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Dragonomics How Latin America Is Maximizing (or Missing Out on) China's International Development Strategy

Wise Carol

ISBN: HB: 9780300224092, Yale University Press, May 2020
328 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 3 black&white illus.

This book explores the impact of Chinese growth on Latin America since the early 2000s. Roughly twenty years ago, Chinese entrepreneurs headed to the Western Hemisphere in search of profits and commodities, specifically those that China lacked and th...

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Political Science

Learning on the Left Political Profiles of Brandeis University

Whitfield Stephen

ISBN: HB: 9781684580118, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, May 2020
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Brandeis University is the United States' only Jewish-sponsored nonsectarian university, and while only being established after World War II, it has risen to become one of the most respected universities in the nation. The faculty and alumni of the u...

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Political Science

Boxing Pandora Rethinking Borders, States, and Secession in a Democratic World

Waters Timothy William

ISBN: HB: 9780300235890, Yale University Press, February 2020
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 9 black&white illus.

The inviolability of national borders is an unquestioned pillar of the post-World War II international order. Fixed borders are believed to encourage stability, promote pluralism, and discourage nationalism and intolerance. But do they? What if fixed...

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Business & Economics

Asia

Geocultural Power China's Quest to Revive the Silk Roads for the Twenty-First Century

Winter Tim

ISBN: PB: 9780226658353, ISBN: HB: 9780226658216, University of Chicago Press, October 2019
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 maps, 11 line drawings

Launched in 2013, China's Belt and Road Initiative is forging connections in infrastructure, trade, energy, finance, tourism, and culture across Eurasia and Africa. This extraordinarily ambitious strategy places China at the center of a geography of...

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Political Science

Authoritarian Apprehensions Ideology, Judgment, and Mourning in Syria

Wedeen Lisa

ISBN: PB: 9780226650609, ISBN: HB: 9780226650579, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones, 6 line drawings

If the Arab uprisings initially heralded the end of tyrannies and a move toward liberal democratic governments, their defeat not only marked a reversal but was of a piece with emerging forms of authoritarianism worldwide. In "Authoritarian Apprehensi...

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Political Science

Politics of Petulance America in an Age of Immaturity

Wolfe Alan

ISBN: PB: 9780226679112, ISBN: HB: 9780226555164, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 1 table

"How did we get into this mess?" Every morning, many Americans ask this as, with a cringe, they pick up their phones and look to see what terrible thing President Trump has just said or done. Regardless of what he's complaining about or who he's atta...

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Buddhism

Political Science

Buddhism and the Political Organisation and Participation in the Theravada Moral Universe

Walton Matthew J.

ISBN: HB: 9781849048385, Hurst Publishers, June 2019
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Popular participation is one of the hallmarks of modern politics. So why have democracy and democratic norms generally failed to take root in the Theravada Buddhist countries of South and Southeast Asia? This book explores trad...

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Political Science

Quest for Status Chinese and Russian Foreign Policy

Welch Larson Deborah, Shevchenko Alexei

ISBN: HB: 9780300236040, Yale University Press, April 2019
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

Deborah Welch Larson and Alexei Shevchenko argue that the desire for world status plays a key role in shaping the foreign policies of China and Russia. Applying social identity theory – the idea that individuals derive part of their identity from lar...

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Political Science

Europe

Postwar Moment Progressive Forces in Britain, France, and the United States after World War II

Woloch Isser

ISBN: HB: 9780300124354, Yale University Press, March 2019
560 pp., 23.5x16.5 cm, 29 black&white illus.

After the end of World War II, Britain, France, and the United States were faced with two very different choices: return to the civic order of pre-war normalcy or embark instead on a path of progressive transformation. In this ambitious and original...

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Political Science

Philosophy

Aristotle Democracy and Political Science

Winthrop Delba

ISBN: HB: 9780226553542, University of Chicago Press, December 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Today, democracy is seen as the best or even the only legitimate form of government – hardly in need of defense. Delba Winthrop punctures this complacency and takes up the challenge of justifying democracy through Aristotle's political science. In Ar...

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