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"The book gives an account of an essential part of Britain's troubled relationship with the rest of Europe after 1945, particularly considering the rivalry of France and Britain between 1945 and 2007. The record of Britain's relations with the rest of Europe, and in particular with France, from 1945 onwards was seen by the politicians and diplomats in charge of foreign policy very much in terms of a diplomatic battle. This is paradoxical given that European integration was supposedly aiming to create a European community. Although Britain has usually been seen as an at best half-hearted participant in European integration it nonetheless maintained its ambition to assume the leadership of Europe. This inevitably led to a confrontation with France which shared the same goal. This book begins by looking at the opposing ways in which these two ancient European rivals presented very different models for the sort of Europe they wished to see emerge. It goes on to consider the record of their rivalry between 1945 and 2007. After this Britain effectively gave up the battle for the political leadership of Europe. This, however, should not obscure the fact that it had succeeded in imposing much of its social and economic model on Europe. This volume will be of interest to both undergraduate students and general readers interested in Britain's position in Europe"--

"The most authoritative and accessible introduction available on the topic. By pairing original research with fundamental concepts of representation and responsibility, Carson and Jacobson help students develop the tools to evaluate representative government and their own role in the electoral process"--

"Hugh Roberts fundamentally reassesses the Arab Spring, refuting the stories the Western powers fed to the world. There is no doubt that the toppling of Ben Ali in Tunisia in January 2011 and what followed amounted to a political revolution. But the uprisings in Egypt, Libya, and Syria-countries with quite different histories and political traditions-were never revolutions. As Hugh Roberts explains, the bitter conclusions of these episodes were inscribed in their misunderstood beginnings"--

"The 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program was supposed to be a stepping stone, a policy innovation announced by the White House designed to put pressure on Congress for a broader, lasting set of legislative changes. Those changes never materialized, and the people who hoped to benefit from them have been forced to navigate a tense and contradictory policy landscape ever since, haunted by these unfulfilled promises. Legal Phantoms tells their story. After Congress failed to pass a comprehensive immigration bill in 2013, President Obama pivoted in 2014 to supplementing DACA with a deferred action program (known as DAPA) for the parents of citizens and lawful permanent residents and a DACA expansion (DACA ) in 2014. But challenges from Republican-led states prevented even these programs from going into effect. Interviews with would-be applicants, immigrant-rights advocates, and government officials reveal how such failed immigration-reform efforts continue to affect not only those who had hoped to benefit, but their families, communities, and the country in which they have made an uneasy home. Out of the ashes of these lost dreams, though, people find their own paths forward through uncharted legal territory with creativity and resistance"--

"Amid sweeping conversations about the future of artificial intelligence and its impact on US industry and economy, one economic domain has remained relatively insulated from the discussion: health care. How is it possible that an industry so bemoaned for inefficiency and expense, an industry so large that it now makes up a quarter of the US economy, could escape the efficiency- and cost-driven disruptions of AI? How are doctor's offices still relying on fax machines in the age of driverless cars? Why is it the one industry where we'd like to see AI try some things the one that machines can't seem to infiltrate? The Economics of Artificial Intelligence: Health Care Challenges convenes contributions from health economists, physicians, philosophers, and legal scholars to identify the primary barriers to entry for AI in America's biggest industry. Across original papers and wide-ranging written responses, they find five domains of barriers: incentives; management; data availability; regulation. They also find evidence of real opportunity: AI has promise to improve outcomes and lower costs, and if paths to intervention are seized upon, improvements will follow"--

"An intimate study of Abraham Lincoln's powerful vision of democracy, which guided him through the Civil War and is still relevant today-by best-selling historian and three-time winner of the Lincoln Prize Abraham Lincoln grappled with the greatest crisis of democracy that has ever confronted the United States. While many books have been written about his temperament, judgment, and steady hand in guiding the country through the Civil War, we know less about Lincoln's penetrating ideas and beliefs about democracy, which were every bit as important as his character in sustaining him through the crisis. Allen C. Guelzo, one of America's foremost experts on Lincoln, captures the president's firmly held belief that democracy was the greatest political achievement in human history. He shows how Lincoln's deep commitment to the balance between majority and minority rule enabled him to stand firm against secession while also committing the Union to reconciliation rather than recrimination in the aftermath of war. In bringing his subject to life as a rigorous and visionary thinker, Guelzo assesses Lincoln's actions on civil liberties and his views on race, and explains why his vision for the role of government would have made him a pivotal president even if there had been no Civil War. Our Ancient Faith gives us a deeper understanding of this endlessly fascinating man and shows how his ideas are still sharp and relevant more than 150 years later"--

"In 2000, the United Nations Security Council adopted Resolution 1325, acknowledging the impact of war on women and resolving to increase the participation of women and incorporate gender perspectives in all United Nations peace and security efforts. This landmark initiative-commonly referred to as the Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) Resolution-was hailed by feminist activists as a watershed moment that could serve as the cornerstone of a robust policy infrastructure that uplifted women around the world. Twenty years and hundreds of declarations, action plans, and protocols later, the WPS agenda is more complex and confounding than ever, contested by a proliferating cast of governments, activists, humanitarians, lawyers, militaries, celebrities, and scholars. In this book, Paul Kirby and Laura J. Shepherd offer a new reading of the WPS agenda as an unruly field of governance, full of vitality but marked everywhere by failure, where the technical provisions of policy collide with some of the most profound questions about contemporary feminism, the purpose of peace movements, and the shape of international order itself. The authors argue that the WPS field is often in flux, defined and disrupted by a growing number of national, supranational, subnational and transnational entities. These conflicting stakeholders, in turn, operate across multiple levels of global governance and address an expanding menu of "issue areas" that themselves challenge traditional boundaries of peace and security, hindering the implementation of the stated WPS policy goals. The first full-length scholarly examination of the complexity of the WPS agenda as an object of study in its own right, Governing the Feminist Peace permanently reorients our understanding of international policy-setting away from a notion of change cascading out from the texts of the UN and toward the idea of multiple actors within a variegated field shaping and implementing policy on a global level"--