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Ghosts of War : Nazi Occupation and Its Aftermath in Soviet Belarus
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ISBN: 9781501762758 Year: 2022 Publisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press,

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"Focusing on Belarus, an East European borderland and Soviet republic that was particularly affected by the Second World War, the book investigates the choices that the local population made (and was forced to make) under Nazi occupation, and examines their political, social, legal, and personal repercussions in the postwar decades."--


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The revolutionary city : urbanization and the global transformation of rebellion
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ISBN: 0691224757 Year: 2022 Publisher: Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press,

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"For many decades, "social revolutions" have been a major focus of social scientific work. Defined by Theda Skocpol in her classic work States and Social Revolutions as "rapid, basic transformations of a society's state and class structures that are accompanied and in part carried through by mass based revolts from below," these types of revolutions have become much less frequent, which has led some political scientists to believe that the age of revolutions is over. Yet as Beissinger argues, while social revolutions are on the decline, another, unrecognized type is on the rise: the "urban civic" revolution. These rebellions (the revolutions in Tunisia and Ukraine, for example) are characterized not by armed rebellion, widespread street-fighting, or urban rioting, but instead by attempts to mobilize as many people as possible in central urban spaces in a concentrated period of time-paralyzing commerce, administration, and society through the power of numbers with the hope of inducing regime collapse. Because much of the theory and understanding of revolutionary activity-and its outcome-is still based around work on social revolutions, social science is working with an outdated understanding of how revolutions happen, and the shape they may take in the future. This book seeks to address this and to demonstrate that revolution as a mass political project of regime-change has actually become more frequent. Using data on the outcomes of 343 revolutionary episodes around the world from 1900 to 2014, Beissinger develops a theory of urban revolution, places this explosion of urban revolutionary contention into global historical perspective, and shows how these revolutions happen and whether and when they succeed. He focuses on how the spatial context of revolt (namely, the city) alters the character of revolutions and the options states have in addressing and repressing them. Crucially, Beissinger argues, cities present certain advantages to revolutionaries; as they succeed, and as urbanization continues, revolutions may see more success than they have historically"--

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Sociology, Urban. --- Revolutions. --- Urbanization. --- Regime change. --- 1959 Mosul uprising. --- 1991 uprisings in Iraq. --- 1997 Asian financial crisis. --- 2014 Ukrainian revolution. --- 8888 Uprising. --- Activism. --- Arab Spring. --- Authoritarianism. --- Beer Hall Putsch. --- Black January. --- Bolsheviks. --- Buddhism. --- Carnation Revolution. --- Cedar Revolution. --- Civil society. --- Cold War (1985–91). --- Cold War. --- Communards. --- Communist revolution. --- Contentious politics. --- Corruption Perceptions Index. --- Counter-insurgency. --- Counter-revolutionary. --- Counterculture. --- Coup d'état. --- Crowd control. --- Cultural Revolution. --- Decolonization. --- Defection. --- Disruptive innovation. --- Economic development. --- Economic growth. --- Economic stagnation. --- Electoral fraud. --- Emerging technologies. --- Euromaidan. --- Financial crisis of 2007–08. --- Financial crisis. --- Fraternization. --- Globalization. --- Great Depression. --- Guerrilla warfare. --- Gwangju Uprising. --- Hungarian Revolution of 1956. --- Inflation. --- Insurgency. --- International Students' Day. --- Kmara. --- Mass mobilization. --- Meiji Restoration. --- Mexican Revolution. --- Mohamed Bouazizi. --- Mutiny. --- Nonviolent revolution. --- Occupy movement. --- Oppression. --- Orange Revolution. --- People Power Revolution. --- Peterloo Massacre. --- Prediction. --- Probability. --- Protest. --- Public space. --- Reformasi (Malaysia). --- Regime. --- Religion. --- Revolution of 1905. --- Revolution. --- Revolutionary movement. --- Revolutions of 1989. --- Right Sector. --- Right of revolution. --- Romanian Revolution. --- Rose Revolution. --- Saddam Hussein. --- Sidi Bouzid. --- Social revolution. --- Spartacist uprising. --- State within a state. --- Statistical significance. --- Suharto. --- Sunflower Student Movement. --- Technocracy. --- Term limit. --- The True Cost. --- Total war. --- Tunisian Revolution. --- Ukraine without Kuchma. --- United States Bill of Rights. --- Unrest. --- Urban bias. --- Urban revolution. --- Urbanization. --- Vanguardism. --- Velvet Revolution. --- Viktor Yanukovych. --- War. --- Warfare. --- World War I. --- Yemeni Revolution.


