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Shows how presidents have used a key tool of executive power to wield their inherent legal authority and pursue policy without congressional interference. This book argues that throughout the nation's life, executive orders have allowed presidents to make momentous, unilateral policy choices: creating and abolishing executive branch agencies.

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Filling a crucial gap in research on the presidency and presidential communication, Within These Walls goes beyond the study of presidential speeches and examines the organizational structure, systems of information flow, and communication styles in the administrations of Franklin Roosevelt through Ronald Reagan.

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Friedman writes that the 4,500 Jews left in Syria--virtual hostages in Syria's conflict with Israel--live under conditions that have been compared to those of Nazi Germany. He includes first-hand accounts of Jews oppressed by the Syrian government, including the torture of Jews in Syrian prisons.

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One woman's harrowing story of imprisonment and survival in the face of the Chinese government's persecution of Falun Gong.

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In recent years, despite widespread interest in feminism, women's studies, and socio-historical perspectives in general, scholars have failed to unearth a body of historical knowledge related to women in the area of American foreign policymaking--until now.

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The under-representation of women in political and public life is a matter of concern across a wide range of countries, including the UK and Ireland. This book explores key questions in the development of women's rights in Britain and Ireland.

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This comprehensive, up-to-date work examines the political status of women in the world's governments and challenges the view that women in the United States and other countries are breaking through traditional barriers to achieve unprecedented political power.

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This comprehensive, up-to-date work examines the political status of women in the world's governments and challenges the view that women in the United States and other countries are breaking through traditional barriers to achieve unprecedented political power.

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An illuminating analysis of the long and ongoing struggle of women in America to gain political equality and bring about change in public policy.

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Looks at the rise and role of female activism in Iran since the 1979 Revolution. This study assesses this role as well as the impact of domestic and international policies on women's activism, highlighting the contradictions between politics and religion within the Islamic Republic.

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The book examines the growth and development of women's activism in Iran since the 1979 Revolution.

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A powerful account of one of the most notorious rebel groups in the world and its impact on the women of Nigeria.

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A powerful account of one of the most notorious rebel groups in the world and its impact on the women of Nigeria.

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Two international policy analysts scrutinize the increasingly important operative and support roles women play in various terrorist organizations around the world.

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Women's approaches to problem-solving, leading, public policy positions, and relationships with people are different from men's. This is a practical how-to book written for women who are involved in the process, either elected or appointed to office, who wish to stay in office, be re-elected or move onto higher office.

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Presents profiles of 22 women who have been world leaders since 1960. This work contains biographies of the political leaders, embedded within regional analyses that reveal the personal circumstances that each woman faced in her quest for power, and also the political milieu from which she emerged.

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As one reads the classic works of political philosophy one is limited to books written by male authors. Arlene Saxonhouse argues that these classic authors, from Plato to Machiavelli, while they praised the world of male public action, also recognized that the public world was not the totality of human existence.

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The importance of gender as a category of analysis is now very widely accepted, but there has been a slowness to bring it to bear in general interpretative surveys of Nazi Germany. This new study aims to remedy the omission, to reintroduce as actors on the historical stage that half of the German population who were female.

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Provides a balanced survey of existing literature on women throughout the third world.

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What roles do women play in world politics Other contributors analyze international women's movements, the roles of women in the Green Movement and in the revolutionary movements in Cuba and Nicaragua, and the work of Jane Addams in the peace movement.