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POLITICAL THEORY & PHILOSOPHY
Renewal
Like much of the world, America is deeply divided over
identity, equality, and history. Renewal is Anne-Marie
Slaughter’s candid and deeply personal account of how
her own odyssey opened the door to an important new
understanding of how we as individuals, organizations,
and nations can move backward and forward at the same
time, facing the past and embracing a new future.
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Unconditional Equals
For centuries, ringing declarations about all men being
created equal appealed to a shared human nature as the
reason to consider ourselves equals. But appeals to natural
equality invited gradations of natural difference, and the
ambiguity at the heart of “nature” enabled generations to
write of people as equal by nature while barely noticing
the exclusion of those marked as inferior by their gender,
race, or class. Despite what we commonly tell ourselves,
these exclusions and gradations continue today. In
Unconditional Equals, political philosopher Anne Phillips
challenges attempts to justify equality by reference to a
shared human nature, arguing that justification turns into
conditions and ends up as exclusion. Rejecting the logic of
justification, she calls instead for a genuinely uncondition-
al equality.
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New Lefts
In the 1960s, the radical youth of Western Europe’s New
Left rebelled against the democratic welfare state and their
parents’ antiquated politics of reform. It was not the first
time an upstart leftist movement was built on the ruins of
the old. This book traces the history of neoleftism from its
antifascist roots in the first half of the twentieth century,
to its postwar reconstruction in the 1950s, to its explosive
reinvention by the 1960s counterculture. Providing vital
historical perspective on the challenges confronting leftists
today, this book tells the story of generations of
antifascists, left socialists, and anti-authoritarians who
tried to build radical democratic alternatives to capitalism
and kindle hope in reactionary times.
Conservatism
For two hundred years, conservatism has defied its
reputation as a backward-looking creed by confronting
and adapting to liberal modernity. By doing so, the Right
has won long periods of power and effectively become the
dominant tradition in politics. Yet, despite their success,
conservatives have continued to fight with each other
about how far to compromise with liberalism and democ-
racy—or which values to defend and how. In Conservatism,
Edmund Fawcett provides a gripping account of this con-
flicted history, clarifies key ideas, and illuminates quarrels
within the Right today.
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POLITICAL THEORY & PHILOSOPHY
Uncivil Mirth
The relaxing of censorship in Britain at the turn of
the eighteenth century led to an explosion of satires,
caricatures, and comic hoaxes. This new vogue for ridicule
unleashed moral panic and prompted warnings that it
would corrupt public debate. But ridicule also had vocal
defenders who saw it as a means to expose hypocrisy, un-
settle the arrogant, and deflate the powerful. Uncivil Mirth
examines how leading thinkers of the period searched for
a humane form of ridicule, one that served the causes of
religious toleration, the abolition of the slave trade, and
the dismantling of patriarchal power.
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POLITICAL THEORY & PHILOSOPHY
Violent Fraternity
Violent Fraternity is a major history of the political thought
that laid the foundations of modern India. Taking readers
from the dawn of the twentieth century to the indepen-
dence of India and formation of Pakistan in 1947, the
book is a testament to the power of ideas to drive historical
transformation. A compelling work of scholarship, Violent
Fraternity demonstrates why India, with its breathtaking
scale and diversity, redefined the nature of political vio-
lence for the modern global era.
Dreamworlds of Race
Between the late nineteenth century and the First World
War an ocean-spanning network of prominent individuals
advocated the unification of Britain and the United States.
They dreamt of the final consolidation of the Angloworld.
Scholars, journalists, politicians, businessmen, and
science fiction writers invested the “Anglo-Saxons” with
extraordinary power. The most ambitious hailed them as
a people destined to bring peace and justice to the earth.
More modest visions still imagined them as likely to shape
the twentieth century. Dreamworlds of Race explores this
remarkable moment in the intellectual history of racial
domination, political utopianism, and world order.
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POLITICAL THEORY & PHILOSOPHY
Leviathan on a Leash
States are commonly blamed for wars, called on to apolo-
gize, held liable for debts and reparations, bound by trea-
ties, and punished with sanctions. But what does it mean
to hold a state responsible as opposed to a government, a
nation, or an individual leader? Under what circumstances
should we assign responsibility to states rather than indi-
viduals? Leviathan on a Leash demystifies the phenomenon
of state responsibility and explains why it is a challenging
yet indispensable part of modern politics.
