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World

Revolutions and Counter-Revolutions 1917 and Its Aftermath from a Global Perspective

Rinke Stefan, Wildt Michael

ISBN: HB: 9783593507057, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, September 2017
400 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

Unquestionably a watershed year in world history, 1917 not only saw the Russian Revolution and the US entry into World War I, it also marked a foundational moment in determining global political structures for the remaining twentieth century. Yet whi...

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Political Science

Independent Diplomat Despatches from an Unaccountable Elite

Ross Carne

ISBN: PB: 9781849044387, Hurst Publishers, September 2017
244 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! In "Independent Diplomat "Carne Ross offers a compelling new account – and vision – of the conduct of foreign policy and diplomacy from the inside. As diplomats arbitrate more and more of the world's business, we have little id...

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Middle East

Struggle for Iraq A View from the Ground Up

Renahan Thomas M.

ISBN: HB: 9781612348827, Casemate, Potomac Books, June 2017
536 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"The Struggle for Iraq" is a vivid personal account of the Iraqi people's fight for democracy and justice by an American political scientist. Thomas M. Renahan arrived in southern Iraq just three days before the capture of Saddam Hussein in 2003; lat...

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Political Science

More Than a Feeling Personality, Polarization, and the Transformation of the US Congress

Ramey Adam J., Klingler Jonathan D., Hollibaugh Jr. Gary E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226455983, ISBN: HB: 9780226455846, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
256 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 24 halftones, 23 tables

Whatever you think about the widening divide between Democrats and Republicans, ideological differences do not explain why politicians from the same parties, who share the same goals and policy preferences, often argue fiercely about how best to atta...

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Political Science

Ancient World

Ethics and the Orator The Ciceronian Tradition of Political Morality

Remer Gary A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226439167, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
304 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

For thousands of years, critics have attacked rhetoric and the actual practice of politics as unprincipled, insincere, and manipulative. In "Ethics and the Orator", Gary A. Remer disagrees, offering the Ciceronian rhetorical tradition as a rejoinder....

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Political Science

Philanthropy in Democratic Societies History, Institutions, Values

Reich Rob, Cordelli Chiara, Bernholz Lucy

ISBN: PB: 9780226335643, ISBN: HB: 9780226335506, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 6 line drawings, 3 tables

Philanthropy is everywhere. In 2013, in the United States alone, some $330 billion was recorded in giving, from large donations by the wealthy all the way down to informal giving circles. We tend to think of philanthropy as unequivocally good, but as...

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Jewish Studies

Political Science

Home for All Jews Citizenship, Rights, and National Identity in the New Israeli State

Rozin Orit

ISBN: PB: 9781611689501, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, July 2016
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Orit Rozin's inspired scholarship focuses on the construction and negotiation of citizenship in Israel during the state's first decade. Positioning itself both within and against much of the critical sociological literature on the period, this work r...

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Political Science

Brazil The Troubled Rise of a Global Power

Reid Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780300216974, ISBN: HB: 9780300165609, Yale University Press, November 2015
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Experts believe that Brazil, the world's fifth largest country and its seventh largest economy, will be one of the most important global powers by the year 2030. Yet far more attention has been paid to the other rising behemoths Russia, India and Chi...

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Islam

Political Science

Maldives Islamic Republic, Tropical Autocracy

Robinson J. J.

ISBN: PB: 9781849045896, Hurst Publishers, November 2015
336 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The Maldives is a small and beautiful archipelago south of India, more renowned for luxury resorts than experiments in democracy. It is a country of contradictions, where tourists sip cocktails on the beach while on nearby isla...

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Political Science

Divided We Govern Coalition Politics in Modern India

Ruparelia Sanjay

ISBN: HB: 9781849042123, Hurst Publishers, September 2015
350 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "Divided We Govern" investigates the rise and fall of the broader parliamentary left in modern Indian democracy, and the dynamics of national coalition governments. Since the 1970s, socialist, communist and regional parties in...

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