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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

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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Good Fences, Bad Neighbors Border Fixity and International Conflict

Atzili Boaz

ISBN: PB: 9780226031361, ISBN: HB: 9780226031354, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
296 pp., 23x15 cm, 5 tables, 2 halftones, 5 line illus.

Border fixity – the proscription of foreign conquest and the annexation of homeland territory – has, since World War II, become a powerful norm in world politics. This development has been said to increase stability and peace in international relatio...

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Political Science

General

Disciplining the Poor Neoliberal Paternalism and the Persistent Power of Race

Soss Joe, Fording Richard C., Schram Sanford F.

ISBN: PB: 9780226768779, ISBN: HB: 9780226768762, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
368 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 map, 1 table, 45 line illus.

"Disciplining the Poor" lays out the underlying logic of contemporary poverty governance in the United States. The authors argue that poverty governance – how social welfare policy choices get made, how authority gets exercised, and how collective pu...

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Philosophy

Political Science

Terrorism, Ticking Time-Bombs, and Torture A Philosophical Analysis

Allhoff Fritz

ISBN: HB: 9780226014838, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
280 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 6 line illus.

The general consensus among philosophers is that the use of torture is never justified. In "Terrorism, Ticking Time-Bombs, and Torture", Fritz Allhoff demonstrates the weakness of the case against torture; while allowing that torture constitutes a mo...

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Political Science

Africa

I Say to You Ethnic Politics and the Kalenjin in Kenya

Lynch Gabrielle

ISBN: PB: 9780226498058, ISBN: HB: 9780226498041, University of Chicago Press, November 2011
296 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 maps, 14 tables

In 2007 a disputed election in Kenya erupted into a two-month political crisis that led to the deaths of more than a thousand people and the displacement of almost seven hundred thousand. Much of the violence fell along ethnic lines, the principal pe...

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Political Science

General

Doctors and Demonstrators How Political Institutions Shape Abortion Law in the United States, Britain, and Canada

Halfmann Drew

ISBN: PB: 9780226313436, ISBN: HB: 9780226313429, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
336 pp., 23x15 cm, 27 halftones

Since "Roe v. Wade", abortion has continued to be a divisive political issue in the United States. In contrast, it has remained primarily a medical issue in Britain and Canada despite the countries' shared heritage".Doctors and Demonstrators" looks b...

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Evolution

Political Science

Man Is by Nature a Political Animal Evolution, Biology, and Politics

Hatemi Peter K., McDermott Rose

ISBN: PB: 9780226319100, ISBN: HB: 9780226319094, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
352 pp., 23x15 cm, 27 tables, 20 line illus.

In "Man Is by Nature a Political Animal", Peter K. Hatemi and Rose McDermott bring together a diverse group of contributors to examine the ways in which evolutionary theory and biological research are increasingly informing analyses of political beha...

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Political Science

Nixon's Court His Challenge to Judicial Liberalism and Its Political Consequences

ISBN: HB: 9780226561196, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
360 pp., 23x15 cm, 18 tables, 9 line illus.

Most analysts have deemed Richard Nixon's challenge to the judicial liberalism of the Warren Supreme Court a failure – "a counterrevolution that wasn't".Nixon's Court" offers an alternative assessment. Kevin J. McMahon reveals a Nixon whose public rh...

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Political Science

Lesson of Carl Schmitt Four Chapters on the Distinction between Political Theology and Political Philosophy, Expanded Edition

Meier Heinrich

ISBN: PB: 9780226518862, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
240 pp., 23x15 cm

Heinrich Meier's work on Carl Schmitt has dramatically reoriented the international debate about Schmitt and his significance for twentieth-century political thought. In "The Lesson of Carl Schmitt", Meier identifies the core of Schmitt's thought as...

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