The Indispensable Right
A "timely and brilliant original" (Michael B. Mukasey, former US attorney general) look at freedom of speech--our most basic right and the one that protects all the others. Free speech is a human right, and the free expression of thought is at the very essence of being human. The United States was founded on this premise, and the First Amendment remains the single greatest constitutional commitment to the right of free expression in history. Yet there is a systemic effort to bar opposing viewpoints on subjects ranging from racial discrimination to police abuse, from climate change to gender equity. These measures are reinforced by the public's anger and rage; flash mobs appear today with the slightest provocation. We all lash out against anyone or anything that stands against our preferred certainty. The Indispensable Right places the current attacks on free speech in their proper historical, legal, and political context. The Constitution and the Bill of Rights were not only written for times like these, but in a time like this. This country was born in an age of rage and for 250 years we have periodically lost sight of the value of free expression. The history of the struggle for free speech is the story of extraordinary people--nonconformists who refuse to yield to abusive authority--and here is a mosaic of vivid characters and controversies. Johnathan Turley "has written a learned and bracing book, rigorously detailed and unfailingly evenhanded" (The Wall Street Journal) showing us the unique dangers of our current moment. The alliance of academic, media, and corporate interests with the government's traditional wish to control speech has put us on an almost irresistible path toward censorship. The Indispensable Right is a "magnum opus should be required reading for everyone who cares about free speech" (Nadine Strossen, former president of the American Civil Liberties Union) that reminds us that we remain a nation grappling with the implications of free expression and with the limits of our tolerance for the speech of others. For rather than a political crisis, this is a crisis of faith.
Populism
Why do populists come to power? Are they a threat to democracy? Has the rise of global populism reached its peak, or is it just beginning? This book provides answers to these questions and many more, by summarising in non-technical language the vast research literature on populism that extends across political science, economics, sociology, psychology, and history. Going well beyond the usual cases of Trump and Brexit, Paul D. Kenny provides evidence both of the recurrent global appeal of populism, and of its often deleterious consequences. Populism: What Everyone Needs to Know(R) advances a new approach to defining populism that helps to make sense of the most robust research findings to date, and that sets up an exciting and dynamic approach in research for the years to come. Populism is, at heart, a political movement that challenges the institutional status quo. The great paradox of populism is that while people are often justifiably resentful of a system they feel is rigged against them, their reliance on charismatic leaders to channel their frustrations usually harms rather than helps democracy.
The First Era of Islamic Leadership
The Rashidun Caliphate, spanning a mere three decades, represents a crucial juncture in the history of Islam and the Middle East. Its legacy extends far beyond its relatively short duration, profoundly influencing the development of Islamic political thought, law, and culture. This period witnessed the remarkable expansion of the newly established Muslim community from the Arabian Peninsula to encompass vast swathes of the former Byzantine and Sasanian empires. This rapid expansion, however, was accompanied by internal challenges that tested the unity and stability of the burgeoning Caliphate. The succession crises, the Ridda Wars, and the First Fitna contributed to the era's complexities. This book delves into these complexities and provides a detailed account of the reigns of each of the four caliphs. We examine their leadership styles, administrative reforms, and military strategies, analysing their successes and failures. Each caliph faced unique challenges and made distinctive contributions to shaping the early Islamic state. Abu Bakr(RA) consolidated power after the death of the Prophet Muhammad(PBUH), while Umar(RA) established a centralised administrative system and oversaw further military conquests. Uthman(RA)'s reign was marked by increasing political dissent, ultimately culminating in his assassination. Ali(RA)'s leadership was challenged by internal conflicts that led to the devastating First Fitna, a civil war that shattered the fragile unity of the Caliphate. This book will also explore the social and economic structures of the time, illustrating the intricate relationships between different segments of the population and the challenges of governing such a rapidly expanding and diverse empire. The analysis of the Rashidun Caliphate is not simply a historical exercise; it offers valuable insights into fundamental questions of leadership, governance, and the challenges of building and sustaining a multi-ethnic and multi-religious state. The lessons learned from this pivotal era remain profoundly relevant to our understanding of political power, social cohesion, and the lasting legacy of historical events.
Vladimir Lenin Collection
Among the most influential political and social forces of the twentieth century, modern communism rests firmly on philosophical, political, and economic underpinnings developed by Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, later known as Lenin. For anyone who seeks to understand the twentieth century, capitalism, the Russian Revolution, and the role of Communism in the tumultuous political and social movements that have shaped the modern world, the works of Lenin offer unparalleled insight and understanding. Taken together, they represent a balanced cross-section of his revolutionary theories of history, politics, and economics; his tactics for securing and retaining power; and his vision of a new social and economic order.This volume contains four works ("New Economic Developments in Peasant Life," "The State and Revolution," "Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism," "Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder" and "What Is to Be Done? (Burning Questions of Our Movement)"
The Social and Political Psychology of Protest Across and Within Cultures
This topical book explores the phenomenon of when and why people protest. Based in social and political psychology, the book takes a comparative approach across cultures and examines how human motivation and political and cultural contexts affects protests.
