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    A Different Kind of Power: A Memoir (Paperback)
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    A Different Kind of Power: A Memoir (Paperback)

    From the former prime minister of New Zealand, then the world's youngest female head of government and just the second to give birth in office, comes a deeply personal memoir chronicling her extraordinary rise and offering inspiration to a new generation...
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    A Different Kind of Power: A Memoir (Hardcover) A Different Kind of Power: A Memoir (Hardcover)
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    A Different Kind of Power: A Memoir (Hardcover)

    From the former prime minister of New Zealand, then the world's youngest female head of government and just the second to give birth in office, comes a deeply personal memoir chronicling her extraordinary rise and offering inspiration to a new generation...
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  • No Second Prize No Second Prize
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    No Second Prize

    Take a flick through the pages of this book and see if something arouses your curiosity.This book represents 26 years of artwork and written material. It has been compiled in such a way as to be relevant 26 years ago and also today and into the future...
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  • The Political Philosophy of Michel Foucault The Political Philosophy of Michel Foucault
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    The Political Philosophy of Michel Foucault

    This book is the first to systematically reconstruct Foucault's political and philosophical thought across his career, arguing that Foucault had a consistent but ever-growing political and philosophical viewpoint.
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  • The Present Politics of the Past The Present Politics of the Past
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    The Present Politics of the Past

    This work applies Jacques Derrida's framework of "spectropolitics" to (post)coloniality in order to investigate the emergence of indigenous peoples' movements, advances a poststructural approach to the analysis of liberal politics based upon the...
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  • National Identity and the Conflict at Oka National Identity and the Conflict at Oka
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    National Identity and the Conflict at Oka

    Through readings of literature, canonical history texts, studies of museum displays and media analysis, this work explores the historical formation of myths of Canadian national identity and then how these myths were challenged (and affirmed during the...
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  • Walking Ghosts Walking Ghosts
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    Walking Ghosts

    In Walking Ghosts, Steven Dudley, a journalist who lived in Columbia for five years, expertly chronicles the life and death of the Patriotic Union (UP), the party established by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), Colombia's largest...
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  • American Government and Popular Discontent American Government and Popular Discontent
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    American Government and Popular Discontent

    Popular distrust and the entrenchment of government by professionals lie at the root of America's most pressing political problems. This characterization of contemporary American politics stems from the transformations brought about from the 1950s to the...
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  • Third Party Blues Third Party Blues
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    Third Party Blues

    Third Party Blues presents a concerted effort to analyze the historical value of third parties while showing that minor party inclusion does prompt real-world positive consequences.
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  • French Political Travel Writing in the Interwar Years French Political Travel Writing in the Interwar Years
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    French Political Travel Writing in the Interwar Years

    This book studies travel writing produced by French authors between the two World Wars following visits to authoritarian regimes in Europe and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). It sheds new light on the phenomenon of French political...
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  • The Politics of Community Building in Urban China The Politics of Community Building in Urban China
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    The Politics of Community Building in Urban China

    This book aims to make sense of the recent reform of neighbourhood institutions in urban China. It builds on the observation that the late 1990s saw a comeback of the state in urban China after the increased economization of life in the 1980s had...
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  • The European Council and European Governance The European Council and European Governance
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    The European Council and European Governance

    In recent years, the failure of the constitutional process, the difficult ratification and implementation of the Lisbon Treaty, as well as the several crises affecting Europe have revitalized the debate on the nature of the European polity and the...
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  • Power in a Changing World Economy Power in a Changing World Economy
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    Power in a Changing World Economy

    This book is about power in a changing world economy. Though power is ubiquitous in the study of International Political Economy, the concept is underdeveloped in formal theoretical terms. This collection of essays analyses recent experience in East Asia...
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  • Understanding the Middle East Peace Process Understanding the Middle East Peace Process
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    Understanding the Middle East Peace Process

    Asima Ghazi-Bouillon examines the Middle East peace process since Oslo and how Israel's sense of national identity has changed and been interpreted. In particular the book analyzes the highly contentious academic debates between the "New Historians",...
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  • The European Union's Foreign Economic Policies The European Union's Foreign Economic Policies
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    The European Union's Foreign Economic Policies

    This volume offers a fresh look at the EU's foreign economic policies using a principal-agent approach. It provides insights into the EU's trade policy, its role in international financial governance, and its involvement in the G8 and the International...
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  • Theorising Transnational Migration Theorising Transnational Migration
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    Theorising Transnational Migration

