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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “babak amini”
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  • The Making of Council Democracy

    State Transformation and Radical Possibilities

    by Babak Amini ...
    Series series Critiques and Alternatives to Capitalism
    “Council democracy” is a particular form of democratic socialism that strives towards democratic self-governance on the basis of active, free, and associated individuals working cooperatively within a federated council system. Both in political practice and in social theory, “council democracy” has resurfaced periodically in the past, most notably in the interwar period, in the “long 1960s,” and ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • The Radical Left in Europe in the Age of Austerity

    Edited by Babak Amini ...
    The complex trajectory of Europe after the 2008 global financial crisis, has led to the catastrophic failure of deep austerity measures that swept across the Union, and is reflected in the rise of some radical left parties such as SYRIZA as well as an unfortunate rise in far right and nationalist parties and movements. This collection brings together a group of European scholars and activists from ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Karl Marx’s Life, Ideas, and Influences

    A Critical Examination on the Bicentenary

    Edited by Shaibal Gupta, Marcello Musto, Babak Amini ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Since the latest crisis of capitalism broke out in 2008, Marx has been back in fashion, and sometimes it seems that his ideas have never been as topical, or as commanding of respect and interest, as they are today. This edited collection arises from one of the largest international conferences dedicated to the bicentenary of Marx’s birth. The volume contains 16 chapters authored by globally ... Read more

    $154.99 CAD

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  • Globalists

    The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism

    by Quinn Slobodian ...
    George Louis Beer Prize WinnerWallace K. Ferguson Prize FinalistA Marginal Revolution Book of the Year“A groundbreaking contribution…Intellectual history at its best.”—Stephen Wertheim, Foreign AffairsNeoliberals hate the state. Or do they? In the first intellectual history of neoliberal globalism, Quinn Slobodian follows a group of thinkers from the ashes of the Habsburg Empire to the creation of ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

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  • Dark Continent

    Europe's Twentieth Century

    by Mark Mazower ...
    An unflinching and intelligent alternative history of the twentieth century that provides a provocative vision of Europe's past, present, and future."[A] splendid book." —The New York Times Book ReviewDark Continent provides an alternative history of the twentieth century, one in which the triumph of democracy was anything but a forgone conclusion and fascism and communism provided rival political ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Counter-Revolution

    Liberal Europe in Retreat

    by Jan Zielonka ...
    Can open society survive? Is Europe disintegrating? How to overcome the economic crisis? Will Europeans feel secure again? Counter Revolution is a bold attempt to make sense of the extraordinary events taking place in Europe today. It examines the counter-revolution developing in Europe, exploring its roots and implications. The book takes the form of a series of heartfelt letters to the late ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Taking Back Control?

    States and State Systems After Globalism

    by Wolfgang Streeck ...
    Translated by Ben Fowkes, Joshua Rahtz ...
    “This maverick thinker is the Karl Marx of our time…In recent decades, Mr. Streeck has described the complaints of populist movements with unequaled power. That is because he has a convincing theory of what has gone wrong in the complex gearworks of American-driven globalization, and he has been able to lay it out with clarity.”—Christopher Caldwell, New York TimesTaking Back Control? examines the ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Origins of European Integration

    The Pre-History of Today's European Union, 1937–1951

    by Mathieu Segers ...
    Bringing together political, diplomatic, economic, cultural, and contemporary history, this book explores why and how European integration came to pass. It tells a fascinating story of ideals and realpolitik, political dreams and geographical realities, and planning and chaos. Mathieu Segers reveals that the roots of today's European Union lie deep in Europe's past and encompass more than war and ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Aftershocks

    Great Powers and Domestic Reforms in the Twentieth Century

    by Seva Gunitsky ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in International History and Politics
    Over the past century, democracy spread around the world in turbulent bursts of change, sweeping across national borders in dramatic cascades of revolution and reform. Aftershocks offers a new global-oriented explanation for this wavelike spread and retreat—not only of democracy but also of its twentieth-century rivals, fascism and communism.Seva Gunitsky argues that waves of regime change are ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of European History, 1914-1945

    Edited by Nicholas Doumanis ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The period spanning the two World Wars was unquestionably the most catastrophic in Europe's history. Despite such undeniably progressive developments as the radical expansion of women's suffrage and rising health standards, the era was dominated by political violence and chronic instability. Its symbols were Verdun, Guernica, and Auschwitz. By the end of this dark period, tens of millions of ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Forging Democracy

    The History of the Left in Europe, 1850-2000

    by Geoff Eley ...
    Neither given nor granted, democracy requires conflict, often violent confrontations, and challenges to the established political order. In Europe, Geoff Eley convincingly shows, democracy did not evolve orgainically out of a natural consensus, the achievement of prosperity, or the negative cement of the Cold War. Rather, it was painstakingly crafted, continually expanded, and doggedly defended by ... Read more

    $95.99 CAD

  • Structuring the State

    The Formation of Italy and Germany and the Puzzle of Federalism

    by Daniel Ziblatt ...
    Germany's and Italy's belated national unifications continue to loom large in contemporary debates. Often regarded as Europe's paradigmatic instances of failed modernization, the two countries form the basis of many of our most prized theories of social science. Structuring the State undertakes one of the first systematic comparisons of the two cases, putting the origins of these nation-states and ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD