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Book SynopsisA runner-up for the 2018 Chadwick Alger Prize, International Studies Association's International Organization Section, this provocative reassessment of the rule of law in world politics examines how and why governments use and manipulate international law in foreign policy.Trade Review"Runner-Up for the 2018 Chadwick Alger Prize, International Studies Association’s International Organization Section""In this insightful book, Hurd argues that international law is actually best understood as a tool of state power--less an externally imposed constraint than a resource that governments employ to authorize and legitimize what they want to do."---G. John Ikenberry, Foreign Affairs"Hurd proposes the compelling argument that law does not just prohibit conduct, but it implicitly permits other conduct, so states will push law to permit the conduct they wish to engage in. . . . A refreshing dose of pragmatism."---Eleanor Healy-Birt, interLib"Essential reading for everyone who engages with international law and international politics."---Rajeesh Kumar, Rest Journal

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Book SynopsisAn outspoken perspective on modern political systems, this book revitalizes socialist thought and rethinks the socialist practice toward a realistic utopia.

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Book SynopsisAssa Doron and Robin Jeffrey argue that in India the removal and reuse of waste lays waste to human lives. People at the bottom are injured and stigmatized as they work with sewage, toxic chemicals, and rotting garbage. If India is to emerge as a model for the world, its policies will have to reach beyond the environment, to encompass empathy.Trade ReviewAn in-depth investigation of India’s feeble fight against mountains of consumerist waste [with] robust statistics, compelling history, and telling case studies…The result is both beguiling and disturbing…The authors reveal the complex cultural, social, political and religious hurdles that hamper the country’s struggle with waste. -- Subhra Priyadarshini * Nature *Waste of a Nation is an elegant and forceful examination of this underside of Indian life, hiding in plain sight on every street. It mixes slices of city life with analysis of both the cultural background behind India's obsession with recycling and its potential role in greening a country that's urbanizing and industrializing probably faster than anywhere else on Earth. -- Fred Pearce * New Scientist *Doron and Jeffrey are admirably thorough…but also alive to a good story…The ordinary waste of residents of Indian metropolises has ballooned to levels that are essentially unmanageable, with the result that landfills are overflowing, sometimes even combusting, and liquid sewage is pumped into rivers and the sea. It is a horrifying situation. -- Anjali Joseph * Times Literary Supplement *A 360-degree look at waste, from production to disposal to reuse, and all the intervening steps during this journey that intersect with caste, class, and technology…Doron and Jeffrey present a riveting account of contemporary life in India. -- Somak Ghoshal * Mint *Assa Doron and Robin Jeffrey seek to capture not India’s increasing wealth but its rapidly growing waste—a largely neglected subject. Their travels take them through rivers overflowing with human ashes and industrial waste, sewers swirling with noxious gases, toilets topped with excrement-filled cesspits and teetering garbage landfills…They return with a stunning—and alarming—picture of a nation choking on its own garbage…Their travels through India’s wastelands surprise, engage and inform readers. -- Saumya Roy * The Wire *[A] fine blending of hard realities with anecdotal, historical, social and economic details to keep the reader deeply engrossed. -- Banikinkar Pattanayak * Financial Express *It reads like a thinking person’s travelogue through urban India. This is also its strength…it takes the reader back to the reality of a complex, messy world of waste, an important armour against today’s silver-bullet projects. -- Bharati Chaturvedi * India Today *This comprehensive study of waste—wet and dry, human and nonhuman—posits caste in a central role but is equally interested in tracing the impact of the nation’s colonial past. -- Stacey Balkan * Public Books *[Doron and Jeffrey’s] comprehensive study analyses the history and evolution of India’s waste crisis and looks at the ways authorities have tried (and often failed) to address the issue, even as millions of poor, informal workers brave horrifying conditions to make a living within the waste economy. -- Maria Thomas * Quartz *As Assa Doron and Robin Jeffrey argue in their timely and incisive book, Waste of a Nation: Garbage and Growth in India, tackling the country’s systemic sanitation and environmental problems will require much more than setting ambitious targets…They tackle their subject dispassionately and with the academic rigor necessary to untangle reams of statistics to get to the core of the challenges facing India’s 1.37 billion people.The book is also highly readable. The authors move seamlessly between the micro and macro levels, from following the lives of untouchable sewerage workers in Mumbai who daily risk their lives descending into manholes, to interviewing the Indian PM. -- John Zubrzycki * The Australian *A most engaging document that lays bare the waste of India…The outstanding merit of the book is that it constantly draws our attention, in a holistic way, to the wider overall dimension of Indian waste in a contemplative way that mixes anecdotes, facts, observations and humor. -- Romi Khosla * The Wire *Should be applauded for provoking a wider discussion of such issues that have so far been the domain of ‘subject experts.’ If it helps us unravel the tangled threads of webs of waste that we generate and yet hate, Assa Doron and Robin Jeffrey will have done us a valuable service. -- Amita Baviskar * Biblio *Doron and Jeffrey’s model study of India’s garbage problem impressively integrates geography, demography, religion, economics, politics, environmentalism, and the history of sanitation. -- M. G. Roskin * Choice *Waste of a Nation confronts simplifications and myths about India’s complex culture and its environmental challenges. Doron and Jeffrey have written an ambitious book that provides a very good guide to how one of the world’s most populous nations handles waste in its many manifestations, as well as the all-too-human consequences. -- Martin V. Melosi, author of Garbage in the Cities: Refuse, Reform, and the Environment and The Sanitary City: Environmental Services in Urban America from Colonial Times to the PresentThis is a landmark publication providing a comprehensive look at various aspects of ‘waste’ in Indian society and history. I particularly admire the skill with which the authors combine historical, anecdotal, economic, ethnographic, and even technical details to provide an enjoyable read that is, at the same time, deeply instructive. -- Dipesh Chakrabarty, University of ChicagoThrough rigorous empirical analysis and an erudite narrative, Doron and Jeffrey have crafted an engaging commentary on India’s struggles with waste management. The authors judiciously argue that if we are to realize Mahatma Gandhi’s dream of a clean India, we need multifaceted reforms with an unwavering focus on people. -- Shashi Tharoor, Member of Parliament, India, and author of Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India

