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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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In this sequel to his highly acclaimed Bureaucratic Reform in the Ottoman Empire, Carter Findley shifts focus from the organizational aspects of administrative reform and development to the officials themselves. A study in social history and its cultural and economic ramifications, Findley's new book critically reassesses Ottoman accomplishments an

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Peter C. Myers considers Locke's philosophy in relation both to contemporary liberalism and to the works of classical and modern political philosophy. Myers argues that Locke presents reason as a way of life that offers humans fulfilment, and moral and political moderation.

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This collection provides windows into Canadas conflicted history and the innovative and courageous efforts to reconcile relationships between Indigenous people and settler descendants. The vision and deep experience of scholars and leaders from across the country offer tangible ways that Canada is working toward a peaceful shared future.

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This collection provides windows into Canadas conflicted history and the innovative and courageous efforts to reconcile relationships between Indigenous people and settler descendants. The vision and deep experience of scholars and leaders from across the country offer tangible ways that Canada is working toward a peaceful shared future.

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In this volume, Bradley C. S. Watson brings together some of America's leading constitutional scholars to reflect on the meaning and significance of 'originalism' in constitutional interpretation and politics. The book brings the subject of constitutional interpretation down from the clouds, showing its relationship to the concerns of the citizen.

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The former faith adviser to Barack Obama draws on his personal experience as a Muslim in America to examine the importance of religious diversity in the nation's cultural, political, and economic life. He explores how religious language has given the United States some of its most enduring symbols and inspired its most vital civic institutions.

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This book takes the reader through the complex period of Hungary's transformation from a Soviet satellite to an independent democratic country, with an emphasis on Hungary's finding its place in the post-communist world.

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The book is a narrative approach to network science and especially the role of concentration risk in networks of all kinds. The more concentrated a network, the more likely it is productive and efficient. But the same concentration producing these positive outcomes increases the risk of catastrophic network failure.

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During the years that the German Social Democratic party organization was legally suppressed by the Socialist Law, the movement underwent a fundamental transformation in its relationship to the traditions of political democracy and socialist theory with which it began in the 1860's. This history shows how, gradually adopting Marxian economic and po

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This book addresses identity-formation as it relates to social inclusivity. The stigmatized Other have long been marginalized in their social relations with the mainstream. This book reconstitutes the thinking which displaces social exclusiveness, replacing it with new ideas promoting social cohesiveness, reciprocity, and social inclusivity.

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This work seeks to clarify why and when interest group leaders in Washigton, USA seek to mobilize the public order to influence policy decisions in Congress. It grants a more important role to the need for interest group leaders to demonstrate popular support on particular issues.

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Mr. Apraku gives the reader an outsider's analysis of the good and bad elements that make up the U.S. The author, a Ghanian who has spent the last 18 years studying and teaching in the U.S., brings his personal experiences as an emigr to this examination of American capitalism and democracy.

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They show that in order to protect the country from terrorists, security forces must do what the terrorists do: identify vulnerable targets, analyze their specific weaknesses, consider the tools and weapons needed to attack, and assess access to the targets.

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O'Looney's book provides the guidance that state and local managers need to decide to outsource, and then advice on how to proceed.

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This work studies the role of the state in the Arab world. It sets out to place the Arab world within a framework that avoids both "orientalist" and "fundamentalist" insistence on the peculiarity of the region, and focuses on issues such as the relationship between state and civil society.

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America is in the process of overcoming the modern, which is expressed negatively as hyper-individualism, materialism, moral disease, fundamentalism, and nihilistic terrorism. In its positive expression the modern develops beyond itself, into a post-traditional ethic and spir...

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On the moral decay surrounding the collapse of the modern worldview with its isolated and competitive individualism, abstraction and mechanism. Also on the dynamics of emerging, relational worldview and vision of human development/maturity necessary to the human future beyond the societal upheaval and reorder caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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The ideas outlined in this book for fixing flaws in federal governance come from the more than century of collective experience of its expert authors. The book represents a burst of sunshine after a very dark period in the nations history.