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Finance and Security Global Vulnerabilities, Threats and Responses

Navias Martin S.

ISBN: HB: 9781787381360, Hurst Publishers, May 2019
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The global financial sector is increasingly vulnerable to penetration by criminal money launderers, financiers of terrorism, and proliferators of weapons of mass destruction. At the same time, it offers instruments that can be...

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Political Science

Humanitarian Wars? Lies and Brainwashing

Brauman Rony, Meyran Regis

ISBN: PB: 9781787382169, Hurst Publishers, May 2019
120 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! In the eyes of Rony Brauman of Medecins Sans Frontieres, wars are always triggered in the name of morality. Today's "humanitarian" interventions are little more than new moral crusades – and their justifications are based on li...

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Biography & Memoires

Political Science

Disraeli The Novel Politician

Cesarani David

ISBN: HB: 9780300137514, Yale University Press, April 2019
288 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.

Lauded as a "great Jew", excoriated by antisemites, and one of Britain's most renowned prime ministers, Benjamin Disraeli has been widely celebrated for his role in Jewish history. But is the perception of him as a Jewish hero accurate? In what ways...

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Political Science

Putin v. the People The Perilous Politics of a Divided Russia

Greene Samuel A., Robertson Graeme B.

ISBN: HB: 9780300238396, Yale University Press, April 2019
288 pp., 21.6x14 cm

What do ordinary Russians think of Putin? Who are his supporters? And why might their support now be faltering? Alive with the voices and experiences of ordinary Russians and elites alike, Sam Greene and Graeme Robertson craft a compellingly original...

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Political Science

Quest for Status Chinese and Russian Foreign Policy

Welch Larson Deborah, Shevchenko Alexei

ISBN: HB: 9780300236040, Yale University Press, April 2019
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

Deborah Welch Larson and Alexei Shevchenko argue that the desire for world status plays a key role in shaping the foreign policies of China and Russia. Applying social identity theory – the idea that individuals derive part of their identity from lar...

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Europe

Stalin's Master Narrative A Critical Edition of the History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks), Short Course

Brandenberger David, Zelenov Mikhail V.

ISBN: HB: 9780300155365, Yale University Press, April 2019
760 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 21 black&white illus.

"The Short Course on the History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks)" defined Stalinist ideology both at home and abroad. It was quite literally the the master narrative of the USSR – a hegemonic statement on history, politics, an...

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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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Law

Federal Impeachment Process A Constitutional and Historical Analysis (Third Edition)

Gerhardt Michael J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226554839, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Twenty years after President Clinton's impeachment proceedings, talk of impeachment is again in the air. But what are the grounds for impeaching a sitting president? Who is subject to impeachment? Is impeachment effective as a safeguard against presi...

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America

How States Shaped Postwar America State Government and Urban Power

Dagen Bloom Nicholas

ISBN: HB: 9780226498317, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 47 halftones, 2 line drawings

The history of public policy in postwar America tends to fixate on developments at the national level, overlooking the crucial work done by individual states in the 1960s and '70s. In this book, Nicholas Dagen Bloom demonstrates the significant and e...

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Political Science

Who Wants to Run? How the Devaluing of Political Office Drives Polarization

Hall Andrew B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226609577, ISBN: HB: 9780226609430, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
168 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 29 line drawings, 16 tables

The growing ideological gulf between Democrats and Republicans is one of the biggest issues in American politics today. Our legislatures, composed of members from two sharply disagreeing parties, are struggling to function as the founders intended th...

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