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This book analyzes Obamas foreign policy in the Americas, focusing on major security-related issues such as drug trafficking, organized crime, and terrorism. This book is meant not only for academics and students but also for policy analysts.

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This book analyzes Obamas foreign policy in the Americas, focusing on major security-related issues such as drug trafficking, organized crime, and terrorism. This book is meant not only for academics and students but also for policy analysts.

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The Obama administration is shaping up to be one of the most consequential in recent American history. In the revised edition of this book, now including new two chapters assessing the Obama administration and federalism and Obama as commander-in-chief, a diverse group of pres...

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A comprehensive analysis of the Obama presidency, its actions in office and its policy directions. The changes in orientation and policy directions that took place are both accounted for and explained in a policy and political context as are their consequences for the institution of the presidency itself.

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In the first comprehensive study of the Office of Management and Budget Larry Berman traces its evolution from a once impartial and objective presidential staff agency to The Office of Meddling and Bumbling (TOMB), as it was known by the end of the Nixon administration. In doing so he analyzes both its established role and the subsequent changes in

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The construction, control and preservation of the Official Record is inherently contested. This volume interrogates the boundaries between national security, accountability, oversight, and the Official Record in the context of democratic states.

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This book provides a systematic study of the political, economic, cultural, and educational changes that have taken place in China since 1978, and examines the impacts of these changes on the Chinese people's thinking and behavior.

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The Operator's Manual for the New Administration explains how government works and how to make it work to advance policy goals and objectives. Bringing decades of experience in government administration, the authors have identified eight key tools-leadership, performance, peop...

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The president of the Council on Foreign Relations asserts that, despite the visible dangers of our time, we are living in a moment of unique opportunity for the U.S. to shape the future.

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The Oral Presidency of Barack Obama is an examination of Barack Obamas signature weapon of his presidency: his speeches. This book provides the social and cultural context that made the content of his speeches timeless.

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The Oral Presidency of Barack Obama is an examination of Barack Obamas signature weapon of his presidency: his speeches. This book provides the social and cultural context that made the content of his speeches timeless.

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This is the most up-to-date and comprehensive analysis of the organization of the major political parties of France, Spain, Italy, and Greece.

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Deconstructs Anglo-American texts that posit freedom as natural to show that free people must construct their history and their Others to count themselves as free. This book argues the notion that freedom is natural and needs only to be guaranteed by limited government.

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Why would sovereigns ever grant political or economic liberty to their subjects Under what conditions would rational rulers who possess ultimate authority and who seek to maximize power and wealth ever give up any of that authority This book answers these questions, investigating both why sovereign powers might liberalize and when.

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Bruce Kuniholm takes a regional perspective to focus on postwar diplomacy in Iran, Turkey, and Greece and efforts in these countries to maintain their independence from the Great Powers. Drawing on a wide variety of secondary sources, government documents, private papers, unpublished memoirs, and extensive interviews with key figures, he shows how

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This work provides the first in-depth study of the Twelfth Amendment of the United States Constitution from the larger perspective of the development of the electoral college.