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"In THE HATE NEXT DOOR, retired police officer and founder of the Skinhead Intelligence Network, Matson Browning, tells the incendiary story of his time undercover in hate groups across Arizona. He also traces the rise and fall of J.T. Ready, a white supremacist, militia member, and later, elected official and murderer. Through it all, Browning illuminates the sociopolitical factors shaping the modern white supremacy movement, and exposes the varied...
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"Do the ancient Greek classics of politics and philosophy arouse interest among the Chinese? The answer, according to Shadi Bartsch, is a resounding yes. Works by Plato, Aristotle, Thucydides, and to a lesser extent Cicero and Vergil, generally unknown to China during the millennia-long dynastic system, have shown themselves "good to think with" in contemporary China, both at moments of crisis and revolution, and at moments of increasing confidence...
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"Blending drama and satire while examining the complexities of colonialism, racism, and what it means to be American, Digging Stars probes the emotional universes of love, friendship, family, and nationhood."--
With admission to The Program, an elite interdisciplinary graduate cohort at the forefront of astronomy and technology, Rosa's dreams are finally within reach. Her research into the cosmos follows in the footsteps of her astronomer father's...
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Until the end of the Cold War, the politics of national identity was confined to isolated incidents of ethnics strife and civil war in distant countries. Now, with the collapse of Communist regimes across Europe and the loosening of the Cold War's clamp on East-West relations, a surge of nationalism has swept the world stage. In Blood and Belonging, Ignatieff makes a thorough examination of why blood ties-in places as diverse as Yugoslavia, Kurdistan,...
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Ce livre défend une thèse forte: à partir de 2007, le nationalisme québécois a cessé d'être un projet progressiste et «ouvert sur le monde» pour devenir un conservatisme centré sur la défense des valeurs de la «majorité historique francophone». Lors de son adresse à la nation du printemps 2019, au lendemain du dépt de la loi 21 sur la laïcité, le premier ministre Legault a résumé d'un trait l'esprit de ce conservatisme: «Au Québec,...
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This book vividly describes the rise of the Irish Republican Brotherhood and its American counterpart, the Fenian Brotherhood, two revolutionary organisations dedicated to overthrowing British rule in Ireland and establishing an Irish republic.
Led by James Stephens, nineteenth-century Ireland's most important revolutionary, the IRB rapidly became an increasingly serious threat which Dublin Castle struggled unsuccessfully for years to suppress. In...
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This book is the author's voice raised against the 'groupthink' Soviet-style cult of personality that surrounds the Queen, her heirs and successors. He's calling for an end to the corruption of Queen's consent, sovereign's protection and the deals she and her family do behind closed doors. These he calls the 'evil trinity', which the revelation of the Paradise Papers has made four. This book is his chance to open people's eyes to what goes on and...
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Kathleen E. Powers is assistant professor of government at Dartmouth College. Website kepowers.com Twitter @ke_powers
How the ideas that animate nationalism influence whether it causes-or calms-conflict
With nationalism on the rise around the world, many worry that nationalistic attitudes could lead to a surge in deadly conflict. To combat this trend, federations like the European Union have tried to build inclusive regional identities to overcome...
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This book offers a complete translation of the original work titled "Golem: metla Čechů...: rozklad českého nacionalismu," published in the Czech language in 1942. The author's original essay, "Golem...Geissel der Tschechen, die Zersetzung des Tschechischen Nationalismus," was originally written in German. While different translations of the title exist, such as "The Plague of the Czechs" or "The Scourge of the Czechs," the most common and chosen...
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Previously published as Billionaire at the Barricades.
Americans didn't just go to the polls in 2016. They joined a movement that swept the unlikeliest of candidates, Donald Trump, into the Oval Office. Can he complete his agenda? Or, will his opponents in the media, protestor class, and political establishment block his efforts and choke off the movement he represents?
In Busting the Barricades, Laura Ingraham gives readers a front row seat to...
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In "The Power of the Masses: Understanding the Social Psychology of Crowd Behavior," we embark on a captivating journey into the heart of human collective behavior and its profound implications for our society. This thought-provoking book delves deep into the intricate dynamics that unfold when individuals come together as part of a crowd, revealing the hidden forces that shape our collective actions, emotions, and decisions.With compelling insights...
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For six months, Army Captain Matt C. Pinsker was deployed to the Mexican-American border as a member of a unique mission. He and a handful of others were assigned to the Department of Justice as Special Prosecutors to handle the increasing number of immigration cases resulting from President Trump's "zero tolerance" policy.
Once arrived, whether he was out in the field leading investigations or trying cases in the courtroom, Captain Pinsker found...
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Christophe Jaffrelot is director of the Centre d' Etudes et de Recherches Internationales (CERI-Sciences Po/CNRS) in Paris. His books include India's Silent Revolution: The Rise of the Lower Castes in North India.
Hindu nationalism came to world attention in 1998, when the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won national elections in India. Although the BJP was defeated nationally in 2004, it continues to govern large Indian states, and...
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Jan-Werner Müller teaches politics at Princeton University. He is the author of A Dangerous Mind: Carl Schmitt in Post-War European Thought and Another Country: German Intellectuals, Unification and National Identity. He regularly contributes to a number of major European newspapers and magazines.
Constitutional Patriotism offers a new theory of citizenship and civic allegiance for today's culturally diverse liberal democracies. Rejecting conventional...
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After the staggering slaughter of back-to-back world wars, the West embraced the ideal of the "open society." The promise: By liberating ourselves from the old attachments to nation, clan, and religion that had fueled centuries of violence, we could build a prosperous world without borders, freed from dogmas and managed by experts.
But the populism and nationalism that are upending politics in America and Europe are a sign that after three generations,...
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John G. Matsusaka is the Charles F. Sexton Chair in American Enterprise at the Marshall School of Business and the Gould School of Law at the University of Southern California, where he also serves as executive director of the Initiative and Referendum Institute. He is the author of For the Many or the Few: The Initiative, Public Policy, and American Democracy and lives in Los Angeles.
How referendums can diffuse populist tensions by putting power...
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What is the Alt-Right, and how will it affect America?
Donald Trump's election as president in 2016 suddenly brought to prominence a political movement that few in political circles or the mainstream media had paid much attention to: the so-called Alt-Right. Steven Bannon, Trump's campaign manager, was a leading figure in the movement, and the election results seemed to give it a real opportunity to gain some political power.
But what is the Alt-Right?...
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Noah Pickus is Nannerl O. Keohane Director of the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University. He teaches at Sanford Institute of Public Policy and is the editor of Immigration and Citizenship in the 21st Century.
True Faith and Allegiance is a provocative account of nationalism and the politics of turning immigrants into citizens and Americans. Noah Pickus offers an alternative to the wild swings between emotionally fraught positions on immigration...
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Le monde change rapidement. L'Occident, dirigé par les États-Unis et protégé par l'OTAN, voit sa suprématie remise en question par un nouveau bloc oriental soutenu par le pacte de Shanghai. En même temps, l'Afrique, en proie à des conflits internes, peine à répondre aux besoins de sa population croissante tandis que ses richesses continuent d'être exploitées par des acteurs économiques mondiaux. Parallèlement, en Europe, l'Union européenne...
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Anna Stilz is assistant professor of politics at Princeton University.
Many political theorists today deny that citizenship can be defended on liberal grounds alone. Cosmopolitans claim that loyalty to a particular state is incompatible with universal liberal principles, which hold that we have equal duties of justice to persons everywhere, while nationalist theorists justify civic obligations only by reaching beyond liberal principles and invoking...
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