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Potter Lawrence G.

ISBN: PB: 9781849043380, Hurst Publishers, January 2014
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Long a taboo topic, as well as one that has alarmed outside powers, sectarian conflict in the Middle East is on the rise. The contributors to this book examine sectarian politics in the Persian Gulf, including the GCC states, Y...

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Political Science

Middle East

Struggle for Iraq's Future How Corruption, Incompetence and Sectarianism Have Undermined Democracy

al-Ali Zaid

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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Philosophy

Political Science

Secular Powers Humility in Modern Political Thought

Cooper Julie E.

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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Philosophy

Spartakus The Symbology of Revolt

Jesi Furio

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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Political Science

General

Symbolic Power, Politics, and Intellectuals The Political Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu

Swartz David L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226925011, ISBN: HB: 9780226925004, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
304 pp., 23x15 cm

Power is the central organizing principle of all social life, from culture and education to stratification and taste. And there is no more prominent name in the analysis of power than that of noted sociologist Pierre Bourdieu. Throughout his career,...

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Political Science

Single Roll of the Dice Obama's Diplomacy with Iran

Parsi Trita

ISBN: PB: 9780300192360, Yale University Press, March 2013
304 pp., 21x14 cm

Have the diplomatic efforts of the Obama administration toward Iran failed? Was the Bush administration's emphasis on military intervention, refusal to negotiate, and pursuit of regime change a better approach? How can the United States best address...

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Political Science

Social Citizen Peer Networks and Political Behavior

Sinclair Betsy

ISBN: PB: 9780226922829, ISBN: HB: 9780226922812, University of Chicago Press, January 2013
216 pp., 25x15 cm, 24 tables, 20 line illus.

Human beings are social animals. Yet despite vast amounts of research into political decision making, very little attention has been devoted to its social dimensions. In political science, social relationships are generally thought of as mere sources...

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America

Political Science

Sympathetic State Disaster Relief and the Origins of the American Welfare State

Landis Dauber Michele

ISBN: PB: 9780226923499, University of Chicago Press, January 2013
378 pp., 23x15 cm, 13 tables, 23 halftones, 1 line illus.

Even as unemployment rates soared during the Great Depression, FDR's relief and social security programs faced attacks in Congress and the courts on the legitimacy of federal aid to the growing population of poor. In response, New Dealers pointed to...

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Islam

Political Science

Shi'ism and Politics in the Middle East

Louer Laurence

ISBN: HB: 9781849042024, Hurst Publishers, October 2012
176 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Although Iran's Islamic Revolution had an electrifying effect on Shiite movements in Lebanon, Iraq, the Gulf and Saudi Arabia, there exists a tendency to explain away much of Shiite politics in the Middle East as inextricably l...

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America

Political Science

State and the Stork The Population Debate and Policy Making in US History

Hoff Derek S.

ISBN: HB: 9780226347622, University of Chicago Press, September 2012
392 pp., 23x15 cm

From the colonial era to the present, the ever-shifting debate about America's prodigious population growth has exerted a profound influence on the evolution of politics, public policy, and economic thinking in the United States. In a remarkable shif...

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