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  • Democracy in Trouble

    Democratic Resilience and Breakdown from 1900 to 2022

    by Myles Williamson, Christopher Akor, Amanda B. Edgell ...
    Series series Elements in Political Economy
    This Element investigates the process of executive aggrandizement to identify factors associated with democratic resilience. We focus on five democracies that showed resilience in the face of incumbent-led autocratization. To understand how these cases survived, we pair them with similar cases where incumbents successfully dismantled democracy from within. Through structured focused comparisons, ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

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  • Has China Won?

    The Chinese Challenge to American Primacy

    by Kishore Mahbubani ...
    **From a former president of the United Nations Security Council, an authoritative look at the US, China, and the defining geopolitical contest of the twenty-first century“An excellent and important book on the biggest question in international affairs: how will the relationship between the US and China evolve?” —Martin Wolf, chief economics commentator,** Financial TimesChina and the United ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Border and Rule

    Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism

    by Harsha Walia, Nick Estes ...
    In Border and Rule, one of North America’s foremost thinkers and immigrant rights organizers delivers an unflinching examination of migration as a pillar of global governance and gendered racial class formation.Harsha Walia disrupts easy explanations for the migrant and refugee crises, instead showing them to be the inevitable outcomes of the conquest, capitalist globalization, and climate change ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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  • The China Fantasy

    Why Capitalism Will Not Bring Democracy to China

    by James Mann ...
    **The book that got China right: a prophetic work on how America's policies towards China led it away from liberalization and further towards authoritarianism, from the bestselling author of Rise of the Vulcans"[The China Fantasy] predicted, China would remain an authoritarian country, and its success would encourage other authoritarian regimes to resist pressures to change . . . Mann’s prediction ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Beijing Consensus

    Legitimizing Authoritarianism in Our Time

    by Stefan Halper ...
    Beijing presents a clear and gathering threat to Washington -- but not for the reasons you think. China's challenge to the West stems from its transformative brand of capitalism and an entirely different conception of the international community. In The Beijing Consensus, a leading expert in international relations presents a coherent integration of the many sides of U.S.-China relations. ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Responsibility to Protect

    Ending Mass Atrocity Crimes Once and For All

    by Gareth Evans ...
    ""Never again!"" the world has vowed time and again since the Holocaust. Yet genocide, ethnic cleansing, and other mass atrocity crimes continue to shock our consciences-from the killing fields of Cambodia to the machetes of Rwanda to the agony of Darfur.Gareth Evans has grappled with these issues firsthand. As Australian foreign minister, he was a key broker of the United Nations peace plan for ... Read more

    $28.19 USD

  • Diplomacy and the Future of World Order

    by Chester A. Crocker, Fen Osler Hampson, Pamela Aall, Jean Marie Guéhenno, Hans Binnendijk, Ana Palacio, Dmitri Trenin0, Marcos Tourinho1, Solomon Dersso2, Shadi Hamid3, Kanti Bajpai4, See Seng Tan5, Chas W. Freeman Jr.6, Lise Morjé Howard7, Toby Dalton8, Stacie Hoffmann9, Emily Taylor0, Samantha Bradshaw1, Daniel Benjamin2 ...
    Three scenarios for future approaches to peace and conflict diplomacy, explored through the lens of regional perspectives and security threatsDiplomacy in pursuit of peace and security faces severe challenges not seen in decades. The reemergence of strong states, discord in the UN Security Council, destabilizing transnational nonstate actors, closing space for civil society within states, and the ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

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  • Making the World Safe for Dictatorship

    by Alexander Dukalskis ...
    Authoritarian states work hard to manage their images abroad. They invest in foreign-facing media, hire public relations firms, tout their popular celebrities, and showcase their successes to elite and popular foreign audiences. However, there is a dark side to these efforts that is sometimes overlooked. Authoritarian states try to obscure or censor bad news about their governments and often ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • State Criminality

    The Crime of All Crimes

    by Dawn L. Rothe ...
    Series series Issues in Crime and Justice
    State crimes are historically and contemporarily ubiquitous and result in more injury and death than traditional street crimes such as robbery, theft, and assault. Consider that genocide during the 20th century in Germany, Rwanda, Darfur, Albania, Turkey, Ukraine, Cambodia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and other regions claimed the lives of tens of millions and rendered many more homeless, imprisoned, and ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • The Morality of China in Africa

    The Middle Kingdom and the Dark Continent

    by Jerry Liu, Sumit Roy, Doctor Quing Cao, L. H. M. Ling, Xiaoming Huang, Patrick Mazimhaka ...
    Edited with authority by the influential and respected Stephen Chan, this unique collection of essays gathers together for the first time both African and Chinese perspectives on China's place in Africa. The book starts with an excellent introductory essay from Stephen Chan, written in his usual elegant prose and featuring some very fresh insights organised with great clarity. Featuring useful ... Read more

    $26.49 USD

  • Global Challenges to Democracy

    Comparative Perspectives on Backsliding, Autocracy, and Resilience

    Edited by Valerie J. Bunce, Thomas B. Pepinsky, Rachel Beatty Riedl, Kenneth M. Roberts ...
    Following democracy's global advance in the late 20th century, recent patterns of democratic erosion or 'backsliding' have generated extensive scholarly debate. Backsliding towards autocracy is often the work of elected leaders operating within democratic institutions, challenging conventional thinking about the logic of democratic consolidation, the enforcement of institutional checks and ... Read more

    $29.59 USD

  • Peace and Justice

    by Rachel Kerr, Eirin Mobekk ...
    Peace and JusticeIn recent years there has been a tendency to intervene in the military, political and economic affairs of failed and failing states and those emerging from violent conflict. In many cases this has been accompanied by some form of international judicial intervention to address serious and widespread abuses of international humanitarian law and human rights in recognition of an ... Read more

    $22.00 USD