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  • Gains and Losses

    How Protestors Win and Lose

    by James M. Jasper, Luke Elliott-Negri, Isaac Jabola-Carolus, Marc Kagan, Jessica Mahlbacher, Anna Zhelnina, Manès Weisskircher ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Culture and Politics
    Presents cutting edge theory about the consequences of social movements and protest while asking what kind of trade-offs protest movements face in trying to change the world around them. Many scholars have tried to figure out why some social movements have an impact and others do not. By looking inside movements at their component parts and recurrent strategic interactions, the authors of Gains ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

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  • State Building

    Governance and World Order in the 21st Century

    by Francis Fukuyama ...
    Weak or failed states - where no government is in control - are the source of many of the world's most serious problems, from poverty, AIDS and drugs to terrorism. What can be done to help? The problem of weak states and the need for state-building has existed for many years, but it has been urgent since September 11 and Afghanistan and Iraq.The formation of proper public institutions, such as an ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • The Fall of the Faculty:The Rise of the All-Administrative University and Why It Matters

    by Benjamin Ginsberg ...
    Until very recently, American universities were led mainly by their faculties, which viewed intellectual production and pedagogy as the core missions of higher education. Today, as Benjamin Ginsberg warns in this eye-opening, controversial book, "deanlets"--administrators and staffers often without serious academic backgrounds or experience--are setting the educational agenda. The Fall of the ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Peaceland

    Conflict Resolution and the Everyday Politics of International Intervention

    by Séverine Autesserre ...
    Series series Problems of International Politics
    This book suggests a new explanation for why international peace interventions often fail to reach their full potential. Based on several years of ethnographic research in conflict zones around the world, it demonstrates that everyday elements - such as the expatriates' social habits and usual approaches to understanding their areas of operation - strongly influence peacebuilding effectiveness. ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Six Faces of Globalization

    Who Wins, Who Loses, and Why It Matters

    by Anthea Roberts, Nicolas Lamp ...
    An essential guide to the intractable public debates about the virtues and vices of economic globalization, cutting through the complexity to reveal the fault lines that divide us and the points of agreement that might bring us together.Globalization has lifted millions out of poverty. Globalization is a weapon the rich use to exploit the poor. Globalization builds bridges across national ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • The Paradox of American Power

    Why the World's Only Superpower Can't Go It Alone

    by Joseph S. Nye, Jr. ...
    Not since the Roman Empire has any nation had as much economic, cultural, and military power as the United States does today. Yet, as has become all too evident through the terrorist attacks of September 11th and the impending threat of the acquisition of nuclear weapons by Iran, that power is not enough to solve global problems--like terrorism, environmental degradation, and the proliferation of ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Accidental Conflict

    America, China, and the Clash of False Narratives

    by Stephen Roach ...
    The misguided forces driving conflict escalation between America and China, and the path to a new relationship“A timely, fluid, readable assessment of a testy and rapidly changing global relationship.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)In the short span of four years, America and China have entered a trade war, a tech war, and a new Cold War. This conflict between the world’s two most powerful ... Read more

    $23.39 USD

  • Fired Up about Capitalism

    by Tom Malleson ...
    Series Book 1 - Fired Up
    There is no alternative to free-market capitalism. At least that’s what we’ve been told since the 1980s, when Margaret Thatcher first declared the debate over. Politicians daily declare it, journalists parrot it, talk show hosts acquiesce to it, rich people gloat about it, and regular people simply assume it.Fired Up about Capitalism forcefully argues that this is nothing but a myth. Tom Malleson ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Getting China Wrong

    by Aaron L. Friedberg ...
    The West’s strategy of engagement with China has failed. More than three decades of trade and investment with the advanced democracies have left that country far richer and stronger than it would otherwise have been. But growth and development have not caused China’s rulers to relax their grip on political power, abandon their mercantilist economic policies, or accept the rules and norms of the ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

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  • Cool War

    The United States, China, and the Future of Global Competition

    by Noah Feldman ...
    A bold and thought-provoking look at the future of U.S.-China relations, and how their coming power struggle will reshape the competitive playing field for nations around the worldThe Cold War seemingly ended in a decisive victory for the West. But now, Noah Feldman argues, we are entering an era of renewed global struggle: the era of Cool War. Just as the Cold War matched the planet’s reigning ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Comparative Civil Service Systems in the 21st Century

    Edited by J. Raadschelders, T. Toonen ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This revised and expanded edition of a benchmark collection compares how civil services around the world have adapted to cope with managing public services in the 21st century. The volume provides insights into multi-level governance, juridification and issues of efficiency and responsiveness as well as exploring the impact of fiscal austerity. ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Intelligent Governance for the 21st Century

    A Middle Way between West and East

    by Nicolas Berggruen, Nathan Gardels ...
    For decades, liberal democracy has been extolled as the best system of governance to have emerged out of the long experience of history. Today, such a confident assertion is far from self-evident. Democracy, in crisis across the West, must prove itself.In the West today, the authors argue, we no longer live in "industrial democracies," but "consumer democracies" in which the governing ethos has ... Read more

    $10.00 USD