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The Practice of Public Diplomacy
Confronting Challenges Abroad
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
The conduct of public diplomacy is carried out as much abroad, by Foreign Service Officers (FSOs) stationed at U.S. embassies, as it is in Washington. This book focuses on what FSOs do in actual practice in field operations.
Raúl Castro and Cuba
A Military Story
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
This book tells the story of the military life of Raúl Castro, an impressive military commander and highly original thinker who is also the longest-serving minister of defense of any country in recent times.
The Borderlands of South Sudan
Authority and Identity in Contemporary and Historical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
Moving beyond the current fixation on "state construction," the interdisciplinary work gathered here explores regulatory authority in South Sudan's borderlands from both contemporary and historical perspectives. Taken together, these studies show how emerging governance practices challenge the bounded categorizations of "state" and "non-state."
Political Extremism in Democracies
Combating Intolerance
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2012
When political 'extremists' - organized into parties that compete openly and successfully in democratic elections - enter the conventional institutional arena, how do mainstream actors react? This book deals with understanding how democracies respond to party-based extremism and with what consequences.
by M. Malburne-Wade
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
American dramas consciously rewrite the past as a means of determined criticism and intentional resistance. While modern criticism often sees the act of revision as derivative, Malburne-Wade uses Victor Turner's concept of the social drama and the concept of the liminal to argue for a more complicated view of revision.
Unbroken Government
Success and the Illusion of Failure in Policymaking
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
Unbroken Government demonstrates how institutional and electoral characteristics present since the writing of the Constitution influence policy development. Utilizing policy areas as diverse as human spaceflight, clean air, homeland security, and foreign policy, this work shows how these patterns manifest themselves in the policymaking process.
The Right Side of the Sixties
Reexamining Conservatism’s Decade of Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2012
The 1960s were a transformative era for American politics, but much is still unknown about the growth of conservatism during the period when it was radically reshaped and became the national political force that it is today. In their efforts to chronicle the national politicians and organizations...
The Long, Hot Summer of 1967
Urban Rebellion in America
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
It seemed at times during the 1960s that America was caught in an unending cycle of violence and disorder. Successive summers from 1964-1968 brought waves of urban unrest, street fighting, looting, and arson to black communities in cities from Florida to Wisconsin, Maryland to California. In some...
Gender and Violence in British India
The Road to Amritsar, 1914-1919
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
In British India, the years during and following World War I saw imperial unity deteriorate into a bitter dispute over "native" effeminacy and India's postwar fitness for self-rule. This study demonstrates that increasingly ferocious dispute culminated in the actual physical violence of the Amritsar Massacre of 1919.
Suriname in the Long Twentieth Century
Domination, Contestation, Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Despite its modest size, the republic of Suriname is today the site of many distinctive processes of globalization. This intersectional study teases out the complex relationships among class, gender, and ethnic identity over the course of Suriname's modern history, from the capital city of Paramaribo to the country's resource-rich rainforest.
Collective Action for Social Change
An Introduction to Community Organizing
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
Community organizers build solidarity and collective power in fractured communities. They help ordinary people turn their private pain into public action, releasing hidden capacities for leadership and strategy. In Collective Action for Social Change , Aaron Schutz and Marie G. Sandy draw on their...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
How Can You Represent Those People? is the first-ever collection of essays offering a response to the 'Cocktail Party Question' asked of every criminal lawyer. A must-read for anyone interested in race, poverty, crime, punishment, and what makes lawyers tick.
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Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
This book brings together the newest and the most innovative scholarship on Nigerian children—one of the least researched groups in African colonial history. It engages the changing conceptions of childhood, relating it to the broader themes about modernity, power, agency, and social transformation under imperial rule.
Congress, the Supreme Court, and Religious Liberty
The Case of City of Boerne v. Flores
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
In the case City of Boerne v. Flores, the Supreme Court struck down the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993. Waltman offers the first book-length analysis of the act to show how this case contributes to an intense legal debate still ongoing today: Can and should the Supreme Court be the exclusive interpreter of the Constitution?