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Foreign Policy for the Left
ISBN: HB: 9780300223873, Yale University Press, February 2018
256 pp., 21x14 cm
Foreign policy, for leftists, used to be relatively simple. They were for the breakdown of capitalism and its replacement with a centrally planned economy. They were for workers against moneyed interests and for colonized peoples against imperial (We...
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Ukrainian Night An Intimate History of Revolution
ISBN: HB: 9780300218688, Yale University Press, February 2018
320 pp., 21x14 cm, 2 black&white illus.
What is worth dying for? While the world watched the uprising on the Maidan as an episode in geopolitics, those in Ukraine during the extraordinary winter of 2013–14 lived the revolution as an existential transformation: the blurring of night and day...
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Essay on the Principle of Population
ISBN: PB: 9780300177411, Yale University Press, February 2018
624 pp., 20.8x14 cm, 2 black&white illus.
Malthus's "Essay on the Principle of Population" remains one of the most influential works of political economy ever written. Most widely circulated in its initial 1798 version, this is the first publication of his benchmark 1803 edition since 1989....
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Constitutional Cliffhangers A Legal Guide for Presidents and Their Enemies
ISBN: PB: 9780300234305, Yale University Press, January 2018
264 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
The United States Constitution's provisions for selecting, replacing, and punishing presidents contain serious weaknesses that could lead to constitutional controversies. In this compelling and fascinating book, Brian Kalt envisions six such controve...
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Democratic Faith Essays on Democratic Citizenship
ISBN: HB: 9780300197099, Yale University Press, November 2017
200 pp., 21x14 cm, 5 black&white illus.
Modern political science has concentrated on cataloguing voters' failings – their lack of knowledge, tolerance, or consistency in political thinking. While it would be a mistake to think this portrait of citizens is simply wrong, it is a deeper mista...
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Progressives' Century Political Reform, Constitutional Government, and the Modern American State
ISBN: PB: 9780300230499, Yale University Press, November 2017
544 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
A landmark work on how the Progressive Era redefined the playing field for conservatives and liberals alike. During the 1912 presidential campaign, Progressivism emerged as an alternative to what was then considered an outmoded system of government....
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Question of Intervention John Stuart Mill and the Responsibility to Protect
ISBN: PB: 9780300230604, Yale University Press, October 2017
224 pp., 21x14 cm, 1 black&white illus.
The question of when or if a nation should intervene in another country's affairs is one of the most important concerns in today's volatile world. Taking John Stuart Mill's famous 1859 essay "A Few Words on Non-Intervention" as his starting point, in...
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Moral Economy Why Good Incentives are No Substitute for Good Citizens
ISBN: PB: 9780300230512, Yale University Press, October 2017
288 pp., 21x14 cm, 18 black&white illus.
Should the idea of economic man-the amoral and self-interested Homo economicus-determine how we expect people to respond to monetary rewards, punishments, and other incentives? Samuel Bowles answers with a resounding "no". Policies that follow from t...
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Argument Open to All Reading the Federalist in the 21st Century
ISBN: PB: 9780300230666, ISBN: HB: 9780300199598, Yale University Press, October 2017
368 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
In "An Argument Open to All", renowned legal scholar Sanford Levinson takes a novel approach to what is perhaps America's most famous political tract. Rather than concern himself with the authors as historical figures, or how The Federalist helps us...
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Less You Know, Better You Sleep Russia's Road to Terror and Dictatorship Under Yeltsin and Putin
ISBN: PB: 9780300230727, Yale University Press, October 2017
240 pp., 21x14 cm
<p>In December 2013, David Satter became the first American journalist to be expelled from Russia since the Cold War. The Moscow Times said it was not surprising he was expelled, "it was surprising it took so long". Satter is known in Russi...
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