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Never Again?: The United States and the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide Since the Holocaust - Paperback

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by Joel H. Rosenthal (Foreword by), Peter Ronayne (Author)Never Again? explores the uneasy U.S. relationship to the U.N. Genocide Convention and posits an analysis of U.S. response to genocide past and forthcoming: nonintervention followed by post-genocide justice.Author BiographyPeter Ronayne is senior faculty member at the Federal Executive Institute, in Charlottesville, Virginia, and is adjunct professor at the University of Virginia. Number of Pages: 224 Dimensions: 0.52 x 8.96 x 5.94 IN ...

History, Identity and the Bukusu-Bagisu Relations on the Kenya and Uganda Border - Hardcover

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by Peter Wafula Wekesa (Author)This book examines the history of community relations across the Kenya-Uganda border using the case of the Bukusu and the Bagisu. From this microcosmic level, the book explores the social, economic, and political relations that have evolved between the two communities and states over time.Author BiographyPeter Wafula Wekesa is senior lecturer in the Department of History, Archeology and Political Studies at Kenyatta University. Number of Pages: 236 Dimensions: 0...

Kurds Under Threat: The Role of Kurdish Transnational Networks During Peace and Conflict - Hardcover

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by Deniz Gumustekin (Author)The aim of this book is to identify the causal factors that influence the transnational networks between Kurdish organizations. Research findings reveal that political rationality and external threats seem to be stronger predictors of political behavior than ethnic ties in the Kurdish case.Author BiographyDr. Deniz Gumustekin is a part-time faculty member in political science at Kennesaw State University. Number of Pages: 178 Dimensions: 0.44 x 9 x 6 IN Illustrated...

Bias in the Law: A Definitive Look at Racial Prejudice in the U.S. Criminal Justice System - Paperback

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by Joseph Avery (Editor), Joel Cooper (Editor), Joseph Avery (Contribution by)Bias in the Law addresses racial bias across the full roster of criminal justice actors--from legislators to community members to police officers, from prosecutors and criminal defense attorneys to judges and jurors. The result is a key entry into understanding bias in the law, how such bias impacts outcomes, and what can be done.Author BiographyJoseph Avery is graduate fellow of the Woodrow Wilson Scholars at Princ...

Postcolonial Imbusa: Bemba Women's Agency and Indigenous Cultural Systems - Hardcover

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by Mutale Mulenga Kaunda (Author)Imbusa, a rite of passage for marriage among the Bemba people of Zambia, is one of the most salient and resilient rituals that shapes and informs the private and public life. It is one of the most formidable cultural forces that defines behaviors and determines everyday relations between women and men at home, church, and work. Postcolonial Imbusa: Bemba Women's Agency, and Indigenous Cultural Systems by Mutale Mulenga Kaunda offers a glimpse into the lived im...

An End to the War on Terrorism - Paperback

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by Phil Gurski (Author)This book will discuss what we have collectively done well, what we have done poorly, what we have yet to try and how we get to the point where terrorism does not dominate public discourse and cause disproportionate fear around the world.Author BiographyPhil Gurski served for more than 30 years as an analyst in the Canadian intelligence community. In 2001 he joined CSIS where he was a strategic analyst, specializing in homegrown Al Qaeda-inspired terrorism and radicaliz...

Negotiating Patriarchy and Gender in Africa: Discourses, Practices, and Policies - Paperback

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by Egodi Uchendu (Editor), Ngozi Edeagu (Editor), Valerie Delali Adjoh-Davoh (Contribution by)This book examines the entrenchment of patriarchy in Africa and its attendant socioeconomic and political consequences on gender relations. Using both historical and modern examples, contributors analyze the ways women have been systematically marginalized in African societies and call for improved policy implementation on gender issues in Africa. Number of Pages: 352 Dimensions: 0.73 x 9 x 6 IN Illu...

Rent and its Discontents: A Century of Housing Struggle - Paperback

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by Neil Gray (Editor)A series of investigative accounts from scholar-activists and housing campaign groups across the UK charts the diverse aims, tactics and strategies of current urban resistance, seeking to make a vital contribution to the contemporary housing question in a time of crisis.Author BiographyNeil Gray is an urban researcher, writer and lecturer and a long-term housing activist. He is currently working as a Research Associate at the University of Glasgow. Number of Pages: 294 Di...

