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Revisiting classic texts by writers such as Simone de Beauvoir, James Connolly and Paulo Freire, this book provides a series of rich reflections on the interaction between radical ideas and political action in Ireland. -- .

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This collection of entries offers a front seat view of the rise, reign, and fall of powerful modern political families and examines the effects they have had on political, social, and economic issues in American society.

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Presents the history of Anglophone political science which argues that the field's transformation shouldn't be mistaken for a case of simple progress and increasing scientific precision. This book shows that political science is deeply historically contingent, driven both by its own inherited ideas and by the history in which it has developed.

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A comparative analysis of the presidential selection process in the United States, Russia, and France.

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Offers a study of modern tyrants, both revealing the forces that allow them to come to power and helping us to predict where they may arise in the future.

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Reveals how the French military in Indochina fought fierce rearguard actions against ideologically motivated insurgents in the 1940s and 1950s to a far greater extent than their American counterparts later did in Vietnam. This edition includes the original introduction by Bernard B Fall and a fresh foreword prepared by Eliot A Cohen.

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Part of the "Praeger Security International Classics of Counterinsurgency" series, this work reveals how the French military fought fierce rearguard actions against ideologically motivated insurgents in Indochina during the 1940's and 1950's, to much greater extent than the Americans ever did in the later Vietnam conflict.

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This book is an enlightening, inspiring, and sobering account of the social and economic transformation of Poland. If Poland is to survive the crisis of the early 1990s, a new and authentic program of economic and human development must be adopted by West and East alike.

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Recognizing these themes allows the consideration of possible remedies for change in the Muslim world.

The distinguished scholars contributing to this volume identify key factorssome intrinsic to the Muslim world, and some externalthat contribute to Islam's current predicament.

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Recognizing these themes allows the consideration of possible remedies for change in the Muslim world.

The distinguished scholars contributing to this volume identify key factorssome intrinsic to the Muslim world, and some externalthat contribute to Islam's current predicament.

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Explores basic features and issues of judgement using Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem as a case study. Sharpe examines Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem as a case study of judgement and in order to make sense of Arendt's theoretical work on judgement.

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Indeed, Durant was only one member of the elite Task Force Ranger Regiment deployed to apprehend Mohammed Farrah Aidid, Somailia's most powerful warlord on the fateful October day.

Here is the little-known story of the 15 fierce, deadly hours of fighting that followed the Americans tightly calibrated attempt to target Aidid.

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How has the Japanese government persuaded its citizens to save substantial portions of their incomes How did the public come to support legalized prostitution as in the national interest The author helps us to understand this mobilizing spirit as he taps into the intimate relationships everyday Japanese have with their government.

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Explores current religious features of the monarchy and the state that seem increasingly anachronistic in more secular and more religiously diverse societies. -- .

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