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  • Reason, Culture, Religion Reason, Culture, Religion
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    Reason, Culture, Religion

    Reason, Culture, Religion book provides a systematic overview of the study of world politics. The author then locates modernist world politics in its sacral context by discussing Taoist strategics, Buddhist economics, Islamic civics, Confucian Marxism,...
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  • The Road to the Dayton Accords The Road to the Dayton Accords
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    The Road to the Dayton Accords

    The intricate diplomacy that led to the peace agreement in Bosnia, known as the Dayton Accords, is here revealed in unprecedented detail. Based on thousands of still-classified government documents and dozens of interviews with key participants, this is...
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  • Carlo Tresca Carlo Tresca
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    Carlo Tresca

    In his heyday, Carlo Tresca ranked among the most important radicals and labour activists in the United States, often sharing the spotlight with Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, 'Big Bill' Haywood, and Emma Goldman. A charismatic Italian anarchist who became a...
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  • Inter-Korean Relations Inter-Korean Relations
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    Inter-Korean Relations

    In post-cold War thinking, North Korea was expected to collapse and be absorbed into a single Korean state by the democratic regime in South Korea. Fifteen years later, this has not happened, and June 2000 saw a summit making the warmest inter-Korean...
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  • Political Philosophy for the Global Age Political Philosophy for the Global Age
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    Political Philosophy for the Global Age

    In the spirit of communitarianism and dialogue between civilizations, this ambitious book seeks a political philosophy where a diversity of world-views can meet. The main objective of the book is to propose a theoretical basis for convergence and to...
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  • Conceiving Carolina Conceiving Carolina
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    Conceiving Carolina

    Written from a transatlantic perspective and based largely on primary sources, Conceiving Carolina provides the first systematic treatment of the colonization of South Carolina in over a century. It argues that the political culture that developed in the...
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  • The Information Revolution in Military Affairs in Asia The Information Revolution in Military Affairs in Asia
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    The Information Revolution in Military Affairs in Asia

    The contributors to this volume seek to explore the multi-dimensional (institutional, cultural, technological, and political) environments of several Asian states to determine the amenability of those host environments for the adoption/adaptation of the...
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  • The Personal and the Political The Personal and the Political
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    The Personal and the Political

    This study investigates the extent to which personal welfare state experiences affect general political orientations and attitudes. What are the political effects when a person is discontent with some aspect of, say, the particular health services or the...
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  • Creating Social Trust in Post-Socialist Transition Creating Social Trust in Post-Socialist Transition
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    Creating Social Trust in Post-Socialist Transition

    Beneficial social and economic exchange relies on a certain level of trust. But trust is a delicate matter, not least in the former socialist countries where illegitimate behaviour by governments made distrust a habit. The chapters in this volume analyze...
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  • Germany on the Road to Normalcy Germany on the Road to Normalcy
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    Germany on the Road to Normalcy

    Many thought that the 'German question', that had shaped European history so catastrophically in the last century, had been solved for good in 1990. And the last elections seemed to confirm that Germany was on the road to 'normalcy'. However, at the...
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  • Realigning Interests Realigning Interests
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    Realigning Interests

    Why do currency crises happen? What conditions set the stage for such a crisis? How severe will it be? When will it happen? This book answers these questions, illustrating the points by examining the exchange rate realignments of the European Monetary...
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  • The Middle East and Palestine The Middle East and Palestine
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    The Middle East and Palestine

    Taking issue with the convenient views that the Middle East is an irrational and exceptional region of world politics, and that the long and bloody history of the Palestine conflict is proof, the authors combine theoretical reflection and empirical...
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  • Identity Politics Reconsidered Identity Politics Reconsidered
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    Identity Politics Reconsidered

    Based on the ongoing work of the agenda-setting Future of Minority Studies national research project, Identity Politics Reconsidered reconceptualizes the scholarly and political significance of social identity. It focuses on the deployment of 'identity'...
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  • Sustainable Diplomacy Sustainable Diplomacy
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    Sustainable Diplomacy

    Drawing on a variety of disciplines, Sustainable Diplomacy is a highly constructive work. Set in the context of modern Moroccan-Spanish relations, this text is a direct critique of realism as it is practiced in modern diplomacy. Proposing a new...
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  • States-Within-States States-Within-States
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    States-Within-States