Systemic Corruption
This provocative book reveals how the majority of modern
liberal democracies have become increasingly oligarchic,
suffering from a form of structural political decay
first conceptualized by ancient philosophers. Systemic
Corruption argues that the problem cannot be blamed on
the actions of corrupt politicians but is built into the very
fabric of our representative systems.
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AMERICAN POLITICS
Subtle Tools
In the wake of the September 11 terror attacks, the
American government implemented a wave of overt poli-
cies to fight the nation’s enemies. Unseen and undetected
by the public, however, another set of tools were brought
to bear on the domestic front. In this riveting book, one of
today’s leading experts on the US security state shows how
these “subtle tools” imperiled the very foundations of de-
mocracy, from the separation of powers and transparency
in government to adherence to the Constitution. Revealing
the deeper consequences of the war on terror, Subtle Tools
paints a troubling portrait of an increasingly undemocratic
America where disinformation, xenophobia, and disdain
for the law became the new norm, and where the subtle
tools of national security threatened democracy itself.
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AMERICAN POLITICS
Firepower
The National Rifle Association is one of the most powerful
interest groups in America, and has consistently managed
to defeat or weaken proposed gun regulations—even
despite widespread public support for stricter laws and
the prevalence of mass shootings and gun-related deaths.
Firepower provides an unprecedented look at how this con-
troversial organization built its political power and deploys
it on behalf of its pro-gun agenda.
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AMERICAN POLITICS
American Shtetl
Settled in the mid-1970s by a small contingent of Hasidic
families, Kiryas Joel is an American town with few par-
allels in Jewish history. This book tells the story of how
this group of pious, Yiddish-speaking Jews has grown to
become a thriving insular enclave and a powerful local
government in upstate New York. While rejecting the
norms of mainstream American society, Kiryas Joel has
been stunningly successful in creating a world apart by
using the very instruments of secular political and legal
power that it disavows.
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AMERICAN POLITICS
By Executive Order
The president of the United States is commonly thought
to wield extraordinary personal power through the issu-
ance of executive orders. In fact, the vast majority of such
orders are proposed by federal agencies and shaped by
negotiations that span the executive branch. By Executive
Order provides the first comprehensive look at how presi-
dential directives are written—and by whom. Challenging
popular conceptions about the scope of presidential
power, By Executive Order reveals how the executive
branch holds the power to both enact and constrain the
president’s will.
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POLITICAL ECONOMY
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POLITICAL ECONOMY
Economic Statecraft
Economic Statecraft is a landmark work that has funda-
mentally redefined how nations evaluate crucial choices
of war and peace. Now with a substantial new preface by
the author and an afterword by esteemed foreign-policy
expert Ethan Kapstein, this new edition introduces today’s
generation of readers to the principles and applications of
economic statecraft.
Neoliberal Resilience
Since the 1980s, neoliberalism has withstood repeated
economic shocks and financial crises to become the hege-
monic economic policy worldwide. Why has neoliberalism
remained so resilient? What is the relationship between
this resiliency and the backsliding of Western democracy?
Can democracy survive an increasingly authoritarian
neoliberal capitalism? Neoliberal Resilience answers these
questions by bringing the developing world’s recent
history to the forefront of our thinking about democratic
capitalism’s future.
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PUBLIC POLICY
Embattled Europe
Is the European Union in decline? Recent history, from
the debt and migration crises to Brexit, has led many ob-
servers to argue that the EU’s best days are behind it. Over
the past decade, right-wing populists have come to power
in Poland, Hungary, and beyond—many of them winning
elections using strident anti-EU rhetoric. At the same
time, Russia poses a continuing military threat, and the
rise of Asia has challenged the EU’s economic power. But
in Embattled Europe, renowned European historian Konrad
Jarausch counters the prevailing pessimistic narrative of
European obsolescence with a rousing yet realistic defense
of the continent—one grounded in a fresh account of its
post–1989 history and an intimate understanding of its
twentieth-century horrors.
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PUBLIC POLICY
Agents of Reform
The beginnings of the modern welfare state are often
traced to the late nineteenth-century labor movement and
to policymakers’ efforts to appeal to working-class voters.
