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Political Science

Charter of the United Nations Together with Scholarly Commentaries and Essential Historical Documents

Shapiro Ian, Lampert Joseph

ISBN: PB: 9780300180435, Yale University Press, June 2014
288 pp., 21x14 cm

An essential addition to the Basic Documents of World Politics series, this volume presents the full text of the United Nations Charter and the Statute of the International Court of Justice, as well as other related historic documents and essays on t...

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Political Science

Indian Ocean Oceanic Connections and the Creation of New Societies

Sheriff Abdul, Ho Enseng

ISBN: PB: 9781849044264, ISBN: HB: 9781849044271, Hurst Publishers, June 2014
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "The Indian Ocean" was the first venue of global trade, connecting the Mediterranean and South China Sea. Inspired by the insights of Fernand Braudel, and by Michael Mollat, who saw it as 'a zone of encounters and contacts ......

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America

How the States Shaped the Nation American Electoral Institutions and Voter Turnout, 1920-2000

Springer Melanie Jean

ISBN: PB: 9780226114217, ISBN: HB: 9780226114187, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 line drawings, 20 tables

The United States routinely has one of the lowest voter turnout rates of any developed democracy in the world. That rate is also among the most internally diverse, since the federal structure allows state-level variations in voting institutions that...

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Political Science

Political Biography of an Earthquake Aftermath and Amnesia in Gujarat, India

Simpson Edward

ISBN: PB: 9781849042871, Hurst Publishers, February 2014
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! For those so-minded, the aftermath of an earthquake presents opportunities to intervene. Thus, in Gujarat, following the disaster of 2001, leaders were deposed, proletariats created, religious fundamentalism incubated, the stat...

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Military

Political Science

Purify and Destroy The Political Uses of Massacre and Genocide

Semelin Jacques

ISBN: PB: 9781849043939, Hurst Publishers, January 2014
400 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! How can we comprehend the socio-political processes that give rise to extreme violence, ethnic cleansing or genocide? A major breakthrough in comparative analysis, "Purify and Destroy" demonstrates that it is indeed possible to...

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Business & Economics

Political Science

America the Possible Roadmap for a New Economy

Speth James Gustave

ISBN: PB: 9780300198348, Yale University Press, October 2013
272 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

In this third volume of his award-winning "American Crisis" series, James Gustave Speth makes his boldest and most ambitious contribution yet. He looks unsparingly at the sea of troubles in which the United States now finds itself, charts a course th...

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Political Science

Wisdom of Syria's Waiting Game Foreign Policy Under the Assads

Scheller Bente

ISBN: PB: 9781849042864, Hurst Publishers, October 2013
244 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Syrian foreign policy, always opaque, has become an even greater puzzle during the Syrian revolt. Irrespective of the regime's international isolation in the wake of its violent response to domestic protest, it has paid lip-ser...

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Philosophy

Political Science

On Tyranny Corrected and Expanded Edition, Including the Strauss-Kojeve Correspondence

Strauss Leo

ISBN: PB: 9780226030135, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
360 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 halftones

"On Tyranny" is Leo Strauss's classic reading of Xenophon's dialogue "Hiero", or "Tyrannicus", in which the tyrant Hiero and the poet Simonides discuss the advantages and disadvantages of exercising tyranny. Included are a translation of the dialogue...

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Philosophy

Political Science

Politics without Vision Thinking without a Banister in the Twentieth Century

Strong Tracy B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226104294, ISBN: HB: 9780226777467, University of Chicago Press, July 2013
424 pp., 23x15 cm, 7 halftones

From Plato through the nineteenth century, the West could draw on comprehensive political visions to guide government and society. Now, for the first time in more than two thousand years, Tracy B. Strong contends, we have lost our foundational suppor...

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Political Science

Great American City Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect

Sampson Robert J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226055688, University of Chicago Press, May 2013
552 pp., 23x15 cm, 14 maps, 1 table, 6 halftones, 46 line illus.

For over fifty years numerous public intellectuals and social theorists have insisted that community is dead. Some would have us believe that we act solely as individuals choosing our own fates regardless of our surroundings, while other theories pla...

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