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ISBN: 9781442613508 - Wrestling with Democracy Wrestling with Democracy
Dennis Pilon

ISBN10: 1442613505  ISBN13: 9781442613508
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Edition: 3rd Revised edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 14 Jun 2013
Using a comparative historical approach, Wrestling with Democracy examines why voting systems have (or have not) changed in western industrialized countries over the past century. Though sharing broadly similar processes of economic and political... More

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ISBN: 9780708326060 - Identity, Politics and Novel Identity, Politics and Novel
Ian Fraser

ISBN10: 0708326064  ISBN13: 9780708326060
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 31 May 2013
A critical examination of novels by Milan Kundera, Ian McEwan, Michel Houellebecq and J. M. Coetzee to explore aesthetically our understanding of different forms of identity, through the lens of classical and contemporary political... More

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ISBN: 9780691158365 - Presidential Leadership and the Creation of the American Era Bestseller Presidential Leadership and the Creation of the American Era
Joseph S Nye

ISBN10: 0691158363  ISBN13: 9780691158365
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 26 May 2013
OThis timely book examines the impact of presidential leadership on the emergence and endurance of American global primacy. Nye is judicious, makes a plausible argument about each president he considers, and cuts through confusion and partisanship . More

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ISBN: 9781623568382 - Communication in Modern Social Ordering Communication in Modern Social Ordering
Kai Eriksson

ISBN10: 1623568382  ISBN13: 9781623568382
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 23 May 2013
Investigates the modern history of communication in relation to the thinking of the political community in the United States. Communication in Modern Social Ordering investigates the modern history of communication in relation to the thinking of... More

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ISBN: 9780521761086 - Mill and Paternalism Mill and Paternalism
Gregory Claeys

ISBN10: 0521761085  ISBN13: 9780521761086
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 09 May 2013
Gives prominence for the first time to Mill's abiding concern with Malthusianism and its impact on his arguments respecting liberty. Many discussions of J. S. Mill's concept of liberty focus too narrowly on On Liberty and fail to acknowledge that... More

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ISBN: 9780415658102 - Rules, Politics, and the International Criminal Court Rules, Politics, and the International Criminal Court
Yvonne Dutton

ISBN10: 0415658101  ISBN13: 9780415658102
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Routledge
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 09 May 2013
"In this new work, Dutton examines the ICC and whether and how its enforcement mechanism influences state membership and the court's ability to realize treaty goals"-- In this new work, Dutton examines the ICC and whether and how its enforcement... More

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ISBN: 9781137281296 - European Defence Cooperation in EU Law and IR Theory European Defence Cooperation in EU Law and IR Theory
Tom Dyson, Theodore Konstadinides

ISBN10: 1137281294  ISBN13: 9781137281296
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 07 May 2013
This book offers a novel contribution to the study of post-Cold War European defence. Interdisciplinary in approach, it uses European law to assess the utility of existing theoretical accounts. By exploring the balance of threat theory... More

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ISBN: 9780226925011 - Symbolic Power, Politics, and Intellectuals Symbolic Power, Politics, and Intellectuals
David L Swartz (University of Boston)

ISBN10: 0226925013  ISBN13: 9780226925011
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press University of Chicago Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 03 May 2013
Power is the central organizing principle of all social life, from culture and education to stratification and taste. In this title, the author delves deeply into Bourdieu's work to show how central - but often overlooked - power and politics are... More

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ISBN: 9781909005822 - The Dynamics of War and Revolution The Dynamics of War and Revolution
John Borgonovo

ISBN10: 1909005827  ISBN13: 9781909005822
Publisher: Cork University Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 03 May 2013
At the beginning of the First World War, Irish separatists in the city of Cork were marginalised and without political power. By the war's end, they had supplanted the local elite and launched a bloody war for independence. Using Cork as a case... More

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ISBN: 9780226776774 - Leo Strauss on Maimonides Leo Strauss on Maimonides
Leo Strauss Kenneth Hart Green

ISBN10: 0226776778  ISBN13: 9780226776774
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press University of Chicago Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 03 May 2013
Presents a collection of author's writings on Maimonides, comprising sixteen essays, three of which appear in English for the first time. This title provides translations of materials that are originally quoted in Hebrew, Arabic, Latin, German... More