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  • We Are Revolution

    Transnational Filipino American Activism for Liberation

    by Joy Sales, Robyn Magalit Rodriguez ...
    Series series Critical Filipinx Studies
    Radicals across borders unite against empire, dictatorship, and enduring legacies of oppressionReframing Filipino American history through the radical politics of its diaspora, Joy Sales uncovers how generations of Filipinos, scattered across the Pacific, forged transnational movements that confronted US empire and Philippine authoritarianism. From the sugarcane strikes of the 1920s to the student ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

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  • The Third Wave

    Democratization in the Late 20th Century

    by Samuel P. Huntington ...
    Series series The Julian J. Rothbaum Distinguished Lecture Series
    Between 1974 and 1990 more than thirty countries in southern Europe, Latin America, East Asia, and Eastern Europe shifted from authoritarian to democratic systems of government. This global democratic revolution is probably the most important political trend in the late twentieth century. In The Third Wave, Samuel P. Huntington analyzes the causes and nature of these democratic transitions, ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Central America's Forgotten History

    Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration

    by Aviva Chomsky ...
    Restores the region’s fraught history of repression and resistance to popular consciousness and connects the United States’ interventions and influence to the influx of refugees seeking asylum today.At the center of the current immigration debate are migrants from Central America fleeing poverty, corruption, and violence in search of refuge in the United States. In Central America’s Forgotten ... Read more

    $28.79 CAD

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  • Island of Shame: The Secret History of the U.S. Military Base on Diego Garcia

    by David Vine ...
    The American military base on the island of Diego Garcia is one of the most strategically important and secretive U.S. military installations outside the United States. Located near the remote center of the Indian Ocean and accessible only by military transport the base was a little-known launch pad for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and may house a top-secret CIA prison where terror suspects ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • The Justice Cascade

    How Human Rights Prosecutions Are Changing World Politics

    by Kathryn Sikkink ...
    Series series The Norton Series in World Politics
    Acclaimed scholar Kathryn Sikkink examines the important and controversial new trend of holding political leaders criminally accountable for human rights violations.Grawemeyer Award winner Kathryn Sikkink offers a landmark argument for human rights prosecutions as a powerful political tool. She shows how, in just three decades, state leaders in Latin America, Europe, and Africa have lost their ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Pathways for Irregular Forces in Southeast Asia

    Mitigating Violence with Non-State Armed Groups

    Edited by Atsushi Yasutomi, Rosalie Arcala Hall, Saya Kiba ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series
    An exploration of the roles that pro- and anti-government militias, private armed groups, vigilantes, and gangs play in local communities in the new democracies of Southeast Asia.Scholars have typically characterized irregular forces as spoilers and infiltrators in post-conflict peacebuilding processes. The contributors to this book challenge this conventional understanding of irregular forces in ... Read more

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  • Dependent America?

    How Canada and Mexico Construct US Power

    by Stephen Clarkson, Matto Mildenberger ...
    Following the acclaimed Uncle Sam and Us and the influential Does North America Exist? Stephen Clarkson — the preeminent analyst of North America's political economy — and Matto Mildenberger turn continental scholarship on its head by showing how Canada and Mexico contribute to the United States' wealth, security, and global power.This provocative work documents how Canada and Mexico offer the ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Migrants for Export

    How the Philippine State Brokers Labor to the World

    by Robyn Magalit Rodriguez ...
    Migrant workers from the Philippines are ubiquitous to global capitalism, with nearly 10 percent of the population employed in almost two hundred countries. In a visit to the United States in 2003, Philippine president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo even referred to herself as not only the head of state but also “the CEO of a global Philippine enterprise of eight million Filipinos who live and work ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Ordering Power

    Contentious Politics and Authoritarian Leviathans in Southeast Asia

    by Dan Slater ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
    Like the postcolonial world more generally, Southeast Asia exhibits tremendous variation in state capacity and authoritarian durability. Ordering Power draws on theoretical insights dating back to Thomas Hobbes to develop a unified framework for explaining both of these political outcomes. States are especially strong and dictatorships especially durable when they have their origins in 'protection ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Island of Shame

    The Secret History of the U.S. Military Base on Diego Garcia

    by David Vine ...
    The American military base on the island of Diego Garcia is one of the most strategically important and secretive U.S. military installations outside the United States. Located near the remote center of the Indian Ocean and accessible only by military transport, the little-known base has been instrumental in American military operations from the Cold War to the war on terror and may house a top ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • State and Society in the Philippines

    by Donna J. Amoroso, Patricio N. Abinales ...
    Series series State & Society in East Asia
    This clear and nuanced introduction explores the Philippines’ ongoing and deeply charged dilemma of state-society relations through a historical treatment of state formation and the corresponding conflicts and collaboration between government leaders and social forces. Patricio N. Abinales and Donna J. Amoroso examine the long history of institutional weakness in the Philippines and the varied ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

  • INSIDE CENTRAL AMERICA

    The Essential Facts Past and Present on El Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, and Costa Rica

    by Phillip Berryman ...
    Since 1979, United States policy in Central America has been based on an assumption that revolutionary movements led by Marxists must represent a serious threat to U.S. interests and security. On this point, the difference between liberals and conservatives is merely one of emphasis or accent.Such an assumption is not shared by most governments in Western Europe and Latin America. In part, these ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD