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Political Science

On Democracy

Dahl Robert A., Shapiro Ian

ISBN: PB: 9780300254051, Yale University Press, January 2021
288 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm

Written by the preeminent democratic theorist of our time, this book explains the nature, value, and mechanics of democracy. In a new introduction to this Veritas edition, Ian Shapiro considers how Dahl would respond to the ongoing challenges democra...

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Biography & Memoires

Political Science

Obama The Historic Presidency of Barack Obama (Updated Edition)

Greenberg Mark, Tait David M.

ISBN: HB: 9781454937821, GMC Group, Sterling, November 2020
320 pp., 27.3x23.5 cm, illus.

Through stunning images by White House photographers and others, as well as notable essays and quotes from a broad spectrum of people, this updated edition of Obama looks back at the President's journey from his remarkable victory to his life after t...

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Political Science

Open World How America Can Win the Contest for Twenty-First-Century Order

Lissner Rebecca, Rapp-Hooper Mira

ISBN: HB: 9780300250329, Yale University Press, October 2020
216 pp., 21.6x14 cm

This ambitious and incisive book presents a new vision for American foreign policy and international order at a time of historic upheaval. The United States global leadership crisis is not a passing shock created by the Trump presidency or COVID-19,...

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Political Science

Overcoming Necessity Emergency, Constraint, and the Meanings of American Constitutionalism

Crocker Thomas P.

ISBN: HB: 9780300181616, Yale University Press, August 2020
320 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm

Using emergency as a cause for action ultimately leads to an almost unnoticed evolution in the political understanding of presidential powers. The Constitution, however, was designed to function under "states of exception", most notably through the s...

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Political Science

Oblivion or Glory 1921 and the Making of Winston Churchill

Stafford David

ISBN: HB: 9780300234046, Yale University Press, September 2019
288 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

After the tragic consequences of his involvement in the catastrophic Dardanelles Campaign of World War I, Churchill's political career seemed over. He was widely regarded as little more than a bombastic and unpredictable buccaneer until, in 1921, an...

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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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Political Science

Organizing Democracy How International Organizations Assist New Democracies

Poast Paul, Urpelainen Johannes

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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Political Science

Once and Future Liberal After Identity Politics

Lilla Mark

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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Political Science

Orban Europe's New Strongman

Lendvai Paul

ISBN: HB: 9781849048699, Hurst Publishers, October 2017
264 pp., 22.5x14.5 cm

For sale in CIS only! Through a masterly and cynical manipulation of ethnic nationalism, and deep-rooted corruption, Prime Minister Orban has exploited successive electoral victories to build a closely knit and super-rich oligarchy. More than any ot...

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Philosophy

Political Science

On the Happiness of the Philosophic Life Reflections on Rousseau's "Reveries" in Two Books

Meier Heinrich

ISBN: HB: 9780226074030, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones

"On the Happiness of the Philosophic Life" presents Heinrich Meier's confrontation with Rousseau's Reveries, the philosopher's most beautiful and daring work, as well as his last and least understood. Bringing to bear more than thirty years of study...

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