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First Strike America, Terrorism, and Moral Tradition

Totten Mark

ISBN: HB: 9780300124484, Yale University Press, October 2010
240 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Can the use of force first against a less-than-imminent threat be both morally acceptable and consistent with American values? In this timely book, Mark Totten offers the first in-depth, historical examination of the use of preemptive and preventive...

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America

Political Science

Cruel and Unusual The Culture of Punishment in America

Cusac Anne-Marie

ISBN: PB: 9780300168013, ISBN: HB: 9780300111743, Yale University Press, October 2010
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

The statistics are startling. Since 1973, America's imprisonment rate has multiplied over five times to become the highest in the world. More than two million inmates reside in state and federal prisons. What does this say about our attitudes toward...

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Islam

Fear of Barbarians Beyond the Clash of Civilizations

Todorov Tzvetan

ISBN: HB: 9780226805757, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The relationship between Western democracies and Islam, rarely entirely comfortable, has in recent years become increasingly tense. A growing immigrant population and worries about cultural and political assimilation – exacerbated by terrorist attack...

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Media Studies

Political Science

News that Matters Television and American Opinion, Updated Edition

Iyengar Shanto, Kinder Donald R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226388588, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
216 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Almost twenty-five years ago, Shanto Iyengar and Donald R. Kinder first documented a series of sophisticated and innovative experiments that unobtrusively altered the order and emphasis of news stories in selected television broadcasts. Their resulti...

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Political Science

Hyperpolitics An Interactive Dictionary of Political Science Concepts

Calise Mauro, Lowi Theodore J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226091020, ISBN: HB: 9780226091013, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
264 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm

Fifteen years in the making, "Hyperpolitics" is an interactive dictionary offering a wholly original approach for understanding and working with the most central concepts in political science. Designed and authored by two of the discipline's most dis...

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Middle East

Political Science

Policing and Prisons in the Middle East Formations of Coercion

Khalili Laleh, Schwedler Jillian

ISBN: PB: 9781849040587, Hurst Publishers, October 2010
352 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The emergence of the modern Middle East has been accompanied by a concentration of coercive power in the state. Although the region has encompassed numerous Mukhabarat (secret police) states, extensive policing and carceral reg...

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Europe

Why the Dreyfus Affair Matters

Begley Louis

ISBN: PB: 9780300168143, Yale University Press, September 2010
272 pp., 19.7x13.3 cm

In December 1894, Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a brilliant French artillery officer and a Jew of Alsatian descent, was court-martialed for selling secrets to the German military attache in Paris based on perjured testimony and trumped-up evidence. The sen...

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Political Science

Pacific Alliance Reviving U.S.-Japan Relations

Calder Kent E.

ISBN: PB: 9780300168341, Yale University Press, September 2010
312 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 25 black&white illus.

Despite the enduring importance of the U. S. -Japan security alliance, the broader relationship between the two countries is today beset by sobering new difficulties. In this comprehensive comparative analysis of the transpacific alliance and its pol...

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Political Science

World Rule Accountability, Legitimacy, and the Design of Global Governance

Koppell Jonathan G. S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226450995, University of Chicago Press, September 2010
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 46 tables, 3 illus.

Dilemmas from climate change to financial meltdowns make it clear that global interconnectedness is the norm in the twenty-first century. As a result, global governance organizations (GGOs) – from the World Trade Organization to the Forest Stewardshi...

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Strengthening Peace in Post-Civil War States Transforming Spoilers into Stakeholders

Hoddie Matthew, Hartzell Caroline A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226351254, ISBN: HB: 9780226351247, University of Chicago Press, September 2010
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 tables, 1 map, 1 line illus.

Among the more frequent and most devastating of conflicts, civil wars – from Yugoslavia to Congo – frequently reignite and even spill over into the international sphere. Given the inherent fragility of civil war peace agreements, innovative approache...

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