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Book SynopsisFox & Friends Weekend co-host Pete Hegseth says that America is at a flashpoint--and only a political and cultural Crusade will save our freedoms.In AMERICAN CRUSADE, Pete Hegseth explores whether the election of President Donald J. Trump was sign of a national rebirth, or instead the final act of a nation that has surrendered to Leftists who demand socialism, globalism, secularism, and politically-correct elitism. Can real America still win? And how?Hegseth is an old-school patriot who is on a mission to do his part to save our Republic. This book celebrates all that America stands for, while motivating and mustering fellow patriots to stand ready to defend-and save-our great country.As he travels around the country talking to American citizens from all walks of life, Hegseth reveals the common wisdom of average Americans-and how ready they are to join the cultural battlefield. Now is that time, and Hegseth has written the playbook.AMERICAN CRUSADE is written with the same insight, candor, political-incorrectness, and humor that has made his television show one of the most highly-rated in America.

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Book SynopsisThis book, whose original French edition achieved worldwide attention when its author died trying to save two children caught in a riptide, challenges the psychic work the modern world devotes to avoiding risk. Weaving psychoanalytic case studies together with philosophical reflections, Dufourmantelle shows how risk is an essential property of life, one that requires our embrace.Table of ContentsTranslator’s Introduction: The Risk of Reading | ix To Risk One’s Life | 1 Eurydice Saved | 4 Minuscule Magical Dependencies | 8 Voluntary Servitude and Disobedience | 11 In Suspense | 13 At the Risk of Passion | 17 Leaving the Family | 22 Forgetting, Anamnesis, Deliverance | 24 Incurable (In)fidelities | 29 Zero Risk? | 33 How (Not) to Become Oneself . . . | 36 Being in Secret | 39 Befriending Our Fears | 41 At the Risk of Being Sad | 46 At the Risk of Being Free | 49 The Time They Call Lost | 52 Dead Alive | 55 Of a Perception Infinitely Vaster . . . | 59 Anxiety, Lack—Spiritual Hunger? | 63 Farewell Magic World: Beyond Disappointment | 67 Life—Mine, Yours | 70 At the Risk of the Unknown | 72 At the Risk of Being Carnal | 74 May There Be an End to Our Torment . . . | 79 Breaking Up | 82 At the Risk of Speech | 86 Solitudes | 89 Laughter, Dreaming—Beyond the Impasse | 93 Hope No More | 101 Once Upon a Time, the “Athenaeum” . . . or, Why Risk Romanticism? | 106 Risking Belief | 111 Risking Variation | 114 The Event: Hyperpresence | 119 Intimate Prophecy | 122 At the Risk of Bedazzlement | 127 Desire, Body, Writing | 130 Healing? | 139 An Other Language | 142 Risking Scandal | 145 Taking the Risk of Childhood | 148 Assiduity | 151 Risking the Future | 154 At the Risk of Beauty | 158 At the Risk of Spirit | 162 Risking the Universal? | 164 Hauntings | 167 Spirals, Ellipses, Metaphors, Anamorphoses | 170 Envisaging Night | 173 Revolutions | 176 At the Risk of Going Through Hell (Eurydice) | 180 Notes | 187

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Book SynopsisIf there's one thing we know about our current president, it's that he lies. Donald Trump's lies are so ubiquitous, so incessant, and so habitual that they have become inescapable -- from his false claims about the size of his inauguration crowd to his whole cloth invention of a terrorist attack in Sweden to his assertion that Democrats are planning to give free cars to undocumented immigrants. But while he may lie more frequently and brazenly than any other American president, he is certainly not the first to mislead the public.With Lying in State, bestselling historian and commentator Eric Alterman asks how we ended up with such a pathologically dishonest commander in chief -- and what consequences his serial mendacity might have for the future. To answer these questions, Alterman explores the long history of presidential lying, showing that from early on, the United States has persistently expanded its power and hegemony on the basis of presidential lies. Over time, these deceptions have had a cumulative and pernicious effect: each lie a president tells makes it easier and more acceptable for subsequent presidents to lie. Worse still, the media have largely abandoned their responsibility as referees of news and information, uncritically repeating presidential lies and failing to issue corrections even after lies are revealed. Donald Trump, then, represents not an aberration but the culmination of an age-old trend.Full of vivid historical examples and trenchant analysis, Lying in State is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand how we arrived in this age of alternative facts.

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Book SynopsisNobel Laureate Edmund Phelps argues that the high level of innovation in the West was not a result of scientific discoveries plus entrepreneurship. Rather, modern values—particularly the individualism and self-expression prevailing among the people—fueled the dynamism needed for widespread innovation.Trade ReviewThis book should be read by anyone interested in innovation. Ned Phelps, who is renowned for his original thinking and rigor, together with his colleagues, provide profound analytic insights which reveal the sources of dynamism across countries and time. -- Ian Goldin, Professor of Globalisation and Development, University of Oxford, and coauthor of Age of DiscoveryIn this important book, Edmund Phelps, along with Raicho Bojilov, Hian Teck Hoon, and Gylfi Zoega, push economics back to its roots of understanding human satisfaction and flourishing. Linking satisfaction to innovation, they highlight entrepreneurship as commercializing the technological frontier. The ultimate payoff of this activity is dynamism, the flywheel of continuous innovation and the engine of mass flourishing. From this magisterial framing the authors tackle case studies of innovation globally, going from careful modeling if growth to reassurances about the effects of robots on our lives. This is a must-read book for any serious student of the economy’s—and our own human—potential. -- Glenn Hubbard, Dean Emeritus and Russell L. Carson Professor of Economics and Finance (Graduate School of Business) and Professor of Economics (Arts and Sciences), Columbia UniversityEdmund Phelps and his colleagues have further developed his previous work on the sources of a nation’s economic dynamism by delving deeply into the idea of human flourishing. Their findings on the central role of daily work, the knowledge we acquire from doing it, and the innovations we inevitably bring to it are utterly convincing. The authors’ tracing of economic dynamism to the worth people place on their own craftsmanship (there is no better expression for it) is social science at its most sublime. -- Partha Dasgupta, Frank Ramsey Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of Cambridge, and author of Time and the Generations: Population Ethics for a Diminishing PlanetOver the years, Edmund Phelps has developed a deep and important theory explaining why productivity growth in the U.S. increased dramatically in the nineteenth century and has declined in recent decades. This book puts the theory to the empirical test. It is essential reading for those who care about the past and future of capitalism. -- Eric Maskin, Harvard University, Nobel Laureate in EconomicsA fresh breath of air to stale debates about how to restore long-term growth in advanced economies…Phelps’s perspective is a necessary complement to the standard intellectual frameworks that tend to guide policy thinking around innovation and productivity growth…His iconoclasm shows by example how economics can benefit from an open-mindedness to broader social thinking. -- Martin Sandbu * Financial Times *

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Book SynopsisIn 1999, Texas passed a landmark clean energy law, beginning a groundswell of new policies that promised to make the US a world leader in renewable energy. As Leah Stokes shows in Short Circuiting Policy, however, that policy did not lead to momentum in Texas, which failed to implement its solar laws or clean up its electricity system. Examining clean energy laws in Texas, Kansas, Arizona, and Ohio over a thirty-year time frame, Stokes argues that organized combat between advocate and opponent interest groups is central to explaining why states are not on track to address the climate crisis. She tells the political history of our energy institutions, explaining how fossil fuel companies and electric utilities have promoted climate denial and delay. Stokes further explains the limits of policy feedback theory, showing the ways that interest groups drive retrenchment through lobbying, public opinion, political parties and the courts. More than a history of renewable energy policy in modeTrade ReviewStokes has written a highly readable and compelling book that will be of interest to environmental policy scholars and the general public alike * Saleem H. Ali, Science Mag *This is a book of the very first importance, a stunningly good piece of investigation that lays bare the answer to what may be the world's most important mystery: why are we moving so slowly to address the greatest crisis the planet has ever faced? It should be read-and memorized-by everyone who deals with energy policy in any way, shape, or form. * Bill McKibben, Middlebury College *With Washington gridlocked or worse, advocates for action on climate change have looked to the states for leadership. In this deeply researched and sobering analysis, Leah Stokes shows why these hopes must be combined with vigilance and tenacity. Even where states have managed to introduce innovative reforms, Stokes shows, deeply entrenched and resourceful fossil fuel interests can often regain the upper hand. * Paul Pierson, University of California-Berkeley *With US national politics deadlocked under right-wing dominance, crucial battles over clean energy are playing out in the states. In this brilliant new book, Leah Stokes spells out exactly how and why entrenched interests can take advantage of weak, ambiguous laws to achieve costly delays and hobble infant clean energy sources. All citizens fighting for effective responses to global warming should heed the lessons in this book-and scholars studying policy battles in many other realms have much to learn from it as well. * Theda R. Skopol, Harvard University and Scholars Strategy Network *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Abbreviations List of Figures Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. When New Policies Fail to Create a New Politics Chapter 3. An Institutional History of Electricity Politics and Climate Inaction Chapter 4. Policy Feedback: Networked and Influential Advocates Use the Public to Drive Clean Energy Leadership in Texas Chapter 5. A Direct Line to Legislators and Regulators: Fossil Fuel Corporations and the Limitations of Texas's Renewable Energy Laws Chapter 6. Retrenchment by a Thousand Cuts: Fossil Fuel Opponents Drive Polarization on Clean Energy in Kansas Chapter 7. Regulatory Capture: Electric Utilities Retrench Arizona's Net Metering Laws Chapter 8. When the Fog of Enactment Lifts: Late Action brings Rapid Retrenchment of Ohio's Renewable Energy Laws Chapter 9. Conclusion References Appendix:List of Interviews

