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Mexico's Illicit Drug Networks and the State Reaction - Hardcover

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by Nathan P. Jones (Author), Nathan P. Jones (Contribution by)Mexican drug networks are large and violent, engaging in activities like the trafficking of narcotics, money laundering, extortion, kidnapping, and mass murder. Despite the impact of these activities in Mexico and abroad, these illicit networks are remarkably resilient to state intervention.Drawing on extensive fieldwork and interviews with US and Mexican law enforcement, government officials, organized crime victims, and criminals...

Republic of Dreams: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Struggles, and the Future of Iraqi Kurdistan - Hardcover

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by Nicole F. Watts (Author)A harrowing political history of Kurdish Iraq told through the extraordinary rags-to-riches story of a childhood refugee In the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s, Iraqi president Saddam Hussein used chemical weapons against his own people, the Iraqi Kurds. Five thousand people died in what became known as the Halabja Massacre, which has been deemed the worst chemical attack in history. Nicole F. Watts, a former journalist and now professor of political science, has spent o...

Democracy in America, Volume 2 - Paperback

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by Alexis de Tocqueville (Author)Translation of: De la democratie en Amerique.Front JacketVolume 2 of the classic commentary on the influence of democracy on the intellect, feelings, and actions of Americans. With an introduction by Phillips Bradley.Author BiographyAlexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) was a French politician and theorist. He wrote Democracy in America after visiting the United States during which he observed various elements of the prison system. He continued on to serve in the ...

Dangerous Learning: The South's Long War on Black Literacy - Hardcover

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by Derek W. Black (Author)The enduring legacy of the nineteenth-century struggle for Black literacy in the American South Few have ever valued literacy as much as the enslaved Black people of the American South. For them, it was more than a means to a better life; it was a gateway to freedom and, in some instances, a tool for inspiring revolt. And few governments tried harder to suppress literacy than did those in the South. Everyone understood that knowledge was power: power to keep a perso...

From the Academy to the Streets: Notes from a Working Class Think Tank - Paperback

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by Colin Jenkins (Editor)Since its founding in 2013, the Hampton Institute has remained at the forefront of incubating, developing, and advancing revolutionary theory by and for the people's movements. The platform has not only stood the test of time but continually expanded its reach, with outlets from Monthly Review and Truthout to Black Agenda Report and Z Magazine routinely republishing its analysis; as well as the United Nations General Assembly inviting the Institute to contribute a rep...

What Truth Sounds Like: Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation about Race in America - Paperback

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by Michael Eric Dyson (Author)A "tour de force" (Harry Belafonte) now finally in paperback An electrifying and traumatic encounter in the sixties crystallized the fraught conflict between conscience and politics - between morality and power - in addressing race. In 1963 Attorney General Robert Kennedy sought out James Baldwin to explain the rage that threatened to engulf black America. Baldwin brought along some friends, including playwright Lorraine Hansberry, psychologist Kenneth Clark, and...

Lawless: The Miseducation of America's Elites - Hardcover

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by Ilya Shapiro (Author)In the past, Columbia Law School produced leaders like Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Now it produces window-smashing activists.When protestors at Columbia broke into a build-ing and created illegal encampments, the student-led Columbia Law Review demanded that finals be canceled because of "distress." At Stanford, chanting activists, egged on by an associate dean, drove away a federal judge. Yale's hostility to free speech led more than a dozen fed...

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by Martin Luther King (Author), Reginald Dwayne Betts (Afterword by)A beautiful commemorative edition of Dr. Martin Luther King's essay "Letter from Birmingham Jail," part of Dr. King's archives published exclusively by HarperCollins.With an afterword by Reginald Dwayne Betts On April 16, 1923, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., responded to an open letter written and published by eight white clergyman admonishing the civil rights demonstrations happening in Birmingham, Alabama. Dr. King drafted his...

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by Julian E. Zelizer (Author)"Contravening conventional wisdom, Zelizer offers a spirited defense of parties and partisanship." --Frances Lee, Princeton University Partisanship is a dirty word in American politics. If there is one issue on which almost everyone in our divided country seems to agree, it's the belief that the intense loyalty within the electorate toward Democrats and Republicans is the source of our democratic ills--division, dysfunction, distrust, and disinformation. The possi...

A More Perfect Party: The Night Shirley Chisholm and Diahann Carroll Reshaped Politics - Hardcover

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by Juanita Tolliver (Author)From an MSNBC Political Analyst, a riveting account of the legendary party hosted by Diahann Carroll for Shirley Chisholm's 1972 presidential campaign, which changed the playing field for Black women in politics. In 1972, New York Representative Shirley Chisholm broke the ice in American politics when she became the first Black woman to run for president of the United States. Chisholm left behind a coalition-building model personified by a once-in-an-era Hollywoo...