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Book SynopsisOnce you accept that the impossible is really possible, what happens in Russia makes perfect senseTrade Review“The circumstantial evidence is compelling. It is set out in David Satter’s book with concision, authority and an undertow of quiet rage.”—Giles Whittell, Times“Satter . . . persuasively supplies evidence for his claim that a series of residential bombings in 1999 were part of an elaborate conspiracy orchestrated by Vladimir Putin, who used them as a smoke screen to invade Chechnya and catapult himself to the presidency.”—Publisher’s Weekly“A darkly impressive account of post-Soviet Russia, skillfully moving between detective-style close-ups of key events and sweeping analysis.”—Peter Pomeranzev, author of Nothing is True and Everything is Possible“David Satter blends masterful journalism and rigorous scholarship in a disturbingly illuminating book on the origins, nature and future of the Putin autocracy. Required reading for all those who refuse to indulge in wishful thinking about a rogue state claiming to be a respectable superpower.”—Vladimir Tismaneanu, author of The Devil in History: Communism, Fascims and Some Lessons of the Twentieth Century“This very timely new book by David Satter, one of our finest analysts of contemporary Russia, provides crucial insights into Vladimir Putin. The negligible value he and his cohorts place on human life is chillingly illustrated. Here you will find a gripping account of the deliberate lethal gassing of hundreds of innocent hostages held captive by terrorists, demonstrating that seizing and holding power by any means is Putin’s stock in trade.”—Richard V. Allen, senior fellow Hoover Institution and former national security adviser to Ronald Reagan“Vladimir Putin’s dictatorship was enabled by those who ignored the lessons of history and the warnings of people like David Satter, who was right early and often during the fall of Russian democracy and the rise of Putin’s police state. Few can speak with so much authority and conviction on the triumphs and tragedies of modern Russia.”—Garry Kasparov, Chairman of the Human Rights Foundation, former world chess champion“David Satter has the courage to ask what role the Russian authorities themselves had in the worst terrorist outrages there and - unlike others who did the same - has survived to tell the tale. If he is right that grand provocation had a key political role under both Yeltsin and Putin presidencies—and the evidence is persuasive—then Russia is a country from Dostoyevski’s worst dreams. The Less You Know, the Better you Sleep is an uncompromising, cogent, disturbing account of a country whose authorities’ nihilism may yet lead it to disaster.”—Radek Sikorski, former Polish foreign minister

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Book SynopsisThrough detailed archival research, Hanson reveals the origins of Uganda’s strategies for good government—assembly, assent, and powerful gifts—and explains why East African party politics often fail.Trade ReviewIn this thought-provoking new book Holly Hanson has cut clean through the conventional but hated three-part periodization of African historiography—pre-colonial, colonial, and postcolonial—with its equally unhelpful oppositions of tradition and modernity. With persuasive evidence she shows that Ugandans have for centuries sought consultative, accountable governance, often with institutional checks on the caprice of kings, governors, or presidents. They have long spoken up in public in the conviction that loyalty from below deserves attention from above, and now hope that premodern strategies to secure good governance will help to conjure up a better modernity. -- John Lonsdale, coauthor of Unhappy Valley: Conflict in Kenya and AfricaThis book ‘speaks loudly’ in the hope that it will ‘be heard.’ Holly Hanson successfully demonstrates how in pursuit of a just and moral polity, physical and conceptual spaces created out of people’s presence and actions provided an opportunity through which people can speak to the powerful and expect to be heard. To Speak and be Heard is a prototype of how a blended study of overt ‘spaces’ and ‘speaking’ can reveal larger political engagement and accountability trends in a complex and rapidly changing world. It superbly demonstrates how those trends could be encapsulated and discerningly written about in the twenty-first century. -- Nakanyike B. Musisi, University of Toronto, coauthor of Decentralisation and Transformation of Governance in UgandaHolly Hanson weaves into her account of good government a history of inequality, revealing the kind of thing that can make the formula for direct democracy fail to produce the desired results and atrophy. The next challenge is to speak up, be heard, and figure out the obligations that will diminish inequality. Crossing all major periods in Ugandan history, but focused on the last century and a half, this is a landmark book in African history. -- David L. Schoenbrun, author of The Names of the Python: Belonging in East Africa, 900 to 1930Holly Hanson’s survey has unearthed massive evidence to show that autocracy, one person rule and tyranny did not define African precolonial systems, much as western visitors focused on it or as current media depicts African systems of governance. [Hanson] proves that there were defined mechanisms for the expression … of alternative views of managing society. These views were implemented because there were ample spaces for people to speak and be heard. -- A.B.K. Kasozi, author of The Social Origins of Violence in Uganda, 1964–1985Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: A Long History of Political Voice Chapter 1. Building Polities through Assent, Assembly, and Voice in Ancient East Africa Chapter 2. Incorporating Strangers in the Time of Two Lukikos Chapter 3. Seeking Justice at the Palace and the Lake Chapter 4. The Modernity That Might Have Been: How Ugandans Lost Mechanisms of Accountability in the Transition to Independence Chapter 5. The Pretense of Assent and the Power of Assembly in the Time of Amin Conclusion: The Shape of the Present Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe National Book Award Finalist and New York Times bestseller that became a guide and balm for a country struggling to understand the election of Donald TrumpA generous but disconcerting look at the Tea Party. . . . This is a smart, respectful and compelling book.Jason DeParle, The New York Times Book ReviewWhen Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election, a bewildered nation turned to Strangers in Their Own Land to understand what Trump voters were thinking when they cast their ballots. Arlie Hochschild, one of the most influential sociologists of her generation, had spent the preceding five years immersed in the community around Lake Charles, Louisiana, a Tea Party stronghold. As Jedediah Purdy put it in the New Republic, Hochschild is fascinated by how people make sense of their lives. . . . [Her] attentive, detailed portraits . . . reveal a gulf between Hochchild''s ''