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Book SynopsisAn entertaining, impassioned polemic on the retreat of reason in the late 20th century. An intellectual call to arms, Francis Wheen's Sunday Times bestseller is one of 2004's most talked about books.In 1979 two events occurred that would shape the next twenty-five years. In Britain, an era of weary consensualist politics was displaced by the arrival of Margaret Thatcher, whose ambition was to reassert ''Victorian values''. In Iran, the fundamentalist cleric Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini set out to restore a regime that had last existed almost 1,300 years ago. Between them they succeeded in bringing the twentieth century to a premature close. By 1989, Francis Fukuyama was declaring that we had now reached the End of History.What colonised the space recently vacated by notions of history, progress and reason? Cults, quackery, gurus, irrational panics, moral confusion and an epidemic of mumbo-jumbo. Modernity was challenged by a gruesome alliance of pre-modernists and post-modernists, medieTrade Review'A brilliant, eccentric book.' Observer Book of the Year ‘Wheen has a Swiftian relish for exposing the cant that attends the 'new rationality'…bullshit's enema number one.' Tim Adams, Observer 'Hugely enjoyable…delightful reading.'Ferdinand Mount, Sunday Times 'Lightly and often hilariously told as it is, this book does make it clear that respect for truth and reason is retreating and mumbo-jumbo has a new confidence everywhere…This amusing, intelligent and elegantly argued book is as good a demonstration of the values it defends as could be imagined.'Philip Hensher, Spectator ‘This book is a manifesto for rescuing the greatest philosophical movement of the past millennium. You have a choice: either read it or, pre-emptively shred your brain in anticipation of the coming darkness.' Independent on Sunday

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Book SynopsisJeremy Paxman was born in Yorkshire and educated at Cambridge. He is an award-winning journalist who spent ten years reporting from overseas, notably for Panorama. He is the author of five books including The English. He is the presenter of Newsnight and University Challenge and has presented BBC documentaries on various subjects including Victorian art and Wilfred Owen.Trade ReviewLively, persuasive, excellent. Boisterous and funny, provocative and punchily written… an intelligent romp -- Matthew Parris * Spectator *Entertaining, informative, incisive and insightful -- Andrew Rawnsley * Observer *One of the best primers on the vicissitudes of political life I have read -- Christopher Silvester * Sunday Times *Entertaining, informative, incisive and insightful -- Andrew Rawnsley * Observer *

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Book SynopsisIn this book, Ann Laura Stoler navigates the shadows and shatterzones of democratic policies, considering how imperial features are folded through (il)liberal orders, where racial inequities thicken in the borderlands of interior frontiers. Sometimes those frontiers, or the lines that define the contours of belonging and not belonging, are porous--often fixed and firm. For those on the wrong side of the fabulated division between inside and out, entry requirements can be opaque, neither verbal nor visible. Illegibilities are secured in code. The sites of inequity are disparate, the sensibilities that produce and sustain those inequities are as well. Borrowing Ralph Ellison''s phrase, Stoler exposes unexpected sites and scenes that register the lower frequencies of denigration. Seemingly benign sites are laid bare as toxic, as in her essay eviscerating the warped criteria assigned to taste and who can have it, and in her study of the seared lives that longing, envy, and humiliation inscTrade ReviewAnn Stoler's Interior Frontiers brilliantly points out the importance of the cultural, affective, and aesthetic undercurrents that both advance and limit the unfinished process of decolonization that has stretched from the last century into this one. Crafting the idea of "colonial aphasia," Stoler unveils how apparently innocuous but sometimes even prized acts create shadow indices of worth with material political ramifications. In a time where the evidently unjust—even the obviously violent—is whitewashed into acceptability, Stoler shines a necessary spotlight on the softer, blurrier, and perhaps even more pernicious forms of erasure that undergird the divisions that govern our lives and values today. Interior Frontiers is a veritable tour de force. * Bernard E. Harcourt, Bernard E. Harcourt, Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science, Columbia Law School *With these essays, Ann Stoler (re)establishes herself as the foremost theorist of affect. From the snobberies of the dinner table to the under-interrogated "instincts" rationalizing global carcerality, she dissects the complex, ineffable sensibilities and "gut" intuitions that inform hierarchies of taste, place, vulgarity, disgust, fear, temporal order, revenge, social death, and physical vulnerability. Greatly expanding the insights of Bourdieu's magnum opus, Distinction, Stoler presents an important fracturing of the binarism upon which so many political exclusions, colonial practices, and racialized regimes depend. In examining those quietly mobilizing edges, Stoler delivers a searing indictment of our greatest contemporary paradox, the democratization of human inequality. * Patricia J. Williams, University Distinguished Professor of Law and Humanities, Northeastern University *What do we need in a moment of catastrophe: environmental, sanitary, cultural, democratic, pedagogic? Not pain relievers, but rage. But not only rage, also infinite subtlety and sensitivity. But not only sensitivity, also erudition, memory, inflexible conceptual rigor. All this, and more, we find in Stoler's collection of essays, which weaves together the sinews, elusive inequalities, and creative refusals of imperial democracy. I call this a book of necessity. * Étienne Balibar, author of Violence and Civility *

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Book SynopsisThis book assembles leading legal, political, and moral philosophers to examine the legacy of the work of Ronald Dworkin. They provide the most comprehensive critical treatment of Dworkin''s accomplishments focusing on his work in all branches of philosophy, including his theory of value, political philosophy, philosophy of international law, and legal philosophy. The book''s organizing principle and theme reflect Dworkin''s self-conception as a builder of a unified theory of value, and the broad outlines of his system can be found throughout the book. The first section addresses the most abstract and general aspect of Dworkin''s work--the unity of value thesis. The second section explores Dworkin''s contributions to political philosophy, and discusses a number of political concepts including authority, civil disobedience, the legitimacy of states and the international legal system, distributive justice, collective responsibility, and Dworkin''s master value of dignity and the associated values of equal concern and respect. The third section addresses various aspects of Dworkin''s general theory of law. The fourth and final section comprises accounts of the structure and defining values of discrete areas of law.Table of ContentsContributors Wil Waluchow and Stefan Sciaraffa, Editors' Introduction Part I The Unity of Value 1. A Hedgehog's Unity of Value Joseph Raz Part II Political Values: Legitimacy, Authority, and Collective Responsibility 2. Political Resistance for Hedgehogs Candice Delmas 3. Ronald Dworkin, State Consent and Progressive Cosmopolitanism Thomas Christiano 4. To Fill or Not To Fill Individual Responsibility Gaps? Some Reflections on a Dworkin-Inspired Problem François Tanguay-Renaud 5. Inheritance and Hypothetical Insurance Daniel Halliday Part III General Jurisprudence: Contesting the Unity of Law and Value 6. Putting Law in Its Place Lawrence G. Sager 7. Dworkin and Unjust Law David Dyzenhaus 8. The Grounds of Law Luís Duarte d'Almeida 9. Immodesty in Dworkin's 'Third' Theory: Modest Conceptual Analysis, Immodest Conceptual Analysis, and the Lines Dividing Conceptual and Other Kinds of Theory of Law Kenneth Einar Himma 10. Imperialism and Importance in Dworkin's Jurisprudence Michael Giudice 11. A Theory of Legal Obligation Christopher Essert Part IV Value in Law 12. Originalism and Constructive Interpretation David O. Brink 13. Was Dworkin an Originalist? Larry Alexander 14. The Moral Reading of Constitutions Connie S. Rosati 15. Authority, Intention and Interpretation Aditi Bagchi 16. Concern and Respect in Procedural Law Hamish Stewart Index

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Book SynopsisMany observers predicted the collapse of the Chinese Communist Party following the Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989, and again following the serial collapse of communist regimes behind the Iron Curtain. Their prediction, however, never proved true. Despite minor setbacks, China has experienced explosive economic growth and relative political stability ever since 1989. In The Dictator''s Dilemma, eminent China scholar Bruce Dickson provides a comprehensive explanation for regime''s continued survival and prosperity. Dickson contends that the popular media narrative of the party''s impending implosion ignores some basic facts. The regime''s policies may generate resentment and protest, but the CCP still enjoys a surprisingly high level of popular support. Nor is the party is not cut off from the people it governs. It consults with a wide range of specialists, stakeholders, and members of the general public in a selective yet extensive manner. Further, it tolerates and even encourages aTrade ReviewA clear-headed, very useful guide to what the world can hope, fear, and expect as China's system faces an unprecedented set of challenges." * James Fallows, author of China Airborne *The Dictator's Dilemma is that rare example of impeccable scholarship and highly readable prose. Bruce Dickson draws on remarkable nationwide surveys conducted in China before and after the leadership transition in 2012 to unpack sources of support and prospects of survival of the Chinese one-party state. In so doing, Dickson challenges many assumptions that have become conventional wisdom." * Melanie Manion, Professor of Political Science, Duke University and author of Information for Autocrats *No topic is more hotly debated in the China field than the subject of democratization: Will China finally embark on a process of democratization-or be pushed into one? Dickson looks at the way the Chinese government generates support and suppresses dissent, the way it has evolved in response to societal change, and the attitudes of Chinese citizens to come to the level-headed conclusion that democratization, though possible, is unlikely. He also provides the sober warning that governmental breakdown does not always lead to democracy. The Dictator's Dilemma should be read by all interested in democratization." * Joseph Fewsmith, Professor of Political Science and International Relations, Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University and author of The Logic and Limits of Political Reform in China *Dickson's refreshing book reminds us not to look too far ahead but to pay attention to the current realities in China, where rising incomes and an adaptive Chinese Communist Party are providing good enough governance to keep the show alive. He is neither optimist nor pessimist but something better: a realist. The Dictator's Dilemma should be widely read." * Bruce Gilley, Associate Professor of Political Science, Portland State University and author of The Nature of Asian Politics *Table of ContentsContents1. Introduction2. The Heavy Hand of the State3. Mass Line for Modern Times4. Serving the People5. Generating Support6. Defining Democracy7. Will the Party Survive?Appendices

