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by Nicolas Besly (Author), Tom Goldsmith (Author)Written by expert insiders, How Parliament Works is a straightforward and readable analysis of one of the country's most complex - and often misunderstood - institutions. Covering every aspect of the work, membership and structures of both Houses, this key text provides a unique insight into the work and daily life of Parliament.The ninth edition has been substantially revised to take account of recent changes in both Houses, and to cover all t...

Friendship Across the Seas: The US Navy and the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force - Hardcover

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by Naoyuki Agawa (Author)This Open Access book describes the history of the relationship between the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF), the heir to the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), and the United States Navy (US Navy), with a focus on the individuals who helped build it. Former enemies who fought fiercely on the seas and in the air during the Pacific War, the two navies came to respect each other in action. Soon after the war, when the Cold War turned hot, they began to work together...

Political Communication: An Introduction for Crisis Times - Hardcover

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by Aeron Davis (Author)We are living in a period of great uncertainty. The rise of extreme populists, economic shocks and rising international tensions is not only causing turmoil but is also a sign that many long-predicted tipping points in media and politics have now been reached. Such changes have worrying implications for democracies everywhere.This second edition of Political Communication bridges old and new to map the political and cultural shifts and analyse what they mean for our age...

The Ecological Person: Disclosing Nature As Thou - Paperback

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by Luk Bouckaert (Author)In this essay, Luk Bouckaert attempts to re-evaluate the philosophical foundations of Personalism by posing two challenging questions. The first question concerns our self-perception as a person: is it possible for Personalists, who value the unique dignity of every person, to subordinate their freedom to nature as an eco-system? Or can they approach nature itself as a personal Presence? The second question is perhaps even more challenging. The word 'hope' is invoked ...

Theory and Practice in Epicurean Political Philosophy: Security, Justice and Tranquility - Paperback

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by Javier Aoiz (Author), Marcelo D. Boeri (Author)The opponents of Epicureanism in antiquity, including Cicero, Plutarch and Lactantius, succeeded in establishing a famous clich? the theoretical and practical disinterest of Epicurus and the Epicureans in political communities. However, this anti-Epicurean literature did not provide considerations of Epicurean political theory or the testimonies about Epicurean lifestyle. The purpose of this book is to shed light on the contribution of Epicure...

Fluid Geographies: Water, Science, and Settler Colonialism in New Mexico - Hardcover

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by K. Maria D. Lane (Author)An unprecedented analysis of the origin story of New Mexico's modern water management system. Maria Lane's Fluid Geographies traces New Mexico's transition from a community-based to an expert-led system of water management during the pre-statehood era. To understand this major shift, Lane carefully examines the primary conflict of the time, which pitted Indigenous and Nuevomexicano communities, with their long-established systems of irrigation management, against ...

International Statebuilding in West Africa: Civil Wars and New Humanitarianism in Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Côte d'Ivoire - Paperback

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by Abu Bakarr Bah (Author), Nikolas Emmanuel (Author)At the turn of the twenty-first century, manipulation of the democratic process coupled with preexisting political and economic grievances led to years-long civil wars in Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Côte d'Ivoire. During and after these conflicts, international peacekeeping efforts and humanitarian intervention became the dominant paths for restoring stability by rebuilding the state. Using these three countries as case studies, this manuscr...

Brics: Un Análisis Profundo de las Cinco Potencias Emergentes - Brasil, Rusia, India, China y Sudáfrica - y su Impacto en el Futuro Global - Paperback

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by Carlos Emergente (Author)"BRICS: El Surgimiento de un Nuevo Orden Mundial" es una obra completa que arroja luz sobre las dinámicas en constante evolución de los BRICS (Brasil, Rusia, India, China y Sudáfrica) y su creciente papel en la configuración del futuro del mundo. Este libro ofrece un análisis completo y detallado de los BRICS, examinando cada aspecto de su presencia en el escenario global.El autor, un experto en relaciones internacionales y geopolítica, guía al lector a través de u...

