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Nations in Transit 2004
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2004; US$ 49.99Nations in Transit is Freedom House's incisive and authoritative assessment of post-Communist reform in 27 countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. In this annual research effort, leading regional and country specialists review key indicators of democratization and the rule of law and present their findings through in-depth... more...
Democracy and the Global Order
Wiley 2013; US$ 37.95This book provides a highly original account of the changing meaning of democracy in the contemporary world, offering both an historical and philosophical analysis of the nature and prospects of democracy today. more...
Democracy and Difference
Wiley 2013; US$ 24.95A new emphasis on diversity and difference is displacing older myths of nation or community. A new attention to gender, race, language or religion is disrupting earlier preoccupations with class. But the welcome extended to heterogeneity can bring with it a disturbing fragmentation and closure. Can we develop a vision of democracy through difference:... more...
America's Crisis
Hard Shell Word Factory 2002; US$ 7.00America is steeped in uncertainty. We have been subjected to political terrorism, social aggression, legal anarchy, and media-driven chaos. We've lost our voice in government, education, and almost everything else in society - even as we have entered the age of communications and information technology. It is a good time to discover democracy. more...
The UN Role in Promoting Democracy
United Nations University Press 2004; US$ 33.00This book considers and questions the modalities, effectiveness and controversies of the UN's work in promoting and assisting democracy. more...
Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
Penguin Group US 2004; US$ 15.00Z.Z. Packer's first collection of short stories is rich with unexpected turns, indelible images, and penetrating insight that belies someone so young. Her stories plunge us into the worlds of people living on the edge and to the flashpoints that make or break them, that shape their worldviews forever. In The Stranger, a third-grade girl tries to find... more...
International Socialization in Europe
Palgrave Macmillan 2006; US$ 120.00At the end of the Cold War, the Western international community embarked on a large-scale project of promoting democratic change and consolidation in Eastern Europe. This book explains its mixed results. It examines the strategies of European organizations and the conditions of their success and failure. more...
Ethos of Pluralization
University of Minnesota Press 1995; US$ 72.00How plural, really, is pluralism today? In this book a prominent political theorist reworks the traditional pluralist imagination, rendering it more inclusive and responsive to new drives to pluralization. more...
Social Democracy in Power
Taylor and Francis 2008; US$ 49.95Globalization, European integration, and social change have devaluated traditional social democratic policy instruments. This book compares and explores how social democratic governments have had to adapt and whether they have successfully managed to uphold old social democratic goals and values in the light of these challenges. This volume examines... more...
Being America
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2007; US$ 14.00Having risen to national attention with his first book, For Common Things , Jedediah Purdy now cements his claim to being one of the most arresting public intellectuals of his generation. In Being America , Purdy turns his erudition and unique perspective to America?s relationship with a world that both admires and hates it. Purdy has absorbed... more...









