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  • The Quality of Democracy in Africa

    Opposition Competitiveness Rooted in Legacies of Cleavages

    by Jonathan van Eerd ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book shows that democratization in sub-Saharan Africa can be successful, even if the government remains dominated by one major political party. If an institutionalized and strong opposition party – even when too weak to take power – challenges the dominant government party, the quality of democracy improves substantially. The comparative study demonstrates that competitive opposition parties ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

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    A Story of State Capture

    by Pieter-Louis Myburgh ...
    What was Ajay Gupta doing on Thabo Mbeki's ‘secret’ advisory council?Did the Guptas play a role in Jacob Zuma's rise to power?How did the Guptas capture South African cricket?What is their interest in the controversial nuclear procurement deal?What influence have they had in the hiring and firing of cabinet ministers?The Guptas rose to national infamy when a commercial airliner packed with guests ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Michelle Obama in her Own Words

    by Michelle Obama ...
    The election of Barack Obama has brought worldwide attention not only to what his policies will be, but to what kind of First Lady Michelle Obama will be. Throughout the long campaign season, Michelle Robinson Obama garnered a good amount of attention, kudos and criticism about her words, actions, even her appearance, but few people know what kind of role she will play once she settles into the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Great Debate

    Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left

    by Yuval Levin ...
    An acclaimed portrait of Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the origins of modern conservatism and liberalism.**"Clever and intellectually persuasive ... A thoughtful introduction to this famous paradigmatic opposition.” -**Washington PostIn The Great Debate, Yuval Levin explores the roots of the left/right political divide in America by examining the views of the men who best represented each side ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Human Manipulation

    A Handbook

    by Malcolm Coxall ...
    We have all experienced that sinking feeling that somehow, someone else just took control of our lives and that we are powerless to do anything about it. Maybe, we just accepted a heap of lies from a politician, we bought something we didn't really want, we agreed to do something we really didn't want to do, or we lost an argument because we let our words be twisted against us. We feel helpless ... Read more

    $8.73 USD

  • Clooney's War

    South Sudan, humanitarian failure and celebrity

    by Alex Perry ...
    In this book Alex Perry explores how humanitarian activities across the world, including those of celebrities like George Clooney and others brought pressure to bear that resulted in the creation of South Sudan as a separate state. This at a time when senior diplomats believed the chances of the new nation surviving and thriving were slim. Predictably, it seems an outcome that should have solved ... Read more

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  • A City in Turmoil – Dublin 1919–1921

    The War of Independence

    by Padraig Yeates ...
    Dublin was the cockpit of the Irish Revolution. It was in the capital that Dáil Éireann convened and built an alternative government to challenge the authority of Dublin Castle; it was where the munitions strike that crippled the British war effort in 1920 began and it was where rival intelligence organisations played out their deadly game of cat and mouse. But it was also a city where ambushes ... Read more

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  • The Change I Believe In

    Fighting for Progress in the Age of Obama

    by Katrina vanden Heuvel ...
    On the night of the 2008 presidential election, Nation editor Katrina vanden Heuvel spoke for many: "For the first time in decades, electoral politics became a vehicle for raising expectations and spreading hope." But, she cautioned, "We progressives need to be as clear-eyed, tough, and pragmatic about Obama as he is about us."Where I Stand collects vanden Heuvel's commentaries and columns from ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Inside South Africa’s Foreign Policy

    Diplomacy in Africa from Smuts to Mbeki

    by John Siko ...
    South Africa is still the major-player in African diplomacy, its military resources far outstripping those of other nations on the continent. It also has traditionally taken the lead role in Africa's united negotiations with other power blocs. Yet the recent consensus has been that South Africa's diplomacy over the last decades has been a disappointing failure - from appearing to back the ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Eisenhower Volume II

    The President

    by Stephen E. Ambrose ...
    Stephen E. Ambrose draws upon extensive sources, an unprecedented degree of scholarship, and numerous interviews with Dwight D. Eisenhower himself to offer the fullest, richest, and most objective rendering yet of the soldier who became president.Eisenhower: The President, the second and concluding volume of Stephen Ambrose's brilliant biography, is the first assessment of a postwar President ... Read more

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  • Carnival China: China In The Era Of Hu Jintao And Xi Jinping

    by Kerry Brown ...
    With Foreword by John KeaneThe era of the Chinese leaders Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao was one in which China became richer, more powerful, more prominent and more vexed. This series of essays, originally published on the Open Democracy website between 2006 and 2013, attempts to make sense of the cultural, political and economic dynamics within which China operates. They deal with internal and ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Make or Break

    How the next three years will shape South Africa’s next three decades

    by Richard Calland ...
    The next three years will determine whether South Africa succeeds or fails in the long term.• Jacob Zuma’s term as president is due to end in 2019, though he could go earlier. Who will succeed him and what will be the impact on policy?• The ANC’s dominance has been significantly dented after opposition parties gained ground in the 2016 local government elections, but will the minority and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD