Political Science
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From Quills to Tweets: How America Communicates about War and RevolutionWhile today's presidential tweets may seem a light year apart from the scratch of quill pens during the era of the American Revolution, the importance of political communication is eternal. This book explores the roles that political narratives, media coverage, and evolving communication technologies...
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Israel's Long War with Hezbollah: Military Innovation and Adaptation Under FireThis book provides the first comprehensive military history of the decades-long conflict between Israel and Lebanon's Hezbollah. It begins in 1985 during the Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon, includes the Second Lebanon War (a.k.a. the July War) in 2006 and aftermath, and brings the...
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A Pocket Guide to the Us Constitution: What Every American Needs to Know, Second EditionThis handy guide helps readers understand, quickly and in nontechnical language, the US Constitution. Want to learn about the separation of powers, the emoluments clause, why slaves in colonial America were considered 3/5 of a person, gerrymandering, or why Congressional pay raises are limited?...
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Hacking the Bomb: Cyber Threats and Nuclear WeaponsAre nuclear arsenals safe from cyber attack? We may be standing at the edge of a major technological challenge to global nuclear order. The increasing sophistication of hacking and cyber weapons, information warfare capabilities, and other dynamics of the cyber age are challenging the...
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North Korea and Nuclear Weapons: Entering the New Era of DeterrenceNorth Korea is perilously close to developing strategic nuclear weapons capable of hitting the United States and its East Asian allies. Since their first nuclear test in 2006, North Korea has struggled to perfect the required delivery systems. Kim Jong-un's regime now appears to...
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Allies That Count: Junior Partners in Coalition WarfareWhat qualities make an ally useful in coalition warfare, and when is an ally more trouble than it's worth? Allies That Count analyzes the utility of junior partners in coalition warfare and reaches surprising conclusions.In this volume, Olivier Schmitt presents detailed case-study analysis of...
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The Ethical Lobbyist: Reforming Washington's Influence IndustryThe public's view of lobbying is that it is synonymous with corruption. Corruption is rare despite the popular perception, but there is plenty of evidence that the lobbying profession has a serious problem with poor representation of member or client interests. In fact, they...
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The Federal Management Playbook: Leading and Succeeding in the Public SectorIra Goldstein offers management wisdom for federal government leaders and aspiring leaders based on his decades of experience as a senior executive at two of the Big Four consulting firms and as a member of the US federal government's Senior Executive Service. Being a...
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Reconsidering Intellectual Disability: L'Arche, Medical Ethics, and Christian FriendshipDrawing on the controversial case of "Ashley X," a girl with severe developmental disabilities who received interventionist medical treatment to limit her growth and keep her body forever small--a procedure now known as the "Ashley Treatment"--Reconsidering Intellectual Disability explores important questions at the intersection...
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Public Value and Public AdministrationGovernments and nonprofits exist to create public value. Yet what does that mean in theory and practice?This new volume brings together key experts in the field to offer unique, wide-ranging answers. From the United States, Europe, and Australia, the contributors focus on the creation,...
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Tunisian Revolutions: Reflections on Seas, Coasts, and InteriorsIn December 2010 an out-of-work Tunisian merchant, Mohamed Bouazizi, set himself on fire and precipitated the Arab Spring. Popular interpretations of Bouazizi's self-immolation viewed economic and political despair as the root of the Tunisian revolution, but as Julia Clancy-Smith points out Tunisia's long history...
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War's Ends: Human Rights, International Order, and the Ethics of PeaceBefore military action, and even before mobilization, the decision on whether to go to war is debated by politicians, pundits, and the public. As they address the right or wrong of such action, it is also a time when, in the language of the...
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Reconsidering the American Way of War: US Military Practice from the Revolution to AfghanistanThis book challenges several longstanding notions about the American way of war. It examines US military practice (strategic and operational) from the War of Independence to the campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan to determine what patterns, if any, existed in the way Americans have...
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Emancipation without Equality: Pan-African Activism and the Global Color LineAt the Pan-African Conference in London in 1900, W. E. B. Du Bois famously prophesied that the problem of the twentieth century would be the global color line, the elevation of "whiteness" that created a racially divided world. While Pan-Africanism recognized the global nature...
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A New Republic of the Heart: An Ethos for Revolutionaries--A Guide to Inner Work for Holistic ChangeA vision to address our environment, economy, politics, culture, and to catalyze the radical whole-system change we need now Recasting current problems as emergent opportunities, Terry Patten offers creative responses, practices, and conscious conversations for tackling the profound inner and outer work we must...
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Seed Sovereignty, Food Security: Women in the Vanguard of the Fight Against GMOs and Corporate AgricultureIn this unique anthology, women from around the world write about the movement to change the current, industrial paradigm of how we grow our food. As seed keepers and food producers, as scientists, activists, and scholars, they are dedicated to renewing a food system...
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Politics from A to ZDeepen your understanding of how politics work, and why they matter, with this timely guide.Politics from A to Z provides an up-to-date, thoroughly researched glossary of political topics spanning ancient Greece to contemporary America. Featuring an introductory interview with Noam Chomsky, Politics from A...
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Conflict and Cooperation: Reflections on the New Deal in TexasFrom its beginnings in the spring of 1933 to its close with U.S. entry into World War II, the New Deal significantly impacted the state of Texas. The projects and programs of this federal recovery effort influenced the culture, economy, social structures and politics...
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The Confucian Cycle: China's Sage and America's Decline2,500 years ago, the Chinese sage, Confucius, observed that all governments follow a cycle: from unity, through prosperity to stagnation, then to collapse and anarchy. He taught that when government officials sought personal power or wealth instead of taking care of the people, society...
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Designing for Health & Wellbeing: Home, City, SocietyRapid urbanization represents major threats and challenges to personal and public health. The World Health Organisation identifies the 'urban health threat' as three-fold: infectious diseases, non-communicable diseases; and violence and injury from, amongst other things, road traffic. Within this tripartite structure of health issues...
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