Sovereign Funds
"A fascinating insight into the evolution of China's financial policy and its strategic investments using leveraged foreign exchange reserves." --Diane Coyle, Enlightened Economist "[Liu] shows that Chinese sovereign funds are so different from better-known sovereign wealth funds, such as those of the governments of Abu Dhabi and Norway, that she prefers to call them 'sovereign leveraged funds'...These various exotic workarounds, which Liu skillfully traces, produce 'shadow reserves.'" --Andrew J. Nathan, Foreign Affairs "Follow the money, find the politics...Liu shows how China pioneered a whole new class of sovereign wealth funds." --Times of India One of the keys to China's global rise has been its strategy of deploying sovereign wealth on behalf of state power. Since President Xi Jinping took office in 2013, China has doubled down on financial statecraft, making shrewd investments with the money it has made by leveraging its foreign exchange reserves. Sovereign Funds tells the story of how the Communist Party of China (CPC) became a global financier of surpassing ambition. Zongyuan Zoe Liu offers a comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the evolution of China's sovereign funds, including the China Investment Corporation, the State Administration of Foreign Exchange, and Central Huijin Investment, showing how these institutions have become mechanisms not only for transforming low-reward foreign exchange reserves into investment capital but also for power projection. Sovereign funds are essential drivers of the national interest, shaping global markets, advancing the historic Belt and Road Initiative, and funneling state assets into strategic industries such as semiconductors, fintech, and artificial intelligence. Liu uncovers how the CPC is a leader in both foreign exchange reserves investment and economic statecraft, using state capital to encourage domestic economic activity and create spheres of influence worldwide.
National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) and Electoral Process in Southwest Nigeria (2015-2020)
The Last Line of Defense
One of the Senate's leading conservatives reveals the key approaches needed for the Right to triumph over liberal lawyers and out-of-control judges.When Joe Biden took office, Eric Schmitt had been attorney general for just over two years and had been focused on tackling violent crime. As soon as he began to see the outrageous excesses of the Biden Administration, he and his team snapped into action, waging war on the Biden regimes' stunning attempts at government overreach, winning some of the most important fights in modern American history, helping set the stage for a return to commonsense in government.Now, in The Last Line of Defense, Senator Schmitt takes readers behind the scenes of those battles for the first time, talks about the lessons learned, and how conservatives can keep winning in court and beyond. He takes you inside some of his biggest wins against: - Mask mandates and vaccine mandates- Student debt forgiveness- Restrictions on Second Amendment rights- Soros-backed prosecutors- Woke ideology in our schools- Open borders- Attacks on free speech- The weaponization of government agencies With President Trump back in office and the Left fighting him at every turn, it's more important than ever to remember just how close we came to losing it all -- and why we need to keep playing to win.
Defending My Enemy
With a foreword by Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton and an afterword by Nadine StrossenA new edition of the most important free speech book of the past half-century, with a new chapter by the author on some of the top First Amendment controversies of today "If Aryeh Neier had done nothing else in his absolutely towering human rights, civil liberties career other than write Defending My Enemy, that still would have made him a hero and a giant."--Nadine Strossen, former president, American Civil Liberties Union When Nazis wanted to express their right to free speech in 1977 by marching through Skokie, Illinois--a town with a large population of Holocaust survivors--Aryeh Neier, then the national director of the ACLU and himself a Holocaust survivor, came to the Nazis' defense. Explaining what many saw as a despicable bridge too far for the First Amendment, Neier spelled out his thoughts about free speech in his 1979 book Defending My Enemy.Nearly fifty years later, Neier revisits the topic of free speech in a volume that includes his original essay along with a new chapter addressing present-day First Amendment battles, including the Charlottesville march, book bans, the heckler's veto, attacks on free speech on college campuses, and the threat to overturn the U.S. Supreme Court decision in The New York Times v. Sullivan.	Including a foreword by Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton and an afterword by longtime free speech champion Nadine Strossen, Defending My Enemy offers razor-sharp analysis from the man Jameel Jaffer of the Knight First Amendment Institute describes as "an icon of justice and fearlessness."
