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The Rise and Fall of Japan's LDP: Political Party Organizations As Historical Institutions (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Explains how the persistence of party institutions (factions, PARC, koenkai) and the transformed role of party leadership in Japan contributed both to the LDP's success at remaining in power for 15 years and its downfall.
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Russia on the Edge: Imagined Geographies and Post-Soviet Identity (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Through real and imagined geographies, examining post-Soviet debates about what it means to be Russian today.
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The Political Economy of Grand Strategy (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)A nation's grand strategy rarely serves the best interests of all its citizens. Instead, every strategic choice benefits some domestic groups at the expense of others. When groups with different interests separate into opposing coalitions, societal...
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Reputation and International Politics (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)By approaching an important foreign policy issue from a new angle, Jonathan Mercer comes to a startling, controversial discovery: a nation's reputation is not worth fighting for.
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Phan Chau Trinh and His Political Writings (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)Phan Chau Trinh (1872-1926) was the earliest proponent of democracy and popular rights in Vietnam. Throughout his life, he favored a moderate approach to... Læs mere
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Tearing Apart the Land: Islam and Legitimacy in Southern Thailand (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Since January 2004, a violent separatist insurgency has raged in southern Thailand, resulting in more than three thousand deaths. Though largely unnoticed outside Southeast Asia, the rebellion in Pattani and neighboring provinces and the Thai...
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The Tempter's Voice: Language and the Fall in Medieval Literature (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Why was the story of Adam, Eve, and the Serpent so important to medieval literary culture? Eric Jager argues that during the Middle Ages the story of the Fall was incorporated into a comprehensive myth about language. Drawing on a wide range of texts...
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Sublime Surrender: Male Masochism at the Fin-de-siecle (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)When Heinrich Heine left his sick bed in 1848 and stumbled to the Louvre to fall before a statue of the goddess of beauty and lie in the pitying, cold glance she seemed to cast on his prostrate body, he defined a recurring motif of the second half of...
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Priest, Politician, Collaborator: Jozef Tiso and the Making of Fascist Slovakia (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)As portrayed in this masterful biography, Jozef Tiso's life not only illuminates the modern history of Slovakia but also supplies a missing piece of the larger puzzle that was interwar and wartime Europe.
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The Remnants of War (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Mueller argues that war is an idea, like dueling or slavery, that has been substantially discredited, reduced to its remnants—or dregs—and thugs are the residual combatants.
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Overkill: Sex and Violence in Contemporary Russian Popular Culture (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Borenstein argues that the popular cultural products consumed in the post-perestroika era were more than just diversions; they allowed Russians to indulge their despair over economic woes and everyday threats.
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Radicals on the Road: Internationalism, Orientalism, and Feminism During the Vietnam Era (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Wu analyzes how interactions among people from the U.S. and several East and Southeast Asian nations inspired transnational identities and multiracial coalitions that challenged political commitments during the Vietnam War era.
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