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Japanese Politics and Government - Paperback

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by Alisa Gaunder (Author)The revised 2nd edition of this successful textbook explores Japanese politics in the postwar era from theoretical and comparative perspectives. After providing historical context, it offers an in-depth exploration of postwar political institutions, political reform in the 1990s, the policymaking process, and the politics of economic growth and stagnation. By delving into Japan's international relations, the book sheds light on Japan's security and foreign policies, ...

Isis in Iraq: The Social and Psychological Foundations of Terror - Hardcover

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by Munqith Dagher (Author), Karl Kaltenthaler (Author), Michele J. Gelfand (Author)The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) gained control over large swathes of Iraq in the summer of 2014 at a breathtaking rate. At the time many rightly wondered how ISIS was able to claim so much territory in the Sunni-dominated portion of Iraq so quickly. Just as unexpected, however, was the downfall of ISIS; by 2017, their hold on the region had crumbed with ISIS focusing on avoiding complete annihilation...

Healing and Peacebuilding After War: Transforming Trauma in Bosnia and Herzegovina - Paperback

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by Julianne Funk (Editor), Nancy Good (Editor), Marie E. Berry (Editor)This book brings together multiple perspectives to examine the strengths and limitations of efforts to promote healing and peacebuilding after war, focusing on the aftermath of the traumatic armed conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina.This book begins with a simple premise: trauma that is not transformed is transferred. Drawing on multidisciplinary insights from academics, peace practitioners and trauma experts, this book exa...

American Public Opinion: Its Origins, Content, and Impact - Paperback

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by Robert S. Erikson (Author), Kent L. Tedin (Author)Providing an in-depth analysis of public opinion, including its origins in political socialization, its role in the electoral process, and the impact of the media, American Public Opinion goes beyond a simple presentation of data to include a critical analysis of the role of public opinion in American democracy.New to the 11th Edition Updates all data through the 2020 elections and includes early polling through 2022. Pays increased att...

Pirates: Golden Age of Piracy & History From Beginning to End (Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down) - Paperback

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by Calvin Manning (Author)The pirates often determined a ship's nationality first. Then they raised that country's flag on the pirate ship so they appeared to be friendly. Now able to draw close to the unsuspecting ship, the pirates hoisted Blackbeard's flag only at the last moment. Merchant crews often surrendered without a fight the moment they saw Blackbeard's flag. If the ship didn't surrender after warnings, the pirates moved in. Frequently their first target: the sailor at the ship's wh...

Patterns in the History of Polycentric Governance in European Cities: From Antiquity to the 21st Century - Hardcover

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by C?dric Br?laz (Editor), Thomas Lau (Editor), Hans-Joachim Schmidt (Editor)The autonomy granted to local communities (such as towns, municipalities, and city-states) by larger, central powers (such as empires, kings, lords, and central states) is a recurrent feature of European history over time, from Antiquity to the contemporary period. This volume explores the political, social, and cultural aspects of this feature in a diachronic and comparative perspective, from the Roman Empire to tod...

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by Alan Greeley Misenheimer (Author)US forces have been engaged around the globe since World War II, and "endless" war has become the backdrop of American life. This militarized status quo is rife with contradiction. The Constitution requires a congressional declaration of war, yet the executive branch routinely acts alone to dispatch forces and launch attacks. The norms of republican self-governance stipulate alignment between popular will and public policy, yet our post-9/11 wars in Afghani...

Resilient Partnerships for U.S. Military Satellite Communication Missions: Designing a Method to Assess the Impact of Partnerships on Resilience - Paperback

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by Bonnie L. Triezenberg (Author), Krista Langeland (Author), Gary McLeod (Author)This report documents the authors' development of a methodology to define, assess, and evaluate resilience criteria over time, with a focus on the qualitative assessments of subject matter experts. The methodology is applied to a specific approach to building resilience: integrating coalition and commercial partners into the U.S. military satellite communications mission. Number of Pages: 75 Dimensions: 0.16 x 1...

Last Chance to Save Our Republic - Paperback

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by Hannah Faulkner (Author), Aaron Farrier (Cover Design by)In Last Chance to Save Our Republic, Hannah delivers a powerful wake-up call to Americans of all ages and backgrounds, urging them to fight for the Republic that so many have sacrificed their lives to protect. She confronts the moral decay threatening the nation, from the breakdown of the family to the absurdity of leaders who can't define basic truths like "What is a woman?" Hannah traces these issues back to America's rejection of ...

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by Darren Allen (Author)In the perfect dystopian system, the prison and the prisoners are one.A radical guide to the entire system in its final, most developed form. 33 Myths of the System takes apart the fabrications of all the ideologies of the system, exposing the iniquitous fictions at the heart of socialism, capitalism, professionalism, postmodernism, scientism, economics, psychology, technocratic progress and the anti-culture that the system presents to us as meaning.33 Myths of the Sys...