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Book SynopsisReveals the formidable challenges that conservatives faced in competing with legal liberalism. This title explores how conservative mobilization was shaped by the legal profession, the legacy of the liberal movement, and the difficulties in matching strategic opportunities with effective organizational responses.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2009 Joseph J. Spengler Prize for Best Book in the History of Economics, History of Economics Society Co-Winner of the 2009 Herbert Jacob Book Prize, Law and Society Association One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2009 "In a terrific new book, The Rise of the Conservative Legal Movement, professor Steven M. Teles charts the success of the conservative legal establishment over the past several decades. Digging past liberal cliches about an all-powerful Federalist Society tree fort, Teles charts a complicated countermobilization that took place in legal academia and conservative public-interest law, against law schools and a government in thrall with liberal ideas. He chronicles the rise of a multifaceted organizational and institutional structure that has become the only game in town."--Dahilia Lithwick, Slate "Teles's book is ... a piece of first-rate scholarship based on archival research and many interviews... [T]he Rise of the Conservative Legal Movement is a fine piece of historical scholarship and an important contribution to understanding strategies for combating entrenched political and intellectual elites."--Charlotte Allen, The Weekly Standard "Steven Teles ... examines a complex phenomenon still playing itself out in The Rise of the Conservative Legal Movement. He does so thoughtfully and provocatively, and with access to key insiders and archival material. His book should be interesting to readers across the political spectrum... Teles's book provides a panoramic, nonpartisan portrait of the sober and serious side of the conservative legal movement. In doing so, it can hopefully lead toward a respectful, constructive dialogue about the role of law in society."--Ronald Goldfarb, Washington Lawyer "I am recommending Teles's book to all my liberal and progressive colleagues... Perhaps if liberals and progressives pay enough attention to the lessons about problem-solving and adaptation taught in this valuable book, Prof. Teles will have an opportunity to write a sequel, The Renaissance of the Liberal Legal Network."--Michael Avery, Suffolk University Law Review "Lawyers fill an important role in American democracy, as the conduit for transmitting social mores from the nation's elite to the people, and vice versa. How they do this is something sociologists have spent relatively little time researching, but Steven M. Teles has taken a step to remedy this by producing an engaging, insightful, and remarkably objective analysis of how the climate of legal ideas actually changes. His book is neither history nor polemic, but a scholarly study of how an ideological minority organized despite overwhelming hostility, knot an effective (if still minority) force against the prevailing orthodoxy... [T]eles's book is an important and persuasive account of the growth and success of a corps of intellectuals who are challenging the hegemony of big government in American society."--Timothy Sandefur, California Lawyer "[T]his new book by Steven Teles ... will appeal mainly if not only to legal and politics specialists, and those interested in the USA at that. However, his survey of the ways in which conservative law grew from the 1960s to the turn of the twenty-first century reveals even more of interest to anyone trying to understand how conservative values and beliefs ... were and have been internalized in US law schools and the education there, as well as in legal practice and the federal bench."--Stuart Hannabuss, Library Review "No published study about the conservative legal movement of which I am aware can compete with the information, detail, perspectives, and stories that Teles has packed into his book."--Roy B. Flemming, Law and Politics Book Review "Well written and well researched... Activists on both the Left and the Right can learn about the tactics of intellectual insurgency and networking. Political scientists can benefit from Teles's explanation of how liberalism became entrenched in legal institutions just as conservatives were starting to dominate electoral politics. And grant-makers can learn the importance of adopting a long time-horizon when engaged in a battle of ideas."--R. Shep Melnick, Claremont Review of Books "Teles provides a thorough analytical chronology of the emergence of intellectuals, networks, political entrepreneurs, and patrons as a new level of political competition in the legal arena, which he contends has made elections themselves less significant... This is an exceptionally valuable resource for understanding recent changes, both liberal and conservative, in the legal and political spheres."--R. Heineman, Choice "This fine book will surely become the leading authority on the efforts of modern conservatives to shape law. It should be of interest to a wide range of scholars and lawyers."--James W. Ely, Jr., Law and History Review "This excellent book deserves to be widely read and discussed... It can be read with profit by historians of conservatism, by political scientists interested in American political development, and by scholars interested in the complexities of large-scale change in legal doctrine and structure and its relation to conventional politics."--Richard Adelstein, Constitutional Political Economy "[T]houghtful and well-researched."--Andy Lamey, Metapsychology Online Reviews "Teles draws on extraordinarily rich data to show how a conservative legal movement emerged and altered the ideological landscape in the legal profession and in the judicial branch of government... The author artfully examines the interplay of structure and action, as he describes both the successes and failures of the movement's architects."--Rory McVeigh, Contemporary Sociology "Steven M. Teles has written a remarkable book that reinforces the truth that ideas have consequences... Teles offers a fascinating account of the myriad moving parts that did and must work together to effect large-scale political change."--Bradley C. S. Watson, Intercollegiate Review "[A] remarkable book... Teles adopts an approach that is both highly effective and radically divergent from the typical foci and methods of contemporary scholarship on American politics."--Paul Pierson, Perspectives on Politics "Steven M. Teles has written a fascinating book on how conservative ideas gained influence over contemporary law and has added an essential chapter to our historical accounts of modern conservatism, which until now have focused on electoral politics."--Linda Przybyszewski, Journal of American History "[Steven M. Teles'] book provide[s] ... insights into the causes and contours of the American conservative legal movement and provide[s] a much-welcomed alternative perspective to the regime politics literature by spotlighting the supply side of legal and constitutional change."--Amanda Hollis-Brusky, Law & Social InquiryTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Chapter 1. Political Competition, Legal Change, and the New American State 6 Chapter 2. The Rise of the Liberal Legal Network 22 Chapter 3. Conservative Public Interest Law I: Mistakes Made 58 Chapter 4. Law and Economics I: Out of the Wilderness 90 Chapter 5. The Federalist Society: Counter-Networking 135 Chapter 6. Law and Economics II: Institutionalization 181 Chapter 7. Conservative Public Interest Law II: Lessons Learned 220 Conclusion 265 Appendix Interviews 283 Notes 287 Index 331

