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This innovative pedagogical approach unveils a series of entrenched myths and mysteries in global politics in an accessible and engaging way. The text is structured into eleven chapters that cover key issues or ‘myths’ relating to global politics; students are invited to think critically and theoretically about each of these, whilst drawing on their existing knowledge of politics.
A range of learning features throughout, such as integrated case studies, and reflective activities, help readers to build a foundational knowledge of key concepts in international relations. In addition, a suite of accompanying online resources – including web links, additional case studies and reading lists – help students to take their learning further.
Digital formats and resources
Global Politics: Myths and Mysteries is available for students and institutions to purchase in a variety of formats, and is supported by online resources.
· The e-book offers a mobile experience and convenient access along with hyperlinks to carefully selected lists of web-links, and an additional reading list, to help you broaden your knowledge and understanding of international relations: www.oxfordtextbooks.co.uk/ebooks
· Student resources: a library of web links, an annotated reading guide, and additional case studies are available online.
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Post-NATO Afghanistan: Governance, Legitimacy and Politics of the Taliban
This book offers an in-depth exploration of post-NATO Afghanistan, providing a comprehensive analysis of the formidable challenges faced by the Taliban in their pursuit of governance. It presents a detailed examination of the ever-evolving political landscape in Afghanistan, with a particular focus on the developments following the Taliban’s assumption of power. The book sheds light on the multifaceted strategies employed by the Taliban, both internally and externally, to legitimize their government, ensuring its stability and enduring presence.
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On Lying And Politics: A Library of America Special Publication
‘No one,’ Hannah Arendt observed, ‘has ever counted truthfulness as a political virtue.’ But why do politicians lie? What is the relationship between political lies and self-delusion? And how much organized deceit can a democracy endure before it ceases to function? Fifty years ago, the century’s greatest political theorist turned her focus to these essential questions in two seminal essays, brought together here for the first time. Her conclusions, delivered in searching prose that crackles with insight and intelligence, remain powerfully relevant, perhaps more so today than when they were written.In ‘Truth and Politics,’ Arendt explores the affinity between lying and politics, and reminds us that the survival of factual truth depends on the testimony of credible witnesses and on an informed citizenry. In ‘Lying in Politics,’ written in response to the release of the Pentagon Papers, Arendt applies these insights to an analysis of American policy in Southeast Asia, arguing that the real goal of the Vietnam War – and of the official lies used to justify it by successive administrations – was nothing other than the burnishing of America’s image. In his introduction, David Bromwich engages with Arendt’s essays in the context of her other writings and underscores their clarion call to take seriously the ever-present threat to democracy posed by lying.Read more
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In Politics, Carol Ann Duffy, one of the English language’s best-loved living poets presents from her own archives, in chronological order, her favourites among her poems on the theme of politics and protest, drawing on work written over four decades. Duffy also adds to the selection her poem written for Danny Boyle’s Pages of the Sea memorial for The Great War. It makes for a sequence that is searching, memorializing, healing.Read more
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To Build a Black Future: The Radical Politics of Joy, Pain, and Care
An incisive portrait of how the new Black politics can forge a future centered on collective action, community, and care
When #BlackLivesMatter emerged in 2013, it animated the most consequential Black-led mobilization since the civil rights and Black power era. Today, the hashtag turned rallying cry is but one expression of a radical reorientation toward Black politics, protest, and political thought. To Build a Black Future examines the spirit and significance of this insurgency, offering a revelatory account of a new political culture―responsive to pain, suffused with joy, and premised on care―emerging from the centuries-long arc of Black rebellion, a tradition that traces back to the Black slave.
Drawing on his own experiences as an activist and organizer, Christopher Paul Harris takes readers inside the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL) to chart the propulsive trajectory of Black politics and thought from the Middle Passage to the present historical moment. Carefully attending to the social forces that produce Black struggle and the contradictions that arise within it, Harris illustrates how M4BL gives voice to an abolitionist praxis that bridges the past, present, and future, outlining a political project at once directed inward to the Black community while issuing an outward challenge to the world.
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‘Master the Oxbridge Interview: Law’ is brought to you by Oxbridge Mind, an award-winning company of university experts. We’ve helped over 11,000 students with every aspect of their UK Oxbridge application, from the UCAS application, personal statement, admissions tests, interview, and more!
