• And uncivic values : an introduction / Sabrina P. Ramet
• Polish politics, April 1989-October 2015 / Aleksander Zdravkovski
• Party system and voting behavior in Poland / Michal Slowikowski and Michal Pierzgalski
• European values in Poland : the special case of ethnic and national minorities / Katarzyna Dospial-Borysiak, Agata Wlodarska-Frykowska, and Michal Klonowski
• Polish civic values in a European context / Kristen Ringdal
• Religion in public life / Maciej Potz
• Religiosity, tolerance of homosexuality, and support for gay and lesbian rights in Poland : the present and likely future(s) / Ewa Golebiowska
• National-Catholic impact on anti-semitism in Poland : report of the significant results of empirical research / Ireneusz Krzeminski
• Education : controversies surrounding socialization factors and mechanisms / Renata Siemienska
• History textbooks in Poland since 1989 : a dialogue between the past and the present / Sylwia Bobryk and Thomas Strobel
• Rock music and politics in Poland : lyrics of protest and resistance / Sabrina P. Ramet
• Film and values : Polish cinema of national remembrance / Elzbieta Durys
• Poland's media : learning from the past and fitting a new mold / Jane Leftwich Curry
• Past and present in the struggle for Polish democracy : a postscript / Sabrina P. Ramet.

Poland, like many societies across the world, is becoming more polarized in diverse areas of life, as contending forces seek to advance incompatible agendas. The polarization over values in Polish politics was evident already before communism collapsed but became more obvious in the following years and reached a crescendo after the October 2015 parliamentary elections, which brought a right-wing party into power. This volume focuses on the years since 1989, looking at the clash between civic values (the rule of law, individual rights, tolerance, respect for the harm principle, equality, and neutrality of the state in matters of religion) and uncivic values (the rule of a dictator or dictatorial party, contempt for individual rights, bigotry, disrespect for the harm principle, unequal treatment of people whether through discrimination or through exploitation, and state favoritism of one religion over others). The authors address voting behavior, political parties, anti-Semitism, homophobia, the role of the Catholic Church, and reflections in history textbooks, fi lm, and even rock music. This volume makes clear that for the foreseeable future the conflict in Poland between traditional, conservative values and liberal, civic values is likely to continue, provoking tensions and protests.
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• Acknowledgments Conventions
• 1. Maybe They Will Smile Back
• 2. Souls of the Ehime Maru
• 3. Cheer Up, Vietnam
• 4. Cool Optimism
• 5. Staging The Empire of Light
• 6. The Peripheral U-Turn
• 7. Everything Sinks Notes Index.
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Empire of Hope asks how emotions become meaningful in political life. In a diverse array of cases from recent Japanese history, David Leheny shows how sentimental portrayals of the nation and its global role reflect a durable story of hopefulness about the country's postwar path. From the medical treatment of conjoined Vietnamese children, victims of Agent Orange, the global promotion of Japanese popular culture, a tragic maritime accident involving a US Navy submarine, to the 2011 tsunami and nuclear disaster, this story has shaped the way in which political figures, writers, officials, and observers have depicted what the nation feels. Expressions of national emotion do several things: they construct the boundaries of the national body, they inform and discipline appropriate expression, and they depoliticize messy problems that threaten to produce divisive questions about winners and losers. Most important, they work because they appear to be natural, simple and expected expressions of how the nation shares feeling, even when they paper over the extraordinary divergence in how the nation's citizens experience each incident. In making its arguments, Empire of Hope challenges how we read the relations between emotion and politics by arguing-unlike those who build from the neuroscientific turn in the social sciences or those developing affect theory in the humanities-that the focus should be on emotional representation rather than on emotion itself.
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• Einführung : Illiberal, Aliberal oder Anti-liberal? / Jo Harper
• Abhandlungen über die PiS
• Von Bolek ganz zu schweigen / Jo Harper
• PiS : Das Ende des Anfangs? / Andrzej Rychard
• Autoritäre Kräfte in Polen / David Ost
• Der Triumph des nationalen Kommunismus / Brian Porter-Szűcs
• Rechter Populismus in Polen / Artur Lipiński und Agnieszka Stępińska
• Krise? Welche Krise? / Nicholas Richardson
• Aussenpolitik im Zeitalter Kaczyńskis / Jan Muś
• Die Geschichtspolitik der PiS
• Die neue Romantik / Joanna Średnicka
• Geschichte als Instrument / Jan Darasz
• Die polnische Erinnerungskultur / Ewa Stańayk
• Polens Theater des Todes / Dariusz Czaja
• Die Normalitäts-Politik der PiS
• Das Streben nach der "normalen" Familie / Urszula Chowaniec
• LGBTQ und das polnische Patriarchat / Tomasz Basiuk
• Ein Neustart der Identität / Remi Adekoya
• Fazit / Jo Harper
• Interviews
• Geschichte wie wir sie gerne hätten / Jan Gross
• 966 und die Folgen / Neal Ascherson
• Nichts ist so beständig wie Veränderung / Mikołaj Kunicki
• Geschichte wiederholt sich / Mateusz Kijowski
• Wer den Krieg versteht, versteht Polen / Pawel Ukielski
• Die Verteidiger des Glaubens / Neal Pease
• Anhang
• Zeitachse
• Glossar
• Liste der Autoren.

• 1. The Human Factor in Politics
• 2. Lithuanian Identity Narrative
• 3. Liminality in post-Soviet Europe
• 4. Political images and identity
• 5. Common images, contesting narratives: the case of Maidan
• 6. Violence and victimhood in post-Soviet politics
• 7. Conclusion and Outlook.
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Politics with a Human Face presents a holistic understanding of identity formation in post-Soviet Europe, arguing that since politics is fundamentally a human affair. In order to adequately understand it, one needs to understand its human side first. Drawing on the thought of Dilthey, Ricoeur and Plato, the author employs empathy as a method, together with visual and historical analysis, to analyse the role of human experience in post-Soviet politics. As a result, the book offers a theoretical approach for assessing influence of the non-rationalistic factors, such as associative symbolism, human experience, political images and historical narratives, in both domestic and foreign affairs. A study at the juncture of Social Sciences and Humanities, Politics with a Human Face explores a number of cases, including Estonia, Lithuania, Poland and Russia, as well as the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, examining issues of liminal transition, `far-right' movements, victimhood, ethnic conflict and political paradoxes. Seeking to shed light on the region's agency and perception of both its own political and existential situation, and that of the surrounding world, this book constitutes a timely and original contribution to understanding the post-Soviet Europe.
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"From the award-winning journalist and best-selling author of America's Bitter Pill: a tour de force examination of 1) how and why major American institutions no longer serve us as they should, causing a deep rift between the vulnerable majority and the protected few, and 2) how some individuals and organizations are laying the foundation for real, lasting change. In this revelatory narrative covering the years 1967 to 2017, Steven Brill gives us a stunningly cogent picture of the broken system at the heart of our society. He shows us how, over the last half-century, America's core values--meritocracy, innovation, due process, free speech, and even democracy itself--have somehow managed to power its decline into dysfunction. They have isolated our best and brightest, whose positions at the top have never been more secure or more remote. The result has been an erosion of responsibility and accountability, an epidemic of shortsightedness, an increasingly hollow economic and political center, and millions of Americans gripped by apathy and hopelessness. By examining the people and forces behind the rise of big-money lobbying, legal and financial engineering, the demise of private-sector unions, and a hamstrung bureaucracy, Brill answers the question on everyone's mind: How did we end up this way? Finally, he introduces us to those working quietly and effectively to repair the damages. At once a diagnosis of our national ills, a history of their development, and a prescription for a brighter future, Tailspin is a work of riveting journalism--and a welcome antidote to political despair"-- Provided by publisher.

• The protected and the unprotected
• Meritocracy becomes the new aristocracy
• Casino country
• The greening of the First Amendment
• Making markets efficient--and marginalizing those left behind
• "Lip service" for America's workers
• Dysfunctional democracy
• Moat nation
• Why nothing works
• Broken
• Protecting the most unprotected
• Storming the moats.

Brill believes that over the last half-century America's core values-- meritocracy, innovation, due process, free speech, and even democracy itself-- have somehow managed to power its decline into dysfunction. In examining the people and forces behind the rise of big-money lobbying, legal and financial engineering, the demise of private-sector unions, and a hamstrung bureaucracy, he answers the question on everyone's mind: How did we end up this way?-- Adapted from publisher's info.

• Psychologie, culture et la Chine
• L'origine du conflit Chine-Europe
• L'origine du conflit Chine - Etats-Unis
• L'origine du conflit Chine-Japon.

"Malgré son intégration au monde depuis 1990, un an après le massacre de Tian'anmen, la Chine conserve sa part de mythe ; son comportement semble difficile à comprendre, aux yeux de nombreux étrangers. Ce livre est construit sur l'hypothèse principale qui veut que les causes psychologiques soient la clef pour comprendre et expliquer ce comportement de l'État chinois. C'est dans une perspective "psycho-culturelle" qu'est analysée l'origine du conflit diplomatique de la Chine entre 1990 et 2010. En cherchant l'origine de la mésentente inter-étatique au-delà d'un simple calcul d'intérêts, ce livre veut mettre en évidence l'influence pesante de la psycho-culture sur les agissements de l'État chinois dans les contextes de crises diplomatiques. En utilisant cette méthode analytique, les lecteurs français et étrangers pourront - c'est notre souhait appréhender la logique du comportement, qui leur semble parfois irrationnel, de la Chine."--Page 4 of cover.

• CHAPTER 1: FROM PEARL HARBOR TO THE "ASIAN PIVOT"
• CHAPTER 2: MOBILIZING FOR WAR
• CHAPTER 3: U.S. GLOBAL POWER AND THE "HIGHER IMMORALITY"
• CHAPTER 4: THE CURSE OF BOMB POWER
• CHAPTER 5: THE NEW IMPERIAL ORDER
• CHAPTER 6: THE ROAD TO GLOBAL DISASTER?
• POSTSCRIPT: HOLLYWOOD MEETS THE WARFARE STATE.
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The post-World War II emergence of a full-blown state of perpetual war is arguably the most important feature of contemporary American politics. This book examines the "warfare state" in terms of a broad ensemble of structures, policies, and ideologies: permanent war economy, national security-state, global expansion of military bases, merger of state, corporate, and military power, an imperial presidency, the nuclear establishment, and superpower ambitions. Carl Boggs makes the argument that the "Good War" led to an authoritarian system that has expanded throughout the post-war decades, undermining liberal-democratic institutions and values in the process. He goes on to suggest that current American electoral politics show no sign of rolling back the warfare state and in fact, may push it to a new threshold bordering on American fascism.
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• Contents Preface
• Chapter 1: In the Beginning
• Chapter 2:
• 1960: Kennedy v. Nixon
• Chapter 3:
• 1964: Goldwater and the Solid South
• Chapter 4:
• 1968: The Rise and Fall of Republican Conservatism, Part I
• Chapter 5:
• 1972: Nixon and the Plumbers
• Chapter 6:
• 1980: Reagan and the Southern Strategy (Once Again)
• Chapter 7:
• 1992: Bill Clinton and Republican Hatred
• Chapter 8:
• 2000: Bush, Gore, and Florida
• Chapter 9:
• 2008: Obama, Hope, and Reform
• Chapter 10: The 2010 Congressional Elections
• Chapter 11:
• 2012: Obama v. Romney
• Chapter 12:
• 2014: Republicans Take the Senate
• Chapter 13: 2016 Election
• Chapter 14: The American Experiment About the Authors.
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The Political Blame Game in American Democracy looks at the forces that have developed over the past fifty-plus years and created a dysfunctional political system in the United States. It argues that the current level of partisan polarization is actually the culmination of a number of forces at work during the past few decades. These include a perception by each party that the other is using unfair political tactics; the subsequent creation of a culture of blame, with each party blaming the other for the dysfunction; a decline in political norms, leading to childlike behavior by politicians and political candidates; and a culture of payback in which the opposition argues that their opponents are responsible for the decline. These four factors culminated in the 2016 presidential campaign, where they were exemplified by Donald Trump, and have continued to have a significant ongoing impact on the political landscape of the United States.
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"In this sure to be controversial book in the vein of The Forgotten Man, a political analyst argues that conservative icon Ronald Reagan was not an enemy of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New Deal, but his true heir and the popular program's ultimate savior. Conventional political wisdom views the two most consequential presidents of the twentieth-century--FDR and Ronald Reagan--as ideological opposites. FDR is hailed as the champion of big-government progressivism manifested in the New Deal. Reagan is seen as the crusader for conservatism dedicated to small government and free markets. But Henry Olsen argues that this assumption is wrong. In The Working Class Republican, Olsen contends that the historical record clearly shows that Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal itself were more conservative than either Democrats or Republicans believe, and that Ronald Reagan was more progressive than most contemporary Republicans understand. Olsen cuts through political mythology to set the record straight, revealing how Reagan--a longtime Democrat until FDR's successors lost his vision in the 1960s--saw himself as FDR's natural heir, carrying forward the basic promises of the New Deal: that every American deserves comfort, dignity, and respect provided they work to the best of their ability. Olsen corrects faulty assumptions driving today's politics. Conservative Republican political victories over the last thirty years have not been a rejection of the New Deal's promises, he demonstrates, but rather a representation of the electorate's desire for their success--which Americans see as fulfilling the vision of the nation's founding. For the good of all citizens and the GOP, he implores Republicans to once again become a party of "FDR Conservatives"--To rediscover and support the basic elements of FDR (and Reagan's) vision"-- Provided by publisher.
"For 30 years the GOP has wrapped itself in the mantle of Ronald Reagan, winning national elections by appealing to free trade, low taxes and small government. Yet today the old Reagan coalition is falling apart, while its ideology has been rejected by the Republican base in favor of the nativist appeals of Donald Trump. Where should the party turn next? Ironically, answers political scientist Henry Olsen, to Reagan himself. Not the Reagan of conservative mythology, but the real Reagan - Reagan the fan of FDR and the supporter and ultimate savior of the New Deal. Reagan began his political career as a proud New Deal Democrat and an admirer of FDR. As Olsen shows in this sharply revisionist political biography, that admiration never changed, even as he eventually developed into an opponent of big government. It wasn't the New Deal that Regan objected to but LBJ's Great Society, which represented a massive expansion of state power in an attempt to solve social and economic problems best left to free market mechanisms. As such, Reagan never saw himself as FDR's political nemesis, but as his natural heir. Indeed Reagan built a philosophy that carried forward the basic promises of the New Deal -- that every American deserves comfort, dignity, and respect provided they work to the best of their ability. Neither party today truly understands what the New Deal represented - and still represents - to the American people. In fact, Olsen argues, the New Deal -- and Roosevelt himself -- were much more conservative than most Americans believe, while Reagan was much more progressive than most - conservatives and liberals alike - understand"-- Provided by publisher.