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Book SynopsisThe personal testimoney of a contemporary political writer. In this journal, the author records the lves of strugegels of the Latin American people under two decades of unimaginable violence and repression. This book alternates between reportage, personal vignettes, interviews and travelogues.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"In France today, sex is a matter of national identity: it provides a language to speak about those whose Frenchness is deemed problematic. Indeed, the gender and sexuality of these racialized 'Others'are the object of a proliferation of discourses. Mehammed Mack's original, rich, and precise contribution to a growing field of studies focuses on the multiplicity of cultural representations that both reflect and produce postcolonial France as a kaleidoscope of sexual obsessions - a 'sexagon.'" -- -Eric Fassin Paris-8 University Vincennes-Saint-DenisTable of ContentsIntroduction: Enter the Sexagon Manipulations of Gay-Friendliness Vocabularies of Race and Desire The Sexualization of Ethnicity, Now and Then Not Queer Enough Sexual Nationalism and the Rape of Europa The Banlieue as Laboratory An Eventful Home Life Exposing the Arab The Sexagon Chapter One: The Banlieue has a Gender: Competing Visions of Sexual Diversity Banlieue Girl Gangs and Muslima soldiers Ethnographic Obfuscation in the Homo-ghetto Capitalizing on Banlieusard Homosexualities The Banlieue as Maker, Not Cracked Mirror, of the Queer Chapter Two: Constructing the Broken Family: The Draw for Psychoanalysis The Juvenile Delinquent Mother Enablers of a Male Islam "Be Careful What You Wish For" Historical Echoes of the Colonial Delinquent The Veiled Woman The Veil, the Clandestine, and the Public/Private Distinction The Impotent Father Psychoanalysis, Assimilation, and Community Attachment Chapter Three: Uncultured yet Seductive: The Trope of the Difficult Arab Boy Sexuality, Ethnography, and Literature Sexual Informants of Bad News The Guardians of French Letters Looking Hard The Rehabilitation of Ethnic Virility Atonement for Cross-Cultural Injury The Arab Boy's Post-colonial Revenge Chapter Four: Sexual Undergrounds: Cinema, Performance, and Ethnic Surveillance Exposing the Clandestine, Intimately Homosexualization and Acceptance Rehabilitating Virility The Sexualization of Authority Big Brother is Watching You Interpenetration of Communities Sex Work, Immigrant Work, Travail d'Arabe Image Control Chapter Five: Erotic Solutions for Ethnic Tension: Fantasy, Reality, Pornography Exploiting Exploitation Stereotypes and Victimology Francois Sagat, aka, "Azzedine" The banlieue's Erotic Premises From beur to beurette, a Political Loss Domestic-Exotic Men Conclusion: The Sexagon's Border Crisis Acknowledgments Notes Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume provides the most economical and textually accurate version of Calhoun's Disquisition available today. As a treatise, the Disquisition is one of the greatest and most enduring works of American political thought, and a text of seminal importance to all students of American politics, history, philosophy, and law.