The Hollow Parties
A major history from the Founding to our embittered present that "explains the void" (Politico) at the center of America's political partiesFeatured on The Ezra Klein Show and The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart America's political parties are hollow shells of what they could be, locked in a polarized struggle for power and unrooted as civic organizations. The Hollow Parties takes readers from the rise of mass party politics in the Jacksonian era through the years of Barack Obama and Donald Trump. Today's parties, at once overbearing and ineffectual, have emerged from the interplay of multiple party traditions that reach back to the Founding. Daniel Schlozman and Sam Rosenfeld paint unforgettable portraits of figures such as Martin Van Buren, whose pioneering Democrats invented the machinery of the mass political party, and Abraham Lincoln and other heroic Republicans of that party's first generation who stood up to the Slave Power. And they show how today's fractious party politics arose from the ashes of the New Deal order in the 1970s. Activists in the wake of the 1968 Democratic National Convention transformed presidential nominations but failed to lay the foundations for robust, movement-driven parties. Instead, modern American conservatism hollowed out the party system, deeming it a mere instrument for power. Party hollowness lies at the heart of our democratic discontents. With historical sweep and political acuity, The Hollow Parties offers powerful answers to pressing questions about how the nation's parties became so dysfunctional--and how they might yet realize their promise.
Rape Fantasies
In this intersectional reconceptualization of US rape culture, Alisa Kessel reveals how sexual violence is a political act that preserves and emboldens the dominant sociopolitical order. The imperative to dominate through rape is unique among crimes against other people. While other violent crimes, such as assault or murder, can be committed out of a material need or desire for security, and may even have political motivations, theft and murder are not exclusively motivated by a desire to dominate others. What convinces perpetrators of rape to dominate through sexual violence? How do perpetrators identify who they are entitled to dominate? In Rape Fantasies, Alisa Kessel makes the case that to prevent sexual violence in the US and elsewhere, we must confront rape as a crime that is not born of natural sexual appetites, simple miscommunication, or ethical breach. Instead, Kessel argues that rape is a political act, and that the myths and practices of a rape culture identify both who is dominable and who is entitled to dominate. In US rape culture, sexual violence is an essential political tactic to preserve--and, oftentimes, to embolden--hierarchies of race, gender, sexuality, and class. Kessel provides an intersectional reconceptualization of rape culture that reveals how it evolves and expands to discipline any group that threatens the sociopolitical order. While most contemporary accounts of rape culture focus on women and girls as the targets of sexual violence, domination through sex can happen along many dimensions. And, consequently, these accounts of rape culture--contrary to their best intentions--actually conceal the victimization of those who do not fit within normalized accounts of rape, particularly those who are subordinated by white supremacy, settler and capitalist exploitation, cisnormativity, and heteronormativity. Original, ambitious, and compelling, Rape Fantasies reveals how an entire culture can reproduce the myths and practices of rape culture and ensure that sexual violence persists as a reliable technique of political domination.
Musical Dispatches from the Front - Yuendumu 2009-2025
This book is a compendium of 'Musical Dispatches from the Front'. These dispatches cover a wide range of subjects and riff on the irreconcilable contradictions between the Warlpiri world view and the government agencies that attempt to manage its manifestations. Just as in the 2023 referendum, a majority of Australian voters were persuaded that to give Aborigines the opportunity to have a say in matters that affected them was a bad idea, so too in 2007 Australian society was convinced "something had to be done" about alleged dysfunction and depravity in Northern Territory Aboriginal communities. In both instances these beliefs and preconceptions were exacerbated by politically motivated campaigns of lies and propaganda.In 2007 the Australian Federal Government set in motion the Northern Territory Emergency Response, the so-called Intervention. Starting with a military incursion into Mutitjulu, the Aboriginal community at the base of Uluru (Ayers Rock), the Intervention was quickly rolled out to 73 'Prescribed' communities. No Alcohol No Pornography signs festooned the countryside, army tents sprung up to carry out compulsory medical checks on Aboriginal children and NT Aborigines were subjected to 500 pages of stigmatizing legislation. The Intervention was the latest manifestation of the colonial imperative to conquer Aboriginal Australia. Yuendumu is at the front-line of this invasion. My refusal to remain silent in view of this police backed cultural ethnocidal onslaught prompted me to launch the Musical Dispatches from the Front into cyberspace.The dispatches chronicle the often farcical and mean-spirited bureaucratic barrage of the Intervention and its aftermath.Assimilation is ongoing, and so are the Musical Dispatches.Frank Baarda, Yuendumu, 2025.
