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Book SynopsisIn this brilliant exploration of American history and contemporary conservative politics, foreign policy expert John Hulsman draws on his years at the heart of Washington to present a compelling new vision of conservative realism. In our current Age of Insecurity, Hulsman suggests, there has never been a bigger need for the re-ascendance of realist principles in conservative circles. By drawing on U.S. history to illustrate realist precepts at the heart of the American story, The Last Best Hope provides a practical, realist foreign policy for a new age of American politics. There has never been a greater time to re-claim the primacy of conservative thought. By fusing the populist Jacksonian base of the GOP with the more libertarian Jeffersonian school of thought, this cogently argued manifesto hopes to grasp that opportunity, and to act as a clarion call for a new dominant realist foreign policy.

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Book SynopsisMuch has been written about the activity of Lenin and his colleagues on the editorial board of the Iskra newspaper, whereas little has been said about the opponents of Leninism, who unsuccessfully fought for control of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party during the Iskra period. To redress the balance, Richard Mullin has translated 25 documents from this period, most of which express an anti-Lenin view. They include articles from Rabochee Delo, the Jewish Bund's Poslednie Izvestiia and the post-Lenin Iskra, pamphlets by Plekhanov and Martov, the resolutions of Party meetings and some very revealing private correspondence. However, the result is not an anti-Bolshevik polemic: through these documents a clearer, and curiously flattering picture of Lenin's thought and activity is obtained.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements Notes on Names and Dates Preface Introduction 1. Programme of Rabochee Delo 2. Review of Lenin’s Tasks of the Social Democrats, Rabochee Delo No. 1 3. Announcement in Rabochee Delo No. 5 4. Plekhanov’s Vademecum for the Editorial Board of Rabochee Delo and Editorial Comments on the Protest of the 17 in Rabochee Delo No. 4 5. Documents of the April 1900 RSDLP Congress Attempt 6. Boris Krichevskii, ‘Economics and Politics in the Russian Workers' Movement’, Rabochee Delo No. 7 7. ‘A Historic Turn’, Listok Rabochee Delo No. 6 8. Resolution of an Émigré RSDLP Conference, June 1901, Geneva 9. Boris Krichevskii, ‘Principles, Tactics and Struggle’, Rabochee Delo No. 1 10. Alexander Martynov, ‘Exposure Literature and Proletarian Struggle’, Rabochee Delo No. 10 11. Constitution of the ‘Russian Iskra Organisation’ 12. Letters from Iulii Martov to the London Section of the Editorial board of Iskra 13. Report of the Fourth Congress of the Bund 14. Articles from Poslednie Izvestiia 15. Letter of Ekaterina Alexandrova to Lenin, Krupskaya and Martov 16. Pavlovich, Letter to Comrades about the Second RSDLP Congress 17. Resolution of the Second RSDLP Congress ‘Minority’ 18. Iulii Martov, The Struggle with the 'State of Siege' in the RSDLP 19. Georgii Plekhanov, ‘What is Not to Be Done’, Iskra No. 52 20. Georgii Plekhanov, ‘Something on “Economism” and “Economists”’, Iskra No. 53 21. Letter from the Urals and Plekhanov’s ‘Centralism or Bonapartism’, Iskra No 63 & No. 65 22. Georgii Plekhanov, ‘The Working Class and the Social-Democratic Intelligentsia’, Iskra No. 70 & 71 Conclusions Bibliography Index

