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An immersive and authoritative history of the school choice movement--from its idealistic roots among Black activists to the costly unaccountable programs of today.
Seventy years after Brown v. Board of Education and demands to desegregate public schools, race and...
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Oxford University Press
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2025-09-12
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A thrilling first-hand account by husband-and-wife CIA operatives who, against all odds, triumphed in a deadly cat-and-mouse game against a mole within the intelligence agency - an unprecedented insider view of 21st-century spycraft.Andrew and Jihi Bustamante were a...
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Headline Press
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2025-09-09
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This book bridges historical analysis and strategic studies to explore the complex interplay between legal reform, secularization, and military strategy in both the Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey. Beyond institutional transformation, it critically examines the...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2025-09-09
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This book analyzes the origins of the Cyprus conflict, offering a fresh perspective through the lens of Grand Strategy and International Relations Theory. It explores the friction between the grand strategies of Greece, Britain, and Turkey within the Cold War context....
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Springer
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2025-09-04
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In 1956, six months after the start of the Montgomery bus boycott, Alabama Attorney General John Patterson obtained from state circuit court judge Walter B. Jones, an ardent defender of segregation, an order banning the National Association for the Advancement of...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-09-03
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Is the breakup of an increasingly polarized America into separate red and blue countries even possible?
There is a growing interest in American secession. In February 2023, Marjorie Taylor Greene tweeted that "We need a national divorce...We need to separate by red...
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Oxford University Press
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2025-09-03
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At the end of the Cold War, analysts, advocates, and policymakers believed that violent dictatorships were on a path toward extinction. The theory was that economic liberalization would constrain abusive regimes by reducing their economic power. But despite decades of...
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Oxford University Press
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2025-09-02
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How do non-state armed groups change when states look the other way? States rarely engage in total war with militants, even during long-running conflicts. In Ordinary Rebels, Kolby Hanson argues that these periods of state toleration do not simply change armed groups'...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-09-02
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The inability to envision political alternatives – or, to use Arendt’s terminology, to make new beginnings – is a key component of today’s democratic crisis. In its first part, this study shows that this situation results from the growing...
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Springer VS
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2025-09-02
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This book explores the decoupling process between the US and China from a number of perspectives. The rise of China, a country that is very different from the dominating West headed by the USA, in terms of both political systems and civilizational traditions, is...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-09-02
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This open access book delves into the politics of oppression and dispossession driven by global neoliberalism and state authoritarianism. Challenging liberal biases, it introduces the concept of "neoliberal authoritarianism," highlighting how the Russian state has...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-09-01
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This book proposes an original reading of Foucault’s political thought. Far from setting aside the question of the State to focus on the relationships of power “from below”, the Foucauldian approach offers a radical anti-substantialist theory of the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-09-01
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This book analyses Pareto’s social and political thought a hundred years after his death, showing how the structure of the scholar’s works is generally quite clear (contrary to what is commonly presumed), and how the maintenance of the social and political...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-09-01
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This book offers an analytical perspective of the unfolding militarization in the Italian island of Sardinia, grounded in extensive ethnographic fieldwork, and using in-depth documentation analysis. Since the late 1950s, the island, which is the second largest in the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-09-01
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Though global food demand is ever-increasing, agricultural productivity is declining, largely due to the shrinking of resources like cultivable land. Under such circumstances, the role of the livestock sector to fulfill growing food demand is particularly important for...
Editeur :
Academic Press
Parution :
2025-09-01
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This volume brings together young scholar-practitioners who draw on their own lived expertise and academic practice to examine how youth navigate complex socio-cultural and political conflicts, to bring about social and cultural change, creating space for positive peace...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-08-31
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In this book, Aljunied analyses how ASEAN and its key maritime member states of Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia govern environmental issues through strategic engagements with social forces.In the new millennium, ASEAN states’ power is enhanced and solidified...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-08-31
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This collection examines implications of technological automation to global prosperity and peace. Focusing on robots, information communication technologies, and other automation technologies, it offers brief interventions that assess how automation may alter extant...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-08-31
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This book argues although peace in the KRI has lasted for over a quarter-century, it remains a form of negative peace due to weak institutions. Achieving positive peace requires addressing political, legal, and security challenges
It examines the factors that have...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-08-30
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