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Free Download Zaki Shalom, "Ben-Gurion’s Political Struggles, 1963-1967: A Lion in Winter"
English | 2006 | ISBN: 0714656526, 1138883980 | EPUB | pages: 160 | 0.3 mb
An essential insight into this central figure in the modern history of Israel and Zionism. This important new study explores the years that built up to the Six Day War and details the crucial issues and events the world is still grappling with today.

Free Download Charles Merriam, "American Political Ideas, 1865-1917"
English | 2008 | ISBN: 1412807158 | EPUB | pages: 532 | 0.8 mb
Charles Merriam is scarcely read today, and even among scholars he is probably more often cited than read seriously. His ambiguous position in the study of American democracy is unfortunate. Between the two world wars, Merriman was the doyen of American political science. This was a period when the most formative characteristics of academic social sciences were taking shape, characteristics that were to dominate the remainder of the century. During this period, "science" and "progress" became virtually synonymous in the social sciences. Between the two world wars, the liberal progressive critique of America’s founders, a critique that included scholars such as Woodrow Wilson, Charles Beard, and others, became the orthodoxy of a new political science. The heart of that critique, insofar as it turned on methodological questions of how to study American government, was very much the work of Charles Merriam. Anyone who seeks to understand why that period was so pivotal in the interpretation of American democracy must necessarily study Charles Merriam and his influence. His work represents the first comprehensive effort by a scholar in the liberal-progressive tradition to survey the entirety of American political thought.

Free Download Donald T. Critchlow, "American Political History: A Very Short Introduction "
English | ISBN: 0199340056 | 2015 | 168 pages | AZW3 | 676 KB
The Founding Fathers who drafted the United States Constitution in 1787 distrusted political parties, popular democracy, centralized government, and a strong executive office. Yet the country’s national politics have historically included all those features. In American Political History: A Very Short Introduction, Donald Critchlow takes on this contradiction between original theory and actual practice. This brief, accessible book explores the nature of the two-party system, key turning points in American political history, representative presidential and congressional elections, struggles to expand the electorate, and critical social protest and third-party movements. The volume emphasizes the continuity of a liberal tradition challenged by partisan divide, war, and periodic economic turmoil.

Free Download Michael Gawenda, "American Notebook: A Personal and Political Journey"
English | 2007 | ISBN: 052285253X | EPUB | pages: 288 | 0.4 mb
One of the rewards extended to former editors-if they are lucky and get to plan their departure-is that they can choose their next assignment. I had no doubt about what I wanted: to be Washington correspondent for The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald. There was no more important and interesting international story to cover than the United States at the beginning of George W. Bush’s second term. The war in Iraq was going badly, and it was not at all clear that the war on terror was being won-or even if there was any agreement that it was, in fact, a war.

Free Download Jeffrey A. Becker, "Ambition in America: Political Power and the Collapse of Citizenship"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 081314504X | EPUB | pages: 210 | 0.7 mb
Most Americans admire the determination and drive of artists, athletes, and CEOs, but they seem to despise similar ambition in their elected officials. The structure of political representation and the separation of powers detailed in the United States Constitution were intended to restrain self-interested ambition. Because not all citizens have a desire to rule, republican democracies must choose leaders from pools of ambitious candidates while trying to prevent those same people from exploiting public power to dominate the less ambitious.

Free Download Amanda Machin, "Against Political Compromise: Sustaining Democratic Debate"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 0367901315, 1472483952 | EPUB | pages: 70 | 0.1 mb
Political compromise is emerging as a preferred solution for numerous apparently intractable problems. Many have pointed to the rising degree of political polarisation around issues such as climate change, immigration and abortion. These are ‘wicked problems’ that are clearly not conducive to any sort of political consensus. The groups and individuals who are party to these issues disagree, often both fully and fiercely. As an alternative, political compromise seemingly offers a way of respecting difference while simultaneously generating a decision upon which policy can move forward. But proponents of political compromise should also acknowledge its significant weaknesses and dangers. Invoking recent examples from various policy areas to illustrate their claims, the authors assert that compromise can disguise inequality, reduce plurality and heighten uncertainty. In short, compromise can weaken democracy and must not be seen as some sort of political panacea.

Free Download Zizi Papacharissi, "After Democracy: Imagining Our Political Future"
English | ISBN: 0300245963 | 2021 | 176 pages | AZW3 | 424 KB
What do ordinary citizens really want from their governments?

Free Download Abdulaziz Al-Maosherji, "A Political Thesaurus for Interpreters and Translators"
English | ISBN: 1527501620 | 2023 | 167 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This book is your guide to the political language used in the Middle East. It is a tool fashioned to help translators and interpreters to master the language, and to be able to seamlessly integrate with linguistic landscape of the region. It combines an academic overview of translating and interpreting in relation to six themes related to politics.

Free Download Brendan Moran, "Walter Benjamin and Political Theology "
English | ISBN: 1350284343 | 2024 | 262 pages | PDF | 23 MB
Tracing Walter Benjamin’s convergences with, and divergences from, influential German legal theorist Carl Schmitt, this edited collection contextualizes Benjamin’s thinking in the intellectual currents of his time, while also placing him in dialogue with traditions and thinkers from antiquity to the present. At stake is whether Benjamin presents the possibility of a distinctive political theology-a question which the collection addresses without collapsing the tensions internal to Benjamin’s thought. Benjamin’s thought has been a touchstone, explicitly or implicitly, in numerous efforts to conceive of a ‘new’ political theology that is not anchored in legitimizing and preserving power, but in justice and liberation. Benjamin interrogates the political-theological complex from what may be construed as a vantage point opposed to Schmitt. Whereas Schmitt excavates the theological elements in modernity in order to shore up liberalism’s illiberal inheritance, Benjamin roots out these latent structures in order to dissolve them and liberate us from their oppressive legacy. This volume’s multifaceted contributions explore why Benjamin has been such a fertile source for thinking about political theology beyond – and often against – Schmitt. Benjamin indicates how existing political theologies can be challenged or expanded. This book accordingly makes a wide range of relevant work available for study whilst also opening new perspectives on Benjamin’s œuvre.

Free Download Sophal Ear, "Viral Sovereignty and the Political Economy of Pandemics: What Explains How Countries Handle Outbreaks? "
English | ISBN: 1032133856 | 2021 | 222 pages | PDF | 8 MB
Over the past few decades a number of emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) have disrupted societies throughout the world, including HIV, Ebola, H5N1 (or ”avian flu”) and SARS, and of course the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) which spread worldwide to become a global pandemic. As well as EIDs, countries and regions also contend with endemic diseases, such as malaria. There are many factors that have contributed to the rise in, and spread of, EIDs and other diseases, including overpopulation, rapid urbanization, environmental degradation, and antibiotic resistance. Political and cultural responses to disease can greatly affect their spread. The global community needs to defend itself against disease threats: one weak link is enough to start a chain reaction that results in a global pandemic such as COVID-19. Some states take a nationalistic approach towards combating disease; however, international cooperation and meaningful ”viral sovereignty”―empowering countries to create effective health institutions and surveillance systems in order to contain disease―must be considered.