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  • Myanmar Transformed?
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    Myanmar Transformed?

    The triumph of Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy at the 2015 election was supposed to mark the consolidation of a reformist trajectory for Myanmar society. What has followed has not proved so straightforward. This book takes stock of the...
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  • The Post-Colonial Security Dilemma
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    The Post-Colonial Security Dilemma

    This book examines the development of Timor-Leste's foreign policy since achieving political independence in 2002. It considers the influence of Timor-Leste's historical experiences with foreign intervention on how the small, new state has pursued...
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  • Indonesia in the New World
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    Indonesia in the New World

    Globalisation is more complex than ever. The effects of the global financial crisis and increased inequality have spurred anti-globalisation sentiment in many countries and encouraged the adoption of populist and inward-looking policies. This has led to...
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  • Does ASEAN Matter?
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    Does ASEAN Matter?

    Written by the highly regarded diplomat Marty Natalegawa, former ambassador and foreign minister of Indonesia, this book offers a unique insider-perspective on the present and future relevance of ASEAN. It is about ASEAN's quest for security and...
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  • China's Footprints in Southeast Asia
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    China's Footprints in Southeast Asia

    The countries that make up Southeast Asia are seeing an incredible resurgence in their economic power. Over the past fifty years, their combined wealth has reached the same level as the United Kingdom and, taken together, they are on track to become the...
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  • Bio-Imperialism
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    Bio-Imperialism

    Geoengineering is the deliberate and large-scale intervention in the Earth's climate system in an attempt to mitigate the adverse effects of global warming. Now that climate emergency is upon us, claims that geoengineering is inevitable are rapidly...
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  • The Children's Inquiry
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    The Children's Inquiry

    Despite being least affected by the virus itself, children and young people bore the brunt of Covid-19 pandemic restrictions. When schools were closed, playgrounds taped up and play outlawed, children's lives were closed down. The catastrophic impact on...
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  • Deterrence in the 21st Century
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    Deterrence in the 21st Century

    The information age has opened a new front of adversarial statecraft. The past decades have seen the rise and refinement of conflict enacted in the world of information, with tactics including seeding disinformation, the theft of sensitive data,...
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  • Bureaucracy, Bankers and Bastards
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    Bureaucracy, Bankers and Bastards

    William 'Bill' Mott came from generations of farmers/graziers who never wanted anything else but to own their own land. Hard work family and the sense of community were pitted against the harsh reality of this ancient land and its climate of drought and...
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  • Metabolic Rifts
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    Metabolic Rifts

    Like an autoimmune disease that attacks the body it dwells in, capitalism is tearing apart the very planet that feeds it. Metabolic Rifts: Capitalism’s Assault on the Earth System, builds on Karl Marx’s insight that while capitalism is dependent on the...
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  • Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism?
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    Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism?

    Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism? offers a crash course in the history of imperialist propaganda, as well as in the Marxist method for analyzing culture and ideology. Author Gabriel Rockhill demonstrates the explanatory and transformative...
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  • The Intelligence Intellectuals
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    The Intelligence Intellectuals

    The untold story of how Americas brightest academic minds revolutionized intelligence analysis at the CIA In the early days of the Cold War, the United States faced a crisis in intelligence analysis. A series of intelligence failures in 1949 and 1950,...
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  • Covert Action
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    Covert Action

    A comparative international perspective challenges conventional narratives about unacknowledged intervention "Covert action" is generally understood as politically motivated and plausibly deniable interference by one state in the affairs of another state...
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  • East Asia's Grand Strategies
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    East Asia's Grand Strategies

    East Asia is the epicenter of twenty-first-century geopolitics, where military, economic, and diplomatic strategies intersect in complex and often unpredictable ways. As the region becomes increasingly central to global power dynamics, understanding the...
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  • Build
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    Build

    A bold plan for the United States to regain the lead in infrastructure development through privatization and public-private partnerships Americas infrastructure—its essential roads, bridges, ports, airports, power grids, and telecommunications...
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  • The CIA Intelligence Analyst
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    The CIA Intelligence Analyst

    A unique insiders account of what CIA intelligence analysts do and why it matters The common perception of a CIA officer is someone who collects secret intelligence abroad—a spy. However, the critical link between secrets and policy is the intelligence...
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  • Pakistan's ISI
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    Pakistan's ISI