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by Mauro Gallegati (Author), Simone Landini (Author), Giacomo Gallegati (Author)This Element works as non-technical overview of Agent-Based Modelling (ABM), a methodology which can be applied to economics, as well as fields of natural and social sciences. This Element presents the introductory notions and historical background of ABM, as well as a general overview of the tools and characteristics of this kind of models, with particular focus on more advanced topics like validation and sensiti...

Digital Sovereignty in the BRICS Countries - Paperback

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by Min Jiang (Editor), Luca Belli (Editor)In a world where digital development and policymaking are dominated by Silicon Valley tech giants, the BRICS countries - Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa - play an increasingly important role. With forty percent of the world's population and twenty-five percent of global GDP, these nations possess vast troves of personal data. Yet, their conceptions, narratives, and initiatives of digital sovereignty remain understudied. This volume is t...

Emergency Capitalism: Financial Hubris, Economic Collapse and Systemic Manipulation - Paperback

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by Fabio Vighi (Author)Fabio Vighi's "Emergency Capitalism" begins with this observation: The age of crisis capitalism is characterized by two major socioeconomic trends: 1) the addiction to credit creation, whose main purpose is to inflate and prop up the financial markets; 2) the controlled demolition of the real economy and the modern model of society organized around wage labor. From there, Vighi shows that the last half-decade of capitalist politics has been shaped by efforts to prolong ...

Japan and the United States: The Journey of a Defeated Nation - A Diplomat's Memoir by Yukio Okamoto - Hardcover

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by Yukio Okamoto (Author), Richard L. Armitage (Foreword by), Joseph S. Nye (Foreword by)"Okamoto-san was an invaluable diplomatic advisor who provided essential knowledge for our foreign visits and meetings with heads of state during my term as Prime Minister of Japan." -- Junichiro Koizumi, former Prime Minister of Japan. "Yukio's inclination to take action, his generosity and openheartedness were exceptional. [...] This book presents his admirable perspective and I will remember him foreve...

History of American Socialisms - Paperback

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by John Humphrey-Noyes (Author) Number of Pages: 692 Dimensions: 1.71 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: July 02, 2002

Seeing China's Belt and Road - Paperback

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by Edward Schatz (Editor), Rachel Silvey (Editor)Launched in 2013, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is China's signature trillion-dollar global policy. Based on infrastructure development assistance and financing, the BRI quickly set in motion a possible restructuring of the global economy and indeed the world order. In Seeing China's Belt and Road, Edward Schatz and Rachel Silvey assemble leading field researchers to consider the BRI from different "downstream" contexts, ranging from Centr...

A Victim's Shoe, a Broken Watch, and Marbles: Desire Objects and Human Rights - Paperback

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by Lea David (Author)Everyday items found at the sites of atrocities possess a striking emotional force. Victims' garments, broken glasses, wallets, shoes, and other such personal property that are recovered from places of death including concentration camps, mass graves, and prisons have become staples of memorial museums, exhibited to the public as material testimony in order to evoke sympathy and promote human rights. How do these objects take on such power, and what are the benefits and p...

People's China at 75 - The Flag Stays Red - Paperback

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by Keith Bennett (Editor), Carlos Martinez (Editor), Kenny Coyle (Contribution by)When the People's Republic of China was proclaimed on 1 October 1949, China was one of the poorest and most wretched societies on earth. Illiteracy was as high as life expectancy was low but as Chinese leader Mao Zedong had remarked even before the formal announcement of the creation of the PRC, "The Chinese people have stood up." Today's China is at the forefront of the world economy, it has eliminated absolute...

South Korea's Democracy in Crisis: The Threats of Illiberalism, Populism, and Polarization - Paperback

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by Gi-Wook Shin (Editor), Ho-Ki Kim (Editor)Like in many other states worldwide, democracy is in trouble in South Korea, entering a state of regression in the past decade, barely thirty years after its emergence in 1987. The society that had ordinary citizens leading "candlelight protests" demanding the impeachment of Park Geun-Hye in 2016-17 has become polarized amid an upsurge of populism, driven by persistent structural inequalities, globalization, and the rise of the information society. ...

Imperfect Partners: The United States and Southeast Asia - Paperback

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by Scot Marciel (Author)"Imperfect Partners" is former ambassador Scot Marciel's inside account of US relations with Southeast Asia since the Cold War. Combining research, anecdotes and analysis, Marciel offers insights into U.S. approaches toward allies, former foes, and countries in transition, plus practical recommendations for boosting US influence in the region.Author BiographyScot Marciel is the Oksenberg-Rohlen Fellow at Stanford University's Walter H. Shorenstein Asia Pacific Research...