The Labour Party and Electoral Reform - Paperback

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by Jasper Miles (Author)The issue of electoral reform has divided the Labour Party since its inception, but only for a brief period in the early 20th century has the Party been committed to reforming first-past-the-post (FPTP). Now, having suffered four successive general election defeats, the Labour Party will have to reconsider its electoral strategy if it is, once again, to become a party of government. For some, a commitment to electoral reform is an indispensable step to widen support, t...

Access to Justice in Rural Communities: Global Perspectives - Paperback

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by Daniel Newman (Editor), Faith Gordon (Editor)This book offers insight on access to justice from rural areas in internationally comparable contexts to highlight the diversity of experiences within, and across rural areas globally.It looks at the fundamental questions for people's lives raised by the issue of access to justice as well as the rule of law. It highlights a range of social, geographic and cultural issues which impact the way rural communities experience the justice system throug...

Singapore Ageing: Issues and Challenges Ahead - Paperback

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by S. Vasoo (Editor), Bilveer Singh (Editor), Srinivasan Chokkanathan (Editor)Ageing is a part of life that all Singaporeans must face and, in fact, all families will have next of kins who will undergo that life stage. Singapore Ageing assembles a team of researchers, administrators, practitioners, advocates and academics from varied social service and care sectors, to share their thoughts, concerns and future challenges faced by an ageing Singapore in different arenas.With the Singapore demo...

War on Terror: Reflecting on 20 Years of Policy, Actions, and Violence - Hardcover

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by Stipe Buzar (Editor), Jean-Fran?ois Caron (Editor)Looking back at the "War on Terror" and its policies, actions, and the violence that followed, this book analyzes the resulting changes in international power structures and the relationship between citizens and their representatives. It defines our shortcomings in opposing this type of violence by demonstrating how the notion of legitimate violence has been broadened. The impact of the "War on Terror" on the public view of Liberalism is e...

Spatiality, Sovereignty and Carl Schmitt: Geographies of the Nomos - Paperback

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by Stephen Legg (Editor)The writings of Carl Schmitt are now indissociable from both an historical period and a contemporary moment. He will forever be remembered for his association with the National Socialists of 1930s Germany, and as the figure whose writings on sovereignty, politics, and the law provided justification for authoritarian, decisional states. Yet at the same time, the post-September 11th 2001 world is one in which a wide range of scholars have increasingly turned to Schmitt t...

The World War II Bond Campaign - Paperback

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by Lawrence R. Samuel (Author)How America's greatest marketing triumph in World War II shaped race, ethnicity, and class in modern America The World War II Bond Campaign is a history of the World War II bond drive led by the federal government, an effort called the most successful marketing operation in history. By the war's end, some 85 million Americans had spent $186 billion in an unprecedented outpouring of patriotism that contributed to the military victory and the prosperity of the foll...

After the Ottomans: Genocide's Long Shadow and Armenian Resilience - Paperback

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by Hans-Lukas Kieser (Editor), Khatchig Mouradian (Editor), Seyhan Bayraktar (Editor)This book deals with the lasting impact and the formative legacy of removal, dispossession and the politics of genocide in the last decade of the Ottoman Empire. For understanding contemporary Turkey and the neighboring region, it is important to revisit the massive transformation of the late-Ottoman world caused by persistent warfare between 1912 and 1922. This fourth volume of a series focusing on the "Otto...

Secular Religions: The Key Concepts - Paperback

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by Tam?s Nyirkos (Author)Secular Religions: The Key Concepts provides a concise guide to those ideologies, worldviews, and social, political, economic, and cultural phenomena that are most often described as the modern counterparts of traditional religions.Although there are many other terms in use (quasi, pseudo, ersatz, political, civil, etc.), it is "secular religion" that best expresses the problematic nature of all such descriptions, which maintain that modern belief systems and practice...

