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Drawing from numerous historical sources, the editor summarizes the views of Paine and Jefferson on liberty in America, and on the contrasting political realities in Europe as well.

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Under what conditions should we expect states to do things radically differently all of a sudden In this book, David Welch seeks to answer this question, constructing a theory of foreign policy change inspired by organization theory, cognitive and motivational psychology, and prospect theory. He then "test drives" the theory in a series of compara

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Addresses the question: Under what conditions should we expect states to do things radically differently all of a sudden This book constructs a theory of foreign policy change inspired by organization theory, cognitive and motivational psychology, and prospect theory.

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Analyzes Pakistan's security and insurgency issues, looking at the threats posed to and by this nuclear-armed Islamic nation. This title focuses on the insurgency in Pakistan, a security problem not only for the country, but also for the region and the rest of the world.

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The only country in Islamic world to be formed in the name of Islam and a nuclear power, Pakistan is struggling for its very existence and is at war with itself. This book analyzes Pakistan's security and insurgency issues, looking at the threats posed to and by this nuclear-armed Islamic nation.

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Do ethnic Arabs or Palestinians have a future within the borders of the state of Israel It deals broadly with relations between Jew and Arab, and between Arab and Arab, finding that Palestinian society is highly fragmented along familial, regional, religious, economic, gender, and generational lines.

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Positing that the Palestinians are a unit mainly triangled between Israel, the Territories, and Jordan, and that the territory in dispute encompasses the whole of British Mandate Palestine, Raphael Israeli gives an overview of the roots and historical development of the problem.

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Mitcham covers the Battle of the Schnee Eifel from the German point of view in greater depth than any book has ever done, using unpublished German after-action reports and manuscripts, especially those of Lieutenant Colonel Dietrich Moll, the chief of operations of the 18th Volksgrenadier.

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This book examines major historical post-war transition periods, with particular emphasis on the differences and similarities of the American experience after both world wars of this century and with the post-Cold War transition currently underway.

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"Paradoxes of Populism" discusses the fantasies, promises and contradictions of populism as also its backgrounds and causes. While demonstrating the many varieties of populism, the book explains its rising popularity and steers the reader through the many myths and misconceptions surrounding it.

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This book examines the character of the governing elite of sixteenth-century Paris--a group that included some of the most important jurists, administrators, and intellectuals of the early modern French state--and investigates the strategies employed by members of this group to promote and maintain their position in the city and in the monarchy. O

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This fully revised new edition includes expanded coverage of Parliament's relationship with the courts, devolved assemblies and the European Union. Distinctively, the book goes beyond the usual focus of Parliament-Government relations to encompass policy-makers beyond Whitehall and Parliament's broader relationship with citizens.

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An account of the development of the parliamentary committee system in Australia from 1970 to 2006. It explores the implications the system has for both governance and careers of parliamentarians. It examines the different roles of House of Representative and Senate committees.

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'Parliament today' is an up-to-date textbook, placing parliament in its historical, constitutional and social context, focusing on how it operates in modern Britain and how it might be reformed. -- .

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An authoritative analysis of the trajectory and outcome of reform of the UK parliament across the past century, addressing significant debates about the balance of executive-legislative relations in Britain, and which employs historical and institutional perspectives for the purposes of analysing and explaining political change at Westminster.