    Many of the existing juridical states in the Third World remain fragile and prone to collapse. Yet, these conditions have not always given way to anarchy. In some cases, the breakdown of weak and often arbitrary states has given way to more coherent and...
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  • Counter-Narratives Counter-Narratives
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    Counter-Narratives

    Saudi Arabia and Yemen are two countries of crucial importance in the Middle East and yet our knowledge about them is highly limited, while typical ways of looking at the histories of these countries have impeded understanding. Counter-Narratives brings...
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  • Equality and Transparency Equality and Transparency
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    Equality and Transparency

    Can affirmative action policies be convincingly justified? And how have they been legitimized over time? In a pluridisciplinary perspective at the intersection of political theory and the sociology of law, Daniel Sabbagh criticizes the two prevailing...
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  • Navigating Sovereignty Navigating Sovereignty
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    Navigating Sovereignty

    In this book, the author undertakes a postcolonial analysis of identities the Chinese state uses to confront world politics and globalization. Because these identities are created at the confluence of Western modernity and Confucian tradition, two...
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  • Woodrow Wilson and the Press Woodrow Wilson and the Press
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    Woodrow Wilson and the Press

    Esteemed journalism historian James Startt has crafted an intriguing case study of the relationship between political leadership and the mass media during its early days, using the political ascendancy of Woodrow Wilson as its focus. Wilson's emergence...
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  • Networks of Privilege in the Middle East Networks of Privilege in the Middle East
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    Networks of Privilege in the Middle East

    This volume explores the role of informal networks in the politics of Middle Eastern economic reform. The editor's introduction demonstrates how network-based models overcome limitations in existing approaches to the politics of economic reform. The...
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  • The Hatoyama Dynasty The Hatoyama Dynasty
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    The Hatoyama Dynasty

    This is a multi-generational political history of the Hatoyamas, a family that has participated at the highest levels of Japan's parliamentary government from its inception in the late 1800s. The Hatoyama family is one of the most prominent political...
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  • Participatory Democracy versus Elitist Democracy Participatory Democracy versus Elitist Democracy
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    Participatory Democracy versus Elitist Democracy

    William Nylen begins by discussing North Americans' love-hate relationship with politics and politicians, then shows how Brazilians feel the same way (as do many citizens of democracies throughout the world). He argues that this is so because...
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  • Reinventing the Alliance Reinventing the Alliance
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    Reinventing the Alliance

    This is an edited volume that examines the US-Japan security alliance, the key to US-Japanese relations since the end of US occupation in the 50s. The alliance has long been a source of both co-operation and stress between the two nations, but with rapid...
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  • The Strategic Use of Referendums The Strategic Use of Referendums
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    The Strategic Use of Referendums

    The strategic use of referendums by leaders often confers legitimacy but it may also reflect the power struggle between leaders, groups, and institutions and in doing so not provide a democratic result for the citizenry of a country.
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  • Building a Trustworthy State in Post-Socialist Transition Building a Trustworthy State in Post-Socialist Transition
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    Building a Trustworthy State in Post-Socialist Transition

    Building a Trustworthy State in Post-Socialist Transition considers the problems and prospects for creating trustworthy and reliable public institutions in the aftermath of the transition from socialism in Central and Eastern Europe. The volume draws on...
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  • Leadership in a Changing China Leadership in a Changing China
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    Leadership in a Changing China

    Scholars from China, Singapore and the U.S. use the opportunity of the 16th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party to explore the issue of leadership change in China, and its impact on institution building and foreign policy there.
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  • Fictive Theories Fictive Theories
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    Fictive Theories

    Fictive Theories is a significant and innovative intervention in key debates in political theory concerning the ways theory should be philosophically grounded, and the task that political theory should set itself. Susan McManus argues that political...
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  • Women, Partisanship, and the Congress
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    Women, Partisanship, and the Congress

    As women increasingly play a role and gain even greater prominence in congressional politics, they need to navigate the at times conflicting demands of loyalty to party culture, responsiveness to party leadership, political goals, and the need to get...
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  • Landing Votes Landing Votes
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    Landing Votes

    Landing Votes explores the conditions under which democratic Latin American governments address persistent political and economic inequities. The book points out a surprising 'coincidence': nearly every extension of suffrage to the rural poor occurred at...
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  • Why American Foreign Policy Fails Why American Foreign Policy Fails
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    Why American Foreign Policy Fails

