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Students of comparative politics have long faced a vexing dilemma: how can social scientists draw broad, applicable …
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to politics, law, culture, and gender. Swedberg notes that sociologists too often fail to properly emphasize the role …
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Students of comparative politics have long faced a vexing dilemma: how can social scientists draw broad, applicable …
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Immigration divides our globalizing world like no other issue. We are swamped by illegal immigrants and infiltrated by terrorists, our jobs stolen, our welfare system abused, our way of life destroyed--or so we are told. At a time when National Guard units are deployed alongside vigilante...
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Many popular ideas about terrorists and why they seek to harm us are fueled by falsehoods and misinformation. Leading politicians and scholars have argued that poverty and lack of education breed terrorism, despite the wealth of evidence showing that most terrorists come from middle-class, and...
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the trade regime from many angles. The authors conclude that throughout most of GATT/WTO history, power politics …
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think so. But in <i>All Politics Is Global</i>, Daniel Drezner argues that this view is wrong. Despite globalization, states …
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What makes a country attractive to foreign investors? To what extent do conditions of governance and politics matter …? This book provides the most systematic exploration to date of these crucial questions at the nexus of politics and …
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the utopian aspects of money and the ways in which its transformation could in turn transform society, politics, and …
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, Currency Politics presents a comprehensive analysis of the politics surrounding exchange rates. Identifying the motivations for … the politics of the gold standard, particularly in the United States, and he examines the political economy of European … monetary integration. He also analyzes the politics of Latin American currency policy over the past forty years, and focuses on …
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