Anarchism and Eugenics: An Unlikely Convergence, 1890-1940 - Paperback

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by Richard Cleminson (Author)This book traces the convergence between anarchism, as an anti-authoritarian, anti-statist political doctrine, and eugenics, the science of 'race improvement' in five countries between 1890 and 1940.Back JacketRichard Cleminson offers a detailed analysis of the historical convergence between anarchism and eugenics in five countries: Argentina, England, France, Portugal and Spain. The book highlights the seemingly contradictory nature of eugenicist ideas that found...

The Rise of Global Islamophobia in the War on Terror: Coloniality, Race, and Islam - Paperback

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by Naved Bakali (Editor), Farid Hafez (Editor)This international edited volume examines the rise of global Islamophobia in the War on Terror across the global North and South, its impact on Muslims and Muslim communities, and resistance confronting it.Back JacketThe so-called 'War on Terror' ushered in a new era of anti-Muslim bias and racism. Anti-Muslim racism, or Islamophobia, is influenced by local economies, power structures, and histories. However, the War on Terror, a conflict undefine...

A Terrible Thing to Waste: Arthur Fletcher and the Conundrum of the Black Republican - Paperback

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by David Hamilton Golland (Author)Arthur Fletcher (1924-2005) was the most important civil rights leader you've (probably) never heard of. The first black player for the Baltimore Colts, the father of affirmative action and adviser to four presidents, he coined the United Negro College Fund's motto: "A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Waste." Modern readers might be surprised to learn that Fletcher was also a Republican. Fletcher's story, told in full for the first time in this book, embodies the ...

Keeping Up the Good Fight: From the Emergency to the Present Day - Paperback

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by Prabir Purkayastha (Author)The story of a political prisoner's coming of age as a student activist in India Keeping Up the Good Fight is the story of a young man's political coming of age and his experience as a student activist and scientist incarcerated by two authoritarian regimes in India, half a century apart. On September 25, 1975, the students of Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi called for a strike to protest the expulsion of Ashoklata Jain, an elected student union member. ...

Walter Benjamin and Antonio Gramsci: A Missed Encounter - Paperback

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by Dario Gentili (Editor), Elettra Stimilli (Editor), Gabriele Guerra (Editor)This book marks a missed encounter between two of the most influential Marxist thinkers of our age, Walter Benjamin and Antonio Gramsci, studied here for the first time side by side.Benjamin and Gramsci were contemporaries, whose births and deaths took place within a few years of each other in Western Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. Two Marxists sui generis, they radically changed Marxism's themes...

The Haves and Have-Nots in Supreme Court Representation and Participation, 2016 to 2021 - Hardcover

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by Kirsten Widner (Author), Anna Gunderson (Author)Courts are often thought of as protectors of minority rights. What happens when the composition of courts changes such that politically disadvantaged groups expect a less favorable reception? This Element examines whether the increasing conservatism of the US Supreme Court during Donald Trump's presidency changed the behavior of litigants and amicus curiae. The authors test whether membership changes led to reduced filings by individuals and ...

The Senseless Handling of Fat People - Paperback

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by Susanne Brandheim (Author)Every other fat woman feels defeated after meeting a doctor. At the same time, more and more girls in the Western world are starting to diet hard before the age of 14. There is a prevailing ideology that makes us all "want" to be thin. We have been thoroughly conditioned to believe that fatness is a result of personal weakness and immoral behavior, and our caring institutions have acted as moralizing gatekeepers of this inhuman myth. What if all interventions agai...

The United States, China, and the Competition for Control - Paperback

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by Melanie W. Sisson (Author)This book considers whether the United States and the People's Republic of China have irreconcilable visions of world order.The United States, China, and the Competition for Control evaluates the twin claims that China seeks to dismantle the post-World War II international order and that the United States seeks to defend it. It defines the post-war order and examines how the United States and China have behaved within and in relation to it since 1945. An analysis ...

