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  • Operation Danube Reconsidered

    The International Aspects of the Czechoslovak 1968 Crisis

    by Jakub Drábik, Ljubodarg Dimić, Mihail Gruev, Slavomír Michálek, Miklós Mitrovits, Jacques Rupnik, Alexander Stykalin, Mirosław Szumiło, Michal Štefanský0 ...
    At 11 o´clock in the evening of 20th August 1968, the armies of four Warsaw Pact countries, the Soviet Union, Poland, Bulgaria, and Hungary, crossed the borders of Czechoslovakia, starting the “Operation Danube”. Literally overnight the Czechoslovak experiment with Alexander Dubček´s liberalization reforms was transformed from living reality into history. Although the Soviet Union’s action ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • 1989 as a Political World Event

    Democracy, Europe and the New International System in the Age of Globalization

    Edited by Jacques Rupnik ...
    Series series Routledge Series on Global Order Studies
    This book is not about the events of 1989, but about 1989 as a world event. Starting with the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet bloc it examines the historical significance and the world brought about by 1989.When the Cold War ended in Europe it ushered in a world in which the international agenda is set outside Europe, in America or Asia. The book critically examines and ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

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  • The Return of History and the End of Dreams

    by Robert Kagan ...
    Hopes for a new peaceful international order after the end of the Cold War have been dashed by sobering realities: Great powers are once again competing for honor and influence. The world remains “unipolar,” but international competition among the United States, Russia, China, Europe, Japan, India, and Iran raise new threats of regional conflict, and a new contest between western liberalism and ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • The Endtimes of Human Rights

    by Stephen Hopgood ...
    "We are living through the endtimes of the civilizing mission. The ineffectual International Criminal Court and its disastrous first prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, along with the failure in Syria of the Responsibility to Protect are the latest pieces of evidence not of transient misfortunes but of fatal structural defects in international humanism. Whether it is the increase in deadly attacks on ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • The Ideas That Conquered The World

    Peace, Democracy, And Free Markets In The Twenty-first Century

    by Michael Mandelbaum ...
    At the dawn of the twenty-first century, three ideas dominate the world: peace as the preferred basis for relations between and among different countries, democracy as the optimal way to organize political life, and free markets as the indispensable vehicle for the creation of wealth. While not practiced everywhere, these ideas have--for the first time in history--no serious rivals. And although ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Politics of Authoritarian Rule

    by Milan W. Svolik ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
    What drives politics in dictatorships? Milan W. Svolik argues authoritarian regimes must resolve two fundamental conflicts. Dictators face threats from the masses over which they rule - the problem of authoritarian control. Secondly from the elites with whom dictators rule - the problem of authoritarian power-sharing. Using the tools of game theory, Svolik explains why some dictators establish ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • On Extremism and Democracy in Europe

    by Cas Mudde ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Extremism and Democracy
    On Extremism and Democracy in Europe is a collection of short and accessible essays on the far right, populism, Euroscepticism, and liberal democracy by one of the leading academic and public voices today. It includes both sober, fact-based analysis of the often sensationalized "rise of the far right" in Europe as well as passionate defence of the fundamental values of liberal democracy. Sometimes ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Global Politics

    by Dr Ben Whitham, Andrew Heywood ...
    In turbulent global times, your study of this subject is increasingly necessary and urgent.Featuring a new chapter on critical theories, and revised to take a less Eurocentric approach to concepts and case studies, this new edition allows you to tackle global politics' important concepts, debates and problems:-How can theories help us to understand the politics of a global pandemic?-Do we live in ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Ethnic Conflict

    Edited by Karl Cordell, Stefan Wolff ...
    A definitive global survey of the interaction of ethnicity, nationalism and politics, this handbook blends rigorous theoretically grounded analysis with empirically rich illustrations to provide a state-of-the-art overview of the contemporary debates on one of the most pervasive international security challenges today. Fully updated for the second edition, the book includes a new section which ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • The Sources of Social Power: Volume 4, Globalizations, 1945–2011

    by Michael Mann ...
    Distinguishing four sources of power – ideological, economic, military and political – this series traces their interrelations throughout human history. This fourth volume covers the period from 1945 to the present, focusing on the three major pillars of post-war global order: capitalism, the nation-state system and the sole remaining empire of the world, the United States. In the course of this ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Comparing Media Systems Beyond the Western World

    Edited by Daniel C. Hallin, Paolo Mancini ...
    Series series Communication, Society and Politics
    Comparing Media Systems Beyond the Western World offers a broad exploration of the conceptual foundations for comparative analysis of media and politics globally. It takes as its point of departure the widely used framework of Hallin and Mancini's Comparing Media Systems, exploring how the concepts and methods of their analysis do and do not prove useful when applied beyond the original focus of ... Read more

    $33.69 USD

  • Human Security

    by Mary Kaldor ...
    There is a real security gap in the world today. Millions of people in regions like the Middle East or East and Central Africa or Central Asia where new wars are taking place live in daily fear of violence. Moreover new wars are increasingly intertwined with other global risks the spread of disease, vulnerability to natural disasters, poverty and homelessness. Yet our security conceptions, drawn ... Read more

    $22.00 USD