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US Politics Annual Update 2022
This US Politics Annual Update will help students:
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Travel Back in Time to the Swinging 1960s.
A comprehensive timeline of popular culture, news events, politics, football, television, cinema, fashion and pop music from England in the 1960s. This unique publication contains 270 pages of memories and nostalgia for people that lived in England between 1960 and 1969. From the days of Harold Macmillan, Bobby Charlton, Cliff Richard, black and white television, Hercules racing bicycles and Triumph Herald motorcars; through to the times of Harold Wilson, Georgie Best, the Rolling Stones, colour telly, Raleigh Choppers and Ford Capris, this book recaptures thousands of events, sights and sounds of everday life in the 60s. Read, enjoy and travel back in time to the decade of peace, love, victory in the football world cup, Z cars and The Beatles..Read more
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Pearson Edexcel A-level Politics Workbook 3: Political Ideas
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The Politics of Authenticating: Revisiting New Orleans Jazz (Experiments/On the Political)
This book is part jazz historiography, part autoethnography and part memoir. It sets forth a grounded theory of ‘authenticating’ as a basic socio-political process, with reference to Richard Ekins’ participation in the social worlds of New Orleans jazz, and his life as a social constructionist social scientist and cultural theorist.
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Nationalized Politics: Evaluating Electoral Politics Across Time
In the United States, politics has become increasingly nationalized in recent years as voter decision-making is now driven by partisan or national political forces rather than the attributes of individual candidates. Indeed, voters now seem more concerned with which of the two national parties will be in power across all levels of government as opposed to which candidate will represent them individually. The phenomenon has now reached levels unseen since the nineteenth century, when the party ballot was in use and voters were generally unable to select among individual candidates.Nationalized Politics asks and answers the question, “how has nationalization influenced elections across different political eras?” Jamie L. Carson, Joel Sievert, and Ryan D. Williamson look at historical variation in nationalization through an analysis of congressional elections from 1840 to 2020. By examining roughly 180 years of elections, the authors leverage considerable differences in electoral competition, electoral rules, nationalization, polarization, and partisan advantage via the incumbency advantage. Moreover, Carson, Sievert, and Williamson employ a unique survey design to capture citizen attitudes toward the nationalization of politics to further consider the question of how nationalization is currently shaping politics. Providing a comprehensive history of US congressional elections, Nationalized Politics illustrates the roots of the current electoral landscape in the US.
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David Hume on Morals, Politics, and Society (Rethinking the Western Tradition)
A compact and accessible edition of Hume’s political and moral writings with essays by a distinguished set of contributorsA key figure of the Scottish Enlightenment, David Hume was a major influence on thinkers ranging from Kant and Schopenhauer to Einstein and Popper, and his writings continue to be deeply relevant today. With four essays by leading Hume scholars exploring his complex intellectual legacy, this volume presents an overview of Hume’s moral, political, and social philosophy.
Editors Angela Coventry and Andrew Valls bring together a selection of writings from Hume’s most important works, with contributors placing them in their appropriate context and offering a lively discourse on the relevance of Hume’s thought to contemporary subjects like reason’s dependence on emotion and the importance of social convention in political and economic behavior. Perfect for classroom use, this volume is an invaluable companion for anyone studying an important thinker who advanced the development of moral philosophy, economics, cognitive science, and many other fields of the Western tradition.
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The Cultural Politics of Emotion
This is a bold take on the crucial role of emotion in politics. Emotions work to define who we are as well as shape what we do and this is no more powerfully at play than in the world of politics. Ahmed considers how emotions keep us invested in relationships of power, and also shows how this use of emotion could be crucial to feminist and queer political movements. Debates on international terrorism, asylum and migration, as well as reconciliation and reparation are explored through topical case studies. In this textbook the difficult issues are confronted head on. New for this edition: a substantial 15,000-word Afterword on ‘Emotions and Their Objects’ which provides an original contribution to the burgeoning field of affect studies; a revised Bibliography; and updated throughout.Read more
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The Politics of Time: Imagining African Becomings (Critical South)
As we enter the third decade of the twenty-first century, the world is undergoing a major historical shift: Africa, and the Global South more generally, is increasingly becoming a principal theatre in which the future of the planet plays itself out. But not only this: Africa is at the same time emerging as one of the great laboratories for novel forms of social, economic, political, intellectual, cultural, and artistic life. Often arising in unexpected places, these new forms of life materialize in practices that draw deeply from collective memory while simultaneously assuming distinctly contemporary, even futuristic, guises.
