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by Denis Brian
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
The Elected and the Chosen: Why American Presidents Have Supported Jews and Israel This book reveals how and why, almost without exception, American presidents sought to protect Jews at home and abroad from their often deadly enemies. It explains why American presidents have admired and befriended...
The Common Cause
Postcolonial Ethics and the Practice of Democracy, 1900-1955
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
Europeans and Americans tend to hold the opinion that democracy is a uniquely Western inheritance, but in The Common Cause, Leela Gandhi recovers stories of an alternate version, describing a transnational history of democracy in the first half of the twentieth century through the lens of ethics...
Statesmanship and Party Government
A Study of Burke and Bolingbroke
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
In this incisive look at early modern views of party politics, Harvey C. Mansfield examines the pamphlet war between Edmund Burke and the followers of Henry St. John, First Viscount Bolingbroke during the mid-eighteenth century. In response to works by Bolingbroke published posthumously, Burke created...
Two Nations Indivisible
Mexico, the United States, and the Road Ahead
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Five freshly decapitated human heads are thrown onto a crowded dance floor in western Mexico. A Mexican drug cartel dismembers the body of a rival and then stitches his face onto a soccer ball. These are the sorts of grisly tales that dominate the media, infiltrate movies and TV shows, and ultimately...
The Struggle for Europe
The Turbulent History of a Divided Continent 1945 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2008
From the ashes of World War II to the conflict over Iraq, William Hitchcock examines the miraculous transformation of Europe from a deeply fractured land to a continent striving for stability, tolerance, democracy, and prosperity. Exploring the role of Cold War politics in Europe’s peace settlement...
The Real North Korea: Life and Politics in the Failed Stalinist Utopia
Life and Politics in the Failed Stalinist Utopia
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
Andrei Lankov has gone where few outsiders have ever been. A native of the former Soviet Union, he lived as an exchange student in North Korea in the 1980s. He has studied it for his entire career, using his fluency in Korean and personal contacts to build a rich, nuanced understanding. In The Real...
by David Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 1999
Sources of the African Past combines a case-study approach with an emphasis on primary and orally transmitted sources to accomplish three objectives; to tell a story in some depth, to portray major themes and to raise basic questions of analysis and interpretation. The case studies are set in the...
THE FUTURE OF DEMOCRACY
Lessons From the Past and Present To Guide us on our Path Forward
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
What is democracy and where did it come from? Is it a new development or was it always present in human society? And perhaps the most important question: what can we do to preserve and strengthen democracy among the forces that oppose it? In this book we explore trends throughout history that have...
by Barnett R. Rubin
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
One of our foremost authorities on modern Afghanistan, Barnett R. Rubin has dedicated much of his career to the study of this remote mountain country. He served as a special advisor to the late Ambassador Richard Holbrooke during his final mission to the region and still serves the Obama administration...
by Neil McNaughton
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
Exam Board: Edexcel
Level: AS/A-level
Subject: Politics
First Teaching: September 2017
First Exam: June 2018
Trusted author Neil McNaughton brings you his bestselling politics textbook, fully updated and endorsed for the 2017 Edexcel specification. Topical coverage includes the June 2017 election...
Modern Greece
What Everyone Needs to Know®
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2015
When Greece's economic troubles began to threaten the stability of the European Union in 2010, the nation found itself in the center of a whirlwind of international finger-pointing. In the years prior, Greece appeared to be politically secure and economically healthy. Upon its emergence in the center...
Totalitarianism and Political Religions, Volume 1
Concepts for the Comparison of Dictatorships
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2004
We are used to distinguishing the despotic regimes of the 20th century - communism, fascism, National Socialism, Maoism - very precisely according to place and time, origins and influences. But what should we call that which they have in common? On this question, there has been and is still a passionate...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
Populist forces are becoming increasingly relevant across the world, and studies on populism have entered the mainstream of the political science discipline. However, so far no book has synthesized the ongoing debate on how to study the populist phenomenon. This handbook provides state of the art...
Achieving Democracy
Democratization in Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
Democracy is the ability to participate freely and equally in the political and economic affairs of the country. Americans have relied on philosophical pragmatism and on the impulse of political progressivism to express those creedal democratic values. Achieving Democracy argues that, in the last...