But in Agents of Reform, Elisabeth Anderson shows that
the regulatory welfare state began a half century earlier,
in the 1830s, with the passage of the first child labor laws.
Agents of Reform compares seven in-depth case studies
of key policy episodes in Germany, France, Belgium,
Massachusetts, and Illinois. Foregrounding the agency of
individual reformers, it challenges existing explanations of
welfare state development and advances a new pragmatist
field theory of institutional change.
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PUBLIC POLICY
Constructing Community
Who makes decisions that shape the housing, policies,
and social programs in urban neighborhoods? Who, in
other words, governs? Constructing Community offers a rich
ethnographic portrait of the individuals who implement
community development projects in the Fairmount
Corridor, one of Boston’s poorest areas. Jeremy Levine
uncovers a network of nonprofits and philanthropic
foundations making governance decisions alongside public
officials—a public-private structure that has implications
for democratic representation and neighborhood inequal-
ity.
Scorched Earth
The environmental infrastructure that sustains human
societies has been a target and instrument of war for
centuries, resulting in famine and disease, displaced pop-
ulations, and the devastation of people’s livelihoods and
ways of life. Scorched Earth traces the history of scorched
earth, military inundations, and armies living off the land
from the sixteenth to the twentieth century, arguing that
the resulting deliberate destruction of the environment—
“environcide”—constitutes total war and is a crime against
humanity and nature.
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INTERNATIONAL & COMPARATIVE POLITICS
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INTERNATIONAL & COMPARATIVE POLITICS
After Repression
In the wake of the Arab Spring, newly empowered factions
in Tunisia and Egypt vowed to work together to establish
democracy. In Tunisia, political elites passed a new con-
stitution, held parliamentary elections, and demonstrated
the strength of their democracy with a peaceful transfer of
power. Yet in Egypt, unity crumbled due to polarization
among elites. Presenting a new theory of polarization
under authoritarianism, After Repression reveals how
polarization and the legacies of repression led to these
substantially divergent political outcomes.
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INTERNATIONAL & COMPARATIVE POLITICS
Syrian Requiem
Leaving almost half a million dead and displacing an
estimated twelve million people, the Syrian Civil War is a
humanitarian catastrophe of unimaginable scale. Syrian
Requiem analyzes the causes and course of this bitter con-
flict—from its first spark in a peaceful Arab Spring protest
to the tenuous victory of the Asad dictatorship—and
traces how the fighting has reduced Syria to a crisis-ridden
vassal state with little prospect of political reform, national
reconciliation, or economic reconstruction.
Turkish Kaleidoscope
Against a backdrop of escalating violence, the four
students fall in love, have their hearts broken, get married,
raise families, and struggle to get on with their lives. But
the consequences of their decisions will follow them
through their lives as their children begin the story anew,
skewed through the kaleidoscope of historical events.
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INTERNATIONAL & COMPARATIVE POLITICS
Weak Strongman
Media and public discussion tends to understand Russian
politics as a direct reflection of Vladimir Putin’s seeming
omnipotence or Russia’s unique history and culture. Yet
Russia is remarkably similar to other autocracies—and
recognizing this illuminates the inherent limits to Putin’s
power. Weak Strongman challenges the conventional
wisdom about Putin’s Russia, highlighting the difficult
trade-offs that confront the Kremlin on issues ranging
from election fraud and repression to propaganda and
foreign policy.
Stalin
This is the definitive biography of Joseph Stalin from his
birth to the October Revolution of 1917, a panoramic and
often chilling account of how an impoverished, idealistic
youth from the provinces of tsarist Russia was transformed
into a cunning and fearsome outlaw who would one day
become one of the twentieth century’s most ruthless
dictators. A landmark achievement, Stalin paints an unfor-
gettable portrait of a driven young man who abandoned
his religious faith to become a skilled political operative
and a single-minded and ruthless rebel.
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INTERNATIONAL & COMPARATIVE POLITICS
A Decade of Upheaval
A Decade of Upheaval chronicles the surprising and
dramatic political conflicts of a rural Chinese county
over the course of the Cultural Revolution. Drawing
on an unprecedented range of sources—including work
diaries, interviews, internal party documents, and military
directives—Dong Guoqiang and Andrew Walder uncover a
previously unimagined level of strife in the countryside that
began with the Red Guard Movement in 1966 and contin-
ued unabated until the death of Mao Zedong in 1976.
