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The immigration of Swiss to America and migrations to the central Appalachian Mountains -- Helvetia's founding -- Building the new community -- An agricultural way of life -- Forces of change -- Continuity and change : Helvetia's social and cultural life -- The community in context -- Epilogue -- Photo essay

David McKay explains the political and economic reasons behind the bargaining at Maastricht for European Monetary Union. By making comparisons with other federations, he examines the conditions under which federations succeed or fail.

Building a New Economy uses an evolutionary conceptual framework of states-and-markets, organizations-and-technology, and institutional change. It shows how the institutional coherence of the manufacturing-centred postwar model broke down, and was followed by the ideological and institutional dissonance of the 'lost decades'.

"When the possibility of wiretapping first became known to Americans they were outraged. Now, in our post-9/11 world, it's accepted that corporations are vested with human rights, and government agencies and corporations use computers to monitor our private lives. David H. Price pulls back the curtain to reveal how the FBI and other government agencies have always functioned as the secret police of American capitalism up to today, where they luxuriate in a near-limitless NSA surveillance of all. Price looks through a roster of campaigns by law enforcement, intelligence agencies, and corporations to understand how we got here. Starting with J. Edgar Hoover and the early FBI's alignment with business, his access to 15,000 pages of never-before-seen FBI files shines a light on the surveillance of Edward Said, Andre Gunder Frank and Alexander Cockburn, Native American communists, and progressive factory owners. Price uncovers patterns of FBI monitoring and harassing of activists and public figures, providing the vital means for us to understand how these new frightening surveillance operations are weaponized by powerful governmental agencies that remain largely shrouded in secrecy."--Back cover

Despite attracting headlines and hype, insurgents rarely win. Even when they claim territory and threaten governmental writ, they typically face a military backlash too powerful to withstand. States struggle with addressing the political roots of such movements, and their military efforts mostly just 'mow the grass'; yet, for the insurgent, the grass is nonetheless mowed–and the armed project must start over. This is the insurgent's dilemma: the difficulty of asserting oneself, of violently challenging authority, and of establishing sustainable power. In the face of this dilemma, some insurgents are learning new ways to ply their trade. With subversion, spin and disinformation claiming centre stage, insurgency is being reinvented, to exploit the vulnerabilities of our times and gain new strategic salience for tomorrow. As the most promising approaches are refined and repurposed, what we think of as counterinsurgency will also need to change. The Insurgent's Dilemma explores three particularly adaptive strategies and their implications for response. These emerging strategies target the state where it is weak and sap its power, sometimes without it noticing. There are options for response, but fresh thinking is urgently needed–about society, legitimacy and political violence itself.

Governing in a Polarized Society -- Beliefs, Values and American Society -- Constitutional Government -- Federalism: Cooperation and Conflict -- American Political Parties: Polarization and Conflict -- Elections and Political Participation -- The Media and American Politics -- Congress I: The People's Branch? -- Congress II: Functions and Powers - The Broken Branch? -- The Presidency I: Powers and Selection -- The Presidency II: The President as Chief Executive -- Bureaucratic Power: Federal Departments and Agencies -- The Security State -- Organized Interests: The Real Power? -- The Supreme Court and Judicial Politics -- Regulating Morality: Civil Rights, Liberties and the Conscience Issues -- Social Policy in America: Self-Reliance and State Dependence -- Managing Economic Change -- Environmental Politics -- The American World Role -- The American Political System in a Divided Society

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