In November 2017, the second session of the Ateliers de la pensée – Workshops of Thought – was held in Dakar, Senegal. Fifty African and diasporic intellectuals and artists participated and their debates unfolded along numerous thematic lines, approached from the standpoints of many different disciplines. This volume is the result of that encounter. Among the many topics discussed were the concurrence and entanglement of multiple temporalities, the politics of life in the Anthropocene, the project of decolonization, and the preservation and transmission of different ways of knowing. At a time when the world is haunted by the specter of its own end, the contributors to this volume ask whether one can, by taking Africa as a point of departure, seize hold of other options for the future – not only for Africa, but for the world.
The Politics of Time and its companion volume, To Write the Africa World, will be indispensable works for anyone interested in Africa – its past, present, and future – and in the new forms of critical thought emerging from Africa and the Global South.
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Edexcel A-Level Politics Component 2 Revision Guide: for 2023 and 2024 Exams (tutor2u Edexcel A Level Politics)
This Politics revision guide provides concise coverage of the UK Government topics in Component 2 of Edexcel A-Level Politics and includes a wide range of exam-style questions and examiner tips. Written by experienced Edexcel A-Level Politics teachers and examiners, the notes are precisely mapped to the Edexcel Politics specification.Use throughout the A Level Politics course. Ideal for revision before mock exams and the final Edexcel Politics exam papers.Read more
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Politics for People Who Hate Politics: How to Engage without Losing Your Friends or Selling Your Soul
There are myriad reasons politics are infuriating. From unjust policies to unholy politicians, we have righteous and justifiable reasons to be upset or walk away. Yet we must stay involved if we are to hold our fragile nation together, since the current division is unsustainable. With more than two decades of experience working in the highest levels of government, insider Denise Grace Gitsham offers a remedy to America’s dark political reality: Christians filled with light, love, and Christ’s heart for unity. With spiritual insights, hard-earned political lessons, and practical advice, she helps you · lean into―rather than away from―politics · maintain peace · engage with wisdom and discernment · love those you disagree with while standing firm on God’s truth · serve as a unifying force · embrace God’s plan for our nation and the world As citizens of heaven, with access to the Holy Spirit’s wisdom and power, we can engage in politics God’s way: with the countercultural love, integrity, and unity that will heal our land.Read more
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Boycott Theory and the Struggle for Palestine: Universities, Intellectualism and Liberation (Off the Fence: Morality, Politics and Society)
Boycott Theory for Palestine aims to advance academic boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) by presenting the fullest and most sophisticated justification for it yet given, demonstrating how the boycott relates to current debates within contemporary political and intellectual life.
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Platforms, Power, and Politics: An Introduction to Political Communication in the Digital Age
Political communication has fundamentally transformed as digital technologies have become increasingly important in everyday life. Technology platforms have become powerful political instruments for world leaders, campaigns, social movements, journalists, and non-governmental organizations. Moreover, they are essential to how people communicate about politics, encounter and share political information, and take action to pursue their political goals.
This is the first textbook to center digital platforms in understanding political communication. With global examples beyond the context of Western democracies, the text reveals how digital technologies such as social media and search engines are increasingly shaping political communication in countries around the world. It shows how the core processes of political communication are being reshaped by platforms, from how elections are contested to how issues make it onto policymaking agendas. Topics covered include public opinion, journalism, strategic communication, political parties, social movements, governance, disinformation, propaganda, populism, race, ethnicity, and democratic backsliding.
Full of lively examples and pedagogical features, Platforms, Power, and Politics offers an exciting and innovative new approach to political communication. It is essential reading for students of political communication and an important resource for scholars, journalists, and policymakers.
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Artificial Intelligence with Chinese Characteristics: National Strategy, Security and Authoritarian Governance
“This book provides the first book-lengthy study focusing on Artificial Intelligence (AI) with Chinese characteristics, in line with China’s open ambition of becoming an AI superpower by 2030. China’s unique domestic politics has developed distinct characteristics for its AI approach. By analysing national strategy, security and governance aspects of AI in China, this book argues that China’s AI approach is sophisticated and multifaceted, and it has brought about both considerable benefits and challenges to China.
