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General

Disciplining the Poor Neoliberal Paternalism and the Persistent Power of Race

Soss Joe, Fording Richard C., Schram Sanford F.

ISBN: PB: 9780226768779, ISBN: HB: 9780226768762, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
368 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 map, 1 table, 45 line illus.

"Disciplining the Poor" lays out the underlying logic of contemporary poverty governance in the United States. The authors argue that poverty governance – how social welfare policy choices get made, how authority gets exercised, and how collective pu...

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Political Science

Islam

Islam without a Veil Kazakhstan's Path of Moderation

Salhani Claude

ISBN: HB: 9781597977319, Casemate, Potomac Books, June 2011
228 pp., 23x15 cm

Kazakhstan, a former Soviet republic in Central Asia that has been under the leadership of President Nursultan Nazarbayev since independence in 1991, has proven that a mostly Muslim nation can be active on the international scene. Its leaders have wo...

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Media Studies

Political Science

Wikileaks and the Age of Transparency

Sifry Micah L.

ISBN: PB: 9780300176766, Yale University Press, March 2011
176 pp., 19.6x12.8 cm

It's one of the biggest news stories for years. A charismatic, white-haired Australian sets up a website devoted to publishing leaked documents in the public interest, and then, allegedly with the aid of a disaffected American soldier, starts releasi...

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Political Science

Culture Studies

Who Sings the Nation-State? Language, Politics, Belonging

Spivak Gayatri Chakravorty, Butler Judith

ISBN: PB: 9781906497835, Seagull Books, March 2011
128 pp., 18.5x11.7 cm

"Who Sings the Nation-State" brings together two of America's foremost critics and two of the most influential theorists of the last decade. Together, they explore the past, present and future of the state in a time of globalization. What is contai...

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Political Science

One Nation Under Contract The Outsourcing of American Power and the Future of Foreign Policy

Stanger Allison

ISBN: PB: 9780300168327, ISBN: HB: 9780300152654, Yale University Press, February 2011
256 pp., 22.4x14.7 cm

In this title, international relations scholar Allison Stanger shows how contractors became an integral part of American foreign policy, often in scandalous ways – but also maintains that contractors aren't the problem; the absence of good government...

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Political Science

Community and Autonomy Institutions, Policies and Legitimacy in Multilevel Europe

Scharpf Fritz W.

ISBN: PB: 9783593391885, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, July 2010
391 pp., 21.2x13.9 cm

Since the mid-1980s, Fritz W. Scharpf has been investigating the evolution of the multilevel European polity and its impact on the effectiveness and legitimacy of democratic government in Europe".Community and Autonomy" collects in one volume Scharpf...

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General

Military

Tormented by History Nationalism in Greece and Turkey

Sofos Spyros A., Ozkirimli Umut

ISBN: PB: 9781850658993, ISBN: HB: 9781850659051, Hurst Publishers, January 2008
220 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "Tormented" by Historyis the first comparative study of nationalism in Greece and Turkey. Grounded in an extensive critical review of the popular and scholarly historiography and literature on Greek and Turkish nationalisms, it...

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Political Science

Global Vigilantes

Sen Atreyee, Pratten David

ISBN: PB: 9781850658382, Hurst Publishers, December 2007
448 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Vigilantes and organised vigilantism are a growing phenomenon, as this book amply demonstrates. From Northern Ireland to West Africa, from Bombay or Moscow, vigilante movements and ideologies have widespread appeal. Whether as...

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Political Science

Oil and Politics in the Gulf of Guinea

Soares De Oliveira Ricardo M.

ISBN: PB: 9781850658580, Hurst Publishers, October 2007
380 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! This book investigates the paradox at the heart of present-day Gulf of Guinea politics. The governance crisis festering throughout every one of the region's states ought to discourage outsiders from capital-intensive, long-term...

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Political Science

Managing and Settling Ethnic Conflicts

Scheckener Ulrich, Wolff Stefan

ISBN: PB: 9781850656913, Hurst Publishers, April 2004
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Interest in the study of ethnic conflict has soared over the past decade, partly due to the ethnic conflicts that have erupted violently, especially in central and Eastern Europe after the collapse of communism, but also in oth...

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