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Volume 15 - Issue 4 - December 2017

Perspectives on Politics Volume 15 - Issue 4 -

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ON THE COVER

Cover Art: Photo by Jan Banning, courtesy of Fontana Gallery, Amsterdam. From series Bureaucratics: Yemen-14. Ali Abdulmalik Shuga (b. 1964) is responsible for the archives of the Ministry of Trade and Commerce governorates office in the city of Taizz, Taizz Governorate. Monthly salary: 30,500 rial ($171, euro 117).

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Critical Dialogues

Economy of Force: Counterinsurgency and the Historical Rise of the Social. By Patricia Owens. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. 382p. $124.00 cloth, $34.99 paper.
Jessica A. Stanton
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20 November 2017, pp. 1104-1106
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Response to Jessica A. Stanton’s review of Economy of Force: Counterinsurgency and the Historical Rise of the Social
Patricia Owens
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20 November 2017, pp. 1106-1107
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Political Responsibility: Responding to Predicaments of Power. By Antonio Y. Vázquez-Arroyo. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016. 360p. $65.00 cloth.
Shalini Satkunanandan
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20 November 2017, pp. 1108-1110
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Response to Shalini Satkunanandan’s review of Political Responsibility: Responding to Predicaments of Power
Antonio Y. Vázquez-Arroyo
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20 November 2017, p. 1110
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Extraordinary Responsibility: Politics Beyond the Moral Calculus. By Shalini Satkunanandan. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. 263p. $98.00 cloth, $30.99 paper.
Antonio Y. Vázquez-Arroyo
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20 November 2017, pp. 1110-1112
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Rape Loot Pillage: The Political Economy of Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict. By Sara Meger. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. 248p. $78.00 cloth.
Miriam J. Anderson
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20 November 2017, pp. 1114-1115
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Response to Miriam J. Anderson’s review of Rape Loot Pillage: The Political Economy of Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict
Sara Meger
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20 November 2017, pp. 1115-1116
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Windows of Opportunity: How Women Seize Peace Negotiations for Political Change. By Miriam J. Anderson. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. 232p. $69.00 cloth.
Sara Meger
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20 November 2017, pp. 1116-1118
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20 November 2017, pp. 1118-1119
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Thucydides and the Pursuit of Freedom. By Mary P. Nichols. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2015. 208p. $49.95 cloth.
Hugh Liebert
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20 November 2017, pp. 1120-1121
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Leo Strauss and the Recovery of Medieval Political Philosophy. By Joshua Parens. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2016. 191p. $75.00 cloth.
Miguel Vatter
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20 November 2017, pp. 1121-1123
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Plutarch’s Politics: Between City and Empire. By Hugh Liebert. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. 284p. $99.99 cloth.
Christian Wendt
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20 November 2017, pp. 1123-1124
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Imagined Futures: Fictional Expectations and Capitalist Dynamics. By Jens Beckert. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016. 384pp. $39.95 cloth. - The Emotional Logic of Capitalism: What Progressives Have Missed. By Martijn Konings. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2015. 184pp. $22.95 paper.
Ivan Ascher
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20 November 2017, pp. 1124-1125
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Modernity and Its Discontents: Making and Unmaking the Bourgeois from Machiavelli to Bellow. By Steven B. Smith. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016. 416p. $45.00 cloth.
Leslie Paul Thiele
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20 November 2017, pp. 1125-1127
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What Is a Human? What the Answers Mean for Human Rights. By John H. Evans. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. 260p. $35.00 cloth. - Biocultural Creatures: Toward a New Theory of the Human. By Samantha Frost. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016. 203p. $22.95 paper.
Stefan Dolgert
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20 November 2017, pp. 1127-1129
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What Is Wrong with the First Amendment? By Steven H. Shiffrin. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016. 225p. $110.00 cloth, $29.95 paper.
Judith Lynn Failer
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20 November 2017, pp. 1129-1131
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Debating the American State: Liberal Anxieties and the New Leviathan, 1930–1970. By Anne M. Kornhauser. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. 336p. $59.95 cloth.
William E. Scheuerman
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20 November 2017, pp. 1131-1132
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The Rise of Democracy: Revolution, War and Transformations in International Politics Since 1776. By Christopher Hobson. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015. 264p. $110.00 cloth. - The Trouble with Democracy: Political Modernity in the 21st Century. Edited by Gerard Rosich and Peter Wagner. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2016. 304p. $110.00 cloth, $39.95 paper.
Michael J. Thompson
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20 November 2017, pp. 1132-1134
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Misreading Law, Misreading Democracy. By Victoria Nourse. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016. 272p. $45.00 cloth. - Democracy Against Domination. By K. Sabeel Rahman. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. 256p. $65.00 cloth.
Kevin McGravey
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20 November 2017, pp. 1134-1136
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Critical Dialogues

Economy of Force: Counterinsurgency and the Historical Rise of the Social. By Patricia Owens. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. 382p. $124.00 cloth, $34.99 paper.

Response to Jessica A. Stanton’s review of Economy of Force: Counterinsurgency and the Historical Rise of the Social

Political Responsibility: Responding to Predicaments of Power. By Antonio Y. Vázquez-Arroyo. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016. 360p. $65.00 cloth.

Response to Shalini Satkunanandan’s review of Political Responsibility: Responding to Predicaments of Power

Extraordinary Responsibility: Politics Beyond the Moral Calculus. By Shalini Satkunanandan. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. 263p. $98.00 cloth, $30.99 paper.

Response to Antonio Y. Vázquez-Arroyo’s review of Extraordinary Responsibility: Politics Beyond the Moral Calculus

Rape Loot Pillage: The Political Economy of Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict. By Sara Meger. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. 248p. $78.00 cloth.

Response to Miriam J. Anderson’s review of Rape Loot Pillage: The Political Economy of Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict

Windows of Opportunity: How Women Seize Peace Negotiations for Political Change. By Miriam J. Anderson. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. 232p. $69.00 cloth.

Response to Sara Meger’s review of Windows of Opportunity: How Women Seize Peace Negotiations for Political Change

Book Reviews: Political Theory

Thucydides and the Pursuit of Freedom. By Mary P. Nichols. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2015. 208p. $49.95 cloth.

Leo Strauss and the Recovery of Medieval Political Philosophy. By Joshua Parens. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2016. 191p. $75.00 cloth.

Plutarch’s Politics: Between City and Empire. By Hugh Liebert. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. 284p. $99.99 cloth.

Modernity and Its Discontents: Making and Unmaking the Bourgeois from Machiavelli to Bellow. By Steven B. Smith. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016. 416p. $45.00 cloth.

What Is a Human? What the Answers Mean for Human Rights. By John H. Evans. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. 260p. $35.00 cloth. - Biocultural Creatures: Toward a New Theory of the Human. By Samantha Frost. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016. 203p. $22.95 paper.

What Is Wrong with the First Amendment? By Steven H. Shiffrin. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016. 225p. $110.00 cloth, $29.95 paper.

Debating the American State: Liberal Anxieties and the New Leviathan, 1930–1970. By Anne M. Kornhauser. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. 336p. $59.95 cloth.

Misreading Law, Misreading Democracy. By Victoria Nourse. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016. 272p. $45.00 cloth. - Democracy Against Domination. By K. Sabeel Rahman. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. 256p. $65.00 cloth.

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