States and their Nationals Abroad - Hardcover

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by Klaus Brummer (Editor), Sumit Ganguly (Editor)In a novel contribution to the field of comparative foreign policy analysis, this book carefully delineates how states, regardless of regime, have formulated policies to deal with their national communities aboard. Some states, depending on their domestic political ideologies, cultures and capabilities, have extensive institutional mechanisms in place for coming to the aid of their nationals abroad. Others, however, have also used these capabil...

Justice for All: Earl Warren and the Nation He Made - Paperback

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by Jim Newton (Author)Author BiographyJim Newton has written hundreds of newspaper and magazine stories and is the recipient of numerous awards. He shared in the Pulitzer prizes awarded to the Los Angeles Times for coverage of the 1992 riots and the 1994 Northridge earthquake. Number of Pages: 640 Dimensions: 1.38 x 9.2 x 6.16 IN Publication Date: October 02, 2007

Lincoln's Last Card: The Emancipation Proclamation as a Case of Command - Paperback

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by Richard J. Ellis (Author)A fresh reassessment of the Emancipation Proclamation that looks beyond the Lincoln mythos and sees the decision as Lincoln's last resort after his failure to persuade a divided country.There is a certain comfort in being able to see Lincoln--or any president--simply as either a hero or a villain. The truth, however, is more complicated. Lincoln's Last Card helps us look beyond the myths to see Lincoln as the flawed and consequential leader that he was.Few presiden...

Power and Terror: Conflict, Hegemony, and the Rule of Force - Paperback

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by Noam Chomsky (Author), John Junkerman (Editor), Takei Masakazu (Editor)In this pertinent book, Noam Chomsky examines the imbalanced dynamics of international power relations and the use of state terror by the United States and other Western powers in the Middle East in the post-9/11 era. This edition features new forewords by Fred Branfman and Chris Hedges reasserting the enduring importance of Chomsky's work and extending Chomsky's analysis to recent developments in the Middle East.Chomsk...

Owned: How Tech Billionaires on the Right Bought the Loudest Voices on the Left - Hardcover

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by Eoin Higgins (Author) A "devastating" (Nation) examination of how a cabal of tech-billionaires is colluding with once-idealistic journalists to create an entirely new media landscape Owned is the story of the underreported and growing collusion between new wealth and new journalism. In recent years, right-wing billionaires like Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, and David Sacks have turned to media as their next investment and source of influence. Their cronies are Glenn Greenwald an...

Fragmented Powers: Confrontation and Cooperation in the English-Speaking World - Hardcover

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by Emmanuelle Avril (Editor), Laurence Cossu-Beaumont (Editor), David F?e (Editor)Against the backdrop of an increasingly unstable and multipolar modern world, this edited collection takes an interdisciplinary approach to explore institutional, political, social and media fragmentation in today's increasingly polarised English-speaking world environment. Taking fragmentation as either conflictive or resulting in cooperation, it evaluates to what extent the changes induced are long-lasting and...

China's Foreign Policy: The Emergence of a Great Power - Paperback

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by Andrea Benvenuti (Author), Chien-Peng Chung (Author), Nicholas Khoo (Author)This volume explains China's foreign policy from the perspective of its historical recovery after 1949 and the country's subsequent rise as a great power, including its transformation into a global power. It also illuminates how China has, in tandem with its rise, developed an increasing array of political, economic, 'sharp power' and military capabilities that is helping it to further its increasingly expansive fo...

Grappling with Monuments of Oppression: Moving from Analysis to Activism - Paperback

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by Christopher C. Fennell (Editor)Grappling with Monuments of Oppression provides a timely analysis of the diverse approaches being used around the world to confront colonial and imperial monuments and to promote social equity.Presenting 12 interdisciplinary, international case studies, this volume explores the ways in which the materiality of social domination can be combated. With contributions from activists, scholars, artists, and policymakers, the book envisions the theme of restorative ...