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The State of Nature: Histories of an IdeaCombining intellectual history with current concerns, this volume brings together fourteen essays on the past, present and possible future applications of the legal fiction known as the state of nature.Author: Mark SomosPublisher: BrillPublished: 12/09/2021Pages: 440Binding Type: HardcoverISBN: 9789004395176About the AuthorMark Somos, Ph.D. (2007 Harvard,...
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Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled TimesThe New York Times bestselling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran returns with a guide to the power of literature in turbulent times, arming readers with a resistance reading list, ranging from James Baldwin to Zora Neale Hurston to Margaret Atwood.[A] stunning look at...
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US Foreign Policy in Action: An Innovative Teaching TextThis book represents a timely exploration of the dynamics of U.S.foreign policy development. It introduces historical developments and theories of U.S. foreign policy and engages students in the politics and debates of the foreign policy process (both directly and by proxy) through innovative learning...
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The World Beyond the West: Perspectives from Eastern EuropeNo matter how one defines its extent and borders, Eastern Europe has long been understood as a liminal space, one whose undeniable cultural and historical continuities with Western Europe have been belied by its status as an "Other" in the Western imagination. Across illuminating...
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In Their Own Words, Volume 2, The Middle Colonies: Today's God-less America ... What Would Our Founding Fathers Think?What has happened to America? It's no longer the country of our founding. Why? In a word . . . we've lost God. Our Founding Fathers established one nation under God. They declared that our rights came from God. They appealed to the Creator,...
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When Politics Comes Before Patients: Why and How Canadian Medicare is FailingHow Successive Governments Have Weakened the Foundation of All Canadian's Social and Economic SecurityAt some point, you will find yourself lying in a hospital bed. There is a good chance that your bed will be a firm, rubber pad held secure between two rails...
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Liberals, Conservatives, and Mavericks: On Christian Churches of Eastern Europe Since 1980. a Festschrift for Sabrina P. RametNo Church is monolithic--this is the preliminary premise of this volume on the public place of religion in a representative number of post-communist countries. The studies confirm that within any religious organization we can expect to find fissures, factions, theological or ideological quarrels, and...
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Childfree Across the Disciplines: Academic and Activist Perspectives on Not Choosing ChildrenRecently, childfree people have been foregrounded in mainstream media. More than seven percent of Western women choose to remain childfree and this figure is increasing. Being childfree challenges the 'procreation imperative' residing at the center of our hetero-normative understandings, occupying an uneasy position in...
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Rowan and Mayne: A Biography of the First Police CommissionersThere have been many famous partnerships in history. The Wright brothers gave the world flight, Marie and Pierre Curie made incredible advances in medicine, Larry Page and Sergey Brin started the company that became Google, now an integral part of information technology, Gilbert and...
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Refugee LawThe word 'refugee' is both evocative and contested; it means different things to different people. For lawyers, the main legal reference point is the UN Refugee Convention of 1951. This concise and engaging book follows the structure of the Convention to explore international refugee...
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Jobless Growth in the Dominican Republic: Disorganization, Precarity, and LivelihoodsThe Dominican Republic has posted impressive economic growth rates over the past thirty years. Despite this, the generation of new, good jobs has been remarkably weak. How have ordinary and poor Dominicans worked and lived in the shadow of the country's conspicuous growth rates?...
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The Struggle for Development in Iran: The Evolution of Governance, Economy, and SocietyThis book provides a multidimensional analysis of Iran's struggle for development between 1970 and 2020, focusing on fundamentals, institutions, and socioeconomic trends. The past several decades in Iran have been a period of sluggish and noninclusive economic growth, ill-fated social engineering with an Islamic...
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A Call to Dissent: Defending Democracy Against Extremism and PopulismDogmatism, prejudice and bigotry are becoming ever more evident on the contemporary political scene and dissent is one of their main targets. The Politics of Dissent explores the negative impact this shift is having on public life, with radically-oriented governments striving to close down...
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Hungarian RefugeeColumbia University Refugee Project - Hungary 1945-1956While the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 may be largely forgotten by many in America, it is definitely not forgotten by the Hungarian people who lived through it, were exiled because of it, or lost friends or family members...
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Chinese Election Interference in TaiwanThis book documents the history of China's attempts to undermine Taiwan's elections, offering additional insights into China's methods of influence in Hong Kong, the United States and Canada. Drawing from Chinese language primary sources and historical accounts, Taiwan is presented as a growing democracy...
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European SocietyThe EU today is at a crossroads: either it becomes a great supranational union or it goes back to being an array of separate independent states. Alberto Martinelli and Alessandro Cavalli draw a grand fresco of the society in which the European Union is...
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The Grey Men: Pursuing the Stasi Into the PresentThe untold story of what the Stasi did next 'Fascinating and powerful.' Sunday Times What do you do with a hundred thousand idle spies? By 1990 the Berlin Wall had fallen and the East German state security service folded. For forty years, they had...
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On War (Three Volumes in One)"War is not merely a political act, but also a real political instrument, a continuation of political commerce, a carrying out of the same by other means." -Carl von Clausewitz, On War, 1832 On War is Carl von Clausewitz' masterpiece on war and military...
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The Oxford Handbook on Atrocity CrimesSocial scientific research focusing on mass atrocities, which include widespread or systematic crimes such as genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes, expanded after the end of the Cold War. Mass violence in the former Yugoslavia, as well as the genocide in Rwanda, sparked...
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The Digital Financial Revolution in ChinaDescribing how China is in the lead in transforming finance for the digital ageChina has been at the forefront of one of the most important revolutions in contemporary business practices: the rapid growth of digital finance. From mobile payments to online investment, from Big...
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