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This groundbreaking text explores the dramatic evolution in Latin American social movements over the past fifteen years. Assessing both the continuities in social movement dynamics and important new tendencies, this book will be essential reading for all students of Latin American politics and society.

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This groundbreaking text explores the dramatic evolution in Latin American social movements over the past fifteen years. Assessing both the continuities in social movement dynamics and important new tendencies, this book will be essential reading for all students of Latin American politics and society.

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Explores liberalism's past and present transformations and proposes a prospective future as a neo-republican democratic liberalism. The essays map a passage from the liberal democratic norms and forms characteristic of ninteenth century nation states, to an agnostic, democratic liberal politics suitable for the new millennium.

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Rethinking Mao offers a innovative perspective on Mao Zedong, the major architect of the Chinese Revolution and leader of the People's Republic of China until his death in 1976. Utilizing a number of recently discovered documents written by Mao, Nick Knight 'rethinks' Mao by subjecting a number of his controversial concepts to fresh scrutiny.

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The National Drug Control Policy has failed its two major functions (supply reduction and demand reduction) due to faulty assumptions regarding nearly every aspect of the alcohol and drug fields, charges author Fisher.

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Rethinking Pakistan brings together some of the best minds of the country and invites them to reflect upon the most pressing issues that it is facing in all spheres, including politics, external relations, environment, human rights, gender relations, religious fundamentalism, education, and freedom of expression. This edited collection is highly a

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This collection provides a multidisciplinary study of postwar and contemporary Okinawa. The contributors analyze the unique social and cultural transformations that have occurred outside the context of American military control or USJapan relations.

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Public services are increasingly delivered through many forms of 'external' service-provision such as contracting, partnering and regulation. This new text assesses when and how public sector organizations might better draw on the work of these external parties and examines the wider implications for public leadership and management.

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Explores the institutional structures for and the representations, mobilisation, and the political careers of women in the British Conservative Party since the late 19th century. This book tackles the ambivalences between women's politicisation and women's emancipation in the history of Britain's most electorally successful and hegemonic party.

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Advocates of school vouchers and other choice proposals couch their arguments in the fashionable language of economic theory. Choice initiatives at all levels of government have succeeded. This book disputes the appropriateness of the market metaphor as a guide to education policy.

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The effects of the Soviet experience on today's international order and contemporary world events are far reaching and complex. This new text reassesses the role of Marxist-Leninist ideology and of nationalism in its formation and downfall.

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Rethinking State-Non-State Alliances explores how the Kurds' interactions with the U.S. transformed them into a considerable player in the Middle East while addressing how these transformations reshape the U.S. foreign policy. The book investigates the agency of non-state actors by putting the U.S.-Kurdish relationship within the broader International Relations context.

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A major new text on terrorism in the contemporary world. Terrorism, Colin Wight argues, is not only a form of political violence but also a form of political communication and can only be understood - and countered effectively - in the context of its relationship to the state.

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The eurozone crisis has raised fundamental questions about the EU's future and has also sparked debate about the wider functions and future direction of European integration in the 21st century. This engaging book provides a broad-ranging reassessment of the whole experience of integration to date and the challenges which face Europe today.

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This important book provides a critical reinterpretation of the Haitian Revolution and its aftermath. Alex Dupuy evaluates the French colonial context of Saint-Domingue and then Haiti, the achievements and limitations of the revolution, and the divisions in the Haitian ruling class that blocked meaningful economic and political development.

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A systematic reassessment, by two leading figures in the field, of the paradigm of international development in both theory and practice.

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Rethinking Uncle Tom thoroughly explains Uncle Tom's Cabin as an articulation of the conditions of democratic life and the nature of modern humanism. The most mature elements of Stowe's political thought emerge from a close reading of Sunny Memories and of Oldtown Folks. This ...

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The authors of the book believe that utopia is a multidimensional concept, hence best understood with a multidisciplinary perspective. The book seeks utopian thinking in political theory (in Kant and Derrida), international law, populism, Turkish Islamism, and it dilates on th...

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Argues that somewhere in the 1970s liberals in the United States lost their way. This book draws on the insights from the field of economic sociology, and then sets forth a set of liberal principles to explain how markets work in society, principles he applies to articulate salable liberal policies.

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This is the story of the Cabazon Band of Mission Indians who fought a long and successful legal battle for the right to operate the business of their choice on their barren reservation - a gambling casino. Their defeated opponents included California's City of Indio and County of Riverside.