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The University of Chicago Press Lectures on Kants Political Philosophy
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The University of Chicago Press On Tyranny Corrected and Expanded Edition
Book SynopsisIntroduces revisions throughout and expands authors' restatement of his position in light of Kojeve's commentary to bring it into conformity with the text as it was originally published in France.Trade Review"Through Strauss's interpretation, Xenophon appears to us as no longer the somewhat dull and flat author we know, but as a brilliant and subtle writer, an original and profound thinker. What is more, in interpreting this forgotten dialogue, Strauss lays bare great moral and political problems that are still ours." (Alexandre Kojeve) "On Tyranny is a complex and stimulating book with its 'parallel dialogue' made all the more striking since both participants take such unusual, highly provocative positions and so force readers to face substantial problems in what are often wholly unfamillar, even shocking ways." (Robert Pippin, History and Theory)"
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The University of Chicago Press A Democracy of Distinction
Book SynopsisOffering an ancient education for our times, Jill Frank's A Democracy of Distinction interprets Aristotle's writings in a way that reimagines the foundations, aims, and practices of politics, ancient and modern. Concerned especially with the work of making a democracy of distinction, Frank shows that such a democracy requires freedom and equality achieved through the exercise of virtue. Moving back and forth between Aristotle's writings and contemporary legal and political theory, Frank breathes new life into our conceptions of property, justice, and law by viewing them not only as institutions but as dynamic activities as well. Frank's innovative approach to Aristotle stresses his appreciation of the tensions and complexities of politics so that we might rethink and reorganize our own political ideas and practices. A Democracy of Distinction will be of enormous value to classicists, political scientists, and anyone interested in revitalizing democratic theory and practice.
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The University of Chicago Press On Cultural Freedom
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The University of Chicago Press Reading Public Opinion How Political Actors View
Book SynopsisDrawing on ideas from political science, sociology and psychology this text explores how three sets of political participants - legislative staffers, political activists and journalists - actually evaluate and assess public opinion.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1: The "Construction" of Public Opinion: Looking to Lay Theory 2: Policy Experts Think about Public Opinion, Media, and Legislative Process 3: Journalistic Views of Public Opinion 4: Conceptions of Public Opinion and Representation among Partisan Activists 5: Meanings of Public Opinion: Lay Theory Meets Democratic Theory App. A: Notes on Interviews and Building Grounded Theory App. B: Interview Protocols App. C: Survey Form Notes Bibliography Index
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The University of Chicago Press Revolution Subjectivity in Postwar Japan
Book SynopsisHere, the author analyzes the debate over subjectivity. He traces the arguments of intellectuals from various disciplines and viewpoints, and asserts that despite their stress on individual autonomy, they all came to define subjectivity in terms of deterministic historical structures.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction 1: The Politics of Democratic Revolution in Postwar Japan 2: Literature and the Bourgeois Subject 3: Philosophy and the Lacuna in Marxism 4: The Modern Ethos 5: Nationalism Conclusion: The Subject of Modernity Notes Works Cited Index
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The University of Chicago Press From Here to Free Trade Essays in PostUruguay
Book SynopsisAn analysis of international trade and investment in the 1990s. The text lays out a US trade strategy for the future, examines the influence of the World Trade Organization, argues for and against economic globalization, and offers a critique of US multilateral and regional free trade.
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The University of Chicago Press WrongDoing TruthTelling
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A stunning set of lectures given by Foucault that focus on the history of 'avowing' one's acts and the truth of who one is. Foucault seeks to understand at what point it became important not only to confess to a crime, but to avow one's act in public. For Foucault, avowal of one's criminality before an established authority becomes a way of reestablishing that authority, and resisting avowal becomes tantamount to civil disobedience. The political implications of his analysis become especially clear in the interviews included here. This is wonderful and arresting read."--Judith Butler, University of California, Berkeley "Reconstructed through the patient labours of Fabienne Brion and Bernard Harcourt, . . . [the lectures] are now available in a scrupulous English translation."--Times Literary Supplement "Fabienne Brion and Bernard Harcourt are to be congratulated for their invaluable work."--Berfrois "The Louvain lectures show us an aspect of Foucault's work that is often neglected in an attempt to focus on his commitment to historicizing: that for histories, even genealogical histories, to be constructed, one must not only trace the changes themselves but also that which is changed and therefore remains, in its changes, continuous."--Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews "These lectures are unique and valuable in that, consistent with the direction of Foucault's work at the time, they expand his explorations of the various modalities of truth and subjectivity into the criminal justice context. Additionally, Foucault's genealogical work in these lectures situates these specific criminal justice practices within a more far-reaching history than that with which we are familiar. . . . A valuable contribution to both Foucaultian and criminological scholarship."-- (05/22/2015) "Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling is one of Foucault's most stirring inquiries into what he has named 'the hermeneutics of oneself.' These lectures stage the concept of avowal in performances as varied as Greek tragedy, criminal justice, and confessional practices; and they provide us with some of Foucault's most illuminating observations on the intimate and agonistic relations between sites of enunciation, orders of truth, and investments of power. The subject of avowal is never free of the ethical exigency and the discursive contingency of 'chang[ing] itself, transform[ing] itself, displac[ing] itself, and becom[ing] to some extent other than itself, ' and Foucault's genius lies in providing us with critical and genealogical reflections on the worldly practices of avowal. Bernard Harcourt and Fabienne Brion's essential afterword provides both a frame and a ballast to the book. This is a considerable addition to the English archive of the work of Michel Foucault."--Homi K. Bhabha, Harvard University "The publication of Foucault's Louvain lectures, Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling, beautifully and rigorously established and commented upon by Fabienne Brion and Bernard Harcourt, is an important event in the contemporary blossoming of Foucault studies. In no way is it redundant with the lectures at the College de France, whose series is now practically complete. With this amazingly rich inquiry, focusing on the mythical, religious, and judiciary dimensions of 'avowal, ' we are offered a unique possibility to understand how Foucault's genealogy articulated the order of discourse and the power of institutions."