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  • After the Fall

    From the End of History to the Crisis of Democracy, How Politicians Broke Our World

    by Ian Shapiro ...
    **A renowned political scientist’s searing explanation for the rightward turn of global politics since the end of the Cold War.“A compelling analysis—profoundly challenging to so many Western assumptions—with an admirable blend of realism, imagination, unflinching criticism, and generosity.” ―Rory Stewart, author The Places in Between**The collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989 ushered in an era of ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Uncommon Sense

    by Ian Shapiro ...
    A spirited defense of the Enlightenment against assaults from both the left and the right that explains its urgent implications for our contemporary politicsOurs is an age when optimism about politics is hard to come by. Ian Shapiro explains why this is so and, without minimizing the daunting challenges, spells out an appropriate response. Written in the indomitable spirit exemplified by Tom Paine ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • The Moral Foundations of Politics

    by Ian Shapiro ...
    Series series The Institution for Social and Policy St
    When do governments merit our allegiance, and when should they be denied it? Ian Shapiro investigates this most enduring of political dilemmas in this innovative and engaging book.Shapiro discusses the different answers that have been proposed by the major political theorists in the utilitarian, Marxist, and social contract traditions over the past four centuries. Showing how these political ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Moral Foundations of Politics

    by Ian Shapiro ...
    When do governments merit our allegiance, and when should they be denied it? Ian Shapiro explores this most enduring of political dilemmas in this innovative and engaging book. Building on his highly popular Yale courses, Professor Shapiro evaluates the main contending accounts of the sources of political legitimacy. Starting with theorists of the Enlightenment, he examines the arguments put ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Flight from Reality in the Human Sciences

    by Ian Shapiro ...
    In this captivating yet troubling book, Ian Shapiro offers a searing indictment of many influential practices in the social sciences and humanities today. Perhaps best known for his critique of rational choice theory, Shapiro expands his purview here. In discipline after discipline, he argues, scholars have fallen prey to inward-looking myopia that results from--and perpetuates--a flight from ... Read more

    $29.59 USD

  • The Moral Foundations of Politics

    by Ian Shapiro ...
    When do governments merit our allegiance, and when should they be denied it? Ian Shapiro explores this most enduring of political dilemmas in this innovative and engaging book. Building on his highly popular Yale courses, Professor Shapiro evaluates the main contending accounts of the sources of political legitimacy. Starting with theorists of the Enlightenment, he examines the arguments put ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Politics against Domination

    by Ian Shapiro ...
    Ian Shapiro makes a compelling case that the overriding purpose of politics should be to combat domination. Moreover, he shows how to put resistance to domination into practice at home and abroad. This is a major work of applied political theory, a profound challenge to utopian visions, and a guide to fundamental problems of justice and distribution.“Shapiro’s insights are trenchant, especially ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • The State of Democratic Theory

    by Ian Shapiro ...
    What should we expect from democracy, and how likely is it that democracies will live up to those expectations? In The State of Democratic Theory, Ian Shapiro offers a critical assessment of contemporary answers to these questions, lays out his distinctive alternative, and explores its implications for policy and political action.Some accounts of democracy's purposes focus on aggregating ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • The Real World of Democratic Theory

    by Ian Shapiro ...
    In this book Ian Shapiro develops and extends arguments that have established him as one of today's leading democratic theorists. Shapiro is hardheaded about the realities of politics and power, and the difficulties of fighting injustice and oppression. Yet he makes a compelling case that democracy's legitimacy depends on pressing it into the service of resisting domination, and that democratic ... Read more

    $34.59 USD

  • Politics against Domination

    by Ian Shapiro ...
    Ian Shapiro makes a compelling case that the overriding purpose of politics should be to combat domination. Moreover, he shows how to put resistance to domination into practice at home and abroad. This is a major work of applied political theory, a profound challenge to utopian visions, and a guide to fundamental problems of justice and distribution.“Shapiro’s insights are trenchant, especially ... Read more

    $25.49 USD

  • Containment

    Rebuilding a Strategy against Global Terror

    by Ian Shapiro ...
    In this powerfully argued book, Ian Shapiro shows that the idea of containment offers the best hope for protecting Americans and their democracy into the future. His bold vision for American security in the post-September 11 world is reminiscent of George Kennan's historic "Long Telegram," in which the containment strategy that won the Cold War was first developed.The Bush Doctrine of preemptive ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

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    After the Fall

    From the End of History to the Crisis of Democracy, How Politicians Broke Our World

    by Ian Shapiro ...
    Narrated by Grover Gardner ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 50 min

    A renowned political scientist’s searing explanation for the rightward turn of global politics since the end of the Cold War.The collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989 ushered in an era of tremendous political optimism: communism was receding and democracy was on the march in Eastern Europe, Latin America, and much of Asia. Even surviving communist regimes were adopting capitalism, and the ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook