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    Leo Strauss in Northeast Asia

    This book analyzes the reception of Leo Strauss and his political philosophy in Northeast Asia. By juxtaposing the central idea of Strauss's political philosophy with the question of modernity, the contributors explore the eclectic adaptations of Strauss...
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  • Conspiracy Theories in Eastern Europe Conspiracy Theories in Eastern Europe
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    Conspiracy Theories in Eastern Europe

    This collection of state-of-the-art essays explores conspiracy cultures in post-socialist Eastern Europe, ranging from the nineteenth century to contemporary manifestations.Conspiracy theories about Freemasons, Communists and Jews, about the Chernobyl...
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  • Between Class and Discourse Between Class and Discourse
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    Between Class and Discourse

    This provocative book addresses the ideological and political crisis of the Western left, comparing it with the problems facing leftist politics in Russia and other countries.The author presents a radical critique of the current state of the Western left...
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  • Hannah Arendt and International Relations Hannah Arendt and International Relations
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    Hannah Arendt and International Relations

    The essays in Hannah Arendt and International Relations employ the work of this versatile theorist to examine various facets of international affairs. With contributions written by international political theorists from around the world, the volume...
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  • Politics Without Reason Politics Without Reason
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    Politics Without Reason

    This book explores the common thread holding together seemingly diverse tendencies in attacks on liberalism. The author argues that ambivalence about the self and about desire as an expression of the self fosters the intense animosity we observe directed
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  • Reclaiming the American Revolution Reclaiming the American Revolution
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    Reclaiming the American Revolution

    This book examines the struggles for political ascendancy between Federalists and the Republicans in the early days of the American republic viewed through the lens of the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions authored by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison...
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  • The Problem of Forming Social Capital The Problem of Forming Social Capital
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    The Problem of Forming Social Capital

    Herreros examines from the ground up, and from first principles, how social capital is formed. He gives special attention to "particularized trust," the byproduct of associational participation, and its relationship to generalized social trust. He argues...
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  • Realist Strategies of Republican Peace Realist Strategies of Republican Peace
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    Realist Strategies of Republican Peace

    This book's central claim is that although Niebuhr and Morgenthau were critics of what they referred to as utopian thought, the core of their criticism constituted an attack on the inability of utopianism to produce politically stimulating and...
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  • Political Culture Under Institutional Pressure Political Culture Under Institutional Pressure
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    Political Culture Under Institutional Pressure

    Are world views once formed during childhood and adolescence stable over life or do they change when they come under pressure from new institutional contexts? This book seeks the answer by re-visiting an aged political generation growing up in...
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  • Elections and Democracy after Communism? Elections and Democracy after Communism?
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    Elections and Democracy after Communism?

    After the collapse of communism in the Soviet Union, hope was high for democracy's introduction to Eastern Europe and Eurasia. By the end of the twentieth century, a handful of the fifteen successor states had become democratic, but most were...
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  • Dramatizing the Political Dramatizing the Political
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    Dramatizing the Political

    This is an in-depth analysis of dramatization as method in the work of Deleuze and Guattari. It provides an account of the value of this method for the study of the political with particular emphasis on the relationship between politics and art.
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  • The French Revolution and the Creation of Benthamism The French Revolution and the Creation of Benthamism
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    The French Revolution and the Creation of Benthamism

    This is the first study of how Genevan Etienne Dumont, and his traumatic experience of the French Revolution, shaped the reception and presentation of "Benthamism" and masked the true face of Jeremy Bentham, one of the architects of modern society who...
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  • Humanitarian Intervention After Kosovo Humanitarian Intervention After Kosovo
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    Humanitarian Intervention After Kosovo

    When should the international community intervene to prevent suffering within sovereign states? This book argues that since Kosovo, the normative thesis has failed to influence international politics, as evidenced by events in Iraq and Darfur. This...
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  • Just Peace Just Peace
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    Just Peace

    How should wars end? What outcomes are morally acceptable, and what ways of making peace should participants and observers find distasteful? Drawing on many of the wars and peaces of recent decades-wars whose muddled conduct and courses have already...
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  • Mapping Extreme Right Ideology Mapping Extreme Right Ideology
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    Mapping Extreme Right Ideology

    This book sheds light on new research related to welfare state, child care policies, and small children's everyday lives ininstitutions in a variety of countries. In uniting recent social childhood research, welfare perspectives and historical and...
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  • Warlands Warlands
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    Warlands

    Preface& Acknowledgements List of Maps and Photos Abbreviations From 'Homelands' to 'Warlands': Themes, Approaches, Voices; P.Gatrell PART I: TRANSIT: NATIONAL EXPERIENCES AND INTERNATIONAL INTERVENTIONS IN POST-WAR DP CAMPS Living in the DP Camp:...
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  • Arguments and Actions in Social Theory Arguments and Actions in Social Theory
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    Arguments and Actions in Social Theory

    The Practical Nature of Social Theorizing Arguments from Natural Science Arguments from Language/Understanding Arguments from Political Community Language, Tradition and Practice Bibliography
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  • Italy and 1968 Italy and 1968
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    Italy and 1968

    Preface List of Figures Introduction The Italian Student Revolts, 1967-68 The Case of Turin I: Defending the Ivory Tower The Case of Turin II: A City Reacts from Precinct to Parish The National Dimension I: Constructing an Image of Protest The National...
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  • Science and Whig Manners Science and Whig Manners
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    Science and Whig Manners

    Approaching the intersection of politics and science from the perspective of political history, this book looks at how nineteenth-century British Whigs used the themes of natural science to signal their identities, and how their devotion to a culture of...
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  • Foucault in an Age of Terror Foucault in an Age of Terror
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    Foucault in an Age of Terror

