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Rebels all! : a short history of the conservative mind in postwar America
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ISBN: 1281776416 9786611776411 0813545102 9780813545103 0813543436 9780813543437 Year: 2008 Publisher: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press,

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Do you ever wonder why conservative pundits drop the word “faggot” or talk about killing and then Christianizing Muslims abroad? Do you wonder why the right’s spokespeople seem so confrontational, rude, and over-the-top recently? Does it seem strange that conservative books have such apocalyptic titles? Do you marvel at why conservative writers trumpeted the “rebel” qualities of George W. Bush just a few years back? There is no doubt that the style of the political right today is tough, brash, and by many accounts, not very conservative sounding. After all, isn’t conservatism supposed to be about maintaining standards, upholding civility, and frowning upon rebellion? Historian Kevin Mattson explains the apparent contradictions of the party in this fresh examination of the postwar conservative mind. Examining a big cast of characters that includes William F. Buckley, Whittaker Chambers, Norman Podhoretz, Irving Kristol, Kevin Phillips, David Brooks, and others, Mattson shows how right-wing intellectuals have always, but in different ways, played to the populist and rowdy tendencies in America’s political culture. He boldly compares the conservative intellectual movement to the radical utopians among the New Left of the 1960's and he explains how conservatism has ingested central features of American culture, including a distrust of sophistication and intellectualism and a love of popular culture, sensation, shock, and celebrity. Both a work of history and political criticism, Rebels All! shows how the conservative mind made itself appealing, but also points to its endemic problems. Mattson’s conclusion outlines how a recast liberalism should respond to the conservative ascendancy that has marked our politics for the last thirty years.

The extreme right in Western Europe.
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ISBN: 9780415170970 9780415396820 0415396824 0415170974 9780203965054 9781134154272 9781134154319 9781134154326 Year: 2008 Publisher: London Routledge

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Unique in providing such a broad-based study, The Extreme Right in Western Europe is a concise critical introduction to one of the most emergent and durable themes in late twentieth-century history, politics and society.From the legacy of the Nazi era the delegitimation of right wing extremism -to the contemporary problems, and solutions offered to increasingly difficult questions such as immigration, unemployment and law and order, Paul Hainsworth looks at how extremist and nationalist popular fronts have grown under the influence of modern-day issues.The book explores right wing extremism and:, discusses and clarifys the concept, presents an analytical portrait of its growth in eastern and western Europe, discusses and critiques its leaders, movements and forces and the ideas driving them, assesses the impact of this extremism on contemporary Europe. A must for courses in history, politics and European studies.


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Confronting global terrorism and American neo-conservatism : the framework of a liberal grand strategy
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ISBN: 0191715891 1283579855 9786613892300 0191560049 Year: 2008 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press,

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Liberal intellectuals and political leaders have been slow to articulate a grand strategy informed by liberal values for confronting global terrorism. This book outlines the framework of a liberal strategy, and exposes the costs of the neo-conservative alternative that has driven US foreign policy since 9/11.


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Confronting global terrorism and American neo-conservatism : the framework of a liberal grand strategy
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ISBN: 9780199534739 9780199534722 Year: 2008 Volume: XVI/2 Publisher: Oxford [etc.] Oxford University Press

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Acts of terrorism --- Basic rights --- Civil rights (International law) --- Conservatism --- Conservatisme --- Conservatisme politique --- Droit de la guerre --- Droite (Science politique) --- Droits de l'homme --- Droits de la personne --- Droits fondamentaux --- Droits individuels --- Grondrechten --- Guerre (Droit international) --- Human rights --- Immobilisme --- Liberalism --- Liberalisme --- Libertés publiques --- Libéralisme --- Mensenrechten --- Neo-conservatism --- Neo-conservatisme --- New Right --- Nieuw-Rechts (Politieke wetenschap) --- Nouvelle Droite (Science politique) --- Néo-conservatisme --- Néoconservatisme --- Oorlog (Internationaal recht) --- Rechten van de mens --- Rechts (Politieke wetenschap) --- Right (Political science) --- Rights [Human ] --- Rights of man --- Terrorism --- Terrorisme --- Terrorist acts --- Traditionalisme (Politique) --- War (International law) --- Droits de l'homme (Droit international) --- #SBIB:327.5H00 --- #SBIB:327.6H01 --- #SBIB:340H88 --- Terrorism. --- Liberalism. --- Conservatism. --- Human rights. --- Hostilities --- International law --- Neutrality --- Rights, Human --- Human security --- Transitional justice --- Truth commissions --- Conservativism --- Political science --- Sociology --- Liberal egalitarianism --- Liberty --- Social sciences --- Attacks, Terrorist --- Global terrorism --- International terrorism --- Political terrorism --- Terror attacks --- Terrorist attacks --- World terrorism --- Direct action --- Insurgency --- Political crimes and offenses --- Subversive activities --- Political violence --- Terror --- Strategie en vredesonderzoek: algemeen --- Internationale en diplomatieke relaties: specifieke conflicten --- Internationaal recht: rechten van de mens --- Law and legislation --- Direitos humanos --- Droits de l'Homme --- Menschenrechte --- Libéralisme

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