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Book SynopsisSince its coinage in mid-19th century Germany, Realpolitik has proven both elusive and protean. To some, it represents the best approach to meaningful change and political stability in a world buffeted by uncertainty and rapid transformation. To others, it encapsulates an attitude of cynicism and cold calculation, a transparently self-justifying policy exercised by dominant nations over weaker. Remolded across generations and presupposed to its political and ideological moment, Realpolitik remains a touchstone for discussion about statecraft and diplomacy. It is a freighted concept.Historian John Bew explores the genesis of Realpolitik, tracing its longstanding and enduring relevance in political and foreign policy debates. Bew''s book uncovers the context that gave birth to Realpolitik--that of the fervor of radical change in 1848 in Europe. He explains its application in the conduct of foreign policy from the days of Bismarck onward. Lastly, he illuminates its translation from German into English, one that reveals the uniquely Anglo-American version of realpolitik--small r--being practiced today, a modern iteration that attempts to reconcile idealism with the pursuit of national interests.Lively, encyclopedic, and utterly original, Realpolitik: A History illuminates the life and times of a term that has shaped and will continue to shape international relations.Trade ReviewAn interesting and wide-ranging examination of [the term 'realpolitik']." * The American Conservative *By taking us back to the origins of Realpolitik John Bew shows how a long-established strategic concept doesn't mean what we thought it meant, and in the process throws new light on the history of thinking about international affairs." * Sir Lawrence Freedman, Emeritus Professor of War Studies, King's College London, author of Strategy: A History *[A] well-researched, fluently written, and groundbreaking book." * Commentary Magazine" *One of Bew's most valuable services to scholarship in the book is in tracing the intellectual development of the European émigrés like Hans Morgenthau and Arnold Wolfers who helped stimulate the postwar American school of realism in international-relations theory." * The National Interest *[A] heavily researched, readable and comprehensive review of political and diplomatic history." * Wall Street Journal *Bew's book is a fascinating biography of an idea." * Washington Free Beacon *[A] fascinating quest to refine our understanding of yet another semantic import from Germany - the concept of realpolitik . . . In its careful, evenhanded, analysis of one of the Western world's most consequential intellectual traditions, Professor Bew's book harks back to the finest tradition of British scholarship, bringing to mind the work of people such as Lawrence Freedman, Hew Strachan, or Michael Howard. In fact, this reviewer can think of no better companion volume to this future classic than Howard's seminal work on Europe's other great foreign policy tradition - liberalism." * War on the Rocks *Lively, encyclopedic, and utterly original." * New Books Network *So thorough is Bew in recounting the history of the use of the word (realpolitik) that it is difficult to imagine that there is much left to discover." * The Weekly Standard *Realpolitik is one of those words that everybody uses but nobody understands. In this thoughtful, lucid and deeply researched book, John Bew shows how debates over its meaning helped shape some of the biggest foreign policy debates of the last 150 years. Anybody who cares about power, war and diplomacy in the modern world needs to read this book." * Walter Russell Mead, James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and Humanities at Bard College and Professor of American Foreign Policy at Yale University *There are so many high points in the book that one is spoiled for choice...Bew's is an account that will be returned to again and again for illumination on the most protean, occasionally incoherent but nonetheless successful riposte, if not to liberalism at home, certainly to liberalism abroad." * International Affairs *Lively, encyclopedic, and utterly original, Realpolitik illuminates the life and times of a term that has shaped and will continue to shape international relations." * New Books Network *Here the real realpolitik is principled but prudent, knowing thoroughly the existing circumstances that give rise not only to the limits of statecraft but also to its possibilities." * The Weekly Standard *The discussions triggered by Realpolitik: A History are conveniently timely as Britain considers whether it should remain in the European Union, as the British Labour party quarrels over whether its leader's "new politics" is realistic or desirable, and as the Democratic Party decides on what reality is realistic; Bernie's or Hillary's. Bew provides advice for all involved in these struggles. The book's concluding chapter, in particular, should be required reading for those who find themselves in these simplified battles between ideals and reality; politics is ultimately the effective marriage of both." * The Strix *It would be a mistake, Bew's analysis implies, to interpret such competing uses of the term as merely reflecting differing evaluations of Realpolitik. For the story he tells is one of ambiguity, contestation, and transformation in what the term denotes." * H-Net Reviews *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Return of Realpolitik Part I: Real Realpolitik 1. Origins 2. Foundations 3. Liberalism and Bismarck: A Fatal Compromise? 4. Realpolitik after Rochau Part II: Anti-realpolitik and the Anglo-American Worldview 5. The English Discovery of Realpolitik 6. American Realpolitik 7. The Coming Peace and the Eradication of Realpolitik Part III: Interwar Realpolitik 8. The Ingestion of Realpolitik 9. Germany and the New Realpolitik Revival 10. Realpolitik, Fascism, and Appeasement Part IV: Realpolitik and the Tangled Roots of American Realism 11. Geopolitics and the Ethics of American Statecraft 12. German Émigrés and American Realism 13. The Bismarck Debate Part V: Practical Realpolitik 14. Realpolitik before Détente 15. The Kissinger Effect 16. From Cold War to New World Order Conclusion: A Return to Foundations

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Book SynopsisIt is by no means absurd to say that Engels invented Marxism. His work did more than Marx to make converts of the most influential political movement of modern times. He was not only the father of dialectical and historical materialism, the official philosophies of history and science in many communist countries; he was also the first Marxist historian, anthropologist, philosopher, and commentator on early Marx.In his later years Engels developed his materialist interpretation of history, his chief intellectual legacy, which has had revolutionary effects on the arts and social sciences. Terrell Carver traces its source and its effect on the development of Marxist theory and practice, assesses its utility, and discusses the difficulties which Marxists have encountered in defending it. 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.Trade ReviewReview from previous edition 'combines a lucid introduction to the thinker with a genuine introduction to scholarly discussion' * British Book News *Table of Contents1. Engles and Marx ; 2. Journalist ; 3. Communist ; 4. Revolutionary ; 5. Marxist ; 6. Scientist ; 7. Engles and Marxism ; Further reading

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Book SynopsisThis book outlines conceptual and methodological tools to understand how algorithmic operations shape the government of self and other. It offers a global trandisciplinary perspective, exploring controversies such as the Cambridge Analytica scandal in the UK, predictive policing in the US, and the use of facial recognition in China.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Part I: Rationalities 1: Knowledge 2: Decision Part II: Materializations 3: Others 4: Platforms 5: Value Part III: Interventions 6: Ethics 7: Accountability 8: International Conclusion: Democratic scenes References Index

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Book SynopsisAgeing without Ageism? contributes to the essential and timely discussion of age, ageism, population ageing, and public policy. It demonstrates the breadth of the challenges posed by these issues by covering a wide range of policy areas: from health care to old-age support, from democratic participation to education, and from family to fiscal policy. With contributions from 21 authors the discussion bridges the gap between academia and public life by putting in dialogue fresh philosophical analysis and specific new policy proposals. It approaches familiar issues like age discrimination, justice between age groups, and democratic participation across the ages from novel perspectives.Table of Contents1: Greg Bognar and Axel Gosseries: Introduction 2: Katharina Berndt Rasmussen: Age Discrimination: Is It Special? Is It Wrong? 3: Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen: Does the Badness of Disability Differ from that of Old Age? 4: Viki Møller Lyngby Pedersen: In Defence of Age-Differentiated Paternalism 5: Matthew D. Adler: Age and the Social Value of Risk Reduction: Three Perspectives 6: Paul Bou-Habib: Can Egalitarians Justify Spending More on the Elderly? 7: Axel Gosseries: Age Limits and the Significance of Entire Lives Egalitarianism 8: Simon Birnbaum and Kenneth Nelson: Age Universalism will Benefit All (Ages) 9: Anca Gheaus:

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Book SynopsisThis book traces the evolution of British welfare policy, politics, discourse, and public opinion since the 1980s, and addresses two main questions: questions: why Britain reformed its welfare system so radically, and why, until recently, these reforms were so popular with the public.Table of ContentsPreface List of figures 1: Introduction: Welfare Stories 2: What Has Changed? Public Opinion and Policy Reforms 3: Explaining British Exceptionalism 4: Political Discourse 5: Discourse in the Print Media 6: Public Opinion 7: Welfare Politics in the 1990s: New Labour's Policy Revolution 8: Compassionate Conservatism? Conservative Welfare Policy Since 2005 9: Political Discourse and Public Opinion in Other Countries 10: Conclusion: Welfare Futures Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewValelly's book is well-written and of use to a lay audienceinterested in a few basic facts about the history of Americangovernment with a brief discussion of contemporary government. * Jessica Andersson-Hudson, Political Studies Review *Table of ContentsList of illustrations ; Preface ; Chapter 1: Elements of American democracy ; Chapter 2: The presidency ; Chapter 3: Congress and its bicameralism ; Chapter 4: The legislative-executive process ; Chapter 5: The Supreme Court ; Chapter 6: Bureaucracy ; Chapter 7: Public opinion ; Chapter 8: Political parties and democratic choices ; Chapter 9: The partisan revival ; Chapter 10: Political economy ; References ; Further reading ; Index

