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Although recognizing that Africa's economic decline has resulted from poorly designed policy, the contributors also attempt to place that policy in its historical and cultural context. Similarly, they establish a comparative perspective for Africa's economic performance, and point to outside forces that have been overlooked.

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Stanley Aronowitz lays bare the fundamental logical problems in Marxist theory with respect to nature, gender and race relations, the concept of class, and historical time. Aronowitz offers an approach towards a new way of thinking about these problems.

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Argues that the foreign policy of the United States reflects the divisions and dysfunctions we see in our domestic culture and society. This text tackles such issues as ethnocentrism (our inability to understand other countries) in foreign policy as well as US efforts to extend democracy, human rights, and civil society in other countries.

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Israels democratic crisis, includes unprecedented anti-government demonstrations and sharp critique of the governments management of the Gaza War. The book covers in Israels history, constitutional order, social cleavages, psychological factors, and Netanyahus leadership style, factors that led to the current crisis.

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Offers insights into the Global Justice Movement an influential transnational movement and predecessor of the recent struggles for economic and social justice and against austerity.

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Offers insights into the Global Justice Movement an influential transnational movement and predecessor of the recent struggles for economic and social justice and against austerity.

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In this definitive volume on the Mexican labor movement, journalist Dan La Botz concentrates on labor politics, the relationship of the unions to the state, and their relevance to other struggles for union independence.

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A dramatic shift is taking place in Israel and America. In Israel, the deepening occupation of the West Bank is putting Israeli democracy at risk. In the United States, the refusal of major Jewish organisations to defend democracy in the Jewish state is alienating many young liberal Jews from Zionism itself.

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Jose Marti contributed greatly to Cuba's struggle for independence from Spain with words as well as revolutionary action. Although he died before the formation of an independent republic, he has since been hailed as a heroic martyr inspiring Cuban republican traditions.

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This work espouses that though African Americans have come a long way, issues such as social, economic, health, educational, judicial, political, cultural, and civil rights are of such a critical nature that President Barack Obama must meet them head on and in a manner different from that of mainstream America.

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This study examines the culture of leadershipwithin the government, the Communist Party, and businessin contemporary China. The author analyzes the conflict between traditional Chinese values, communist ideology, and Western liberalism.

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This study examines the culture of leadershipwithin the government, the Communist Party, and businessin contemporary China. The author analyzes the conflict between traditional Chinese values, communist ideology, and Western liberalism.

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A hilarious and deeply irreverent take on the political life and times of our twenty-ninth prime minister and his stumbling government.

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Suggests that the cybernetic theory of decision as developed in such diverse fields as information theory, mathematical logic, and behavioral psychology generates a systematic but non-rational analysis that seems to explain quite naturally decisions that are puzzling when viewed from the rational perspective.

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This interdisciplinary study on liberalism explores the history of liberal thought in philosophy, the social sciences, cultural theory, and American political theory. The discussion focuses on an internal conflict between cultural and political values that favor political elitism and doctrines that favor some form of political democracy.

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Drawing on a wide array of primary and secondary sources, this text aims to compare and contrast the historical roots, goals, strategies, organizational structures and current activities of Palestinian and Israeli opponents of any mutual compromise.

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This comparative study of terrorism and counter-measures and their effect upon democratic practices and traditions is published under the auspices of the University of New Brunswick Centre for Conflict Studies in Canada.

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The first edition of The Death of Deliberation explained why gridlock does not happen, and this edition expands that argument to account for gridlock when it does occur. The result is the first comprehensive explanation of how the Senate actually works in practice.

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The debate on the English Revolution is a guide to the literature in its field and appears here in a revised third edition. New chapters are included on twentieth-century historians' treatments of social complexities, politics, politician culture and revisionism, and on the Revolution's unstoppable reverberations.

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This A-to-Z encyclopedia surveys the history, meaning, and enduring impact of the Declaration of Independence by explaining its contents and concepts, profiling the Founding Fathers, and detailing depictions of the Declaration in art, music, and literature.