• Introduction: Is democracy in retreat?
• The American experience
• Russia and the weight of history
• Martial law and the origins of Polish democracy
• Ukraine : "a made up country"?
• Kenya : "Save our beloved country"
• Colombia : the era of democratic security
• The Middle East : can democracy exist in a cauldron? Iraq : when tyrants fall ; Egypt and Tunisia : when old men fail ; Arab monarchies: will they reform?
• Are authoritarians so bad?
• What democracy must deliver
• "Democracy is the worst... except for all the others"
• Epilogue: They will look to America
• 2016.

"From the former secretary of state and bestselling author -- a sweeping look at the global struggle for democracy and why America must continue to support the cause of human freedom. From the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union to the ongoing struggle for human rights in the Middle East, Condoleezza Rice has served on the front lines of history. As a child, she was an eyewitness to a third awakening of freedom, when her hometown of Birmingham, Alabama, became the epicenter of the civil rights movement for black Americans. In this book, Rice explains what these epochal events teach us about democracy. At a time when people around the world are wondering whether democracy is in decline, Rice shares insights from her experiences as a policymaker, scholar, and citizen, in order to put democracy's challenges into perspective."-- Provided by publisher.

• Prologue
• Introduction : Is democracy in retreat?
• The American experience
• Russia and the weight of history
• Martial law and the origins of Polish democracy
• Ukraine : "A made up country"?
• Kenya : "Save our beloved country"
• Colombia : the era of democratic security
• The Middle East : can democracy exist in a cauldron? Iraq : when tyrants fall ; Egypt and Tunisia : when old men fail ; Arab monarchies : will they reform?
• Are authoritarians so bad?
• What democracy must deliver
• "Democracy is the worst... except for all the others"
• Epilogue : they will look to America
• 2016.

From the former secretary of state and bestselling author -- a sweeping look at the global struggle for democracy and why America must continue to support the cause of human freedom."This heartfelt and at times very moving book shows why democracy proponents are so committed to their work...Both supporters and skeptics of democracy promotion will come away from this book wiser and better informed." --The New York Times From the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union to the ongoing struggle for human rights in the Middle East, Condoleezza Rice has served on the front lines of history. As a child, she was an eyewitness to a third awakening of freedom, when her hometown of Birmingham, Alabama, became the epicenter of the civil rights movement for black Americans. In this book, Rice explains what these epochal events teach us about democracy. At a time when people around the world are wondering whether democracy is in decline, Rice shares insights from her experiences as a policymaker, scholar, and citizen, in order to put democracy's challenges into perspective. When the United States was founded, it was the only attempt at self-government in the world. Today more than half of all countries qualify as democracies, and in the long run that number will continue to grow. Yet nothing worthwhile ever comes easily. Using America's long struggle as a template, Rice draws lessons for democracy around the world -- from Russia, Poland, and Ukraine, to Kenya, Colombia, and the Middle East. She finds that no transitions to democracy are the same because every country starts in a different place. Pathways diverge and sometimes circle backward. Time frames for success vary dramatically, and countries often suffer false starts before getting it right. But, Rice argues, that does not mean they should not try. While the ideal conditions for democracy are well known in academia, they never exist in the real world. The question is not how to create perfect circumstances but how to move forward under difficult ones. These same insights apply in overcoming the challenges faced by governments today. The pursuit of democracy is a continuing struggle shared by people around the world, whether they are opposing authoritarian regimes, establishing new democratic institutions, or reforming mature democracies to better live up to their ideals. The work of securing it is never finished.
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The New York Times bestselling author of The Battle for Peace and retired Four-Star General Tony Zinni examines how America's "military first" view of foreign policy continues to embroil our troops in unwinnable wars.

For the first time, former Vice President Dick Cheney opens up about a life and career in politics that has spanned more than four decades.
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• Missile defense to ABM diplomacy: from Eisenhower to Nixon
• The Strategic Defense Initiative : from Reagan to G.H.W. Bush
• Politics of missile defense deployment : from Clinton to G.W. Bush
• Missile defense in Europe, 2002-2009 : Bush to Obama
• North Korea and Iran missile programs : their regional impact
• The status of missile defense systems, 2003-2009
• The Obama administration and missile defense.

"The Missile Defense Systems of George W. Bush: A Critical Assessment" asks and answers a number of pressing questions about Bush's decision to deploy ground-based missiles. Has the system become reliable? If not, what are the prospects for it to become effective? What have the fiscal costs been? What was the political impact of efforts to expand ABM systems to Europe? This is the only major book that brings together all of the factors - historical and current - to allow readers to assess President Bush's decisions for themselves. Opening with an extensive history of missile defense, the book analyzes Bush's efforts to establish ground-based missiles in Eastern Europe, as well as the impact of his decisions. Both the administration's policies and evaluations and those of critical observers are presented President Obama's program for missile defense is reviewed as well. A final chapter evaluates the technical progress of the various ABM systems and weighs the political dimensions of the deployment decision and the cost of the undertaking to date.
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• Introduction: A failure of capitalism or liberal social engineering?
• The Robin Hood agenda : how a gang of radical activists and liberal politicians set the stage for the biggest bank heist in history
• $4 trillion dollar shakedown : the left's activist Jihad against American banks
• The Clinton crusade : how Democrats made credit a civil right
• Cover your Fannie : how Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were taken over by liberal activists
• The golden trough : how liberal politicians used Fannie and Freddie to rig the real estate market while lining their own pockets
• Do-good capitalists : Bill Clinton's seduction of Wall Street and the birth of the bailout culture
• Minority meltdown : a tale of two bubbles
• Robin Hood comes to the White House : how Barack Obama's plans to use liberal state capitalism will create the next big economic meltdown.

