Politics and government

Why violence in the Congo has continued despite decades of international intervention Well into its third decade, the military conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been dubbed a "e;forever war"e;-a perpetual cycle of war, civil unrest, and local feuds over power and identity.

From one of the leading policy experts of our time, an urgent rethinking of how we can better support each other to thriveWhether we realize it or not, all of us participate in the social contract every day through mutual obligations among our family, community, place of work, and fellow citizens.

This remarkably rich collection of articles focuses on moral questions about war.

Was Japan's economic miracle generated primarily by the Japanese state or by the nation's dynamic private sector?

Should a liberal democratic state permit religious schools?

Balancing respect for religious conviction and the values of liberal democracy is a daunting challenge for judges and lawmakers, particularly when religious groups seek exemption from laws that govern others.

Considerably expanded to include the impact of the 2003 war in Iraq and its aftermath, this new edition of Waging Peace provides a unique insight into the critical debate on the future of peace in the Middle East.

A dramatic intellectual biography of Victorian jurist Travers Twiss, who provided the legal justification for the creation of the brutal Congo Free StateEminent jurist, Oxford professor, advocate to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Travers Twiss (18091897) was a model establishment figure in Victorian Britain, and a close collaborator of Prince Metternich, the architect of the Concert of Europe.

How populism is fueled by the demise of the industrial order and the emergence of a new digital society ruled by algorithmsIn the revolutionary excitement of the 1960s, young people around the world called for a radical shift away from the old industrial order, imagining a future of technological liberation and unfettered prosperity.

Has globalization forever undermined the state as the mighty guarantor of public welfare and security?

A history of the Ottoman incorporation of Arab lands that shows how gentlemanly salons shaped culture, society, and governanceHistorians have typically linked Ottoman imperial cohesion in the sixteenth century to the bureaucracy or the sultan's court.

Is there a justification for European integration?

For much of the twentieth century, Confucianism was condemned by Westerners and East Asians alike as antithetical to modernity.

Contrary to what news reports might suggest, the majority of politicians behave ethically and are never subject to investigations.

The field of international political economy gained prominence in the early 1970s--when the Arab oil embargo and other crises ended the postwar era of virtually unhindered economic growth in the United States and Europe--and today is an essential part of both political science and economics.

The religious and political winds are changing.

From New York Times bestselling author and economics columnist Robert Frank, bold new ideas for creating environments that promise a brighter futurePsychologists have long understood that social environments profoundly shape our behavior, sometimes for the better, often for the worse.

Unlike the 1930s, when the United States tragically failed to open its doors to Europeans fleeing Nazism, the country admitted over three million refugees during the Cold War.

Much of public opinion research over the past several decades suggests that the American voters are woefully uninformed about politics and thus unable to fulfill their democratic obligations.

A groundbreaking new history of how the Vietnam War thwarted U.

Americans claim a strong attachment to the work ethic and regularly profess support for government policies to promote employment.

Corporate Governance Lessons from Transition Economy Reforms explores a timely topic at the intersection of economics, law, and policy reform.

A generation ago, scholars saw interest groups as the single most important element in the American political system.

What is black culture?

What should we expect from democracy, and how likely is it that democracies will live up to those expectations?

Advocates of school vouchers and other choice proposals couch their arguments in the fashionable language of economic theory.

Should the Supreme Court have the last word when it comes to interpreting the Constitution?

Many prominent critics regard the international financial system as the dark side of globalization, threatening disadvantaged nations near and far.

The modern state, however we conceive of it today, is based on a pattern that emerged in Europe in the period from 1100 to 1600.

True Faith and Allegiance is a provocative account of nationalism and the politics of turning immigrants into citizens and Americans.

What did the founders of America think about religion?

Political analyst Mark Smith offers the most original and compelling explanation yet of why America has swung to the right in recent decades.

A compelling case for why it's time for socialismIs socialism desirable?

Was George W.

On the night of the 2000 presidential election, Americans watched on television as polling results divided the nation's map into red and blue states.

Germany's and Italy's belated national unifications continue to loom large in contemporary debates.

Conventional wisdom holds that the American military is overwhelmingly conservative and Republican, and extremely political.

A political history of the most famous desegregation crisis in AmericaThe desegregation crisis in Little Rock is a landmark of American history: on September 4, 1957, after the Supreme Court struck down racial segregation in public schools, Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus called up the National Guard to surround Little Rock Central High School, preventing black students from going in.

After the collapse of communism, some thirty countries scrambled to craft democratic constitutions.

During the tumultuous closing decades of the nineteenth century, as the prospect of democracy loomed and as intensified global economic and strategic competition reshaped the political imagination, British thinkers grappled with the question of how best to organize the empire.

Terrorism is the most clear and present danger we confront today, yet no phenomenon is more poorly understood by policymakers, the media, and the general public.

Examining the social and political upheavals that characterized the collapse of public judgment in early modern Europe, Liberating Judgment offers a unique account of the achievement of liberal democracy and self-government.

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The contemporary American political landscape has been marked by two paradoxical transformations: the emergence after 1960 of an increasingly activist state, and the rise of an assertive and politically powerful conservatism that strongly opposes activist government.

Political moderation is the touchstone of democracy, which could not function without compromise and bargaining, yet it is one of the most understudied concepts in political theory.

Why so many of America's public university students are not graduating-and what to do about itThe United States has long been a model for accessible, affordable education, as exemplified by the country's public universities.

Where did affirmative action in employment come from?

Power in the Portrayal unveils a fresh and vital perspective on power relations in eleventh- and twelfth-century Muslim Spain as reflected in historical and literary texts of the period.

In this powerfully argued book, Ian Shapiro shows that the idea of containment offers the best hope for protecting Americans and their democracy into the future.

Perhaps no other Western writer has more deeply probed the bitter struggle in the Muslim world between the forces of religion and law and those of violence and lawlessness as Noah Feldman.