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Why Liberalism Works How True Liberal Values Produce a Freer, More Equal, Prosperous World for All

Nansen McCloskey Deirdre

ISBN: HB: 9780300235081, Yale University Press, December 2020
400 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

The greatest challenges facing humankind, according to Deirdre McCloskey, are poverty and tyranny, both of which hold people back. Arguing for a return to true liberal values, this engaging and accessible book develops, defends, and demonstrates how...

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Political Science

World Safe for Democracy Liberal Internationalism and the Crises of Global Order

Ikenberry G. John

ISBN: HB: 9780300230987, Yale University Press, November 2020
432 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 4 black&white illus.

For two hundred years, the grand project of liberal internationalism has been to build a world order that is open, loosely rules-based, and oriented toward progressive ideas. Today this project is in crisis, threatened from the outside by illiberal c...

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Philosophy

Political Science

What is Anarchism? Conversations with Mehdi Belhaj Kacem and Assia Turquier-Zauberman

Graeber David

ISBN: PB: 9783035802269, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, April 2020
256 pp., 21.5x13.3 cm

David Graeber is not only one of today's most important living thinkers, but also one of the most influential. He is also one of the very few engaged intellectuals who has a proven track record of effective militancy on a world scale, and his impact...

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Political Science

Whistleblowers Honesty in America from Washington to Trump

Stanger Allison

ISBN: HB: 9780300186888, Yale University Press, November 2019
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

Misconduct by those in high places is always dangerous to reveal. Whistleblowers thus face conflicting impulses: by challenging and exposing transgressions by the powerful, they perform a vital public service – yet they always suffer for it. This epi...

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Military

When Peace Kills Politics International Intervention and Unending Wars in the Sudans

Srinivasan Sharath

ISBN: PB: 9781849048316, Hurst Publishers, November 2019
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Why do war and coercion still dominate the political realm in the Sudans, over a decade since the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, and despite a litany of conflict resolution efforts? This book explains the paradoxical role of in...

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Political Science

Why the Electoral College Is Bad for America Third Edition

Edwards George C.

ISBN: PB: 9780300243888, Yale University Press, October 2019
296 pp., 21x14 cm, 1 black&white illus.

In this third edition of the definitive book on the unique system by which Americans choose a president – and why that system should be changed – George Edwards includes a new chapter focusing on the 2016 election.

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Philosophy

Why Liberalism Failed

Deneen Patrick J.

ISBN: PB: 9780300240023, Yale University Press, May 2019
256 pp., 21x14 cm

Of the three dominant ideologies of the twentieth century – fascism, communism, and liberalism – only the last remains. This has created a peculiar situation in which liberalism's proponents tend to forget that it is an ideology and not the natural e...

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Who Wants to Run? How the Devaluing of Political Office Drives Polarization

Hall Andrew B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226609577, ISBN: HB: 9780226609430, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
168 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 29 line drawings, 16 tables

The growing ideological gulf between Democrats and Republicans is one of the biggest issues in American politics today. Our legislatures, composed of members from two sharply disagreeing parties, are struggling to function as the founders intended th...

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General

Welcoming New Americans? Local Governments and Immigrant Incorporation

Fisher Williamson Abigail

ISBN: PB: 9780226572659, ISBN: HB: 9780226572512, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 line drawings, 15 tables

Even as Donald Trump's election has galvanized anti-immigration politics, many local governments have welcomed immigrants, some even going so far as to declare their communities "sanctuary cities" that will limit cooperation with federal immigration...

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Business & Economics

Political Science

When the Money Runs Out The End of Western Affluence

King Stephen D.

ISBN: PB: 9780300236934, Yale University Press, July 2018
304 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm

An eminent economist warns that Western nations' economic expectations for the future are way out of sync with the realities of economic stagnation and stringent steps will be required to avoid massive political and economic upheaval.

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