• Preface: The shape of things to come
• The seven deadly sins of Bush-Cheney
• A twelve-step recovery program for American grand strategy
• The American trajectory : of great men and great powers
• The economic realignment : racing to the bottom of the pyramid
• The diplomatic realignment : rebranding the team of rivals
• The security realignment : rediscovering diplomacy, defense, and development
• The network realignment : the rise of the sysadmin-industrial complex
• The strategic realignment : resurrecting the progressive agenda
• Coda: Future perfect tense.

• Foreword.
• Chapter 1 What kind of recession has Japan been through?
• Chapter 2 Characteristics of balance sheet recessions that should be kept in mind during the recovery.
• Chapter 3 The Great Depression was also a balance sheet recession.
• Chapter 4 Monetary, foreign exchange, and fiscal policy during a balance sheet recession.
• Chapter 5 Yin and Yang economic cycles and the Holy Grail of macroeconomics.
• Chapter 6 Pressure of globalization.
• Chapter 7 Ongoing bubbles and balance sheet recessions.
• Chapter 8 World in Balance-Sheet Recession. Appendix: Thoughts on Walras and macroeconomics. Index.
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The revised edition of this highly acclaimed work presents crucial lessons from Japan's recession that could aid the US and other economies as they struggle to recover from the current financial crisis. This book is about Japan's 15-year long recession and how it affected current theoretical thinking about its causes and cures. It has a detailed explanation on what happened to Japan, but the discoveries made are so far-reaching that a large portion of economics literature will have to be modified to accommodate another half to the macroeconomic spectrum of possibilities that conventional theorists have overlooked. The author developed the idea of yin and yang business cycles where the conventional world of profit maximization is the yang and the world of balance sheet recession, where companies are minimizing debt, is the yin. Once so divided, many varied theories developed in macro economics since the 1930s can be nicely categorized into a single comprehensive theory- The Holy Grail of Macro Economics.
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• Acknowledgments Note on Transliteration
• 1. An Institutional Approach to the Politics of Western Muslim Minorities, by Abdulkader H. Sinno
• Part 1. Western Muslims and Established State-Religion Relations
• 2. Claiming Space in America's Pluralism: Muslims Enter the Political Maelstrom, by Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad and Robert Stephen Ricks
• 3. The Practice of Their Faith: Muslims and the State in Britain, France, and Germany, by J. Christopher Soper and Joel S. Fetzer
• 4. Religion, Muslims, and the State in Britain and France: From Westphalia to 9/11, by Jorgen S. Nielsen
• Part 2. Western Muslims and Political Institutions
• 5. Muslim Underrepresentation in American Politics, by Abdulkader H. Sinno
• 6. Muslims Representing Muslims in Europe: Parties and Associations after 9/11, by Jytte Klausen
• 7. Muslims in UK Institutions: Effective Representation or Tokenism? by Abdulkader H. Sinno and Eren Tatari
• Part 3. Institutional Underpinnings of Perceptions of Western Muslims
• 8. How Europe and Its Muslim Populations See Each Other, by Jodie T. Allen and Richard Wike
• 9. Public Opinion toward Muslim Americans: Civil Liberties and the Role of Religiosity, Ideology, and Media Use, by Erik C. Nisbet, Ronald Ostman, and James Shanahan
• 10. The Racialization of Muslim Americans, by Amaney Jamal
• Part 4. Western Muslims, Civil Rights, and Legal Institutions
• 11. Canadian National Security Policy and Canadian Muslim Communities, by Kent Roach
• 12. Counterterrorism and the Civil Rights of Muslim Minorities in the European Union, by Anja Dalgaard-Nielsen
• 13. The Preventive Paradigm and the Rule of Law: How Not to Fight Terrorism, by David Cole
• 14. Recommendations for Western Policy Makers and Muslim Organizations, by Abdulkader H. Sinno List of Contributors Index.
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Looking closely at relations between Muslims and their host countries, Abdulkader H. Sinno and an international group of scholars examine questions of political representation, identity politics, civil liberties, immigration, and security issues. While many have problematized Muslims in the West, this volume takes a unique stance by viewing Muslims as a normative, and even positive, influence in Western politics. Squarely political and transatlantic in scope, the essays in this collected work focus on Islam and Muslim citizens in Europe and the Americas since 9/11, the European bombings, and the recent riots in France. Main topics include Muslim political participation and activism, perceptions about Islam and politics, Western attitudes about Muslim visibility in the political arena, radicalization of Muslims in an age of apparent shrinking of civil liberties, and personal security in politically uneasy times.
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• Acknowledgments Note on Transliteration
• 1. An Institutional Approach to the Politics of Western Muslim Minorities, by Abdulkader H. Sinno
• Part 1. Western Muslims and Established State-Religion Relations
• 2. Claiming Space in America's Pluralism: Muslims Enter the Political Maelstrom, by Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad and Robert Stephen Ricks
• 3. The Practice of Their Faith: Muslims and the State in Britain, France, and Germany, by J. Christopher Soper and Joel S. Fetzer
• 4. Religion, Muslims, and the State in Britain and France: From Westphalia to 9/11, by Jorgen S. Nielsen
• Part 2. Western Muslims and Political Institutions
• 5. Muslim Underrepresentation in American Politics, by Abdulkader H. Sinno
• 6. Muslims Representing Muslims in Europe: Parties and Associations after 9/11, by Jytte Klausen
• 7. Muslims in UK Institutions: Effective Representation or Tokenism? by Abdulkader H. Sinno and Eren Tatari
• Part 3. Institutional Underpinnings of Perceptions of Western Muslims
• 8. How Europe and Its Muslim Populations See Each Other, by Jodie T. Allen and Richard Wike
• 9. Public Opinion toward Muslim Americans: Civil Liberties and the Role of Religiosity, Ideology, and Media Use, by Erik C. Nisbet, Ronald Ostman, and James Shanahan
• 10. The Racialization of Muslim Americans, by Amaney Jamal
• Part 4. Western Muslims, Civil Rights, and Legal Institutions
• 11. Canadian National Security Policy and Canadian Muslim Communities, by Kent Roach
• 12. Counterterrorism and the Civil Rights of Muslim Minorities in the European Union, by Anja Dalgaard-Nielsen
• 13. The Preventive Paradigm and the Rule of Law: How Not to Fight Terrorism, by David Cole
• 14. Recommendations for Western Policy Makers and Muslim Organizations, by Abdulkader H. Sinno List of Contributors Index.
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Looking closely at relations between Muslims and their host countries, Abdulkader H. Sinno and an international group of scholars examine questions of political representation, identity politics, civil liberties, immigration, and security issues. While many have problematized Muslims in the West, this volume takes a unique stance by viewing Muslims as a normative, and even positive, influence in Western politics. Squarely political and transatlantic in scope, the essays in this collected work focus on Islam and Muslim citizens in Europe and the Americas since 9/11, the European bombings, and the recent riots in France. Main topics include Muslim political participation and activism, perceptions about Islam and politics, Western attitudes about Muslim visibility in the political arena, radicalization of Muslims in an age of apparent shrinking of civil liberties, and personal security in politically uneasy times.
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• Why America needs a defense
• Unloved, or simply loathed
• American values are western values
• For richer, for poorer
• The pursuit of democracy
• Arrogant, but not lawless
• The Iraq invasion : stupid but not malign
• The indefensible : Guantánamo and torture
• Be careful what you wish for
• How America could help itself.