--Etienne Balibar, Universite Paris Ouest Nanterre La Defense, author of Politics and the Other SceneTable of ContentsEditor’s Preface Fabienne Brion and Bernard E. Harcourt INAUGURAL LECTURE April 2, 1981 Dr. Leuret, avowal, and the therapeutic operation. — The supposed effects of truth-telling on oneself and of knowledge of the self. — Characteristics of avowal. — The spread of avowal within Western Christian societies: individuals bound to their truth and obligated in their relationships to others through the truth told. — A historical-political problem: how the individual binds himself to his truth and to the power that exerts itself upon him. — A historical-philosophical problem: how individuals are bound by forms of veridiction. — A counterpoint to positivism: a critical philosophy of veridictions. — The problem of “who is being judged” in penal institutions. — Penal practices and technologies of government. — Governing through truth. FIRST LECTURE April 22, 1981 A political and institutional ethnology of truthful speech. — Truth-telling and speaking justice. — Scope of the study. — Veridiction and jurisdiction in Homer’s Iliad. — The competition between Menelaus and Antilochus. — The object of Antilochus’s avowal. —Justice and agon; agon and truth. —The chariot race and the challenge of the oath, two liturgies of truth, two games designed to represent justly the truth of their respective strengths. — A ritual of commemoration. — Veridiction and jurisdiction in Hesiod’s Works and Days. — Dikazein and krinein. — The oath of the accusers and the co-jurors in dikazein: a game of two parties, the criteria being the social status of the adversaries. — The oath of the judge in krinein: a game of three parties, the criteria being dikaion. — The social weight of adversaries and “the reality of things”: dikaion and alethes. SECOND LECTURE April 28, 1981 The representation of law in Sophocles’s Oedipus Rex. — A judicial paradigm. — Essential elements of the tragedy. — Two recognitions, three alethurgies. — Veridiction and prophecy. — Veridiction and tyranny. — Veridiction and witnessing avowal. — Grandeur of the parties, freedom to speak, and the effect of truth in the inquiry. — Recognition by the chorus, conditions for recognition by Oedipus. — From truth-telling to saying “I.” — A procedure that conforms to nomos, a veridiction that repeats the word of the prophet and completes that of the man of techne technes. THIRD LECTURE April 29, 1981 Hermeneutics of the text and hermeneutics of the self in early Christianity. — Veridiction of the self in pagan antiquity. — The Pythagorean examination of conscience: purification of self and mnemotechnics. — The Stoic examination of conscience: the government of the self and the remembering of codes. — The Stoic expositio animae: medicine of passions and degrees of liberty. — Penance in early Christianity. — The problem of reintegration. — Penance as a status that manifests a particular state. — The meanings of exomologesis. — A life in the form of avowal, an avowal in the form of life. — A ritual of supplication. — Beyond the medical or judicial, the model of the martyr. — Veridiction of the self and mortification of the self. — From the public manifestation of the self as sinner to the verbalization of the self: temptation and illusion. FOURTH LECTURE May 6, 1981 Practice of veridiction in monastic institutions of the fourth and fifth centuries: the Apophthegmata patrum and the writings of Cassian. — Monasticism: between the life of penance and philosophical existence. — Characteristics of the direction of conscience in ancient culture. — Characteristics of the direction of conscience in monasticism: an obedience that is continuous, formal, and self-referential; humility, patience, and submission; the inversion of the relationship to verbalization. — Characteristics of the examination of conscience in monasticism: from action to thought. — Mobility of thought and illusion. — Discrimen and discretio: avowal and the origin of thought. — Veridiction of the self, hermeneutics of thought, and the rights-bearing subject. FIFTH LECTURE May 13, 1981 Characteristics of exagoreusis in the fourth and fifth centuries. — Renunciation of the self. — Truth of the text and truth of the self. — The separation and adjustment of the hermeneutics of the text and the hermeneutics of the self in Protestantism. — Illusion, evidence, and meaning (Descartes and Locke). — Illusion of the self about the self and the unconscious (Schopenhauer and Freud). — Juridification of avowal in the ecclesiastical tradition from the fourth to the seventh centuries. — Co-penetration of exagoreusis and exomologesis in the first monastic and lay communities. — Characteristics and origins of fixed penance: the monastic model and the model of Germanic law. — Sacramentalization and institutionalization of obligatory confession in the thirteenth century. — Juridification of the relationship between man and God. — Forms and meanings of avowal in the confessio oris. SIXTH LECTURE May 20, 1981 Juridification in ecclesiastical and political institutions. — From God as judge to a state of justice: sovereignty and truth. — Avowal, torture, and inquisitorial tests of truth. — Avowal, torture, and legal proofs. — Avowal, sovereign law, sovereign conscience, and punitive engagement. — Auto-veridiction, evidence, and penal dramaturgy. — Hetero-veridiction, examination, and legal psychiatry. — Relating the act to its author: the question of criminal subjectivity in the nineteenth century. — Monomania and the constitution of crime as psychiatric object. — Degeneration and the creation of the criminal as object for social defense. — From responsibility to dangerousness, from the rights-bearing subject to the criminal individual. — The question of criminal subjectivity in the twentieth century. — Hermeneutics of the subject and the meaning of crime for the criminal. — Accident, probability, and indices of criminal risk. — Veridiction of the subject and the breach in the contemporary penal system. Appendixes Michel Foucault Interview with André Berten May 7, 1981 Michel Foucault Interview with Christian Panier and Pierre Watté May 14, 1981 Michel Foucault Interview with Jean François and John De Wit May 22, 1981 The Louvain Lectures in Context Fabienne Brion and Bernard E. Harcourt Acknowledgments to the French Edition Acknowledgments to the English Edition Index of Notions and Concepts Index of Proper Names
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The University of Chicago Press Hope and Scorn
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This book will change the terms in which historians have thought about the meaning of intellectual life in the second half of the twentieth century. . . . Hope and Scorn gives us a perspective on intellectuals and democratic values that has been sorely lacking. It is bracing to have a thoughtful and careful analysis of the recent history of the meaning of intellectual authority for the dream of a democratic society."--Daniel Wickberg, University of Texas, DallasTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 Manning the Barricades of Civilization 2 A Candidate of Intelligence 3 The Moralist and the Mandarin 4 Critic, Counselor, Critic 5 The Intellectual against Intellectuals 6 Critical Organic Catalyst, Prophetic Pragmatist, and Public Intellectual Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Index
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The University of Chicago Press Contrasting Styles of Industrial Reform China and
Book SynopsisSince World War II, China has had a command economy administered under a dictatorship, while India's democracy has introduced a highly regulated economy. Despite obvious differences in their political systems, each country endured remarkably similar economic problems with respect to industry during the 1960s and 1970s. Both embarked in the 1980s on a series of industrial reforms designed to improve technology and efficiency in the use of resources, as well as to stimulate industrial growth in the face of declining productivity. For economists, the two countries offer an interesting test case for examining similar reform programs launched from disparate political and economic systems. For policymakers concerned with the region's stability, a clear view of the economic futures of these two major powers is paramount. Examining and comparing the reform experiences of China and India up to the present, George Rosen shows that although China enacted more sweeping reform measures and produced
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The University of Chicago Press Aristotles Art of Rhetoric