The Eurasian Century: Hot Wars, Cold Wars, and the Making of the Modern World - Hardcover

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by Hal Brands (Author)We often think of the modern era as the age of American power. In reality, we're living in a long, violent Eurasian century. That giant, resource-rich landmass possesses the bulk of the global population, industrial might, and potential military power; it touches all four of the great oceans. Eurasia is a strategic prize without equal--which is why the world has been roiled, reshaped, and nearly destroyed by clashes over the supercontinent.Since the early twentieth centu...

Land Power: Who Has It, Who Doesn't, and How That Determines the Fate of Societies - Hardcover

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by Michael Albertus (Author)An award-winning political scientist shows that a society's path to prosperity, sustainability, and equality depends on who owns the land For millennia, land has been a symbol of wealth and privilege. But the true power of land ownership is even greater than we might think. In Land Power, political scientist Michael Albertus shows that who owns the land determines whether a society will be equal or unequal, whether it will develop or decline, and whether it will s...

The Thinking Heart: Essays on Israel and Palestine - Paperback

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by David Grossman (Author), Jessica Cohen (Translator)Searing essays from International Booker Prize-winning Israeli author and long-time peace activist David Grossman carry us up to and through the cataclysm of Oct 7th and what followed We know David Grossman's voice of ringing moral clarity from way back: since the late 1980s and The Yellow Wind, his classic work on the urgency of the two-state solution and the price paid by both occupier and occupied, he has been criticizing his country's ...

House of Huawei: The Secret History of China's Most Powerful Company - Hardcover

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by Eva Dou (Author)The untold story of the mysterious company that shook the world. On the coast of southern China, an eccentric entrepreneur spent three decades steadily building an obscure telecom company into one of the world's most powerful technological empires with hardly anyone noticing. This all changed in December 2018, when the detention of Meng Wanzhou, Huawei Technologies' female scion, sparked an international hostage standoff, poured fuel on the US-China trade war, and suddenly ...

Outraged: Why We Fight about Morality and Politics and How to Find Common Ground - Hardcover

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by Kurt Gray (Author)A groundbreaking new perspective on the moral mind that rewrites our understanding of where moral judgments come from, and how we can overcome the feelings of outrage that so often divide us It's easy to assume that liberals and conservatives have radically different moral foundations. In Outraged, Kurt Gray showcases the latest science to demonstrate that we all have the same moral mind--that everyone's moral judgments stem from feeling threatened or vulnerable to harm....

Wiseguys and the White House: Gangsters, Presidents, and the Deals They Made - Hardcover

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by Eric Dezenhall (Author)"Wiseguys and the White House is an eye-opening, authoritative, remarkably detailed expos? of the interplay between organized crime and our presidents, shockingly revealing how close we have come to Mob rule."--Ronald Kessler, New York Times bestselling author of The Secrets of the FBI and The First Family Detail"Mobsters and presidents? The ties aren't just in pulp fiction. Eric Dezenhall tracks down the startling deals and deceptions that both sides might prefer to...

The JFK Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Kennedy--And Why It Failed - Hardcover

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by Brad Meltzer (Author), Josh Mensch (Author)From the New York Times bestselling authors of The Nazi Conspiracy and The Lincoln Conspiracy comes a true, little-known story about the first assassination attempt on John F. Kennedy, right before his inauguration. Kennedy, the thirty-fifth president of the United States, is often ranked among Americans' most well-liked presidents. Yet what most Americans don't know is that JFK's historic presidency almost ended before it began--at the hands of a...

Revisionist Writings III - 1990-1992 - Paperback

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by Robert Faurisson (Author)The so-called 'Faurisson affair' began on 16 November 1978 with the publication of an article in Le Matin de Paris. I had known for several years that the day the press made my revisionist views public, I would face a storm. By its very nature, revisionism can only disturb public order; where certainties reign, the spirit of free examination is an intruder and causes a scandal. The first task of the courts is less to defend justice than to preserve public order. Tr...

The Collars of Rbg: A Portrait of Justice - Hardcover

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by Elinor Carucci (Author), Sara Bader (Author)A striking portrait of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and her historic tenure on the United States Supreme Court, brought to life with incisive quotes and bold photographs of her iconic collars."RBG was unlike any other. So is this visual tribute to her."--Pete Souza, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Obama: An Intimate PortraitA PARADE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR The collar is a powerful point of entry for exploring Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's li...

Why Empires Fall: Rome, America, and the Future of the West - Paperback

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by Peter Heather (Author), John Rapley (Author)A new perspective on parallels between ancient Rome and the modern world, and what comes next "[A] provocative short book . . . with a novel twist."--The Economist Over the last three centuries, the West rose to dominate the planet. Then, around the start of the new millennium, history took a dramatic turn. Faced with economic stagnation and internal political division, the West has found itself in rapid decline compared to the global periphery...