• Introduction: Is there hope for Uncle Sam?
• Chapter 1 - The trouble with hegemony
• Chapter 2 - Beyond the American bubble
• Chapter 3 - Political and economic brinkmanship
• Chapter 4 - Does empire matter?
• Chapter 5 - Can the United States correct itself?
• Chapter 6 - Emerging powers Notes Bibliography Index.
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For over a century now, America has dominated global politics and the global imagination. Yet, as the dollar declines, inequality increases, rates of consumption are unprecedented and American unilateralism comes under fire, such hegemony is increasingly unsustainable. In this provocative new book, leading sociologist Jan Nederveen Pieterse asks whether it's possible for America to chart a different course. Nederveen Pieterse argues that correcting the course of decline would mean taking drastic steps. Only a reinvention of New Deal politics could address social inequality, whilst repositioning itself in world politics would mean adopting genuine multilateralism. In the current 'American bubble' however, political and corporate unaccountability are so entrenched, and the constants of policy - support for Wall Street, the Pentagon and Israel - are so widely accepted by powerful elites that change is unlikely to come from within.
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• Introduction: Is there hope for Uncle Sam?
• 1. The trouble with hegemony
• 2. Beyond the American bubble
• 3. Political and economic brinkmanship
• 4. Does empire matter?
• 5. Can the United States correct itself?
• 6. Emerging powers Notes Bibliography Index.
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For over a century now, America has dominated global politics and the global imagination. Yet as the dollar declines, inequality increases, rates of consumption are unprecedented and American unilateralism comes under fire, such hegemony is increasingly unsustainable. In this provocative new book, leading sociologist Jan Nederveen Pieterse asks whether it's possible for America to chart a different course. Nederveen Pieterse argues that correcting the course of decline would mean taking drastic steps. Only a reinvention of New Deal politics could address social inequality, whilst repositioning itself in world politics would mean adopting genuine multilateralism. In the current `American bubble' however, political and corporate unaccountability are so entrenched, and the constants of policy - support for Wall Street, the Pentagon and Israel - are so widely accepted by powerful elites that change is unlikely to come from within. Is there Hope for Uncle Sam? is a clear and provocative look at one of the big questions facing us in this century.
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• Introduction : the new foreign policy
• Rational actors and the national interests
• Cognitive misers and distrusting leaders
• Decision units, small groups, and bureaucratic politics
• National self-image, culture, and domestic institutions
• Domestic politics
• Public opinion and media
• Great powers
• The other powers
• Conclusion : a nested game with many players.