In twenty-five years of imperial adventure, America has laid waste to its principles of democracy, as chronicled here in a compendium of wit and pinpoint moral accuracy assessing the evils America has done itself in doing evil to others. The self-glorifying march of folly steps off at the end of the Cold War, in an era when delusions of omnipotence allowed virtual markets to boom fantastically. The new millennium was inaugurated with the democratic election of an American president being nullified by the Supreme Court, and the pretender arising to power launching a wasteful, vainglorious and never-ending war on terror, doomed to end in defeat and the loss of America's prestige abroad. All this brings us to the sunset swamp of this year's presidential election, a farce dominated by Donald J. Trump, a self-glorifying photo-op bursting star-spangled bombast in air. Amid all the inexcusable absurdity, the gap has widened between the increasingly selfish and cowardly rich and the evermore debt-ridden and angry poor.This is not an uplifting tale, but one familiar to the ancient Greeks, who recognized in it the coming to power of a government Aristotle likened to that of "the prosperous fool"-it being characteristic of the wealthy to imagine they "already have the things that give a claim to office. ".
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• Preface: an American political pattern?
• Birth pangs of the modern world: the political structure of the high New Deal era, 1932-1938
• The long arm of the New Deal: the political structure of the late New Deal era, 1939-1968
• The rise of participatory politics: the political structure of an era of divided government, 1969-1992
• A political structure for the modern world: the era of partisan volatility, 1993-2016
• Conclusion: stability and change in American politics, 1932-2016.

Politicians are polarized. Public opinion is volatile. Government is gridlocked. Or so journalists and pundits constantly report. But where are we, really, in modern American politics, and how did we get there? Those are the questions that Byron E. Shafer aims to answer in The American Political Pattern. Looking at the state of American politics at diverse points over the past eighty years, the book draws a picture, broad in scope yet precise in detail, of our political system in the modern era. It is a picture of stretches of political stability, but also, even more, of political change, one that goes a long way toward explaining how shifting factors alter the content of public policy and the character of American politicking. Shafer divides the modern world into four distinct periods: the High New Deal (1932-1938), the Late New Deal (1939-1968), the Era of Divided Government (1969-1992), and the Era of Partisan Volatility (1993-2016). Each period is characterized by a different arrangement of the same key factors: party balance, ideological polarization, issue conflict, and the policy-making process that goes with them. The American Political Pattern shows how these factors are in turn shaped by permanent aspects of the US Constitution, most especially the separation of powers and federalism, while their alignment is simultaneously influenced by the external demands for governmental action that arise in each period, including those derived from economic currents, major wars, and social movements. Analyzing these periods, Shafer sets the terms for understanding the structure and dynamics of politics in our own turbulent time. Placing the current political world in its historical and evolutionary framework, while illuminating major influences on American politics over time, his book explains where this modern world came from, why it endures, and how it might change yet again.
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• The think tank in an era of liberal consensus
• Think tanks in a marketplace of ideas
• Think tanks in the age of Reagan
• Think tanks, new democrats, and committed conservatives
• Think tanks, foreign policy, and the marketplace of ideas in the 2000s
• Conclusion: policy as identity politics.

