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  • The First Presidential Contest The First Presidential Contest
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    The First Presidential Contest

    This is the first study in half a century to focus on the election of 1796. At first glance, the first presidential contest looks unfamiliar—parties were frowned upon, there was no national vote, and the candidates did not even participate (the...
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    Beating Plowshares Into Swords

    Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say I am strong.-Joel 3:10 Beating Plowshares into Swords inaugurates an extraordinarily ambitious effort by Paul Koistinen to compose a comprehensive and wide-ranging...
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    Anthracite Reds

    Anthracite Reds is a documentary history of Communists in the Pennsylvania anthracite [hard coal area] during the 1920s, the decade when these radicals were most involved in the work life of the hard coal miners. During the 20th century about one million...
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  • Bringing Solvency To Social Security Bringing Solvency To Social Security
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    Bringing Solvency To Social Security

    The picture on the front cover is a portrait of myself when I was seven or eight years old. It was drawn in charcoal, by my father. I am using this picture for a couple of reasons. The first, is that I wanted to showcase and honor my father's artistic...
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  • Toward a Bioregional State Toward a Bioregional State
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    Toward a Bioregional State

    Environmental sociologist Mark D. Whitaker is a comparative historical researcher on the politics of environmental degradation and sustainability. Toward A Bioregional State is his novel approach to development and to sustainability. He proposes that...
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  • A Theory of Power A Theory of Power
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    A Theory of Power

    A THEORY OF POWERIn his penetrating analysis of the structure of power and the human condition, Jeff Vail unravels the functioning of our world and proposes a core concept of patterns of power-relationships. This historical critique of hierarchy sweeps...
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  • Global Solutions Global Solutions
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    Global Solutions

    This new book, after two years’ discussion among 70 members in many countries, including the United States, Canada, Mexico, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Mali, Australia, and New Zealand, looks at the...
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  • Consociational Theory Consociational Theory
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    Consociational Theory

    Consociational power sharing is increasingly gaining ground, right around the world, as a means for resolving political conflict in divided societies. In this volume, edited by Rupert Taylor, nineteen internationally-respected scholars engage in a lively...
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  • The Political Theory of John Gray The Political Theory of John Gray
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    The Political Theory of John Gray

    John Gray is one of today's most brilliant, bestselling and controversial political thinkers. This new collection examines him from a variety of stimulating angles. This new volume, comprising original contributions from a number of distinguished...
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  • Witnessing Partition Witnessing Partition
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    Witnessing Partition

    This book interrogates representations - fiction, literary motifs and narratives - of the Partition of India. Delving into the writings of Khushwant Singh, Balachandra Rajan, Attia Hosain, Abdullah Hussein, Rahi Masoom Raza and Anita Desai,...
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  • The Mind of the Terrorist The Mind of the Terrorist
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    The Mind of the Terrorist

    In contrast to the widely held assumption that terrorists as crazed fanatics, Jerrold Post demonstrates they are psychologically "normal" and that "hatred has been bred in the bone". He reveals the powerful motivations that drive these ordinary people...
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  • The 'Postmodern Turn' in the Social Sciences The 'Postmodern Turn' in the Social Sciences
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    The 'Postmodern Turn' in the Social Sciences

    Simon Susen examines the impact of the 'postmodern turn' on the contemporary social sciences. On the basis of an innovative five-dimensional approach, this study provides a systematic, comprehensive, and critical account of the legacy of the 'postmodern...
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  • A History of International Political Theory A History of International Political Theory
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    A History of International Political Theory

    Preface Introduction PART I: UNIVERSALISM IN GREEK AND ROMAN ANTIQUITY AND CHRISTIAN POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY Greek and Roman Antiquity Christian Political Pragmatism and Ethical Universalism - Aurelius Augustine and Thomas Aquinas PART II: UNIVERSALISTIC...
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  • Medicine At The Border Medicine At The Border
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    Medicine At The Border

    Introduction: 'The Age of Universal Contagion': Disease, History and Globalization; A.Bashford PART I: WORLD HEALTH: COLONIAL AND NATIONAL HISTORIES Civilizing the State: Borders, Weak States and International Health in Modern Europe; P.Zylberman Yellow...
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  • Aesthetics and World Politics Aesthetics and World Politics
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    Aesthetics and World Politics

    Is it trivial, or perhaps even irresponsible, to explore aesthetic themes at a time when the world is engulfed by war, genocide, terrorism, poverty, climate change and financial turmoil? Why indulge in painting, poetry or music when lives and livelihoods...
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  • North American Critical Theory After Postmodernism North American Critical Theory After Postmodernism
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    North American Critical Theory After Postmodernism

    In a series of interviews this book explores the formative experiences of a generation of critical theorists whose work originated in the midst of what has been called 'the postmodern turn,' including discussions of their views on the evolution of...
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  • Fringe Players and the Diplomatic Order Fringe Players and the Diplomatic Order
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    Fringe Players and the Diplomatic Order

    This book combines organization theory oriented institutionalism with Eisenstadt's work on comparative liminality, to develop a unique analytical framework and explore the dynamic of stability and change in institutionalized orders. It then applies this...
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  • Hedley Bull and the Accommodation of Power Hedley Bull and the Accommodation of Power
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    Hedley Bull and the Accommodation of Power

    Focuses on the endangering effects of languageideological processes. This book looks at the challenges imposed by globalization and superdiversity on the nation state and its language situations and ideologies, and demonstrates how many of its problems...
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  • Creative Rebellion for the Twenty-First Century Creative Rebellion for the Twenty-First Century
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    Creative Rebellion for the Twenty-First Century