Doing Democracy in Third Places
Resulting from a collaborative approach, Doing Democracy in "Third Places" presents the results of multi-site ethnographic research in seven Quebec civil society organizations. It reports on observations, analyses and comparisons of a diversity of innovative citizenship education practices aimed at young people in these "third places", i.e. socialization spaces different from school and family. Focusing on the presentation of case studies, the book reveals the diversity of formative experiences offered to young Quebecers. The pooling of case analyses leads to a fruitful reflection on education for democratic citizenship through a plurality of citizen experimentation practices rooted in the defense of children's rights, feminist social action, the community movement, alterglobalism and municipal and school public action. With its original conceptual vocabulary and qualitative methodological approach, this book will help to push back the geolinguistic and disciplinary boundaries that often separate research currents closely or remotely related to the social and political engagement and participation of young people. Written in an accessible style, it is aimed at a wide audience, including youth organization staff, graduate students, the youth policy sector and anyone interested in the issues surrounding youth citizenship in the 21st century.
The Care Economy
Care is the foundation of organic life. But its fate in the economy is precarious and uncertain. The labour of care is arduous and underpaid. Yet without it health and vitality are impossible. Care itself ends up leading a curious dual life. In our hearts it's honoured as an irreducible good. But in the market it's treated as a second class citizen - barely recognised in the relentless rush for productivity and wealth.How did we arrive in this dysfunctional place? And what can we do to change things? What would it mean to take health seriously as a societal goal? What would it take to adopt care as an organising principle in the economy? Renowned ecological economist Tim Jackson sets out to tackle these questions in this timely and deeply personal book. His journey travels through the history of medicine, the economics of capitalism and the philosophical underpinnings of health. He unpacks the gender politics of care, revisits the birthplace of a universal dream and confronts the demons that prevent us from realising it. Irreverent, insightful and profoundly inquisitive, The Care Economy offers a bold and accessible manifesto for a healthier and more humane society. Also available as an audiobook, narrated by the author.
Attention and Alienation
The worldwide spread of the internet has revolutionized communication at a harrowing cost: the relentless commodification of attention. Algorithm-driven capitalism extracts profit from not only physical bodies but also the emotional and creative labor of internet users. This economic system alienates us from our inmost selves and gives us only a gnawing longing that cannot be satiated--a spiraling collective mental health crisis. The exchange is deeply unequal: we pay attention and receive alienation. Aarushi Bhandari offers a new way to understand the political economy of attention, combining quantitative analysis and personal narrative to critique the role of information and communications technologies in global society. Ranging across levels, from international development policy to online social movements through individual internet users, she examines how these technologies have fostered a host of unequal exchanges. Pervasive inequalities--between richer and poorer countries, between progressive social movements and the reactions against them, and between technological elites and the online population--now reinforce one another, with far-reaching consequences. Along the way, Bhandari shares her own journey as a chronically online millennial woman growing up among the Kathmandu elite in a dominant-caste Hindu family during the Nepali Civil War. A bold and incisive critical analysis, Attention and Alienation also considers how to reclaim the potential of the internet and design new systems that prioritize collective well-being.
Vladimir Lenin Collection
Among the most influential political and social forces of the twentieth century, modern communism rests firmly on philosophical, political, and economic underpinnings developed by Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, later known as Lenin. For anyone who seeks to understand the twentieth century, capitalism, the Russian Revolution, and the role of Communism in the tumultuous political and social movements that have shaped the modern world, the works of Lenin offer unparalleled insight and understanding. Taken together, they represent a balanced cross-section of his revolutionary theories of history, politics, and economics; his tactics for securing and retaining power; and his vision of a new social and economic order.This volume contains four works ("New Economic Developments in Peasant Life," "The State and Revolution," "Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism," "Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder" and "What Is to Be Done? (Burning Questions of Our Movement)"
Attention and Alienation
The worldwide spread of the internet has revolutionized communication at a harrowing cost: the relentless commodification of attention. Algorithm-driven capitalism extracts profit from not only physical bodies but also the emotional and creative labor of internet users. This economic system alienates us from our inmost selves and gives us only a gnawing longing that cannot be satiated--a spiraling collective mental health crisis. The exchange is deeply unequal: we pay attention and receive alienation. Aarushi Bhandari offers a new way to understand the political economy of attention, combining quantitative analysis and personal narrative to critique the role of information and communications technologies in global society. Ranging across levels, from international development policy to online social movements through individual internet users, she examines how these technologies have fostered a host of unequal exchanges. Pervasive inequalities--between richer and poorer countries, between progressive social movements and the reactions against them, and between technological elites and the online population--now reinforce one another, with far-reaching consequences. Along the way, Bhandari shares her own journey as a chronically online millennial woman growing up among the Kathmandu elite in a dominant-caste Hindu family during the Nepali Civil War. A bold and incisive critical analysis, Attention and Alienation also considers how to reclaim the potential of the internet and design new systems that prioritize collective well-being.
