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How can political theory help us understand and solve the political questions of our time This introduction to political theory illuminates its relevance and applicability and clarifies what is at stake in a range of contemporary debates. The new edition has been revised throughout and has a new chapter on civil disobedience and whistle-blowing.

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Improving the economic performance of Arab countries is now more critical than ever. The region faces high population growth rates, rising unemployment, and modest economic growth coupled with increasingly intense competition from emerging markets in eastern Europe, Latin America, and Asia.

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For every pithy conceptualization of complex events, there are additional lenses through which to examine them. This book brings different perspectives to bear on the complexity, diversity, and uncertainty of events in the Arab world. It explains and interprets the societal transformations occurring in the Arab Muslim world.

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The Arab Spring was born in Tunisia and collapsed in Egypt. What did Tunisia do right and Egypt so wrong This book analyzes the political, economic and constitutional developments in Tunisia and Egypt before and after the Arab uprisings and seeks to answer why their transitional paths diverged substantially.

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This work on Arab-Israeli conflict provides an up-to-date collection of significant documents showing chronological development of the conflict and peacekeeping efforts. The text covers a period between 1896 and 1995.

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The book examines the integration of Arab-Palestinian society, an ethnic minority within the nation-state of Israel, in Israels political system and the relation between political trends, leadership, and identity. It also delves into the causes of the crisis in Arab localities and the relations to the local political structure.

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The inspiring career of the New England lawyer who became an American hero by insisting that not even the president was above the law. A great read, it will be even more timely when published in paperback.

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This book seeks to understand better how Arctic cross- border cooperation is developed, sustained and periodically contested against a backdrop of power relations. -- .

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The Polar North is known to be home to large gas and oil reserves and its position holds significant trading and military advantages, yet the territorial boundaries of the region remain ill-defined.

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The Polar North is known to be home to large gas and oil reserves and its position holds significant trading and military advantages, yet the territorial boundaries of the region remain ill-defined.

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This book explores what it means for state personnel from Norway, Iceland, and Canada that their country holds a formal title as an 'Arctic state'. It asks what an Arctic state identity might look like through geographies, pasts, futures, and geopolitical relations across different scales, from the international to the personal.

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Argues that Hannah Arendt" 's reconceptualization of the nature and value of political action has been covered over and domesticated by admirers. This book explores Arendt's modernity, and indeed her postmodernity, through the Heideggerian and Nietzschean theme of a break with tradition at the closure of metaphysics.

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This volume explores the place of aristocratic virtues and values in the modern democratic world. Essays examine aristocratic priorities and interpretations of historic and contemporary aristocratic assemblies as well as critiques of liberal or bourgeois virtues, democratic equality, and democratic institutions.

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Much of classical political thought ascribed paramount importance to elite formation: what institutions and traditions would cultivate the best qualities in the ruling class, and curb their exorbitances. This volume consists of essays by political theorists who explore these questions in the works of aristocratic thinkers, both ancient and modern.

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This study analyses the inner workings of the political and military control system used by the USSR and former communist regimes in Eastern Europe to rule the region until recent times and how these controls collapsed and were swept away by the "revolutions" in 1989.

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