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Book Synopsis“Arise Ye Wretched of the Earth” provides a fresh account of the International Working Men’s Association. Founded in London in 1864, the First International gathered trade unions, associations, co-operatives, and individual workers across Europe and the Americas. The IWMA struggled for the emancipation of labour. It organised solidarity with strikers. It took sides in major events, such as the 1871 Paris Commune. It soon appeared as a threat to European powers, which vilified and prosecuted it. Although it split up in 1872, the IWMA played a ground-breaking part in the history of working-class internationalism. In our age of globalised capitalism, large labour migration, and rising nationalisms, much can be learnt from the history of the first international labour organisation. Contributors are: Fabrice Bensimon, Gregory Claeys, Michel Cordillot, Nicolas Delalande, Quentin Deluermoz, Marianne Enckell, Albert Garcia Balaña, Samuel Hayat, Jürgen Herres, François Jarrige, Mathieu Léonard, Carl Levy, Detlev Mares, Krzysztof Marchlewicz, Woodford McClellan, Jeanne Moisand, Iorwerth Prothero, Jean Puissant, Jürgen Schmidt, Antje Schrupp, Horacio Tarcus, Antony Taylor, Marc Vuilleumier.Trade Review"The essays are well written and well documented. Of particular interest, especially to students of the larger Left, is Jürgen Herres’s contribution, “Karl Marx and the IWMA Revisited,” which provides a much-needed, post–Cold War perspective on the leading—but not authoritarian—figure of the First International during the first wave of globalization. Contributions on Latin American and US sections of the IWMA relieve the time-worn Eurocentrism of many past analyses, and one essay explores the roles and opportunities for women in the overwhelmingly male-dominated groups. In sum, the coverage is well rounded." - J. A. Young, in: CHOICE 56:2 (2018) "The contributions to the collection, both individually and collectively, greatly enrich and bring up-to-date our knowledge and understanding of the IWMA. They also flag important areas of future research, especially those around gender, race and transnationalism. In sum, this book provides a treasure-trove of information and insights for all those interested in labour internationalism, its mid-nineteenth century development, its many-sided character and its strengths and weaknesses." - Neville Kirk, in: Labour History, No. 115 (November 2018), pp. 179-181 "...this book is quite a successful work, certainly as a history of the IWMA itself, but also as a broader contribution to a trans-national and even global view of the working-class organisation and political radicalism during the third quarter of the nineteenth century. Indeed, it is as an analysis of the interaction between the national and the trans-national and global, in political radicalism and working-class organisation, and as an account of both the breaks and the continuities in these interactions that the book makes its greatest scholarly contribution." - Jonathan Sperber, in: Cultural and Social History (2019) [DOI: 10.1080/14780038.2019.1572693] "Der gut lesbare und in jedem Fall nicht nur für das spezialisierte Fachpublikum instruktive Band versammelt (neben einer guten Einleitung der Herausgeber) 23 Beiträge aus der Feder zum großen Teil prominenter Kenner der Geschichte der Arbeiterbewegungen beziehungsweise der Pariser Kommune [...] Jüngere Spezialisten und Spezialistinnen zeichnen sogar für die Mehrzahl der Beiträge verantwortlich, und so bewegt er sich durchaus am cutting edge der Forschung''. Thomas Welskopp, in Francia Recensio 4, (2019).Table of ContentsList of Figures Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction  Fabrice Bensimon, Quentin Deluermoz and Jeanne Moisand Part 1: Organisation and Debates 2 The IWMA and Its Precursors in London, c. 1830–1860  Fabrice Bensimon 3 Little Local Difficulties? The General Council of the IWMA as an Arena for British Radical Politics  Detlev Mares 4 The IWMA and Industrial Conflict in England and France  Iorwerth Prothero 5 Transnational Solidarity in the Making Labour Strikes, Money Flows, and the First International, 1864–1872  Nicolas Delalande 6 The IWMA, Workers and the Machinery Question (1864–1874)  François Jarrige 7 The IWMA and the Commune A Reassessment  Quentin Deluermoz Part 2: Global Causes and Local Branches 8 Global Values Locally Transformed The IWMA in the German States 1864–1872/76  Jürgen Schmidt 9 The IWMA in Belgium (1865–1875)  Jean Puissant 10 The First International in Switzerland A Few Observations  Marc Vuilleumier 11 For Independent Poland and the Emancipation of the Working Class The Poles in the IWMA, 1864–1876  Krzysztof Marchlewicz 12 Russians in the IWMA The Background  Woodford McClellan 13 The Italians and the IWMA  Carl Levy 14 1871 in Spain Transnational and Local History in the Formation of the FRE-IWMA  Albert Garcia-Balañà 15 Revolutions, Republics and IWMA in the Spanish Empire (around 1873)  Jeanne Moisand 16 The First International in Latin America  Horacio Tarcus 17 Socialism v. Democracy? The IWMA in the USA, 1869–1876  Michel Cordillot 18 “Sectarian Secret Wisdom” and Nineteenth-Century Radicalism The IWMA in London and New York  Antony Taylor Part 3: Actors and Ideologies 19 Karl Marx and the IWMA Revisited  Jürgen Herres 20 The Construction of Proudhonism within the IWMA  Samuel Hayat 21 Professor Beesly, Positivism and the International The Patriotism Question  Gregory Claeys 22 Bringing Together Feminism and Socialism in the First International Four Examples  Antje Schrupp 23 Bakunin and the Jura Federation  Marianne Enckell 24 Carlo Cafiero and the International in Italy From Marx to Bakunin  Mathieu Léonard Appendix 1: The IWMA – A Brief Chronology Appendix 2: Membership Indexes

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Book SynopsisWith a membership of nearly 90 million, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is the world’s largest political party. It is also one of the longest ruling parties in the world and has been able to weather huge challenges caused by the deep transformation of Chinese society as well as the collapse of the Soviet bloc and the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU). Moreover, in recent years, and especially during the era of General Secretary Xi Jinping, the CCP has centralized its grip over Chinese society. This study is intent on depicting major aspects concerning the CCP’s organizational arrangement and explaining some key concepts in the ideological framework constructed by the CCP leadership over time. it is important to take a new and closer look at how the study of the CCP has evolved in terms of themes, concepts, and areas of research. We do so in the following discussion by exploring nine topics: Party organization, cadre management, nomenklatura, cadre advancement and training, Party ideology, Party reform and adaptation, the Party and business, the Party and corruption, and the Party and the law. The intention is not to develop a new theory on how to understand the Party’s role in Chinese society but, rather, to identify key debates, paradigms, and emerging research directions.Table of ContentsThe Chinese Communist Party since 1949: Organization, Ideology, and Prospect for Change  Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard and Chen Gang  Abstract  Keywords  1 From Totalitarian Model to Cultural Emperor  2 Party Organization  3 Cadres and Cadre Management  4 Recruitment, Career Advancement, and Training  5 Party Ideology and Propaganda  6 Party Reform and Adaptation  7 Local Party Work  8 Party and Business  9 Party and Corruption  10 The Party and the Law  11 Conclusion  References

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