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Rise of Common-Sense Conservatism The American Right and the Reinvention of the Scottish Enlightenment

Lepisto Antti

ISBN: HB: 9780226774046, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In the years following the election of Donald Trump – a victory that hinged on the votes of white Midwesterners who were both geographically and culturally distant from the media's coastal concentrations – there has been a flurry of investigation int...

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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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Challenges of Multilateralism

Lavelle Kathryn C.

ISBN: PB: 9780300230451, Yale University Press, May 2020
352 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 17 black&white illus.

Multilateral initiatives have brought about striking, yet diverging, results. International organizations often struggle with the nationalist impulses of member states, different and shifting goals, and a lack of enforcement methods. Here, Kathryn La...

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Trudeau Formula Seduction and Betrayal in an Age of Discontent

Lukacs Martin

ISBN: PB: 9781551647487, ISBN: HB: 9781551647500, University of Chicago Press, Black Rose Books, February 2020
280 pp., 20.9x13.9 cm

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Asia

Political Science

Costliest Pearl China's Struggle for India's Ocean

Lintner Bertil

ISBN: HB: 9781849049962, Hurst Publishers, October 2019
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The Indian Ocean's strategic importance to China cannot be underestimated, given the oil, African minerals and container traffic that pass through it. Yet, until now, China has been absent from the region since Admiral Zheng He...

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General

Authority Construction and Corrosion

Lincoln Bruce

ISBN: PB: 9780226481982, University of Chicago Press, August 2019
235 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 tables

What is authority? How is it constituted? How ought one understand the subtle (and sometimes not-so-subtle) relations between authority and coercion? Between authorized and subversive speech? In this fascinating and intricate analysis, Bruce Lincoln...

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Good Enough for Government Work The Public Reputation Crisis in America (And What We Can Do to Fix It)

Lerman Amy E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226630205, ISBN: HB: 9780226630175, University of Chicago Press, June 2019
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 line drawings, 8 tables

American government is in the midst of a reputation crisis. An overwhelming majority of citizens – Republicans and Democrats alike – hold negative perceptions of the government and believe it is wasteful, inefficient, and doing a generally poor job m...

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America

Democracy and Dysfunction

Levinson Sanford, Balkin Jack M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226612041, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

It is no longer controversial that the American political system has become deeply dysfunctional. Today, only slightly more than a quarter of Americans believe the country is heading in the right direction, while sixty-three percent believe we are on...

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Asia

China Imagined From European Fantasy to Spectacular Power

Lee Gregory B.

ISBN: HB: 9781787380165, Hurst Publishers, December 2018
232 pp., 19.8x13 cm

For sale in CIS only! How did China become China? And where is it leading us? We talk as if it had always existed: eternal China with its 5,000 years of uninterrupted history. But the name "China" was first used by sixteenth-century Europeans, and i...

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Political Science

America, Compromised

Lessig Lawrence

ISBN: HB: 9780226316536, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
240 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 8 halftones, 1 table

"There is not a single American awake to the world who is comfortable with the way things are". So begins Lawrence Lessig sweeping indictment of contemporary American institutions and the corruption that besets them. We can all see it – from the se...

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