The Lost Soul of the American Presidency: The Decline Into Demagoguery and the Prospects for Renewal - Paperback

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by Stephen F. Knott (Author)The American presidency is not what it once was. Nor, Stephen F. Knott contends, what it was meant to be. Taking on an issue as timely as Donald Trump's latest tweet and old as the American republic, the distinguished presidential scholar documents the devolution of the American presidency from the neutral, unifying office envisioned by the framers of the Constitution into the demagogic, partisan entity of our day. The presidency of popular consent, or the majorita...

Broken Hope: Deportation and the Road Home - Paperback

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by Lynn Tramonte (Author), Suma Setty (Author)What if you were forced to pack your belongings and leave your family, friends, career, home, and life behind? Could you say good-bye to everyone and everything you love, not knowing if you will see them again? That is what deportation is: permanent banishment from your home, family, friends, and job, from a life built over years. It is an extreme action that causes lasting harm to everyone it touches. Broken Hope: Deportation and the Road Home...

Sepahdar: Fathollah Khan Akbar, A Biography - Hardcover

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by Goli Akbar Kashani (Editor)The history of modern Iran has been momentous, precarious, and turbulent. The country's struggle with democracy started in 1906 with the Constitutional Revolution that established Iran's first parliamentary democracy and ended in 1921 with a coup d'騁at that eventually brought a new monarch to power. Sepahdar: Fathollah Khan Akbar is the biography of a consequential player during this period.By the 1880s, Fathollah Khan Akbar had inherited enormous wealth from hi...

Reform Without Justice: Latino Migrant Politics and the Homeland Security State - Paperback

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by Alfonso Gonzales (Author)Placed within the context of the past decade's war on terror and emergent Latino migrant movement, Reform without Justice addresses the issue of state violence against migrants in the United States. It questions what forces are driving draconian migration control policies and why it is that, despite its success in mobilizing millions, the Latino migrant movement and its allies have not been able to more successfully defend the rights of migrants. Gonzales argues th...

Every Drop of Blood: The Momentous Second Inauguration of Abraham Lincoln - Paperback

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by Edward Achorn (Author)A brilliantly conceived and vividly drawn story--Washington, D.C. on the eve of Abraham Lincoln's historic second inaugural address as the lens through which to understand all the complexities of the Civil War By March 4, 1865, the Civil War had slaughtered more than 700,000 Americans and left intractable wounds on the nation. After a morning of rain-drenched fury, tens of thousands crowded Washington's Capitol grounds that day to see Abraham Lincoln take the oath fo...

The Ultimate Guide to the 2020 Election: 101 Nonpartisan Solutions to All the Issues That Matter - Paperback

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by No Labels (Author), Ryan Clancy (Author), Margaret White (Author)In between today's extremist Far Right and Far Left political tribes resides the "exhausted majority"--those of us frustrated by our polarized national conversation, desperate for reason and persuasion in our democracy, and hungry for an unbiased look at America's challenges and the policy choices available to the next president. For anyone patriotic enough to cast their 2020 US presidential and congressional votes based on r...

Nuclear Nightmares: Securing the World Before It Is Too Late - Hardcover

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by Joseph Cirincione (Author)There is a high risk that someone will use, by accident or design, one or more of the 17,000 nuclear weapons in the world today. Many thought such threats ended with the Cold War or that current policies can prevent or contain nuclear disaster. They are dead wrong--these weapons, possessed by states large and small, stable and unstable, remain an ongoing nightmare. Joseph Cirincione surveys the best thinking and worst fears of experts specializing in nuclear warfa...

Imperialism and Unequal Development - Paperback

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Publication Date: October 25, 2024

Stronger Issues, Weaker Predispositions - Paperback

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by Paul Goren (Author)Political psychologists have long theorized that authoritarianism structures the positions people take on cultural issues and their party ties. Authoritarianism is durable; it resists the influence of other political judgments; and it is very impactful-in a word, it is strong. By contrast, researchers characterize the attitudes most people hold on most issues as unstable and ineffectual-in a word, weak. But what is true of most issues is not true of the issues that have ...

Anarcho-Punk: Music and Resistance in London 1977-1988 - Paperback

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by David Insurrection (Author)Anarcho-Punk: Music and Resistance in London 1977-1988 by David Insurrection is the distillation of three years work. It's the story of an oft overlooked scene. Anarcho-punk in the 1980s truly rocked the boat. Much more than music it set out to change the world and in a not insignificant way did just that. It inspired a generation of activists, artists and musicians to take up the fight for a better fairer world. They tore down the walls. The Sex Pistols may have...

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

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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 Divided States of America: Why Federalism Doesn't Work - Paperback

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by Donald F. Kettl (Author)Author BiographyDonald F. Kettl is professor emeritus and former dean of the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland. Until his retirement, he was the Sid Richardson Professor at the LBJ School at the University of Texas at Austin. His books include Can Governments Earn Our Trust? and Escaping Jurassic Government. Twitter @donkettl Number of Pages: 248 Dimensions: 0.7 x 9.1 x 6 IN Publication Date: March 15, 2022