"Please Don't Remain Calm" is a lucid deconstruction of the politics and public figures shaping the social, financial and military disasters of our times. This selection of Michael Kinsley's trenchant editorial writing in "Slate" (and elsewhere) since 1995 covers the end of the Clinton era (Monica, impeachment, etc.) and two terms of George W. Bush (9/11, the War on Terror, Iraq, etc.).During this time Kinsley left Washington for Seattle and founded Slate, was opinion editor of the "Los Angeles Times", underwent brain surgery for Parkinson's disease and had other adventures that are reflected here. Although mostly about politics, there are articles and essays about other things, such as the future of newspapers, the existence of God and why power women love Law and Order. This is the work of a writer at the top of his form. The reader will cherish his sense of humour, which enlivens even the toughest subject matter.
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• Table of Contents, Foreword, "Christopher Pollitt, "1. Distinctiveness in the Study of Public Management in Europe: An Introduction, "Walter Kickert, "2. The Study of Public Management in France: La Specificite du Modele Francais d'Administration, "Annie Bartoli, "3. The Study of Public Management in Germany: Poorly Institutionalised and Fragmented, "Christoph Reichard, "4. the Study of Public Management in Great Britain: Public Service Delivery and its Management, "Stephen Osborne and Kate McLaughlin, "5. The Study of Public Management in Norway, Combination of Organisation Theory and Political Science, "Tom Christensen and Per Laegreid, "6. The Study of Public Management in the Netherlands, Managing Complex Networks and Public Governance, "Walter Kickert, "7. The Study of Public Management in Switzerland: wirkungsorientierten Verwaltungsfuhrung, "Kuno Schedler, "8. The Study of Public Management in Italy: Management and the Dominance of Public Law, "Marco Meneguzzo, "9. The Study of Public Management in Spain: An Interdisciplinary and Ill-defined Terrain, "Xavier Ballart, "10. The Study of Public Management in Hungary: Management and the Transition to Democratic Rechtsstaat, "Gyorgy Hajnal and Gyorgy Jenei, "11. The Study of Public Management in the United States: Management in the New World and a Reflection on Europe, "Lawrence Lynn".
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This book presents an overview of the scientific study of public management, gathering together some of the most authoritative experts in this area of study in Europe and the United States, writing specifically about their respective countries. These essays seek to present the national distinctiveness of the study of public management, in the context of specific state administration. This book goes further than some previous books concerning public management by highlighting the underlying differences between Europe and the United States and amongst European countries, in relation to their particular political-administrative circumstances. The aim of this book is to establish a dialogue between Anglo-American and European approaches to public management, to encourage readers to see their own national ideas and practises in contrast to others and foster leaning by asking repeatedly 'compared to what?'.
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• Introduction
• 1. Anti-Americanism and the Clash of Civilizations
• 2. The Role of Culture in International relations
• 3. No Common Ground?: Islam, Anti-Americanism and the United States
• 4. Americanism: A Short History
• 5. What's the Big Idea?: Models of Global Order in Post-Cold War America
• 6. The Emperor's Clothes: The Failure of the Neo-Conservative Mission
• 7. The Bush Administration and the Idea of International Community.
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This is a readable and incisive analysis of American foreign policy and international politics since the end of the Cold War. It is organized around two key themes, the role of culture in international politics and the changing nature of American power. Richard Crockatt addresses such key issues as: the relationship between US power and the post-Cold War international system; US relations with Europe and Islam; the intensity of anti-American feeling after September 11th; the rebirth of American nationalism; and, the war in Iraq and its aftermath. "After 9/11" is a much-needed balanced account of the most significant political questions of the twenty-first century.
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• Dedication Preface and Acknowledgments
• 1. THE CASE FOR THE AMERICAN EMPIRE Bradley A. Thayer
• 2. THE CASE AGAINST THE AMERICAN EMPIRE Christopher Layne
• 3. REPLY TO CHRISTOPHER LAYNE: The Strength of the American Empire Bradley A. Thayer
• 4. REPLY TO BRADLEY A. THAYER: The Illusion of the American Empire Christopher Layne Suggested Reading.
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In this short, accessible book Chris Layne and Brad Thayer argue the merits and demerits of an American empire. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States emerged as the lone, unrivalled superpower on the world stage. America's military, diplomatic and economic - not to mention it's cultural and ideological - presence is felt throughout the world. With few, if any, rivals to its supremacy, the current administration has made an explicit commitment - in its 2002 National Security Strategy - to maintaining and advancing primacy for the US in the world. But, what exactly are the benefits of American hegemony for the US and the world and what are the costs and drawbacks for this fledgling empire? After making their best cases for and against an American empire, subsequent chapters will allow the authors to respond to the major arguments presented by their opponents and present their own counter arguments.
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• Introduction--
• 1. Democratic transformations in Europe and America-- PART I: TRANSATLANTIC DEMOCRACIES: THE ERA OF INSTITUTIONAL DIVERGENCE--
• 2. Differentiation in authority structures: state, nation and democracy in Europe and America--
• 3. Institutionalization of different governmental patterns: separation and fusion of powers in America and Europe--
• 4. Alternative paths to a modern social order: territoriality, market and welfare in America and Europe--
• 5. Different structuring of partisan politics in America and Europe: the role of parties in the political process-- PART II: TRANSATLANTIC DEMOCRACIES: THE ERA OF INSTITUTIONAL CONVERGENCE--
• 6. American compound democracy and its challenges: the domestic implications of global power--
• 7. Structural transformation of European politics: the growth of supranational European Union--
• 8. Compound democracy in America and Europe: comparing the US and the EU--
• 9. The constitutionalization of the US and the EU compound democracies--
• 10. The puzzle of compound democracy: a comparative perspective-- Bibliography.
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This is a major new comparison of the American and European political systems. By deploying a powerful new model to analyse the two systems it draws some challenging conclusions about their increasing similarity. Professor Fabbrini argues that the process of regional integration in Europe over the last 60 years, has significantly reduced the historical differences between the democracies on either side of the Atlantic. The EU and the US are now similar because they represent two different species of the same political genus: the compound democracy. The defining feature of compound democracy is the union of states and their citizens. Through such union, the states agree to pool their sovereignty within a larger integrated supra-state or supranational framework. They do so because these unions are primarily pacts for avoiding war. Because the states which made those unions were, and continue to be, asymmetrically correlated, any attempt to create a unified polity - that is a political system where the decision-making power is monopolized by only one institution - is likely to fail. He goes on to argue that the US and the EU are based on a multiple diffusion of powers which guarantees that any interest can have a voice in the decision-making process and no majority will be able to control all the institutional levels of the polity. This type of system allows an inter-states organization to operate as a supra-state polity - but it does so at the expense of decision-making capacity and accountability.
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• Part one: Romans at Home.
• 1. The End of American Exceptionalism
• 2. Great and Glorious Days
• 3. Occupied America
• 4. The Pied Piper of Vermont
• 5. The Anti-Bush Cometh?
• 6. Jumping Off the Bandwagon
• 7. Oedipus Bush
• 8. What's the Matter with America?
• 9. Democrats After November --- Part two: Legions at War.
• 10. Bush's Ultimate Thule?
• 11. The Scalping Party
• 12. Ungrateful Volcano
• 13. War-Mart
• 14. The Pentagon as Global Slumlord
• 15. The Urbanization of Empire --- Part three: The Unease in Gaul.
• 16. Heavy Metal Freeway
• 17. Cry California
• 18. Think Big, Recall the System
• 19. The Day of the Locust
• 20. Striking Southern California
• 21. Mel's Nazi Matinee
• 21. Inside the Sunshine Gulag
• 23. Riotous Real Estate
• 24. The Wall of Capital
• 25. Vigilante Man
• 26. Border Invasion
• 27. Extreme Makeover --- Part four: Dark Water Rising.
• 28. Our Summer Vacation: 50,000 Dead
• 29. The View from Hubbert's Peak
• 30. The Monster at the Door
• 31. Poor, Black and Left Behind
• 32. A Rainy Day in Tijuana
• 33. Drowning All Illusions--
• 34. At the Corner of New Orleans and Humanity
• 35. Sister Caterina --- Part five: Old Flames.
• 36. Artisans of Terror
• 37. Street Illiad
• 38. Remembering Private Ivan
• 39. The Ghost Shirts
• 40. Malcolm
• More Than Ever
• 41. Punch-Out Time
• 42. Happy Birthday, Big Bill
• 43. Radical Grit
• 44. Riot Nights on Sunset Strip.

