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Orchestrating the Instruments of Power A Critical Examination of the U.S. National Security System

Worley Robert D.

ISBN: PB: 9781612347202, Casemate, Potomac Books, February 2016
432 pp., 23x15 cm

National security, a topic routinely discussed behind the closed doors of Washington's political scientists and policymakers, is believed to be an insider's game. All too often, such highly specialized knowledge is assumed to place issues beyond the...

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Philosophy

Political Science

On Tyranny Corrected and Expanded Edition, Including the Strauss-Kojeve Correspondence

Strauss Leo

ISBN: PB: 9780226030135, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
360 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 halftones

"On Tyranny" is Leo Strauss's classic reading of Xenophon's dialogue "Hiero", or "Tyrannicus", in which the tyrant Hiero and the poet Simonides discuss the advantages and disadvantages of exercising tyranny. Included are a translation of the dialogue...

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Political Science

Media Studies

Occupy Three Inquiries in Disobedience

Mitchell W. J. T., Harcourt Bernard E., Taussig Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226042749, ISBN: HB: 9780226042602, University of Chicago Press, May 2013
152 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 29 halftones

"Mic check! Mic check!" Lacking amplification in Zuccotti Park, Occupy Wall Street protestors addressed one another by repeating and echoing speeches throughout the crowd. In "Occupy", W. J. T. Mitchell, Bernard E. Harcourt, and Michael Taussig take...

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Political Science

Out of Many, One Obama and the Third American Political Tradition

O'Brien Ruth

ISBN: PB: 9780226041629, ISBN: HB: 9780226041599, University of Chicago Press, May 2013
432 pp., 23x15 cm

Feared by conservatives and embraced by liberals when he entered the White House, Barack Obama has since been battered by criticism from both sides. In "Out of Many, One", Ruth O'Brien explains why. We are accustomed to seeing politicians supporting...

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Political Science

One Nation Under Contract The Outsourcing of American Power and the Future of Foreign Policy

Stanger Allison

ISBN: PB: 9780300168327, ISBN: HB: 9780300152654, Yale University Press, February 2011
256 pp., 22.4x14.7 cm

In this title, international relations scholar Allison Stanger shows how contractors became an integral part of American foreign policy, often in scandalous ways – but also maintains that contractors aren't the problem; the absence of good government...

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Political Science

Outsourcing War and Peace How Privatizing Foreign Affairs Threatens Core Public Values and What We Can Do About It

Dickinson Laura A.

ISBN: HB: 9780300144864, Yale University Press, January 2011
256 pp., 23.6x16.3 cm

Over the past decade, states and international organizations have shifted a surprising range of foreign policy functions to private contractors. But who is accountable when the employees of foreign private firms do violence or create harm? This timel...

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Political Science

Obama's Race The 2008 Election and the Dream of a Post-Racial America

Tesler Michael, Sears David O.

ISBN: PB: 9780226793832, ISBN: HB: 9780226793825, University of Chicago Press, November 2010
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 tables, 37 line illus.

Barack Obama's presidential victory naturally led people to believe that the United States might finally be moving into a post-racial era".Obama's Race" – and its eye-opening account of the role played by race in the election – paints a dramatically...

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Political Science

Oil and Politics in the Gulf of Guinea

Soares De Oliveira Ricardo M.

ISBN: PB: 9781850658580, Hurst Publishers, October 2007
380 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! This book investigates the paradox at the heart of present-day Gulf of Guinea politics. The governance crisis festering throughout every one of the region's states ought to discourage outsiders from capital-intensive, long-term...

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