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Book SynopsisPresents a memoir from one of Nixon's senior domestic policy advisors. A member of the moderate wing of the Republican Party, John Roy Price’s memoir makes a valuable contribution to our evolving scholarship and understanding of the Nixon presidency.Trade ReviewAre you ready for some revisionism? Price's Nixon was trying to bring the country together. He understood that politics was 'poetry' - you needed more than good policy positions. But good ones he had. His domestic policies would have ended the financial incentives to break up low-income families and would have kept catastrophic health issue from bankrupting middle-class families. We see Nixon doing the right thing because it is the right thing. This book is thought-provoking from beginning to end." - Nicholas Evan Sarantakes, author of Fan in Chief: Richard Nixon and American Sports, 1969-1974"John Roy Price's The Last Liberal Republican is a valuable resource for anyone interested in the Nixon presidency as well as the presidential/congressional relationship as it relates to domestic policymaking. Price's memoir not only explains the domestic policy agenda during a seminal point in American history but also shows how a Republican president worked with a Democratic Congress to revise and expand parts of the New Deal and Great Society agendas. Price's ability to illustrate the policy battles as they played out on the political frontlines makes this book essential reading." - Lori Cox Han, author of Advising Nixon: The White House Memos of Patrick J. Buchanan"For all those who thought there was nothing more-nothing new-to say about Richard Nixon, John Roy Price has a surprise, and an important one. Here is a Nixon seldom seen, a Nixon leaning left even as he moved the Republicans right, a Nixon worried about his place in history even as he was soiling his place in history. No biography of the thirty-seventh president written in the remainder of this century can be unaffected by this vital and indispensable book." - David Shribman, Pulitzer Prize-winning nationally syndicated columnist and former executive editor, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

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Book SynopsisIn his recent book Against Liberalism, philosopher John Kekes argued that liberalism as a political system is doomed to failure by its internal inconsistencies. In this companion volume, he makes a compelling case for conservatism as the best...Trade ReviewA valuable contribution to political theory.... A challenging work. * First Things *John Kekes's project has been to encourage others to be realistic about what it takes to make good lives for themselves in a troubled, flawed, and apparently contingent universe. -- Preston Jones, Cambridge School of Dallas * Touchstone *Kekes must be lauded for attempting to present a coherent and systematic defense of conservatism. -- Barry Alan Shain, Colgate University * Modern Age *Students with a serious interest in political theory and philosophy would certainly benefit from this slim volume, which... is likely to become a classic in its field. * Choice *This is a book which... offers a reasoned and often astute defense of a moderate conservatism which deserves to be taken seriously, both by conservatives themselves and their critics. -- John Horton, Keele University, UK * Philosophical Investigations *

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Book SynopsisThis interdisciplinary collection, featuring some of today’s most prominent political theorists, sociologists, philosophers, and historians, challenges narratives of neoliberalism’s demise. The book queries whether contemporary political ruptures—including the rise of far-right forces—will challenge, support, or extend the reach of market rule around the globe.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Theorizing Mutant Neoliberalism | 1 William Callison and Zachary Manfredi 1. Neoliberalism’s Scorpion Tail | 39 Wendy Brown 2. The Market’s People: Milton Friedman and the Making of Neoliberal Populism | 61 Sören Brandes 3. Neoliberals against Europe | 89 Quinn Slobodian and Dieter Plehwe 4. Anti-Austerity on the Far Right | 112 Melinda Cooper 5. Disposing of the Discredited: A European Project | 146 Michel Feher 6. Neoliberalism, Rationality, and the Savage Slot | 177 Julia Elyachar 7. Sexing Homo OEconomicus: Finding Masculinity at Work | 196 Leslie Salzinger 8. Feminist Theory Redux: Neoliberalism’s Public-Private Divide | 215 Megan Moodie and Lisa Rofel 9. “Innovation” Discourse and the Neoliberal University: Top Ten Reasons to Abolish Disruptive Innovation | 244 Christopher Newfield 10. Absolute Capitalism | 269 Étienne Balibar List of Contributors | 291 Index | 295

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Book SynopsisUsing a wide range of sources, Marlene Laruelle discusses the impact of the ideology of Eurasianism on geopolitics, interior policy, foreign policy, and culturalist philosophy.Trade ReviewA tour de force not merely because of the depth of the scholarship and the skill of the argument but also because Laruelle unveils a subject crucial to understanding today's Russia but never given proper due... Even the most serious student of contemporary Russia will get from this book a vastly deeper sense of what makes Russian intellectual life, for all of its vexed affinity with the West, fundamentally different. -- Robert Legvold Foreign Affairs A masterful job of describing the various philosophical threads of Eurasianism... The author's lucid style makes the book accessible to the educated general public. Choice This volume certainly engages the reader to explore... Laruell's deft treatment of Eurasianism's shifting position in contemporary discourse makes this a fascinating volume that extends beyond the boundaries of any single academic discipline. -- Kathleen Macfie Eurasian Geography and Economics Laruelle is to be congratulated on her lucid and intellectually disciplined discussion of the ambiguous, intricate, and often contradictory ideas that shape Russian Neo-Eurasiansim... a must-read for intellectual historians, policymakers, cultural scholars, Russia Watchers, or for that matter, anyone who uneasily senses that something is moving in the deep currents beneath the surface of contemporary Russia, but is not sure of what it is. -- Maria Carlson Russian Review Russian Eurasianism is a lucid and rational guide, based on thorough scholarship and an admirable reluctance to sensationalize or to claim too much. -- Edmund Griffiths Times Literary Supplement A richly interdisciplinary and meticulously researched analysis of both the historical and contemporary sources of Eurasianist cultural and philosophical/ideological traditions and discourse... this book will be an invaluable resource for policymakers and academics providing a deeper understanding of the forces shaping Russia's identity and the unfolding of circumstances for the entire Eurasian region. -- Sharyl N. Cross Journal of Slavic Military Studies Laruelle, an established authority in the field. International Affairs An impressive achievement. The author writes with an erudition and breadth of insight that is unique in the burgeoning field of what we might call 'Eurasianism studies.' -- Mark Bassin Slavic Review Extremely informative and enlightening reading. -- Andreas Umland Europe-Asia StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Eurasianism—Marginal or Mainstream in Contemporary Russia?The Historical Roots of the Eurasianist IdeaNeo-Eurasianism and Its Place in Post-Soviet RussiaNeo-Eurasianist Doctrine and Russian Foreign PolicyMarginal or Mainstream?Premises of This StudyPlan of the Book1. Early Eurasianism, 1920–1930The Life and Death of a Current of ThoughtA Philosophy of PoliticsA Geographic IdeologyAn Ambiguous OrientalismConclusions2. Lev Gumilëv: A Theory of Ethnicity?From Dissidence to Public Endorsement: An Atypical Biography"The Last Eurasianist"?Gumilëv's Episteme: Subjecting the Humanities to the Natural SciencesTheories of the Ethnos or Naturalistic DeterminismThe Complex History of the Eurasian TotalityXenophobia, Mixophobia, and Anti-SemitismGumilëv, Russian Nationalism, and Soviet EthnologyConclusions3. Aleksandr Panarin: Philosophy of History and the Revival of CulturalismIs There a Unified Neo-Eurasianist Theory?From Liberalism to Conservatism: Panarin's Intellectual Biography"Civilizationism" and "Postmodernism"Rehabilitating Empire: "Civilizational" Pluralism and Ecumenical TheocracyHighlighting Russia's "Internal East"Conclusions4. Aleksandr Dugin: A Russian Version of the European Radical Right?Dugin's Social Trajectory and Its SignificanceA Russian Version of Antiglobalism: Dugin's Geopolitical TheoriesTraditionalism as the Foundation of Dugin's ThoughtThe Russian Proponent of the New Right?Fascism, Conservative Revolution, and National BolshevismA Veiled Anti-SemitismEthno-Differentialism and the Idea of Russian DistinctivenessConclusions5. The View from "Within": Non-Russian Neo-Eurasianism and IslamThe Emergence of Muslim Eurasianist Political PartiesThe Eurasianist Games of the Russian MuftiatesTatarstan: The Pragmatic Eurasianism of Russia's "Ethnic" RegionsConclusions6. Neo-Eurasianism in Kazakhstan and TurkeyKazakhstan: Eurasianism in PowerThe Turkish Case: On the Confusion between Turkism, Pan-Turkism, and EurasianismConclusion: The Evolution of the Eurasian(ist) IdeaThe Unity of EurasianismOrganicism at the Service of Authoritarianism: "Revolution" or "Conservatism"?Nationalism: Veiled or Openly Espoused: The Cultural Racism of EurasianismScience, Political Movement, or Think Tank?Is Eurasianism Relevant to Explanations of Contemporary Geopolitical Change?Psychological Compensation or Part of a Global Phenomenon?NotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThe Soviet Union was one of the most secretive states that ever existed. Defended by a complex apparatus of rules and checks administered by the secret police, the Soviet state had seemingly unprecedented capabilities based on its near monopoly of productive capital, monolithic authority, and secretive decision making. But behind the scenes, Soviet secrecy was double-edged: it raised transaction costs, incentivized indecision, compromised the effectiveness of government officials, eroded citizens' trust in institutions and in each other, and led to a secretive society and an uninformed elite. The result is what this book calls the secrecy/capacity tradeoff: a bargain in which the Soviet state accepted the reduction of state capacity as the cost of ensuring its own survival. This book is the first comprehensive, analytical, multi-faceted history of Soviet secrecy in the English language. Harrison combines quantitative and qualitative evidence to evaluate the impact of secrecy on Soviet state capacity from the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Based on multiple years of research in once-secret Soviet-era archives, this book addresses two gaps in history and social science: one the core role of secrecy in building and stabilizing the communist states of the twentieth century; the other the corrosive effects of secrecy on the capabilities of authoritarian states. Trade Review"How does a state organize itself when it lacks the support of its people? What are its strengths? Its weaknesses? These are fundamental questions in the world we face today and there is no better place to understand the answers to them than in Mark Harrison's profound analysis of the Soviet Union."—James Robinson, University of Chicago"It is difficult not to wonder today how Vladimir Putin has taken complete control of Russian institutions and convinced the Russian people and elites to go along with his kleptocratic regime and adventurism. This wonderful book provides an original and insightful answer: the Soviet Union created a highly distorted type of state, the Secret Leviathan, whose suppression of facts has not only had huge economic costs, but has destroyed political foundations of accountability and empowered the security services.These dynamics have paved the way to the current Russian quagmire. A must-read for anybody who wants to understand Soviet history and the current Russian regime."—Daron Acemoglu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology"The level of secrecy in the Soviet regime has amazed even scholars studying the Soviet Union. National security, as it is commonly called, was not a recent phenomenon in Soviet Russia, as Harrison details in this volume.... Secret Leviathan is a must for all academic libraries. Essential."—C. C. Lovett, CHOICE"Harrison has written a valuable and detailed study of how the extreme Soviet secrecy operated and developed, and how it harmed the economic performance of the country."—Anders Åslund, EH.NetTable of Contents2. The Secrecy/Capacity Tradeoff 3. The Secrecy Tax 4. Secrecy and Fear 5. Secret Policing and Discrimination 6. Secret Policing and Mistrust 7. Secrecy and the Uninformed Elite 8. Secrecy and Twenty-First-Century Authoritarianism

