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Political Science

Bogdanor Vernon

ISBN: HB: 9780300245615, Yale University Press, September 2020
176 pp., 21.6x14 cm

Is Britain a part of Europe? The British have been ambivalent on this question since the Second World War, when the Western European nations sought to prevent the return of fascism by creating strong international ties throughout the Continent. Brita...

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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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Bretton Woods Agreements Together with Scholarly Commentaries and Essential Historical Documents

Shapiro Ian, Lamoreaux Naomi

ISBN: PB: 9780300236798, Yale University Press, August 2019
504 pp., 21x14 cm, 5 black&white illus.

The two world wars brought an end to a long-standing system of international commerce based on the gold standard. After the First World War, the weaknesses in the gold standard contributed to hyperinflation, the Great Depression, the rise of fascism,...

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Black Wave How Networks and Governance Shaped Japan's 3/11 Disasters

Aldrich Daniel P.

ISBN: PB: 9780226638430, ISBN: HB: 9780226638263, University of Chicago Press, July 2019
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 line drawings, 12 tables

Despite the devastation caused by the magnitude 9.0 earthquake and 60-foot tsunami that struck Japan in 2011, some 96% of those living and working in the most disaster-stricken region of Tohoku made it through. Smaller earthquakes and tsunamis have k...

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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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Bending the Rules Procedural Politicking in the Bureaucracy

Augustine Potter Rachel

ISBN: PB: 9780226621746, ISBN: HB: 9780226621609, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 line drawings, 22 tables

Who determines the fuel standards for our cars? What about whether Plan B, the morning-after pill, is sold at the local pharmacy? Many people assume such important and controversial policy decisions originate in the halls of Congress. But the choreog...

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Performing Arts

Political Science

Banker for All Seasons Bank of Crooks and Cheats Inc.

Ali Tariq

ISBN: PB: 9780857426406, Seagull Books, March 2019
264 pp., 20x14.4 cm

During the late Seventies and Eighties a new logo began to jostle for space with the more traditional landmarks on high streets throughout Britain. It was the badge of a remarkable Third World Bank... the BCCI (Bank of Credit and Commerce Internation...

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America

Back Channel American Diplomacy in a Disordered World

Burns William J.

ISBN: HB: 9781787381230, Hurst Publishers, March 2019
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

For sale in CIS only! Over the course of more than three decades as an American diplomat, William J. Burns played a central role in the most consequential diplomatic episodes of his time – from the bloodless end of the Cold War to the collapse of re...

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Europe

Brexit in History Sovereignty or a European Union?

Heuser Beatrice

ISBN: HB: 9781787381261, Hurst Publishers, March 2019
208 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Are Europeans hard-wired for conflict? Given the enmities that wracked the Greek city-states, or the Valois, Bourbons and Habsburgs, it seems undeniable. The Holy Roman Empire promised peace, but collapsed before it could deliv...

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Europe

Britain and Europe A Short History

Black Jeremy

ISBN: HB: 9781787381186, Hurst Publishers, February 2019
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Amid the ongoing Brexit crisis, both sides are appealing to Britain's past relationship with Europe to justify their positions. But much specious history is presented to argue for either the closeness or distance of our politic...

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