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The fourth edition of Local government today is currently the most up-to-date textbook on local government in Britain. It analyses the structure and role of local government in the light of the most recent changes to the system. -- .

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The essays link peacemaking and peace-building initiatives at the local level with national peace processes aimed at ending civil wars and secessionist conflicts.

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The essays link peacemaking and peace-building initiatives at the local level with national peace processes aimed at ending civil wars and secessionist conflicts.

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The Locarno Conference of 1925 and the five treaties concluded there have been seen as the turning point of the interwar years, i.e., Germany's acceptance of the 1919 peace settlement and the beginning of a new era of peace. Studying the documentary evidence, much of it available only recently, Jon Jacobson explores the personalities and politics o

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John Locke's "Second Treatise of Government" is one of the most influential texts in the history of political theory. Part of the Continuum's "Reader's Guides", this book offers an account of this key philosophical work. It provides a review of the key themes and a lucid commentary.

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John Locke's "Second Treatise of Government" is one of the most influential texts in the history of political theory. Part of the Continuum's "Reader's Guides", this book offers an account of this key philosophical work. It provides a review of the key themes and a lucid commentary.

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Steinberg addresses such questions as: How did the notion of a social contract develop What did social contract mean to Locke and Rousseau Can social contract describe the working basis of representative democracy

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Offers an account of the author's service as Secretary of Labor in the first Clinton administration, revealing the machinations of the president's cabinet and the politicians who try to thwart it.

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The story of the Lockerbie tragedy of Pan Am Flight 103 from the build-up of the terrorist threat in the summer 1988 to the indictment of Libyan agents for their part in the bombing.

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Full of human drama and political intrigue, this is the inside story of the meteoric rise and the tragic fall of the man who was to be Labor's saviour.

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Travelling throughout the Middle East and Europe, the author talks to men and women in bazaars, schools and alleyways, as well as the world's leading political figures, developing and refining his perspective on the new kind of war the West finds itself fighting.

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George Nathaniel Curzon, first Marquis Curzon of Kedleston was, perhaps, the most important British statesman of the modern era not to become prime minister.

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Lord Hailsham - statesman, orator, writer, Christian and patriot - had earned Mrs Thatcher's tribute, when he finally retired in 1987, that there were few people in public life who had provided such service to his country over a span of forty years. In this book, the extraordinary drama of the 1963 succession to Macmillan is also revealed.

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An arresting and unique portrait of the House of Lords. Its seductiveness and complex hidden structures are captured in a readable book for researchers, students and the general reader. -- .

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"A brilliantly devastating expose of the shadow government that runs US national security policy. an era of an unprecedented war against whistle-blowers, and the very existence of a free press, Horton's book provides an essential playbook for battling this undemocratic beast."-Jeremy Scahill

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Systematically updated to cover developments in the post-Cold War world, this long-awaited new edition of a classic text combines chronological narrative with careful application of a wide range of theoretical perspectives to provide a comprehensive and readable introduction to the evolution and contemporary nature of British foreign policy.

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There is a broad consensus among informed observers both inside and outside the Beltway that American public diplomacy leaves much to be desired, and there is no real consensus among critics on what must be done to fix the problems. The author situates these problems within the complex environment of US government bureaucracy.

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Shows the need for true deliberation on the floor of Congress and the dangers of the present partisan posturing.

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This is the story of Philip Kerr and a group of Oxford graduates that founded The Round Table (Journal of International Affairs) in 1910 and influenced British foreign policy over the following thirty years.

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Louis Blanc (1811-1882) was the first socialist to enter a French government. He was a true exponent of Jacobin-socialism and this biography attempts to explain this combination of Jacobin politics and socialist economics.