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Book SynopsisThe toppling of statues in the name of anti-racism is disconcerting, as is the violence sometimes displayed towards others in the name of gender equality. The emancipation movements of the past seem to have undergone a subtle transformation: the struggle now is not so much to bring about progress but rather to denounce offenses, express indignation, and assert identities, sometimes in order to demand recognition. The individual’s commitment to self-definition and self-appreciation, understood as the exercise of a sovereign right, has become a distinctive sign of our time. Elisabeth Roudinesco takes us into the darker corners of identity thinking, where conspiracy theories, rejection of the other, and incitement to violence are often part of the mix. But she also points to several paths that could lead us away from despair and toward a possible world in which everyone can adhere to the principle according to which “I am myself, that’s all there is to it” without denying the diversity of human communities or essentializing either universality or difference. This bold and courageous interrogation of identity politics will be of great interest to anyone concerned with the state of our world today.Trade Review“In this profoundly compelling and exceptionally far-reaching book, Elisabeth Roudinesco ruthlessly exposes the benighted logic behind the emancipatory countenance of contemporary identity politics. Fierce, fearless, and forward-looking, she reclaims the legitimate right to an open debate in a world in which people’s desperate search for a redemptive identity has elicited new forms of intellectual, social, and ideological violence. I expect this book to create a storm, which will not only be perfect, but totally unavoidable and absolutely necessary.”Dany Nobus, Professor of Psychoanalytic Psychology, Brunel University London“Roudinesco’s book makes an important, timely, and courageous contribution to the vexed issue of identity politics. Debunking ideologies that take ‘his majesty the ego’ as a weapon, her book shows concretely how the truth of the political subject emerges where identity fails. This is the work of a true historian, while touching the nerve of crucial debates of our present times.”Jean-Michel Rabaté, University of Pennsylvania and American Academy of Arts and Sciences“We are blessed to have such a guide into the murkiest regions of high theory.”Law & LibertyTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Preface 1. Assigning Identities Beirut 2005: who am I? Secularisms The politics of Narcissus Berkeley 1996 2. The Galaxy of Gender Paris 1949: one is not born a woman Vienna 1912: Is anatomy destiny? Highlights and disappointments of gender studies Transidentities Inquisitorial follies Psychiatry in full retreat New York: Queer Nation Disseminating human gender I am neither white nor woman nor man, but half Lebanese 3. Deconstructing Race Paris 1952: race does not exist Colonialism and anticolonialism “Nègre je suis” Writing toward Algeria Mixed-race identities 4. Postcolonialities “Is Sartre still alive?” Descartes, a white male colonialist Flaubert and Kuchuk Hanem Tehran 1979: dreaming of a crusade The subaltern identity 5. The Labyrinth of Intersectionality Memories in dispute “Je suis Charlie” Iconoclastic rage 6. Great Replacements Oneself against all The terror of invasion “Big Other”: from Boulouris to La Campagne de France Epilogue Works Cited Notes Index

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Book SynopsisInternational relations emerged as a distinct academic discipline in the early twentieth century, but its philosophic foundations draw on centuries of thinking about human nature, power and authority, justice and injustice, the idea of sovereignty and the implications for relations within and between political communities. The historic sources of these ideas appear to draw largely on European or Western experiences but, as this book shows, influences have emanated from much further afield, while contemporary thought is becoming more open to insights from non-Western sources. In this fully updated and expanded fourth edition of her popular text, Stephanie Lawson retains a broad world historical and contextual approach to the central themes and theoretical perspectives in IR, while also addressing the most pressing issues facing the world today. Topics covered include the emergence of states and empires, theories ranging from classical realism and liberalism to postcolonial and green theory, twentieth-century international history, security and insecurity, global governance and world order, international political economy and the prospects for a ‘post-international’ world in an era that has seen both deepening globalization and accompanying challenges to the sovereign state, as well as the reassertion of nationalist ideas around the world. With a range of additional pedagogical features to assist learning and class discussion, this lively and accessible text is an ideal primer for beginner and intermediate students alike.Trade Review‘An immensely valuable introduction to international relations, which combines historical perspective and a comprehensive approach to theory with a keen sense of contemporary challenges. Updated in this fourth edition to include issues such as climate change and post-truth ideology, it provides readers with a sound understanding of the past, present and future of world politics.’Alex J. Bellamy, University of Queensland‘The latest edition of Stephanie Lawson’s International Relations is one of the first texts to challenge students to consider how global politics will evolve in a post-truth world. A model of clarity, the book is sure to be as popular as its predecessors.’John Ravenhill, University of WaterlooTable of ContentsLists of Boxes About the Author Preface to the Fourth Edition Acknowledgements 1 Introducing International Relations 2 States in World History 3 Theorizing International Relations: Methods and Traditional Approaches 4 Theorizing International Relations: Critical Approaches 5 International Relations in the Twentieth Century 6 Security and Insecurity in the Contemporary World 7 Global Governance and World Order 8 International Political Economy 9 Conclusion: International Relations in a Changing World References Index

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Book SynopsisThis book describes how human rights have given rise to a vision of benevolent governance that, if fully realised, would be antithetical to individual freedom. It describes human rights’ evolution into a grand but nebulous project, rooted in compassion, with the overarching aim of improving universal welfare by defining the conditions of human well-being and imposing obligations on the state and other actors to realise them. This gives rise to a form of managerialism, preoccupied with measuring and improving the ‘human rights performance’ of the state, businesses and so on. The ultimate result is the ‘governmentalisation’ of a pastoral form of global human rights governance, in which power is exercised for the general good, moulded by a complex regulatory sphere which shapes the field of action for the individual at every turn. This, unsurprisingly, does not appeal to rights-holders themselves.Trade Review'A formidable corpus of case law and other normative outputs have been developed in justification of positive human rights obligations and in favour of expansion of their scope and content. Critical theory and human rights: From compassion to coercion shows the inadequacy of an account of positive obligations that fails to seriously appreciate their intrusiveness and power of coercion. The book shows how human rights law interpreted as imposing ever more expanding positive obligations, runs the risk of undermining the very reason for which it was historically established - preserving individual freedoms.'Dr Vladislava Stoyanova, Associate Professor of Public International Law at Lund University in Sweden -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Solipsism and imperialism2 Between nomos and telos3 Human rights’ directing idea4 The governmentalisation of global human rights governance5 Tactics rather than laws6 Nothing but rejoicingConclusionIndex

