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  • The roots of populism
    Brian Elliott
    A novel and highly engaging philosophical analysis of populism and how it represents both a challenge to and promise of renewal for liberal democracy. Elliott argues that neoliberal governance has sought to bury the legacy of working-class politics but now the reappearance of 'the people' is causing a systemic crisis in liberal democracy. ...
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    157,80 €

  • The Land beyond the Border
    Johannes Becke
    Uses an innovative theoretical framework to comparatively explore the dynamics of state expansion and contraction in Syria (1976-2005), Morocco (since 1975), and Israel (since 1967). ...
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    121,58 €

  • What about the workers?
    Andrew Taylor
    This book explores the long-term relationship between the Conservative Party, trade unions, and the organised working class. It focuses on the question of why the Conservative Party for much of its history sought to accommodate the unions and why in the 1970s and 1980s it adopted a policy of excluding the unions. ...
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    157,22 €

  • Reclaiming migration
    Dallal Stevens / Nina Perkowski / Vicki Squire
    Reclaiming migration assesses the EU’s migration policies based on a counter-archive of migratory testimonies, co-produced with people on the move across the Mediterranean during 2015 and 2016. It highlights the flawed assumptions on which policies are based and documents the precarities produced, emphasising the importance of demands for justice advanced by people on the move....
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    35,83 €

  • Reclaiming migration
    Dallal Stevens / Nina Perkowski / Vicki Squire
    Reclaiming migration assesses the EU’s migration policies based on a counter-archive of migratory testimonies, co-produced with people on the move across the Mediterranean during 2015 and 2016. It highlights the flawed assumptions on which policies are based and documents the precarities produced, emphasising the importance of demands for justice advanced by people on the move....
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    145,20 €

  • Glimpses of an Irish Felon’s Prison Life
    Thomas J. Clarke
    'Glimpses of an Irish Felon’s Prison Life' is a 1922 autobiographical account of Thomas J. Clarke. Thomas James Clarke (1858 - 1916) was a leader in the Irish Republican Brotherhood, a secret oath-bound organisation in Ireland from 1858 to 1924. Having spent most of his life in English prisons for his beliefs, Clarke is considered to be the sole person responsible for the 1916 ...
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    16,84 €

  • The Rhode Island Legislative Black & Latino Caucus
    Tomás Alberto Ávila
    Black and Latino Public Servants history and contributions deserve to be highlighted; and celebrated. They are phenomenal servants in state and municipal institutions. The media, overall, overlooks public servants of color. Finding it to tear them down when they experience missteps in their careers and the lack of directory of such Public Servants across the state. This is the ...
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    18,50 €

  • Politics (Royal Collector’s Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)
    Aristotle
    Aristotle addresses the city in his work titled Politics, viewing the city to be a natural community. Moreover, he considers the city to precede the family which in turn precedes the individual. He also famously states that man is by nature a political animal, arguing that humanity’s defining factor among others in the animal kingdom is its rationality.In the end of the Nicomac...
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    53,52 €

  • Presidentialism, Violence, and the Prospect of Democracy
    Charles K. S. Wu / Charles KSWu / Dr. Yao-Yuan Yeh / Yao-Yuan Dr. Yeh
    This book tackles the perennial debate about whether presidentialism is associated with democratic breakdown. We find evidence that presidentialism could contribute instabilities to a democratic system, though it does not directly follow that those instabilities will trigger a democratic breakdown. ...
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    122,66 €

  • The Social Contract (Royal Collector’s Edition) (Annotated) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    The Social Contract theorizes that the ability to coerce is not a legitimate power, and there is no rightful duty to submit to a state that enslaves its people. In this desired social contract, everyone will be free because they all forfeit the same number of rights and impose the same duties on all. Jean-Jacques Rousseau argues that it is absurd for a man to surrender his free...
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    53,36 €

  • Utilitarianism (Royal Collector’s Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)
    John Stuart Mill
    Utilitarianism is a family of consequentialist ethical theories that promotes actions that maximize happiness and well-being for the affected individuals. The basic idea behind utilitarianism is to in some sense maximize utility, which is often defined in terms of well-being or related concepts. It has been applied to social welfare economics, the crisis of global poverty, the ...
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    54,90 €

  • The Athenian Constitution (Royal Collector’s Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)
    Aristotle
    The Athenian Constitution describes the political system of ancient Athens. The work consists of two parts. The first part, from Chapter 1 to Chapter 41, deals with the different forms of the constitution, from the trial of the Alcmaeonidae until 403 BC. The second part describes the city’s institutions, including the terms of access to citizenship, magistrates, and the courts....
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    54,19 €

  • On Liberty (Royal Collector’s Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)
    John Stuart Mill
    On Liberty is a philosophical essay by the English philosopher John Stuart Mill. Published in 1859, it applies Mill’s ethical system of utilitarianism to society and state. Mill emphasizes the importance of individuality, which he considers prerequisite to the higher pleasures - the summum bonum of utilitarianism. Among the standards proposed are Mill’s three basic liberties of...
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    54,19 €

  • Children of a New Fatherland
    Jan Herman Brinks
    This is a study of the growth of the right wing in a reunited Germany. Since the end of the Cold War, an explosion of xenophobia and attacks on foreigners - some of them asylum-seekers - has attracted world-wide media attention. Coming after the seemingly miraculous celebration of freedom accompanying the fall of the Berlin Wall and the country’s reunification, these events hav...
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    52,50 €

