From the refusal of the U.S. Congress to approve fast-track trade authority and certain foreign aid packages to the obstacles placed by Western European parliaments in the path of economic integration, legislatures often interfere with national leaders' efforts to reach and implement predictable international agreements. This seems to give an advantage to dictators, who can blu...(展开全部)

Constitutional law is clearly shaped by judicial actors. But who else contributes? Scholars in the past have recognized that the legislative branch plays a significant role in determining structural issues, such as separation of powers and federalism, but stopped there - claiming that only courts had the independence and expertise to safeguard individual and minority rights. In...(展开全部)

In this fascinating debunking of judicial supremacy, Devins and Fisher argue that nonjudicial contributions to constitutional interpretation make the Constitution more stable, more consistent with constitutional principles, and more protective of individual and minority rights. This highly readable narrative of how the Court and elected officials work in concert with the Americ...(展开全部)

In leadership, one size does not fit all. In The Five Commitments of a Leader, Mark Leheney asserts that a more revealing way to examine leadership is through the commitments a leader makes (or fails to make). He focuses on five commitments a leader must make to be effective.

Democratic breakdown as a political and historic event can impact the fate of millions, if not hundreds of millions of people, by changing the political complexion of a country. This book attempts to systematically explain why democracies collapse. The author's main theoretical argument is based on the examination of two factors. One is political cleavages among voters. These c...(展开全部)

哈福德·麦金德（Halford John Mackinder，1861—1947），英国著名地理学家与地缘政治家。 他认为地理学是探讨人类与自然环境相互作用的科学，提出陆心说，首次以全球战略观念分析世界政治力量。他对英国大学地理教育的发展起了重要作用，著有《历史的地理枢纽》、《不列颠与不列颠的海洋》和《民主的理想与现实》等。

萨义德(Edward W．Said,1935-2003) 当今世界最具影响力的文学与批评家之一．1935年出生于耶路撒冷，后移民美国，1963年起一直任哥伦比亚大学英国文学与比较文学教授．2003年9月23日，与白血病抗争了10多年后，在纽约去世．

Democratic breakdown as a political and historic event can impact the fate of millions, if not hundreds of millions of people, by changing the political complexion of a country. This book attempts to systematically explain why democracies collapse. The author's main theoretical argument is based on the examination of two factors. One is political cleavages among voters. These c...(展开全部)

Kantian Commitments comprises ten essays that represent a series of efforts to rethink many of the fundamentals of Kant's ethics and to draw out some implications for moral theory and practice. The essays of Part One revisit and revise central pieces of Kant's moral framework, offering a new understanding of the formulas of the categorical imperative, revisiting the idea of exc...(展开全部)

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. A study of the last 100 years of American history.