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  • Forging China's Military Might
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    Forging China's Military Might

    Among the most important issues in international security today are the nature and the global implications of Chinas emergence as a world-class defense technology power. Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, the Chinese defense industry has...
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  • Downsizing Democracy
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    Downsizing Democracy

    Originally publushed in 2002. In Downsizing Democracy, Matthew A. Crenson and Benjamin Ginsberg describe how the once powerful idea of a collective citizenry has given way to a concept of personal, autonomous democracy. Today, political change is...
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  • Research Skills for Policy and Development
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    Research Skills for Policy and Development

    This book is a critical guide to conducting investigations under time- and resource-pressured conditions, equipping readers with the key skills and approaches for research designed to influence or inform development policies. Unlike a simple 'how to'...
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  • Law and Social Change
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    Law and Social Change

    This is a timely new edition of Sharyn L Roach Anleu's invaluable introduction to the sociology of law and its role as a social institution and social process. Discussing current theory and key empirical research from a diverse range of perspectives Law...
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  • Other Population Crisis:
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    Other Population Crisis:

    In many developed countries, population decline poses economic and social strains and may even threaten national security. Through historical-political case studies of Sweden, France, Italy, Japan, and Singapore, The Other Population Crisis explores the...
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  • Globalization and America's Trade Agreements
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    Globalization and America's Trade Agreements

    Globalization and America's Trade Agreements reviews the theoretical framework as well as provides a historic context of impact of the United States' complex trade agreements of the past 25 years. William Krist analyzes the issues in the recent rounds of...
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  • Contested Frontiers in the Syria-Lebanon-Israel Region
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    Contested Frontiers in the Syria-Lebanon-Israel Region

    Contested Frontiers in the Syria-Lebanon-Israel Region studies one of the flash points of the Middle East since the 1960s-a tiny region of roughly 100 square kilometers where Syria, Lebanon, and Israel come together but where the borders have never been...
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  • In the Nation's Service
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    In the Nation's Service

    The definitive biography of a distinguished public servant, who as US Secretary of Labor, Secretary of the Treasury, and Secretary of State, was pivotal in steering the great powers toward the end of the Cold War. Deftly solving critical but intractable...
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  • Baltimore
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    Baltimore

    Charm City or Mobtown? People from Baltimore glory in its eccentric charm, small-town character, and North-cum-South culture. But for much of the nineteenth century, violence and disorder plagued the city. More recently, the 2015 death of Freddie Gray in...
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  • The Federalist
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    The Federalist

    The Federalist'a treatise on free government in peace and security'is one of the most important contributions to the literature on constitutional democracy and federalism in the United States. Scholars, lawyers, judges, and statesmen in the United States...
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  • Science at the White House
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    Science at the White House

    In 1973 the US president's Office of Science and Technology was eliminated, a victim of its own incongruity. It was not, as was popularly proclaimed at the time, simply because the Nixon administration was particularly hostile to the scientific and...
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  • Political Communication and Deliberation
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    Political Communication and Deliberation

    "Professor Gastil has been a leading voice in the deliberative democracy movement for the last 15 years, and with this book he has created a wonderful resource that adeptly captures the broad, valuable work being done both inside and outside academia...
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  • The Political Thought of Frederick Douglass
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    The Political Thought of Frederick Douglass

    Frederick Douglass, one of the most prominent figures in African-American and United States history, was born a slave, but escaped to the North and became a well-known anti-slavery activist, orator, and author. In The Political Thought of Frederick...
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  • The Quest for a United Germany
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    The Quest for a United Germany

    The ramifications of the German problem and its intricate nature make its comprehensive presentation within the limits of a manageable volume a matter of painful selection and difficult apportionment.
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  • At Home in Two Countries
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    At Home in Two Countries

    Read Peter's Op-ed on Trump's Immigration Ban in The New York Times The rise of dual citizenship could hardly have been imaginable to a time traveler from a hundred or even fifty years ago. Dual nationality was once considered an offense to nature, an...
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  • Policing Pleasure
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    Policing Pleasure