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Book SynopsisRefiguring childhood stages a series of encounters with biosocial power, which is a specific zone of intensity within the more encompassing arena of biopower and biopolitics. Assembled at the intersection of thought and practice, biosocial power attempts to bring envisioned futures into the present, taking hold of life in the form of childhood, thereby bridging being and becoming while also shaping the power relations that encapsulate the social and cultural world(s) of adults and children. Taking up a critical perspective that is attentive to the contingency of childhoods – the ways in which particular childhoods are constituted and configured – this book offers a transversal genealogy that moves between past and present while also crossing a series of discourses and practices framed by children’s rights (the right to play), citizenship, health, disadvantage, and entrepreneurship education. The overarching analysis converges on contemporary neo-liberal enterprise culture, which is approached as a conjuncture that helps to explain, and also to trouble, the growing emphasis on the agency and rights of children. It is against the backdrop of this problematic that the book makes its case for refiguring childhood, focusing on the how, where and when of biosocial power.Table of Contents1 Introduction: biosocial power and normative fictions2 Governing the future: childhood between the prior to and the not yet3 The playground as biosocial technology4 The right to play and the freedom to pay5 Empowering the young citizen6 Childhood as a national asset: the medical and moral framing of ‘health’7 Disadvantaged childhoods and the neuroliberal fix8 Casting the subject of enterprise: children as ‘architects of their futures’9 Refiguring childhoodIndex

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Book SynopsisBuilding on an abolitionist perspective, this book offers an essential critique of migration and border policies, unsettling the distinction between migrants and citizens. This is the only book that brings together carceral abolitionist debates and critical migration literature. It explores the multiplication of modes of migration confinement and detention in Europe, examining how these are justified in the name of migrants’ protection. It argues that the collective memory of past struggles has partly informed current solidarity movements in support of migrants. A grounded critique of migration policies involves challenging the idea that migrants’ rights go to the detriment of citizens. An abolitionist approach to borders entails situating the right to mobility as part of struggle for the commons. Trade Review'Martina Tazzioli’s book challenges us to connect struggles for the freedom of movement to commoning practices and abolitionist worlding projects, to decompartmentalise migration, border and refugee studies. To build these transversal alliances, Tazzioli grounds border abolitionism in migrants’ escapes, autonomous mobilities and spaces, and “free spots,” beginning not from state enclosure projects, but from actually existing abolitionist practices. Border abolitionism calls on us to do more than document the needless drownings, wasted times and choked lives or the injustices of contemporary migration control regimes. To practices border abolition, we must learn from migrants how to live and build institutions otherwise.'Lauren Martin, Associate Professor of Political Geography, Durham UniversityBorder abolitionism is an intellectually ambitious, creative, and original book, linking critical border, migration, and refugee studies to the contemporary insights of carceral abolitionism. Tazzioli starts not from normative abstractions but instead from the material and practical facts of migration and the confinement continuum that chokes migrants’ and refugees’ projects both to move across borders and then to stay and re-make their lives. This book’s refreshingly innovative intervention thus advances an idea of abolition that extends far beyond the border, in order to understand the struggles of migrants and citizens together. It will have a lasting impact on scholarship and activism.Nicholas De Genova, editor of The Borders of “Europe”: Autonomy of Migration, Tactics of Bordering -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction1 The zero-sum rights game: border abolitionism as an analytical gaze2 ‘Confine to protect’: hybrid spaces of migration containment3 Participatory confinement: extractive humanitarianism and asylum seekers’ unpaid labour4 Towards a genealogy of migrant struggles and border violence5 A history of mountain runaways and rescue: migrants at the Alpine borderConclusion

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Book SynopsisThe book examines the intellectual history of the concept of sovereignty from a sociological perspective. Informed by the sociologists Max Weber and Niklas Luhmann, it addresses the concept as the centre of constitutional controversy and as a resource to deal with paradoxes of power in constitutional democracies. It discusses the dilemmas of sovereignty that appear in the wake of the emphasis on political representation, human rights and European integration. The book marks a significant contribution to the scholarly debate on the foundation of constitutional democracy.Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: a concept in action1 A sociology of constitutions2 Political uses of ‘sovereignty’: sociological methodologies3 Paradox: early modern formulations of sovereignty4 Differentiation: national sovereignty and the sovereign state5 The political, politics and sociology 6 Constitutional symbolism 7 Human rights versus state sovereignty 8 Federal sovereignty? Index

