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Political Science
The French List
Totalitarian Experience
Todorov Tzvetan
ISBN: HB: 9780857420138, Seagull Books, November 2011
64 pp., 14x21 cm
The fall of the Berlin Wall marked the beginning of the collapse of the Soviet Union, as well as many other communist totalitarian regimes around the world. But it would be naive to assume that this historic, symbolic event and its aftermath have com...
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Political Science
The German List
Gentle Monster Brussels or the Disenfranchisement of Europe
Enzensberger Hans Magnus
ISBN: HB: 9780857420237, Seagull Books, November 2011
64 pp., 10.4x17.7 cm
The inner workings of the European Union are as much a mystery to those living within its confines as they are to those of us who reside elsewhere. The Brussels bureaucracy that sets many of the EU's policies feels remote to its citizens, yet the inf...
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Political Science
Humanitarian Negotiations Revealed The MSF Experience
Magone Claire, Neuman Michael, Weissman Fabrice
ISBN: PB: 9781849041638, ISBN: HB: 9781849041621, Hurst Publishers, November 2011
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! From international NGOs to UN agencies, from donors to observers of humanitarianism, opinion is unanimous: in a context of the alleged 'clash of civilizations', our 'humanitarian space' is shrinking. Put another way, the freedo...
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Europe
Political Science
Hour of Europe Western Powers and the Breakup of Yugoslavia
Glaurdic Josip
ISBN: HB: 9780300166293, Yale University Press, October 2011
432 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 4 black&white illus.
By looking through the prism of the West's involvement in the breakup of Yugoslavia, this book presents a new examination of the end of the Cold War in Europe. Incorporating declassified documents from the CIA, the administration of George H. W. Bush...
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Political Science
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Doctors and Demonstrators How Political Institutions Shape Abortion Law in the United States, Britain, and Canada
Halfmann Drew
ISBN: PB: 9780226313436, ISBN: HB: 9780226313429, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
336 pp., 23x15 cm, 27 halftones
Since "Roe v. Wade", abortion has continued to be a divisive political issue in the United States. In contrast, it has remained primarily a medical issue in Britain and Canada despite the countries' shared heritage".Doctors and Demonstrators" looks b...
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Evolution
Political Science
Man Is by Nature a Political Animal Evolution, Biology, and Politics
Hatemi Peter K., McDermott Rose
ISBN: PB: 9780226319100, ISBN: HB: 9780226319094, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
352 pp., 23x15 cm, 27 tables, 20 line illus.
In "Man Is by Nature a Political Animal", Peter K. Hatemi and Rose McDermott bring together a diverse group of contributors to examine the ways in which evolutionary theory and biological research are increasingly informing analyses of political beha...
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Political Science
Nixon's Court His Challenge to Judicial Liberalism and Its Political Consequences
ISBN: HB: 9780226561196, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
360 pp., 23x15 cm, 18 tables, 9 line illus.
Most analysts have deemed Richard Nixon's challenge to the judicial liberalism of the Warren Supreme Court a failure – "a counterrevolution that wasn't".Nixon's Court" offers an alternative assessment. Kevin J. McMahon reveals a Nixon whose public rh...
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Political Science
Lesson of Carl Schmitt Four Chapters on the Distinction between Political Theology and Political Philosophy, Expanded Edition
Meier Heinrich
ISBN: PB: 9780226518862, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
240 pp., 23x15 cm
Heinrich Meier's work on Carl Schmitt has dramatically reoriented the international debate about Schmitt and his significance for twentieth-century political thought. In "The Lesson of Carl Schmitt", Meier identifies the core of Schmitt's thought as...
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Submerged State How Invisible Government Policies Undermine American Democracy
Mettler Suzanne
ISBN: PB: 9780226521657, ISBN: HB: 9780226521640, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
176 pp., 23x15 cm, 4 tables, 19 line illus.
"Keep your government hands off my Medicare!" Such comments spotlight a central question animating Suzanne Mettler's provocative and timely book: why are many Americans unaware of government social benefits and so hostile to them in principle, even t...
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Vladimir Putin and Russian Statecraft
Lynch Allen C.
ISBN: HB: 9781597972987, Casemate, Potomac Books, September 2011
184 pp., 23x15 cm
Since Russian leader Vladimir Putin assumed power in August 1999, speculation about his character, motives, and plans for Russia's future has been rampant in the West. A portrait of Putin has emerged in the West that is one-dimensional, ill informed,...
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