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPreface Introduction: What is Economics? Part I: Economics in History 1. Social Orders and Economic Relations 2. How Societies Produce 3. Capitalist Social Orders Part II: Capitalist Economic Relations 4. Money 5. Commodities 6. Profit Part III: Capitalist Economic Forces 7. Entrepreneurs & Investment 8. Bankers & Interest 9. The Rules of Capitalism Sources and Further Reading Glossary of Terms (by Benjamin Taylor)

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewRafanelli's book...is interesting, original, and very well-grounded in political philosophy. It takes us away from the often empirically limited and dated discussions of the ethics of humanitarian interventions to consider other measures that can be launched in response to rights violations. * James Pattison, Ethics and International Affairs *Most global political theory focuses on the most coercive forms of international pressure: on military force, or on monetary coercion. Much of what global agents do, though, involves considerably more subtle and nuanced tools. Lucia Rafanelli's Promoting Justice Across Borders offers a novel and plausible account of how to understand the moral framework with which these tools might be understood. It is clearly written, lucidly argued, and exemplary in its attention to empirical detail. This is an exceptionally good book on an exceptionally important topic. It deserves to be read by everyone interested in understanding, and building, a just global society. * Michael Blake, Professor of Philosophy, Public Policy, and Governance, University of Washington *Lucia Rafanelli offers a groundbreaking account of transnational politics that theoretically unpacks the state, the international system, and the range of foreign influence practices. Rafanelli centers boycotts, divestment campaigns, and other neglected forms of transnational activism to offer a nuanced model of intervention. This book opens exciting new paths forward. * Inés Valdez, Author of Transnational Cosmopolitanism: Kant, Du Bois, and Justice as a Political Craft *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Beyond the State, Beyond War: Re-Conceptualizing Reform Intervention Chapter 2: Toleration as Engagement Chapter 3: Degrees of Legitimacy Chapter 4: Collective Self-Determination without Isolation Chapter 5: Chaos and Consequences: Promoting Justice in a Non-Ideal World Chapter 6: Conclusion References

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Book SynopsisThe people who live in border towns often have closer relations with people across their immediate borders than with people in the same country as them. Despite how intertwined these border communities often are, neither community can access the governmental institutions of the nation on the other side. Why are the citizens of neighboring regions that lie across an international border often subject to very different governance systems? More broadly, why can''t public services be bought piecemeal, on an a-la-carte basis, with governments competing to provide higher quality services at the lowest cost in a marketplace for government services? These questions lie at the heart of modern International Relations.In The Cartel System of States, Avidit Acharya and Alexander Lee provide a powerful and field-shaping theory to address a fundamental issue in world politics: the character of the territorial nation-state. They contend that the modern territorial state system works as an economic cartel in which states have local, bounded monopolies in governing their citizens. States refuse to violate each other''s monopolies, even when they could do so easily. Acharya and Lee examine what makes this system stable, when and how it emerged, how it spread, how it has been challenged, and what led it to be so resilient over time. Drawing from the centuries long process of modern state formation, The Cartel System of States explains both how the present system of territorial states--by no means a foregone conclusion in retrospect--took over the world and how it might change in the future.Trade ReviewIn The Cartel System of States, Acharya and Lee analyze rulers as monopoly providers of governance services to citizens, who collude with rulers of other countries to restrict competition and protect their local monopolies. They use their theory to interpret the rise of the modern state system, and to analyze the challenges it faces in the current international political and economic environment. The Cartel System of States presents a striking and systematic argument and evidence that will be of interest to all scholars of international politics. * Jeffry Frieden, Harvard University *In this ambitious analysis, Acharya and Lee deploy the tools of political economy to explain the stability and form of the modern state system. In their model, states are collusive arrangements, in which rulers divide territory among themselves to maximize the benefits of ruling. The authors reveal the surprising sources of cartel stability and draw out the implications of their theory for the study of territorial conflict, nationalism, and international institutions. The result is insightful and deeply provocative. * Melissa Lee, University of Pennsylvania *This provocative book provides a novel perspective on the international state system and its operation. It maintains that governments across the globe and over time have created and perpetuated a cartel to monopolize the governance of their citizens. Cartel theory implies a revised history of the international state system and opens up new ideas for how that system has changed and might change in the future. * Helen V. Milner, Princeton University *Why is the world organized into countries with mutually recognized boundaries? Acharya and Lee's book presents a pathbreaking new answer based on the idea that potential rulers compete in a market to govern citizens and that the territorial state system that structures world politics reflects cooperation among rulers to avoid competition and extract as much as possible from citizens. This amazing book establishes this idea as a powerful lens for understanding how globalization, nationalism, state failure, and international institutions have and will shape cooperation and conflict within and between states. The book is a fantastic achievement and a must read for anyone interested in international relations. * Kenneth Scheve, Yale University *A wholly original and illuminating perspective on the delineation and maintenance of nation-state boundaries. Starting from beguilingly simple premises of the need for governance and the logic of the cartel, Acharya and Lee clarify the logic behind much of the history of international relations. The insights it affords are likely to be the port of departure for much subsequent work. * James Scott, Yale University *Table of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. The Cartel Model 3. The Cartel Emerges 4. The Cartel Takes Over 5. Challenges to the Cartel 6. Resilience of the Cartel 7. The Cartel Today Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe emergence of citizenship, some 4,000 years ago, was a hinge moment in human history. Instead of the reign of blood descent, questions regarding who rules and who belongs were opened up. Yet purportedly primordial categories, such as sex and race, have constrained the emergence of a truly civic polity ever since. Untying this paradox is essential to overcoming the crisis afflicting contemporary democracies. Why does citizenship emerge, historically, and why does it maintain traction, even if in compromised forms? How can citizenship and democracy be revived? Learning from history and building on emerging social and political developments, David Jacobson and Manlio Cinalli provide the foundations for citizenship''s third revolution.Citizenship: The Third Revolution considers three revolutionary periods for citizenship, from the ancient and classical worlds; to the flourishing of guilds and city republics from 1,000 CE; and to the unfinished revolution of human rights from the post-WoTrade ReviewCompelling, original, and thought-provoking, Citizenship: The Third Revolution is a masterful book. Drawing insights from the past and present of citizenship to chart a path toward a more inclusive and democratic future, Jacobson and Cinalli envision seams and multiscalar civic corporations as alternatives to fixed borders and boundaries. Their feverishly erudite approach takes interdisciplinary scholarship to new heights. * Ayelet Shachar, Professor of Law, Political Science & Global Affairs, University of Toronto *Citizenship notions embody internal inconsistencies between the interests of members and the social good; the freedoms of insiders and the exclusion of outsiders; and necessary solidarities and norms of justice. Jacobson and Cinalli masterfully review these issues, and creatively suggest resolutions. Their book is an important contribution. * John W. Meyer, Professor of Sociology, Emeritus, Stanford University *Who is a citizen? What is citizenship? Does it matter for democracy? The authors deliver an intellectual and historical tour de force in responding to these questions. A must-read book for social scientists-and citizens. * Andrea Ruggeri, Professor of Political Science and International Relations, University of Oxford *We are witnessing how ideologies of self-interest and of exclusive identity claims are fracturing contemporary societies. Jacobson and Cinalli develop an intriguing suggestion that corporate guilds can help renew democratic society. It is a book about what holds us together. * Herman Lebovics, New York State Trustees Distinguished Professor, Stonybrook *Citizenship: The Third Revolution is an engaging history of the idea of citizenship and its evolution (or, rather, revolutions) from ancient times to today. But it also compellingly moves beyond the narrative into normative territory, seeking to learn from citizenship's revolutionary past to revive our faltering democracies. * Aakash Singh Rathore, International Fellow, LUISS University, Rome *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Who Rules? Who Belongs? Two Questions, Three Revolutions, Six Propositions Chapter 2: The First Revolution: The Ancient and Classical Periods Chapter 3: The Second Revolution: The Medieval Roots of Modern Citizenship Chapter 4: Practices of Citizenship: From the Enlightenment to the Nation-State Chapter 5: The Turn to Human Rights, and its Vulnerabilities Chapter 6: Interests and Identities: Citizenship and the Problem of Collective Action Chapter 7: From Borders to Seams Chapter 8: A 21st Century Guild Chapter 9: Completing the Third Revolution? A Conclusion