The Problem of Personhood
SHOULD NONHUMANS HAVE RIGHTS IN LAW AND POLITICS? Over the last twenty-five years, the concept of per-sonhood has become central to many contentious debates. Corporations have won free speech protections, as if they were individuals. The right to life or freedom has been claimed on behalf of fetuses, trees, and elephants. The fund of human rights is spilling over into the nonhuman. The Problem of Personhood reveals the unsettling consequences of granting rights to imagined persons, such as Sophia the robot citizen or New Zealand's Whanganui River. Synthesizing the political and phil­osophical debates on personhood and drawing on a varied cast of thinkers that includes Simone Weil, Hannah Arendt, and Dr. Seuss, Lisa Siraganian un­covers the disturbing impact of this contemporary development. Awarding rights to robots and rivers all too easily becomes a legal tool to turn people into capital. When robot Sophia is made a citizen, "she" is transformed into a subject in the law without the corre­sponding legal duties that protect us from her. At the root of this trend is the US Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling that grants First Amendment rights to corporations as if they were individuals. The result has not been the transformation of things into humans so much as humans into things, when animals and the environment would be better protected with reference to our humanity rather than to theirs.
Separation of Powers
Why the separation of powers is essential to liberty and democracy. From the winner of the Holberg Prize and New York Times-bestselling author of The World According to Star Wars. All over the world, people are questioning the separation of powers. They want a strong man, able to do what must be done. But James Madison was right to say this: "The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny." In this essential and immensely timely book, Separation of Powers, Cass Sunstein explains why the separation of powers is necessary for both freedom and self-government. He shows that freedom from fear is a central goal of the system of separation of powers. He also explains why the executive branch is the most dangerous branch, why the idea of presidential immunity is a terrible one, and why an independent judiciary is crucial. Drawing on his extensive experience in the White House, the Department of Justice, and the Department of Homeland Security, the author also argues that the separation of powers is, in fact, six separations of powers: (1) The legislature may not exercise the executive power. (2) The legislature may not exercise the judicial power. (3) The executive may not exercise the legislative power. (4) The executive may not exercise the judicial power. (5) The judiciary may not exercise the legislative power. (6) The judiciary may not exercise the executive power. Each of these is essential to liberty under law.
Inflation and the Family
This book provides unique insight into the relationship between economics and family life. Taking ideas from the Austrian school of economics' understanding of monetary theory, it delves into the drivers of family formation, fertility, and family disintegration, with a particular focus on the role of inflation and inflationary policy. By placing questions surrounding family life within a political economy setting, the impact of relative price changes, inflation culture, and specific monetary policies on the role and structure of the family are highlighted. This book offers a nuanced and robust understanding of the economic causes of the deinstitutionalization of traditional family life. It will be relevant to students and researchers interested in monetary economics and the economics of the family.
The Elections of 2024
A timely analysis of the historic 2024 elections from some of the leading minds in US political science The political scientist Michael Nelson and a team of scholars offer here a comprehensive, scholarly, and compelling account of the transformative 2024 elections and their unprecedented immediate aftermath. This diverse cast of experts scrutinizes every stage of the presidential race as well as the concurrent congressional elections in all aspects, from campaigning to media coverage to PACs and fundraising. Supplemented by critical data gathered from exit polling and voting results from primaries, caucuses, and the general election, this volume weighs the consequences of the 2024 elections not only for the presidency but for Congress and the entire U.S. political ecosystem. Contributors Marjorie Randon Hershey, Indiana University * Marc J. Hetherington, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill * Charles R. Hunt, Boise State University * Gary C. Jacobson, University of California, San Diego * John Anthony Maltese, University of Georgia * William G. Mayer, Northeastern University * Michael Nelson, Rhodes College * Gerald M. Pomper, Rutgers University * Paul J. Quirk, University of British Columbia * Andrew Rudalevige, Bowdoin College
The Elections of 2024
A timely analysis of the historic 2024 elections from some of the leading minds in US political science The political scientist Michael Nelson and a team of scholars offer here a comprehensive, scholarly, and compelling account of the transformative 2024 elections and their unprecedented immediate aftermath. This diverse cast of experts scrutinizes every stage of the presidential race as well as the concurrent congressional elections in all aspects, from campaigning to media coverage to PACs and fundraising. Supplemented by critical data gathered from exit polling and voting results from primaries, caucuses, and the general election, this volume weighs the consequences of the 2024 elections not only for the presidency but for Congress and the entire U.S. political ecosystem. Contributors Marjorie Randon Hershey, Indiana University * Marc J. Hetherington, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill * Charles R. Hunt, Boise State University * Gary C. Jacobson, University of California, San Diego * John Anthony Maltese, University of Georgia * William G. Mayer, Northeastern University * Michael Nelson, Rhodes College * Gerald M. Pomper, Rutgers University * Paul J. Quirk, University of British Columbia * Andrew Rudalevige, Bowdoin College
Being Cosmopolitan
What does it mean to be cosmopolitan? Typically, cosmopolitanism is understood as a broad moral orientation, involving some kind of commitment to global moral equality. On this understanding, to be cosmopolitan is simply to evidence that moral orientation oneself. By contrast, Being Cosmopolitan takes up a thoroughly political approach. The focus is on what it might mean, and what it is like, to be political in a distinctly cosmopolitan form. What it means to be cosmopolitan in this thoroughly political sense cannot involve appeal to any particular moral orientation, because politics is about, inter alia, the contestation of such orientations and commitments. Instead, this book offers an account that is based upon the internalization of particular kind of global 'social imaginary', involving the imagination of a global public to which certain issues - or global public affairs - are understood to pertain. The taking up of this political approach is of significance for the prevailing moral approach. For one thing, many moral cosmopolitans are also themselves possible cosmopolitical actors, and so the elaboration of a political understanding of what it means to be cosmopolitan should act as a spur to the development of a more comprehensive picture of their own subjectivity. More concretely, being cosmopolitan in the political sense has important implications that are not readily observable when concentrating purely upon developing moral cosmopolitan claims. Within which kind of global order is it possible, or comfortable, for a cosmopolitical agent to live? In answer to this question, the book argues against the viability of both a world of self-determining peoples, and of 'pluralist' global visions - both of which are popular with moral cosmopolitan theorists. Furthermore, a focus on cosmopolitical subjectivity can help us to better understand the predicaments of real-world global politics. Not all political cosmopolitans are moral cosmopolitans. Therefore, a world of cosmopolitans is not necessarily any kind of singular 'moral community'. Indeed, as Being Cosmopolitan will endeavour to show, even amongst those who do share the core moral cosmopolitan commitment to the moral equality of all, mutual unintelligibility can arise.
