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“dennis pilon”

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  • Wrestling with Democracy

    Voting Systems as Politics in the 20th Century West

    by Dennis Pilon ...
    Though sharing broadly similar processes of economic and political development from the mid-to-late nineteenth century onward, western countries have diverged greatly in their choice of voting systems: most of Europe shifted to proportional voting around the First World War, while Anglo-American countries have stuck with relative majority or majority voting rules. Using a comparative historical ... Read more

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    Cataclysmic Wars Redraw the Map of the Middle East

    by Ali Shihabi ...
    This work of fiction analyzes the two most dangerous political fault lines running across the Middle East: the Arabian/Israeli-Iranian conflict and the Palestinian-Israeli struggle. In Arabian War Games, the author proposes, through the use of fiction, a scenario where these issues all come to a head in a perfect storm. It is the year 20XX, and the regime in Iran, by then nearly choking to death ... Read more

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  • The Welfare of Nations

    by James Bartholomew ...
    What damage is being done by failing welfare states? What lessons can be learned from the best welfare states? And—is it too late to stop welfare states from permanently diminishing the lives and liberties of people around the world? Traveling around the globe, James Bartholomew examines welfare models, searching for the best education, health care, and support services in 11 vastly different ... Read more

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  • The Reproach of Hunger

    Food, Justice, and Money in the Twenty-First Century

    by David Rieff ...
    Hailed as “invaluable…a substantial work of political thought,” (New Statesman) in a groundbreaking report, based on years of reporting, David Rieff assesses whether ending extreme poverty and widespread hunger is truly within our reach, as is increasingly promised.Can we provide enough food for nine billion people in 2050, especially the bottom poorest in the Global South? Some of the most ... Read more

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  • Henry Kissinger Foreign Policy E-book Boxed Set

    Crisis, Does America Need a Foreign Policy?, and Diplomacy

    by Henry Kissinger ...
    This ebook boxed set includes the following 3 books by Henry Kissinger, detailing America’s approach to foreign policy.***Crisis:***By drawing upon hitherto unpublished transcripts of his telephone conversations during the Yom Kippur War (1973) and the last days of the Vietnam War (1975), Henry Kissinger reveals what goes on behind the scenes at the highest levels in a diplomatic crisis.Does ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • Economic Globalization: The Era of Corporate Rule

    by Jerry Mander, Hildegarde Hannum ...
    Series series Annual E. F. Schumacher Lectures
    The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.Long in the forefront of the anti-globalization movement, Jerry Mander sets forth in clear and impassioned terms the devastating effects of the current global economy—"the most fundamental redesign of the planet's systems since the Industrial ... Read more

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  • Feminist Agendas and Democracy in Latin America

    by Marcela Ríos Tobar, Jutta Marx, Jutta Borner, Mariana Caminotti ...
    Latin American women’s movements played important roles in the democratic transitions in South America during the 1980s and in Central America during the 1990s. However, very little has been written on what has become of these movements and their agendas since the return to democracy. This timely collection examines how women’s movements have responded to the dramatic political, economic, and ... Read more

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  • Globalization and Migration

    A World in Motion

    by Eliot Dickinson ...
    Series series Globalization
    Focusing on the intersection between globalization and migration, this powerful text traces a dynamic, contradictory process that has set the world in motion and incorporated millions of migrants into an economic market whose dimensions are unprecedented in human history. Eliot Dickinson emphasizes recent developments in global politics, such as the massive number of refugees from wars in the ... Read more

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  • Elitist Political Concepts

    by Andrey Davydov ...
    Consideration of the term "political elite" as a synonym of the concept of "political power" is largely an attempt to look at new values from the viewpoint of a political historian, who seeks analogues in the past. Unfortunately, today such excursus is unlikely to end in success because it is known that modern economic growth is distinguished by the primary role of scientific and technical ... Read more

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  • From Civil Strife to Peace Building

    Examining Private Sector Involvement in West African Reconstruction

    Edited by Hany Besada ...
    Series series Studies in International Governance
    From Civil Strife to Peace Building examines peace-building efforts in the fragile West African states of Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Côte d’Ivoire, with a focus on the role of the private sector in leading the reconstruction initiatives. Given that aid and debt relief, the traditional remedies for dependency and underdevelopment, have not been effective, the private sector is increasingly viewed ... Read more

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  • Australia as an Asia-Pacific Regional Power

    Friendships in Flux?

    Edited by Brendan Taylor ...
    Series series Routledge Security in Asia Pacific Series
    During recent years, in its traditional role as an important Asia-Pacific regional power, Australia has had to cope with a rapidly changing external security environment and a series of new challenges, including a rising China, an increasingly assertive United States, and most notably the Global War against Terror.This book considers the changing nature of Australia’s identity and role in the Asia ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Rethinking the Rise and Fall of Apartheid

    South Africa and World Politics

    by Adrian Guelke ...
    Series series Rethinking World Politics
    Providing a much-needed antidote to recent revisionist attempts to 'rehabilitate' apartheid, this major new text by a leading authority offers a considered and substantive reassessment of the nature, endurance and significance of apartheid in South Africa as well as the reasons for its dramatic collapse. Paying particular attention to the international dimension as well as the domestic, the author ... Read more

    $46.99 USD