New Directions in Transnational Mexican History: Mexico On the World Stage - Hardcover

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by Matthew D. Esposito (Editor), James Garza (Editor), Emily Casillas (Contribution by)New Directions in Transnational Mexican History: Mexico On the World Stage examines foreign immigration to Mexico as and the significance of Mexican transnationalism and pluriculturalism. Contributors explore the roles of entrepreneurs, consuls, doctors, railroad workers, cowboys, divas, puppeteers, missionaries, and women soccer players.Author BiographyMatthew D. Esposito is professor of history at Drake U...

Banning the Bomb, Smashing the Patriarchy - Paperback

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by Ray Acheson (Author)This book looks inside the antinuclear movement and its successful campaign to ban the bomb. From scrappy organizing to winning the Nobel Peace Prize and achieving a landmark UN treaty banning nuclear weapons, Acheson narrates the journey of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons and developments in feminist disarmament activism.Author BiographyRay Acheson is currently director of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom's disarmament progra...

African Migrations: Traversing Hybrid Landscapes - Hardcover

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by Sarali Gintsburg (Editor), Ruth Breeze (Editor), Ruth Breeze (Contribution by)This book explores the hybrid landscapes of African migration and offers new insights into the complexity of migratory movements and migrant experiences associated with the African continent. The methodological approaches within this volume include sociolinguistic analysis, literary analysis, and autoethnography.Author BiographySarali Gintsburg is a researcher at the Institute for Culture and Society at the Unive...

Public-Private Partnerships in Africa: Exploring Africa's Growth Potential - Hardcover

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by Thekiso Molokwane (Editor), Muhiya Tshombe Lukamba (Editor), Alex Nduhura (Editor)This book provides a detailed "multi-sectoral analysis" of public-private partnerships in Africa, examining the theory and implementation of PPPs and providing case studies on the use of PPPs in various African countries and industry sectors.Author BiographyThekiso Molokwane is extraordinary professor of public administration at North-West University and senior lecturer of public administration in the Departm...

Black Women's Rights: Leadership and the Circularities of Power - Paperback

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by Carole Boyce Davies (Author)This book studies the manifestation of leadership as expressed, narrativized, and represented by women of African descent. It uses the language of "rights" and "power" to assert that Black women find strategic alternatives to the male-dominated leadership status quo and are the leaders of the future. Number of Pages: 346 Dimensions: 0.77 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: August 22, 2023

Palestine in the Interwar Period: Between Internationalization and Revolution (1918-1939) - Hardcover

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by Labeeb Ahmed Bsoul (Author)The author examines Palestine's interwar political, social, and cultural landscape. The book sheds light on the complex forces at play in the region during this period, including colonial powers' support for the Zionist movement, the Balfour Declaration and Sykes-Picot Secret Agreement, the Peel Commission, the White Papers, the rise of Palestinian nationalism, the Palestinian revolution, and the internationalization of the Palestine question. Author BiographyLab...

Offender Rehabilitation Issues: Critical Lessons for Criminology, Criminal Justice, and Public Policy - Hardcover

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by Charles B. a. Ubah (Author)Most of the studies that discuss offender rehabilitation focus on the debate over whether prison-based education programs work, ignoring the important issues that these programs undertake. Using a critical approach, Offender Rehabilitation Issues: Critical Lessons for Criminology, Criminal Justice, and Public Policy fills the gap by highlighting the offender rehabilitation programs that continue to divide scholars, policy makers, correctional practitioners, stude...

Eric Voegelin on China and Universal Humanity: A Study of Voegelin's Hermeneutic Empirical Paradigm - Hardcover

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by Muen Liu (Author)This book studies Eric Voegelin's (1901-1985) Theory of Order. It focuses on Voegelin's interpretation of order/disorder, his penetration of the Tianxia (the Chinese Ecumene), and his comparison of representative heterogenous Ecumenes in the ancient West and East. In doing so, the book explores universal humankind and the nature of order-searching.Author BiographyMuen Liu is assistant researcher at the Institute for Ethics and Religions Studies (IERS), Department of Philos...

