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Chessboard and the Web Strategies of Connection in a Networked World
ISBN: PB: 9780300234664, Yale University Press, April 2018
304 pp., 21x14 cm, 14 black&white illus.
From a renowned foreign-policy expert, a new paradigm for strategy in the twenty-first century. In 1961, Thomas Schelling's "The Strategy of Conflict" used game theory to radically reenvision the U.S.-Soviet relationship and establish the basis of i...
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£12,99
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Yitzhak Rabin Soldier, Leader, Statesman
ISBN: PB: 9780300234633, ISBN: HB: 9780300212297, Yale University Press, April 2018
304 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 27 black&white illus.
An insider's perspective on the life and influence of Israel's first native-born prime minister, his bold peace initiatives, and his tragic assassination. More than two decades have passed since prime minister Yitzhak Rabin's assassination in 1995,...
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£9,99
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Demos Assembled Democracy and the International Origins of the Modern State, 1840-1880
ISBN: HB: 9780226544465, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Previous studies have covered in great detail how the modern state slowly emerged from the early Renaissance through the seventeenth century, but we know relatively little about the next great act: the birth and transformation of the modern democrati...
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£34,00
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State Constitutional Politics Governing by Amendment in the American States
ISBN: PB: 9780226532813, ISBN: HB: 9780226532783, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 tables
Since the US Constitution came into force in 1789, it has been amended just twenty-seven times, with ten of those amendments coming in the first two years following ratification. By contrast, state constitutions have been completely rewritten on a re...
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£26,00
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£79,00
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Structure of Policy Change
ISBN: PB: 9780226529721, ISBN: HB: 9780226529691, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 36 line drawings, 10 tables
When the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the Red Scare seized the American public. While President Eisenhower cautioned restraint, his hand was forced, and NASA's budget had increased five thousand percent over its pre-Sputnik levels by the time Presi...
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Uncivil Agreement How Politics Became Our Identity
ISBN: PB: 9780226524542, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 43 line drawings, 15 tables
Political polarization in America is at an all-time high, and the conflict has moved beyond disagreements about matters of policy. For the first time in more than twenty years, research has shown that members of both parties hold strongly unfavorable...
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£16,00
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Organizing Democracy How International Organizations Assist New Democracies
ISBN: PB: 9780226543482, ISBN: HB: 9780226543345, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 line drawings, 21 tables
In the past twenty-five years, a number of countries have made the transition to democracy. The support of international organizations is essential to success on this difficult path. Yet, despite extensive research into the relationship between democ...
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£22,50
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Once and Future Liberal After Identity Politics
ISBN: PB: 9781849049955, Hurst Publishers, April 2018
160 pp., 19.8x13 cm
For sale in CIS only! For nearly forty years, Ronald Reagan's vision – small government, lower taxes, and self-reliant individualism – has remained America's dominant political ideology. The Democratic Party has offered no truly convincing competing...
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End of Europe Dictators, Demagogues, and the Coming Dark Age
ISBN: PB: 9780300234510, ISBN: HB: 9780300218312, Yale University Press, March 2018
288 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 2 black&white illus.
Once the world's bastion of liberal, democratic values, Europe is now having to confront demons it thought it had laid to rest. The old pathologies of anti-Semitism, populist nationalism, and territorial aggression are threatening to tear the Europea...
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£18,99
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Ekklesia Three Inquiries in Church and State
ISBN: PB: 9780226545585, ISBN: HB: 9780226545448, University of Chicago Press, March 2018
224 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 9 halftones
"Ekklesia: Three Inquiries in Church and State" offers a New World rejoinder to the largely Europe-centered academic discourse on church and state. In contrast to what is often assumed, in the Americas the relationship between church and state has no...
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