    Monica waits in the Anti-Venereal Medical Service of the Zona Galactica, the legal, state-run brothel where she works in Tuxtla Gutierrez, Mexico. Surrounded by other sex workers, she clutches the Sanitary Control Cards that deem her registered with the...
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  • Policing Pleasure
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    Policing Pleasure

    Monica waits in the Anti-Venereal Medical Service of the Zona Galactica, the legal, state-run brothel where she works in Tuxtla Gutierrez, Mexico. Surrounded by other sex workers, she clutches the Sanitary Control Cards that deem her registered with the...
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  • Russia
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    Russia

    In Russia, a group of leading Russian intellectuals and social scientists join with top researchers from around the world to examine the social, political, and economic transformation in Russia. This timely and important book of orginal essays makes...
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  • Contagious Representation
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    Contagious Representation

    Women's participation in parliaments, high courts, and executive offices worldwide has reached record high numbers, but this global increase in women's representation masks significant variation among different democratic political systems. For example,...
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  • Contagious Representation
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    Contagious Representation

    Women's participation in parliaments, high courts, and executive offices worldwide has reached record high numbers, but this global increase in women's representation masks significant variation among different democratic political systems. For example,...
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  • Communitarianism
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    Communitarianism

    Although communitarianism has a long history, it has only recently emerged to pose a major challenge to the traditional left-right divide in politics and the competing principles of individualism and collectivism. Communitarianism is the first...
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  • Communitarianism
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    Communitarianism

    Although communitarianism has a long history, it has only recently emerged to pose a major challenge to the traditional left-right divide in politics and the competing principles of individualism and collectivism. Communitarianism is the first...
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  • The Global Expansion of Judicial Power
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    The Global Expansion of Judicial Power

    In Russia, as the confrontation over the constitutional distribution of authority raged, Boris Yeltsin's economic program regularly wended its way in and out of the Constitutional Court until Yeltsin finally suspended that court in the aftermath of his...
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  • National Security through a Cockeyed Lens
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    National Security through a Cockeyed Lens

    'How do mental errors or cognitive biases undermine good decision making?' This is the question Steve A Yetiv takes up in his latest foreign policy study, National Security through a Cockeyed Lens.Yetiv draws on four decades of psychological, historical,...
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  • Digital Politics in Western Democracies
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    Digital Politics in Western Democracies

    Digital politics is shorthand for how internet technologies have fueled the complex interactions between political actors and their constituents. Cristian Vaccari analyzes the presentation and consumption of online politics in seven advanced Western...
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  • Reducing Gun Violence in America
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    Reducing Gun Violence in America

    Amid a growing consensus that the staggering toll of gun violence in the United States is an urgent public health issue, the Johns Hopkins University's Bloomberg School of Public Health has convened experts on gun policy and violence from the United...
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  • Flawed Logics
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    Flawed Logics

    James H. Lebovic explores the logic of seeking peace in an arms race. Flawed Logics offers a compelling intellectual history of U.S.-Russian strategic nuclear arms control. Lebovic thoroughly reviews the critical role of ideas and assumptions in U.S...
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  • North Korean Nuclear Operationality
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    North Korean Nuclear Operationality

    Despite near-universal opposition to North Korea's moves to acquire nuclear weapons, Pyongyang is determined to succeed. It is only a matter of time before the North Koreans are able to combine their extant nuclear weapons capabilities with a viable...
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  • Congressional Elections
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    Congressional Elections

    "It is the gold standard for texts on congressional campaigns and elections." - Bruce A. Larson, Gettysburg College In Congressional Elections: Campaigning at Home and in Washington authors Paul Herrnson and Costas Panagopoulos combine top-notch research...
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  • Congressional Elections
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    Congressional Elections

    "It is the gold standard for texts on congressional campaigns and elections." - Bruce A. Larson, Gettysburg College In Congressional Elections: Campaigning at Home and in Washington authors Paul Herrnson and Costas Panagopoulos combine top-notch research...
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  • Congressional Elections
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    Congressional Elections