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Book SynopsisSocialisme ou Barbarie (1948-67) was a revolutionary group whose journal of the same name helped inspire France's May '68 student-worker rebellion and influenced generations of radicals worldwide. This Anthology, for the first time in print in the English language, restores the collective nature of the group's adventure.

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Book SynopsisPart of the Chinese University Press's three volume series on the construction of Chinese disciplines, Transforming History examines the profound transformation of historical thought and the practice of writing history from the late Qing through the mid-twentieth century. The authors devote extensive analysis to the common set of intellectual and political forces that shaped the study of history, from the ideas ofevolution, positivism, nationalism, historicism, and Marxism to political processes such as revolution, imperialism, and modernization. Also discussed are the impact and problems associated with the nation-state as the subject of history, the linear model of historical time, and the spatial system of nation-states. The result is a convincing study that illustrates how history has transformed into a modern academic discipline in China.

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Book SynopsisFINALIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE Every sentence delivered. The pathos of truth-seeking left me thinking of Herman Melville.Timothy Snyder, #1 New York Times bestselling author of On TyrannyNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING author Sarah Kendzior delves into the difference between conspiracy and conspiracy theory, deftly separat[ing] fact from fiction in a conspiracy-addled nation (VANITY FAIR).Conspiracy theories are on the rise because officials refuse to enforce accountability for real conspiracies. Uncritical faith in broken institutions is as dangerous as false narratives peddled by propagandists.The truth may hurtbut the lies will kill us.They Knew discusses conspiracy culture in a rapidly declining United States struggling with corruption, climate change, and other crises. As the actions of the powerful remain shrouded in mysteryFrom Norman Baker to Jeffrey Epstein, Iran-Contra to

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Book SynopsisElidor Mëhilli has produced a groundbreaking history of communist Albania that illuminates one of Europe's longest but least understood dictatorships. From Stalin to Mao, which is informed throughout by Mëhilli's unprecedented access to previously restricted archives, captures the powerful globalism of post-1945 socialism, as well as the unintended consequences of cross-border exchanges from the Mediterranean to East Asia. After a decade of vigorous borrowing from the Soviet Unionadvisers, factories, school textbooks, urban plansAlbania's party clique switched allegiance to China during the 1960s Sino-Soviet conflict, seeing in Mao's patronage an opportunity to keep Stalinism alive. Mëhilli shows how socialism created a shared transnational material and mental culturestill evident today around Eurasiabut it failed to generate political unity. Combining an analysis of ideology with a sharp sense of geopolitics, he brings into view Fascist Italy's involvement in Albania,Trade ReviewAn important contribution to our understaning of socialist Albania, especially in a transnational context.... An engaging, thought-provoking work that will be of use to historians of the Cold War, communism, Eastern Europe, and Albania for years to come. * H-Net *Mëhilli's case study of Albania under communist rule presents several interesting points.... Albanian communist leaders turned to Yugoslavia, the Soviet Union, and China over the decades for patronage and financial support to build up its industries, housing, and infrastructure. Mëhilli effectively uses the evidence of this Soviet material culture and points to the Albanian architects and construction workers who built much of modern Albania. * Choice *Transcending national history, offering glimpses into the lives of party leaders, expatriate experts and peasants and bringing forward many stimulating thoughts, From Stalin to Mao is a significant contribution to the emerging body of scholarship on transnational history of communism. * HSozKult *Mëhilli's book is a crisply written, well organized, and well supported account of a Soviet connection with a greater attraction and then a greater rejection than in the rest of Eastern Europe. * Journal of Modern History *Mëhilli's book is a must read for students of Communism and the Cold War, both between West and East and inside the Eastern bloc. * AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW *Mëhilli has proven himself to be not only a first-rate scholar, but an excellent writer, too. For years to come, From Stalin to Mao will be the definitive work on Albanian economics from 1945 to the end of Marxism in the early 90's. * Slavic and East European Journal *

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Book SynopsisIntegrating theory and research from social psychology, political science, sociology, and history, Mols and Jetten systematically investigate why prosperity and success can also fuel intolerance, social unrest, and intergroup hostility. The Wealth Paradox provides a timely and important re-evaluation of the role that economic forces play in shaping prejudice.Trade Review'Mols and Jetten present a compelling case for the importance of the wealth paradox. This timely and fascinating book should serve as essential reading for all those interested in the continuing debate about economic conditions and hostilities towards minorities and newcomers.' Maykel Verkuyten, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands'A game-changer! Analyses of xenophobia typically focus on the anxieties of those at the bottom of the hierarchy. The authors carefully unsettle the academic and lay assumptions behind that focus and problematise the status concerns of the comparatively well-off. This is a provocative book of immense contemporary significance.' Nick Hopkins, University of Dundee'The Wealth Paradox is a timely, clear and important corrective to the traditional social science assumption that only harsh times and contexts produce xenophobia and prejudice. Mols and Jetten integrate data and theory from history, social psychology, political science and psychology to craft an analysis of relative advantage that will change the way we think about the relationship between wealth and prejudice.' Heather Smith, Sonoma State University, California'This book is an impressive deep dive into the motives of 'people from relatively well-to-do circles', uncovering their leadership role in the protests of the less privileged. The scientific analysis of how and why prosperity also affects intergroup relations calls for a collective responsibility for combatting increasing global inequality.' Inga Jasinskaja-Lahti, University of Helsinki, Finland'… this book deserves an audience beyond academia: this is myth-busting at its most politically useful.' The Times Higher Education SupplementTable of ContentsPart I. What We Know (Or Think We Know): 1. Recognising the elephant; 2. Tracing the origins of 'harsh times' assumptions; 3. Empirical evidence for the 'harsh times producing hard attitudes' hypothesis; Part II. Broadening our Horizon: The 'Wealth Paradox': 4. Rethinking the relationship between wealth and tolerance: national, regional and local trends; 5. Development aid, charitable giving and economic prosperity; 6. The relative nature of wealth; Part III. Understanding the 'Wealth Paradox': 7. Towards an explanation of the wealth paradox: introducing social identity theorising; 8. The wealth paradox explained; 9. The missing link: crafty politicians galvanising latent sentiments; Final words.