Backlash Presidents
How most presidents avoid upsetting the racial status quo--and why those who do pave the way for lawless, norm-violating successors When Barack Obama won the White House in 2008, becoming the nation's first Black president, the stage was set for Donald Trump's eventual rise to power. Backlash Presidents shows how, throughout American history, administrations that challenge the country's racial status quo are followed by presidents who deal in racially charged politics and presidential lawlessness, culminating in impeachment crises. In this incisive book, Julia Azari traces the connections between racially transformative presidents and their successors, examining the presidencies of Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson, Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon, and Obama and Trump. When he signed long-awaited civil rights legislation in 1964, Lyndon Johnson unleashed a perfect political storm that swept Nixon into the White House. Azari demonstrates how Nixon's rhetoric, relationship to Congress, and attitudes about executive power exhibit striking parallels with Andrew Johnson and Trump. She discusses how their actions are linked to race and racialized institutions--the Department of War during Reconstruction, the FBI during the Nixon years, and elections today--and looks at what happens after impeachment, describing how the rush to establish a new order perpetuates many of the same problems as the old. Challenging the conventional wisdom of about the role of norms in American democracy, Backlash Presidents reveals how normal presidential politics upholds unsustainable racial hierarchy that in turn gives rise to intense periods of instability.
Major Political Issues of the Jacksonian Period and the Development of Party Loyalty in Congress, 1830-1840
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Transformation of the British Liberal Party
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Joseph Eotvos and the Modernization of Hungary, 1840-1870
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Cosmic Harmony and Political Thinking in Early Stuart England
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Betrayal--The Other Side of the Cyprus Case
This book explores the little-known root cause and nature of the Cyprus conflict; fills the huge gaps that have been, over time, airbrushed out of Cyprus's post-colonial history; traces the UN-led settlement process from 1964 to 2025, sharing Turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot positions at the talks; identifies the key reasons that have contributed to the failure of the talks; and sheds light on the needs of an equality-based, fair and sustainable settlement in the critical/strategic geography that Cyprus finds itself.
The Near Assassination of Donald Trump
The Near Assassination of Donald Trump: Story of How and Why He Won the 2024 America Election On July 13, 2024, at 6:11 PM, a gunman's bullet missed Donald Trump's head by two inches. Eight seconds later, Trump rose from behind his podium, blood streaming down his face, and thrust his fist into the air shouting "Fight! Fight! Fight!" That moment-captured in one of the most iconic photographs in American political history-transformed a routine campaign rally into the turning point that returned Trump to the White House. This definitive account reveals how Trump's survival of not one but two assassination attempts became the most powerful campaign narrative in modern American politics. Drawing on exclusive interviews with campaign officials, Secret Service agents, rally attendees, and congressional investigators, the book traces Trump's extraordinary journey from assassination target to political legend to President of the United States. The story exposes stunning Secret Service failures, explores the divine providence narrative that energized millions of evangelical voters, and analyzes how authentic human drama under extreme circumstances reshaped electoral competition in ways that conventional campaigning never could. From the Butler Farm Show Grounds to bulletproof glass barriers at every subsequent rally, from Biden's sudden exit to Harris's meteoric rise, from conspiracy theories to congressional investigations-this is the complete story of how eight seconds of chaos became four years of presidential power. More than a campaign chronicle, this book examines the broader implications of Trump's survival for American democracy itself. How did assassination attempts become political assets rather than career-ending tragedies? What does it mean when voters interpret near-death experiences as evidence of divine election? And how will the precedents set in 2024 shape the future of American political competition? Based on thousands of pages of congressional testimony, FBI reports, and previously unreported details, The Near Assassination of Donald Trump provides the authoritative account of the most consequential moments in recent American political history-when the difference between death and democratic resurrection was measured in millimeters, and eight seconds changed everything. Essential reading for understanding how American politics entered a new era where survival became the ultimate campaign credential. GRAB YOUR COPY NOW!!!
Scientists, Politics, and the Rhetoric of Public Controversy
This book examines how scientists around the world embrace their responsibility as citizens, and how science is being used and abused by non-scientists in public spaces. As right-wing politicians, conspiracy theorists, and modern robber barons assault science in the current moment, it is time for the rhetoric of science to reconceptualize itself as a crisis/care discipline. The essays in this volume help us do that by scrutinizing particular cases of science activism, examining the public modalities of resistance that scientists are increasingly taking up as they modify their public engagement to fit evolving rhetorical situations. These essays also reveal how the authority of science is being distorted and exploited by non-experts in ways that are more dangerous than ever in the shadow of climate change and global pandemics. The book ends with a look at new possibilities for collaboration between local communities and scientists and a reflection on how a rhetorical conception of ethos can help us comprehend the negotiation of asymmetries between experts and laypeople in the current era.