A Common Country
As their democracy faces an array of crises Americans confront a recurring question: whether they really constitute a democratic "people" at all. Reactionaries promote a nostalgic ideal of American nationalism, while implying that many of their compatriots don't belong to their imagined nation. In response, many egalitarians are suspicious of appeals to shared civic belonging--seeing them as outmoded, intolerant, and potentially dangerous. In A Common Country, Nathan Pippenger shows that for American democracy to flourish, egalitarians must not reject the ideal of shared American peoplehood but instead put forth their own distinctive claim to its meaning. Pippenger shows that at key periods--from Reconstruction through the Progressive Era, New Deal, and Civil Rights era--democratic reformers realized that the transformative changes they sought would succeed only if the meaning of "We the People" expanded to include everyone in the country. Pippenger's analysis of this tradition shows not only that democracy requires solidarity but also that solidarity need not presuppose any common trait other than the fact of shared political membership. Examining contemporary problems of nativism, racial injustice, and ascendant oligarchy, A Common Country weaves together history and normative political theory to intervene in urgent debates over nationalism, citizenship, and the fate of democracy. Its distinctive argument is that the solidarity needed to achieve American democracy is not awaiting discovery in some elusive form of unity--rather, it must be consciously cultivated among citizens who share no more, and no less, than a common country.
Subverting the Republic
From two expert presidential scholars comes a new answer to why the Trump presidency happened: decades of partisanship and policies have centered the president as the sole focus of American government to create a treacherous system whose danger may far outlive the politics of Donald J. TrumpDonald Trump∍s presidency and the extraordinary events that led to his reelection in 2024 have changed how we understand the presidency--but this transformation was not of his own making. His unprecedented rise to power brazenly defies established constitutional norms and institutions, and Trump 2.0 promises another disruptive term. Yet, as Nicholas F. Jacobs and Sidney M. Milkis reveal, Trump's brand of presidential politics is not merely a shocking departure from tradition, but a symptom of a constitutional disease that had has long afflicted the American polity. They call this condition presidentialism, a dangerous shift towards an executive-centered politics and government that places immense power in the hands of a single individual.While some scholars of American politics view the Trump presidency as a cult of personality, Jacobs and Milkis argue that his unsettling ascent to the White House was decades in the making, the result of numerous cultural, institutional, and constitutional changes. From aggressively redeploying the federal government's administrative powers, to using the tools of the modern presidency to undertake a hostile takeover of the Republican Party, the authors comprehensively detail Trump's first presidential administration to understand the peril of a presidency-centered democracy. The disruptive features of Trump's presidential politics should not be viewed as an ephemeral phenomenon, nor will the threat that presidentialism poses to American democracy end once he finally leaves office.Subverting the Republic explains why Trump has reigned over American politics for nearly a decade and why his mastery threatens to deepen a crisis that tears at the fabric of the American constitution.
The Liberal Mind in a Conservative Party
Robinson analyses the peculiarly Australian intellectual tradition of liberal conservatism within the mainstream centre-right Liberal Party of Australia. Conservative intellectuals in Australia have forged a pragmatic, sceptical and utilitarian liberal conservatism focused on the tasks of government. It remains distant both from the romantic and organicist ideas of the populist right and the simplicities of libertarianism.Focusing on key figures within this tradition, Robinson tracks the progress of Australian liberal conservatism over the years through its origins in the work of David Hume to the thoughts of Peter Coleman, David Kemp and Andrew Norton before moving forward to George Brandis and Gregory Melleuish. The Liberal Party of Australia has appealed successfully to the conservative sentiments of voters in a liberal society. The Liberal Mind in a Conservative Party tells the story of seven intellectuals who helped make this possible. Peter Coleman drew on John Anderson, Georges Sorel and Michael Oakeshott to champion neoconservatism. He argues that this potent political ideology has shaped a distinct political identity, which rejects conservative traditionalism, and libertarian economics, while defending a pragmatic approach to capitalism.A fascinating read for students and scholars of Australian politics, this book will also be of great value to readers with an interest in international centre-right politics.