    An introduction to Pakistans ISI, which has been both an essential ally and problematic partner of the United States Forged during the tumultuous aftermath of Partition in 1947, the Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate (ISI) has grown to become the...
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  • Cold Rivals
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    Cold Rivals

    Leading authorities analyze growing tensions in US-China relations and what this means for the future The US-China relationship is now defined by "strategic competition." In Cold Rivals, a distinguished group of scholars from the United States and China...
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  • American Traitor
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    American Traitor

    American Traitor examines the career of the notorious Gen. James Wilkinson, whose corruption and espionage exposed the United States to grave dangers during the early years of the republic. Wilkinson is largely forgotten today, which is unfortunate...
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  • Nothing Is Beyond Our Reach
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    Nothing Is Beyond Our Reach

    Ever since the earliest days of the Cold War, American intelligence agencies have launched spies in the sky, implanted spies in the ether, burrowed spies underground, sunk spies in the ocean, and even tried to control spies' minds by chemical means. But...
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  • Deter, Disrupt, or Deceive
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    Deter, Disrupt, or Deceive

    A fresh perspective on statecraft in the cyber domain The idea of “cyber war” has played a dominant role in both academic and popular discourse concerning the nature of statecraft in the cyber domain. However, this lens of war and its expectations for...
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  • Canadian Military Intelligence
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    Canadian Military Intelligence

    The most comprehensive history of Canadian military intelligence and its influence on key military operations Canadian intelligence has become increasingly central to the operations of the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF). Canadian Military Intelligence:...
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  • Subcontinental Drift
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    Subcontinental Drift

    How domestic constraints hamper India's foreign policy and its potential as a superpower One of the most important developments in today's changing international system is the emergence of India as a rising power. However, Rajesh Basrur finds that India...
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  • Canadian Military Intelligence
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    Canadian Military Intelligence

    The most comprehensive history of Canadian military intelligence and its influence on key military operations Canadian intelligence has become increasingly central to the operations of the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF). Canadian Military Intelligence:...
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  • Sex Trafficking and Human Rights
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    Sex Trafficking and Human Rights

    Case studies explore how women's rights shape state responses to sex trafficking and show how politically empowering women can help prevent and combat human trafficking Human trafficking for the sex trade is a form of modern-day slavery that ensnares...
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  • Oil, the State, and War
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    Oil, the State, and War

    A comprehensive challenge to prevailing understanding of international implications of oil wealth that shows why it can create bad actors In a world where oil-rich states are more likely to start war than their oil-dependent counterparts, it's surprising...
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  • The End of Asylum
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    The End of Asylum

    In The End of Asylum, three experts in immigration law offer a comprehensive examination of the rise and demise of the US asylum system, showing how the Trump administration has put forth regulations, policies, and practices all designed to end...
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  • Red Pill, Blue Pill
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    Red Pill, Blue Pill

    A revealing trip down the rabbit hole of conspiracy theories--their appeal, who believes them, how they spread--with an eye to helping people deal with the alt-right conspiracists in their own lives. Conspiracy theories are killing us. Once confined to...
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  • Hacking the Bomb
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    Hacking the Bomb

    Are nuclear arsenals safe from cyber-attack? Could terrorists launch a nuclear weapon through hacking? Are we standing at the edge of a major technological challenge to global nuclear order? These are among the many pressing security questions addressed...
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  • Principled Spying
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    Principled Spying

    Intelligence agencies provide critical information to national security and foreign policy decision makers, but spying also poses inherent dilemmas for liberty, privacy, human rights, and diplomacy. Principled Spying explores how to strike a balance...
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  • Collaborative Governance Regimes
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    Collaborative Governance Regimes

    Whether the goal is building a local park or developing disaster response models, collaborative governance is changing the way public agencies at the local, regional, and national levels are working with each other and with key partners in the nonprofit...
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  • Salafism in Lebanon
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    Salafism in Lebanon

    Salafism, comprised of fundamentalist Islamic movements whose adherents consider themselves the only "saved" sect of Islam, has been little studied, remains shrouded in misconceptions, and has provoked new interest as Salafists have recently staked a...
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  • Analyzing Intelligence
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    Analyzing Intelligence