First, many characterize China’s AI approach as a nationally concerted top-down geopolitical strategy to advance Beijing’s unified objective. This book argues that this view is mistaken. It shows that China’s AI politics is largely shaped by economically rather than geopolitically motivated domestic stakeholders. In addition, China’s national AI plan is an upgrade of existing local AI initiatives to the national level, reflecting a bottom-up development. Thus, China’s AI strategy is more of a political manifesto rather than a concrete policy plan.
The second part of the book discusses how the Chinese central government has been securitizing AI in order to mobilize local states, market actors, intellectuals and the general public. This security discourse is built on China’s historical anxieties about technology, regime security needs and the growing tension caused by great power competition. Despite its help in convincing domestic actors, however, this securitization trend may undermine key AI objectives.
The third part of the book studies the Chinese governance approach to the use of AI. It argues that China’s bold AI practices are part of its broad and incoherent adaptation strategy to governance by digital means. AI is part of a digital technology package that the Chinese authoritarian regime has actively employed not only to improve public services but also to strengthen its authoritarian governance. While China’s AI progress benefits from its unique political and social environment, its ambitious AI plan contains considerable risks. China’s approach is gambling on its success in (a) delivering a booming AI economy, (b) ensuring a smooth social transformation to the age of AI, and (c) proving ideological superiority of its authoritarian and communist values.
This book suggests that a more accurate understanding of AI with Chinese characteristics is essential in order to inform the debate regarding what lessons can be learnt from China’s AI approach and how to respond to China’s rise as the AI leader if not superpower.”
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Pearson Edexcel A-level Politics Workbook 1: UK Government and Politics
* Develop and consolidate understanding using practice questions targeting each Assessment Objective
* Build key skills with worked examples
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A New Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere and Deliberative Politics
Jürgen Habermas’s book The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere, first published in 1962, has long been recognized as one of the most important works of twentieth-century social thought. Blending philosophy and social history, it offered an account of the public sphere as a domain that mediates between civil society and the state in which citizens could discuss matters of common concern and participate in democratic decision-making through the formation of public opinion. Now, in view of the digital revolution and the resulting crisis of democracy, he returns to this important topic.
In this new book Habermas focuses on digital media, in particular social media, which are increasingly relegating traditional mass media to the background. While the new media initially promised to empower users, this promise is being undermined by their algorithm-steered platform structure that promotes self-enclosed informational ‘bubbles’ and discursive ‘echo chambers’ in which users split into a plurality of pseudo-publics that are largely closed off from one other. Habermas argues that, without appropriate regulation of digital media, this new structural transformation is in danger of hollowing out the institutions through which democracies can shape social and economic processes and address urgent collective problems, ranging from growing social inequality to the climate crisis.
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China Incorporated: The Politics of a World Where China is Number One
Is the West prepared for a world where power is shared with China? A world in which China asserts the same level of global leadership that the USA currently assumes? And can we learn to embrace Chinese political culture, as China learned to embrace ours?Here, one of the world’s leading voices on China, Kerry Brown, takes us past the tired cliches and inside the Chinese leadership – as they lay out a roadmap for working in a world in which China shares dominance with the West.
From how, and why, China as a dominant superpower has been inevitable for many years, to how the attempts to fight the old battles are over, Brown digs deeper into the problematic nature of China’s current situation – its treatment of dissent, of Xinjiang, Hong Kong, and the severe limitations on its management of relations with other cultures and values. These issues impact the way the West sees China, China sees the West, and how both see themselves.
There are obstacles to the West accepting a more prominent place for China in the world – but just because this will be a difficult process does not mean that it should not happen. As Kerry Brown writes: history is indeed ending, but not how the West thought it would.
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Comparative Politics
With unparalleled empirical material, this is the most comprehensive introduction to comparative politics written by the leading experts in the field who bring together a diverse and informed international perspective on comparative politics. Six new authors join the team for the sixth edition, bringing fresh ideas and insights to the comparative analysis the book provides.The new edition has been brought fully up to date with coverage of the Covid-19 pandemic, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and challenges to the global international order. A new chapter on the Nation-State and multicultural citizenship focuses on identity, community, ethnicity, migration, and regions. In addition to this, a new chapter 11, ‘Direct Democracy’, provides cutting-edge analysis of referendums, citizen assemblies, and other forms of democratic innovations. Additional analysis of gender equality, poverty, and climate change is provided from a global perspective in the new chapter 22, which examines the impact of public policies. And finally, a new chapter 25, ‘Promoting and Protecting Democracy’, draws on the latest developments, such as global shifts towards authoritarian regimes and autocracy, and international relations perspectives, to present a clear overview of democracy promotion.
