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Roll Out the Red Carpet for Timothy Frye!
Timothy Frye, author of Building States and Markets After Communism, is the 2011 winner of the Ed A. Hewett Book Prize from the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies.
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Severine Autesserre Wins Prestigious Grawemeyer Award
Congratulations to Severine Autesserre, author of The Trouble with the Congo, winner of the 2012 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order!
Ideology in America
This book explains why the American public thinks of itself as conservative, but supports liberal positions on specific policy matters. Much scholarly work and popular commentary discusses the ideology of the American public: whether the public should be thought of as liberal or conservative, and why. This book is the first to focus squarely on the contradiction in public attitudes. By doing so, it can provide a broader explanation of American political ideology, and how American citizens connect their own beliefs and values to the choices presented by policy makers.
- $27.99 (Z)
Power and Willpower in the American Future
This book makes a strong argument against the widely proclaimed notion that the United States is destined to decline. Everywhere we look, scholars, pundits, politicians, foreign commentators, and the wider blogosphere pronounce and repeat the idea. Today's problems at home and abroad are less severe than those the United States has overcome in the past. Ultimately, the ability to avoid serious decline is less a question of material factors than of policy, leadership, and political will.
- $24.99 (G)
Strangers at the Gates
The book places social movements in the broader arena of contentious politics in relation to states, political parties, and other actors. Looking at examples from peasants and communists in 1960s Italy, to movements and politics in contemporary western polities, to the global justice movement in the new century, the book argues that contentious actors are neither outside of nor completely within politics, but rather they occupy the uncertain territory between total opposition and integration into the policy.
- $26.99 (Z)
The Political Construction of Business Interests
The Political Construction of Business Interests investigates the contribution of business coordination to equality and solidarity. This book recounts the development of encompassing employers' associations and the subsequent paradoxical positive effect of these associations on employers' views toward social policies. This research has important implications for the construction of business as a social class and powerful ramifications for equality, welfare state restructuring, and social solidarity.
- $31.99 (Z)
Sanctions, Statecraft, and Nuclear Proliferation
Leading scholars analyse key dilemmas in the application of sanctions and inducements on states that violate international non-proliferation commitments.
- $32.99 (Z)
Achieving Nuclear Ambitions
A powerful new perspective on nuclear proliferation that counters the widespread fears of a coming cascade of new nuclear powers.
- $32.99 (Z)
The Rise of Ethnic Politics in Latin America
The Rise of Ethnic Politics in Latin America explores why indigenous movements have recently won elections for the first time in the region's history. Raúl L. Madrid argues that indigenous parties have won by using a combination of inclusive ethnic and populist appeals to reach out to whites and mestizos, as well as to indigenous people. This book contains up-to-date analyses of parties in seven countries, including detailed case studies of Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru.
- $28.99 (Z)
Chinese and Indian Strategic Behavior
This book offers an empirical comparison of Chinese and Indian international strategic behavior. The book creates a framework for the systematic and objective assessment of Chinese and Indian strategic behavior in four areas: (1) strategic culture; (2) foreign policy and use of force; (3) military modernization (including defense spending, military doctrine, and force modernization); and (4) economic strategies (including international trade and energy competition).
- $34.99 (Z)
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Direct Action, Deliberation, and Diffusion
- $90.00 (C)
