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This book explores the significance of remembering the rescuers denouncing human rights crimes and protecting targeted victimsincluding the deadduring the Cold War state violence in Latin America. It moves past a victim perpetrator dichotomy to focus on those whose righteous acts were beacons for good in the midst of extreme violence.

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Studies why congress passed the Goldwater-Nichols Act of 1986, and assesses how the Act changed the U.S. military.

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In 1993, Congress created a student loan repayment plan intended to enable high-debt graduates to accept low-income, public service jobs by reducing their loan payments and eventually forgiving part of their debts.

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This volume looks back at the last half of the 20th century through the work and reminiscences of ten of the era's preeminent journalists.

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The Western world's responses to genocide have been slow, unwieldly and sometimes unfit for purpose.

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The Lowy Institute is an independent, nonpartisan international policy think tank located in Sydney, Australia. This anthology collects some of the best and most interesting papers, articles and op eds commissioned by the Lowy Institute since they first opened ten years ago, in April 2003.

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This book addresses a critical issue in global politics: how recognition and misrecognition fuel conflict or initiate reconciliation. Using a detailed empirical investigation of the fraught bilateral relations between the US and Iran, the book demonstrates how representations of one state by another influence foreign policy-making behavior.

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This book addresses a critical issue in global politics: how recognition and misrecognition fuel conflict or initiate reconciliation. Using a detailed empirical investigation of the fraught bilateral relations between the US and Iran, the book demonstrates how representations of one state by another influence foreign policy-making behavior.

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When people vote in a democracy, they expect the result of the election to be 'fair.' Is this true in the UK and if not, why not This book explains how our system of 'first-past-the-post' translates votes into seats and is essential reading at a time of unprecedented electoral uncertainty. -- .

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When people vote in a democracy, they expect the result of the election to be 'fair.' Is this true in the UK and if not, why not This book explains how our system of 'first-past-the-post' translates votes into seats and is essential reading at a time of unprecedented electoral uncertainty. -- .

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Although we tend to use the terms 'representative democracy' and 'democracy' as synonyms, they are not. Democracy means that the people govern; representative democracy means that the people elect others to govern for them. This raises the question of the extent to which repre...

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During the 1990s, many members of the House of Representatives could be characterized as citizen legislators - they either voluntarily limited their term in office or they had no prior political experience. Representing America compares the representational styles of these leg...

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Incorporating the writings of prominent political thinkers, this book looks at how approaches to Israel have been elaborated through broader ideologies - in particular liberal nationalism, Marxism and Islamism. It argues that representations of Israel have reflected Egyptian conceptions of self.

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Where policy is made depends to a large extent on how it is framed early in the process. This book discusses abortion policy in legal and political terms and analyzes how it ultimately led the courts to play a much more active role in policy development in New Jersey than in New York.

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Will French mainstream political parties and republican institutions survive extreme religious and racist movements on the right and left in the future

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An intimate, investigative portrait of how the purveyors of the politics of personal crisis and redemption brought down the GOP--and why they're still calling the shots for the party

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Detailed Political Science analysis of the Islamic Republic of Iran

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Since the New Deal, Republican presidents have looked for ways to accommodate rather than abolish the federal social safety net. Yet moderation often led to a backlash from their conservative supporters, leading Republican presidents, in some cases, to move from accommodation to opposition.

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Athanasios Moulakis makes available the essay How to Bring Order to Popular Government, by Renaissance thinker Francesco Guicciardini. In addition to his translation of the essay, Moulakis provides an analysis of this work. He shows that, the maturation of Forentine constitutional thought points to a modern idea of the republican state.