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Book SynopsisIn the first book-length treatment of the issue in over two decades, Zunes and Mundy examine the origins, evolution, and resilience of the Western Sahara conflict, deploying a diverse array of sources and firsthand knowledge of the region.

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Book SynopsisThinking about politics has tended to be historical in nature because of the comparisons and contrasts that can be drawn between past and present. Different periods in politics have used the past differently. At times political thought can be said to have been drawn directly from the study of history; at others, perhaps including our own time, the relationship is more indirect. This Very Short Introduction explores the core concerns and questions in the field of the history of political thought. Richard Whatmore considers the history of political thought as a branch of political philosophy/political science, and examines the approaches of core theorists such as Reinhart Koselleck, Strauss, Michel Foucault, and the so-called Cambridge School of Quentin Skinner and John Pocock. Assessing the current relationship between political history, theory and action, Whatmore concludes with an analysis of its relevant for current politics.ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.Table of Contents1: Political thought: a brief history 2: History and political philosophy: Arendt, Oakeshott, and Rawls 3: Political thought and extremism: Koselleck 4: Political thought in North America: Strauss 5: Political thought and the history of liberty: Foucault 6: Political theorists as historians: The Cambridge School 7: The History of Political Thought and Present Politics Further Reading Index

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Book SynopsisDouglas Spencer teaches and writes on critical theories of architecture, landscape and urbanism. A regular contributor to Radical Philosophy, he has also written chapters for collections such as Architecture Against the Post-Political (2014), Landscape and Agency (2016) and This Thing Called Theory (2016). He has published numerous essays in journals such The Journal of Architecture, AD, AA Files, New Geographies, Volume and Praznine. He teaches at the AA's Graduate School of Design at the Architectural Association and at the University of Westminster, London.Trade ReviewSpencer draws a direct intellectual lineage from neoliberalism’s original thinkers through the unlikely corridors of late-20th-century countercultural and avant-garde thought, all the way into the glistening hallways of today’s most acclaimed contemporary architectural firms. * Los Angeles Review of Books *This book marks a milestone in architectural criticism, and the questions it addresses could not be more important or urgent ... Its bold, unflinching description of architecture’s complicity with the powers that be makes it an indispensable reference for all those concerned with the social and political meaning of their work, * Journal of Architectural Education *The Architecture of Neoliberalism is a devastating portrait of contemporary architecture as the phantasmagoria of neoliberal capitalism. Spencer deftly deconstructs the current architectural ideology as a melange of counter-cultural tropes and vitalist celebrations of flexibility, empowerment, spontaneity, and the market as the final arbiter of freedom. The result is a powerful plea for critique in the face of the architectural prophets who proclaim ‘there is no alternative’. * Benjamin Noys, Professor of Critical Theory, University of Chichester, UK *“Neoliberalism” is commonly used as an epithet today to denounce a late-capitalist architecture in cahoots with the forces of real estate development and the marketplace. Douglas Spencer is the first to provide a detailed history of this term and to analyze its modes of operation, its architectural expressions, and its ideological subterfuges. An absolutely timely, lucid, important critique. * Joan Ockman, Distinguished Senior Fellow, University of Pennsylvania School of Design, USA *This book marks a milestone in architectural criticism, and the questions it addresses could not be more important or urgent. * JAE (Journal of Architectural Education) *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Architecture, Neoliberalism and the Game of Truth 1. The Art of Neoliberal Governmentality 2. The Spatial Constitution of the Neoliberal Subject 3. Architecture Theory: From May '68 to the 'Real' of the Market 4. Labour Theory: Architecture, Work and Neoliberalism 5. Festivals of Circulation: Neoliberal Architectures of Culture, Commerce and Eduction 6. Neoliberalism and Effect: Architecture and the Patterning of Experience Conclusion: The Necessity of Critique Bibliography

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Book SynopsisMargaret Chase Smith was the first woman in American history elected in both the House of Representatives and the Senate, the first politician to take a public stand against McCarthyism, and the first woman of a major political party to run for president of the United States. An American Stand: Senator Margaret Chase Smith and the Communist Menace, 1948-1972 explores her engagement with the masculine issue of national defense. An unyielding foe of global communism, this Republican senator was the first female Cold Warrior. During the Korean War, she voiced strident anti-communist rhetoric in her newspaper column. Her energetic support for nuclear superiority in the fifties and sixties caused Nikita Khrushchev to describe her as Satan in the guise of a woman. In the face of growing opposition to America''s involvement in Vietnam, Smith remained committed to a clear stand against violent communist expansion. This book examines the exposition of the communist menace and the Cold War as a Trade ReviewMargaret Chase Smith, the first woman elected to both the U.S. House and Senate, was a mainstay of American anticommunism in the 1950s and 1960s. Eric Crouse's well researched and discerning study of this formidable politician excels at describing the sources, limits, and actions of her determined anticommunist stance. Along the way he also sheds light on the complexities of American foreign policy at a complex time, no better indicated than in Margaret Chase Smith's public stand AGAINST the anticommunist demagoguery of Sen. Joseph McCarthy. This is a fine book. -- Mark A. Noll, University of Notre DameWith this book, Eric Crouse performs the essential craft of the historian in bringing to our attention the fascinating but too often forgotten figure of Margaret Chase Smith. Using extensive archival research and disciplinary insight, Crouse deftly portrays Smith in her multiple roles: a pioneering woman in the Senate, a principled anti-communist, a voice for ordinary Americans, and, above all, an American original. This book makes an invaluable contribution to scholarship on Cold War history, Congressional studies, anticommunism, and the American character. -- William Inboden, Legatum Institute, author of Religion and American Foreign Policy, 1945-1960 The Soul of ContainmentBased on thorough research, An American Stand outdistances other studies of Margaret Chase Smith in analyzing the foreign policy philosophy and stances of this remarkable senator. By presenting extensive historical context, Eric Crouse delivers a more balanced treatment of her fierce anti-Communism than previous historians. -- Mark Moyar, U.S. Marine Corps University, author of Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954-1965Crouse (Tyndale Univ. College, Canada) has produced a balanced, sympathetic account of Margaret Chase Smith, a moderate Republican anticommunist and the first woman to serve in both the US House and Senate. Crouse focuses on three main aspects of Smith's anticommunist activism: her support of the Korean War and the Vietnam War and, most interestingly, her opposition to the tactics of Joseph McCarthy in the early 1950s. Crouse succeeds where many scholars fail by presenting the views and arguments of both anticommunists and the American Left in a nuanced, sympathetic manner. He also admirably incorporates recent scholarship on the 'crimes of Communism' into his narrative, providing useful points of comparison between the anticommunist rhetoric of his subject and the realities of communist rule. A useful addition to the history of anticommunism in the US and of interest to historians of gender and 20th-century US politics. Summing Up: Recommended * CHOICE *Crouse skillfully weaves together Smith’s public statements as reported in the press and documented in government records, her letters to constituents in Maine and nationally, and her newspaper column 'Washington and You' and other public writings to demonstrate the constancy of her views on national security. . . .Crouse does an admirable job describing the sexist attacks that began as soon as Smith entered Congress and her responses to critics who doubted her abilities, interrogated the appropriateness of her positions, and even questioned her right to hold office. * New England Quarterly *Table of Contents1 Acknowledgments 2 Introduction Chapter 3 1 Rise to Political Standing Chapter 4 2 Red Menace Chapter 5 3 Korean War Chapter 6 4 Nuclear Credibility Chapter 7 5Vietnam War 8 Conclusion 9 Bibliography 10 Index