    This book explores the recent changes in U.S. foreign policy, examines the roles that the six primary actors (the President, the Congress, the bureaucracy, non-governmental organizations, the media and the public) play in policy decisions, and assesses...
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  • Language, Nation and State Language, Nation and State
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    Language, Nation and State

    This edited collection examines the role that language has played in forming modern European nations. With language an omnipresent issue within the European Union, the importance languages have played within the histories and present situations of member...
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  • Identity and Global Politics Identity and Global Politics
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    Identity and Global Politics

    This collected volume draws together essays written by International Relations scholars from a variety of regional, methodological and theoretical perspectives to confront the challenges of identity-centered analysis. In particular, the contributors seek...
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  • Reflections on the Balkan Wars Reflections on the Balkan Wars
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    Reflections on the Balkan Wars

    In this collection scholars, policymakers and military officials explore the conditions that gave rise to the Balkan wars in the 1990s, the application of international law to the wars the conduct of the wars, and post-war issues. The essays are based on...
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  • Media, Bureaucracies, and Foreign Aid Media, Bureaucracies, and Foreign Aid
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    Media, Bureaucracies, and Foreign Aid

    This is the first sustained comparative examination of the importance of media attention on the provision of economic assistance, suggesting that the news media is an important medium for policy makers to gauge potential domestic political pressures and...
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  • Syria's Terrorist War on Lebanon and the Peace Process Syria's Terrorist War on Lebanon and the Peace Process
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    Syria's Terrorist War on Lebanon and the Peace Process

    This study demonstrates that Syria's role in the Middle East has been, since 1974, an unabated terrorist war against all attempts to resolve peacefully the Arab-Israeli conflict. Marius Deeb provides evidence that Syria's role in Lebanon, since 1975, has...
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  • Tocqueville, Lieber, and Bagehot Tocqueville, Lieber, and Bagehot
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    Tocqueville, Lieber, and Bagehot

    Current discussions of liberalism in world affairs tend to take a shortsighted view of the historical antecedents of the school of thought. Most jump directly from Kant to Wilson with little pause in between. In this book, Clinton has selected three...
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  • Constructing Ethnopolitics in the Soviet Union Constructing Ethnopolitics in the Soviet Union
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    Constructing Ethnopolitics in the Soviet Union

    The 'nationality question' was long central to Soviet thought and policy, and the failure to provide a convincing answer played a major role in the break-up of the Soviet Union into ethnically or nationally defined states. Zisserman-Brodsky explores...
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  • The Caribbean Postcolonial The Caribbean Postcolonial
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    The Caribbean Postcolonial

    Drawing on the long and varied history of discourses of cultural hybridity across the caribbean, this book explores the rich and fraught cultural crossings that are often theorized homogeneously in postcolonial studies as 'hybridity'. What is the...
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  • Taking on the World's Repressive Regimes Taking on the World's Repressive Regimes
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    Taking on the World's Repressive Regimes

    A study of the Ford Foundation's support and of funding of human rights projects and NGOs, illuminating its extraordinary role in helping undermine and destroy major world repressive authoritarian and totalitarian regimes during the latter part of the...
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  • Dealing With Conflict in Africa Dealing With Conflict in Africa
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    Dealing With Conflict in Africa

    Dealing with Conflict in Africa analyzes the role of the various organizations involved in conflict resolution in Africa. The bulk of the chapters examine case studies of the major conflicts in Africa, such as the Congo War. For each case study, the...
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  • The Fall of Milosevic The Fall of Milosevic
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    The Fall of Milosevic

    Told for the first time, the riveting story of how common people - miners, cooks, former soldiers - shook off the intimidation of Serbian strongman Slobadan Milosevic and overthrew, peacefully, his tyrannical regime. Based on numerous interviews with...
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  • The National Interest in International Relations Theory The National Interest in International Relations Theory
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    The National Interest in International Relations Theory

    This is the first systematic and critical analysis of the concept of national interest from the perspective of contemporary theories of International Relations, including realist, Marxist, anarchist, liberal, English School and constructivist...
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  • Humanitarian Intervention and Safety Zones Humanitarian Intervention and Safety Zones
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    Humanitarian Intervention and Safety Zones

    Neither willing to engage in a meaningful way to save targeted civilians in Iraq, Bosnia and Rwanda nor to stand entirely aside as massive violations of humanitarian law occurred, states embraced safety zones as a means to 'do something' whilst avoiding...
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