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Jabotinsky A Life

Halkin Hillel

ISBN: PB: 9780300244380, ISBN: HB: 9780300136623, Yale University Press, May 2019
224 pp., 21x14.6 cm

Vladimir Jabotinsky (1880-1940) was a man of huge paradoxes and contradictions and is one of the most misunderstood Zionist political leaders – a first-rate novelist, a celebrated Russian journalist, and founder of the branch of Zionism now headed by...

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Philosophy

Why Liberalism Failed

Deneen Patrick J.

ISBN: PB: 9780300240023, Yale University Press, May 2019
256 pp., 21x14 cm

Of the three dominant ideologies of the twentieth century – fascism, communism, and liberalism – only the last remains. This has created a peculiar situation in which liberalism's proponents tend to forget that it is an ideology and not the natural e...

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Political Science

On Political Obligation

Shklar Judith N., Ashenden Samantha, Hess Andreas

ISBN: PB: 9780300214994, Yale University Press, May 2019
264 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

This stimulating collection of lectures by the late Judith Shklar on political obligation is paired with a scholarly introduction that offers an overview of her life, illuminates the connections among her teaching, research, and publications, and exp...

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Business & Economics

Russia's Crony Capitalism The Path from Market Economy to Kleptocracy

Aslund Anders

ISBN: HB: 9780300243093, Yale University Press, May 2019
336 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 17 black&white illus.

This insightful study explores how the economic system Vladimir Putin has developed in Russia works to consolidate control over the country. By appointing his close associates as heads of state enterprises and by giving control of the FSB and the jud...

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America

Political Science

Tragedy of U.S. Foreign Policy How America's Civil Religion Betrayed the National Interest

McDougall Walter A.

ISBN: PB: 9780300244533, ISBN: HB: 9780300211450, Yale University Press, May 2019
432 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

A fierce critique of civil religion as the taproot of America's bid for global hegemony Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Walter A. McDougall argues powerfully that a pervasive but radically changing faith that "God is on our side" has inspired U.S. f...

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Europe

Political Science

Limits of Transnationalism

Green Nancy L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226608280, ISBN: HB: 9780226608143, University of Chicago Press, May 2019
208 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

Transnationalism means many things to many people, from crossing physical borders to crossing intellectual ones".The Limits of Transnationalism" reassesses the overly optimistic narratives often associated with this malleable term, revealing both the...

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Political Science

Conservative Innovators How States Are Challenging Federal Power

Merriman Ben

ISBN: PB: 9780226620312, ISBN: HB: 9780226620282, University of Chicago Press, May 2019
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 line drawings, 8 tables

As American politics has become increasingly polarized, gridlock at the federal level has led to a greater reliance on state governments to get things done. But this arrangement depends a great deal on state cooperation, and not all state officials h...

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Political Science

Finance and Security Global Vulnerabilities, Threats and Responses

Navias Martin S.

ISBN: HB: 9781787381360, Hurst Publishers, May 2019
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The global financial sector is increasingly vulnerable to penetration by criminal money launderers, financiers of terrorism, and proliferators of weapons of mass destruction. At the same time, it offers instruments that can be...

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Political Science

Humanitarian Wars? Lies and Brainwashing

Brauman Rony, Meyran Regis

ISBN: PB: 9781787382169, Hurst Publishers, May 2019
120 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! In the eyes of Rony Brauman of Medecins Sans Frontieres, wars are always triggered in the name of morality. Today's "humanitarian" interventions are little more than new moral crusades – and their justifications are based on li...

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Biography & Memoires

Political Science

Disraeli The Novel Politician

Cesarani David

ISBN: HB: 9780300137514, Yale University Press, April 2019
288 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.

Lauded as a "great Jew", excoriated by antisemites, and one of Britain's most renowned prime ministers, Benjamin Disraeli has been widely celebrated for his role in Jewish history. But is the perception of him as a Jewish hero accurate? In what ways...

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