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Arctic Mirrors - Russia And The Small Peoples Of The North

by Yuri Slezkine

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 Arctic Mirrors is a vividly rendered history of circumpolar peoples in the Russian empire and the Russian mind.
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The Occult Mind - Magic In Theory And Practice

by Christopher I. Lehrich

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 Through analyses of ley lines, the Tarot, the Corpus Hermeticum, and early attempts to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphics, Lehrich treats magic and its parts as an intellectual object that requires interpretive zeal.
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The Invention Of Decolonization - The Algerian War And The Remaking Of France

by Todd Shepard

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 In this account of the Algerian War's effect on French political structures and notions of national identity, Todd Shepard asserts that the separation of Algeria from France was truly a revolutionary event with lasting consequences for French social...
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The Era Of The Witness

by Annette Wieviorka

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 What is the role of survivor testimony in Holocaust remembrance? Today such recollections are considered among the most compelling and important historical sources we have, but this has not always been true. In The Era of the Witness, a concise...
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Governing Now - Grassroots Activism In The National Organization For Women

by Maryann Barakso

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 Boasting more than five hundred thousand contributing members and five hundred chapters nationwide, the National Organization for Women has been politically active for more than thirty-five years. In a book that offers tools for predicting the...
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Reasons Of State - Oil Politics And The Capacities Of American Government

by G. John Ikenberry

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 In this lucid and theoretically sophisticated book, G. John Ikenberry focuses on the oil price shocks of 1973â€"74 and 1979, which placed extraordinary new burdens on governments worldwide and particularly on that of the United States. Reasons of State examines the response of the United States to these and other challenges and identifies both...
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Good Governance Gone Bad - How Nordic Adaptability Leads To Excess

by Darius, Jr. Ornston

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 If we believe that the small, open economies of Nordic Europe are paragons of good governance, why are they so prone to economic crisis? In Good Governance Gone Bad, Darius Ornston provides evidence that adapting flexibly to rapid, technological change and shifting patterns of economic competition may be a great virtue, but it does not prevent...
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Politics Under The Influence - Vodka And Public Policy In Putin'S Russia

by Anna L. Bailey

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 "You know just how serious a problem alcoholism has become for our country. Frankly speaking, it has taken on the proportions of a national disaster." So spoke Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in 2009 as the government launched its latest anti-alcohol campaign. Challenging the standard narrative of top-down implementation of policy, Anna...
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Price Of Wealth - Economies And Institutions In The Middle East

by Kiren Aziz Chaudhry

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 Kiren Aziz Chaudhry shows how state and market institutions are created and transformed in Saudi Arabia and Yemen, two countries that typify labor and oil exporters in the developing worlds.
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Small States In World Markets - Industrial Policy In Europe

by Peter J. Katzenstein

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 Katzenstein maintains that democratic corporatism is an effective way of coping with a rapidly changing worldâ€"a more effective way than the United States and several other large industrial countries have yet managed to discover.
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World Of Regions - Asia And Europe In The American Imperium

by Peter J. Katzenstein

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 Katzenstein argues that regions have become critical to contemporary world politics, challenging those who emphasize the purportedly stubborn persistence of the nation-state or the inevitable march of globalization.
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Varietals Of Capitalism - A Political Economy Of The Changing Wine Industry

by Andy Smith, Antoine Roger e Xabier Itcaina

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 Varietals of Capitalism shows that politics is an omnipresent part of the economics of wine and of economic activity in general. Based on a four-year research project encompassing fieldwork in France, Spain, Italy, and Romania, Xabier ItÃ§aina, Antoine Roger, and Andy Smith examine the causes and effects of a 2008 reform adopted by the EU.
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Strategic Coupling - East Asian Industrial Transformation In The New Global Economy

by Henry Wai-Chung Yeung

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 In Strategic Coupling, Henry Wai-chung Yeung examines economic development and state-firm relations in East Asia, focusing in particular on South Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore.
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How China Escaped The Poverty Trap