Book SynopsisOne of the foundational works of Western culture, Art of Rhetoric has shaped our understanding of speech and persuasion for millennia now; this fresh translation makes it available anew for teacher of rhetoric, philosophy, politics, and intellectual history.Trade Review"Robert C. Bartlett has made Aristotle's Art of Rhetoric accessible to contemporary readers with his literal but elegant translation. His numerous notes that explain Aristotle's historical and literary allusions as well as the subtleties of Aristotle's Greek are indispensable for following Aristotle's text...As Bartlett leads us to expect, Aristotle's Rhetoric offers a healthy correction to current ways of thinking about politics and about what we can expect of political leaders."--Mary P. Nichols "Law & Liberty" "As Robert C. Bartlett makes clear in an interpretive essay appended to his splendid new translation, Aristotle's Rhetoric is itself a rhetorical tour de force....there is no better place to start than Bartlett's translation"-- "Claremont Review of Books"Table of ContentsPreface Overview of the Art of Rhetoric Bibliography List of Abbreviations Art of Rhetoric Outline of Book 1 Book 1 Outline of Book 2 Book 2 Outline of Book 3 Book 3 Interpretive Essay Glossary Key Greek Terms Authors and Works Cited Proper Names General Index
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The University of Chicago Press Rousseaus God
Book SynopsisA landmark study of Rousseau's theological and religious thought. John T. Scott offers a comprehensive interpretation of Rousseau's theological and religious thought, both in its own right and in relation to Rousseau's broader oeuvre. In chapters focused on different key writings, Scott reveals recurrent themes in Rousseau's views on the subject and traces their evolution over time. He shows that two conceptstruth and utilityare integral to Rousseau's writings on religion. Doing so helps to explain some of Rousseau's disagreements with his contemporaries: their different views on religion and theology stem from different understandings of human nature and the proper role of science in human life. Rousseau emphasizes not just what is true, but also what is usefulpsychologically, morally, and politicallyfor human beings. Comprehensive and nuanced, Rousseau's God is vital to understanding key categories of Rousseau's thought.Trade Review"There is much more that could be said on this subject, of course, as on the many other aspects of Rousseau’s philosophy upon which Scott advances deeply insightful and thought-provoking interpretations. One of the many successes of Rousseau’s God is that it shifts the burden of proof onto those who think that the Vicar does represent Rousseau’s own views. Anyone wishing to defend that interpretation henceforth should either respond to Scott’s forceful challenges or conclude that Rousseau was inconsistent on topics of central importance to his thought." * Review of Politics *"Rousseau’s God considers an important question in the manner it deserves: thoroughly. Scott succeeds in reconstructing the entire complex edifice of Rousseau’s theology and relating it to the broader and even more complex context of Rousseau’s thought as a whole. This is a remarkable achievement and a major contribution to understanding Rousseau." -- Clifford Orwin | University of Toronto"Rousseau’s God is an original and wide-ranging examination of Rousseau’s theological and religious writings. John Scott draws fertile connections to other key concepts in Rousseau’s broader project and pulls together multiple analytical threads into an exceptionally lucid and comprehensive interpretation that shows just how deeply the distinction between truth and utility permeates Rousseau’s treatment of religion (both doctrine and practice) throughout his works." -- Denise Schaeffer | College of the Holy CrossTable of ContentsList of Abbreviations Introduction Chapter 1: Truth and Utility Chapter 2: The Theodicy of the Discourse on Inequality Chapter 3: Pride and Providence in the Letter to Voltaire Chapter 4: Psychic Unity and Disunity and the Need for Religion Chapter 5: Introduction to the “Profession of Faith” Chapter 6: The Theological Teaching of the “Profession of Faith” Chapter 7: The Critique—and Revival—of Religion in the “Profession of Faith” Chapter 8: On Civil Religion Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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The University of Chicago Press The Causes and Consequences of Increasing Inequality
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McGill-Queen's University Press The Urbanization of Forced Displacement
Book SynopsisDisplacement in the twenty-first century is urbanized. The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), the world's largest humanitarian organization and the main body charged with assisting displaced people globally, estimates that over 60 per cent of refugees now live in urban areas, a proportion that only increases in the case of internally displaced people and asylum seekers.Though cities and local authorities have become essential participants in the protection of refugees, only three decades ago they were considered to sit firmly beyond UNHCR's remit, with urban refugees typically characterized as aberrations. In The Urbanization of Forced Displacement Neil James Wilson Crawford examines the organization's response to the growing number of refugees migrating to urban areas. Introducing a broader study of policy-making in international organizations, Crawford addresses how and why UNHCR changed its policy and practice in response to shifting trends in displacement. CitinTrade Review“The Urbanization of Forced Displacement addresses an issue of significant concern to people working in the fields of refugee, migration, humanitarian, and urban studies, as well as those with an interest in the policymaking process of international organizations. As someone who was intimately engaged in many of the events and decisions examined in the book, I found Crawford's analysis to be engaging and enlightening.” Jeff Crisp, Oxford University and former head of policy development and evaluation, UNHCR"Neil Crawford's The Urbanization of Forced Displacement is a timely intervention on the debates about how and why international organizations experience policy change. [...] the analysis of the UNHCR’s experience of authority expansion to displaced groups in urban settings is sharp, and scholars of forced migration and refugee studies will find a fresh insight in it. Moreover, the book’s findings on the power of epistemic communities will be relevant to multiple audiences beyond the academic world. For policy-makers, Crawford offers an insightful analysis of the workings of international organizations. For civil society actors, it is an important source on the significance of knowledge and expertise in steering an international organization’s direction, and therefore, in crafting their impact strategies. In a time when science and epistemic communities are under constant criticism and challenges from different political forces, Crawford’s analysis reminds readers that knowledge and expertise still matter." International Affairs"[T]he author skillfully avoids treating an actor, like a state or an international institution, as a temporally stable, homogenous, and self-conscious unit. The book provides a productive example of how actors within and around UNHCR consist of internal contestations involving different branches and individuals, how they respond to change in the international system and discourse that they are embedded in, and how all these change over time [...]. The Urbanization of Forced Displacement is an important read for graduate and undergraduate students as well as researchers and policymakers working on forced migration." International Migration Review
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McGill-Queen's University Press The Russian Military Intervention in Syria
Book SynopsisThe Russian Military Intervention in Syria examines Russia’s foreign policy and attempts to protect its interests in the Middle East and former Soviet territory. Providing historical context and revealing the causes of Russia’s use of military power, this book is an authoritative overview of Russia’s policy goals and diplomatic handling of the Syrian conflict.Trade Review"Geukjian’s work will find its well-deserved place in courses on Russia’s foreign affairs and its engagement with regional players. The book is a worthy read for anyone interested in political psychology, Russia and its foreign policies, including towards the Middle East.” International Affairs