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Book SynopsisWhat explains the proliferation of authoritarian regimes—some calling themselves socialist—in contemporary African and Caribbean politics?One of America’s leading black scholars assesses the historical and social forces that have undermined democracy and social reform in the societies of Africa and its diaspora. In a brilliant historical sketch of the evolution of revolutionary nationalism, Marable illustrates how the legacies of slavery, forced labor and colonialism have combined to stunt the development of popular self-representation. Considering in detail the key cases of Ghana and Guyana, he explains why mass anti-colonial movements eventually decayed into personalistic and repressive cults around Nkrumah and Burnham.The core of the book is an impassioned and searching analysis of the tragic self-destruction of the Grenadian Revolution in 1983. Increasing reliance on a corrupted democratic centralism within the New Jewel Movement led to its violent implosion followed by Reagan’s invasion. While defending the achievements of the martyred Bishop regime, Marable argues that African and Caribbean socialism must find new commitments to egalitarian democracy and pluralism.Trade ReviewHis work ... is authoritative, full of enlightening allusion, but always passionate. * Los Angeles Times *

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Book SynopsisThe first book to draw a blueprint for defeating al-Qaeda on ideological rather than military grounds.Trade ReviewMichael W. S. Ryan's illumination of the ideology and strategy of al-Qaeda as seen in the writings of its key theoreticians is unique and valuable. This is an important and insightful book that provides both new information on al-Qaeda and new commentary on its strategy and how to defeat it. -- Bruce Riedel, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution Osama bin Laden is dead, al-Qaeda 'prime' in Pakistan is decimated, and yet the anti-Western jihad continues as extremism erupts in Yemen, Libya, Syria, Algeria, and elsewhere. Unless we can match our tactical successes with strategic progress, we seem condemned to endless war. Thankfully, Ryan shows us a way forward in his thoughtful, non-polemic analysis of this enemy's doctrine and motivation-the essential first step in combating not just its actions but also its ideas. This book is a blueprint for taking our fight to the next level. -- General Michael Hayden, former director of the CIA A highly readable account of the evolution of al-Qaeda's strategic thinking. Drawing upon existing scholarship and new primary sources, Ryan offers not only a lucid expose of al-Qaeda's key strategic thinkers and their works but also new insight into the logic and rationale informing al-Qaeda's violent campaigns. -- Brynjar Lia, Norwegian Defence Research Establishment, author of Architect of Global Jihad: The Life of Al-Qaeda Strategist Abu Mus'ab Al-Suri Knowledge of the enemy is essential in any conflict, and Ryan delivers. His analysis of al-Qaeda's theology, strategy, tactics, and ability to marshal support even among people who disapprove of its methods is timely, well written,deeply researched, and ultimately reassuring. -- Thomas W. Lippman, author of Saudi Arabia on the Edge An outstanding and unique contribution that examines al-Qaeda's strategy against the US... Highly recommended. ChoiceTable of ContentsNote on Transliteration Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Historical Roots of al-Qaeda's Ideology 2. The Leadership Inspires a New Strategy 3. Jihad as Revolution 4. An Action Plan for Savagery 5. The Jihadist Legacy of Abu Mus'ab al-Suri Conclusion: What It All Means Appendix 1: Translation of "Revolutionary Wars" Appendix 2: Translation of "Fourth-Generation Warfare" Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFeatures four distinguished scholars in political science who analyze American democracy from a comparative point of view, exploring how the US political system differs from that of thirty other democracies and what those differences ultimately mean for democratic performance.Trade Review"The scholarship here is impressive. This book is surely unique in the depth of its comparative description of the United States and the systematic nature of the comparative analysis."—G. Bingham Powell Jr., author of Elections as Instruments of Democracy "A Different Democracy overcomes the traditional segmentation of political science into American and comparative politics, choosing a sensible analytical focus instead: democratic political institutions. The book will be the premier introduction to this subject for undergraduate and graduate students for years to come."—Herbert Kitschelt, Duke University, author of The Transformation of European Social Democracy

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Book SynopsisThe West tends to understand the Middle East primarily in terms of geopolitics: Islam, oil, and nuclear weapons. But in the nineteenth century it was imagined differently. This book re-evaluates how this story of the Eastern Question shaped the cultural politics of geography, and genocide in the mapping of a larger Middle East after World War I.

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Book SynopsisHistorians of science have long noted the influence of the nineteenth-century political economist Thomas Robert Malthus on Charles Darwin. This book reveals that two evolutionary and political traditions developed in England in the wake of the 1832 Reform Act: one Malthusian, the other decidedly anti-Malthusian.Trade Review"In his exploration of the crucial role of Malthusian thought in the evolutionary theory of liberal radicalism, Hale has provided scholars with a sort of sequel to Adrian Desmond's Politics of Evolution. Impressive in its scope, Political Descent is a bold and exciting book." (Bernard Lightman, editor of Victorian Science in Context)"

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Book SynopsisA new edition of the feminist classic, with an all-new introduction exploring the role of backlash in the 2016 election and laying out a path forward for 2020 and beyondWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award • “Enraging, enlightening, and invigorating, Backlash is, most of all, true.”—NewsdayFirst published in 1991, Backlash made headlines and became a bestselling classic for its thoroughgoing debunking of a decadelong antifeminist backlash against women’s advances. A Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, Susan Faludi brilliantly deconstructed the reigning myths about the “costs” of women’s independence—from the supposed “man shortage” to the “infertility epidemic” to “career burnout” to “toxic day care”—and traced their circulation from Reagan-era politics through the echo chambers of mass media, advertising, and popular culture.  As Faludi writes in a new preface for this edition, much has changed in the intervening years: The Internet has given voice to a new generation of feminists. Corporations list “gender equality” among their core values. In 2019, a record number of women entered Congress. Yet the glass ceiling is still unshattered, women are still punished for wanting to succeed, and reproductive rights are hanging by a thread. This startling and essential book helps explain why women’s freedoms are still so demonized and threatened—and urges us to choose a different future.