Negotiating Identities in Contemporary Africa - Hardcover

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by Toyin Falola (Editor), Emmanuel M. Mbah (Editor)This edited volume provides an interdisciplinary and balanced discussion on the changing dynamics of identities in Africa, with a focus on gender, ethno-cultural, and religious identity.Author BiographyToyin Falola is University Distinguished Professor and the Jacob and Francis Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities Department at the University of Texas at Austin and Extraordinary Professor of Human Rights at the University of the Free State...

When Students Protest: Secondary and High Schools - Paperback

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by Judith Bessant (Editor), Analicia Mejia Mesinas (Editor), Sarah Pickard (Editor)This book analyses how generations of secondary and high school students in many countries have been thoughtful, committed and effective political actors, particularly over the past decade.Author BiographyJudith Bessant is a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) and a Professor at RMIT University, Australia.Analicia Mejia Mesinas is an Assistant Professor, Azusa Pacific University, California, USA. Sarah Pickar...

Nigeria and the Nation-State: Rethinking Diplomacy with the Postcolonial World - Hardcover

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by John Campbell (Author)Nigeria, despite being the African country of greatest strategic importance to the U.S., remains poorly understood. John Campbell explains why Nigeria is so important to understand in a world of jihadi extremism, corruption, oil conflict, and communal violence. The revised edition provides updates through the recent presidential election. Number of Pages: 286 Dimensions: 0.81 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: November 03, 2024

Resisting Occupation: A Global Struggle for Liberation - Paperback

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by Miguel A. de la Torre (Editor), Mitri Raheb (Editor), Mark Braverman (Contribution by)In Resisting Occupation, international scholars discuss the radical denial of human flourishing caused by the occupation of mind, body, spirit, and land. They explore how religious perspectives can be, and often are, constructed by occupiers to justify their actions, perpetuate exploitation, and domesticate indigenous landholders. In the name of Christianization and civilization, which has proven to be a ...

Who Is an African?: Race, Identity, and Destiny in Post-apartheid South Africa - Paperback

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by Roderick R. Hewitt (Editor), Chammah J. Kaunda (Editor), Marshall W. Murphree (Foreword by)This book is an in-depth conversation and study about issues of African identity in South Africa. It aims to inform policy development and change in the role of race and ethnic identity within the "rainbow" configuration of nation building.Author BiographyRoderick R. Hewitt is academic leader for research and higher degrees in the School of Religion, Philosophy and Classics at the University of KwaZu...

Vivian Castleberry: Challenging the Traditions of Women's Roles, Newspaper Content, and Community Politics - Hardcover

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by Kimberly Wilmot Voss (Author)Considered by some as the most important woman in Dallas in the latter half of the 20th century, Vivian Castleberry was a force for women, nationally and internationally. In shining a light on her career, more becomes known about her fights and her victories. Through this book, historians can better understand that the relationship of the women's pages to the women's movement between the 1950s and '70s was more complex than previously explored. Known as the "go...

The Secret Struggles of Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg Leaders: Political Resistance from the Margins - Paperback

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by Anny Morissette (Author)In The Secret Struggles of Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg Leaders: Political Resistance from the Margins, Anny Morissette examines Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg actors' political resistance to the Canadian government amidst threats to the tribe's traditional political structures.Author BiographyAnny Morissette is assistant professor in the School of Conflict Studies at Saint Paul University. Number of Pages: 232 Dimensions: 0.49 x 9 x 6 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: Au...

Civilization: Global Histories of a Political Idea - Hardcover

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by Patricia Chiantera-Stutte (Editor), Giovanni Borgognone (Editor), Giovanni Borgognone (Contribution by)From the U.S. military intervention in the Middle East 2001, to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the "clash of civilizations" theses have been widely used. What is their role in framework of identity politics? This book shows the flexible and multiple use of civilizational narratives in historical and political developments and geographical areas. Author BiographyPatricia Chiantera-Stutte...

