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When Does Terrorism Work? (Extremism and Democracy)
When Does Terrorism Work? (Extremism and Democracy)

This book examines the question of when terrorism works. Determining if political violence is effective and, if at all possible, when it is effective, is vital for both intellectual and practical reasons. The volume contains chapters from scholars who have been at the forefront of the efficaciousness debate and argues that terrorism...

From Raj to Republic: Sovereignty, Violence, and Democracy in India (South Asia in Motion)
From Raj to Republic: Sovereignty, Violence, and Democracy in India (South Asia in Motion)
BETWEEN 1946 AND 1952, the British Raj, the world’s largest colony, was transformed into the Republic of India, the world’s largest democracy. Independence, the Constituent Assembly Debates, the founding of the Republic, and India’s first universal franchise general election took place amid the violence and...
Political Bubbles: Financial Crises and the Failure of American Democracy
Political Bubbles: Financial Crises and the Failure of American Democracy

Behind every financial crisis lurks a "political bubble"--policy biases that foster market behaviors leading to financial instability. Rather than tilting against risky behavior, political bubbles--arising from a potent combination of beliefs, institutions, and interests--aid, abet, and amplify risk. Demonstrating how political...

A History of Thailand
A History of Thailand
This lively, accessible book is the first new history of Thailand in English for two decades. Drawing on new Thai-language research, it ranges widely over political, economic, social, and cultural themes. Chris Baker and Pasuk Phongpaichit reveal how a world of mandarin nobles and unfree labour evolved into a rural society of...
When Can Oil Economies Be Deemed Sustainable? (The Political Economy of the Middle East)
When Can Oil Economies Be Deemed Sustainable? (The Political Economy of the Middle East)
This open access book questions the stereotype depicting all Gulf (GCC) economies as not sustainable, and starts a critical discussion of what these economies and polities should do to guarantee themselves a relatively stable future.

Volatile international oil markets and the acceleration
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After Democracy: Imagining Our Political Future
After Democracy: Imagining Our Political Future
Democracy has long been considered an ideal state of governance. What if it’s not? Perhaps it is not the end goal but, rather, the transition stage to something better. We have lent our cheer and support and sacrificed lives for revolutions meant to place democracy where it does not exist. But change is gradual. Revolutions...
After Nationalism: Being American in an Age of Division (Radical Conservatisms)
After Nationalism: Being American in an Age of Division (Radical Conservatisms)

Nationalism is on the rise across the Western world, serving as a rallying cry for voters angry at the unacknowledged failures of globalization that has dominated politics and economics since the end of the Cold War. In After Nationalism, Samuel Goldman trains a sympathetic but skeptical eye on the trend, highlighting the deep...

Towards the Learning Grid (Frontiers in Artificial Lintelligence and Applications)
Towards the Learning Grid (Frontiers in Artificial Lintelligence and Applications)
This is a book about a paradigm shift in Informatics in general and in technologies enhancing human learning in particular. It is not unexpected that its content is controversial: the debate between the “evolutionaries” – those that wish to optimize and refine current approaches – and the “revolutionaries”...
Going to Extremes: How Like Minds Unite and Divide
Going to Extremes: How Like Minds Unite and Divide
Why do people become extremists? What makes people become so dismissive of opposing views? Why is political and cultural polarization so pervasive in America? Why do groups of teenagers, investors, and corporations take unnecessary risks? What leads groups to engage in such destructive acts as terrorism and ethic cleansing?

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Adam Ferguson in the Scottish Enlightenment: The Roman Past and Europe's Future
Adam Ferguson in the Scottish Enlightenment: The Roman Past and Europe's Future

Although overshadowed by his contemporaries Adam Smith and David Hume, the Scottish philosopher Adam Ferguson strongly influenced eighteenth-century currents of political thought. A major reassessment of this neglected figure, Adam Ferguson in the Scottish Enlightenment: The Roman Past and Europe’s Future sheds new light on...

Theatre in Market Economies (Theatre and Performance Theory)
Theatre in Market Economies (Theatre and Performance Theory)
Theatre in Market Economies explores the complex relationship between theatre and the market economy since the 1990s. Bringing together research from the arts and social sciences, the book proposes that theatre has increasingly taken up the mission of the 'mixed economy' by seeking to combine economic efficiency with...
Outspoken: Free Speech Stories
Outspoken: Free Speech Stories
"America's national obsession with asserting, and quelling, free-speech comes alive in this collection of profiles of First Amendment firebrands.Ê.Ê.Ê. The author goes beyond the usual polarized corners of political correctness.Ê.Ê.Ê.Êher nuanced treatment of all sides of the debate makes this a...
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