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Book SynopsisAnalyzing Politics makes the fundamentals of rational-choice theory accessible to undergraduates in clear, nontechnical language.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Part I Introduction 1 It Isn't Rocket Science, but... 2 Rationality: The Model of Choice Part II Group Choice 3 Getting Started with Group Choice Analysis 4 Group Choice and Majority Rule 5 Spatial Models of Majority Rule 6 Strategic Behavior: Sophistication, Misrepresentation, and Manipulation 7 Voting Methods and Electoral Systems Part III Cooperation, Collective Action, and Public Goods 8 Cooperation 9 Collective Action 10 Public Goods, Externalities, and the Commons Part IV Institutions 11 Institutions: General Remarks 12 Legislatures 13 Bureaucracy and Intergovernmental Relations 14 Leadership 15 Courts and Judges 16 Cabinet Government and Parliamentary Democracy 17 Final Lessons Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAfrica's First Democrats challenges several stereotypes about the workings and growth of democracy on the African continent. More than that, Africa's First Democrats opens up space for a broader rereading of African history and holds the possibility for a more extensive anti-racist and anti-colonial project that has long animated pan-African politics across the globe. -- Joshua Inwood, Pennsylvania State University * Politcal Geography *Abdi Samatar's book Africa's First Democrats is of significance to geographical studies of Africa for three main reasons: (i) its decolonial approach; (ii) its dissection of democratic political leadership and political parties; (iii) its documentation of a historical period in Somalia, when political leaders advocated a vision of a united Somalia that transcended contemporary representation of the country as a 'failed state' wracked by atavistic tribalism. -- Patricia Daley, Oxford University * Political Geography *This study is important because it draws attention to the gamut of stereotypes and wisdoms espoused by critics of African leaders. . . . We all must salute Samatar for his courage to exonerate a couple of African leaders from the court of academic vilification. * American Historical Review *Going beyond postcolonial analysis, decolonization encourages re-thinking the world from Africa, from Latin America, from indigenous places, and from marginalized academia. Samatar's book does precisely this, rethinking our concepts of statehood, democracy and leadership from Africa, and from Somalia particularly. -- Sarah Radcliffe, Cambridge University * Political Geography *Excellent.13 2014 * African and Asian Studies *Table of ContentsPreface & Acknowledgments List of Selected Dates 1. Leadership in Africa 2. Aden: From an Orphan to a Nationalist Leader 3. Abdirazak: From Camel Boy to Freedom Fighter 4. The Somali Youth League and the Nationalist Project: 1943–1960 5. The First Republic: Institutional Foundations of Democracy 1960–1964 6. The Second Republic: Democratic Trailblazing 7. The March toward Dictatorship: 1967–1974 8. Conclusion Bibliography Notes Index

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Book SynopsisIn this Very Short Introduction James Fulcher considers what capitalism is, the forms it can take around the world, and its history of crises and long-term development. In this new edition he discusses the fundamental impact of the global financial crises of 2007-8 and what it has meant for capitalism worldwide.Table of Contents1. What is capitalism? ; 2. Where did it come from? ; 3. How did we get here? ; 4. Is capitalism the same everywhere? ; 5. Has capitalism gone global? ; 6. Crisis? What crisis? ; References ; Further reading ; Index

