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  • San Francisco Year Zero

    Political Upheaval, Punk Rock and a Third-Place Baseball Team

    by Lincoln A. Mitchell ...
    San Francisco is a city of contradictions. It is one of the most socially liberal cities in America, but it also has some of the nation’s worst income inequality. It is a playground for tech millionaires, with an outrageously high cost of living, yet it also supports vibrant alternative and avant-garde scenes. So how did the city get this way?In San Francisco Year Zero, San Francisco native ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Three Years Our Mayor

    George Moscone and the Making of Modern San Francisco

    by Lincoln A. Mitchell ...
    Series series The Urban West Series
    Those who recognize Mayor George Moscone’s name may think of him as the career politician who was assassinated along with Harvey Milk, but there was much more to this influential and fascinating man’s story. He was a trailblazing progressive and powerful state legislator who was instrumental in passing legislation on issues ranging from LGBT rights to funding for school lunches. Moscone’s 1975 ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • Uncertain Democracy

    U.S. Foreign Policy and Georgia's Rose Revolution

    by Lincoln A. Mitchell ...
    In November of 2003, a stolen election in the former Soviet republic of Georgia led to protests and the eventual resignation of President Eduard Shevardnadze. Shevardnadze was replaced by a democratically elected government led by President Mikheil Saakashvili, who pledged to rebuild Georgia, orient it toward the West, and develop a European-style democracy. Known as the Rose Revolution, this ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • The Color Revolutions

    by Lincoln A. Mitchell ...
    From late 2003 through mid-2005, a series of peaceful street protests toppled corrupt and undemocratic regimes in Georgia, Ukraine, and Kyrgyzstan and ushered in the election of new presidents in all three nations. These movements—collectively known as the Color Revolutions—were greeted in the West as democratic breakthroughs that might thoroughly reshape the political terrain of the former Soviet ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Democracy Promotion Paradox

    by Lincoln A. Mitchell ...
    Explore the numerous paradoxes at the heart of the theory and practice of democracy promotion.The Democracy Promotion Paradox raises difficult but critically important issues by probing the numerous inconsistencies and paradoxes that lie at the heart of the theory and practice of democracy promotion. For example, the United States frequently crafts policies to encourage democracy that rely on ... Read more

    $26.49 USD

  • Uncertain Democracy

    U.S. Foreign Policy and Georgia's Rose Revolution

    by Lincoln A. Mitchell ...
    In November of 2003, a stolen election in the former Soviet republic of Georgia led to protests and the eventual resignation of President Eduard Shevardnadze. Shevardnadze was replaced by a democratically elected government led by President Mikheil Saakashvili, who pledged to rebuild Georgia, orient it toward the West, and develop a European-style democracy. Known as the Rose Revolution, this ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • The Color Revolutions

    by Lincoln A. Mitchell ...
    From late 2003 through mid-2005, a series of peaceful street protests toppled corrupt and undemocratic regimes in Georgia, Ukraine, and Kyrgyzstan and ushered in the election of new presidents in all three nations. These movements—collectively known as the Color Revolutions—were greeted in the West as democratic breakthroughs that might thoroughly reshape the political terrain of the former Soviet ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

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  • Russia's Unfinished Revolution

    Political Change from Gorbachev to Putin

    by Michael A. McFaul ...
    For centuries, dictators ruled Russia. Tsars and Communist Party chiefs were in charge for so long some analysts claimed Russians had a cultural predisposition for authoritarian leaders. Yet, as a result of reforms initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev, new political institutions have emerged that now require election of political leaders and rule by constitutional procedures. Michael McFaul traces ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

  • Getting Georgia Right

    by Svante Cornell ...
    Series series Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies Research Papers
    Georgia is unquestionably the most open polity of the South Caucasus, and its political development will be a bell-wether for the prospects of democratic development across Eurasia. This research paper analyses the achievements and shortcomings of the Rose Revolution era as well as the prospects for the country under the leadership of the Georgian Dream Coalition. Furthermore, it discusses the ... Read more

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  • Georgia

    A Political History Since Independence

    by Professor Stephen F. Jones ...
    Georgia emerged from the fall of the Soviet empire in 1991 with the promise of swift economic and democratic reform. But that promise remains unfulfilled. Economic collapse, secessionist challenges, civil war and the failure to escape the legacy of Soviet rule - culminating in the 2008 war with Russia - made the transition to democratic institutions andconsolidated statehood a difficult struggle ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Arms on the Market

    Reducing the Risk of Proliferation in the Former Soviet Union

    Edited by Suzette R. Grillot, Suzette Grillot R ...
    Almost overnight, the massive military-industrial assets of the Soviet Union came under the jurisdiction of fifteen states instead of one established government. While only four states inherited weapons of mass destruction, most of the fifteen states of the former Soviet Union can produce sensitive materials and equipment. Because all the states se ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The World America Made

    by Robert Kagan ...
    What would the world look like if America were to reduce its role as a global leader in order to focus all its energies on solving its problems at home? And is America really in decline? Robert Kagan, New York Times best-selling author and one of the country’s most influential strategic thinkers, paints a vivid, alarming picture of what the world might look like if the United States were truly to ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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