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Media Studies

Political Science

Sifry Micah L.

ISBN: PB: 9780300176766, Yale University Press, March 2011
176 pp., 19.6x12.8 cm

It's one of the biggest news stories for years. A charismatic, white-haired Australian sets up a website devoted to publishing leaked documents in the public interest, and then, allegedly with the aid of a disaffected American soldier, starts releasi...

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Political Science

Superpower Illusions How Myths and False Ideologies Led America Astray - and How to Return to Reality

Matlock Jack F.

ISBN: PB: 9780300171419, Yale University Press, March 2011
344 pp., 22.6x14.7 cm

In this title, Jack Matlock refutes the enduring idea that the United States forced the collapse of the Soviet Union by applying military and economic pressure, with wide-ranging implications for U. S. foreign policy. Matlock argues that Gorbachev, n...

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Political Science

Ahead of Change How Crowd Psychology and Cybernetics Transform the Way We Govern

Malik Constantin

ISBN: PB: 9783593392042, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, March 2011
173 pp., 21.6x14 cm

Wars, revolutions, and financial disasters do not have to happen. There are ways to transform governmental policies so as to avoid such catastrophes. What is needed – argues management expert Constantin Malik – is to anticipate change and to prepare...

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Political Science

Politics of Corporate Social Responsibility The Rise of a Global Business Norm

Muhle Ursula

ISBN: PB: 9783593392639, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, March 2011
390 pp., 21.2x14 cm

Bringing together the fields of sociology, political science, and management and organization studies, Ursula Muhle offers in this unique volume an authoritative overview of corporate social responsibility (CSR). Muhle first considers the origins of...

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Political Science

Intervention as Indirect Rule Civil War and Statebuilding in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Veit Alex

ISBN: PB: 9783593393117, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, March 2011
300 pp., 21.4x14 cm

One of the largest peace-keeping missions currently being undertaken by the United Nations is in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where the UN is attempting to deal with the civil wars and other conflicts that have plagued the country since 1996. In...

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Political Science

Culture Studies

Who Sings the Nation-State? Language, Politics, Belonging

Spivak Gayatri Chakravorty, Butler Judith

ISBN: PB: 9781906497835, Seagull Books, March 2011
128 pp., 18.5x11.7 cm

"Who Sings the Nation-State" brings together two of America's foremost critics and two of the most influential theorists of the last decade. Together, they explore the past, present and future of the state in a time of globalization. What is contai...

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Political Science

One Nation Under Contract The Outsourcing of American Power and the Future of Foreign Policy

Stanger Allison

ISBN: PB: 9780300168327, ISBN: HB: 9780300152654, Yale University Press, February 2011
256 pp., 22.4x14.7 cm

In this title, international relations scholar Allison Stanger shows how contractors became an integral part of American foreign policy, often in scandalous ways – but also maintains that contractors aren't the problem; the absence of good government...

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Disappearing Center Engaged Citizens, Polarization, and American Democracy

Abramowitz Alan I.

ISBN: PB: 9780300168297, ISBN: HB: 9780300141627, Yale University Press, February 2011
208 pp., 22.1x14.7 cm, 41 black&white illus.

In this timely book, renowned political scientist Alan Abramowitz presents a groundbreaking argument that the most important divide in American politics is not between left and right but rather between citizens who are politically engaged and those w...

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Political Science

America

Politics and Partnerships The Role of Voluntary Associations in America's Political Past and Present

Clemens Elisabeth S., Guthrie Doug

ISBN: PB: 9780226109978, ISBN: HB: 9780226109961, University of Chicago Press, February 2011
352 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 13 tables, 3 halftones, 17 line illus.

Exhorting people to volunteer is part of the everyday vocabulary of American politics. Routinely, members of both major parties call for partnerships between government and nonprofit organizations. These entreaties increase dramatically during times...

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Political Science

What Was Communism?

Catastrophe in Indonesia

Lane Max

ISBN: HB: 9781906497675, Seagull Books, February 2011
102 pp., 25x15 cm

In 1965 Indonesia had the largest communist movement in the world outside of the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China. Indonesian President Sukarno supported the movement and was edging Indonesia towards socialism, when a mutiny coordinate...

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