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Political Science

Walther Rathenau The Limits of Success

Volkov Shulamit

ISBN: HB: 9780300144314, Yale University Press, February 2012
256 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 9 black&white illus.

This deeply informed biography of Walther Rathenau (1867-1922) tells of a man who – both thoroughly German and unabashedly Jewish – rose to leadership in the German War-Ministry Department during the First World War, and later to the exalted position...

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General

Political Science

End of Race? Obama, 2008, and Racial Politics in America

Kinder Donald R., Dale-Riddle Allison

ISBN: PB: 9780300175196, Yale University Press, February 2012
256 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 32 black&white illus.

How did race affect the election that gave America its first African American president? This book offers some fascinating, and perhaps controversial, findings. Donald Kinder and Allison Dale-Riddle assert that racism was in fact an important factor...

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Literary Criticism

Political Science

Proust among the Nations From Dreyfus to the Middle East

Rose Jacqueline

ISBN: HB: 9780226725789, University of Chicago Press, February 2012
256 pp., 22x14 cm, 4 halftones

Known for her far-reaching examinations of psychoanalysis, literature, and politics, Jacqueline Rose has in recent years turned her attention to the Israel-Palestine conflict, one of the most enduring and apparently intractable conflicts of our time....

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Political Science

Difference and Democracy Exploring Potentials in Europe and Beyond

Raube Kolja, Sattler Annika

ISBN: PB: 9783593395029, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2012
380 pp., 22x14 cm, 5 halftones, 5 colour illus.

As Europe becomes increasingly diverse, understanding the effects of differences among citizens within European democracy crucial. The contributors to "Difference and Democracy" take a novel interdisciplinary approach to this important dimension of s...

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Middle East

Political Science

Transnational Shia Politics Religious and Political Networks in the Gulf

Louer Laurence

ISBN: PB: 9781849042147, Hurst Publishers, February 2012
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! This timely book illuminates the historical origins and present situation of militant Shia transnational networks by focusing on three key countries in the Gulf: Kuwait, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, whose Shia Islamic groups are t...

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Political Science

Good Fences, Bad Neighbors Border Fixity and International Conflict

Atzili Boaz

ISBN: PB: 9780226031361, ISBN: HB: 9780226031354, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
296 pp., 23x15 cm, 5 tables, 2 halftones, 5 line illus.

Border fixity – the proscription of foreign conquest and the annexation of homeland territory – has, since World War II, become a powerful norm in world politics. This development has been said to increase stability and peace in international relatio...

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Political Science

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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Philosophy

Political Science

Terrorism, Ticking Time-Bombs, and Torture A Philosophical Analysis

Allhoff Fritz

ISBN: HB: 9780226014838, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
280 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 6 line illus.

The general consensus among philosophers is that the use of torture is never justified. In "Terrorism, Ticking Time-Bombs, and Torture", Fritz Allhoff demonstrates the weakness of the case against torture; while allowing that torture constitutes a mo...

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Military

Political Science

Riot Politics Hindu-Muslim Violence and the Indian State

Berenschot Ward

ISBN: PB: 9781849041362, Hurst Publishers, January 2012
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! On 27 February 2002, fifty-eight people died when a train coach caught fire just outside a small-town railway station in Gujarat, Western India. The incident marked the beginning of one of the worst outbursts of Hindu-Muslim vi...

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Europe

Political Science

Last Dictatorship in Europe Belarus Under Lukashenko

Bennett Brian

ISBN: HB: 9781849041676, Hurst Publishers, January 2012
276 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Belarus is an isolated country dominated by one man. Few tourists go there, despite its fascinating, cultured past and beautiful countryside. Belarussians are friendly and hospitable yet they rarely have the chance to speak the...

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