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Book SynopsisThis highly original book constitutes one of the first attempts to examine the problem of distributive justice in the European Union in a systematic manner. João Labareda argues that the set of shared political institutions at EU level, including the European Parliament and the Court of Justice of the EU, generate democratic duties of redistribution among EU citizens. Furthermore, the economic structure of the EU, comprising a common market, a common currency and a free-movement area, triggers duties of reciprocity among member states. The responsibilities to fulfil these duties, Labareda argues, should be shared by the local, national and supranational levels of government. Not only should the EU act as a safety net to the national welfare systems, applying the principle of subsidiarity, but common market and Eurozone regulations should balance their efficiency targets with fair cooperation terms.The concrete policy proposals presented in this book include a threshold of basic goods for all EU citizens, an EU labour code, a minimum EU corporate tax rate and an EU fund for competitiveness. Labarada argues that his proposals match the political culture of the member states, are economically feasible, can be translated into functioning institutions and policies and are consistent with the limited degree of social solidarity in Europe. This book is a major contribution to the understanding of what a just Europe would look like and what it might take to get us there.This book is relevant to United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 10, Reduced inequalitiesTrade ReviewLabareda’s book is a rare thing, combining sophisticated philosophical argumentation with concrete policy proposals (including a European minimum income and a harmonized corporate tax). There is no book published to date that is as successful at combining philosophical, empirical, and policy perspectives.Professor Andrea Sangiovanni, King's College LondonLabareda’s argument for distributive justice in the European Union combines a sober analysis of the Union’s institutional features with a bold vision of policies it ought to adopt in order to live up to its social commitments. A must read not only for political theorists but also for EU scholars and social policy actors.Rainer Bauböck, Austrian Academy of Sciences, ViennaA novel and sophisticated defence of distributive justice in the European Union. Ambitious and nuanced, Labareda is sensitive to both matters of principle and empirical constraints. His book will be an excellent guide for both political theorists and policy-makers thinking about the future of Europe beyond the nation state.Professor Lea Ypi, London School of Economics and Political Science -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction: The problem of distributive justice in the EU1 Two distributive duties2 Democratic redistribution in the EU3 Economic reciprocity in the EU4 A moderate feasibility test for normative theory5 Realizing distributive justice in the EUConclusion: Towards a just EuropeBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisIn this engaging book, David M. McCourt makes the case for New Constructivist approaches to international relations scholarship. The book traces constructivist work on culture, identity, and norms within the historical, geographical, and professional contexts of world politics, and reflects on recent innovations in fields including practice theory, relationalism, and network analysis. Copiously illustrated with real-world examples from the rise of China and US foreign policy, it illuminates the processes by which international politics are built. This is both an accessible tour of Constructivism to date and a persuasive declaration for its continuing application and value.Table of ContentsIntroduction: What Is Constructivism? 1. The Old Constructivism 2. The New Constructivism 3. Rules, Law, and Language in the New Constructivism 4. World-Making: Experts and Professionals in the New Constructivism 5. New Constructivist Methodology and Methods 6. Politics, Ethics, and Knowledge in the New Constructivism 7. The New Constructivism as a Phronetic Social Science Conclusion: The Space of Constructivism

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Book SynopsisA perennial debate in the field of global ethics revolves around the possibility of a universalist ethics as well as arguments over the nature, and significance, of difference for moral deliberation. Decolonial literature, in particular, increasingly signifies a pluriverse – one with radical ontological and epistemological differences. This book examines the concept of the pluriverse alongside global ethics and the ethics of care in order to contemplate new ethical horizons for engaging across difference. Offering a challenge to the current state of the field, this book argues for a rethinking of global ethics as it has been conceived thus far.Table of Contents1. The Pluriversal Challenge to Global Ethics 2. The Problem of Modernity and the Decolonial Project 3. Mapping Global Ethics in the Pluriverse 4. A Critical, Political Ethics of Care 5. Partial Connections: The Pluriverse, Ethics, and Care 6. Vulnerable and Precarious Worlds: A Meta-Theoretical Orientation 7. The Political and the Pluriverse: A (Dis)Associative Theory of Care 8. Building the Pluriverse with Care 9. Rethinking Global Ethics with Care and the Pluriverse

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Book SynopsisA perennial debate in the field of global ethics revolves around the possibility of a universalist ethics as well as arguments over the nature, and significance, of difference for moral deliberation. Decolonial literature, in particular, increasingly signifies a pluriverse – one with radical ontological and epistemological differences. This book examines the concept of the pluriverse alongside global ethics and the ethics of care in order to contemplate new ethical horizons for engaging across difference. Offering a challenge to the current state of the field, this book argues for a rethinking of global ethics as it has been conceived thus far.Table of Contents1. The Pluriversal Challenge to Global Ethics 2. The Problem of Modernity and the Decolonial Project 3. Mapping Global Ethics in the Pluriverse 4. A Critical, Political Ethics of Care 5. Partial Connections: The Pluriverse, Ethics, and Care 6. Vulnerable and Precarious Worlds: A Meta-Theoretical Orientation 7. The Political and the Pluriverse: A (Dis)Associative Theory of Care 8. Building the Pluriverse with Care 9. Rethinking Global Ethics with Care and the Pluriverse

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Book SynopsisFelix Anderl’s book is a stimulating analysis of the decline of social movements against the World Bank and the rise of a new form of transnational rule. Reflecting on the transnational mobilizations of the 1990s, the book examines activists’ struggles to sustain their momentum. It shows how the opening up of world economic institutions contributed to complex rule in global governance, creating access for some while weakening their critique and fragmenting the overall movement. The book bridges international relations and social movement studies to observe international organizations and social movements in their interaction, demonstrating how social movements are divided and ruled in the absence of a ruler.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Social Movements and International Relations 2. Transnational Rule and Resistance 3. Complex Rule in Global Governance 4. Mechanisms of Fragmentation 5. A History of Interaction: The World Bank Group and Its Early Critics 6. When a Contentious Process Opens Up: Extractive Industries Review 7. Fragmentation in Contestation: The Movement during the EIR Process 8. Uncontentious Politics? The Civil Society Policy Forum 9. Fragmentation in Cooperation: Observing the Changing Practices of Critique Conclusion

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Book SynopsisLiberal democracies are under increasing pressure. Growing discontent about inequality, lack of political participation and identity have rekindled populism and a shift away from liberal values. This book argues that liberalism’s reliance on a utilitarian policy framework has resulted in increased concentrations of power, restricting freedom and equality. It examines five key areas of public policy: monetary policy, private property and liability, the structure of the state, product markets and labour markets. Drawing on the German ordoliberal tradition and its founding principle of the dispersal of power, the book proposes an alternative public policy framework. In doing so, it offers a practical pathway to realign policy making with liberal ideas.Trade Review“I liked Thomas Aubrey’s short book. It could alternatively be called, Confronting the weaknesses of the Anglo-Saxon economic model. But it does this in a thoughtful way, contrasting the utilitarian tradition of UK/US economic policy with (West) Germany and the “underlying ordoliberal principle of power dispersion.”” The Enlightened EconomistTable of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: The Liberal Order and Its Utilitarian Foundation Chapter 3 the Rise of Ordo Chapter 4 the West German Experiment and the Decline of Ordo Chapter 5 Monetary Policy: The Illiberal Practice of Inflation Targeting Chapter 6 Liability and Private Property: Confronting the Perfect Externalising Machine Chapter 7 Structure of the State: Community and Vitalpolitik Chapter 8 Labour Markets: Continuous Training and Flexibility Chapter 9 Product Markets: Enforcing the Price Mechanism Chapter 10: Confronting Liberalism’s Fatal Flaw Appendix: Methodology Used for Measuring the Dispersal of Public and Private Power by Policy Field