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Book SynopsisJean-Yves Camus and Nicolas Lebourg’s critical look at the far right throughout Europe reveals a prehistory and politics more complex than the stereotypes suggest and warns of the challenges it poses to the EU’s liberal-democratic order. These movements are determined to gain power through legitimate electoral means, and they are succeeding.Trade ReviewA fascinating and comprehensive study that follows more than a century of the history of far-right movements in Western Europe as they transform or die and argues that there are no prepackaged essences to them. I cannot imagine a better way to understand the current field than to read this book. -- John R. Bowen, author of Why the French Don’t Like Headscarves: Islam, the State, and Public SpaceIndispensable. -- Robert Zaretsky * Foreign Policy *Camus and Lebourg present an in-depth, thoroughly researched look at a faction of European political movements. -- Mattie Cook * Library Journal *The English-language translation of Jean-Yves Camus and Nicolas Lebourg’s Far-Right Politics in Europe could not have come at a more appropriate time with the rise of Golden Dawn in Greece, the National Front in France, and the transnational ‘Identitaire’ movement, amongst others. Aptly, the authors navigate the long history of the European far-right, starting with the Ancien Régime and moving to today…Far-Right Politics gives important insight to scholars interested in emerging (and converging) Alt-Right movements. The book weaves in and out of the rise, fall, and reemergence of far-right movements across European countries, reminding scholars that, for some, the final chapter of far-right politics has yet to be written. -- Louie Dean Valencia-García * EuropeNow *[A] wide-ranging survey of far-right parties across Europe…Provide[s] a troubling account of just how easily ethno-nationalism can establish itself in a self-consciously liberal democracy—even one in which ethno-nationalism seemed permanently discredited because of the way its adherents in an earlier generation collaborated with fascism…Far-Right Politics in Europe has much of interest to say about the broad span of right-wing movements in Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, and Eastern Europe; about the influence of thinkers like the antidemocratic Italian philosopher Julius Evola (a favorite of top Trump adviser Stephen Bannon) and Alexander Dugin, the intellectual guru of Putinism; and about the contacts among all of these. -- David A. Bell * The Nation *Far-Right Politics in Europe is timely, important…There are important insights offered here…Camus and Lebourg also handle the far Right’s approach to racial difference skillfully. -- Matthew Feldman * Times Higher Education *A book that tells readers everything they’d ever want to know about the European far right and more, going all the way back to its beginnings in, naturally, France. -- Erik D’Amato * Los Angeles Review of Books *

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Book SynopsisFor the first time in history, the globe is dominated by one economic system. Capitalism prevails because it delivers prosperity and meets desires for autonomy. But it also is unstable and morally defective. Surveying the varieties and futures of capitalism, Branko Milanovic offers creative solutions to improve a system that isn't going anywhere.Trade ReviewA brilliant sequel to the pathbreaking Global Inequality. Drawing on original research and a typically wide sweep of history, Branko Milanovic poses all the important questions about our future. -- Gordon Brown, former Prime Minister of the United KingdomBranko Milanovic, a master economic statistician, here divides modern capitalism broadly into two versions: the ‘liberal’ one found in the West, and the ‘political’ one that has emerged in China. In this searching and richly argued work he weighs the choices we face and discusses whether the future may lie with one version, alone. -- James K. Galbraith, author of The End of NormalLeaves little doubt that the social contract no longer holds. Whether you live in Beijing or New York, the time for renegotiation is approaching. -- Edward Luce * Financial Times *Countries with larger tax cuts experienced bigger increases in inequality… [The consequences] are richly detailed in Capitalism, Alone… Builds on Milanovic’s previous book, Global Inequality… Ideally the two should be read together… [Milanovic] belongs to a new generation of data-driven economists who have helped track what has happened to income distribution in recent years. -- Liaquat Ahamed * New Yorker *Milanovic outlines a taxonomy of capitalisms and traces their evolution from classical capitalism before 1914, through the social-democratic capitalism of the mid-20th century, to ‘liberal meritocratic capitalism’ in much of the rich world, in particular America. He contrasts this with the ‘political capitalism’ found in many emerging countries, with China as the exemplar. These two capitalistic forms now dominate the global landscape. Their co-evolution will shape world history for decades to come. * The Economist *Few economists can compete with [Milanovic’s] stunning erudition, or with his skill in weaving together seemingly disparate figures with complex philosophical ideas to produce a coherent thesis that feels highly relevant to our troubled times. Capitalism, Alone is one of the most ambitious economics books published this year, in terms of its breadth and scope, and definitely one of the most fascinating. * ProMarket *The book is erudite, illuminating…Milanovic is well credentialed to take on this large and daunting subject…Scholarly and festooned with data, but also narrative in style and engaging to read…Milanovic chronicles the rise of authoritarian capitalism, both in nations that once epitomized liberal capitalism such as the U.S. and in countries like China, which are partly capitalist but show no signs of turning liberal…As a virtuoso economist, Milanovic is superb when he is compiling and assessing data. -- Robert Kuttner * New York Review of Books *A remarkable book, possibly the author’s most comprehensive opus so far…I highly recommend Capitalism, Alone to all readers and scholars interested in challenging their understanding of the (supposed) sole socio-economic system we live in. -- Roberto Iacono * LSE Review of Books *An extraordinarily valuable book for anyone who wants to gain an understanding of current topics in economic research and their bearing on policy debates. -- Matt Mazewski * Commonweal *May turn out to be a seminal work on the fin de siècle de capitalisme…His conclusions and concepts, make extraordinary contributions to considerations of the state of capitalism. * Business Day *A scholar of inequality warns that while capitalism may have seen off rival economic systems, the survival of liberal democracies is anything but assured. The amoral pursuit of profit in more liberal capitalist societies has eroded the ethical norms that help sustain openness and democracy, he argues; now that tendency threatens to push such places in the direction of more authoritarian capitalist societies, such as China. * The Economist *This fascinating book offers a big-picture view of economic and social history over the past two centuries…But Milanovic is not confident that a more equal capitalism will emerge. -- Richard N. Cooper * Foreign Affairs *An ambitious and provocative examination of the present and the future of capitalism. It is a valuable, data-rich, and thoughtful addition to several recent books examining the challenges facing this economic system…Milanovic says that while capitalism cannot be replaced—at least in the foreseeable future—it can be improved. -- Zia Qureshi * Finance & Development *Attempts to make sense of the new world order and what could come of it. For that, it deserves to be read…An interesting and important read about the state of capitalism today and the directions it may take in the future. Milanovic’s history of focusing on economic data—rather than simplistic theory—and his healthy skepticism of meritocratic capitalism ensure that Capitalism, Alone will inform and provoke readers. * New York Journal of Books *Capitalism, Alone is an excellent work that covers a broad swath of the history of modern capitalism. -- Edward Wolff, author of A Century of Wealth in AmericaMilanovic has written what may be his most ambitious book yet. Featuring his trademark clarity and erudition, Capitalism, Alone contains wide-ranging and thoughtful insights into the nature of capitalism as it is currently structured and considers how it will evolve in the coming century. -- Arjun Jayadev, Azim Premji UniversityBranko Milanovic, the master narrator of global equality, brings an entirely new perspective to the topic in this remarkably astute book. By tracing the deep and evolving ideological foundations of capitalism and communism and analyzing the rise of Asia and particularly China, he contributes thought-provoking insights on the critical role of institutions and ideology for the long-term prospects of global economies. -- Debin Ma, London School of Economics and Political ScienceWhen politicians, pundits, and academics speak of a growing competition, or even a New Cold War, between the United States and China, one thing that is not asked enough is what is being competed for. Likewise, when we speak of an ‘American’ or ‘Western’ model, in contrast to a ‘Chinese’ one, it is worth asking what or who exactly is being modeled, and to what end. One of the virtues of Branko Milanović’s new book, Capitalism, Alone, is that it addresses these questions head-on and with useful insights and results. -- Nils Gilman * American Interest *Milanovic gives an impressive amount of space and effort in his book to provide a thorough analysis of the role of corruption in globalization…What I have always most valued about Branko Milanovic is his willingness to follow his intuition to open up new aspects of the political discussion. I may not agree with him on some issues, but I always come away greatly enriched by the experience. -- Mathew D. Rose * Brave New Europe *A data-rich, provocative account of where capitalism is today and where it may be headed. -- Samuel Hammond * Quillette *A gift to those of us grappling with economic and political inequality, as we seek ways to promote a fairer and more productive, sustainable society. -- Tim Page * Trades Union Congress (TUC) blog *[The] first three chapters are brilliant, original and make for gripping reading…Relish the erudition and panache. -- Duncan Green * From Poverty to Power *An excellent new book on the past, present, and future of economic systems. -- Umair Javed * Dawn *Milanovic writes as a good teacher, telling us what is coming, sharing the content, and then reminding us what we just learned. He takes the reader on diverting side journeys into the history of communism, the implausibility of a universal basic income, and even a brief summary from first principles of the past development and possible trajectories of Western liberal capitalism. The effect can be both exhilarating and overwhelming…Capitalism, Alone is a book to scribble questions all over, and then read again. -- Glyn Davis * Inside Story *Milanovic’s method is eclectic and empirical, informed by Marxist concepts but not limited to them. -- Max B. Sawlicky * Jacobin *Milanovic’s greatest contributions in Capitalism, Alone come from his fresh approach to the history of different capitalist countries. His taxonomy of Western countries evolving from classical, social-democratic, and now liberal-meritocratic capitalism helps us put the current state of affairs into better context and think about the ways policy can and cannot improve the system…His analysis of the forces and magnitudes of different kinds of inequality give a more nuanced story than is often found in public discussions. -- Will Compernolle * Liberal Currents *The conceptions of political and liberal meritocratic capitalism prove to be both novel and compelling…Milanovic’s proposition is valuable as framework for understanding the future of political capitalism, within China and beyond. -- Panthea Pourmalek * Journal of East Asian Studies *A readable and thought-provoking book, providing a concise introduction to some of the most important issues of our time. -- Kevin Hjortshøj O’Rourke * Society *[Milanovic] brings readers broader perspectives than most western economists. -- Martin Sandbu * Financial Times *