by Yuen Yuen Ang

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 WINNER OF THE 2017 PETER KATZENSTEIN BOOK PRIZE "BEST OF BOOKS IN 2017" BY FOREIGN AFFAIRS WINNER OF THE 2018 VIVIAN ZELIZER PRIZE BEST BOOK AWARD IN ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY "How China Escaped the Poverty Trap truly offers game-changing ideas for the analysis and implementation of socio-economic development and should have a major impact across many social sciences." Zelizer Best Book in Economic Sociology Prize CommitteeAcclaimed as "game changing" and "field shifting," How China Escaped the Poverty Trap advances a new paradigm in the political economy of development and sheds new light on China's rise.How can poor and weak societies escape poverty traps? Political economists have traditionally offered three answers: "stimulate growth first," "build good institutions first," or "some fortunate nations inherited good institutions that led to growth."Yuen Yuen Ang rejects all three schools of thought and their underlying assumptions: linear causation, a mechanistic worldview, and historical determinism. Instead, she launches a new paradigm grounded in complex adaptive systems, which embraces the reality of interdependence and humanity's capacity to innovate.Combining this original lens with more than 400 interviews with Chinese bureaucrats and entrepreneurs, Ang systematically reenacts the complex process that turned China from a communist backwater into a global juggernaut in just 35 years. Contrary to popular misconceptions, she shows that what drove China's great transformation was not centralized authoritarian control, but "directed improvisation"—top-down directions from Beijing paired with bottom-up improvisation among local officials.Her analysis reveals two broad lessons on development. First, transformative change requires an adaptive governing system that empowers ground-level actors to create new solutions for evolving problems. Second, the first step out of the poverty trap is to "use what you have"—harnessing existing resources to kick-start new markets, even if that means defying first-world norms.Bold and meticulously researched, How China Escaped the Poverty Trap opens up a whole new avenue of thinking for scholars, practitioners, and anyone seeking to build adaptive systems.
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Asian Designs - Governance In The Contemporary World Order

by Saadia M. Pekkanen

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 In Asian Designs, Saadia M. Pekkanen and her collaborators advance a new framework for debate and sophisticated examinations of institutional arrangements for several major issue areas in the world orderâ€"security, trade, environment, and public health.
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National Interests In International Society

by Martha Finnemore

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 How do states know what they want? Asking how interests are defined and how changes in them are accommodated, Martha Finnemore shows the fruitfulness of a constructivist approach to international politics. She draws on insights from sociological...
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Power Of Inaction - Bank Bailouts In Comparison

by Cornelia Woll

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 Cornelia Woll details the varying relationships between financial institutions and national governments by comparing national bank rescue schemes in the United States and Europe.
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America Inc.? - Innovation And Enterprise In The National Security State

by Linda Weiss

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 Linda Weiss attributes the U.S. capacity for transformative innovation to the strength of its national security state, a complex of agencies, programs, and hybrid arrangements that has developed around the institution of permanent defense preparedness and the pursuit of technological supremacy.
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Politics In The New Hard Times - The Great Recession In Comparative Perspective

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 Although economic explanations for the Great Recession have proliferated, the political causes and consequences of the crisis have received less systematic attention. This is the first book to focus on it as a political rather than an economic crisis.
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Poor Numbers - How We Are Misled By African Development Statistics And What To Do About It

by Morten Jerven

21,19€ + 10% CARD

 Poor Numbers is the first analysis of the production and use of African economic development statistics.
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When Small States Make Big Leaps - Institutional Innovation And High-Tech Competition In Western Europe

by Darius Ornston

35,76€ + 10% CARD

 Darius Ornston explains how several of Europe's technological laggards, in particular Denmark, Finland, and Ireland, managed to assume leading positions in new, high-tech industries: biotechnology, software, telecommunications equipment.
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Capitalist Diversity On Europe'S Periphery

by Bela Greskovits e Dorothee Bohle

23,84€ + 10% CARD

 Dorothee Bohle and Bela Geskovits trace the fundamental decisions made by postsocialist countries that have joined the European Union since 2004 or are candidates to do so.
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Land And Loyalty - Security And The Development Of Property Rights In Thailand

by Tomas Larsson

46,38€ + 10% CARD

 Tomas Larsson argues that institutional underdevelopment may prove, under certain circumstances, a strategic advantage rather than a weakness and that external threats play an important role in shaping the development of property regimes.
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Playing The Market - A Political Strategy For Uniting Europe, 1985-2005

by Nicolas Jabko

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 In the 1980s and 1990s, Nicolas Jabko suggests, the character of European integration altered radically, from slow growth to what he terms a "quiet revolution." In this book he traces the political strategy that underlay the move from the Single...
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