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Political Science

Bending the Rules Procedural Politicking in the Bureaucracy

Augustine Potter Rachel

ISBN: PB: 9780226621746, ISBN: HB: 9780226621609, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 line drawings, 22 tables

Who determines the fuel standards for our cars? What about whether Plan B, the morning-after pill, is sold at the local pharmacy? Many people assume such important and controversial policy decisions originate in the halls of Congress. But the choreog...

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Military

Political Science

America's Covert War in East Africa Surveillance, Rendition, Assassination

Usiskin Clara

ISBN: PB: 9781849044134, Hurst Publishers, April 2019
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Clara Usiskin has spent eight years investigating the 'War on Terror' and its effects in the East and Horn of Africa, documenting hundreds of cases of rendition, secret detention and targeted killings. As a result of her work e...

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Political Science

Anglo Nostalgia The Politics of Emotion in a Fractured West

Campanella Edoardo, Dasst Marta

ISBN: HB: 9781787381414, Hurst Publishers, April 2019
234 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Nostalgia has become a major force in global politics. While Donald Trump promises to "make America great again", Xi Jinping calls for a "great rejuvenation of the Chinese people", and a majority of Russians still mourn the Sov...

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Political Science

Middle East

Sites of Pluralism Community Politics in the Middle East

Oruc Firat

ISBN: PB: 9781787380226, Hurst Publishers, April 2019
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Scholars and policymakers, struggling to make sense of the ongoing chaos in the Middle East, have focused on the possible causes of the escalation in both inter-state and intra-state conflict. But the Arab Spring has shown the...

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Political Science

German New Right AfD, PEGIDA and the Re-Imagining of National Identity

Rosellini Jay Julian

ISBN: HB: 9781787381407, Hurst Publishers, April 2019
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Contemporary Germany is a modern industrial democracy admired throughout the world. Many Germans believe that they live in the "best Germany" that has ever existed. Yet there are dissenting voices: individuals and groups that r...

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Middle East

Political Science

Hezbollah Mobilisation and Power

Daher Aurelie

ISBN: HB: 9781849046312, Hurst Publishers, April 2019
376 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Almost thirty years after its foundation, Hezbollah remains an enigma. Is it an Islamist terrorist group dedicated to destroying Israel or the first Arab national resistance to have ever defeated Tel Aviv's troops? Should we lo...

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Christianity

Political Science

Plight of Western Religion A Perception Transformed

Gifford Paul

ISBN: HB: 9781787381339, Hurst Publishers, April 2019
392 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "Religion" can be used to mean all kinds of things, but a substantive definition––based on the premise of superhuman powers––can clarify much. It allows us to attempt to differentiate religion from culture, ethnicity, morality...

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Culture Studies

Political Science

Leaders People Who Shaped the Last Century

Cooper S. K.

ISBN: HB: 9781921024740, Bookport, New Holland Publishers, March 2019
320 pp., 29x15 cm

The leaders that are remembered by history both define the world they live in and change that world forever. Whether their leadership is inspirational, innovative, decisive or ultimately destructive, we have a lot to learn from the lives and achievem...

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Political Science

Choosing the Leader Leadership Elections in the U.S. House of Representatives

Green Matthew N., Harris Douglas B.

ISBN: PB: 9780300222579, Yale University Press, March 2019
320 pp., 21x14 cm

How are congressional party leaders chosen? In the first comprehensive study since Robert Peabody's classic "Leadership in Congress", political scientists Matthew Green and Douglas Harris draw on newly collected data about U.S. House members who have...

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Political Science

Europe

Postwar Moment Progressive Forces in Britain, France, and the United States after World War II

Woloch Isser

ISBN: HB: 9780300124354, Yale University Press, March 2019
560 pp., 23.5x16.5 cm, 29 black&white illus.

After the end of World War II, Britain, France, and the United States were faced with two very different choices: return to the civic order of pre-war normalcy or embark instead on a path of progressive transformation. In this ambitious and original...

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