U.S. Democracy in Danger
Historically, Donald Trump will be remembered as the first American president to be impeached twice and indicted. He fed the grotesque myth that the election was stolen and summoned his supporters to storm Congress on 6 January 2021 in a bid to thwart the certification of Joe Biden's U.S. presidential election victory. This volume vividly recounts the dramatic narrative of the January 6 Coup in America and how close we came to losing U.S. democracy. For anyone seeking a comprehensive and multidisciplinary global overview of democracy, an astute analysis of the forces that drive the dominance of the (neo)liberal paradigm of the last decades should look no further than this volume. Yet the volume takes the issue further by vigorously documenting the decline of the U.S. treaty process (America's dysfunctional diplomacy and the doctrine of unpredictability). There is an urgent need for a massive infusion of strategic support for democracy in the United States. Because come 2024or thereafter an unfinished work might drag American democracy to a dangerous inflection point. Trump (who has a complete hold on the Republican party, still has a stranglehold on the MAGA base no matter what he does, was instrumental to the breaking of U.S. diplomacy. Undermining the democratic legitimacy of International Law adversely affected U.S. foreign policy. Some federal and lower courts in the judiciary of the United States pose a real threat to Americans' democracy as well. To that end, when 'the principle of truth' loses its relevance and meaning as benchmarks for appraisals and decisions, and becomes a harmful tool for willful propaganda. Everybody should be worried about U.S. democracy. A "real" crisis is coming! U.S. Democracy is at a breaking point. Like a giant modern mirror standing behind democracy itself, this book is a citizen's guide to saving U.S. Democracy. Expertly drawn on global and regional examples and current literature, the volume closes agap in the multidisciplinary field. Quite useful as a valuable resource as it helps us understand the shifting Trump agenda in diverse areas. Essential reference across a range of subjects, bringing together contributions from scholars, and policymakers alike. This extraordinarily well-researched and practically crafted, culture-inclusive text could not be more relevant or timelier. It is a must for everyone. This volume will help to shape the political landscape of the 21st century and will remain a vital source of inspiration for modern-day scholars and political activists.
American Redemption
American Redemption: A Government of the People, by the People, for the People is the culminating volume in a landmark trilogy on the future of American democracy. Building on American Renewal and American Restoration, this final book confronts the defining question of our time: Can a broken democracy be redeemed before it collapses beyond repair?In clear, forceful prose, American Redemption traces the full arc of democratic collapse and recovery-from the long corrosion of public trust to the rise of authoritarian power in the Trump era and beyond. But it is not merely a warning. It is a blueprint for democratic rebirth. Through five sweeping parts-Defense, Resistance, Restoration, Renewal, and Reinstitution-this volume lays out a comprehensive, integrated plan to defend constitutional government, rebuild what has been lost, and secure a future in which power serves the people, not the powerful.The book begins in crisis, with the urgent need to withstand Trump's second term, protect vulnerable communities, and prepare the ground for democratic recovery. It moves through the strategic work of resistance-exposing corruption, delaying harm, and building a new majority-before turning to the long work of restoration: fixing elections, limiting presidential power, restoring an independent judiciary, and rebuilding an informed public.But American Redemption goes further. It lays out an ambitious Renewal Agenda for the years ahead-eighteen outcome-driven reforms in care, education, justice, and belonging-that redefine what good government must deliver. And in its final section, the book steps back to consider what it means to reinstitute democracy for the next 250 years: to anchor our systems in law, dignity, and design-not just in reaction to crisis, but in preparation for peace.Each chapter is grounded in principle but focused on outcomes. From campaign finance to public health, judicial independence to cybersecurity, immigration policy to environmental justice, the book provides specific, credible paths toward a government worthy of public trust. It calls not for nostalgia, but for moral clarity and civic courage-and offers a vision of democracy as a living system, one that must be re-claimed by its people in every generation.American Redemption is not a partisan book. It is a patriotic one-written for citizens who believe the republic is worth saving and understand that democracy is not guaranteed. It is written for readers who are exhausted by crisis, but not yet defeated. Who still believe that the arc of the moral universe bends only when we bend it. And who are ready to help build what comes next.This is not a book about politics. It is a book about the people who will write the future. About those who defend the rule of law, who rebuild public systems, who restore trust, and who prepare a democracy that can last another 250 years. It is a call to service-not only for leaders, but for ordinary citizens with extraordinary commitment.Above all, American Redemption is a book of hope-not na簿ve hope, but determined, strategic, hard-won hope. It is the final installment in a trilogy that began with a question of survival and ends with a question of permanence. What will it take to build a democracy that holds? This book offers an answer-not only in words, but in plans.Whether you are an advocate, a policymaker, a teacher, a veteran, a student, or simply someone who refuses to give up, this book is for you. American Redemption invites you into the greatest civic project of the next century: not merely resisting authoritarianism, but replacing it with something stronger, fairer, and built to last.
