Political Science

Being and Symptom: The Intersection of Sociology, Lacanian Psychoanalysis, and Continental Philosophy

Author: 

Öğüt, Suheyb; Founder and Director, Bosphorus Center for Global Affairs

In this daring new study, the renowned Turkish sociologist and public intellectual Suheyb Öğüt seeks a new explanation of political sovereignty demystified from traditional descriptions of the political process.

Market: 
Political Science, Sociology, Philosophy, Psychology, Sexuality, Psychoanalysis, Political Theory, Political Philosophy, Ontology, Metaphysics, Hobbes, Foucault, Lacan, Kant, Heidegger, Derrida, Žižek
Release Date: 
June 8, 2020
ISBN: 
978-1680539974 Hardcover
Price: 
$139.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
220
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

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The Hounds of Actaeon: The Magical Origins of Public Relations and Modern Media

Author: 

Loza, Mauricio; Independent Researcher and Technology Writer

In this innovative study, Colombian technology writer Mauricio Loza pursues an intriguing thesis on the origin of psychology and modern media, namely that they arise from the magical arts of the Renaissance, and it is there that we must seek what Ioan Culianu called “the prototype of the impersonal systems of the media, of indirect censorship, of global manipulation and of the trusts that exercise their occult control over the Western masses.”

Market: 
Political Science, European History, Media Studies, Psychology, Psychoanalysis, Intellectual History, Renaissance Studies, Magic, Paranormal Studies, Ioan Culianu, Marsilio Ficino, Giordano Bruno, Sigmund Freud, Wilhelm Reich, Guy Debord
Release Date: 
June 8, 2020
ISBN: 
978-1680531206 Hardcover
Price: 
$139.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
430
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

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The United States vs. Russia, 2009-2019: The Last Ten Years of an Old Geopolitical Game

Author: 

Dima, Nicholas, Ph.D., Columbia University

Credentials: 

Professor, John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School of the U.S. Army, Fort Bragg (ret.)

Eurasia remains a zone of confrontation between the United States and Russia. Over the last decade, this confrontation has reached the Middle East, and, extending through Central Asia to China and points further afield, it has acquires global dimensions.

Market: 
Political Science, Global Politics, International Relations, Diplomacy, Cold War, American Studies, Russian Studies, US-Russia Relations, Middle East, Great Power Politics
Release Date: 
December 15, 2019
ISBN: 
978-1680532241 Hardcover
Price: 
$139.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
180
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

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Washington, DC 20036
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Trumplandia: Populist Nationalism in America

Author: 

Dianu, Tiberiu, attorney and author

Trumplandia: Populist Nationalism in America is a collection of essays about the transformation of America, which has turned from a united nation to one more divided than ever under the presidency of Donald Trump. Some pundits predict that if things don’t change another civil war could occur. Have we reached a point of no return? Author and attorney Tiberiu Dianu writes in the hope that America is mature enough to learn from its mistakes and avoid further scars along its evolving history.

Market: 
American Studies, Political Science, Presidential Elections, Presidential Politics, Democracy, Journalism, Nationalism, Populism, Donald Trump, American History, Sociology
Release Date: 
December 15, 2019
ISBN: 
978-1680532234 Hardcover
Price: 
$139.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
420
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

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Washington, DC 20036
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Discourses of Asian Societies: Cases from China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan

Author: 

Li, Simin, University of Victoria (Canada)

In this pathbreaking collections of essays, Canada-based Chinese scholar Simin Li explores the latest insights into information, knowledge, political communication, and identity in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and their neighbors, friends, and adversaries. Discourses of Asian Societies follows the social dynamics of these East Asian nations and reflects their recent political discourses and civil practices, grouped into four themes: memory and diaspora, civil practice and discourse in China, political discourses in Hong Kong, and youth identity and nationalism in Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Market: 
Sociology, Political Science, Social Science, Asia, Asian Studies, East Asia, Development Studies, Youth Studies, China, Chinese Society, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Post-Colonial Studies, Information Technology, Social Media
Release Date: 
December 13, 2019
ISBN: 
978-1680531626  Hardcover
Price: 
$139.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
194
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

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Washington, DC 20036
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A Book Too Risky To Publish: Free Speech and Universities

Author: 

Flynn, James R., Ph.D.