The Power of Collective Resilience Against Political Violence and Repression
This book outlines the importance of collective resilience for groups who have faced challenging or threatening circumstances, such as war and political violence.
Dharma Democracy
India is one of the world's great democratic success stories. In this rigorously empirical analysis, a comparative social scientist-an American sociologist based in Sydney-offers a dispassionate assessment of India's democratic evolution. Benchmarking India against both established Western democracies and its own political past, the book challenges prevailing narratives shaped by ideological biases. Drawing on quantitative data and primary historical sources, the author reveals a dynamic, complex, and resilient democratic system operating in a fractured and deeply traditional society. A must-read for academics and general readers alike, this book cuts through politicized scholarship to offer a clear-eyed perspective on the world's largest democracy.Salvatore Babones is a quantitative comparative sociologist whose current research focuses on the political sociology of democracy. He has also published on economic development in post-socialist transition economies and quantitative methods for cross-national comparisons. His 2018 book The New Authoritarianism: Trump, Populism, and the Tyranny of Experts was named among the "Best on Politics" by the Wall Street Journal.
Industrial Society and Its Future
Industrial Society and Its Future-commonly known as The Unabomber Manifesto-is a provocative and controversial essay that critiques the consequences of modern industrial and technological development on human freedom and psychological well-being.Written by Theodore John Kaczynski, a former mathematics prodigy turned radical critic of technological progress, the manifesto outlines his belief that the rise of large-scale technological systems has led to widespread social dysfunction, environmental destruction, and the erosion of individual autonomy. Kaczynski argues that only by dismantling industrial society can human beings regain control over their lives and restore a sense of purpose and natural balance.This edition presents the original text in full, allowing readers to explore the arguments that fueled one of the most infamous anti-technology movements in modern history. While the author's actions have been universally condemned, the work remains a subject of debate in academic, political, and philosophical circles for its uncompromising analysis of the costs of progress.
Tourism and Soft Power Diplomacy
This book explores India's G20 presidency and its strategic use of tourism as a powerful tool for soft power diplomacy. Drawing from personal experiences and in-depth analysis, the author delves into how India's rich cultural heritage, diverse landscapes and global outreach contribute to its growing influence on the world. It highlights a unique perspective on India's foreign policy and its role in shaping international relations through tourism.
dump dumb Trump
Variations on a dangerous moron. Here we ask ourselves: How many variations of "dump dumb Trump" can we create?
Digitizing Indian Elections
Digitizing Indian Elections: 2G to 5G - How Technology Transformed the World's Largest DemocracyThis book offers a compelling exploration of how India's electoral process has evolved from the era of 2G connectivity to the age of 5G, tracing the integration of cutting-edge technology into every facet of the democratic process. From the introduction of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) to the deployment of mobile applications, AI, blockchain, and real-time voter monitoring systems, the book delves into the innovations that have enhanced transparency, accessibility, and efficiency. It also examines the challenges, ethical dilemmas, and security concerns posed by digitization, making it an essential read for anyone interested in the intersection of technology and democracy in a rapidly digitizing world.
Arabella
Exposes Arabella Advisors as a major "dark money" operation that channels billions into progressive causes through opaque networks and deceptive grassroots groups, revealing its significant influence on U.S. politics and its far-reaching impact on issues from Supreme Court nominations to election manipulation.Ever heard of Arabella Advisors? Probably not. And that's strange, since they've done a lot to destroy the world you grew up in. You should know, so read this book.--Tucker Carlson While billionaires like George Soros, Bill Gates, and Warren Buffett are well known as left-wing megadonors transforming the country's politics, few Americans know about Arabella Advisors, a "dark money" operation that channels much of this money into particular causes via pop-up groups designed to look like grassroots outfits. Citizens across the spectrum will be shocked to learn how Arabella's empire secretly operates using arrangements that produce the darkest of "dark money." Thanks to the author and his colleagues at the Capital Research Center, which first exposed Arabella, even the mainstream press have begun to report on this scandalous story. As this book reveals, Arabella is a major player in battles over Supreme Court nominations, environmentalism, abortion, Medicare for All, fake local news outlets, "Zuck Bucks" that manipulate election offices, lawsuits brought by Democratic super-lawyer (and Steele dossier booster) Marc Elias, and much more. The money is staggering. In the 2018 election cycle, Arabella's nonprofits took in $1.2 billion, more than double the fundraising of the Democratic National Committee and the Republican National Committee combined. In the 2020 election cycle, Arabella's fundraising spiked to $2.4 billion. This mountain of money explains why the left-leaning major media are alarmed. Arabella is "the indisputable heavyweight of Democratic dark money," warns the Atlantic. A "dark-money behemoth," says Politico. An "opaque network," says the New York Times, that funnels "hundreds of millions of dollars through a daisy chain of groups supporting Democrats and progressive causes."