    Societal transformations have recently stimulated political debates and policies on the integration of migrants and minorities in most Western European countries. While transnational migration studies have documented migrants' cross-border activities...
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  • The United States and NATO since 9/11 The United States and NATO since 9/11
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    The United States and NATO since 9/11

    The US decision not to work through NATO after 9/11 left many European members of the alliance feeling deflated. This decision reflected not only the unilateralism of the Bush Administration, but also the belief that US operational freedom and...
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  • Gramsci and Global Politics Gramsci and Global Politics
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    Gramsci and Global Politics

    The aim of this book is to explain and assess the relevance of the ideas of Gramsci to a world fundamentally transformed from that in which his thought was developed. It takes some of Gramsci's best-known concepts - hegemony, civil society, passive...
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  • The European Union and Occupied Palestinian Territories The European Union and Occupied Palestinian Territories
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    The European Union and Occupied Palestinian Territories

    This book analyses the present European Union (EU) approach to state-building, both in policy and operation. It offers a review of the literature on peace-building, EU state-building and conflict resolution, before examining in detail the EU's role as a...
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  • Civil Disobedience and Deliberative Democracy Civil Disobedience and Deliberative Democracy
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    Civil Disobedience and Deliberative Democracy

    Civil disobedience is a public, nonviolent, conscientious yet political act, contrary to law, carried out to communicate opposition to law and policy of government. This book presents a theory of civil disobedience that draws on ideas associated with...
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  • Improving Intelligence Analysis Improving Intelligence Analysis
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    Improving Intelligence Analysis

    This book on intelligence analysis written by intelligence expert Dr. Stephen Marrin argues that scholarship can play a valuable role in improving intelligence analysis. Improving intelligence analysis requires bridging the gap between scholarship...
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  • Role Theory in International Relations Role Theory in International Relations
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    Role Theory in International Relations

    Role Theory in International Relations provides a comprehensive, up-to-date survey of recent theoretical scholarship on foreign policy roles and extensive empirical analysis of role behaviour of a variety of states in the current era of eroding American...
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  • Genocide Matters Genocide Matters
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    Genocide Matters

    This edited book provides an interdisciplinary overview of recent scholarship in the field of genocide studies. The book examines four main areas:The current state of research on genocide New thinking on the categories and methods of mass violence...
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  • Transnational Financial Regulation after the Crisis Transnational Financial Regulation after the Crisis
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    Transnational Financial Regulation after the Crisis

    The global financial crisis that began in 2007 was the most destructive since the 1930s. The rapid spread of the crisis across borders and the complexity of these cross-border linkages highlighted the importance for authorities of working together in...
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  • The EU and Military Operations The EU and Military Operations
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    The EU and Military Operations

    This book is a comparative study of the EU´s first military operations which aims to answer the question: under what circumstances does the EU undertake military operations?
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  • Suicide Protest in South Asia Suicide Protest in South Asia
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    Suicide Protest in South Asia

    The radical act of suicide protest is undertaken by social movement participants in order to demand a particular previously articulated political outcome. This book examines the history and impact of suicide protest, which has been increasingly used as a...
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  • Naval Modernisation in South-East Asia Naval Modernisation in South-East Asia
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    Naval Modernisation in South-East Asia

    This edited volume analyses the naval arms race in South-East Asia, and reviews the content, purposes and consequences of the naval policies and development of the main countries of the region. The rise of naval capability in the countries of the...
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  • Indigenous Nations and Modern States Indigenous Nations and Modern States
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    Indigenous Nations and Modern States

    Rudolph C. Ryser reveals in documentary detail how since the 1970s indigenous peoples politically formed governing authorities over peoples, territories and resources raising important questions and offering new solutions to profound challenges to human...
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  • New Directions in American Political Parties New Directions in American Political Parties
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    New Directions in American Political Parties

    Our portraits of voters, their relationship to parties, and the behavior of elected party members have changed significantly within the last 10 to 15 years. Characterizations of dealignment and decreased importance of parties have been fairly rapidly...
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  • Routledge Handbook of Public Policy Routledge Handbook of Public Policy
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    Routledge Handbook of Public Policy

    This Handbook provides a comprehensive global survey of the policy process. Written by an outstanding line up of distinguished scholars and practitioners, the Handbook covers all aspects of the policy process including:Theory - from rational choice to...
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  • Gender, National Security, and Counter-Terrorism Gender, National Security, and Counter-Terrorism
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    Gender, National Security, and Counter-Terrorism

    In the name of fighting terrorism, countries have been invaded; wars have been waged; people have been detained, rendered and tortured; and campaigns for "hearts and minds" have been unleashed. Human rights analyses of the counter-terrorism measures...
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  • Environmental Politics in Egypt Environmental Politics in Egypt
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    Environmental Politics in Egypt

