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German Unification 1989-90: Documents on British Policy Overseas, Series III, Volume VII by Patrick Salmon 9780415691505
RRP: €64.25€56.25This volume is comprised of a collection of diplomatic documents covering British reactions to, and policy towards, the collapse of the German Democratic Republic and the unification of Germany in 1989-90.The peaceful unification of Germany in 1989-90... -
Subjects and Sovereign: Bonds of Belonging in the Eighteenth-Century British Empire by Hannah Weiss Muller 9780190465810
RRP: €98.77€79.78In the aftermath of the Seven Years' War, when a variety of conquered and ceded territories became part of an expanding British Empire, crucial struggles emerged about what it meant to be a "British subject." In Grenada, Quebec, Minorca, Gibraltar, and... -
The Coalitions Presidents Make: Presidential Power and Its Limits in Democratic Indonesia by Marcus Mietzner 9781501772658
RRP: €34.50€29.70In The Coalitions Presidents Make, Marcus Mietzner explains how Indonesia has turned its volatile post-authoritarian presidential system into one of the world's most stable. He argues that since 2004, Indonesian presidents have deployed nuanced... -
Bioviolence: How the Powers That Be Make Us Do What They Want by William Watkin
RRP: €34.50€19.62Aylan, Isis, Begum, Grenfell, Trump. Harambe, Guantanamo, Syria, Brexit, Johnson. COVID, migrants, trolling, George Floyd, Trump! Gazing over the fractured, contested territories of the current global situation, Watkin finds that all these diverse... -
How East Asians View Democracy by Yun-han Chu 9780231145343
RRP: €113.05€88.19East Asian democracies are in trouble, their legitimacy threatened by poor policy performance and undermined by nostalgia for the progrowth, soft-authoritarian regimes of the past. Yet citizens throughout the region value freedom, reject authoritarian... -
A National Health Service?: The Restructuring of Health Care in Britain since 1979 by John Mohan
RRP: €59.49€59.32This book contrasts the proposals of the Royal Commission of the late 1970s with the very different set of priorities enshrined in the 1989 White Paper and describes how the changes between the two documents came about. It argues that the NHS reforms... -
Science and Democracy: A Science and Technology Studies Approach Linda Soneryd (University of Gothenburg) 9781529222142
RRP: €33.31€26.07This accessible book introduces students to perspectives from the field of science and technology studies. Putting forward the thesis that science and democracy share important characteristics, it shows how authority cannot be taken for granted and... -
From Environmental to Ecological Law by Kirsten Anker 9780367689681
RRP: €47.59€41.72This book increases the visibility, clarity and understanding of ecological law. Ecological law is emerging as a field of law founded on systems thinking and the need to integrate ecological limits, such as planetary boundaries, into law.Presenting new... -
Africa's Agitators: Militant Anti-colonialism in Africa and the West, 1918-1939 by Jonathan Derrick
RRP: €35.70€32.30The period between the two World Wars were troubling years for colonial empire. Individuals and organizations called for major reforms and an end to white supremacy and colonial rule, contributing first to local unrest and protest and then to... -
Why Rivals Intervene: International Security and Civil Conflict by John Mitton 9781487508272
RRP: €58.31€51.05Rivals - states with acrimonious, militarized histories - often intervene on opposing sides of civil conflicts. These interventions are known to exacerbate and prolong civil wars, but scholars have yet to fully understand why states engage in them, given... -
Legal Identity, Race and Belonging in the Dominican Republic: From Citizen to Foreigner by Eve Hayes de Kalaf 9781785277641
RRP: €95.20€53.10This book offers a critical perspective into social policy architectures primarily in relation to questions of race, national identity and belonging in the Americas. It is the first to identify a connection between the role of international actors in... -
Civil Wars, Insecurity, and Intervention by Barbara Walter 9780231116275
RRP: €35.70€27.72Since the end of the cold war, a series of costly civil wars, many of them ethnic conflicts, have dominated the international security agenda. The international community, often acting through the United Nations or regional organizations like NATO, has... -
Metapolitics: From Wagner and the German Romantics to Hitler Peter Viereck 9780765805102
RRP: €59.49€52.65More than half a century after the fall of the Third Reich, Nazism, its roots and its essential nature, remain a central and unresolved enigma of the twentieth century. During the period of Hitler's ascendancy, most attempts at explaining this... -
Godless: The Church of Liberalism by Ann Coulter 9781400054213