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Book SynopsisA riveting exposé of medical debt collection in America and the profound financial and physical costs eroding patient trust in medicineFor the crime of falling sick without wealth, Americans today face lawsuits, wage garnishment, home foreclosure, and even jail time.Yet who really profits from aggressive medical debt collection? And how does this predatory system affect patients and doctors responsible for their care?Your Money or Your Life reveals how medical debt collection became a multibillion-dollar industry and how everyday Americans are made to pay the price. Emergency physician and historian Luke Messac weaves patient stories into a history of law, finance, and medicine to show how debt and debt collection are destroying the foundational trust between doctors and patients at the heart of American healthcare. The fight to stop aggressive collection tactics has brought together people from all corners of the political spectrum. But if we want to better protect the sick from finaTrade ReviewThe German word for debt is the same word for guilt. But you don't have to be German to be a guilty debtor in the United States, where the sin of being ill and poor is discharged by indentured labor and the harassment of the debt collector. Luke Messac takes us on a tour of the underbelly of America's hospitals and their horrific debt practices. If there's one country where you don't want to be both poor and ill, it's the United States. * Mark Blyth, The William R. Rhodes '57 Professor of International Economics, The Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University *A crystal-clear critique of the travesty of profit-driven US medicine by a historian drawing on archives, oral history, public records, and his own ethnographic experience as a doctor delivering emergency care medicine for a typically predatory 'non-profit hospital' that bankrupts its poorest, most vulnerable patients. All medical students should read this book to prevent themselves from inadvertently becoming cogs in a monstrous wheel that indebts their lowest income patients. * Philippe Bourgois, Author of In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio and Co-Author of Righteous Dopefiend *In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the impetus for transforming the American health care system is more urgent than ever. Doctor and historian Luke Messac shows how the system has been warped by growing financialization and profiteering, with disastrous consequences for the millions of people struggling with medical debt. Both infuriating and illuminating, he paints a portrait too compelling to ignore. * Dave A. Chokshi, 43rd Health Commissioner of New York City *Your Money or Your Life offers a rare, deeply powerful, and impressively original look at the roots of medical greed and how and why health care debt is driving down the health of our nation. This book is a passionate and inspiring expression of the importance of empowering community leaders and their residents to advocate for affordable, accessible, and equitable health care before it's too late. It provides the roadmap, now it's up to all of us to heed the charge. * Daniel E. Dawes, Author of The Political Determinants of Health *Usually, doctors keep themselves aloof from their patients' financial troubles, but not Luke Messac. Your Money or Your Life shows how medical debt and the fear of debt decimate family finances and prevent sick people from seeking needed care. Dr. Messac, a historian and emergency physician, is one of our most important critics of the US health system. His voice is engaging and compassionate, and we must listen. * Beatrix Hoffman, Professor of History, Northern Illinois University and Author of The Wages of Sickness and Health Care for Some *In Your Money or Your Life, Luke Messac weaves together the compelling, and true, story of how medical debt collection became so aggressive and its real-world impact. Taking readers on a remarkable - and eminently readable - journey through the history and practice of medical debt collection...this great book demonstrates how these events are not aberrations or one-off errors in judgment, but baked into the design of American health care and the institutions that profit from the sidelines. Dr. Messac's book proves that it will take more than occasional finger wagging or modest reforms around the edges to ensure that patients and doctors are no longer debtors and creditors. Everyone, and I do mean everyone, should read Your Money or Your Life. * Melissa B. Jacoby, Graham Kenan Professor of Law, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill *In Your Money or Your Life, Dr. Messac provides a piercing and must-read investigation into how medical debt came to be such a powerful and grim force in American medicine. To create change for the millions of American families beset by the financial toxicity of our health care system, we must learn from this difficult history. * Victor Roy, Physician, Sociologist, and Author of Capitalizing a Cure: How Finance Controls the Price and Value of Medicines *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Before the Debt Machine Chapter 2: No Mercy Chapter 3: Trading in Misery Chapter 4: Shame Chapter 5: My Day in Court Chapter 6: An Incomplete Answer Chapter 7: From Here Conclusion

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Book SynopsisBy the last decade of the twentieth century, the great questions of modernity seemed to be answered. With the collapse of the Soviet Union and global communism, the liberal democratic capitalist project seemed to be the only one left standing, and in the 1990s the liberal ideal spread worldwide. Today, of course, this universalistic narrative rings hollow. The global distribution of power has shifted and the preeminence of the West is receding as new directions for world order emerge. China is rapidly ascending as a peer competitor of the United States, bringing with it a powerful new global narrative of grievance and revision. Political Islam also burst onto the global scene as a multifaceted transnational movement reshaping regional political order and geopolitical alignments. With the rapid advance of climate change, there have arisen new narratives of global endangerment and dystopia. Far from converging, fragmentation and contestation increasingly dominate debates over world orderTable of ContentsIntroduction: Debating Worlds Daniel Deudney, G. John Ikenberry, Karoline Postel-Vinay Chapter One: Angloworld Narratives: Race as Global Governance Duncan Bell Chapter Two: The Rise and Fall of a Global Narrative: The Soviet Challenge to the Western World Michael Cox Chapter Three: Pan-Islamic Narratives of the Global Order, 1870-1980 Cemil Aydin Chapter Four: The Enduring Dilemma of Japan's Uniqueness Narratives Saori Katada and Kei Koga Chapter Five: Writing the Right: Radical Conservative Narratives of Globalization Jean-Francois Drolet and Michael Williams Chapter Six: The Chinese Global in the Long Postwar: War, Civilization and Infrastructure since 1945 Rana Mitter Chapter Seven: Narrating India in/and the World: Colonial Origins and Postcolonial Contestations Itty Abraham Chapter Eight: Inequality, Development, and Global Distributive Justice Jeremy Adelman Chapter Nine: The Great Schism: Scientific-technological Modernity vs Greenpeace Civilization Daniel Deudney Conclusion: Many Worlds and the Coming Narrative Dilemma Karoline Postel-Vinay

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Book SynopsisDuring the last two decades, there has been much scholarly and popular interest in the financialization of the American economy--why the turn to finance has taken place, what constituted it, and what has come out of it. In Disembedded, Basak Kus draws from the theories of Karl Polanyi--one of the greatest and most influential political economists of the twentieth century--to answer these questions. Focused primarily on the state''s regulatory role in a dominantly financialized economy, Kus examines how neoliberal principles influenced the evolution of American regulatory policies, shaping the financial sector''s operations and practices. Her narrative traces the trajectory of these interactions, highlighting critical junctures, policy decisions, and market outcomes that culminated in the financial crisis. Offering historical insights into the financial crisis spanning 2007-2010 and its ensuing influence on American politics and democracy, Disembedded provides a broad-ranging and system

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Book SynopsisStein Rokkan was one of the leading social scientists of the post-war world. He was a prolific writer whose main contribution to social science - the conceptual and developmental map of Europe - is presented here for the first time in an integrated and systematic way.Trade Reviewsets the standards in cross-national comparative research to extraordinarily high levels of academic excellence. * Luis Moreno, Nationalism & Ethnic Politics, Vol.6, No.3, Autumn 2000 *A long introduction written by Peter Flora serves the purpose of providing the reader with useful insights and interpretations on how to make sense of the vast amount of data and information provided in subsequent chapters. A cascade of concepts and ideas put forward by Rokkan are analysed in a clarifying manner. * Luis Moreno, Nationalism & Ethnic Politics, Vol.6, No.3, Autumn 2000 *A much needed compiliation of Rokkan's prolific work has finally seen the 'public light'. * Luis Moreno, Nationalism & Ethnic Politics, Vol.6, No.3, Autumn 2000 *`A wonderful book about the thinking of the greatest modern European social scientist.' Professor Arend Lijphart, University of California, San DiegoTable of ContentsSTATE FORMATION AND NATION-BUILDING; BASIC CONCEPTS, MODELS, MAPS; DIFFERENTIATIONS AND BOUNDARY-BUILDING; CENTRES AND PERIPHERIES; THE BASIC MODEL; A MODEL AND CONCEPTUAL MAP OF EUROPE; THE TERRITORIAL STRUCTURING OF EUROPE; CONDITIONS OF STATE FORMATION AND NATION BUILDING; NATION-BUILDING AND LANGUAGE; THE SURVIVAL OF PERIPHERAL IDENTITY; FEDERAL VERSUS UNITARY STRUCTURE; B. MASS POLITICS; III. THE DEMOCRATISATION OF EUROPE; 1. EXIT AND VOICE; 2. THE FOUR THRESHOLDS OF DEMOCRATISATION; 3. NUMERICAL DEMOCRACY AND CORPORATE PLURALISM; IV CLEAVAGE STRUCTURES AND PARTY SYSTEMS; CLEAVAGES AND THEIR POLITICAL TRANSLATIONS; CRITICAL JUNCTURES, ALLIANCES, AND OPPOSITIONS; 3. PARTY SYSTEMS AND THE MODEL OF EUROPE

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Book SynopsisMost contemporary moral and political philosophers would like to have an argument showing that morality is rationally required. In From Rationality to Equality, James P. Sterba provides just such an argument and further shows that morality, so justified, requires substantial equality. His argument from rationality to morality is based on the principle of non-question-beggingness and has two forms. The first assumes that the egoist is willing to argue for egoism non-question-beggingly, and the second only assumes that the egoist is willing to assent to premises she actually needs to achieve her egoistic goals. Either way, he argues, morality is rationally (i.e., non-question-beggingly) preferable to egoism.Sterba''s argument from morality to equality non-question-beggingly starts with assumptions that are acceptable from a libertarian perspective, the view that appears to endorse the least enforcement of morality, and then shows that this perspective requires a right to welfare which, wTrade ReviewJames P. Sterba has put together a clearly written, closely and thoroughly argued, and well-organized book that advances arguments that address two fundamental questions in ethics and social theory. * Social Theory and Practice *Table of Contents1. Introduction ; 2. The Historical Connection to Immanuel Kant ; 3. From Rationality to Morality ; 4. Critics of the Rationality to Morality Argument ; 5. Alternative Justifications for Morality ; 6. From Liberty to Equality ; 7. Critics of the Liberty to Equality Argument ; 8. Alternative Justifications for Welfare and Equality ; 9. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisDictatorship is not what it was once. Military and single-party regimes have been withering away. Today, most dictators organize multiparty elections. The Politics of Uncertainty presents an analytical framework and empirical data that allow us to understand the distinctive political dynamics of these new electoral authoritarian regimes. It argues that all autocracies suffer from institutional uncertainties: their hold on power is never secure. They also suffer from informational uncertainties: they can never know for sure how secure they are. The author identifies these uncertainties as the central axes of regimes conflicts under dictatorship. The politics of uncertainty comprises the struggle between rulers and dissidents over these twin uncertainties. In electoral autocracies, it unfolds primarily as competition over electoral uncertainty. The study of electoral authoritarianism is a vibrant growth industry in political science and this book is required reading for all students of eTrade ReviewNo one else could have written this book...The book is ambitious in its scope, conceptually innovative, and theoretically rich...It was a pleasure to read this masterful book. * Kenneth F. Greene, Política y Gobierno *The Politics of Uncertainty was like music to my brain. Page after page delivered resonant lessons, findings, patterns, and arguments... This is quite simply the best book that we now have on the decisively non-democratic character of these so-called 'hybrid' authoritarian regimes. * Dan Slater, Política y Gobierno *Table of ContentsI: ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK ; II: EMPIRICAL EXPLORATIONS