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Palgrave Macmillan Justice at Nuremberg
Book SynopsisPrologue The Austrian Jew The Émigré The War Crimes Investigator The Road to Nuremberg Constructing the Doctors' Trial The Nuremberg Code Post-war Medical Ethics Bibliography IndexTrade Review'Finally we have a comprehensive recounting and analysis of one of the most remarkable chapters of World War II and its aftermath: the crimes and trials of the Nazi doctors. With the international tribunal's expert consultant Leo Alexander as the tale's focus, the intrinsically gripping story is rendered even more fascinating through the personality of this complex and flamboyant figure. Ulf Schmidt has crafted a book that is at once sensitive to historical context and unwavering in moral judgment, while drawing from sources never before utilized. Readers will have a hard time putting this book down.' - Jonathan D. Moreno, Kornfeld Professor and Director, Centre for Biomedical Ethics, University of Virginia, USA 'Schmidt has delivered a meticulously researched and beautifully written narrative of one of the most intriguing and colourful physician experts at the Nuremberg Nazi Doctors' Trial. Justice at Nuremberg is part biography and part political, social, and cultural history. It is a vivid and disturbing account of this cornerstone event of modern medical ethics.' - Michael A. Grodin, Professor of Health Law, Bioethics, Human Rights and Psychiatry, Boston University Schools of Public Health and Medicine, USA '... Justice at Nuremberg is a meticulously researched work that should be required reading for anyone interested in the history of medical ethics, the development of modern research ethics, or the Holocaust.' - Robert Baker, PhD, Director, Center for Bioethics, Graduate College Union University; Chair, History of Medical Ethics Affinity Group, American Society of Bioethics and Humanities, USA ' ... Schmidt has written a disturbing and shocking account of the manner in which Nazi medical experiments were exposed during the Nuremberg Doctors' Trial. The legacy of the Nuremberg Code - a landmark in the history of modern medical ethics - is of interest not only for the light its shed on the process of denazification. This powerfully argued book provides insights into the changing nature of international law and ethics and to contemporary events such truth commissions and attempts at reconciliation between states. As such it will appeal to lawyers, policy makers and historians.' - David Welch, Professor of Modern History and Director of the Centre for the Study of Propaganda at the University of Kent at Canterbury, UK '... Schmidt has produced a fine book, on one of the darkest chapters of European history.' - Robert N. Proctor, Ferree Professor of the History of Science, Pennsylvania State University, USATable of ContentsPrologue The Austrian Jew The Émigré The War Crimes Investigator The Road to Nuremberg Constructing the Doctors' Trial The Nuremberg Code Post-war Medical Ethics Bibliography Index
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Palgrave MacMillan Us The Economic and Strategic Rise of China and India Asian Realignments after the 1997 Financial Crisis
Book SynopsisThis book demonstrates the connection between economic and strategic developments in Asia with several, interrelated arguments. India is close behind, and warns that while many observers are proceeding as if current U.S. treaties will continue indefinitely, Asia is already preparing for changing patrons.Trade Review"A marvelously rich, important, original book on the rise of the 'mega-countries,' China and India, who are casting a long shadow on the rest of the world." - Paul Bracken, Professor of Management & Political Science, Yale University "Thisboth sweepingand detailed study contributessignificantly to our understanding of the combination of economic and strategic developments in Asia since the financial crisis of 1997. The economic-growth driven, sustained, phenomenal rise of China and India is a dominant event of the 21st century. In his analysis, Professor Denoon considers how these new, evolving strategic realignments and balances in Asia will have significant, though not yet well appreciated, implications for U.S. foreign policy." - Hugh T. Patrick, Co-Director, APEC Study Center, Columbia University and R.D. Calkins Professor Emeritus"David Denoon has given us a major book which will help refocus our attention away from the post-9/11 preoccupation with the Middle East and Gulf to fundamental strategic realignments underway in South and East Asia. Denoon is a unique Asia specialist in his ability to assess the economic as well as the political trends that are transforming the Asia-Pacific region. He documents in detail how the continental powers of Asia India and China as well as Japan emerged unscathed from the financial crisis of 1997 to reshape the economic structure of the region, and how institutions like ASEAN and APEC have failed to give voice to the concerns of smaller regional states. This is an analysis much broader than the 'rise of China'.It will help us understand why Asia will be the world's power center of the 21st Century." - Richard H. Solomon,President, U.S. Institute of PeaceTable of ContentsOverview Why Was the 1997 Crisis So Severe? Is the Current Recovery Sustainable? The Mixed Record on Integration in East Asia Strategic Realignments in Asia United States Policy and Asian Realignments
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Columbia University Press Unipolar Politics Realism State Strategies After the Cold War Realism and State Strategies after the Cold War
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Columbia University Press The Compromise of Liberal Environmentalism
Book SynopsisA significant shift in environmental governance since 1970 has been the convergence of environmental and libral economic norms toward "liberal environmentalism". This text assesses the reasons for this shift, and considers the implications for our ability to address global environmental problems.Trade ReviewBernstein convincingly and usefully rejects the role of epistemic communities as a driving force behind the norm change he identifies... Compelling... His attention to the role of ideas in environmental policy is important. Choice An original and thorough analysis of the evolution of international environmental governance... this fascinating work makes an important contribution. Environmental Politics [T]ackled with style and commitment... [t]his is a book that many should and will want to read, both for its assessment of environmentalism internationally and for its original contribution to constructivist theory. -- Don Munton Perspectives on Politics
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Institute of Economic Affairs School of Thought 101 Great Liberal Thinkers
Book SynopsisSchool of Thought - 101 Great Liberal Thinkers profiles the lives and ideas of some of the leading thinkers on individual liberty - from ancient times to the present day.Table of Contents1 Introduction 2 Liberalism and liberal thinkers 3 Ancient liberal thinkers 4 Early modern thinkers 5 The age of reason 6 Revolutionaries and radicals 7 The age of reform 8 The modern era 9 The free economy and society 10 Contemporary liberal thinkers 11 Conclusion 12 101 more liberal quotations
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MIT Press Ltd The Pentagon Climate Change and War Charting the
Book SynopsisHow the Pentagon became the world’s largest single greenhouse gas emitter and why it’s not too late to break the link between national security and fossil fuel consumption.The military has for years (unlike many politicians) acknowledged that climate change is real, creating conditions so extreme that some military officials fear future climate wars. At the same time, the U.S. Department of Defense—military forces and DOD agencies—is the largest single energy consumer in the United States and the world’s largest institutional greenhouse gas emitter. In this eye-opening book, Neta Crawford traces the U.S. military’s growing consumption of energy and calls for a reconceptualization of foreign policy and military doctrine. Only such a rethinking, she argues, will break the link between national security and fossil fuels. The Pentagon, Climate Change, and War shows how the U.S. economy and military together have creat