An unrivalled amount of empirical material in the text illustrates the key similarities and differences across political systems. The wealth of empirical data also encourages students to go beyond the ‘what’ of comparison to the ‘how’. Combining cutting edge treatment of theories and truly global geographical coverage, this exciting textbook is essential reading for all comparative politics students.
The sixth edition includes a wealth of embedded digital resources, which are accessible through the enhanced e-book. These include:
– Multiple-choice questions for every section, designed to reinforce students’ understanding of key points through frequent and cumulative revision, and to assist with independent self-study
– Interactive graphs with live-updating data, which allow readers to manipulate and customise their own charts, to help reinforce understanding of empirical data in the context of each chapter
– A library of web links to relevant databases, blogs, debates, and videos, to help explore research interests and take learning further
– Answers to end of chapter questions, which contain useful hints and tips to help tackle the knowledge-based, critical thinking, and applied questions
– Videos of news reports, speeches, analysis, and key events to help bring theories and concepts to life
– A bank of comparative tables and country profiles, which illustrate ideas and concepts, but can also be used in students’ own research and analysis, giving readers a real sense of how comparative politics works in practice.
– An interactive flashcard glossary to test students’ knowledge and understanding of each chapter’s key termsTeaching resources for adopting lecturers include:
– Seminar activities that lecturers can use to engage their students, based on the content of each chapter
– A bank of questions for lecturers to use to test students’ understanding of key concepts covered in the chaptersRead more
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Politics and Sociology: General Sociology, Volume 5 (Politics and Sociology, 5)
This is the fifth and final volume based on the lectures given by Pierre Bourdieu at the Collège de France in the early 1980s under the title ‘General Sociology’. In these lectures, Bourdieu sets out to define and defend sociology as an intellectual discipline, and in doing so he introduces and clarifies all the key concepts which have come to define his distinctive intellectual approach.
In this volume, Bourdieu develops his view of the social world as the site of a struggle for the legitimate vision of the world. The specific weapon used in these struggles is what Bourdieu calls symbolic capital, which is economic, cultural or social capital when perceived through suitable categories of perception. All forms of power seek to impose their own categories of perception in a way that is both recognised and misrecognised. This is how forms of power establish themselves as legitimate, because legitimacy is a force of recognition based on misrecognition, that is, recognised in a way that prevents us from recognising its arbitrariness.
By rejecting the opposition between structuralist objectification and subjectivist constructivism, sociology can seek to grasp both the objective structure of social fields and the properly political strategies that agents use in order to establish and impose their viewpoint. And it can do so without forgetting that the whole world of social construction is oriented by the perception agents have of the social world, which depends on their position in the structures of social fields and their dispositions, themselves fashioned by these structures.
An ideal introduction to some of Bourdieu’s most important ideas, the five volumes of this series will be of great value to students and scholars who study and use Bourdieu’s work across the social sciences and humanities, and they will be of interest to general readers who want to know more about the work of one of the most important sociologists and social thinkers of the twentieth century.
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Pearson Edexcel A-level Politics Student Guide 4: Global Politics Second Edition
This Student Guide will help you to:
* Identify key content for the exams with our concise coverage of topics
* Avoid common pitfalls with clear definitions and exam tips throughout
* Reinforce your learning with bullet-list summaries at the end of each section
* Make links between topics with synoptic links highlighted throughout the content
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Governance and Politics of China: 42 (Comparative Government and Politics)
The success or failure of China’s development will impact not only its own citizens but also those of the world. China is widely recognized as a global actor on the world stage and no global challenge can be resolved without its participation. Thus, it is important to understand how the country is ruled and what the policy priorities are of the new leadership. Can China move to a more market-based economy, while controlling environmental degradation? Can it integrate hundreds of millions of new migrants into the urban landscape? The tensions between communist and capitalist identities continue to divide society as China searches for a path to modernization.The People’s Republic is now over 65 years old – an appropriate juncture at which to reassess the state of contemporary Chinese politics. In this substantially revised fourth edition and essential guide to the subject, Tony Saich delivers a thorough introduction to all aspects of politics and governance in post-Mao China, taking full account of the changes of the 18th Party Congress and the 12th National People’s Congress. Further, the rise of Xi Jinping to power and his policies are examined as are important policy areas such as urbanization and the fight against corruption.