    Notes on ContributorsIntroductionLife Struggles: War, Disciplinary Power and Biopolitics--J.Reid'Power's ode to itself': History, Power and Poetry in the Post-Waterloo Writing of Hazlitt, Byron and Shelley: S.BainbridgeSovereignty, Biopolitics, and the...
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  • The Agony of Spanish Liberalism The Agony of Spanish Liberalism
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    The Agony of Spanish Liberalism

    An exploration of the causes of the growing schism within Spanish society between 1914-1923, and the political polarisation and social violence that culminated in the Spanish Civil War. Essays analyse the crisis and eventual downfall of Spain's elitist...
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  • Redefining British Politics Redefining British Politics
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    Redefining British Politics

    Introduction: Political Cultures 'Consumers of the World Unite, You Have Nothing to Lose but Your Illusions': The Politics of the Consumers' Association Shopfloor Politics: Co-Operative Culture and Affluence 'The Largest Voluntary Political Youth...
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  • From Crisis to Coalition From Crisis to Coalition
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    From Crisis to Coalition

    In 2010, the Conservative Party returned to office after over a decade of largely ineffective opposition to New Labour. This book explains why it took so long to recover, and why the party was unable to win an overall majority despite the charismatic...
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  • Transparency and Accountability in Science and Politics Transparency and Accountability in Science and Politics
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    Transparency and Accountability in Science and Politics

    This book challenges the role of scientists in policy making and the idea of deliberative democracy. The author argues that awareness must increase among both politicians and the citizens who elect them. We must revitalise the decision-making processes...
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  • Letters from Barcelona Letters from Barcelona
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    Letters from Barcelona

    List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction The Catalan Revolution Women's Autobiographies: History and Meaning The Language of Symbols and the Barriers of Language: Foreigners' Perceptions of Social Revolution (Barcelona 1936-1937) Letters From...
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  • Equality in International Society Equality in International Society
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    Equality in International Society

    The author re-examines the concept of equality in international society, past and present. The conventional view that equality of states necessarily flows from sovereignty, that it is a corollary to sovereignty or simply a synonym, is considered a...
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  • Milestones and Turning Points in Development Thinking Milestones and Turning Points in Development Thinking
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    Milestones and Turning Points in Development Thinking

    The first volume of IDS Companions to Development Studies focuses on pivotal writing emerging from the IDS fellowship during the last 50 years. It includes five topics: perspectives and paradigms, debunking myths, development policy, gender and...
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  • Referendums Around the World Referendums Around the World
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    Referendums Around the World

    Referendums Around the World is a ground breaking empirical study. A successor to David Butler and Austin Ranney's classic, the present volume surveys all referendums held worldwide since since 1793. Unlike its predecessor, in this edition, Dr Qvortrup...
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  • Adaptation, Poverty and Development Adaptation, Poverty and Development
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    Adaptation, Poverty and Development

    The first book to examine in detail the ways in which people adapt their understanding and behaviors towards poverty as a direct result to their experiences of poverty in developing countries, including world-leading academics and case studies from...
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  • Law, Disorder and the Colonial State Law, Disorder and the Colonial State
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    Law, Disorder and the Colonial State

    The state in colonial Burma was not an easy entity to negotiate at the turn of the twentieth century. Policemen framed innocents for crimes they themselves had committed. Magistrates solicited bribes in exchange for acquittals in court. Forestry...
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  • The Politics of Samuel Johnson The Politics of Samuel Johnson
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    The Politics of Samuel Johnson

    A major academic controversy has raged in recent years over the analysis of the political and religious commitments of Samuel Johnson, the most commanding of the 'commanding heights' of eighteenth-century English letters. This book, one of a trilogy from...
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  • Foucault's Political Challenge Foucault's Political Challenge
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    Foucault's Political Challenge

    This book examines Foucault's political framework for connecting political authority with practices of freedom. It starts from the older Foucault's claim that where there is obedience there cannot be government by truth. Then it shows how this claim runs...
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  • Democracy, Identity and Foreign Policy in Turkey Democracy, Identity and Foreign Policy in Turkey
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    Democracy, Identity and Foreign Policy in Turkey

    The recent history of Turkey is dominated by the country's transformation into a modern democracy. Over the past few years Turkey has been increasingly recognised as a nation of economic, political and cultural significance as well as being a vital...
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  • Germany's Gathering Crisis Germany's Gathering Crisis
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    Germany's Gathering Crisis

    The German Elections of September 2005 marked a defining moment in post-unification German politics. It signalled the end of Chancellor Schröder's Social Democrat (SPD)-led government (a year before the end of its term) and a narrow election victory of...
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  • NATO Beyond 9/11 NATO Beyond 9/11
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    NATO Beyond 9/11

    This volume brings together leading scholars from both sides of the Atlantic to examine the significance of 9/11 for the transformation of the Atlantic Alliance over the last decade. Blending international relations, political science, IR theory and...
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  • Claude Lefort Claude Lefort
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    Claude Lefort

    It is impossible to overstate the ways in which Claude Lefort has influenced democratic theorizing over the past three decades. With the impact he has had on some of the 20th and 21st Centuries most notable and important Political Theorists from Ernesto...
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  • Secrets and Democracy Secrets and Democracy
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    Secrets and Democracy

    As governments actively collect and analyse more information about their populations than ever before, citizens struggle to defend their privacy and determine which state secrets are legitimate and which are not. Jurisdictional complexity, the inability...
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