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Leo Strauss An Intellectual Biography
ISBN: PB: 9780300172102, Yale University Press, April 2011
272 pp., 20.1x13 cm
Since political theorist Leo Strauss' death in 1973, American interpreters have heatedly debated his intellectual legacy. Daniel Tanguay recovers Strauss from the atmosphere of partisan debate that has dominated American journalistic, political, and...
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Contesting Development Participatory Projects and Local Conflict Dynamics in Indonesia
ISBN: HB: 9780300126310, Yale University Press, March 2011
352 pp., 23.6x15.7 cm, 31 black&white illus.
Analyzes a highly successful participatory development programme in Indonesia, exploring its distinctive origins and design principles and its impacts on local conflict dynamics and social institutions.
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£53,00
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Wikileaks and the Age of Transparency
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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£9,99
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Superpower Illusions How Myths and False Ideologies Led America Astray - and How to Return to Reality
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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£18,99
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One Nation Under Contract The Outsourcing of American Power and the Future of Foreign Policy
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
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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In the Name of God and Country Reconsidering Terrorism in American History
ISBN: PB: 9780300168020, Yale University Press, January 2011
288 pp., 22.4x14.7 cm, 9 black&white illus.
With insight and originality, Michael Fellman argues that terrorism, in various forms, has been a constant and driving force in American history. In part, this is due to the nature of American republicanism and Protestant Christianity, which he belie...
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Outsourcing War and Peace How Privatizing Foreign Affairs Threatens Core Public Values and What We Can Do About It
ISBN: HB: 9780300144864, Yale University Press, January 2011
256 pp., 23.6x16.3 cm
Over the past decade, states and international organizations have shifted a surprising range of foreign policy functions to private contractors. But who is accountable when the employees of foreign private firms do violence or create harm? This timel...
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£46,00
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Montesquieu and the Logic of Liberty War, Religion, Commerce, Terrain, Technology, Uneasiness of Mind, the Spirit of Political Vigilance, and the Foundations of the Modern Republic
ISBN: PB: 9780300168082, Yale University Press, October 2010
400 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
This fresh examination of the works of Montesquieu seeks to understand the shortcomings of the modern democratic state in light of this great political thinker's insightful critique of commercial republicanism. The western democracies' muted response...
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£26,00
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First Strike America, Terrorism, and Moral Tradition
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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