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Pearson Edexcel A-level Politics Student Guide 3: Political Ideas Second Edition
This Student Guide will help you to:
* Identify key content for the exams with our concise coverage of topics
* Avoid common pitfalls with clear definitions and exam tips throughout
* Reinforce your learning with bullet-list summaries at the end of each section
* Make links between topics with synoptic links highlighted throughout
* Test your knowledge with rapid-fire knowledge check questions and answers
* Find out what examiners are looking for with our Questions & Answers section, for the core political ideas, plus Anarchism, Feminism and NationalismRead more
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Charlie Chaplin vs. America: When Art, Sex, and Politics Collided
The remarkable, must-read story of Charlie Chaplin’s years of exile from the United States during the postwar Red Scare, and how it ruined his film career, from bestselling biographer Scott Eyman.Bestselling Hollywood biographer and film historian Scott Eyman tells the story of Charlie Chaplin’s fall from grace. In the aftermath of World War Two, Chaplin was criticized for being politically liberal and internationalist in outlook. He had never become a US citizen, something that would be held against him as xenophobia set in when the postwar Red Scare took hold.
Politics aside, Chaplin had another problem: his sexual interest in young women. He had been married three times and had had numerous affairs. In the 1940s, he was the subject of a paternity suit, which he lost, despite blood tests that proved he was not the father. His sexuality became a convenient way for those who opposed his politics to condemn him. Refused permission to return to the US from a trip abroad, he settled in Switzerland, and made his last two films in London
In Charlie Chaplin vs. America, bestselling author Scott Eyman explores the life and times of the movie genius who brought us such masterpieces as City Lights and Modern Times. This is a perceptive, insightful portrait of Chaplin and of an America consumed by political turmoil.
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Global Politics
This systematic and integrated analysis of the theory and practice of contemporary international relations, covers traditional and critical theory, core issues and recent developments in the field. Diversified and dewesternised, this new edition takes an impartial, global approach and considers a broad range of issues and actors. It places traditional Western thinkers in their historical context and brings in new, critical voices to show what the field of IR looks like today. A new critical theories chapter, expanded ‘Approaches To…’ boxes and accounts of the latest scholarship give readers a nuanced and pluralistic overview of IR theory. Updated empirical case studies bring the subject matter to life, and show how concepts and theories apply in practice.Revised and updated by new co-author Ben Whitham, this new edition offers:
– Updated key developments, from important social movements such as Black Lives Matter and MeToo to coverage of resurgent ethno-politics and nationalisms
– Full page case studies of ‘Global Politics in Action’, illuminating major events in world affairs
– ‘Global Actor’ case studies considering the nature and significance of key players on the world stage, from Google to the G-20
– ‘Focus on’ and ‘Debating’ features looking closely at issues and approaches and enable readers to develop their own critical skills
– ‘Key Concepts’ boxes and a marginal glossary, along with discussion questions and suggestions for further reading aid study and reinforce learning
– Online resources with materials for both lecturers and students, offering exam questions, PowerPoint slides, online-only case-studies, self-test questions, and more.This is the ideal text for lecturers and students looking for a broad, contemporary and inspiring overview of global politics today.
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Why Politics Fails: The Five Traps of the Modern World & How to Escape Them
From the 2023 Reith lecturer
Politics is failing us. This is why.
‘Brilliant . . . a must-read’ Daron Acemoglu, co-author of Why Nations Fail
When it comes to politics, there are five goals that voters generally agree upon. We all want a say in how we’re governed, to be treated equally, a safety net when times are hard, protection from harm and to be richer in the future. So, why does politics not deliver that?
The problem is each of these five goals results in a political trap. For example, we all want a say in how we’re governed, but it’s impossible to have any true ‘will of the people’. And we want to be richer tomorrow, but what makes us richer in the short run makes us poorer over the long haul.
In Why Politics Fails, award-winning Oxford professor Ben Ansell draws on examples from Ancient Greece through Brexit to vividly illustrate how we can escape these traps, overcome self-interest and deliver on our collective goals. Politics seems to be broken, but this book shows how it can work for everyone.