From the middle of the twentieth century, think tanks have played an indelible role in the rise of American conservatism. Positioning themselves against the alleged liberal bias of the media, academia, and the federal bureaucracy, conservative think tanks gained the attention of politicians and the public alike and were instrumental in promulgating conservative ideas. Yet, in spite of the formative influence these insitutions have had on the media and public opinion, little has been written about their history. Here, Jason Stahl offers the first sustained investigation of the rise and historical development of the conservative think tank as a source of political and cultural power in the United States. What we now know as conservative think tanks-research and public-relations institutions populated by conservative intellectuals-emerged in the postwar period as places for theorizing and ""selling"" public policies and ideologies to both lawmakers and the public at large. Stahl traces the progression of think tanks from their outsider status against a backdrop of New Deal and Great Society liberalism to their current prominence as a counterweight to progressive political institutions and thought. By examining the rise of the conservative think tank, Stahl makes invaluable contributions to our historical understanding of conservatism, public-policy formation, and capitalism.
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• The think tank in an era of "liberal consensus"
• Think tanks in a "marketplace of ideas"
• Think tanks in the age of Reagan
• Think tanks, new democrats, and committed conservatives
• Think tanks, foreign policy, and the marketplace of ideas in the 2000s
• Conclusion: policy as identity politics.

From the middle of the twentieth century, think tanks have played an indelible role in the rise of American conservatism. Positioning themselves against the alleged liberal bias of the media, academia, and the federal bureaucracy, conservative think tanks gained the attention of politicians and the public alike and were instrumental in promulgating conservative ideas. Yet, in spite of the formative influence these insitutions have had on the media and public opinion, little has been written about their history. Here, Jason Stahl offers the first sustained investigation of the rise and historical development of the conservative think tank as a source of political and cultural power in the United States. What we now know as conservative think tanks-research and public-relations institutions populated by conservative intellectuals-emerged in the postwar period as places for theorizing and ""selling"" public policies and ideologies to both lawmakers and the public at large. Stahl traces the progression of think tanks from their outsider status against a backdrop of New Deal and Great Society liberalism to their current prominence as a counterweight to progressive political institutions and thought. By examining the rise of the conservative think tank, Stahl makes invaluable contributions to our historical understanding of conservatism, public-policy formation, and capitalism.
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• Prologue : "Lost in the funhouse" : how Bill Clinton invented the Nineties
• 1990 : Houston : Cowboy cosmopolitanism and the end of history?
• 1991 : Philadelphia : "You just don't get it" : from the "new world order" to domestic disorder
• 1992 : Little Rock : "Don't stop thinking about tomorrow" : Bubba, Billary, and the rise of the adversarials
• 1993 : Washington, D.C. : "We must care for one another" : Clinton's learning curve
• 1994 : Seattle : the new nihilism in the Coffee Capital, and renewed Republicanism in the nation's capital
• 1995 : Oklahoma City : "Their legacy must be our lives" : the Claw-Back Kid finds windows of opportunity
• 1996 : Alphabet City, New York : "Take me or leave me" : cultural salvoes from Blue America
• 1997 : Silicon Valley : "Think different" : the everyday wizardry of everything and everywhere machines
• 1998 : Beverly Hills, 90210 : the Great American Moral Panic
• 1999 : Chicago : Finding forgiveness in the Church of Oprah
• 2000 : Miami : "The purpose of prosperity" : dilemmas of multiculturalism and hedonism in America's pleasure capital
• 2001 : "Let's roll" : America the function under attack.

"The 1990s was a decade of extreme change. Seismic shifts in culture, politics, and technology radically altered the way Americans did business, expressed themselves, and thought about their role in the world. At the center of it all was Bill Clinton, the talented, charismatic, and flawed Baby Boomer president and his controversial, polarizing, but increasingly popular wife Hillary. Although it was in many ways a Democratic Gilded Age, the final decade of the twentieth century was also a time of great anxiety. The Cold War was over, America was safe, stable, free, and prosperous, and yet Americans felt more unmoored, anxious, and isolated than ever. Having lost the script telling us our place in the world, we were forced to seek new anchors. This was the era of glitz and grunge, when we simultaneously relished living in the Republic of Everything even as we feared it might degenerate into the Republic of Nothing. Bill Clinton dominated this era, a man of passion and of contradictions both revered and reviled, whose complex legacy has yet to be clearly defined.In this unique analysis, historian Gil Troy examines Clinton's presidency alongside the cultural changes that dominated the decade. By taking the '90s year-by-year, Troy shows how the culture of the day shaped the Clintons even as the Clintons shaped it. In so doing, he offers answers to two of the enduring questions about Clinton's legacy: how did such a talented politician leave Americans thinking he accomplished so little when he actually accomplished so much? And, to what extent was Clinton responsible for the catastrophes of the decade that followed his departure from office, specifically 9/11 and the collapse of the housing market? Even more relevant as we head toward the 2016 election, The Age of Clinton will appeal to readers on both sides of the aisle"-- Provided by publisher.

• What is a patriot?
• Sowing the seeds of discontent
• The creation of the contemporary patriot
• Rise : the inspiration for the new patriot of the late twentieth century and beyond
• Striking the match
• Conclusion: whither the patriot.

