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The Second Nuclear AgeColin S. Gray Colin Gray returns nuclear weapons to the center stage of international politics.
Taking issue with the complacent belief that a happy mixture of deterrence, arms control, and luck will enable humanity to cope adequately with weapons of mass destruction (WMD), Gray argues that the risk posed by WMD is ever more serious. Policy that ignores the present nuclear age, he cautions, is policy that More > | |
Qatar: Politics and the Challenges of DevelopmentMatthew Gray A small isthmus in the central Gulf, with barely 300,000 citizens and a total population of 1.7 million, Qatar has risen rapidly from obscurity to become the world's wealthiest country per capita. Matthew Gray traces this spectacular rise, exploring the development of Qatar's economy, the patterns of its politics, its role on the world stage, and its prospects for the future.
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Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa: Miracle or Model?Lyn S. Graybill Was South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) a "miracle" that depended on the unique leadership of Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu? Or does it provide a working model for other traumatized nations? Addressing these questions, Lyn Graybill explores the political origins, theological underpinnings, and major achievements of the world's most ambitious truth More > | ![]() |
Adrienne Mesurat [a novel]Julian Green, translated by Henry Longan Stuart | ![]() |
Contested Ecologies: Dialogues in the South on Nature and KnowledgeLesley Green, editor The chapters in this collection contest the framework of knowledge that has deadlocked nature and culture, tradition and modernity, scientific and indigenous, and in doing so makes a case for the value of rethinking knowledge beyond the nature-culture divide.
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The Europeans: Political Identity in an Emerging PolityDavid Michael Green To what extent and for what reasons do citizens of the European Union think of themselves not as French or German or Polish or ... , but as European? How have the answers changed over time? What explains variations among individuals? Addressing these and related questions, David Green draws on a vast amount of empirical data to thoroughly investigate the phenomenon of European identity.
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The Pletzl of Paris: Jewish Immigrant Workers in the Belle EpoqueNancy L. Green In a challenging new interpretation of Jewish immigrant history, Nancy L. Green traces the westward movement of East European Jews to France during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and explores their experiences as immigrant workers.
By 1914 some 40,000 East European Jews had settled in France, many of them in Paris's Marais district, known in Yiddish as the Pletzl, or More > | ![]() |
Comparative Politics of the Global South: Linking Concepts and Cases, 5th ed.December Green and Laura Luehrmann December Green and Laura Luehrmann show how history, economics, and politics converge to create the realities of life in the Global South.
In this new edition, the authors continue to offer an innovative blend of theory and empirical material as they introduce the politics of what was once called the "third world." They consistently link theoretical concepts to a set of eight More > | ![]() |
Civil Remedies and Crime PreventionLorraine Green Mazerolle and Jan Roehl , editors This anthology describes the use of civil remedies in policing and crime prevention programs in the US, the UK, and Australia. Civil remedies are procedures and sanctions provided in civil statutes and regulations that are used in programs to prevent crime. These remedies include efforts to persuade or coerce non-offending third parties, such as landlords and property owners, to take action in More > | |
International Relations on FilmRobert W. Gregg This welcome exploration of the ways in which feature films depict the various aspects of international relations considers the utility of the feature film as a vehicle to dramatize issues and events, challenge conventional wisdom, rouse an audience to anger, and even revise history.
Gregg makes a strong case for the value of films as a window on the real world of international relations. More > |