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Struggle for Iraq's Future How Corruption, Incompetence and Sectarianism Have Undermined Democracy
ISBN: HB: 9780300187267, Yale University Press, December 2013
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.
Since the withdrawal of US occupying forces, international attention has shifted away from Iraq – but life for Iraqis has become no easier. Deadly bombings are still all too common, sectarian violence has soared and all-pervading corruption means tha...
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£18,99
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Secular Powers Humility in Modern Political Thought
ISBN: HB: 9780226081298, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Secularism is usually thought to contain the project of self-deification, in which humans attack God's authority in order to take his place, freed from all constraints. Julie E. Cooper overturns this conception through an incisive analysis of the ear...
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£35,00
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Mixed Emotions Beyond Fear and Hatred in International Conflict
ISBN: PB: 9780226077420, ISBN: HB: 9780226077390, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In recent years, it's become increasingly clear that emotion plays a central role in global politics. For example, people readily care about acts of terrorism and humanitarian crises because they appeal to our compassion for human suffering. These st...
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£24,00
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£68,50
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Constitution in Congress: Democrats and Whigs, 1829-1861
ISBN: PB: 9780226116310, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
344 pp., 23.6x17 cm
The Constitution in Congress series has been called nothing less than a biography of the US Constitution for its in-depth examination of the role that the legislative and executive branches have played in the development of constitutional interpretat...
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£26,00
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Timing and Turnout How Off-Cycle Elections Favor Organized Groups
ISBN: PB: 9780226086811, ISBN: HB: 9780226086781, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 13 line drawings, 28 tables
Public policy in the United States is the product of decisions made by more than 500,000 elected officials, and the vast majority of those officials are elected on days other than Election Day. And because far fewer voters turn out for off-cycle elec...
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£26,00
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£73,00
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Multiculturalism and its Discontents Rethinking Diversity after 9/11
ISBN: PB: 9780857421142, Seagull Books, December 2013
96 pp., 25x15 cm
Our contemporary celebration of difference, respect for pluralism, and avowal of identity politics have come to be regarded as the hallmarks of a progressive, modern democracy. Yet despite embracing many of its values, we have at the same time become...
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£7,00
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Spartakus The Symbology of Revolt
ISBN: HB: 9780857421739, Seagull Books, December 2013
180 pp., 21.6x12.7 cm
On December 29, 1918, the Spartakus League, a Marxist revolutionary movement, rose up in Germany calling for an end to class rule by the bourgeoisie. Massive demonstrations followed and more than 500,000 Berliners took to the streets in January – onl...
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£16,00
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End of Equality
ISBN: PB: 9780857421135, Seagull Books, December 2013
96 pp., 25x15 cm
Among liberal thinkers, there is an optimistic belief that men and women are on a cultural journey toward equality – in the workplace, on the street, and in the home. But observation and evidence both tell us that in many ways this progress has stopp...
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£7,00
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Legions of Peace UN Peacekeepers from the Global South
ISBN: HB: 9781849042901, Hurst Publishers, December 2013
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The huge number of security forces stationed around the world as United Nations peacekeepers is second only to the global military deployments of the USA. But most UN peacekeepers come from the emerging powers and developing st...
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£45,00
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Forged in Crisis India and the United States since 1947
ISBN: HB: 9781849043045, Hurst Publishers, December 2013
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Rudra Chaudhuri's book examines a series of crises that led to far-reaching changes in India's approach to the United States, defining the contours of what is arguably the imperative relationship between America and the global...
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£40,00
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