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The emergence of a European policy on armaments is an important and politically controversial component in the building of Europe. This book serves as a useful tool for those trying to understand the interaction between two European organizational fields - market and defense - and the emergence of a European organizational field on armaments.

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Drawing on case studies from a variety of organizational environments, this book explores the social processes and experiences of failure in order to argue that it is an intentional and routine part of organizational activity rather than something to avoid.

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The author explores the defense administration, with thorough criticism of the National Security Council, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Office of the Secretary of Defense, and the armed services as governmental organizations. His book is a substantial reinterpretation of the history of the military organization of the U.S. from 1900 to 1960. Originally p

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Regan argues that the militarization of a society is a complex political and sociological phenomenon, that can generate a life of its own and that feeds upon itself.

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In the fourth edition of Organizing the Presidency, Stephen Hess and James Pfiffner argue that the successes and failures of presidents from Roosevelt to Trump have resulted in large part from how the president deployed and used White House staffers and other top officials responsible for carrying out Oval Office policy.

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Charts the discursive transformations of US immigration policy between 1875 and 1942. Drawing from American foreign policy, identity politics, post-structuralism, post-colonialism, and feminist theory, this study seeks to examine the construction of Oriental bodies within the emergence of US immigration policy.

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The relationship between Islam and the West has frequently been subject to misunderstanding and mistrust. The West often views the Islamic world - and the Islamic world the West - through a prism of mutual suspicion. This title explores the relationship between the sometimes controversial concept of Orientalism.

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With themes that feed into popular debates about the nature of Orientalism and Occidentalism, and how the two interact, this book will be vital for researchers of Middle Eastern literature and its relationship with writings from the West, as well as those working on the cultures of the Middle East.

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The receding of the ice in the last Pleistocene Ice Age, the resulting dessication, and the emigration of peoples into river valleys and other places where control of water required new forms of civilization are here seen as the chief causes of the origin of the seven primary societies-Egyptian, Mesopotamian, Indian, Cretan, Chinese, Middle America

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The description for this book, Origins of Containment: A Psychological Explanation, will be forthcoming.

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Locates the origins of modern democratic discourse in the culture of printing in early modern England. This work of historical sociology explores the unanticipated liberating effects of printing and printed communication in transforming the world of political secrecy into a culture of open discourse and eventually a politics of public opinion.

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This is the first comprehensive journey of its kind throughout the modern world of ideas and institutions relating to legislative and other features of sovereignty and state.

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Brings to a culmination in later modern times the history of ideas on sovereignty and the state that has occupied previous volumes in this series.

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This is the first comprehensive journey of its kind throughout the modern world of ideas and institutions relating to legislative and other features of sovereignty and state.

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Details developments in North and South America, examining events and trends from the 1990s to the early twenty-first century.

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This book argues that North Korea has outlived forecasts of its collapse because of Juchea unique political institution built on the simple notion of self-determination, whose meanings and limits have been shaped by Koreans experiences with colonialism, war, and development amidst surrounding superpowers that have complicated their aspirations.

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This book argues that North Korea has outlived forecasts of its collapse because of Juchea unique political institution built on the simple notion of self-determination, whose meanings and limits have been shaped by Koreans experiences with colonialism, war, and development amidst surrounding superpowers that have complicated their aspirations.

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When Litvinov arrived in Washington in 1933 after the sixteen years of diplomatic silence between his country and the U.S., he carried with him his commission as official representative to the U.S., dated 1918 and signed by Lenin and Chicherin, as evidence of the long-standing desire of the Soviet Union for recognition. This is an absorbing narrati

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The origins of the Kurdish Genocide in Iraq based on unilateral nation building and the ethno-Arab-centrism in the frame of pan Arab ideology of Baathism. Additionally, the stages of genocide have been considered.

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