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Contemporary Women's Movements in Hungary: Globalization, Democracy, and Gender Equality Written by Katalin Fábián Copub.: Johns Hopkins University Press This groundbreaking study focuses on the role of women's activism in a society where women are not yet adequately represented by established parties and political institutions. Drawing on eyewitness accounts of meetings and protests, as well as first-person interviews with leading female activists, Katalin Fábián examines the interactions between women's groups in Hungary and studies the unique brand of democracy they have forged in postcommunist Eastern Europe. [more]

Germany Says No: The Iraq War and the Future of German Foreign and Security Policy Written by Dieter Dettke Copub.: The Johns Hopkins University Press Germany Says "No" reviews the country's actions in major international crises from the first Gulf War to the war with Iraq, concluding -- in contrast to many models of contemporary German foreign policy -- that the country's civilian power paradigm has been succeeded by a defensive structural realist approach. [more]

Participatory Innovation and Representative Democracy in Latin America Edited by Andrew D. Selee, Enrique Peruzzotti Copub.: Johns Hopkins University Press A Book Launch Event for Participatory Innovations and Democratic Democracy in Latin Americawill held on October 9, from 9 - 10:30 at the Wilson Center. This empirically grounded collection examines the growth of participatory institutions in Latin American democracy and how such institutions affect representative government. While most existing literature concentrates on model cases of participatory budgeting in Brazil, this volume investigates cases in Mexico, Bolivia, Chile, Brazil, and Argentina, where conditions for innovation have been far less favorable. [more]

Rebellious Satellite: Poland 1956 Written by Pawel Machcewicz Copub.: Stanford University Press A Book Launch Event for Rebellious Satellite will held on October 9, from 12 - 1:30 at the Wilson Center. Rebellious Satellite: Poland 1956 offers a social history of the mass movements that prompted political change and altered Polish-Soviet relations in 1956 but avoided a Soviet armed response. [more]

Women in Power in Post-Communist Parliaments Edited by Marilyn Rueschmeyer, Sharon L. Wolchik Copub.: Indiana University Press Women in Power in Post-Communist Parliaments examines the life and work of women who have reached positions of political power after the end of communism in Europe. [more]

In Praise of Deadlock: How Partisan Struggle Makes Better Laws Written by W. Lee Rawls Copub.: The Johns Hopkins University Press A Book Launch Event for In Praise of Deadlock will held on October 19, from 3:30 - 5:00 at the Wilson Center. With budget reconciliations, filibusters, and supermajorities making headlines, In Praise of Deadlock explains the legislative process and its checkpoints, while maintaining a noncomformist respect for the hurdles and hang-ups inherent in the American system. As a practitioner who served for 14 years as chief of staff to Senators Bill Frist and Pete Domenici, W. Lee Rawls offers a candid perspective on partisan struggle, which he sees as essential to advancing new policy and generating consensus. Such grappling, Rawls concludes, results in a nuanced, durable machine, producing better laws that have benefited from minority input. [more]

Participatory Institutions in Democratic Brazil Written by Leonardo Avritzer Copub.: Johns Hopkins University Press Brazil has conducted some of the world's most stunning experiments in participatory democracy, most notably the creation of city budgets through local citizens' meetings. Leonardo Avritzer introduces a fresh analytical approach to reveal the social and institutional conditions that make civic participation most effective, expanding the empirical base for assessing these institutions. [more]

Enterprising Women in Urban Zimbabwe: Gender, Microbusiness, and Globalization Written by Mary Johnson Osirim Copub.: Indiana University Press Mary Johnson Osirim investigates the business and personal experiences of women entrepreneurs in Harare and Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, to understand their successes, challenges, and contributions to development during the 1990s. [more]

Stalin's Police: Public Order and Mass Repression in the USSR, 1926–1941 Written by Paul Hagenloh Copub.: Johns Hopkins University Press Stalin's Police offers a new interpretation of the mass repressions associated with the Stalinist terror of the late 1930s. [more]

One Homeland or Two? The Nationalization and Transnationalization of Mongolia's Kazakhs Written by Alexander C. Diener Copub.: Stanford University Press How do ethnicity and notions of a traditional homeland interact in shaping a community's values and images? As Alexander C. Diener shows in One Homeland or Two?, the answer, even in a diaspora, is far from a simple harking back to the "old country." [more]

Cities after the Fall of Communism: Reshaping Cultural Landscapes and European Identity Edited by John J. Czaplicka, Nida Gelazis, Blair A. Ruble Copub.: Johns Hopkins University Press Cities after the Fall of Communism traces the cultural reorientation of East European cities since 1989. Analyzing the architecture, commemorative practices, and urban planning of cities such as Lviv, Vilnius, and Odessa, the contributors to this volume demonstrate how history may be selectively re-imagined in light of present political and cultural realities. [more]

Two Suns in the Heavens: The Sino-Soviet Struggle for Supremacy, 1962-1967 Written by Sergey Radchenko Copub.: Stanford University Press Using newly available archival sources, Two Suns in the Heavens examines the dramatic deterioration of relations between the USSR and China in the 1960s, whereby once powerful allies became estranged, competitive, and increasingly hostile neighbors. [more]

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