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The compelling inside story of how Australia attempted to bully East Timor out of its rights to the lucrative oil and gas resources of the Timor Sea and the people, both heroes and villains, who played the game for a nation's future.

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Introduces students to people who have contributed to U.S. immigration policy from the Revolution to the present.

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Through biographical histories of individuals involved in the freedom of religion debates, readers will discover how individuals' thoughts, beliefs, and actions affected how the religion clauses are viewed today and throughout American history.

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Shaping a global women's agenda documents the crucial and central role of women's international organisations played at the League of Nations and at the United Nations as the NGOs interjected concerns for women's and human rights into the global governance system. -- .

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Drawing insights from both international relations and comparative politics, this book shows that good strategic assessment depends on civil-military relations that encourage an easy exchange of information and an analysis of a state's own relative capabilities and strategic environment.

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Scholars offer a broad perspective of the central themes in German-American relations in the 20th century and show how the current developments have evolved. This survey should help to fill a gap in the literature covering the relationships between Germany and the United States.

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Examines the Japanese state's involvement in and manipulation of shinto from the Meiji Restoration. This book shows why State shinto symbols, such as the Yasukuni Shrine and its prefectural branches, are the focus for bitter struggles over who will have the right to articulate their significance.

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The inside story of the Rudd government's first term in office. It is a tenure that will be forever defined by the global financial crisis, or - to use the Prime Minster's term - the 'shitstorm' that engulfed the nation and the world. Taylor and Uren uncover the challenges Kevin Rudd and his team faced.

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Show Trials combines first-hand knowledge with hitherto unpublished, confidential material, to offer a penetrating and candid account of the Stalinist purges that occurred in Albanian, East German, Bulgarian, and Rumanian purges, as well as in Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Poland.

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In boom and in bust, Ireland has been led by Fianna Fail. This title discusses the party's remarkable dominance of the political landscape and tells the story of how it won, kept and has used power since the mid-1990s.

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Provides an array of examples of intolerance of free speech on American college campuses in the humanities, social sciences, and physical sciences, with a focus on what is taught and how it's taught.

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A frightening analysis of the tactics used by the Howard government to silence independent experts and commentators as well as public servants and organisations which criticise its policies.

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Presents an argument that the process of collecting information on public preferences through surveys may bias our picture of several preferences. This book focuses on the many respondents who say they "don't know" when asked for their views on the political issues of the day.

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This book evaluates the Simulated International Processer (SIPER) model of the international political system, which was derived from the Inter-Nation Simulation model created at Northwestern University. Stuart Bremer makes a significant advance by programming all aspects of the basic theory so that it more completely and accurately reflects the co