RRP: €20.23€14.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400054213Author Ann CoulterFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 260gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Waging War on Corruption: Inside the Movement Fighting the Abuse of Power by Frank Vogl 9781442218536
RRP: €35.70€31.50Never before has the call for good governance been greater. The Arab Spring in early 2011 has inspired people all over the world to fight to end the abuse of power by politicians and civic officials and create more transparent, accountable, and honest... -
Resisting the Power of Mea Culpa: A Story of Twentieth-Century Ireland by Gerard Rodgers 9781788746564
RRP: €41.29€36.53This is both a memoir of childhood trauma and a searing work of social criticism. Through his own experience of clerical abuse and his struggle with the system that allowed it to happen, the author documents an important period of social change in... -
The Democratic Dilemma: Can Citizens Learn What They Need to Know? by Arthur Lupia
RRP: €32.12€27.13Voters cannot answer simple survey questions about politics. Legislators cannot recall the details of legislation. Jurors cannot comprehend legal arguments. Observations such as these are plentiful and several generations of pundits and scholars have... -
Asymmetry and International Relationships by Brantly Womack
RRP: €30.93€26.17Power is real, but it does not always prevail. This book explores how disparity structures international relationships. Beginning at the bilateral level, the relationship between the smaller side and the larger side can be normal as long as the smaller... -
Capitalism Beyond Mutuality?: Perspectives Integrating Philosophy and Social Science by Subramanian Rangan 9780198825067
RRP: €139.83€127.46Our quest for prosperity has produced great output but not always great outcomes. The growing list of concerns includes climate and natural capital, abuse of wealth and market power, economic insecurity, gender bias and disparity, competitive and... -
Multilateralism Past, Present and Future: A European Perspective Mario Telo (Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, and LUISS-Guido Carli, Italy,) 9781032245430
RRP: €44.02€38.71This book offers an important chronological perspective on the evolution of multilateralism within Europe and beyond.It provides a critical reconstruction of the history of the idea and praxis of peaceful global governance, a comparative analysis of... -
Filibustered!: How the Senate Broke America—And How We Can Restore Our Government by Jeff Merkley 9781620977989
RRP: €23.79€16.14The U.S. Senator from Oregon who is leading the fight to restore the talking filibuster explains how changing just one rule could save our democracyIf we want to fix what ails America, we have to fix the Senate. And if we want to fix the Senate, we must... -
Economic Sanctions and American Diplomacy by Richard N. Haass 9780876092125
€17.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780876092125Author Richard N. HaassFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Council on Foreign RelationsPublisher Council on Foreign RelationsWeight(grams) 352g -
Defensive Nationalism: Explaining the Rise of Populism and Fascism in the 21st Century by B. S. Rabinowitz 9780197672044
RRP: €26.17€22.31A stunningly novel account of why populism and fascism are on the rise in the early 21st century. Today we find in the most technologically advanced societies, wild conspiracy theories and a broad distrust of science and expertise have created deep... -
Understanding Government Budgets: A Guide to Practices in the Public Service R. Mark Musell 9781138786301
RRP: €44.02€38.71Public budgets follow rules of presentation and use terms that make sense to few outside the world of public finance. Moreover, practices vary widely among the thousands of governments across the globe, between federal, state, and local levels of... -
Conflict-Sensitive Conservation: Lessons from the Global Environment Facility Carl Bruch 9781032397955
RRP: €44.02€38.71This book provides an empirically formulated foundation for conflict-sensitive conservation, a field in which the existing literature relies primarily on anecdotal evidence.Seeking to better understand the impact of conflict on the implementation and... -
Jewish Emancipation: A History Across Five Centuries by Professor David Sorkin 9780691205250
RRP: €33.32€28.58The first comprehensive history of how Jews became citizens in the modern worldFor all their unquestionable importance, the Holocaust and the founding of the State of Israel now loom so large in modern Jewish history that we have mostly lost sight of the... -
The Changing Rules on the Use of Force in International Law Tarcisio Gazzini 9780719073250