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Book SynopsisIdeology and Mass Killing offers the first dedicated study of the role of radical ideologies in different kinds of 'mass killing', such as genocides, large-scale war crimes, and campaigns of state terror.Trade ReviewIn explaining why states or armed groups employ extreme violence, Jonathan Leader Maynard questions the sufficiency of dominant rationalist accounts and argues for ideology's central role. He rejects associations of ideology with revolutionary fanaticism, arguing that the key ideological foundations of mass killing are radical reinterpretations of conventional ideas about security. This ambitious and elegantly written book not only offers a fresh conceptualization of ideology, but also demonstrates through careful comparative historical analysis how ideologies shape the goals, organization, and legitimation of mass killing. It is essential reading for all those interested in understanding and preventing atrocity crimes. * Jennifer Welsh, Professor of Global Governance and Security, McGill University, and former Special Adviser to the UN Secretary General on the Responsibility to Protect *In this excellent book, Jonathan Leader Maynard develops a powerful argument about the centrality of ideology to the occurrence of mass killing and genocide. The book takes us farther than previous scholarship in showing how ideology drives the selection and perpetration of mass atrocity. A major contribution to the study of violence, the work should be read widely as a rigorous account of how and why ideas matter in shaping political outcomes * Scott Straus, Professor of Political Science at the University of California-Berkeley and author of Making and Unmaking Nations *Either dismissed as causally inconsequential or else overstated as the paramount factor, the role of ideology in mass killings has long been a bone of scholarly contention. Jonathan Leader Maynard brings a welcome fresh perspective to this debate and offers a new theory of how and why ideology matters in such violence. We should stop picking sides - strategic security objectives are entirely reconcilable with extremist beliefs. This book explains in legible English the various ways in which ideology operated for the architects and executioners of violence in places as disparate as the Soviet Union, Guatemala, and Rwanda. It will bring much-needed momentum to the debate and move it forward. * Omar McDoom, Associate Professor in Comparative Politics, London School of Economics and Political Science *Ideology and Mass Killing has a...typical social scientific structure...The writing anticipates questions one imagines the author has received many times and addresses them with genuine intellectual excitement. The text is clearly structured and easy to navigate. Readers with different backgrounds can read chapters in different orders. * Darius Rejali, Human Rights Review *The core thrust of Ideology and Mass Killing is that looking at the political ideology of the perpetrators can explain issues of genocide and mass murder. The argument continues that these ideologies provide the distinctive world view necessary for genocide or mass killing to occur. Leader Maynard (King's College London) does well to explain how ideologies work toward the commission of genocide or mass killing...This offers a new take on an important area of exploration for genocide and mass killing scholars. * Choice *Leader Maynard's multidisciplinary framework sheds light on the complex processes that leads to mass killing,...it can fill in the gaps of many important tools,...Historians too, will benefit from applying the book's 'ideological infrastructure'. * Thomas William Peak, Vilnius University, Lithuania, International Affairs *Table of Contents1: Introduction 2: Clarifying Ideology 3: How Does Ideology Explain Mass Killing? 4: The Hardline Justification of Mass Killing 5: Stalinist Repression 6: Allied Area Bombing in World War II 7: Mass Killing in Guatemala's Civil War 8: The Rwandan Genocide 9: Conclusion

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Book SynopsisInfrastructure only tends to be noticed when it is absent, declining, or decrepit, or when enormous cost overruns, time delays, or citizen protests make the headlines. If infrastructure is indeed a fundamental driver of economic growth and social development, why is it so difficult to get right?In addressing this perennial question, this volume-the fourth edition in an annual series tackling different aspects of governance around the world-makes the case for a governance perspective on infrastructure. This implies moving beyond rational economic analysis of what should be done towards an analysis of the political, institutional, and societal mechanisms that shape decision-making about infrastructure investment, planning, and implementation. Engaging with theories from sociology, political science, and public administration, and drawing on empirical analyses bridging OECD and non-OECD countries, the contributions to this volume dissect the logics of infrastructure governance in a novel way, providing timely analyses that will enrich both scholarly and policy debates about how to get infrastructure governance right.Table of ContentsPART I THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES; PART II DELIVERING INFRASTRUCTURE; PART III REGIONAL CHALLENGES

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Book SynopsisThe English translation of Forst's Normativität und Macht (2015), this book continues to develop the author's account of the nature of social orders and their justifications by re-evaluating fundamental philosophical concepts such as 'reason' and 'power'.Trade ReviewAs a whole, Forst's book suggests an answer to the question of how organization scholars as social scientists can engage with normative ideas. In particular, Forst's book helps clarify two questions: first, how organizational scholars can make a distinct contribution to societal deliberation on normative ideas; and second, why research on normative ideas can only ever play a supporting role for societal deliberation on normative ideas. * Emilio Marti, Organization Studies *Rainer Forst is the most systematic, methodologically self-conscious moral and political philosopher writing today. In this volume he manages to do something no one else could do: fruitfully connect metaethical constructivism and critical theory, through a probing exploration of the reciprocal relations between social power and normativity. * Allen Buchanan, James B. Duke Professor of Philosophy, Duke University, and Professor of the Philosophy of International Law, King's College, London *Rainer Forst's account of the right to justification has positioned him as a central figure in political philosophy. In this new book, Forst engages with other political ideas that are often thought to compete with his vision of humans as fundamentally justificatory beings, integrating the right to justification with issues of exploitation, power, cultural narrative, and progress. Everyone interested in any of these issues will want to read this book. * Arthur Ripstein , Professor of Law and Philosophy, University of Toronto *Rainer Forst is one of the most illuminating political philosophers now working. His writing carries forward the systematic project of the Frankfurt School with an admirable combination of analytical rigor and historical depth. At a time when liberal democracy has come to seem troublingly fragile, it is salutary to have this clear-eyed and uncompromising defense of its ideal of inclusive justification. * Michael Rosen, Department of government, Harvard University *Rainer Forst develops a powerful version of critical theory that spans philosophy, social theory, and critique where the principle of general and reciprocal justification is fundamental. Justification is not merely a theoretical question; it is a political and practical question. Such a theory must be attentive to complex historical ways in which human beings actually justify practices as well as the way in which practices themselves are always open to criticism by an appeal to rational justification. In developing his theory, he shows how it can account for power, justice, and democracy... He is imaginative, bold, and always thought provoking. * Richard J. Bernstein, New School for Social Research *Forst's characteristically brilliant and lucid essays demonstrate the potency of his signature idea—the right to justification—to perform a defining task of political philosophy: the critical analysis of social and political power. With stunning intellectual range, Forst tacks between abstract principle and concrete examples to make a compelling case that justice demands attentiveness to the structures through which we justify (or fail to justify) ourselves to others. This important book, by one of the leading political philosophers of our time, is essential reading for understanding justice in a global age. * Melissa Williams, Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto *Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION: ORDERS OF JUSTIFICATION. ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PHILOSOPHY, SOCIAL THEORY, AND CRITICISM; I REASON, NORMATIVITY, AND POWER; II JUSTIFICATION NARRATIVES AND HISTORICAL PROGRESS; III RELIGION, TOLERATION, AND LAW; IV JUSTICE, DEMOCRACY, AND LEGITIMACY; V TRANSNATIONAL JUSTICE

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Book SynopsisThis book demystifies and explains a subject that affects every one of us in our private lives and at work. Security is a practical discipline concerned with safeguarding lives, property, information, wealth, reputations, and social wellbeing. It is the basis of civilised society. People, businesses, and nations cannot thrive in its absence, whereas the right kind of security frees us to live fulfilling lives.But deciding what is needed, and then making it happen, is not easy. The threats to our security are complex and continually evolving, as criminals, hackers, terrorists, and hostile foreign states continually find new ways of staying one step ahead of us, their potential victims. At the same time, we are continually creating new vulnerabilities as we adopt new technologies and new ways of working. Those who do not understand the fundamentals of security, risk, and resilience open themselves, and those around them, to avoidable dangers, needless anxieties, and unnecessary costs. InTrade ReviewAn impeccable and important work that security people can push into the hands of others [...] who want an authoritative, yet crisply-written book on security. * Professional Security *... a deceptively easy read in that there are ten bite-size takeaway nuggets of digestible information that will make you more aware, informed and alert. Where Martin scores heavily is in the authenticity he brings to the subject, making his set of ideas less of a management self-help book and more of a first step towards protecting your assets. * Nick Smith, E & T Magazine *Table of ContentsLord (Jonathan) Evans of Weardale, Director General of MI5 (2007DS2013): Foreword 1: Rule 1: Security Rules 2: Rule 2: Risk is the Key 3: Rule 3: Think like an Attacker 4: Rule 4: There are Three Ways to Reduce Risk 5: Rule 5: Build Resilience 6: Rule 6: It's All About People 7: Rule 7: Everyone is Biased 8: Rule 8: Cyber is New Ways of Doing Old Things 9: Rule 9: Know What Good Looks Like 10: Rule 10: Know Who's in Charge