Today, as in the past, some "patriot" groups in America long for a return to traditional values and believe it is their duty to stop an intrusive government from whittling away at the freedoms that define the United States. This book looks at the origins and current activities of such groups through an exploration of the dual nature of the patriot in American mythos-the unquestioning lover of the country and its policies versus the man or woman who places the founding principle of limited government above all else. Focusing on contemporary patriot groups and their impact on U.S. society, the work offers insights into factors that have contributed to the rise of such groups in the past that are again manifesting themselves. It explores the groups' motivations and justifications and shows how these groups use the emotionally powerful sentiment of patriotism to agitate for change and promote political violence. Perhaps most significant for readers is a discussion of the beliefs that divide the American public today as reflected in the ideologies of patriot groups-and what this means for the future.
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• Introduction--
• 1. Like US: identifying with Israel-- Part I. Party and Ideology:
• 2. Republicans, conservatives, and the Right: the surge in support for Israel--
• 3. Democrats, liberals, and the Left: the rise in criticism of Israel-- Part II. Protestants:
• 4. Evangelicals and Christian Zionism: standing with Israel--
• 5. The Mainline and anti-Zionism: divesting from Israel?-- Part III. Jews:
• 6. American Jews' attachment to Israel: mind the gap--
• 7. American Jews and the peace process: divided we stand?-- Conclusion.
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This book surveys discourse and opinion in the United States toward the Arab-Israeli conflict since 1991. Contrary to popular myth, it demonstrates that US support for Israel is not based on the pro-Israel lobby, but rather is deeply rooted in American political culture. That support has increased since 9/11. However, the bulk of this increase has been among Republicans, conservatives, evangelicals, and Orthodox Jews. Meanwhile, among Democrats, liberals, the Mainline Protestant Church, and non-Orthodox Jews, criticism of Israeli policies toward the Palestinians has become more vociferous. This book works to explain this paradox.
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• Tabellen- und Abbildungsverzeichnis
• Einleitung
• Untersuchungsgegenstand und Relevanz der Thematik
• Problemstellung
• Forschungsstand und Quellenlage
• Fallauswahl, Konzeption und Methodik
• Interne Kontinuität und Wandel der Eliten
• Parteieliten, Funktionseliten und Gegeneliten
• Spezifische Faktoren für die jeweilige Transformationsphase
• Aufbau
• Theoretischer Bezugsrahmen und Analysekonzept
• Begriffe, Definitionen und Abgrenzungen
• Systemwechsel, Transformation, Demokratisierung
• Akteure, Massen, Eliten
• Werteeliten, Funktionseliten, Machteliten, Gegeneliten
• Systemwechseltheorien
• Systemtheorien
• Strukturtheorien
• Kulturtheorien
• Akteurs- und Handlungstheorien
• Eigener Ansatz
• Phasen der Systemwechsel von der Diktatur zur Demokratie
• Ende des autokratischen Systems
• Institutionalisierung der Demokratie
• Etablierung der Demokratie
• Analyserahmen : Sozialistische Parteieliten in Systemwechselprozessen
• Demokraten und Antidemokraten
• Operationalisierung der Indikatoren zur Typologisierung sozialistischer Parteieliten
• Phase 1 : Ende des alten Regimes
• Phase 2 : Institutionalisierung der Demokratie
• Phase 3 : Etablierung der Demokratie
• Charakterisierung der Systemwechsel
• Systemwechseltypologien
• Konsensuale und dissensuale Systemwechsel
• Sozialistische Parteieliten und der Systemwechsel in der DDR
• Ende des Machtmonopols der Parteielite (1985-1989)
• Ausgangssituation
• Interne Kontinuität und Wandel der Parteieliten
• Personell
• Organisatorisch
• Ideologisch-programmatisch
• Parteieliten, Funktionseliten und Gegeneliten
• SED-Führung und Parteiapparat
• Stellung zum Repressionsapparat
• Parteielite und Opposition
• Politische Schlüsselereignisse
• Niederschlagung der Studentenproteste in China
• Grenzöffnung in Ungarn
• Botschaftsbesetzungen
• Der Fall der Mauer
• Parteieliten in der Institutionalisierungsphase (November 1989-März 1990)
• Interne Kontinuität und Wandel der Parteieliten
• Personell
• Organisatorisch
• Ideologisch-programmatisch
• Parteieliten, Funktionseliten und Gegeneliten
• Stellung zum Staats-und Repressionsapparat
• Parteielite und Opposition
• Institutionenbildung und demokratische Wahlen
• Verfassungsfragen
• Von der Volkskammer zum Parlament
• Der Weg zur Volkskammerwahl am 18. März 1990
• Parteieliten und die Etablierung der Demokratie (März 1990-1995)
• Interne Kontinuität und Wandel der Parteieliten
• Personell
• Organisatorisch
• Ideologisch-programmatisch
• Parteieliten, Funktionseliten und Gegeneliten
• Verhältnis gegenüber den alten Macht- und Funktionseliten
• Verhältnis gegenüber den bundesdeutschen Eliten
• Vergangenheitsbewältigung
• Geschichtsbild
• Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur
• Bewertung des Systemwechsels
• Systematische Einordnung
• Phase 1 : Ende des alten Regimes
• Phase 2 : Institutionalisierung der Demokratie
• Phase 3 : Etablierung der Demokratie
• Vergleich der Parteieliten und der Systemwechsel
• Vergleich der Parteieliten in den drei Phasen der Systemwechsel
• Phase 1 : Ende des alten Regimes
• Phase 2 : Institutionalisierung der Demokratie
• Phase 3 : Etablierung der Demokratie
• Gesamtergebnis
• Vergleich der Systemwechsel
• Vergleich der Phasen
• Charakterisierung der Systemwechsel
• Schlussbetrachtung
• Quellen- und Literaturverzeichnis
• Quellen
• Literatur.

• English Questions
• Scottish Answers
• Euroland in Trouble
• Natopolis
• Empire
• Alternatives
• Appendix: "The Seven Ages of a Labour MP" / by Ian Birchall.