  • The International Dimension of the Israel-Palestinian Conflict
    Daniela Huber
    Analyzes the Israel-Palestinian conflict by looking at its interactions with seven regional and global powers and the way the conflict is framed at the international level. ...
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    127,13 €

  • Global Politics, Political Participation, and the Rise of Nationalism
    Emily Stacey
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    196,23 €

  • Leviathan (Deluxe Library Edition)
    Thomas Hobbes
    Leviathan ranks as a classic Western work on statecraft comparable to Machiavelli’s The Prince. It concerns the structure of society and legitimate government, and is regarded as one of the earliest and most influential examples of social contract theory. Written during the English Civil War (1642-1651), Leviathan argues for a social contract and rule by an absolute sovereign. ...
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    54,82 €

  • EmPower Us!
    Ira Kaufman / Velimir Srića
    EmPower Us! challenges you to see the world as it could be & join us to reinvent it. The transformative journey is a global imperative. It begins with integrating the TEST Values (Trust, Empathy, Sustainability, Transparency) They are the currency and accelerator for transformation for all of Us our organizations, and our world!It empowers leaders to become Catalyzers of ongoin...
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    37,91 €

  • The Anatomy of Post-Communist Regimes
    Bálint Madlovics / Bálint Magyar
    Offering a single, coherent framework of the political, economic, and social phenomena that characterize post-communist regimes, this is the most comprehensive work on the subject to date. Focusing on Central Europe, the post-Soviet countries and China, the study provides a systematic mapping of possible post-communist trajectories.At exploring the structural foundations of pos...
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    67,59 €

  • Living politics after war
    Johanna Söderström
    This book is about how former combatants live politics as they come home from war. Building on life histories from three very different wars, this book demonstrates how veteran identities, networks, war experiences and coming home experiences together make up a life of politics for former combatants. ...
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    157,50 €

  • Bounded Integration
    Aviad Rubin
    Investigates Turkey and Israel’s contrasting treatment of religion and demonstrates how this treatment has had a significant impact on these countries’ democratic performance. ...
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    126,72 €

  • Diplomatic tenses
    Iver B. Neumann / Iver BNeumann / Iver Neumann
    This book discusses changes that have taken place in diplomatic institutions and conventions over thousands of years. It analyses these changes in terms of ’tipping points’, which it understands as the culmination of long-term trends. ...
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    157,88 €

  • Leviathan (Royal Collector’s Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)
    Thomas Hobbes
    Leviathan ranks as a classic Western work on statecraft comparable to Machiavelli’s The Prince. It concerns the structure of society and legitimate government, and is regarded as one of the earliest and most influential examples of social contract theory. Written during the English Civil War (1642-1651), Leviathan argues for a social contract and rule by an absolute sovereign. ...
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    67,05 €

  • Rage or Reason
    Vincent H. L. Michaels / Vincent HLMichaels
    It is an attribute of youth to be passionate and many US Millennials champion causes they find worthwhile. However, they often choose their favorite causes because of their 'feel good' characteristics rather than being based on solid arguments. Too often, Millennials are unaware of history and that similar former youths in their days enthusiastically championed equivalent grand...
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    4,08 €

  • Trumpspeak
    Bérengère Viennot / Susan Pickford
    Trumpspeak is a witty, no-holds-barred assessment of Trump’s mastery - or otherwise - of English and a thoughtful consideration of the ethical issues involved in translating someone you are at extreme odds with. Nearly two decades into her career as a press translator, and after eight years of Barack Obama’s refined rhetoric, Bérengère Viennot was shocked to have to start think...
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    13,11 €

  • Chinese Foreign Relations
    Robert G. Sutter / Robert GSutter
    With new assertiveness and prominence, China under President Xi is rightly considered an emerging and aggressive superpower backed by growing economic and impressive military strength. In this meticulous and balanced assessment, Sutter traces China’s actions under Xi Jinping, including the many challenges they post to the international status quo. ...
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    60,57 €

  • Chinese Foreign Relations
    Robert G. Sutter / Robert GSutter
    With new assertiveness and prominence, China under President Xi is rightly considered an emerging and aggressive superpower backed by growing economic and impressive military strength. In this meticulous and balanced assessment, Sutter traces China’s actions under Xi Jinping, including the many challenges they post to the international status quo. ...
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    162,97 €

  • Migration and Xenophobia
    Kyle Farmbry
    Building upon cases of the United States, South Africa, and Malta, this book examines issues of migration in the early twenty-first century. It explores dynamics of opposition to and acceptance of migrants and refugees as nations continue to experience cycles of human movement. ...
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    54,40 €

  • Youthquake 2017
    James Sloam / Matt Henn
    Political science; Great Britain-Politics and government; Elections; Democracy; Comparative politics; Social groups; FamilyThis work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work’s license are retained by the author or authors. ...
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    68,56 €

  • Youthquake 2017
    James Sloam / Matt Henn
    Political science; Great Britain-Politics and government; Elections; Democracy; Comparative politics; Social groups; FamilyThis work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work’s license are retained by the author or authors. ...
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    54,19 €


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