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  • The Rift Between America and Old Europe

    The Distracted Eagle

    by Peter Merkl ...
    Series series Contemporary Security Studies
    This new book explains the recent rift between America and some of her oldest European allies, especially with Germany and France.Particular attention is devoted to the several competing interpretations of the Euro-American rift, for example, that Europeans were taken aback when American neo-conservative leaders scornfully rejected their well-meant offers of post-9/11 assistance with expressions ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Right-wing Extremism in the Twenty-first Century

    Edited by Peter Merkl, Weinberg LEONARD ...
    Revising the 1997 first edition, this study covers events that occurred in Oldham and Bradford after the year 2000. The rise of right-wing extremist groups is put under scrutiny in a number of states including Britain, Germany, Austria, Russia and France. ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

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  • The Great Regression

    Edited by Heinrich Geiselberger ...
    We are living through a period of dramatic political change – Brexit, the election of Trump, the rise of extreme right movements in Europe and elsewhere, the resurgence of nationalism and xenophobia and a concerted assault on the liberal values and ideals associated with cosmopolitanism and globalization. Suddenly we find ourselves in a world that few would have imagined possible just a few years ... Read more

    $14.00 USD

  • Counter-Revolution

    Liberal Europe in Retreat

    by Jan Zielonka ...
    Can open society survive? Is Europe disintegrating? How to overcome the economic crisis? Will Europeans feel secure again? Counter Revolution is a bold attempt to make sense of the extraordinary events taking place in Europe today. It examines the counter-revolution developing in Europe, exploring its roots and implications. The book takes the form of a series of heartfelt letters to the late ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • On Extremism and Democracy in Europe

    by Cas Mudde ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Extremism and Democracy
    On Extremism and Democracy in Europe is a collection of short and accessible essays on the far right, populism, Euroscepticism, and liberal democracy by one of the leading academic and public voices today. It includes both sober, fact-based analysis of the often sensationalized "rise of the far right" in Europe as well as passionate defence of the fundamental values of liberal democracy. Sometimes ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Europe's Fault Lines

    Racism and the Rise of the Right

    by Elizabeth Fekete ...
    An expansive investigation into the relationship between contemporary states and the far-rightIt is clear that the right is on the rise, but after Brexit, the election of Donald Trump and the spike in popularity of extreme-right parties across Europe, the question on everyone’s minds is: how did this happen?An expansive investigation of the ways in which a newly configured right interconnects with ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Eccentric Realist

    Henry Kissinger and the Shaping of American Foreign Policy

    by Mario Del Pero ...
    During the 2008 election season, the Democratic and Republican presidential candidates both aspired to be understood as foreign policy "realists" in the mold of Henry Kissinger. Kissinger, who is distrusted on the neoconservative right for his skepticism about American exceptionalism and on the liberal left for his amoral, realpolitik approach, once again stood as the sage of foreign relations and ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • October 1917 Revolution

    A Century Later

    by Samir Amin ...
    Great revolutions make history. Conservative resistance and counter-revolutions only delay their progress. The French revolution invented modern politics and democracy, the Russian revolution paved the way for the socialist transition, while the Chinese revolution connected the emancipation of those peoples oppressed by imperialism with the path to socialism. These revolutions are great precisely ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Global 1970s

    Radicalism, Reform, and Crisis

    by Duco Hellema ...
    Series series Decades in Global History
    No other decade evokes such contradictory images as the 1970s: reform and emancipation on the one hand, crisis and malaise on the other. In The Global 1970s: Radicalism, Reform, and Crisis, Duco Hellema portrays the 1970s as a period of global transition.Across the world, the early and mid-1970s were still years of political mobilization with everything seemingly an object of public controversy ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Fire and Flames

    A History of the German Autonomist Movement

    by Geronimo Geronimo, Gabriel Kuhn ...
    Fire and Flames was the first comprehensive study of the German autonomous movement ever published. Released in 1990, it reached its fifth edition by 1997, with the legendary German Konkret journal concluding that “the movement had produced its own classic.” The author, writing under the pseudonym of Geronimo, has been an autonomous activist since the movement burst onto the scene in 1980–81. In ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Aftershocks

    Great Powers and Domestic Reforms in the Twentieth Century

    by Seva Gunitsky ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in International History and Politics
    Over the past century, democracy spread around the world in turbulent bursts of change, sweeping across national borders in dramatic cascades of revolution and reform. Aftershocks offers a new global-oriented explanation for this wavelike spread and retreat—not only of democracy but also of its twentieth-century rivals, fascism and communism.Seva Gunitsky argues that waves of regime change are ... Read more

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  • Forging Democracy

    The History of the Left in Europe, 1850-2000

    by Geoff Eley ...
    Neither given nor granted, democracy requires conflict, often violent confrontations, and challenges to the established political order. In Europe, Geoff Eley convincingly shows, democracy did not evolve orgainically out of a natural consensus, the achievement of prosperity, or the negative cement of the Cold War. Rather, it was painstakingly crafted, continually expanded, and doggedly defended by ... Read more

    $97.19 USD