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Humanitarian Negotiations Revealed The MSF Experience

Magone Claire, Neuman Michael, Weissman Fabrice

ISBN: PB: 9781849041638, ISBN: HB: 9781849041621, Hurst Publishers, November 2011
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! From international NGOs to UN agencies, from donors to observers of humanitarianism, opinion is unanimous: in a context of the alleged 'clash of civilizations', our 'humanitarian space' is shrinking. Put another way, the freedo...

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Europe

Political Science

Hour of Europe Western Powers and the Breakup of Yugoslavia

Glaurdic Josip

ISBN: HB: 9780300166293, Yale University Press, October 2011
432 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 4 black&white illus.

By looking through the prism of the West's involvement in the breakup of Yugoslavia, this book presents a new examination of the end of the Cold War in Europe. Incorporating declassified documents from the CIA, the administration of George H. W. Bush...

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Doctors and Demonstrators How Political Institutions Shape Abortion Law in the United States, Britain, and Canada

Halfmann Drew

ISBN: PB: 9780226313436, ISBN: HB: 9780226313429, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
336 pp., 23x15 cm, 27 halftones

Since "Roe v. Wade", abortion has continued to be a divisive political issue in the United States. In contrast, it has remained primarily a medical issue in Britain and Canada despite the countries' shared heritage".Doctors and Demonstrators" looks b...

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Evolution

Political Science

Man Is by Nature a Political Animal Evolution, Biology, and Politics

Hatemi Peter K., McDermott Rose

ISBN: PB: 9780226319100, ISBN: HB: 9780226319094, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
352 pp., 23x15 cm, 27 tables, 20 line illus.

In "Man Is by Nature a Political Animal", Peter K. Hatemi and Rose McDermott bring together a diverse group of contributors to examine the ways in which evolutionary theory and biological research are increasingly informing analyses of political beha...

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Political Science

Nixon's Court His Challenge to Judicial Liberalism and Its Political Consequences

ISBN: HB: 9780226561196, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
360 pp., 23x15 cm, 18 tables, 9 line illus.

Most analysts have deemed Richard Nixon's challenge to the judicial liberalism of the Warren Supreme Court a failure – "a counterrevolution that wasn't".Nixon's Court" offers an alternative assessment. Kevin J. McMahon reveals a Nixon whose public rh...

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Political Science

Lesson of Carl Schmitt Four Chapters on the Distinction between Political Theology and Political Philosophy, Expanded Edition

Meier Heinrich

ISBN: PB: 9780226518862, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
240 pp., 23x15 cm

Heinrich Meier's work on Carl Schmitt has dramatically reoriented the international debate about Schmitt and his significance for twentieth-century political thought. In "The Lesson of Carl Schmitt", Meier identifies the core of Schmitt's thought as...

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Political Science

Submerged State How Invisible Government Policies Undermine American Democracy

Mettler Suzanne

ISBN: PB: 9780226521657, ISBN: HB: 9780226521640, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
176 pp., 23x15 cm, 4 tables, 19 line illus.

"Keep your government hands off my Medicare!" Such comments spotlight a central question animating Suzanne Mettler's provocative and timely book: why are many Americans unaware of government social benefits and so hostile to them in principle, even t...

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Political Science

Vladimir Putin and Russian Statecraft

Lynch Allen C.

ISBN: HB: 9781597972987, Casemate, Potomac Books, September 2011
184 pp., 23x15 cm

Since Russian leader Vladimir Putin assumed power in August 1999, speculation about his character, motives, and plans for Russia's future has been rampant in the West. A portrait of Putin has emerged in the West that is one-dimensional, ill informed,...

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Political Science

Quality of Government Corruption, Social Trust, and Inequality in International Perspective

Rothstein Bo

ISBN: PB: 9780226729572, ISBN: HB: 9780226729565, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
304 pp., 23x15 cm, 14 tables, 14 halftones, 2 line illus.

The relationship between government, virtue, and wealth has held a special fascination since Aristotle, and the importance of each frames policy debates today in both developed and developing countries. While it's clear that low-quality government in...

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Political Science

Children of Light and the Children of Darkness A Vindication of Democracy and a Critique of Its Traditional Defense

Niebuhr Reinhold

ISBN: PB: 9780226584003, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
224 pp., 20.5x13 cm

"The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness", first published in 1944, is considered one of the most profound and relevant works by the influential theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, and certainly the fullest statement of his political philosophy....

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