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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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Originally published in hardcover in 2013 by Bloomsbury Academic.

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Politics of Liberty brings together a series of essays on Montesquieu that shine new light on the meaning, conditions, and effects of freedom. Montesquieus mindful liberalism shows liberalisms past in a new light, illuminates its value in the present, and makes a case for its future.

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Provides an analysis of Islamist cultural politics through the ethnography of a thriving, grassroots women's piety movement in the mosques of Cairo, Egypt.

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Many commentators feared that the Education Reform Act of 1988 sounded the death knell for teacher professionalism. This text explores the issue by setting the debates in their historical context and by drawing on detailed research findings.

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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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The Post-Cold War period has seen the emergence of the Black Sea as a region of key strategic importance. As a conduit point for energy pipelines, the sea and its surrounding states are inextricably linked with the exploitation of energy resources in the Caspian Sea and beyond.

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A comprehensive study of state-society development in the most volatile region of the world. The author investigates state, revolution and development in the Middle Eastern states of Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq and Syria in the immediate post-World War II period, detailing the role of class.

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In this book, author Doga Ulas Eralp questions whether reforms integral to the European Union membership process, along with existing European crisis management mechanisms, can liberate Bosnian politics from the helm of ethno-nationalism, and plant the seeds for a sustained, successful liberal democracy.

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A manifesto for a collaborative design practice to empower people and communities to address the urgent social and political problems that confront us today.

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Leading thinkers address the relationship between the one and the many in this Political Theory and Contemporary Philosophy volume.

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Leading thinkers address the relationship between the one and the many in this Political Theory and Contemporary Philosophy volume.

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This book is a political ethnography that examines how welfare programmes for the unemployed function as a contemporary form of state control. -- .

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This riveting book provides a nonpartisan examination of how the technological changes and financial imperatives of the media have led to an entertainment-driven news system poorly suited to report on American politics.

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Is American democracy being derailed by the United States Senate filibuster Is the filibuster an important right that improves the political process or an increasingly partisan tool that delays legislation and thwarts the will of the majority Are century-old procedures in the Senate hampering the institution from fulfilling its role on the eve of the 21st century

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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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Basing her analysis on extensive field studies she conducted in two diverse political cultures--a rural working-class community in Hawaii and a suburban upper-middle class community in Ohio--Buker begins by developing a model for interpreting narratives which builds upon structural analysis and philosophical hermeneutics.

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His emphasis on the spoken word and the visual image was so pronounced that the character of the reform program he introduced became both a reflection and an extension of his own political persona.

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This book explores the politics, governance, and development in Ghana that have attracted the attention and interest of governments, citizens, academics and development partners in the sixty years since Ghana achieved independence. These subjects are also of interest for neighboring African countries.