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Warrant for Terror
The Fatwas of Radical Islam and the Duty to Jihad
Av Shmuel Bar
Häftad, 2008
219 kr
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Since September 11, 2001 much has been written about 'Islamist terrorism,' arguing that it is a perversion that has 'hijacked Islam' in the service of social, political and economic grievances. However, such accounts cannot explain why other people that can lay claim to similar or more serious …
Uncertain Shield
The U.S. Intelligence System in the Throes of Reform
Inbunden, 2006
247 kr
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Ever since the publication in 2004 of the 9/11 Commission Report, the U.S. intelligence community has been in the throes of a convulsive movement for reform. In Preventing Surprise Attacks (2005), Richard A. Posner carried the story of the reform movement up to the enactment of the Intelligence …
Confirmation Wars
Preserving Independent Courts in Angry Times
Häftad, 2007
201 kr
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In Confirmation Wars, Benjamin Wittes rejects the parodies offered by both the Right and Left of the decline of the process by which the United States Senate confirms—or rejects—the president’s nominees to the federal judiciary. He draws on original reporting and new historical research to provide …
Race, Wrongs, and Remedies
Group Justice in the 21st Century
Av Amy L. Wax
Inbunden, 2009
713 kr
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Black Americans continue to lag behind on many measures of social and economic well-being. Conventional wisdom holds that these inequalities can only be eliminated by eradicating racism and providing well-funded social programs. In Race, Wrongs, and Remedies, Amy L. Wax applies concepts from the …
Victorious and Vulnerable
Why Democracy Won in the 20th Century and How it is Still Imperiled
Av Azar Gat
Inbunden, 2009
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586 kr
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In the blink of an eye, liberal democracy's moment of triumph was darkened by new threats, challenges, and doubts. Rejecting the view that liberal democracy's twentieth-century victory was inevitable, distinguished student of war Azar Gat argues that it largely rested on contingent factors and was …
Confirmation Wars
Preserving Independent Courts in Angry Times
Häftad, 2009
374 kr
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Just in time for the first Supreme Court confirmation of the Obama administration, one of America's most insightful legal commentators updates the critically acclaimed Confirmation Wars: Preserving Independent Courts in Angry Times to place the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor in the context of …
Preventing Surprise Attacks
Intelligence Reform in the Wake of 9/11
Inbunden, 2005
223 kr
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The commission to investigate the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States issued its final report in July of 2004, in which it recommended a dramatic overhaul of the nation's intelligence system. Congress responded by hastily enacting the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism …