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Pennsylvania State University Press The New State
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Hachette Books American Happiness and Discontents
Book SynopsisGeorge F. Will has been one of this country''s leading columnists since 1974. He won the Pulitzer Prize for it in 1977. The Wall Street Journal once called him perhaps the most powerful journalist in America. In this new collection, he examines a remarkably unsettling thirteen years in our nation''s experience, from 2008 to 2020. Included are a number of columns about court cases, mostly from the Supreme Court, that illuminate why the composition of the federal judiciary has become such a contentious subject.Other topics addressed include the American Revolutionary War, historical figures from Frederick Douglass to JFK, as well as a scathing assessment of how State of the Union Addresses are delivered in the modern day. Mr. Will also offers his perspective on American socialists, anti-capitalist conservatives, drug policy, the criminal justice system, climatology, the Coronavirus, the First Amendment, parenting, meritocracy and education, China, fascism, authoritarian
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National Academies Press Understanding Risk
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Palgrave Macmillan Arab Nationalism
Book SynopsisForeword to the Third Edition - Preface to the Second Edition - Foreword to the English Translation - A Note on Sources, Quotations and Transliteration - Introduction to the Second Edition: Arab Nationalism Revisited - PART 1: AN ATTEMPT TO DISTINGUISH THIRD WORLD FROM EUROPEAN VARIETIES OF NATIONALISM - The Origins of Nation Formation and Nationalism in Europe - Social Science Interpretations of Nationalism and of Nation Formation in the 'Third World' - The Role of Nationalism and Nation Formation in the Process of Emancipation of the Peoples of the 'Third World' - PART 2: THE EMERGENCE AND DEVELOPMENT OF NATIONALISM IN THE ARAB WORLD BEFORE THE SECOND WORLD WAR - The Historical Background of Arab Nationalism - The Genesis of Arab Nationalism - PART 3: SATI' AL-HUSRI'S THEORY OF POPULIST PAN-ARAB NATIONALISM AND ITS PHILOSOPHICAL ORIGINS - The Origins of al-Husri's Definition of the Nation - The Foundations of Sati' al-Husri's Political Theory - PART 4: AL-HUSRI'S THEORY IN ACTION: POTrade Review'...impressive study of Arab nationalism. It should quickly find its way into the required reading lists of all serious students of Arab politics, for it fills a need that has not been met thus far in the English literature.' - Michael C. Hudson, International Journal of Middle East StudiesTable of ContentsForeword to the Third Edition - Preface to the Second Edition - Foreword to the English Translation - A Note on Sources, Quotations and Transliteration - Introduction to the Second Edition: Arab Nationalism Revisited - PART 1: AN ATTEMPT TO DISTINGUISH THIRD WORLD FROM EUROPEAN VARIETIES OF NATIONALISM - The Origins of Nation Formation and Nationalism in Europe - Social Science Interpretations of Nationalism and of Nation Formation in the 'Third World' - The Role of Nationalism and Nation Formation in the Process of Emancipation of the Peoples of the 'Third World' - PART 2: THE EMERGENCE AND DEVELOPMENT OF NATIONALISM IN THE ARAB WORLD BEFORE THE SECOND WORLD WAR - The Historical Background of Arab Nationalism - The Genesis of Arab Nationalism - PART 3: SATI' AL-HUSRI'S THEORY OF POPULIST PAN-ARAB NATIONALISM AND ITS PHILOSOPHICAL ORIGINS - The Origins of al-Husri's Definition of the Nation - The Foundations of Sati' al-Husri's Political Theory - PART 4: AL-HUSRI'S THEORY IN ACTION: POPULIST PAN-ARAB NATIONALISM IN COMPETITION WITH OTHER POLITICAL CURRENTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST - Pan-Arab Nationalism versus Pan-Islamism: The Role of Islam in al-Husri's Writing - Pan-Arab versus Local Nationalism I: al-Husri and the Egyptian Nationalists - Pan-Arab versus Local Nationalism II: al-Husri's Critique of Antun Sa'ada and his Syrian Social Nationalist Party (SSNP) - Postscript - PART 5: BETWEEN ARAB NATIONALISM AND ISLAM - Notes - Bibliography - Index
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Palgrave MacMillan UK The Myth of Consensus Palgrave MacM 1996
Book SynopsisThis groundbreaking collection of essays challenges the notion that early postwar Britain was characterised by a consensus between the major political parties arising out of the experiences of the wartime coalition government.Table of ContentsNotes on the Contributors - Preface; P.Catterall - Introduction; H.Jones - A Bloodless Counter-Revolution: the Conservative Party and the Defence of Inequality, 1945-51; H.Jones - Consensus here, Consensus there...but not Consensus everywhere: the Labour Party, Equality and Social Policy in the 1950s; N.Ellison - 'Not Reformed Capitalism, but...Democratic Socialism': the Ideology of the Labour Leadership, 1945-51; M.Francis - Conservative Elites, Strategy - and 'Consensus'?; M.D.Kandiah - Consensus and Consumption: Rationing, Austerity and Controls after the War; I.Zweiniger-Bargielowska - Butskellism, the Postwar Consensus and the Managed Economy; N.Rollings - The Politics of the 'Social' and the 'Industrial' Wage, 1945-60; N.Whiteside - Industrial Organisation and Ownership, and a New Definition of the Postwar 'Consensus'; H.Mercer - Decolonisation and Postwar Consensus; N.Owen - Index
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Thomas Hobbes and the Political Philosophy of
Book SynopsisHobbes's philosophical discourse is deconstructed as the interplay of the drama of individual behaviour as perceived by rational agents and the detached analysis of conflict by a political geometer .Trade Review'This may well be the most impressive new book on Hobbes appearing over the past two decades or more.' - Political StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Abbreviations to Hobbes's Works Quoted in the Text Introduction: The Political Geometry of Glory PART I: ELEMENTS OF POLITICAL GEOMETRY The Coordinates of Man: Time and Space Fatal Equality The Axiom of Glory Glory: Parallels and Intersections Ambition: Paradoxes and Puzzles The Dilemma of Fear and Hope The Trajectory of Glory Glory and the Excellent Sex The Determinants of the Citizen: Nature and Nurture PART II: THEOREMS OF POLITICAL GEOMETRY The Rational Actor at Play Hobbes's Impossibility Theorem The Ideology of Political Geometry End Notes Selected Bibliography Name Index
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Social Democracy
Book SynopsisHow are the policies, meaning and ideology of social democracy changing and what is the context for this change? The perspectives range from the critical to the sympathetic, including discussion of where social democracy is going, as well as the argument that it provides no future for radical politics at all.Table of ContentsNotes on the Contributors Introduction: L.Martell Social Democracy in the Global Revolution; M.Shaw Social Democracy and Global Governance; N.Stammers Globalization and the Renewal of Social Democracy; M.Browne & Y.Akbar Social Democracy and the EU: Who's Changing Who?; F.McGowan Social Democracy in Britain? New Labour and the Third Way; N.Cowell & P.Larkin Dutch Social Democracy and the Poldermodel; C.van der Anker Social Democracy and Structures of Governance in Britain and Germany; C.Lees The Media and Social Democracy in the US and Great Britain; S.Hoopes Capitalism, Globalization and Democracy: Does Social Democracy have a Role?; L.Martell Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Power and the State Political Analysis
Book SynopsisMARTIN J. SMITH is Professor of Politics and Director of Research and Innovation, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Sheffield. He has published widely on British Politics and Public Policy and is currently editor of Political Studies.
