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"Reader-friendly...it does move our understanding of the 2000 vote beyond the 'urgent trivia' of classic campaign books."--Washington Post

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This text explores the relations between the US and Europe since 1945. It looks at the alliance from different angles, at personal and economic relationships as well as those focusing on defence. It covers the language of power, and the very concept of a special relationship.

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Bringing together a selection of Slavoj Zizek's major writings on politics, this book includes his interventions on such world political events as the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 and the American-led invasion of Iraq, his celebration of the revolutionary potential of Stalinism, and his critique of Third Way politics.

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An intriguing investigation, shattering the hackneyed notion that knowledge is power.

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Wood thoughtfully explains the origins of our current cultural malaise, and argues that western culture literally becomes more unreasonable as we abandon our Enlightenment heritage and become an anti-intellectual society.

There are steps we can take to reclaim our intellectual heritage.

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Originally published in hardcover in 2013 by Bloomsbury Academic.

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This is an investigation into what has gone wrong with the social fabric of American society. The author postulates two models of society - one that pursues profit and self-interest, and the other that cherishes community values - and argues that the two ethics cannot co-exist.

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Presents a study of a controversy in Britain at the turn of the twentieth century. This book explains how England's rulers failed to understand and respond to the initial evidence of erosion in their country's industrial, financial, naval, and military power.

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The American welfare state is supposed to be a pale imitation of 'true' welfare states in Europe and Canada. This book argues that the American welfare state is in fact larger, more popular, and more dynamic than commonly believed.

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One of Washington's finest writers on people, politics, and life -- collected for the first time.

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Beginning with the premise that democracies are often deeply implicated in their own downfall, The Theory of Democide challenges the conventional view of how and why democracies collapse by demonstrating that democratic collapse is often a direct result of the inherent logic of democracy itself.

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How should we respond to the inhumanity that suffused the 20th Century and continues in the present one Has there been an adequate treatment of this issue by the political left Questions such as these are treated in this, the first scholarly book to combine academic and blogging approaches to some of the major political issues of the day.

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A leading environmental thinker explores how people might begin to heal their fractured and contentious relationship with the land and with each other. From the coalfields of Appalachia and the tobacco fields of the Carolinas to the public lands of the West, Purdy shows how the land has always united and divided Americans.

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Takes issue with the near-universal tendency of Hobbes scholars to emphasize the influence of Hobbes's natural philosophy on his political philosophy. This book shows how Hobbes's political ideas influence his natural philosophy.

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This volume is a comparative study of the political thought of three writers who, between 1885 and 1914, were leaders in the counterrevolutionary movement in France. Maurice Barres was a nationalistic conservative; Charles Maurras, a classic reactionary; and Georges Sorel, a moralist and syndicalist. Different though the three men were in their con

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Adapting Greek philosopher Thucydides fivefold classification of fear, this book analyses fears emerging in contemporary great-power states facing existential crises in their identity politics.

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