RRP: €101.15€72.19The changing rules on the use of force in international law considers the main legal issues concerning the use of force by international organisations and states. It assesses the achievements and failures of the United Nations' collective security... -
No Farms, No Food: Uniting Farmers and Environmentalists to Transform American Agriculture Australia 9781642832310
RRP: €28.55€24.30America's farms are key to the preservation of vital ecosystems and a stable climate. Yet farmers and environmentalists have not always seen eye-to-eye about the best ways to manage agricultural landscapes. Since 1980, American Farmland Trust (AFT) has... -
Total Institutions Samuel E. Wallace 9780878555505
RRP: €54.73€47.75Total institutions are defined in this reader not as a separate class of social establishments that exercise complete or nearly complete control over their population, but rather as specific institutions which exhibit to an intense degree certain... -
COVID-19 and Public Policy in the Digital Age by Andrea Monti
RRP: €39.26€22.17COVID-19 and Public Policy in the Digital Age explores how states and societies have responded to the COVID-19 pandemic and their long-term implications for public policy and the rule of law globally. It examines the extent to which existing methods of... -
The Bureaucrat and the Poor: Encounters in French Welfare Offices Vincent Dubois 9781138306523
RRP: €57.11€49.75Welfare offices usually attract negative descriptions of bureaucracy with their queues, routines, and impersonal nature. Are they anonymous machines or the locus of neutral service relationships? Showing how people experience state public administration,... -
Taking Root: Human Rights and Public Opinion in the Global South by James Ron 9780199975051
RRP: €32.12€28.86Human rights organizations have grown exponentially across the globe, particularly in the global South, and the term human rights is now common parlance among politicians and civil society activists. As international donors pour money into global human... -
Leading Works in Law and Social Justice by Faith Gordon
RRP: €47.59€41.72This book assesses the role of social justice in legal scholarship and its potential future development by focusing upon the 'leading works' of the discipline. The rise of socio-legal studies over recent decades has led to a more interdisciplinary... -
Sexual Violence Crimes and Gendered Power Relations: Bringing Justice to Women in the Democratic Republic of the Congo by Bilge Sahin
RRP: €47.59€41.72This book provides a robust gendered analysis and establishes a feminist approach to international actors' responses to sexual violence crimes in conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the impact of these global political... -
Tale of Two Quagmires: Iraq, Vietnam, and the Hard Lessons of War Kenneth J. Campbell 9781594513527
RRP: €52.35€45.39Is Iraq becoming another Vietnam? Author Kenneth Campbell received a Purple Heart after serving 13 months in Vietnam. He then spent years campaigning to get the US out of the war. Here, Campbell lays out the political similarities of both wars. He traces... -
The Political Economy Reader: Contending Perspectives and Contemporary Debates by Naazneen H Barma
RRP: €47.59€41.72The Political Economy Reader advocates a particular approach to the study of political economy - the "market-institutional" perspective - which emphasizes the ways in which markets are embedded in political and social institutions. This perspective... -
The Poisoned Chalice of US Democracy: Studies from the Horn of Africa John Young 9781350374584
RRP: €26.17€21.54In a radical reflection, John Young contends that the US model of democracy has failed the Global South because its emphasis on the supremacy of market capitalism entails a loss of national sovereignty and a truncated notion of human rights that leaves... -
The Rights Track: Sound Evidence on Human Rights and Modern Slavery by Todd Landman 9781839983887
RRP: €29.75€28.30The Rights Track: Sound Evidence on Human Rights and Modern Slavery uses rich content from The Rights Track podcast [www.rightstrack.org] in an innovative book that enhances and enriches our understanding of the human rights challenges facing the world... -
Resistant Islands: Okinawa Confronts Japan and the United States by Gavan McCormack 9781442215634
RRP: €35.70€32.00Now in a thoroughly updated edition, Resistant Islands offers the first comprehensive overview of Okinawan history from earliest times to the present, focusing especially on the recent period of colonization by Japan, its disastrous fate during World War... -
Covid-19 in Palestine: The Settler Colonial Context Nadia Naser-Najjab (University of Exeter, UK) 9780755651177
RRP: €26.17€21.54Israel and Palestine were worlds apart during the pandemic that claimed over five million lives globally. While Palestinians were forced to adopt crude survival measures and endure economic privations, Israel was praised as a vaccination world leader. ...