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Resurgence of the West How a Transatlantic Union Can Prevent War and Restore the United States and Europe

Rosecrance Richard N.

ISBN: HB: 9780300177398, Yale University Press, July 2013
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

After two centuries of ascent, the United States finds itself in economic decline. Some advise America to cure its woes alone. But the road to isolation leads inevitably to the end of US leadership in the international system, warns Richard Rosecranc...

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Business & Economics

Transformative Political Leadership Making a Difference in the Developing World

Rotberg Robert I.

ISBN: PB: 9780226728995, ISBN: HB: 9780226728988, University of Chicago Press, April 2012
216 pp., 23x15 cm

Accomplished political leaders have a clear strategy for turning political visions into reality. Through well-honed analytical, political, and emotional intelligence, leaders chart paths to promising futures that include economic growth, material pro...

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Difference and Democracy Exploring Potentials in Europe and Beyond

Raube Kolja, Sattler Annika

ISBN: PB: 9783593395029, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2012
380 pp., 22x14 cm, 5 halftones, 5 colour illus.

As Europe becomes increasingly diverse, understanding the effects of differences among citizens within European democracy crucial. The contributors to "Difference and Democracy" take a novel interdisciplinary approach to this important dimension of s...

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Literary Criticism

Political Science

Proust among the Nations From Dreyfus to the Middle East

Rose Jacqueline

ISBN: HB: 9780226725789, University of Chicago Press, February 2012
256 pp., 22x14 cm, 4 halftones

Known for her far-reaching examinations of psychoanalysis, literature, and politics, Jacqueline Rose has in recent years turned her attention to the Israel-Palestine conflict, one of the most enduring and apparently intractable conflicts of our time....

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Political Science

Quality of Government Corruption, Social Trust, and Inequality in International Perspective

Rothstein Bo

ISBN: PB: 9780226729572, ISBN: HB: 9780226729565, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
304 pp., 23x15 cm, 14 tables, 14 halftones, 2 line illus.

The relationship between government, virtue, and wealth has held a special fascination since Aristotle, and the importance of each frames policy debates today in both developed and developing countries. While it's clear that low-quality government in...

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Political Science

Why Iowa? How Caucuses and Sequential Elections Improve the Presidential Nominating Process

Redlawsk David P., Tolbert Caroline J., Donovan Todd

ISBN: PB: 9780226706962, ISBN: HB: 9780226706955, University of Chicago Press, December 2010
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 40 tables, 53 line illus.

If Barack Obama had not won in Iowa, most commentators believe that he would not have been able to go on to capture the Democratic nomination for president".Why Iowa?" offers the definitive account of those early weeks of the campaign season: from ho...

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Political Science

Cuban Cure Reason and Resistance in Global Science

Reid-Henry Simon

ISBN: HB: 9780226709178, University of Chicago Press, December 2010
216 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

After Fidel Castro came to power in 1959, his second declaration, after socialism, was that Cuba would become a leader in international science. In biotechnology he would be proven right and, today, Cuba counts a meningitis B vaccine and cutting-edge...

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Philosophy

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

Rahe Paul A.

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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Philosophy

Soft Despotism, Democracy's Drift Montesquieu, Rousseau, Tocqueville, and the Modern Prospect

Rahe Paul A.

ISBN: PB: 9780300164237, Yale University Press, April 2010
400 pp., 22.9x15.5 cm

In 1989, the Cold War abruptly ended and it seemed as if the world was at last safe for democracy. But a spirit of uneasiness, discontent, and world-weariness soon arose and has persisted in Europe, in America, and elsewhere for two decades. To disce...

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Political Science

Manifestos for the 21st Century

Giving Offence

Rowson Martin

ISBN: HB: 9781906497019, Seagull Books, March 2009
112 pp., 18.3x11.2 cm

Tolerated in Britain for over 300 years – and ubiquitous throughout the world for much longer – visual satire gives offence in the quickest way and in its purest form. Cartoons have long since established themselves as a legitimate part of the genera...

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