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Three foreign-oriented political parties-Russian, French, and English-emerged during the Greek Revolutionary period from 1821 to 1827 and played a prominent role in Greek politics until the 1850's. Little has been known or written about the activities of these parties between 1833 and 1843, when a newly established monarchy under the Bavarian King

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Drawing on the American political experience, this title reveals how variations in domestic party politics and international power have led presidents from George Washington to Barack Obama to pursue strategies that differ widely in international ambition and cost.

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In politics, utopian's do not have a monopoly on imagination. The author argues that even the most conservative defenses of the status quo, require imaginative acts of some kind. He explores the role of imagination in politics, particularly how imaginative constructs interact with political reality.

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Focusing on the theories of human motivation that emerged during the transition from feudalism to the modern period, this book includes essays on the relationship between politics and the passions from Machiavelli to Bentham. It addresses the crisis of moral and philosophical discourse in the early modern period.

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Argues that politics has taken on the features of religion, claiming as its own the prerogative of defining the purpose and meaning of human life. This book examines this 'sacralization of politics' historically and theoretically, seeking to identify various ways in which political regimes have depended on faith, myths, rites, and symbols.

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Tracing the evolution of an extraordinary biracial coalition in Los Angeles behind Mayor Tom Bradley, this book shows how 'crossover' politics and racial violence coexist in urban America. Challenging the pessimism about biracial coalitions in general, it compares their relative successes in Los Angeles to their disheartening failures in New York.

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The process of decolonization, the development of the nationalist movement, and the salient aspects of the emerging post-independence policy in the Congo since 1954 are studied. Special emphasis is given to the forces set loose by the Leopoldville explosion. Originally published in 1965. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-deman

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Argues that placing politics in time can enrich our understanding of complex social dynamics, and improve the theories and methods that we use to explain them. This book explores a range of features and implications of evolving social processes. It is intended for students in fields from political science, history, and sociology.

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How is it that Sweden has been able to combine political stability with an entrenched multiparty system How is it that she has produced such remarkable achievements in economic policy, social welfare, labor relations, and international cooperation In this first comprehensive study of Swedish parties and cabinet government in English the author ex

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Examining the Berlin crises of 1948-49 and 1961, the Taiwan Strait crisis of 1958, and the Cuban crisis of 1962, the author elucidates various intermediate and highly politicized forms of international coercion. Originally published in 1969. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously

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The author, analyzing major social groups in this area, treats particularly the "new middle class," a group socially isolated from the traditional life of Islam and committed to a wide-ranging modernizing impulse. Originally published in 1963. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previous

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Richard McCormick examines the concepts of postmodernity and postmodernism as they apply to West Germany, discussing them against the background of cultural and political upheaval in that country since the 1960s, rather than exclusively in the more familiar setting of intellectual history. Considering six literary and cinematic texts that are marke

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How do the weak negotiate with the strong and win some benefits in spite of their lack of power This book covers all the complex trade negotiations conducted in the 1960's between the African states and the EEC. Originally published in 1971. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previousl

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Looks at qustions, such as: What happens to left and liberal political orientations when faith in progress is broken, when both the sovereign individual and sovereign states seem tenuous, when desire seems as likely to seek punishment as freedom, when all political conviction is revealed as contingent and subjective

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Arendt's thought is often poorly understood, because of its complexity and because her fame has made it easy for critics to write about what she is reputed to have said. Villa sets out to change that here, explaining Arendt's contributions to our understanding of politics, modernity, and the nature of political evil in our century.

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The interaction between politics and administration has generally been ignored by students of bureaucracy. Ezra N. Suleiman, however, views the French bureaucracy as a dynamic and integral part of the French political system. Using survey data as well as historical and contemporary sources, he concentrates on the highest officials and examines thei

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