What can we do in the twilight of democracy? What is the point of elections when the result is always the same? A victory for the Extreme Centre. Since 1989, politics has been replaced by a contest between who can best serve the needs of the market, fringed by unstable populist movements. The same catastrophe can be seen in the US, Britain, Europe and Australia. In this urgent and wide ranging case for the prosecution, Tariq Ali looks at the people and the events that have informed this moment of political suicide: corruption in Westminster; the failures of the EU and NATO, meanwhile the soft power of the American Empire continues to dominate the world stage uncontested. Despite this inertia, Ali also goes in search for alternative futures: the Bolivarian revolutions in Latin America, as well as signs of change at the edges of Europe. Emerging parties in Scotland, Greece and Spain, formed out of the 2008 crisis, are offering new hopes for democracy.
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• I. The Lure of Technocracy
• 1. The Lure of Technocracy: A Plea for European Solidarity
• 2. European Citizens and European Peoples: The Problem ofTransnationalizing Democracy
• 3. Keywords on a Discourse Theory of Law and of the DemocraticConstitutional State II. European Conditions. Continued Interventions
• 4. The Next Step: An Interview
• 5. The Dilemma Facing the Political Parties
• 6. Three Reasons for ?More Europe?
• 7. Democracy or Capitalism? On the Abject Spectacle of aCapitalistic World Society fragmented along National Lines
• III. German Jews, Germans and Jews
• 8. Jewish Philosophers and Sociologists as Returnees in theEarly Federal Republic of Germany: A Recollection
• 9. Martin Buber D A Philosophy of Dialogue in itsHistorical Context
• 10. Our Contemporary Heine: ?There are No Longer Nations inEurope?
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Over the past 25 years, Jurgen Habermas has presented whatis arguably the most coherent and wide-ranging defence of theproject of European unification and of parallel developmentstowards a politically integrated world society. In developing hiskey concepts of the transnationalisation of democracy and theconstitutionalisation of international law, Habermas offers themain players in the struggles over the fate of the European Union(the politicians, the political parties and the publics of themember states) a way out of the current economic and politicalcrisis, should they choose to follow it. In the title essay Habermas addresses the challenges and threatsposed by the current banking and public debt crisis in the Eurozonefor European unification. He is harshly critical of theincrementalist, technocratic policies advocated by the Germangovernment in particular, which are being imposed at the expense ofthe populations of the economically weaker, crisis-strickencountries and are undermining solidarity between the member states.He argues that only if the technocratic approach is replaced by adeeper democratization of the European institutions can theEuropean Union fulfil its promise as a model for how rampant marketcapitalism can once again be brought under political control at thesupranational level. This volume reflects the impressive scope of Habermas?s recentwritings on European themes, including theoretical treatments ofthe complex legal and political issues at stake, interventions oncurrent affairs, and reflections on the lives and works of majorEuropean philosophers and intellectuals. Together the essaysprovide eloquent testimony to the enduring relevance of the work ofone of the most influential and far-sighted public intellectuals inthe world today, and are essential reading for all philosophers, legal scholars and social scientists interested in European andglobal issues.
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• Introduction: The Path of Friendship / Elzbieta Matynia
• "Dear Adam, Here's that essay I promised..." : Havel's Instructions on Publishing : The Power of the Powerless (1978)
• "Welcome to freedom, Václav!" (May 1989)
• The Uncanny Era of Post-Communism (Prague, November 30, 1991)
• A Completed Revolution and Belated Avengers (Prague, October 21, 1995)
• Everything Is Still in Motion (Prague, November 21, 1998)
• An Account of Our Victories, an Accounting of Our Freedom (Olomouc, October 11, 2003)
• The Times Are Favoring What's Mean (Prague and Warsaw, October 4, 2007)
• The President and the Playwright (Warsaw, November 15-17, 2008)
• When Socrates Became Pericles : Václav Havel's "Great History" (October 1, 2011) / Adam Michnik ; translated by Agnieszka Marczyk.

Czech playwright and dissident Vaclav Havel first encountered Polish historian and dissident Adam Michnik in 1978 at a clandestine meeting on a mountaintop along the Polish-Czechoslovak border. This initial meeting of two extraordinary thinkers who "plotted" democracy, and designed an effective peaceful strategy for dismantling authoritarian regimes in Central and Eastern Europe, resulted in a lifelong friendship and an extraordinary set of bold conversations conducted over the next two postrevolutionary decades. Havel, president of Czechoslovakia and later the Czech Republic, and Michnik, editor-in-chief of the largest daily newspaper in the region, provide rare insights into the post-1989 challenges to building new democratic institutions and new habits in the context of an increasingly unsettling political culture. With both dismay and humor, their fascinating exchanges wrestle with the essential question of postrevolutionary life: How does one preserve the revolution's ideals in the real world? At once historically immediate and politically universal, the Havel-Michnik conversations have never before been collected in a single volume in any language.
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• High-crime blind
• The conspiracy-theory label
• The American tradition of conspiracy belief
• Conspiracy denial in the social sciences
• The conspiracy-theory conspiracy
• State crimes against democracy
• Restoring American democracy
• Appendix: CIA dispatch #1035-960
• Tables.

Ever since the Warren Commission concluded that a lone gunman assassinated President John F. Kennedy, people who doubt that finding have been widely dismissed as conspiracy theorists, despite credible evidence that right-wing elements in the CIA, FBI, and Secret Service - and possibly even senior government officials - were also involved. Why has suspicion of criminal wrongdoing at the highest levels of government been rejected out-of-hand as paranoid thinking akin to superstition? Conspiracy Theory in America investigates how the Founders' hard-nosed realism about the likelihood of elite political misconduct - articulated in the Declaration of Independence - has been replaced by today's blanket condemnation of conspiracy beliefs as ludicrous by definition. Lance deHaven-Smith reveals that the term "conspiracy theory" entered the American lexicon of political speech to deflect criticism of the Warren Commission and traces it back to a CIA propaganda campaign to discredit doubters of the commission's report. He asks tough questions and connects the dots among five decades' worth of suspicious events, including the assassinations of John and Robert Kennedy, the attempted assassinations of George Wallace and Ronald Reagan, the crimes of Watergate, the Iran-Contra arms-for-hostages deal, the disputed presidential elections of 2000 and 2004, the major defense failure of 9/11, and the subsequent anthrax letter attacks. Sure to spark intense debate about the truthfulness and trustworthiness of our government, Conspiracy Theory in America offers a powerful reminder that a suspicious, even radically suspicious, attitude toward government is crucial to maintaining our democracy.
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• Nothing is more important : arguing America
• Basically totally dysfunctional : the rhetorical roots of protracted social conflict
• Spreading democracy around the world : a world made safe for private enterprise
• Taking aim at the New Deal : to restore the idea of America
• That redemption we dream of : the tangle of intolerances
• The gravest problem : reds, rackets and the unmaking of the democratic class struggle
• Conclusion : to clarify American opinion
• Epilogue : if it's Sunday, it's Meet the press.

Red state vs. blue state. Republican vs. Democrat. Fox News vs. The Daily Show. The so-called culture wars have become such a fixture of American politics that dividing the country into rival camps seems natural and political gridlock seems inevitable. Entering the fray, Solon Simmons offers an intriguing twist on the debate: Our disagreements come not from unbridgeable divides, but from differing interpretations of a single underlying American tradition-liberalism. Both champions of traditional liberal values, Republicans have become the party of individual freedom while Democrats wear the mantle of tolerance. Lost in this battle of sides is the third pillar of liberalism-equality. Simmons charts the course of American politics through the episodes of Meet the Press. On the air since 1945, Meet the Press provides an unparalleled record of living conversation about the most pressing issues of the day. In weekly discussions, the people who directly influenced policy and held the reins of power in Washington set the political agenda for the country. Listening to what these people had to say-and importantly how they said it-Meet the Press opens a window on how our political parties have become so divided and how notions of equality were lost in the process.Telling the story of the American Century, Simmons investigates four themes that have defined politics and, in turn, debate on Meet the Press-war and foreign affairs, debt and taxation, race struggles, and class and labor relations-and demonstrates how political leaders have transformed these important political issues into symbolic pawns as each party advocates for their own understanding of liberty, whether freedom or tolerance. Ultimately, with The Eclipse of Equality, he looks to bring back to the debate the question lurking in the shadows-how can we ensure the protection of a peaceful civil society and equality for all?
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• Nothing is more important : arguing America
• Basically totally dysfunctional : the rhetorical roots of protracted social conflict
• Spreading democracy around the world : a world made safe for private enterprise
• Taking aim at the New Deal : to restore the idea of America
• That redemption we dream of : the tangle of intolerances
• The gravest problem : reds, rackets and the unmaking of the democratic class struggle
• To clarify American opinion : conclusion
• Epilogue : if it's Sunday, it's meet the Press.