Reestablishing America’s Global Power
America is in crisis! With the end of the Cold War, the United States emerged as a hegemonic power with total political, military, and economic strength unequal by any other nation. The attack of September 11th propelled the US into twenty years of perpetual conflict across the Middle East, but especially in Iraq and Afghanistan. As the US was consumed with the global war on terror, other nations, such as Russia and China, began to assert their influence in challenging the United States with the goal of upending the liberal economic world order. US Marine combat veteran of both Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts, details how the U.S. can prevent Russia from realtering the global landscape in favor of autocratic regimes.
Embodied Epistemology as Rigorous Historical Method
This Element proposes that, in addition to using traditional historical methodologies, historians need to find extra-textual, embodied ways of understanding the past in order to more fully comprehend it. Written by a medieval historian, the Element explains why historians assume they cannot use reperformance in historical inquiry and why they, in fact, should. The Element employs tools from the discipline of performance studies, which has long grappled with the differences between the archive and the repertoire, between the records of historical performances and the embodied movements, memories, and emotions of the performance itself, which are often deemed unknowable by scholars. It shows how an embodied epistemology is particularly suited to studying certain premodern historical topics, using the example of medieval monasticism. Finally, using the case of performance-lectures given at The Met Cloisters, it shows how using performance as a tool for historical investigation might work.
The Political Economy of China’s Imperial Examination System
Just as councils and assemblies were central to European polities for centuries, the Imperial Examination System (Keju) constituted the cornerstone of state institutions in China. This Element argues that Keju contributed to political stability, and its emergence was a process, not a shock, with consequences initially unanticipated by its contemporaries. The Element documents the emergence of Keju using evidence from early Chinese empires to the end of the Tang Dynasty in the 10th century, including epitaphs and government documents. It then traces the selection criteria of Keju and trends in social mobility over the second millennium, leveraging biographical information from over 70,000 examinees and 1,500 ministers and their descendants. The Element uses a panel of 112 historical polities to quantify Keju's association with country-level political indicators against the backdrop of global convergence in political stability and divergence in institutions. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Israel’s Declaration of Independence
Israel's Declaration of Independence brings to life the debates and decisions at the founding of the state of Israel. Through a presentation of the drafts of Israel's Declaration of Independence in English for the first time, Neil Rogachevsky and Dov Zigler shed new light on the dilemmas of politics, diplomacy, and values faced by Israel's leaders as they charted the path to independence and composed what became modern Israel's most important political text. The stakes began with war, state-building, strategy, and great power politics, and ascended to matters of high principle: freedom, liberty, sovereignty, rights, and religion. Using fast-paced narration of the meetings of Israel's leadership in April and May 1948, this volume tells the astonishing story of the drafting of Israel's Declaration of Independence, enriching and reframing the understanding of Israel's founding and its ideas - and tracing its legacy.
International Political Economy in the 21st Century
Understanding the theories that underpin international political economy (IPE), and their practical applications, is crucial to the study of international relations, politics, development and economics. International Political Economy in the 21st Century offers students an engaging and coherent foundation to the subject. It considers traditional and alternative approaches to IPE, and in doing so elucidates key concepts, assumptions and the intellectual and historical context in which they arose and developed. At all times, it makes clear their relevance to issues from trade, finance and government, to environment, technology, health, labour, security, migration, development and culture. The book encourages independent reflection and critical thinking through a range of in-text guiding features. In addition, each chapter presents theoretical analysis alongside contemporary issues, helping the reader to relate to the real world of IPE and to better understand how theory helps inform interpretation of it.This third edition has been comprehensively updated to include: Key coverage of the build-up to and the post-COP26 era; causes and consequences of recent energy crises, and governmental and non-governmental responses to these crises; cryptocurrencies within finance; and the role of 'big data' companies. Fully updated data, reflective questions, recommended readings, concept and example boxes, and illustrations. A new chapter on climate change; and a new chapter on energy and energy security. Online material. This comprehensive and accessible introductory textbook will be key reading for undergraduate students of international political economy.
The Political Economy of China’s Imperial Examination System
Just as councils and assemblies were central to European polities for centuries, the Imperial Examination System (Keju) constituted the cornerstone of state institutions in China. This Element argues that Keju contributed to political stability, and its emergence was a process, not a shock, with consequences initially unanticipated by its contemporaries. The Element documents the emergence of Keju using evidence from early Chinese empires to the end of the Tang Dynasty in the 10th century, including epitaphs and government documents. It then traces the selection criteria of Keju and trends in social mobility over the second millennium, leveraging biographical information from over 70,000 examinees and 1,500 ministers and their descendants. The Element uses a panel of 112 historical polities to quantify Keju's association with country-level political indicators against the backdrop of global convergence in political stability and divergence in institutions. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Schooling the Nation
Telling the story of the Egyptian uprising through the lens of education, Hania Sobhy explores the everyday realities of citizens in the years before and after the so-called 'Arab Spring'. With vivid narratives from students and staff from Egyptian schools, Sobhy offers novel insights on the years that led to and followed the unrest of 2011. Drawing a holistic portrait of education in Egypt, she reveals the constellations of violence, neglect and marketization that pervaded schools, and shows how young people negotiated the state and national belonging. By approaching schools as key disciplinary and nation-building institutions, this book outlines the various ways in which citizenship was produced, lived, and imagined during those critical years. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
The Rise of the Russian Hawks
Studying the interplay between ideology and politics in Russian governance, from the former USSR to contemporary Russia, this book examines why, despite the prohibition of state ideology in the 1993 Russian Constitution, Russian hawks endured beyond the 1991 regime change and have risen to political prominence as the chief ideologues of Russia's confrontation against the West. Departing from realist and constructivist explanations of foreign policy focused on Vladimir Putin, Juliette Faure highlights the influence of elite groups with diverse strategic cultures and reveals how, even under authoritarian rule, a competitive space exists where rival elites contest their visions of national interests. Demonstrating the regime's strategic use of ideological ambiguity to maintain policy flexibility, Faure offers a fresh lens on the domestic factors that have played into the Russian regime's decision to wage war against Ukraine and their implications for international security, regional stability and the global balance of power.
