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The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) (2009)
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Woodward, R. (2009). The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Routledge

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is one of the least written about and least understood of our major global institutions. This new book builds a well-rounded understanding of this crucial, though often neglected, inst... Read More about The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

Effectively Countering Terrorism: The Challenges of Prevention, Preparedness and Response (2009)
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Bauer, M., & Beyer, C. (2009). Effectively Countering Terrorism: The Challenges of Prevention, Preparedness and Response. Sussex Academic Press

Since September 11, 2001, the pressure on Al Qaeda has increased. Training sanctuaries and havens have been eliminated, and numerous fighters of the organisation have been killed, captured or are in hiding. Today, Al Qaeda can be understood - accordi... Read More about Effectively Countering Terrorism: The Challenges of Prevention, Preparedness and Response.

Understanding Modern Warfare (2008)
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Tuck, C., Jordan, D., Walton, D., Speller, I., Kiras, J., & Lonsdale, D. (2008). Understanding Modern Warfare. Cambridge University Press

The Internet and Parliamentary Democracy in Europe: a comparative study of the ethics of political communication in the digital age (2008)
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Dai, X., & Norton, P. (Eds.). (2008). The Internet and Parliamentary Democracy in Europe: a comparative study of the ethics of political communication in the digital age. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.1080/13572330701500763

The overall aim of this volume is to investigate the impact of new information and communications technologies (ICTs), in particular the Internet, upon parliamentary democracy in Europe. Through a comparative study of four parliaments (the British, E... Read More about The Internet and Parliamentary Democracy in Europe: a comparative study of the ethics of political communication in the digital age.

Ten Years of New Labour (2008)
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Beech, M., & Lee, S. (2008). Ten Years of New Labour. Palgrave Macmillan

Drawing upon the expertise of a team of established researchers, Ten Years of New Labour provides a detailed and comprehensive evaluation of the ideas, institutions and policies that shaped the Blair Governments' decade in office. The reader is provi... Read More about Ten Years of New Labour.

Post-Communist and Post-Soviet Parliaments: The Initial Decade (2007)
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Lord Norton of Louth, P. (2007). Post-Communist and Post-Soviet Parliaments: The Initial Decade. Routledge

The sudden collapse of communism stimulated both the rapid emergence of fledgling democracies and scholarly attention to the post-communist transition. These newly democratized parliaments have been described as "parliaments in adolescence". This boo... Read More about Post-Communist and Post-Soviet Parliaments: The Initial Decade.

Labour’s Thinkers: The Intellectual Roots of Labour from Tawney to Gordon Brown (2007)
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Beech, M. A., & Hickson, K. E. (2007). Labour’s Thinkers: The Intellectual Roots of Labour from Tawney to Gordon Brown. I.B. Tauris

"Labour's Thinkers" seeks to examine the key ideas emphasised by the twelve individuals whom the authors judge to have made the most significant development to the political thought of the Labour Party since the 1930s. Hickson and Beech argue the Lab... Read More about Labour’s Thinkers: The Intellectual Roots of Labour from Tawney to Gordon Brown.

Idealist Political Philosophy: Pluralism and conflict in the absolute idealist tradition (2006)
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Tyler, C. (2006). Idealist Political Philosophy: Pluralism and conflict in the absolute idealist tradition. Continuum

The central claim of this book is that previous scholars have not appreciated the depths and complexities of the relationships between British idealist radicalism and the earlier idealist tradition of Kant, Fichte, Hegel and Carlyle. Colin Tyler expl... Read More about Idealist Political Philosophy: Pluralism and conflict in the absolute idealist tradition.

The scope of tolerance: Studies on the costs of free expression and freedom of the press (2005)
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Cohen-Almagor, R. (2005). The scope of tolerance: Studies on the costs of free expression and freedom of the press. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203003411

© 2006 Raphael Cohen-Almagor. All rights reserved. One of the dangers in any political system is that the principles that underlie and characterize it may, through their application, bring about its destruction. Liberal democracy is no exception. Mor... Read More about The scope of tolerance: Studies on the costs of free expression and freedom of the press.

International conflict and security law : essays in memory of Hilaire McCoubrey (2005)
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Burchill, R., White, N. D., & Morris, J. (Eds.). (2005). International conflict and security law : essays in memory of Hilaire McCoubrey. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511495137

© Cambridge University Press 2005. Hilaire McCoubrey wrote extensively in the area of armed conflict law, and on the issues of collective security law and the law relating to arms control. Although he died at the early age of 46 in 2000 he had contri... Read More about International conflict and security law : essays in memory of Hilaire McCoubrey.

Unpublished manuscripts in British idealism : political philosophy, theology and social thought. 2 vols. (2005)
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Tyler, C. (2005). Unpublished manuscripts in British idealism : political philosophy, theology and social thought. 2 vols. Thoemmes Continuum

A selection of previously-unpublished manuscripts by British idealists (Bernard Bosanquet, Edward Caird, T.H. Green, and D.G. Ritchie), transcribed and edited for the first time.  Paperback reprint published in 2008 by Imprint Academic. Returned in ... Read More about Unpublished manuscripts in British idealism : political philosophy, theology and social thought. 2 vols..

Early Responses to the British Idealists (2004)
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(Ed.). (2004). Early Responses to the British Idealists. Thoemmes Continuum

A collection of rare early reviews of works by Benjamin Jowett, T.H. Green, Edward Caird and William Wallace, together with introductions and bibliographies of early reviews and responses.