Red state vs. blue state. Republican vs. Democrat. Fox News vs. The Daily Show. The so-called culture wars have become such a fixture of American politics that dividing the country into rival camps seems natural and political gridlock seems inevitable. Entering the fray, Solon Simmons offers an intriguing twist on the debate: Our disagreements come not from unbridgeable divides, but from differing interpretations of a single underlying American tradition-liberalism. Both champions of traditional liberal values, Republicans have become the party of individual freedom while Democrats wear the mantle of tolerance. Lost in this battle of sides is the third pillar of liberalism-equality. Simmons charts the course of American politics through the episodes of Meet the Press. On the air since 1945, Meet the Press provides an unparalleled record of living conversation about the most pressing issues of the day. In weekly discussions, the people who directly influenced policy and held the reins of power in Washington set the political agenda for the country. Listening to what these people had to say-and importantly how they said it-Meet the Press opens a window on how our political parties have become so divided and how notions of equality were lost in the process.Telling the story of the American Century, Simmons investigates four themes that have defined politics and, in turn, debate on Meet the Press-war and foreign affairs, debt and taxation, race struggles, and class and labor relations-and demonstrates how political leaders have transformed these important political issues into symbolic pawns as each party advocates for their own understanding of liberty, whether freedom or tolerance. Ultimately, with The Eclipse of Equality, he looks to bring back to the debate the question lurking in the shadows-how can we ensure the protection of a peaceful civil society and equality for all?
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• Contents: Christian Giordano/Nicolas Hayoz: Introduction: Exploring Informality in Eastern Europe through Different Disciplines - Christian Giordano: The Social Organization of Informality: The Rationale Underlying Personalized Relationships and Coalitions - Nicolas Hayoz: Observations on the Changing Meanings of Informality - Anton Sterbling: Aspects of Informality - with Particular Focus on South-Eastern Europe - Kristof Van Assche/Anastasiya Shtaltovna/Anna-Katharina Hornidge: Visible and Invisible Informalities and Institutional Transformation in the Transition Countries of Georgia, Romania, and Uzbekistan - Maximos Aligisakis: Shadow Economy, Corruption and Informal Political Exchanges: The Greek Case in a Comparative Perspective - Nicole Gallina: Analysing Informality: A Case-Study Based Concept applied to the Czech Republic - Veronika Pasynkova: The Synchronization of Communist Legacy in Postcommunist Politics and Labour: the Case of Poland - Tanya Chavdarova: Institutionalization of Market Order and Reinstitutionalization of Vruzki (Connections) in Bulgaria - Katerina Gehl/Klaus Roth: The Everyday Culture of Informality in Post-Socialist Bulgarian Politics - Sonja Schueler: Abuse of Office, Informal Networks, Moral Accountability - Political Corruption in Bulgaria - Edvin Zhllima/Drini Imami Informality: Informality in Albania - The Case of Rural Land Tenure and Transactions - Adem Beha: Contested Statebuilding in Kosovo: the Nature and Characteristics of Serbian Parallel Structures - Fanny Sbaraglia: They are with the Others: From Gossip to Stigmatization, Romanian Civil Society through an Informal Perspective - Francois Ruegg: Social Representations of Informality: the Roma Case - Jonathan Wheatley: Informal and Formal Institutions in the Former Soviet Union - Galina Michaleva: The Dominance of Informal Politics on the Eve of the Electoral Year 2011-2012 - Elvira Leontyeva: Corruption Networks in the Sphere of Higher Education: An Example from Russian Mass Universities - Elena Denisova-Schmidt: How Unwritten Rules Can Influence Human Resource Management in Russia - Andrea Friedli: Informality as a Weapon of the Weak? Public Representation of Tatar Youth Movements in Kazan, Russia - Abel Polese: The Ambiguity and Functions of Informality: Some Notes from the Odessa-Chisinau Route - Rail Safiyev: Informality in a Neopatrimonial State: Azerbaijan - Alexander Iskandaryan: Formalization of the Informal: Statebuilding in Armenia - Giga Zedania Informality and the Question of Modernization: the Case of Georgia.
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This volume deals with different aspects of informal structures and practices in Eastern Europe. Its objectives are twofold. It aims at discovering whether or to what extent informal structures and practices in Eastern Europe have meanings, functions, forms and effects different from those that can be observed in the politics and societies of Western Europe. The authors of this volume - most of them are from the region - have been invited to discuss the scientific relevance of the distinction informal / formal in their respective field of research or discipline. This points to the second objective of this volume which is to encourage a more fruitful interaction between disciplines that often disregard each other and which, despite inevitable and essential epistemological differences, have significant shared interests such as the comparative analysis of political phenomena in terms of elementary forms of social organization. The relation between informality and formality in a more methodologically pluralist and ultimately holistic way can be analysed via regards croises between the disciplines anthropology, political science and sociology. This allows the extension of this comparative and multidisciplinary approach to other themes and phenomena of mutual interests.
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• List of Figures Preface Part I: Promises and Problems of Post-communist Nation Branding
• 1: Nation Branding in Post-communist Europe: Identities, Markets, and Democracy, Nadia Kaneva
• 2: Systemic Propaganda and State Branding in Post-Soviet Eastern Europe, Gerald Sussman
• 3: Brand Interrupted: The Impact of Alternative Narrators on Nation Branding in the Former Second World, Robert A. Saunders Part II: Agents, Institutions, Practices
• 4: Redesigning a Nation: Welcome to E-stonia, 2001-2018, Sue Curry Jansen
• 5: Who Can Play this Game? The Rise of Nation Branding in Bulgaria, 2001-2005, Nadia Kaneva
• 6: Towards Corpo-nationalism: Poland as a Brand, Pawel Surowiec Part III. Representations, Mediations, Narrations
• 7: Branding Slovenia: "You Can't Spell Slovenia Without Love...", Zala Volcic
• 8: Vampire Branding: Romania's Dark Destinations, Alice Bardan and Aniko Imre
• 9: One Nation, One Brand? Nation Branding and Identity Reconstruction in Post-communist Hungary, Laszlo Kulcsar & Young-ok Yum
• 10: The Musical (Re)branding of Serbia: Srbija Sounds Global, Guca, and EXIT, Branislava (Brana) Mijatovic Contributors Index.
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Nation branding--a set of ideas rooted in Western marketing--gained popularity in the post-communist world by promising a quick fix for the identity malaise of "transitional" societies. Since 1989, almost every country in Central and Eastern Europe has engaged in nation branding initiatives of varying scope and sophistication. For the first time, this volume collects in one place studies that examine the practices and discourses of the nation branding undertaken in these countries. In addition to documenting various rebranding initiatives, these studies raise important questions about their political and cultural implications.
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• Prologue: Is it too late to descope this?
• G.I. Joe, Ho Chi Minh, and the American art of fighting about fighting
• A nation at peace everywhere in the world
• Let 'er fly
• Isle of spice
• Stupid regulations
• Mylanta, 'tis of thee
• Doing more with less (hassle)
• "One hell of a killing machine"
• An $8 trillion fungus among us
• Epilogue: You build it, you own it.

