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Tackling a timely and weighty subject, Moore and Robinson take the controversial stand that the Constitution of Japan was not "e;imposed"e;, as conventional opinion has it, as a document of defeat by the Allied occupying forces under General MacArthur. Rather, the authors argue that the 1946 Constitution was in essence the product of a...

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In Democracy in the Making, Kathleen M. Blee provides an in-depth look at modern grassroots activism, and reveals its simultaneous power and fragility. In the process, she examines the struggle between democratic vision and strategic reality that shapes each organization's trajectory and determines its ultimate success or failure....

Electrodynamics has largely been ignored by philosophers of science due to what Mathias Frisch says is a mistaken view that it is conceptually unproblematic. Part of the goal of this book is to show that classical physics, while successful in describing phenomena, has some very interesting conceptual problems worth discussing. The other goal of the...

Law in the Age of Small WarsWhen the U.S. military began its "e;surge"e; in Iraq in 2006, counterinsurgency effectively became its dominant approach for fighting wars. Yet many of the major controversies and debates surrounding counterinsurgency operations have turned not on military questions but on legal ones: Who can the U.S. military...