Political Sciences
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North Korea and the World: Human Rights, Arms Control, and Strategies for Negotiation [Hardback]
Walter C. Clemens (Author)
£36.00ISBN: 9780813167466
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Series: Asia in the New Millennium
With nearly twenty-five million citizens, a secretive totalitarian dictatorship, and active nuclear and ballistic missile weapons programs, North Korea presents some of the world's most difficult foreign policy challenges. For decades, the United ... .... Learn More -
State as Investment Market, The: Kyrgyzstan in Comparative Perspective [Paperback]
Johan Engvall (Author)
£22.50ISBN: 9780822964131
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Central Eurasia in Context
Based on the case of Kyrgyzstan, while going well beyond it to elaborate a theory of the developing state that comprehends corruption as not merely criminal, but a type of market based on highly rational decisions made by the powerful individuals ... .... Learn More -
Dangerous Doctrine: How Obama's Grand Strategy Weakened America [Hardback]
Robert G. Kaufman (Author)
£36.00ISBN: 9780813167206
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Much like Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan, President Barack Obama came to office as a politician who emphasized conviction rather than consensus. During his 2008 presidential campaign, he pledged to transform the role of the United States abro... .... Learn More -
The Arthurdale Community School: Education and Reform in Depression Era Appalachia [Hardback]
Sam F. Stack (Author)
£54.00ISBN: 9780813166889
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Series: Place Matters: New Directions in Appalachian Studies
The first of many homestead communities designed during the rollout of the New Deal, Arthurdale, West Virginia, was a bold experiment in progressive social planning. At the center of the settlement was the school, which was established to improve ... .... Learn More -
A Life for Freedom: The Mission to End Racial Injustice in South Africa [Hardback]
Denis Goldberg (Author); Z. Pallo Jordan (Author)
£25.00ISBN: 9780813166469
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
From June 1963 to October 1964, ten antiapartheid activists were tried at South Africa's Pretoria Supreme Court. Standing among the accused with Nelson Mandela, Ahmed Kathrada, and Walter Sisulu was Denis Goldberg. Charged under the Sabotage and S... .... Learn More -
Enemies to Allies: Cold War Germany and American Memory [Hardback]
Brian C. Etheridge (Author)
£40.00ISBN: 9780813166407
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Series: Studies in Conflict, Diplomacy, and Peace
At the close of World War II, the United States went from being allied with the Soviet Union against Germany to alignment with the Germans against the Soviet Union -- almost overnight. While many Americans came to perceive the German people as dem... .... Learn More -
Truman, Congress, and Korea: The Politics of America's First Undeclared War [Hardback]
Larry Blomstedt (Author)
£32.00ISBN: 9780813166117
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Series: Studies in Conflict, Diplomacy, and Peace
Three days after North Korean premier Kim Il Sung launched a massive military invasion of South Korea on June 24, 1950, President Harry S. Truman responded, dispatching air and naval support to South Korea. Initially, Congress cheered his swift ac... .... Learn More -
Freedom and Solidarity: Toward New Beginnings [Hardback]
Fred Dallmayr (Author)
£36.00ISBN: 9780813165783
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
The prevailing Western paradigm is modernity: a model focused on individual liberty, secularism, and the scientific control of nature. This worldview emerged from the break with the medieval and classical past and advanced a philosophy in which th... .... Learn More -
Russell Kirk: American Conservative [Hardback]
Bradley J. Birzer (Author)
£63.00ISBN: 9780813166186
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Emerging from two decades of the Great Depression and the New Deal and facing the rise of radical ideologies abroad, the American Right seemed beaten, broken, and adrift in the early 1950s. Although conservative luminaries such as T. S. Eliot, Wil... .... Learn More -
James and Esther Cooper Jackson: Love and Courage in the Black Freedom Movement [Hardback]
Sara Rzeszutek (Author)
£54.00ISBN: 9780813166254
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Series: Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twentieth Century
James Jackson and Esther Cooper Jackson grew up understanding that opportunities came differently for blacks and whites, men and women, rich and poor. In turn, they devoted their lives to the fight for equality, serving as career activists through... .... Learn More