Maddow shows how deeply militarized our culture has become--how the role of the national security sector has shape-shifted and grown over the past century to the point of being financially unsustainable and confused in mission.

• Prologue: Is it too late to descope this?
• G.I. Joe, Ho Chi Minh, and the American art of fighting about fighting
• A nation at peace everywhere in the world
• Let 'er fly
• Isle of spice
• Stupid regulations
• Mylanta, 'tis of thee
• Doing more with less (hassle)
• "One hell of a killing machine"
• An $8 trillion fungus among us
• Epilogue: You build it, you own it.

Maddow shows how deeply militarized our culture has become--how the role of the national security sector has shape-shifted and grown over the past century to the point of being financially unsustainable and confused in mission.

• A funeral as the end and the beginning
• A half-hearted change
• József Antall : a political phenomenon
• The roots of Hungarian anti-semitism
• Gyula Horn and the return of the post-communists
• The young comet : Viktor Orbán
• The Medgyessy puzzle or the end of a deception
• The sense of mission of an easily seducible nation
• The splendour and decline of Ferenc Gyurcsány
• The power of the discreet press barons
• Cold war at the top : Orbán versus Gyurcsány
• The Roma and Jews : targets of the extreme right
• The political suicide of the left
• Orbán uber alles : Hungary at a dead end.

How has Hungary, a country once in the vanguard of political and economic reform under Communism, become a chilling example of the new threats confronting democracy in Central Europe? The return of Hungary's demons of the past - nationalism, ethnic hatred, deeply-rooted corruption and authoritarian tendencies - has engendered international concern. Since winning a two-thirds majority in parliament in the spring of 2010, the dynamic right-wing populist Prime Minister Viktor Orban has embarked on a sweeping and ruthless concentration of power and has sought to reshape the state in his own image. A new constitution and a sweeping series of laws and decrees - radical changes in the judicial and electoral system and the dismantling of constitutional safeguards ensuring the autonomy of the executive branch and the freedom of the media - seem destined to ensure a long-term hegemony of the far right. Meanwhile a campaign of vituperative nationalist rhetoric and the granting of voting rights to 2.5 million ethnic Hungarians living in neighbouring countries are bound to increase tensions in this volatile corner of Europe. Lendvai offers readers an unsparing and dispassionate account, based on his intimate personal knowledge of Hungary's major political figures and its political culture, of the turbulent events since the collapse of the Communist regime which affect not only Hungary, but also the political and economic stability of the Danube basin.
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• Prologue: The challenge from within
• The business rebellion : the power shift that changed American history
• The pivotal Congress : Jimmy Carter and 1977-78 Democrats
• Middle-class power : how citizen action worked before the power shift
• Middle-class prosperity : how "the virtuous circle" worked before the new economy
• The new economy of the 1990s : the wedge economics that split America
• The stolen dream : from middle-class to the new poor
• The great burden shift : funding your own safety net, crippled by debt
• The wealth gap : the economics "of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1%"
• The new 2000s power game : why Congress often ignores public opinion
• The Washington-Wall Street symbiosis : the inside track of "the money monopoly"
• Broken promises : bankrupting middle-class pensions
• 401(K)'s : do-it-yourself : can you really afford to retire?
• Housing heist : prime targets : the solid middle class
• The great wealth shift : how the banks eroded middle-class savings
• Offshoring the dream : the Wal-Mart trail to China
• Hollowing out high-end jobs : IBM : shifting the knowledge economy to India
• The skills gap myth : importing IT workers costs masses of U.S. jobs
• The missing middle : how gridlock adds to the wealth gap
• The rise of the radical right, 1964-2010 : assault on the middle-class safety net
• The high cost of imperial overstretch : how the U.S. global footprint hurts the middle class
• Reclaiming the dream : a domestic Marshall plan : a ten-step strategy
• Politics : a grassroots response : reviving the moderate center and middle-class power.

Recounts how the American dream has been dismantled over the past forty years by legislative, electoral, and corporate decisions that have compromised the middle class and minimized individual economic and political power.

• Troubled Identity, or the European Canon and the Dilemmas of Memory Secrets, Mysteries, and Conspiracies, or What am I not Supposed to Know? From Stendhal to Zygmunt Bauman: Two Kinds of Anxiety, or Tell Me What You Fear the Most Hijacking Someone Else's Narrative, Employing Comparative Martyrology, and Inflating the Concepts, or Who is Suffering the Most? In the Name of Civilization, or the New Masks of Fear and Hatred.
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A blend of political theory, social theory, and philosophy of culture, the book will show the relationship and tension between thought and action, politics and literature, power and dissent in modern politics and culture.
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