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The book introduces the concept of practical biopolitics and discusses its applicability for anti-pandemic crisis management in Indonesia and Russia. The authors scrutinize the functioning of sovereign power and governmentality during the state of exception.

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Evaluation is essential to library management: it provides the data that underlies informed and effective decision-making. This book is a one-volume, how-to guide to library evaluation techniques, planning, and reporting.

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Focusing on EU practitioners approach the Union's foreign policy to its eastern neighbourhood including Russia from a post-structuralist prospective, this title offers a new methodology to capture practices through the analytical approach of Discursive International Relations and Discursive Practice Model to analysis practitioners' practices.

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This book explores the writings of Inis L. Claude, Jr., a preeminent scholar on international relations, to define a new approach to the study of international relations. Pragmatic liberalism, an "in-between" approach, argues that a liberal world order can be sustained and promoted by the pragmatic application of liberal principles.

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What kind of society was Iran before the constitutional revolution of 1906, feudal or despotic The author assesses both arguments, examining the works of high social theory from which this controversy derives and developing new concepts to analyze state and social relations in pre-Capitalist Iran.

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In a cool, authoritative and gently ironic biography, Don Baker considers the life of the fiery John Dunmore Lang. A tireless doer, he was a populist politician in the Legislative Council, ran three newspapers and circled the globe eight times. Although he answered only to God, he was a hero to ordinary workers.

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This study examines several Cold War political leaders and their ability to survive US-sanctioned covert operations. The author argues that by understanding the psychological profile and emotional intelligence of leaders, it is possible to influence their mindsets and decision-making abilities.

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Although previous work has indicated that the press is able to set the agenda with regard to public opinion, this book is unique in demonstating that the press also is able to mold opinion within that agenda.

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The tariff policies of the 1890-1922 led to the development of tariff rates that launched the United States on a path that led to later trade wars. This work traces the course of U.S. policy through five tariffs which preceded the Fordney-McCumber tariff of 1922, when the tariff was used for both protection and revenue.

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This study provides an inside look at how the Air Force came to formulate and declare its strategic intent for developing the organizations capabilities over a timeline of more than twenty years.

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This book is for typical American families, business travelers, corporate executive management personnel, emergency first responders, school administrators, and local government officials responsible for public safety and emergency management.

Americans are regularly bombarded with reports of disaster and tragedy in the daily news.

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Preponderance in U.S. Foreign Policy examines the factors that contribute to the presence and severity of blunders in U.S. foreign policy, focusing primarily on ideational variables inherent in the American identity. It presents a theory for their recurrence in accordance with those variables and the pursuit of the grand strategy of preponderance.

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Did Ronald Reagan and his policies engineer the defeat of international communism, the breakup of the Soviet Union, and the elimination of decades of nuclear confrontation

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The research concludes that in the post- modern presidency, we have lost the desire and power to keep presidents accountable for their actions.

After discussing the problem of presidential accountability in the opening chapter, the book turns to the checkered pasts of American presidents with respect to protecting civil liberties.

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Presidential Campaign Rhetoric in the Age of Confessional Politics analyzes religious rhetoric in presidential campaigns from 1976-2008, proposing a confessional political style successful candidates must employ that differs sharply from earlier ideals of civic piety. Brian T....

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Combining primary sources with expert commentary, this timely book probes critical moments in U.S. presidential elections in the last 20th- and early 21st-centuries, empowering readers to better understand and analyze the electoral process.

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This engaging look at presidential candidate images features a wide range of essays that dissect how these images are formed and manipulated during campaigns. As more and more emphasis is placed on a candidate's persona and how it affects our voting decisions, Presidential Can...

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Presidential Communication is the first book to combine a study of the presidency with communications.

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This book examines democracy, governance, and social justice in Cte dIvoire by analyzing the political effects of the 20112012 presidential conflict. Okosun explains driving factors that caused this conflict through an examination of the social and historical context surrounding the political battle between Laurent Gbagbo and Alassane Ouattara.

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Kuypers employs a new historical/critical approach to analyze both the press and the Clinton administration's handling of three international crisis situations. Using case studies of Bosnia, Haiti, and the alleged North Korean nuclear buildup in 1993, he examines contemporary presidential crisis communication and the functions of the press.

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Presidential Decision Making and Military Intervention in the PostCold War Era analyzes eight case studies of presidential decision making and military intervention and non intervention since the end of the Cold War.

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This book demonstrates that the Founders did not intend to confer on the president a power equivalent to the royal prerogative of suspending the laws, which was stripped from the English Crown in 1689.