    Analyzing Intelligence, now in a revised and extensively updated second edition, assesses the state of the profession of intelligence analysis from the practitioners point of view. The contributors-most of whom have held senior positions in the US...
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  • Such a Pretty Girl
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    Such a Pretty Girl

    A memoir by a disability rights activist Such a Pretty Girl is Nadina LaSpina's story-from her early years in her native Sicily, where still a baby she contracts polio, a fact that makes her the object of well-meaning pity and the target of messages of...
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  • Reclaiming Patriotism
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    Reclaiming Patriotism

    Amitai Etzioni has made his reputation by transcending unwieldy, and even dangerous, binaries such as left/right or globalism/nativism. In his new book, Etzioni calls for nothing less than a social transformation-led by a new social movement-to save our...
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  • Nationalism in Europe and America
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    Nationalism in Europe and America

    Examining the history of nationalism's pervasive influence on modern politics and cultural identities, Lloyd Kramer discusses how nationalist ideas gained emotional and cultural power after the revolutionary upheavals in the late eighteenth-century...
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  • That Infernal Little Cuban Republic
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    That Infernal Little Cuban Republic

    2009 marks the 50th anniversary of the revolution. Cuba has regularly given Washington a headache, Lars Schoultz observes in his comprehensive chronicle of U.S. policy toward the Cuban Revolution. Seeking relief, even the most patient U.S. officials have...
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  • American Orientalism
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    American Orientalism

    Douglas Little explores the stormy American relationship with the Middle East from World War II through the war in Iraq, focusing particularly on the complex and often inconsistent attitudes and interests that helped put the United States on a collision...
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  • Seeing Whiteness
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    Seeing Whiteness

    Long before the widespread success of the 2018 book White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism, Robin DiAngelo was breaking with white solidarity and writing, speaking, and teaching on the relationship among white supremacy,...
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  • Marxism, Fascism, and Totalitarianism
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    Marxism, Fascism, and Totalitarianism

    This work traces the changes in classical Marxism (the Marxism of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels) that took place after the death of its founders. It outlines the variants that appeared around the turn of the twentieth century-one of which was to be of...
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  • Faith and Fake News
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    Faith and Fake News

    Share if you love Jesus. Scroll past if you follow the devil. Most Christians have encountered phony posts on our feeds meant to rile us up. But not everything we see on social media is so obviously absurd. As online spaces increase in importance, we...
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  • Duty and Destiny
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    Duty and Destiny

    Amid the wealth of biographical material on Winston Churchill, little has been said about his faith. Duty and Destiny rectifies this, offering a nuanced portrait of a great historical figure considered everything from a "God-haunted man" to a "stalwart...
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  • Developing Democracy
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    Developing Democracy

    In this book noted political sociologist Larry Diamond sets forth a distinctive theoretical perspective on democratic evolution and consolidation in the late twentieth century. Rejecting theories that posit preconditions for democracy–and thus dismiss...
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  • My Sister's Mother
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    My Sister's Mother

    In the 1950s, baby boomer Donna Solecka Urbikas grew up in the American Midwest yearning for a ""normal"" American family. But during World War II, her Polish-born mother and half sister had endured hunger, disease, and desperate escape from slave labor...
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  • The Political Testament of Cardinal Richelieu
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    The Political Testament of Cardinal Richelieu

    'Hill has prepared an excellent translation of the more important parts of the Political Testament; his notes are clear, concise, informative, and accurate, and his short introduction will provide students who wish to delve into the French original with...
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  • Sculptors Against the State
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    Sculptors Against the State

    Sculptors Against the State considers the relation of anarchist ideology to avant-garde sculpture through an examination of three iconic artists whose work transformed European modernism: Umberto Boccioni, Jacob Epstein, and Henri Gaudier-Brzeska...
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  • Deplorable
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    Deplorable

    Political campaigns in the United States, especially those for the presidency, can be nasty-very nasty. And while we would like to believe that the 2020 election was an aberration, insults, invective, and yes, even violence have characterized US...
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  • The Time of Popular Sovereignty
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    The Time of Popular Sovereignty

    Examines the concept of the people and the problems it raises for liberal democratic theory, constitutional theory, and critical theory. Argues that the people should be conceived not as simply a collection of individuals, but as an ongoing process...
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