"Mike Davis attacks the current fashion for empires and white men's burdens in this blistering collection of radical essays. He skewers such contemporary idols as Mel Gibson and Howard Dean, debates with Tom Frank about "what's the matter with America, " unlocks some secret doors in the Pentagon and the California prison system, visits Star Wars in the Arctic and vigilantes on the U.S.-Mexico border, predicts ethnic cleansing in New Orleans more than a year before Katrina, commemorates the anarchist avengers of the 1890s, remembers "Private Ivan" who defeated fascism, recalls the "teenybopper riots" on Sunset Strip, and looks at the future of global capitalism from the top of Hubbert's Peak. No writer in the United States today brings together analysis and history as comprehensively and elegantly as Mike Davis. In these contemporary, interventionist essays, Davis goes beyond critique to offer real solutions and concrete possibilities for change"--Provided by publisher.

In this, his first major book, Mark Steyn - probably the most widely read, and wittiest, columnist in the English-speaking world - takes on the great poison of the twenty-first century: the anti-Americanism that fuels both Old Europe and radical Islam. America, Steyn argues, will have to stand alone. The world will be divided between America and the rest; and for our sake America had better win.
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• Acknowledgments.About the Authors.1. The Divided West: Challenges, Obstacles and Dilemmas.2. Theory and Transatlantic Crisis.3. 'Atlantic Europe': The UK, the US and European Security.4. 'Core Europe': Germany's National Interest, Transatlantic Relations and European Security.5. 'New Europe': And Transatlantic Relations.6. 'Non-Aligned Europe' and Transatlantic Relations.7. 'Periphery Europe': Russia and Transatlantic Security.8. Transatlantic Futures in an Age of Strategic Dissonance.Notes.Bibliography.Index.
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This book analyses the genesis and process through which transatlantic strategic dissonance now defines a divided West. It contends that constructive strategic dissonance has the potential to best manage a complex and pressing global security agenda. This work reflects on the bitter disputes that have crystallized across the Atlantic after 9/11 and the rise of terrorist, WMD and failed state threats. It is structured around the concepts of 'Atlantic', 'Core', 'New' 'Non-aligned' and 'Periphery' Europe that have emerged in the wake of these disputes. It identifies the trends and factors that have driven and could further propel the Euro-Atlantic security community towards different futures. This work analyses the security policy implications of each scenario for states within this region.
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• Front Cover; Book Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Part I: The Culture Wars; Ever Wonder Why?; Animal Rites; "Us" or "Them"?; Twisted History; Explaining to the Grand Kids; Human Livestock; The Wright Stuff; The Legacy of Eric Hoffer; One-Uppers versus Survival; The Equality Dogma; The Inequality Dogma; Equality, Inequality, and Fate; Hiroshima; The Tyranny of Visions; The Tyranny of Visions: Part II; The Tyranny of Visions: Part III; The Immigration Taboo; The Left Monopoly; I Beg to Disagree; 4th Estate or 5th Column?; Part II: Economic Issues; Why Economists Are Not Popular.