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Book SynopsisThis is a short history of the political life of this island over a very long period, showing how history can speak clearly to current political debates.Trade Reviewthis book offers a unique look at Britain in a global context. * M.K.Thompson, CHOICE *A Useful History of Britain is undoubtedly remarkable for its sustained debate and selection of material both through time and across space. * Hugh Clout, Cercles *A unique look at Britain in a global context. ... Recommended. * M. K. Thompson, CHOICE *Unlike any history book you've ever read. A Useful History of Britain is intellectually invigorating, politically vital and startlingly unique. You'll never look at British history in the same way again. * Ian Dunt *Braddick is one of the most important historians writing today. Instead of looking at history as a linear story, he explores the various ways we have cooperated with each other, the gap between the individual and the common interest, and the institutional and power dynamics which emerged. You're left with a fundamentally different view of the past – and the present * Ian Dunt *[Braddick's] account of arguments about the European Union is scrupulously balanced. * Lincoln Allison, Times Higher Education *Table of ContentsPower over our world, power over each other Introduction: The history of political life on Britain 1: Political life: collective and differential power What needs to be done and what can be achieved 2: Mobilising ideas 3: Changing material conditions 4: Organizational capacity Patterns in the uses of political power 5: Political inclusion: who gets to make things happen? 6: Geographies of political power and identity: which groups take action for what purposes? 7: Change over time: phases in the history of political life Conclusion: Globalizing Britain's past: parallel and shared histories Further reading

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Book SynopsisNatural and Necessary Unions is a history for our time. It shows that the choice between ''union and independence'' that shapes current debates about the future of the United Kingdom in the age of Brexit is a false one. Against the countervailing currents of hegemony and fragmentation that range across centuries - from the economic dominance of southern England and the burdens of social democracy to the rise of separatist nationalisms and European integration - unionists struggled to make a union-state that would protect the independence of its citizens and communities from these wider forces. Natural and Necessary Unions tells the story of how the quest for autonomy shaped the history of three communities: Scotland, Ireland, and Northumbria. It charts the different choices these societies made about their relationships within the British Isles and in wider international society, crystallizing in the choice that must be made again between the British and European unions. From these wilTable of ContentsPreface : Conversations 1: Power and the Pursuit of Liberty: The Geopolitics of Independence 2: A Union for Independence: Scottish Autonomy and the British Idea 3: Claims of Right: Social Democracy and the Bonds of Union 4: Empire against Union: The Worlds of Scottish Nationalism 5: The Battle of the Unions: Europa and Britannia 6: Death by Misadventure: The End of Irish Independence 7: The Bonded Republic: Ireland and the Visions of Europe 8: An English Journey: The Tempting of Northumbria 9: A Well-Constructed Union: The Revival of British Politics Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe Mediterranean Sea is now the deadliest region in the world for migrants. Although the death toll has been rising for many years, the EU response remains fragmented and short sighted. Politicians frame these migration flows as an unprecedented crisis and emphasize migration control at the EU''s external boundaries. In this context, At Europe''s Edge investigates why the EU prioritizes the fortification of its external borders; why migrants nevertheless continue to cross the Mediterranean and to die at sea; and how EU member states on the southern periphery respond to their new role as migration gatekeepers. The book addresses these questions by examining the relationship between the EU and Malta, a small state with an outsized role in migration politics as EU policies place it at the crosshairs of migration flows and controls. The chapters combine ethnographic methods with macro-level analyses to weave together policymaker, practitioner, and migrant experiences, and demonstrate how the Mediterranean is an important space for the contested construction of ''Europe''. This book provides rich insight into the unexpected level of influence Malta exerts on EU migration governance, as well as the critical role migrants and their clandestine journeys play in animating EU and Maltese migration policies, driving international relations, and producing Malta''s political power. By centring on the margins, the book pushes the boundaries of our knowledge of the global politics of migration, asylum, and border security.Trade ReviewThe way that Mainwaring cements her discussion in ongoing empirical evidence is one of the greatest joys in this book ... I found myself hooked by her attention to detail and have been following emerging events throughout this year as a result of the interest she has managed to pique. For Mainwaring this is not just research; At Europe's Edge reflects the determination of a type of academic activism (an intervention) that has been present in all the work of hers I have read to date. * Richard Vogt, Border Criminologies *At Europe's Edge: Migration and Crisis in the Mediterranean [is] an impressively comprehensive and polished piece of work, addressing discourses, policy and security in relation to migration in the Mediterranean, based on a methodologically robust study. The book eloquently weaves together the historical evolution of border policy and migration in the Mediterranean, while also bringing the current realities into focus ... The author does not only centre migrant voices, but skilfully brings her interlocutors to life, by capturing in a few words their character, background or the impression that encounter left on her. * 2020 Annual Best Book Award of the'International Politics of Migration, Refugees and Diaspora' Working Group of the British International Studies Association Committee *It's all there, surgically taken apart by Ċetta Mainwaring in her excellent At Europe's Edge. Anyone who is serious about migration should buy and read this book. * Mark Anthony Falzon, Professor and Head of Sociology, University of Malta *At Europe's Edge is a compelling account ... [and] a valuable resource; it is relevant not only for scholars of governance and migration research but also for the interested public, migrants' advocates, and politicians alike... Mainwaring's book is timely and much-needed, as dehumanizing events like the tuna-pen incident still happen, as a glance at recent news reports from April 2020 reveals. * Dr Laura Otto, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main *From gripping opening to thoughtful ending, Ċetta Mainwaring adroitly locates Mediterranean crossings at the cutting edge of intellectual and political debate. At Europe's Edge demands that readers move border-crossers and small island states where they land from margin to centre. * Alison Mountz, Professor of Geography and Global Migration, Wilfrid Laurier University *At Europe's Edge offers an authoritative and accessible account of the social, political, and cultural construction of Europe's so-called 'migration' crisis. Mainwaring draws on a decade of ethnographic research to historicize the dominant 'crisis' narrative, to foreground the agency of actors presumed to be marginal in shaping Mediterranean space, and to emphasize the everyday production and contestation of Europe's borders. The result is a major new intervention that deserves urgent attention — this book will shape interdisciplinary debates about one of the most pressing public policy issues in the twenty-first century. * Nick Vaughan-Williams, Professor of International Security, University of Warwick *Table of Contents1: Notes from the Mediterranean: Shipwrecks, Politics, and Death 2: Constructing Crises to Manage: Migration Governance and the Power to Exclude 3: Limits of Migration Management: Clandestine Journeys to Europe 4: At Europe's Edge: Arrival on the Maltese Islands 5: Lilliputian Power? Malta's 'Crisis' 6: The Future of Europe Appendix: Reflections on Methods and Ethics

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Book SynopsisHow to Pool Risks across Generations makes the case for the collective provision of pensions, on fair terms of social cooperation. Through the insurance of a mutual association which extends across society and over multiple generations, we share one another''s fates by pooling risks across both space and time. Resources are transferred, not simply between different people, but also within the possible future lives of each person: from one''s more fortunate to one''s less fortunate future selves. The book opens with an investigation of the longevity and investment risk that even a single individual on a desert island would face in providing for her old age. From this atomistic starting point, it builds up, within and across the chapters, to increasingly collective forms of pension provision. By joining together, it is possible to tame the risks we would face as individuals each with our own private pension pot. A collective pension can be justified as a ''social union of social unions'': an enduring corporate body, which is formed by agreements to pool risks, in a manner that involves reciprocity between the various individuals that constitute the collective. Even though all individuals age and die, a collective pension scheme remains evergreen, as the average age of members remains relatively unchanged, through the influx of new members to replace those who retire. It is therefore possible to smooth risks indefinitely across as well as within generations, to the mutual advantage of each.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1: The Case for Collective Defined Contribution 2: The Case for a Funded Pension with a Defined Benefit 3: The Case for an Unfunded Pay as You Go Pension 4: Fair Terms of Social Cooperation among the Free and Equal Conclusion Appendix: How Should Pensions and Contributions be Linked to Salary? References