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Book SynopsisNegative emotions, including anger, fear, and shame, have been at the heart of recent political events, such as the protests against COVID-19 restrictions. These negative emotions can be politically destructive, leading people to act rashly without due concern for democratic principles. However, they can also accurately signal wrongdoing and motivate acts to redress the situation, as displayed in the Black Lives Matter and climate change movements. This volume brings together perspectives from political science and philosophy to shed new light on the political faces of negative emotions. Engaging with real-world political events from Europe, the US, and Africa, contributors critically evaluate much-discussed emotions, such as anger and fear, but also less prominent ones, such as frustration and discomfort.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Feeling Our Way through Politics - Dan Degerman 1. Anger, Fast and Slow: Mediations of Justice and Violence in the Age of Populism - William Davies 2. ‘We Will March Side by Side and Demand a Bigger Table’: Anger as Dignity Claim - Karen Adkins 3. Moving between Frustration and Anger - Mary Carman 4. The Resentment–Ressentiment Complex: A Critique of Liberal Discourse - Sjoerd van Tuinen 5. Green Shame: The Next Moral Revolution? - Martha Claeys 6. Against Comfort: Political Implications of Evading Discomfort - Ditte Marie Munch-Jurisic 7. For Love and for Life: Emotional Dynamics at the World Congress of Families - Sara Kalm and Anna Meeuwisse 8. The Functionality of Affects: Conceptualising Far-Right Populist Politics beyond Negative Emotions - Julia Leser and Florian Spissinger 9. Moral Economies of Exclusion: Politics of Fear through Antagonistic Anonymity - Søren Mosgaard Andreasen 10. Contesting the Politics of Negative Emotions in Educational Policy Making: A Ban on Asylum Seekers’ School Visits in Finland - Iida Pyy, Anniina Leiviskä, and Jan-Erik Mansikka

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Book SynopsisDefying the current pessimistic narrative, this book challenges the prevailing assumptions that the political Left is spent, hopeful ideological discourse has collapsed and social media has corroded public debates about politics. Instead, the book argues that ideological activism remains vibrant on the Left, but there is currently no clear way of recognising and analysing this phenomenon. The book fills this gap by first defining what political social media is and then by taking a morphological approach to investigating political ideologies and revealing the ways in which interconnected concepts are arranged. It concludes by coining the term ‘proto-ideologies’ to approach the construction of concepts that generate ideologies in the making.Trade Review"A masterful analysis of left-wing discourse in the age of social media. This book provides an ultimately uplifting account of political social media, contrary to the widespread accusations that it is damaging public debate." Remi Adekoya, University of YorkTable of ContentsPart I 1. Introduction 2. Chaos, Crisis, Decline, Contention 3. ‘A Largeness of Vision and Imagination’: Marxism and Socialism 4. Proto-Ideologies Part II 5. Democratic Marxist Nationalism 6. Identitarian Socialism 7. Contention 8. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisTo limit executive power, the Founding Fathers created fixed presidential terms of four years, giving voters regular opportunities to remove their leaders. Americans also discovered more dramatic paths for disempowering--or coming razor-close to removing--chief executives: undermining the president's authority, a preemptive strike to derail a presidential candidacy, assassination, impeachment, resignation, and declaration of inability. Although the United States has gone decades without assassination or resignation, the most dramatic forms of presidential removal, getting rid of a president or a potential president is a political reality-just ask not president Hillary Clinton.How To Get Rid of a President presents the dark side of the nation's history, from the Constitutional Convention through the aftermath of the shocking 2016 election, a stew of election dramas, national tragedies and presidential exits mixed with party intrigue, political betrayal and backroom scheming. It is a briskly paced, darkly humorous voyage through historical events relevant to today's headlines, highlighting the many ways that presidents have been undermined and nearly kicked out, how each method of removal offers opportunities and dangers for the republic and the thorny ethical issues that surround the choice to resist, disobey, or eject a president.

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Book SynopsisJudge Jeanine Pirro, author of two New York Times bestsellers, puts the Trump-hating left on trial and exposes the lies and distortions of the president's enemies.It's been nearly four years since President Trump took office, and Judge Jeanine Pirro has had enough of the left's countless lies and false accusations. She is now forced to ask: How could anyone vote against President Trump this November? What more could you possibly want?In Don't Lie to Me, Judge Jeanine brings her signature lively writing style and acute legal mind to topics such as the impeachment inquiry, the military, and the road to the 2020 presidential election. She will highlight President Trump's triumphs and his strength during the coronavirus crisis.

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Book SynopsisLearn why President Trump is the ideal changemaker that can put an end to America's uncontrollable and corrupt system of government ruled by special interest.Still Winning is the story of the unlikeliest of heroes who emerged from the unlikeliest of places to take up the impossible cause of a truly forgotten people. They are people who love their country, trust their higher God, obey laws and will do anything for their family and neighbors. They are the very people the Founders envisioned when they hatched the radical idea of self-governance. This is the story of a Leviathan government - the most powerful political force in the history of mankind - that has become dangerously unmoored from the people it represents. It is the story of how elites and the politically comfortable controlling both parties in Washington have utterly lost touch. They don't even realize how much the people they represent despise the uncontrollable Leviathan.The establishment has tried their best to ignore Donald Trump-except to brand him as a racist, a xenophobe, an isolationist, and a dangerous, violence-inciting war monger. All standards of reporting vanished. In the era of Trump, no sort of criticism was off-limits. They openly mocked his looks, ridiculed his private business accomplishments, pilloried his family and children and made fun of his foreign-born wife for her accent!The Leviathan has grown untamable. Democrats and Republicans run for office year after year on promises they have no intention of keeping. Neither side wants to fix a single problem. The whole thing has become one giant ungovernable, corrupt Ponzi scheme that - one day - will come crashing down.Charles Hurt advocates for the "Nuclear Option" for dealing with this mess: just blow the whole damned thing up. Whatever is presidential or diplomatic, let's try the opposite. Whatever these people in Washington find most horrifying, let's try that. Finally, the multi-headed Leviathan swamp monster has met the perfect dragon slayer in Donald Trump. Still Winning examines each corrupt head of this Leviathan, and why Donald Trump is the only good answer to fixing it.

