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  • Democracy in Trouble

    Democratic Resilience and Breakdown from 1900 to 2022

    by Myles Williamson, Christopher Akor, Amanda B. Edgell ...
    Series series Elements in Political Economy
    This Element investigates the process of executive aggrandizement to identify factors associated with democratic resilience. We focus on five democracies that showed resilience in the face of incumbent-led autocratization. To understand how these cases survived, we pair them with similar cases where incumbents successfully dismantled democracy from within. Through structured focused comparisons, ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

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  • Has China Won?

    The Chinese Challenge to American Primacy

    by Kishore Mahbubani ...
    **From a former president of the United Nations Security Council, an authoritative look at the US, China, and the defining geopolitical contest of the twenty-first century“An excellent and important book on the biggest question in international affairs: how will the relationship between the US and China evolve?” —Martin Wolf, chief economics commentator, Financial Times**China and the United ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • The Spirit of Democracy

    The Struggle to Build Free Societies Throughout the World

    by Larry Diamond ...
    "A neatly structured survey examines the prospects for universal democracy. . . . A refreshingly evenhanded overview of democracy's global prospects." — Kirkus Reviews"Meticulous [and] gleaned from his experience . . . Diamond is at his best when he recounts how ordinary people affect the democratic process." — The New York Times Book ReviewIn 1974, nearly three-quarters of all countries were ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Border and Rule

    Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism

    by Harsha Walia, Nick Estes ...
    In Border and Rule, one of North America’s foremost thinkers and immigrant rights organizers delivers an unflinching examination of migration as a pillar of global governance and gendered racial class formation.Harsha Walia disrupts easy explanations for the migrant and refugee crises, instead showing them to be the inevitable outcomes of the conquest, capitalist globalization, and climate change ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The China Fantasy

    Why Capitalism Will Not Bring Democracy to China

    by James Mann ...
    **The book that got China right: a prophetic work on how America's policies towards China led it away from liberalization and further towards authoritarianism, from the bestselling author of Rise of the Vulcans"[The China Fantasy] predicted, China would remain an authoritarian country, and its success would encourage other authoritarian regimes to resist pressures to change . . . Mann’s prediction ... Read more

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  • The Beijing Consensus

    Legitimizing Authoritarianism in Our Time

    by Stefan Halper ...
    Beijing presents a clear and gathering threat to Washington -- but not for the reasons you think. China's challenge to the West stems from its transformative brand of capitalism and an entirely different conception of the international community. In The Beijing Consensus, a leading expert in international relations presents a coherent integration of the many sides of U.S.-China relations. ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Democracies Divided

    The Global Challenge of Political Polarization

    Edited by Thomas Carothers, Andrew O'Donohue ...
    A must-read for anyone concerned about the fate of contemporary democracies.-Steven Levitsky, co-author of How Democracies Die2020 CHOICE Outstanding Academic TitleWhy divisions have deepened and what can be done to heal themAs one part of the global democratic recession, severe political polarization is increasingly afflicting old and new democracies alike, producing the erosion of democratic ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Democracy in Retreat

    The Revolt of the Middle Class and the Worldwide Decline of Representative Government

    by Joshua Kurlantzick ...
    Since the end of the Cold War, the assumption among most political theorists has been that as nations develop economically, they will also become more democratic—especially if a vibrant middle class takes root. This assumption underlies the expansion of the European Union and much of American foreign policy, bolstered by such examples as South Korea, the Philippines, Taiwan, and even to some ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Sexual Violence and Armed Conflict

    by Janie L. Leatherman ...
    Series series War and Conflict in the Modern World
    Every year, hundreds of thousands of women become victims of sexual violence in conflict zones around the world; in the Democratic Republic of Congo alone, approximately 1,100 rapes are reported each month.This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the causes, consequences and responses to sexual violence in contemporary armed conflict. It explores the function and effect of wartime sexual ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • Human Rights in International Relations

    by David P. Forsythe ...
    Series series Themes in International Relations
    This fourth edition of David P. Forsythe's successful textbook provides an authoritative and timely analysis of the place of human rights in an age of upheaval in international politics. Human rights standards are examined at the global, regional and national levels, with separate chapters on transnational corporations and advocacy groups. Completely updated and revised, the fourth edition takes ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • The Responsibility to Protect

    Ending Mass Atrocity Crimes Once and For All

    by Gareth Evans ...
    ""Never again!"" the world has vowed time and again since the Holocaust. Yet genocide, ethnic cleansing, and other mass atrocity crimes continue to shock our consciences-from the killing fields of Cambodia to the machetes of Rwanda to the agony of Darfur.Gareth Evans has grappled with these issues firsthand. As Australian foreign minister, he was a key broker of the United Nations peace plan for ... Read more

    $28.19 USD

  • Backsliding

    Democratic Regress in the Contemporary World

    by Stephan Haggard, Robert Kaufman ...
    Series series Elements in Political Economy
    Assaults on democracy are increasingly coming from the actions of duly elected governments, rather than coups. Backsliding examines the processes through which elected rulers weaken checks on executive power, curtail political and civil liberties, and undermine the integrity of the electoral system. Drawing on detailed case studies, including the United States and countries in Latin America, ... Read more

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