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Intro -- Editors' Preface -- A Review of East‒West Relations, the Attack on Intellectual Freedom in the US, the Move to Civil Rig -- Doubt, Suspicion and Dismay in the US Polity -- Jordan Annexes Arab Palestine -- Germany's Will to Power -- Diplomatic Machinery and Peace - Another Call for a 'New UN' -- Japan Postwar - Can There Be a Peace Treaty with All the Allies? -- Aid for the World's Poor -- French Proposals to Pool Coal and Steel Production -- 'Peace by Investment' -- North Atlantic Pact Council - Australia's Pacific Role -- Commonwealth Conference - UK and Australia Clash on Priorities -- Germans Resurgent, Germany Divided -- Peace and the Will to Peace -- UK Recognition of China -- Hot and Cold in American Foreign Policy -- UNESCO Week Talk - 'Operation Relax' -- The Unthinkable Preventive War -- The Chances of War -- Mare Clausum - Soviet Claim on the Baltic -- West Europe Debates German Plan to Pool Coal and Steel Resources -- UN Mission to New Guinea -- Indonesia Restates Claim to 'New Guinea' -- North Korea Attacks the South - Not a Prelude to Wider Conflict -- The World Court and South West Africa -- Korea, Indian and Egyptian Positions Contrasted -- Korean War - Legal Status of the Combatants -- Soviets End Boycott of Security Council -- Great Powers Manoeuvre in Security Council on Korea -- Deeper Changes in the International Season - the Plight of the Left, the Spanish Outcast and the Wat -- Soviet Presidency of the Security Council -- Indonesia Pushes Claim for West New Guinea -- The Legal Status of Formosa and the US Commitment to Status Quo -- MacArthur and Truman at Odds over Formosa -- Preventive War Against the Soviet Union -- US Protects Formosa -- Should Australia Protect West New Guinea? -- German Generals Warn of Soviet Strength -- the West Debates German, Japanese Rearmament.

This authoritative and innovative reader collects twenty-seven articles that are essential for a thorough, comparative, and theoretically-informed approach to the study of race and ethnicity. The international coverage includes the US, UK, Canada, Europe, Asia, and Africa, with a focus on contemporary problems and emerging theoretical issues. Topics include ethnic conflict, migration, citizenship, identity, genocide, transnationalism, and ethnic justice. An introductory essay gives an account of race and ethnicity in contemporary society. The contributors are leading theorists and empirical researchers from around the world. This outstanding collection provides a much-needed international perspective on the current trends, the theoretical base, and the future of racial and ethnic studies.

With the 2020 election, political polarization in the U.S. entered a ludicrous end-stage. Partisanship, once a pseudo-rational system of biases, has devolved to a conflict between incompatible realities. In search of some pathway toward consensus, Evil Twins and the Ultimate Insight: Ayn Rand, Vladimir Nabokov, and the Polarized Politics of Reading looks to the works of two iconic Russian-American writers whose literary rivalry mirrors the rift between political parties in the U.S. The matchup has all the markings of an evil-twin narrative, pitting Rand, the muse of libertarian conservatism, against Nabokov, the trickster-genius of the Western canon. Their mid-century novels afford a rare opportunity to arbitrate, by proxy, American political grievances and resolve, in print, its electoral dysfunction. Evil Twins and the Ultimate Insight mounts this critical intervention into the Blue/Red blood feud and contemplates, in the cognitive challenges of Nabokov's fiction, a remedy for its polarized politics.

To guard against grandstanding, axe-grinding, deck-stacking, inaccuracy, or obfuscation, Stone's book proceeds by indirection, exploring four scholarly books that all speak to the peculiar relationship between Rand and Nabokov: Gene Bell-Villada's On Nabokov, Ayn Rand and the Libertarian Mind (2013), Adam Weiner's How Bad Writing Destroyed the World: Ayn Rand and the Literary Origins of the Financial Crisis (2016), Michael Rodgers's Nabokov and Nietzsche: Problems and Perspectives (2018), and Peter Roberts and Herner Saeverot's Education and the Limits of Reason: Reading Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and Nabokov (2018). Each of these books is seriously flawed, but their numerous interlocking problems conspire to reveal, empirically, via negativa, how literature might tip the scales in America's partisan deadlock. Ultimately, Stone argues that, when our books get tangled up in our politics, their promise—to help us see to the bottom of things and scooch closer to the asymptote of truth and reality—might be something more than a mirage.

Many women wrote philosophy in nineteenth-century Britain, and they wrote across the full range of philosophical topics. Yet these important women thinkers have been left out of the philosophical canon and many of them are barely known today. The aim of this book is to put twelve women philosophers from this period back on the map.

In the wake of the tragic events in Ferguson, Missouri, this book serves as an important reminder of the 1993 Stephen Lawrence Case, presenting never-before-reported information about the inquiry into his murder. Panel member Richard Stone helps explain why the inquiry has not brought sufficient results, and why it has failed to change institutional racism. Using the case as a springboard, he discusses wider contemporary issues - such as policing practices and double-jeopardy rulings - and the lessons we can learn from the many details of the case that have otherwise been buried.