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Book SynopsisEven in his heyday in wrestling, Jacobs was inspired to pursue politics by popular libertarian figures such as former Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul, Republican Senator Rand Paul, Fox News' Judge Andrew Napolitano and others, and that led him to fulfill his own political ambitions.Before becoming Mayor Kane, Glenn "Kane" Jacobs was one of WWE's top Superstars for over two decades and travelled the globe with the likes of "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, John Cena, Ric Flair, and many others. He dominated the WWE with The Undertaker as the "Brothers of Destruction." Kane reinvented himself with the help of Daniel Bryan forming "Team Hell No." He set "Good ol' JR," Jim Ross on fire.The wrestler-turned-politician hasn't hung up his wrestling boots yet. Politics is a contact sport and Jacobs is using his wrestling skills in that arena. Jacobs supports President Trump and his agenda, and is implementing conservative policies in Tennessee.

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Book SynopsisIain Hampsher-Monk’s lucid and accessible history of modern political thought is the introduction which many have been waiting for, providing a thorough guide to the ideas and writings of major political thinkers from Hobbes to Marx (including a full account of The Federalist papers). The author’s aim throughout is to incorporate the benefits of modern scholarship of the historical school, with its emphasis on historical and political circumstances as a key to meaning. Recognizing that for most students time will not allow detailed study of the historical and political contexts of particular works, Hampsher-Monk provides here the background necessary for the reader to situate the writings of key thinkers in relation to wider currents in intellectual and political history. A History of Modern Political Thought will meet the needs of both general readers and students of political theory and philosophy. It is an indispensable secondary source which aims to situate, explain, and provoke thought about the major works of political theory likely to be encountered by students of modern political thought.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements vii Introduction ix I Thomas Hobbes 1 II John Locke 69 III David Hume 117 IV Jean-Jacques Rousseau 153 V 'Publius': The Federalist 197 VI Edmund Burke 261 VII Jeremy Bentham 305 VIII John Stuart Mill 339 IX G. W. F. Hegel 409 X Karl Marx 483 Bibliography 563 Index 593

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Book SynopsisAcross America, universities have become big businesses—and our cities their company towns. But there is a cost to those who live in their shadow. Urban universities play an outsized role in America’s cities. They bring diverse ideas and people together and they generate new innovations. But they also gentrify neighborhoods and exacerbate housing inequality in an effort to enrich their campuses and attract students. They maintain private police forces that target the Black and Latinx neighborhoods nearby. They become the primary employers, dictating labor practices and suppressing wages. In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower takes readers from Hartford to Chicago and from Phoenix to Manhattan, revealing the increasingly parasitic relationship between universities and our cities. Through eye-opening conversations with city leaders, low-wage workers tending to students’ needs, and local activists fighting encroachment, scholar Davarian L. Baldwin makes clear who benefits from unchecked university power—and who is made vulnerable. In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower is a wake-up call to the reality that higher education is no longer the ubiquitous public good it was once thought to be. But as Baldwin shows, there is an alternative vision for urban life, one that necessitates a more equitable relationship between our cities and our universities.

