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The author argues that the European Union is under threat of collapse and that new international policy must tackle migration, the Euro, Brexit, and enlargement in order to avoid dissolution.

This book discusses existing problems with Black maternal health and the rhetorical implications of ethos in American society.

Advocating Heightened Education details a model of educational advocacy drawn from the histories and faculty stories of two unusual college campuses. It counters the impression of higher education as superficial and stagnant by showing academic routines to be inventive and mutable.

As the United States wants to see India establish itself as a rival power to China, this book examines the critical questions of how Modi is stepping up his efforts to counter Xi Jinping's Belt and Road Initiative.

The first international book on antiracist discourse, Antiracist Discourse in Brazil examines the history of antislavery, abolition, and antiracist discourse in Brazil with a detailed discourse analysis of contemporary parliamentary debates on affirmative action.

Worldly Shame draws on the thought of Hannah Arendt to argue that shame can help us break free of oppressive regimes, draw us into collective action, give us the space for judgment, and finally, help us mourn and rebuild the world together.

For the American founding fathers, good character was not just important to the survival of liberty, it was the load bearing central pillar. Today this is no longer true. Good character doesn't matter. The author examines why and how this complete abandonment of the founders' value system came about.

In President Trump and the News Media Kuypers analyzes policy addresses by President Trump, comparing them with reporting through lenses of framing analysis and Moral Foundations Theory. Differences point to widespread journalistic bias. The effect of this bias on reportorial practices and the functioning of the American Republic is addressed.

Utilizing FBI surveillance documents this multi-chapter book reveals hidden histories of five persons, two organizations, and one event all related to Mexicans and their Chicanos in the U.S.

This book analyzes the link between gender and technology to explain the mechanisms underlying specific genders that have been associated with literary genres. Ultimately, this book shows the ways in which contemporary Argentine society is creating inclusive spaces for women to participate in technological fields on the web and in real-time.

This book argues for the virtues of diversity in cities, organizations, development assistance, and human discourse. Much of the material is based on the author's decade in the World Bank whose policies were based on a narrow ideological vision that did not tolerate a diversity of approaches or even the open contestation of alternatives.

Harnessing the empowering ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche to read the human condition of modern existence through a sociological lens, this book confronts the realities of how modern social structures, ideologies, and utopianisms affect one's ability to purpose existence with self-authored meaning.

This book explores the recovery of Socratic philosophy in 19th century political thought of G.W.F. Hegel, Soren Kierkegaard, John Stuart Mill, and Friedrich Nietzsche. For Kierkegaard the Socratic indivdual in modern times is the person of faith, for Mill the idiosyncratic public intellectual, and for Nietzsche the Dionysian artist.

Arms, Revenue, and Entitlements: U.S. Deficits in the Cold War, 1945-1991 explores how defense, tax, and entitlement policies caused the U.S. government to become deficit normative during the Cold War era, arguing that only a comprehensive program can rein in deficits in the twenty-first century.

Political forces are seeking to stop progressive social, political, economic change by conspiring to impose authoritarianism to suppress the public's desire for just, democratic government. One means to obscure the ongoing conspiracy to impose outright dictatorship is to smear, malign critics of this conspiracy as guilty of conspiracy theory.

This book is a response to the growing concern by social critics that we are becoming a de-voiced society through our preferences for hyper-textual, image-based forms of electronic connectivity. It interrogates the relational losses we suffer when we forget the value of the enchanting voice within immediate ear-to-ear relations.

How can a rogue state with a bad national reputation for significant violations of global norms improve its reputation if it so desires? This book provides an assessment of the reputational process at work when rogues have been successful, or not, at improving their national reputations.

There are many studies of the Cold War, but none has sought to understand the period in the broader context of human history as this one does. Michael Wayne Santos examines the interplay of the long-standing limits on human decision-making, our propensity for story-telling, and need for certitude in a period of chaos and confusion.

Eurasianism: An Ideology for the Multipolar World examines the ideology of Eurasianism - specifically neo-Eurasianist thought - and its implications for the international system.

A narrative analysis of memoirs of six holocaust survivors from a single family, this book examines strategies of self-preservation and resilience in young people exposed to persecution at different ages and life stages. It argues that holocaust-era stories can enhance understanding of today's child refugees.

This book focuses on television as a form of virtual reality, the most recent in a long evolution of artistic technologies. Drawing on storyworld theory, it examines TV subjects including title sequences, children's television, science fiction and postapocalyptic programs, and the relationship between television and the postmodern condition.

This is an unprecedented 230-year study that reveals the full arsenal of Australian foreign policy: diplomacy, law, investment, research, negotiations, military force and espionage. It shows the central role of economic actors in defining and pursuing the "national interest."

Tyler Schafer examines a fledgling Las Vegas community garden and uses it as a case study to identify the ways group cultures create inside community gardens. He argues that gardener's decisions, made consciously or not, shape their abilities to address the challenges faced by the residents of their city.

The Digital Closet argues that social media is a dominant force in the lives of LGBT*Q individuals. Through examining archives, talking with individuals, and analyzing social media feeds, the author highlights the many ways that social media acts as both a freeing as well as an oppressive environment for many within the LGBT*Q community.

In Overcoming America / America Overcoming, Stephen Rowe shows how the moral disease and political paralysis that plague America are symptomatic of the fact that America herself has been overtaken by the modern values which she exported to the rest of the world. He points to a way out of this current and potentially fatal malaise: join other societies which are also struggling to move beyond the modern and consciously reappropriate those elements of tradition which have to do with cultivation of the mature human being. To avoid fundamentalism, Rowe discusses how this reappropriation must be undertaken in dialogue with those who also have come to recognize the unsustainable quality of the modern lifeway, and who have been able to live beyond the nihilistic wish to tear it down. This book supports the call for an emerging global ethic and spirituality, providing resources of articulation and interpretation that allow for an ongoing dialogue between traditional and modern valuesboth worthy and problematic in their own waysthrough which reliable policy and healthy living become possible.

Amplified Advantage investigates the value and impact of today's small liberal arts colleges on the students who attend them. It adds to our understanding of how class works, the impact of parents and families on social reproduction, and the consequences of attending a "good college" in an era of inequality.

What role do religious narratives play in the elevated rates of suicide attempt among LGBTQ people? Taking a narrative approach to first-person accounts, this book addresses the potential violence of theological narratives upon queer souls and contributes to constructive methods of intervention toward the livability of life for queer people.

In the long course of late imperial Chinese history, servants and concubines formed a vast social stratum in the hinterland along the Grand Canal, particularly in urban areas. Concubinage and Servitude in Late Imperial China is a survey of the institutions and practice of concubinage and servitude in both the general populace and the imperial palace, with a focus on the examination of Ming-Qing political and socioeconomic history through the lives of this particular group of distinct yet associated individuals. The persistent theme of the book is how concubines, appointed by patriarchal polygamy, and servants, laboring under the master-servants hierarchy, experienced interactions and mobility within each institution and in associating with the other. While reviewing how ritual and law treated concubines and servants as patriarchal possessions, the author explores the perspectives available for individual concubines and servants and the limitations in their daily circumstances, searching for their ';positional powers' and ';privilege of the inferiors' in the context of Chinese culture during the Ming-Qing time period.For a list of the books tables and their sources, please see: http://www.wou.edu/wp/hsiehb/