Taiwan and the Danger of a Sino-American War - Paperback

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by Steve Chan (Author) Number of Pages: 78 Dimensions: 0.16 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: January 02, 2025

Women, Gender, and Rebel Governance during Civil Wars - Paperback

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by Meredith Maloof Loken (Author) Number of Pages: 80 Dimensions: 0.17 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: January 02, 2025

Computational Global Macro: Game Theory, Machine Learning, and Causal Inference - Hardcover

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by Joseph Simonian (Author)Computational Global Macro offers investors a new paradigm for the analysis of geopolitical risk. By drawing on game theory, machine learning, and causal inference, the book provides investors with a novel framework for analyzing the political and economic interactions between global actors. In doing so, it presents a counterpoint to the often informal and speculative approach to geopolitical analysis that is prevalent in the research produced by investment firms. T...

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by Iris Marion Young (Author)This controversial new look at democracy in a multicultural society considers the ideals of political inclusion and exclusion, and recommends ways to engage in democratic politics in a more inclusive way. Processes of debate and decision making often marginalize individuals and groups because the norms of political discussion are biased against some forms of expression. Inclusion and Democracy broadens our understanding of democratic communication by reflecting on...

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by Margaret Canovan (Author)This groundbreaking study sets out to clarify one of the most influential but least studied of all political concepts. Despite continual talk of popular sovereignty, the idea of the people has been neglected by political theorists who have been deterred by its vagueness. Margaret Canovan argues that it deserves serious analysis, and that its many ambiguities point to unresolved political issues. The book begins by charting the conflicting meanings of the people, es...

Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation: Southern Europe, South America, and Post-Communist Europe - Paperback

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by Juan J. Linz (Author), Alfred Stepan (With)Since their classic volume The Breakdown of Democratic Regimes was published in 1978, Juan J. Linz and Alfred Stepan have increasingly focused on the questions of how, in the modern world, nondemocratic regimes can be eroded and democratic regimes crafted. In Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation, they break new ground in numerous areas. They reconceptualize the major types of modern nondemocratic regimes and point out for each type ...

The Politics of Exclusion: The Failure of Race-Neutral Policies in Urban America - Paperback

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by Leland T. Saito (Author)Contrasting views of race and society make for heated debate in the United States. From the perspective of assimilation, society operates in a fair, open, and meritocratic fashion. Racial discrimination, while not completely eliminated, arguably has little impact on people's life chances. In contrast, research examining the social construction of race has emphasized continued discrimination. Race remains embedded in social, political, and economic institutions, cont...

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by Neil Fabricant (Author), Keith Seidel (Illustrator)How Michael Bloomberg sold out the people of New York to become the poster boy for the 1%. Mike Wall Street's Mayor is the story of how the most dominant political figure in New York's modern history leveraged his vast wealth and political power to govern in the interest of the 1%. Politicians sold him their ballot lines, and religious and civic leaders were paid to sing his praises and push his policies. He said it would be 'disgraceful'...

Lenin's Electoral Strategy from 1907 to the October Revolution of 1917: The Ballot, the Streets--Or Both - Paperback

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by August H. Nimtz (Author)This book is the first full-length study of Lenin's party building project and writings on elections, looking in detail at his leadership of the Bolshevik wing of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party in the four state Dumas from 1906 to the beginning of the First World War.Author BiographyAugust H. Nimtz is Professor of Political Science and African American and African Studies and Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Minnesota, USA. He is the ...

Environmental Economics: Concepts, Methods and Policies - Paperback

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by Dodo J. Thampapillai (Author), Matthias Ruth (Author)Environmental Economics explores the ways in which economic theory and its applications, as practised and taught today, must be modified to explicitly accommodate the goal of sustainability and the vital role played by environmental capital.Pivoting around the first and second laws of thermodynamics, as well as the principles of ecological resilience, this book is divided into five key parts, which include extensive coverage of environme...

The Warsaw Pact, 1985-1991- Disintegration and Dissolution - Paperback

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by Matej Bily (Author)This book analyzes the last phase of the Warsaw Pact, based on unusually large-scale archival research conducted in many countries. Author BiographyMatěj B?l? is a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, Prague, Czech Republic. Number of Pages: 478 Dimensions: 0.99 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN Publication Date: August 26, 2024

Islamic Perspectives on International Conflict Resolution: Theological Debates and the Israel-Palestinian Peace Process - Paperback

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by Shameer Modongal (Author)Upturning the traditional view of religion as a source of conflict, this book studies Islamic perspectives of international conflict resolution, re-interpreting the possibility of Israel-Palestine reconciliation beyond traditional secular frameworks.Author BiographyShameer Modongal is currently Assistant Professor in West Asian Studies at the University of Kerala. He completed his doctoral studies in International Relations at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New...