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Book SynopsisThis exciting new textbook challenges the implicit notions inherent in most existing International Relations (IR) scholarship and instead presents the subject as seen from different vantage points in the global South. Divided into four sections, (1) the IR discipline, (2) key concepts and categories, (3) global issues and (4) IR futures, it examines the ways in which world politics have been addressed by traditional core approaches and explores the limitations of these treatments for understanding both Southern and Northern experiences of the international. The book encourages readers to consider how key ideas have been developed in the discipline, and through systematic interventions by contributors from around the globe, aims at both transforming and enriching the dominant terms of scholarly debate. This empowering, critical and reflexive tool for thinking about the diversity of experiences of international relations and for placing them front and center in the classTrade Review"It’s no secret that most textbooks on International Relations are written by Western scholars and offer a mainly Western perspective. This comprehensive and well-written volume is a major step towards building a Global IR, and deserves to be used in classrooms around the world." — Amitav Acharya, American University, USA"The stories and theories we encounter in the field of International Relations are often presented as having "global" or "universal" reach. Yet quite to the contrary they often reflect very particular experiences, viewpoints and understandings of the world. This highly anticipated textbook shows how approaching International Relations from the perspective of researchers and students from the "global South" matters for thinking through international politics more comprehensively, carefully and realistically. This text will provide an invaluable resource for thinking, practicing and studying IR as the field’s Eurocentric framings of the world are challenged, shifted and decolonized." — Milja Kurki, Aberystwyth University, UK"This is the first textbook to approach international relations as experienced and theorized in the global South. It brings non-Western stories to the center of knowledge production, breaking with rigid classifications to reflect on the diversity of experiences of the international. This is a bold and emancipatory textbook that will have a lasting effect on the way we teach IR everywhere." — Manuela Picq, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador, and Amherst College, USA"This new textbook is a generous gift to teachers and students of IR. While the first impression might be that it is "only" a solution to the much bewailed problem that students in the global South have been fed irrelevant introductions to the discipline, it is actually a very productive and stimulating way to also teach mainstream and "Northern" concepts in a topical way. This is the textbook for teaching IR in and for all of the world." — Ole Wæver, University of Copenhagen, Denmark"It’s no secret that most textbooks on International Relations are written by Western scholars and offer a mainly Western perspective. This comprehensive and well-written volume is a major step towards building a Global IR, and deserves to be used in classrooms around the world." — Amitav Acharya, American University, USA"The stories and theories we encounter in the field of International Relations are often presented as having 'global' or 'universal' reach. Yet quite to the contrary they often reflect very particular experiences, viewpoints and understandings of the world. This highly anticipated textbook shows how approaching International Relations from the perspective of researchers and students from the 'global South' matters for thinking through international politics more comprehensively, carefully and realistically. This text will provide an invaluable resource for thinking, practicing and studying IR as the field’s Eurocentric framings of the world are challenged, shifted and decolonized." — Milja Kurki, Aberystwyth University, UK"This is the first textbook to approach international relations as experienced and theorized in the global South. It brings non-Western stories to the center of knowledge production, breaking with rigid classifications to reflect on the diversity of experiences of the international. This is a bold and emancipatory textbook that will have a lasting effect on the way we teach IR everywhere." — Manuela Picq, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador, and Amherst College, USA"This new textbook is a generous gift to teachers and students of IR. While the first impression might be that it is 'only' a solution to the much bewailed problem that students in the global South have been fed irrelevant introductions to the discipline, it is actually a very productive and stimulating way to also teach mainstream and 'Northern' concepts in a topical way. This is the textbook for teaching IR in and for all of the world." — Ole Wæver, University of Copenhagen, DenmarkTable of Contents1. Introduction: International Relations from the Global South Part I: DISCIPLINE 2. The Global IR Debate in the Classroom 3. Where, When and What is IR? 4. IR and the Making of the White Man’s World PART II: CONCEPTS 5. Order, Ordering and Disorder 6. The International 7. War and Conflict 8. State and Sovereignty 9. Religion, Secularism and Nationalism 10. Security 11. Foreign Policy PART III: ISSUES 12. Globalization 13. Inequality 14. Migration 15. Resistances 16. Socio-Environmentalism PART IV: FUTURES 17. South-South Talk

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Book SynopsisMichael Walzer is widely regarded as one of the world's leading political theorists. This book brings together some of Walzer's important work to provide a wide-ranging survey of his thinking and the vision that underlies his responses to contemporary political debates. It also includes a essay on human rights.Trade Review"'In Thinking Politically, David Miller has brought together sixteen of Walzer's best essays from 1973... This is a splendid collection; much more coherent than most, bound together by Walzer's theme of respect for political community... The essays do justice to both words in its title: they address the enduring issues of political theory, but they also engage that thinking with the political issues of the day.' Jeremy Waldron, New York Review of Books"

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction, by Andrew Lakoff 1. Beyond Calculation: A Democratic Response to Risk, by Sheila Jasanoff 2. Private Choices, Public Harms: The Evolution of National Disaster Organizations in the United States, by Patrick S. Roberts 3. Strange Brew: Private Military Contractors and Humanitarians, by P.W. Singer 4. Risking Health: HIV/AIDS and the Problem of Access to Essential Medicines, by Heinz Klug 5. Constructing Carbon Markets: Learning from Experiments in the Technopolitics of Emissions Trading Schemes, by Donald MacKenzie List of Contributors

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Book SynopsisTaking a balanced look at issues that have contributed to decline of America's manned space program, such as lack of political support and funding, this book offers not only a critique but also a plan for enhancing US space security through cooperation rather than competition. It focuses on how policy changes of mid-1990s have changed the nation.Trade ReviewAny discussion of space policy would benefit from the informed, reasoned opinions of Joan Johnson-Freese. -- Eve Lichtgarn The Space ReviewTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments 1. A Clash of Ambitions 2. The Conundrum of Dual-Use Technology 3. From Apollo to Where? 4. The Militarization of Space 5. The Weaponization of Space 6. The Politicization of the U.S. Aerospace Industry 7. The Ambitions of Europe 8. The Ambitions of China 9. Avoiding a Clash of Ambitions: Toward a Comprehensive U.S. Space Strategy Notes Index