‘A meticulous study of how different societies find it so difficult to achieve widely shared goals’ Financial Times
‘Incisive and gripping’ Daniel Ziblatt, co-author of How Democracies Die
‘Salutary reading for the world we live in now’ James A. Robinson, co-author of Why Nations Fails
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My Revision Notes: Pearson Edexcel A-level Politics: UK Government and Politics, Political Ideas and Global Politics
My Revision Notes will engage students with our updated approach to consolidating course content and helping them learn, practise and apply their skills and understanding. Coverage of key content is combined with practical study tips and effective planning strategies to create a guide that students can rely on to build both knowledge and confidence.
– Helps students plan and manage their learning independently with our topic-by-topic planner
– Encourages students to practise and apply their skills and knowledge with regular ‘Now test yourself’ sections, refreshed practice questions and answer guidance online
– Supports subject-specific exam skills with a new exam skills box at the end of each chapter
– Reflects the structure and format of recent exams with refreshed exam-style questions and improved course coverage
– Includes content mapped to the specification, streamlined to give students the knowledge they need to help with the exams
– Covers content for all three components of the Edexcel specification – UK Government and Politics, Political Ideas and Global Politics
– Helps students understand key terms with user-friendly definitions and tips throughout, plus a glossary
– Builds quick recall with bullet-pointed summaries at the end of each chapter, designed to reinforce knowledge and understandingRead more
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Need to Know: AQA A-level Politics
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– Check key content when you need it
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– Dip in for support throughout your courseFind what you need to know for AQA A-level Politics when you need it. Written by experienced authors Rowena Hammal and Toby Cooper, this guide will help you to:
– Build on your learning throughout the course by reinforcing the key facts, terms and concepts from the specification
– Put what you learn into context with topic links and exam tips specific to Higher (subject)
– Revise with confidence using the ‘Do you know’ questions at the end of each topic and synoptic questions at the end of each section. Answers are online at www.hoddereducation.co.uk/needtoknow/answersRead more
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The Little Book of Politics (Big Ideas)
This book is the perfect pocket-sized introduction to politics and political thought throughout history.
From the origins of democracy to Machiavelli’s cunning statecraft, and from Rousseau’s “social contract” to the American Declaration of Independence, Marxist communism, the dawn of populism, and identity politics, The Little Book of Politics examines the philosophies behind the different political beliefs and methods of government used around the world over the course of human history.
Packed with infographics and flowcharts that explain complex concepts in a simple but exciting way, The Little Book of Politics offers you a combination of clear text and hard-working infographics in a portable format that is perfect for reading on the go.
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Red Africa: Reclaiming Revolutionary Black Politics (Salvage Editions)
Red Africa makes the case for a revolutionary Black politics inspired by Marxist anti-colonial struggles in Africa. Kevin Ochieng Okoth revisits historical moments when Black radicalism was defined by international solidarity in the struggle against capitalist-imperialism, that together help us to navigate the complex histories of the Black radical tradition. Hechallenges common misconceptions about national liberation, showing that the horizon of national liberation was not limited to the nation-building projects of post-independence governments. While African socialists sought to distance themselves from Marxism and argued for a ‘third way’ socialism rooted in ‘traditional African culture’ the intellectual and political tradition Okoth calls ‘Red Africa’ showed that Marxism and Black radicalism were never incompatible.The revolutionary Black politics of Eduardo Mondlane, Amílcar Cabral, Walter Rodney and Andrée Blouin gesture toward a decolonised future that never materialised. We might yet build something new from the ruins of national liberation, something which clings onto the utopian promise of freedom and refuses to let go. Red Africa is not simply an exercise in nostalgia, it is a political project that hopes to salvage what remains of this tradition―which has been betrayed, violently suppressed, or erased―and to build from it a Black revolutionary politics capable of imagining new futures out of the uncertain present.
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Politics of the Mind: Marxism and Mental Distress (2nd edition)
Mental distress has become one of the key “public issues of the 21st century”. This edition of Politics of the Mind: Marxism and Mental Distress looks at the link between the economic and political system under which we live ― capitalism ― and the enormously high levels of mental distress that we see in the world today.
A new introductory chapter explores the impact on mental health of the “multiple crises” of the system including the Covid-19 pandemic and climate change, discusses the significance of new research that challenges the biomedical model and assesses the implications for mental health and mental health services of political developments since the book was first published in 2017.
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