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INTERNATIONAL & COMPARATIVE POLITICS
Persuasive Peers
In Latin America’s new democracies, political parties and
mass partisanship are not deeply entrenched, leaving many
votes up for grabs during election campaigns. Advancing a
new theory of Latin American voting behavior, Persuasive
Peers argues that political discussions within informal so-
cial networks among family members, friends, neighbors,
coworkers, and acquaintances explain this volatility and
exert a major influence on final voting choices.
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INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS & LAW
Sharing Responsibility
The idea that states share a responsibility to shield
people everywhere from atrocities is presently under
threat. Despite some early twenty-first century successes,
including the 2005 United Nations endorsement of the
Responsibility to Protect, the project has been placed
into jeopardy due to catastrophes in such places as Syria,
Myanmar, and Yemen; resurgent nationalism; and growing
global antagonism. In Sharing Responsibility, Luke
Glanville seeks to diagnose the current crisis in interna-
tional protection by exploring its long and troubled
history. With attention to ethics, law, and politics, he
measures what possibilities remain for protecting people
wherever they reside from atrocities, despite formidable
challenges in the international arena.
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INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS & LAW
Nationalisms in
International Politics
With nationalism on the rise around the world, many
worry that nationalistic attitudes could lead to a surge in
deadly conflict. To combat this trend, federations like the
European Union have tried to build inclusive regional
identities to overcome nationalist distrust and inspire
international cooperation. Yet not all nationalisms are
alike. Nationalisms in International Politics draws on insights
from psychology to explore when nationalist commitments
promote conflict—and when they foster cooperation.
The Invention of
International Order
In 1814, after decades of continental conflict, an alliance
of European empires captured Paris and exiled Napoleon
Bonaparte, defeating French military expansionism and
establishing the Concert of Europe. This new coalition
planted the seeds for today’s international order, wedding
the idea of a durable peace to multilateralism, diplomacy,
philanthropy, and rights, and making Europe its center.
Glenda Sluga reveals how at the end of the Napoleonic
wars, new conceptions of the politics between states
were the work not only of European statesmen but also
of politically ambitious aristocratic and bourgeois men
and women who seized the moment at an extraordinary
crossroads in history.
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INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS & LAW
Nonstate Warfare
Since September 11th, 2001, armed nonstate actors have
received increased attention and discussion from scholars,
policymakers, and the military. Underlying debates about
nonstate warfare and how it should be countered is one
crucial assumption: that state and nonstate actors fight
very differently. In Nonstate Warfare, Stephen Biddle up-
turns this distinction, arguing that there is actually nothing
intrinsic separating state or nonstate military behavior.
Through an in-depth look at nonstate military conduct,
Biddle shows that many nonstate armies now fight more
“conventionally” than many state armies, and that the
internal politics of nonstate actors—their institutional
maturity and wartime stakes rather than their material
weapons or equipment—determines tactics and strategies.
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INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS & LAW
Strategic Instincts
A widespread assumption in political science and
international relations is that cognitive biases—quirks of
the brain we all share as human beings—are detrimental
and responsible for policy failures, disasters, and wars.
In Strategic Instincts, Dominic Johnson challenges this as-
sumption, explaining that these nonrational behaviors can
actually support favorable results in international politics
and contribute to political and strategic success.
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METHODOLOGY
Text as Data
From social media posts and text messages to digital
government documents and archives, researchers are
bombarded with a deluge of text reflecting the social
world. This textual data gives unprecedented insights into
fundamental questions in the social sciences, humanities,
and industry. Meanwhile new machine learning tools
are rapidly transforming the way science and business
are conducted. Text as Data shows how to combine new
sources of data, machine learning tools, and social science
research design to develop and evaluate new insights.
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METHODOLOGY
Philosophy, Politics,
and Economics
Philosophy, Politics, and Economics offers a complete intro-
duction to the fundamental tools and concepts of analysis
that PPE students need to study social and political issues.
This fully updated and expanded edition examines the
core methodologies of rational choice, strategic analysis,
norms, and collective choice that serve as the bedrocks of
political philosophy and the social sciences. The textbook
is ideal for advanced undergraduates, graduate students,
and nonspecialists looking to familiarize themselves with
PPE’s approaches.
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