New Approaches to Latin American Studies
New Approaches to Latin American Studies Vol. 2 provides an examination of the new and defining approaches that have emerged in the field of Latin American Studies since 2014. This book is a reader-friendly orientation to the many new areas of research that Latin American Studies now encompasses.
Navigating Local Transitional Justice
In post-war Sierra Leone, a range of transitional justice mechanisms were implemented to address experiences of conflict, violence, and human rights violations. Much of the research on local transitional justice processes has focused on the work of organisations, failing to acknowledge how individual and communal dynamics shape and are shaped by these programs. Drawing on original fieldwork in Sierra Leone, Laura S. Martin moves beyond discussions measuring effectiveness and considers how people navigate their circumstances in conflict and post-conflict societies. Developing the idea of recognised and unrecognised transitional justice processes, Martin uses Fambul Tok as an example of a recognised local transitional justice program and shows how ordinary Sierra Leoneans appropriated Fambul Tok's agenda for their own purposes. Ultimately, this book highlights the crucial role of agency and the diverse range of actors involved in transitional justice processes. Justice, as Martin powerfully argues, is not something that happens to or for people, but is enacted by individuals and communities.
Embodied Epistemology as Rigorous Historical Method
This Element proposes that, in addition to using traditional historical methodologies, historians need to find extra-textual, embodied ways of understanding the past in order to more fully comprehend it. Written by a medieval historian, the Element explains why historians assume they cannot use reperformance in historical inquiry and why they, in fact, should. The Element employs tools from the discipline of performance studies, which has long grappled with the differences between the archive and the repertoire, between the records of historical performances and the embodied movements, memories, and emotions of the performance itself, which are often deemed unknowable by scholars. It shows how an embodied epistemology is particularly suited to studying certain premodern historical topics, using the example of medieval monasticism. Finally, using the case of performance-lectures given at The Met Cloisters, it shows how using performance as a tool for historical investigation might work.
The Rise of the Russian Hawks
Studying the interplay between ideology and politics in Russian governance, from the former USSR to contemporary Russia, this book examines why, despite the prohibition of state ideology in the 1993 Russian Constitution, Russian hawks endured beyond the 1991 regime change and have risen to political prominence as the chief ideologues of Russia's confrontation against the West. Departing from realist and constructivist explanations of foreign policy focused on Vladimir Putin, Juliette Faure highlights the influence of elite groups with diverse strategic cultures and reveals how, even under authoritarian rule, a competitive space exists where rival elites contest their visions of national interests. Demonstrating the regime's strategic use of ideological ambiguity to maintain policy flexibility, Faure offers a fresh lens on the domestic factors that have played into the Russian regime's decision to wage war against Ukraine and their implications for international security, regional stability and the global balance of power.
Bonfire
In this book, Charles Derber shows how the US is moving toward sociocide-the erosion of durable, positive social relations in the economy, family, politics and civil society essential to sustaining society itself-while offering a combination of pragmatic solutions.
Routledge Handbook of Corruption in Asia
This book addresses the theories, issues, and trends in corruption and anticorruption reform that have emerged from the diverse experience of Asia. The book is divided into four major parts: corruption and the state; corruption and economic development; corruption and society; and controlling corruption: strategies, successes and failures. Chapt
To Build a Black Future
An incisive portrait of how the new Black politics can forge a future centered on collective action, community, and care When #BlackLivesMatter emerged in 2013, it animated the most consequential Black-led mobilization since the civil rights and Black power era. Today, the hashtag turned rallying cry is but one expression of a radical reorientation toward Black politics, protest, and political thought. To Build a Black Future examines the spirit and significance of this insurgency, offering a revelatory account of a new political culture-responsive to pain, suffused with joy, and premised on care-emerging from the centuries-long arc of Black rebellion, a tradition that traces back to the Black slave. Drawing on his own experiences as an activist and organizer, Christopher Paul Harris takes readers inside the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL) to chart the propulsive trajectory of Black politics and thought from the Middle Passage to the present historical moment. Carefully attending to the social forces that produce Black struggle and the contradictions that arise within it, Harris illustrates how M4BL gives voice to an abolitionist praxis that bridges the past, present, and future, outlining a political project at once directed inward to the Black community while issuing an outward challenge to the world. Essential reading for the age of #BlackLivesMatter, this visionary and provocative book reveals how the radical politics of joy, pain, and care, in sharp contrast to liberal political thought, can build a Black future that transcends ideology and pushes the boundaries of our political imagination.