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An unwritten future : realism and uncertainty in world politics
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ISBN: 0691233128 Year: 2022 Publisher: Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press,

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"An Unwritten Future offers a fresh reassessment of classical realism, an enduring approach to understanding crucial events in the international political arena. Jonathan Kirshner identifies the fundamental flaws of classical realism's would-be successors, and shows how this older, more nuanced, and sophisticated method for studying world politics better explains the formative events of the past. Kirshner also reveals how this approach is ideally equipped to comprehend the vital questions of the present-such as the implications of China's rise, the ways that social and economic change alter the balance of power and the nature of international conflict, and the consequences of the end of the US-led postwar order for the future of world politics. Laying out realism's core principles, Kirshner discusses the contributions of the perspective's key thinkers, including Thucydides, Hans Morgenthau, and Raymond Aron, among others. He illustrates how a classical realist approach gives new insights into major upheavals of the twentieth century, such as Britain's appeasement of Nazi Germany and America's ruinous involvement in Vietnam. Kirshner also addresses realism's limits and explores contemporary issues, including the ascent of great power challengers, the political implications of globalization, and the diffusion of power in modern world politics. A reexamination of the realist tradition, with a renewed emphasis on the crucial roles played by uncertainty, contingency, and contestation, An Unwritten Future demonstrates how a once-popular school of thought provides invaluable insights into pressing real-world problems"--

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Political realism. --- Adolf Hitler. --- Allegory (category theory). --- Athens. --- Availability. --- Battle of Loos. --- Classical realism (international relations). --- Comparative advantage. --- Competition (economics). --- Delian League. --- Demagogue. --- Dependency theory. --- Despair (novel). --- Dissident. --- Dwight D. Eisenhower. --- Economic equilibrium. --- Economic integration. --- Economic policy. --- Economics. --- Economy. --- Effectiveness. --- Emotion. --- Empire of Japan. --- Empirical evidence. --- Employment. --- Energy industry. --- Fanaticism. --- Foreign exchange market. --- Foreign policy. --- Forging. --- Führer. --- Geneva Conference (1954). --- Genre. --- Globalization. --- Great power. --- Gross domestic product. --- Hegemony. --- Hoplite. --- Hubris. --- Human nature. --- Ideology. --- Industry. --- International Trade Organization. --- International crisis. --- International relations. --- Interrogation. --- John Mearsheimer. --- Kenneth Waltz. --- Latin Monetary Union. --- Lecture. --- Liberal democracy. --- Liberalism. --- Livy. --- Long run and short run. --- Market economy. --- Market power. --- Marxism. --- Military tactics. --- Military threat. --- National power. --- Navigation Acts. --- Neorealism (international relations). --- Neville Chamberlain. --- Nixon shock. --- Novelist. --- Offensive realism. --- On China. --- Openness. --- Opium. --- Pacifism. --- Person. --- Physician. --- Polarity (international relations). --- Police officer. --- Political system. --- Politics Among Nations. --- Politics. --- Power transform. --- Prediction. --- Product (business). --- Rational expectations. --- Rationality. --- Raymond Aron. --- Regional hegemony. --- Reign. --- Remilitarization of the Rhineland. --- Resentment. --- Right-wing politics. --- School of thought. --- Southern Europe. --- Surveillance. --- Tariff. --- The Public Interest. --- Thucydides. --- Total war. --- Trade agreement. --- Triumphalism. --- Uncertainty. --- Unintended consequences. --- United States Department of State. --- Willful blindness.

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