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Book SynopsisThat the United States is currently in the midst of a serious crisis, even an ideological civil war, which is part of the general and prolonged crisis of Western civilization is obvious to any thoughtful observer. One of the most perceptive observers of the development of this crisis was Gerhart Niemeyer. As a fugitive from Nazi Germany, a devout Christian, and a political theorist who had mastered the philosophical tradition and the Communist worldview, he was particularly well equipped to discern the ways in which the various modern ideologies insidiously erode the substance of truth and order in contemporary society and to seek remedies in the return to the ontological and spiritual roots of order in the Western tradition. The writings collected in this volume, many of which were previously unpublished, are chosen from Gerhart Niemeyer’s essays, conference talks, and letters. The first part, intended to introduce the reader to Niemeyer on a more personal level, includes an unpublished essay describing his experiences in Nazi Germany and in the America that he encountered on his arrival in 1937. Several letters and other short works provide a sense of his character and his deeply Christian view of human life, both of which were essential to his grasp of truth. The second part, “The Loss of Truth,” consists of thirty-seven essays that focus on the destructive effects of ideologies and other manifestations of disorder in the modern world. Several essays provide a sampling of his expert analysis of Communism and the ideological world-view of the American Left, while others discuss the spiritually stifling effects of the modern bureaucratic state and the ideological disorders that have crept into contemporary culture and the understanding of Christianity. Many of these essays are taken from Niemeyer’s National Review column “Days and Works.” The character of Niemeyer’s search for “The Recovery of Truth” appears in the subdivision of the thirty-four essays of the third part under the topics of political theory, education, Conservatism, and Christian faith. Although these essays also consider the loss of truth, they are concerned primarily with the quest for its recovery through faith, divine grace, and a clear-eyed understanding of reality. This section begins with his 1950 work “A Reappraisal of the Doctrine of Free Speech” in which he lucidly analyzes the pitfalls of free speech in an ideological age. Among the other essays included here are works that attest to Niemeyer’s concern for a spiritual renewal in education and his profound respect and admiration for Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Edmund Burke, Russell Kirk, and, perhaps above all, St. Augustine. The book includes a bibliography of Niemeyer’s previously published books, pamphlets, essays, and reviews. Table of ContentsIntroductionAcknowledgmentsPart I. Niemeyer, the Man 1. From Europe, With Love 2. Letters 3. What, to a Christian, is the Meaning of a “Changing, Technologically Oriented, Frustrated, and Fragmented World”? 4. The Hospice Movement and the Problem of Death (excerpts) 5. How to Talk to Mature People About Death Part II. The Loss of Truth 6. This Terrible Century 7. Forces that Shape the Twentieth Century 8. Loss of Reality: Gnosticism and Modern Nihilism 9. Variations on a Theme 10. Ideologies, Political Theories, and Societies 11. The Communist Mind (excerpts) 12. Will the Soviet Reality Please Stand Up? (excerpt) 13. The Tourist’s Soviet Russia 14. Ethics and Politics in Communism (excerpts) 15. The “Autonomous” Man 16. Confrontation of Opinions or Dialectic Discussion? 17. E Nobilissima Visione Regna Inferna 18. Beyond “Democratic Disorder” 19. Two Socialisms 20. Anti-Communism Old Hat? 21. Common Sense 22. Counterculture? 23. Moral Dishonesty? 24. Rulers Without Power 25. See No Evil 26. The Reality of Totalitarian Despotism 27. What Happened to Morality? 28. Language and Action 29. Modern Politics 30. Of Human Dignity 31. States Without Citizens 32. The State and the Citizen 33. The Evil Society 34. Aliens In Their Own Nations 35. Toward Totalitarian Simplicity? 36. Public Interest and Private Utility 37. Structures, Revolutions and Christianity 38. Systems of History and Public Policy Goals (excerpts) 39. The Church and the Ideological Temptation 40. A “Church” Without a Name? (excerpts) 41. Beyond Institutions of Power and Patterns of Profit (excerpts) 42. On Authority and Alienation: A Meditation Part III. The Recovery of TruthPolitical Theory 43. A Reappraisal of the Doctrine of Free Speech 44. Stewardship—Theory and Practice 45. What Price Politics? 46. Humanism, Positivism, Immorality 47. What Price “Natural Law”? 48. The Loss and Recovery of History 49. Foreign Policy and Morality: A Contemporary Perspective (excerpts) 50. Risk or Betrayal? The Crossroads of Western Policy 51. National Self-Defense and Political Existence 52. Nations, Myths, and Mores 53. Ideas Have Also Roots 54. Limits of the Law Education 55. The Commitments of Political Education 56. Crisis and Renewal 57. The New Need for the Catholic University 58. Christian Studies and the Liberal Arts College 59. Letter to Rev. James T. Burtchaell, C.S.C. 60. The Glory and Misery of Education Conservatism 61. Russell Kirk and Ideology (excerpts) 62. The Prophetic Calling of Solzhenitsyn 63. Conservatism and the Modern Age 64. Conservatism and the New Political Theory 65. The Burkean View of Politics 66. Review of Conservatism in America by Clinton Rossiter 67. Is There a Conservative Mission? 68. Too Early and Too Much Faith 69. Two Commencement Addresses 70. The Recovery of “The Sacred”? 71. The Church, the Shepherds, and the Spirit of Our Time 72. Christianity in Public Life: Real vs. Counterfeit Hope 73. The Politics of Hope 74. Guilt and History 75. Reason and Faith: The Fallacious Antithesis 76. History and CivilizationEndnotesPublications by Gerhart NiemeyerIndex

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Book SynopsisUsing an analysis of imperialism and case studies of Syria, Iran, Iraq, Bosnia, Russia and Ukraine, Global Democracy and the Crisis of Anti-Imperialism shows that the purported anti-imperialism of many self-professed socialists amounts to explicit or implicit support for totalitarianism, fascism, Islamist theocracy and imperialism. The analysis shows that the Russian revolution was followed by a counter-revolution, and resulted in state capitalism and the revival of Russian imperialism under cover of the Soviet Union.Trade Review "[A]n important contribution to the debate that has divided the left since 2011, the year that Syria became a litmus test." —Counterpunch "Fascinating...well written...provocative...I strongly recommend this book!" —Bill Fletcher Jr. "Too many so-called leftists support regimes that oppose freedom of expression and association; that imprison, torture and kill dissidents; that obstruct free elections; and that promote inequality, sexism, racism, nationalism and religious bigotry. These "leftists" do so in the name of "progress." In her timely and very important book Rohini Hensman eloquently unmasks such "pseudo-anti-imperialists" who believe that the enemies of the West are always our friends and therefore deserve our solidarity. Against such anti-democratic attitudes she argues powerfully for a principled and enduring struggle against any form of authoritarianism and inequality in civil society, whether West, East, North or South. I hope that her work will be widely read and discussed."—Marcel van der Linden, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam "In this highly stimulating work, Rohini Hensman shares her views on a vast number of issues lying at the heart of left-wing politics, from historical to contemporary. Brushing off all sorts of dogmatic beliefs, she does not shy away from thinking out of the box, guided only by her uncompromising dedication to the values of human rights and democracy."—Gilbert Achcar, author of Marxism, Orientalism, Cosmopolitanism "In support of her argument, Hensman gives a detailed overview of genuine anti-imperialism as opposed to ‘pseudo-anti-imperialism’ through case studies from Russia and Ukraine, Bosnia and Kosovo, Iran, Iraq and Syria. She shows how self-declared ‘leftists’ have repeatedly supported authoritarian regimes over people’s democratic struggles, spread anti-Muslim bigotry, built tactical alliances with fascists, spread conspiracy theories and Kremlin/state propaganda, and engaged in genocide/atrocity denial and victim blaming. Her excellent book, which deserves to be widely read, is a timely reminder that the narratives propagated around Syria, in which the far-left echoes the talking points of the far-right and places geo-politics over people’s struggles and lives, are emblematic of a much broader malaise." —Leila al-Shami “Hensman’s Indefensible: Democracy, Counter-Revolution, and the Rhetoric of Anti-Imperialism is a valuable retort to those on the Left who betray an internationalist working class politics...At its most impassioned, Indefensible is a rallying cry against the lethal consequences.” –Feminist Dissent Journal