    Employing political philosophy to argue the need for social and public art projects to be a part of the everyday lives of Americans, Boros creates a new synthesis of philosophical ideas to support the political value of public art. The author endeavors...
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  • ASEAN, Sovereignty and Intervention in Southeast Asia ASEAN, Sovereignty and Intervention in Southeast Asia
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    ASEAN, Sovereignty and Intervention in Southeast Asia

    Drawing on the fields of political economy and historical sociology, Lee dispels the overwhelming consensus among scholars that members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) never interfere in the internal affairs of other states, and...
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  • Losing an Empire and Finding a Role Losing an Empire and Finding a Role
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    Losing an Empire and Finding a Role

    This interdisciplinary book indicates the need to address wellbeing from individual, community, and social perspectives in an integrated manner. The book complements the harmbased focus of much social scientific research into health. Chapters by a wide...
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  • Comparative Policy Studies Comparative Policy Studies
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    Comparative Policy Studies

    The role of comparative analysis in policy studies has gained increasing importance in recent years. Comparative policy studies aims at comparing and contrasting public policy making across sectoral, regional and national boundaries in order to overcome...
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  • England after the Great Recession England after the Great Recession
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    England after the Great Recession

    An exploration of the recent financial crisis which argues that the hitherto dominant intellectual and policy paradigm of neo-liberalism has been fatally weakened and will in due course be replaced. The implications of the crisis for politico-cultural...
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  • Max Stirner Max Stirner
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    Max Stirner

    Max Stirner was one of the most important and seminal thinkers of the mid-nineteenth century. He exposed the religiosity behind secular humanism and rationalism, and the domination of the individual behind liberal modes of politics. This edited...
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  • Neoliberalism and Global Theatres Neoliberalism and Global Theatres
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    Neoliberalism and Global Theatres

    How do theatre and performance transmit and dispute ideologies of neoliberalism? The essays in this anthology examine the mechanisms and rhetorics of contemporary multinational and transnational organizations, artists, and communities that produce...
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  • On Rawls, Development and Global Justice On Rawls, Development and Global Justice
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    On Rawls, Development and Global Justice

    Huw Lloyd Williams looks at the critical debate surrounding John Rawls' The Law of Peoples. He responds to the work of cosmopolitan theorists and Amartya Sen, arguing that Rawls offers a persuasive and prescient moral approach to issues of global poverty...
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  • Critical International Political Economy Critical International Political Economy
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    Critical International Political Economy

    This book gives provocative responses to recent debates in International Political Economy. It provides a much needed and timely intervention to the current anodyne discussions about the evolution of the discipline and prompts wider reflection on the...
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  • International Intervention in Ethnic Conflict International Intervention in Ethnic Conflict
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    International Intervention in Ethnic Conflict

    The EU and the UN have become increasingly involved in conflict resolution, yet they are rarely compared systematically. This book focuses on the role of bureaucracies in the European Union (EU) and the United Nations (UN) when dealing with conflict...
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  • State Failure State Failure
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    State Failure

    During the 1990s the concept of state failure emerged as part of an attempt to explain and understand the complex, post-Cold War, new world dis-order. State failure achieved prominence, being applied to situations of institutional collapse and mass...
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  • Justifying War Justifying War
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    Justifying War

    A new assessment of the debates about Just War in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, from the imperial wars of the nineteenth century through the age of total war, the evolution of human rights discourse and international law, to proportionality...
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  • The Coordination of Public Sector Organizations The Coordination of Public Sector Organizations
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    The Coordination of Public Sector Organizations

    PART I: CONCEPTS, THEORIES AND METHODOLOGY The Main Argument: Specialization without Coordination is Centrifugal Coordination: What is it and Why Should we have it? Resources, Mechanisms and Instruments for Coordination How to Map Coordination: Issues of...
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  • The Politics of Wine in Britain The Politics of Wine in Britain
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    The Politics of Wine in Britain

    A unique look at the meaning of the taste for wine in Britain, from the establishment of a Commonwealth in 1649 to the Commercial Treaty between Britain and France in 1860 - this book provides an extraordinary window into the politics and culture of...
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  • Nationalizing the Past Nationalizing the Past
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    Nationalizing the Past

    Historians traditionally claim to be myth-breakers, but national history since the nineteenth century shows quite a record in myth-making. This exciting new volume compares how national historians in Europe have handled the opposing pulls of fact and...
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  • Celtic Tiger in Collapse Celtic Tiger in Collapse
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    Celtic Tiger in Collapse

    List of Tables Preface Acronyms and Abbreviations Introduction: The Collapse of the Irish Model PART I: THE CELTIC TIGER AND ITS AFTERMATH Before the Tiger Assessing the Boom Best of Times? PART II: DIFFERENT READING OF THE CELTIC TIGER Dominant Reading...
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  • European Union History European Union History
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    European Union History

    Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Abbreviations Introduction; W.Kaiser & A.Varsori From Normative Impetus to Professionalization: Origins and Operation of Research Networks; A.Varsori From Pioneer Work to Refinement: Publication Trends; K.Seidel...
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  • Utopia as Method Utopia as Method
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    Utopia as Method

    In this major new work by one of the leading writers on Utopian Studies, Ruth Levitas argues that a prospective future of ecological and economic crises poses a challenge to the utopian imaginary, to conceive a better world and alternative future. Utopia...
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  • Governing Post-War Britain Governing Post-War Britain
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    Governing Post-War Britain

    Glen O'Hara draws a compelling picture of Second World War Britain by investigating relations between people and government: the electorate's rising expectations and demands for universally-available social services, the increasing complexity of the new...
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