Political Science
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Politics, Violence, Memory: The New Social Science of the HolocaustPolitics, Violence, Memory highlights important new social scientific research on the Holocaust and initiates the integration of the Holocaust into mainstream social scientific research in a way that will be useful both for social scientists and historians. Until recently social scientists largely ignored the...
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Responses to a Pandemic: Philosophical and Political ReflectionsWhat does it mean to be in the middle of a pandemic-for us, for our country, or for the world? How do our current inequalities and injustices become amplified by the demands of the pandemic and what, if anything, can be done? Who is...
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Human Security: Theory and ActionHuman security refers in its broadest sense to the protection of individuals from harm. Human Security: Theory and Action explores the theory and application of concepts central to this notion of security. It examines the conceptual roots of human security, connecting its origins to...
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Institutions and Incentives in Public Policy: An Analytical Assessment of Non-Market Decision-MakingInstitutions and Incentives in Public Policy: An Analytical Assessment of Non-Market Decision-Making explores, both in theory and in practice, the consequences of using public policy as a tool to achieve specific individual and social goals, as well as its impact on private solutions to...
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World Report 2023: Events of 2022The best country-by-country assessment of human rights. In this signature yearly report, Human Rights Watch will document and address human rights abuses in more than 100 countries. Executive director Ken Roth's lead essay will cover the global contest between democracy and autocracy--with a call...
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Europeanisation in Turkish Water Management Policy: A Sociological Institutionalism PerspectiveRational institutionalism's theoretical explanations for external Europeanisation focus on material incentives such as accession conditionality in determining change in non-EU states. However, such exogenous explanations struggle to interpret ongoing Europeanisation where accession incentives have declined or even reversed ('stalled' accession), but institutional adjustment still...
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Contested Representation: Dalits, Popular Hindi Cinema, and Public SpherePopular Hindi cinema has become a significant signpost of contemporaneity due to its construction of social language. Generally, Hindi cinema has been understood through internal (auteur or genre or cinéma verité) and external aspects (consumption spheres and moviegoers' complex response in the form of...
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The Rohingya Crisis and the Two-Faced God of Janus: What Lies AheadThe Rohingya Crisis is now in its fifth year with no end in sight. While the international community has supported the displaced Rohingyas in Bangladesh by providing humanitarian assistance, what is needed now is to investigate the short-and long-term implications of the crisis from...
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Crossing Racial Borders: The Epistemic Empowerment of the SubalternCrossing Racial Borders: The Epistemic Empowerment of the Subaltern explores critically the racial, socioeconomic, historical, and political contemporary conditions of the lived experiences of the subaltern, the oppressed. Through the lens of the decolonial school of thought developed by Latin American thinkers and scholars,...
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Criminal (In)Justice: What the Push for Decarceration and Depolicing Gets Wrong and Who It Hurts MostIn his impassioned-yet-measured book, Rafael A. Mangual offers an incisive critique of America's increasingly radical criminal justice reform movement, and makes a convincing case against the pursuit of justice through mass-decarceration and depolicing.After a summer of violent protests in 2020--sparked by the deaths of...
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The Republic of PlatoThe definitive translation of Plato's Republic, the most influential text in the history of Western philosophyLong regarded as the most accurate rendering of Plato's Republic that has yet been published, this widely acclaimed translation by Allan Bloom was the first to take a strictly...
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Civil Society Narratives of Violence and Shaping the Transitional Justice Agenda in ZimbabweIn Civil Society Narratives of Violence and Shaping the Transitional Justice Agenda in Zimbabwe, Chenai G. Matshaka shows the shaping of the transitional justice agenda in Zimbabwe from a civil society perspective. Based on the understanding that transitional justice approaches are seen through the...
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Unmaking Détente: Yugoslavia, the United States, and the Global Cold War, 1968-1980This book examines the global history of the Cold War in the 1970s through the perspective of Yugoslavia's activism in the Global South and its relations with the superpowers. The author shows that Yugoslavia's anxiety over a "new Yalta" required a disruptive role toward...
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Social Security Law in SpainDerived from the renowned multi-volume International Encyclopaedia of Laws, this book describes the social security regime in Spain. It conveys a clear working knowledge of the legal mechanics affecting health care, employment injuries and occupational diseases, incapacity to work, pensions, survivors' benefits, unemployment benefits...
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Need to Know: World War II and the Rise of American IntelligenceHistorian and former CIA officer Nicholas Reynolds, the New York Times bestselling author of Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy, uncovers the definitive history of American intelligence during World War II, illuminating its key role in securing victory. Need to Know is the most thorough and...
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CaraE'CrimenPresento esta obra con el título de CaraE'Crimen escrita a lo largo del año 2021, profunda reflexión centrada en desentrañar capítulos capitales de la vida republicana venezolana, contando con un hilo conductor desconocido como es la deuda externa, una especie de serpiente devoradora de...
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China and Its Small Neighbors: The Political Economy of Asymmetry, Vulnerability, and HedgingIn China and Its Small Neighbors, Sung Chull Kim examines the political implications of the economic asymmetry between China and its small neighbors, part of wider changes in international relations brought about by the rise of China. While being critical of the current trend...
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The Institutions of the European UnionThe first comprehensive text dedicated to the study of the EU's institutions, this will be the key text for any reader wishing to understand the functions, powers, and compositions of EU institutions. Divided into three thematic sections, the book offers the reader an overview...
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World Food in the 1990s: Production, Trade, and AidIn this book contributors from various scholarly backgrounds interpret past trends in world food trade, aid and security and propose new policy options for the 1990s. They address the problems facing the distribution of global economic growth and trade between industrialized and developing countries...
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World Climate Change: The Role of International Law and InstitutionsWorld Climate Change: The Role of International Law and Institutions is a collection of papers on global climate problems prepared for a two-day conferences held in 1980 at the University of Denver College of Law. The papers describe and evaluate the present state if...
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