Browsing the "Political Science" category: 1984 books
In The Globalization of Japan, Mayumi Itoh examines the various aspects of Japan's resistance to internationalization. She shows how the opening up of Japan involves not only the accessibility of Japanese markets to foreign goods, but also the ...more »
ISBN: 0312299826 / Palgrave / Pub Date: Jul 2001 / File Size: 2956K
Millions of Americans were baffled and outraged by the U.S. Supreme Court's role in ending the presidential election of 2000 with its controversial ruling in Bush v. Gore. The Court had held a unique place in our system of checks and balances, and wa ...more »
ISBN: 0195180054 / Oxford University Press / Pub Date: Jun 2001 / File Size: 699K
During the Cold War, the Federal Republic of Germany, a divided nation on the front-line of the East-West confrontation, was buffeted by the actions and decisions of the superpowers, forced to redefine itself anew with each development in global rela ...more »
ISBN: 0312299613 / Palgrave / Pub Date: Aug 2001 / File Size: 1045K
Political satirist Mark Russell pictures President Clinton being sculpted onto Mount Rushmore--"from the waist down." Eszterhas, the author of such fine screen plays as F.I.S.T. and Betrayed and such stinkers as Sliver and Showgirls, provides literar ...more »
ISBN: 0375412522 / Knopf / Pub Date: Jan 2001 / File Size: 538K
Balancing in the Balkans treats the Balkans as a laboratory for exploring ideas about globalism -- the creation of transnational economic communities from capital flows across political boundaries, and tribalism -- the disintegration of nation ...more »
ISBN: 0312292821 / Palgrave / Pub Date: Jul 2001 / File Size: 774K
In addressing the asylum controversy in Europe today, much of the literature assumes that asylum policies result from the struggle between national interest arguing to tighten asylum and humanitarianism arguing to loosen it. This book challenges t ...more »
ISBN: 0312299427 / Palgrave / Pub Date: Aug 2000 / File Size: 972K
From two Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times correspondents, a cutting-edge report on Asia and how its people are reshaping the world. Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn bring to their revelatory book all the authority and insight of the four ...more »
ISBN: 0375412697 / Knopf / Pub Date: Sep 2000 / File Size: 4583K
Declining incomes and growing income inequality have led to a rise in poverty in the transition economies of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. This study examines poverty and social assistance in six countries -- Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, ...more »
ISBN: 0312292791 / Palgrave / Pub Date: Jul 2001 / File Size: 3237K
The inspiring and unrepentant memoir of Ralph Nader during the 2000 election. ...more »
ISBN: 031270254X / St Martins / Pub Date: Jan 2002 / File Size: 507K
This book examines normative theories of civil society and deliberative democracy by using a case study of the East German "citizen movements" that led the democratic opposition against the Communist regime. Movements espoused political ...more »
ISBN: 0312299591 / Palgrave / Pub Date: Aug 2001 / File Size: 768K
Religious fundamentalist, extremist nationalist, and democratic revolutions have occurred in various parts of the world since the Cold War. Since much of the theoretical literature on revolutions examines either the "great" revolutions or t ...more »
ISBN: 0312292732 / Palgrave / Pub Date: Jul 2001 / File Size: 238K
Be prepared. This book weighs in at nearly 2.5MB in size. You'll need to make sure you've got plenty of room on your PDA before you try to sync up this one. It's the perfect book for anyone with one of the new generation Palms or a Sony Cl ...more »
ISBN: 0312292619 / Palgrave / Pub Date: Jul 2001 / File Size: 3638K
In Looted, veteran correspondent Donald Kirk cuts through the mystique of democracy that has shrouded the Philippines since the American withdrawal from its military bases there in 1991 and 1992, revealing the corruption that exists beneath th ...more »
ISBN: 0312299877 / Palgrave / Pub Date: Jul 2001 / File Size: 1803K
"An excellent primer on the groups, motives and methods of the current terrorist threat." --Bill Gertz, The Washington Times ...more »
ISBN: 0374702195 / FSG / Pub Date: Dec 2001 / File Size: 242K
A history of key gay/lesbian political movements, done through a series of essays written by key participants in each particular campaign, that discusses political and social change and how it has been achieved. ...more »
ISBN: 0312276222 / St Martins / Pub Date: Oct 2000 / File Size: 617K
From belligerent to neutral countries, the civilian war economy that developed from 1939 to 1945 created the foundations for the postwar welfare state. This book examines the legacy of the "warfare state" and reveals how it paved the path f ...more »
ISBN: 0312299885 / Palgrave / Pub Date: Jul 2001 / File Size: 993K
The United States v. Microsoft is one of the most watched trials of the century. The implications of this battle will affect everything from electronic commerce to network communications. Available just weeks after Judge Jackson issues his final rem ...more »
ISBN: 0071373071 / McGraw-Hill / Pub Date: Aug 2000 / File Size: 646K
Has Japanese foreign policy changed in the post-Cold War era? On the surface, it appears to have been quite consistent since the end of World War II. It has stressed the US-Japanese security alliance, the use of economic tools, and constraints on the ...more »
ISBN: 031229980X / Palgrave / Pub Date: Jul 2001 / File Size: 857K
Here is the whole sweep of the Soviet experiment, as told by its last steward. Drawing on his own experience, rich archival material, and a keen sense of history and politics, Mikhail Gorbachev offers his rare perspective on a range of subjects conce ...more »
ISBN: 023150019X / Columbia University Press / Pub Date: Oct 2000 / File Size: 605K
Transcending the Economy explores the reasons why our economy fails to provide a more fulfilling way of life. Michael Perelman argues that the irrational dominance of markets imposes burdens of needless waste and lost potential, and furthermor ...more »
ISBN: 0312292856 / Palgrave / Pub Date: Jul 2001 / File Size: 796K
Dennis Jett examines why peacekeeping operations fail by comparing the unsuccessful attempt at peacekeeping in Angola with the successful effort in Mozambique, alongside a wide range of other peacekeeping experiences. The book argues that while th ...more »
ISBN: 0312292740 / Palgrave / Pub Date: Jul 2001 / File Size: 633K
The depth, boldness, and imagination of this sweeping historical and analytical synthesis of the rise to dominance of the United States in the global system make Made by the U.S.A. invaluable to both the scholar and the general reader. ...more »
ISBN: 0312292805 / Palgrave / Pub Date: Jul 2001 / File Size: 1380K
Wars and Peace is a historical look at how Americans have tried to conceptualize peace during five national security crises: The Civil War, Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II, and the Cold War. Mayers examines the intellectual ...more »
ISBN: 0312299540 / Palgrave / Pub Date: Aug 2001 / File Size: 529K
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia remained a critical country to Western security interests in the Persian Gulf. Washington, for one, has invested much in the Kingdom and, consequently, who governed there -- and how that person responded to domestic pressu ...more »
ISBN: 0312299621 / Palgrave / Pub Date: Aug 2001 / File Size: 1208K
We know very little about political dynamics in states that have just experienced an internal war, despite the increasing need to deal with such states in the post-Cold War world. Matthew Krain examines what prompts leaders in post-revolutionary stat ...more »
ISBN: 0312299532 / Palgrave / Pub Date: Aug 2001 / File Size: 3235K
