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Military

Success and Failure in Limited War Information and Strategy in the Korean, Vietnam, Persian Gulf, and Iraq Wars

Bakich Spencer D.

ISBN: PB: 9780226107714, ISBN: HB: 9780226107684, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 line drawings, 5 tables

Common and destructive, limited wars are significant international events that pose a number of challenges to the states involved beyond simple victory or defeat. Chief among these challenges is the risk of escalation – be it in the scale, scope, cos...

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Political Science

Justice and Peace Interdisciplinary Perspectives on a Contested Relationship

Hellmann Gunther

ISBN: PB: 9783593399829, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2014
196 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

Justice and peace are key concepts in the discourse of many academic disciplines. Conceptually, they are obviously linked, but perennial disputes surround the question of their interdependence and whether priority must be accorded to justice or peace...

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Political Science

America

Think Tanks in America

Medvetz Thomas

ISBN: PB: 9780226143668, ISBN: HB: 9780226517292, University of Chicago Press, February 2014
344 pp., 23x15 cm, 7 tables, 1 map, 12 line illus.

Over the past half-century, think tanks have become fixtures of American politics, supplying advice to presidents and policymakers, expert testimony on Capitol Hill, and convenient facts and figures to journalists and media specialists. But what are...

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Political Science

Anthropology

Spirits in Politics Uncertainties of Power and Healing in African Societies

Meier Barbara, Steinforth Arne S.

ISBN: PB: 9783593399157, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2014
265 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

"Spirits in Politics" explores the interface between religion and politics in African societies by examining recent and ongoing research in a variety of regional settings. Case studies from across the African continent exemplify how – and at which so...

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Political Science

Systemic Risk The Myth of Rational Finance and the Crisis of Democracy

Willke Helmut, Becker Eva, Rostasy Carla

ISBN: PB: 9783593399881, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2014
282 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 23 colour plates, 2 halftones

Five years have passed since the outbreak of one of the worst financial crises the world has ever witnessed. Yet, despite the exceedingly diverse range of publications that have sought to explain the causes and the logic of the crisis, central questi...

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Political Science

Kindly Inquisitors The New Attacks on Free Thought (Expanded Edition)

Rauch Jonathan

ISBN: PB: 9780226145938, University of Chicago Press, January 2014
216 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

"A liberal society stands on the proposition that we should all take seriously the idea that we might be wrong. This means we must place no one, including ourselves, beyond the reach of criticism; it means that we must allow people to err, even where...

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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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Political Science

Mixed Emotions Beyond Fear and Hatred in International Conflict

Ross Andrew A. G.

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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Political Science

Constitution in Congress: Democrats and Whigs, 1829-1861

Currie David P.

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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Political Science

Timing and Turnout How Off-Cycle Elections Favor Organized Groups

Anzia Sarah F.

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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