in regard to how public...
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The Making of International Human RightsThis book fundamentally reinterprets the history of international human rights in the post-1945 era by documenting how pivotal the Global South was for their breakthrough. In stark contrast to other contemporary human rights historians who have focused almost exclusively on the 1940s and the...
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Labor and the Class Idea in the United States and CanadaWhy are unions weaker in the US than in Canada, two otherwise similar countries? This difference has shaped politics, policy, and levels of inequality. Conventional wisdom points to differences in political cultures, party systems, and labor laws. But Barry Eidlin's systematic analysis of archival...
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Government Transparency: State of the Art and New PerspectivesThis Element argues that to understand why transparency "works" in one context, but fails in another, we have to take into account how institutional (macro), organizational (meso) contexts interact with individual behavior (micro). A review of research from each of these perspectives shows that...
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The Age of Counter-Revolution: States and Revolutions in the Middle EastAuthor: Jamie AllinsonPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 05/26/2022Pages: 380Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.12lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.78dISBN: 9781108735520This title is not returnable
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The Cambridge Companion to AntisemitismAuthor: Steven KatzPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 06/02/2022Pages: 350Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.90lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.50dISBN: 9781108714525About the AuthorKatz, Steven: - Steven Katz is the Alvin J. and Shirley Slater Professor of Jewish and Holocaust Studies in the Department of Religion at Boston University....
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Civil Society in Southeast Asia: Power Struggles and Political RegimesContrary to popular claims, civil society is not generally shrinking in Southeast Asia. It is transforming, resulting in important shifts in the influences that can be exerted through it. Political and ideological differences in Southeast Asia have sharpened as anti-democratic and anti-liberal social forces...
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Quest for DemocracySince the uprisings of 2010 and 2011, it has often been assumed that the politics of the Arab-speaking world is dominated, and will continue to be dominated, by orthodox Islamic thought and authoritarian politics. Challenging these assumptions, Line Khatib explores the current liberal movement...
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Los Indígenas en el Socialismo del Siglo XXIEl Capítulo VIII de la Constitución, constante de ocho artículos que van del 119 al 126, garantiza el derecho de nuestros indígenas a existir como pueblos y comunidades, organización social y económica, cultura, usos y costumbres, así como idiomas y religiones.Además, el 8 de...
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From Enemies to Partners: Vietnam, the U.S. and Agent OrangeThe impact and tragedy of war do not end when the guns fall silent...Ten to fifteen percent of all Vietnamese with disabilities are probably Agent Orange victims...Agent Orange is a humanitarian concern we are doing something about.More than four decades after the Vietnam War,...
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Hubris: A Brief Political History of the Nigerian ArmyThe Nigerian Army is an institution that has played a pivotal role in the affairs of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. For more than half of the 57 years since Independence, Nigeria was directly ruled by a Military Government, largely composed of army officers,...
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The Constitution of The United States of America: Pocket BookThis beautiful, pocket sized 4x6 inch version of the Constitution of the United States is great to read at home or take with you on-the go This 57-page pocket book includes The Constitution of the United States, The Bill of Rights, and all 27...
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant: The Political Empowerment of America's HeroesFirefighters and first responders are the backbone of America serving in 32,000 departments mostly as volunteers. Older than America itself, firefighters and first responders have protected us from every type of disaster, but were ignored for years by government at all levels. Awakening the...
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Judgment in Moscow: Soviet Crimes and Western Complicity"The movers and shakers of today have little interest in digging for the truth. Who knows what one may come up with? You may start out with the Communists and end up with yourself." --Vladimir BukovskyBukovsky's Judgment in Moscow, called "stunning" by Richard Pipes...
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The Right's Road to Serfdom: The Danger of Conservatism Unbound: From Hayek to TrumpSome political commentators have started to say that the American Right acts on its id, not on its ego of "principled" conservatism. But what does this mean? In The Right's Road to Serfdom, first-time author Christopher F. Arndt unpacks the riddle. The conservatism that...
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Who Really Owns Your Gold: How the Jesuits Use Gold Economics to Control HumanityThis book is about more than just gold economics. It's about the manipulation of every sector of life across the globe by a dynastic group of men in Rome, who are successfully building a world that is counter to every good belief we hold...
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The Kronstadt UprisingOn the eve of the 100th anniversary of the 'October Revolution', where the Bolsheviks seized control of a popular uprising, there can still be found those who celebrate the events as a victory of 'workers control'. Ida Mett's account was among the first to...
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