Political Science
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Latin America Since Independence: Two Centuries of Continuity and ChangeThis book offers an innovative, thematic approach to the history of Latin America since independence. It traces continuity and change in colonial legacies that became central political issues following independence: authoritarian governance; a rigid social hierarchy based on race, color, and gender; the powerful...
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Spectacles and Specters: A Performative Theory of Political TrialsSpectacles and Specters draws on theories of performativity to conceptualize the entanglements of law and political violence, offering a radical departure from accounts that consider political trials as instrumental in exercising or containing political violence. Legal scholar Başak Ertür argues instead that making sense...
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The Handbook of Latin American and Caribbean Intelligence CulturesThe Handbook of Latin American and Caribbean Intelligence Cultures explores the contemporary efforts of Latin American and Caribbean nations to develop an intelligence culture. Specifically, it analyzes these countries' efforts to democratize their intelligence agencies (i.e. to develop intelligence services that are both transparent...
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Thinking Through the Imagination: Aesthetics in Human CognitionUse your imagination! The demand is as important as it is confusing. What is the imagination? What is its value? Where does it come from? And where is it going in a time when even the obscene seems overdone and passé? This book takes...
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Continent in Crisis: The U.S. Civil War in North AmericaWritten by leading historians of the mid-nineteenth century United States, this book focuses on the continental dimensions of the U.S. Civil War. It joins a growing body of scholarship that seeks to understand the place of America's mid-nineteenth-century crisis in the broader sweep of...
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The Edinburgh Companion to the Politics of American HealthBy emphasising the plurality of health experiences, and balancing national and transnational perspectives with the lived realities of diverse communities, this groundbreaking collection expands far beyond biomedical conceptions of health. Together, the contributors take a multi-layered view of the politics of US healthcare by...
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The Everyday Crusade: Christian Nationalism in American PoliticsWhat is causing the American public to move more openly into alt-right terrain? What explains the uptick in anti-immigrant hysteria, isolationism, and an increasing willingness to support alternatives to democratic governance? The Everyday Crusade provides an answer. The book points to American Religious Exceptionalism...
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The Polity of the Athenians and the Lacedaemonians (Esprios Classics): Translated by Henry G. DakynsXenophon (431-355 BC), son of Gryllus, of the deme Erchia of Athens, was a soldier, mercenary and an admirer of Socrates. He is known for his writings on the history of his own times, the sayings of Socrates, and the life of Greece. He...
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Survival February - March 2022: The Reckoning: Russia, Ukraine and NATOSurvival, the IISS's bimonthly journal, challenges conventional wisdom and brings fresh, often controversial, perspectives on strategic issues of the moment. In this issue: - The Ukraine crisis: Robert Hunter argues that the most important requirement of successful US-led negotiations with Russia is that Moscow...
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New Leadership of Civil Society Organisations: Community Development and EngagementThis book investigates the political, social, and economic dynamics and structures that influence the leadership of Civil Society Organisations at the local, national, and global levels. Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) play an increasingly important role in the political, economic, and social dynamics that shape...
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Citizens and Refugees: Stories from Afghanistan and Syria to GermanyFollowing the stories of two dozen refugees from Syria and Afghanistan in 2015, Citizens and Refugees argues that we need to include the histories of these countries, notably the Syrian Revolution, into narratives of the refugee crisis. The book thus challenges a framing of...
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Refugee Externalisation Policies: Responsibility, Legitimacy and AccountabilityThis book examines the impact and effects of refugee externalisation policies in two regions: Australia's border control practices in Southeast Asia and the Pacific and the activities of the European Union and its member states in North Africa. The book assesses the underlying motivations,...
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Ethics in Action for Sustainable DevelopmentThe Sustainable Development Goals, adopted by the United Nations in 2015, comprise an ambitious and sweeping agenda that unites economic, social, and environmental aims. What resources do the world's religious and secular traditions offer in support of these objectives? Which principles do these traditions...
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North to Canada: Men and Women Against the Vietnam WarMarch 29, 2023, marks the 50th anniversary of the withdrawal of American troops from Vietnam. It hardly seems possible that it has been nearly 50 years since the Vietnam War was at its zenith. In 1998 author James L. Dickerson went to Canada to...
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Turning Points: A Memoir"I chose to record my story...to let those who may come from a similar background as me know that where you start does not have to be where you finish. Opportunities for advancement are there if you are willing to work hard and make...
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Body Count: Global Avoidable Mortality Since 1950BODY COUNT exposes the horrendous extent of the Global Avoidable Mortality Holocaust that has totaled about 1.3 billion since 1950. Peace is the only way, but silence kills and silence is complicity. We can all do something immediately by informing others and through ethical...
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A Nation of Shopkeepers: The Unstoppable Rise of the Petite BourgeoisieA Nation of Shopkeepers explores the unstoppable rise of the petite-bourgeoisie, one of the most powerful, but underexplored, classes in modern society. The petite-bourgeoisie -- the insecure class between the working class and the bourgeoisie -- is hugely significant within global politics. Yet it...
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Facilitating Change Across Cultures: Lessons from International DevelopmentAs the international development sector responds to calls for decolonisation and localisation, how can facilitators work humbly, wisely and respectfully across cultures to support positive change?This book asks readers to reflect on their own roles, values and power as facilitators in international and community...
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Unjust: Precipitant of GreedIt is time that "We the People" act and return our country to its righteous path. Unjust is just one example of how injustice goes unchecked. Ultimately, there will be very few winners and an entire nation that loses. Unjust starts with a case...
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Corporate Coup: The Failed Attempt to Overthrow Venezuela DemocracyCorporate Coup looks at the attempted overthrow of the elected government of Venezuela, an intervention which, despite open backing by the United States, failed dismally.In January of 2019, the Trump Administration decided to recognize a previously little known opposition lawmaker named Juan Guaidó as...
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