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Little, Brown Book Group The Identity Myth
Book SynopsisWe are in crisis. As a society we have never been less connected. The internet and globalisation fuel ignorance and anger, while the disconnect between people''s reality and perceived identities has never been greater. Karl Marx outlined the idea of a material ''base'' and politico-cultural ''superstructure''. According to this formula, a material reality - wealth, income, occupation - determined your politics, leisure habits, tastes, and how you made sense of the world. Today, the importance of material deprivation, in terms of threats to life, health and prosperity, are as acute as ever. But the identities apparently generated by these realities are increasingly detached from material circumstances. At the same time, different identities are needlessly conflated through a process of reeling off a list of -isms and -phobias, and are lumped together, as though these groups all somehow have something in common with one another. Th is proceTrade ReviewSwift persuasively argues that economic and technological trends have amplified the obsession with identity... [He] makes a convincing argument * The Times *Swift makes a compelling case against the preoccupation with different identities of minorities, especially on the left, as he does in favour of greater focus on what unites rather than divides people in diverse societies like ours. And he offers numerous, convincing illustrations of how internally diverse in outlook, values and interest are those of the same class, colour, gender and age-group. * Jewish Chronicle *A fun and clever book * Spiked *
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Lulu.com Commentaries on the Constitution of the United
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Institutional Transformations
Book SynopsisFormal and informal institutions structure our social interactions by giving rise to normative expectations and patterns of collective behaviour. This collection grapples with how affect, imagination, and embodiment can operate to either constrain or enable the justice of institutions and the experiences of specific social identities.This anthology explores the myriad ways institutions work to systematically disadvantage people with particular identities whilst privileging others, and considers the legal, political, and normative interventions that might serve to promote a more just society. Taken together, the chapters represent the scope of existing research within institutional theory, affect theory, race theory, and theories of social imaginaries. Across a range of topics (human rights, racial and sexual violence, transitional justice and democratic movements) this collection critically assesses the extent to which theorists have attended to the conjoined influence of theTable of ContentsIntroductionDanielle Celermajer, Millicent Churcher, Moira Gatens and Anna Hush 1. Racial Violence, Emotional Friction, and Epistemic ActivismJosé Medina 2. South Africa’s Blue Dress: (Re)imagining human rights through artEliza Garnsey3. The ‘Affairs’ of Political Memory: Hermeneutical Dissidence from National Myth-MakingMihaela Mihai4. Character is a Sacred Bond: Reflections on Sovereignty, Grace, and ResistanceRichard K. Sherwin5. The Tick-tick-ticking Time Bomb and Erosion of Human rights InstitutionsDanielle Celermajer6. Toward a Democratic Groove: Cultivating Affective Dynamics in Institutional TransformationRomand Coles and Lia Haro 7. Listening to Claims of Structural InjusticeEmily Beausoleil8. The Imaginary Institution of the University: Sexual Politics in the Neoliberal AcademyAnna Hush9. Reframing Honor in Heterosexual Imaginaries Millicent Churcher and Moira Gatens
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Expertise Policymaking and Democracy
Book SynopsisThis book offers a concise and accessible introduction to debates about expertise, policy-making and democracy. It uniquely combines an overview of recent research on the policy role of experts with discussions in political philosophy and the philosophy of expertise. Starting with the fact that well-functioning democracies require experts and expert knowledge, the book examines two types of objections against granting experts a larger role in policy-making: concerns that focus on the nature and limits of expert knowledge, and those that concentrate on tensions between expertization and democracy. With this, the book discusses how expert arrangements can be organized to ensure the epistemic qualities of policies and democratic credentials, at the same time. The book will be of interest to scholars and students of political theory and democracy, public policy and administration, and to anyone interested in the role of expertise in society.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Fact of Expertise 2. Expertise in Policy-Making 3. Expertise in Democracy 4. Epistemic Worries about Expertise 5. Democratic Worries about Expertise 6. Designing Expert Bodies: A System Perspective
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Routledge Handbook of Populism in the Asia
Book SynopsisThis handbook brings national and thematic case studies together to examine a variety of populist politics from local and comparative perspectives in the Asia Pacific. The chapters consider key and cross cutting themes such as populism and nationalism, religion, ethnicity and gender, as well as authoritarianism. They show how populist politics alters the way governments mediate state-society relations.The essays in this volume consider: diverse approaches in populist politics, for example, post-colonial, strategic vs ideational, growth and redistribution, leadership styles, and in what ways they are similar to, or different from, populist discourses in Europe and the United States under what social, political, economic and structural conditions populist politics has emerged in the Asia-Pacific region national case studies drawn from South, East and Southeast Asia as well as the Pacific analyzing themes such as media, religion, gender, medical populiTable of ContentsList of contributors List of tables List of figures List of graphs Acknowledgements PART I: Introduction 1 Populism’s shifting meanings and geographical diffusion PART II: Approaches and key issues 2 Populism, nationalism, and national identity in Asia 3 The strategic approach to populism 4 Between people power and state power: The ambivalence of populism in international relations 5 Growth, redistribution, and populism in Asia 6 The populist radical right, gendered enemy, and religion: Perspectives from South Asia since 2014 7 Charismatic leadership, leader democracy, and populism in Asia PART III: Cross-cutting themes 8 Populism, media, and communication in the Asia Pacific: A case study of Rodrigo Duterte and Pauline Hanson 9 Religion, secularism and populism in contemporary Asia 10 Islam and populism in the Asia Pacific 11 Medical populism in the Asia Pacific PART IV: National cases 12 ‘Inclusionary’ populism and democracy in India 13 From Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto to Imran Khan: A comparative analysis of populist leaders in Pakistan 14 Variants of populism in Bangladesh: Implications of charisma, clientelism, cronyism, and corruption 15 Gender, populism, and collective identity: A feminist analysis of the Maoist movement in Nepal 16 Contemporary Sri Lanka: Nationalism meets ‘soft populism’ 17 Islamic nationalism, populism, and democratization in the Maldives 18 Democracy icon or demagogue? Aung San Suu Kyi and authoritarian populism in Myanmar (Burma) 19 The Duterte phenomenon as authoritarian populism in the Philippines 20 Gender, media, and populism: The vilification of first lady Ani Yudhoyono in the Indonesian online news media 21 Weaponizing populism: How Thailand’s civil society went from anti-populism to anti-democracy campaigns 22 South Korea: Still the ‘politics of the vortex’? A □historical analysis of party solidarities and populism 23 Patriotic songs and populism in Chinese politics 24 Taiwanese populism in the shadow of China 25 Populism in Japan: actors or institutions? 26 From populism to authoritarianism? The contemporary frame of politics in Australia 27 Man alone: Winston Peters and the populist tendency in New Zealand politics 28 Are Fiji’s two military strongmen populists? Index
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Taylor & Francis Marxist Theories of Imperialism A Critical Survey