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Book SynopsisThis is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.If we don''t know what the words ''democracy'' and ''democratic'' mean, then we don''t know what democracy is. This book defends a radical view: these words mean nothing and should be abandoned. The argument for Abolitionism is simple: those terms are defective and we can easily do better, so let''s get rid of them. According to the abolitionist, the switch to alternative devices would be a significant communicative, cognitive, and political advance.The first part of the book presents a general theory of abandonment: the conditions under which language should be abandoned. The rest of the book applies this general theory to the case of ''democracy'' and ''democratic''. Cappelen shows that ''democracy'' and ''democratic'' are semantically, pragmatically, and communicatively Table of ContentsPreface & Acknowledgements Part I: A Theory of Abandonment 1: Introduction 2: Arguments for Abandonment 3: Abandonment compared to Elimination, Reduction, Replacement, and Amelioration 4: Abandonment and Communication Part II: Some Data about 'Democracy' 5: The Ordinary Notion of 'Democracy': Methodological Preamble 6: Some Data about 'Democracy' and 'Democratic' Part III: Abandonment of 'Democracy'? 7: Problems with 'Democracy' 8: Better than 'Democracy': A Chapter of Good Cheers 9: Consequences of Abandoning 'Democracy' Part IV: Democracy Ameliorated 10: Ameliorations of 'Democracy' 11: Verbal Disputes about 'Democracy' Part V: Efforts to Defend Democracy 12: Objections and Replies Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis book examines a range of criminal activities conducted in different European contexts. Offences committed by individuals and groups endowed with different resources and status are examined. Each chapter contains an implicit rejection of generalizations and attention is paid to variations and differences. Rather than searching for a unified theory of crime, the author highlights the interpretive oscillations, which always occur when we are faced with criminal behaviour. In other words, each time we subscribe to one cause of crime we may realize that also the opposite cause possesses some reasonable validity. The originality of this book consists of the `causality of contraries'' running through the chapters, whereby a tentative aetiology identified in one context finds its complete overturning in anther. The author regards the `causality of contraries'' as a crucial aspect of the anti-criminological tradition to which he claims affiliation. These `essays in anti-criminology'' deal Table of Contents1. Introduction ; 2. A Fordist Model of Criminal Activity ; 3. Illegal Enterprise and Occupational Barriers ; 4. Illegal Activities Without Criminal Economies ; 5. From Fordist-type Criminals to Criminality ; 6. First Intermezzo: Drugs as a Password ; 7. Service providers and Criminals ; 8. Corrupt Exchange: A Victimless Crime? ; 9. Corruption as Resentment ; 10. Crime as Sense of the State ; 11. Second Intermezzo: Daniel Defoe and Business Crime ; 12. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisEnglish is the common denominator that unites the work presented in this volume; it provides a focal point to illustrate the ways in which a political economic approach can account for a range of phenomena in diverse settings in which a global language has attained a special status as (an often perceived) tool for socioeconomic mobility. The findings reveal the complex ways in which government leaders and policymakers, as well as communities and individuals in those communities, make decisions within a global economy about the languages that will be taught as subjects or used as media of instruction in schools. Whether or not the Straight for English policy that has become popular in various countries in southern Africa and elsewhere is a good or bad idea, in terms of improving school completion and literacy rates, English is often promoted as a social good with unquestioned instrumental value; yet access to quality English medium education in low-income countries is mostly restricted to those with sufficient economic means to pay for it. As the capitalist world-economy undergoes transformations, and assuming that translation technologies continue to improve, it is likely that the roles and relative importance that English as a global language has enjoyed over the past century will change significantly. Synchronic contextual analyses of English in various countries and regions are snapshots of a moving target with fuzzy boundaries; this is even more so the case when the object of analysis is lingua franca English, a fluid, contextually realized practice that may be described in situ, which is not stable and likely never will be. The degree to which English serves effectively as a lingua franca depends on who the interlocutors are, the situation, and the extent to which interlocutors'' interests and goals are mutually compatible and understood.Trade ReviewTom Ricento and the stellar cast of scholars he has assembled in this book achieve something extraordinary: they construct a story that people will still have to read decades later, on an object characterized paradoxically by extremely rapid and radical change. It is an intellectual and academic 'tour de force' which focuses on mechanisms and structures rather than on phenomena and anecdotes, and so easily transcends the level of here-and-now documentation. * Jan Blommaert, Tilburg University *In an era where language change and loss is often explained by reference to inevitable forces of 'culture' and 'globalization,' this important book brings us back home to core questions of economic power and political control. * Allan Luke, Queensland University of Technology *Language Policy and Political Economy is both timely and important, engaging with the debates that are central to current language policy research. I don't think anyone will be able to write about 'global English' again without seriously engaging with the analyses in this book. * James Tollefson, The University of Hong Kong *Ricento's book convinces the reader of the importance of the political economy perspective when analysing language policy in general * Christopher Houtkamp, Language Problems & Language Planning *Language Policy and Political Economy is superbly conceived and executed, rewarding readers as both a coherent collective and in individual essays. * Vaidehi Ramanathan, Sociolinguistics *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Language Policy and Political Economy ; Thomas Ricento ; Part I: Political Theory and Political Economy in Language Policy Research on English as a Global Language ; 1. Political Economy and English as a <"Global>" Language ; Thomas Ricento ; 2. Global English and the Limits of Liberalism: Confronting Global Capitalism and Challenges to the Nation-State ; Peter Ives ; 3. Language Policy and Global Political Economy ; Jeff Bale ; 4. Language, Hegemony, and Economy ; Glyn Williams ; Part II: Political Economy and Global English: Case Studies ; 5. The Economics of English in Europe ; Francois Grin ; 6. Language Education, Economic Development, and Participation in the Greater Mekong Subregion ; Paul Bruthiaux ; 7. Neoliberalism as Language Policy ; Ingrid Piller and Jinhyun Cho ; 8. Why English Dominates the Central Economy: An Economic Perspective on <"Elite Closure>" and South African Language Policy ; Laurence Wright ; 9. Narratives of Globalization in Language Politics in India ; Selma Sonntag ; Part III: Global English, Development, and Democracy ; 10. The Ground Floor of the World: On the Socioeconomic Consequences of Linguistic Globalization ; Philippe Van Parijs ; 11. Linguistic Diversity and Global English: The Pushmi-Pullyu of Language Policy and Political Economy ; Suzanne Romaine ; 12. "English," the Global Lingua Franca? ; Thomas Ricento ; Index

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Book SynopsisAre wealthy countries' duties towards developing countries grounded in justice or in weaker concerns of charity? Justice in a Globalized World offers both an in-depth critique of the most prominent philosophical answers to this question, and a distinctive approach for addressing it.Table of Contents1. Introduction: The Problem of Global Justice ; PART I: COSMOPOLITANISM ; 2. Assessing the Cosmopolitan Ideal ; 3. Justifying Cosmopolitanism ; PART II: STATISM ; 4. Assessing the Statist Ideal ; 5. Justifying Statism ; PART III: A NORMATIVE FRAMEWORK ; 6. The Function of Justice ; 7. The Content of Justice ; 8. The Scope of Justice ; 9. Conclusion ; Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis book offers an innovative analytic account of Cicero''s treatment of key political ideas: liberty and equality, government, law, cosmopolitanism and imperialism, republican virtues, and ethical decision-making in politics. Cicero (106-43 BC) is well known as a major player in the turbulent politics of the last three decades of the Roman Republic. But he was a political thinker, too, influential for many centuries in the Western intellectual and cultural tradition. His theoretical writings stand as the first surviving attempt to articulate a philosophical rationale for republicanism. They were not written in isolation either from the stances he took in his political actions and political oratory of the period, or from his discussions of immediate political issues or questions of character or behaviour in his voluminous correspondence with friends and acquaintances. In this book, Malcolm Schofield situates the intimate interrelationships between Cicero''s writings in all these modes within the historical context of a fracturing Roman political order. It exhibits the continuing attractions of Cicero''s scheme of republican values, as well as some of its limitations as a response to the crisis that was engulfing Rome.Trade ReviewCicero: Political Philosophy, with its densely yet subtly inter-connected chapters, excellent bibliography, and phenomenal choice of quotations from the largest body of work of a single author to come down to us from Graeco-Roman antiquity, is no exception in this and exceptional in its field. * Gavin M. Stewart, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice *Malcolm Schofield has now given us the ideal introduction to Cicero's political thought ... The book throughout is marked by very thoughtful attention to the needs of the non-specialist reader.... Schofield has managed to produce a concise and judicious guide to all the main issues and debates. It is far more than just a clear summary, though. It is, in the best sense, a critical introduction, one that engages as well as informs the reader, and it now takes its place as the best modern account of its kind. * Jeremy Mynott, Classics for All *To conclude, I would like to stress the importance of his method. S. uses historical context not only to elucidate Cicero's political philosophy, but also to explain its limits. S. pushes the quest for arguments as far as possible; but he confesses sometimes running into walls. * RENÉ DE NICOLAY, Princeton University, THE CLASSICAL REVIEW *Cicero is detailed, challenging, and fascinating, offering a thorough account of Cicero's political thought that is both situated within his particular and disruptive historical context and in constant dialogue with modern political theory ... This is a masterful and lively study, which will be of value to all those with an interest in ancient political philosophy, and, indeed, Republican politics and history. * Jenny Bryan, Greece & Rome *I would recommend this book immediately as the first stop for anyone looking for a clear and accessible account of Cicero's political philosophy. * Sean McConnell, University of Otago, Bryn Mawr Classical Review *Table of Contents1: Introduction: contexts 2: Liberty, equality, and popular sovereignty 3: Government 4: Cosmopolitanism, imperialism, and the idea of law 5: Republican virtues 6: Republican decision-making 7: Epilogue: philosophical debate and normative theory Bibliography Index of passages General index

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Book SynopsisFirst published in 1989, The Undeserving Poor was a critically acclaimed and enormously influential account of America''s enduring debate about poverty. Taking stock of the last quarter century, Michael B. Katz''s new edition of this classic is virtually a new book. As the first did, it will force all concerned Americans to reconsider the foundations of our policies toward the poor, especially in the wake of the Great Recession that began in 2008.Katz highlights how throughout American history, the poor have been regarded as undeserving: people who do not deserve sympathy because they brought their poverty on themselves, either through laziness and immorality, or because they are culturally or mentally deficient. This long-dominant view sees poverty as a personal failure, serving to justify America''s mean-spirited treatment of the poor. Katz reminds us, however, that there are other explanations of poverty besides personal failure. Poverty has been written about as a problem of place, of resources, of political economy, of power, and of market failure. Katz looks at each idea in turn, showing how they suggest more effective approaches to our struggle against poverty. The Second Edition includes important new material. It now sheds light on the revival of the idea of culture in poverty research; the rehabilitation of Daniel Patrick Moynihan; the resurgent role of biology in discussions of the causes of poverty, such as in The Bell Curve; and the human rights movement''s intensified focus on alleviating world poverty. It emphasizes the successes of the War on Poverty and Great Society, especially at the grassroots level. It is also the first book to chart the rise and fall of the underclass as a concept driving public policy.A major revision of a landmark study, The Undeserving Poor helps readers to see poverty-and our efforts to combat it--in a new light.Trade ReviewA convincing and clear historical perspective on the peculiar perceptions of poverty and welfare in the United States . * William Julius Wilson, University of Chicago *Table of ContentsPreface ; Chapter One ; The Undeserving Poor: Morals, Culture and Biology ; Chapter Two ; Poverty and the Politics of Liberation ; Chapter Three ; Intellectual Foundations of the War on Poverty and Great Society ; Chapter Four ; Interpretations of Poverty in the Conservative Ascendance ; Chapter Five ; The Rise and Fall of the <"Underclass>" ; Epilogue ; What Kind of a Problem is Poverty? ; Acknowledgments ; Index

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