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From Slavery to the Cooperative Commonwealth
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 225

From Slavery to the Cooperative Commonwealth

This book reconstructs how a group of nineteenth-century labor reformers appropriated and radicalized the republican tradition. These "labor republicans" derived their definition of freedom from a long tradition of political theory dating back to the classical republics. In this tradition, to be free is to be independent of anyone else's will - to be dependent is to be a slave. Borrowing these ideas, labor republicans argued that wage laborers were unfree because of their abject dependence on their employers. Workers in a cooperative, on the other hand, were considered free because they equally and collectively controlled their work. Although these labor republicans are relatively unknown, this book details their unique, contemporary, and valuable perspective on both American history and the organization of the economy.

Politics Without Sovereignty
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 225

Politics Without Sovereignty

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2006-12
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  • Publisher: Routledge

"The classical doctrine of sovereignty is widely seen as totalitarian, producing external aggression and internal repression. This book attempts to challenge the trend in international relations scholarship - the common antipathy to sovereignty. It is suitable for scholars of political science, international relations, security studies, and others." -- WorldCat.

Politics in Hard Times
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 276

Politics in Hard Times

In Politics in Hard Times, Peter Gourevitch explores the common political factors that shape economic policy choices. He focuses on three periods of economic crisis--1873-1896, 1929-1949, and 1971 to the present--and compares policy choices made in Britain, France, Germany, Sweden, and the United States.

The Reactionary Mind
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 353

The Reactionary Mind

Now updated to include Trump's election and the rise of global populism, Corey Robin's 'The Reactionary Mind' traces conservatism back to its roots in the reaction against the French Revolution.

On Tyranny
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 359

On Tyranny

On Tyranny is Leo Strauss’s classic reading of Xenophon’s dialogue Hiero, or Tyrannicus, in which the tyrant Hiero and the poet Simonides discuss the advantages and disadvantages of exercising tyranny. Included are a translation of the dialogue from its original Greek, a critique of Strauss’s commentary by the French philosopher Alexandre Kojève, and the complete correspondence between the two. This revised and expanded edition introduces important corrections throughout and expands Strauss’s restatement of his position in light of Kojève’s commentary to bring it into conformity with the text as it was originally published in France.

Media, War and Postmodernity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 184

Media, War and Postmodernity

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2007-10-10
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Discussing theorists including Baudrillard and Virilio and covering conflicts including the two Gulf Wars, Somalia, Bosnia, Haiti, Rwanda, Kosove, Afhanistan, and the War on Terror, this book investigates the new character of modern warfare, and why media presentation of conflict is so central to both Western military operations and terrorists.

The Post-Conflict Environment
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 249

The Post-Conflict Environment

A critique of the technocratic neoliberal paradigm of peacebuilding

Republicanism and the Future of Democracy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 309

Republicanism and the Future of Democracy

Explores how republican political thought can make a constructive and distinctive contribution to our understanding of democracy and the challenges it faces.

The Distinction of Peace
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 297

The Distinction of Peace

Investigates both the creation of the peacebuilding field and what the field reveals about global relations

Police in Africa
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 392

Police in Africa

State police forces in Africa are a curiously neglected subject of study, even within the framework of security issues and African states. This work brings together criminologists, anthropologists, sociologists, historians, political scientists and others who have engaged with police forces across the continent and the publics with whom they interact to provide street-level perspectives from below and inside Africa's police forces.