    "It is the gold standard for texts on congressional campaigns and elections." - Bruce A. Larson, Gettysburg College In Congressional Elections: Campaigning at Home and in Washington authors Paul Herrnson and Costas Panagopoulos combine top-notch research...
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  • Congressional Elections
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    Congressional Elections

    "It is the gold standard for texts on congressional campaigns and elections." - Bruce A. Larson, Gettysburg College In Congressional Elections: Campaigning at Home and in Washington authors Paul Herrnson and Costas Panagopoulos combine top-notch research...
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  • Balkan Identities
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    Balkan Identities

    Balkan Identities brings together historians, anthropologists, and literary scholars all working under the shared conviction that the only way to overcome history is to intimately understand it. The contributors of Balkan Identities focus on historical...
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  • Caring Democracy
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    Caring Democracy

    Americans now face a caring deficit: there are simply too many demands on people's time for us to care adequately for our children, elderly people, and ourselves.At the same time, political involvement in the United States is at an all-time low, and...
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  • Harry Potter and the Millennials
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    Harry Potter and the Millennials

    Without a doubt, the Harry Potter series has had a powerful effect on the Millennial Generation. Millions of children grew up immersed in the world of the boy wizard-reading the books, dressing up in costume to attend midnight book release parties,...
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  • Religious Politics and Secular States
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    Religious Politics and Secular States

    This comparative analysis probes why conservative renderings of religious tradition in the United States, India, and Egypt remain so influential in the politics of these three ostensibly secular societies. The United States, Egypt, and India were...
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  • Destructive Messages
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    Destructive Messages

    This volume agrues that hate speech is not dangerous only when it poses an immediate threat of harm. It is also dangerous when it is systematically developed over time, becoming part of a culturally acceptable dialogue which can foster the persecution of...
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  • Contextual Social Psychology
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    Contextual Social Psychology

    Using vivid examples of both historical and current events, acclaimed scholar Thomas Pettigrew's compelling book advocates for a robust contextual social psychology, maintaining that far more attention should be paid to the social context of various...
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  • American Hysteria
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    American Hysteria

    This debut book from Andrew Burt details the pivotal moments in American political history when outliers moved to the center, capturing the national spotlight and turning fringe politics mainstream. American Hysteria puts readers at the center of the...
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  • Transitions from Authoritarian Rule
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    Transitions from Authoritarian Rule

    Political science scholars consider the four-volume work Transitions from Authoritarian Rule to be a foundational text for studying the process of democratization, specifically in those cases where an authoritarian regime is giving way to some form of...
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  • Sustaining Human Rights in the Twenty-First Century
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    Sustaining Human Rights in the Twenty-First Century

    These essays take a much-needed look at the course of human rights strategies rooted in the last centurys struggles against brutally repressive dictators. Those struggles continue today across Latin America. Augmented by the pursuit of broader political,...
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  • New Security Challenges in Asia
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    New Security Challenges in Asia

    New security challenges are increasingly important in U.S. security planning. Transnational threats that do not arise from national rivalries or involve geopolitical competitionclimate change, food insecurity, pandemic disease, terrorism, and...
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  • Latin American Populism in the Twenty-First Century
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    Latin American Populism in the Twenty-First Century

    Venezuelas Hugo Chavez, Bolivias Evo Morales, and Ecuadors Rafael Correa have brought the subject of Latin American populism once again to the fore of scholarly and policy debate in the region. Latin American Populism in the Twenty-first Century explains...
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  • Democracy in East Asia
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    Democracy in East Asia

    In their introduction to the 1998 edition of Democracy in East Asia, Larry Diamond and Marc F. Plattner predicted that East Asia, with its remarkable diversity of political regimes, economies, and religions, would likely be the most critical arena in the...
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  • State and Local Government
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    State and Local Government

    "I think it does an excellent job writing about current events in a manner that is accessible to students. I also like that it covers a wide range of topics." -Christopher Clark, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Featuring a new collection of...
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