Book SynopsisThe last two hundred years have seen a massive increase in the size of the world economy and equally massive inequalities of wealth and power between different parts of the world. They have also witnessed the rise to dominance of the capitalist mode of production. Marxists, from Marx himself through to present day thinkers, have argued that these changes are profoundly interconnected. This book offers a unique account of Marxist theories of Imperialism. It has been fully updated and expanded to cover all the developments since its initial publication and will be essential reading for any student of Marxism.Trade Review`Brewer has performed an enormous service ... he writes extremely clearly, even when presenting complex and rigorous economic arguments ... and his work deserves a wide audience not only among students but also in trade union groups, evening classes and the like. It will stand for a long time as the obvious introduction to a very important topic.' - Marxism TodayTable of ContentsPreface, Anthony Brewer; Abbreviations, Anthony Brewer; Chapter 1 Introduction, Anthony Brewer; Chapter 2 Marx, Anthony Brewer; Chapter 3 Luxemburg, Anthony Brewer; Chapter 4 Hobson, Anthony Brewer; Chapter 5 Hilferding, Anthony Brewer; Chapter 6 Bukharin and Lenin, Anthony Brewer; Chapter 7 Baran, Anthony Brewer; Chapter 8 Dependency Theories, Anthony Brewer; Chapter 9 Emmanuel, Anthony Brewer; Chapter 10 Classes and Politics in the Third World, Anthony Brewer; Chapter 11 After Imperialism?, Anthony Brewer; S1 Index, Anthony Brewer;
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Taylor & Francis Reading Political Philosophy Machiavelli to Mill
Book SynopsisA clear an thorough introduction to political philosophy and political thought, inttroducing the reader to major political thinkers and complementary secondary readings.Trade ReviewThis book is well geared to the needs of courses introducing political philosophy by way of canonical texts.The quality of secondary literature represented is first rate and the quantity is nicely judged for a stimulating but realistic student workload. - THESTable of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. Niccolò Machiavelli: 'The Prince' - Nigel Warburton, with readings from Quentin Skinner, Maureen Ramsey, Isaiah Berlin, C.A.J. CodyChapter 2. Thomas Hobbes: 'Leviathan' - Jon Pike, with readings from C.B. Macpherson, Quentin Skinner, Jean Hampton, Carol PatemanChapter 3. John Locke: 'The Second Treatise of Government' - Jon Pike, with readings from David Hume, Jean Hampton, Jeremy Waldron, A. John SimmonsChapter 4. Jean-Jacques Rousseau: 'The Social Contract' - Derek Matravers, with readings from John C. Hall, Brian Barry, N.J.H. Dent, Isaiah BerlinChapter 5. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: 'The German Ideology (Part 1)' - Derek Matravers, with readings from Jonathan Wolff, Jon Pike, G.A. Cohen, Will KymlickaChapter 6. John Stuart Mill: 'On Liberty and The Subjection of Women' - Nigel Warburton, with readings from Isaiah Berlin, Gerald Dworkin, Janet Radcliffe, Richards, Mary Lyndon Shanley
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Moral Sense Muirhead Library of Philosophy
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) The Routledge Guidebook to Hobbes Leviathan The
Book SynopsisThe Routledge Guidebook to Hobbes’ Leviathan introduces the major themes in Hobbes’ great book and acts as a companion for reading this key work.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1. Hobbes’ Life 2. Leviathan: the book 3. Human Knowledge, Reason and Ignorance 4. The State of Nature: Law and Right 5. State of Nature to Commonwealth 6. Contract and Consent 7. Sovereignty, State, Commonwealth 8. Law, Crime, Punishment 9. Religious Liberty and Toleration 10. Leviathan and International Relations 11. The afterlife of the Leviathan
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) The Routledge Guidebook to Wollstonecrafts A
Book SynopsisMary Wollstonecraft was one of the greatest philosophers and writers of the Eighteenth century. During her brief career, she wrote novels, treatises, a travel narrative, a history of the French Revolution, a conduct book, and a children''s book. Her most celebrated and widely-read work is A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. This Guidebook introduces: Wollstonecraft's life and the background to A Vindication of the Rights of Woman The ideas and text of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman Wollstonecraft's enduring influence in philosophy and our contemporary intellectual life It is ideal for anyone coming to Wollstonecraft's classic text for the first time and anyone interested in the origins of feminist thought. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Series Editor Preface Author Preface 1. The First of a New Genus 2. The rights of woman and national education 3. Brutes or rational beings? 4. Relative virtues and meretricious slaves 5. Abject slaves and capricious 6. Angels and Beasts 7. Taste and unclouded reason 8. Rational fellowship or slavish obedience? Love, marriage and family 9. Concluding reflections Bibliography Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Deleuze and World Politics
Book SynopsisThe central argument of this book is that the univocal ontology and corresponding immanent metaphysics of the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) can provide a theoretical perspective capable of accounting for the complex nature of world politics.Drawing on a wide variety of Deleuze's writings, it develops a thorough investigation of his ontology and metaphysics as they pertain to core questions of world politics such as power, identity, hierarchy, space, time, territory and the state.The book explores the dynamics of contemporary world politics and issues by focusing on the anti' or alter-globalization movement' (AGM). It analyses several approaches to social and political theory which deal explicitly with the AGM including global governance theory, international relations, social movement theory, Marxism, and post-Marxism. These are contrasted with a larger Deleuzian theory which can be of use when addressing the diffuse, and often paradoxicalTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. World Politics and the AGM 2. Deleuze and Politics as Becoming 3. Deleuze and World Politics 4. Subjectivity and Political Agency Conclusion: World Politics as Nomad Science
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Taylor & Francis The Routledge Guidebook to Gramscis Prison
Book SynopsisGramsciâs Prison Notebooks are one of the most important and original sources of modern political philosophy but the Prison Notebooks present great difficulties to the reader. Not originally intended for publication, their fragmentary character and their often cryptic language can mystify readers, leading to misinterpretation of the text. The Routledge Guidebook to Gramsciâs Prison Notebooks provides readers with the historical background, textual analysis and other relevant information needed for a greater understanding and appreciation of this classic text. This guidebook: Explains the arguments presented by Gramsci in a clear and straightforward way, analysing the key concepts of the notebooks. Situates Gramsciâs ideas in the context of his own time, and in the history of political thought demonstrating the innovation and originality of the Prison Notebooks. Provides critique and analysis of Gramsciâs conceptualisation of politics and histoTrade Review"Schwarzmantel (Univ. of Leeds, UK) explains more fully the place of the 1971 Selections in the notebooks as a whole, relates them to the historical and political context in which they were written, and examines their influence on later thinkers and political developments. Schwarzmantel's explanation of Gramsci's main concepts and arguments, their relation to the controversies within the revolutionary movement of his day, and the ways in which they have been carried forward to the present are all excellent. Some critiques (e.g., that today's parties cannot play the role of the modern prince seem shallow), but overall, the book will be of great use to anyone interested in Gramsci and his thought." - J. C. Berg, CHOICE, Feb 2016 "This Guidebook will definitely become a most useful resource for Gramscian studies. John Schwarzmantel has achieved his aims, as formulated in his book's Preface, as the Guidebook 'introduces readers to Gramsci's highly original and exciting reflections on politics, history, philosophy and culture, which can help us make sense of our present epoch, different though it is in crucial aspects from the era in which Gramsci wrote his notes in the cell of a fascist prison'." Marx & Philosophy, Jan 2016 Table of Contents1. Gramsci before the Prison Notebooks 2. Nature and structure of the Prison Notebooks 3. Intellectuals and Education 4. History and Modernity 5. Politics, State, and Civil Society 6. Philosophy and Marxism 7. The afterlife and influence of Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks