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Book SynopsisFounded as a counterweight to the Communist broadcasters in East Germany, Radio in the American Sector (RIAS) became one of the most successful public information operations conducted against the Soviet Bloc. Cold War on the Airwaves examines the Berlin-based organization's history and influence on the political worldview of the people--and government--on the other side of the Iron Curtain. Nicholas J. Schlosser draws on broadcast transcripts, internal memoranda, listener letters, and surveys by the U.S. Information Agency to profile RIAS. Its mission: to undermine the German Democratic Republic with propaganda that, ironically, gained in potency by obeying the rules of objective journalism. Throughout, Schlosser examines the friction inherent in such a contradictory project and propaganda's role in shaping political culture. He also portrays how RIAS's primarily German staff influenced its outlook and how the organization both competed against its rivals in the GDR and pushed communisTrade Review"Extensively annotated and superbly researched. . . . Schlosser has made an important contribution to the field of radio study by creating a tremendous "first stop" for researchers with an interest in the topic."--American Journalism "This is the type of study propaganda historians have been waiting for. Schlosser writes a compelling narrative of one of the Cold War's most influential broadcasting stations. With a big budget, a large staff of experienced journalists, and a huge audience, Radio in the American Sector, located in Berlin, lay at the epicenter of the ideological war between East and West. By carefully assessing the impact, content, context, and meaning of the influential Radio in the American Sector, Schlosser provides analytical precision and rich documentary evidence to support his contention that RIAS was a key political actor in East and West Germany alike. Situating the RIAS story in the maelstrom of postwar German politics, Schlosser connects his story to some of the most important--and dangerous--developments of the Cold War. Scholars and general readers interested in German history, journalism, propaganda, and international relations will find this book rewarding and provocative."--Kenneth Osgood, author of Total Cold War: Eisenhower's Secret Propaganda Battle at Home and Abroad"There is much to learn and possibly relearn in this new addition to the literature of Cold War-era propaganda studies…This intriguing case study, a microhistory of the Cold War tensions that plagued Berlin, reminds readers that this fractured city remained the epicenter of an enduring global conflict that lasted for decades. Highly recommended"--Choice"Schlosser's ability to examine the propaganda wars of the Cold War as a three-way conversation between RIAS, the East German regime, and its people represents an impressive achievement in the study of political culture and public diplomacy."--H-Net"This book is a little gem. With meticulous research, Nicholas Schlosser has recreated a fascinating slice of Cold War history: the struggle for the airwaves of Berlin undertaken by the American-funded station known as Radio in the American Sector. Key episodes include the Berlin Airlift, the role of the station in the East German Rising of 1953, and its coverage of the building of the Berlin Wall. This is a valuable addition to modern German history, U.S. propaganda history, international broadcasting studies, and the scholarship of the Cold War."--Nicholas J. Cull, author of The Cold War and the United States Information Agency, 1945–1989

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Book SynopsisThis classic work of comparative history explores why some countries have developed as democracies and others as fascist or communist dictatorships Originally published in 1966, this classic text is a comparative survey of some of what Barrington Moore considers the major and most indicative world economies as they evolved out of pre-modern political systems into industrialism. But Moore is not ultimately concerned with explaining economic development so much as exploring why modes of development produced different political forms that managed the transition to industrialism and modernization. Why did one society modernize into a relatively free, democratic society (by which Moore means England)? Why did others metamorphose into fascist or communist states? His core thesis is that in each country, the relationship between the landlord class and the peasants was a primary influence on the ultimate form of government the society arrived at upon arrival in its modern a

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Book SynopsisThe election of Donald Trump and the Brexit vote in the UK have caused fear and panic among liberals worldwide. They argue that the populist backlash represents a dangerous new authoritarianism. But what if the really dangerous authoritarianism is in fact their own? In this provocative and highly original book, Salvatore Babones argues that democracy has been undermined by a quiet but devastating power grab conducted by a class of liberal experts. They have advanced a global rights-based agenda which has tilted the balance away from the lively and vibrant unpredictability of democratic decision-making toward the creeping technocratic authority of liberal consensus. Populism represents, contends Babones, an imperfect but reinvigorating political flood that has the potential to sweep away decades of institutional detritus and rejuvenate democracy across the West. Babones’ bracing attack on the insidious “new authoritarianism” of the expert class and call for an end to liberal mission creep will stimulate and challenge all readers trying to make sense of the political tumult of the recent past.Trade ReviewNamed one of 2018's Best Books on Politics by the Wall Street Journal"Babones’ relentless critique of the liberal expert class brilliantly exposes their contempt for ordinary people. A crucial contribution to our understanding of how contemporary liberalism is increasingly illiberal and undemocratic."Adrian Pabst, co-author of The Politics of Virtue: Post-liberalism and the Human Future"An overdue and rational corrective about populism and authoritarianism."The Australian"Brilliantly insightful and always fair-minded, The New Authoritarianism is a compelling insider’s account of how the liberal-minded became close-minded."Quadrant"This is a superb book. Anyone interested in politics must read it; it is one of those rare tracts which is constantly rewarding."Spectator Australia

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Book SynopsisThe illuminating intellectual biography of one of the most controversial Italian figures of the twentieth century.Trade Review"Rota's biography of Angelo Tasca--a critically-important figure in 20th-century Italian political history--is clear, balanced,and engaging. Rota traces Tasca's tormented trajectory from communism to Vichy with judicious restraint and empathy. An insightful and provocative work of intellectual history." -- -Stanislao G. Pugliese Hofstra University "An original work. A good account of an intellectual and political journey from Italian and French socialism and communism through Vichy collaboration and back to an anti-communist moderate left." -- -Roy Domenico University of Scranton "...Rota's book is a fine example of a scholarly biography of an important figure in the history of the Italian Left. It is a pity that there are so few books of this nature available." -European Review of HistoryTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 Into the Battlefield 2 Learning Rus sian: Angelo Tasca and the Stalinization of the Communist Parties 3 In Limbo: Angelo Tasca and Liberal Democracy 4 The Road to Vichy 5 A Socialist in Vichy Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"In this impressive book, Voeten argues that although multilateral bodies such as the World Trade Organization may appear to be “neutral” and “universalistic,” they more often than not reflect the values and ideological orientations of their most powerful sponsors."---G. John Ikenberry, Foreign Affairs"An innovative framework that puts ideological disputes at the enter of an analysis of global governance arrangements."---Zheng Chen, China International Strategy Review