Rethinking State-Non-State Alliances: Change and Continuity in the U.S.-Kurdish Relationship - Hardcover

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by Ozum Yesiltas (Author)Thriving in the context of political vacuums created by state weakness, the armed non-state actors in the Middle East, such as Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Kurds increasingly demonstrate features of both state and non-state actors and act autonomously in their foreign policy. Rethinking State-Non-State Alliances: Change and Continuity in the U.S.-Kurdish Relationship investigates the growing influence of Middle Eastern non-state actors as agents of foreign policy through...

The Rise of Politics and Morality in Nietzsche's Genealogy: From Chaos to Conscience - Hardcover

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by Jeffrey Metzger (Author)Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morals has become a central text for understanding the thinker and his impact on moral philosophy. Yet his account of the rise of political society and its relation to morality has generally been overlooked, in large part because of its strange and often confusing character. In The Rise of Politics and Morality in Nietzsche's Genealogy: From Chaos to Conscience, Jeffrey Metzger devotes careful attention to Nietzsche's analysis of the ...

The Rise of Neoliberal Philosophy: Human Capital, Profitable Knowledge, and the Love of Wisdom - Hardcover

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by Brandon Absher (Author)Brandon Absher demonstrates that the neoliberalization of higher education has led to a paradigm shift in contemporary philosophy in the United States. Neoliberal philosophy aims to produce human capital and profitable knowledge.Author BiographyBrandon Absher is associate professor of philosophy at D'Youville College. Number of Pages: 196 Dimensions: 0.56 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: August 24, 2021

Machiavelli's Platonic Problems: Neoplatonism, Eros, Mythmaking, and Philosophy in Machiavellian Thought - Paperback

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by Guillaume Bogiaris (Author)This book argues that Machiavelli's thought entertains a more complex relationship to Platonic philosophy than previously assumed. Far from rejecting Platonism in bulk, Machiavelli actually engages with important Platonic tenets, the role of philosophical education for political leaders, and the relationship between mythmaking and policymakingAuthor BiographyGuillaume Bogiaris is assistant professor of political science and philosophy at the University of West Al...

Our Shared Future: Windows into Canada's Reconciliation Journey - Paperback

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by Laura E. Reimer (Editor), Robert Chrismas (Editor), David Barnard (Foreword by)This collection provides windows into Canada's conflicted history and the innovative and courageous efforts to reconcile relationships between Indigenous people and settler descendants. The vision and deep experience of scholars and leaders from across the country offer tangible ways that Canada is working toward a peaceful shared future.Author BiographyLaura E. Reimer is research associate with the Arthur V. Ma...

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by Louis René Beres (Author)Now facing a genuinely unprecedented configuration of existential threats, Israel's leaders must decide whether to continue their deliberate nuclear ambiguity policy (the "bomb in the basement") as they consider such urgent and overlapping survival issues as regional nuclear proliferation, Jihadist terror-group intersections with enemy states, rationality or irrationality of state and sub-state adversaries, assassination or "targeted killing," preemption, and the p...

Cabo Verdeans in the United States: Twenty-First-Century Critical Perspectives - Hardcover

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by Terza A. Silva Lima-Neves (Editor), Tameka Alice Amado (Contribution by), Abel Djassi Amado (Contribution by)In the last thirty years, there has been a shift in the Cabo Verdean community in the ways it perceives itself ethnically and racially, in the creation of opportunities for socio-economic mobility, and in the pursuit of new migratory patterns within the United States to take advantage of these opportunities. Existing scholarship on the historical and contemporary experiences of Cabo...

Unrealized Digital Democracy: A Critical Analysis of Power in the Digital Age - Hardcover

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by Garrett Pierman (Author)The author makes the cause for an analysis of digital politics grounded in both materialism and Bruno Latour's Actor-Network-Theory. Such an analysis identifies asymmetries of digital power in the contemporary internet, explaining some of the more concerning, undemocratic trends of recent years including politically-motivated violence. Author BiographyGarrett Pierman received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Florida International University in 2022. . He has taug...