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Includes an introduction by Katha Pollitt, commentary, notes, and reading group guide.

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Issues a persuasive call for greater coherence, clarity, and public candor from the American government regarding its detention policy and practices, and greater citizen awareness of the same. This title illustrates how US detention policy is a tangle of obfuscation rather than a serious set of moral and legal decisions.

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This intriguing book introduces the first Social Security reform proposal tailored to meet the nation's fiscal challenges and care for an aging population.

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It's the illusion that we would be better off without politics - at least national politics, and perhaps all politics. This title describes a few essential features of democracy and the nation-state, and then shows how these characteristics illuminate many aspects of our present political circumstances.

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We live in the grip of a great illusion about politics, Pierre Manent argues in A World beyond Politics It's the illusion that we would be better off without politics--at least national politics, and perhaps all politics. It is a fantasy that if democratic values could somehow detach themselves from their traditional national context, we could ent

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A visionary examination of the deteriorating ability of the U.S. and other global powers to shape the world in their image, and the end of the world order they sought.

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A section on domestic policy starts with a chapter on the state of the U.S. economy, followed by chapters on making fiscal policy, monetary policy, and labor policy.

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This study examines the military, political, and personal life of Abdul Harus Nasution, a seminal figure in modern Indonesian history. The author analyzes Nasutions participation in the countrys struggle for independence, his role as leader of the armed forces, and his strategies on guerrilla warfare and civilian mobilization.

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Most accounts of the peace process are 'top-down', relying upon the views of political elites. This book is 'bottom-up', analysing the voices of those who actually 'fought the war'. What made them fight, why did they stop and what are the lessons for other conflict zones -- .

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Over the past decade there have been 32 land rights cases in the Northern Territory which have been started or completed. This book charts the territories of various Aboriginal groups throughout Australia.

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The myth of Aboriginal people as simply passive welfare recipients remains dominant. This book examines Aboriginal interaction with a wide range of agencies at federal, state and local levels (giving equal emphasis to each) in order to identify the real state of affairs.

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Written by both historians and political scientists, this new essay collection explores the sources, style, and quality of Lincoln's leadership.

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A historic Supreme Court Ruling makes possible this landmark publishing event: every Oval office conversation showing Richard Nixon's stunning abuse of presidential power - released to the public for the very first time.

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Successful democracies throughout history--from ancient Athens to Britain on the cusp of the industrial age--have used the technology of their time to gather information for better governance. Our challenge is no different today, but it is more urgent because the accelerating pace of technological change creates potentially enormous dangers as well

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This unique guide helps to answer two important questions for researchers planning to use government information sources. Access to U.S. Government Information will be an essential tool for political scientists, legal researchers, librarians, and anyone interested in public policy, policymakers, and the links between them.

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This much revised and expanded edition guides researchers to sources that provide information about the general and specific subjects which form the jurisdiction of the U.S. Government.

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Analysis of the US involvement in Syria, in the fight against ISIS, and the US relationship with the Syrian Democratic Forces.