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Political Science

Going to War in Iraq When Citizens and the Press Matter

Feldman Stanley, Huddy Leonie, Marcus George E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226304236, ISBN: HB: 9780226304069, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 70 figures, 12 tables

How was the Bush administration able to convince both Congress and the American public to support the plan to go to war against Iraq in spite of poorly supported claims about the danger Saddam Hussein posed? Conventional wisdom holds that, because ne...

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Political Science

Free Expression and Democracy in America A History

Feldman Stephen M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226333069, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
544 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

From the 1798 Sedition Act to the war on terror, numerous presidents, members of Congress, Supreme Court justices, and local officials have endorsed the silencing of free expression. If the connection between democracy and the freedom of speech is su...

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Christianity

Political Science

Politics of Religious Freedom

Fallers Sullivan Winnifred, Shakman Hurd Elizabeth, Mahmood Saba, Danchin Peter G.

ISBN: PB: 9780226248509, ISBN: HB: 9780226248479, University of Chicago Press, July 2015
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone

In a remarkably short period of time, the realization of religious freedom has achieved broad consensus as an indispensable condition for peace. Faced with widespread reports of religious persecution, public and private actors around the world have r...

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Islam

Political Science

From Deep State to Islamic State

Filiu Jean-Pierre

ISBN: PB: 9781849045469, Hurst Publishers, June 2015
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! In his disturbing and timely political history of the "Deep State" in the Middle East, Jean-Pierre Filiu reveals how the autocracies of Syria, Egypt, and Yemen crushed the democratic uprisings of the "Arab Revolution". They did...

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Political Science

Insider's Guide to the U.N.

Fasulo Linda

ISBN: PB: 9780300203653, Yale University Press, February 2015
288 pp., 21x14 cm, 30 illus.

Termed "the indispensable source on the United Nations" by Joseph S. Nye of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, this book is now fully revised and updated to include new material on fragile states, R2P (responsibility to protect), recent Security...

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Political Science

Lies, Passions, and Illusions The Democratic Imagination in the Twentieth Century

Furet Francois

ISBN: HB: 9780226114491, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
128 pp., 17.7x12.7 cm, 1 halftone

Francois Furet needs little introduction. Widely considered one of the leading historians of the French Revolution, he was a maverick for his time, shining a critical light on the entrenched Marxist interpretations that prevailed during the mid-twent...

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Political Science

Culture Studies

Country of Football Politics, Popular Culture, and the Beautiful Game in Brazil

Fontes Paulo, de Hollanda Bernardo Buarque

ISBN: PB: 9781849044172, Hurst Publishers, June 2014
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Brazil has done much to shape football, but how has football shaped Brazil? Despite the political and social importance of the beautiful game to the country, the subject has hitherto received little attention. This book present...

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Political Science

Failing to Protect The UN and the Politicisation of Human Rights

Freedman Rosa

ISBN: PB: 9781849044097, Hurst Publishers, May 2014
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Every year tens of millions of individuals suffer grave abuses of their human rights. These violations occur worldwide, in war-torn countries and in the wealthiest states. Despite many of the abuses being well-documented, littl...

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Business & Economics

Political Science

Design and Implementation of US Climate Policy

Fullerton Don, Wolfram Catherine

ISBN: HB: 9780226269146, University of Chicago Press, September 2012
344 pp., 23x15 cm, 28 tables, 1 halftone, 27 line illus.

Economic research on climate change has been crucial in advancing our understanding of the consequences associated with global warming as well as the costs and benefits of the various policies that might reduce emissions of greenhouse gases. As natio...

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Criminology

Political Science

Policing Economic Crime in Russia From Soviet Planned Economy to Privatisation

Favarel-Garrigues Gilles

ISBN: HB: 9781849040655, Hurst Publishers, September 2011
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! In analysing how economic crime was managed in Russia, from the Brezhnev era to the Yeltsin years, this book reveals the historical roots of the 'criminal problem' that has marked Russian politics since the late 1980s. During t...

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