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This book examines the positive effects of the petition system on Chinas resilient decentralized authoritarian regime. Combining detailed case studies and rigorous statistical analysis, it argues that citizens petitions help the regime to alleviate threats to stability by giving an information edge to the Chinese central government.

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First published in 1984, USIA: Public Diplomacy in the Computer Age is the only current study of America's public diplomacy agency. This completely revised and updated second edition incorporates the dramatic changes that have occurred in USIA world communications through computerization.

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This book examines how regional political parties have used Europe to advance their territorial projects in a period of rapid state restructuring. It offers a new and theoretically innovative account of the dynamics of multi-level governance based on a comparative study of territorial party strategies in the UK, Germany and Italy. -- .

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A compilation of over 150 primary-source Web sites covering American government from pre-colonial times to the present day, as well as economics and world issues. Questions and activities for the student are included, encouraging critical thinking skills.

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This study examines US relations with Spain during its political transition to democracy after 1975. The author focuses on the US military presence in the country and analyzes how the Spanish democratic governments perception of the states own recent past affected its aims and actions in the post-Franco period.

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This study examines US relations with Spain during its political transition to democracy after 1975. The author focuses on the US military presence in the country and analyzes how the Spanish democratic governments perception of the states own recent past affected its aims and actions in the post-Franco period.

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While other volumes look at literary utopias or examine utopias in only one country, this work examines utopias from antiquity to the present and surveys utopian efforts around the world.

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Uzbekistan is undergoing rapid and fundamental reforms affecting all areas of society, from economics and judicial matters to religious life and foreign affairs. This process is helping kindle a new spirit of regionalism in Central Asia, and provides new opportunities for Western governments and businesses.

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Uzbekistan is undergoing rapid and fundamental reforms affecting all areas of society, from economics and judicial matters to religious life and foreign affairs. This process is helping kindle a new spirit of regionalism in Central Asia, and provides new opportunities for Western governments and businesses.

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Vaclav Havel is revered as one of the 20th-century's great playwrights, dissidents, and honest champions of democracy. In this study, John Keane reveals a Havel so far unseen, dramatising the key moments of joy, misery, triumph and tragedy on which his life has turned.

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In Value War, Paul R. Brewer looks at how the public debate about gay rights has shaped public opinion and conversely how public opinion has shaped the public debate about gay rights.

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This book throws light on whether Asian values constitute a specific genre that differentiates Asia from the West and feeds into its nations foreign policies, and whether there is a basic difference of opinion on values or merely an aspect of contemporary power politics.

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This book throws light on whether Asian values constitute a specific genre that differentiates Asia from the West and feeds into its nations foreign policies, and whether there is a basic difference of opinion on values or merely an aspect of contemporary power politics.

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Veblens America examines the astonishing political rise of Donald Trump through the portal of Thorstein Veblens theory of barbaric legacies in American development.

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The material in this book covers more than three decades of exchanges between Betancourt and Robert Alexander, presenting details of Betancourt's career and the evolution of his thinking.

The material begins with Alexander's first meeting with Betancourt, in 1948, and continues up until the political leader's death forty years later.

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The gripping true story of the Israeli-led hunt for the men responsible for the massacre of eleven Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics in 1972, which has inspired Steven Spielbergs forthcoming film epic Munich.

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This analysis examines the influences of community, paramilitarism, post-conflict politics, and culture on contemporary Ulster loyalism to explain its socio-political dynamics.

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This analysis examines the influences of community, paramilitarism, post-conflict politics, and culture on contemporary Ulster loyalism to explain its socio-political dynamics.

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Explains how governments are structured. This book shows why an increase in the number of 'veto players', or an increase in their ideological distance from each other, increases policy stability, impeding significant departures from the status quo.

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Memorial began as a group of dissidents who secretly met to exchange stories of Stalinist repression, make contacts, and collect whatever records they could obtain to establish historical truths about Soviet totalitarianism.

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Since 1952, when Eisenhower's media consultants decided they could warm up the General's personality and overcome selective exposure by using short spots on television, advertising has played a major role in American presidential campaigns.

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Pondering the origins of U.S. involvement in Vietnam, Professor Chen turns to the Indochinese war (1946-1954), the Vietnamese Communist movement under Ho Chi Minh (1944-1945), and even earlier to Ho's activities in the late 1930's. He examines the questions: Did the Sino-Vietnamese relationship after World War II assist or hinder the Vietminh Commu

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