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Legions of Peace UN Peacekeepers from the Global South

Cunliffe Philip

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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Biography & Memoires

Political Science

Leon Trotsky A Revolutionary's Life

Rubenstein Joshua

ISBN: PB: 9780300198324, ISBN: HB: 9780300137248, Yale University Press, October 2013
240 pp., 21x14.6 cm

Born Lev Davidovich Bronstein in southern Ukraine, Trotsky was both a world-class intellectual and a man capable of the most narrow-minded ideological dogmatism. He was an effective military strategist and an adept diplomat, who staked the fate of th...

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Political Science

Middle East

Local Politics in Afghanistan A Century of Intervention in the Social Order

Schetter Conrad

ISBN: HB: 9781849042635, Hurst Publishers, March 2013
362 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Afghanistan's people have contended with an almost continuous series of foreign interventions in their local affairs in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Not only have external powers such as British India, the Soviet Uni...

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Political Science

Learning While Governing Expertise and Accountability in the Executive Branch

Gailmard Sean, Patty John W.

ISBN: PB: 9780226924410, ISBN: HB: 9780226924403, University of Chicago Press, January 2013
336 pp., 23x15 cm, 4 tables, 4 line illus.

Although their leaders and staff are not elected, bureaucratic agencies have the power to make policy decisions that carry the full force of the law. In this groundbreaking book, Sean Gailmard and John W. Patty explore an issue central to political s...

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Political Science

Living Legislation Durability, Change, and the Politics of American Law Making

Jenkins Jeffery A., Patashnik Eric M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226396453, ISBN: HB: 9780226396446, University of Chicago Press, December 2012
368 pp., 23x15 cm, 16 tables, 16 line illus.

Politics is at its most dramatic during debates over important pieces of legislation. It is thus no stretch to refer to legislation as a living, breathing force in American politics. And while debates over legislative measures begin before an item is...

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Africa

Political Science

Lebanon After the Cedar Revolution

Knudsen Are, Kerr Michael

ISBN: PB: 9781849042499, Hurst Publishers, November 2012
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Lebanon is the prisoner of its geography and its history, a prize for invaders since ancient times, a small multi-denominational state still recovering from a bloody civil war in its search for political autonomy and stability....

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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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Political Science

Lesson of Carl Schmitt Four Chapters on the Distinction between Political Theology and Political Philosophy, Expanded Edition

Meier Heinrich

ISBN: PB: 9780226518862, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
240 pp., 23x15 cm

Heinrich Meier's work on Carl Schmitt has dramatically reoriented the international debate about Schmitt and his significance for twentieth-century political thought. In "The Lesson of Carl Schmitt", Meier identifies the core of Schmitt's thought as...

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Political Science

Local Redistribution and Local Democracy Interest Groups and the Courts

Gillette Clayton P.

ISBN: PB: 9780300125658, Yale University Press, July 2011
256 pp., 24.1x16.5 cm

The traditional theory of urban finance argues against local redistribution of wealth on the assumption that such action is likely to chase away the relatively wealthy, leaving only the impoverished behind. Nevertheless, Clayton Gillette observes, lo...

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Political Science

Philosophy

Leo Strauss An Intellectual Biography

Tanguay Daniel

ISBN: PB: 9780300172102, Yale University Press, April 2011
272 pp., 20.1x13 cm

Since political theorist Leo Strauss' death in 1973, American interpreters have heatedly debated his intellectual legacy. Daniel Tanguay recovers Strauss from the atmosphere of partisan debate that has dominated American journalistic, political, and...

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