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The University of Michigan Press Lawyers Beyond Borders Advancing International
Book SynopsisA book about agency. About how, in the face of powerful interests and seemingly insurmountable obstacles - political, psychological, economic, geographical, and physical - a small group of lawyers and survivors navigated a terrain of daunting barriers to begin building, case-by-case, new pathways to justice for those who otherwise would have none.Table of Contents Foreword Preface Acknowledgments Chapter One – Lawyers Beyond Borders: Introduction and Overview Chapter Two – The Seeds of a Rights Revolution Chapter Three – Litigation as Recovery: The Birth of the CJA Chapter Four – The Burmese Connection Chapter Five – Rights and Redress in a “War on Terror” Chapter Six – Private Military Profits and the Search for Justice Chapter Seven – The New Impunity Chapter Eight – The Globalization of Justice Chapter Nine – European Collaborations for Justice in Syria Chapter Ten – Re-trauma and Resilience: The Dynamics of Clients and Counsel Chapter Eleven – The Making, Unmaking, and Remaking of a Rights Revolution Acknowledgments Bibliography
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Cambridge University Press Ashes and Sparks Essays On Law and Justice
Book SynopsisThis informed and unconventional view of the history, engineering and architecture of the justice system draws on the author's experience as a barrister, an academic and a judge, most notably in relation to the constitutional changes which have emerged in the last twenty years in the United Kingdom.Trade Review'This excellent book gathers lectures and articles which Stephen Sedley has composed over about thirty years, as advocate, trial judge and lord justice. Readers will be impressed, as I have been, by his learning and by the great sagacity of his judgments on many of the prime legal issues of our time.' Tom Bingham (1933–2010), former Senior Law Lord'This is a great book, with powerful insights in law and justice offered in a hugely enjoyable collection of witty essays. The book is of obvious interest to legal theorists and practitioners, but it is also astonishingly successful in bringing significant legal issues, even quite complicated ones, within easy reach of general public discussion.' Amartya Sen, Nobel Laureate, 1998'Stephen Sedley writes with such calm cadence and laid-back humour that it is only at the end of each chapter that you realise how persuasively radical his reflections are. Whichever way you look at it - judging this book by its cover, or covering this book by a judge - you are offered delight and enlightenment from beginning to end.' Albie Sachs, former judge, Constitutional Court of South Africa'Ashes and Sparks grapples with some of the fundamental justice issues facing modern nations. Justice Sedley's thoughtful - and sometimes provocative - comments on the evolution of the justice system in the United Kingdom, the role of Parliament and the courts, and the constitutional role of law in the search for social and individual justice, inform us and challenge us to think more deeply on these matters, so vital to our society.' Rt. Hon. Beverley McLachlin, Chief Justice of Canada'The best book I've read so far this year … You could have no interest in the law and read [this] book for pure intellectual delight, for the exquisite, finely balanced prose, the prickly humor, the knack of artful quotation and an astonishing historical grasp. A novelist could be jealous.' Ian McEwan, The New York Times'Brilliant, compassionate, engaged with society. These essays are a reflection of a remarkable mind. Astonishing that the originality and open-mindedness were not stamped out by the years of judicial toil. In and out of court, always a good read.' Sir Michael Kirby, Justice of the High Court of Australia, 1996–2009'A marvellous collection of essays, steering through profound questions of society, law and justice, which engages the reader in a lively and learned discussion of many themes. Stephen Sedley writes of judging and justice with the deep knowledge that comes from long experience of the law and rich experience of life. Many more sparks than ashes …' Jean-Paul Costa, President, European Court of Human Rights'In this remarkable and capacious volume, Stephen Sedley sifts the law with wit, wisdom and lucidity. As he brings his incisive intelligence and deep historical knowledge to the tensions between human rights and common law, to our competing rights and responsibilities, to the dysfunctions of the democratic system and the workings of justice, the very meaning of judiciousness takes on a new force. This is a book that anyone interested in our polity will savour.' Lisa Appignanesi, President, English PEN'What unites all these pieces is the sheer quality of writing.' Counsel'Instructive and entertaining in equal measure.' Socialist Lawyer'… an educational and enlightening read … the thrust of this collection of essays is the studied observations of an exceptional mind, not only about the legal systems in the UK and elsewhere, but perhaps more importantly about the human condition. I will read it again.' Donald E. Shelton, Critical CriminologyTable of ContentsPart I. History: 1. Victors' justice; 2. Above it all; 3. Reading their rights; 4. From victim to suspect; 5. Farewell sovereignty; 6. No law at all; 7. The sound of silence; 8. The spark in the ashes; 9. Wringing out the fault; 10. Everything and nothing; 11. Skulls and crossbones; Part II. Judgery: 12. Justice miscarried; 13. The Guildford Four; 14. Declining the brief; 15. Big lawyers and little lawyers; 16. Parliament, government, courts; 17. Judges in lodgings; 18. Mice peeping out of oakum; 19. Justice in Chile; 20. Never do anything for the first time; 21. Rarely pure and never simple; 22. Law and plumbing; 23. The laws of documents; Part III. Justice: 24. The right to know; 25. The moral economy of judicial review; 26. Policy and law; 27. Responsibility and the law; 28. The Crown in its own courts; 29. Human rights - who needs them?; 30. Fundamental values - but which?; 31. Overcoming pragmatism; 32. Sex, libels and video-surveillance; 33. This beats me; 34. Public inquiries: a cure or a disease?; 35. Human rights: a 21st century agenda; 36. Are human rights universal, and does it matter?; 37. Bringing rights home: time to start a family?; 38. The three wise monkeys visit the marketplace of ideas.
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Cambridge University Press Politics and Uncertainty
Book SynopsisUncertainty is an ever-present and ineradicable aspect of politics, affecting all important issues of governance and policy. Rather than treating the uncertainty of politics as a mystery, this book provides an original and direct treatment of political uncertainty as a scientifically knowable phenomenon.Trade Review"This is a profound book. It seeks to explore the basic configurations of political reality and expose its inherently uncertain foundations. In this, its central mission, it succeeds. It is also an ambitious book in seeking to lay the foundaitons for both micropolitical and macropolitical analysis. ...Cioffi-Revilla has given us a splendid essay on political uncertainty. He has presented a unique way of systematically decomposing political events into their constituent structures and highlighting the nature of their uncertainty in ways that enrich our understanding of politics." Manus I Midlarsky, American Political Science Review"Claudio Cioffi-Revilla ranks high among political theorists who advise the use of mathematics to make political science more precise and scientific. Politics and Uncertainty couples politics with randomness, from which it follows that mathematical models can make what is improbable predictable." Bertil L. Hanson, Perspectives on Political ScienceTable of ContentsPart I. Foundations: 1. Introduction; Part II. Macropolitics: 2. Behavior of political variables; 3. General macropolitical principles; 4. Special macropolitical principles; Part III. Micropolitics: 5. Occurrence of political events; 6. General Micropolitical principles; 7. Special micropolitical principles; Part IV. Conclusions: 8. Synthesis.
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Cambridge University Press Public Philosophy in a New Key Imperialism and Civic Freedom Ideas in Context
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Cambridge University Press Ordinary Violence in Mussolinis Italy
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Cambridge University Press State in Society
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Cambridge University Press Visions of Politics
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