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Book SynopsisThe Persian Gulf state of Qatar has fewer than 2 million inhabitants, virtually no potable water, and has been an independent nation only since 1971. Yet its enormous oil and gas wealth has permitted the ruling al Thani family to exert a disproportionately large influence on regional and even international politics. Qatar is, as Mehran Kamrava explains in this knowledgeable and incisive account of the emirate, a tiny giant: although severely lacking in most measures of state power, it is highly influential in diplomatic, cultural, and economic spheres.Kamrava presents Qatar as an experimental country, building a new society while exerting what he calls subtle power. It is both the headquarters of the global media network Al Jazeera and the site of the U.S. Central Command''s Forward Headquarters and the Combined Air Operations Center. Qatar has been a major player during the European financial crisis, it has become a showplace for renowned architects, several U.S. universitieTrade Review"Mehran Kamrava, a well-known expert on the middle East and the Persian Gulf, continues to contribute immensely to the intellectual life of Doha where he has been working since the establishment of Centre for International and Regional Studies at Georgetown University's School of Forgein Service in Qatar. Therefore, his book entitled Qatar: Small State, Big Politics came as no surprise and indeed is very much welcome." -- Erdem Tunçe * Perceptions: Jounral of International Affairs *"Kamrava’s work is one of the first full-scale investigations of the intersections of Qatar’s foreign and domestic policies. This book is an important read for those who want to understand more about a crucial, but relatively understudied, country, as well as for scholars in the fields of rentier theory, state building, and international relations." -- Jocelyn Sage Mitchell, Northwestern University in Qatar * Democratization *"In this impressive book, Mehran Kamrava addresses the remarkable phenomenon of tiny Qatar and whether or not it is likely to become a major regional force. Crucially, he sets Qatar apart from its other resource-rich monarchical neighbors by placing necessary emphasis on its emerging foreign policy." -- Christopher M. Davidson, Durham University, author of After the Sheikhs: The Coming Collapse of the Gulf Monarchies"Mehran Kamrava, who is an established authority on the Persian Gulf, has generated the most readable and analytically rich studies of this subregion with great consistency. It is good to see him turn his sharp eye toward the subregion's most interesting state actor today—namely Qatar. In his brilliant new book on this small but economically dynamic Gulf state, Kamrava provides the reader with a comprehensive analysis of this country's power pyramid and the policy imperatives of its modernizing elite alongside a full analysis of the essence of its 'subtle power,’ indeed 'soft power,’ as he maps what he calls Doha’s `hyperactive’ diplomacy and regional conduct. This book will excite even the keenest observer of the Gulf for its ability to delve deep while also painting the most intricate conceptual canvass for Qatar’s `moment in history.’ Honestly, I read it cover to cover and enjoyed learning something new from its every page! Kamrava never fails to deliver." -- Anoush Ehteshami, author of Dynamics of Change in the Persian Gulf: Political Economy, War and Revolution"This very well-written book uses Qatar as a vehicle to discuss big ideas like the nature of power, state autonomy, and high modernism." -- F. Gregory Gause, University of Vermont, author of Oil MonarchiesTable of ContentsIntroduction1. Setting the Stage2. The Subtle Powers of a Small State3. Foreign Policy and Power Projection4. The Stability of Royal Autocracy5. State Capacity and High Modernism6. Qatar's Moment in HistoryNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book Synopsis* A robust and unflinching account of the ongoing take-over of politics by global corporations * Lifts the lid on the world of lobbying, trade negotiations and treaties, in particular the controversial TTIP and its likely ramifications for national sovereignty in Europe and in the US.Trade Review"Susan George�s work has provided deep understanding of the world in which we live. Shadow Sovereigns carries these insights further to the carefully hidden core of global decision-making, a matter of prime significance for those who hope to take their fate into their own hands in times when critical decisions will determine the future of the human experiment."Noam Chomsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology "Driven by a virulent strain of neoliberalism, the global corporate assault on democracy has now reached unprecedented and planet-cooking extremes. Nobody is better qualified than Susan George to document and dissect the inner workings of this process. The result is a book will galvanize those new to the subject while providing veteran opponents with renewed urgency and fresh insights." Naomi Klein, author of This Changes Everything and The Shock Doctrine "Susan George has found and revealed the blueprint that transnational corporations are using to conquer our political system. In this vital book, written with characteristic rigor and flair, she lifts the veil on the many mechanisms through which corporations buy politicians, manipulate global policy, and in the process render our democracy a farcical pantomime. Most importantly, Shadow Sovereigns hauls corporations out of the dark where they like to operate and shows them to be the frontline troops in the neoliberal assault on public life. George�s diagnosis that the grand Enlightenment tradition is being fatally corrupted by what she calls the Great Neoliberal Regression is chilling. But by shining a light on our new silent rulers and telling us how they work, George replenishes the intellectual armory we need to fight back." Matt Kennard, author of Irregular Army and The RacketTable of ContentsIntroduction Chapter One: Lobbies, Mega-Lobbies and How To Join Them Chapter Two: Transnational Treaties: Tailored By and For Transnational Corporations Chapter Three: “Regulatory Cooperation”: More Danger Ahead Chapter Four: Corporate Troops Invade the United Nations Chapter Five: Davos: Designer Of The Future? Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThe definitive collection of A. Sivanandan's writing.Table of ContentsForeword by Colin Prescod Introduction: Unity of struggle I The personal and the political 1. The liberation of the black intellectual 2. The hokum of New Times 3. La trahison des clercs II State racism and resistance 4. Race, class and the state: the political economy of immigration 5. From resistance to rebellion: Asian and Afro-Caribbean struggles in Britain 6. RAT and the degradation of black struggle 7. Race, terror and civil society+ addendum III Globalisation and displacement 8. Imperialism and disorganic development in the silicon age 9. New circuits of imperialism 10. A Black perspective on the Gulf war 11. Poverty is the new black Bibliography of writings by A. Sivanandan Index

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