Trump And The Vegan Imperative
It's not just a book. It's what they don't want you to see - a forensic lens into a world we no longer understand. We're being told it's progress: cleaner energy, smarter AI, healthier food. Yet prices soar, surveillance intensifies, rules tighten, freedoms shrink, values erode, and public discomfort rises. Above it all, the ultra-wealthy grow richer. The divide deepens. Money flows upward - never down. They invest in rockets, bunkers, and bio-labs while the media tells us to tighten our belts and trust those in charge. But the signals don't add up, do they? This isn't a conspiracy theory - it's a pattern. Trump and the Vegan Imperative connects seemingly unrelated shifts - from financial deception and media manipulation to population control and engineered chaos - and asks one unsettling question: what if the future is being built - just not for all of us? This book doesn't tell you what to think. It shows you what they don't want you to see - before the door quietly closes and we're left behind.
Conservative at the Core
Conservative at the Core unpacks the history, rhetoric, and policies of the American conservative movement and probes the truth about what conservatism actually represents.Allan J. Lichtman investigates the foundations and history of conservative thought to identify and reveal the central crisis that lies at the heart of conservative principles and today's politics. He explores a century of American conservative politics to demonstrate that professed conservative principles--free enterprise, limited government, fiscal responsibility, states' rights, law and order, personal morality, and American sovereignty--are dispensable notions for public appeal only. Instead, conservatives have only consistently advanced their version of traditional Christian values and support for private (not free) enterprise.Lichtman provides a sweeping history of the American conservative movement from the end of World War I to the present day. He draws on leaders like Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, Donald J. Trump, and the conservative Democrats responsible for Jim Crow discrimination in the South. Contrary to those who have described Trump as a deviation from professed core principles, Conservative at the Core ultimately argues that Trump and his allies represent the culmination of the American conservative tradition, consistently upholding and fulfilling conservative nationalist values.
Monopoly Politics
In Monopoly Politics, Erik Peinert provides a macro-historical explanation for why American and international markets are today monopolized by an ever-narrowing group of companies. Using original archival evidence from the United States and France, and borrowing insights from microeconomics, bureaucratic politics, sociology, psychology, and law, Peinert demonstrates how government policy towards competition and monopoly changes at key moments in the 20th century. Centrally, policy changes as a result of the interaction between staff turnover in policy circles and the diminishing returns to policy regimes. As policy regimes across different arenas such as antitrust, intellectual property, trade, and industrial policy push consistently either in favor of competition or monopoly, they generate diminishing returns. Unsustainably pushing for competition suppresses profits and destabilizes markets, whereas pushing to defend market power will raise prices, stifle innovation, and concentrate profits in stagnant monopolies. However, with policy regimes locked in by committed policymakers who have invested time, reputation, or the careers into implementing one approach to policy, government policy only changes through their replacement with non-committed officials willing to reconsider policy. Examining policy change in the United States and France over the 20th century, and leveraging tens of thousands of archival documents, Peinert traces new policy ideas or frameworks through each government, from the site of the original insight to final decision-making, showing the economic research, theories, and interests that motivated the policy discussions "in the room," and the key considerations influencing final policy choices.
James Logan's "The Duties of Man as They May Be Deduced from Nature"
James Logan (1674-1751) of Philadelphia was a luminary with few equals in British America in the first half of the 18th century. He amassed the largest scholar's library in the colonies, wrote and published on botanical science and optics, was an accomplished mathematician and astronomer, and a master of languages ancient and modern. As the representative of the Penn family in the colony, he was enmeshed in Pennsylvania politics, holding several major positions, including Chief Justice. In 1734 Logan turned his creative drive to moral philosophy, He compiled six or seven chapters, but in the end could not finish his treatise, and they survived only in a manuscript which was found about 1969. This analysis gives Logan's effort new life.