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Book SynopsisFreedom and Dialogue in a Polarized World argues that our most cherished ideas about freedom—being left alone to do as we please, or uncovering the truth—have failed us. They promote the polarized thinking that blights our world. Rooted in literature, political theory and Mikhail Bakhtin’s theories of language, this book introduces a new concept: dialogic freedom. This concept combats polarization by inspiring us to feel freer the better able we are to see from the perspectives of others. To say that freedom is dialogic is to apply to it an idea about language. If you and I are talking, I anticipate from you a response that could be friendly, hostile, or indifferent, and this awareness helps determine what I say. If you look bored or give me a blank stare, I might not say anything at all. In this sense language is dialogic. The same can be said of freedom. Our decisions take into account the voices of others to which we feel answerable, and these voices coauthor our choices. In today’s polarized world, prevailing concepts of freedom as autonomy and enlightenment have encouraged us to take refuge in echo chambers among the like-minded. Whether the subject is abortion, terrorism, or gun control, these concepts encourage us to shut out the voices of those who dare to disagree. We need a new way to think about freedom. Freedom and Dialogue in a Polarized World presents riveting moments of choice from Homer’s Iliad, Dante’s Inferno, Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice, Milton’s Paradise Lost, Melville’s “Benito Cereno,” Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov, Kafka’s “In the Penal Colony,” and Morrison’s Beloved, in order to advocate reading for and with dialogic freedom. It ends with a practical application to the debate about abortion and an invitation to rethink other polarizing issues. For more information, please visit: http://dialogicfreedom.weebly.com/.Trade Review"To see true dialogue as a way of allowing conflicting voices to hear and understand one another is to offer hope of some resolution in our current world of polarization and impasse. Sharon's book on Freedom and Dialogue in a Polarized World does just that, by taking us back to some great debates of literary art, like Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, in which dialogic freedom takes the liberating form of seeking out a continuum of layers of knowing, as Portia and Shylock fail to navigate a way of transcending the hostility and cultural deafness that holds them apart. This thoughtful book is timely in the best sense." -- David Bevington, Phyllis Fay Horton Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, University of Chicago“In 1919, a dark year for Europe full of dire pronouncements on the ‘crisis of culture,’ Mikhail Bakhtin began to develop an arsenal of precious philosophical ideas by which civilization might better live: intuitive empathy, dialogue, a carnival fearlessness and sense of the cosmic whole, the unfinalizability of consciousness. Over the next three decades he illustrated their dynamics through the literary genius of Dostoevsky, Goethe, Rabelais. Sharon Schuman’s book adopts a similar technique. In successive chapters, Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Milton, Melville, Dostoevsky, Kafka, and Toni Morrison provide the lens and morally textured background for the “life of an idea” that Schuman has fashioned out of Bakhtinian materials to address our present culture’s crisis of freedom. It is a conceptual crisis peculiar to a free society (in Stalinist Russia, Bakhtin would have gazed on it in wonder). The two definitions Schuman considers foundational in the West—freedom as autonomy and freedom as enlightenment—must be supplemented by a concept less devoted to the static comfort zone of each person’s individual rights and belief. Moving with the dissonant other, she suggests, is possible, interesting, and wise. Decision-making and freedom are both “two-sided acts.” An outsiderly or “alien” view on things is essential to our own. As the reader gradually and gratefully comes to see, assimilating these insights through literature makes them not just politically relevant, but immortal.” -- Caryl Emerson, A. Watson Armour III University Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Princeton UniversityTable of ContentsContents Preface Acknowledgements 1. Introducing Dialogic Freedom 2. A Father Begs for his Son’s Corpse in the Iliad 3. Passion and Freedom in Dante’s Inferno 4. Deaf to Shylock in The Merchant of Venice 5. The Virtuosity of Satan in Paradise Lost 6. Shaping the Master’s Vision in “Benito Cereno” 7. The Grand Inquisitor’s Silent Christ 8. Goading a Reader of “In the Penal Colony”` 9. Freedom Under Impossible Conditions in Beloved 10. Freedom Under Construction in a Polarized World Appendix A: Theoretical Roots of Dialogic Freedom Appendix B: Discussion Guide for Teachers, Students, and Book Groups Glossary Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIntimate access to the mind of Francis Fukuyama and his reflections on world politics, his life and career, and the evolution of his thought In his 1992 best-selling book The End of History and the Last Man, American political scientist Francis Fukuyama argued that the dominance of liberal democracy marked the end of humanity’s political and ideological development. Thirty years later, with populism on the rise and the number of liberal democracies decreasing worldwide, Fukuyama revisits his classic thesis. A series of in-depth interviews between Fukuyama and editor Mathilde Fasting, After the End of History offers a wide-ranging analysis of liberal democracy today. Drawing on Fukuyama’s work on identity, biotechnology, and political order, the book provides essential insight into the rise of authoritarianism and the greatest threats faced by democracy in our present world. Diving into topics like the surprise election of Donald Trump, the destruction of social and political norms, and the rise of China, Fukuyama deftly explains the plight of liberal democracy and explores how we might prevent its further decline. He also covers personal topics, reflects on his life and career, the evolution of his thinking, and some of his most important books. Insightful and important, After the End of History grants unprecedented access to one of the greatest political minds of our time.Trade ReviewStudents of geopolitics and world history will find Fukuyama’s thoughts both provocative and inspiring. * Kirkus Reviews *After the End of History offers unmatched insights into Francis Fukuyama’s biography and scholarship and combines them with wide-ranging reflections on liberal democracies and global politics. * Review of Democracy *Indeed, for anyone who lacks the time to absorbhis numerous books and essays, this volume offers a useful introduction to thecore ideas of one of America’s most consequential (and often misunderstood) contemporary thinkers. * National Review *...Fukuyama provides an interesting counterpoint to the current pessimism about the future of democracy. * MoneyWeek *The book is a horn of plenty. Every page presents a novel idea, a new fact, or an unexpected perspective. * Journal of Peace Research *This extended conversation between Fasting and the famed political scientist Francis Fukuyama takes readers on an engaging intellectual journey in which Fukuyama reflects on the global crises and transformations that have unfolded in the three decades since his famous essay on “the end of history.” * Foreign Affairs *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments 1. What Has Happened after the End of History? 2. How Have World Politics Changed? 3. How Do Illiberal Attacks Threaten Democracy? 4. Will the US Cease to Be the Beacon of the Liberal Order? 5. Will Orwell’s 1984 Dystopia Come True? 6. Is Fukuyama a Classical European Liberal? 7. What Led Fukuyama to International Politics? 8. What Is the End of History? 9. Why Do We Go to Denmark? 10. How Do We Build Liberal Democracies? 11. How Can We Understand How Societies Work? 12. Is Identity Politics a Question of Thymos? 13. How Do Society and Capitalism Interact? 14. How Does Human Nature Shape Society? 15. Is China a Serious Contender to Liberal Democracy? 16. Are We Experiencing a Clash of Civilizations? 17. How Can We Make Liberal Democracies Thrive? 18. The Future of History Epilogue Literature