Credentials: 

Professor Emeritus of Political Studies, University of Otago

(Author of The Torchlight List, Fate and Philosophy, and 16 other books)

Market: 
Political Science, Politics, American Studies, Education, Higher Education, Colleges and Universities, Free Speech, Philosophy, Ethics, Humanities, Ideology, Epistemology, Critical Thought
Release Date: 
December 20, 2019
ISBN: 
978-1680532043 Hardcover; 978-1680532197 Paperback
Price: 
$99.95/$29.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
280
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

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Washington, DC 20036
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Human Rights and the Arab Spring: The Cases of Tunisia and Egypt (St. James's Studies in World Affairs)(Paperback edition)

Author: 

El-Halabi, Bachar, Asfari Institute, American University of Beirut

By 2015, four years after the dawn of the Arab Spring, the prospects of a unifying political reform narrative in the Arab World were noticeably dwindling. The unprecedented opportunity for a regional workshop of reform and state building had stalled, with Islamist movements more anxious about questions of identity and religious ethics, and with the old guards of the “deep state” establishments (mainly military or religious personnel) countering the revolutions, rather than being concerned with constitutionalism.

Market: 
Middle East Studies, Political Science, Public Policy, Human Rights, Egypt, Tunisia, Arab Spring, Islam, Modern Middle East, Civil War, Power Vacuums, Criminal Justice, Law, Transition Politics
Release Date: 
July 15, 2019
ISBN: 
978-1680531671 Paperback
Price: 
$29.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
120
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

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The Presence of the Past: Essays on Memory, Conflict, and Reconciliation (St. James’s Studies in World Affairs)

Author: 

Palouš, Martin, Glenn Hughes (Editors)

Credentials: 

Palouš: Ambassador of the Czech Republic to the United States, 2001-2005, and Permanent Representative of the Czech Republic to the United Nations, 2006-2011; Hughes: Professor of Philosophy, Inaugural Chair in Catholic Philosophy, St. Mary’s University

Edited by veteran Czech diplomat and senior religion scholar Glenn Hughes, The Presence of the Past presents new insights from a conference hosted by the Václav Havel Program for Human Rights and Diplomacy at Florida International University, in cooperation with the Czech non-profit organization Post Bellumand the Vaclav Havel Library. Its fundamental topic is memory, the human capacity to retain its contents in the flux of time, which is explored and discussed both theoretically and in terms of current action-oriented public discourse.

Market: 
Market:Politics, Memory, Political Science, Social Science, International Relations, Humanities, Religion, Human Rights, Philosophy, International Law, Diplomacy, Ideologies, Intellectual History, Political Philosophy, Conflict Studies, Conflict and Reconciliation, History and Memory
Release Date: 
September 1, 2019
ISBN: 
978-1680531855 Hardcover
Price: 
$139.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
280
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

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Washington, DC 20036
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Approaches to the Contemporary American Theatre

Author: 

Andreach, Robert J., Retired Professor of English, Monmouth College

Credentials: 

Robert J. Andreach is a retired professor and author of numerous studies of the contemporary American theatre. He holds a Ph.D. from New York University.

Book CoverIn this engaging study, theatre scholar Robert J. Andreach argues, in what will be his final book, that the contemporary American theatre merits appreciation for dramatizing experiences in genres that jostle the audience into thinking about the experiences in new ways, based on five units of analysis: the naturalistic play, modernist theatre, trilogies, tragedy, and comedy.

Market: 
American Studies, American Literature, American History, American Theatre, Theatre Studies, Modernism, Tragedy, Comedy, Naturalism, Performing Arts, Stage, Politics, Social Science, Humanities
Release Date: 
September 1, 2019
ISBN: 
978-1680531787 Hardcover
Price: 
$139.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
280
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

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Washington, DC 20036
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Conflict and Human Security Threats in Africa

Author: 

Ojakorotu, Victor

Credentials: 

Department of Politics and International Relations, North-West University (South Africa)

In Conflict and Human Security Threats in Africa, South African scholar Victor Ojakorotu unravels the dynamics of conflicts and human security threats now affecting numerous African nations. While some of these conflicts are local, others are national and international. This current and highly engaging study captures multiple cases of insecurity, presenting discussions of terrorism, kidnapping, militia activities, human trafficking, political violence, teenage pregnancy, civil war, and armed conflicts, as well as strategies for their future management.

Market: 
International Relations, Political Science, Africa, African Studies, Conflict, Security Studies, Human Security, Civil Conflict, Diplomacy
Release Date: 
September 1, 2019
ISBN: 
978-1680531749 Hardcover
Price: 
$139.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
194
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
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Washington, DC 20036
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