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Views from the Side Mirror: Essaying America spans 20 years in American political and cultural life.
From the Foreword, by Susan Herman, President of the ACLU: "The essays here are the products of a bold and restless mind. Robert's range of thoughts on the topics of our day is as individual as it is broad. He does not toe the line of any political party. He marches to his own ever-changing beat."
There's the America that is, and the one that could...
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Unlike most other emerging South American democracies, Venezuela has not succumbed to a successful military coup d'etat during four decades of democratic rule. What drives armed forces to follow the orders of elected leaders? And how do emerging democracies gain that control over their military establishments? Harold Trinkunas answers these questions in an examination of Venezuela's transition to democracy following military rule and its attempts...
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Love after Babel is a brilliant new poetry collection by Dalit poet Chandramohan S, a highly charged political treatise. Chandramohan's position as a Dalit writer illuminates his treatment of caste-based oppression, while also creating a sense of radical solidarity between various marginalized identities in contemporary Indian society through his focus on other forms of oppression, namely on experiences of Islamophobia, gender based violence and racism....
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Marc Gervais est titulaire d'un doctorat en sciences politiques de l'Université d'Ottawa et a été directeur des affaires parlementaires pour Innovation, Sciences et Développement économique Canada, dans un cabinet de ministre fédéral pendant une période de gouvernement minoritaire. Il a ensuite travaillé comme directeur exécutif pour le Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada jusqu'en 2021. Marc Gervais has a Ph. D in political...
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Fifty years ago, the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism published its final report. The result of innovative research and public consultations across the country, this report, replete with data and concepts, sets the stage for a comprehensive policy on official bilingualism, which would profoundly and indelibly change the face of Canada. The resolve to affirm the officially bilingual character of the country was met with the equally...
126) On People's War
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This book focuses on the people's war being waged by the New People's Army (NPA) led by the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP). It presents the reader with the NPA basic founding documents and my writings that reflect the NPA's growth in strength and advance from decade to decade since its founding on March 29, 1969. Waging people's war is not a purely military process. It involves the NPA taking ideological and political guidance from the CPP,...
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"Winner of the Jervis-Shroeder Best Book Award" G. John Ikenberry is the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Political and International Affairs at Princeton University and a Global Eminence Scholar at Kyung Hee University in Seoul. His books include Liberal Leviathan (Princeton). The end of the Cold War was a "big bang" reminiscent of earlier moments after major wars, such as the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 and the end of the world wars in 1919...
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Wrapped up in a story of the British public's' rejection of the establishment is a much darker story about shady money, untoward digital campaign tactics, and a fraught battle exploding from the highest rungs of British politics and society. Brexit: The Establishment Civil War is a crucial examination of what is now driving British politics, the dark money and forces attempting to manipulate it, and the online warfare techniques that are being, deployed...
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Wendy Hunter explores civil-military relations in Brazil following the transition to civilian leadership in 1985. She documents a marked, and surprising, decline in the political power of the armed forces, even as they have remained involved in national policy making. To account for the success of civilian politicians, Hunter invokes rational-choice theory in arguing that politicians will contest even powerful forces in order to gain widespread electoral...
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Bill Muckler was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. He attended the same parochial school for 9 years and graduated from Christian Brothers College High School (an Army Junior ROTC School) in St. Louis. Bill graduated from the University of Missouri-Columbia with a B.A. in Psychology (Personnel Management) with 2 years Air Force ROTC.
After graduation, Bill dodged both the draft and jury duty to enter the USMC Officer Candidate Course in Quantico,...
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In the era of Donald J. Trump, 45th president of the United States, a modern-day civil war rages. Led by elitists from Hollywood to New York, the Establishment has launched an unprecedented onslaught of hate and hypocrisy-single-minded of purpose: to destroy President Trump's efforts to make America great again. We see it every day! From riots and faux outrage, to attacks on conservative voices, to condescending Hollywood awards show speeches, to...
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A critical look at the Chavez regime from a leftist Venezuelan perspective, this account debunks claims made by Venezuelan and U.S. rightists that the regime is antidemocratic and dictatorial. Instead, the book argues that the Chavez government is one of a long line of Latin American populist organizations that have been ultimately subservient to the United States as well as multinational corporations. Explaining how autonomous Venezuelan social,...
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"Co-Winner of the 2007 Best Book Award, European Politics and Society Section of the American Political Science Association" "Winner of the 2004 Gabriel Almond Award for Best Dissertation in Comparative Politics, American Political Science Association" "Winner of the 2003 Ernst B. Haas Prize for Best Dissertation in European Politics, American Political Science Association" Daniel Ziblatt is associate professor of government and social studies at...
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A magisterial comparative study, Proud to Punish recenters our understanding of modern punishment through a sweeping analysis of the global phenomenon of "rough justice": the use of force to settle accounts and enforce legal and moral norms outside the formal framework of the law. While taking many forms, including vigilantism, lynch mobs, people's courts, and death squads, all seekers of rough justice thrive on the deliberate blurring of lines between...
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Making Civility Great Again directly addresses the problems and issues that are the sources of divisiveness and chaos in America today. Equally important, it describes numerous ways to communicate with greater civility with others, especially those whose views are much different from yours.
In doing so, Making Civility Great Again shows you how to be more diplomatic, assertive, and empathetic with people you know well and people with whom you interact...
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"One of Economist's Best Books for 2008" "Winner of the 2008 PROSE Award in Government and Politics, Association of American Publishers" Noah Feldman is the Bemis Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He is also a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine and an adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. He is the author of Scorpions, What We Owe Iraq, and After Jihad.
Perhaps no other Western writer has more deeply probed...
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This book was developed to present factual information as delineated by the title:
The United States of America
The Most Successful Nation and People of All
The 1620 Mayflower Pilgrims Began it, with Freedom for People and the Free Market,
The Constitution Defined It with Law, Success Reigned.
Government Proliferated, Changes Now Needed.
Too much of the information known about the economy and our marketplace is entirely incorrect. It has been...
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The Sison Reader Series Book 6 covers the period of 2000 to 2021 in continuity with Book 5 which covers the period of 1969 to 1999. The two books manifest the outstanding role of the Communist Party of the Philippines as one of the proletarian revolutionary parties of the world successfully leading the people's democratic revolution through protracted people's war under the theoretical guidance of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism. The CPP enjoys high prestige...
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This book explores the thinking of Canadian federal public service senior executives through conversations. The transformation of the environment and of the institutional order has created quite a challenge: maintaining some sort of adequacy between these evolving realities and the frames of reference in use by public sector executives. Complexity is often nothing more than a name for a new order calling for a new frame of reference, and the reluctance...
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Esta obra reúne reflexiones de analistas y experiencias de participantes directos de los principales procesos políticos acaecidos durante 2015-2020. Durante este período de nuestra historia reciente pudimos ver el ascenso y el descenso de Cambiemos, la caída y el regreso del peronismo, la emergencia de nuevas formas de comunicación y el retorno a otras viejas. En estos años, se produjo también la irrupción de nuevas agendas y formatos de comunicación...
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