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  • The politics of betrayal

    Renegades and ex-radicals from Mussolini to Christopher Hitchens

    by Ashley Lavelle ...
    The radical who becomes a conservative is a common theme in political history. Benito Mussolini, the Italian socialist who became a fascist, is the best-known example, but there have been many others, including the numerous American Trotskyists and Marxists who later became neo-conservatives, anti-communists or, in some instances, McCarthyists.The politics of betrayal examines why several one-time ... Read more

    $146.99 CAD

  • The Death of Social Democracy

    Political Consequences in the 21st Century

    by Ashley Lavelle ...
    Whereas many writers and scholars interested in the field of social democracy have focused on factors such as the role of economic globalization and electoral pressures, Ashley Lavelle explores the importance of the collapse of the post-war economic boom and lower growth rates since then. He examines how these pressures have led social democrats to embrace neo-liberal policies and become ... Read more

    $109.99 CAD

  • Radical Challenges to the Family

    From the Sixties to Same-Sex Marriage

    by Ashley Lavelle ...
    Defending the nuclear family and extolling ’family values’ have long been central features of politics in capitalist societies, in spite of radical left challenges from social, counter-cultural and gay rights movements. This book examines these challenges as they emerged in the 1960s and 1970s, re-appraising their relevance in the light of recent developments, including the spread of more diverse ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Opposition Vanishing

    The Australian Labor Party and the Crisis in Elite Politics

    by Ashley Lavelle ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book questions the common understanding of party political behaviour, explaining some of the sharp differences in political behaviour through a focused case study—drawing systematically on primary and archival research—of the Australian Labor Party’s political and policy directions during select periods in which it was out of office at the federal level: from 1967–72, 1975–83, and 1996–2001. ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

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    The Antifascist Handbook

    by Mark Bray ...
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  • Masters of the Universe

    Hayek, Friedman, and the Birth of Neoliberal Politics - Updated Edition

    by Daniel Stedman Jones ...
    How radical free-market ideas achieved mainstream dominance in postwar America and BritainBased on archival research and interviews with leading participants in the movement, Masters of the Universe traces the ascendancy of neoliberalism from the academy of interwar Europe to supremacy under Reagan and Thatcher and in the decades since. Daniel Stedman Jones argues that there was nothing inevitable ... Read more

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  • Reappraisals

    Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century

    by Tony Judt ...
    **“Exhilarating . . . brave and forthright.” —The New York Times Book Review“Perhaps the greatest single collection of thinking on the political, diplomatic, social, and cultural history of the past century.” —Forbes**We have entered an age of forgetting. Our world, we insist, is unprecedented, wholly new. The past has nothing to teach us. Drawing provocative connections between a dazzling range ... Read more

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  • The International Criminal Court

    A Global Civil Society Achievement

    by Marlies Glasius ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics
    A new examination of the International Criminal Court (ICC) from a political science and international relations perspective.It describes the main features of the court and discusses the political negotiations and the on-going clashes between those states who oppose the court, particularly the United States, and those who defend it. It also makes these issues accessible to non-lawyers and presents ... Read more

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  • Africa and the North

    Between Globalization and Marginalization

    Edited by Ulf Engel, Gorm Rye Olsen ...
    Series series New International Relations
    An important new discussion of Africa's place in the international system.This volume discusses Africa's place in the international system, examining the way in which the Westphalian system, in light of the impact of globalization and transnational networks, continues to play a major role in the structuring of Africa's international relations.The book provides a solid empirical analysis of key ... Read more

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  • Leftism Reinvented

    Western Parties from Socialism to Neoliberalism

    by Stephanie L. Mudge ...
    Left-leaning political parties play an important role as representatives of the poor and disempowered. They once did so by promising protections from the forces of capital and the market’s tendencies to produce inequality. But in the 1990s they gave up on protection, asking voters to adapt to a market-driven world. Meanwhile, new, extreme parties began to promise economic protections of their own ... Read more

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  • Reclaiming Public Ownership

    Making Space for Economic Democracy

    by Professor Andrew Cumbers ...
    *** Winner of the Myrdal Prize for Evolutionary Political Economy ***The last few years have seen the spectacular failure of market fundamentalism in Europe and the US, with a seemingly never-ending spate of corporate scandals and financial crises. As the environmental limits and socially destructive tendencies of the current profit-driven economic model become daily more self-evident, there is a ... Read more

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  • Black Mass

    How Religion Led the World into Crisis

    by John Gray ...
    Fascinating, enlightening, and epic in scope, Black Mass looks at the historic and modern faces of Utopian ideology: Society’s Holy Grail, but at what price?During the last century global politics was shaped by Utopian projects. Pursuing a dream of a world without evil, powerful states waged war and practised terror on an unprecedented scale. From Germany to Russia to China to Afghanistan, entire ... Read more

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