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Book SynopsisIn this daring new study, the renowned Turkish sociologist and public intellectual Suheyb Öğüt seeks a new explanation of political sovereignty demystified from traditional descriptions of the political process.Boldly focusing on sexuality as a crucial definer of social order, Being and Symptom argues that there is an “M theory” – a master theory of theories — not only in Quantum Physics, but also in Continental Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and Sociology, disclosing how the ontological structure of the “fantastic four” ingredients of metaphysics (potentiality, impotentiality, actuality, completion) has recurred through time. Ö?üt also seeks to turn Thomas Hobbes’s political philosophy into a social theory within the fields of sexuality and sovereignty and to locate parallels among Aristotle, Ibn Khaldun, Kant, Hegel, Heidegger, Foucault, Lacan, Agamben, Nash, Derrida, Girard, Kristeva, and Žižek, with a special emphasis on how Žižek has adapted Lacanian psychoanalysis into social theory. Ö?üt conveys a highly original analysis of the unconscious of our social (sexual) relations, subjectivities, and politics.

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Book SynopsisThe story of a political prisoner?s coming of age as a student activist in India Keeping Up the Good Fight is the story of a young man?s political coming of age and his experience as a student activist and scientist incarcerated by two authoritarian regimes in India, half a century apart. On September 25, 1975, the students of Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi called for a strike to protest the expulsion of Ashoklata Jain, an elected student union member. Three months earlier, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had declared a state of Emergency. It was the second day of the strike and the campus was tense. A black car rolled up near a group of students. A few plainclothes cops got out, and abducted one of them: The student spent the next year in jail. Almost fifty years later, on February 9, 2021, the founder of an online news portal saw his home and offices raided for 113 hours straight, ransacked by officers from the Enforcement Directorate. Nearly two years later, on October 3, 2023, the Delhi Police Special Cell reappeared. The founder of the news portal and his colleague were remanded to custody under the dreaded Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA). That student journalist and scientist, Prabir Purkayastha, tells his own story with wit and humor, as he engages with some of India?s most pressing social, political and economic issues across the decades?and remains committed to ?keeping up the good fight.?

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Book SynopsisHere is one of the first books to assert that mass protest movements in disparate places such as Greece, Argentina, and the United States share an agenda-to raise the question of what democracy should mean. These horizontalist movements, including Occupy, exercise and claim participatory democracy as the ground of revolutionary social change today.Written by two international activist intellectuals and based on extensive interviews with movement participants in Spain, Venezuela, Japan, across the United States, and elsewhere, this book is both one of the most expansive portraits of the assemblies, direct democracy forums, and organizational forms championed by the new movements, and an analytical history of direct and participatory democracy from ancient Athens to Athens today. The new movements put forward the idea that liberal democracy is not democratic, nor was it ever.Trade ReviewThis book is riveting, moving, and profoundly important for those who want to know what revolution in our time might look like. -- Rebecca Solnit, on Marina Sitrin’s HorizontalismThe most substantial and comprehensive work on workers' control and self-management today. -- Gary Younge, on Dario Azzellini’s Ours to Master and to Own

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Book SynopsisThis volume reflects on the global dimension of the 2008 banking and financial crisis and point to a bigger and deeper crisis of authority and legitimacy for public managers. The peak of the crisis might be passing but the crisis for civil society and civic institutions of governance and leadership is far from over. The long term implications of these crises for governance, political and civic institutions are hard to be precise about. However, we can observe how across a number of nation states and supra national relationships (from the European Union to the IMF) are institutions and those who lead, manage or hold them to account in crisis too. The broad group of scholars and academics examine key conceptual and theoretical ideas in contemporary international public management and explore: What are the implications of these developments for city managers and local political leaders (from elected mayors to NGO leaders and activists) ? Is coalition and consensus building possible in a time of uncertainty and change? And, finally, what are the implications for those who seek to manage or administer public services in this time of crisis?Table of ContentsThe public policy context: International trends. ‘Who’s responsible for the state we’re in?’ Government and public sector: Accountability and responsibility in an era of crisis and austerity. Local government in england: Fault lines in ethical governance?. Rethinking urban regeneration? Insights into the future through use of the strategic-relational approach. The retreat of the state: The challenges faced by regeneration managers in a climate of austerity. Civil society and social movements: Consensus or crisis?. The State of higher education and training in Egypt post the Arab Spring. Resist, Refuse, Occupy. Civil Society, the left and community organising: Towards a progressive politics. Review and reflection. ‘The way we do things around here’: Personal and epistemological reflections of the influence of inter-disciplinary identity on effective knowledge leadership for tackling inequalities. Introduction: From austerity to acceptance?. Conclusion: Policy and practice implications. Acknowledgements. List of Contributors. Looking for consensus?: Civil society, social movements and crises for public management. Critical Perspectives on International Public Sector Management. Looking for consensus?: Civil society, social movements and crises for public management. Copyright page. Editorial Advisory Board.

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