    Drawing on extensive fieldwork conducted in Egypt from the late 1990s to 2011, this book shows how experts and activists used distinctive approaches to influence state and firm decision-making in three important environmental policy domains. These...
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  • Critical Theory of International Politics Critical Theory of International Politics
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    Critical Theory of International Politics

    This is first detailed account on the origins of critical theory and how it has developed and influenced international relations. Making complex ideas accessible to all, it discusses Marx and post-Marxist thinkers; the Frankfurt School; Adorno, Benjamin...
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  • Bureaucracy, Community and Influence in India Bureaucracy, Community and Influence in India
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    Bureaucracy, Community and Influence in India

    Offering a fresh approach to the issue of government and administrative corruption through 'everyday' citizen interactions with the state, this book explores changing discourses and practices of corruption in late colonial and early independent Uttar...
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  • Democratic Transformation and Obstruction Democratic Transformation and Obstruction
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    Democratic Transformation and Obstruction

    Although "democracy promotion" has become a popular term for policy makers and scholars, democratization is rarely a smooth or linear transition. While some countries quickly democratize, others lag behind despite a long period of democracy promotion...
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  • The Colonial Art of Demonizing Others The Colonial Art of Demonizing Others
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    The Colonial Art of Demonizing Others

     The Colonial Art of Demonizing Others examines European mistranslations and misrepresentations of black freedom dreams and self-activity as monstrous in the period of modern imperial consolidation -roughly from 1750 to 1848. This book argues that...
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  • New Body Politics New Body Politics
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    New Body Politics

    In the increasingly multi-racial and multi-ethnic American landscape of the present, understanding and bridging dynamic cross-cultural conversations about social and political concerns becomes a complicated humanistic project. How do everyday embodied...
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  • The Middle East in World Politics (Routledge Revivals) The Middle East in World Politics (Routledge Revivals)
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    The Middle East in World Politics (Routledge Revivals)

    The Middle East is, and has always been, of major global economic and political importance. First published in 1981, this edited collection analyses many of the crucial issues that have had international repercussions during the second half of the...
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  • Statebuilding and Justice Reform Statebuilding and Justice Reform
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    Statebuilding and Justice Reform

    The book provides an updated account of justice reform in Afghanistan, which started in the wake of the US-led military intervention of 2001. In particular, it focuses on the role of international actors and their interaction with local stakeholders,...
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  • Military Media Management Military Media Management
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    Military Media Management

    This book examines the practices of actors involved in the media reportage of war, and the ways in which these practices may influence the conduct of modern military operations.
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  • The Circassian Diaspora in Turkey The Circassian Diaspora in Turkey
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    The Circassian Diaspora in Turkey

    A North Caucasian ethnic group that has been largely obscured in world history as a result of their expulsion from their homeland by Tsarist Russia in the 1860s, Circassians now comprise significant communities not only in the Northwest Caucasus but also...
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  • US Hegemony and International Legitimacy US Hegemony and International Legitimacy
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    US Hegemony and International Legitimacy

    This book examines US hegemony and international legitimacy in the post-Cold War era, focusing on its leadership in the two wars on Iraq.The preference for unilateral action in foreign policy under the Bush Administration, culminating in the use of force...
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  • Reconciliation after Terrorism Reconciliation after Terrorism
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    Reconciliation after Terrorism

    This book brings together scholars from the hitherto disparate fields of terrorism and reconciliation studies to examine whether reconciliation is a possible strategy for dealing with and ending a terrorist conflict.
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  • Insuring Life Insuring Life
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    Insuring Life

    This book is a contribution to the scholarly engagement with the wider problem of governing through risk and the politics of uncertainty. It takes life insurance as an empirical site from which to ask: what is the kind of governance created through...
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  • Resisting United Nations Security Council Resolutions Resisting United Nations Security Council Resolutions
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    Resisting United Nations Security Council Resolutions

    The United Nations Security Council has primary responsibility for maintaining international peace and security. In discharging its powers it must act in accordance with the Purposes and Principles of the UN, and observe the rules governing voting and...
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  • The Politics of Truth Management in Saudi Arabia The Politics of Truth Management in Saudi Arabia
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    The Politics of Truth Management in Saudi Arabia

    Exploring the management of 'truth' in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, this book aims to investigate the ways in which the official 'truth' is constructed and institutionalised in the country. The Politics of Truth Management in Saudi Arabia argues that...
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