Psychological Warfare and the New World Order
For many years the globalist conspirators have been waging war against the American people. But this not a conventional war fought with tanks, battleships and warplanes in conventional battlefields. It is a secret, insidious type of war whose battleground is the people's minds. Its main weapons are propaganda and mass brainwashing by disinformation, cunning, deception and lies in a large scale not used against the people of any nation since the days of Nazi Germany. Though important, however, those elements are just part of a series of carefully planned and executed long and short-term psychological warfare operations. It is a psychological war -a PSYWAR. If an unfriendly foreign power had carried out against the American people the actions carried out by Wall Street bankers, Oil magnates and CEOs of transnational corporations entrenched at the Council on Foreign Relations, the Bilderberg Group and the World Economic Forum, we might well have considered it an act of war. Unfortunately, most Americans ignore that they are under attack. The reason is because, like Ninja assassins, the main weapon used by the conspirators who have managed to infiltrate and take control of the U.S. Government and most of American institutions and life has been their invisibility. For almost a century, these small group of conspirators have been waging a quiet, non-declared war of attrition against the American people, and it seems that they are now ready for the final, decisive battle. Unfortunately, as past presidential elections show, the brainwashed American people reacted by changing the puppets, leaving the puppet masters untouched and in control. In this book Servando studies in detail the origins of the conspiracy, who the conspirators are, the main elements of this PSYWAR and, what's more important, how we can fight back and win.
The Pursuit of Citizenship
I undertook this endeavor to look at the past, present, and promise of citizenship. Using examples from my ancestors, my life, and my future hope, I want to encourage citizenship and its pursuit. Join me in seeking a greater awareness of the conditions that prompted German immigration, life in America for those immigrants, and the contributions they made as they assimilated. I include some Iowa and Dubuque history as well as moments from my childhood and young adulthood. The present state of our nation is examined, having drifted from its founding principles. Political ideas and agencies are defined to gain increased understanding. Also included is an important chapter on liberty, followed by a section designed to present the opportunity to be individuals and citizens of excellence. The recent problems of immigration and open borders are explored, along with acquired citizenship. Finally, the biblical idea of being a citizen of heaven is explained to encourage the Christian with this God-given promise. My goal is to help readers develop a greater appreciation for citizenship and pursue it if not currently a United States citizen. BRUCE A. WEITZ has been a FedEx Express courier for over thirty years. He and his wife, Crystal, have two grown, married children. They reside in Ankeny, Iowa. Bruce enjoys reading, watching sports, traveling, yard work, and backyard birds and blooms.
Socialisme Ou Barbarie
Socialisme ou Barbarie (1948-67) was a revolutionary group whose members included such major figures such as Cornelius Castoriadis, Claude Lefort and Jean-Fran癟ois Lyotard. Its journal of the same name helped inspire France's May '68 student-worker rebellion and influenced generations of radicals worldwide. This Anthology, for the first time in print in the English language, restores the collective nature of the group's adventure, where manual and intellectual workers creatively, and not without profound disagreements, reflected and acted together in anticipation of a non-hierarchical, self-governing society. The group radically reoriented critical revolutionary theory by affirming how social change emerges through ordinary people's everyday lives and struggles. In a world divided into two competing bureaucratic-capitalist camps, the autonomous grassroots response to rationalized forms of outside control (State-corporation-trade union-political party) would be workers' management--a conclusion stunningly confirmed, against traditional Left expectations, by the workers' revolts of 1953 and 1956 in the East, and by increasingly widespread challenges to established organizational forms in the 1960s in the West. These texts not only examine the overall crisis of systems of domination, but explore their creative contestation in the workplace, in changing relations between the sexes and between generations, and in movements for national liberation (China, Algeria), to bring out "the positive content of socialism" while remaining clear-eyed about how bureaucratization may be reintroduced into emancipatory struggles.
The Enemies Of Books
Uncover the hidden battles waged against the written word in "The Enemies of Books" by William Blades, a timeless exploration of the perils that have threatened our most cherished volumes. Once lost to time, this captivating work has been lovingly restored and republished by Alpha Editions, emerging as both a collector's item and a cultural treasure. Dive into the fascinating world where fire, water, vermin, and even human folly conspire against the survival of books. Blades, with his passionate advocacy for preservation, takes you on a journey through history, revealing the relentless threats that have endangered the legacy of literature. This edition is not just a reprint; it is a beautifully restored masterpiece, ensuring that the wisdom and wit of Blades' observations are preserved for today's and future generations. Whether you're a casual reader or a devoted collector of classic literature, "The Enemies of Books" offers an irresistible blend of historical intrigue and literary devotion. Embrace this unique opportunity to own a piece of history and join the ranks of those who cherish the enduring power of the written word.
