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Political Science

Global Common Good Intercultural Perspectives on a Just and Ecological Transformation

Reder Michael, Risse Verena, Hirschbrunn Katharina, Stoll Georg

ISBN: PB: 9783593503189, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, August 2015
250 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

Global challenges such as poverty, climate change, and economic crises are all problems that the global community must face collectively. But in order to do so successfully, we need to engage in a continued intercultural dialogue on alternative appro...

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Political Science

Forensics of Capital

Ralph Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226198576, ISBN: HB: 9780226198439, University of Chicago Press, July 2015
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone

As one of Africa's few democracies, Senegal has long been thought of as a leader of moral, political, and economic development on the continent. We tend to assume that any such nation has achieved favorable international standing due to its own merit...

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Political Science

Failed Statebuilding Intervention, the State, and the Dynamics of Peace Formation

Richmond Oliver

ISBN: HB: 9780300175318, Yale University Press, October 2014
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Western struggles – and failures – to create functioning states in countries such as Iraq or Afghanistan have inspired questions about whether statebuilding projects are at all viable, or whether they make the lives of their intended beneficiaries be...

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Philosophy

Political Science

Major Political Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau The Two Discourses and the Social Contract

Rousseau Jean-Jacques

ISBN: PB: 9780226151311, ISBN: HB: 9780226921860, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
344 pp., 23x15 cm, 4 halftones

Individualist and communitarian. Anarchist and totalitarian. Classicist and romanticist. Progressive and reactionary. Since the eighteenth century, Jean-Jacques Rousseau has been said to be all of these things. Few philosophers have been the subject...

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Political Science

Kindly Inquisitors The New Attacks on Free Thought (Expanded Edition)

Rauch Jonathan

ISBN: PB: 9780226145938, University of Chicago Press, January 2014
216 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

"A liberal society stands on the proposition that we should all take seriously the idea that we might be wrong. This means we must place no one, including ourselves, beyond the reach of criticism; it means that we must allow people to err, even where...

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Political Science

Mixed Emotions Beyond Fear and Hatred in International Conflict

Ross Andrew A. G.

ISBN: PB: 9780226077420, ISBN: HB: 9780226077390, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In recent years, it's become increasingly clear that emotion plays a central role in global politics. For example, people readily care about acts of terrorism and humanitarian crises because they appeal to our compassion for human suffering. These st...

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Political Science

Nation of Devils Democracy and the Problem of Obedience

Ringen Stein

ISBN: HB: 9780300193190, Yale University Press, October 2013
224 pp., 21x14 cm, 1 black&white illus.

Oxford University political theorist Stein Ringen offers a thought-provoking meditation on the art of democratic rule: how does a government persuade the people to accept its authority? Every government must make unpopular demands of its citizens, fr...

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Biography & Memoires

Political Science

Leon Trotsky A Revolutionary's Life

Rubenstein Joshua

ISBN: PB: 9780300198324, ISBN: HB: 9780300137248, Yale University Press, October 2013
240 pp., 21x14.6 cm

Born Lev Davidovich Bronstein in southern Ukraine, Trotsky was both a world-class intellectual and a man capable of the most narrow-minded ideological dogmatism. He was an effective military strategist and an adept diplomat, who staked the fate of th...

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America

Business & Economics

Rise of the Public Authority Statebuilding and Economic Development in Twentieth-Century America

Radford Gail

ISBN: PB: 9780226037721, ISBN: HB: 9780226037691, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
232 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 table, 5 halftones, 3 line illus.

In the late nineteenth century, public officials throughout the United States began to experiment with new methods of managing their local economies and meeting the infrastructure needs of a newly urban, industrial nation. Stymied by legal barriers,...

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Political Science

Transition Scenarios China and the United States in the Twenty-First Century

Rapkin David P., Thompson William R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226040479, ISBN: HB: 9780226040332, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 line drawings, 21 tables

China's rising status in the global economy alongside recent economic stagnation in Europe and the United States has led to considerable speculation that we are in the early stages of a transition in power relations. Commentators have tended to treat...

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