• Housing HurdlesThe "Cost" of Medical Care; Subsidies Are All Wet; A Taxing Experience; Profits without Honor; Profits without Honor: Part II; Two Earthquakes; Peter Bauer (1915-2002); Journalists and Economics; Stock Crash Aftermath; Milton Friedman at 90; "Price Gouging" in Florida; Economic "Power"; A Relic of the Recent Past; Who Can Afford It?; Free-Lunch Medicine; Free-Lunch Medicine: Part II; Free-Lunch Medicine: Part III; Manufacturing Confusion; A Cold Shower; An Old "New Vision"; Third World Sweatshops; Third World Sweatshops: Part II; Privatizing Social Security.

• Privatizing Social Security: Part II"Living Wage" Kills Jobs; A Happy Birthday?; Part III: Legal Issues; Calculated Confusion; Judges and Judgment; Justice for Little Angelo; Property Rites; Property Rites: Part II; Property Rites: Part III; Foreign Law Is Not Law; Medical Lawsuits; Fixing the Jury System; Half a Century after Brown; Half a Century after Brown: Part II; Half a Century after Brown: Part III; Umpires, Judges, and Others; Big Business and Quotas; The Grand Fraud; The Grand Fraud: Part II; The Grand Fraud: Part III; The Grand Fraud: Part IV; Saving Quotas.

• The High Cost of NuancesThe Polio Fallacy; Part IV: Political Issues; Spoiled Brat Politics; Spoiled Brat Politics: Part II; The "Compassion" Racket; Ronald Reagan (1911-2004); Gun Control Myths; Gun Control Myths: Part II; A Painful Anniversary; The High Cost of Shibboleths; "Why Do They Hate Us?"; Foreign "Allies"; My Platform; The Oldest Fraud; The Left's Vision; The Left's Vocabulary; Abstract People; Looking Back; Part V: Social Issues; Mealy Mouth Media; Achievements and Their Causes; Talkers versus Doers; Talkers versus Doers: Part II; Liberals and Class; Liberals and Class: Part II.

• Liberals and Class: Part IIIThe Autism "Spectrum"; The High Cost of Busybodies; The High Cost of Busybodies: Part II; The High Cost of Busybodies: Part III; The High Cost of Busybodies: Part IV; "Partial Truth" Abortion; Lying about Yosemite; Growing Old; April Fools' Party; Part VI: Education Issues; Choosing a College; The Idiocy of "Relevance"; Julian Stanley and Bright Children; For What Purpose?; School Performances; School Performances: Part II; School Performances: Part III; College Admissions Voodoo; Summer De-Programming; Fat in California's Budget; A Scary Report.

Thomas Sowell takes aim at a range of legal, social, racial, educational, and economic issues in this latest collection of his controversial, never boring, always thought-provoking essays. From gun control myths to mealy mouth media to free lunch medicine, Sowell gets to the heart of the matters we all care about with his characteristically unsparing candor.

• Bush I and the new world order
• Moses and the promised land
• Bill Clinton's brave new world
• An eight-year odyssey
• George W. Bush and the world
• Boldness and blindness
• An American foreign policy for the twenty-first century.

In a critical overview of U.S. foreign policy since the end of the Cold War, P. Edward Haley draws surprising connections between key elements of George W. Bush's foreign policy and those of his predecessor, Bill Clinton. Haley further shows how these elements in both cases produced disastrous results, and he proposes an alternative that is constructive and tolerant but not amorally "realistic." Specifically, "Strategies of Dominance" faults reliance on American exceptionalism, treatment of globalization and global democratization as vital to security, a misreading of American primacy, expectation of bandwagoning by allies, and reliance on economic sanctions and coercive diplomacy. Haley argues that these characteristics have replaced a more tolerant Cold War - era program in which such attitudes were tempered by recognition of a bipolar world, a nuclear standoff, and a global zero-sum competition for allies and influence. This is the only book covering the foreign policies of all three post - Cold War presidents - George H. W. Bush, William J. Clinton, and George W. Bush. And although a number of books have criticized the foreign policy of George W. Bush, no other shows how its post - Cold War underpinnings are shared with Clinton's and to a more limited degree with those of his father.
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• Grappling with the new world : concepts and realities
• Ideologies, ideas and political slogans in the formation of George W. Bush's foreign policy
• The United States, Europe and the world
• New challenges to US hegemony : China and the Muslim world
• Military power and democratic transition
• The temptation of preventive war
• Misunderstanding terrorism : the sword
• Homeland (in)security : the shield
• Creating quagmires : winning the wars, losing the peace
• The burden of power.