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Book SynopsisIn Remains of Socialism, Maya Nadkarni investigates the changing fates of the socialist past in postsocialist Hungary. She introduces the concept of remainsboth physical objects and cultural remaindersto analyze all that Hungarians sought to leave behind after the end of state socialism.Spanning more than two decades of postsocialist transformation, Remains of Socialism follows Hungary from the optimism of the early years of transition to its recent right-wing turn toward illiberal democracy. Nadkarni analyzes remains that range from exiled statues of Lenin to the socialist-era Bambi soda, and from discredited official histories to the scandalous secrets of the communist regime''s informers. She deftly demonstrates that these remains were far more than simply the leftovers of an unwanted past. Ultimately, the struggles to define remains of socialism and settle their fates would represent attempts to determine the futureand to mourn futures that never materializeTrade ReviewRemains of Socialism is an examination of 'mature' postsocialism that aptly demonstrates the ongoing disciplinary relevance of the region. Nadkarni offers her astute observations in clear, confident, accessible prose. * American Anthropologist *Multi-layered, intimate, and insightful on many levels, this remarkable and beautifully written book sets a new standard in the field of memory studies. * Association for Women in Slavic Studies *[Remains of Socialism] constitute[s] highly valuable contributions to the literature on the memory of the socialist past and the elements of nostalgia and retro in this memory. [The book] also offer[s] a new, more reflective, analytical reading of nostalgia. * H-Soz-Kult *Nadkarni is a superbly well-informed anthropologist. It is almost a hopeless endeavor to scrutinize her text for factual inaccuracies, misunderstandings, or mistranslations. Her grasp of both the language and the gestures of her interviewees likely finds those anthropologists struggling to make sense of the production of meaning in their field research envious. * Austrian History Yearbook *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Banishing Remains 2. The Hole in the Flag 3. Nostalgia and the Remains of Everyday Life 4. Recovering National Victimhood at the House of Terror 5. Secrets, Inheritance, and a Generation's Remains 6. A Past Returned, A Future Deferred Conclusion

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Shortlisted for the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize""[Frye’s] research is impressive. This timely, evidence-based account persuades." * Publishers Weekly *"With deft prose, deep and insightful analysis, and considerable supporting evidence, Frye not only counters, but dismantles, the overly simplistic and lazy narratives of Russia under Putin."---Joshua Huminski, Diplomatic Courier"Frye’s splendid book is a major contribution to the literature."---Alexander Brakel, Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs

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Book SynopsisWhat does the future hold for the international order? In Chaos Reconsidered, leading scholars assess the domestic and global effects of the Trump and Biden presidencies.Trade ReviewChaos Reconsidered is a stellar collection of essays examining the Trump years from a dizzying array of angles. Collecting them together will give scholars, students, and policymakers much to chew on, just as Robert Jervis intended. -- Elizabeth N. Saunders, Georgetown School of Foreign ServiceWith the liberal world order under increasing strain, the highly readable, provocative, and original essays in this book offer a wealth of expertise and deep-seated knowledge on the impact of changes made by the Trump administration as well as their legacy. A must-read for policymakers and students. -- Deborah Welch Larson, University of California, Los AngelesThis collection of essays explores the longevity, durability, and contradictions of the institutions and practices put in place by the United States in the wake of World War II. Readers are in for a treat, ranging from a lucid analysis by the late Robert Jervis of the seriousness of the challenges to Michael N. Barnett’s damning analysis of the hypocrisies of the ‘liberal’ world order to Deborah Avant’s compelling argument about the need to consider the inherent tensions between the illiberal at home and the promotion of a liberal world order abroad. The collection makes an exceptionally strong theoretical contribution to understanding the multiple effects of race on the liberal world order. A must-read for anyone interested in the evolving global system. -- Janice Gross Stein, University of TorontoA fascinating window on how political scientists and historians who study international politics grappled with the implications of the Trump presidency for their subject. Rich with insights worthy of consideration in their own right, Chaos Reconsidered will stand as a primary source on how the field and reacted to a seminal event occurring at a crucial stage of intellectual development. -- William C. Wohlforth, Daniel Webster Professor, Dartmouth CollegeTable of ContentsIntroduction, by Robert Jervis, Diane N. Labrosse, Stacie E. Goddard, and Joshua RovnerPart I. Trump and International Relations Theory1. The Trump Experiment: An Assessment, by Robert Jervis2. Trump Huffed and Puffed, and Liberal International Relations Theory Blew Down, by Michael N. Barnett3. America First? The Erosion of American Status Under Trump, by Michelle Murray4. Has Trump Changed How We Think About American Security?, by Deborah Avant5. Trump’s Realism, by Randall SchwellerPart II. America First6. When Donald Met Washington: The Genesis of “Great-Power Competition”, by Emma Ashford7. What Trump’s Nationalism Ended Up Looking Like, by Thomas W. Zeiler8. Trump’s Presidency as History, by Ryan Irwin9. Globalism and U.S. Foreign Relations After Trump, by Frank Ninkovich10. The Derangements of Sovereignty: Trumpism and the Dilemmas of Interdependence, by Samuel Zipp11. The Trump Presidency in Historical Perspective, by John A. ThompsonPart III. American Institutions and Alliances After Trump12. Presidents, Precedents, and the Laws of War, by Matthew Evangelista13. Trump to the Intelligence Community: You’re Fired, by Richard Immerman14. The Trump Administration and Economic Sanctions, by Nicholas Mulder15. Donald Trump and the Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Deal, by Susan Colbourn16. Trump’s Transactional Follies: The Consequences of Treating the Arms Trade Like a Business, by Jennifer SpindelPart IV. Trump Abroad17. Trump and Russia: Less Than Meets the Eye, by Angela Stent18. Trump and U.S.-China Strategic Competition as the “New” Normal, by Jonathan DiCicco19. Engage? Trump and the Asia-Pacific, by Dayna Barnes20. Riding the Rollercoaster: India and the Trump Years, by Tanvi Madan21. Swaggering Home: Trump, Grenell, and Pompeo in Conflict with Germany, by William Gray22. Death-Grip Handshakes and Flattery Diplomacy: The Macron-Trump Connection and Its Larger Implications for Alliance Politics, by Kathryn Statler23. “Mr. Brexit”: Donald Trump and the United Kingdom’s Departure from the European Union, by Lindsay Aqui24. The Trump Administration and the Middle East: Not Much Change, Not Much Success, by F. Gregory Gause III25. Fences Make Bad Hombres: Trump and Latin America, by Christy ThorntonPart V. The Expanding Meaning of International Security: Human Rights, Racial Justice, and COVID-1926. “Shithole Countries”: Was Trump’s Foreign Policy Racist?, by William I. Hitchcock27. Rethinking Vulnerability: Structural Inequality as National Insecurity, by Jason Ludwig and Rebecca Slayton28. Lifting the Veil on Racial Capitalism: American Foreign Policy Before and After Trump, by Nivi Manchanda29. Racialized Threats and Security Rationales in U.S. Immigration Policies, by Audie Klotz30. The Trump Presidency, the Question of Palestine, and Biden’s Business as Usual, by A. Dirk Moses and Victor Kattan31. The Trump Administration’s Insidious Approach to Human Rights, by Sarah B. SnyderPart VI. Is Liberal Internationalism Still Alive?32. Trump’s Foreign Policy Legacy, by Joshua Busby and Jonathan Monten33. “America First” Meets Liberal Internationalism, by Stephen Chaudoin, Helen V. Milner, and Dustin Tingley34. Liberal Internationalism and Partisan Conflict in the Post-Trump United States, by George N. Georgarakis and Robert Y. ShapiroPart VII. Looking Forward: The Prospects for Joe Biden’s Presidency 35. The Biden Administration and Russia: Deeper Into a U.S.-Russia Cold War, by Robert Legvold36. Joe Biden, American Democracy, and the China Challenge, by James Goldgeier37. Transatlantic Relations After Trump: Mutual Perceptions and Strategy in Historical Perspective, by Alessandro Brogi38. One Eye on the Rearview Mirror: The Middle East from Trump to Biden, by James Stocker39. Reclaiming America and Its Place in the World, by Elizabeth EconomyPart VIII. Coda40. World History, the American President, and the Gibbon Paradox, by Jeremy Adelman41. Trump’s Limited Legacy, by Lawrence Freedman42. American Constraints: Trump’s “Legacy” or Inexorable History, by Charles S. Maier43. Making Trump History, by Martin ConwayList of ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisConservative skepticism of scientific authority—contesting evolution and the climate change consensus—is constantly in the news. But liberal humanists also have their doubts, targeting “scientistic” overreach. Andrew Jewett provides the first history of Americans’ diverse and longstanding criticisms of science as a source of corrupt social values.Trade ReviewErudite and truly original. Jewett explains why so many cultural leaders came to deplore the increasing incursions of science into the realm of values, especially after World War II. A pioneering book. -- Ronald L. Numbers, author of The CreationistsJewett has thoroughly scoured the wide field of American intellectual discourse to find the misgivings, fears, and doubts aroused by the growth and influence of science. Science under Fire is strikingly relevant to pressing present-day concerns. I know of nothing else quite like it. -- Howard Brick, author of Transcending CapitalismThe continued politicization of science is rooted in the discomfort that many still feel about the banishment of ethics, humanistic values, and religion from much of public policy. Jewett’s book reminds us that this tension has a long history and that we should remain attentive to what is gained and lost as science continues to dominate how we understand the world and our place in it. -- Christopher J. Phillips * Science *Tackles the deep and persistent American intellectual tradition we might call Science-hesitant…It takes them seriously, arguing their vision was no less ‘modern’ for ranking Science lower than other human values, such as religious faith…A sweeping tour of a vast array of intellectual trends…The challenges to the authority of Science in this book are less episodes in the history of American science than episodes in the history of American religion, and readers drawn to those questions will find much to interest them here. -- Michael D. Gordin * Los Angeles Review of Books *An exceptionally well-written, detail-rich treatment of anti-science attitudes in the United States over the past century…Jewett reveals that the sprawling, wheeling sweep of his historical study is the argument: there is no single or stable ideology of anti-science…[He] starts and ends by talking about climate denialism, anti-vax, and COVID lockdown skepticism. -- Donovan O. Schaefer * Isis *The anti-science crowd ridiculed mask-wearers as sheep mindlessly following the herd. Armed crowds gathered at the homes of public-health officials across the country and hounded them from their jobs…As Andrew Jewett makes clear…the scientific enterprise in America has long drawn public hostility…Follows nearly a century of critiques of scientific cultural authority, from the 1920s to roughly the present…Given the moment we are in, Science under Fire seems particularly well timed, and it ought to be instructive. -- David Steigerwald * Origins *Deeply researched and thoughtful…The tensions he describes are entirely familiar, but they take on a fresh appearance with the historical backdrop he provides, and his nuanced portrait of the positions of the key protagonists produces a welcome respect for the complexity of ongoing intellectual and political controversies…Jewett concludes with a plea to approach science more matter-of-factly. -- John Casterline * Population and Development Review *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"One of BBC History Magazine's Best Books of 2020""A bracing stringency is one of the virtues of The Decline and Rise of Democracy. It sweeps across the globe in command of recent scholarship. . . . It shows how complex democracy’s patterns are and, on the evidence, how simpler accounts of its past and prospects stumble." * The Economist *"An outstanding volume that analyses the development of democracy and autocracy in a refreshing and relevant way."---Simon Sebag Montefiore, BBC History Magazine"Democracy is a naturally occurring condition in humanity societies. This single idea sets Stasavage apart from so many theorists who look to the past."---Justin Kempf, Democracy Paradox"I opened The Decline and Rise of Democracy: A Global History from Antiquity to Today, by David Stasavage (Princeton, 2020), hoping to find insights on the prospects for democracy in Russia, and China. And so I did. I closed the book with a better understanding of American democracy as well."---David Warsh, Economic Principals"A rich and coherent account of democracy’s evolution over millennia and across diverse geographical and environmental settings, "a deep history". . . . This volume helps us look into the future, and one might be unsettled by what can be seen."---Varghese K. George, The Hindu"This book’s optimism and wide-eyed wonder sprouts like T.S. Eliot’s lilac through the dead earth of current Western declinism."---David Muir, The American Interest"A fascinating voyage through time and place."---Pierre Lemieux, Regulation"David Stasavage offers a rich, international overview on the origins of democracy and the conditions under which democracy flourishes (or doesn’t). . . . an outstanding piece of scholarly writing not just because of the theory it develops, but how it does so: In clear, concise, and forceful prose — the rarest of combinations, which makes this book all the more enjoyable."---Felix Simon, Medium"[Stasavage's] approach is refreshing and inspiring."---Wim Blockmans, Parliaments, Estates, and Representation"Stasavage has written an excellent analysis of the concept of democracy that gives hope and a better understanding of how this concept can be salvaged from the threats that are rising and the challenges that lie ahead."---John M. Bublic, The European Legacy"A piece of remarkable scholarship."---George Tridimas, Constitutional Political Economy

