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Conservative Brain Trust
Lexington Books 2009; US$ 36.99Conservative Brain Trust traces the rise, fall, and rise again of the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (AEI). More than that, it is the story of one of Washington's leading think tanks, what it's like to work there, how Washington works, and how AEI influences policy, including policy on the controversial Iraq War. The book... more...
Politics and Social Change in Latin America
ABC-CLIO 2003; US$ 36.95Wiarda provides a new edition of a pioneering exploration of Latin American political culture, the autoritarian tradition, and the recent transitions to democracy and the special meaning of that term in the Latin American context.||The volume contains a provocative Introduction and Conclusion by the editor as well as essays by leading scholars of Latin... more...
Think Tanks and Foreign Policy
Lexington Books 2010; US$ 27.99Think tanks have become increasingly important in American politics foreign policy. In the last thirty years think tanks have emerged as major actors on the political stage, comparable in influence to large interest groups, political parties, and government agencies. In the same time span these think tanks have replaced universities as the main source... more...
Grand Theories and Ideologies in the Social Sciences
Palgrave Macmillan 2010; US$ 95.00This book analyzes the main competing grand theories in the social sciences, including developmentalism, dependency analysis, Marxism, institutionalism, rational choice, Freudianism, environmentalism, sociobiology, neurosciences, and transitions to democracy. more...
Military Brass vs. Civilian Academics at the National War College
Lexington Books 2011; US$ 59.99In Military Brass vs. Civilian Academics at the National War College: A Clash of Cultures, Howard J. Wiarda uses his first-hand experience to examine the conflict between the two cultures, military and civilian, that coexist uneasily at the College. He also explores the issues-tenure, academic freedom, research, teaching-that divide them. While this... more...
American Foreign Policy in Regions of Conflict
Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 30.00A comprehensive look at American foreign policy in regions of conflict throughout the world. more...
Civil Society
Westview Press 2003; US$ 40.00Considers the possibility of opening up economies and societies of the Third World to democracy; specifically the role of civil society in contributing to democracy and the varieties of civil society and state-society relations in distinct Third World areas. more...
Divided America on the World Stage
Potomac Books Inc. 2009; US$ 29.95How America's political divisions influence our foreign policy more...
Culture and Foreign Policy
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2013; US$ 79.95The puzzle or query that chiefly concerns this author is why the United States (US) and its foreign policy have such a hard time understanding cultures and societies other than their own. This provocative book argues that the US needs to end its attitudes of superiority and condescension toward other nations and cultures and redirect its foreign policy... more...
Catholic Roots and Democratic Flowers
ABC-CLIO 2001; US$ 36.95Spain and Portugal have recently adopted European-style democratic and political systems. Yet their pattern of historical development is distinctive and, in many respects, their political systems still reflect unique features. In this provocative text Wiard and Mott analyze the special features of Spanish history: the Catholic tradition, seven centuries... more...