• Contents Preface and Acknowledgements i Notes on Contributors ii Introduction: The War on Terror and American Empire 1 after the Cold War, Alejandro Colas and Richard Saull Global Capitalism and American Empire, 36 Sam Gindin and Leo Panitch The Logic of American Power in the International 68 Capitalist Order, Simon Bromley Reactionary Blowback: The Uneven Ends of the Cold War and the 96 Origins of Contemporary Conflict in World Politics, Richard Saull The Intellectual Antecedents of the Bush Regime, Ben O'Loughlin 138 The Imperial Republic Revisited: the United States in 175 the Era of Bush, Michael Cox The Bush Turn and The Drive for Primacy, Peter Gowan 202 The War on Terrorism and American Empire: Emerging 243 Development Agendas, Susanne Soederberg Scenarios of Power, Jan Nederveen Pieterse 279 Index.
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This new study shows how the American-led 'war on terror' has brought about the most significant shift in the contours of the international system since the end of the Cold War. A new 'imperial moment' is now discernible in US foreign policy in the wake of the neo-conservative rise to power in the USA, marked by the development of a fresh strategic doctrine based on the legitimacy of preventative military strikes on hostile forces across any part of the globe. Key features of this new volume include: an alternative, critical take on contemporary US foreign policy; a timely, accessible overview of critical thinking on US foreign policy, imperialism and war on terror; the full spectrum of critical view sin a single volume; and many of these essays are now 'contemporary classics'. The essays collected in this volume analyse the historical, socio-economic and political dimensions of the current international conjuncture, and assess the degree to which the war on terror has transformed the nature and projection of US global power. Drawing on a range of critical social theories, this collection seeks to ground historically the analysis of global developments since the inception of the new Bush Presidency and weigh up the political consequences of this imperial turn. This book will be of great interest for all students of US foreign policy, contemporary international affairs, international relations and politics.
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• Introduction: The Limits of Transatlantic Solidarity "Tod Lindberg"
• Part 1: The Emerging Crisis
• 1. Anatomy of a Breakdown "Steven Erlanger "2. 'Old Europe' vs. 'New Europe' "Anne Applebaum "3. The End of Atlanticism "Ivo Daalder"
• Part 2: The View From Europe
• 4. Loose Talk of American 'Empire' "Gilles Andreani "5. Pax American and Pax Europea "Wolfgang Ischinger "6. Understanding European Union "Kalypso Nicolaidis "7. The New Anti-Europeanism in America "Timothy Garton Ash"
• Part 3: American Power and its Discontents
• 8. Does the 'West' Still Exist? "Francis Fukuyama "9. American Endurance Walter "Russell Mead "10. Cooperation or Failure "Simon Serfaty"
• 11. Liberalism and Power "Peter Berkowitz "12. The Atlanticist Community "Tod Lindberg".
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"Americans are from Mars and Europeans are from Venus, " wrote foreign policy guru Robert Kagan famously in his book Of Paradise and Power, which became an instant New York Times bestseller last year. Taking Kagan one step further, prominent foreign policy specialists - such as Walter Russell Mead, Timothy Garton Ash, and Francis Fukuyama - here provide multiple perspectives on the state of the transatlantic relationship after the war.
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• Introduction: The Limits of Transatlantic Solidarity "Tod Lindberg"
• Part 1: The Emerging Crisis
• 1. Anatomy of a Breakdown "Steven Erlanger "2. 'Old Europe' vs. 'New Europe' "Anne Applebaum "3. The End of Atlanticism "Ivo Daalder"
• Part 2: The View From Europe
• 4. Loose Talk of American 'Empire' "Gilles Andreani "5. Pax American and Pax Europea "Wolfgang Ischinger "6. Understanding European Union "Kalypso Nicolaidis "7. The New Anti-Europeanism in America "Timothy Garton Ash"
• Part 3: American Power and its Discontents
• 8. Does the 'West' Still Exist? "Francis Fukuyama "9. American Endurance Walter "Russell Mead "10. Cooperation or Failure "Simon Serfaty"
• 11. Liberalism and Power "Peter Berkowitz "12. The Atlanticist Community "Tod Lindberg".
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"Americans are from Mars and Europeans are from Venus, " wrote foreign policy guru Robert Kagan famously in his book Of Paradise and Power, which became an instant New York Times bestseller last year. Taking Kagan one step further, prominent foreign policy specialists - such as Walter Russell Mead, Timothy Garton Ash, and Francis Fukuyama - here provide multiple perspectives on the state of the transatlantic relationship after the war.
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The author of the groundbreaking bestseller takes his cutting-edge analysis to the next level. In civilian and military circles alike, "The Pentagon's New Map" became one of the most talked-about books of the year. "The Pentagon's New Map" combined security, economic, political, and cultural factors to provide a fundamental reexamination of war and peace in the post-9/11 world, and a compelling vision of the future. Now, senior adviser and military analyst Barnett tells us how we get to that future. In a book at once pragmatic, thought-provoking, and optimistic, he explores both the long- and short-term pathways for governments, institutions, and individuals alike. Paying particular attention to such nations and regions as Iran, Iraq, and the Middle East, China, North Korea, Latin America, and Africa, he outlines the strategies to pursue, the entities to create, the pitfalls to overcome. If the first book was a compelling framework for confronting twenty-first-century problems, the new book is something more-a powerful road map through a chaotic and uncertain world to "a future worth creating.".
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Donald E. Nuechterlein examines George W. Bush's transformation of American foreign policy and the repercussions for the future. Defiant Superpower recounts how the Bush administration's bold actions in response to September 11, 2001, toppled the Taliban and displayed American strength. But by 2002, much of the world, including our allies, had become alarmed by American assertiveness, particularly Bush's proclamation that America would pursue preventative wars to eliminate future threats. The divergence of national interests between the United States and old allies became acute in early 2003 when Germany and France openly rejected U.S. plans to invade Iraq and bring about regime change. While the Bush administration's defiant and unilateralist policies initially seemed to empower the United States to pursue its national interests, the pitfalls of this new American hegemony are now apparent. Occupying Iraq and engaging in a global"war on terror" are costly, in both human and economic terms, and the United States would benefit from broad-based international cooperation. Will Bush's reelection mean that the robust hegemony of his first term is here to stay, or will he moderate his style and objectives to mend fences with old allies? Defiant Superpower offers a balanced critique of recent foreign policy and suggests how policymakers should recognize the limits of the new hegemony in order to determine America's realistic national interests.
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• 1. The evolution of American hegemony
• 2. The impact of 9/11 on U.S. foreign policy
• 3. Preparing for regime change in Iraq
• 4. Redefining U.S. global interests : the case of Iraq
• 5. Defending the homeland after 9/11
• 6. Ensuring the country's economic well-being
• 7. Building international security and world order
• 8. Promoting freedom and American values abroad
• 9. The mounting costs of hegemonic power
• 10. Collaborative or unilateral internationalism
• 11. Limits to the exercise of hegemonic power.

Donald E. Nuechterlein examines George W. Bush's transformation of American foreign policy and the repercussions for the future. Defiant Superpower recounts how the Bush administration's bold actions in response to September 11, 2001, toppled the Taliban and displayed American strength. But by 2002, much of the world, including our allies, had become alarmed by American assertiveness, particularly Bush's proclamation that America would pursue preventative wars to eliminate future threats. The divergence of national interests between the United States and old allies became acute in early 2003 when Germany and France openly rejected U.S. plans to invade Iraq and bring about regime change. While the Bush administration's defiant and unilateralist policies initially seemed to empower the United States to pursue its national interests, the pitfalls of this new American hegemony are now apparent. Occupying Iraq and engaging in a global"war on terror" are costly, in both human and economic terms, and the United States would benefit from broad-based international cooperation. Will Bush's reelection mean that the robust hegemony of his first term is here to stay, or will he moderate his style and objectives to mend fences with old allies? Defiant Superpower offers a balanced critique of recent foreign policy and suggests how policymakers should recognize the limits of the new hegemony in order to determine America's realistic national interests.
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• Introduction: The Iraq War and Democratic Politics John MacMillan
• 2. The Global Setting: US Foreign Policy and the Future of the Middle East Richard Falk
• 3. Bush's War: The Iraq Conflict and American Democracy John Dumbrell
• 4. The Neo-cons: Neo-conservative Thinking Since the O nset of the Iraq War Dan Plesch
• 5. The United Kingdom Dan Keohane
• 6. The European Dimension John Vogler
• 7. Turkey: Democratic Legitimacy Christopher Brewin
• 8. 'It seemed the best thing to be up and go': On the Legal Case for Invading Iraq Patrick Thornberry
• 9. The Transition to Democracy in Iraq: Historical Legacies, Resurgent Identities and Reactionary Tendencies Gareth Stansfield
• 10. The Democratic Transition in Iraq and the Discovery of its Limitations Glen Rangwala
• 11. Iraq, Political Reconstruction and Liberal Theory John Horton and Yoke-Lian Lee
• 12. Afghanistan and Iraq: Failed States, or Democracy on Hold? Iftikhar H. Malik
• 13. The Iraq Body Count Project: Civil Society and the Democratic Deficit John Sloboda and Hamit Dardagan
• 14. Story Development, or, Walter Mitty the Undefeated Alex Danchev Index.
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The Iraq War and Democratic Politics contains the work of leading scholars concerned with the political implications of the Iraq War and its relationship to and significance for democracy. The book shuns simplistic analysis and provides a nuanced and critical overview of this key moment in global politics. Subjects covered include: * the underlying moral and political issues raised by the war * US foreign policy and the Middle East * the fundamental dilemmas and contradictions of democratic intervention * how the war was perceived in the UK, EU and US * the challenges of creating democracy inside Iraq * the influential role of NGOs * the legitimacy of the war within international law * the relationship between democratic government and intelligence.
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The president of the Council on Foreign Relations asserts that, despite the visible dangers of our time, we are living in a moment of unique opportunity for the US to shape the future In this dramatic new perspective on international affairs, Richard N Haass, one of America's most brilliant analysts and able foreign policy practitioners, argues that it is hard to overstate the significance of there being no major power conflict in the world. America's great military, economic and political power discourages traditional challenges; no ideological fault line divides the world into warring blocs. India, China, Japan, Russia and Europe all seek a prolonged period of stability that would support economic growth. The opportunity thus exists for unprecedented co-operation among the major powers. This is good because they share vulnerabilities. Globalization, which promotes trade and investment and eases travel and communication, also facilitates the spread of viruses (humand and computer alike), weapons, terrorists, greenhouse gases and drugs. And the United States will be able to integrate other countries into global efforts against terrorism, the spread of nuclear weapons, genocide and protectionist policies that jeopardize global economic prosperity. This compelling book explains why it must and how it can.
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• Preface to the Paperback Edition; Preface; I. the Opportunity to Define an Era;
• 2. A Little Less Sovereignty;
• 3. Taking on Terrorism;
• 4. Nukes on the Loose;
• 5. Economic Integration;
• 6. The Other Major Powers;
• 7. Integration and the Lesson of Iraq;
• 8. The Necessity; Epilogue; Acknowledgments; Integration Index; Notes; Index.

In this dramatic new perspective on international affairs, Richard N. Haass, one of the country's most brilliant analysts and able foreign policy practitioners, argues that it is hard to overstate the significance of there being no major power conflict in the world. America's great military, economic, and political power discourages traditional challenges; no ideological fault line divides the world into warring blocs. India, China, Japan, Russia, and Europe all seek a prolonged period of stability that would support economic growth. The opportunity thus exists for unprecedented cooperation among the major powers. This is good, because they share vulnerabilities. Globalization, which promotes trade and investment and eases travel and communication, also facilitates the spread of viruses (human and computer alike), weapons, terrorists, greenhouse gases, and drugs. And the United States, for all its strength, cannot defeat these threats alone. But opportunity is not inevitability. The question is whether the United States will be able to integrate other countries into global efforts against terrorism, the spread of nuclear weapons, genocide, and protectionist policies that jeopardize global economic prosperity. This compelling book explains why it must and how it can.
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