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Book SynopsisUnfinished Utopia is a social and cultural history of Nowa Huta, dubbed Poland''s first socialist city by Communist propaganda of the 1950s. Work began on the new town, located on the banks of the Vistula River just a few miles from the historic city of Kraków, in 1949. By contrast to its older neighbor, Nowa Huta was intended to model a new kind of socialist modernity and to be peopled with new men, themselves both the builders and the beneficiaries of this project of socialist construction. Nowa Huta was the largest and politically most significant of the socialist cities built in East Central Europe after World War II; home to the massive Lenin Steelworks, it epitomized the Stalinist program of forced industrialization that opened the cities to rural migrants and sought fundamentally to transform the structures of Polish society.Focusing on Nowa Huta''s construction and steel workers, youth brigade volunteers, housewives, activists, and architects, Katherine Lebow exploresTrade ReviewUnfinished Utopia is an extremely interesting and beautifully executed book.... This book will appeal to a very wide audience. It will of course interest historians of the Polish postwar first and foremost, but beyond that it will appeal to Eastern Europeanists and, notably, to historians of the Western European postwar as well. The book succeeds on many levels: as Polish history, as a history of postwar European recovery, as a history of Stalinism and of Communist identity formation, and, lastly, as a history of twentieth-century political and social transformations. -- Eva Plach * The Journal of Modern History *Each chapter provides the reader with fascinating material that ultimately illuminates the problems at the heart of the most recent discussions in Polish historiography. This includes the nature of Polish Stalinism, which Lebow sees as much more than mere ideology, but rather as a set of practices that individuals creatively appropriated. -- Anna Muller * Austrian History Yearbook *In this richly researched book, Lebow explores how Poland's socialistregime and the residents of Nowa Huta built the city and forged a new way oflife.... It is remarkable that Lebow is able to tell the story of Nowa Huta anddevelop these provocative arguments in such a short book. -- Steven E. Harris * East Central Europe *Katherine Lebow has redirected the study of Stalinism in scholarly debates. Unlike practitioners of traditional sovietology—now morphing into victimologyfor popular consumption—she seeks out the complexities and ambiguities of Stalinism in eastern Europe... This book will appeal to a wide readership across many disciplines. The range is extensive: urban geography, political mobilization, social structure, gender, youth culture, and film studies. It crosses boundaries within Poland and beyond. -- Anthony Kemp-Welch, University of East Anglia * Slavic Review *With its monumental architecture and bold layout, Nowa Huta appears to be the quintessence of Communist urban planning. Yet, as Katherine Lebow's rich yet concise study demonstrates, underneath the regimented spaces and ubiquitous concrete lie more complex and nuanced stories.... [Unfinished Utopia] also provides important general insights into the intricate processes by which modernist urban spaces, despite their aspiration to control, become powerful sites of negotiation and resistance. -- Uilleam Blacker * Times Literary Supplement *Table of ContentsIntroductionChapter 1: Unplanned CityChapter 2: New MenChapter 3: The Poor Worker Breaks His LegChapter 4: Women of SteelChapter 5: The Enlightenment of KaszaChapter 6: Spaces of Solidarity, 1956–89ConclusionNotes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisKeith Mako Woodhouse offers a nuanced history of radical environmentalism in the late-twentieth-century United States. Focusing especially on the group Earth First!, The Ecocentrists explores how it challenged civilization but glossed over the ways economic inequality and social difference defined people’s relationships to the nonhuman world.Trade ReviewWoodhouse deftly brings together the intellectual history of the many threads of American environmentalism with the thinkers, the activists, the organizations, and the issues that have charged environmental politics since the 1960s. Required reading for anyone with a serious interest in the history of environmental activism and thought. -- James Morton Turner, Wellesley CollegeThis book is a profound achievement. In The Ecocentrists, Keith Woodhouse examines ecocentrism within and up against traditions of radical American protest, politics, and action. Deepening our understanding of radical environmentalism well beyond any previous study, the book lays to rest caricature and misinformation. Each chapter—each page—will make you think hard. -- William Deverell, University of Southern CaliforniaA compelling story about the enigmatic journey of environmentalism since the 1960s, The Ecocentrists shines a bright light on the radical potential and heartbreaking pitfalls of Americans’ ecological crusades. Highlighting the historic and contemporary tensions within the environmental movement between localism and globalism, populism and elitism, freedom and limits, and humanism and misanthropy, Woodhouse provides essential reading for anyone interested in thinking through how efforts to create a healthier planet can be made as just and humane as possible. -- Darren Frederick Speece, author of Defending Giants: The Redwood Wars and the Transformation of American Environmental PoliticsThe Ecocentrists captures eloquently the human stories of those who stood up for the nonhuman world. Keith Woodhouse’s willingness to take seriously the most radical members of the environmental movement yields fresh ways of understanding conventional environmental politics. A smart, rigorous, and brilliant book. -- Kendra Smith-Howard, University of AlbanyInsightful and well-grounded in the literature, this is required reading for historians of environmentalism and modern political movements and, for the general reader, a stimulating introduction to an urgent area of popular concern. * Publishers Weekly *His book is strongest when it contextualizes radical environmentalism in relation to broader ideologies (liberalism, conservatism, libertarianism, anarchism)....Recommended. * Choice *This outstanding and extensively researched work, covers a wide range of ideas and personalities; an essential addition for all environmental collections. * Library Journal (starred review) *In the era of climate change, Woodhouse wonders if the ecocentrists’ narrative of crisis is the only one that can create a clear-eyed view of the problem, as well as the political and popular will to mobilize against it. * Los Angeles Review of Books *A well-crafted expansion of our understanding of the environmental movement, and it reminds us that, while there areno easy answers to our current moment of environmental crisis, we are not the first to have wrestled with the difficult questions about human freedom and our relationships with the more-than-human world. * H-Environment *A superb history of radical environmentalism in the United States. -- Benjamin Kunkel * New Republic *Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction1. Ecology and Revolutionary Thought2. Crisis Environmentalism3. A Radical Break4. Public Lands and the Public Good5. Earth First! Against Itself6. The Limits and Legacy of RadicalismConclusionNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN, NEW STATESMAN AND THE IRISH TIMES''Illuminating and entertaining . . . while the world seems to counsel despair, The Persuaders is animated by a sense of possibility'' The New York TimesThe lifeblood of any free society is persuasion: changing other people''s minds to enable real change. But America is suffering a crisis of faith in persuasion that is putting its democracy and the planet itself at risk. People increasingly write each other off instead of seeking to win each other over. Debates are framed in moralistic terms, with enemies battling the righteous. Movements for justice build barriers to entry, instead of on-ramps. Political parties focus on mobilizing the faithful rather than wooing the sceptical. And leaders who seek to forge coalition are labelled sell-outs.In The Persuaders best-selling author Anand GiridhaTrade ReviewGiridharadas proves how senseless it is to lambast ideological opponents, especially when they're actually goodhearted and persuadable. Reassuringly sane, The Persuaders shows people are often less hardline and more conflicted than they seem * The Irish Times, Books of the Year *I was fascinated by The Persuaders by Anand Giridharadas - it's changed my view on the way we can (or can't) change people's minds -- Erica Wagner * New Statesman *The Persuaders provides the urgent wisdom we need to fix our broken world. It is a call for an army of persuaders-the teachers, listeners, and peacemakers willing to take the necessary risks to have a working society again. In a culture where everyone we disagree with is written-off, Giridharadas asks us to write our neighbors, friends, and family members back into our lives. This is the book every reader needs now, because we need each other more than ever -- Min Jin Lee, author of PachinkoAn engaging and provocative study of the dangers of political purity -- Emma Brockes * The Observer *Illuminating and entertaining . . . while the world seems to counsel despair, The Persuaders is animated by a sense of possibility * The New York Times *A handbook for defending democracy * CNN *An incredibly hopeful book . . . Every now and then, I come across something that makes me think in a completely new way, and this was one of those times. . . . It's just so good -- Brené Brown, Unlocking UsGiridharadas has already established himself as a major chronicler of one of our great divides - the disparities of income and opportunity that undergird American plutocracy. Now he turns his attention to another kind of gulf, one that's just as endemic and dangerous: ideology. It's one thing to diagnose and quite another to offer real solutions, but in this wide-ranging and profound book, Giridharadas explores real strategies for bridging these divides by finding a language in which we can speak to one another, and persuade. Reading The Persuaders I felt something I hadn't in quite a while: a tremor of hope -- Patrick Radden Keefe, author of Empire of PainAt the heart of The Persuaders is an immense spirit of generosity. With clarity and nuance, Anand Giridharadas paints portraits of people who are pushing the boundaries of traditional political paradigms, and whose work serves as a clarion call for all of us to imagine a new set of political possibilities. It is both a challenge and an affirmation. This is a guidebook to a better world -- Clint Smith, author of How the Word Is PassedI was profoundly moved by The Persuaders. It is full of counterintuitive wisdom for repairing a broken world. In a cynical and hate-filled culture, what would it take for us to become persuaders? The beautifully written profiles are affecting and urgently needed because our world can no longer wait -- Min Jin Lee * The Sydney Morning Herald, Best Books of 2022 *

