Zbirka: Politične vede in teorije
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Analysis of Samuel P. Huntington's The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order(2017) QUINN, RILEYIn his highly influential 1996 book, Huntington offers a vision of a post-Cold War world in which conflict takes place not between competing ideologies but between cultures.Vezava: Mehka11,59 € -
Analysis of John Rawls's A Theory of Justice(2017) DIONIGI, FILIPPO,KLEIDOSTY, JEREMYRawls’ 1971 text links the idea of social justice to a basic sense of fairness that recognizes human rights and freedoms.Vezava: Mehka12,36 € -
Analysis of Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions(2017) HEDESAN, JO,TENDLER, JOSEPHMore than a classic work on the history and philosophy of science, Kuhn’s 1962 book is considered by many to be one of the greatest works of the 20th century. Kuhn helped change the way everyone looks at science.Vezava: Mehka11,59 € -
Analysis of Judith Butler's Gender Trouble(2017) SMITH-LAING, TIMButler's 1990 work shook the foundations of feminist theory and changed the conversation about gender. While many thinkers already accepted that "gender" was a category constructed by society defined by one's genitalia, Butler went further and argued thatVezava: Mehka11,59 € -
Analysis of Karl Marx's Capital(2017) MACAT TEAMA critical analysis of Karl Marx’s Capital. Controversial and passionately debated to this day, it is nonetheless a fine example of the creative combination of a philosophical method (the dialectic) with historical and economic information to produce a neVezava: Mehka11,59 € -
Analysis of Robert D. Putnam's Bowling Alone(2017) MORROW, ELIZABETHIn one of the most frequently cited social science publications of the last half-century, Robert D. Putnam draws heavily on the critical thinking skill of interpretation to demonstrate that Americans are interacting less and creating less “social capital”Vezava: Mehka11,59 € -
Analysis of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's Can the Subaltern Speak?(2017) RIACH, GRAHAMA critical analysis of Spivak's classic 1988 postcolonial studies essay, in which she argues that the poorest and most marginalized in society (the subalterns) have no platform or voice to affect policy debates or demand a fairer share of society’s goods.Vezava: Mehka11,59 € -
Analysis of Gustavo Gutierrez's A Theology of Liberation(2017) HESSELMANS, MARTHEGutiérrez’s 1971 book provides an inspiring argument as to how Christians and the Roman Catholic Church should support the poor. The Catholic Church had traditionally seen itself as politically neutral but in the 1960s and 70s reformers, such as GutiérrezVezava: Mehka11,59 € -
Analysis of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's The Social Contract(2017) HILL, JAMESFew people can claim to have had minds as fertile and creative as the French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau. One of the most influential political theorists of the modern age, he was also a composer, writer of opera, a novelist, and a memoirist.Vezava: Mehka11,59 € -
Analysis of Kenneth Waltz's Theory of International Politics(2017) QUINN, RILEYTheory of International Politics created a “scientific revolution” in international relations, starting two major debates. It defined the 1980s controversy between the ‘neorealists,’ who believed that competition between states was inevitable, and the ‘neVezava: Mehka11,59 € -
Winter Is Coming(2016) KASPAROV, GARRYThe stunning story of Russia's slide back into a dictatorship - and how the West is now paying the price for allowing it to happen.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Unprecedented(2020) AZARI, SARAUnprecedented is a simple, go-to guide to the many legal issues engulfing the Donald Trump presidency.Vezava: Trda26,72 € -
Our American Story(2019)With contributions from leading thinkers drawing on expertise within their fields, this book offers a series of essays providing a framework for the American story.Vezava: Trda37,16 € -
Analysis of Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities(2017) XIDIAS, JASONSome people imagine that nationhood is as old as civilization itself, but Anderson argues that “nation” and “nationalism” are products of the communication technologies of the modern age. With the invention and spread of printing, local languages graduallVezava: Mehka11,59 € -
Building the Nation(2018) GREGG, HEATHER SELMAHeather Selma Gregg argues that the U.S.-led efforts to “nation build” in both Iraq and Afghanistan failed to focus on the population and build national unity as part of its state building efforts.Vezava: Trda27,79 € -
For the People(2020) TAMAMES, JORGEIn For the People: Left Populism in Spain and the US Jorge Tamames offers a stimulating comparative study of Spain’s Podemos and the Bernie Sanders movement in the US. Left populism emerges as a potential powerful antidote to rising inequality in both EurVezava: Mehka35,64 € -
Call to Arms: Iran’s Marxist Revolutionaries(2021) RAHNEMA, ALIA groundbreaking study of the Iranian People’s Fada’i Guerrillas, their ideology, actions and impact on the 1979 revolutionVezava: Trda62,37 € -
Good State(2021) GRAYLING, A. C.As democracy shows signs of decay, how do we not only arrest its decline but build something better – a state which is democratic in the fullest sense?Vezava: Mehka18,21 €