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Book SynopsisCritiques the environmental destruction caused by media technologies in the anthropocene era

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Book Synopsis Mickey Friedman is a documentary filmmaker and writer and the founder of Blue Hill Films, where he has directed several films, including Good Things to Life: GE, PCBs, and Our Town. He lives in Massachusetts. Gail O'Brien is a professor emerita of history at North Carolina State University and the author of The Color of the Law: Race, Violence, and Justice in the Post-World War II South.

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Book SynopsisExamines the origins and evolution of world communism and explores how its legacies have shaped the post-Cold War world order. This book uses divergent case studies to document the ways in which the work on Leninism's evolution and consolidation is relevant in analyzing contemporary post-communist and post-authoritarian political transformations.Trade Review"The book has a high degree of coherence and makes a substantial contribution to our understanding of European communist systems and successor regimes. A brief review cannot do justice to the depth of the fourteen chapters." * The Russian Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Ken Jowitt's Universe / Rudra Sil and Marc Morje Howard I. Leninism and Its Legacy 1. Lenin's Century: Bolshevism, Marxism, and the Russian Tradition / Vladimir Tismaneanu 2. The Leninist Legacy Revisited / Marc Morje Howard 3. Transition to What? Legacies and Reform Trajectories after Communism / Grigore Pop-Eleches II. Identity and Social Transformation in Eastern Europe and Russia 4. Institutions and the Development of Individualism: The Case of Western Poland after World War II / Tomek Grabowski 5. The Soviet Union as a Reign of Virtue: Aristotelian and Christian Influences on Modern Russian Ethics and Politics / Olig Kharkhordin 6. Slobodon Milosovic: Charismatic Leader or Plebiscitarian Demagogue? / Veljko Vujacic 7. Social Dimensions of Collectivization: Fomenting Class Struggle in Transylvania / Gail Kligman and Katherine Verdery III. Political, Economic, and Social Change: Beyond Eastern Europe 8. Stages of Development in Authoritarian Regimes / Barbara Geddes 9. From Neotraditionalism to Neofamilism: Responses to "National Dependency" in Newly Industrialized Countries / Yong-Chool Ha 10. Leninism, Development Stages, and Transformation: Understanding Social and Institutional Change in Contemporary China / Calvin Chen IV. Methodological Orientations 11. Weber, Jowitt, and the Dilemma of Social Science Prediction / Stephen E. Hanson 12. The Evolving Significance of Leninism in Comparative Historical Analysis: Theorizing the General and the Particular / Rudra Sil V. The Big Picture 13. Conjuring Up a Battlefront in the War on Terror / Stephen Holmes 14. The Power of Imaginative Analogy: Communism, Faith, and Leadership / Daniel Chirot Select Bibliography Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisWith the loosening of restrictions on the Chinese economy in the 1980s and 1990s and the rise of the middle class, many observers thought that Western-style democracy would soon follow. Instead, China has adopted its own version, with a market-driven economy where actions that might call into question the decisions of the governing party are strictly forbidden. In this fascinating account, Cormier chronicles numerous failed attempts to bring democracy to China in the last century, starting with a handful of brave souls who tried to move China towards a constitutional monarchy at the turn of the century and peaking with the student uprising of 1989. Using historical research (including surprising transcripts from Party meetings) and candid interviews with many of the dissidents -- some now living in exile, others under house arrest in China -- Cormier tells the very human story of real people struggling for human rights and freedoms. The Legacy of Tiananmen Square was originally published in French as Les héritiers de Tiananmen. This updated edition was translated by Jonathan Kaplansky.

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